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  <row Id="1" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-10T19:39:16.220" Score="19" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I am an owner or manager of a workplace, are my question on topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions would be like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are bonuses good or bad?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What should I ask on a workplace benefits survey?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the workplace audience is well suited to answering these questions, even if they aren't managers themselves, but I want to know what the community thinks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T13:30:29.713" Title="Are questions from the perspective of management on topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-10T19:46:07.663" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sure hope so.  Asking this audience will probably give you some of the most honest, useful advice you'll get anywhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30" LastActivityDate="2012-04-10T19:46:07.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-10T19:46:09.253" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that questions from a manager's perspective should be on-topic. They are about the professional working environment, which is the primary focus of this site. However, ultimately, I would encourage questions to be useful to as many people as possible by using wording that generates answers from both employee and management perspectives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also, your example questions probably aren't the best. Both would spark discussion, debate, and/or lists rather than solving a problem.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2012-04-10T19:46:09.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-10T19:53:58.617" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Management questions should be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are bonuses good or bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is Bad subjective.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the benefits and drawback of offering a bonus for X would be on topic though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-04-10T19:53:58.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-10T20:08:10.117" Score="29" ViewCount="772" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's all kinds of career advice out there on the Internet, much of it conflicting or wrong. The conflicting or wrong advice is especially prevalent (but not limited to) that found on open-access Q&amp;amp;A sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be a shame if this site were to be another source of unhelpful career advice from the masses. In the early hours of this site, I've seen quite a few answers that seemed clearly to come from the gut, with no source or experience cited to back them up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it make sense to have a &quot;Back it up&quot;-style rule in the FAQ (and actively enforced), to try to maintain a high signal/noise ratio? Or should we just trust general SE voting behavior to push the cream to the top and the dregs down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example &quot;Back it up&quot; policy from &lt;a href=&quot;https://parenting.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;Parenting.SE's FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that opinions shared here should be backed up either &lt;strong&gt;with a reference&lt;/strong&gt;, or experiences that &lt;strong&gt;happened to you personally&lt;/strong&gt;. Also, posts that primarily exist to push a specific agenda (propaganda), and soap-boxing, are not welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people seem to think that this sort of rule would be an appeal for anecdotes. I propose, therefore, the following simplification of the rule which makes no such appeal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is never sufficient to simply say what you think the answer is. You must always include in your answer information about why you think your answer is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of such a rule is to give the voting community some information about the source of the information on which to base their votes. Under this rule, the answer could include (in roughly descending order of how they should generally be evaluated by the community) a citation, a description of the answerer's experience with this sort of problem, a line of reasoning, or simply an honest statement that &quot;this comes straight from my gut.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:41:14.630" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T16:11:59.967" Title="Does this site need a &quot;back it up&quot; rule?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|answers|faq-content|quality|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5" CreationDate="2012-04-10T20:24:28.033" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having the statement in the FAQ from when we go public is a necessary start. If this isn't in place then introducing it later &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; cause friction. Enforcement should come from the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking that we needed be strict initially - but that only leads to broken windows and people using old answers as evidence for allowing their poor answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the normal voting and flagging doesn't seem to be working then we can get more serious and pro-active on enforcing the rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7" LastEditorUserId="7" LastEditDate="2012-04-11T12:12:37.810" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T12:12:37.810" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5" CreationDate="2012-04-10T20:39:28.327" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was actually thinking the same thing. Or rather, the thought in my head was &quot;do we need to enforce some kind of 'subjective guidelines' for answers&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I almost think we do. Without meaning to criticise, there are a number of short answers which are almost comment-like suggestions - and whilst volume is good, quality is what will make this site work (or not). Now, I'm not massively experienced with sites like programmers, but I think having an understanding of what makes a &quot;great answer&quot; might well be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38" LastActivityDate="2012-04-10T20:39:28.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9" CreationDate="2012-04-10T20:47:58.520" Score="19" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just glancing over a few questions, I see many that are culture specific, eg:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/107/what-are-some-guidelines-for-appropriate-social-drinking-in-a-work-related-conte&quot;&gt;What are some guidelines for appropriate social drinking at work?&lt;/a&gt; - this will vary greatly between secular and Muslim cultures &lt;em&gt;(also note, this is a list question)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/118/switching-jobs-how-soon-is-too-soon&quot;&gt;Switching jobs - how soon is too soon?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/83/how-to-select-interview-attire-for-a-technical-job-interview&quot;&gt;How to select interview attire for a technical job interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should we handle issues that are affected by culture, whether that is per country (includes culture and religion), per role (eg different for an accountant or a programmer) or per branch (eg military to the arts)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. Is multiple questions with tags the way to go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T05:37:10.687" Title="How should we handle cultural issues?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8" CreationDate="2012-04-10T21:18:35.643" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://judaism.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Judaism.SE&lt;/a&gt;, we have the same sort of issue due to different sub-cultures within Judaism maintaining traditions including different practices and beliefs and due to different rabbinic authorities giving different rulings on various issues. The community tends to deal with this in one of two ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One is that some questions specify that they're asking about rulings within a particular line of tradition or even according to a specific rabbi. Valid answers to such questions would be within the specified parameters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The other, which is actually employed more frequently, is that many questions get multiple equally-valid answers that refer to different traditions or cite authorities who disagree. I actually see this possibility as a strength of the SE model, which allows for multiple answers, taking advantage of the various sets of knowledge and experience that exist in the community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the same approach should work here. If askers want to specify (within the question body and also possibly by tagging) the culture they're asking within, fine. If not, and answerers are aware that the right answer may differ depending on the cultural context, they should consider noting as much in their answers, and specifying what cultural context [s] their answers address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:42:06.653" LastActivityDate="2012-04-10T21:18:35.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-10T21:43:00.230" Score="19" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most (if not all) of the answers so far have been in direct relationship to the IT field - however, the title of this site is &quot;The Workplace&quot;, not &quot;The IT Workplace&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are non-IT related questions on-topic? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever this decision is should be encoded in the FAQ, since that way we have it documented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47" LastEditorUserId="47" LastEditDate="2012-04-10T22:06:29.140" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T06:45:44.007" Title="Are non-IT workplace questions on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|faq-content|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2012-04-10T21:47:58.523" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been deliberately answering questions in a domain-neutral way, so far as is possible, so as you can probably tell, I think:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be the case that many of the members of the private beta are in fact involved in IT - there's a heavy bias as a result of the size of the trilogy. That being said, there is no reason to restrict ourselves to the IT workplace and comparing/contrasting with other industries will provide better perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38" LastActivityDate="2012-04-10T21:47:58.523" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2012-04-10T22:01:48.193" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would hope and expect that non IT questions are on topic, otherwise this site would be a subset of Programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also expect most questions in the private beta (and indeed the early public beta) to be IT related simply because of the existing audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the site hits public beta it's up to all of us to publicise the site to our non-IT friends and acquaintances so that the user base can be broadened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7" LastActivityDate="2012-04-10T22:01:48.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-10T23:33:48.737" Score="6" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;As with any beta site, what should we include in the FAQ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should it look like? What type of questions should the FAQ contain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take the &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/faq#questions&quot;&gt;Super User FAQ&lt;/a&gt; as an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users. If you have a&#xA;  question about …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;computer hardware computer software and it is not about …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;videogames or consoles websites or web services like Facebook,&#xA;  Twitter, and WordPress electronic devices, media players, cell phones&#xA;  or smart phones, except insofar as they interface with your computer a&#xA;  shopping or buying recommendation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:18:01.613" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T13:31:56.793" Title="What should our FAQ contain?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-10T23:35:24.647" Score="4" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once decided, it can be sliced and diced to form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the tagline the motto the blurb under &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the logo &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a convenience redirect&#xA;“nickname” for the site &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;perhaps eventually the domain name in some&#xA;form&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T02:09:44.500" Title="What should our elevator pitch be?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2012-04-10T23:48:34.630" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my attempt at the first FAQ (and also my first time every writing an introductory faq):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 'workplace' is for members of the workforce navigating the professional setting. If you have a question about career oriented and areas relavant to professional matters and it is not about soliciting for job inquiries, project proposals, financial decisions, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastEditorUserId="118" LastEditDate="2012-04-11T19:19:32.510" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T19:19:32.510" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5" CreationDate="2012-04-10T23:49:56.173" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't be afraid of &quot;enforcement,&quot; be afraid of the site becoming low quality. When it comes to practical information, usefulness trumps inclusion in many cases. Think of the situation where you come to the site needing help with a problem. Do you want opinions and theoreticals (which you could get from random friends), or do you want practical advice from people who have actually taken on, and solved the problem in question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, we're all excited to be part of the beta, and yes we're excited to spread the word and get things going. No, we should not think that getting answers to everything is more important than practical information that people can use. If we find that too many questions are super subjective, we use the same mechanism as appear in StackOverflow (or any other site): we comment to give the OP advice, we suggest edits, we guide the community through example, and if necessary we vote down and vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think now is the best time to set the tone. I really think we should do this. I do trust voting, but voting isn't culture - voting is a person's opportunity to vote individually. Voting is an individual voice within a community. Without a leading idea of what quality means, I fear it being watered down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should also remember that part of the purpose of the SE model is to make the internet a better place, not to simply create yet another community advice site without experts. The &lt;strong&gt;expert&lt;/strong&gt; creed is absolute part of SE, and I think we should live up to it if we expect this site to take off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="31" LastEditDate="2012-04-11T01:51:38.177" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T01:51:38.177" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2012-04-11T00:02:13.553" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ideas for the tagline/mottot/blurb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Information you can put into practice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Expert information backed up by experience and research.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perspectives from all levels of working organizations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The logo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything that's not those annoying stock photos of business people shaking hands, or smiling for the camera while wearing a suit and tie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Convenient nickname:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;working&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="31" LastEditDate="2012-04-11T19:37:48.953" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T19:37:48.953" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-11T03:23:04.427" Score="3" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10/are-non-it-workplace-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;seem to be allowing non-IT questions&lt;/a&gt;, I was wondering if we should also allow questions pertaining to students.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all,  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/work-environment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;work-environment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;work-environment&lt;/a&gt; seems to be a major part of our scope. Schools/colleges are also a sort of work-environment; they have similar problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this may open the flood gates for a whole bunch of rant-y questions by students.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2017-07-06T15:29:15.247" Title="Should we allow school/college-related questions?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2012-04-11T04:23:42.063" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears to me that lots of job related questions on Programmers are getting closed as &quot;off topic&quot; so I do not believe that this site will be a subset of Programmers. Once it gets out of the private beta, I predict a number of other sites will put their own job related questions on the off-topic list and migrate them here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T04:23:42.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18" CreationDate="2012-04-11T04:29:17.843" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of the college/university related questions might be more appropriate for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Academia&lt;/a&gt; site. That being said, quite a few questions like &quot;what major should I study&quot; or &quot;where should I go to college&quot; seem to be off-topic for every site - and this one won't be any different. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:49:56.923" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T04:29:17.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18" CreationDate="2012-04-11T06:01:55.960" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To the extent that the college and work environments are similar, the questions can be phrased to reflect that similarity, and should be allowed then, in my opinion. &quot;How can I best prepare to get the most out of a meeting or lecture?&quot; &quot;What do I do when working on a class team project and someone isn't pulling their weight?&quot; &quot;What skills/courses are most important for job X?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that are specific to the school/college settings and don't have professional equivalents should be off topic, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T06:01:55.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="22" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2012-04-11T06:45:44.007" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very important question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because of the demographics of the first users here, we're inevitably going to skew towards IT-related questions, but I think we should make a concerted effort to pull back in the other direction, as ninefingers says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;deliberately answering questions in a domain-neutral way, so far as is possible&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise we might just as well migrate all of the closed Programmers questions here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T06:45:44.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-11T06:50:22.503" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Adam Rackis hints, I think that for purely utilitarian reasons, it would be a good idea to allow them. It could bring on board a whole load of 'experts' to answer the employee-perspective questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T06:50:22.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5" CreationDate="2012-04-11T07:00:23.803" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd veer towards &quot;yes&quot;, but I wonder how feasible it is likely to be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we should try: here are 5 questions picked at random, can you provide an answer &lt;em&gt;and back it up&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2/how-do-i-take-a-vacation-when-im-wearing-too-many-hats&quot;&gt;How do I take a vacation when I&amp;#39;m wearing too many hats?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/167/asking-client-for-a-letter-of-recommendation&quot;&gt;Asking client for a letter of recommendation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/195/how-should-i-bring-up-working-from-home&quot;&gt;How should I bring up working from home?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/226/is-there-any-evidence-that-giving-references-for-former-employees-is-inherently&quot;&gt;Is there any evidence that giving references for former employees is inherently risky?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/235/is-there-evidence-to-suggest-that-certain-office-layouts-are-better-than-others&quot;&gt;Is there evidence to suggest that certain office layouts are better than others for productivity?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T07:00:23.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-11T11:07:35.650" Score="10" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some questions are inherently quite localised. For instance &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/209/148&quot;&gt;How important is a grade point average on a resume?&lt;/a&gt; makes little sense to those of us outside of the united-states.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think questions like this should be closed as too localised, since they could be of interest to a large number of stack-exchange users, but I think that the rest of us being able to filter out such questions would be of use too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personal Finance and Money has &lt;a href=&quot;https://money.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;country specific tags&lt;/a&gt;, which work very well, yet there are still plenty of questions which are not country specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2012-08-06T11:07:02.810" Title="Should we have country specific tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18" CreationDate="2012-04-11T13:15:40.803" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The premise of shrouding academia-related &quot;work&quot; questions under the guise of being a &lt;em&gt;sort-of&lt;/em&gt; &quot;workplace&quot; seems iffy at best. They are different audiences with different goals, different process, different etiquette, and ultimately different solutions. You can't ask an academia question of a professional audience (the experts) and simply expect their answer apply to the different context. It may or may not; you simply don't know. You're asking the wrong audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering that we already have an &lt;a href=&quot;http://academia.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Academia&lt;/a&gt; site, I would very strongly suggest keeping the two subjects separate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153" LastEditorUserId="153" LastEditDate="2017-07-06T15:29:15.247" LastActivityDate="2017-07-06T15:29:15.247" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2012-04-11T13:28:34.333" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we will need country tags. Questions about hiring, layoffs, and firing depend on national and local laws. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T13:28:34.333" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-11T13:30:29.713" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we were to close all management questions that could also drop questions by team leads, senior developers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T13:30:29.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-11T13:33:07.863" Score="6" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would highly advocate that yes, such questions are off-topic, because we cannot reliably answer them and because the answers may depend on a number of other factors, such as jurisdiction and additional facts.  Determining which questions are under this umbrella is, of course, more troublesome, as some questions may have &quot;legal&quot; and &quot;non-legal&quot; components.  Borderline questions that may or may not be OK could include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I avoid asking interview questions that are discriminatory?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  What should I do if a co-worker is harassing me and my boss/HR/whoever will not do anything about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that are pretty clearly &quot;legal&quot; in nature (and IMO should be off-topic) might include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was injured at work.  How do I get compensated?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I believe I was passed over for a promotion because of my race.  What should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, none of my examples are spectacular questions anyway, but I hope that my point is clear.  Where should we draw the line, and what should the FAQ say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T15:49:55.760" Title="Are employment law questions off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|faq-content|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-11T13:38:15.253" Score="4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/323/how-can-a-westerner-land-an-it-job-in-a-third-world-country&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/323/how-can-a-westerner-land-an-it-job-in-a-third-world-country&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am thinking questions like this should be not constructive.  It is really broad and unlikely to develop answers that will help anyone else.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My problem is I do not think that what the questioner is asking is necessarily off topic.  It could probably be broken into several on topic questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fear that opening it up to these questions will end up with too many, &lt;em&gt;How do i get a job at company X?&lt;/em&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T19:56:32.640" Title="Questions about finding general work?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5" CreationDate="2012-04-11T13:41:38.353" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, but be careful…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with any Stack Exchange site, question are expected to adhere to the guidelines &lt;strong&gt;good subjective&lt;/strong&gt; questions. The blog post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is &lt;strong&gt;based heavily on the precepts of the Back it Up! principle&lt;/strong&gt;. Take a look at that blog post. It's a quick read and should probably be all-but-required reading for this site. &lt;em&gt;grin&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;One big caution, though…&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Back it Up! principle specifics that, sometimes, a hard-earned personal experience can provide the best answer to the question. But my bigger concern for this site is &lt;strong&gt;when the &lt;em&gt;QUESTIONS&lt;/em&gt; wallow in polling the community&lt;/strong&gt; for their experiences… as an end goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone asks the equivalent of &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How did you get that big raise?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, you veer from &amp;quot;personal experiences&amp;quot; to polling the community. Watch out for questions that solicit indiscriminate responses where, essnetially, anyone can answer and no one answer is expected to be any better than another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That's not the Back It Up! principle. It's just bad subjective.&lt;/strong&gt; Read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guidelines for Great Subjective Questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great subjective questions inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great subjective questions tend to have long, not short, answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great subjective questions have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great subjective questions invite sharing experiences over opinions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great subjective questions insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great subjective questions are more than just mindless social fun.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T13:47:03.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29" CreationDate="2012-04-11T13:46:38.300" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On topic:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What should I do if a co-worker is harassing me and my boss/HR/whoever will not do anything about it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I believe I was passed over for a promotion because of my race. What should I do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are legitimate questions about navigation the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questionable:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I avoid asking interview questions that are discriminatory?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better question would Is anything in this list of questions discriminatory?  How can i ask this question in a non discriminatory way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Off Topic:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I was injured at work. How do I get compensated?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not about the workplace but rather about compensation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However if the question was about dealing with the injury in the workplace then it would be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T13:46:38.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30" CreationDate="2012-04-11T14:06:57.603" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mostly agree. These questions strike me as very similar to &quot;What should I study next?&quot; questions on Programmers.SE. The rationale is that we know almost nothing about the asker, and are therefore unlikely to be helpful to either the asker or to future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other examples which may appear are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do I get a job at company X?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Which companies have X, Y and Z benefits?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What are the best companies to work at in industry X?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What are some tips from switching from industry X to industry Y?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How can I get a job in country X?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I agree with you that your example question has some good potential questions in it. I suspect there will be a fine line here that moderators will need to make judgement on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109" LastEditorUserId="109" LastEditDate="2012-04-11T14:12:43.087" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T14:12:43.087" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-11T14:38:34.747" Score="2" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13/what-should-our-faq-contain&quot;&gt;What should our FAQ contain?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Realizing that many of the early members are related to software or IT, I've seen questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/199/possible-career-transitions-for-a-seasoned-software-developer&quot;&gt;like this one come up&lt;/a&gt; that ask for specific advice regarding career paths, that are industry-specific. I feel that these are off-topic, especially in this case because the question I reference already has an SE site dedicated to &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;matters of programmer professional life&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, should the FAQ advise OP's to keep their questions industry neutral when possible? I have no issue with users asking questions regarding issues that are only exist within a given industry, but generic questions like, &quot;What are my career path options given that I am [insert job title],&quot; I would argue, are off-topic and/or too localized, because they don't have to do with the workplace, but a specific person and career path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T14:38:34.747" Title="Should the FAQ specifically mention being industry neutral, when possible?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2012-04-11T15:59:03.570" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44" CreationDate="2012-04-11T14:43:53.703" Score="14" ViewCount="1113" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a few questions that while not off topic I do not think are high quality questions as asked but have been upvoted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/158/how-to-prevent-gossip&quot;&gt;Workplace gossip makes me uncomfortable - how do I deal with it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/57/how-can-i-find-a-better-work-life-balance&quot;&gt;How can I find a better work-life balance in an internet company which is &amp;quot;always on&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/209/how-important-is-a-grade-point-average-on-a-resume&quot;&gt;How important is a grade point average on a resume?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/366/handling-credit-takers&quot;&gt;Handling Credit-takers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/360/dealing-with-someone-who-thinks-hes-divinely-right&quot;&gt;Dealing with someone who thinks he&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;divinely right&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are broad and generic enough that they hit alot of peoples buttons.  But I think they are too general to be good questions.  They get up votes because people can relate not because they are good questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have great participation and the one question that was clearly a rant as a question was closed off quickly.  But these questions being voted up during private beta scream &quot;DANGER WILL ROBINSON&quot; to me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything we can do about this?  Should we do anything about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-04-13T13:15:04.133" Title="Do we have a Quality control issue?" Tags="|discussion|quality|questions|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29" CreationDate="2012-04-11T14:56:03.987" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many questions are going to wander into matters of law. As an example, the question on whether folks should share salary information &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/281/138&quot;&gt;ends up squarely in the domain of a regulatory agency in the US&lt;/a&gt;. While almost none of us will be lawyers, and thus we cannot be giving legal advice, most employment matters are covered by laws and regulations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T14:56:03.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35" CreationDate="2012-04-11T15:33:30.730" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would recommend using the tools at our disposal - comment to suggest revisions, guide OPs with specific advice, edit or suggested edits to questions, down vote, vote to close, and flag as appropriate, etc. Basically, keep using the tools at your disposal as the first mode of handling things. We have to first trust that the tools will help us lead the community in the right direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see you've made comments on at least one of these questions. I think continuing to use the tools on the questions themselves is probably the most effective way of providing feedback to the question, and if you keep saying what you believe, a community opinion will start to form around the issues that you bring up. So, keep saying something if you feel there are issues, and be prepared to argue your point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T15:33:30.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2012-04-11T15:46:07.237" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's helpful to have country tags, but not in the GPA example provided. Tags should be used to mark what the question is about, not as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/60852/why-is-the-newbie-tag-not-allowed&quot;&gt;meta tag&lt;/a&gt;, used solely as a filtering mechanism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question of GPA has no inherent connection to geography (other than coincidentally that some country's schooling systems have a GPA, and others don't), and therefore it doesn't seem appropriate in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T15:46:07.237" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29" CreationDate="2012-04-11T15:49:55.760" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The emphasis should be on what someone functioning in a workplace is typically expected to know. It's harder on this site than others (such as Programmers), since we are catering to a lot of different jobs in different industries in different geographic areas. One question can be used to determine of a question is off-topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Could I, in a professional environment, be expected to know the answer to this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I recently took part in a recruitment effort. I was trained on what questions I could and could not ask during an interview. Every HR professional is expected to know this. Every hiring manager (usually someone with a technical background, at my current employer) is expected to know this. Any employee who participates in an interview is expected to know this. As such, a good question about if it's OK to ask a certain question in an interview would be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T15:49:55.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-11T15:53:57.393" Score="11" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had to reject and roll back a lot of tag wiki entries, and I'd like to explain what we are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/improved-tagging/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Improved Tagging&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag wikis are about &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you would use a tag. Tag wikis are not to define the term being used. Avoid generically defining the concept behind a tag, unless it is highly specialized. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag wiki except doesn't work&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Resume&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A résumé is a list of credentials given to a prospective employer that clearly lays out your education, skills and abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is better&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Career Development&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  For questions about advancing one's career as a whole rather than working in a specific job function or company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The “resume” tag does not need to explain what a resume is. I think we can safely assume most users of this site know what a resume is; there’s no value in a boilerplate explanation. Add, instead, &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; a user would use this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153" LastEditorUserId="153" LastEditDate="2012-04-12T16:34:29.163" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T16:34:29.163" Title="A Note on Tag Wiki Excerpts" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2012-04-11T16:05:38.270" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;migrated from another, very similar question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Realizing that many of the early members are related to software or IT, I've seen questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/199/possible-career-transitions-for-a-seasoned-software-developer&quot;&gt;like this one come up&lt;/a&gt; that ask for specific advice regarding career paths, that are industry-specific. I feel that these are off-topic, especially in this case because the question I reference already has an SE site dedicated to &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;matters of programmer professional life&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, should the FAQ advise OP's to keep their questions industry neutral when possible? I have no issue with users asking questions regarding issues that are only exist within a given industry, but generic questions like, &quot;What are my career path options given that I am [insert job title],&quot; I would argue, are off-topic and/or too localized, because they don't have to do with the workplace, but a specific person and career path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T16:05:38.270" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40" CreationDate="2012-04-11T16:29:46.230" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You make an excellent point here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For obvious tags where supposedly the user should know the definition (i.e. resume), the textual definition should be suppressed and the when-to-apply-tag text should be developed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However this should not be a rule of thumb. Looking into tag definitions in other Stack Exchange sites (specially StackOverflow), I believe there might come some work related tags that need both the definition and the application. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Industry specific tags such as &lt;code&gt;TPS-Report&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;scrum&lt;/code&gt; should have a brief definition, so that people from other areas would know what it is about and would better decide when to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T16:29:46.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35" CreationDate="2012-04-11T16:40:51.773" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My biggest concern for this site is that these overly-broad &lt;em&gt;&quot;how can I be more awesome?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; questions will become the mainstay of this site. It's not that they're inherently off-topic &amp;mdash; but you don't stand a chance at making the Internet a better place by asking generalized, generic questions that have been asked 100's of times on every other site on the topic&amp;hellip; and the trite, hackneyed answers they attract aren't going to be all that interesting, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a death knell to this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It takes a bit of re-training and forethought to get the hang of asking unambiguous questions about very &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; problems you have encountered in your day-to-day work. For example, if you want to ask about improving your work-life balance, ask instead about a specific situation you encounter recently. Describe it. What did you try? Why couldn't you solve the problem on your own? -- Those are the types of specific day-to-day questions that users have a chance of answering. The &lt;em&gt;&quot;damn the man, go home&quot;&lt;/em&gt; answers aren't really helping anyone. That's just an example &amp;mdash; and it applies equally well to all the &quot;how do I get that raise,&quot; &quot;how do I improve my resume,&quot; and &quot;how do I work better with my co-workers?&quot; -style questions that are going to get asked in endless variations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; do not address a very specific problem, you might be taking the wrong, scatter-shot approach to your questions &amp;mdash; You're just throwing out a basic premise to start a discussion. Users are left only guessing what might actually help you. &lt;strong&gt;That's a good use of a support group or discussion forum, but not a Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The remediation is to stay vigilant. Guard jealously the core purpose of this site. If a question can be improved, improve it. If you have concerns, leave a comment or start a meta post. If a question is not a good fit, close it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But don't be rude or overly curt.&lt;/strong&gt; You can be a bit more strict early in the beta, because these earliest days are more about setting the right path than getting everyone's questions answered. But take every opportunity you have to discuss &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you took an action or feel a post or behavior might need consideration. Leave lots of signposts to help guide users who might not &quot;get&quot; what this site is about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153" LastEditorUserId="153" LastEditDate="2012-04-12T17:10:51.593" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T17:10:51.593" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35" CreationDate="2012-04-11T17:43:21.053" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of my questions is in there, I try to keep to the FaQ. Maybe there should be examples of good questions and bad questions like we have on serverfault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T17:43:21.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-11T18:34:11.733" Score="4" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/24003/professional-careers-advice&quot;&gt;Professional Careers and Advice&lt;/a&gt; at Area 51. Then this proposal came along which I think is a superset of mine. I'd like to recommend people come here instead (I've already added an announcement).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I would also like to test some of the questions from that proposal. Is that ok? I guess so but it is worth mentioning a few in case they are completely off topic. E.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I enjoy creative problem solving, delivering quality solutions, presenting and coaching. I have an IT background. What jobs match this profile?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the pros and cons of Software Developers doing Management Courses?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In interviews my mind goes blank - I just freeze up. Does anyone have any tips for overcoming this?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are your top three questions for interviewing candidates?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I live in [Toronto] and want to start work as a [software tester]. I have a batchelors in IT. What starting salary should I expect?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they all on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(See also &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/613/merge-career-proposals&quot;&gt;Merge Career Proposals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and particularly the accepted answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-03T08:41:06.557" LastActivityDate="2013-02-21T16:59:24.927" Title="Can I ask &quot;Professional Careers and Advice&quot; questions here?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="55" CreationDate="2012-04-11T18:38:13.693" Score="0" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/etiquette&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;etiquette&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;etiquette&lt;/a&gt; seems to perfectly match a subset of the tag wiki excerpt description of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/professionalism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;professionalism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;professionalism&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Professionalism affects how others perceive you, whether they be your coworkers, managers or clients. When not acting in a professional manner, you may lose credibility, opportunities for advancement or even your job. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could say the exact same thing about Etiquette in the workplace. (Nevermind it being sort of an obvious description)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything different between these tags or should they be synonmized? If there is a difference, the tag wiki for Etiquette should explain when to use it to differentiate it from Professionalism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T21:10:15.797" Title="Is the Etiquette tag a synonym of Professionalism?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-11T18:38:44.067" Score="5" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/323/how-can-a-westerner-land-an-it-job-in-a-third-world-country&quot;&gt;How can a westerner land an IT job in a third world country?&lt;/a&gt; appears well on its way to closure.  Some reasons for closing this specific question appear in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/30/questions-about-finding-general-work&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt;.  However, I wish to address one specific comment on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/323/how-can-a-westerner-land-an-it-job-in-a-third-world-country&quot;&gt;actual question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I also think that this isn't about the workplace, it's about finding jobs (or to say it another way, the job &quot;marketplace&quot;), which is off-topic in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with this &lt;em&gt;particular&lt;/em&gt; reason for closure as off-topic.  The job search, hiring practices, and the like seem like good questions for this site so long as the questions are otherwise good.  Another way to look at this is that career-oriented questions that otherwise meet the guidelines for good questions should be welcome here (I think).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What say you?  Agree?  Disagree?  Should we include something about the job search process specifically in our list of what is on topic?  Are there certain job-search- or career-related questions that we specifically do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; want?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T19:47:53.050" Title="&quot;Job marketplace&quot; vs. &quot;workplace&quot;" Tags="|discussion|faq-content|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35" CreationDate="2012-04-11T18:53:37.463" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My concern is that, by requiring these questions to be much more specific, they either become too localized or there's really no net difference as this is a little softer topic than some of the other sites in the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions have seemingly originated from a specific experience by the poster and been generalized to be more broadly appropriate.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, let's make the &quot;Handling Credit Takers&quot; question more specific:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Last week, at work, my senior co-worker presented the innovative approach to designing Widget X in our project at a status meeting as his own.  I believe that I should've received the credit for it.  This happens a lot with my senior co-worker.  How should I handle it?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the question stand when written in this way?  Is it really any different than the original?  I don't think so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, let's make the &quot;How can I prevent gossip?&quot; question more specific:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;At work yesterday, I overheard two of my colleagues speaking negatively about the weight of another coworker who is known to be going through some tough times.  I was uncomfortable with this situation.  What should I do?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this question stand when written this way?  While it may be different than the original, is it &quot;better?&quot;  Do answers to this question provide more value to discoverers and searchers than answers to the original?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T18:53:37.463" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="50" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48" CreationDate="2012-04-11T19:05:29.853" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt; Also, see this related question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/46/can-i-ask-professional-careers-and-advice-questions-here&quot;&gt;Can I ask &amp;quot;Professional Careers and Advice&amp;quot; questions here?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll use my answer to elaborate on my comment - it's possible that I'm already gaining a reputation for being the &quot;off-topic&quot; police, and in a few cases it's been pointed out that perhaps I am being too narrow in my interpretation. :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My comment comes from a broader question regarding what the topic of the site is itself. I interpret it to be about the workplace, the place where people are performing work, and can include questions on structure, organization, politics, advice on the dynamics of work, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The argument for allowing these questions, as I understand it&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's on topic because, though it's not about the performance of work, it's about finding work, which is hard to separate from doing work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt; The argument against allowing these questions, from my perspective&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question in particular asks where to find a particular kind of work. To me, it sounds like a question that can be answered by a google search, and it's hard for me to imagine valid answers that are more than one line. The best answers I can imagine for this answer essentially turn it into a poll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Am I going too narrow here?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the scope, tone, and culture of the site is formed, I find these sorts of questions especially interesting, and I'll concede that I side more with &quot;make it highly focused&quot; and &quot;let's see what happens&quot;, in a general sense. Maybe that's good, maybe it's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T19:24:35.133" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="51" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40" CreationDate="2012-04-11T19:07:44.037" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it still an issue where the text in the field is not the exerpt, but the first part of the tag wiki? Because that used to be a problem. What you list as a bad example is perfectly fine introduction for a tag wiki, however it does make a poor tag exerpt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T19:07:44.037" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="52" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47" CreationDate="2012-04-11T19:11:23.043" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think so. I have in mind a software developer who delivers quality code on time: &lt;em&gt;professional&lt;/em&gt;. But ask him to eat with a fork &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; knife and he's lost: &lt;em&gt;etiquette&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many cases it will be a subset, but not always.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T19:11:23.043" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="53" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46" CreationDate="2012-04-11T19:45:02.907" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can not see any of these questions flying on an actual SE Site.  They are Bad Subjective, and ask for lists, and look for information that is better found elsewhere on the internet.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T19:45:02.907" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="54" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="59" CreationDate="2012-04-11T20:02:10.953" Score="3" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sample &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/144003/which-good-quality-chair-do-you-use&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; asked on the Programmers SE site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I prepare an office in my home and I am looking currently for a good&#xA;  quality chair. I do not need to write here how important a good chair&#xA;  is for a developer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to learn which kind of chair did you buy. Could you share&#xA;  your experience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are questions like this off topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T07:31:57.740" LastActivityDate="2012-06-15T14:45:12.120" Title="Are questions about office furniture off topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="55" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47" CreationDate="2012-04-11T20:22:16.917" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the two words mean different things, and therefore the two tags should refer to different situations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I take my boss Lisa out to a fancy dinner when I know that bonus time is about to roll around, we will probably both employ correct &lt;strong&gt;etiquette&lt;/strong&gt; in that we will chat pleasantly and put our napkins in our laps and eat with forks and knives. By taking her to a fancy dinner with the expectation that it will benefit me come bonus time, I am still behaving &lt;strong&gt;unprofessionally&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If my coworker Alejandro simply will not stop putting empty cartons of half and half back in the office fridge, he is breaching &lt;strong&gt;office etiquette&lt;/strong&gt;. If I choose to confront him about this infraction by throwing an empty carton of half and half at his head while he is meeting with his biggest client, I am not behaving &lt;strong&gt;professionally&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some suggestions for updated tag wikis for each of these concepts, just off the top of my head - feel free to edit or scrap:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Etiquette: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Office etiquette covers the details of working day-to-day in a shared space with other people. Your office-mates may not work on the same projects as you, or even for the same company. Etiquette enables many people to occupy the same space day after day regardless of each person's company, department, or job function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Professionalism: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Professionalism has to do with conforming to the technical or ethical standards of your profession. It is related to your specific job function, industry, or company, and to the future prospects for your career. When not acting in a professional manner, you may lose credibility, opportunities for advancement, or even your position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36" LastEditorUserId="36" LastEditDate="2012-04-11T21:10:15.797" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T21:10:15.797" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="56" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="54" CreationDate="2012-04-11T20:25:57.600" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I get from my desk to the canteen on my wheelie chair? Navigating the professional setting... &lt;em&gt;literally&lt;/em&gt;! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok ok joke over. That's a shopping recommendation question  and if you aren't careful, there's a fair chance that'll diverge into a discussion - a huge one. Everyone has their favourite brand of chair, or thinks this, that and the other. I'm not saying we cannot allow it, since this site is subjective by nature; however, it might be worth adding to the question to detail exactly what constitutes a good answer. What you want, really, is not what the person brought but what to look for in a good chair. As an individual, you might even want to specify your build and any posture-related needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, you're trying to make the question detailed, because you want to invoke detailed, in depth responses. This is good subjective. Bad subjective is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What chair should you buy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without any further clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the general case - well, I suspect questions like office layouts are on topic, no? I could well ask: &quot;is there any evidence that laying desks opposite of each other might reduce productivity?&quot; and I think that might well work out ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T20:25:57.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="57" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="60" CreationDate="2012-04-11T21:00:36.777" Score="3" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;In reference to: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25/should-we-have-country-specific-tags&quot;&gt;Should we have country specific tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just saw the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/uk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;uk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;uk&lt;/a&gt; tag was created. Personally, I hate using abbreviations for things. I really think the site should use &lt;strong&gt;full country names&lt;/strong&gt; and stick with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-kingdom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-kingdom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-kingdom&lt;/a&gt; instead. Abbreviations only lead to trouble, and an abbreviated country that someone isn't familiar with may lead to confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we allow or disallow abbreviated country names as &lt;strong&gt;tags&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Should the abbreviations be synonymized with the full country name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; I went ahead and changed it to the full country as I believe it should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T21:35:11.750" Title="Should we avoid abbreviations for country tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="58" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-11T21:31:15.280" Score="7" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a Venn&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/71905/143601&quot;&gt;-style&lt;/a&gt; diagram &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1616/2314&quot;&gt;over at Programmers&lt;/a&gt; that is now included in the FAQ.  I'd like to make one for this site, too, but I need the community's help on the actual definition.  Based on a couple of the on-topic questions already asked here on Meta, this is my first draft:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2mNin.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?  How can it be improved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T11:13:56.593" Title="How do we define our audience? (Diagram)" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="59" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="54" CreationDate="2012-04-11T21:33:47.603" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say it's off topic (and a bit non-constructive, as Ninefingers says).  It doesn't have any aspect of the topic that is specific to the workplace.  It's the same problem &lt;a href=&quot;http://programmers.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Programmers&lt;/a&gt; ran into &amp;mdash; just because the problem &lt;strong&gt;audience&lt;/strong&gt; to the group, doesn't mean it's &lt;strong&gt;specific&lt;/strong&gt; to the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All people in the workplace eat, sleep and go to the bathroom.  You see where I am going?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Good:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My chair at work is causing back pain.  My company is typically resistant to office furniture/accessory expenditures. How do I appropriately ask my boss for a new one?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Applies to workplace specifically&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Bad:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My chair at work is causing back pain.  How can I find a replacement?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, both are objective and answerable, but the second has nothing specific for our community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Summary - diagram&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question prompted me to create a diagram for this site, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/faq#questions&quot;&gt;Programmers has&lt;/a&gt;. (I've asked for feedback on the diagram in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/58/17&quot;&gt;separate question&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K3aQC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T07:31:57.740" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T21:33:47.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="60" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="57" CreationDate="2012-04-11T21:35:11.750" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;That was my fault, for which I apologise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we should do is agree on canonical forms for how we are going to refer to country names. For example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-states-of-america&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-states-of-america&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-states-of-america&lt;/a&gt; is a bit unwieldy compared to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/usa&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;usa&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;usa&lt;/a&gt; or just &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/america&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;america&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;america&lt;/a&gt;, Similarly, pedants might argue that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/uk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;uk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;uk&lt;/a&gt; should really be &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-island&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-island&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-island&lt;/a&gt; which actually exceeds the length allowed for a tag (this is just css magic here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we should do, once we have said forms, is to create tag synonyms so people who use abbreviations do not create duplicate tags; as a side effect, all questions are then correctly tagged in the form the site uses, without intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, when  I type &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/uk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;uk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;uk&lt;/a&gt; without thinking, it'll become &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-kingdom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-kingdom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-kingdom&lt;/a&gt; automagically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T21:35:11.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="61" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="58" CreationDate="2012-04-11T22:48:17.050" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's nearly as clear as the one on Programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For one thing, &quot;Professional Setting&quot; doesn't really fit as a subset of &quot;All Jobs&quot; or as a superset of &quot;Specific Jobs.&quot; I definitely see what you're getting at, but I think the wording is confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, I don't understand the &quot;All People Who Use Computers&quot; part. If I'm reading it correctly, then your question is only on topic if it pertains to a professional setting &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; is about people who use computers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that correct? If so, I thought &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10/109&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt; determined that non-IT questions were on topic. So I guess I'm confused on that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T22:48:17.050" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="62" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2012-04-12T03:32:44.960" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd really like to see someone define what &quot;professional&quot; means. Maybe I'm the only person who doesn't get this, but I don't.  Is a &quot;professional setting&quot; only an office, or anywhere you might be doing work and interacting with coworkers? Is a shop you work at a &quot;professional setting&quot;? How about a dinner out with coworkers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the word &quot;professional&quot; mean anything other than &quot;related to work in some manner&quot;? I'm not clear on whether any type of job is considered to fit under this umbrella, or only certain types of jobs, and if so, which ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a sensible definition that we're planning on applying, we should add it to the faq - and if there isn't, I think we should either avoid making &quot;professional&quot; the main defining term of our site, or very explicitly specify what we mean, or else a lot of people may not be sure whether their situation qualifies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34" LastEditorUserId="34" LastEditDate="2012-04-12T05:40:04.103" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T05:40:04.103" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="63" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40" CreationDate="2012-04-12T04:50:51.737" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to what Robert pointed out, here is some more information on what should be included in Tag Wikis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are Tag Wikis?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag wiki excerpt is a brief plain text introduction to the topic that the tag represents. It is shown at the top of tag question lists, and as a tooltip wherever the tag appears. Complete this first!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The full tag wiki is a detailed introduction to the topic, suitable as a destination for those curious about it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;► what questions should have this tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;► some basic definitions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;► brief introduction to the subject&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;► important links for learning more&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;► one reasonably sized page&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a blog post on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/03/redesigned-tags-page/&quot;&gt;writing great tag wikis&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T04:50:51.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="64" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35" CreationDate="2012-04-12T05:00:49.033" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvoting is a very powerful tool. They have a much more immediate psychological impact on a poster than close votes do. Something about seeing that minus sign really gets people's attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of us in this private beta read the same facts. We know not to ask generic or textbook questions here. We know that this is the most critical time for the fledgling site. We know we're supposed to ask really detailed, great questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, if you see someone asking very general questions, in addition to voting to close, also give it a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving a constructive comment is also helpful. We can also remind the question-asker that we will gladly remove the downvote once they've revised the question to meet the Q&amp;amp;A criteria that was explained to them in the welcome email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;every user on this site at this point should be familiar with the expectations.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Here is an important paragraph from that welcome email:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The first questions set the tone for the site. If you ask high quality, expert-level questions, you'll build a site that attracts the experts and pros who will make it really successful. But if you ask beginner questions, survey questions, or social-conversation questions, experts and pros will not be interested. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it can be made any clearer than that. Now, let's build a great list of expert, private beta questions and answers so we can make this really successful!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T05:00:49.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="65" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2012-04-12T05:27:38.170" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the use of country tags. Many other sites have made the decision not to use them because it localizes the questions and makes it less applicable to the broader Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most importantly, how do you tell when to use a country tag and when not to? I could see these being overused. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, if I ask a question that could apply to the entire world, and I tag it &lt;code&gt;United States&lt;/code&gt;, could this send the incorrect message to UK visitors that the question doesn't apply to them even though it does?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, how does the op know that the answers to his or her question may only apply to their locale? This may mean that country tagging cannot happen until after the question is answered. Would that be a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast, we do have the option to retag questions, so that may shoot all kinds of holes in my argument. But if we as a community do decide to allow country tags, I believe we need to make it very clear what type of questions require a country tag and what type of questions should omit the country tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Country tags just feel too close to being meta tags to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T05:27:38.170" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="66" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8" CreationDate="2012-04-12T05:37:10.687" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think tagging should be used to differentiate these questions. They could be easily missed. For instance, if we had 7 questions all titled:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are some guidelines for appropriate social drinking at work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and all 7 of those questions had different tags, it might not be clear to everyone that the scope of the question is somehow tied to the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags should be used to categorize questions, but they should not be required for a reader to understand what the question is about. Instead, the question should contain enough detail to stand on it's own without the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On StackOverflow, when I answer a JavaScript question, I can tell the question is about JavaScript simply by reading the question. The questions stand on their own without tags; I don't need the tag in order to tell me it's a JavaScript question. However, when searching for JavaScript questions, the tags are very helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, we should target questions like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I work in the United States, what are some guidelines for appropriate social drinking at work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I live in Afghanistan, what are some guidelines for appropriate social drinking at work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, these details don't necessarily need to go in the question title. They should also be included in the question body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T05:37:10.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="67" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2012-04-12T09:53:26.070" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Filtering out questions on a country-by-country basis just doesn't smell right to me. I'm afraid I'm inclined to agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25/should-we-have-country-specific-tags#comment42_38&quot;&gt;nomalocity&lt;/a&gt; on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having country tags is just going to encourage localised questions, whereas I would hope that we should be able to keep them to a minimum: encouraging posters to reformulate their questions in broader, less localised terms. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of this specific question, I think it could be made more widely relevant, even though the OP might not know how to do so. (At the least, a preamble explaining what a gpa is). Otherwise, yes, I'd say that if your question absolutely can't be generalised, then by definition it is localised, and either you close it, or you get the developers to remove the 'localised' close reason&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T11:59:12.760" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="68" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2012-04-12T13:04:37.673" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;, the need for country specific tags is going to come up as there are some country specific items that are going to occur (e.g. compensation laws, hiring laws, and layoffs can be country specific) and there are also going to be other concerns that are going get answer that are too generic otherwise. To cases that come to mind that would advocate for country specific tags would be questions that apply to working as an ex-pat as well as etiquette concerns that would come up for people that are going to be hosting an international client.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T13:04:37.673" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="69" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2012-04-12T13:31:56.793" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should contain a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5/does-this-site-need-a-back-it-up-rule&quot;&gt;back it up rule&lt;/a&gt; similar to the one on &lt;a href=&quot;https://parenting.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;Parenting&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that opinions shared here should be backed up either &lt;strong&gt;with a reference&lt;/strong&gt;, or experiences that &lt;strong&gt;happened to you personally&lt;/strong&gt;. Also, posts that primarily exist to push a specific agenda (propaganda), and soap-boxing, are not welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:41:14.630" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T13:31:56.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="70" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48" CreationDate="2012-04-12T15:06:34.383" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question went off topic with &lt;em&gt;Im looking for almost an IT &quot;peace corps&quot; type role. How could I find listings like this?&lt;/em&gt;  Had the question been about the process of getting a visa, or some other specific process related to getting a job overseas it would have been on topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question quickly became &lt;strong&gt;point me to the new monster.com&lt;/strong&gt;.  That is why it is off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same standards for questions still apply as they do for all SE Sites.  If we allow the site to go off the rails by allowing bad questions we might get closed for being a low quality site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2012-04-12T19:47:53.050" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T19:47:53.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="71" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-12T16:41:07.183" Score="3" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/446/telecommuting-working-from-home&quot;&gt;What data supports the benefits of telecommuting/working from home?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is very on topic.  But it is very broad and there is no one right answer which makes it a bad question for here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there value in changing it to ask specifically about the productivity, cost effectiveness, etc aspects.  I Think those specific questions are answerable in one answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of the close reasons really fit but I do not think the question as it stands is a good fit for SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T00:59:20.443" Title="Should this be multiple questions?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="72" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-12T16:50:02.207" Score="34" ViewCount="1483" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've noticed comment-discussions being unceremoniously deleted, there's been a lot of misuse of comments in this system. Let's see if we can nip this in the bud.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are like Post-It notes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Comments are inherently disposable and not for permanent information. Comments are used primarily to leave notes to the author asking for clarification, or to point out problems, or otherwise help make a post better. Ideally, this information should be moved into the post and the comments deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are not for answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Comments are not a substitute for answering questions. Comments cannot easily be searched, nor can they be edited for corrections or vetted with the community vote. There's no history, no reputation awarded, nor can they be 'accepted' as the best answer. They get little visibility &lt;strong&gt;but often keep users from posting proper answers&lt;/strong&gt; because the question &lt;em&gt;appears&lt;/em&gt; to be resolved… albeit, incorrectly. Further, those comment-answers will not bring new users to this site &lt;em&gt;searching&lt;/em&gt; for the information. In short, you are hurting rather than helping the site, and your contribution is at great risk of being lost/deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are not mini chat rooms&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Comment-chat sessions come in the form &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Yes, same thing happened to me, let me tell you…&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; but they also contain random quips, anecdotes, jokes, and various side conversations inspired by the discussion. If you find yourself chatting up the situation, please stop. Our chat rooms are much better suited to this purpose — &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.workplace.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://chat.workplace.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are not discussion forums&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Comments are not for debates or deliberations. If you find yourself going back and forth about a post, you're doing it wrong. It's okay to express disagreement about information posted (voting goes with this), but if it becomes a conversation, stop responding and bring it to a chat room. We're building a canon of clear, concise answers in this Q&amp;amp;A, and we sometimes have to forgo these conversations and debates to keep that repository clean, useful, and accessible. If the question &lt;em&gt;needs&lt;/em&gt; further discussion, bring it to a chat room. Ideally, the issue should be resolved and the information added to the post. The comments should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; become part of that canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Too much to read? Start here.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are not intended for long-term storage of important information. But that transiency doesn't mean you can use comments for random, parenthetical asides. &lt;strong&gt;If your comment isn't likely to change the content of the post, please do not post it&lt;/strong&gt; for someone else to clean up. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-05-23T00:33:19.053" Title="What &quot;comments&quot; are not . . ." Tags="|discussion|faq|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="73" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-12T19:18:22.807" Score="2" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;In light of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/35/do-we-have-a-quality-control-issue&quot;&gt;this meta discussion&lt;/a&gt;, I'd like to know if &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/450/encouraging-a-culture-of-punctuality&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; is a bad question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've provided a specific and detailed scenario with which I need assistance.  Based on the comments and the answers, it appears that I have not yet provided enough details unique and specific to my situation.  If I continue to provide additional details, does it turn into something more appropriate for a threaded discussion?  Does its value to other users diminish?  Would I have been better served asked generically for strategies to combat employee tardiness?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T16:47:21.457" Title="Is this a bad question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="74" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30" CreationDate="2012-04-12T19:56:32.640" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about specific aspects of job-hunting (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/440/what-is-the-purpose-of-references&quot;&gt;What is the purpose of references?&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/266/if-youve-lost-contact-with-a-person-should-you-stop-listing-them-as-a-referenc&quot;&gt;If you&amp;#39;ve lost contact with a person, should you stop listing them as a reference?&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/92/how-do-i-maintain-a-good-relationship-with-an-employer-after-resigning&quot;&gt;How do I maintain a good relationship with an employer after resigning?&lt;/a&gt;) I think are OK.  These are just a few I grabbed, there are a bunch of other good ones already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like &quot;how do I get a job?&quot; or the categories root45 listed are too broad (and many too ephemeral - IBM's interview in 1980 and their interview today are probably radically different), and I agree they should be considered not constructive or plain off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: I agree with Benjol's comment - broad questions like this are bad. Good, pointed questions are probably OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T19:56:32.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="75" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2012-04-12T20:20:19.787" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What makes you believe that any of the answerers just don't get what your problem is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I continue to provide additional details, does it turn into something more appropriate for a threaded discussion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you continue to add to the question, probably.  Feel free to rewrite your whole question if you think you can explain it better, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would I have been better served asked generically for strategies to combat employee tardiness?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/44/17&quot;&gt;Robert Cartaino's answer&lt;/a&gt;, definitely not.  Specific is by nature more answerable.  For instance, if you asked generically, then the first response would be &quot;that depends on why employee tardiness is a problem at all&quot;.  &lt;strong&gt;That&lt;/strong&gt; would be a bad question;  what you have, I think, is a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2012-04-13T03:14:33.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="76" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="100" CreationDate="2012-04-12T22:00:56.887" Score="4" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of why I wanted to be part of this beta in the first place is because I've been interested in these issues for years, and because I write the occasional blog post about workplace issues, company culture, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'm already wondering, when does the site get its own blog?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastActivityDate="2012-04-15T18:34:42.220" Title="When does a new SE site get a blog?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="77" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2012-04-12T22:10:03.227" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought it was a good, answerable question.  It didn't need to be too general.  Of course, the answers got involved enough to end up in chat, but that's a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; thing, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T22:10:03.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="78" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2012-04-12T22:52:53.527" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your question is actually two parts -- One is some variant of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/476/how-do-i-deal-with-prima-donna-workers&quot;&gt;How can I get people with difficult personalities to conform to expectations?&lt;/a&gt; which I posted as a related question, and the other is how specifically to deal with your team's use of flex time negatively impacting the company's productivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the question title is a bit misleading (tardiness isn't your core problem, I'd even dare to say it's a symptom), but the question of how to get employees to use flex time in a respectful way that improves overall efficiency is a fantastic one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not 100% sure how to make it shine though - I suck at writing good questions :-/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T22:52:53.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="79" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="80" CreationDate="2012-04-13T00:56:51.473" Score="1" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/249/what-to-do-when-nothing-to-do&quot;&gt;posted&lt;/a&gt; a bad question &lt;em&gt;(I know that I should have read the FAQ first, I apologize)&lt;/em&gt;, my first question in this SE site, and I want to delete it because it just lower my reputation but I at least need to wait for 2 days to delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was it like this? In other SE sites, I can immediately delete my bad question(s) so that it wont acquire such large number of down-votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am really enthusiastic in supporting this site and I do not want new users to see such bad question. Again, I apologize for posting such non-constructive question and I'll try my best not to post such kind of question again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2012-04-15T02:58:08.433" Title="Why do I need to wait for 2 days to delete my post?" Tags="|support|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="80" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="79" CreationDate="2012-04-13T01:07:43.460" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several questions on Meta StackOverflow about this. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/119297/166214&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/56149/166214&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/1588/166214&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for example. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/117933/allow-the-author-to-delete-their-own-question-after-closure-if-other-rules-perm&quot;&gt;This is a discussion&lt;/a&gt; about changing the behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not specific to this site. The reason is to allow a post to be reopened if it was closed in error, which happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A work around is to flag it for deletion and a mod can delete it for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2012-04-13T01:07:43.460" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="81" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="72" CreationDate="2012-04-13T03:52:58.743" Score="-12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are not for answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you sure about that?  Isn't it standard operating procedure on Stack Overflow to convert simple, link-only or single-line answers to comments?  Doesn't this practice run counter to that assertion? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30" LastActivityDate="2012-04-13T03:52:58.743" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="82" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="84" CreationDate="2012-04-13T04:18:23.643" Score="6" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prompted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/494/are-digitally-signed-documents-legally-binding/&quot;&gt;Are digitally signed documents legally binding?&lt;/a&gt; - to which the only answer I can give is &quot;It depends on your jurisdiction!&quot;, and related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/29/are-employment-law-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;Are employment law questions off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;:  do we want to consider &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions of law/legality off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over on Server Fault we have explicitly disallowed them in our &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.serverfault.com/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, being that the vast majority of us aren't lawyers and the wide variation in legal jurisdictions even just within the US makes the questions hard to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-04-15T03:03:48.300" Title="Are questions of law (&quot;is X legal?&quot;) questions off topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|faq-content|site-policy|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="83" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="76" CreationDate="2012-04-13T05:30:51.853" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A blog is usually a community organized thing. It can happen whenever we feel we are ready, but the site usually has to be out of Beta for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't worry about this too much now. Wait until we are out of Beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-04-13T05:30:51.853" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="84" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="82" CreationDate="2012-04-13T05:45:55.997" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/494/are-digitally-signed-documents-legally-binding/&quot;&gt;Are digitally signed documents legally binding?&lt;/a&gt; question as too localized. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's virtually impossible to answer this question. Laws vary from state to state, locality to locality, and country to country. Furthermore, the laws change frequently, and sometimes interpretation of the law may be different than the actual case law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we intend this site to be a resource of helpful information, these questions must be explicitly disallowed and closed. Information is only helpful if it's correct, and since it's impossible to verify the accuracy of that information without consulting an attorney, we must close them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-04-13T05:45:55.997" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="85" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="79" CreationDate="2012-04-13T05:56:42.193" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am actually a fan of not deleting questions right away because they serve as examples of what not to ask here. When it comes time to edit the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, it's just as important to list what is not on topic, if not more, as it is to list what is on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we only focus on what is allowed, we leave virtually an infinite amount of possibilities for the disallowed that we don't think of. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, having examples of bad questions also helps put things into better perspective as a moderator. They act as a sanity check for us when we examine a question that we're not sure about. I know when I see questions like this, it makes me realize that maybe some other questions that weren't perfect actually weren't quite so bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, this is meant as no offense to you. We've all had questions closed or missed reading the FAQ at one point in time. I appreciate you following up on this, and admitting your mistake, and helping to determine when or how something should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-04-13T05:56:42.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="86" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="71" CreationDate="2012-04-13T07:48:42.583" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not 100% sure about the question in question, but there are two indications that a question is too broad:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Would you expect there to be a whole book written to answer the question? Then the question is too broad. This is possibly the case with this question. However, a good answer &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; redeem this type of question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are there actually 2 or more questions explicitly stated in the question? In this case the question should be broken down into two or more separate questions addressing each question. That's not the case here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more specific the question the better the answers can be - but obviously don't make it &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; specific otherwise you run the risk of it being closed as too localised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7" LastActivityDate="2012-04-13T07:48:42.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="87" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35" CreationDate="2012-04-13T09:08:26.783" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is inherently different from lots of other SE sites, in that the central theme of the site deals &lt;strong&gt;directly with people and the interactions between them&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As people don't have manuals, there are going to be far fewer hard and fast answers and a lot more questions that, in order not to be overly localised, are broader than those allowed on something like SO or ServerFault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the fact that answers on this site tend to be broader - &lt;em&gt;even if the question is more localised&lt;/em&gt;. That's because part of the goal of the site is to be a repository of searchable knowledge. If we try to force questions to be more specific than they naturally are, we're going to end up seeing 5 different but related questions, all of which have largely the same answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said all of this, some of these questions are at the upper limit of broadness I would set personally, but they are still valid questions to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96" LastActivityDate="2012-04-13T09:08:26.783" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="88" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="82" CreationDate="2012-04-13T14:58:26.363" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;, and to be honest, I don't see how you can have site about the workplace and not allow for some sort legality questions to be asked. The catch is that I think there needs to be a custom close option for questions that are going to be along the lines of &quot;Consult a lawyer in your jurisdiction&quot; but for the rest of the questions I can see a fairly straightforward answer coming back that just cites the relevant law. In the United States most HR personnel are going to be fairly familiar with the basic laws in their jurisdiction and possibly even outside of it if they work for an international corporation so it's not like there aren't going to be people on the site that can't answer the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastActivityDate="2012-04-13T14:58:26.363" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="89" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="92" CreationDate="2012-04-13T15:17:05.967" Score="1" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do understand that we are trying to build up the site but there was a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/519/when-should-i-start-looking-for-my-first-employment&quot;&gt;When should I start looking for my first employment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which doesn't quite sit well with seeming intention of the site.  Is looking for your first job on-topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically for example I could see &quot;Taking my first job in the same place as I interned&quot; might be on topic but this one is looking more on a career advice not related to the Workplace issues since there isn't one yet.  There were comments that we already have questions about interviewing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/111/how-to-coordinate-the-process-of-pursuing-multiple-job-opportunities-at-the-same&quot;&gt;How to coordinate the process of pursuing multiple job opportunities at the same time?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this one for example involves your current employer as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-04-13T20:01:27.310" Title="On Topic - Off Topic" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="90" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="89" CreationDate="2012-04-13T15:47:26.860" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually the two question you use as examples, they are about procedures related to job hunting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first is by a college student with an internship who wants to find a paying job.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The second is by a employee wanting to know how to leverage one company against another.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They would even more alike if the intern had asked the second question, and very well might once they start applying.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that if the 2nd question in on topic, then the first is also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2012-04-13T15:47:26.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="91" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="98" CreationDate="2012-04-13T15:55:42.387" Score="2" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure if this belongs here or meta.SO but should the Original Poster be allowed to vote to close or reopen his/her own posts?  Or is it just because of the private beta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-06-03T21:08:15.990" LastActivityDate="2012-06-03T21:08:15.990" Title="Closing and Reopening your own questions" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|closing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="92" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="89" CreationDate="2012-04-13T18:06:06.380" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems this site should be a great resource for first time employees, I don't see any reason to exclude them particularly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a matter of navigating the professional setting, which is exactly what we have in the FAQ. They're not &lt;em&gt;yet&lt;/em&gt; members of the workforce (another criteria in the FAQ) but I don't think it's fair to discount them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar to how a retired worker might have some great insight to offer in answers, even if they're not current members of the workforce, first time job seekers might have some excellent questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hiring-process&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hiring-process&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hiring-process&lt;/a&gt; tag is the most used one on the site so far, so I think it's fair to say that many of us consider job-seeking things like that to be on topic as long as it's otherwise a good, constructive question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-04-13T18:06:06.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="93" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="82" CreationDate="2012-04-13T18:42:45.273" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some legal questions could be on topic. I am thinking of questions about wording in a contract, potential liability, and similar concerns.  If the question is purely a matter of law, then it is certainly off topic. But I do not think we should have a rule that says if it is about law at all then it is off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-04-13T18:42:45.273" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="94" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="82" CreationDate="2012-04-13T19:43:05.383" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question that was closed is a simple matter of contract law. The sort you'll encounter in any course on business law. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138" LastActivityDate="2012-04-13T19:43:05.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="95" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="89" CreationDate="2012-04-13T19:50:09.073" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This SE basically encompasses anything you do at or related to work that does not involve a specific job's function.  This includes the process of getting a job, dealing with losing a job, and all that in between.  So long as it is specific in its intent so as not to require a novel, nor so limited that a one line answer is acceptable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off Topic &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions that are about performing a specific job(other than general management).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about law and legality specifically&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions asking for a list of resources.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions that are &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/535/how-can-i-reduce-my-caffeine-addiction&quot;&gt;not about work at all&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-04-13T20:01:27.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="96" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="97" CreationDate="2012-04-14T05:09:52.750" Score="3" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know SO and other Stack Exchange sites give me a notification when there've been new answers/comments/edits on questions I've added to my favorites - I don't remember the exact wording, but it's one of those things that show up on top of the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site doesn't seem to be doing that, unless my memory is way off and all this content that looks new to me when I go back to my favorites has actually been there earlier. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone gotten this notification?  Does anyone know why it's not happening?  Is this just a feature that isn't on during private beta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34" LastActivityDate="2012-04-15T02:54:35.067" Title="Why am I not getting a &quot;some of your favorites have had new activity&quot; notification?" Tags="|bug|support|notifications|bookmarks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="97" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="96" CreationDate="2012-04-15T02:54:35.067" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no user preference for it, but in my experience the whole thing is ... intermittent at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a workaround, you can check your profile page. The number of changes to your favourites will be shown as a number beside the &quot;favorites&quot; tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastActivityDate="2012-04-15T02:54:35.067" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="98" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="91" CreationDate="2012-04-15T02:56:49.307" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Rarity said in the comments, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13463/why-can-you-vote-to-reopen-your-own-question&quot;&gt;this is by design&lt;/a&gt;. The reputation requirement is different during private and public betas, but the principle is the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since four other people (or a moderator) need to agree with the vote, there's little chance for abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2012-04-15T02:56:49.307" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="76" CreationDate="2012-04-15T18:34:42.220" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A community can start a blog as soon as it can build the support and resources to keep it active and interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the blog post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/06/blog-overflow/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blog Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So how does my site get a community blog?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Starting a blog is easy.  Keeping up a blog, contributing to it regularly is difficult.  Blogs are hard work.  Wanting a blog is obviously the first step, but there are a few things that the community needs to discuss in order to get a blog going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Raise the idea on the child meta.&lt;/strong&gt; A community blog needs the involvement of community members.  These blogs don’t exist to be the personal blog of a community member.  They are both for and run by the community.  It needs to be something the community collectively wants and will cultivate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Define the scope and purpose of the blog.&lt;/strong&gt; Is the blog about the site? Is it about the site’s topic? Is it about the industry around the topic? Keep in mind the audience of your community and their interests. Another generic blog about  may not be all that interesting.  A community blog should be interesting to both current members and potential new members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Recruit contributors.&lt;/strong&gt; Who will write entries for the blog? Starting a blog is a bit like going through the buffet line. Be realistic – don’t let your eyes be bigger than your stomach. Think seriously about if and how often you will be able to contribute a blog post, including research/prep time.  The more contributors there are, the less frequently each contributor needs to post.  One post a month is a much easier to stomach than a couple posts every week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plan a schedule.&lt;/strong&gt; Given the results of steps #2 and #3, think about a rough idea of a schedule for the blog. Will there be one post a week, posted Mondays? Will there be  posts on Tuesdays and  posts on Fridays? You don’t need to be pushing out posts daily, but you should post at least once a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this community has barely started. I would suggest a little community-building is the task at hand before you start discussing a community blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-04-15T18:34:42.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="71" CreationDate="2012-04-16T00:59:20.443" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me the example question does seem like a single question. While only one answer can be accepted you can simply vote a few answers to the top and I would recommend that everybody should at least read the top few answers anyway just in case there is one that suits you better than the example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T00:59:20.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="102" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-16T01:18:25.060" Score="8" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/601/how-do-i-push-a-product-ive-been-told-to-push-to-customers-without-being-pushy&quot;&gt;How do I push a product I've been told to push to customers without being pushy about it?&lt;/a&gt; is basically asking about how to perform certain sales related tasks without being pushy. It's a specific job function of sales employees. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are questions like this really on topic for the site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T17:17:52.777" Title="Are questions about fulfilling specific job functions on topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2012-04-16T01:41:02.933" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's definitely on-topic. The question relates the example of a retail sales-floor associate stereotype being what the OP wants to avoid, but employees are asked to &quot;sell&quot; or otherwise represent/promote/endorse products all the time, even outside of a formal sales role. As such, people face some force of this dilema all the time in various forms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the broader sense, so long as a question (while relating a specific example) can relate to a broader situation that many people run into, it's not inherently off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where does this cross the line?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of where I think a question about the fulfillment of a specific job function would be &lt;strong&gt;off topic&lt;/strong&gt; include questions that ask for specific instructions, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;My boss needs a report done for an important meeting, and I need to know how to create a bar chart in Excel.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;What reading/classes/seminars should I use to increase my sales numbers?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="31" LastEditDate="2012-04-16T01:46:13.363" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T01:46:13.363" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="104" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-16T10:53:01.753" Score="14" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty straightforward question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should &lt;strong&gt;Workplace.SE&lt;/strong&gt; make their logo and site design? Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2014-01-23T07:17:16.903" LastActivityDate="2014-01-25T22:22:25.230" Title="What should our logo and site design look like?" Tags="|discussion|design|graduation|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2012-04-16T14:28:27.907" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was one of the close-voters and I thought this question sat squarely on the line -- I voted to close expecting a meta discussion, which is good at this stage in the game.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I voted it as off-topic, but I was choosing between off-topic, too localized, and not constructive.  That right there says the question needs some work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this were a question that led with a general workplace issue (supporting a product you don't believe in? -- I know that's not at issue in this particular question, but would be a general concern) and used a specific example that was not the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; example, then that would be great.  To wit, one commenter noted a phrasing such as &quot;How do I handle [this new job responsibility] when I have severe doubts about its efficacy (and here's why)?&quot; -- if that were the question, and the example was given, I believe that would be a good question, because it would not be specific to sales, just &lt;em&gt;applicable&lt;/em&gt; to sales (and other positions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in this particular case, there are a lot of unknowns -- as a commenter pointed out, &quot; [the answer] varies by the medium involved, ie telephone, retail business, door to door... etc.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was my thought process, at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T14:28:27.907" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2012-04-16T15:15:59.640" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a great question, and will generate great answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think it sits squarely on the fence between on-topic and off-topic.  It's really related to sales rather than the broader &quot;workplace&quot;, but as an engineer I've been told in the past to try to guide customers toward a specific product or service my company offers in order to get them to offer up more money and I can see how someone who is not technically in a sales role would want good advice on how to gently steer customers without seeming like an obnoxious used car salesman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; question I would say is on-topic because of that broader applicability (like normalocity said, anyone can be asked to &quot;help sell&quot; even if they're not in a sales role).  A similar question of &quot;How can I get my customers to buy stuff?&quot; is really more a topic for a sales-focused site...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T15:15:59.640" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2012-04-16T15:20:03.127" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking something along the lines of an office building motif: stylized cubicle furniture logo,  or perhaps an building with &quot;The Workplace&quot; on a sign?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have all the artistic sense of a star-nosed mole though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T15:20:03.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2012-04-16T15:22:05.903" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is about performing a specific specialized job function then it is off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is about sales.  Specifically how does one sell a product to customers contacting about something different.  That is a specialized job function.  It varies based on the method of contact, and the reason for contact.  I could ask this question in 20 variations to get different correct answers that are basically the same question.  The correct answer for some versions do not apply to others.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question were about some tangent of this, (i.e. how do i ask for help with?) then it might be more on topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T15:22:05.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2012-04-16T15:46:50.100" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our tabs could be like those Manilla folder tabs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eF9Ty.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T15:46:50.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2012-04-16T16:00:16.543" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be unoriginal, our badges could be coffee mugs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OEuMw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-04-16T21:19:33.447" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T21:19:33.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2012-04-17T02:07:19.537" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somehow, somewhere, there should be a water cooler in it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T02:07:19.537" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="112" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-17T13:22:48.670" Score="4" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/638/is-the-lazy-project-manager-approach-really-as-beneficial-as-the-author-descri&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/638/is-the-lazy-project-manager-approach-really-as-beneficial-as-the-author-descri&lt;/a&gt; is gathering close votes as Off Topic, probably because we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://pm.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Project Management&lt;/a&gt; site where the question has a better home. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, site scopes overlap and just because a question is on topic on one site doesn't mean it's off topic on all others. We've indicated a management perspective is welcome in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1/are-questions-from-the-perspective-of-management-on-topic&quot;&gt;Are questions from the perspective of management on topic?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about project management? When do we draw the line and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T13:33:37.347" Title="Is project management on topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="112" CreationDate="2012-04-17T13:33:37.347" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is strictly about performing project management then It is clearly off topic since that is a specific specialized work function. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are probably going to have some overlap in dealing with some aspects, i.e. problems with stand-ups, dealing with pm/coworkers, etc.  If the question is like this and clearly belongs in Project Management we should offer them a migration.  If it is unclear then leaving the question where asked is probably the best course of action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect this question might be rejected there because of its general bad subjective request (is it as good as claimed?) though I can see a version of this question that would be accepted there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T13:33:37.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="114" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-17T15:46:02.783" Score="13" ViewCount="2743" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just used my super awesome mod powers to &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/4255154#4255154&quot;&gt;rename&lt;/a&gt; our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;main chatroom&lt;/a&gt; from the predictable and dry &quot;The Workplace&quot; to &quot;The Water Cooler&quot;, on a whim. It's a cool name, suggested by &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/4253131#4253131&quot;&gt;Rarity&lt;/a&gt;, and it's a reminder of &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1399/whats-the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;the Area51 days&lt;/a&gt; of the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several other sites have cool names for their main chat rooms, some examples are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/21/the-whiteboard&quot;&gt;The Whiteboard&lt;/a&gt;, Programmer's main room,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/179/the-heap&quot;&gt;The Heap&lt;/a&gt;, DBA's main room,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/118/root-access&quot;&gt;Root Access&lt;/a&gt;, Super User's main room,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/35/the-bridge&quot;&gt;The Bridge&lt;/a&gt;, Gaming's main room,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;, SciFi's main room.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you like it? Can you think of a better name? Should I be forever exiled for (ab)using my super awesome mod powers on a whim? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-03T08:41:06.557" LastActivityDate="2012-10-09T05:07:01.583" Title="What should the name of our chat room be?" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2012-10-09T11:21:59.477" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2012-04-17T16:47:21.457" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the question is OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question as asked has quite a bit of too local information but the question asked is a good question.  I think I would generalize the issue to get away from the specifics. It does not matter if you start time is 930 or noon.  You have a problem with people not respecting your policy.  How can you deal with that is very much on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By including all of the localized information someone may come along and think but i let my guys start at 1030 and still have the same problem so I must need a different question.  It can be a fine line between too broad and to local.  Try and ask the question in the most general way possible while communicating the actual question you have. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most importantly you scoped the question with what should my next step(s) be?  That was a good focused scope that is answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T16:47:21.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2012-04-17T17:03:12.270" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whoever suggested this name is a genius. We should keep it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T17:03:12.270" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2012-04-17T17:17:52.777" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that questions that generally refer to the workplace, or even specific jobs should be considered on topic as long as there is no stackexchange more specific to the topic. Refering back to usenet days, I would aim for stackexchange to be complete in the sense that any question is on topic somewhere on stackexchange, and in this case, I would say questions relating to aspects of the workplace are on topic here as long as they are not on topic in a more specialised stackexchange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tying this in with the question of project management I would generally consider questions refering to PM as off topic, and migrate them to the pm.stackexchange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T17:17:52.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="118" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-17T19:29:59.963" Score="11" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a lot of very brief, one/two line answers. I think this is a problem, and this has recently come up &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3472/one-line-answers&quot;&gt;on Programmers' Meta&lt;/a&gt;. We have a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of answers per question and sometimes single-line answers get posted. Worse, in my opinion, the single line answers sometimes get upvoted, reinforcing the behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to single anyone out, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/107/what-are-some-guidelines-for-appropriate-social-drinking-in-a-work-related-conte/119#119&quot;&gt;this is an example&lt;/a&gt;. Fairly obvious advice (don't do X), little elaboration (X is implicitly dangerous). On most SE sites that's not acceptable, even if it would win a popularity contest on Reddit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think posts here really need to follow Good Subjective rules and elaborate on &lt;em&gt;whys&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;hows&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are one line answers a problem? What should we do about them? Comment, downvote, ect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-11-02T15:10:15.060" Title="What can we do about one line answers?" Tags="|discussion|quality|answers|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2012-04-17T20:09:04.663" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think downvoting is a bit extreme - you can always upvote answers that you feel are more complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting that sometimes the best answers are short - brevity can help emphasise a point. As a corollary, not all long answers are good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T20:09:04.663" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2012-04-17T20:15:11.280" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that a good answer is as short as possible, but not shorter. So, the one-liner is not in itself a problem, if it answers the question - you then might ask yourself, if the question was that interesting to begin with. If I would think that a short answer would not be a useful answer, I would normally ask the poster to elaborate the points that weren't clear to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there might be a lot of questions here in the form of &quot;Would such and so be acceptable in the workplace&quot;, to which you might answer &quot;Yes, because... &quot; or &quot;No, because&quot;, and have answered a useful question with a single sentence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T20:15:11.280" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2012-04-17T20:41:30.093" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question can be answered here &lt;strong&gt;appropriately&lt;/strong&gt; in one line then the question should be closed.  The questions here should require detailed answers.  Office trivia, and other sorts of questions that work on other sites are inappropriate here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is just basic well do this... then add a comment asking for more detail on what is required.  If no update then Downvote.  Sometimes if I feel it warranted(especially people who have been around a while and should know better) I will down vote with a note that I will reverse if the answer is fleshed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is unacceptable, ie a comment posted as an answer, then downvote, comment, and flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2012-04-17T20:49:21.690" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T20:49:21.690" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2012-04-17T20:44:31.150" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless the answer is wrong, I wouldn't downvote. I would recommend leaving a comment to the user asking for more information (perhaps using some leading questions to probe at their answer) and flag the post for moderator review. As a moderator on Programmers, I typically give the user about 24 hours from the first comment asking for an elaboration before I delete the post (which might mean letting the flag sit in the queue for a while, but that's OK).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T20:44:31.150" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="123" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="239" CreationDate="2012-04-18T01:24:58.280" Score="7" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;When we discussed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5/&quot;&gt;Back It Up&lt;/a&gt; rule before &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6/42&quot;&gt;ChrisF suggested adding the rule to the FAQ&lt;/a&gt; when we go public to make sure people are aware of it (when they bother to look). His post was highly voted and public opinion seems to be with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're public now. Should this be added to the FAQ? What should the exact wording be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T21:58:31.993" Title="Should we add a &quot;Back It Up&quot; rule to the FAQ now?" Tags="|discussion|faq-content|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2012-04-18T10:48:37.833" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Lobby&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(not my best idea ever :P)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T10:48:37.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="123" CreationDate="2012-04-18T12:46:38.847" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far we have been addressing issues with questions as they come up.  The question quality has come up and now that we are getting new people in the quality is staying high for the most part.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could see potentially requiring sources for claims of fact should that need arise.  This site is intended to be softer in that these are mostly &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_skills&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;soft skills&lt;/a&gt; we are dealing with.  Many times there may be more than one way of dealing with an issue.  So long as the question can be answers in a single answer I am ok with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Calling for anecdotes is the wrong approach.  I am ok with anecdotes being used to back up an answer but when we start requiring stories we end up with a bunch of (metaphorical) &quot;This one time at band camp,&quot; posts.  I think that is a direction we do not want to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T12:46:38.847" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="126" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-18T12:58:51.000" Score="8" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hate to ban the category out right but if not maybe we should have some guidelines for what is acceptable for this type of question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/728/what-is-the-minimum-experience-needed-to-change-the-industry-i-work-in-from-the&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/728/what-is-the-minimum-experience-needed-to-change-the-industry-i-work-in-from-the&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question as originally asked is too broad but I am thinking if the question was how do I change my career form Public works Project management to IT project management I Could see this been a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or should we just say this class of question is off topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T20:45:13.100" Title="Are &quot;How do I change my career from X to Y&quot; questions off topic/not-constructive?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="127" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="129" CreationDate="2012-04-18T13:37:56.427" Score="8" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/729/how-to-gain-confidence&quot;&gt;How can I talk to my boss one-on-one with confidence?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP is clearly having a problem at work because of her confidence.  She is asking for help because of this.  I am thinking that makes this on topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a related aside... &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;The op is brand new to SE.  She can not edit her question herself.  So instead of critising we might want to help her out by editing the question to make it more on topic if the problem is just the wording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T11:55:14.747" Title="Are general Soft Skill questions off topic" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="126" CreationDate="2012-04-18T13:39:56.110" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Judging by the number of tags career advice (hiring process, resume, interviewing, ...) seem to be the most important part of the workplace.SE right now. If we would ban these questions, we would lose a large part of the traffic/questions. This bags the question if there should be another SE which would specialise in career advice, to which these questions might migrate at a later point. Until then, I would see them as on topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: My point - besides the argument about losing traffic if we would ban these questions - is that right now we have a very broad definition of the topic as posted in the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace - Stack Exchange is for members of the workforce&#xA;  navigating the professional setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless we sharpen this definition, I find it hard to argue that career questions are off topic, since one's career path is the long-term result of navigating the professional setting. If we liken this definition with an answer to the question &quot;What is on topic in this SE?&quot; is is lacking further explanations: What is meant with &quot;navigating&quot;, what is meant with &quot;professional setting&quot;, and what is meant with &quot;workforce&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114" LastEditorUserId="114" LastEditDate="2012-04-18T13:48:40.593" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T13:48:40.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="127" CreationDate="2012-04-18T14:08:11.733" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frankly I think soft skills are on topic.  Talking to her boss makes her nervous and there are a lot of other people who have the same problem, I did too when I was young. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T14:08:11.733" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="127" CreationDate="2012-04-18T14:34:49.593" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While soft skills per-se are on topic the question itself is not a really good one.  It's not about the soft skills of how to approach your boss and describe and argue your project the question is about how to gain confidence in speaking with a psychologically dominating figure in this case her boss but it could be a parent, rude DMV clerk, etc.  The situation in my mind doesn't have to necessarily to do with the workplace although had occurred in the workplace in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T14:34:49.593" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="127" CreationDate="2012-04-18T16:12:15.703" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen situations like this myself. And in that situation it is really not about lack-of-confidence as a &quot;self help topic&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While in all other situations people are just normal and confident but workplace situation overwhelms you to loose. This is very real and very important question because you feel very frustrated, lost and not tackling this mean getting affected in the career.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T16:12:15.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="126" CreationDate="2012-04-18T18:08:46.557" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the curiosity around these questions - it's definitely hard to see the long-term benefit here. However, long-term benefit is something that often needs to be proved (to exist or not exist) vs. something that can necessarily be predicted without substantial prior evidence, which we don't really have since the site is still very new. It's true that we can draw parallels between questions we see here and similar questions we've seen on other network sites, but that's not necessarily a correct (or useful) correlation to make on new sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To provide a contrarian view, many of these questions could be rewritten and possibly turned into public wiki articles on skills that are important to various fields. Of course, that idea presents its own challenges (do we want to be the warehouse for qualifications listings for a ton of job descriptions)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as others have pointed out, where else in the network are these kinds of questions going to be on-topic, and how much of the motivation to begin this site has to do with career transitions, advice on getting /changing/starting/leaving jobs, and other somewhat advice-based questions. I'm starting to see the wisdom in at least attempting to answer these questions without jumping on the &quot;too localized/non-constructive&quot; train just yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So long as a question is phrased in such a way that it's answerable, I'm starting to think that these sorts of questions (at least at this very early stage in the site) or more helpful than hurtful. If anything, the first real problem I think we'll start to see with these questions is the need to close many future questions as duplicates, but only time will tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="31" LastEditDate="2012-04-18T18:20:00.490" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T18:20:00.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="123" CreationDate="2012-04-18T18:21:16.737" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm all for putting some kind of &quot;Back it up&quot; wording in the FAQ, but particularly with workplace issues a lot of suggestions may come from but second/third hand sources, or you have a strong opinion based on years in the field (e.g. my answer on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/700/should-you-always-counter-the-first-offer-letter/705#705&quot;&gt;Should you always counter the first offer letter?&lt;/a&gt;).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of good, sound answers that may not come with research or first-hand empirical weight to back them up, and if we don't want to force those out or have the site degrade into FAQ rules-lawyering, so we need to be careful how we approach this:  I think it should be expressed as a &lt;strong&gt;preference&lt;/strong&gt; rather than a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;requirement&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the subject of enforcing the policy, when Server Fault redid our FAQ a while back we didn't add a &quot;back it up&quot; clause -- the community expectation is that you will back up what you're saying, and voting patterns favor answers that give supporting data/reasons, so there was no need to explicitly call it out (the idea never even came up as far as I recall).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That community is way larger than we are, but I think self-policing with rep &amp;amp; votes rather than heavy-handed deleting is a preferable enforcement strategy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T18:21:16.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="135" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-18T19:23:50.737" Score="11" ViewCount="598" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace has reached public beta, and soon it will be time for us to get our first crop of moderators, as explained in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Moderator Pro Tempore&amp;quot; blog post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That’s why I am in the process of identifying and organizing a team of provisional Moderators from within each community (about three per site, starting  about seven days into the public Beta). This is a temporary, short-term appointment. Moderators Pro Tem focus and expedite &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/the-7-essential-meta-questions-of-every-beta/&quot;&gt;the essential needs of each new site&lt;/a&gt;. By the end of Beta, the community will be better suited to hold their own elections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators in Stack Exchange have an interesting challenge. Beside the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;normal activities of a Moderator&lt;/a&gt;, part of their function is to act as &lt;em&gt;liaison&lt;/em&gt; — a role which links the Stack Exchange team with the individual communities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although during beta moderators will ultimately be selected by Stack Exchange, the purpose of this post is to seek out and propose candidates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each nomination should be posted as an answer and it should include (at minimum) a link to the user's main and meta profile so we can check out their activity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Self nominations are encouraged, step up if you feel you can help.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are nominated by someone else you should edit the answer and let us know if you accept or decline (explanation optional). If a nominee declines we will not delete the answer, as to not have someone else nominate them again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The nominations are not binding to Stack Exchange or the nominees.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before nominating someone or accept / decline a nomination, you should read &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;A Theory of Moderation&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; thoroughly to find out what's generally expected from moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you would like to learn more about the role, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;Water Cooler&lt;/a&gt;, our main chat room, is full of moderators, feel free to ask us anything you'd like (hint: we are the ones with blue names). Furthermore &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2691/the-assembly&quot;&gt;The Assembly&lt;/a&gt; was created specifically for users and moderators to discuss moderation activities, moderators from all over the network are there to answer your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2023-01-02T10:16:14.223" Title="Who should our beta moderators be?" Tags="|discussion|beta|moderators|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2012-05-01T21:46:36.167" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-18T19:24:24.537" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="127" CreationDate="2012-04-19T11:55:14.747" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I also see &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_skills&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;soft skills&lt;/a&gt; as on topic for The Workplace, I feel that since there are many book dedicated to this particular topic, the question falls under the category of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you can imagine an entire book that answers your question, you’re asking too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question were confined to a more specific circumstance, then it might be on topic here, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/26/jcmeloni&quot;&gt;jcmeloni&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/729/revisions&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; does make the question much better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T11:55:14.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="139" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="142" CreationDate="2012-04-19T12:09:03.437" Score="8" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take as an example my question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/465/how-can-i-encourage-our-team-to-have-shorter-meetings&quot;&gt;How can I encourage our team to have shorter meetings?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has got information in it which might be seen as unflattering to my customer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other examples of questions containing potentially embarrassing information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/772/risks-of-using-pirated-software-on-the-job&quot;&gt;Risks of using pirated software on the job?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/733/how-can-i-stabilize-a-hectic-project-without-offending-the-unofficial-project-ma&quot;&gt;How can I stabilize a hectic project without offending the unofficial Project Manager?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/657/is-there-an-effective-way-of-dealing-with-nepotism-at-work&quot;&gt;Is there an effective way of dealing with nepotism at work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How cautious should be in asking these questions? Should we consider a way to handle these?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T02:15:31.957" Title="How should we handle work sensitive questions?" Tags="|discussion|questions|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="140" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-19T13:12:08.907" Score="10" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;On other sites (particularly Programmers) we have learnt that unless the community gets involved in voting to close it can cause friction between the regular users and moderators. So in an effort to get things of to a better start here I'm going to take this opportunity to &lt;s&gt;write up a guide here on meta&lt;/s&gt; blatantly rip off a guide to closing from &lt;a href=&quot;https://crypto.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/129/a-guide-to-moderating-crypto-stackexchange-yourself-close-voting&quot;&gt;Ninefingers' post on Cryptography meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:48:50.827" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T01:36:37.100" Title="A guide to moderating workplace.stackexchange.com yourself - close voting" Tags="|support|faq|closing|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="140" CreationDate="2012-04-19T13:13:40.140" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Adapted from &lt;a href=&quot;https://crypto.meta.stackexchange.com/a/130&quot;&gt;Cryptography meta&lt;/a&gt;, originally posted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://crypto.meta.stackexchange.com/users/46/ninefingers&quot;&gt;Ninefingers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rationale: why do we close questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are really two ways to do moderation. If you've been on any of the &lt;code&gt;.moderated&lt;/code&gt; newsgroups you'll be well aware that to get a post on there, it needs to undergo a review process first and be accepted. The aim is to keep problem discussions from arising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE is slightly different - it works the other way. &lt;em&gt;Anyone&lt;/em&gt; can ask a question on SE and closing a question is the equivalent of putting that question &lt;em&gt;back into review/improve mode&lt;/em&gt;. It's a feedback mechanism designed to react to problem cases only, so the usual business of asking and answering good questions can just... &lt;em&gt;happen&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why do we close a question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The philosophy of SE is that each site handles questions on &lt;em&gt;problems you face&lt;/em&gt; or things you are trying to understand. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;don't ask&lt;/a&gt; section of the FAQ gives you a good overview of things that don't work - to summarise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some questions invite arguments or extended debate that suck up time when members could be helping other people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some questions are too broad, too narrow or have other content problems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some questions belong elsewhere.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These have been worked out over time and with a lot of experience from Stack Overflow and are, &lt;em&gt;broadly speaking&lt;/em&gt; true. Sometimes, exceptions are made - it is always a case-by-case thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is closing like deletion?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, and this is an important distinction, deletion is a different concept on SE. Closed questions are put &quot;into improve mode&quot; if you like, and are still visible for &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; to improve. That's the idea. Deleted questions are different - they have a red background and are invisible to all but high reputation users. So deletion is different and solves a slightly different problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are the requirements for closing a question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have 500 reputation on the site you can vote to close any question for the reasons above. More on that in a moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do not have this level of reputation, you will find that under the flag menu, you have an option &quot;this question does not belong here&quot;. That will raise a flag for users who can vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why can anyone vote to close/reopen&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, anyone can vote to close or reopen (or flag as such) because it is &lt;em&gt;your site&lt;/em&gt;. This is really important - it's about expressing what you feel works and doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How are moderators different?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderator close votes complete the required vote count immediately, no matter how many people have voted. This applies for both close/reopen votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially, as the reputation requirement rules out many users, you will see moderators doing most of the closing to guide the site and look after the content. As you gain in reputation, you get to join in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ok, so how does it work?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qogGL.png&quot; alt=&quot;Example close button&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, the important piece. Voting to close works like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Underneath the question, there will be a close link. When you click on this, you will be presented with a list of options from which you can pick a close reason most appropriate to the situation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/THms0.png&quot; alt=&quot;Close vote reasons dialog&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If other people have voted, you will see blue numbers against the reason they chose.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/69Kak.png&quot; alt=&quot;Other votes&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The exact duplicate page takes you to a page that allows you to specify a question to close as an exact duplicate against.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;off topic&quot; page will present you with &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lKScm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;screen shot&quot;&gt;three options&lt;/a&gt; - one to migrate here, to meta, one to migrate to Stack Overflow and one just off topic. Moderators can send questions elsewhere, so feel free to cast a vote here and flag if you have a target in mind.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The other options are straight out closes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once you pick your option and click &quot;close&quot;, your vote is registered. You cannot retract it at this stage, but nobody else, including moderators, will know it was you who voted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If five people agree that the question needs closing, the question will be closed, even if they don't agree on the reason. You've seen the effect of these before.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The majority vote is chosen as the published close reason. This is a simple 3/2 split. In the case of a 2/2/1 split the the last voted reason wins.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your name, and the name of other closers, will appear on the bottom of the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K3F4V.png&quot; alt=&quot;Close banner&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How does vote to re-open work?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A closed question has a &quot;reopen&quot; link underneath it. If you click this, a dialog box will ask you if you are sure - click yes and your vote will be registered to re-open the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below, you can see an example of the re-open link with two votes registered for re-opening (out of five).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/syw4O.png&quot; alt=&quot;Re-open link&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What happens if I make a mistake?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't worry! Unless five people agree, or a moderator agrees, the question won't be closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I've seen a closed question and I disagree. What can I do?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, one option is to use your re-open vote! You can also always raise a discussion here on meta to seek clarification on why a question is closed and hopefully either a resolution will be reached, or you will get an explanation for the closure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My name appears on the bottom - isn't this going to cause problems with other users?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, surprisingly few closed questions generate any response at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you experience difficulties as a result of closing a question, you can and should contact a moderator via the flag mechanism (which is anonymous). We can then take any necessary action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do I find questions I might need to close? What about re-opens?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually there are two tools for this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://workspace.stackexchange.com/review&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review&lt;/a&gt;. Here, there are a number of options for seeing things that might need say editing. One of these is a tab for all questions with close votes. You are then free to look at the question and decide if you agree.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://workspace.stackexchange.com/tools&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tools&lt;/a&gt;. Commonly referred to as the &quot;10k tools&quot; (but available to those with more than 2K reputation in beta), this page let's you see even more information - certain anonymous flags, re-open votes, delete votes etc. The important one for this is the re-open page. Here, you can see questions that might have been closed incorrectly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T07:31:57.740" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T13:25:38.207" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-19T13:13:40.140" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="139" CreationDate="2012-04-19T13:27:50.107" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's on the asker. It's not our responsibility as community members to make sure the Asker looks good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions should be answered and treated by the community as if they're any other question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the Askers, just remember that the site is public record and easily searchable. Putting content on the site is &lt;em&gt;your choice&lt;/em&gt; but it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; necessarily your choice to remove the content after you've contributed to the site. Assume that once you've posted it, it's here for good; you can't technically revoke material after it's been licensed as Creative Commons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators are not particularly obliged to anonymize or delete your content, so make sure it's acceptable &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; you post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember to keep it professional; rants aren't questions and will be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T13:27:50.107" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="139" CreationDate="2012-04-19T13:43:14.957" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thanks for asking, that's a great question.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not so long ago there was a rather clueless fellow on Programmers who had asked a series of questions, all about his evil project manager. If I remember correctly it was 5 or 6 questions in about 10 days, and the guy was giving us way more information that was necessary, mostly specifics on how his project manager was mistreating everyone, wasn't really deserving of their role, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point, I checked his profile, and to my surprise (and amusement) I found out that he was proudly advertising the company he worked for in his &quot;About me&quot; box, even mentioning the specific department he was in, all complete with a link to his blog where he blogged under his &lt;em&gt;real name&lt;/em&gt;. The company was a big IT corporate, the kind of company you expect to have at least one marketing guy/gal scouting the internet for mentions of their name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a comment on his latest question, and when he read it he emptied his &quot;About me&quot; box, removed the link to his blog and edited out the backstory and all incendiary remarks from his questions (and deleted several of his comments). What was extremely amusing is that when all the personal stuff were removed, his project manager sounded like a really capable manager, and the OP like someone who should perhaps concentrate a bit more on doing their job instead of complaining all the time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moral of the story: If your main motivation is to whine about your supervisor and/or your co-workers, The Workplace and Stack Exchange in general is not where you should be doing it. And we, as a community, should be extra vigilant if we spot a buffoon using our site to vent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's not really the case with the questions in question. They are all a bit sensitive, and can potentially get the OPs in trouble, but if we remove the sensitive / embarrassing parts they wouldn't really stand as questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/657/is-there-an-effective-way-of-dealing-with-nepotism-at-work&quot;&gt;one of the questions is mine&lt;/a&gt;, I'll shamelessly admit that I cheated (a bit), it's not a &lt;em&gt;current&lt;/em&gt; issue I'm facing and I did fuzzy the details a bit. Certainly my co-workers from that time will recognize exactly what and who I'm talking about, and at least one of them is active on Stack Exchange, but that wouldn't really get me in trouble as I hadn't had any relationship with the company for years. It is an actual practical problem I had to deal with (every day), but that was a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away (same with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/621/how-should-i-approach-a-co-worker-on-matters-of-personal-hygiene&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However old issue or not, people who I currently work with are aware of my Stack Exchange activities, and may not appreciate the fact that I brought sensitive issues in a public arena. Well, that's something each one of us has to take into consideration and decide for themselves, it's no different that posting anywhere else on the internet. We are all (?) adults here, and we need to be ready to face the consequences of our actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If by any chance you regretted asking a question, you have two options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can ask the moderators to delete it (if you can't delete it yourself due to upvoted answers) or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/96732/165773&quot; title=&quot;FAQ explaining the procedure&quot;&gt;You can ask Stack Exchange to disassociate the question from your account&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking if it's a good question with good answers it would be preferable to go with the second option, the only thing you need to do is send an email to &lt;code&gt;team+workplace@stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; with a link to the question and your profile. But don't count on them to do it &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; time you post something sensitive, once or twice it'd be okay, if you keep posting questions that could get you in trouble, well, you deserve to get in trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, lastly, you can always post your sensitive questions anonymously via a throw away account. At the end of the day you should only care for getting a good answer, the reputation and badges you may earn from the question are largely irrelevant. Fair warning though: If you do something fishy with your throw away account, like vote for your main account, you will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; get away with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T02:15:31.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-19T16:41:31.533" Score="11" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;By this I mean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Subjective and discussion questions are, perhaps not encouraged, but tolerated, and indeed draw the most views, answers and votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users recognizes that these type of questions are the shortest path to accumulating rep, and we get a glut of them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderator/dev crackdown on these questions, strict definition of what type of questions are and are not answered (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/128548/what-stack-overflow-is-not&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/128548/what-stack-overflow-is-not&lt;/a&gt;).  Subjective and discussion questions are closed immediately.  It is made clear that this is not a dumping ground for subjective questions from other SE sites.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Conflict about what to with the questions left over from phase 1.  Should they be deleted?  Should they remain on the site with a scarlet letter indicating that they are no longer appropriate? What about the rep earned by those questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask because my tolerance for subjective and discussion questions is a bit higher than what I think is the prevailing sentiment in the SE community.  If I ask or answer subjective or discussion type questions now, am I going to be encouraged to feel dirty about it later?  Will my posts be later cited as an example of the kind of thing the site doesn't want anymore? Am I setting myself up to be part of a conflict where I will cast as someone happy to leave crap on the internet and who doesn't care about quality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The good news is that, as the deletionist sentiment is now more established, we will probably move through these phases faster than we did before, so our commitment will be somewhat limited before the locks come on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="375" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T15:53:16.053" Title="Is Workplace going to follow the same life cycle as other SE sites for subjective questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2012-04-19T17:04:17.760" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to nominate &lt;strong&gt;NickC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary&lt;/strong&gt;: NickC has been providing good answers here, and has an impressive rep-per-post ratio over on Programmers.  His questions, answers and comments seem insightful and geared toward helping askers and answerers get the most out of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Workplace Profile&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NickC has been active on The Workplace since the private beta. He is currently our top-ranked user by reputation, and has a respectable number of votes cast. His participation in meta posts has been lower than some other other candidates, but the quality of those posts has ranged from good to excellent (see also the network profile below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/17/nickc&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/17.png&quot; width=&quot;208&quot; height=&quot;58&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Network Profile&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NickC's Stack Exchange network profile reflects substantial participation and contribution over on Programmers, with strong contributions on other sites as well, including &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/143601/nickc&quot;&gt;Meta StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;, which I consider to be a major positive factor for any moderator candidate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/users/48256&quot;&gt;&#xA;http://stackexchange.com/users/flair/48256.png&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edited to accept nomination:&lt;/strong&gt; Thank you, I accept. I'd love to help this site and community get off the ground in any way I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T19:34:44.367" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-19T17:04:17.760" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="146" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="158" CreationDate="2012-04-19T17:06:21.313" Score="6" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are questions about configuration of a workspace for ergonomic factors on-topic here?  If so, are they limited to physical factors (e.g. the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/778/325&quot;&gt;question about focus in open seating&lt;/a&gt;), or does it include software factors?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, would a question about reducing eyestrain when working at a computer, taking into account OS settings, altering one's own space, and having to play well with those sitting nearby (e.g. no blocking the windows), be on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Background: I followed a link here from Google+ yesterday.  I've reviewed the questions on the front page of both main and meta.  Since the FAQ isn't yet customized for this site, that's everything I know about what this site is about.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T12:45:07.537" Title="Are workspace-ergonomics questions on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2012-04-19T18:14:39.630" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only ways to avoid this problem would be to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stop the quality problem early so there's no phase 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Never care about quality so there's no phase 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Option 2 is a great way to end up with a useless site, so I strongly recommend &lt;strong&gt;discussing and enforcing quality standards immediately.&lt;/strong&gt; We need to be &lt;strong&gt;closing and downvoting bad posts&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;actively encouraging improvement&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is at particular risk because several other SE sites have a large body of users hoping to ask off-topic subjective questions here. Now those questions are on-topic, but our standards need to remain high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T18:14:39.630" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="148" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-19T19:12:39.870" Score="7" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;(My title is a bit facetious, since the answer is probably &quot;it depends&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm seeing a lot of questions like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/794/is-my-resume-too-long-if-its-five-pages&quot;&gt;How can I reduce the size of a long resume without hiding all my skills and experience?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;(It depends on who's reading.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/745/does-putting-latex-as-a-skill-on-my-resume-make-me-look-too-academic&quot;&gt;Does putting LaTeX as a skill on my resume make me look too academic?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;(It depends on what you are applying for)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10/is-loyalty-depth-or-diverse-experience-breadth-more-important-to-a-hiring-ma&quot;&gt;Is loyalty (depth) or diverse experience (breadth) more important to a hiring manager?&lt;/a&gt; (it depends on the job)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aanswer+depends&quot;&gt;etc (48 answers contains &quot;depends&quot;)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love this site already.  Some have asked great, specific questions.  But, I'm seeing a lot of these where many different answers are given, each with a different approach to the unknowns involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A while ago, Josh K on Programmers posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1597/2314&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to my concern about the 15-post CW conversion.  My concerns were a bit out of place.  I realized Josh was right, attracting that many answers is a sign that something isn't right about the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are questions that leave open a lot of &quot;it depends&quot; unknowns bad?  And, if they are bad, how do we define what is wrong with them and what do we do about it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T21:03:45.303" Title="Are &quot;it depends&quot; answers a sign of a bad question?" Tags="|discussion|quality|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="149" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-19T19:36:45.550" Score="6" ViewCount="479" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spurred by the avalanche of comments and chat discussion on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/772/is-it-acceptable-to-use-pirated-software-on-the-job&quot;&gt;Is it acceptable to use pirated software on the job?&lt;/a&gt;, Are questions that boil down to simply stating common sense &quot;bad&quot; by default?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More specifically, do we as a community want to allow these questions now and in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T06:00:17.223" Title="Common-Sense questions" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="149" CreationDate="2012-04-19T19:43:39.893" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be inclined to say &quot;yes&quot; because providing and repeating the correct answers to these question is how &quot;common sense&quot; becomes and remains &quot;common.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="375" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T19:43:39.893" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="149" CreationDate="2012-04-19T19:45:17.333" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like one of a very small number of voices supporting this question (and its common-sense &quot;NO! DON'T DO THAT! Here's why.&quot; answers) as on-topic/constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange sites attract users of widely varied experience levels.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The answer to this question is obvious to anyone who has ever worked in a professional environment, but the 16 year old high school student with zero professional experience who just landed an internship may well be naïve enough to need this pointed out to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general case of &quot;Is it acceptable to do &lt;code&gt;insert stupid/generally illegal thing here&lt;/code&gt;?&quot; questions are IMHO &quot;good subjective&quot; -- they can be answered definitively in the context of any responsible professional environment (and we as a community should not be encouraging &lt;em&gt;irresponsible&lt;/em&gt; environments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full disclosure - I do have a close vote on this question to stop the avalanche of truly awful answers, but I would much rather see it locked than closed...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T19:45:17.333" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="148" CreationDate="2012-04-19T19:55:03.450" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many &quot;It Depends&quot; questions are overly broad, or require those answering to make assumptions that may run counter to the intent of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For these three in particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/794/is-my-resume-too-long-if-its-five-pages&quot;&gt;How can I reduce the size of a long resume without hiding all my skills and experience?&lt;/a&gt; - This should say if this is being handed to a recruiter prior to an interview or not.  I answered with the assumption that it was the initial resume submission (which seems to be the poster's intent), but the question could probably be rephrased along the lines of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The generally accepted wisdom in most areas seems to be that a resume should be no longer than one sheet of paper.  Is this still the case, and if so why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and be a bit better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/745/does-putting-latex-as-a-skill-on-my-resume-make-me-look-too-academic&quot;&gt;Does putting LaTeX as a skill on my resume make me look too academic?&lt;/a&gt; - I'm one of the &quot;it depends&quot; answers.  This question seems like a very narrow/specific version of the general question &lt;code&gt;How do I decide which skills to list on my resume?&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I think the general question should be asked, and this one should probably be closed...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10/is-loyalty-depth-or-diverse-experience-breadth-more-important-to-a-hiring-ma&quot;&gt;Is loyalty (depth) or diverse experience (breadth) more important to a hiring manager?&lt;/a&gt; -- I'm not sure about this one honestly.  Maybe someone else can answer and knock me off the fence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T19:55:03.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="148" CreationDate="2012-04-19T20:00:19.997" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, there are two potential problems here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question was asked in such a way that what &quot;it depends&quot; on isn't clear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions which are asking &quot;What does 'it depend' on?&quot; where the question is clearly asking where X is applicable ect&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions from Category 1 are Bad Subjective, it means the question isn't framed in such a way that we can answer. Take &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/772/42&quot;&gt;Is it acceptable to use pirated software on the job?&lt;/a&gt; for example. Acceptable to who? Legal where? What are the risks for whom? It's not answerable unless we know these things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On User Experience we have lots of questions from Category 2 exist, and they're good questions. The problem isn't that &quot;it depends&quot;, it's that &lt;em&gt;we all know it depends&lt;/em&gt;, just get to your explanation of &lt;em&gt;what matters&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The big difference between the two is one is &lt;em&gt;asking&lt;/em&gt; what &quot;it depends&quot; on; answers should explain the important factors, when to do X and why and so forth. The other one has a question where the answers can only guess what's important. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Category 1 questions should be closed and improved, Category 2 questions sometimes benefit from better wording, but are answerable. People answering &quot;It Depends&quot; to Category 2 are sort of annoying/redundant I'll admit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T20:06:01.940" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="149" CreationDate="2012-04-19T20:03:53.253" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;That question wasn't bad because it's asking for common sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That question is bad because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It has no audience/scope (acceptable to whom?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a legal question (&quot;I wonder will this ultimately get you into legal trouble?&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's two totally different questions (&quot;Is it acceptable?&quot; AND &quot;Will I get in trouble?&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most of the question is &quot;This is really easy and hasn't been a problem&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of all the problems with the question, common sense is the least significant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions asking for common sense are fine, bad questions are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T20:03:53.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="148" CreationDate="2012-04-19T21:03:45.303" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general yes. Even though some questions with only a few options could be answered many times there is one option that is usually right, but a few corner cases that muddy the issue.  This can create chatty answers and discussion, something we need to work hard to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we need to get moderators on here aggressively closing to broad questions.  Lets take the approach of Skeptics and close first and ask for the question to be fixed and reopen.  I think if we are on the ball and get bad questions closed quickly act on both closing and reopening then we will get good response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T21:03:45.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2012-04-19T22:07:18.657" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have said it else where and I will say it here.  I think we need to take an aggressive close early stance for bad questions.  It is better to close the question early (before it gets answers) and require the question be brought in scope to reopen.  Then once brought in scope we need to reopen quickly as well.  If we have a vigilant moderator crew we should be able to keep the subjective on the Good side of the line.  If we close and never revisit questions that have been edited this will not work.  We need to build a culture of closed means for now, rather than forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where questions are not edited in a timely fashion(No activity in 72 hours would be my suggestion) I think we need to prune(delete) them.  Allowing them to hang around collecting up votes or reopen votes when they have not been edited is not good for the site.  Any questions worth saving will probably be edited within 24 hours.  If one falls through the cracks but is worth saving we should post a meta question to get it fixed.  At 72 hours we should feel comfortable removing questions that have not been edited, and there is not activity trying to save it.  Of course if there are still efforts to save the question we should not be pruning.  I would also be considerate of a question closed on friday that had not been edited on monday morning.  It would probably be best to allow for an extra day for questions closed on Friday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2012-04-20T13:47:46.803" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T13:47:46.803" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="146" CreationDate="2012-04-20T07:43:10.980" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask your question well, and it'll be used to help define the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there's no reason that this question couldn't be on topic here if asked properly. The needle you're trying to thread is trying to make the question not too broad nor too specific, while also phrasing it in such a way that doesn't invite &quot;bad subjective&quot; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T07:43:10.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="146" CreationDate="2012-04-20T12:45:07.537" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/158/16&quot;&gt;John N&lt;/a&gt; answered it well if a bit consisely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Avoid asking for recommendations.  A good question about a type of product will probably end up with several recommendations anyway.  But when you ask for them directly it opens the door for, ohh I know of another one ill pile on too, answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your question about Eyestrain, I think if you include the problem you are having, and the goal you would like to reach, the question should be on topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When asking questions try to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/rubber-duck-problem-solving.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rubber Duck&lt;/a&gt; the question.  This will get you the best answers to help you, and reduce your likelihood of there being a problem with your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T12:45:07.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2012-04-20T13:04:06.303" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having experienced several beta sites I can say that unless we take definitive action this &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each community is determined that it will be the one that manages subjective questions and discussions because they are &quot;different&quot; to the other communities on the network - despite sharing a large number of the same users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the only thing that can vary is the duration of this phase. Keeping a close eye on the site and leading by example in editing, down-voting and voting to close these questions as appropriate is vital.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T13:04:06.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2012-04-20T13:46:59.003" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the most important thing to prevent that is to teach the community early on about what is acceptable and what is not. Don't try to do all the moderation yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most people I know want to do stuff &quot;the right way&quot;, and are happy to do so provided someone takes the time to show them how things should be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think to avoid the cycle you mention, you have to make it very clear to users early on what quality of questions are acceptable, what workplace topics are allowed, and (just as important) what workplace topics are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; allowed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a meta question titled something like &lt;strong&gt;New User? Click here&lt;/strong&gt;, which would outline (or contain links to) the exact definition of the site (faq), how to identify good/bad questions, and how to moderate the site yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Teach users how to identify good and bad questions, and how to moderate themselves, and they'll be happy to help maintain a high-quality site. Try to do it all yourself, or with only a small group of people, and you'll either just encounter the same cycle you mentioned, or drive people away from the site who simply don't understand&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and as for subjective questions which bring in views/votes but are really bad for the site, take the time to edit them and make them on-topic. Don't just tolerate them or close them. It's time-consuming, but the end result is something that brings users to the site, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; that is on-topic for the site and won't get closed later on. Who said you can't have your cake and eat it too :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-04-20T15:06:20.213" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T15:06:20.213" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="149" CreationDate="2012-04-20T13:59:49.860" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, i just wrote the answer (probably i was first or second) and came back in the morning to see the flood! I was surprised to be on top - and even more so by so much activity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes indeed there is something very &lt;em&gt;BASIC&lt;/em&gt; about this question. And as i was writing it, i actually wanted to add an elaborate situation i had been to. But then i deleted that, just because i really lacked context to explain that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give you background, out there in India, where even though maximum export is still software, the piracy is highest. And i have (actually) worked with  organization where sysad will come and install software and i could recognize that he is actually installing the crack. I had myself done enough of it in past. Yet, if you do the same thing they will come and yell. Why? on the other hand if you do stuff, and don't tell anyone - it was ACTUALLY fine! By the time i moved to senior managing positions -i was made to realized that at best it can actually put many things in trouble. And again - while most people agree- (i wanted to elaborate but didn't) - these are not the ethics class of troubles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When i read the question, i saw myself about a decade a go. And while most answers took more of &quot;Obviously not&quot; - let me tell you most folks haven't been to situations i have been to. My answer to the question was still &quot;NO&quot; like most others - but i think i wasn't assuming all that simplistic scenario. Piracy is actually more than a reality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, i agree that question was naive. Which is why, as i said i couldn't elaborate. But most of the answers were much poor quality than the question itself really. The sheer problem was about how we respond to this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;here is my view point: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If we find that there is a troll. Instead of waiting for 4/5 close votes, mods should actually force stop it. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Indicate very clearly tell the OP to improvise, make it specific or ask him to elaborate what is the point of context that drew him to that stage. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To me, it was more of incomplete and elementary question. What if i would have asked &quot;Everyone is already using the pirated software but they dont' tell this to admin. Should i do this too?&quot; - I think this would have de-cluttered many &quot;me too&quot; answers than it's current form. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Try and save the question to bring that quality.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Punish answers equally that are simple copy. May be you asked, should i do this? - answer is NO. Now, once i have been through the list of couple of answers which already says what i have to say - why do i need to repeat a &quot;NO&quot; in any other language? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have had this opinion (which i am sure is worthy of lot of down votes in meta) and i do share more for the other sites as well, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;tell people what is bad - and to the point they understand rather than putting up an FAQ link. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;tell people how a someone would have asked the same question better rather than just putting a close flag. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;at least give example of good questions of equivalent or similar subject that makes op realize what is wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T13:59:49.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="163" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-20T14:05:45.003" Score="8" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/794/is-my-resume-too-long-if-its-five-pages&quot;&gt;How can I reduce the size of a long resume without hiding all my skills and experience?&lt;/a&gt; is basically a forum thread. A general question has been posited and everyone's piling on their personal preferences and experiences rather than answering any questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is titled &quot;Is my resume too long if it's five pages?&quot; and none of the top voted answers actually address this; the top voted answers are actually great advice about how to tailor your resume and what you should put in your resume. However, they are &lt;em&gt;absolutely worthless to the question as posed&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recurring problem I see on this site is that answers are upvoted because they're useful, not because they actually solve the stated problem. These posts get popular and get lots of upvotes and attention, but as &lt;em&gt;questions and specific answers&lt;/em&gt; they're very low quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions on this site are supposed to be &lt;strong&gt;questions, not blog posts or forum threads&lt;/strong&gt;. How can we prevent questions like this from degenerating into the general problem (how do I have an awesome resume)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2012-04-22T22:06:19.370" Title="How could this question be saved?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="163" CreationDate="2012-04-20T14:33:36.573" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this a real question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, let me simply explain what situation i would have been and then how i would have asked this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to optimize the length of the resume?&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I started writing the resume &lt;em&gt;after x years&lt;/em&gt; and totaling the &lt;em&gt;Y&#xA;  years&lt;/em&gt; of experience. I have been through P number of companies and&#xA;  have been to Q designations/projects under me. My current objective is&#xA;  to now move on this line. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now the trouble is, if i just linearly compile CV as &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/61338/difference-between-resume-and-cv&quot;&gt;defined&#xA;  here&lt;/a&gt;, it would turn into or exceed 5 pages. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now, i am not sure, is this appropriate that i should send such 5 page&#xA;  CV. Alternatively, i can prioritize summarize different section or&#xA;  weigh different sections according to relevance of the job i am&#xA;  applying; but may be with a simple smaller CV someone might think&#xA;  there are gaps in my 30 years of career and might out right reject me&#xA;  before giving a chance for an interview?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What should i really do: Is it a common practice that people send 5&#xA;  page resumes when they accumulate 30 years of experience? or will this&#xA;  only ofend or bore someone? should i actually send 5 page cv or&#xA;  Summarize? If summarize - should it be based on recent vs. past years&#xA;  or based on relevance to next job?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what exactly is the OP's real dilema. I am assuming something, so OP better describe his own situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the point is, by putting more thought, more context and most importantly putting the agenda of what is the decision factor for him/her it is the question really becomes concrete and useful to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every question that origins from the real scenario does involve something to learn or think about. the point is, instead of making judgements or assumptions we should go digg more on the real need behind the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:38:12.063" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T14:33:36.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="163" CreationDate="2012-04-20T14:59:05.280" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A better question might be &lt;strong&gt;Why is it recommend to only have a 1-2 page resume?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that question can be answered by an expert, and would be constructive for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an alternative, the question could read &lt;strong&gt;How can I reduce the size of my resume if I have 2-3 pages of work experience?&lt;/strong&gt;, however I don't actually know the OP's resume and if that question would apply to him/her&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reviewing the answers, I think the 2nd version of the question would be better to not invalidate the existing answers, so am going to make an attempt to edit the question without losing the OP's original question and invalidating existing answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll also post another question about why a 1-2 page resume is recommended to link to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="316" LastEditDate="2012-04-20T15:41:37.580" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T15:41:37.580" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="163" CreationDate="2012-04-20T15:12:18.010" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace more than any other Stack Exchange site I've visited suffers from the &quot;me-too pile-on&quot; effect. Part of that is from good questions with bad phrasing (like this one), and part of that is that we, as a community, are not stopping ourselves (and others) from piling on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We MUST find a way to stop this now, or this site will drown in its own filth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution in my eyes is threefold, each component being equally important:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aggressively edit questions like this (bad phrasing, but a good question screaming to get out) -- See what Rachel wrote in her answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Close and delete the truly &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(When we get mods) Aggressively protect and/or lock questions that are attracting nothing but me-too answers that add no value, and delete the me-toos.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;As a community we should also be downvoting the me-too answers that bring nothing to the table.  We can also close these questions to stop the avalanche of junk (though I'm in the minority that thinks this should be a last resort on an otherwise salvageable question)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T15:12:18.010" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-20T15:12:18.010" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-20T15:29:47.647" Score="7" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related to NickC's attempt to define our audience ( &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/58/how-do-we-define-our-audience-diagram&quot;&gt;How do we define our audience? (Diagram)&lt;/a&gt; ), I'd like to put a finer point on things:  There seems to be a bias on this site against providing answers to &quot;obvious&quot; questions - those that anyone with a little experience and common sense wouldn't have to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an entire group of potential users of all ages who have limited professional experience and are stepping into professional environments for the first time - they are the ones who are most likely to lack the common sense we take for granted, and would benefit from a definitive answer to (well-written) basic questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a class of users we want on this site, or am I protecting pariahs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The crux of my question is this: do we want to define our audience more like Stack Overflow (Anyone bringing us a practical, answerable question/problem they are currently facing in their workplace), or more like Server Fault (&quot;Professional&quot; professionals, with a definable level of experience/expertise pre-assumed)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T16:37:41.023" Title="Is this site only for &quot;Seasoned Professionals&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="167" CreationDate="2012-04-20T15:36:17.357" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's obvious where I fall: I believe one of the best things this site has to offer is helping newbies learn how to act and interact in a professional environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Common sense is a form of wisdom - people are not born with it, but rather gain it either by experience or by being taught.  Stack Exchange sites are great teaching tools, and by providing a few definitive answers to questions a newbie might ask we are helping to develop budding professionals who may some day come back here and provide really great questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T15:36:17.357" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-20T15:36:17.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2012-04-20T15:53:16.053" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Partly more as a regular user rather than as a moderator i am more inclined to think in the lines towards @Rachel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While, i won't really want to point this site vs. that site - i fundamentally believe that there is fundamental confusion Subjectivity vs. Quality? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;try to read &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.hbr.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;HBR blog&lt;/a&gt; and they are good; but almost every now and then i find myself disagree with some author and i feel may be thats fine in some US company culture but might be very bad in the context i am in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many subjects which are inherently &lt;em&gt;judgement&lt;/em&gt; driven and they will be subjective. But subjective answers don't have to be Bad quality answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have nothing against mods who do a fine job against bad questions but once it turns into a primary school headmaster approach you just keep fighting for definition. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We must encourage good content. And definitely &lt;em&gt;remove reps&lt;/em&gt; (similar to community wiki situation) when we see so much non-sense OR &lt;em&gt;de-activate&lt;/em&gt; the question (question will not feature much on top active list when too many comments goes beyond quality answers. Reps becomes primary motivation for people to keep pumping posts and comments actually keep questions active inviting more people to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as long term quality goal is concerned it cann't be generated out of pruning alone. Overall, we won't be able to stop people by being watch dog as much as we will achieve by extending the education in a positive way! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T15:53:16.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="58" CreationDate="2012-04-20T16:40:13.157" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/61/316&quot;&gt;root45's answer&lt;/a&gt; about the circles being confusing, but I also think if you include a graphic that large and colorful in the FAQ, it should fully and completely explain the site scope&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would perhaps be more suitable as part of the meta-faq, where a meta post is dedicated to how to identify an on/off topic question, but in it's current form I wouldn't want it in the main FAQ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T17:06:39.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="172" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-20T19:02:00.987" Score="13" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Workplace more than any other Stack Exchange site, I see Me Too answers duplicating most or all of the content of earlier, better/more elaborate answers. We've got some question quality problems IMO as well, however I'm not sure improving question quality can solve this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if it's because &quot;everyone's an expert&quot; or what, but the duplicate answers are essentially noise, and for the most part they get upvotes. This problem can be seen in a huge way on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/772/is-it-acceptable-to-use-pirated-software-on-the-job&quot;&gt;Is it acceptable to use pirated software on the job?&lt;/a&gt; and to a lesser extent on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/794/how-can-i-reduce-the-size-of-a-long-resume-without-hiding-all-my-skills-and-exp&quot;&gt;How can I reduce the size of a long resume without hiding all my skills and experience?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we discourage these duplicate answers that don't add useful information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T14:45:21.937" Title="What can we do about me-too answers?" Tags="|discussion|quality|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="172" CreationDate="2012-04-20T19:33:41.773" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Downvote!!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And (&lt;strong&gt;very important&lt;/strong&gt;) tell the user that you're downvoting because their answer already exists in another answer. I view downvoting without comment to be more destructive than constructive (unless it's a truly terrible question/answer), so be sure you comment on &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you're downvoting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This comment is actually more important then the downvote itself, because it will not only tell the user &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they got downvoted so they can change the way they answer in the future, but it also tells other users who view the answer why it was downvoted and to not use similar behavior as well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you get moderator assistance and approval, you could also flag bad/duplicate answers for deletion or to move them to comments if they simply clarify something an existing good answer says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="316" LastEditDate="2012-04-20T19:51:11.300" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T19:51:11.300" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="174" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-21T14:25:01.337" Score="10" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a severe problem I've noted with the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/468/how-can-a-company-implement-a-20-time-program-like-googles&quot;&gt;How can a company implement a &amp;quot;20% time&amp;quot; program like Google&amp;#39;s?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the answers, especially the highly upvoted ones, basically amount to &quot;A poorly managed company couldn't handle this because of X&quot;, where X is &lt;strong&gt;totally irrelevant to 20% time as Google has implemented it&lt;/strong&gt;. These answers are basically based on the premise that management is too dysfunctional for 20% time to even exist effectively and they assume truly bizarre time-tracking TPS nonsense that would, theoretically, ruin this idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To convert this problem to another domain, this is sort of like asking &quot;in RSA, how can I compute φ(n) if I have p and q&quot; and getting answers to the effect of &quot;I dunno lol that's a lot of math&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question wasn't asking &quot;How can I incompetently implement 20% time&quot;. It was asking how it could do it &lt;em&gt;effectively&lt;/em&gt;. Why are all the answers useless discouragement? I find it very concerning if this site is unable to answer questions about unconventional management styles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When is &quot;no, you can't do that&quot; an acceptable answer? I really don't feel that applies to this question, and it basically creates an environment where any unconventional management topic is going to get answers like &quot;No, my manager wouldn't do that...&quot; which are useless noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-04-23T19:48:51.120" Title="&quot;I don't know&quot; isn't an answer" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="174" CreationDate="2012-04-21T19:04:28.320" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote one of those answers, but to defend it I would like to note that on the day most of the answers were written the question was reopened, and the question was edited 4 times. Also note the three answers submitted in the past 24 hours were submitted after the most recent edit. When the question is constantly &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I based my answer on one of the comments to the original question from jcmeloni:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I voted to close, but I think retooling the question around uses of 20% time in general could be helpful (IOW, I know more than a few places not-Google that do or aspire to 20% time, with great success, and lessons-learned ready to share). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2012-04-21T19:04:28.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="174" CreationDate="2012-04-21T23:08:12.743" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this question answers itself: If you don't know, or all you can think of us why it wouldn't work for YOUR company, hold your tongue (keyboard).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Answers should be as comprehensive as possible, and should focus on how to solve the problem posed in the question. If you can't contribute something meaningful toward that end (or your contribution is just rephrasing what others have said) then it's Not an Answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When is &quot;No, you can't do that.&quot; an acceptable answer? When you absolutely can't (or shouldn't) do something (because it's unethical, illegal, or just plain stupid and likely to cost you your career.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I'm a big believer that &quot;No&quot; can be the right answer, but the situations where that is true are relatively few and far between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastActivityDate="2012-04-21T23:08:12.743" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="58" CreationDate="2012-04-22T05:05:27.603" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure we need this at all. One particular problem I have with it is that not everyone will know what a &quot;Professional Setting&quot; is (I still don't, and neither does wikipedia!), and even if we come up with a sensible definition, I'm not sure how we'd include it in the diagram. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34" LastActivityDate="2012-04-22T05:05:27.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="58" CreationDate="2012-04-22T13:07:08.380" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are you thinking of including this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All people who use computers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why can't people who work in a bakery or foundry have workplace issues? It only serves to confuse the diagram.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't forget the diagram was only needed on Programmers because of the rescoping of the site. If we get the scope right first time (which there's no reason we shouldn't) the diagram won't be necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7" LastActivityDate="2012-04-22T13:07:08.380" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="181" CreationDate="2012-04-22T15:49:31.030" Score="2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/6sigma&quot;&gt;6-sigma tag&lt;/a&gt; too localized? Someone has just posted a question about it: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/410/what-is-the-purpose-of-six-sigma&quot;&gt;What is the purpose of Six Sigma?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if it is a valid tag should it be six-sigma, 6-sigma or what it is now 6sigma? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T21:39:53.260" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T21:39:53.260" Title="6-sigma tag too localized?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="174" CreationDate="2012-04-22T18:00:36.263" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As written orgininally the question could only be answered by a senior google manager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited to broaden ask the reader to speculate how it could be implemented base on the readers experience.  This edit was immediately removed and the 'Google manager only' wording restored, because 'speculate' is a forbidden word around here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of this writing, someone else edited the question to ask for speculation, but doesn't use the forbidden word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the current wording I think it's a valid question, and provides a lot of insight in to how real 'Office Space' type management is in a lot of software shops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-04-22T18:00:36.263" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="179" CreationDate="2012-04-22T18:17:16.240" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wondered the same thing, re: the name, the other day, and I ran a query at data.stackexchange.com to see if any other sites were using it.  That only got me so far (no one was) because I think it only queries non-Beta sites (?).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I know that PM SE has a 6-sigma tag.  It would be &lt;em&gt;nice&lt;/em&gt; that if we used it, it was used consistently across related SEs. Personally, I would have gone for six-sigma in both cases, but I don't have the rep to make those changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to whether or not it is too localized, I don't think so -- but I could be easily persuaded another way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="26" LastEditDate="2012-04-22T18:59:21.380" LastActivityDate="2012-04-22T18:59:21.380" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="174" CreationDate="2012-04-23T14:32:19.803" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is horrible subjective.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It boils down to: Please tell me your dream way that you can see your company implement someone else's plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is very very very bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From an answer to &quot;How does google do it?&quot; Someone could make their own plan. But as posted this question is an example of how this SE can go badly wrong.  If we promote questions calling for speculation we are liable to find our site shut down for really poor quality.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2012-04-23T19:48:51.120" LastActivityDate="2012-04-23T19:48:51.120" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="184" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-24T03:26:36.197" Score="12" ViewCount="369" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a question today:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/911/getting-fired-on-the-second-day-is-it-fair/913#913&quot;&gt;Getting fired on the second day, how do I cope with it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think before any answer could be posted - i could see 2 close flags! WHY? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It didn't look like one of the trolls; it is a real question in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But most important thing is - even if the question is closed - isn't it necessary for the OP or the rest of the community to know about it? May be whatever the problem you think the question has - isn't it important to know what the issue is? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't people try to improve question by suggesting an edit before closing it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't there any effort for communication when you are taking such a step?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are still in beta -and i think it will take some time for everyone to sync through what is appropriate. I am not against closing - but i think there is a need for more common understanding and we should be reasonable?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please make sure you have justification and it is posted in comments (or better still meta discussion) when you close the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here is another one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/902/how-can-i-motivate-myself-to-work-on-projects-i-dont-believe-in-or-care-about&quot;&gt;How can I motivate myself to work on projects I don&amp;#39;t believe in or care about?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As regards this this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/847/how-to-deal-with-unreasonable-expectations&quot;&gt;How to Deal With Unreasonable Expectations?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;i know that initially, it was too specific that i didn't understand the details. However, after the edit - it makes no justification for closing. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T23:00:59.307" Title="What is the norm of Closing the question?" Tags="|discussion|closing|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="184" CreationDate="2012-04-24T06:29:55.953" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the common thread between these three questions was the somewhat emotional tone - they were phrased more along the lines of &quot;my situation really sucks&quot; than &quot;I have a problem I need solved&quot;, and could be seen as asking for commiseration or emotional support rather than solutions. However, I don't think that was really the case - when you're really upset about something (justifiably!), it's just difficult to phrase a question without that coming through in your tone, even if you honestly do just want help solving your problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I think all three of those could be very interesting questions. They could maybe use some editing (or just mentally screening out the unhappy tone and concentrating on the practical issues), but closing doesn't seem like the right solution.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be good to develop some guidelines to the extent to which it's acceptable to edit questions to concentrate on actionable problems rather than complaints, if it would help us deal with this kind of thing in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T06:29:55.953" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="184" CreationDate="2012-04-24T06:55:24.347" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Getting fired on the second day, is it fair?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is not constructive as there is no problem to be solved here, OP was fired, that's not reversible (unfortunately). All we can offer is speculation and opinions, and that's not really what a Stack Exchange site is about. Your &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/913/48&quot;&gt;own answer&lt;/a&gt; is a set of generic guidelines, good advice, but a really weak answer in Stack Exchange terms as you are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; offering a solution to a problem (not your fault, as there isn't a problem to be solved).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is also too localized. Getting fired on the second day is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; common. &lt;em&gt;Even&lt;/em&gt; if it was common, we don't know &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the OP was fired, and I'm certain that the why would be a very specific reason (reasonable or unreasonable) that wouldn't apply to a wider audience. For example, consider the following questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I was fired on my second day, because I didn't sleep with the boss. Is it fair?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I was fired on my second day, because I set the office on fire. Is it fair?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(ok, the first one is not too localized, unfortunately)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can I motivate myself to work on projects I don't believe in or care about?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, not constructive. All we can offer are opinions, we have absolutely no idea what projects the OP is talking about, or what would motivate him/her, it's a highly individual process. The Workplace is not a support forum, and the two answers that made it through would be more suitable for a support forum. Nothing &lt;em&gt;inherently&lt;/em&gt; wrong with the question, it's just not a question that fits the philosophy and format of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to Deal With Unreasonable Expectations?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a rant in disguise and the OP should have known better as he's a moderator on another Stack Exchange site. We have absolutely no idea if the expectations are unreasonable or not, and these types of questions are explicitly forbidden in the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions should I not ask here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To prevent your question from being flagged and possibly removed, avoid asking subjective questions where …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is a rant disguised as a question: “______ sucks, am I right?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't people try to improve question by suggesting an edit before closing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are still in beta -and i think it will take some time for everyone to sync through what is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it would be preferable to close first and improve later, to protect people from wasting time answering a question that will potentially be removed from the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially since we are still in beta we should be closing quickly &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; if we see a good question hiding in a bad one, then edit or bring it up on Meta. Close early and often, improve, review and re-open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read a far better explanation on why we should be extra vigilant during beta &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/44/48&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't there any effort for communication when you are taking such a step?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting to close is a form of communication, it conveys the message that a highish rep user thinks the question is not suitable for the site. It would be nice to also post a comment explaining why you voted to close, but it's not and should not be required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T07:28:25.010" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="184" CreationDate="2012-04-24T15:16:43.087" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people judge a question by actual words used, and others judge by the underlying question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you judge questions by the actual words used, then there are going to be a lot of closed questions like these since few people know how to write good questions using the SE question standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you judge them by the question behind the words, then the site will have more useful and interesting questions to the everyday user, however it runs the risk of degrading into a forum-like atmosphere which SE really doesn't want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the key to finding a happy medium is good editing. If you see a question which has a good underlying question but is written badly by SE's question standards, then take the time to try and edit the question to prevent it from getting close votes in the first place. Don't wait until the question is closed, or has accumulated a lot of answers to edit it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand the mentality of &quot;Close early and often, improve, review and re-open&quot;, however far too often users only vote to close, since it's the easiest step, and the &quot;improve, review, and re-open&quot; never happens. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish SE had a close definition that states the question is closed because it doesn't meet our quality standards for good questions, and to edit the question and flag for reopening. But it doesn't, so users have to step up and either do the editing themselves, or tell the OP and other users via comments about the reason for the close and what can be done to get the question reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T15:16:43.087" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="188" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="190" CreationDate="2012-04-24T16:51:33.363" Score="9" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/35/do-we-have-a-quality-control-issue&quot;&gt;Do We have a quality control&lt;/a&gt; issue Robert warned us *you don't stand a chance at making the Internet a better place by asking generalized, generic questions that have been asked 100's of times on every other site on the topic * and * trite, hackneyed answers they attract aren't going to be all that interesting, either. That's a death knell to this site.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we are on the verge of having that. Arguments are being &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/184/16&quot;&gt;made that there are other questions&lt;/a&gt; that are bad &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/915/working-late-without-overtime-pay-good-idea-or-not#comment1331_915&quot;&gt;so this question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/911/getting-fired-on-the-second-day-is-it-fair&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; should be ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we know when we will be getting Mods? Is there anything we can do until then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-08-21T14:53:50.563" Title="I think we now have that quality issue that Robert warned us about" Tags="|discussion|quality|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="184" CreationDate="2012-04-24T17:30:49.860" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question might have needed an edit, but this kind of thing happens and it would be helpful to other to know how to handle this situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In no way is this a localized problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was definitely workplace related and should not have been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T17:30:49.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="188" CreationDate="2012-04-24T20:55:52.637" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;What we need to do as a community is &lt;strong&gt;define.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we can close.  There are plenty of us to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately we have some good community members to help us define what is on-topic and what is good-subjective.  Some of those are mods from other sites that deal with similar problems (Yannis from Programmer sand Rarity/Ben Brocka from UX).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the thing that is keeping us from closing and/or downvoting these questions is a clear understanding of what questions are good and bad.  Programmers still deals with it so I think it will take time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T20:55:52.637" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="184" CreationDate="2012-04-24T22:31:31.610" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to answer this myself as the original poster of the first question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Positives First&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is not too localized. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/911/getting-fired-on-the-second-day-is-it-fair#comment1335_911&quot;&gt;Getting fired on the second day, how do I cope with it?&lt;/a&gt; is a very general question. It can happen to anyone. Most people will be so embarassed if it happened to them, they wont be able to post it anywhere. The same applied to me. It happened to me two years ago and I still cant understand is it fair to terminate someone on second day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible answers that I was expecting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes it is fair to terminate someone on the second day if he is totally incompetent. It happens every where and the answer can go on ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, if you got hired through an interview, you do not deserve to be fired on the second day. He already assessed you, evaluated your skills, in order to be fire in this circumstance is highly unethical....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now obviously I posted this question to better judge the situation and to know more about what is accepted in the industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now what I also wanted to know, if it is ok to fire someone on the next day, hiring problem is probably solved. Hire the guy and fire him the next day if he lacks in skills. There shouldn't be any hiring problem then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second part of my question was about any legal action one can take in order to cope with this situation&lt;/strong&gt;. This again is a really broad and not specific to me. It can apply to anyone who was fired sort of blantently without giving any good reason. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/928/522&quot;&gt;Maple_shaft answer&lt;/a&gt; is really well addressing this issue. Quote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;not following own termination procedures – often, the employee&#xA;  handbook or company policy outlines a procedure that must be followed&#xA;  before an employee is terminated. If the employer fires an employee&#xA;  without following this procedure, the employee may have a claim for&#xA;  wrongful termination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be a million dollar advice for me or anyone. I am just saying. Isn't his answer totally general or he portrayed my situation only. Localized or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question Details&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question starts with getting fired on the second day, did not say 'I got fired on the second day'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question then explains it was  phone interview (isn't it relevent to the problem).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question than point that OP was fully committed to the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question then says he was fired by phone without giving him a chance to explain himself. Are these detail out of context. Of course when someone ask a question there is a reason he asks it. Would this question be good enough be deleting all of the info above and just title it more softly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deep Emotions involved&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As another answer says, many such questions has deep emotions involved. Think about yourself getting a call, 'Do not come tomorrow'. Many people will be very emotional to phrase such question. As far me, I think I kept the emotions apart, the only draw back that I see here is the word, is it fair. May be I could phrase it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it ok to fire someone on second day&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would be probably soft but then any type of question which include firing will involve some type of emotions. BTW I do not have an grudge against anyone. I simply wanted an answer, is it ok or not. No somebody sympathize with and I am glad no one did :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check the accepted answer&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those who claim this is too localized. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/912/522&quot;&gt;Check the accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;.  Is this answer really localized to or it talks about something in general? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rant in Disguise?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who am I ranting against? Part of my question &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can the employee do anything about it if this is something violates&#xA;  him/her emotionally&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;talks about any options if someone is hurt emotionally? Is this a rant or just may be some emotions as it is part of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Argument as Non Constructive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone argued, this is not contructive. I totally disagree. OK I was fired, I should move on. Am I not suppose to take another job, can you gaurentee this will not happen to me again. Can't I explore my options next time. Can be I better equipped to handle this situation next time. Or not I am fired and there is no problem to solved. Again this is a general question not about myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Negatives&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The negative that I see here is probably a little bit of emotions esp in the title. That probably could easily be  amended. However that chance is not given when it has close votes on it as I dont see any close votes and I dont know about the reason why close votes were casted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is probably a little bit of tone in the question. If I were to rephrase it right now, I would say&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Is it ok to fire an employee on the second day?&#xA;or&#xA;Is it fair to terminate an employee on the second day of his job?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would probably take some of the tone out. This wasn't such a huge issue to this to be too localized, it would be an easy edit, esp that I did not ask for personnel advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="522" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T23:00:59.307" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="188" CreationDate="2012-04-24T23:15:59.693" Score="13" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there anything we can do until then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tons of stuff!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are over 20 users currently who can edit and vote to close. Many more who can &lt;em&gt;suggest&lt;/em&gt; edits and flag for moderator attention. Trust and believe, we're keeping a sharp eye on the flag queue here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And when you edit, or vote to close, &lt;em&gt;explain why&lt;/em&gt; and answer any questions that arise. Bring lengthy discussions into Meta, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seek consensus - it's not enough to &quot;win&quot; an argument, you must build a canon of knowledge that the community will refer to in the months to come, a pervasive attitude as to what is welcome here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of this requires - or indeed, even benefits that much from - moderators. Don't wait for someone else to step up and fix the problems you see - stand tall and solve them together, as the community of experts you hope to become.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T23:15:59.693" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="193" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-25T00:30:32.797" Score="6" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently a question related to firing was closed as too localized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/911/getting-fired-on-the-second-day-is-it-fair&quot;&gt;Getting fired on the second day, how do I cope with it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some people can argue, this question is not localized and quite general.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some say this is rant&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some say this is not constructive&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;some say there is not enough detail&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;some say this is not answerable&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should a question related to firing be allowed here in the first place. Because it is probable that&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you provide detail, that makes the question too localize hence off topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't provide detail, there is not enough detail so it is not answerable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you already got fired, this is not constructive. You already lost your job. What are you asking for? This is just a rant.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So in what capacity a firing related question be allowed here, if it is allowed in the first place?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="522" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-04-25T04:04:39.007" Title="Should firing related questions be allowed on this site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="193" CreationDate="2012-04-25T04:04:39.007" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/911/getting-fired-on-the-second-day-is-it-fair&quot;&gt;Getting fired on the second day, how do I cope with it?&lt;/a&gt; is pretty lousy.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I'm not saying this to be mean, but the title alone made my brain drop into a petulant, whiny voice - &quot;&lt;em&gt;I got fired! It's not faiiirrrrr! I was working harrrrrd!&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Add to that the fact that the best answer anyone can offer you is &quot;Unless you had a contract stating otherwise you're out of luck.&quot;, or the harsher version &quot;Life's not fair.&quot; and I think it's unsalvageable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It's a badly-worded (ranty/whiny) question, probably Too Localized since any recourse depends on your contract, and the answers I can come up with would make us sound like evil dickwolves.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;SOME&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;questions about firing&quot; may be on topic - The following are some very general (&lt;em&gt;probably overly general&lt;/em&gt;) categories of questions I would consider to be &quot;on topic&quot;:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I was instructed to fire {someone, X people, ...} - How can I break it to them gently?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We just fired someone with access to sensitive things, what steps should we take to ensure the company's security?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I was fired from my last job, I believe unfairly. How do I explain this at interviews without looking like I'm badmouthing my former employer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it appropriate to ask for a reference from my boss if I was laid off (fired for economic reasons)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-04-25T04:04:39.007" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="196" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-25T06:25:31.730" Score="9" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;The last question spurred a specific debate which was mostly hidden in the comments and in chat room, but i want everyone's view on this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions of the format &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Is X a normal/acceptable workplace behavior/situation&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; are by default consider not-constructive? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was strongly put that such questions are not constructive because of the format. In the specific context i was said &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it fair for employer to [do X]?&lt;/strong&gt;  would be non-constructive.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not quite understand why. Also, the current data does not correlate well. Some example here are they :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/937/is-it-unprofessional-to-do-other-stuff-at-work&quot;&gt;Is it unprofessional to do other stuff at work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- 1 close vote. 4 Upvotes 5 answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/865/when-is-it-appropriate-to-work-during-a-meeting&quot;&gt;When is it appropriate to work during a meeting?&lt;/a&gt; (originally Should I be allowed to work during a meeting)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- 2 Close votes, 12 upvotes, 10 answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/481/what-benefits-are-there-of-being-allowed-to-take-your-kids-to-work&quot;&gt;What benefits are there of being allowed to take your kids to work?&lt;/a&gt; (originally Take your kids to work?) &#xA;- Closed. 7 upvotes, 7 answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/772/is-it-acceptable-to-use-pirated-software-on-the-job&quot;&gt;Is it acceptable to use pirated software on the job?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- Closed. And protected. 21 upvotes. 11 answer &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/645/is-it-acceptable-to-decline-a-team-lunch&quot;&gt;How can I politely decline a team lunch?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- Open 28 upvotes, 8 answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/572/is-it-unprofessional-to-play-games-during-lunch-hours&quot;&gt;How can I determine if it is unprofessional to play games during lunch hours?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- Open 14 upvotes, 8 answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/483/is-it-appropriate-to-request-a-delayed-start-date-at-a-new-employer-to-help-find&quot;&gt;Is it appropriate to request a delayed start date at a new employer to help find/train your replacement?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- open 15 upvotes, 9 answers &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/82/is-it-unprofessional-to-pursue-personal-relationships-with-site-users&quot;&gt;Is it unprofessional to pursue personal relationships with site users?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- Open 8 upvotes, 4 answers. [Asked by Mod and top vote answer by another mod in reputed site.] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AND: a very fresh baby - just hit when i was drafting this so no stats yet.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/960/is-it-a-good-practice-to-put-social-networking-site-links-in-your-resume&quot;&gt;Should I put blog links or public profiles like LinkedIn or StackOverflow in my resume?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note, apart from the format itself, there could be other issues with questions such as poor details or localized problem or general poor quality. The question being closed due to such reasons are fine. But if there is a well crafted useful question but just because it is based on this line/format, should they be regarded as non-constructive? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should it be defined as to what the real norm should be? Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-04-25T14:00:13.943" Title="Are questions in the format &quot;Is doing/behavior X considered acceptable/professional&quot; considered non-constructive?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="196" CreationDate="2012-04-25T07:29:14.553" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The not constructive close notification reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not constructive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is not a good fit to our Q&amp;amp;A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We cannot really say that the format “Is doing/behavior X considered acceptable/professional” is not constructive, some of the questions you listed are unsuitable, some are fine and the rest could go either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/772/is-it-acceptable-to-use-pirated-software-on-the-job&quot;&gt;piracy question&lt;/a&gt; is at the bottom of the pit, quality wise, it's extremely vague and almost all answers are opinion based, only one &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/777/48&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; provides references. It's a good example of exactly what questions we &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; want on the Workplace. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/82/is-it-unprofessional-to-pursue-personal-relationships-with-site-users&quot;&gt;Aarthi's question&lt;/a&gt; on the other hand has enough information for a specific answer, without being too localized. We can't say that it won't attract bad answers, but it will be very easy to identify bad answers if they start appearing, because it gives us enough parameters to judge answers against. The piracy question is purely speculative and it generated a ton of questions, that's always a bad sign.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the main difference between them? The piracy question is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; about an actual problem the OP is facing, it reads more like a curiosity question than a constructive question. Obviously I have no idea what the OP is facing in real life, but that's irrelevant, we can only go with what they decided to share in their question, trying to imagine what might be going on is not really something we should be doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have absolutely no idea why people keep asking questions that are not about actual problems they are facing, it might be because they are trying to harvest reputation or because they honestly think that the question will be beneficial to others. It doesn't matter, the questions are unsuitable whatever the motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time I bring up that questions should be practical, answerable and based on actual problems that you face, people are always quick to respond that their questions are absolutely practical and can happen to everyone. However practical is not the only requirement, questions should be on &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; problems you are facing or faced in the past&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, not something that you imagine might be a problem. Those questions are more fitting for a discussion forum, and The Workplace is anything but a discussion forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, sometimes asking on a practical, actual problem that you face may not be enough, the question might simply be unanswerable, not every question can be answered by a bunch of random people on the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a rule of thumb on &amp;quot;Is X a normal/acceptable workplace behavior/situation&amp;quot; questions it would be preferable that we didn't have to ask questions like acceptable to whom, by which standards and on what specific industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if there is a well crafted useful question but just because it is based on this line/format, should they be regarded as non-constructive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately the Stack Exchange format and the available tools can't handle everything. Some questions might be well crafted and useful and still not suitable for the site, that's just the way it is. It's true (in theory) that there is a (very) small possibility that we may miss a few great questions only because they don't work well with the format, but in practice we rarely seen that happen. You'll have to remember that the site is part of a family that includes 84 other sites, and every site had similar discussions early on, and at least on the mature sites the decision is always to not let the site become a discussion forum, even if we lose some great discussions in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, as I already mentioned in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/196/are-questions-in-the-format-is-doing-behavior-x-considered-acceptable-professio/197#comment438_196&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt;, the popularity of a question has nothing to do with whether it's suitable for the site or not. Shog9 put it beautifully in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/188/i-think-we-now-have-that-quality-issue-that-robert-warned-us-about#comment423_188&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; to another &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/188/i-think-we-now-have-that-quality-issue-that-robert-warned-us-about&quot;&gt;Meta question&lt;/a&gt;, so I'll just steal it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a reason these sites have two parallel voting systems, one for ranking and the other for moderation. Helps to separate the &amp;quot;bikeshed&amp;quot; voting from that intended to indicate suitability&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People tend to flock and up vote trivial questions, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;no one knows why&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; In which case, if you solved the problem it would be absolutely fine to provide an answer telling us how you solved it.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-04-25T07:36:42.987" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="196" CreationDate="2012-04-25T12:14:00.263" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think questions phrased like that should be automatically closed as &quot;not-constructive&quot;, but are instead a flag that they may need a second look from some editors&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question asking &lt;strong&gt;Is X a normal/acceptable workplace behavior/situation&lt;/strong&gt; would actually be a good question if it asked &lt;strong&gt;Why/Why not?&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;what factors affect the answer&lt;/strong&gt;. Then rather than getting a yes/no answer, you would get a &lt;strong&gt;yes, and here's why&lt;/strong&gt;, or &lt;strong&gt;no, and here's why not&lt;/strong&gt; answer, along with a list of factors to take into consideration when making a decision, which I view as very constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For all of those questions, I would like see a single question, with an answer explaining why/why not such behavior is acceptable, and what factors determine the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alternative is a lot of different questions, each with their own situation outlined in the question, which have answers that only pertain to the specific situation the OP is in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's far better to give people a single solid answer with all the information they need to make an informed decision of their own, than have a lot of different answers spread out around the site and each specific to a single user's problem. I view it as far more constructive and efficient to create one answer that &quot;teaches a man to fish&quot; instead of many answers which each give one man a fish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the best course of action to such questions is to write a comprehensive answer which explains why/why not, and what factors affect the decision. Build up one good question on the subject, then any future questions that ask the same thing can be closed as duplicates, and point users to an excellent reference. Don't forget to edit the question as well if it's sub-par.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastActivityDate="2012-04-25T12:14:00.263" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="196" CreationDate="2012-04-25T12:56:16.847" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Is what someone else does acceptable?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not constructive.  It is not constructive to criticize how coworkers act.  This SE was proposed to help people navigate their workplace not as a way to criticize their coworkers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Topic:&#xA;A person I work with is performing X Behavior.&#xA;This is causing problems ABC for me.&#xA; &lt;strong&gt;How can I approach someone to suggest they address X Behavior?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;*&lt;em&gt;Is there a way I can accomplish ABC in a way that X does not affect me?&lt;/em&gt;*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is this this workplace policy acceptable?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not constructive. The policy is in place and it is not constructive to talk about whether or not it should be.  The only way this could be constructive is if it were asking if it was legal.  Then the question would be off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Topic:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;My workplace has X policy &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This policy is causing problems ABC &lt;br /&gt;&#xA; &lt;strong&gt;How can I suggest that X policy needs to be modified?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Is there a way that I can do ABC and still adhere to X Policy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is what I do acceptable?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not constructive.  If the answer is yes then it is a one word answer which means it is not an acceptable question for this SE by definition.  If the answer is now it is subject to piling on.  And it usually depends what the policy at the workplace is.  So while it may be acceptable in most workplaces it may be unacceptable in the OP's&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Topic:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I need/want to accomplish X goal &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This I am having ABC Problems doing so &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;How can I accomplish goal X in a way that is generally acceptable?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;We are thinking about implementing a policy of X.  Any pros or cons?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not constructive.  It is basically asking for anecdotes about your horror stories with the given policy.  There are plenty of forums for this.  That is not what SE is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Topic:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;My reports are doing X &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This is causing problems ABC &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Are there any common policies that address issue X?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2012-04-25T14:00:13.943" LastActivityDate="2012-04-25T14:00:13.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="200" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-25T15:06:43.230" Score="3" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/960/316&quot;&gt;Is it a good practice to put public profile such as Professional or Social Networking site links in your resume?&lt;/a&gt; got closed as not constructive&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've often wondered if putting things like blog links, LinkedIn, or StackOverflow profiles on a resume was a good idea or not, and thought the question was good for the site. In addition, I think the accepted answer is a good answer that covers different types of profiles and situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could probably use some edits to clean up the question, however would simply cleaning up the wording get it reopened? If not, what can be done to the question to get it reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edited question in an attempt to bring it back on-topic for the site. If the edit is not enough to get it re-opened, please let me know what more we need to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2012-04-25T19:14:50.393" Title="What can be done to the question about putting public profiles on a resume to get it reopened?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="200" CreationDate="2012-04-25T15:31:59.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was considering editing the question to ask something like &quot;How do I determine what URLs I should include on my resume?&quot; which would produce an answer like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/963/26&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; but hopefully with more specific examples.  Yes, the short answer &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; &quot;whatever adds value* but that determination of value differs from industry to industry and purpose to purpose, so answers about &lt;em&gt;how to determine&lt;/em&gt; would be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-04-25T15:31:59.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="200" CreationDate="2012-04-25T15:46:39.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Is it a good practice to&quot; screams bad subjective.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question would be best phased as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to put my linked in and SE profile on my resume.&#xA;My resume is generally following the X format.&#xA;Where would the most effective place to put those links using that format?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is practical and answerable.  It is somewhat localized but if it is a general format then someone else might be able to use that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect if someone went through the process of asking the question that way they would no longer need to ask the question.  But if they do, then we can answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-04-25T15:46:39.877" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="203" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="204" CreationDate="2012-04-25T23:36:56.920" Score="6" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/972/what-are-some-good-resources-for-improving-communication-skills&quot;&gt;What are some good resources for improving communication skills?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is an on topic request I think but in general I dislike the list requests.  They are ripe for piling on and there is no one right answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is: Are we going to allow them, and the potential blight they bring with them, here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T13:21:29.540" Title="Are request for resource list questions going to be acceptable?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="203" CreationDate="2012-04-26T04:26:45.183" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;My inclination is &lt;em&gt;NO&lt;/em&gt;, for all the reasons you've mentioned, plus the fact that questions asking for a list of &quot;things&quot; are really just a variation on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/qa-is-hard-lets-go-shopping/&quot;&gt;shopping questions&lt;/a&gt; which are pretty much universally awful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question asking about techniques, methods, procedures, policies, etc. to address a specific problem are a better way to ask these kinds of questions, and the answers can include references to relevant resources (as long as they &lt;em&gt;answer the question&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8231/are-answers-that-just-contain-links-elsewhere-really-good-answers&quot;&gt;are not just a link to some external resource&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T04:26:45.183" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="205" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="207" CreationDate="2012-04-26T11:30:42.987" Score="-9" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;The design of this site is way too bland, I vote for better graphics and a better design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T12:43:42.083" Title="Improve design of the website" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="206" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="217" CreationDate="2012-04-26T12:40:50.257" Score="10" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a lot of discussion lately based on &lt;strong&gt;how&lt;/strong&gt; a question is asked, not &lt;strong&gt;what&lt;/strong&gt; is asked, and I feel questions are getting unfairly closed because of how they were asked, not because of the actual question being asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be an opinion floating around that users should ask expert questions, as well as provide expert answers, and I don't think that is healthy for the growth of this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Q&amp;amp;A site needs questions to survive, and the users seeking advice are usually not aware of any rules regarding how to ask a question. I think by downvoting and closing questions just based on &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; they are asked is going to drive users away from the site, and I don't want this site to get closed before it leaves beta due to lack of user participation, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/04/when-a-site-grows-quiet/&quot;&gt;some other sites&lt;/a&gt; did recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there'll always be some questions that should be closed as low quality or off-topic, however they should be questions that really can't be answered at all because of lack of information, or are off-topic for this site. They shouldn't be good questions that are badly phrased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff even has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/rubber-duck-problem-solving.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; about how to ask good questions, and it provides some things to look for in a question, not a list of words/phrases that should/shouldn't be used. To summarize, valid questions should:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;provide enough detail so we know what you're talking about &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tell us the reason for your question (note, idle curiosity is mentioned as acceptable) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;don't give us your whole life story - just the basic context for the problem &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;share what you've already done/tried/researched&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other guidelines around about how to ask good questions, but keep in mind that they are &lt;em&gt;guidelines&lt;/em&gt;, not rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, we discourage asking questions disguised as a rant, however asking &quot;wah wah wah, am I right?&quot; is basically saying &quot;I'm frustrated with this situation and am looking for sympathy&quot; and should rightfully be closed, while saying &quot;wah wah wah, what can I do about this&quot; is essentially saying &quot;I'm frustrated with my situation, what can I do about it&quot;, which I don't think should be closed. If you care that much about the fact there's a rant there, edit it out, but don't downvote and close an otherwise good question just because of how it's asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, questions asking something like &quot;what is the best way to do X&quot; shouldn't get attacked with downvotes/close votes because they didn't specify the best for whom, or best in what way, but should instead be guided in comments if more information is needed, and answered to the best of our ability. Per Area51, &quot;in a healthy site, questions receive multiple answers and the best answer is voted to the top&quot;. Which one is the accepted answer is up to the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, you can have a site that requires both expert questions and expert answers if you want, but then you'll have a very small site and need a fairly large editing squad to maintain the question standards, and there's a chance the site won't make it out of beta. I spend a lot of time on SO, and there's no way it would be nearly the success it is now if they decided to limit questions to only well-phrased questions, because of the majority of users seeking answers do not know how to write a good question (by SE standards).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So please, judge questions based on the question being asked, not how they are asked. Many users already do this (as seen by some highly-upvoted, closed questions), however it only takes 5 people who judge a question based on &lt;strong&gt;how&lt;/strong&gt; its written to get it closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see a good question badly written, and have time to edit it, please do so, but don't downvote and vote to close unless the actual question being asked is off-topic, undefined, or just plain bad. Save your downvotes and close votes for questions which really don't belong here, not for questions that are simply phrased badly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastActivityDate="2012-08-01T15:08:00.210" Title="Judge a question by what is being asked, not how its being asked" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="205" CreationDate="2012-04-26T12:43:42.083" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site, as a beta site, uses the standard Stack Exchange Beta template. You can read more about the beta template in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/03/the-new-stack-exchange-beta-theme-2/&quot;&gt;The New Stack Exchange Beta Theme&lt;/a&gt;, and probably other posts that others could point to quicker than I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T12:43:42.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="203" CreationDate="2012-04-26T12:56:33.480" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is usually site to site differing. I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://dsp.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/68/asking-for-book-suggestions-on-topic&quot;&gt;DSP.SE allows&lt;/a&gt; this, where as in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2003/are-book-recommendations-on-topic&quot;&gt;Programmers.SE&lt;/a&gt; it is considered not-constructive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This looks like an apparent contradiction but the utility might change. In case of DSP, one is usually referring to set of papers - and doing google search for papers even if easy, only when someone has read some of these paper himself/herself does it make sense to recommend. No one really reads tons of research papers unless you are following some citations or special recommendations - so this makes perfect sense here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case of Programmers.Se -if i ask &lt;code&gt;what is your favorite book on design pattern?&lt;/code&gt; and you know you are now beating the Amazon's recommendation engine. It's just waste of time there. Though it is not completely banned there as well, it depends on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/search?q=Book&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So essentially, for every site value of these references do make a difference. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case of workplace, i think we are dealing with generalized subject matter even more than programmers; so allowing &quot;my favorite books is ____&quot; will collect huge crowd but not value. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T07:31:57.740" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T12:56:33.480" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2012-04-26T14:26:07.347" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Work always makes me think of those cork bulletin boards. Perhaps we can incorporate that somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NpQAN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T14:26:07.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2012-04-26T15:50:45.340" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think when i think of workplace -i think of the &quot;office chair&quot; - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s60eq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It of course the most critical element for us to function in the office; but sometimes &quot;Chair&quot; is also extended with Connotations of &quot;Position&quot; in the hierarchy in the company. The bigger the chair you have - the more influential you are really! Sometimes the biggest guys are called &quot;Chairman&quot; or &quot;Chairperson&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yet, i am getting a bit clueless on how this can be translated as part of theme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T15:50:45.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="58" CreationDate="2012-04-27T11:13:56.593" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that this is an excellent idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A diagram like this very clearly and quickly defines the scope of the site, in fact I think simple diagrams like this would be worthwhile having in &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; stack exchange site FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do have a few suggestions though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The red circle representing &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;All people who use computers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; isn't really necessary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be useful in the context of another FAQ question on &lt;em&gt;Are IT related question on topic here?&lt;/em&gt; but in the main &lt;em&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/em&gt; FAQ entry it just adds unnecessary confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Revert to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/faq#questions&quot;&gt;Programmers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Question applies to&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the original &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Question applies to&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; actually works better than &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;On topic if question applies to&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, since the circles are either on topic &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; off topic, depending on whether they are &lt;em&gt;filled&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;empty&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Replace &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Professional setting&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;All workplaces&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes it consistent with the other &lt;em&gt;sets&lt;/em&gt; and means that when you put it together with the diagram title the sentence scans. I.e. the on-topic circle would read &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Question applies to all workplaces&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; rather than &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;On topic if question applies to professional setting&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T07:31:57.740" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T11:13:56.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="212" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-27T11:25:49.773" Score="5" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was referring to the question here: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1029/change-contracting-company&quot;&gt;Is it professional to cut out a middle-man in a contract chain?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was flaged off-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are others of course which seems to be fine so far: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/416/should-i-get-a-contract-when-offered-paid-trial-work&quot;&gt;Should I get a contract when offered paid trial work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/618/when-should-i-inform-management-that-i-have-been-approached-by-a-competitor&quot;&gt;When should I inform management that I have been approached by a competitor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/908/can-i-charge-for-email-support-as-a-freelancer&quot;&gt;Can I charge for email support as a freelancer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are freelancing and contracting related questions off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T13:27:06.350" Title="Are contracting related topics off topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="212" CreationDate="2012-04-27T11:32:46.650" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way this question was originally phrased invited rather localised answers to his specific situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scope of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/1030/148&quot;&gt;your answer&lt;/a&gt; was substantially wider than that of the question itself, but without improvement the usefulness of your answer to others in the future would be limited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, I was one of those who jumped the gun and voted to close. I even made the newbie mistake of automatically selecting the most popular close reason rather than thinking for myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thinking about it though, there is the kernel of a good question in there, and hopefully my edit will have helped it to take root.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'd seen the comment about this meta post before casting my close vote, I might have tried to improve the question first, so I think the lesson to be learnt is to try and see the value in a question before dismissing it rather than after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T11:52:59.307" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2012-04-27T11:35:44.103" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our badges could be more like Neck-Tie icons, since tie represents a formal work environment.   Much like the following icon in Gold, silver and bronze color.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pg4CV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T11:35:44.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="212" CreationDate="2012-04-27T12:47:22.593" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question should absolutely be on topic.  While it needed cleaned up even in its old form  it was on topic.  It also was not to localized for anyone else to get value from the answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T12:47:22.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="54" CreationDate="2012-04-27T12:57:11.800" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ergonomics should absolutely be on topic here.  The question above is not constructive.  But questions about office furniture should not be off topic.  It is an important part of the workplace and so long as the question is constructive and not clearly outside of the scope of the workplace(IE I am looking to find office chairs i can use in my living room...) then it should be erred towards the side of On topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T12:57:11.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="206" CreationDate="2012-04-27T13:24:49.863" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree completely. It's not just on this site, programmers suffers from this to a large extent as well. At the moment, it feels like a majority of the comments on each question here is if the question is well-formed enough and fit into some narrow definition of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this site being overly pedantic at the moment? Yes, I think so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you want an example? Look at comment #1-4 of this question, all about whether or not this is an appropriate question. And this is &lt;strong&gt;meta&lt;/strong&gt;! Where we are supposed to be able to discuss these things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to point fingers, but I think there are some people on this site that should probably spend a little less time closing questions and commenting on style and a little more time addressing the vast body of subject matter questions that is being posted here, subjects I'm sure they could contribute greatly to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll leave you with this, the first line of the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange is for members of the workforce navigating the professional setting.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, that covers a very wide area of subjects and I firmly believe that a tad less rigidity from the community moderators will benefit this site on the long-run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="550" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T13:24:49.863" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="212" CreationDate="2012-04-27T13:27:06.350" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange is for members of the workforce navigating the professional setting.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First line of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq#questions&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;. Yes, I would say it fits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="550" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T13:27:06.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="219" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-27T14:06:10.203" Score="-3" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me start with noting that I like this site and I think it fills a gap in the SE family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not constructive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is not a good fit to our Q&amp;amp;A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this really applicable here in the same sense as it is on, for instance, stackoverflow?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The audience of this site is defined as &lt;em&gt;members of the workforce navigating the professional setting&lt;/em&gt; (as per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq#questions&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;). As such, a lot of questions are going to be &quot;soft&quot; questions related to things like workplace psychology and interpersonal relations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like if we are to go strictly by the definition of the &quot;not constructive&quot; bazooka we will, in effect, limit the scope of this site to some very narrow questions related to the workplace or the professional setting that have definitive, objective, quantifiable fact-based answers. And most of those questions will be of a legal nature that few people are able to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been chiming in and commenting on some other questions rolling in meta, and I'll repeat myself here as well: &lt;strong&gt;I believe a lot of people are being overly pedantic and zealous in their community moderation&lt;/strong&gt; on this site. More of the discussions are about questions validity than about the subject matter. After all, all SE sites relies on an active community to stay alive, but when interesting questions keep getting closed based on perceived infractions of some narrowly interpreted guideline, that community will leave. And when the majority of comments debate these things as well, then the value of the site really plummets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, based on the scope of this site, that we should either relax the Q&amp;amp;A format requirement or narrow the scope of the site. Maybe something like &quot;labor law&quot;. Or just close it altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Instead of &quot;questions answerable by facts&quot; we might strive for &quot;questions that can be related to based on personal experience&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="550" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2018-12-17T20:05:49.690" Title="Is &quot;not constructive&quot; really applicable at workplace.SE?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="219" CreationDate="2012-04-27T14:27:41.767" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is probably the most important factor have to keep this site from becoming a landfill.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions here need to have a real issue to address.  Any question that does not is not constructive and will degrade the overall quality of the site.  If we become just another discussion board people will not come here for answers and we will just be another place on the internet that gets banned from firewalls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we degrade to that prior to going live I would expect SE to shut us down.  This SE can be a great resource for those unsure how to handle a workplace situation, or it can be an eyesore that SE wants to disavow.  I think most of us are committed to keeping this site a resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The topics here are broader and softer than many of the technical SE's.  But if we keep the quality high we will attract posts that help people and make the internet a better place.  And that should be our goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;questions that can be related to based on personal experience&lt;/em&gt; would fall in the category of &lt;em&gt;specific expertise&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T14:27:41.767" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="219" CreationDate="2012-04-27T14:55:10.320" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Soft questions still can (and need to be) constructive. Note the wording DOES include expertise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We expect answers to generally involve facts, &lt;strong&gt;references, or specific expertise&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That covers your &quot;personal experience&quot; idea but holds it to a higher standard of &lt;em&gt;expertise&lt;/em&gt; not just &quot;I think X so it's okay to post&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this close reason is to avoid polls ect where it's not really a question with answers, just a question with &lt;em&gt;responses&lt;/em&gt; where everything is equally valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T14:55:10.320" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="219" CreationDate="2012-04-27T19:44:47.557" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think formally, i would go with the answer of @Chad and @Rarity here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as usual, i would try to start from your perspective and re-emphasis the point you are trying to make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at sites like &lt;a href=&quot;https://dsp.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Signal Processing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://quant.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Quantitative finance&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://crypto.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Cryptography&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Physics&lt;/a&gt; - involves formal science behinds their core subjects which make sites very crisp and there is hardly any place for subjective (i.e. personal opinion based) questions or answers. Even there, personal judgement plays a role in terms of knowing right answers from wrong -but in general there are correct answers or wrong answers based on scientific view alone and not someone's personal thinking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sites like Workplace are many others like &lt;a href=&quot;https://parenting.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Parenting&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.onstartups.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;OnStartups&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://productivity.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Personal Productivity&lt;/a&gt; and so on, where people share their experiences and judgement. These are not based on any formal sciences like the one shown above so naturally, there is relatively higher level of subjective opinion. But to make it a great site, there still needs to have deep and great learning from both the questions and answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, to maximize the value of such sites look carefully the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Chatty questions will have no value.&lt;/strong&gt; When some one asks - &quot;Should i do this?&quot; and all the &quot;Mee TOO&quot; answer starts yelling ..NOOOOOOOOO. this makes things noisy and useless.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;[example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/772/is-it-acceptable-to-use-pirated-software-on-the-job/&quot;&gt;Is it acceptable to use pirated software on the job?&lt;/a&gt; - beyond first couple of answer everything is noise and nothing new to learn.] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Personal bias or rants will not serve any good answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I will give you two simple examples of what is NOT truly &lt;em&gt;fact&lt;/em&gt; (i.e. figures and reference based) questions - but their content still distinguish and creates and impact on the value in terms of its constructiveness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/657/is-there-an-effective-way-of-dealing-with-nepotism-at-work&quot;&gt;Is there an effective way of dealing with nepotism at work?&lt;/a&gt;  the OP has stated the fact that &lt;code&gt;The cardinal-nephew problem is quite common in Greece&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;and in the second question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/986/is-there-racism-in-software-egnineering-field&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/986/is-there-racism-in-software-egnineering-field&lt;/a&gt; OP claimed &lt;code&gt;I have noticed that there is huge salary difference between a white american engineer and lets say a foreigner such as asian or Indian.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put things in perspective 'nepotism' and 'racism' are both social phenomena and they are visible with different societies in different intensity. As far as facts and figures are concerned, neither of the question really quote any government data or UN report to conclude that such social anomaly exists really and if so, how much. So both have derived their question based on &lt;em&gt;their personal experience&lt;/em&gt;; in this sense, it is &lt;em&gt;subjective&lt;/em&gt; but this subjectivity is &lt;strong&gt;acceptable&lt;/strong&gt;. [In physics i wouldn't be able to say &quot;in my experience, speed of light is much less than sound!&quot; - this is plain wrong and nothing else make sense further.] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... but irrespective of data of the context, there is a great difference in the two questions.  in the first question OP simply saying that &lt;em&gt;at least i have seen nepotism many places - if you have been through it, can you tell me what to do with it?&lt;/em&gt; This is perfect to ask, and given that great many people do go through the similar problems in life it is good service to society that there is some good answer to this. It doesn't matter that everyone's experience doesn't identically match as long as it is not a rare case.  On the other hand, the second question is (horribly) &lt;em&gt;biased&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&quot;I guess Americans are just abusing Indians or Asians you also think so?&lt;/em&gt; - well in a typical case i might just say well - &lt;em&gt;'you are right, these guys are just f## bs - we gotto do something about it!'&lt;/em&gt; ... so from the the second conversation there is nothing to learn from.  In fact it is sympathy exchange and not even a question-answer session. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;same way, when people write either questions or answers with notions like &quot;bosses are always bad&quot; and so on, it is very likely that your post is hardly of value. Many folks have different world view some are strong some are mild, we all have some bias of somethings; but the point is, when your bias, offensiveness, rudeness hijack your thinking, it doesn't help anyone else really. Which is why &lt;em&gt;subjective&lt;/em&gt; post still needs to be dealt with with very very carefully. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Facts and figures or experiences?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;As the message says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific&#xA;  expertise;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now as i indicated above, in sites which involves formal sciences, without actual numbers or equations nothing would make sense. But here, you need to understand what is expected. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a good question here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1025/how-should-i-properly-approach-my-boss-if-im-feeling-underpaid&quot;&gt;How should I properly approach my boss if I&amp;#39;m feeling underpaid?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question, and all answers goes in depth as to what to judge for a 10% raise? And there are great many answers there that gives interesting insights. Please note, none of these are concluding the 10% number based on benchmark data or text book theory. They are based on experience. These are people who have their own valid judgement and more importantly answer reflects &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it is that way. I can also go back and reply - &quot;10% seems good, why you are complaining?&quot; but that is such a terrible answer. &#xA;Also, if OP wouldn't have said 10% - all answers were off the tangent. So such information is critical in making questions and answers of any use. If that 10% would have been 1% it is a complete different situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... so need to have facts in Q&amp;amp;A doesn't have to mean some kind of benchmarked universal metrics but it needs to be sound. This can be based on expertise as well, and it can come from personal experience rather than formal source, but it needs to be reasonable and of something where meaningful insight can be derived. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Opinions - ok or not?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is perhaps most difficult to explain. In general, SE format says &lt;em&gt;no opinions&lt;/em&gt;. Period. This is actually simple for formal subject sites. But sounds confusing in soft sites like this. Frankly, (may be i am wrong), every question and answer i have read here are &lt;em&gt;only and only&lt;/em&gt; opinions. See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1029/is-it-professional-to-cut-out-a-middle-man-in-a-contract-chain&quot;&gt;Is it professional to cut out a middle-man in a contract chain?&lt;/a&gt; - all answers are only opinions in true sense. However, the point of the answer isn't really that i am saying yes or no. It is the reasoning that is useful and anyone can learn from this. Which is why- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions liKe &quot;Should I make 5 page long resume?&quot; makes much terrible question over &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/844/why-is-a-1-2-page-resume-recommended&quot;&gt;Why is a one to two page r&amp;#233;sum&amp;#233; recommended?&lt;/a&gt; In case of former i would only yell back saying that is a mistake, but in the later i would learn why and there can be multiple view points to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...it is important for all answer givers here to understand that even if it is asked for &lt;em&gt;opinion&lt;/em&gt; it makes sense that you focus on why. Opinions differ but it is insight in the answers  which is relevant makes it useful and you can learn from it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. Emotional outburst needs to be taken care&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Many kids come home crying, &quot;why did john hit me with his bat? How can he do that&quot; This of course is a question, but it is much more of emotional outburst and a whole mix of questions in it. No mamma would have really answered such question well actually, and so is true for people here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/911/getting-fired-on-the-second-day-how-do-i-cope-with-it&quot;&gt;Getting fired on the second day, how do I cope with it?&lt;/a&gt; ]  this question was only an out burst.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... yet, it is an issue that should raise questions, but unless you cool down and talk fresh it becomes difficult to really answer in a meaningful way if at all it will be answerable. Most answer in case of above, were consoling and rather trying to answer &quot;what i would do next time&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yes, my opinion differs from others here only one respect that the fact that there is emotional content, the situation must be real. So there is a genuine problem to be solved there or something to learn from that experience. We shouldn't just slap the kid (by closing) who is already hurt from some place. We must try to get back to make OP to clean things up - may be re-write the question and help him/her crystallize the thinking to make it look good. I know for mods, it is such a painful job, but i think once users gets established, you don't have to do this always. Don't keep the tearful question in its state forever but at least be patient to improve upon it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. Does it have to be (my own) real problem?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Let's test the theory! Let me ask you &quot;How was Hitlar, who was so arrogant, must have reacted when his people would have frowned for lack of raise?&quot; I don't know if there are historians here, but even if they are, the answer to this question wont help me about what should i do during my appraisal (even if my boss is considered a hitler). The point is, hypothetical questions, even if not bad (not off topic nor a rant) are completely useless because they are so flawed because artificially created; and i would doubt any answer would make any sense if at all you can answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;people should understand that notion of &lt;em&gt;&quot;someone else will benefit&quot;&lt;/em&gt; is wrong. as it is there are several factors that makes this site very subjective. If we ask hypothetical question (even if it doesn't start with hitler), it doesn't help because it will generate poor answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is “not constructive” really applicable at workplace.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes of course. And in the description of above, i don't think any SE guidelines are contradicted. It is just that meaning of words - &lt;em&gt;subjective&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;opinion&lt;/em&gt; needs to be understood carefully. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:52:19.467" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T20:10:18.700" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="219" CreationDate="2012-04-27T20:25:37.980" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we assume that this site ought to exist, then I think the standards for &quot;not constructive&quot; should be different than the ones that govern sites like Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is difficult for me to even think of a workplace-related question that fits the criteria.  Looking at the front page, I could quite easily construct an argument for every single question as &quot;not constructive&quot; under the SO definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me put it another way...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I wanted to create a site that would draw a lot of content that would ultimately need to be deleted or closed, and would cause a lot of would-be contributors to leave frustrated, one of the best ways would be to create a site on a general topic a lot of people have experience on and enjoy discussing, and then have a rule in place in the FAQ that questions that lend themselves to opinion rather than factual answers are not allowed, and then be vigilant in enforcing that standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="375" LastEditorUserId="375" LastEditDate="2018-12-17T20:05:49.690" LastActivityDate="2018-12-17T20:05:49.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="206" CreationDate="2012-04-27T21:27:36.897" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Impossible and not entirely reasonable. Poorly worded posts need to be closed and improved. The wording &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the content, and if I have to peel away multiple layers of poor English, awkward phrasing and one-sided wording, that's not good. &lt;strong&gt;If I have to work to understand it, your question is bad&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not to say these questions are unsalvagable, but these questions &lt;em&gt;absolutely&lt;/em&gt; should be judged harshly and improved aggressively. I would agree that people should &lt;em&gt;edit before downvoting&lt;/em&gt; but that's expecting a lot of more casual users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions and answers should be posed &lt;em&gt;thoughtfully&lt;/em&gt; the first time around. Edits are supposed to be &lt;em&gt;minor&lt;/em&gt; to correct typos, mistaggings ect. There is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; supposed to be an expectation that you can post whatever the heck you want and the community will save your post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think a post is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; saying X, which is on topic, when it looks like it's saying Y, edit it. But for the love of Pete, if you're asking, please just say X very clearly the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for whether downvotes/close votes are appropriate...of course they are. This is a great way to signal that something is wrong with a post and discourage the behavior. I've edited and salvaged a lot of posts across the network but I also don't particularly enjoy encouraging the &quot;post crap and let the community fix it&quot; attitude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-04-27T21:50:20.880" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T21:50:20.880" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="225" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-29T01:12:02.037" Score="9" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;All of &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/30887/the-workplace&quot;&gt;our stats&lt;/a&gt; are heading in the right direction, except questions per day, which seems to be dropping. Is this a normal lull after new sites launch as traffic builds, or is there something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this even something to be concerned about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="153" LastEditDate="2012-04-30T18:36:05.957" LastActivityDate="2012-05-01T01:33:42.273" Title="Are we running out of questions?" Tags="|discussion|quality|questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="227" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5107" CreationDate="2012-04-29T08:58:29.150" Score="-3" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/professionalism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;professionalism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;professionalism&lt;/a&gt; is a catch-all tag. Our scope is defined in our FAQ as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace - Stack Exchange is for members of the workforce navigating the professional setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &quot;professionalism&quot; is defined as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;pro·fes·sion·al·ism &lt;em&gt;/prəˈfeSHənlˌizəm/&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Noun:&lt;/strong&gt; The competence or skill expected of a professional&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, it should basically be appicable to all on-topic questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please remove the tag and discontinue its use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="609" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T19:01:41.813" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T19:01:41.813" Title="Avoid and remove the &quot;professionalism&quot; tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="227" CreationDate="2012-04-29T13:14:17.253" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Professionalism is more about personal expectations and how to act professionally rather than being a professional.  It is more narrowly scoped than etiquette and in many cases the &quot;nice&quot; way to handle the situation is not the professional way to handle the situation, at least in the US.  Not all questions are about this as such not all questions could or should be tagged that way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-04-29T13:14:17.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="227" CreationDate="2012-04-29T15:52:05.403" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're mistaken as to the meaning of the word &lt;em&gt;professionalism&lt;/em&gt;. What you cite is one possible meaning, but it isn't the one that's used here. The dominant meaning is closer to &lt;em&gt;ethics&lt;/em&gt;: it's a matter of choices rather than capabilities. The difference between professionalism and ethics is that professionalism may mean to do the right thing by the employer, even if it is not the right thing by your personal moral compass (for example, it is generally unprofessional to disclose a defect in a product that you manufacture, or to complain about work conditions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I agree that the tag is a red flag. Questions that have this tag are likely to be questions of ethics, which might be discussed constructively on &lt;a href=&quot;https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Philosophy Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, but definitely not here. Such questions are argumentative by definition, they can only be handled in a questions and answers format if the questions are asking for logical argumentation based on references, and not for generalizations based on personal preferences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="208" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:42:22.460" LastActivityDate="2012-04-29T15:52:05.403" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="225" CreationDate="2012-04-30T04:01:01.103" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's too early too tell. Right now our stats are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5.8 questions per day&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;15 questions per day on average is a healthy beta, 5 questions or fewer per day needs some work. A healthy site generates lots of good content to make sure users keep coming back.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;99% answered&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;90% answered is a healthy beta, 80% answered needs some work. In the beta it's especially important that when new visitors ask questions they usually get a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;85 avid users, 626 total users&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every site needs a solid group of core users to assist in moderating the site. We recommend:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;150 users with 200+ rep (currently 85 users with 200+ rep)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10 users with 2,000+ rep (currently 0 users with 2,000+ rep)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 users with 3,000+ rep (currently 0 users with 3,000+ rep)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.1 answer ratio&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2.5 answers per question is good, only 1 answer per question needs some work. In a healthy site, questions receive multiple answers and the best answer is voted to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;445 visits/day&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1,500 visits per day is good, 500 visits per day needs some work. A great site benefits people outside the community. Eventually, 90% of a site's traffic should come from search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, we could use more questions per day, more visits, and more users. But the stats are only measuring quantity, and at the end of the day quantity &amp;amp; volume is the least of our concerns. We've all taken notice of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/04/when-a-site-grows-quiet/&quot;&gt;recent decision to close six betas&lt;/a&gt;, sad news indeed, but quantity and volume wasn't the primary reason the sites were closed. Or, to be a bit more exact, &lt;a href=&quot;https://hermeneutics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312/why-biblical-hermeneutics-isnt-closing&quot;&gt;quality is what keeps a beta alive&lt;/a&gt;, even if it's as small (or even smaller) than the betas that were closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one stat that hints towards the quality of the site, is our 4.1 answers per question ratio. Although 2.5 is given as a good ratio, 4.1 is not &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; better, as it can be interpreted as a tendency to allow too many bikeshed questions to survive long enough. 20 days into beta and there are already three Meta questions regarding the site's quality:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/35/do-we-have-a-quality-control-issue&quot;&gt;Do we have a Quality control issue?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/188/i-think-we-now-have-that-quality-issue-that-robert-warned-us-about&quot;&gt;I think we now have that quality issue that Robert warned us about&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/149/common-sense-questions&quot;&gt;Common-Sense questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should be concentrating on the overall quality of the site, and forget about the stats, at least for now. We are going to get our first crop of moderators soon (don't know when, soon was the answer when I asked), and they will have access to quite a few more stats and more importantly a direct line with Stack Exchange. Not to say that regular users shouldn't care for the site's stats, we should and it's great that you do, but &lt;em&gt;right now&lt;/em&gt; it's still too early to make sense of them, the site isn't yet a month old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether a site will survive beta or not is not an exact science, and ideally we shouldn't even think about it. But let's face it, the site is already starting to smell a bit, and not in a nice way. The crowd over at &lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Skeptics&lt;/a&gt; goes at extreme lengths to back each answer with solid references to validate or refute even the most &lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9099/is-the-claim-of-liberalism-being-a-psychological-disorder-accurate&quot;&gt;idiotic claims&lt;/a&gt;, yet our Meta is slowly filling up with people whining because they find it unthinkable that their non-constructive questions or opinion heavy answers are unsuitable for a (supposedly) high signal low noise professional Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We may get more questions, more visits, more users, I certainly hope we do, but if we don't we could still justify the site's existence if we maintain relatively high quality standards. The only thing that's certain, though, is that &gt; 15 questions per day won't mean much if people get the same kind of answers they would get at Yahoo! Answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've bookmarked &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2691/conversation/discussion-on-the-closure-of-six-betas&quot;&gt;a discussion on the Assembly&lt;/a&gt; that you might find interesting, in short:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The stats are a bit useless,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We might get a better set of stats soon,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In any case, don't get stuck on the stats,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quality &gt; quantity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:46:44.187" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T04:30:36.793" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="225" CreationDate="2012-04-30T13:09:54.350" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I don't think we're running out of questions. The Workplace is a very broad category, and there are plenty of good questions out there that haven't been asked yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Workplace questions are about an environment, not a specific activity (like Programming, Cooking, Gaming, etc), so unless you work in a career-related job, you're less likely to encounter questions about it on a regular basis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key to getting more questions-per-day is to get more users to the site. Everyone's workplace life is a bit different, and the more users we get, the more questions will get asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the site first launched, the users that committed to the site probably asked the questions they had, so the questions per day was fairly high, and is probably averaging out now. Give the site some time to get new users (or go out there and advertise the site to new users), and the questions per day will go up again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't worry about this stat too much unless the questions per day fall below 2, since all six &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/04/when-a-site-grows-quiet/&quot;&gt;recently closed sites&lt;/a&gt; had a questions per day average of less than 2. With no questions to answer, site activity dies down and the users that answer start to leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T13:09:54.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2012-04-30T13:28:22.033" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to nominate &lt;strong&gt;Dipan Mehta&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's a very active user, who I think will do a great job as a moderator for the site based on what I've seen from him in meta, on the main site, and in chat&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Workplace/Network profile&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/143/dipan-mehta&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/143.png&quot; width=&quot;208&quot; height=&quot;58&quot; alt=&quot;profile for dipan-mehta at The Workplace, Q&amp;amp;A for members of the workforce navigating the professional setting&quot; title=&quot;profile for dipan-mehta at The Workplace, Q&amp;amp;A for members of the workforce navigating the professional setting&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/users/967533&quot;&gt;&#xA;profile for dipan-mehta on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&amp;amp;A sites http://stackexchange.com/users/flair/967533.png&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;I am very grateful and honored to be listed here! Unfortunately, the kind of work cycles i have i fear that might become unavailable for random period. I truly appreciate it to be here, but it might hurt if i suddenly absent, hence i would request to decline this nomination. My sincere apology!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T04:58:21.143" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-30T13:28:22.033" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2012-04-30T13:33:31.217" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to nominate &lt;strong&gt;voretaq7&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;voretaq7, I know you said in chat that you didn't think you could handle moderating another SE site, however I think you would do a great job as a moderator here and would like to ask you to reconsider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've appreciated the insight you've shown on meta, in chat, and with your answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Workplace/Network profile&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/164/voretaq7&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/164.png&quot; width=&quot;208&quot; height=&quot;58&quot; alt=&quot;profile for voretaq7 at The Workplace, Q&amp;amp;A for members of the workforce navigating the professional setting&quot; title=&quot;profile for voretaq7 at The Workplace, Q&amp;amp;A for members of the workforce navigating the professional setting&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/users/95292&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/users/flair/95292.png&quot; width=&quot;208&quot; height=&quot;58&quot; alt=&quot;profile for voretaq7  on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&amp;amp;A sites&quot; title=&quot;profile for voretaq7 on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&amp;amp;A sites&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2023-01-02T10:16:14.223" LastActivityDate="2023-01-02T10:16:14.223" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-30T13:33:31.217" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2012-04-30T14:20:13.043" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to nominate &lt;strong&gt;Rarity&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's one of the highest rep users on the site, and is someone who works hard to make SE sites succeed (he's moderator of User Experience). I think he'd do a great job at helping this site succeed as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Workplace/Network profile&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/42/rarity&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/42.png&quot; width=&quot;208&quot; height=&quot;58&quot; alt=&quot;profile for rarity at The Workplace, Q&amp;amp;A for members of the workforce navigating the professional setting&quot; title=&quot;profile for rarity at The Workplace, Q&amp;amp;A for members of the workforce navigating the professional setting&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/users/465403&quot;&gt;&#xA;profile for rarity on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&amp;amp;A sites http://stackexchange.com/users/flair/465403.png&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edited to accept the nomination&lt;/strong&gt;: I'd love to see this site succeed and as a current Moderator on another site I think I could help out the other pro temps&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T16:42:05.727" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-30T14:20:13.043" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2012-04-30T14:34:35.740" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to throw my hat in the ring. In addition to being part of the private beta, and being regularly active on the site ever since, I've written a fair amount on workplace issues outside of the site, and would love to continue to help the site grow its user base, while maintaining high quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to this, I've gathered a number of &quot;soft skills&quot; while a member of the workforce that include conflict resolution, leadership skills, and writing skills; all of which will come in handy when stickier issues arise on the site that require mediation, conflict resolution, and a clear, written explanation of any actions I take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Above all, I find The Workplace to be a great start to what I hope will grow to be a great site. I want to be a more active part of that, even if it is just in this temporary moderator role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Workplace profile&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/31&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/31.png&quot; width=&quot;208&quot; height=&quot;58&quot; alt=&quot;profile for Normalocity at The Workplace, Q&amp;amp;A for members of the workforce navigating the professional setting&quot; title=&quot;profile for Normalocity at The Workplace, Q&amp;amp;A for members of the workforce navigating the professional setting&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Network profile&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/users/90696&quot;&gt;&#xA;profile for Normalocity on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&amp;amp;A sites http://stackexchange.com/users/flair/90696.png&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-05-01T13:49:38.210" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-30T14:34:35.740" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="236" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-30T19:41:55.203" Score="7" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's apparently agreed that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5/does-this-site-need-a-back-it-up-rule&quot;&gt;we need a &quot;back it up&quot; style expectation of quality&lt;/a&gt; but support for actually &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/123/should-we-add-a-back-it-up-rule-to-the-faq-now&quot;&gt;placing it in the FAQ&lt;/a&gt; was very meh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general suggestion so far has been to gauge expertise by reputation and use up/downvotes to confirm the validity of posts...but honestly that hasn't been working. People pile on &lt;em&gt;the same exact answer&lt;/em&gt; and get upvotes. People state the obvious and get upvotes. People contribute nothing of worth to the question but get &quot;I agree with this&quot; upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order for this site to be useful it's &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; important that answers are more than just noise/piling on, and that upvotes mean more than &quot;Sure, I agree with that&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we enforce a quality standard for answers if we're against putting it in the FAQ? I'm not seeing this unspoken quality standard being enforced through voting at all and I'm rarely seeing it enforced via comments &lt;em&gt;on answers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T21:04:56.730" Title="How can we enforce quality standards without adding to the FAQ?" Tags="|discussion|quality|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="236" CreationDate="2012-04-30T19:47:59.943" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My Opinion is:&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Good questions will bring good answers.  We do not need to fix the answers we need to fix the questions.&lt;/strong&gt;  Teach a man to fish and all that (cause girls cant fish :)(that is a joke for those of you who have had a humorectimy)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back it up is a horrible way to go so long as the rule includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that opinions shared here should be backed up by&#xA;  experiences that happened to you personally&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note I paraphrased this to how too many of our users will read this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that opinions shared here should be backed up either with&#xA;  a reference, or experiences that happened to you personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one time at band camp I build a spaceship and went to mars.  That means I know how to answer your question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That makes things worse not better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hate pointing out problems with out providing a solution but this is not a solution it is just going to build onto the snowball.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2012-04-30T21:04:56.730" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T21:04:56.730" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="123" CreationDate="2012-04-30T20:39:18.130" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a great idea to try and stop the &quot;here is what I would do&quot; kind of answers, however I would change the wording a bit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would want to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;clarify that you are talking about answers, not questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;make it clear that your experience should back up your answer, and not actually be your answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not really sure of a good way of phrasing that though. Here's my initial draft...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We strive to provide high-quality answers here, so please refrain from&#xA;  posting your own answer to a question unless you can back up your answer &#xA;  with either a reference or personal experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T20:39:18.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="123" CreationDate="2012-04-30T20:40:36.843" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a moderator on &lt;a href=&quot;http://parenting.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;parenting.se&lt;/a&gt;, I thought it might be helpful for me to share our experiences with this rule.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That clause was part of our original faq from day one.  From our perspective, adding it was intended to reduce answers that are essentially &quot;I don't have any experience with this, but this is how I think it would work&quot;.  Those types of answers are frequently of very low quality, and they can be a fairly persistent problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, we prefer answers that cite actual research and references.  That isn't always possible, depending upon the question.  In the cases where research isn't available, direct experience is usually a welcome substitute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, the stackexchange sites are intended to be a repository for &lt;strong&gt;expert&lt;/strong&gt; answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an expert says &quot;this is how I handled it&quot;, the answer is generally useful, whereas if the answer is pure speculation, even if the speculation comes from an expert, it tends to be much less useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a perception here that the wording used somehow &lt;em&gt;encourages&lt;/em&gt; low-quality answers.  This has absolutely not been my experience.  People don't look at the faq, read that, and start posting &quot;me too!&quot; answers that don't provide useful information.  The users who do that generally haven't read the faq in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather, what we've found is that including that clause in the faq gives our community a point of reference to help explain to posters why certain answers are considered low quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my nearly 10 months of moderating at parenting.se, I've never seen that section of the faq used to justify a low-quality answer.  Instead, what typically happens is it is brought up by way of explanation to a new user, to explain why their answer is being down-voted, or to help show them what the answer needs to be improved.  I've seen both moderators and active members of the community cite the clause from the faq, and it has always (to my recollection) resulted in a positive outcome (future answers from that user tend to improve, and sometimes they will go back, edit their answer, and provide useful sources and references).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is worth mentioning that we do not enforce this rigidly, nor have we ever had any reason to.  We do have plenty of high quality answers that do not reference direct experience or external research and sources.  Those answers continue to get upvoted/accepted, and no one has ever said &quot;this is a good answer, but I see no evidence that it meets our criteria for the 'back-it-up' rule.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe strongly that it will benefit you as a community to have the clause included in your faq from the beginning.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="640" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-04-30T21:44:21.823" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T21:44:21.823" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="236" CreationDate="2012-04-30T20:41:35.703" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not feel that a back-it-up requirement will stop our avalanches of &lt;code&gt;me-too&lt;/code&gt; answers: It is easy enough to add an anecdote or find a fact to back up every &lt;code&gt;me-too&lt;/code&gt; answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/772&quot;&gt;the pirated software question&lt;/a&gt; garnered, none of which changes the fact that the question should have been answered once, with a solid and resounding &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;NO&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. Backed up or not the additional pile-on/me-too answers add zero benefit to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution IMHO is to downvote the worthless answers (and when we have mods, let them be cast into the abyss of deleted items).  Deny people their precious reputation points for this sort of tripe, and when they realize they can't win &quot;the game&quot; by posting it they'll stop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are a small site.  Our question volume is low.  Our users (all of us) &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;MUST&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; exercise a little tiny bit of self-control and not jump onto every question in a rush to post an answer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Read what's there. If what you want to say has been said, upvote.  If you have something to add, edit or comment.  Don't pile on like mindless animals - It helps no one, and clutters the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T20:41:35.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5" CreationDate="2012-04-30T20:57:01.030" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this site needs a “back it up” rule. No, personal anecdotes do not fulfil this need. This site is very different from Parenting; it is not dealing with very precise situations that science is hopelessly far from modeling. A lot of questions here can be answered based on knowledge of labor laws, sociology and applied psychology. A softer version of &lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1505/welcome-to-new-users&quot;&gt;Skeptics's reference requirement&lt;/a&gt; would be more valuable. Anyone can have an anecdote; references from serious publications or at least people with &lt;em&gt;serious&lt;/em&gt; experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back it up. With citations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="208" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:58.457" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T20:57:01.030" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="236" CreationDate="2012-04-30T20:59:43.653" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Without&lt;/strong&gt; adding to the FAQ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Really&lt;/em&gt; get the community to downvote low-quality answers.  This can't happen on its own.  Fortunately I think the meta community is large enough that if we make a concerted effort to encourage &lt;strong&gt;adding a comment when downvoting&lt;/strong&gt; then we can start to make a difference.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Discourage the bad answers in the first place.  The Stack Exchange software is doing nearly all it can do already &amp;mdash; short of drastic changes to quality-detection or new filtering systems that could hinder the site's mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key to this part is &lt;strong&gt;the questions&lt;/strong&gt;.  I think the discussions currently taking place on chat and meta are key to solving this part of the problem.  I don't think it's easy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At a core: &lt;strong&gt;questions need to set clear criteria for good answers, and it needs to be more than &quot;everyone with an opinion please share it.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.  Right now, too many questions don't do this &amp;mdash; we average &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/30887/the-workplace&quot;&gt;4.1 answers per question&lt;/a&gt;.  Let's keep focusing on this until we have a good &lt;strong&gt;clear&lt;/strong&gt; definition of what constitutes a good subjective question.  I'm not saying what we have now is bad, but I am saying they are not sufficient for this site.  There is too much &lt;em&gt;subjectiveness&lt;/em&gt; in the current subjective guidelines, so to speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As always, use your votes and close votes.  I may not be right on every question I choose to close or not close, but that's why it takes more than one &amp;mdash; it's a collaborative effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, close votes are not only helpful to stop the bad answers from piling up or to block a discussion, but also as a signal that something can be improved.  I will often take close votes from others as a sign that I should look more closely at the question and see if I can improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T20:59:43.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="123" CreationDate="2012-04-30T21:40:07.227" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is proposed wording that does not beg for anecdotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is never sufficient to simply say what you think the answer is. You must always include in your answer information about why you think your answer is correct, including citations for factual statements wherever possible, so that the community can evaluate the provenance of your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10" LastEditorUserId="10" LastEditDate="2012-04-30T21:58:31.993" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T21:58:31.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="225" CreationDate="2012-05-01T01:33:42.273" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a normal lull after the initial excitement. Most sites go through this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site has a problem with quality, not with quantity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="208" LastActivityDate="2012-05-01T01:33:42.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="245" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-01T18:23:04.560" Score="12" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a problem I've noticed with most questions we close (and some we haven't yet): most of them are either too localized to be useful to more than one person, or they're too broad to be usefully answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Too Localized we have questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1106/starting-a-new-position-after-being-laid-off-with-pay-and-signing-a-contract&quot;&gt;specific contracts&lt;/a&gt;, which really require legal help, not Workplace Expert help anyway. Then we've got some questions that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/1108/42&quot;&gt;could be good, but are too unfocused to answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is making it hard to know how to word your question; when does it stop being not constructive, when does it start being too localized? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we eventually need some guidelines for the FAQ to help people construct their question so that it's focused and answerable. The main thing I've noticed is that people tend to omit what field they're in (which makes it hard to infer the office environmental--or maybe they're not &lt;em&gt;in&lt;/em&gt; an office!) or how laid back or formal their environment is. Without these little big details, answers can be guesses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where is that middle ground&lt;/strong&gt; between not constructive and too localized? Workplace really needs to find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T16:22:39.917" Title="How can we encourage people to find the middle ground?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="245" CreationDate="2012-05-01T18:49:04.440" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is X appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is more than just broad and Not Constructive, it is also potentially Too Localized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It really is up to the discretion of the moderator because it isn't very clear, and we all know that as liberal as a moderator can be, they eventually become pretty literal with the laid out rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a site in beta, so the literal interpretation is still being hashed out and could be subject to change.  That really makes it hard for somebody toying with a question in their head to come up with a good question that they feel will benefit the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1108/are-games-and-puzzles-at-your-desk-a-sign-of-unprofessional-immaturity-or-quirky&quot;&gt;Are games and puzzles at your desk a sign of unprofessional immaturity or quirky intelligence?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand it isn't a good question and most of the community felt it should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I tried to think of ways to edit it to improve where it can be reopened.  I struggle to imagine asking the question differently&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;jcmeloni suggested a different but similar question, but I really don't want to ask it because when I really think about it, it would be NC as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I struggle to think of quality answerable questions to ask on the site.  Extraordinarily few good questions are being asked lately.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine that others must be sharing my struggle because of the large drop in content.  We certainly have the views and interested users, but in the end we need a steady stream of questions to keep the site alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My prognosis isn't good so far, I think we are running out of questions because when it comes to the workplace things are just too subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2012-05-01T18:49:04.440" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="248" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-01T21:16:52.523" Score="15" ViewCount="380" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community to act as temporary, provisional Moderators. You can read about the program here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moderators Pro Tempore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am pleased to announce that the following members have stepped up and generously volunteered their time to help us assure that the community's issues are properly addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/42&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/42.png&quot; alt=&quot;Rarity&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/26&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/26.png&quot; alt=&quot;jcmeloni&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/17&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/17.png&quot; alt=&quot;NickC&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We want to make this site a huge success, and these members are great examples of exactly the type of people we need to make this site succeed. Please welcome them for the hard work and time they contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Did I overlook anyone?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost certainly. There are members who are actively involved and very deserving of recognition. My failure to account for everyone this early on is in &lt;em&gt;no way&lt;/em&gt; a slight against them. Ideally, Moderators are elected by the community and that's why &lt;strong&gt;you'll have your elections after your site makes it through graduation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of all, be respectful and understanding of the Moderators Pro Tem. Members of your community are volunteering their time and learning on the job. It's a learning experience for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately both Rarity and jcmeloni have asked to step down. Moderation is a purely volunteer activity and we are very grateful for the time and effort they both donated to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have two new volunteers who graciously agreed to step up and help moderate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/98&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/98.png&quot; alt=&quot;jmort253&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/869&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/869.png&quot; alt=&quot;Jim&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks, jmort253 and Jim!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T12:41:22.457" Title="Moderators Pro Tempore, just like mamma used to make 'em" Tags="|discussion|moderation|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="248" CreationDate="2012-05-01T21:24:07.010" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Congratulations Julie, Ben, Nick and James!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the nominees are exemplary contributors and would make excellent moderators, I'm sure the choice was more than tough for everyone involved. But let's not forget that all of us can and should do our part in moderating the site, and our three diamonds are mostly exception handlers, it's up to all of us to keep the site healthy and help it grow to a wonderful resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some light reading to get you started:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7931/faq-for-stack-exchange-sites&quot;&gt;FAQ for Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/119111/moderator-cheat-sheet&quot;&gt;Moderator Cheat Sheet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you haven't already, start using &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/2116/autoreviewcomments-pro-forma-comments-for-se&quot;&gt;Pro-forma comments&lt;/a&gt; immediately, it's a life saver ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:43.347" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T21:06:36.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="245" CreationDate="2012-05-02T14:17:24.427" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's an example of a question that I think was closed way too early, and without any attempt to edit/improve until now: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/959/what-do-i-need-to-consider-when-evaluating-a-job-offer-that-is-out-of-my-preferr&quot;&gt;Should I take an related-but-not-ideal job with a company in hopes of moving into my ideal job?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could easily be edited to be useful to a broader audience, and I believe easily meets with the &quot;middle ground&quot; criteria proposed by Rarity in this question. So, I've edited the question  and cast my vote for re-open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a perfect &quot;middle ground&quot; question, I think, where we're jumping the gun simply because the specifics of the situation as stated in the question appear to be industry-specific/OP-specific, but in reality the details simply serve to illustrate the example, and the example itself is applicable to pretty much any industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T14:17:24.427" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="245" CreationDate="2012-05-02T15:00:01.673" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone has a question about the workplace, we want them to come here and ask it. If they have to sit around for a long time trying to figure out how to write the question in a way that's not too localized nor too broad so it won't get it closed, then we're failing our users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why should they spend a lot of time figuring out how to ask a question, and possibly have it closed anyways, just to post on our site? We're almost all volunteers here, and we participate because we like helping people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Providing we can tell what is being asked, and it is on-topic for the site, leave the questions open so we can answer them and help people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, the not-constructive and too-localized definitions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not Constructive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question is not constructive in the workplace world. May also be used for questions that poll for answers, or that are &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; broad. By extremely broad, I mean questions that are better answered by a book than a person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Too Localized&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question will probably not ever help anyone but the person asking the question, or is unlikely to be answered since the scope of the problem is so narrow that our experts have not likely encountered it before. It shouldn't be used for all uncommon questions, but only ones that are so uncommon that nobody has ever heard of it before and will probably never hear of again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything in between that which is an on-topic, non-duplicate, and is a valid, identifiable question should be left open&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my opinion is, crack down on the questions that are truly bad or off-topic and let the rest stay&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T16:22:39.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="252" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-02T18:54:56.437" Score="4" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was recently reading the &lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;Skeptics.SE FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, and one of the top lines of their faq is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;New users (even users familiar with the StackExchange format) should&#xA;  read our &lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1505/welcome-to-new-users&quot;&gt;introduction to the site&lt;/a&gt; before posting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link listed goes to a very newbie-friendly meta post which explains what SE is, how it differs from online forums, and the sort of quality expected from both questions and answers. In fact, the top paragraph states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This post is written for news users of the Skeptics - Stack Exchange&#xA;  (or Skeptics.SE, for short) - especially those who have just asked or&#xA;  answered their first question, and have been surprised by the&#xA;  feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There has been quite a bit of discussion lately about how to maintain quality standards of the site without alienating new users, and I was thinking perhaps this is the sort of thing we need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think new users are much more likely to read a page specifically designed to introduce them to the site, than they would be to read something titled &quot;frequently asked questions&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We would be able to teach them how to ask good questions, what makes a good subjective question, and that answers should be backed up with references or personal experience, all without cluttering our FAQ further. In addition, it could help alleviate the perceived hostility that is sometimes mistaken by close votes and downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that the FAQ is currently meant to be for new users, however it is quite long and contains more than a standard new user is usually willing to read. A FAQ should be for frequently asked questions, not for a manual on how to use the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:46:44.187" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T19:00:42.933" Title="Creating a meta post specifically designed for new users, and link to it in the faq?" Tags="|discussion|faq-proposed|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="253" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-04T15:11:32.670" Score="4" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am referring to this question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1076/networking-for-breadth-not-depth&quot;&gt;Networking for breadth, not depth&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way &lt;em&gt;faq&lt;/em&gt; mentions - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;avoid asking subjective questions where …&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  * your answer is provided along with the question ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is basically in the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*I think networking is about &lt;em&gt;breadth&lt;/em&gt; - tell me what you think. And even more importantly, please supply research backed up material to prove me wrong! (Where as OP himself has never cited any research!) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please Note: I have no problem with this question (i have not put any close flag and have up voted also) - as i am finding something to learn.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is important to realize that there are quite a few discussion we have where people have gone nitpicking every word and how things are phrased to classify as constructive not-constructive, shouldn't we classify this question as well as Not-constructive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't this question really open-ended and vouch only for the opinion where either answer could just be right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The question also refers to terms including: &#xA;&quot;connections&quot;, &quot;breadth&quot; &quot;depth&quot;, &quot;relationships&quot;, &quot;executing a networking strategy&quot; &quot;productive&quot; in the context of networking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are clearly undefined and are subject to interpretation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-05-10T02:09:23.557" Title="Is this a constructive question by strict definition?" Tags="|discussion|quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="253" CreationDate="2012-05-04T15:28:43.007" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;While he's answered his question on how to go about networking, he's not asking &lt;em&gt;us&lt;/em&gt; that question, he's asking if his conclusion is backed up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has not answered &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; question, the one he's posting to us, so it's fine in that regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T15:28:43.007" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="255" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="256" CreationDate="2012-05-08T15:47:03.550" Score="25" ViewCount="2056" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm considering adding the following clauses into the first bit of our FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How should I answer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure your answer adds helpful information and is a &lt;em&gt;complete, stand-alone answer&lt;/em&gt;. Read other answers first and be sure not to completely restate information that has already been posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that answers should be backed up either with a reference, or experiences that happened to you personally. You should always include in your answer information about why you think your answer is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will give us something to point to (the FAQ) stating that duplicate and totally uncited answers are not okay. We seem pretty strongly in favor of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5/does-this-site-need-a-back-it-up-rule/6#6&quot;&gt;backing it up&lt;/a&gt;, (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/123/should-we-add-a-back-it-up-rule-to-the-faq-now&quot;&gt;also here&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/172/what-can-we-do-about-me-too-answers&quot;&gt;me too answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any objections/suggestions/improvements? Since support was so strong in the other threads I've edited this version in for now. &lt;strong&gt;Remember we can update the FAQ at any time&lt;/strong&gt;. Community input decides the FAQ, which is what this is already based on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T14:38:17.510" Title="FAQ proposal: Back It Up and Don't Repeat Others" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|faq|faq-content|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="255" CreationDate="2012-05-08T16:44:40.707" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Go ahead and add this in.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2012-05-08T16:44:40.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="258" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-09T13:16:22.370" Score="12" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed something with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1213/should-i-terminate-my-contract&quot;&gt;certain questions&lt;/a&gt; of ours. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1206/should-i-consider-emigration-for-better-career&quot;&gt;These questions&lt;/a&gt;, while certainly &quot;real problems&quot;, are generally too localized or not constructive as questions, so we can't really leave them open. They might be interesting discussions, but they're probably not going to be helpful to others searching for similar, but different, situations. Questions need answers that are applicable to a broad audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Common symptoms include extended &lt;strong&gt;comment discussions&lt;/strong&gt; and the asker &lt;strong&gt;already knowing what they need to do&lt;/strong&gt;. Comments being used like that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;is a bad sign&lt;/a&gt;; questions are not for &quot;advice&quot; or reassurance so much as solutions. However, we have a great platform for simple advice, reassurance or just sharing war stories: &lt;strong&gt;Chat&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We have &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;a lovely Chat room&lt;/a&gt; for everyone to discuss matters serious or trivial.&lt;/strong&gt; Don't forget about it, there's a link at the top of every page on The Workplace and Meta as well. If you have at least &lt;strong&gt;20 reputation&lt;/strong&gt; you're allowed to talk in chat (even without 20 rep you can &lt;em&gt;read&lt;/em&gt; chat).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're trying to work out a problem but you don't think it quite matches the quality standards in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, consider asking in Chat. We can bounce back ideas, give some advice or help you phrase your question constructively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-05-29T04:02:02.147" Title="Don't forget we have Chat!" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="253" CreationDate="2012-05-10T02:09:23.557" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This should be off topic. There is no problem here, it is just discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there any research that would validate, or dispute, the above&#xA;  approach to professional networking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is not a real &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="522" LastActivityDate="2012-05-10T02:09:23.557" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="255" CreationDate="2012-05-10T13:10:11.800" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your point about do not re-state is correct and very important. However, &#xA;given that in many cases, people do not actually apply Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V - but they don't end up substantially adding value. Sometimes people don't copy from one answer but all their individual points are covered in many different answers already. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We might want to rephrase this as :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Before you answer, you should read other answers and think whether or not -&#xA;  &quot;Does your answer add substantial value or new input which&#xA;  hasn't already been covered in one or multiple answers above?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2012-11-19T19:37:33.760" LastActivityDate="2012-11-19T19:37:33.760" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="261" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-10T16:52:19.120" Score="11" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking Constructive questions (and defining what that means for us) is a big issue I think we really need solved. We need it solved to help us define the site and help people ask questions, assured that they at least have a reasonable idea of what's constructive and how they need to ask their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This issue has come up before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/219/is-not-constructive-really-applicable-at-workplace-se&quot;&gt;Is &amp;quot;not constructive&amp;quot; really applicable at workplace.SE?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/196/are-questions-in-the-format-is-doing-behavior-x-considered-acceptable-professio&quot;&gt;Are questions in the format &amp;quot;Is doing/behavior X considered acceptable/professional&amp;quot; considered non-constructive?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/253/is-this-a-constructive-question-by-strict-definition&quot;&gt;Is this a constructive question by strict definition?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/245/how-can-we-encourage-people-to-find-the-middle-ground&quot;&gt;How can we encourage people to find the middle ground?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of a problematic question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1213/should-i-terminate-my-contract&quot;&gt;Are constant changes to a projects requirements a sufficient reason for terminating a contract?&lt;/a&gt; though I and others have decided it's Not a real Question (as it's rhetorical). The discussion was whether there's a constructive question in there at all; the root problem to me is: &lt;strong&gt;when does a Workplace question stop asking for opinions and start requiring expertise&lt;/strong&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are some guidelines for what makes a question constructive for us? Basically I want some guidelines we can point a new user to so that they can read and understand how to phrase their question so that it's constructive; the FAQ as it is doesn't cut it. Eventually we'll probably have a short description of Constructive in our FAQ with a link to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/252/creating-a-meta-post-specifically-designed-for-new-users-and-link-to-it-in-the&quot;&gt;Meta post for this purpose&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have to answer with some firm guidelines, I want us to brainstorm; answer, comment, improve. We can squabble over the exact wording later, but I think this is something we need to have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-05-30T21:35:25.547" Title="How do we define Constructive on this site?" Tags="|discussion|faq-content|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="261" CreationDate="2012-05-10T17:27:50.860" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The million dollar question here is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How do we define workplace expertise?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One might argue that nobody goes through special training to navigate the workplace like you were training for electrical engineering.  Effectively navigating life and issues in the workplace is something that most of us office workers either know intrinsically, fail at consistently, or learn eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what this means is that we can all be split into three groups, Those of us that intuitively understand how to deal with and answer workplace issues, Those of us that are incapable of understanding the unique social dynamics and issues in the workplace, and those of us that are slowly learning from our collective mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What inevitably happens in a site for Experts is that group consensus forms around the &quot;experts&quot; opinion, so eventually input from users who not experts or those that are hopelessly lost and need the most help get snubbed out.  The experts lose relation and understanding of those that have a legitimate problem that MANY people face, but perhaps they didn't know how to word their questions in a way that would encourage only perfect answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These users get downvoted and closed and eventually leave.  The experts remain and lack of questions and stagnation set it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Problem 1:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are too afraid of the possibility of low quality answers.  Remember, this is why we have the voting system.  Good answers should be voted up, bad answers should be voted down.  They don't pose the same risk to the site as demonstrably bad questions because &lt;em&gt;bad answers don't affect good questions.&lt;/em&gt;  There is legitimate helpful advice to be had in a LOT of the questions being closed as NC, but I feel we close these because we are too afraid of people posting personal anecdotes, one line answers that could have been comments, links, highly opinionated responses, and web comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion, Focus on swift Answer moderation instead of NC Question moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Problem 2:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Navigating the workplace is not a science, yet we treat it as such.  Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many peer reviewed journals are we citing in our answers?  Not many.  Many of the best answers are completely uncited yet most people tend to accept them if they ring true to them.  If I were to make a competing observation that goes against conventional wisdom but did not cite references or sources then ultimately my answer will be deemed &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Merely an opinion, and an incorrect one at that!&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine for a second a StackExchange site that discusses Stock picks and day trading.  The parallels are staggering.  Stock picks come naturally to some, never at all to others, and others learn and get better through mistakes.  A clique of exceptional day traders will form the vast majority of activity and they will all have a like minded interpretation of correctness of question quality.  Anything at all that appears too simplistic a question will be NARQ, even if never asked before.  Anything that isn't worded absolutely perfect will be downvoted and closed NC mercilessly.  All questions will be taken literally without variance.  Occasional stock traders will not relate to the site anymore and leave.  People who contribute answers but do not share popular opinion will be downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps popular opinion is wrong and somebody was given bad trading advice and loses a lot of money?  Who is to say that those answers and questions are any less constructive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can happen naturally with a diversity of mods, but more than likely because most people will just give their opinion, doesn't mean that there isn't an excellent and correct answer for the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70" LastActivityDate="2012-05-10T17:27:50.860" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="261" CreationDate="2012-05-11T13:38:12.067" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Constructive:   Adjective:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Serving a useful purpose; tending to build up.   Derived by inference; implied by operation of law; not obvious or explicit.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before thinking of Constructive questions, we should think of what constructive answer should be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Constructive answer is something which consist of a definitive (not vague, not hypothetical) and useful (something from which practical benefit can be derived. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Constructive answer &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; have opinion. We all tend to jump and press the buzzer way soon when we see &lt;em&gt;opnion&lt;/em&gt;. As long as the opinion is backed by reasoning as to why it the opinion is such, and has meaningful insight is definitely constructive. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Constructive answers has finite scope to deal with. When you can write a book (and may be even a white paper) about a subject - it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; answer. This may be useful and insightful in all respect here, but it is impossible that we can be definitive while the scope is arbitrarily large -&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of my own questions - &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/296/143&quot;&gt;How do you balance short term vs. long term goals&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is a classic example, i can now imagine either only a book can be written here or anyone speaking about it in 100 words will not be definitive about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Constructive answers are unbiased. Yes, opinions are quite openly divided quite often. However, personal bias (i never like Europeans or white racists) or  filled with emotions (not being objective) will tend to get a more misleading and &lt;em&gt;uselss&lt;/em&gt; answer. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So what makes a Constructive Questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any question, which is reasonably worded based on a real problem at hand, which allows to write Constructive answer will be constructive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just because too many people jump to write me too answer doesn't really make them bad - but mostly this happens when questions are too trivial. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You must &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/206/judge-a-question-by-what-is-being-asked-not-how-its-being-asked&quot;&gt;judge the question by it's intention than words&lt;/a&gt; to be focused on being constructive. Yes, may be you should improve upon the question itself, but that doesn't always stop you from writing a constructive answer. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally even if there is so called constructiviness imposed in question by wording (using How and why, using please provide citations), we can never give constructive answers if it is actually filled with emotion outburst or serious biases (aka rants) -&#xA;e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/575/does-being-on-salary-only-benefit-the-employer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/847/how-to-deal-with-unreasonable-expectations&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/219/is-not-constructive-really-applicable-at-workplace-se/222#222&quot;&gt;Is &amp;quot;not constructive&amp;quot; really applicable at workplace.SE?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-05-11T13:38:12.067" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="264" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-12T19:38:02.647" Score="3" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recruiters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recruiters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recruiters&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recruitment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recruitment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recruitment&lt;/a&gt; tags are being used in basically the same way, and I don't personally see the value of splitting the process of recruiting/being recruited (recruitment) and the people doing that recruitment (recruiters).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we make &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recruiters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recruiters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recruiters&lt;/a&gt; as synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recruitment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recruitment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recruitment&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:43:00.193" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:43:00.193" Title="Tag synonym: Recruiters -&gt; Recruitment?" Tags="|discussion|tags|synonym-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="264" CreationDate="2012-05-12T19:49:08.163" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was one question tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recruitment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recruitment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recruitment&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/6/is-it-better-to-invest-energy-in-curating-an-online-resume-linkedin-stackoverf&quot;&gt;Is it better to invest energy in curating an online resume (LinkedIn, StackOverflow Careers) or a Word document?&lt;/a&gt; that didn't really seem to fit with &quot;recruiters&quot;, so I retagged it with a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/job-search&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;job-search&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;job-search&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that there are only two questions remaining, one which I can't comprehend what it pertains to and another relating to recruiters, I say &lt;strong&gt;yes&lt;/strong&gt;, they should be made synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-05-12T19:49:08.163" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="264" CreationDate="2012-05-13T05:41:43.220" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pardon me but i bag to differ. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recruiters should be used for questions to deal with Recruiters such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1051/the-etiquette-of-connecting-with-recruiters-on-networking-sites&quot;&gt;The etiquette of connecting with recruiters on networking sites&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/258/what-is-the-proper-way-to-deal-with-an-unethical-recruiter&quot;&gt;Does the average candidate have any recourse when they encounter an unethical recruiter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where are there are others which are about &lt;em&gt;recruitment process&lt;/em&gt; - such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1154/listing-linkedin-profile-as-a-full-cv-looks-lazy-or-convenient-for-recruiters&quot;&gt;Listing LinkedIn profile as a full CV - looks lazy, or convenient for recruiters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1052/should-i-reach-out-for-an-opportunity-via-personal-contacts-or-a-recruiter&quot;&gt;Should I reach out for an opportunity via personal contacts or a recruiter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that line is too thin for many - but in genuine meaning these two tags are different. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-05-13T05:41:43.220" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="261" CreationDate="2012-05-14T15:41:58.603" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Three problematic ideas seem to be common here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Workplace expertise&quot; is different than other expertise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question wording isn't important&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers should be moderated more harshly than questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Workplace Expertise&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having Workplace Expertise isn't really as unrealistic as some seem to think. When I ask a question about hiring process A which recruiters deal with day in day out, recruiters are my experts. They are people actively involved in the problem space of my question. &lt;strong&gt;Experts are people with experience in the specific problem domain&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because you didn't get a degree in firing employees doesn't mean that you, the HR person who's terminated 50 employees, do not have valuable expertise in that space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions need to be focused to &lt;strong&gt;solicit expertise&lt;/strong&gt;. This means they need to be focused around solving a problem and give some indication (implied or explicit) as to what sort of expertise is required. Generally it's someone who's solved this problem before (How do I bring up this issue to a coworker?) or someone at the &quot;the other side of the table&quot; (what do recruiters look for in an X?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opinions as in &quot;What do you think&quot; aren't &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;. The problem with opinion isn't that it's subjective, it's that it doesn't &lt;em&gt;solve a problem&lt;/em&gt;. If instead of saying &quot;I think doing X would be a good move&quot; you can say &quot;Doing X has worked for me because...&quot; or &quot;I do X because in my experience...&quot; you're moving into solving problems, not sharing opinions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question Wording&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the real problem in a question is only implicit, or some poor wording makes a question look bad but you think it really isn't, &lt;em&gt;the question is worded poorly&lt;/em&gt;. If the question calls for opinion but you have a really great, constructive answer, &lt;em&gt;the question is worded poorly&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad questions beget bad answers, and just because a question &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; get a good answer in it's current state doesn't mean it's good; a good question renders bad subjective answers as &lt;em&gt;not answers to the actual question&lt;/em&gt;. If you see an asker is asking a great question but they've worded it in a non-constructive way, &lt;strong&gt;edit the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bonus points; if your question's wording renders bad answers as &lt;em&gt;non answers&lt;/em&gt;, they can appropriately be deleted by moderators (and users should flag such answers). But moderators aren't technically supposed to just delete bad, good faith answers to the question at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions are people's first impression of the site, so it's very important that they be worded well. This is absolutely &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a case where we can accept poor questions and focus on answers, especially given that the Stack Exchange system has great tools for moderation of questions but not answers. We can close, fix and reopen a question, but there's little the community can do about answers beyond editing, downvoting and commenting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answer Moderation&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't as easy as most people seem to think. Praying that people downvote isn't an effective solution; unless an answer is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; terrible, people are reluctant to downvote due to our system. And I'm not very comfortable wholesale deleting good faith answers, even if they're not great or largely repeat other answers; unless there's a &lt;strong&gt;firm, community created policy&lt;/strong&gt; on which answers we should delete, I'm extremely reluctant to delete other people's work. Closing a question is much less significant than shooting down answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have an idea for a stricter, community enforceable answer moderation policy, bring it up &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/269/do-we-need-a-policy-on-bad-answers&quot;&gt;on this meta question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2012-05-14T15:57:31.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="269" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-14T15:57:03.327" Score="10" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;More and more I'm hearing &quot;the problem is bad answers, not questions&quot;. I disagree that the questions are not &lt;em&gt;partly&lt;/em&gt; at fault, but I'd love to see more answer moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is the community can't close answers for review. Moderators have special tools for answers; we can delete them or add most notices for things like [citation needed] or [more explanation needed], but it's not practical for mods to read &lt;em&gt;all incoming answers&lt;/em&gt; and vet them like this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we had a formal policy where certain classes of answers were considered &quot;bad&quot; and there was a certain amount of community involvement, deleting bad answers could be a possibility, but I'm not sure how to make it work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking something like this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments + downvotes on an answer when it's bad indicate a post really needs improvement. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Window for improvement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If nothing's done, a moderator can be flagged to delete the post. Seeing a multi upvoted comment &quot;This answer should be deleted because X&quot;, a moderator can actually feel confident in deleting the answer. Or we can just apply a post notice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The owner of the deleted answer can edit their deleted post (yes you can do that) and flag it for attention when/if they fix it or just post another, hopefully better, answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is some sort of answer deleting/notice adding policy something we want as a community?&lt;/strong&gt; Does anyone have any rough ideas for how it could work? This really needs to be something the community can do 100% until a moderator is flagged, and there needs to be some clear signal for moderators to know, for certain, this answer should or should not be deleted because of policy X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have suggestions for such a policy please &lt;strong&gt;post an answer&lt;/strong&gt; outlining some ideas. It doesn't have to be perfect, I just want to get the discussion started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-05-15T20:13:33.757" LastActivityDate="2012-05-16T07:02:32.097" Title="Do we need a policy on bad/&quot;me too&quot; answers?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="269" CreationDate="2012-05-14T19:44:08.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;: This seems very related to: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/261/how-do-we-define-constructive-on-this-site&quot;&gt;How do we define Constructive on this site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's not clear if the moderator should be involved, why is the moderator involved? You're right that moderators can't be expected to read every incoming answer - isn't that why we have community tools such as voting, multiple answers, and flags? Flagging is also supposed to be anonymous, to avoid retribution or flame wars between the OP/answerer and the flagger. Adding any kind of policy that &lt;strong&gt;requires&lt;/strong&gt; a comment to make it clear to the moderator removes anonymity. I know that many people will comment anyway, even though they lose their anonymity, but that's their choice and it shouldn't be a requirement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm failing to see where the problem is, however, I realize that might be due to my lack of visibility into the problem. I know that when I drop into chat occasionally there are lots of discussions about quality. The thing is, without full visibility into everything, including the moderator tools, it's hard to see the evidence for your point because I'm not getting the same view of the site that you are, or things like how many actions you're required to take as a moderator, what percentage of questions/answers are problematic, etc. I'm not asking for moderator access, I'm just asking for more information so I can more accurately account for what's being discusses and claimed about the quality issues. I want to bring this stuff into the light so we can all see it more clearly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Along those lines, can you cite a few examples of where you're hearing complaints about the answers and not the questions (questions on meta, comments on specific posts, chat logs, etc.), so that we can all see them, and collectively discuss them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Workplace.SE is a small community, but it's a community. Guidance is needed, yes, but if you're feeling you're needing to do too much already as a moderator (not saying you are, I'm just guessing at an interpretation of why you posted this), maybe there's an imbalance somewhere. Can we help you find it and work on it as a community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2012-05-14T20:00:43.183" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="269" CreationDate="2012-05-16T07:02:32.097" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think as per me, by the time we become mature site, there will be answers more than 10k - It is unreasonable to expect that we apply &lt;em&gt;deduplication&lt;/em&gt; of all answers and also identify low quality ones, on liners, me too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So definitely, Rarity's point being brought here is very crucial. First part is to have clear cut policy and then execute it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The policy itself needs two part - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Defining what we think is a poor answer &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Defining what should be community and or moderators action against violation. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this point of view here is what i find important points - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Defining what we think is a poor answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a bullet point listing - more discussion can comeup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a. Answers which has significant part redundant &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b. Answers which are opinions - WITHOUT any backup experience or reference. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c. Answers which are based on any rant, racial bias or otherwise not welcome. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;d. Answers which are misleading, citing wrong-irrelevant fact or doesn't answer OP's question at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e. spam. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There can be other classes or different way - but i was hoping we should keep such definitions finite and well defined. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Policy on how to handle this&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of classifying - community should do the first surveillance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a. We must communicate to the Answerer which can be best done by a comment.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;b. Downvote, if you think things are too bad. &#xA;c. And flag for moderator if this is completely unacceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A critical point to understand is that many elements will be subjective or there will be difference of opinion. Use chat, comments to express yourself as much as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2012-05-16T07:02:32.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="272" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="273" CreationDate="2012-05-24T00:45:48.393" Score="-2" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;NDAs, non-competes, etc -- Do they expire, and if so, are there any limits to the use of knowledge?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the agreements date/term wise are legally expired, and there's no&#xA;  additional IP agreements beyond them (copyright, patent, etc) - &lt;strong&gt;what&#xA;  legal/moral obligation do I have not to compete against the parties in&#xA;  those agreements using the knowledge gain during the course of those&#xA;  agreements?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Taking a step back, some might say that the party paid/owns the&#xA;  related information, but my understanding is the spirit of the law for&#xA;  IP long-term is that all IP enters the public domain, it's just a&#xA;  matter of when/how/why/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Also, is there a legally enforceable way to test the expiration of the agreements without potentially discovering the terms of said&#xA;  agreement were violated by doing the test? If not, how do I define the&#xA;  scope of limitation related to the use of knowledge covered by the&#xA;  agreements?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;hr&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Legal Disclaimers:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, I know: Seek the advice of an attorney; Your response is not legal advice; You are not an attorney, or your&#xA;  response does not form attorney-client relationship; etc. I know,&#xA;  thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="618" LastEditorUserId="48" LastEditDate="2012-05-24T02:34:11.040" LastActivityDate="2012-05-24T02:41:26.363" Title="Is this question ontopic, and if not, where might it be ontopic?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="272" CreationDate="2012-05-24T01:31:24.737" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, this is purely a legal question and can only be answered by a lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There isn't currently a Stack Exchange site for legal questions, and unfortunately the two Area51 proposals, &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/3527/software-law&quot;&gt;Software Law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5158/why-intellectual-property-law-was-closed&quot;&gt;Intellectual Property Law&lt;/a&gt;, that your question might have been on topic were closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related Meta discussions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/82/are-questions-of-law-is-x-legal-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;Are questions of law (&amp;quot;is X legal?&amp;quot;) questions off topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/29/are-employment-law-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;Are employment law questions off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I'm only mentioning Software Law because the question was asked and closed on Programmers.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-03T08:41:06.557" LastActivityDate="2012-05-24T02:41:26.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="369" CreationDate="2012-05-28T00:43:20.860" Score="9" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've started a discussion on &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3632/should-we-mention-the-workplace-in-our-faq&quot;&gt;Programmer's Meta&lt;/a&gt; about the possibility of mentioning The Workplace in their FAQ, as they've chronically had a problem of asking general Workplace questions on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now we'll only do this if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Workplace is okay with being mentioned in Programmer's FAQ&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Programmers is okay with mentioning Workplace in the FAQ&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if there's significant objection from either site, we don't do it. Feel free to chime in if you really don't (or do) want to see this happen. We can also ask Programmers to nix the FAQ mention if we feel it becomes a problem later as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a valid concern &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3634/35414&quot;&gt;voiced by Mark Trapp&lt;/a&gt; that we don't want to be the &quot;dumping ground&quot; for off topic questions; a problem Programmers faced/faces with SO's off topic questions. I want it to be clear quality standards remain high on The Workplace, so if this is a concern we can definitely hold off on the FAQ mention. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we do want this to happen, &lt;strong&gt;what should the FAQ text contain?&lt;/strong&gt; Basically we'll write the FAQ text and Programmers will approve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T17:33:39.687" LastActivityDate="2012-07-28T17:58:29.490" Title="Would we want to be mentioned in the Programmers FAQ?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="274" CreationDate="2012-05-28T12:31:46.807" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it hasn't been posted here yet, I second &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3633/2314&quot;&gt;Dynamic's suggestion on Programmers&lt;/a&gt; with a bit of a tweak that Thomas Owens suggested:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;career advice, including general workplace issues (check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://workplace.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;The Workplace&lt;/a&gt; instead).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This fits nicely next to what's already there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;programming tools (ask on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; instead)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe someday down the road the Programmers FAQ will have a better summary of &quot;closely related&quot; sites, but until then, I think this format is workable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T08:26:45.823" LastActivityDate="2012-05-28T12:31:46.807" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="261" CreationDate="2012-05-29T02:48:08.337" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably you who've closed down question with &quot;Not Constructive&quot; should provide an answer. Surely you should know what is in a constructive question so that you can determine what is NOT constructive, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't give the responsibility to new user and don't blame them because they are not involved in the Area 51 section designing this beta site. Only you pioneers know what kind of question are welcomed here. Didn't you go through the process of giving example questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this site are not ready to guide the new users, this site should be send back to Area 51 right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="709" LastActivityDate="2012-05-29T02:48:08.337" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="277" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-29T03:04:56.600" Score="1" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Rarity mentioned, many questions are not real questions or are not constructive (because every answer is equally valid and they are just asking for suggestions). If an &quot;asking for suggestion&quot; kind of question is not welcomed here, I am confused why there are so many question still standing. To me, they are all asking for suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we define question which need expertise and question which only need opinions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that there are plenty of &quot;What should I do...&quot;/&quot;How should I do...&quot; and those questions which are asking for suggestions for a behavioral question such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1435/in-interviews-how-should-you-respond-to-behavioral-questions-to-which-you-have&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If only expertise is needed, do we need the answer to state that &quot;I am expert on this because I interviewed xx people&quot; or &quot;I am expert on this because I fire a lot of people in my life&quot;? If they don't say this, how can we distinguish a simple opinion from a answer of an expert?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="709" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-10-12T20:18:12.380" Title="Do we need expertise other than opinion?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="277" CreationDate="2012-05-29T03:21:57.770" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically yes, we have established you need more than just an opinion to make a real answer. You need a &lt;em&gt;solution&lt;/em&gt; to a problem. Furthermore you should include why you believe your proposed solution should work; whether it's expertise you've acquired because of X or because you've faced this exact situation, that information is important to judge the validity of your answer, and is why we now include the following in our FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that answers should be backed up either with a reference, or experiences that happened to you personally. You should always include in your answer information about why you think your answer is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/123/should-we-add-a-back-it-up-rule-to-the-faq-now&quot;&gt;Should we add a &amp;quot;Back It Up&amp;quot; rule to the FAQ now?&lt;/a&gt;, the discussion here at &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5/does-this-site-need-a-back-it-up-rule&quot;&gt;Does this site need a &amp;quot;back it up&amp;quot; rule?&lt;/a&gt; and the actually post about the current FAQ text at &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;FAQ proposal: Back It Up and Don&amp;#39;t Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt;. We have had this discussion before more than a couple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2012-05-29T03:41:50.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="258" CreationDate="2012-05-29T04:02:02.147" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't you think the chat room is kinda messy? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Basically anyone can speak in the middle of a conversation of 2 guys and bring up new topic which is not relevant to the existing topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) The bot which remind us of new questions is disturbing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) We need to press the tiny little &quot;chat&quot; button to enter, and it doesn't stand out between the other button such as &quot;about&quot;/&quot;meta&quot;/&quot;faq&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4) The last time with a people speaking is 5 hours ago. This looks like ghost town to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="709" LastActivityDate="2012-05-29T04:02:02.147" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="280" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1659" CreationDate="2012-05-30T03:39:45.910" Score="6" ViewCount="481" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is naturally attractive to soft questions, and soft questions, more often than not, attract a lot of answers. That's good, but after a point answers start becoming horribly repetitive, adding very little, if anything, to the discussion. It's a problem we've identified before, on various Meta discussions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;FAQ proposal: Back It Up and Don&amp;#39;t Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5/does-this-site-need-a-back-it-up-rule&quot;&gt;Does this site need a &amp;quot;back it up&amp;quot; rule?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/269/do-we-need-a-policy-on-bad-me-too-answers&quot;&gt;Do we need a policy on bad/&amp;quot;me too&amp;quot; answers?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/172/what-can-we-do-about-me-too-answers&quot;&gt;What can we do about me-too answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/118/what-can-we-do-about-one-line-answers&quot;&gt;What can we do about one line answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/261/how-do-we-define-constructive-on-this-site&quot;&gt;How do we define Constructive on this site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our current &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/30887/the-workplace&quot;&gt;Area 51 stats&lt;/a&gt; shows that we have 3.8 answers per question, which I think is a very healthy ratio, but we shouldn't let it raise a lot. Programmers (then NPR), had &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/3352/not-programming-related&quot;&gt;7.0 answers per question&lt;/a&gt; at the end of beta, and although the stats label the ratio as &quot;excellent&quot;, it's not, it was one of the warning signs that the site was turning into a forum. And we all know what happened to NPR (for those who don't, NPR is no more).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One good way to keep our answers per question ratio reasonable, I think, would be to lower the Community Wiki automatic conversion threshold to 10 answers. Right now, the threshold is 30 answers, the default for all Stack Exchange sites, and some sites have opted for a lower threshold, Programmers and Super User are at 15. The goal of reducing the threshold is obvious, remove the reputation incentive to post yet another answer at a point were it's extremely unlikely that the question hasn't been sufficiently answered. Of course, if you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want to answer the question, you still can, the only difference being that you don't get any reputation. You'll still earn badges though ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Meta discussions I've linked to, and various other discussions in chat it has been argued that answers can sometimes play a deciding role on closing a borderline &quot;not constructive&quot; question. If a question is borderline to begin with (and most of our questions are), getting a ton of repetitive answers will most certainly lead to closure, curating and safeguarding an extremely popular question with 15+ answers is an extremely tedious job. Lowering the Community Wiki threshold will possibly be an easy way to avoid all these &quot;me too&quot; / one line answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=answers:11&quot;&gt;These questions&lt;/a&gt; would have been wikified if we had a 10 answer threshold from the beginning. Notice that I'm searching for questions with 11 answers, a 10 answer threshold means that the eleventh answer triggers wikification. 6 questions out of a current total of 306, this is mostly a proactive measure for bike-shed questions than something that would massively affect the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further reading:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts&quot;&gt;What are “Community Wiki” posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/the-future-of-community-wiki/&quot;&gt;The Future of Community Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2013-01-19T02:35:19.180" Title="Should we reduce the Community Wiki threshold to 10 answers?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|status-completed|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="280" CreationDate="2012-05-30T04:01:35.220" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be blunt, our current tools for dealing with bad answers are terrible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have downvotes but no one uses them, and one upvote erases 5 downvotes in rep. We have post notices (citation needed, ect) but they're mod only and we can't &lt;em&gt;practically&lt;/em&gt; apply a &quot;citation needed&quot; post notice every time a totally unsupported answer pops up. Deleting the extra answers isn't a good solution either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we need is something to discourage excessive, low quality answers &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; they're posted, and I think a lower Community Wiki threshold (and a stricter community tone) can help do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lowered Community Wiki limit would help limit the problem of &quot;me too&quot; answers resulting in easy rep and hopefully cause posters to think more critically before answering another question that already has 5+ answers. I think this could be a helpful tool, if an indirect one, in the struggle against bad answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I support this.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-05-30T04:01:35.220" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="285" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-02T05:54:03.633" Score="2" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am referring to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1567/who-is-supposed-to-be-responsible-for-team-building-morale-building-etc&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; here. This is a very simple question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;is there a position that does this ( e.g,  morale building  etc)? Is&#xA;  this a human resources job? And what is the scope and qualification&#xA;  for human resources?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either there is a position that specialize in motivating the team, or there isn't. As simple as that. I think this is a perfectly clear and valid question, but I don't know why the mod thought otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another question is also clear cut and straightforward:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And what is the scope and qualification for human resources?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the context it should be very clear that I am not asking about the general work scope about human resource, but rather, the specific HR work scope that is related to the team. It is a well-defined question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By simply closing well-meaning, clearly defined questions as &quot;not constructive&quot;, I think the mods of this SE site is doing everything to harm the site. Oh, did I mention that we can't even &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/148/are-it-depends-answers-a-sign-of-a-bad-question&quot;&gt;agree&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/219/is-not-constructive-really-applicable-at-workplace-se&quot;&gt;what&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/253/is-this-a-constructive-question-by-strict-definition&quot;&gt;constitutes&lt;/a&gt; a &quot;not constructive&quot; question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="979" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-06-05T07:25:44.630" Title="Why was this morale building role question closed as &quot;not constructive&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|closing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="285" CreationDate="2012-06-02T06:11:02.320" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have at least two questions in one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And what is the scope and qualification for human resources?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is a separate question (and probably too broad on its own, as well.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I think you are over-complicating things with the first comment about your previous question and the admin officer.  Essentially you are saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have learned that morale-building &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;and other HR tasks&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are not a standard job responsibility for admin officers. (Here you assume that morale-building &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; an HR responsibility)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a role for which morale-building (etc.) is a standard job function? (This is a good question, in my opinion, except you should define the &quot;etc&quot; explicitly.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this an HR job? (Here you ask the question that you already assumed the answer to earlier.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, remove the second question, and link to the previous question if you want but don't assume any &quot;takeaways&quot; from it except that you are looking for a position that does provide these job responsibilities.  Clearly define what you are looking for and I would reopen the question if the other moderators who've already looked at this question (or the community) agree.  If the others don't agree, I can't place a vote, because it would be binding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2012-06-02T06:11:02.320" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="285" CreationDate="2012-06-02T10:55:46.160" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;See, it wasn't &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; hard, the question is now open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/1567/5&quot;&gt;current version&lt;/a&gt; of the question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my previous question it is clear that a simple admin officer ( not business admin) is not expected by default, to take on the crucial human-resource roles, such as morale building, employee welfare, bonus setting, and other jobs that require specific skills and that are crucial for my company's growth and survival.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the question is, is there a position that does this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's still feels not constructive to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my previous question it is clear that a simple admin officer ( not business admin) is not expected by default..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your opinions on your previous question are irrelevant to &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...to take on the crucial human-resource roles, such as morale building, employee welfare, bonus setting,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes you think morale building, employee welfare, bonus setting, are HR tasks. Are you asking or telling?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and other jobs that require specific skills and that are crucial for my company's growth and survival.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could potentially include &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt;, it can't get any vaguer than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would gladly cast my re-open vote &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You remove the irrelevant stuff about your previous question,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pick a couple of &lt;em&gt;specific and related&lt;/em&gt; tasks to ask about, and &lt;em&gt;nothing more&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tell us what's your role in the company,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stop reverting good edits and start using full words. What was the point of reverting &amp;quot;administration&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;admin&amp;quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-06-05T07:25:44.630" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="288" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-09T15:50:10.387" Score="8" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a bit concerned about the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1746/what-are-some-good-tools-one-can-use-for-creating-and-maintaining-an-online-cv&quot;&gt;What are some good tools one can use for creating and maintaining an online CV?&lt;/a&gt; and the creation of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tools&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tools&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tools&lt;/a&gt; tag. It's very easy for these to become list questions and answers are often based around personal preference rather than some software/ect actually being outright superior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some sites have allowed this questions as long as they are asking for tools for &lt;strong&gt;a very specific and well defined purpose&lt;/strong&gt;, meaning that Product B really is superior to Product A for this particular task because of X feature which helps you Y. I do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; want to open the door for &quot;my favorite word processor is Pages&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we work with these questions at all? If so, what makes a &quot;good&quot; one and what makes them Not Constructive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-06-10T00:21:38.450" Title="How specific does a &quot;tools&quot; recommendation question have to be to become constructive?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="288" CreationDate="2012-06-10T00:21:38.450" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;strong&gt;am&lt;/strong&gt; in favor of soliciting tool information specifically to help solve &lt;strong&gt;a very specific and well-defined purpose&lt;/strong&gt;, as you said.  Here I'm thinking about questions that come up on &lt;a href=&quot;http://pm.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Project Management SE&lt;/a&gt; -- it has its fair share of oft-closed polling questions, e.g. &quot;What are some good PM tools you all use?&quot; -- but also perfectly fine questions, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/4947/what-lightweight-project-management-or-bug-tracker-software-can-i-use-to-manage&quot;&gt;&quot;What Lightweight/Project Management or Bug Tracker Software Can I Use to Manage Exceptions, Milestones, and Old Bugs?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I am &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; in favor of tool solicitations for general purposes because they are little more than a poll/the same information could be found via Google and thus are Not Constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1746/what-are-some-good-tools-one-can-use-for-creating-and-maintaining-an-online-cv&quot;&gt;What are some good tools one can use for creating and maintaining an online CV?&lt;/a&gt; as an example, I would close this as Not Constructive.  The title, and repeated as the last question, is specifically polling.  Now, the lead-in itself doesn't actually match the title/the question, because it's about how applicant tracking systems are a pain in the butt. That is true, but the question asked doesn't solve that problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this were a question about how to store one's personal information so as to deal with applicant tracking systems when encountered, that would be a constructive question (even though you can't do that with ATSes, I could certainly explain why).  But it's not that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-06-10T00:21:38.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="280" CreationDate="2012-06-10T14:24:57.917" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To pick one example, it seems harsh to me that the person who wrote the top answer for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1478/how-can-i-overcome-years-of-experience-requirements-when-applying-to-positions&quot;&gt;How can I overcome &amp;quot;years of experience&amp;quot; requirements when applying to positions?&lt;/a&gt; (which seems to be the 5th answer given, but by far the most popular) should be stopped from accruing points over time because I suspect that will be a question that gets hits, and helps people, for a long time to come. It is still in the recently active list now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think it's unfair to suggest that all of the answers past #10 were of the quality of &quot;Me too&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, I think it's unreasonable to assume that lowering the bar on auto-CW reduces the number of those poor-quality answers. Those answers are generally given by people new to the community, who haven't a clue what Community Wiki is, how they will trigger it, and what effect it has on others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't see what you're trying to achieve here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="759" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2012-06-10T14:24:57.917" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="291" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="292" CreationDate="2012-06-12T17:29:38.400" Score="8" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (and other discussions on meta), we are trying to cut down on repetitive answers.  I don't have enough reputation to cast delete votes.  Today I flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1782/recruiting-recent-college-graduates/1790#1790&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; with the following note: &quot;Once you remove the rant from the answer it boils down to &quot;hire interns&quot;, which was already covered in an answer posted 8 hours prior&quot;.  This flag was declined with the following reason: &quot;flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand this response.  Since only high-rep users and mods can delete answers, and per my comment there was no point in editing it, what should I have done differently?  Do we not really want these kinds of flags after all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-06-13T10:59:12.563" Title="Why was my flag of a redundant answer declined?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="291" CreationDate="2012-06-12T17:44:36.180" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm the one who declined the flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, thanks for your efforts to help keep the site clean!  Keep flagging, don't let the decline discourage you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you've opened a discussion here, I'll try to give you some insight into my thinking.  I always fear that the moderator responses (especially standard ones, as I chose for this flag) don't really offer a full explanation for a moderator's thinking, so thanks for bringing it up here since you had a concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per the flag response &lt;em&gt;&quot;flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (which is one of the standard response options), the only action that a moderator can take is to &lt;strong&gt;delete an answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're absolutely right, we &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; want to cut down on repetitive and unhelpful answers.  I think the best action we can take is preventative, and when that doesn't work, downvotes are our second best tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deletes&lt;/strong&gt; should &lt;em&gt;generally&lt;/em&gt; be reserved for things that are not an answer to the question (completely off topic, spam, etc.) or simple comments or questions (see, for example, my comment &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1676/am-i-damaging-my-reputation-by-arriving-and-leaving-on-time/1688#comment3171_1688&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; the user revised and expanded their answer after my comment, which was the best outcome for all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer that you flagged:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has a positive score, no down votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is actually an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be a bit ranty, or may draw the same conclusions as another answer, but it is in fact an answer.  In this case, if you think it is a bad answer, I think your best tool is to use your downvotes (I do! :))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless an answer actually repeats another answer (not just draws the same conclusion), I would be against using the delete tool to deal with it (as a moderator or high-rep user).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As always, moderation of this site is a discussion and we're all learning.  I welcome any feedback you have for me, and I hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-06-12T17:44:36.180" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="293" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-12T20:37:57.393" Score="5" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see more people using our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;Chatroom&lt;/a&gt;. What are some chat topics we could use for Chat Events to drive some activity to chat? What would you be interested in chatting with your fellow users with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-07-12T20:13:16.380" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T20:13:16.380" Title="Suggest regularly scheduled Chat Events" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="291" CreationDate="2012-06-13T00:55:54.257" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to know why you feel that I did not give a valid unique answer to the question?  The question was &lt;code&gt;What is standard practice for generating candidates?&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;entry-level&lt;/em&gt;.  I gave a good explanation about strategies to generate more entry level candidates and why I feel that these strategies work for companies in the long run and why they work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you downvote me because you disagree with me then I am perfectly okay with that but I don't understand how you feel I am being duplicitous compared to other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at this answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/1808/70&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/1808/70&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This user basically wrote a synopsis of my own several hours after I had posted my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't hurt to visit a particular class where they teach the skills you are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even visiting the &quot;senior project&quot; course may get you some great applicants that are about to graduate and are looking for positions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are exact copies of elements in my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;offer to volunteer as a guest speaker&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;or ask if you can get involved in capstone projects that the school holds&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also clearly a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-06-13T10:59:12.563" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="295" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="296" CreationDate="2012-06-14T12:54:02.000" Score="-1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the link to my question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1601/standards-for-new-hires&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1601/standards-for-new-hires&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone be of any help and improve my question? I have no idea why it is closed, and editing it didn't gain the approval of NickC either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All i want to ask about is an overview on how companies view their prospective hires (via &lt;strong&gt;GPAs&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;Portfolios&lt;/strong&gt;) and how much experience they look for in a new hire via their portfolio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="882" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2012-06-27T15:48:16.010" Title="How was my question &quot;ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="295" CreationDate="2012-06-14T13:56:10.643" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the problem is that there are multiple questions being asked there, and that some of those questions are so broad that they cannot be answered with a single answer without knowing more details about the position you're going for and the company hiring. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We generally like our questions to have a single question being asked so that users can focus on it and give a really great single answer to it. We generally don't like questions that prompt for broad, mediocre answers to many questions, or that ask for many different answers, each which may or may not be right depending on circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your questions seem to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What would a IT company that is hiring a new graduate fresh from school look at?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an extremely broad question since the answer is different depending on what kind of IT company it is, what kind of position you're applying for, and the company standards and/or culture. Its really hard to answer this with a single answer without knowing more details, and the &quot;correct&quot; answer will vary from company to company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were to include a few more details, such as the position you're applying for and some details about the company (their size, do they hire a lot of new graduates, etc), you would probably be able to get a great answer to that question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should I focus on and try to sell my GPA or my Portfolio?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once again, the answer to this question will largely be determined by the position you're applying for, the company culture, and company standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would probably stand a better chance on this site if you were to ask two separate questions about how important your GPA or Portfolio is to a hiring manager. The answer will still vary from company-to-company, however I believe there is a single great answer that can be written for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; There actually is a question on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/209/316&quot;&gt;how important is a grade point average on a resume&lt;/a&gt; already. You might want to check out the answers given there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How can I prove that my portfolio is credible&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question should be fine on its own, although include some details about the sort of things your portfolio contains and what part of it you're trying to prove (examples of past work? references? class projects? etc)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How can I show a company that I have the experience to help the company grow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question might also be fine on its own, however it would largely depend on what sort of details you give in the question. It would definitely help if you could explain what sort of experience you have, and how you think it will help the company grow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How can I show a company that I am keen to learn more from the company?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might also be a decent question if you can clarify what you want to show the company you can learn from them. For example, do you want to show you're interested in the company itself, or that you are a smart individual that can keep learning and teaching yourself new things.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So overall, you have some decent questions, however they're not in the format that Stack Exchange likes to have their questions in. They want to focus on specific questions one at a time, so they can provide a great focused answer to the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your best bet would be to split up the question into multiple questions, each focusing on one question only, and to provide some more details in your question so we can help you by writing some very specific answers to your questions :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-06-27T15:48:16.010" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="293" CreationDate="2012-06-14T14:50:16.770" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a big long post being written, but went home to sleep on it and my computer rebooted so I lost it all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I'm interested in chat when there's activity there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to increase chat activity, you need to start working to make chat active. Even if its just two users talking, it still generates activity and other users are likely to stop by and visit to see whats going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some suggestions for increasing activity in chat...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Discuss mod things in chat&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Instead of just closing a question, post it in chat first, ask for opinions and solicit close votes from users. It could even be something like one mod asking, and another mod closing at first.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When a mod comes to you in TL about your site (such as migrating a question), make them talk to you in our chat room instead of TL (providing the issue isn't a sensitive one that should be kept private). Sure it might be a little more inconvenient at first, but it keeps the community involved in the moderation process, and the chat active.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Solicit opinions in chat before making a meta post asking for suggestions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For example, ask about chat events can be done in chat first, and them summarize the chat into a meta post to get more ideas&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Link chat in comments whenever you close a &quot;not constructive&quot; question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tell users that we're available in chat to discuss their question and why it is being closed, to help them refine their question, or for subjective discussions that are not appropriate for SE's Q&amp;amp;A format&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Say &quot;hi&quot; to users that come into chat&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I know it might not seem like much, but every once in a while I'll poke my head into a chat room to see what activity is going on, and having someone say &quot;hi&quot; to me makes me stay around and sometimes take part in the conversation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't be serious all the time - have fun in chat too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chat shouldn't always be serious. Use it to just talk about whatever comes to mind with other users. Joke around, poke fun at the world's stupidity, star really funny comments out of context, etc but most of all, just have fun in there. Users like hanging around places that are fun :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Ben, I know you already do many of these things already, such as bringing moderation issues up in chat. Its great, and don't stop doing it! The sites still small)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But anyways, that doesn't answer your question at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For events, the only things I can think of are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Guest&quot; visitors, where someone such as an HR expert, a high-rep Workplace user, or someone &quot;famous&quot; to SE or the Workplace will be available to answer talk in chat&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Townhall&quot; styled events where mods are committed to be available in chat for a specific time once a month or so to address any questions users may have&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Event to discuss site design, logo, tagline, etc&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T14:50:16.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="298" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="303" CreationDate="2012-06-15T14:36:57.977" Score="1" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/299/should-orphan-tags-be-deleted&quot;&gt;Should orphan tags be deleted&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the question was deleted, this leaves the tag dangling with no questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T19:01:22.237" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T19:01:22.237" Title="The office-equipment tag's only question was deleted, delete the tag" Tags="|support|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2012-09-16T22:21:23.693" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="299" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-15T14:39:48.867" Score="1" ViewCount="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I just asked for office-equipment, sometimes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question gets created that has a new tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question gets deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tag has no other questions associated with it at that time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should these orphan tags be cleaned up in the interest of less unused clutter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126" LastActivityDate="2012-06-15T15:23:32.010" Title="Should orphan tags be deleted" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="300" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="301" CreationDate="2012-06-15T14:45:00.857" Score="3" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1921/what-is-the-best-way-to-arrange-three-desks-so-we-dont-kick-each-other&quot;&gt;What is the best way to arrange three desks so we don't kick each other?&lt;/a&gt; was recommended for migration to the Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should questions about how to arrange office space or desks for optimal employee communication, effectiveness, or minimal tension be on-topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-06-16T03:43:27.063" Title="Are questions about how to arrange office space for optimal co-worker interactions on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="300" CreationDate="2012-06-15T15:04:18.790" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds just fine to me. The focus is on a workplace issue and it's quite definitely answerable; in fact it already has good answers from users of an absolutely fabulous site! Normally I wouldn't migrate old questions, but this one isn't &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; old and is not a poor question (in my opinion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've already pretty much agreed that furniture related questions are okay as long as they relate to Workplace related issues in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/54/are-questions-about-office-furniture-off-topic&quot;&gt;Are questions about office furniture off topic?&lt;/a&gt; and I don't think this situation is much different. We also have an &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/office-layout&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;office-layout&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;office-layout&lt;/a&gt; tag where this would fit just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've migrated the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2012-06-15T23:18:53.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="299" CreationDate="2012-06-15T15:23:32.010" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/101262/i-accidentally-created-a-tag-how-can-i-delete-it/101263#101263&quot;&gt;Orphan tags are deleted daily&lt;/a&gt; and single-use tags are deleted after 6 months if no other questions are tagged with the tag. There's really no need to do anything in this situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag is effectively dead once the last question with it has been deleted, though I believe it is visible to those who can see deleted questions. It's not a &quot;real tag&quot; until the question is undeleted (if it ever is) or another question is tagged with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2012-06-15T15:23:32.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="298" CreationDate="2012-06-15T15:40:57.730" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's technically not gone yet: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/200/do-i-need-an-ergonomic-mouse-and-keyboard-to-have-an-ergonomic-work-environmen&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/200/do-i-need-an-ergonomic-mouse-and-keyboard-to-have-an-ergonomic-work-environmen&lt;/a&gt; we could remove the tag from that Q though which would trigger the deletion if you think it's necessary...generally these things work themselves out however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the tag is off topic/harmful, but given that the only question it exists on is closed, I wouldn't object if someone edited it away either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-06-15T15:40:57.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="304" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-06-21T00:47:59.863" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about the site policy or policies that guides The Workplace site and determine who sees what when and why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126" LastEditorUserId="126" LastEditDate="2012-06-21T19:03:09.757" LastActivityDate="2012-06-21T19:03:09.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="305" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-06-21T00:47:59.863" Score="0" Body="Questions about the site policy or policies for The Workplace." OwnerUserId="126" LastEditorUserId="126" LastEditDate="2012-06-21T15:26:52.767" LastActivityDate="2012-06-21T15:26:52.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="306" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="307" CreationDate="2012-06-22T17:41:21.027" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's already been a request made to move this question to skeptics since it currently appeared then, and still appears now that the question would get answers that attempt to answer the question; current of the three answers, mine is the only one that attempts to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it not possible to move the question to skeptics? Here's the question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1991/does-empirical-research-indicate-that-salary-discussions-between-coworkers-cause&quot;&gt;Does empirical research indicate that salary discussions between coworkers cause problems?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="618" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2012-06-22T18:10:36.643" Title="Request to move my question to skeptics" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="306" CreationDate="2012-06-22T18:10:36.643" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We asked before as it was flagged for Skeptics, but a Skeptics mod didn't want the question at the time; I forget the exact reason, but I think the lack of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/864/faq-must-all-questions-be-notable&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;notable&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; claim was the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd need to find an unreferenced, notable claim like a major newspaper, political figure, scientist ect making a claim on this topic, not just &quot;this question's answers said...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote the canonical Meta post on Skeptics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;References in questions are used to provide evidence that a claim is notable. We don't expect the sources to be scientifically valid, but to demonstrate either a lot of people have heard of the claim, or that some notable person(s) make it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:41.957" LastActivityDate="2012-06-22T18:10:36.643" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="308" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="309" CreationDate="2012-06-26T06:29:58.773" Score="2" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Area51 report says Workplace is on pace for 3 users with 3,000+ rep. &lt;sup&gt;if memory serves, yesterday it said &quot;4 users&quot;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are report statistics calculated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;On pace for 3 users&quot; looks quite confusing because &quot;Top Users&quot; list right below shows 3 users with reputation over 3500 - and I checked that these guys have it &lt;strong&gt;over 3K for about a week at least&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/30887/the-workplace&quot; title=&quot;click to get to Area51 report page&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BOTqf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastActivityDate="2012-06-26T06:59:00.673" Title="Area51 report says Workplace is on pace for 3 users with 3,000+ rep instead of 4" Tags="|support|beta|statistics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="308" CreationDate="2012-06-26T06:59:00.673" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I looked at this a while back and I think the formula is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3000 rep users per day&lt;/strong&gt; = (rep users now) / (days in beta)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;projected 3000 rep users at 90 days&lt;/strong&gt; = FLOOR((3000 rep users per day) &amp;times; 90)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For us that means...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have 3 users / 75 days in beta = 0.04 3000users/day&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FLOOR(0.04 &amp;times; 90) = FLOOR(3.6) = &lt;strong&gt;3&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2012-06-26T06:59:00.673" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="310" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="311" CreationDate="2012-06-27T15:11:16.280" Score="0" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/154118/34339&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was closed as off-topic on Programmers, but looks like it might be a fit here. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T07:31:57.740" LastActivityDate="2012-06-27T15:36:29.997" Title="Would we want this question migrated here from Programmers?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="310" CreationDate="2012-06-27T15:36:29.997" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I recall correctly that was brought to my attention and I rejected it. It's very ranty with lots of irrelevant details making it a poor question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be okay with a similar, properly asked question on this site, but not that question in it's current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-06-27T15:36:29.997" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="312" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="313" CreationDate="2012-06-29T20:37:34.273" Score="16" ViewCount="541" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a reproduction of a moderator's (Richard) &lt;a href=&quot;https://hermeneutics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/49/vote-early-vote-often&quot;&gt;post on meta.hermeneutics.SE&lt;/a&gt;; I believe it is very much applicable to this community as well. Richard wrote a post encouraging voting. I think this is a big issue because rep is the basis of our &amp;quot;economy&amp;quot;, encourages (good) user activity, sorts out our content and makes the site look active. In particular &lt;strong&gt;Question Votes&lt;/strong&gt; make the site look more active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot state this strongly enough.  Voting is &lt;em&gt;absolutely critical&lt;/em&gt; to the formation of a healthy SE site.  And this is never more true than in Private and early Public beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;###Vote on Questions&#xA;Voting allows the community to determine what topics are allowed and what are not.  Voting shows what constitutes a well-formed question and what is unacceptable for this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you need help formulating better questions, the blog post &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/10/04/asking-better-questions/&quot;&gt;Asking Better Questions&lt;/a&gt; might help you out.  (Admittedly, it's geared towards the Stackoverflow crowd, but the philosophies there will help).  Also, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How to Ask&lt;/a&gt; directly from StackOverflow is an excellent resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I want to reiterate that &lt;strong&gt;Voting on questions  is free!&lt;/strong&gt;  It doesn't cost you any reputation to to vote a question down.  (Compared to answers:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;###Vote on Answers&#xA;Voting on answers allows a dramatic increase in reputation.  Like questions, it shows that you believe and support the answer provided.  Also, vote answers up that you think are well worded and support the answer given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You don't have to agree with an answer to vote it up!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To show that this is true, they've even created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/help/badges/63/sportsmanship&quot;&gt;badge for voting up competing answers (called &amp;quot;Sportsmanship&amp;quot;)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think an answer is &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt;, vote it up.  If you think an answer is &lt;em&gt;not useful&lt;/em&gt;, vote it down.  Either way, &lt;strong&gt;vote&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you need help on writing answers, the meta post &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7656/how-do-i-write-a-good-answer-to-a-question&quot;&gt;How do I write a good answer to a question?&lt;/a&gt; will help you out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;###Final thoughts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people do not vote, there won't be enough reputation on this site for it to be promoted.  Reputation is very important to a StackExchange site as it creates the groups of people capable of maintaining the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To show how critical it is, Jeff Atwood posted a blog article regarding this topic: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/10/19/vote-early-vote-often/&quot;&gt;Vote Early, Vote Often&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;###Encourage others to vote!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting RobertCartaino from chat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote, vote, vote. Encourage others to vote, vote, vote. On good content, leave signposts (&amp;quot;If you like this, please vote it up. It's important for the community!&amp;quot;)-- in both meta and the main site. Maybe a few meta posts informing the users of the important of that type of participation. You are empowered a lot more than you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't upvote bad content (edit/suggest how to fix it instead) but make sure you remember to vote, especially for questions; if you learned something from an answer on a question, the question's probably worth an upvote too so others can find the good information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;             &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=voters&amp;amp;filter=all&quot; title=&quot;join voters ranks&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Eeo5O.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;https://blog.stackexchange.com/images/wordpress/vote-here.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;(source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackexchange.com/images/wordpress/vote-here.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Above posted per &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/5169397#5169397&quot;&gt;chat discussion with site moderator&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2020-12-30T03:19:19.240" LastActivityDate="2021-04-08T05:59:03.803" Title="Vote Early, Vote Often" Tags="|discussion|beta|voting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-06-29T20:39:56.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="312" CreationDate="2012-07-03T16:11:10.060" Score="11" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Active voter tips&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting is easy. Unless you vote a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Practice makes you faster&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Active voting is a skill and you get better at it with practice. As you practice, you'll get faster at reading posts and making voting decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/badges/32/civic-duty&quot; title=&quot;what's this?&quot;&gt;Civic duty badge&lt;/a&gt; is a convenient checkpoint. Amount of votes required to get this badge is large enough to get used to site user interface and topics, to make you comfortable at fast reading and at making voting decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;It takes time&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading and evaluation of posts to decide on what vote to cast takes time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you vote a lot, expect this to take a substantial amount of time. How much? It depends on how good you are at reading and it of course depends on the content you read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more you practice, the less it will take on average, but still, it'll take time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;As an example, I typically spend half an hour or even an hour daily. Your mileage may vary.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Look back&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't limit yourself only to recently posted/updated questions. Don't stay on the first page, read through and study older posts and &lt;em&gt;vote&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At lower traffic sites/tags, voting on older posts might be your only option to be an active voter. Be active, learn and practice as much as you can - even at low traffic site you can have much practice if you don't ignore older posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Try to vote on everything&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Learn to be attentive to posts even when they don't catch your attention immediately. Practicing this will help you make faster voting decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any question you look at, try to vote on every answer and of course, on that very question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Sometimes, you might find yourself &lt;em&gt;reluctant&lt;/em&gt; to vote on particular post. Don't just skip it - take a break and try to figure why is that - this makes a useful practice in evaluating post contents. Oh, and if &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; thinking about it, you still feel you don't want to vote - don't vote, it's OK.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Resist pack mentality&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may find that highly voted posts have a certain appeal that kind of makes you compulsory follow the &amp;quot;majority vote&amp;quot;. Resist that appeal, because making a habit of blindly following the score may damage your ability to evaluate content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you see a highly voted post, don't just click the up or down arrow - don't even limit yourself to quickly skimming it. Stop, take a deep breath, carefully study the post, form your own opinion - and only after that, vote as you find appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;You aren't required to answer immediately&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some questions, you would want to post your own answer. This is great, but as an active voter, you better take into account that this may break the voting &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;what's this?&quot;&gt;flow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find &lt;em&gt;flow breaks&lt;/em&gt; to be a problem, make a habit of postponing your answers. Bookmark or favorite the question and return to it after your voting routine is completed. Don't make it a hard rule though. If you strongly feel that you can make a real hit of an answer - just go for it and post immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you already invested some effort into studying the post, make it easier for future readers and voters. Any mistakes you notice, edit and fix these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the post &amp;quot;through editing screen&amp;quot; might also help to improve your reading skills and make voting decisions faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Serialize on questions, not on not users&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do a lot of voting, you'll likely follow some systemic, &lt;em&gt;serial&lt;/em&gt; approach in walking through the posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty ways to do that - pick any you're comfortable with, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=newest&quot;&gt;newest&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;votes&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=active&quot;&gt;active&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt;, whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About the only &amp;quot;system&amp;quot; you better avoid is voting by user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;This user is so awesome (awful), I'll go through all their posts and up(down) vote&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;don't do that&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/serial-voting&quot; title=&quot;what's this?&quot;&gt;Serial voting&lt;/a&gt; is not welcome at Stack Exchange sites, your votes may even get reversed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Beta voters: enjoy the stats&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At beta sites, regularly review &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/30887&quot;&gt;site statistics page&lt;/a&gt; and learn to feel the impact your voting makes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can shell out up to 350 reputation points a day. That's quite a &lt;strong&gt;power&lt;/strong&gt;. Learn to feel the difference your voting makes - day by day, week by week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&amp;quot;Avid users&amp;quot; statistics is where you make direct impact. Be persistent in active voting and you'll notice a difference you make. 200 upvotes to good questions spread reputation sufficient to add 5 avid users; 200 upvotes on good answers are twice as much. You can make an impact that big in just two weeks, think about it.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;Besides, there is an indirect impact your voting makes. Upvoting good posts makes their authors feel better and gives them incentive to get back to the site and post again, adding more and more of a good content. Keep your eye on questions per day, answer and visits statistics - your impact there may be not as direct and immediate, but it is there anyway.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is important for realization of your power to come along with understanding responsibility it carries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; upvote with the purpose to make stats look better. At beta (like at &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; site for that matter), it is important to recognize and downvote low quality content. One may even say, it is more important in beta site environment as the bad content could set a long-standing example there.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your contribution to Beta is active and fair rating of the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-08-19T18:14:58.747" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-07-03T16:11:10.060" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="318" CreationDate="2012-07-09T20:13:44.220" Score="5" ViewCount="405" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is probably a canonical example of a &quot;too localized&quot; question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A truly helpful answer (down the hall, then the first door on your left) would be far too specific to be helpful to anyone else.  There could be some general guidelines (usually on the interior of the building, often near the elevators, surrounding water fountains) that might help a certain percentage of people find the bathroom, but maybe not the original questioner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most honest and correct answer is &quot;It depends.&quot; (no puns on a certain brand name intended.  If you don't get what I'm referring to, consider yourself lucky and move on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a general issue we have and will likely continue to have on this site.  &quot;The workplace&quot; can include a two person start-up, the military, or a variety of things in between.  There are very few questions (at least ones that are likely to be asked) that will have a single correct answer that will apply to all these different environments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought of this when considering the question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2376/difference-between-manager-and-director&quot;&gt;Difference Between Manager and Director&lt;/a&gt;.&quot;  I voted to close as too localized, and left a comment to that effect.  Different companies use titles to mean different things, and even the same company is liable to change the meaning of its titles from time to time.  Any answer is likely to be localized to the answer's company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, there are some general principles that are more likely than not to apply.  &quot;Director&quot; usually connotes a greater level of authority than &quot;manager&quot; or &quot;supervisor.&quot; In some countries, the title of Director carries with it certain legal standing.  Is it worthwhile for the site to capture these generalities, even though they may not always apply?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="375" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-12-25T04:42:43.730" Title="Where's the bathroom?" Tags="|discussion|questions|closing|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="314" CreationDate="2012-07-09T20:42:45.457" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have attempted to edit the question to get at the &amp;quot;general principles&amp;quot; that you are asking about.  It still might use some work, but I personally would leave the question open in its new form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a consistent, practical difference between a &amp;quot;Manager&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Director&amp;quot; in the workplace, when applied to the same department?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: a Manager of Product Development versus a Director of Product Development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is no consistent difference, are there any generalizations that can be made? Does an HR department make any generalizations about the difference in such titles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, is the difference too arbitrary to make any good guesses about without knowing more about the company?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T20:42:45.457" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="316" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-10T05:22:41.090" Score="15" ViewCount="318" Body="&lt;p&gt;90 days in beta is the first serious milestone for a new Stack Exchange site, as mentioned in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/30887/the-workplace&quot;&gt;Area51 proposal page&lt;/a&gt;. Currently our stats are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions per day: 3.5&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needs Work – 15 questions per day on average is a healthy beta, 5 questions or fewer per day needs some work. A healthy site generates lots of good content to make sure users keep coming back.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answered: 100% (wow!)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Excellent – 90% answered is a healthy beta, 80% answered needs some work. In the beta it's especially important that when new visitors ask questions they usually get a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Avid users: 160, total users: 1626&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Excellent – Every site needs a solid group of core users to assist in moderating the site. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer ratio: 3.7&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Excellent – 2.5 answers per question is good, only 1 answer per question needs some work. In a healthy site, questions receive multiple answers and the best answer is voted to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Visits/day: 529&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay – 1,500 visits per day is good, 500 visits per day needs some work. A great site benefits people outside the community. Eventually, 90% of a site's traffic should come from search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All our stats are better than the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/230/48&quot;&gt;last time I took a snapshot&lt;/a&gt;, except our questions per day that has dropped significantly from 5.8 to 3.5. That's a bit worrying, but not really alarming (imho), as (again imho) the quality of our questions and answers has been rising constantly. And, quality &gt; quantity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are four areas that I think we should concentrate a bit, in order to help the site grow even further:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=editors&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;all time editors page&lt;/a&gt; is a bit sad to look at, we only have 22 editors in total. I think most of our posts are from native English speakers and that leaves little opportunity for edits, still we can do better. Regulars keep in mind to encourage edits any chance you get, if, for example, you accept a great edit suggestion from a newer user, post a comment thanking them for the edit, and who knows we might get another compulsive editor.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Voting&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=voters&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;all time voters page&lt;/a&gt; looks a lot better than the editors one, still we only have 4 members with over 400 votes (that's just 10 days of voting, people!). gnat has already addressed the issue in an earlier &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312/vote-early-vote-often&quot;&gt;Meta question&lt;/a&gt;, but I'd like to re-iterate that voting does a lot more than separating good content from bad one, it also spreads reputation and gradually gives our more active members access to more and more privileges &amp;amp; tools, enlarging the core group of moderators (we are &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; moderators, not just our three diamonds). Proper voting also encourages and engages users, reinforcing the constructive answers/questions we want to see more of.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, this has been brought up recently, by Rarity, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/258/dont-forget-we-have-chat&quot;&gt;two Meta&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/293/suggest-regularly-scheduled-chat-events&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt;. Our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; feels a bit deserted, and it won't get any action unless you (yes, you) say something interesting in it. Don't wait for someone else to speak up, even if you're alone in there, just say anything, sometimes it just takes a simple &quot;hello everyone&quot; for a conversation to start! If you have anything to ask, about a question or an answer, about the site in general, the site's moderation, privileges and tools, visit chat first. It doesn't matter if no one's around, say what you have to say, and someone will certainly get back at you. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Promotion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been scouting the web for mentions of the site, and I can't say I found anything. That's expected given the site's age, but looking at our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/badges/61/publicist&quot;&gt;Publicists&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/badges/60/booster&quot;&gt;Boosters&lt;/a&gt; (hint: the same two users), I feel we aren't doing much to promote The Workplace. Now, don't get me wrong, that's not an invitation to spam all the things about the site, but I kinda feel we have a great site and community here and we aren't telling people about it. Doesn't really make sense now, does it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you check out our traffic stats at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/workplace.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quantcast&lt;/a&gt;, you'll notice that we did keep some of the visitors after the two large spikes (first two Publicist badges, the third one will appear tomorrow). Advertise our stellar questions in other communities, always being respectful to their rules &amp;amp; guidelines and help The Workplace grow even more!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's about it ;) Thoughts? Cookies? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-08-05T15:37:57.220" Title="Hey, we've reached 90 days in beta! Party?" Tags="|discussion|chat|statistics|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2012-10-05T14:38:13.137" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="316" CreationDate="2012-07-10T13:17:12.793" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Evident from the stats, what we still need is &lt;strong&gt;growth&lt;/strong&gt;. Promotion is nice, but what can be just as effective is word of mouth and social networking sharing. We all have friends with jobs; feel free to throw them a link to an interesting question/answer that is relevant to them, or invite them to ask a question or just check out the site. They don't have to ask questions to help the site either; just getting regular readers helps grow the site organically. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To share a post (question or answer) easily, just click the &lt;code&gt;share&lt;/code&gt; button at the bottom of the post like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f5Yyu.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can share that link to Facebook/Twitter/whathaveyou to show your friends or coworkers interesting stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-07-28T20:10:49.030" LastActivityDate="2012-07-28T20:10:49.030" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="314" CreationDate="2012-07-10T15:14:52.533" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this question is to dependent on the business level.  I think if you asked this question with a large corporation scope you could probably get a good answer for it.  But as you get into smaller companies you sometimes find a tendency to reward managers and professionals with titles that do not really convey their duties. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So If we limit the scope to large corporations we should be able to get a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think the question should request references.  This should filter the I have another take on that answers that do not really add anything.  Perhaps it could even reword the question to be a canonical what are the most common levels of corporate governance and how do the responsibilities differ at each level?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of books on corporate governance to provide good referenced answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-07-10T15:14:52.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="316" CreationDate="2012-07-10T22:28:55.030" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems like our &quot;avid&quot; users has been going slowly, but steadily upward. If I understand what that stat is about, it's the number of people who regularly visit the site. That, I would say, is great. The other temporary bumps in stats appear to be on especially popular days and/or from a question getting spread around a lot on the web: e.g. &quot;drive by&quot; traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this drive-by traffic isn't necessarily a bad thing so long as we catch a small percentage of those people as new users, especially avid users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stats trend from the 35th day of beta to today is summarized below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing that catches my eye is that avid user seems to be about 8% of total users (avid users is the yellow/orange line in both graphs, so you can see that, except for a few days where we had large growth in total users, both of these lines trend up together). Today we also crossed the point where the number of avid users exceeds the number of 200-2,000 reputation users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is true that our questions per day and visits per day are down vs. 30 days ago, but over the 90 day beta (so far), we're definitely &quot;up&quot; overall, so some of the drive-by traffic is obviously converting into new community members. If we keep feeding the community with quality and effort, we should keep going in that direction (assuming there isn't some other limit to how far we can go, but I think we've got plenty of room for growth yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyhow, the beta isn't about the numbers of course - it's about building a real community. The numbers are a result, not the cause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x0Uqk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cUZXj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastActivityDate="2012-07-10T22:28:55.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="320" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-12T19:32:20.603" Score="11" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently the FAQ states this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace - Stack Exchange is for members of the workforce navigating the professional setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this sourly lacking. What does this include? What does this exclude?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;General questions about CVs?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CV reviews?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Decorum?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to get to a general set of guidelines (a-la Stack Overflow or Programmers FAQ) for what is and is not topical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1513" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-08-05T15:37:48.343" LastActivityDate="2012-08-05T15:37:48.343" Title="FAQ - What questions can I ask here" Tags="|discussion|faq-content|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="321" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-12T19:32:52.083" Score="7" ViewCount="340" Body="&lt;p&gt;We love our site, but there is a whole world of people out there who might not even know it exists. When they do find it, their first impression will either scare them away or keep them around. Given this, let's take a hard look at the questions and answers here and make sure newcomers see the site at its best!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below you'll find ten questions randomly selected from this site. What do you think about each of them and their answers? Are they the best they can be or can they be improved? Would they look interesting and inviting to an outsider or are they a little embarrassing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Upvote the corresponding post here on meta when we're awesome. Downvote when our content just isn't quite up to par.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and do comment to let everyone know your thoughts and take part in this conversation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange has stopped doing these site evaluations for every site, so we're going to do one ourselves. These are some randomly selected questions from 30-40 days ago. Try and take on the view of a first-time user and &lt;strong&gt;ask yourself &quot;Are this post and it's answers useful? Is it better than other stuff out there?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leave a comment explaining your reasoning if at all possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-07-21T18:36:43.203" LastActivityDate="2012-07-21T18:36:43.203" Title="The Workplace self-evaluation: let's get critical!" Tags="|discussion|quality-evaluation|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2012-07-20T04:28:15.387" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="321" CreationDate="2012-07-12T19:33:21.090" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1754/agreeing-to-mandatory-arbitration-as-condition-of-employment-what-rights-are&quot;&gt;Agreeing to mandatory arbitration as condition of employment -- what rights are given up?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T19:33:21.090" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="321" CreationDate="2012-07-12T19:34:15.623" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1615/recovering-from-bad-career-decisions&quot;&gt;Recovering from bad career decisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T19:34:15.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="321" CreationDate="2012-07-12T19:34:32.817" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1716/should-i-avoid-any-recruitment-agency&quot;&gt;What is the purpose of a recruitment agency?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T19:34:32.817" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="321" CreationDate="2012-07-12T19:34:47.713" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1580/dealing-with-bipolar-boss&quot;&gt;Dealing with a bipolar boss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T19:34:47.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="321" CreationDate="2012-07-12T19:35:00.880" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1596/should-i-consider-how-long-ive-been-at-a-new-job-before-trying-to-start-a-famil&quot;&gt;Should I consider how long I&amp;#39;ve been at a new job before trying to start a family?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T19:35:00.880" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="321" CreationDate="2012-07-12T19:35:17.323" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1782/recruiting-recent-college-graduates&quot;&gt;Recruiting Recent College Graduates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T19:35:17.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="321" CreationDate="2012-07-12T19:35:27.197" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1751/whats-the-correlation-between-guys-with-longer-hair-and-professionalism&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the correlation between guys with longer hair and professionalism?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T19:35:27.197" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="321" CreationDate="2012-07-12T19:35:37.743" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1676/am-i-damaging-my-reputation-by-arriving-and-leaving-on-time&quot;&gt;Am I damaging my reputation by arriving and leaving on-time?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T19:35:37.743" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="321" CreationDate="2012-07-12T19:35:48.820" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1737/what-to-highlight-as-a-new-developer-in-an-interview&quot;&gt;What to highlight as a new developer in an interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T19:35:48.820" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="321" CreationDate="2012-07-12T19:36:00.147" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1593/how-do-i-negotiate-a-higher-parking-allowance-as-an-intern&quot;&gt;How do I negotiate a higher parking allowance as an intern?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T19:36:00.147" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="320" CreationDate="2012-07-12T23:48:47.593" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's some stuff that should be pointed out as explicitly off topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;Which job should I take?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions asking which job/company/industry is &quot;better&quot; or which fits &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; best can't really be answered and can only be discussed. This is not a discussion forum, but a Question and Answer site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;Is it legal...&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If a question requires a lawyer to answer it, we can't help. These situations are simply too specific and too complex to definitively answer on our site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;Please review my resume/CV&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions need to apply to more than &lt;em&gt;just you&lt;/em&gt;. Since this site is here to help &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt;, and not review to a specific resume, these are not &quot;questions&quot; to us as they don't have definite answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;How do I learn to be a...&quot; / &quot;How do I perform the job of a ...&quot;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions should be about problems you are encountering or have encountered in the workplace, and not the ins and outs of specific job functions.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen/closed a few of these already; questions asking &quot;which job should I pick?&quot; that either ask which company or which position/field they should seek. These are universally not constructive and the nitty gritty is always too localized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2012-07-20T18:11:13.457" LastActivityDate="2012-07-20T18:11:13.457" CommentCount="13" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-07-13T14:09:39.537" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="333" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-13T18:27:05.390" Score="6" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;When showing a fellow Stack Exchange regular our site, I got the complaint that most questions were in the form of an anecdote, eventually followed by the real question. They said this had a bad connotation due to their experiences on Programmers where this is a common sign of a bad question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it the sign of a bad question here? To what extent should we discourage/edit away anecdotal details in questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally I'd rather askers stray to the side of offering too &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; information rather than too little; it's easy to edit out excessive details and often impossible to assume missing ones. But how much is too much? How personal is too personal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-07-13T18:42:20.567" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T16:31:56.613" Title="Are some questions too anecdote-y?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="334" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="342" CreationDate="2012-07-14T16:56:02.933" Score="-10" ViewCount="390" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2518/did-organizational-anti-patterns-foster-the-penn-state-cover-up&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2518/did-organizational-anti-patterns-foster-the-penn-state-cover-up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you ever heard of Harvard Business School Case Studies??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They routinely study big businesses so that others may learn lessons!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2012-07-22T13:54:32.790" Title="Too Localized?? Are you kidding me?" Tags="|discussion|support|closed-questions|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2013-01-07T18:41:37.507" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="334" CreationDate="2012-07-14T17:47:39.420" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The description for &quot;too localized&quot; includes &quot;it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could also have been closed as &quot;not constructive&quot;, which &quot;expect[s] answers to be supported by facts, references, or specific expertise&quot; and avoid &quot;debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could also have been closed as &quot;not a real question&quot;: &quot;ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;FAQ states&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;you should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face.&quot; That's not present in your question as it stands now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question were edited to include a practical, answerable question that was not overly broad or rhetorical, did not invite debate, argument, or extended discussion, and the localized aspects of time and place were generalized, then that would be a question moderators and the community could vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-07-14T17:47:39.420" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="333" CreationDate="2012-07-14T17:58:26.690" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, some questions are too anecdote-y, but I don't think that anecdotes directly correlate to bad questions.  Given the nature of this site, and the desire to answer &quot;practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that [users] face&quot;, the questions almost &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; include anecdotes to set the stage for the real question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, plenty of work is still left to be done to ensure that users are structuring questions in such a way that the anecdote supports the question rather than buries it.  By &quot;plenty of work&quot; I mean &quot;show good models&quot; -- either by suggesting edits, editing the question directly, or otherwise talking about the issue here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try to do this when I see a good question buried in a too-localized anecdote -- I edit it to highlight the question and call out the supporting anecdote via formatting, or sometimes the edits are more significant.  But I don't do it consistently (I'd never get any work done, if I did!), unfortunately, and that's not helpful because it doesn't show consistent models.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; easy to edit out extraneous details, but I don't think we can draw any sort of hard line about what is too much, because like a lot of things at The Workplace (for good or for bad), &lt;em&gt;it depends&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we're headed down the same road as early ProgSE, for no other reason than all three of us -- and many of our users -- know what that road was and want to avoid it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastActivityDate="2012-07-14T17:58:26.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="333" CreationDate="2012-07-16T19:09:31.907" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions here pertain to a real-life situation, in which there is no real good 'blanket'/'cookie cutter' answer.  Instead, answers here tend to be more of a situational thing.  Thus, the added backstory and context helps to focus answers down to something that will be truly helpful.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: asking 'what should i put on my resume?' would be frowned on here, while a question saying: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I'm currently working towards my [insert level of degree here] in [insert program here] and am looking for some advice.  Here's a bunch of things i've done/accomplished, and a bunch of certifications/awards i've received, as well as some overviews regarding my previous work history.  If i want to make the best impression to a [insert company type here] company, what would be the best format/ordering/content to include for my resume, and what items (if any) should i include in my cover letter instead?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;obviously, there'd be alot more text in the 'list' parts, but from that question, knowing what exactly there is to work with, we could give a much better answer (for [position] at a [company] company, you'd want to focus more on your achievements and work experience in related field...etc etc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1374" LastActivityDate="2012-07-16T19:09:31.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="338" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-19T21:22:23.183" Score="5" ViewCount="293" Body="&lt;p&gt;By perusing through the site, I have seen quite a bit of topics closed and arguments ensue.  The tone in most of them seems condescending.  Compared to some other SE sites, this one seems to be &quot;catty&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps expanding the FAQ to include a better description of the topics the moderators will allow would be helpful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note:  this is not about my question that was closed, although it had upvotes and the closing made no sense to me, I was not offended nor were there arguments in that particular one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1685" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-07-20T19:16:01.733" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T13:50:48.243" Title="Can this site be more &quot;friendly&quot; to users when closing questions?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|etiquette|scope|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="338" CreationDate="2012-07-20T16:34:14.310" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The worst problem I have seen is a piling on of down votes on questions that are not bad topics just asked poorly.  It is one thing when it comes from an established user with a high rep but piling on for a user with &gt; 10 rep.  The users were trying to add content to the site and get involved in our community.  To see them pushed away because they asked a decent question the wrong way is disheartening.  We should be offering constructive methods of helping them rephrase the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-07-20T18:44:31.883" LastActivityDate="2012-07-20T18:44:31.883" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="338" CreationDate="2012-07-20T16:46:38.990" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other problem I have noticed is that it has become acceptable to attack a questions goal in an answer.  I think the worst example is: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/450/how-can-i-encourage-a-culture-of-punctuality-in-a-software-company&quot;&gt;How can I encourage a culture of punctuality in a software company?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP asked how he can change his culture to one where people are at work during their expected work hours.  There are at 11 answers that boil down to &quot;you are wrong for wanting to try.&quot;  These are not answers to that question and by allowing them we have created a precedence that it is acceptable to do this and do it over and over.  To me this is the perfect example of a place where our moderators should be saying this is an exceptional circumstance and stepping in to close and delete these answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question were how do I keep women or an ethnic group from doing something I do not like at my work place then I would understand and I expect the question would be closed.  But this is a legitimate question and it deserves a legitimate answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is an emotional response that says yeah you can not force me to be on time.  I actually sympathize with the sentiment.  But the reality of the work place is that it is work not play.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-07-20T16:46:38.990" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="334" CreationDate="2012-07-20T18:10:57.843" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely disagree with this being to localized... It is clearly not constructive. (I agree with it being closed though so no matter what reason was chosen the mods did the right thing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The workplace deals with questions that have practical applications.   From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual&#xA;  problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the&#xA;  usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and this line applies as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your motivation for asking the question is “I would like to&#xA;  participate in a discussion about ______”, then you should not be&#xA;  asking here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one is saying that the problem is not important or that it should never be talked about anywhere.  But it does not belong here period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the problem was &lt;em&gt;What should I do if I find my self in a situation like The coach at Penn state?&lt;/em&gt; then I think the question would be on topic.  But there is no practical problem to be solved here.  And we do not have all of the evidence gathered in the investigation.  So any analysis here would be pure conjecture... Which makes it not constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-07-20T18:10:57.843" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="333" CreationDate="2012-07-20T19:41:25.397" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This SE was originally created to answer a lot of the &quot;Good&quot; questions on programmer that were off topic there.  Specifically the career and workplace problems.  We want to deal with real world problems not hypothetical problems.  I do not think an anecdote (that is good summary of the issue) is bad in a question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are not dear Abby, but we are not a class room either.  We are trying to deal with real world issues in a timely fashion.  In this the context is important, and including an anecdote  is not out of line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2012-07-23T16:31:56.613" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T16:31:56.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="338" CreationDate="2012-07-20T20:46:03.990" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I go over almost every question as it enters the site, participate in many of the closure related discussions and, as my close votes are binding, my votes have been responsible for a bit over a third of the recent closures on the site. Yet &lt;strong&gt;I'm really not seeing this &quot;catty&quot; behavior on closed questions&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there have been a small number of rude/rude-ish comments; some I've removed or edited myself. I could probably count that number on both hands. Maybe one hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, rude comments are a problem and they should be flagged. Moderators can edit/delete rude comments, but we must be &lt;em&gt;aware&lt;/em&gt; of them. We can't read every bit of content on the site; this is what flags are for, to bring issues to our attention. Flag a post and we'll either take care of it or decline it with a message explaining why there's nothing we can (or nothing we &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt;) do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With no examples I'm really not sure what to say here. Yes, catty comments aren't nice. But this discussion isn't really worth having unless there &lt;em&gt;actually are catty comments&lt;/em&gt;. Maybe I've missed them. Maybe your definition is different. But without examples there's not much to be done here. Just flag inappropriate comments and &lt;strong&gt;be civil&lt;/strong&gt;. That's not really &quot;this site being more friendly to users when closing questions&quot; though; that is a &lt;em&gt;constant expectation of this network&lt;/em&gt; and this site is no exception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't tolerate rude comments. You don't need to &lt;em&gt;ask&lt;/em&gt; us to enforce the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq#etiquette&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;. Instead tell us where there's a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/450/how-can-i-encourage-a-culture-of-punctuality-in-a-software-company&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; example given so far&lt;/a&gt; is definitely an exception, not the rule; note that that question has 15,000 views. The post hit Reddit and thus got a flood of activity, good and bad. That doesn't happen on a daily basis and is extremely hard to moderate, especially before the dust has settled. &lt;strong&gt;We aren't here to moderate Reddit&lt;/strong&gt;. Reddit is a mostly lawless land and some of that attitude comes over when a question gets big on Reddit. Most of our closure reasons and quality standards are to keep those problems &lt;em&gt;out&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can't read everything on the site, so sometimes a question slips by and gets turned into a mess after the initial phrasing on the question. When that happens, you have to &lt;em&gt;flag things&lt;/em&gt; to let us know there's a problem.  Especially when a question is Reddited we need extra help to keep a question, comments and answers in line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-07-21T01:54:00.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="345" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="352" CreationDate="2012-07-21T14:35:54.953" Score="10" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per the feedback in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/320/faq-what-questions-can-i-ask-here&quot;&gt;FAQ - What questions can I ask here&lt;/a&gt; I'd like to add the following &lt;strong&gt;Off Topic areas&lt;/strong&gt; to the first part of our FAQ ASAP:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;What questions are off topic here?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;Which job should I take?&quot;   &#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions asking which job/company/industry is &quot;better&quot; or which fits &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; best can't really be answered and can only be discussed. This is not a discussion forum, but a Question and Answer site.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;Is it legal...&quot;  &#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If a question requires a lawyer to answer it, we can't help. These situations are simply too specific and too complex to definitively answer on our site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;Please review my resume/CV&quot;  &#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions need to apply to more than &lt;em&gt;just you&lt;/em&gt;. Since this site is here to help &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt;, and not review to a specific resume, these are not &quot;questions&quot; to us as they don't have definite answers.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;How do I learn to be a...&quot; / &quot;How do I perform the job of a ...&quot;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions should be about problems you are encountering or have encountered in the workplace, and not the learning/applying of specific job functions.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I close a question from one of these categories &lt;em&gt;almost every day&lt;/em&gt; (and across all mods I'm &lt;em&gt;certain&lt;/em&gt; we close one or more a day). I think we need to work on getting some good wording to explain what &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; on topic, but I think we already have a great starting point for Off Topic stuff so I'd like to get this in immediately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote if you approve/disapprove, and comment if you think it can be improved somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2012-08-05T15:38:06.097" Title="FAQ Proposal: Off topic areas" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|faq-content|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="334" CreationDate="2012-07-22T13:54:32.790" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, it's not too localized, it's Not Constructive. I've changed the close reason. Usually this isn't a problem worth changing the close reason for, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This was a moderator only close, so I'm not erasing anyone community close votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is completely closeworthy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You've become far too fixated on this single closure&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-07-22T13:54:32.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="347" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="349" CreationDate="2012-07-22T15:10:11.820" Score="-4" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;closed as not constructive by Rarity♦ 1 hour ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it currently stands, this question is not a good fit for our Q&amp;amp;A format. We expect answers to be supported by facts, references, or specific expertise, but this question will likely solicit debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can somebody please tell me why the following questions &lt;em&gt;weren't&lt;/em&gt; closed as 'Not Constructive'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2426/is-it-acceptable-to-ask-who-recommended-me/2428#2428&quot;&gt;Is it acceptable to ask who recommended me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1446/send-thank-you-email-after-phone-interview/1449#1449&quot;&gt;Send “thank you” email after phone interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1037/responding-to-thank-you-notes-from-interviewees/1041#1041&quot;&gt;Responding to thank-you notes from interviewees&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1083/is-it-good-idea-to-shorten-urls-in-a-cv/1085#1085&quot;&gt;Is it good idea to shorten URLs in a CV?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1407/how-should-i-phrase-an-email-and-or-conversation-that-i-need-to-back-out-of-an-i/1408#1408&quot;&gt;How should I phrase an email and/or conversation that I need to back out of an interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; of these questions could quite possibly be supported by facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All&lt;/strong&gt; of these questions solicited debate, polling, and extended discussion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; At the risk of being drowned out by a sidebar discussion, I don't understand how debating the efficacy of a 'Thank You' note could possibly be construed as 'Constructive'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-07-22T16:56:54.333" Title="What does &quot;Not Constructive&quot; Mean?" Tags="|discussion|questions|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2012-08-06T00:34:47.773" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="347" CreationDate="2012-07-22T15:52:28.103" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, you already know the answer to the question in the title. You were told why your question was not constructive in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334/too-localized-are-you-kidding-me/346#346&quot;&gt;Too Localized?? Are you kidding me?&lt;/a&gt;. You were told why multiple times by multiple people, you were also told why in the comments on your question. You have been told why by all three moderators and two non-moderator users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you honestly do not understand why your question was closed after all of that, perhaps you should find another site which has rules you can properly understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, you haven't actually picked example &quot;Not Constructive&quot; questions by any definition. You've clearly just gone to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/26/jcmeloni&quot;&gt;jcmeloni's profile&lt;/a&gt; and picked the top 5 voted answers. You did this because she was the one who originally closed &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2518/did-organizational-anti-patterns-or-groupthink-foster-the-penn-state-cover-up&quot;&gt;your question&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You didn't even pretend to link directly to the example questions. One of them doesn't even have any comments on it and only a single answer; you clearly didn't even read them before claiming &quot;these ended up in discussion&quot;. If you have a grudge against another user of the site &lt;em&gt;keep it to yourself&lt;/em&gt;. I don't care if they're a moderator or another user, you &lt;em&gt;will not harass another member of this site.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a strict &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq#etiquette&quot;&gt;be nice policy&lt;/a&gt;. We give you a little leeway to be upset when your question is closed and we do all we can to explain our policies, what was wrong with your question, how the site works. We've done that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is a question and answer site with explicit etiquette and post quality rules.&lt;/strong&gt; If you can not be polite and you can not follow the post rules you &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; be suspended. Discussion on this site, even on Meta, is expected to be &lt;em&gt;constructive&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-07-22T16:05:47.810" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="347" CreationDate="2012-07-22T16:42:31.447" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;not constructive&quot; close reason is intended to separate &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;questions we tend to refer to as &quot;good subjective&quot; from &quot;bad subjective&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here on Workplace Stack Exchange we don't immediately shy away from any question that might have a subjective undertone to it, but what's important is that questions and answers still focus on solving problems instead of just sharing opinions or contributing to a discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've looked through the five example questions you gave and I see they are in a pretty decent shape. Each question asks about a specific work-related situation that can be addressed, and answers provide various viewpoints (although sometimes they overlap, which is fine) supported by further explanation and personal experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By contrast, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2518/did-organizational-anti-patterns-or-groupthink-foster-the-penn-state-cover-up&quot;&gt;your question&lt;/a&gt; is aimed at having a discussion. It doesn't have an answer that can be backed up by someone's work experience:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why didn't anyone inform law enforcement about these crimes?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My Questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Did Organizational Anti-Patterns or Groupthink Foster the Penn State Cover-Up?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Or was this simply a case of 'Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely'?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who knows? Short of interviewing the people involved and trusting that they're telling the truth, all we can offer here are guesses and speculations - the cornerstones of debate, arguments, and discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions of this type other sites like Quora are a better choice than Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-07-22T16:42:31.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="338" CreationDate="2012-07-23T04:24:05.047" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is in response to the question of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/450/how-can-i-encourage-a-culture-of-punctuality-in-a-software-company&quot;&gt;How can I encourage a culture of punctuality in a software company?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.  Telling an asker not to do something is perfectly okay:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/509/98&quot;&gt;My answer&lt;/a&gt; was one that basically suggested to the question asker that it wasn't a good idea to try to force (or encourage) such change. I basically said &amp;quot;Don't do that&amp;quot; and then followed up with what I thought was the better solution. &amp;quot;Try this instead.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;Workplace FAQ - How to Answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer the question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read the question carefully. What, &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt;, is the question asking for? Make sure your answer provides that – or a viable alternative. &lt;strong&gt;The answer can be “don’t do that”, but it should also include “try this instead”.&lt;/strong&gt; Any answer that gets the asker going in the right direction is helpful, but do try to mention any limitations, assumptions or simplifications in your answer. Brevity is acceptable, but fuller explanations are better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(bold emphasis in body is mine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, there is nothing wrong with telling a question asker not to do what it is that they're asking, so long as a viable alternative is presented in it's place. Let's not lose sight of this very important point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.  Condescending Tone&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the issue of condescending comments or answers could be dealt with in the form of constructive guiding comments, editing questions and answers, and/or downvotes, it's important that we understand that the FAQ for this and all Stack Exchange sites clearly state that answers can indicate disagreement with the course of action and offer alternatives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Always be polite and have fun&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s fine to disagree and express concern, but please be civil. There’s a real human being on the other end of that network connection, however misguided they may appear to be. We’re here to learn from our peers, not yell at each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't think everyone that says &amp;quot;this is a bad idea&amp;quot; intends to be rude or condescending. Sometimes, a comment is all it takes to alleviate the problem. A few people, including Chad, pointed out some problems with my answer in the comments. Most of them were very respectful and helpful, and I was able to correct the answer to make it fit the guidelines 100%. So let's also not forget that when &lt;em&gt;we&lt;/em&gt; leave comments to someone who may not have posted something that is 100% perfect, that many people &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to positively contribute and may simply need some help or encouragement to get from point A to point B.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that doesn't work, if your comment is met with further rudeness or condescending attitudes, then that would be a good time to flag the post for moderator attention, and calmly walk away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T04:24:05.047" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="338" CreationDate="2012-07-23T13:50:48.243" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/07/kicking-off-the-summer-of-love/?cb=1&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/07/kicking-off-the-summer-of-love/?cb=1&lt;/a&gt;  Exactly the point I was bringing up here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1685" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T13:50:48.243" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="345" CreationDate="2012-07-23T18:56:29.057" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went ahead and added this to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;our FAQ&lt;/a&gt; since the response has been positive and I think we worked the kinks out &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/332/42&quot;&gt;in this post&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind this can be edited any time, so continue to give any feedback you have on our FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please help us define what &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; on topic in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/320/42&quot;&gt;FAQ - What questions can I ask here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T18:56:29.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="320" CreationDate="2012-07-23T20:20:41.243" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ideas for &quot;On Topic&quot; examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Problem solving ideas - so long as the problem can relate to more than one person. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tips and Tricks for common work that transcendes a given career path - for example, presentations, email writing, resume creation, interviewing, giving performance feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions on norms - can be locale specific, but probably more useful to include?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is...? - not just a clean definition you could read on Google, but a question about a topic, what it means to a workplace, what to expect/be ready for, or other aspects of the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="67" LastEditDate="2012-07-25T19:48:02.727" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T19:48:02.727" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="345" CreationDate="2012-07-23T20:25:24.280" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to suggest we also consider things which are time sensitive off topic.  I know that to an extent almost all answers do sort of &quot;expire&quot; - for example cell phone culture has changed radically in the last 10 years, and is probably still in transition.  So questions like &quot;is it rude to do X regarding cellphones?&quot; could easily be out of date information in a few years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But more importantly, I'd say we avoid questions and answers that hinge around massively dynamic things like salary.  I'd say &quot;What is the fair market rate for X career?&quot; to be an OT question, because it is massively different from year to year and also dependant on location and the case in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarification based on commentary:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the general consensus that if the topic is general, ie broadly applicable in the here and now across a large locale, work domain or other population segement - then it's OK to have even in cases of evolving technology in the workplace where this year's answer may not be next year's answer.  The general concept being that things like cell phone ettiquitte are common norms that can have a single answer for a large group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things that are both highly time sensitive and very limited in scope are out - like salary ranges - because they fall into the &quot;too narrow&quot; window in both time and audience.  Not a far cry from the &quot;should I take this job?&quot; or &quot;what should I learn next, here's my resume?&quot; type questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I'm thinking that even salary range can be readjusted to a more general topic, if the question asker is willing to put a little effort in.  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;what the key factors that influence salary range in IT hands on jobs?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;what is a good strategy for finding a competitive business domain in the technical arena?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="67" LastEditDate="2012-07-25T19:56:51.143" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T19:56:51.143" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="355" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-24T13:45:22.600" Score="11" ViewCount="568" Body="&lt;p&gt;Due to the widely varying attitudes in the question, answers and comments on the post &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/338/can-this-site-be-more-friendly-to-users-when-closing-questions&quot;&gt;Can this site be more &amp;quot;friendly&amp;quot; to users when closing questions?&lt;/a&gt; I really think we need a quick primer on what constitutes &quot;rude&quot; behavior on this site. I think we need to all be on the same page as far as what's &quot;rude&quot; and what's just &lt;em&gt;community moderation&lt;/em&gt; and normal use of the site, and how to deal with rudeness when you see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are downvotes and closing questions rude?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is Disagreement rude?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What exactly is rude?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2012-08-02T13:58:09.893" Title="What is rude on The Workplace?" Tags="|discussion|faq|etiquette|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="355" CreationDate="2012-07-24T13:45:22.600" Score="16" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Are downvotes and closing questions rude?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, downvotes and closing questions (as well as upvotes and reopening questions) help us sort out quality content and enforce the quality standards &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;laid out in the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;. People don't &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; downvotes, they don't &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; having questions closed, but these actions are &lt;em&gt;vital to the survival of our site&lt;/em&gt;. By closing unanswerable, off topic or discussion questions we keep the bar of quality on this site high. We are in beta, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/88851/166936&quot;&gt;beta sites can be shut down for low quality&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be afraid to vote to close questions or downvote low quality questions; if you can't vote to close, flag the post. We will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be lowering our quality standards. Our standards can be hard to grasp when people first find the start, and they're a lot higher than other sites out there on the web. This is because we don't &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to be just another site out there on the web. Ignoring the risk of being shut down, making this site a high quality resource should be our goal; I became a moderator to help this site along  in that regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5040/what-about-the-new-user-experience-here-is-turning-people-away#comment14988_5040&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt; put it very well here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;not everyone can attend Harvard. Or even the local community college. Stack Exchange has the rules it has about questions and answers because that’s what makes us Stack Exchange and not, y’know … Yahoo Answers or Reddit. Anyway, my point is that when people say &quot;you guys are mean!&quot; they often aren't actually talking about civility at all. They just want Harvard to let them in and/or loosen their requirements for applicants. Of course, doing that would make Harvard.. no longer Harvard. Please do not conflate these two very different things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is disagreeing rude?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/350/42&quot;&gt;It's perfectly fine to tell someone &quot;don't do that&quot;&lt;/a&gt; in a comment or answer. If someone is asking how to accomplish a goal that is professional suicide or otherwise dangerous, that's &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; what answers are for. Share &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they shouldn't do whatever they have said; a quick &quot;I don't think you should do that&quot; is not an answer. Answers should always explain why you're giving the advice you are so we can evaluate their accuracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because you aren't saying what the asker/other people &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to hear doesn't mean you're being rude. Don't be afraid to give an answer that disagrees with other answers, just be civil, as you would in all other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What exactly is rude?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being rude is being a jerk. It's saying &quot;You're stupid to do that&quot; instead of &quot;You shouldn't do that&quot;. It's saying &quot;Your post sucks&quot; instead of downvoting and moving on. It's not just saying something people disagree with, it's doing it in a way to be intentionally or dismissively mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the primary functions of the site as intended (voting, answering) is never &quot;rude&quot;. What &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be rude is how you express yourself in your questions, comments and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question is closed or about to be closed, the asker might be upset. It's not very fun. Do leave guiding comments saying why the post isn't acceptable and how it can be improved. Just be civil and &lt;em&gt;focused&lt;/em&gt; when making those comments; if all you say is &quot;this is off topic&quot; or &quot;please read the FAQ&quot; well, the close reason already says that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't belittle people, call them names or attack people. If you see a post that is rude, go ahead and flag it as &quot;rude/offensive&quot;; a moderator can edit out the rudeness or delete the post/comment. In the case of repeat offenses a user may be suspended for repeated, abusively rude behavior. If the rudeness is minor and in a question/answer you can go ahead and edit it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also another fabulous &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5045/how-should-we-deal-with-rude-comments/5046#5046&quot;&gt;guide on rude comments&lt;/a&gt; on Arqade's meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T15:28:53.457" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="355" CreationDate="2012-07-24T14:18:31.950" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In regards to commenting on closed questions, I find comments rude if they are made with the intention of simply dismissing the user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I think comments simply telling the user to &lt;code&gt;&quot;read the [faq]&quot;&lt;/code&gt; are very rude, because the user is basically implying the OP is an idiot and dismissing them with a link. They're not interested in helping the user, and it comes through in the words they choose to use. It's even worse when those sorts of comments get upvotes, because then from the OP's point of view the community agrees with that behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that is part of the reason the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/137795/158605&quot;&gt;What Stack Overflow is Not post got deleted&lt;/a&gt; - because it prompted too many users to simply leave dismissive comments on questions, which too frequently got taken as rude and elitist by other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So please, if you want to comment just to make a point and never see the question again, refrain from commenting altogether. Don't comment unless you're actually interested in personally helping the user understand their mistake so they can avoid making the same mistake in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, I did a quick check on a bunch of closed questions to get examples of rude comments for this post, and couldn't find any. They were all informative, helpful, and written in such a way that they don't sound condescending or dismissive. I know this wasn't always the case since I recall seeing rude dismissive comments on closed questions a while back, but I think you guys are doing a good job of keeping your comments polite, and flagging rude comments :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit in response to comments below&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some example closure comments which I thought were great:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi Brandon - your question was closed as a duplicate of another&#xA;  question we already have on the site. If you think there are some&#xA;  nuances to your question that make it different, please feel free to&#xA;  edit your question to make those more clear. If you need guidance,&#xA;  please ask in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;The Workplace Meta&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;The Workplace Chat&lt;/a&gt;. Thanks! - jcmeloni&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2740/is-the-length-of-a-resume-significant-if-so-whats-the-best-length#comment5456_2740&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm having difficulty parsing the exact question here. If it's just&#xA;  &quot;should I go into X field or Y field&quot; it doesn't really fit here; per&#xA;  the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; we don't really don't do general recommendations, but rather&#xA;  answer specific questions about problems with solutions - Rarity&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2658/what-kind-of-business-management-fields-are-available-to-a-programmer-who-no-lon#comment5334_2658&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Michael, actually I voted to close as off topic, I see this as a&#xA;  medical issue not a workplace one. RSI is a catch all term, and&#xA;  there's no one size fits all solution. I've seen colleagues thinking&#xA;  the same as you, that the problem was their chair, keyboard, desk,&#xA;  whatever, when in fact it was something completely unrelated, and in&#xA;  one case following advice from the internet made it (a lot) worse. I&#xA;  really think you should visit at least a GP, if not a specialist - Yannis Rizos&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1925/i-get-lots-of-hand-cramps-from-both-mouse-and-keyboard-use-how-can-i-minimize-t#comment3629_1925&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T16:20:15.000" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="355" CreationDate="2012-07-24T19:27:25.360" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Downvotes and Votes&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following are mechanisms that were built into the system, and using them is not intrinsically rude:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvoting (of both questions and answers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting to close&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting to delete&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderation activities&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like any tools, they can be misused, but the mere &lt;em&gt;use&lt;/em&gt; of these tools is not in and of itself rude.  They were put in place to help the site present and feature the best content, and let content that is substandard filter down or disappear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Comments&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some believe that using the above tools should be accompanied by a comment explaining it, even suggesting that the SE platform be modified to require it.  I, personally am not of this camp, since I think there are times when I believe it is appropriate to use those tools, but am unable to formulate a constructive explanatory comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether commenting is rude obviously depends on the contents of the comment.  Generally, constructive comments help the recipient either fix the content so it will be a better fit for the site, or prevent others from being misled by an incorrect answer.  Comments should also be specific to the content being addressed, not merely pointing to the FAQ or reiterating a blanket principle.  IMO, it is better to use the voting tools and not comment than to use the tools and provide a non-specific comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also not rude to challenge the premise of a question.  If you are asking for advice on how to do something antisocial, destructive, or harmful to your career, the community better serves you by advising you not to go through with it than by providing guidance on how to go about doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="375" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T19:27:25.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="355" CreationDate="2012-07-24T20:54:42.870" Score="-4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;+1 and -1 in comments&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been said above that -1 in a comment is not terribly constructive.  Other than to identify yourself as the person who voted down there is little gained from it.  It is often taken as an attack on the person rather than the answer/question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By extension when you remove the -1 any comment that does not have a +1 becomes rude.  So by including +1 in a comment you are making other comments appear rude... this isnt nice either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments on answers and questions are not meant to be discussion or to state &quot;good answer&quot;; that is what votes and chat are for.  If a question needs clarification or revision then suggesting that in comments is good.  If we eliminate the noise then the comments become more important and used how they are intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-07-24T22:15:26.753" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T22:15:26.753" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="360" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-25T02:22:40.173" Score="6" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;What went wrong in this question : &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2799/beating-shyness-and-underconfidence&quot;&gt;How can I tell if my shyness is an issue at a workplace?&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fail to understand why a question regarding the point where you draw the line between arrogance and confidence or rudeness and forthnightness or pushy-ness and gregariousness when talking to your colleagues or boss isn't in scope or doesn't have a concrete answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are these not workplace issues? I don't have to worry about them elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The commenter posted &quot; This is a very large issue there's no concrete answers to, and as phrased this really isn't a Workplace exclusive issue, so it really isn't on topic here either; it's just not something workplace experts are going to have particular expertise in.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the &quot;too broad&quot; issue, I can split the question into multiple smaller question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Isn't closing down this question in under 3 minutes a little trigger friendly? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user186" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T12:33:33.097" Title="What went wrong in the question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="360" CreationDate="2012-07-25T03:44:34.190" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As far as the &quot;too broad&quot; issue, I can split the question into multiple smaller question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This statement really stands out to me, because oftentimes hidden beneath the shroud of a really broad question that doesn't fit Stack Exchange is sometimes a series of really great on-topic, constructive questions that fit Stack Exchange perfectly!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is great for you, because you get more targeted answers (and more upvotes), and it's great for our community because we generate more great, targeted content on the site. Additionally, it's great for others on Google searching for answers because the specific problem they're facing may be solved within the top answer to one of your great questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I encourage you to not look at this as &quot;unfair&quot; or &quot;trigger happy&quot; and instead look at this as an opportunity to expand something that's so-so into something great. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, closure isn't permanent; it's designed to give you an opportunity to fix problems with your question before it gets answers, which would then make it harder to fix the question without invalidating those existing answers. See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; for guidance on how to improve your question. Good luck! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T03:44:34.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="360" CreationDate="2012-07-25T12:33:33.097" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, I would also have immediately closed this as Rarity did -- as too broad or off-topic (could be either) -- for the reason he noted in his comment above: &quot;We close questions ASAP so they can be improved ASAP and so that people don't waste time answering a vague/off topic question.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have multiple questions; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/361/26&quot;&gt;jmort253's answer&lt;/a&gt; discusses the potential benefits of this as you think about editing your question or making new questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also state in the question &quot;I don't mind a good book reference either.&quot; -- if you take a look at the [faq], it says &quot;If you can imagine an entire book that answers your question, you’re asking too much.&quot;  Put those things together and you can see where your question is quite broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/362/26&quot;&gt;Yannis's answer&lt;/a&gt; also highlights something that still would be a problem: the basic questions without much context are not Workplace-specific -- back to Rarity's comment, where you use &quot;boss&quot; you could swap out &quot;friend&quot; or anything else and make it equally valid without additional context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your question &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;, you note that &quot;I don't have to worry about them elsewhere&quot; -- that's the very beginning of something to work from that would help the question become more focused, more Workplace-specific, and a better fit for the SE format.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, see the differences between these two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/729/how-to-talk-to-my-boss-one-on-one-with-confidence&quot;&gt;How to talk to my boss one-on-one with confidence?&lt;/a&gt; (open)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2531/why-not-always-feel-confident-enough-to-speak-and-share-my-views-in-workplace&quot;&gt;Why not always feel confident enough to speak and share my views in workplace&lt;/a&gt; (closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T12:33:33.097" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="364" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-25T20:33:59.410" Score="7" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks to me like we have a majority of questions coming in tagged as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/job-search&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;job-search&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;job-search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/job-change&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;job-change&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;job-change&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hiring-process&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hiring-process&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hiring-process&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recruitment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recruitment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recruitment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;del&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/job&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;job&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;job&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/del&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most seem to be people looking for jobs wanting to know how best to get them.  But some may be the other end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking it's probably time to combine some of these tags?  Or better explain in the tag wikis why they are separate.  Can anyone suggest a good meme for sorting through the current cluster and refining it a bit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My biggest goal is that if you click on a tag, you get a unified cluster of questions that relate to it, and you have very little doubt that you should have picked a different tag.  Right now I don't have that on our cluster.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm willing to help with clean up when we make a decision.  I think I'm up at a level were I can retag...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:42:50.193" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:42:50.193" Title="Tagging for job hunting/recruiting" Tags="|discussion|synonym-request|retag-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="364" CreationDate="2012-07-25T21:11:55.560" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I read these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Job-search: I am looking for a job and have a question. I am not looking to hire employees.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Job-change: I am switching between jobs and have a question. I may or may not still be looking, but I definitely already have a job I am leaving&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hiring-process: about the rigmaroles of interviewing, calling, emailing etc that are involved in the hiring process. Possibly from both sides? Possibly a duplicate of Job-search?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;recruitment: I am recruiting and have a question. Limiting this to one side of the table makes this and job-search a lot less confusing. It's not currently used this way though, so it's ambiguous.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went and added a better tag wiki to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/job-change&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;job-change&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;job-change&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-07-26T15:03:56.227" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T15:03:56.227" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="364" CreationDate="2012-07-25T21:14:20.660" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given this list (now that Rarity has gotten rid of &quot;job&quot;), I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; see them as 4 distinct tags, but I can completely see where the nuances would be missed by users just trying to categorize into something that makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote to spend some time with tag wiki entries.  In fact, I will try to devote a chunk of time to that this weekend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the point about thinking about merging some tags (maybe not these) is well-taken. I think that &gt; 100 days in, we have a good enough sample size that we &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; begin looking, as you have (thanks!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T21:14:20.660" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="367" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="440" CreationDate="2012-07-27T23:48:47.730" Score="2" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resume&lt;/a&gt; (very common) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cv&lt;/a&gt; (less common). The tag wiki for resume refers to CVs directly, but the CV tag is used specifically for CVs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do these need to be separate tags or should they be synonymized? I'm of the opinion that they should be separate and the resume tag wiki should no longer refer to CVs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:41:36.140" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:41:36.140" Title="Do CVs need their own tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|synonym-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="367" CreationDate="2012-07-28T00:06:12.543" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/2695/48&quot;&gt;top voted answer&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/2692/48&quot;&gt;&quot;What exactly is a 'CV'?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In most contexts, CV ( Curriculum vitae ) and resume are used interchangeably. Different countries and different industries tend to prefer one term over another. An academic job in any country will typically ask for a CV, a non-academic job in the United States will typically ask for a resume, other countries (such as most European companies) will prefer the term CV. In most cases, everyone is talking about the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't found a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resume&lt;/a&gt; question insofar that specifically asks about resumes instead of CVs (haven't looked that hard though), I think they are used interchangeably and we should make them synonyms. And although it might go against the tags' question count, I'd propose CV as the master tag, as it's the most recognizable term of the two (worldwide).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-07-28T00:06:12.543" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="274" CreationDate="2012-07-28T17:56:49.037" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;After hashing it all out, we are now mention in &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3632/should-we-mention-the-workplace-in-our-faq/3635#3635&quot;&gt;Programmers' FAQ&lt;/a&gt; with the wording below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and it is &lt;strong&gt;not about&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;general workplace issues, office politics, résumé help (check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;The Workplace&lt;/a&gt; instead),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;implementation issues or programming tools (ask on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; instead),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what language you should learn next, including &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/gorilla-vs-shark/&quot;&gt;which technology is better&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what project you should do next&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/588/are-career-advice-questions-useful-to-anyone-except-the-poster/590#590&quot;&gt;career advice&lt;/a&gt;, salary or compensation&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;personal lifestyle, including relationships, and non-programming activities&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...then you're in the right place to ask your question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; For answers to common programming career advice questions, please see &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; by Patrick McKenzie.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let us know if there are any tweaks that should be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-07-28T17:58:29.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="373" CreationDate="2012-07-29T01:31:39.960" Score="15" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something I really should have brought up in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/345/faq-proposal-off-topic-areas&quot;&gt;FAQ Proposal: Off topic areas&lt;/a&gt; is that &lt;strong&gt;questions about average expected salary/hourly rates/how much should I charge are always too localized.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As typified by questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2892/how-much-to-charge-as-a-freelance-programmer#question&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2892/how-much-to-charge-as-a-freelance-programmer#question&lt;/a&gt; we just can't answer these questions, and if we can, the answers won't help many people or for very long; the answers vary from city to city, year to year, and they're &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; very limited by job type and skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I propose to add the following to our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq#what-questions-are-off-topic-here&quot;&gt;FAQ section on off-topic questions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;What salary/hourly rate should I look for? How much should I charge for X?&quot;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions regarding salary are too localized to the city, timeframe, job sector and specific skills. Answers to these questions become quickly outdated and just aren't helpful to others. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;For general salary hunting tips, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/896/how-can-i-determine-a-reasonable-salary-to-ask-for&quot;&gt;How can I determine a reasonable salary to ask for?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-07-31T19:25:24.857" Title="FAQ Addendum: &quot;typical&quot; Salary/Hourly rates are off topic" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|faq-content|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-29T01:31:54.327" Score="4" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;The vote buttons are on the left edge of the screen, right where my fingers fall when scrolling on the iPad, and I have almost accidentally voted one way or another several times....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it's no longer &quot;almost&quot;, and I &lt;strong&gt;have&lt;/strong&gt; voted accidentally.  A downvote.  What should I do? Ask for a minor edit so I can correct it? Post a comment apologizing? Nothing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="271" LastActivityDate="2012-07-29T15:02:12.363" Title="Accidental downvote, what to do?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="371" CreationDate="2012-07-29T15:02:12.363" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, let me tell you that you are not alone, I accidentally up/down vote all the time when I'm browsing the site from my mobile. There's a five minute window that you can retract and even reverse your vote, but after that your vote is locked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; the post is a new one (let's say a week old) &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; there's a minor edit you can do that will improve it, I'd say go for it, and then retract your vote. It's a hack, and in general I would advice against minor edits with the sole purpose of changing your vote, every edit however minor bumps the question to the front page, and pushes other questions out of the way.  But a week old post is probably already in the front page, or was there very recently, so go for it (but please don't make a habit of it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's an older post, or the only edit you can think of is something completely pointless, then just forget about it and move on. A single vote (up or down) doesn't say anything for a post, and it will be corrected by the community sooner than later. Try to be a little bit more careful when browsing the site, I don't know how awkward the interface feels on an iPad, but even if you accidentally vote the five minute window gives you enough time to correct your vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2012-07-29T15:02:12.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="370" CreationDate="2012-07-31T18:49:02.403" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No objections? Anyone? Bueller?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sold!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; This will be added to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-07-31T19:25:24.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2012-08-01T13:54:21.893" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to bring this back up to the top to try and get a resolution to this.  I think Country tags are needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2952/quitting-an-exploitative-job&quot;&gt;recent question&lt;/a&gt; will be answered extremely differently depending on its location.  Already it seems that we've gotten a UK answer, as well as a US answer.  But looking into the OP's profile, it appears that India would be the correct country.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generalizing questions is all well and good, but when the individual answer would depend upon the location of the OP, requiring a generalization will not give them the answer they need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2012-08-06T11:07:02.810" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="206" CreationDate="2012-08-01T15:08:00.210" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is important to note that &lt;strong&gt;closing is not a permanent end-state&lt;/strong&gt;. It is a temporary limbo to give the question the opportunity to improve. The two eventual possibilities are deletion of the question (if it really is a bad fit, or never gets improved) or reopening of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of a poorly written question that asks something useful/interesting, closing is a very viable option. The ideal, of course, would be to edit/improve it beforehand, but if it gets closed in the meantime, it gets closed. No big deal. The question can still be improved (without half-baked answers flowing in from people who misunderstood the question). Once the question is improved enough that everyone can easily understand what is being asked, it can be reopened, and become a meaningful addition to our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2012-08-01T15:08:00.210" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="377" CreationDate="2012-08-01T21:17:50.210" Score="4" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that the &quot;Good subjective, bad subjective&quot; notice appears to be attached to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/2401/869&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;. I'm unable to find any other examples of it across the Stack Exchange network currently, but I had thought the notice is typically attached to questions. Is that the case, and The Workplace is deviating from the standard? If so, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-08-02T21:10:16.093" Title="&quot;Good subjective, bad subjective&quot; notice" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="376" CreationDate="2012-08-01T21:30:55.690" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post notice options/comments are the same for Answers and Questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LlbZu.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason you usually see Insufficient Explanation on questions rather than answers is to try and keep a thread, rather than a specific answer, focused and good-subjective. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case the question didn't appear to be attracting multiple bad-subjective answers, just the one. In addition, adding the post notice to the answer generates a notification (I think) to the answerer, making it actionable. Those last two reasons are why I post the notice on that answer. At least I think it was me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, if you see a question or answer in need of one of these notices, &lt;strong&gt;flag it&lt;/strong&gt; with an &quot;Other&quot; flag and explain which post notice the post needs and why. If your post has gotten a post notice and you feel you've resolved the problem with the post, flag it and a moderator can review and potentially remove the post notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going through Review/low quality posts I converted  this answer to a comment. The entire content was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes. You lose nothing by asking for details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-08-02T21:10:16.093" LastActivityDate="2012-08-02T21:10:16.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="378" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="380" CreationDate="2012-08-02T11:31:18.553" Score="-4" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;Preface: I submit myself as a super-enthusiastic Stackexchange user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My Question: Were two key Jeff Atwood blog entries considered when Workplace.SE was formed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/03/procrastination-and-the-bikeshed-effect.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bikeshed Effect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although discussion can meander in any topic, the probability of meandering goes up as the technical difficulty of the topic goes down. After all, the greater the technical difficulty, the fewer participants can really follow what's going on. Those who can are likely to be the most experienced developers, who have already taken part in such discussions thousands of times before, and know what sort of behavior is likely to lead to a consensus everyone can live with.&#xA;  Thus, consensus is hardest to achieve in technical questions that are simple to understand and easy to have an opinion about, and in &quot;soft&quot; topics such as organization, publicity, funding, etc. People can participate in those arguments forever, because there are no qualifications necessary for doing so, no clear ways to decide (even afterward) if a decision was right or wrong, and because simply outwaiting other discussants is sometimes a successful tactic.&#xA;  The principle that the amount of discussion is inversely proportional to the complexity of the topic has been around for a long time, and is known informally as the &lt;strong&gt;Bikeshed Effect&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/gorilla-vs-shark/&quot;&gt;Gorilla vs. Shark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the consensus is something akin to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No, these blog entries were not considered. In fact Workplace.SE is a different bird. We actually encourage these types of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Then I don't think that there's really a place for me on this site. I'll just continue to consume the other amazing properties on the Stackexchange network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the consensus is closer to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes, these blog entries were considered, and we're trying our best to uphold the spirit of Jeff Atwood's guidance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Then maybe we have something to talk about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;@Anna Lear &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/349/437&quot;&gt;explained why my one and only question was closed as 'Not Constructive'&lt;/a&gt;, and I appreciate that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now I'm trying to understand why other questions on this site are &quot;considered&quot; more constructive, and if in fact, Jeff Atwood's blog entries were considered.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think we all need to be mindful of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3415/1996&quot;&gt;Programmers.SE reboot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T08:26:45.823" LastActivityDate="2012-08-02T17:18:59.357" Title="Were the &quot;Bikeshed Effect&quot; and &quot;Gorilla vs. Shark&quot; Blog Entries Considered When Workplace.SE was formed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="378" CreationDate="2012-08-02T13:22:57.440" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have had a &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; deal of discussion on this topic, and I'm almost insulted to find you both failed to look for previous meta discussions on the topic and assumed this site was somehow designed outside the Stack Exchange ecosystem or without Stack Exchange policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I in particular offered to be a pro temp moderator because I was afraid this site would devolve into what Programmers.SE started out as; low standards, a dumping ground for questions other sites wouldn't take for &lt;em&gt;quality&lt;/em&gt; reasons rather than &lt;em&gt;topic&lt;/em&gt; reasons. Many other members of this site, such as Yannis Rizos, came from Programmers.SE hoping to make this site work where Programmers had initially failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such we have had the following meta discussions on this and related topics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/144/42&quot;&gt;Is Workplace going to follow the same life cycle as other SE sites for subjective questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/277/42&quot;&gt;Do we need expertise other than opinion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/261/42&quot;&gt;How do we define Constructive on this site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/219/42&quot;&gt;Is &amp;quot;not constructive&amp;quot; really applicable at workplace.SE?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/288/how-specific-does-a-tools-recommendation-question-have-to-be-to-become-constru&quot;&gt;How specific does a &amp;quot;tools&amp;quot; recommendation question have to be to become constructive?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/118/what-can-we-do-about-one-line-answers&quot;&gt;What can we do about one line answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/236/how-can-we-enforce-quality-standards-without-adding-to-the-faq&quot;&gt;How can we enforce quality standards without adding to the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/245/how-can-we-encourage-people-to-find-the-middle-ground&quot;&gt;How can we encourage people to find the middle ground?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/123/should-we-add-a-back-it-up-rule-to-the-faq-now&quot;&gt;Should we add a &amp;quot;Back It Up&amp;quot; rule to the FAQ now?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/149/42&quot;&gt;Common-Sense questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/148/42&quot;&gt;Are &amp;quot;it depends&amp;quot; answers a sign of a bad question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/206/42&quot;&gt;Judge a question by what is being asked, not how its being asked&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/345/42&quot;&gt;FAQ Proposal: Off topic areas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also 35 results for searching &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22not+constructive%22&quot;&gt;&quot;Not Constructive&quot;&lt;/a&gt; on Meta (that's one in three questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note I didn't have to look far to find these because they're all in my profile, as I've either answered or asked all of these questions personally. There are surely more I haven't taken a part in. We have also substantially added to the FAQ to carve out some areas that are consistently Not Constructive to clarify this policy to new users and make their closure simpler and by the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these questions debate Good Subjective, Bad Subjective or &quot;Bikeshed&quot; issues and how that applies to this site. It is blatantly false to say we &quot;haven't considered&quot; SE policy or the SE blog posts on what makes constructive questions/answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2012-08-02T14:35:20.033" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="378" CreationDate="2012-08-02T17:18:59.357" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;My response is to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/378/were-the-bikeshed-effect-and-gorilla-vs-shark-blog-entries-considered-when#comment1032_378&quot;&gt;your comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When I look at the Workplace.SE front page, I feel that most questions violate the 'Gorilla vs. Shark' test.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question to you is, &lt;strong&gt;how do you interpret &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/gorilla-vs-shark/&quot;&gt;Gorilla vs. Shark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I just don't see what you are seeing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's review Jeff's list of problems with Gorilla vs. Shark:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nobody needs to know the answer to this question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course questions on the Workplace don't fail this test, because all the questions I see were asked because someone had a specific problem, upvoted because others had that problem, and answered because others had experienced that problem and knew how to address it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It’s not nearly specific enough.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We deal with this all the time, but generally questions that remain open (or are reopened) have been made specific enough to actually answer.  If you browse comments from the other moderators and I, you'll see this as a pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is difficult to learn from these questions.&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; &quot;&lt;em&gt;But even under ideal circumstances there really can be no absolute answer to this question other than 'it depends; both animals are adapted to their particular environment and have certain strengths and weaknesses.'&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/148/42&quot;&gt;Are &amp;quot;it depends&amp;quot; answers a sign of a bad question?&lt;/a&gt; - We've addressed this specifically.  Yes, it can be a problem, and some questions will be closed because of it.  Others could use edits to make them better.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It drives away experts.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the only indictment that I think rings true in too many cases at the Workplace.  It's just too easy for people to say &quot;Me too&quot; and add their two cents.  However, we're constantly trying to improve:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Warning, many of the links are the same as Rarity's but I've added a few new ones)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/123/should-we-add-a-back-it-up-rule-to-the-faq-now&quot;&gt;Should we add a &amp;quot;Back It Up&amp;quot; rule to the FAQ now?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/118/what-can-we-do-about-one-line-answers&quot;&gt;What can we do about one line answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/277/42&quot;&gt;Do we need expertise other than opinion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/236/how-can-we-enforce-quality-standards-without-adding-to-the-faq&quot;&gt;How can we enforce quality standards without adding to the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/172/what-can-we-do-about-me-too-answers&quot;&gt;What can we do about me-too answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/35/do-we-have-a-quality-control-issue&quot;&gt;Do we have a Quality control issue?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/321/the-workplace-self-evaluation-lets-get-critical&quot;&gt;The Workplace self-evaluation: let&amp;#39;s get critical!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5/does-this-site-need-a-back-it-up-rule&quot;&gt;Does this site need a &amp;quot;back it up&amp;quot; rule?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if you'll take a look at &lt;strong&gt;Gorilla vs. Shark&lt;/strong&gt; again, Jeff posts an example of how a non-constructive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Google+ vs. Facebook&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;could become the non-quite-there-but-salvageable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Are Google+ Circles better UX for sharing among friends than Facebook Groups?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll notice that a few of our questions are like the last one, and a lot started out that way.  And you should also notice efforts by the moderators to post notices on those questions that they need to be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I see very few on the page asking &quot;what's better&quot; abstractly, even in this case.  I see many asking how to accomplish something, or how to understand and deal with a certain situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff concludes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perhaps this is a red herring. &lt;strong&gt;I honestly feel a lot of the “this v. that” questions would be better expressed as examinations of the underlying concepts without all the mock conflict.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I 100% agree with this.  &lt;strong&gt;And I feel we've actually done a fairly good job of transforming &lt;em&gt;versus&lt;/em&gt; questions into &quot;examinations of the underlying concepts&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;  I would &lt;em&gt;welcome&lt;/em&gt; any discussion regarding examples to the contrary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2012-08-02T17:18:59.357" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="381" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-03T12:29:16.863" Score="6" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to understand why this question was closed as offtopic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3017/how-can-i-investigate-a-competitor&quot;&gt;How can I research a competitor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been something that I have discussed with others in the workplace from time to time as it can be an important part of market research or someones role in the company.  There are also accusations of industrial espionage which were unfounded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If questions about market research are off topic then questions about &quot;How to deal with XXX as a software developer&quot; or &quot;Is this wrong for them to expect XXX of software developers?&quot; should also be offtopic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-08-06T14:40:18.113" Title="Why is this off topic and is there a way to improve and reopen?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="381" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:18:26.790" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doing market research is a specific job function.  That makes it off topic.  The only exceptions are questions on general people management tasks.(Questions on business management are still off topic)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better comparison question would be how do convert a program from ASP to ASP.net... that is a job specific function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question that would be on topic though tangential to the question you asked would be &quot;How do I deal with questions from the a competitor about the company I work for?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace deals with questions about things we do at or involving work that are not really a part of our job function.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could change the question to ask how you can learn about Market Research as an engineer.  I would be sure to avoid questions asking for an opinion on the ethics involved  as these tend toward not constructive, and questions on legality are banned as off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T16:18:26.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="383" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="384" CreationDate="2012-08-05T13:03:46.567" Score="3" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it appropriate to ask what career field I should pursue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I base the question on my skillset, experience, and goals, it would be more specific an answerable. However, the result would probably be more like a list than an ideal single-best-answer question. Would it be appropriate as a CW question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1113" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-09-13T18:56:59.370" LastActivityDate="2012-09-13T18:56:59.370" Title="Are questions about what career field one could go into on-topic for The Workplace?" Tags="|discussion|faq|on-topic-definition|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="383" CreationDate="2012-08-05T14:59:27.160" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think there are three potential problems here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not Constructive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These basically request a list/solicit general recomendations of what I might try. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/11780/166936&quot;&gt;generally that's not cool.&lt;/a&gt; There's no right answer, answers aren't even really &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;, they're just lists of things. Lists of things don't really solve specific problems. Lists of things can be very popular but they diminish the quality of the site by allowing theoretical lists to overwhelm practical, direct answers to solvable problems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Too Localized: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On occasion someone lists very specific skills they have and what job they should get with those &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; skills. If you're asking what you &lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt; should go into, you're the only one that can answer that. That doesn't &lt;em&gt;sound&lt;/em&gt; like your question, but it's &#xA;another problem with these questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Off Topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3828/canonical-what-can-i-do-with-my-programming-skills-if-im-weary-of-heads-down-c#comment10605_3830&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood says here&lt;/a&gt;, this just plain isn't a general Workplace issue. It's a career issue only someone in those specific careers could really tell you. This isn't an issue you'd ask someone very experienced with intraoffice politics or other general workplace issues; you have to ask people &lt;em&gt;in that field&lt;/em&gt;. It's also extremely close to the &quot;Which job should I take?&quot; clause we've already listed as Off Topic in our FAQ.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of all that, I don't think these questions can &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; be acceptable here. We've already started &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2658/what-kind-of-business-management-fields-are-available-to-a-programmer-who-no-lon&quot;&gt;closing these questions&lt;/a&gt; and I think it's best for the site to define these sorts of questions as clearly off topic. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3832/35414&quot;&gt;ChrisF's answer on a very related Programmers Meta question&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps more importantly, we're opening the door to &lt;em&gt;hundreds&lt;/em&gt; of questions that can be asked with &lt;em&gt;zero&lt;/em&gt; stake in the game. &quot;Just curious&quot; questions are very dangerous because they require no effort or experience to ask; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11760/whats-the-opinion-on-list-questions/11780#11780&quot;&gt;&quot;these are the ultimate newbie questions&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. On top of all the rest, I really don't want to open the door for the hundreds of combinations of field and jobs that could make dozens, hundreds or thousands of &quot;gimme a job, any job!&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki doesn't help; Community Wiki used to be abused to allow questions that really don't fit well on Stack Exchange's format. Either the question fits or it doesn't; Community Wiki isn't going to fix that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To paraphrase ChrisF: Ultimately the answer to &quot;what job can I get with my skills?&quot; is anything and everything, which isn't an answer at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2012-08-05T15:04:37.437" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="381" CreationDate="2012-08-06T14:40:18.113" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;perhaps the question could be re-factored into one about general fact-finding projects, and how to go about them?  I think the question itself is excellent in concept, as it can be quite prevalent in these current times, as economies are shaky and companies always need to be looking for the best deals.  It could easily be expanded to include researching possible vendors/contractors, and how to gather the information you require in each case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1374" LastActivityDate="2012-08-06T14:40:18.113" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="387" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-07T13:02:11.887" Score="8" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site's Spring launch was marred with a lot of poor, short, not very helpful answers. Forum level, discussion type answers where an upvote more often meant &quot;I agree&quot; as opposed to &quot;This is useful.&quot; Looking around I think, and &lt;em&gt;hope&lt;/em&gt;, we've come a long way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, here's some discussion on the topic of answer quality:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/172/what-can-we-do-about-me-too-answers&quot;&gt;What can we do about me-too answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/118/what-can-we-do-about-one-line-answers&quot;&gt;What can we do about one line answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/148/are-it-depends-answers-a-sign-of-a-bad-question&quot;&gt;Are &amp;quot;it depends&amp;quot; answers a sign of a bad question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/280/should-we-reduce-the-community-wiki-threshold-to-10-answers&quot;&gt;Should we reduce the Community Wiki threshold to 10 answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/188/i-think-we-now-have-that-quality-issue-that-robert-warned-us-about&quot;&gt;I think we now have that quality issue that Robert warned us about&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/269/do-we-need-a-policy-on-bad-me-too-answers&quot;&gt;Do we need a policy on bad/&amp;quot;me too&amp;quot; answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I asked like half of those myself; it was something I was very concerned with early on, and a big part of why I wanted to help get this community into shape by becoming a moderator. A problem is moderator powers don't really help moderate bad answers. I can't close an answer as a warning you need to fix this before anyone can benefit; I can leave one of a couple of Post Notices, I can downvote (believe me I do) or I can delete/convert to comment, for those answers that aren't remotely answers. But that doesn't do much,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tone and attitude of the community is what really makes the difference when it comes to answers; lots of simple, chatty or otherwise unhelpful answers sends the message that these are accepted. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/06/the-broken-window-theory.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Broken Window Theory&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the tone we set is so important we went and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;added some answer quality guidelines to the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;. We've also aggressively closed vague, discussion-y or not constructive questions. Plus we've had a dozen or more Meta questions on this topic. I'm not sure what mix of those worked, but I really think the issue has improved dramatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, have we really improved? Are there still answer quality issues? What more can we do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2012-08-08T04:46:39.993" Title="Has answer quality improved since the early days of this site?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="387" CreationDate="2012-08-08T04:46:39.993" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to say that I'm pretty impressed with what the avid users and moderators here have done with this site. When it first launched, it wasn't too clear where things would be heading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers that are too short:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, I've been answering more questions, and on some of the questions, an occasional user would leave a one-liner answer. The community responded with polite, guiding comments and downvotes, and moderators responded with post notices. I believe the post notices have an impact; it's like putting a big banner up that screams, &quot;this is what &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to do here.&quot;  It's the equivalent of the close post notices attached to questions that are closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These branded answers are either fixed by the user or deleted, which fixes the problem either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers that repeat what's already been said:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to repetition, this is an area where we might need to take a look at. I answered a question, and 20 minutes later another user posted an answer that was very similar to mine. It wasn't a &quot;copy&quot;, and it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; fairly detailed, but I'm not sure &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; would have repeated something that was already said, unless I had something else to say that couldn't fit in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My solution to this wasn't to flag the answer; instead, I took a lesson from my time on Stack Overflow. I edited my answer and improved it with better formatting, more concise wording, and section headings. On Stack Overflow, this helps differentiate my answers and make them stand out in cases where responses are similar, and it's &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; paid dividends in the reputation department.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; is the solution. Perhaps repetition isn't a problem that's significantly out of hand, but it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; one that we should keep an eye on, as issues tend to magnify as a community grows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, I've seen some questions get closed. The ones that were debatable involved three types of users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those who think the question should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those who think the question should &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; have been closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those who &lt;em&gt;edit and improve&lt;/em&gt; the question; these people convince the people from the second category to defect and move into the first category. These users are our true gems. This is leadership through editing, as the digital pen is truly mightier than the sword.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, even in cases where the question still might not be the best fit for Stack Exchange, the edits helped move the question and bring it closer towards the right side of the &lt;em&gt;must close&lt;/em&gt; threshold. We're doing good here, but I still see areas where we can educate more of the users from the first category. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's show them that the way to winning the close/reopen battle isn't to &quot;rant&quot; or scream &quot;Why is this off-topic&quot; or just blindly vote to reopen. Instead, encourage these users to join the third group of users and help edit questions. Convincing more people to vote to reopen via edits is not only more constructive, but it significantly improves the quality of the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like this site is marching towards graduation. Nice job!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-08-08T04:46:39.993" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2012-08-08T19:14:13.053" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A new tool that wasn't considered when posting this question: Moderators can actually apply one of the following Post Notices to questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AzlZl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've used the Insufficient Explanation to good effect I think, if you see a post that could use this (one two lines, almost an answer but lacking supporting information) go ahead and flag for moderator attention; use the Other flag option and explain which post notice the post needs and why (if it isn't painfully obvious) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-08-08T19:14:13.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="391" CreationDate="2012-08-09T18:54:37.990" Score="2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of my answers just got un-upvoted. That's fine, I have no problem with that. However, I am aware that there are restrictions on retracting votes based on how long it has been since either the vote was placed or the post was edited. I just tested with a recent vote of mine, and it was denied because it has been two hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most recent upvote on this post is ~1 month old, and that was one day after the last edit on the post. There have been no edits to it since, and my reputation history shows no upvotes since then either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could this upvote be undone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2012-08-09T18:59:26.393" Title="Unupvoted answer" Tags="|support|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="390" CreationDate="2012-08-09T18:59:26.393" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a known bug/problematic feature: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/133314/166936&quot;&gt;Undone edits disappear from revision history&lt;/a&gt;. It's slated to be fixed. It's possible that someone edited, voted, and removed their edit, causing the revision to disappear, while the vote was allowed to be retracted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this isn't considered acceptable behavior; votes are anonymous and it's perfectly fine that no one knows that you voted/unvoted/switched votes, however posts should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be silently edited in order to play with votes like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2012-08-09T18:59:26.393" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="392" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="393" CreationDate="2012-08-14T02:36:11.430" Score="8" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been guilty of this myself, editing my question to respond to answerers and thank them. However, I'm not sure it's best for the question as it makes it longer and a bit scarier to read. Question boxes are designed to contain the actual question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the following question:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1609/what-is-the-best-way-to-get-a-new-developer-up-to-speed&quot;&gt;What is the best way to get a new developer up to speed?&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;strong&gt;(NOTE: The question has been edited, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/1609/7&quot;&gt;revision 7 for context&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this example, the response is just about as long as the question. It could almost be posted as an answer. Should it have been?  Would that be an acceptable way to summarize the results, as long as the answer answered the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a sign that the question was not constructive? After all, it's asking for the &quot;best&quot; approach and got lots of &quot;correct&quot; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming the question is constructive, what -- if anything -- should be done about the response, and what is the procedure for editing questions such as this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-08-14T15:02:02.640" Title="What should be done with questions where askers edit in a response to all the answerers that doesn't elicit more answers?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="392" CreationDate="2012-08-14T03:35:57.247" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a nice thought that after we've all done a bit of teaching and/or learning, we go around the room and shake each others' hands, sum up what we've learned, sing Kumbaya &amp;mdash; but it's not very good for Stack Exchange and SE is not good for it (which is why we have &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/do-trilogy-sites-need-a-third-place/&quot;&gt;chat -- the &quot;third&quot; place&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, keep in mind just how badly this breaks the reading/learning flow for future readers.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/faster-edits-with-inline-editing/&quot;&gt;Remember&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Every Stack Exchange question and answer pair is intended to be an &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/the-wikipedia-of-long-tail-programming-questions/&quot;&gt;evergreen, editable resource for future travelers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think we do two things, in order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the &quot;response&quot; contains something useful that the answers really don't contain, then &lt;strong&gt;edit the answers to add the information that is missing&lt;/strong&gt;.  This might even be just a concise summary, but it's possible the back-and-forth between the asker and answerer resulted in a great summary instead of just a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The editing feature is there so that old question/answer pairs can get better and better. For every person who asks a question and gets an answer on Stack Exchange, hundreds or thousands of people will come read that conversation later. Even if the original asker got a decent answer and moved on, the question lives on and may continue to be useful for decades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Remove the answer summary from the question, with haste&lt;/strong&gt;.  Get rid of them!  Don't spoil the ending!  Don't scare away future readers with our weird out-of-order historical artifacts!  &lt;strong&gt;Let SE do what it does best &amp;mdash; sort the best answers to the top!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="17" LastEditDate="2012-08-14T03:43:06.130" LastActivityDate="2012-08-14T03:43:06.130" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="392" CreationDate="2012-08-14T15:02:02.640" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Stack Exchange model, the question is supposed to be just that - a question. Editing/adding information should be done for clarification; edits should make a question easier to read or provide relevant information essential to solving the problem. A summary of answers, or responses to answers, are not part of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of edits are more appropriate as other actions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thanking answerers for their response and helpfulness:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvote useful answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accept the most helpful answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment on the answers (although &quot;thank you&quot; comments are not generally encouraged, they are certainly not harmful)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Award a bounty to excellent answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contributing to/improving an answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment on the answer to suggest an improvement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Asking for clarification or further answers:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment on existing answers to ask for clarification/explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the question to help those answering to better understand the problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Start a bounty on the question to attract more attention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question and its answers are intended to be resources for future visitors to learn and to understand how to solve a particular problem. Questions are always open for more answers (exception being closed questions, which we don't want anyway), so the summary of answers may someday be obsolete if a new, amazing answer comes along. Additionally, usernames can be changed, so someone may say &quot;Hm. The question says user1234567890's answer is really wonderful, but there is no answer from a user1234567890.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the &quot;help&quot; provided by this type of summary is redundant, repetetive, and unnecessary, and not really needed. The question describes the problem. The answers immediately below the question describe solutions. They all have a score next to them based on community voting (experts saying &quot;this is a good solution to the problem&quot; or &quot;don't listen to this, it is incorrect&quot;). The asker may have gotten a solution to their particular instance of the problem, but still not understand the issue as well as other experts in the field. The accepted answer may not be the best, and the answers summarized in the question might not be that great. The expertise of many users viewing the question and answers over time will provide useful insight into what is actually the most accurate and complete solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;These edits don't add anything constructive to the question to help answer it, duplicate content already on the page (as of a specific time), and make the question a bit harder to read. It is not an appropriate use of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2012-08-14T15:02:02.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="395" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-16T12:41:53.467" Score="31" ViewCount="732" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand reputation is an important aspect of Stack Exchange. However, on sites like onstartups and this site, sometimes you want to ask a question anonymously. You can always use a throwaway account, even have a second account dedicated to &quot;sensitive topics.&quot; However, I think a good anonymous question should be rewarded with reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically I am proposing the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The feature should only apply to certain sites like workplace and onstartups.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user with X reputation on the site (lets say 200) or X overall reputation on SE (lets say 2000) should be able to ask anonymous questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There should be a reputation penalty, say 50 points.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a user the question should count towards my reputation, badges, etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One should be able to make a question un-anonymous at a later date and get half their reputation back. If I change jobs, the matter ceases to be confidential, etc I should be encouraged to &quot;take ownership&quot; of the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I should be able to make an existing question anonymous.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2012-08-29T15:31:57.290" LastActivityDate="2012-08-29T15:31:57.290" Title="Can you add an ask anonymously feature for Stack Exchange sites like this and onstartups?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="395" CreationDate="2012-08-16T17:20:51.637" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A workaround for this is to use existing feature of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/merge-accounts&quot; title=&quot;related questions at MSO&quot;&gt;merge-accounts&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;create anonymous account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ask the question using anonymous account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when deemed appropriate, ask moderators to merge anonymous account into your &quot;main&quot; account.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way one gets all the reputation, badges etc associated with the question when accounts get merged. A famous example question where this approach was used at Server Fault is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/q/293217/89077&quot;&gt;Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;OP originally posted it from &lt;em&gt;throwaway&lt;/em&gt; account which later has been merged (at about &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/posts/293217/revisions&quot; title=&quot;revisions history&quot;&gt;Revision 9&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having real &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness_Protection_Program&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;what&amp;#39;s this?&quot;&gt;witness protection program&lt;/a&gt; would certainly be better than above funny procedure but so far, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/79390/165773&quot;&gt;related feature request at MSO&lt;/a&gt; doesn't seem to have good chances to get implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:14:46.070" LastActivityDate="2012-08-17T14:17:59.103" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="397" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="398" CreationDate="2012-08-16T20:50:15.747" Score="6" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question from April &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/136/how-to-work-on-my-personal-ideas-during-the-weekend&quot;&gt;How to work on my personal ideas during the weekend&lt;/a&gt; seems the antithesis of what this site is about.  It's about spending your personal time on the weekends outside of work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am in the dark as to how this has been deemed acceptable.  From the FAQ:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page. &#xA;&#xA;The Workplace - Stack Exchange is for members of the workforce navigating the professional setting. &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to stir the pot, I'm just curious how this is an acceptable question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1685" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-08-20T20:15:10.023" Title="More curiousity on what is considered &quot;on topic&quot;, as a question at the top of the site seems completely unfit but has a plethora of upvotes" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="397" CreationDate="2012-08-16T21:00:45.057" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;All I can really say is that that post was from the private beta of the site when things were very different and we were sorting out what's on/off topic. A lot of more discussiony topics flourished in that brief period, and trying to retroactively moderate them isn't very pleasant nor is it all that productive. That question was actually asked on the &lt;em&gt;very first day in private beta&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people want to close posts like that I'd encourage them to vote, but as a moderator I don't feel comfortable going back and closing swaths of questions because they were asked in the site's defining period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The birth of the site was a bit rough, as it always is. We had a lot of very constructive discussions and I think we've solidified our policies and expectations very well. But when that happened there were a lot of things we missed. If those posts get flags and close votes, sure, let's close them. But I don't think it's constructive to start looking at the very first posts on the site and start asking &quot;why can't I ask this &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. We tried to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/144/is-workplace-going-to-follow-the-same-life-cycle-as-other-se-sites-for-subjectiv/147#147&quot;&gt;stop the quality problem early.&lt;/a&gt; I think we did very well, but it's hard to have a concrete policy &lt;strong&gt;from the very first day of the site.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mentioned post got 3 community close votes so I went and slapped a Closed ribbon on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2012-08-20T20:15:10.023" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="395" CreationDate="2012-08-17T21:08:21.757" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good anonymous question &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be rewarded with reputation - &lt;em&gt;to that account&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you're asking is that you want a question that is not associated to an account, but that account gets to reap all the benefits from it. I'm not going to get into the programmatic and mechanical nightmares that would be required to set this up in the code, so let's instead look at the practicality and exercise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider - every instance of reputation gain&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt; is visible on your profile page, past the first point and the 100 points of bonus for association. There is no means to which reputation can be attributed to the parent account without the existence of a secret account being found - indicating unattributed reputation gain will be obvious, while just hiding it will raise questions about &quot;ghost reputation&quot; that people can &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; answer with &quot;Secret account&quot; (as that will be the only answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is actually enough data for anyone to track down the associated ghost account purely with publicly available tools. All they'd need to do is isolate days in which the largest ghost reputation was gained (which will generally correspond to the original asking), then map out viable points where it could have happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt;Downvotes you cast aren't shown, but this isn't reputation gain, and we are very public about the fact we hide downvotes to posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all a really long-winded way of saying &lt;strong&gt;if you want anonymity, and for questions to not be associated to your account and name, then they should be completely separate&lt;/strong&gt;. Trying to get benefit for them means you have to own up to ownership of this anonymous account. Any means of a connection (reputation, badges, anything) is all public data that can be traced and essentially void the intention of anonymity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is all about being recognized for contributions and claiming credit for it. This is counter to the very point of being anonymous and using an account that is not to be identified as your own, and so it would be a measured exercise of complexity that is far unwieldy compared the minor amount of benefit yielded to either involved party.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastActivityDate="2012-08-17T21:08:21.757" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="395" CreationDate="2012-08-18T01:39:27.773" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;An idea popped into my head; how about merging Unregistered accounts into a blatant &quot;post anonymously&quot; feature? This way we get &quot;anonymous posting&quot; via unregistered accounts, don't have a complex new system, and we get a little clarity on what unregistered accounts &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; are; throwaways. As the brilliant and esteemed Ben Brocka points out, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/142695/make-the-option-to-register-more-explicit&quot;&gt;the unregistered sign up form is a bit confusing.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm thinking is you can at any point log out and ask/answer a question, and above the name/email/homepage form it says &quot;post anonymously&quot;. When posting anonymously, you can't set a name (that's a hard sell, so it might require rethinking, but it really goes make it reasonably &quot;anonymous&quot;).  After making an Anonymous account, you have an &lt;em&gt;option&lt;/em&gt; to add an open ID, making it a real account, but if you don't care, you can just let the account rot; like most unregistered accounts seem to already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this doesn't require a huge refit of the account making/reputation system at all, it just makes a big mental model change of the Unregistered account option; which IMO is already needed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2012-08-18T01:39:27.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="401" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="402" CreationDate="2012-08-20T12:39:14.710" Score="2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3308/which-cms-or-framework-in-php-are-good-to-learn&quot;&gt;particular post&lt;/a&gt; is likely to be deleted - downvoted it myself hoping this will help driving it away faster. Note I am not 100% certain since I am not the one making delete decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still my eyes were hurt by spelling mistakes and I &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review-beta/suggested-edits/472&quot;&gt;suggested this edit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit has been rejected with the explanation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Post is closed and will be deleted. I don't see a reason to edit it (any edit reputation will be lost, as you know).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is above a good reason to reject a suggested edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4gkDG.png&quot; alt=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4gkDG.png&quot; title=&quot;suggested edit screen shot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-08-26T20:04:33.817" Title="is it OK to reject a suggested edit for the post that is likely to be deleted?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="401" CreationDate="2012-08-20T13:34:07.063" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm on the fence personally. I don't see much harm here and usually edit minor issues like this on posts when I close them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the most part closed posts should be improved of course, but this post was doomed to get a score of -4 or lower (making it vanish from the front page) and closed. A combination of those two means it's going to be automatically deleted (closed -1 posts with no answers get auto-deleted after a month).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a good faith edit, so I wouldn't want to discourage that in and of itself, but at the same time posts &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; going to the scrapyard might be better off left alone (with a comment explaining why).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the suggested edit rep...I actually don't know if you keep it or lose it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2012-08-20T16:01:02.463" LastActivityDate="2012-08-20T16:01:02.463" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="401" CreationDate="2012-08-26T19:58:54.480" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree completely with the reject reason. First, the person who rejected the edit was not a moderator and has no crystal ball. Therefore, it's impossible for that person to really know without a doubt that the post was going to be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, deleted content on Stack Exchange sites is not &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; completely removed from the system. On beta sites, any user with at least 2,000 reputation can see deleted posts. Now, I've seen cases where a question was closed or deleted simply because some blatant grammatical and spelling issues made the question &lt;em&gt;appear&lt;/em&gt; to be very low quality, when in fact making an edit to clean things up a bit helped expose the ways the question could be further improved and made to fit the guidelines of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, as I mentioned previously, making edits to questions that are closed or deleted help eliminate unnecessary distractions that prevent users from seeing them in their true light. However, it also has the opposite effect for questions that really, truly do have no value. Anyone with 2,000 reputation or higher who sees the deleted question will know that it wasn't hastily deleted and that effort was made to improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Stack Exchange community team has emphasized that a good first step on any closed question is to first edit the spelling and grammar to see the posts more clearly. Is getting a clearer picture of a question that, at face value appears to be a broken window, really not what we want to encourage out of our user base, just because of a couple reputation points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post is closed and will be deleted. I don't see a reason to edit it &lt;strong&gt;(any edit reputation will be lost, as you know).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, it's clear that this question has no value here, edited or not, but are the high rep users on this site who have the power to reject edits really that worried about someone else gaining +2 reputation for trying to improve the site?  If we make this about rep, we discourage healthy behaviors. If someone is trying to improve the site, judge their actions based on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It is not enough that I win, everyone else must lose....&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;-- Genghis Khan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-08-26T20:04:33.817" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="404" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-30T13:53:28.300" Score="3" ViewCount="1198" Body="&lt;p&gt;A long time ago I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/47/is-the-etiquette-tag-a-synonym-of-professionalism&quot;&gt;Is the Etiquette tag a synonym of Professionalism?&lt;/a&gt; because the two seemed to be used largely interchangeably (I still think they often are). Now we also have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ethics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ethics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ethics&lt;/a&gt;, which seems to often be used with or in place of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/etiquette&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;etiquette&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;etiquette&lt;/a&gt; (which could often also be replaced with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/professionalism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;professionalism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;professionalism&lt;/a&gt;).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ethics in particular seems like it &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have a clear distinction, generally being much more serious than the other two. In my mind it's an &lt;em&gt;ethical&lt;/em&gt; issue if your actions are quite likely to negatively impact another person or business; it's much more serious than being &lt;em&gt;rude&lt;/em&gt;, despite the severity of rudeness. It seems like overkill on questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1525/when-sending-a-follow-up-email-is-it-appropriate-to-cc-the-recipients-boss&quot;&gt;When sending a follow up email, is it appropriate to CC the recipient&amp;#39;s boss?&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3492/is-it-rude-to-leave-an-interview-early-if-you-have-already-made-your-decision&quot;&gt;Is it rude to leave an interview early if you have already made your decision?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We either need some very clear guidelines (in all tag wikis) and stricter enforcement, or some of these tags need to be made synonyms. As-is I can't clearly determine what any given question is about given one of these tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:41:23.787" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:41:23.787" Title="Tag clarification: [ethics] vs [etiquette] vs [professionalism]" Tags="|discussion|tags|synonym-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="404" CreationDate="2012-08-30T14:30:40.890" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ethics and etiquette are two different things. Ethics refers to morality, honesty, and integrity. Etiquette refers to politeness and related social conventions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Professionalism is a bit harder to define. I suppose it technically involves both ethics and etiquette. One might argue that it also includes competency, although others may say it is more about demeanor/actions than about job performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some definitions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ethics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ethics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;( used with a singular or plural verb ) a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics; Christian ethics. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;moral principles, as of an individual: His ethics forbade betrayal of a confidence. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/etiquette&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Etiquette&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;conventional requirements as to social behavior; proprieties of conduct as established in any class or community or for any occasion. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;a prescribed or accepted code of usage in matters of ceremony, as at a court or in official or other formal observances. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;the code of ethical behavior regarding professional practice or action among the members of a profession in their dealings with each other: medical etiquette. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(looks like there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a bit of overlap between ethics and etiquette)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/professionalism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Professionalism&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the standing, practice, or methods of a &lt;em&gt;professional&lt;/em&gt;, as distinguished from an amateur. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/professional&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Professional&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;appropriate to a profession: professional objectivity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An excellently relevant question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/4206/869&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, which clearly deals with etiquette but not ethics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-09-27T17:26:32.347" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-30T19:59:24.123" Score="6" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3598/is-it-rude-for-a-company-not-to-call-someone-back-after-an-interview&quot;&gt;some&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3492/is-it-rude-to-leave-an-interview-early-if-you-have-already-made-your-decision&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; asking if something is rude.  In the first question linked, the behavior in question is someone else's; knowing whether it's rude doesn't help the asker at all.  The second question asks if the &quot;point-of-view character&quot;'s action was rude, which is a little closer to the asker, but I still wonder if these questions belong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions of the form &quot;should I do X?&quot; are on-topic, but are assessments of anybody's rudeness?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T13:59:46.237" Title="Is &quot;is X rude?&quot; on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="406" CreationDate="2012-08-30T20:39:39.243" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally it seems when you're asking&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it rude to do X?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You really mean&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it a bad idea to do X?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're about practical problems. If the best thing to do in a given situation &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; interpreted as rude, it's much more helpful to know what you should do vs &quot;will people like me if I do X&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A problem I noted in the Leaving Early question is that the majority of answers seem to agree almost entirely on what you should do (yeah, leave early, with these caveats), and the difference in most answers is just how rude they find the action as it was (presumably) undertaken. The difference is was really just how and how much they chose to berate the person leaving early or the interviewer, which doesn't really help anyone (but unfortunately is the sort of popular bikesheddery people enjoy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The practical advice in most of the posts is the same, so the differentiating factor in each post is just exactly how rude they find/assume the behavior to be. That's not really helpful, and what's worse it makes a bunch of practically identical answers superficially different, and turns voting away from &quot;This is a helpful answer&quot; to &quot;I agree with your assessment of the rudeness in this situation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would generally discourage &quot;Is X rude&quot; in favor of the &quot;Should I do X?&quot; or &quot;Can I go about doing X successfully?&quot; That's your real question, and there's no room for faffing about with what's rude or not. Maybe you shouldn't do it because it's rude; if that's the case the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; will tell you that. But making the post &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; rudeness turns it into Bad Subjective territory IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus I wouldn't really call it &quot;off topic&quot; but rather &quot;not constructive&quot;, in need of some editing to take the focus from subjective, squishy rudeness into more practical matters of what you should &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-08-31T13:59:46.237" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T13:59:46.237" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="406" CreationDate="2012-08-31T08:36:13.537" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Rarity, this is most likely not constructive rather than off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are asking if the action of another is rude or not - what are you going to do with the answers? If you have been put out or offended by this, then to you, it's rude. But knowing that doesn't help you deal with the situation, and most likely the question is just an opportunity to vent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are asking about a planned (or past) action on your own behalf - again, rudeness is subjective. You may well have an idea whether the others involved did find it rude. But having others confirm that they would also have done doesn't really help. The constructive question is how to handle that situation differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here are some example questions as I see it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Constructive questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;This is what happened. I personally found this rude. Is this just a cultural issue? If so, how should I interpret it?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;This is what happened. I personally found this rude. How should I react or what should I do?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;This is what I'm considering doing. I'm worried this might be seen as rude. Are there better approaches to achieve the same end?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not constructive questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;This is what happened. I personally found this rude. Do you agree?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;This is what happened. Is this rude?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;This is what I'm considering doing. Is this rude?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;This is what happened. I personally found this rude. Is it acceptable to be equally rude in return, because this is what I'm considering doing?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all the constructive ones, the question of rudeness is incidental; it probably wouldn't even appear in the question title. In all the non constructive ones, there is likely to have been an element of venting or ranting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we need a &quot;vent/rant&quot; category for closing questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2437" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T08:36:13.537" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="406" CreationDate="2012-08-31T13:04:34.573" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to point out, that just because a question does not directly relate to the asker, does NOT mean it is unfit for this site.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Workplace.SE is meant to be a repository of knowledge, and that linked question is quite obviously something that needed to be brought up.  168 'upvotes' and 50K+ views (brought our visitors/day up from about 800 to 970+) clearly indicates that it is a question quite a few people online are looking to have answered.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Now, as for the general question format itself, I see absolutely no problem with it, as long as it is relating to the workplace environment.  You can claim it is asking for opinions and such...but it really isn't.  There are certain standards that are accepted as being normal for  workplace behavior, and inquiring if a certain action goes against them is a perfectly valid action.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Perhaps, instead of talking about closing questions like this, it would be better to edit them  slightly?  Even that should not be needed, but if some action must be taken, it should ONLY be that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1374" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T13:04:34.573" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="410" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="411" CreationDate="2012-09-03T09:22:23.593" Score="12" ViewCount="993" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't help feeling that some of the questions on the site are opportunities to offload to a listening pair of ears (or thousands of pairs of ears as the case may be). I'm thinking in particular of this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3699/should-i-take-leave-before-office-function&quot;&gt;Should I take leave before office function?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Oded says in his comments, and I do in my answer, this is a purely personal decision. Yes, the OP has a dilemma, but there is no right answer. It is possible IMHO to offer constructive answers, in terms of how to frame the internal debate, but not possible to offer definitive decisions. Should this be off topic? Should there be a tag like &quot;personal dilemma&quot; that we slap on these? Some of us quite enjoy answering this sort of question, so this could be a constructive thing (unlike the &quot;homework&quot; tag on StackOverflow for instance...). Is there a phrase for this that translates well into the cultures of all this site's users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-04-20T07:17:59.973" Title="What should we do with questions about personal dilemmas with no right answer?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="410" CreationDate="2012-09-03T13:41:08.140" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really think the tag is appropriate as it would pretty clearly be a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;Meta tag&lt;/a&gt;  as means different things to different people and it's useless as the only tag on a question; it doesn't actually tell you anything about the domain of the question. Further, the only real information you can glean from the tag is &quot;this is probably too localized to this person's exact personal situation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm familiar with the sort of questions you're referring to (ones that solicit general advice and not specific or constructive answers). These questions at best need cleanup, or at worst are unanswerable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not just answer them and move on? The more we allow personal questions relevant to only a single-person the more it's going to be expected that we allow more of them. A big reason Salary and &quot;which job is most coolest&quot; questions are laid out as Off Topic in our FAQ is really because the answer is up to the specific person (at a specific time and specific place to boot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, reputation earned from dubious questions like that often says little about the actual value of the answer; once upvotes mean &quot;Yeah, I agree with this!&quot; they've lost meaning. Personal advice questions almost always trend into this territory as answers aren't focused. Another problem is these questions often solicit &lt;em&gt;general&lt;/em&gt; advice meaning two people could give completely different answers solving different aspects of the problem; it's just not a fair playing ground when there's no clearly defined problem beyond &quot;I hate my job&quot; &quot;Should I quit&quot; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers here &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; just for one person; we're &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a help forum. Answers here should be for everyone in a similar situation. If you have to give advice that &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; only help a &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; person, you're probably wasting your time (and all reader's time to boot), instead questions like this should be &lt;strong&gt;closed with the appropriate close reason&lt;/strong&gt;. This is often Too Localized (if it's a personal situation must be answered once for each individual person) or Not Constructive (soliciting general advice or opinions on a matter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2014-04-20T07:16:56.370" LastActivityDate="2014-04-20T07:16:56.370" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="413" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-04T15:03:16.980" Score="12" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a number of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;users have enough reputation to delete posts&lt;/a&gt; so I thought I'd write up a little primer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When can I vote to delete posts?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why would I vote to delete a Question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why would I vote to delete an Answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What if I think something was wrongly deleted?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T05:21:49.423" Title="Delete votes and you!" Tags="|support|faq|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="413" CreationDate="2012-09-04T15:03:16.980" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;When can I vote to delete posts?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users with 10,000 reputation can cast a delete vote on a &lt;strong&gt;closed question&lt;/strong&gt;, two days after it has been closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users with 20,000 reputation can cast a delete vote on an answer with a negative score, and can vote to delete closed questions without the two day waiting period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It takes at least 3 delete votes (or one moderator delete vote) to delete a post, more if it's a question with many votes. Note users with over 10,000 rep will see deleted posts answers (in red). More information is in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;Privileges page&lt;/a&gt; for this privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why would I vote to delete a Question?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally we only delete closed, low scoring posts with no answers or poor answers. Closed posts are all &quot;candidates for deletion&quot; but generally only irrecoverably off topic/poor questions without useful information in answers should be deleted. If a post is more borderline but no attempt has been made to save it, you can either attempt to edit yourself or vote to delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two day waiting limit is imposed on 10,000 rep users so there's a window where the asker can edit and improve their question, or at least see why their post was closed. Even if you have 20,000 rep, consider waiting until the user sees what was wrong with the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember if a post is blatant spam/offensive garbage you should use a &lt;strong&gt;spam/offensive flag&lt;/strong&gt; instead. Those get fast tracked for deletion, and may be deleted by a moderator/large amount of spam flags before normal-user delete votes take effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're looking to evaluate posts for deletion, use the following link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aquestion+closed%3Atrue+duplicate%3Afalse+created%3A..2014-02-19&quot;&gt;closed, non-duplicate questions from 2+ days ago&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; The date should be changed to two days ago when you run the search&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why would I vote to delete an Answer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments or questions posted as answers should be deleted (and users without delete votes can flag these as Not an Answer). Additionally, any negative scoring answer can be deleted; if an answer really is thoroughly useless and does not answer the question ask asked, you may cast a delete vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter category is where community delete votes really come in; moderators generally don't delete answers because they are &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; or answering the wrong question, but only when they are &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; clearly not even close to an answer. As a rule of thumb, a moderator should be able to tell, with absolutely no domain knowledge (even if the moderator has relevant knowledge) that an answer is not an answer before they delete a post. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2337/when-should-i-flag-an-answer-as-not-an-answer&quot;&gt;When should I flag an answer as &amp;#39;Not an Answer&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt; for guidance on how to handle flagging answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However if multiple users vote to delete a negative scoring post, that's generally fine. If a post is a good example of a bad idea, making a useful signpost of &quot;don't do this&quot;, consider leaving that post around. Otherwise feel free to cast a delete vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you've voted to delete a question/answer consider dropping a link to it in chat&lt;/strong&gt; so that others may review your decision and add their vote if they agree. If you're looking for posts up for deletion, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tools?tab=delete&amp;amp;daterange=last30days&quot;&gt;Most Delete votes&lt;/a&gt; (10,000 rep only). You can also see/audit recent deletions/undeletions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What if I think something was wrongly deleted?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bring up the post on Meta; bring a link if at all possible. All users with 10,000 rep can see deleted answers (or questions, if you have a link), so you can review deleted posts if you find them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can vote to delete a post, you can also vote to undelete a post, unless the post was deleted by a moderator or spam flags (it will show a deleted by Community if it's deleted by flags). It takes as many votes to undelete as it does to delete. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also flag a deleted post (yours or someone else's) for moderator attention if you feel it's been wrongly deleted or if the post has been improved to the point you feel it's worth undeleting. Generally if a post was deleted by a moderator, flag it, if it was deleted by the community, bring it up on Meta or ask in chat if you're unsure why it was deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T05:21:49.423" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="410" CreationDate="2012-09-05T13:21:25.063" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say avoid a tag like this.  I agree that we have a trend that we need to change that has the effect of highly specialized problems that are not widely applicable and come perilously close to be whiny or sob stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I loath closing a question if there's any way I can resuscitate it with an answer. :)  But even I would be willing to see our closure rate increase on these - we're not the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_column&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Agony Aunt&lt;/a&gt; and if we become that, we will loose our focus and our target audience.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My approach may not be other people's but I'd consider upping our process as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Review the question to see if it can be reworded or if the author can be induced to make the answer more applicable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Increase our closure metric.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2014-04-20T07:17:59.973" LastActivityDate="2014-04-20T07:17:59.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="416" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-06T16:22:21.327" Score="8" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3739/im-not-a-software-engineer-any-more-but-what-am-i&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3739/im-not-a-software-engineer-any-more-but-what-am-i&lt;/a&gt; are basically asking either the difference between job titles, what a certain job title means, or what job title one &amp;quot;really is&amp;quot; given a description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these constructive and good for the site? There's multiple issues here; some titles are very poorly defined and vary from company to company. Some titles have strict definitions, but only in certain countries (like Engineer). Often times the &amp;quot;same&amp;quot; job could fall under a variety of titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a line to draw somewhere around these questions? It starts to remind me of &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/02/lets-play-the-guessing-game/&quot;&gt;Let's play the guessing game&lt;/a&gt;; sure we have some answers that sound right, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There almost certainly isn't an actual, definitive answer, just something that &amp;quot;sounds right&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's often the case that the question is only searchable by the answer, not the definition to which it fits (like the linked question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do these questions help more than one person? Can we work with these or should they be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-05-01T15:24:19.497" Title="Is there a title for that?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="416" CreationDate="2012-09-06T18:13:27.010" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do these questions help more than one person? Can we work with these&#xA;  or should they be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. Most should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not see how these sorts of questions are at all useful outside the scope of the individual person asking the question. Me asking &quot;hey I do these specific (or generic) things at my job am I a XXX or a YYY?&quot; is not going to be useful to anyone except people in a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; similar circumstance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I simply cannot understand an easy way to transition these sorts of questions into a useful reference. And this problem is independent of the difficulty of identifying actual titles and meanings within an organization as these differ from company to company anyways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if people phrase them more constructively and agnostic of their specific circumstances I think they can be good questions. For example, in the linked example, a &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; and valuable question would be something along the lines of &quot;No longer performing the work matching my title - should I try to get my title changed or compensation adjusted accordingly?&quot; etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2012-09-06T18:13:27.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="416" CreationDate="2012-09-06T18:45:37.983" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great question to ask in chat. It would spur conversation and increase our chat usage if these types of questions (and even some answers) could be migrated there.  Sadly our chat is primarily a place where we point out issues that need addressed.  If these types of things were asked there the chat would be more vibrant and things needing addressed would probably be dealt with better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a broken window on the main site.  It is off topic because it is about a specific job which we have declared off topic.  It is to localized because the answer will probably never be of use to anyone else.  And it is not constructive because even if the job duties fit nicely in a little box we can slap a name on it is not going to solve the OP's problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from the comments the OP is looking for a way to tell his boss he is not happy because he was hired to do X and is now doing Y.  Which also makes this question not constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2013-05-01T15:24:19.497" LastActivityDate="2013-05-01T15:24:19.497" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="419" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="430" CreationDate="2012-09-07T12:58:24.280" Score="2" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/413/delete-votes-and-you&quot;&gt;Delete votes and you!&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Closed posts are all &quot;candidates for deletion&quot; but generally only irrecoverably off topic/poor questions without useful information in answers should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how to determine what &quot;generally&quot; is. Is it just consensus among the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be concrete: I'm new to the Workplace site, and I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3788/motivation-has-no-learning-curve-just-man-up&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, which is a wall of text and apparently too vague.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been told before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/144460/how-to-ask-a-broad-question-on-so#comment411741_144460&quot;&gt;I can tell from your choice of sentence structure that you love words. You love using them, you love putting them together to form sentences. These are all good things. What would improve your language is learning how to say things more succicintly. Or, as Picard once told Data, &quot;Don't Babble.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can easily see that he has a valid point (apart from slight arrogance, I envy his writing style), I don't know how I should improve this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, since I would still like good inputs like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3788/motivation-has-no-learning-curve-just-man-up#comment7747_3788&quot;&gt;pap&lt;/a&gt;'s, but I see that other people don't like my question, I'm left to ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When should I delete the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, this is a community: while askers are trying to get help, they're also responsible for contributing to the Q&amp;amp;A site, so it should all fit under the consensus of the community, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2596" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2012-09-13T16:26:08.880" Title="When should you delete your question?" Tags="|discussion|support|questions|asking-questions|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="420" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-07T14:47:58.687" Score="12" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is becoming rapidly clear to me, partly through dating an American, partly through spending time on this site, that employee rights are very different in the US from Europe, or at least from the UK. I'm sure they are also very different from both in India, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result, many questions have a very different answer in one country from another, because the risk of serious repercussions is very different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we encourage people to clarify before answering? If so, do we not risk having multiple different questions, which appear exactly the same to the casual browser?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or do we put up with having multiple conflicting answers, all of which are probably correct in the locale of the author, but the highest voted answer will depend much on who views it and (perhaps) at what time it was posted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any suggestions as to the best way to handle this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, I was prompted to ask this as a result of HLGEM's answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3791/how-can-you-handle-an-office-romance-that-has-ended&quot;&gt;the office romance question&lt;/a&gt;, which is in stark contrast to mine but I suspect we may both be correct in our own country and the author's locale is unclear. But this is not the first example I've seen like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="759" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-09-10T13:21:39.197" Title="Is everything a localised issue here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="419" CreationDate="2012-09-08T02:48:41.917" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ideally, you should edit your post and improve it to make it fit the guidelines. Deletion is sort of an action to be taken on content that is just a lost cause, where all hope of the question ever meeting the standards is nonexistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, in the question you linked, you have a lot of raw material to work with. Just think about the most important points people will need to know to answer your question, and edit it down to a paragraph or two. No life stories! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might even be able to flag your post for reopening and turn those downvotes into upvotes. I've seen it happen. Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-09-08T02:48:41.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="422" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="424" CreationDate="2012-09-08T03:24:39.363" Score="3" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are two screenshots.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The first is Tag excerpt as it displays for me. Note there's only the last word rendered.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The second one is a tooltip for the same tag. Everything is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EboOR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tag Excerpt&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YVM9v.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tag Excerpt Tooltip&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a bug?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Environment: Windows7, Firefox v.3.6 &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Chrome v.21. Attempted to use clean profiles for both to avoid any plug-ins clashes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2145" LastEditorUserId="1513" LastEditDate="2013-02-01T16:22:32.897" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T16:22:32.897" Title="Tag Excerpt is rendering with error" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="420" CreationDate="2012-09-08T04:26:07.893" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think, your question already contains the answer: &lt;strong&gt;very often, the questions are localized&lt;/strong&gt;. Not all, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say, the question about an office romance. Let us assume there was no country specified.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In a Western culture, it does not lead to immediate layoff, but it &lt;strong&gt;is so&lt;/strong&gt; in many Asian countries.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;So someone may answer something like &quot;never ever disclose the fact of your office romance &lt;em&gt;if you are working in a Thai company&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More similar examples:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;Never ever disclose your side projects, even on weekends&quot; (in a context of Russian I.T. company).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/161784/understanding-indian-culture/161790#161790&quot;&gt;Always tell people what they want to hear, not how the things are in real&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (in a context of India)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I understand the ultimate purpose of SO, &lt;em&gt;it is not that much about answering a particular question&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;sup&gt;(don't kill me now, let me explain myself)&lt;/sup&gt; Instead, it is a resource of clear, low-noise information.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Hence, the selected answer &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; reflects the fact it was most useful for the asker. And the most upvoted answer only shows its usefulness for the voters. No less, no more.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this context, let's get back to the sample above. Is this answer valid? Yes. Will it be the most upvoted? No. Is it still useful? Certainly, yes. It will be &lt;strong&gt;searchable&lt;/strong&gt;, and the future visitors will use it for their benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the asker may restrict their question, in order to direct the community to answer in terms of a specific area or location. And of course, if the area is too wide, it will reduce the overall quality of the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can be done? Tags and social pressure, as stated here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8/how-should-we-handle-cultural-issues?rq=1&quot;&gt;How should we handle cultural issues?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2145" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T07:31:57.740" LastActivityDate="2012-09-08T04:26:07.893" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="422" CreationDate="2012-09-08T08:18:55.237" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is indeed cut the way you describe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like a little &lt;em&gt;too simplistic&lt;/em&gt; heuristics here that cuts stuff prior to first &amp;quot;is&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;are&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen this work well with &lt;em&gt;link-only-answers&lt;/em&gt; tag at Meta Stack Overflow where it cuts off &amp;quot;answers that are&amp;quot; and displays excerpt as &amp;quot;barely more than a link to some URL&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Workaround is to reword tag wiki excerpt to something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;salary is&lt;/strong&gt; how much someone is paid&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Above should cut excerpt at first &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; but the remainder will look reasonable: &amp;quot;how much someone is paid&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am calling this &amp;quot;workaround&amp;quot; though maybe it's the way how things are intended to work - searching through &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tag-wiki-excerpt&quot;&gt;tag-wiki-excerpt questions at MSO&lt;/a&gt; did not bring me any information on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/salary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;salary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;salary&lt;/a&gt; wiki excerpt has been changed as proposed above, so that it is now rendered better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xsVup.png&quot; alt=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xsVup.png&quot; title=&quot;'how much someone is paid'&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-09-08T10:21:00.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="420" CreationDate="2012-09-08T15:11:47.123" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd just like to explicitly speak out against localizing &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;. I think the responsibility explicitly falls on to the question in these cases. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not do it in answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;99% of answers might be wrong for the asker if we just throw answers by location at every question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We're &lt;em&gt;assuming&lt;/em&gt;, not &lt;em&gt;reading&lt;/em&gt; what the problem is - that's a big enough reason to &lt;em&gt;close the question&lt;/em&gt;. You can never know if your solution is right if you don't &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; know the problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each and every question on the site could have dozens of only slightly different answers explicitly for each nation, possibly multiplied by different solutions per nation. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's suddenly valid to post the exact same answer with a different country &quot;tag&quot; just because what works for this answer in the US also applies in Canada.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Suddenly the people being the most generous (answerers) are expected to do more work for the asker for no good reason. That's just rude.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The accepted answer now means &quot;Thank #$&amp;amp;^, someone guessed what nation I'm from!&quot; not anything to do with validity to a specific situation. Suddenly generic questions have nation-specific accepted answers. What's up with that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Votes are now slanted by nation; &quot;Hey, this advice for the US sounds legit but I have no idea what these other 10 answers are about&quot;. Double god help me if my nation falls on page two or three and I have to search multiple pages!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have to resort to Ctrl-F to find the answer pertaining to a nation I care about (and god help me if I search USA instead of &quot;U.S.&quot; or &quot;United States&quot; or &quot;America&quot; etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; localized is a nightmare. Imagine if programming problems on Stack Overflow were all language agnostic and we played a guessing game of languages trying to explain every possible way to iterate 1. That doesn't help anyone except the exceedingly rare person who isn't actually interested in practical advice, just a list (a Bad Thing) of all ways to do something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When localization matters, &lt;strong&gt;the burden falls on the question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2012-09-08T16:18:44.910" LastActivityDate="2012-09-08T16:18:44.910" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="420" CreationDate="2012-09-10T13:21:39.197" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we encourage people to clarify before answering?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.  In case there is any doubt... you should get the question clarified &lt;strong&gt;BEFORE&lt;/strong&gt; you answer.  Otherwise you introduce noise.  The biggest problem I see with The Workplace is noise.  If you do not know enough about the question to answer wait until it is clarified.  If someone answers before it is clarified do not reward them with up votes unless once the answer is clarified their answer still fits.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that the location is US is not correct unless you have researched the OP's other questions and they are all US.  If you do research and find that a poster is consistently asking about a country edit the question to include that.  The OP can correct but usually if they are asking about someplace other than their usual location they will specify that in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-09-10T13:21:39.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="427" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-12T16:48:56.887" Score="6" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; is important but intentionally terse; Meta is better for fleshing out supporting arguments and finer points, but it's a pain to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; tag is meant to help make sort of a long-form FAQ on Meta, one we could link to (linking to the tag actually, or a question compiling FAQ entries).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we start compiling some FAQ questions on Meta? Do we have any existing posts that would be useful? Are there trip-ups common enough for this to be useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, if you see a Meta post that's important enough to be an &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; question, go ahead and flag it and explain that. The &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; tag can only be added by moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T21:00:06.313" Title="Creating an extended, community cultivated FAQ on Meta" Tags="|discussion|faq-content|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="427" CreationDate="2012-09-13T15:32:10.087" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say yes, absolutely!  I'm actually thinking I'd tag about half the stuff on meta as useful for the FAQ as we have  alot of &quot;should this be considered on topic&quot; type discussions here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2012-09-13T15:32:10.087" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="429" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-13T15:51:02.797" Score="9" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every day, I'm seeing a repeated meme, and I'm wondering if we we are getting to a subset where we want to try to have some sort of meta-answer or meta-question/answer set that we could start referencing for duplicates.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see two general meta-questions that could each have their own answer thread:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 - what is the right strategy for getting more money in a new job negotation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 - what is the right strategy for getting more money in my current situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm starting to see enough permutations of this general concept that it's starting to feel rather repetitive.  We are working edge cases, to be sure, but I feel like we're going to narrow down on the same two answers in most cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some examples of the questions I mean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case 1 - more money during job negotiation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3921/is-suggesting-a-monthly-or-yearly-increase-in-salary-better&quot;&gt;Is suggesting a monthly or yearly increase in salary better?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/896/how-can-i-determine-a-reasonable-salary-to-ask-for&quot;&gt;How can I determine a reasonable salary to ask for?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3931/is-it-ok-to-ask-for-a-higher-salary-than-what-you-listed-as-your-expected-salary&quot;&gt;Is it OK to ask for a higher salary than what you listed as your expected salary?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1941/can-i-refuse-to-reveal-the-salary-for-my-last-position-if-it-was-a-bit-low&quot;&gt;Can I refuse to reveal the salary for my last position if it was a bit low?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1424/what-is-a-successful-salary-negotiation-strategy-in-the-presence-of-a-big-perfor&quot;&gt;What is a successful salary negotiation strategy in the presence of a big performance bonus?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/183/does-the-first-person-to-mention-a-number-in-a-salary-negotiation-lose&quot;&gt;Does the first person to mention a number in a salary negotiation lose?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3238/what-are-some-common-salary-negotiation-tactics-from-the-employers-perspective&quot;&gt;What are some common salary negotiation tactics from the employer&amp;#39;s perspective?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2652/how-to-negotiate-a-job-offer-effectively-during-and-after-an-interview&quot;&gt;How to negotiate a job offer effectively during and after an interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case 2 - more money at existing job:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3887/managers-salary-too-low-to-ask-for-raise&quot;&gt;Manager&amp;#39;s salary too low to ask for raise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1717/how-do-i-renegotiate-my-salary-when-new-hires-start-in-higher-ranges&quot;&gt;How do I renegotiate my salary when new hires start in higher ranges?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/625/when-should-i-ask-for-more-money-in-conjunction-with-more-responsibility&quot;&gt;When should I ask for more money in conjunction with more responsibility?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I stopped short after a while.  There's many other salary-related questions that DON'T fall into this pile - I tried to skip anything that wasn't tightly tied to the negotation process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm starting to feel like we've answered the general things about valuation, negotiation, and how to bring up the conversation.  Most of what I see churning up lately has been people findng edge cases that often boil down to the general answer plus &quot;It depends&quot; relating to the unique case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T02:02:53.940" Title="Repeated question meme - how can I get more money in my job/negotiation?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="419" CreationDate="2012-09-13T16:26:08.880" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First - I'll say that I vote to close when I am fairly sure that I can't edit a question to the point of useful-asnwer generation without either obliterating or massively changing the original question's intent.  That leads to two typical cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1- the intent is unclear - the question is so poorly written, or it is so obscured by other text that I really can't find it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 - the intent runs directly counter to our FAQ - so if I edit it to fit our mission, I will generate a question that doesn't serve the poster's obvious purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question has a bit of both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First tip - clarity in asking&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When @jmort253 says to &quot;Edit it down to a paragraph or two&quot;, he means to spend approximately 1 paragraph telling us why you are asking and what hasn't worked in the past.  Reading your backstory, for example, I'm left with the thought that it's both unique to you and that there's nothing there that will help me give you advice to fix the problem.  This can get pretty tricky in The Workplace - a programmer's history of past actions and results can often set the scene very clearly for next steps in problem solving.  In The Workplace, the list of trials and failures can read more like a personal soap opera that has little relevance to moving forward.  I'm afraid this one of those cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly - your motivations are &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; motivations.  They are nice enough, but it'll be hard to give you an answer that is specific enough to help you while being generic enough to be part of an site that other people will find useful.  It leads me down the path (as the reader) of thinking you want help finding a job, not help understanding theories of motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly - sticking questions in the middle of the post is almost universally hard for readers.  Figure that people will scan the post quickly and they will expect the most important information to be at the beginning or the end.  If they have to read the entire post (in depth) to find what you are asking, they will start getting frustrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second tip - find the general question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I'd suggest putting yourself in the place of a person with a wildly different background and work history and seeing if there's a common question you would both get value from.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that you found use in pap's comment might be a clue - his link relates to theories on motivation in the workplace.  So another question on how to connect theories of motivation to job searching, or how to employ common motivation strategies to becoming &quot;self-managing&quot; might be another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're in a tricky area - not everyone is motivated by the same thing.  There is a wide variety of motivation theories, and they don't apply equally to all scenarios.  Also most theories take into the account that each person is different, but most offer a way to figure out a general type of person and ponder how that type might be motivated.  From there they all break down... so saying &quot;how can I, specifically, be motivated?&quot; is a lot like asking for specific career advice - to answer it for the entire community, there'd have to be a unique answer for each individual.  And to try to generalize the need to be motivated may be impossible - because the very thing that motivates you may de-motivate someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So particularly in this area, a big, highly personal, backstory will lead people down the path of thinking you want particular career building advice.  If you're looking for bigger picture models, or a process for matching motivation to personality or maybe even typical corporate approaches in a given field to how they &lt;em&gt;expect&lt;/em&gt; to motivate employees - that might go over better, but to be honest, this IS a rough area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the vague possibility that you may be asking for more out of your field than it can provide - the list of motivational things you mention don't immediately align to many Computer Science jobs - I'm not saying it's impossible, but your listing is incredibly people-driven while the majority of the work for people in computer science is fact/problem/puzzle driven - I'm not saying extroverts can't work in this field (that would be hypocritical of me!) but that having 3 out of 4 of your motivational factors be people-dependant, and then the 4th being very unstructured forms of creativity--- it sounds initially like a tough match where you may well consider a career counselor instead of this site as your best path to a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2012-09-13T16:26:08.880" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="429" CreationDate="2012-09-15T02:02:53.940" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you start to see a lot of repetitive questions, one possible approach to take would be sorting through the current list and finding examples that could be considered exact duplicates. &lt;em&gt;It looks like you already have a great start.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the close reasons is in fact &quot;exact duplicate&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;exact duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  This question covers exactly the same content as earlier questions on this topic; its answers may be merged with another identical question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the blog post &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/&quot;&gt;Handling Duplicate Questions&lt;/a&gt;, Jeff Atwood describes 3 different types of duplicates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cut-and-paste duplicate questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accidental duplicates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Borderline duplicates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cut and Paste:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only the first type, cut and paste duplicates, should be downvoted just for being duplicates, as those have no value. People who post these have no clue how our site works, and just create more work for the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accidental Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second type, accidental duplicates, shouldn't be downvoted just for being a duplicate, but could be downvoted for other reasons, like being low quality. The accidental duplicates could be voted to close as duplicates, if it's clear the questions are the same and will have the same answers as another linked post. These could be upvoted if they're valuable. Remember, duplicates help increase the chances that someone from Google may find our site, and a series of closed duplicates could link these visitors to a canonical post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Borderline Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The third type, borderline duplicates, are just that, borderline. It may be worth posting a link as a comment suggesting the answers there may be helpful, but if the post is different enough to where answers could be different, it may be worth leaving it open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/&quot;&gt;Handling Duplicate Questions&lt;/a&gt; blog post for a more in-depth, official explanation of how to handle duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T02:02:53.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="432" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-15T06:24:13.440" Score="0" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/3971&quot;&gt;Learning The Business&lt;/a&gt; was closed as Not Constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know why because it is a good and constructive question to me. Moreover, one of the answerers voted to close. I am very confused. If you believe a question should be closed, of course you can vote to close if you have the voting right. But then, why do you bother to answer it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think the question is constructive. Every new worker (not necessarily a new employee) could encounter this kind of situation at his &lt;strong&gt;workplace&lt;/strong&gt;. You could be a senior employee but a new person to a new project. You're already familiar with the company procedures, rules, etc. However, you know nothing about the things you're working on. You'll need help. To acquaint yourself with the new project with all the help you can get is a key to your success at work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to get help is the answer OP is trying to figure out and that is my interpretation of this question. A typical answer may be that the manager is responsible. Also, the employee may have to request for it. We need everybody's experience and knowledge about this issue, such as from the manager's perspective, the senior tech lead's view, the employee's own experience, HR's opinion, etc. We can make it a community wiki if needed. But, why is it Not Constructive? To me, this question is much more constructive than &quot;Is it rude to do X?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T20:44:50.923" Title="Why did we close &quot;Learning The Business&quot; Question?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="432" CreationDate="2012-09-15T15:44:34.330" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every new worker (not necessarily a new employee) could encounter this kind of situation at his workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That has nothing to do with the &quot;constructive&quot; requirement. See the answers &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/347/42&quot;&gt;on this related question&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;Was this person expecting too much&quot; is a bit of a red flag for &quot;discussion, not answers&quot;. &quot;Does every 'good company'...&quot; takes the question straight into pure discussion. There's no way to answer that without opinions of what a good company is, what adequate is, or how common it is or should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly the fact that it's important to get that sort of training is totally irrelevant to the question; that means it might be important to ask how to &lt;em&gt;get&lt;/em&gt; that sort of training. It does not mean a question on &quot;do good companies have that sort of training&quot; is a constructive question. Just because a discussion is centered around an important thing does not make it a constructive &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We need everybody's experience and knowledge about this issue, such as from the manager's perspective, the senior tech lead's vew, the employee's own experience, HR's opinion, etc.We need everybody's experience and knowledge about this issue, such as from the manager's perspective, the senior tech lead's vew, the employee's own experience, HR's opinion, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is pretty much what I mean by &quot;discussion&quot;, by &quot;not constructive&quot;. There's no one answer to this. When you need half a dozen perspectives it's no longer a question, it's a discussion. If you &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; HR AND the tech lead's view, which answer is &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt;? Voting stops being about correctness/helpfulness and starts being about &quot;WTF HR people believe that? &lt;em&gt;downvote&lt;/em&gt; YEAH this tech guy is right! &lt;em&gt;upvote&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. That's absolutely not what we want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We can make it a community wiki if needed. But, why is it Not Constructive? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki is largely a sin of our past. It's been used to shoehorn questions we &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; aren't appropriate but we try and use CW to say &quot;hey, look, it's okay, no one gains any rep&quot;. The most common use for Community Wiki now is to convert old, not constructive questions into something &lt;em&gt;slightly&lt;/em&gt; more maintainable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To me, this question is much more constructive than &quot;Is it rude to do X?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really agree, nor is this a significant point to make; for one we've already agreed &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/407/42&quot;&gt;Is X rude?&lt;/a&gt; is a poor way to phrase most questions. Those sort of questions can usually be salvaged by editing to make them &quot;should I/how should I do X&quot; though, those sort of questions aren't &lt;em&gt;inherently&lt;/em&gt; discussion questions at their core, but they certainly can be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T20:19:08.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="432" CreationDate="2012-09-15T18:41:20.230" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close because this question does not meet the FAQ requirements for questions. In fact, specifically from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;&quot;What kinds of questions not to ask&quot;&lt;/a&gt; section of the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual&#xA;  problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the&#xA;  usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was completely not a practical, answerable question - there was barely a specific problem being faced. This question was completely an open-ended question because it was all about opinions of the answerers - no real objective answer. &quot;Was I expecting too much?&quot; Plus, there were multiple references to 100% subjective comparative terms?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To prevent your question from being flagged and possibly removed,&#xA;  avoid asking subjective questions where …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;there is no actual problem to be solved: “I’m curious if other people&#xA;  feel like I do.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was no question. It was &quot;was it right to feel this way?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see: the blog post titled, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt;, for a good list of how to make &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; subjective questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;we are being asked an open-ended, hypothetical question: “What if&#xA;  ______ happened?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While not necessarily a hypothetical question, it was basically a hypothetical situation, since the user asking the question wasn't experiencing the situation he described.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main point I have is the question was not answerable (without a swarm of opinions) and not constructed in such a way it could not hit on how to ask subjective questions well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T18:57:27.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="432" CreationDate="2012-09-15T19:31:29.143" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close the question because it came off as very &amp;quot;meta&amp;quot;. At its core, the question appeared to be a question about a question, which really edges it dangerously into discussion territory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also took me a moment to figure out what was going on. I thought it looked more like a Workplace Meta post about a question asked on the site than an actual on-topic question, for the Workplace SE, about a problem faced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My Question: Was the person asking that question really expecting too much? Or does every &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; company make sure that a &amp;quot;veteran&amp;quot; employee adequately familiarizes new hires with the company's business domain and business practices?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't take much to make a question look not constructive. I think what really did it was this line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the person asking that question &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; expecting too much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- emphasis is mine&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editing and Voting to Reopen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, I'm a huge fan of editing closed posts to try and fix them, and after re-reading the question again, I do think it's possible to make it slightly more constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I've edited Jim's question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3971/learning-the-business&quot;&gt;Learning The Business: What should I expect when joining a company as a developer in terms of training?&lt;/a&gt;, into something that the community may feel fits the SE guidelines a bit better, and I voted to reopen.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I eliminated the part where there was bias &amp;quot;was the person ... really expecting too much&amp;quot; and replaced it with something that I feel fits the spirit of the question, but on a much more constructive level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also added more of a first-person point of view to it. Even though Jim isn't personally facing the problem himself, it's still a problem, and I think wording it more in the first person point of view is less confusing for people who might think it not constructive, or new users who may think Jim is trying to start a discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, question closing is designed to give the community an opportunity to fix problems with the post, and I encourage you to always bring these issues to meta in a constructive manner. Sometimes starting a meta discussion around a closed question will highlight ways where it can be fixed, or even give people an opportunity to take a second look and re-evaluate their decision. If this question does indeed get reopened, I hope that's proof that the system does work as it's supposed to. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T19:37:31.253" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="427" CreationDate="2012-09-15T21:00:06.313" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The close voting guide should definitely be included, and highlight the fact that the privilege threshold is lowered, not just in points, but also in the list of privileges, to give more community members the power to help keep the site clean and on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the order in which you gain privileges on a beta site is different, you get close/reopen vote privileges before you even get full editing permissions, unlike a graduated site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, there are likely to be some 500+ rep users who don't realize they can vote to close/reopen, and it could be helpful to make them aware of this in the expanded FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T21:00:06.313" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="438" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-16T16:07:31.093" Score="2" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/367/do-cvs-need-their-own-tag&quot;&gt;Do CVs need their own tag?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just spotted a question on the front page with both the resume and cv tag. Surely these should be synonyms? Their wikis even each include the other word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:40:55.840" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:40:55.840" Title="Why are resume and cv different tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|synonym-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2012-09-16T21:07:19.810" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="367" CreationDate="2012-09-16T21:26:04.923" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My usual rule of thumb for tags is their role as interesting/ignored and I just can't see how someone would be interested in one but not the other, or want to ignore one but not the other. If we make them synonyms, someone searching for one will find both. I think there are some subtle differences (I occasionally write up an academic CV for myself that's very different from my resume) but not worthy of a separate tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T21:26:04.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="367" CreationDate="2012-09-17T14:52:18.637" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went and approved a synonym request; CV and Resume tagged questions will now show up as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resume&lt;/a&gt; on questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went with Resume as the master tag since Resume was the more common usage on questions and in the US, the only place I know of where the distinction is relevant, CVs are much more rare and elaborate; it makes sense to keep the most common semantic usage IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can always undo this later too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T15:20:18.430" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T15:20:18.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="441" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-17T16:14:01.967" Score="22" ViewCount="2848" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've got a lot of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=quit&quot;&gt;quitters.&lt;/a&gt; It's a fact of life that sometimes you do need to resign, and there are real, generally applicable problems around &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resignation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resignation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resignation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with asking about the &lt;em&gt;decision to quit&lt;/em&gt; itself is that it's &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; localized. Not everyone can (easily) quit just because they're being paid less than market rate. And some people can quit because their office stocks Coca Cola instead of Pepsi. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; deal of factors that go into resignation, and generally you can bet all of those issues aren't laid out in the question we get. &quot;Should I quit&quot; is usually asked about the straw that broke the camel's back. That straw might be a legitimate issue, but that issue itself rarely calls for an absolute &quot;Never ever quit because of this&quot; or &quot;Quit right now and run!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just a bad way to phrase the issue. What if there's a super simple way to solve the problem without quitting? Well, too late, I phrased the question so solving the problem is no longer an answer. I've also prevented the question from being &lt;em&gt;useful to others&lt;/em&gt; in a similar situation who can't just quit willy-nilly (and some who can).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another problem is, if the answer is &quot;yes, you quit&quot;, it's often left in an extremely short answer that, at best, really only helps the asker. And someone &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; posts a &quot;yes, quit&quot; in these sorts of discussions; it's free rep! Find a question where bad working conditions are apparent, say &quot;Hey, you should quit!&quot; and ride the wave of &quot;YEAH RIGHT ON&quot;. That really doesn't help anyone, it's barely even an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;, just a suggestion (a potentially dangerous one which really shouldn't be treated lightly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent one is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4003/nepotism-fight-or-flight&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4003/nepotism-fight-or-flight&lt;/a&gt;, but we've had plenty of these:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1508/should-i-quit-because-im-not-up-to-the-job&quot;&gt;Should I quit because I&amp;#39;m not up to the job?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1585/should-i-quit-my-job-because-i-lack-experience&quot;&gt;Should I quit my job because I lack experience?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2366/is-it-unethical-to-quit-just-before-a-project-that-im-the-only-one-suitable-for&quot;&gt;Is it unethical to quit just before a project that I&amp;#39;m the only one suitable for begins?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2952/quitting-an-exploitative-job&quot;&gt;Quitting an exploitative job&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/3675/869&quot;&gt;New Job and a big Mistake with Company Culture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3843/quit-masters-and-work&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3843/quit-masters-and-work&lt;/a&gt;  (2K rep users only) &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/1572/42&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/1572/42&lt;/a&gt; (2k rep only)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we work with these questions? Do they need to be rephrased somehow? Or is this topic inherently too problematic to work with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T15:32:22.383" Title="&quot;Should I quit?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="441" CreationDate="2012-09-17T19:24:55.590" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any question that can be answered with a Yes or No is a bad question for ALL SE's.  They invite polling, and opinion sharing.   I am opposed to the kind of reworking that questions like these need to become constructive.   What should I do questions are usually their end goals.  The answer is different for &quot;I need to be away from that person&quot; versus &quot;I want to keep myself out of jail.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the OP wants to know if they should quit or take any specific action then the answer is close it not constructive.  Encourage the OP to reword it so it is constructive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the OP has a constructive question with a bad title just re-title the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of these question read like a rant to me anyway but maybe I am just to cynical. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T19:24:55.590" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="441" CreationDate="2012-09-17T20:17:11.563" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think, your question reveals a bigger problem which applies to many SE sites (except maybe purely scientific ones). &lt;strong&gt;There is a large amount of questions that either can't be answered (polling) or too local (and useless to most visitors)&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question does not contain too much details, it invites various opinions (polling), and many of them are equally valid;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the OP adds &lt;strong&gt;enough&lt;/strong&gt; details to get a single answer, the entire question becomes too local, and thus offtopic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quitting is an answer (&lt;em&gt;probably, a wrong one&lt;/em&gt;) to a certain question. Therefore, asking, &quot;should I quit?&quot; is likewise asking, &quot;is &lt;em&gt;42&lt;/em&gt; an answer to my problem?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In most cases, &quot;should I quit?&quot; can be dramatically improved by simply replacing it with &quot;what is my best strategy?&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Even more, it can be re-formulated like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Considering details above, out of the following list, what is better?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  * Quit now;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  * Silently look for a better job;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  * Ignore the bad person [or whatever the problem is];&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  * Come up with this problem to my boss;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would say yes, &quot;Should I quit?&quot; is a bad formulation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2145" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T20:17:11.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="441" CreationDate="2012-09-18T15:32:22.383" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are times when I think &quot;should I quit&quot; could be reworded to &quot;how do I improve X aspect of my working conditions&quot; which may be more directly applicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have a blog?  I rather feel like this could be a blog item about this specific issue - because fixing a common problem at work (which may lead to quitting) might just be more widely applicable and something to encourage.  But being steamed about something at work, and venting at TheWorkplace is not the right approach...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I almost wish some of these could have a 24 hour hold - time to chill out and then say &quot;wait, how do I really fix this?&quot; and/or &quot;is Coke not Pepsi at work a dumb reason to quit?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T15:32:22.383" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="445" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-19T16:21:53.500" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4056/interview-question-why-did-you-leave-your-previous-role&quot;&gt;Interview question: Why did you leave your previous role?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The title would make you believe that this is a generally useful question.  &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;However, the content is very specific to one individual's situation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't this question too localized?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-09-20T04:29:00.777" Title="Isn't this question too localized?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="445" CreationDate="2012-09-19T18:17:18.177" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it's worded now, it is pretty localized. I think that it could be altered to be more general if it started with a modified version of the last line, perhaps something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I explain leaving a company because of negative experiences/interactions/people without sounding bitter or trite?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and used a (much) briefer version of the rest of the question as an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm not sure if editing it to fit that would be too drastic (I think it might be a bit late here since there are several answers already). If we are going to close it as too localized, though, I think it &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; be best to go ahead and make such an improvement, biting the bullet as far as invalidating whatever answers it may.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T18:17:18.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="445" CreationDate="2012-09-20T04:29:00.777" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not Quite Too Localized&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rarity made some edits to narrow it down a bit, which makes it a bit more readable. Reading it now, the situation is about a specific interview question, but it's something that a lot of people can probably relate to in a more general sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, some of us may have left jobs in the past in less than favorable circumstances. Therefore, it's quite possible that there is a large audience out there in the worldwide Internet that may benefit from the answers given to the question. After all, many of us have been asked a similar question in an interview before and many of us have probably had some bad employment experiences in our past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I strongly suggest anyone who answers the question to try to generalize the information so that it would apply to anyone in this situation. The more broad and generalized the answer, the more likely it is to be helpful to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, I think Jim's suggested edit could also be helpful to dispel further doubt as to whether or not the question is too localized. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can a question be edited after it has answers?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that 12 hours isn't too late to edit a question to make it fit the guidelines a bit better, despite answers. Anyone who answered will learn that the correct course of action is to seek clarification before answering, edit, vote to close, or flag, if a question doesn't meet guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers can't exist without questions, we've learned this from sites that have low questions per day. The way I see it, anyone who answers a question that should be closed is responsible for editing or deleting their answer if it no longer fits the question. I sort of see that as the cost of waiving one's responsibility to flag or vote to close. :)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mean this to be harsh or disrespectful to anyone who answered, just that with the editable nature of our site, one has to understand that the goals are to make the content better, and that generally starts with the questions themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-09-20T04:29:00.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="448" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-20T16:22:55.670" Score="13" ViewCount="533" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possible for a Stack Exchange site to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/06/blog-overflow/&quot;&gt;get it's own blog&lt;/a&gt; provided we follow some steps to prove a couple things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We want it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We can make it happen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know some of our most active members like the idea of a site blog so I thought I'd get the ball rolling. Beta is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; too soon to blog, but we do need an &lt;em&gt;active community&lt;/em&gt; to keep the blog going. So you know, the community will take part in posting and vetting the articles, and we'll try and nail down the following before we actually get it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Scope&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who will contribute (tentative, we're not locked in to only certain people contributing)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The schedule&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a starting point an interesting idea is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://security.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/qotw25-introducing-qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Question of the Week&lt;/a&gt; (QotW) concept on Security. Regular postings like that help keep a blog active with quality content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember the Blog can be more than a &quot;greatest hits&quot; of our questions/answers. We can also use it to share interesting opinions, findings or whatever as long as it's related to the topic (or our community).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a blog something we want? The next step would be to define what we want the blog to be about, first &lt;strong&gt;I want to know if the support is there&lt;/strong&gt;. Please &lt;strong&gt;vote to indicate your approval&lt;/strong&gt; and if you have any good suggestions, make them in an answer for when we start the next steps. We'll also need to know &lt;strong&gt;who's willing to write&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;what we want to write about.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a note I kicked off the blog process over on &lt;a href=&quot;https://ux.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/915/do-we-want-a-community-blog&quot;&gt;User Experience&lt;/a&gt; so I won't be able to manage the process over here like I try on UX. We'll need &lt;strong&gt;community members to manage the blog workflow&lt;/strong&gt; so if you're an active member, throw your hat in the ring and offer to help out. It helps if we have more than one person acting as a caretaker for the blog anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:59.610" LastActivityDate="2013-10-31T02:01:01.143" Title="Do we want a community blog?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="448" CreationDate="2012-09-20T16:42:54.423" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, I'll chime in - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I'd love us to have a blog.  I think we are starting to develop a vibe of what works and what doesn't that may be better addressed by a blog - the way Jeff did on Stack Overflow, than by a FAQ.  Particularly because if we put all the stuff that comes up into FAQ form, we will have a long, possibly chatty FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I'm willing to volunteer at a caretaker, although I'd really like a co-caretaker, as my time can get frenzied, and I don't want to drop the ball.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.The Scope&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I like QotW on the Security SE, I think it may be premature for us.  But I used to really like Jeff Atwood's periodic commentary on trends and the why's and wherefors of what works and what doesn't.  I'd vote for that, but maybe with a backup plan of something else to talk about when there is no pressing issue - maybe interesting features of the population - ie, the population of questions, answers or currently active contributors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.Who will contribute (tentative, we're not locked in to only certain people contributing)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm willing to, but I like the idea of it being a pretty wide community.  Both so that it doesn't get dropped when the one writer is busy and so that it has a community &quot;voice&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT - per discussion below - I'm up for any combination of writers that keeps up the good material but with a certain quality level.  If there's an editor/approver capability, then sky's the limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.The schedule&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Weekly.  That's my pick.  Frequent enough to be interesting, not so frequent we are clawing for topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="67" LastEditDate="2012-09-21T13:57:53.247" LastActivityDate="2012-09-21T13:57:53.247" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="451" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-21T15:20:06.540" Score="4" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;Project Management asked if we wanted &lt;a href=&quot;https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/6639/best-way-to-track-employee-skills&quot;&gt;this question on HR skill tracking software&lt;/a&gt;. I'm honestly not sure whether something that specific to a job function would be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand specific job function stuff is out; we can't be a resource for specific jobs. However, HR, like management, is special in that those specific job functions &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; involve general workplace issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, where can we draw a line here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:46:29.563" LastActivityDate="2012-09-21T16:52:31.287" Title="To what extent are Human Resources job functions on topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="451" CreationDate="2012-09-21T16:52:31.287" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it is, I don't think it's a good fit. It's a shopping question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming the organization is far too large to track this type of information manually (using a spreadsheet, word of mouth, etc.), what is the best way to collect these types of metrics in an automated way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It basically confines the question to &amp;quot;the best way is some computer software, what's the best software for this?&amp;quot;. Answers could be things like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TrackMySkillz by ABC Inc is excellent!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StaffMetrics is a bit more expensive than TrackMySkillz, but it adds features X Y and Z!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i wrote these cool open-source codes, you should definatley use my prgram! [link]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote &lt;a href=&quot;https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/6639/best-way-to-track-employee-skills#comment7048_6639&quot;&gt;their ♦ moderator&lt;/a&gt;, Mark Phillips (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...] It sounds like you are looking for a &lt;strong&gt;list of&lt;/strong&gt; [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such questions are not a good fit for any Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;So, to actually answer your question:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as a job-specific question fits two criteria, I'm fine it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Practical question that can be answered in a reasonable way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question/answer can be relevant to more than the specific job discussed in the question (either an entire job category or an entire industry)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-09-21T16:52:31.287" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="453" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-23T23:59:58.583" Score="15" ViewCount="436" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've collected a fair amount of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ethics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ethics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ethics&lt;/a&gt; questions. In my opinion &quot;ethics&quot; in general is too subjective and distant from a &quot;real&quot; problem to be an answerable question; everyone has an opinion, but no one has an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;. Often the &quot;real&quot; problem has more to do with what's a smart thing to do or what looks good to others; I don't particularly feel that's a good definition of Ethics, and I'm not sure the dictionary definition of Ethics fits with anything answerable (constructively).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To what extent are ethics questions answerable and within our scope? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-10-29T15:26:19.790" Title="Are Ethics part of our purview?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="453" CreationDate="2012-09-25T01:07:47.240" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In many cases, the ethics questions seem to have more than one dimension to them. Take, for instance, the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3893/should-i-tell-my-employer-im-in-school&quot;&gt;Should I tell my employer I&amp;#39;m in school?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This person seemed to be asking about this from an ethical perspective, but I answered it from a logistical and strategic perspective instead, focusing on the possible consequences of each option rather than whether or not it's right or wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the questions have enough detail to where they can be answered from a strategic view or focusing on consequences, then I don't personally see a problem with the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify what I mean by consequences, I mean will someone be harmed by action X or Y, not necessarily will the op be harmed or punished, although that could be included as well.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something doesn't necessarily have to be illegal for there to be a consequence, especially if the action causes people to distrust you, hurts their business, or somehow influences someone else to do something harmful that they otherwise wouldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-09-25T01:07:47.240" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="453" CreationDate="2012-09-25T10:32:43.983" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think ethics is within our purview. Unfortunately, it depends on the ethics of two different people. One of those people we have access to, although in many cases we can assume they're looking for validation for a decision they want to make (and have thus ethically justified to themselves). But we don't have access to the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem here is that a wrong answer can have serious consequences for the person we're advising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have worked for companies where emailing in one morning and saying &quot;I feel a bit rough, I'm going to work from home today&quot; is considered unethical. It isn't at my current company. However, if you were to work here for about a year and leave, you'd never get offered another job here. A year wasn't unusual at my previous company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point being that it's not cultural (although that does have a bearing), it's not about which company is more progressive. Every company has different things they call unethical and I've been surprised many times in my career.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, if we give bad advice on these things, we could cause someone a serious problem. If I asked if it was ok to leave a company after a year, you might well say yes because, in most companies, it's not a bridge-burning issue. But it would cause a lot of ill-feeling that you didn't warn me about. Cause how could you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="759" LastActivityDate="2012-09-25T10:32:43.983" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="453" CreationDate="2012-09-25T13:17:11.987" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think constructive questions about acting ethically in compliance of a policy or directive in the future should be on topic.  These are real pitfalls of the workplace and we can provide good answers to help a person deal with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions asking us to judge the ethics of an action that has already taken place should be considered not constructive since the action can not be undone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions asking us to judge the ethics of a policy should be closed because they are not constructive.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-09-25T13:17:11.987" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="457" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-27T18:37:45.937" Score="-1" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fail to understand why the moderator decided to close this question, even after my edit removing specific instances where the OP was polling for opinons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4222/lifestyle-impact-on-career&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4222/lifestyle-impact-on-career&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It had 3 downvotes and 4 close votes before my edit.  A moderator placed the final close vote after my edit.  I honestly don't understand why this question would be closed when a similar question I had posted a while ago was very well received by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/650/how-can-frequent-anxiety-attacks-affect-me-in-business-and-the-workplace&quot;&gt;How can frequent anxiety attacks affect me in business and the workplace?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Will [insert generic personality trait here] affect my career?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; type questions are similar enough that they should either all stay open or all be closed.  I would like to see this question reopened, or my question to be closed for consistency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2012-09-27T20:58:28.357" Title="Why was &quot;Lifestyle impact on career&quot; closed?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="457" CreationDate="2012-09-27T19:00:35.043" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The core question in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4222/lifestyle-impact-on-career&quot;&gt;&quot;Lifestyle impact on career&quot;&lt;/a&gt; is this: &quot;Are professionals measured through their perceived lifestyle choices?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, that's unanswerable (because the answer depends on the industry, the company, etc).  If the question were an &lt;em&gt;actual problem&lt;/em&gt; the OP is facing, such as &quot;My manager has expressed hesitation in promoting me or giving more responsibility to me because I have survival gear in my truck in the company parking lot -- how do I dispel the notion that I am a wild and crazy guy who can't be trusted?&quot; then that's something the community could answer. (Note: In no way do I think survival gear in a truck means anyone is a wild and crazy person who can't be trusted.)  I can think of all sorts of coaching/learning/etc opportunities for that one, including how to express transferable skills to one's manager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's not what the question is, right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/650/how-can-frequent-anxiety-attacks-affect-me-in-business-and-the-workplace&quot;&gt;&quot;How can frequent anxiety attacks affect me in business and the workplace?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, I think the core questions (and in fact the question I actually focused on in my answer) are &lt;em&gt;&quot;will management think me too weak to take charge and be an effective leader?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  and &lt;em&gt;&quot;Am I too weak to be a good manager someday?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; This phrasing does lend itself to an &quot;it depends&quot; answer, or even to call the question too localized, but I think the reason it still exists is that it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; speak to an actual problem faced in the workplace, with actual answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, I see a big difference between &quot;Will [insert generic personality trait here] affect my career?&quot; and &quot;This is who I am and what is happening in my workplace everyday, how can I fix/change this?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2012-09-27T19:00:35.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="457" CreationDate="2012-09-27T19:10:43.843" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a discussion. Your edit was extremely minor and removed one of several hints to the fact that the question can not be answered, only discussed. More relevant is the fact that those hints were accurate; it &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; only be discussed as-is hence the close reason and closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there is no cookie-cutter type answer to the question &amp;quot;how much does one's projected lifestyle impact their workplace reputation and prospects?&amp;quot; but I would like to hear some feedbacks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Red flag 1 (not removed by your edit): Feedback, not answers.  The problem isn't that there's no one cookie cutter type answer, but there aren't answers, just opinions (that's not just how it sounds, it's how the question reads as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am curious on feedback how&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Red flag 2 (removed by your edit, but the meaning of the post is otherwise the same)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And is a &amp;quot;renaissance man&amp;quot; typically someone perceived to be too much all over the place to be trusted to maintain a steady focus of attention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have observed that employers favor kind of boring and regular people for their stability in promoting. I hope I am wrong. How does one effectively isolate their life away from work with their career? Or is it an exercise in futility?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Big red flag 1: Multiple questions, largely unrelated. Each of them Bad Subjective and unanswerable too, but I'm getting to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Big red flag 2: &amp;quot;Is a renaissance man typically...&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's a renaissance man? Without an agreed definition this is NARQ and invites debate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;typically seen&amp;quot; by who?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's the problem you're solving? It's a discussion, not a search for a solution&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Big red flag 3: &amp;quot;How does one effectively isolate their life away from work with their career? Or is it an exercise in futility?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an entire book that answers your question, you’re asking too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Entire books could be written on this topic (I'm sure there are several Self Help books on this &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; topic). It's &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; too huge for one question. Additionally it's still Bad Subjective; it's soliciting opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has all kinds of problems as a question, and solving &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of them would more or less require completely rewriting the question and compeltely altering it's scope and intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-09-27T19:48:27.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="460" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-28T21:20:31.140" Score="10" ViewCount="608" Body="&lt;p&gt;You love your site and we love your site, but there is a whole world of people out there who might not even know it exists. When they do find it, their first impression will either scare them away or keep them around. Given this, let's take a hard look at the questions and answers here and make sure newcomers see the site at its best!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below you'll find ten questions randomly selected from this site. What do you think about each of them and their answers? Are they the best they can be or can they be improved? Would they look interesting and inviting to an outsider or are they a little embarrassing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvote the corresponding post here on meta when we're awesome. Downvote when our content just isn't quite up to par.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and do comment to let everyone know your thoughts and take part in this conversation. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastEditorUserId="131" LastEditDate="2012-10-30T20:21:41.143" LastActivityDate="2012-10-30T20:21:41.143" Title="The Workplace self-evaluation: let's get critical!" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|quality-evaluation|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2012-10-30T20:21:34.217" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="460" CreationDate="2012-09-28T21:20:31.140" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3183/linkedin-invitations-from-people-i-dont-know&quot;&gt;LinkedIn invitations from people I don&amp;#39;t know&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-09-28T21:20:31.140" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="460" CreationDate="2012-09-28T21:20:45.133" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3215/software-development-vs-technical-consulting&quot;&gt;Software Development vs Technical Consulting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-09-28T21:20:45.133" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="460" CreationDate="2012-09-28T21:21:04.383" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3120/what-kinds-of-questions-should-i-ask-a-recruiter&quot;&gt;What kinds of questions should I ask a recruiter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-09-28T21:21:04.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="460" CreationDate="2012-09-28T21:21:22.090" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3245/negotiation-for-fulltime-conversion-after-internship&quot;&gt;Negotiation for Fulltime Conversion After Internship&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-09-28T21:21:22.090" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="460" CreationDate="2012-09-28T21:21:32.543" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3095/getting-fired-for-cause&quot;&gt;Getting fired for cause?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-09-28T21:21:32.543" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="460" CreationDate="2012-09-28T21:21:43.837" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3180/is-it-normal-to-list-contractors-on-a-corporate-website&quot;&gt;Is it normal to list contractors on a corporate website?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-09-28T21:21:43.837" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="460" CreationDate="2012-09-28T21:21:55.927" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3065/how-to-handle-false-allegations-of-my-behavior-and-continue-performing-my-job&quot;&gt;How to handle false allegations of my behavior and continue performing my job&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-09-28T21:21:55.927" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="460" CreationDate="2012-09-28T21:22:05.820" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3105/team-building-activities-for-a-fast-growing-team&quot;&gt;Team building activities for a fast growing team&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-09-28T21:22:05.820" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="460" CreationDate="2012-09-28T21:22:17.580" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3155/what-can-i-do-to-hire-people-in-the-tech-field-who-are-knowledgeable-and-persona&quot;&gt;What can I do to hire people in the tech field who are knowledgeable and personable?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-09-28T21:22:17.580" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="460" CreationDate="2012-09-28T21:22:29.563" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3232/what-will-be-the-management-reaction-if-someone-refuses-a-promotion&quot;&gt;How will management react if someone refuses a promotion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this question and its answers? Vote and comment to let everyone know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-09-28T21:22:29.563" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="471" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="473" CreationDate="2012-10-03T03:30:07.580" Score="0" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across this justifiably closed question:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4285/how-can-we-bridge-the-gap-between-executive-management-and-the-employee&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4285/how-can-we-bridge-the-gap-between-executive-management-and-the-employee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a rant, one that solicited discussion and could possibly lead to much debate and argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited it to focus on solving a problem related to the corporate culture. In my opinion, the question is waaay different than it was originally, but I also think it's one that could benefit not only future visitors who are employees, but also it could benefit future visitors in executive management who wish to create a workplace environment where people will &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to come to work everyday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closure is of course intended to be a temporary state, one which gives the community an opportunity to help fix the post, and I believe I have fixed this post to where it's suitable for this site and for Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went ahead and voted to reopen. If you think more edits are needed, please let me know; otherwise, if you can flag or vote to reopen, I encourage you to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-10-04T08:07:40.720" Title="Did the edits on the question about how to bridge the gap between management and employees make the question reopenable?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="471" CreationDate="2012-10-03T13:08:54.940" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are my thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your edit &lt;strong&gt;completely&lt;/strong&gt; changed the heart of the question to where it is no longer recognizable.  The true heart of the question is &lt;code&gt;Why are executives valued more than engineers?&lt;/code&gt; and you fundamentally changed the question to &lt;code&gt;How can we bridge the gap between management and employees to prevent and us vs. them attitude?&lt;/code&gt;  They are completely different and I feel that this edit should be rolled back.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even with your edit, it is a good question on its own, however the problem of &lt;em&gt;Us Vs. Them&lt;/em&gt; is complex and multi-faceted and could be caused by 100 different items.  In that respect I feel it is overly broad.  Then asking for ways to improve this will result in many opinions being posted about what can be done to improve attitude, which in itself is too generalized a goal anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I strongly feel that this should not have been edited the way it was or reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70" LastActivityDate="2012-10-03T13:08:54.940" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="471" CreationDate="2012-10-04T07:21:32.820" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My issue with changing the core question (other than invalidating answers, which doesn't apply here) is that the OP can't respond to requests for clarifications. And how could they, it's a different question than what they wanted to ask originally. This is a problem with all &quot;artificial&quot; questions, and one of the many reasons we expect all questions to be about actual problems you're facing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your version is better, but still a bit broad, and I think much of our inability to make it more specific and answerable is because it's not an actual problem any of us faces or has faced in the past, and we've reached a point where we are trying to force a good question out of a... not so good one. That rarely turns out well, I think if a question can only be salvaged by changing it completely, it's better to just let it go. If the changed version is a common enough problem, it will be re-asked at some point in the future, by someone actually having to deal with the core issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it should be noted that your edits weren't a (complete) waste of time: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both answers are to your version of the question and not the original one. The question was closed again, but the two answers that made it through during the short time it was open &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; have helped the asker. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The mod closure was converted to a community closure. Don't get me wrong, I have no issue with a moderator closing the question few minutes after it was posted, I've closed over 2.4K questions on Programmers (a little over three Workplaces), and on a lot of them (half?) mine was the only close vote. Programmers regulars have probably seen me more than once closing questions seconds after they were posted, I remember closing a question 32 seconds after it was asked (yes, it was &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; bad). But a community closure certainly &lt;em&gt;looks&lt;/em&gt; better than a mod only closure. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We got this Meta discussion out of it, that will help further define our attitude towards heroic edits. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as getting the question re-opened, well, it happened. Five people thought the question was worth their re-open vote after your edit, and then five other people thought it wasn't. Personally, I sit right on the fence, on the one hand I agree that your version is still too broad and soliciting opinions rather than answers, on the other I'd love to read a good answer to it. Confusing, isn't it? Well, as I've already said, if it's a common enough problem, more concrete version(s) of the question will appear, only thing we have to do is wait for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't want this discussion and the current state of the question to discourage anyone from editing, but I think that we must make it crystal clear that although editing is almost always a step in the right direction, it's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a guarantee that a question will be re-opened. Be bold and edit, but do understand that the more heroic the edit, the more chances it has to be a waste of time, especially if you're changing the core question. It's a high risk high reward scenario, if you will, and I don't think we'll ever manage to come up with a solid set of guidelines for heroic edits, it will always be a per case thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, your edit shouldn't be rolled back, both answers are to your version of the question, and rolling back to the original version would invalidate them. The question might be on a path to deletion, but until then it would be preferable for it and its answers to be consistent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="48" LastEditDate="2012-10-04T08:07:40.720" LastActivityDate="2012-10-04T08:07:40.720" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="404" CreationDate="2012-10-04T17:53:28.730" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ethics and professionalism are not synonymous and you can act professionally yet unethically and you can act ethically in an unprofessional manner.  IE you could write a letter to the editor exposing your something your company did bypassing the company process.  This may be ethical but is unprofessional.  Alternatively you could go through the proper channels and allow something to be covered up while you acted professionally you did not act ethically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the scope of the workplace etiquette and Professionalism are synonyms.  There is no place here for questions about place settings, or courtship.  There is room for how to be polite and professional in the course of work responsibilities.   I think a tag synonym for etiquette to Professionalism would be appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-10-04T17:53:28.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="475" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-08T16:32:32.750" Score="7" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/4398/2322&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; made me realize the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; doesn't specifically reference not asking &quot;how do I get a job doing XXX&quot; and variants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommend we add an additional question to the FAQ in the format of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;How do I get a job doing...?&quot;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;General questions about how to find jobs in specific industries or having particular characteristics are difficult to answer and invites discussion and lists of answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like this are incredibly difficult to not turn into &quot;list for me resources to do $(XXXXX)&quot; types of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could update the following&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Please review my resume/CV&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Please review my resume/CV or help me get/find a job&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T18:41:52.167" Title="Add &quot;How do I get a job doing XXXXX&quot; to FAQ &quot;don't ask&quot;" Tags="|discussion|faq-content|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="476" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-08T23:42:06.683" Score="8" ViewCount="310" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question in question is: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4395/how-can-i-deal-with-discrimination-against-groups-of-colleagues&quot;&gt;How can I deal with discrimination against groups of colleagues?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, it clearly describes a behaviour from management that reeks of discrimination, or at least unbalanced behaviour towards groups of employees. There's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4395/how-can-i-deal-with-discrimination-against-groups-of-colleagues#comment9210_4395&quot;&gt;comment there&lt;/a&gt; that I find quite surprising: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Isn't the discrimination the other way around? Sounds like management is more interested in keeping an eye on the hearing employees than the non-hearing. Assuming you're a hearing person, management is watching YOU! If they were concerned about the deaf colleagues, they'd be watching THEM! :) Maybe you can edit and clarify why you think this is discriminatory towards the deaf colleagues. I don't get it. Good luck! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question seems extremely clear to me, but if it managed to confuse jmort253 I'm more than willing to accept that the question isn't that clear to everyone else. That said I'd appreciate a more detailed explanation, by anyone, if I wanted to discuss this with jmort253 I'd either ping him in chat or post a comment to the question responding to his.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4395/how-can-i-deal-with-discrimination-against-groups-of-colleagues#comment9245_4395&quot;&gt;other comment&lt;/a&gt; that addresses what people may have thought was problematic with the question is: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think this question would be better handled if you remove the racial discrimination from it. You provide no details of the discrimination and it is a seperate issue from what is beiong asked here. It distracts from the heart of this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cool, I've made some edits myself, removing the mention to racism, but I fail to see what &quot;the heart&quot; of the question is, or, better, why the heart of the question wasn't clear from the start. All I wrote above for jmort253 also apply to Chad, the poster of the second comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are three answers, two of them are good, and all say more or less the same thing: Gather more evidence, and report the behaviour. This &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the answer (imho), to an actual, practical problem in the workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another, perhaps lesser, issue is that, albeit the question being closed as Not A Real Question, there were two Off Topic close votes in there. I have absolutely no idea what's off topic about the question, I could understand the need for further clarifications or the broadness of the subject, but I'd like to urge close voters to spend a couple of seconds picking the more appropriate close reason when they've already decided that the question doesn't belong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm more than aware that closed means closed, and the close reason itself is not that important, however this is the very first question the OP asked on Stack Exchange &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt;. Let's be a bit more thoughtful and welcoming in the future please, it's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; that hard to check a user's profile, see that they have absolutely no familiarity with the network and be a bit more careful. Close reasons are designed to broadly communicate what the trouble is with the question, there are just five of them, is not that hard to pick the more appropriate one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator on Programmers, I'm more than ready to explain each and every one of my close votes there. I'm not assuming that everyone will agree with my explanation, all I'm saying is that I have an explanation for both the closure &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the close reason, and I fail to see how anyone would pick Off Topic here. As always, I'm ready to be proven wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A tangentially related note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did some minor edits on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3676/dealing-with-sexual-harassment-in-the-workplace&quot;&gt;Dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace&lt;/a&gt; question (no idea how the question was viewed 800+ times, and no one noticed the misspelling on harassment in the title), and shared it around in a general and a couple of more specialized communities, in an effort to attract experts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, then it got a close vote, an Off Topic one, &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; I removed the only thing in it that seemed off topic (the request for legal advice). While I couldn't care less for a single close vote, I'm afraid the Workplace is quickly becoming a site for trivial interviewing and resume questions, questions that more often than not are answerable by a simple web search or common sense, and not a &lt;em&gt;high quality&lt;/em&gt; site where actual, practical &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; non trivial problems get solved.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do realize both questions &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be problematic, but I would expect the community to be a bit more careful, welcoming, and thorough on questions that are about &lt;em&gt;non&lt;/em&gt; trivial and perhaps a bit sensitive matters. Edit, comment, discuss in chat, and only close if (when?) all else fails. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid we are shifting towards trivial questions, and, as a community, we failed more than once on non trivial questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was re-opened, thanks all for taking a closer look at it and especially to those who edited it and improved it. I'm still very interested in reading your answers on the deeper issues I (think) I'm bringing up here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-10-09T13:53:32.950" Title="Why was the discrimination question closed, and what needs be done to re-open it?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|closed-questions|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="476" CreationDate="2012-10-09T00:30:08.040" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;After the latest edit I think most of my concerns are addressed (I've voted to reopen).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have left them below however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm not looking on how to deal with discrimination in the workplace in&#xA;  general, but how could I deal with this specific situation from an&#xA;  employees perspective. For example: report it or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few reasons here which make it a bad question in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First, the question specifically says it is not a general question (I get the context here). It asks about a specific situation (making it too localized) which I'd be highly surprised if is of use to anyone in the future, because it is totally localized and...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Two, it is incredibly vague. Situations like this can never really be described in enough details to make anything other than a passing judgement over. One sentence cannot possibly give anyone enough information to have a valid answer in a situation like this. We don't have any idea what the circumstances really are given the asked question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Third, the entire situation is predicated on all sorts of assumptions the asker is making over motivations, just read the first paragraph. How can the asker possibly know the motivations?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fourth, this has huge legal implications - if this is really taking place and is really discrimination then it is a legal problem - not a workplace problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fifth, it is a yes/no question at heart (see the end of the question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sixth, there is no chance of an adequate answer to this question because of the above, to really answer the question in a way which is valuable to anyone else will basically say &quot;think about X, Y, or Z&quot; and not even be remotely able to actually nor directly answer the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2012-10-09T13:39:58.033" LastActivityDate="2012-10-09T13:39:58.033" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="476" CreationDate="2012-10-09T05:43:24.610" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;After reading Yannis's post and taking a second look, I admit I acted in haste on the close vote. I was a little annoyed that the original poster hadn't responded to anyone's request for clarification, even though it showed that person had since visited.  Also, below is an explanation and context behind my comment, which after reading, prompts me to edit it on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Discrimination Issue - Peer Reviews&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In regards to the discrimination, sometimes people see things happening around them that aren't really there, and if I think about the times when I was in the Army when I was being evaluated by higher-ups, you can bet that it was &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; more stressful to have a Sergeant evaluating you (analogous to a manager) than one of your peers. It happened quite often where a Specialist or a Private First Class was delegated the job of making sure we all performed task X, and those situations were way more lax than when dealing with an NCO (a Sergeant).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when someone tells me they feel they're being discriminated against because they get to work with a peer rather than being directly supervised by a manager, that skeptical part of my brain that suspects someone might be crying wolf starts to light up. From my background, I'd actually &lt;em&gt;prefer&lt;/em&gt; the peer evals. Of course, I don't have a disability, so perhaps it's more difficult for me to see the full picture because in the environment I typically operate in, we're not separated into such distinct groups like hearing and non-hearing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still would want the op explain why he/she thinks this is discrimination before I'd answer it, but maybe that just means I'm not an expert in this particular aspect of the Workplace. Being of the hearing world, and not being part of any minority groups, perhaps I have trouble relating to this particular issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Mistake&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to rewrite my comment on the post so it's a bit more constructive. My emphasis didn't come off how I intended. I'm not sure if it fixes the issue, but it's a start. I'd like to think I normally do a better job than leaving comments such as this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I want to emphasize that voting to close as not a real question was not the correct action in this case. I admit I made a mistake, and I apologize! I'm also casting a reopen vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-10-09T05:43:24.610" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="480" CreationDate="2012-10-09T13:17:40.263" Score="6" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/legal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;legal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;legal&lt;/a&gt; tag for some reason. After some debate on Meta, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;questions that require lawyers are off topic in the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;. I admit there are some questions with a slight common law focus that could be understood and answered by non-lawyers, but even that's a grey area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's the Legal tag for? Is it a hint a question should be closed, a tag to be removed, both or neither?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-10-11T12:25:01.743" Title="What's the [legal] tag for?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="479" CreationDate="2012-10-09T13:49:14.610" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a tag to be removed, legal advice is off topic and even if a question can be answered by non lawyers, it doesn't really benefit from the tag as it's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;meta tag&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If the tag can’t work as the only tag on a question, it’s probably a meta-tag. Every tag you use should be able to work, more or less, as the only tag on a question. Meta-tags, like [beginner], [subjective], and [best-practices], are useless by themselves — they tell you nothing at all about the content of the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If the tag commonly means different things to different people, it’s probably a meta-tag. In a cruel, ironic twist, the meaning of the tag [subjective] itself … is actually subjective. Ditto for [best-practices] and [beginner]. Best practices to whom?  Beginner by what criteria?  These tags are impossible to define by anything remotely resembling an objective metric. In comparison, the the meaning of tags like [java], [c#], and [javascript] are crystal clear to all but the nuttiest of nutbags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no more &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/legal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;legal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;legal&lt;/a&gt; questions. If the tag reappears, we should ask for it to be blacklisted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="48" LastEditDate="2012-10-11T12:25:01.743" LastActivityDate="2012-10-11T12:25:01.743" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="481" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-09T16:41:13.600" Score="6" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/475/316&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about adding another bullet point to the &quot;don't ask&quot; list, and was thinking that perhaps instead of maintaining a huge &quot;don't-ask&quot; list, it would be better to clarify the site's scope itself in the very first line of the FAQ to specify that questions need to be about the actual workplace itself, and should not just be seeking an answer from a workplace-oriented community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most Q&amp;amp;A sites, forums, or message boards that I know of are not ruled by a specific topic, but are instead used to get answers from a specific targeted community. I think many new users won't grasp on their own how SE is different, so we need to step up and make sure we clarify this for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, just going through the list of recently closed questions I see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4402/how-to-deal-with-ex-boss-asking-you-to-do-free-work-for-him&quot;&gt;How to deal with an ex-boss asking you to do free work&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4400/what-can-i-do-to-improve-my-career-in-financial-it-service&quot;&gt;What can I do to improve my career in X&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4398/find-a-remote-position&quot;&gt;How to find a remote position&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4397/leveraging-linkedin-2nd-degree-connection-but-the-1st-degree-is-an-hr-recruiter&quot;&gt;How to leverage X to find a job&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4385/changing-jobs-at-the-end-of-a-year-hiring-availability&quot;&gt;Hiring availability at end-of-year&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4369/how-can-i-change-careers-from-developer-to-business-analyst&quot;&gt;How to change from job X to job Y&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of this is specifically in the growing list of &quot;don't ask&quot; bullet points, but I think we can do better than giving our users a big wall of text to read. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, how about we clarify our scope (and possibly tag line) so it is very clear that this site is about a specific topic, and not actually about getting answers from a targeted community like most other sites that resemble Q&amp;amp;A?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, what about updating the top section labelled &quot;What kind of questions can I ask here?&quot; from this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace - Stack Exchange is for members of the workforce&#xA;  navigating the professional setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace - Stack Exchange is a place to get professional or experienced answers about the Workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that all questions should be about the workplace itself, and should not be &#xA;  non-workplace questions that are only seeking advice from another member of the workforce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first version says this is a site for a specific type of community, which implies that this is no different than any other forum or message board out there. The 2nd specifies this site is for a specific topic, and that unrelated questions only out to get answers from another member of the workforce are not allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to make a change like this to the FAQ? (exact wording can be up to you guys)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-10-13T01:02:43.450" Title="Clarifying that this site's scope is a topic and not a community in the FAQ?" Tags="|discussion|faq-content|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="453" CreationDate="2012-10-10T13:00:41.087" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My original answer is already voted up so I did not want to add this part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should disallow the ethics tag.  It is a meta tag, and since questions that are purely about ethics (especially ethics theory) are off topic here, I suggest we disallow the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could provide a warning to users that while questions about applied ethics in the workplace may be on topic it may be preferable to ask questions about ethics on the Philosophy SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-10-10T13:00:41.087" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2012-10-13T01:02:43.450" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on some of the confusion I recently experienced on a discrimination question, I'd say the FAQ definitely needs a bit of an overhaul.  Unlike some other beta sites, this one was built &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Stack Exchange users &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; Stack Exchange users in response to issues on other SE sites.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, regular users, like me, regularly look at the FAQ for guidance when trying to determine what to upvote, downvote, vote to close, etc.  The fact that there isn't a list of what we do here just simply puts more focus on the things we don't do here, and that doesn't send across a very positive message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a first step, I suggest we add the following two topics to the &quot;this site is about&quot; section of the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Harassment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discrimination&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, we should also consider adding:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Workplace Etiquette&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Termination Issues&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But also add something to the effect that specific legal advice is not what we're here for. For that, one must hire an attorney specializing in worker issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that by listing specific items in both categories, we do not necessarily exclude items that are about &quot;navigating the professional workplace setting.&quot; that may not be listed in either category.  The FAQ can -- and should -- continue to be evolved as we face new issues. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-10-13T01:02:43.450" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="484" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="486" CreationDate="2012-10-15T22:56:50.297" Score="4" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw this site exists. Looks interesting and useful, but I'm finding it slightly difficult to place in my mental map of stackexchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The stackexchange network makes most sense when thought of as clusters of expertise you can ask questions to. If you have a programming question, you go where the programmers are (stackoverflow). If it's a tech support question, ask the tech support folks on superuser. If it's about a bike, you ask the keen cyclists and bike shop people on bikes.SE. If it's a design question, ask the designers on graphicdesign.SE. If it's about something Apple/Android/Linux/etc related, ask the assorted techies, developers and fans on each of the appropriate sites. If it's a cooking question, ask the chefs and keen amateur cooks on Seasoned Advice. And so on for sci-fi geeks, English language teachers and scholars, philosophers, photographers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What fills the equivalent blank in &lt;em&gt;&quot;I have a question about what best to do in a difficult workplace situation. I'll ask the ?????????????s on Workplace.SE&quot;?&lt;/em&gt; What is/are the vein(s) of expertise that an asker is tapping into here? What characterises Workplace.SE regulars? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you represent managers, or HR / career guidance professions? Or are you people from a range of professional backgrounds who simply each know from experience that you are good at office life, and you like to help out? Or is there some other trend? Or is there no one particular trend? If so, how does that work - what's the selling point, the draw, the specific expertise that means people are best off asking here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4559" LastEditorUserId="4559" LastEditDate="2012-10-16T12:12:59.823" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T05:47:49.507" Title="Who are you folks? (or, what is a typical Workplace regular's background / expertise?)" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="484" CreationDate="2012-10-15T23:30:03.307" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or are you people from a range of professional backgrounds who simply each know from experience that you are good at office life, and you like to help out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've hit the nail on the head, this would be an apt description. I don't think there's a short label we could apply to describe the experts on The Workplace, the only thing that comes to mind is &quot;professionals&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2012-10-15T23:30:03.307" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="484" CreationDate="2012-10-16T19:11:10.990" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd offer the guess from observation of answers, that a fairly stastically significant group of us are &quot;knowledge working professionals&quot; who are most likely to be in either IT or software/solution development.  Within those two basic descriptions is where I've seen the richest collection of answers and questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say there are outliers - some HR folks, some other types of general business folks, and managers of knowledge working teams.  I've also seen a recruiter or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2012-10-17T01:25:33.777" LastActivityDate="2012-10-17T01:25:33.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="448" CreationDate="2012-10-19T19:05:23.587" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't mind writing some blog entries either, there are some topics I would like to write about that haven't come up as questions. Since this isn't really time-limited (like say a political blog entry would be), I would suggest that we come up with 4 or 5 topics and have the blog entries written before we announce the blog. That way we know we have something to publish each week for a few weeks to get the blog rolling. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some ways the blog format is almost better for Workplace than the question format. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some subjects I would like to write about or see someone else write about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to impress your employer with your performance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to behave in a new job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to leave a job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Grief in the workplace (I've been blogging a good bit about grief at&#xA;another site)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What to do when your employee comes to you with a major personal&#xA;problem that will affect work (death in the family, serious illness,&#xA;etc) (I've been surprised we haven't seen more questions in this&#xA;area. So few people seem to handle it well.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Making the adjustment from school to work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Office politics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastActivityDate="2012-10-19T19:05:23.587" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="488" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-22T22:15:41.430" Score="-6" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had an answer converted to a comment on:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/5775/health-commute-skills-and-money&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/5775/health-commute-skills-and-money&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;The question was closed and I doubt it will be reworded to be appropriate for this site, but if it is, will my comment get converted back to an answer? I do believe I answered the question. Maybe some feedback on my answer would have helped?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure this benefits the site. Closing the question should be enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8365" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T15:46:12.027" Title="Answer converted to comment by admin" Tags="|discussion|answers|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="484" CreationDate="2012-10-22T22:27:47.170" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Expertise gained from Experience&lt;/strong&gt; - A Q &amp;amp; A site that has a social aspect to it is better suited for workplace questions because many deal with social norms. I'm not sure you could go to college and learn any of this in a direct field of study. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like the other SE sites, the peer review is going to determine who is providing the best answers. Degrees, certifications and jobs held won't get you any points. Research and references to other opinions can help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question brings up something I've never considered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8365" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T22:27:47.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="488" CreationDate="2012-10-22T23:08:15.103" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does your comment answer the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You basically restated things the asker already said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, from the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Make sure your answer adds helpful information and is a complete,&#xA;  stand-alone answer. Read other answers first and be sure not to&#xA;  completely restate information that has already been posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that answers should be backed up either with a reference,&#xA;  or experiences that happened to you personally. You should always&#xA;  include in your answer information about why you think your answer is&#xA;  correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your comment doesn't really do either of those paragraphs (though, to be fair, it doesn't really &lt;em&gt;say&lt;/em&gt; much to be backed up, so perhaps the second part is not so applicable?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="17" LastEditDate="2012-10-22T23:53:49.920" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T23:53:49.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="484" CreationDate="2012-10-23T05:47:49.507" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Workplacers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T05:47:49.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="492" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-23T12:39:33.340" Score="4" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;We currently have the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/salary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;salary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;salary&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/money&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;money&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;money&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/payment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;payment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;payment&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pay&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pay&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pay&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/benefits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;benefits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;benefits&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/expenses&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;expenses&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;expenses&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;raise&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's really too many tags, and many are being used interchangably. I initially intended &quot;salary&quot; to refer to issues specific to salaried payments, as opposed to hourly payments, but that just hasn't happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think all &quot;money I am paid for doing my job&quot; questions should be bundled into one tag, IMO &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/payment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;payment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;payment&lt;/a&gt; is best for that. All non-payment issues about giving an &lt;em&gt;employee&lt;/em&gt; money, as in &lt;em&gt;benefits&lt;/em&gt;, should be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/benefits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;benefits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;benefits&lt;/a&gt;. Questions dealing with spending company money should be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/expenses&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;expenses&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;expenses&lt;/a&gt;. Asking about increased pay (not benefits) should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;raise&lt;/a&gt; I don't really see any useful, common distinction beyond that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better ideas? Is this okay? What should we do here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I killed &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/money&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;money&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;money&lt;/a&gt; by retagging those questions manually, it's too vague to make a synonym. I synonymized &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pay&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pay&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pay&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/payment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;payment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;payment&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/salary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;salary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;salary&lt;/a&gt; for now, that seems to be the consensus. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;raise&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/benefits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;benefits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;benefits&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/expenses&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;expenses&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;expenses&lt;/a&gt; are all fine by me, but &lt;strong&gt;they need tag wikis/excerpts&lt;/strong&gt; to define their proper use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:40:29.410" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:40:29.410" Title="Figuring out the money related tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|synonym-request|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="492" CreationDate="2012-10-23T12:46:51.460" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/salary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;salary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;salary&lt;/a&gt; to indicate questions related to &quot;money I'm being paid.&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/payment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;payment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;payment&lt;/a&gt; might be a &quot;most correct&quot; term but I disagree on using it because it is not the most straightforward to users unfamiliar with this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably 99% of users coming to this site will instinctively think to search or tag questions with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/salary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;salary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;salary&lt;/a&gt; vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/payment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;payment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;payment&lt;/a&gt;, as well as what almost all people will search via google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;raise&lt;/a&gt; is a valid tag as it pertains to another specific set of things people will be looking to try to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leave &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/benefits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;benefits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;benefits&lt;/a&gt; as that is also a specific and unique thing. Get rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/money&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;money&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;money&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pay&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pay&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pay&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/payment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;payment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;payment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2012-10-23T12:53:23.903" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T12:53:23.903" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="492" CreationDate="2012-10-23T13:12:44.300" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/salary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;salary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;salary&lt;/a&gt; should be the tag for salary/wages, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pay&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pay&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pay&lt;/a&gt; should be a synonym. While this may be less intuitive for questions about hourly pay, I think it's a good fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/benefits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;benefits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;benefits&lt;/a&gt; to cover all non-monetary compensation to an employee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be useful to keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/expense&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;expense&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;expense&lt;/a&gt; around, covering questions about compy expenses or reimbursement by an employer for personally-paid expenses (such as parking or public transportation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should get rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/money&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;money&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;money&lt;/a&gt;. It's a bit broad, and could cover salary (covered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/salary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;salary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;salary&lt;/a&gt;), expenses (covered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/expenses&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;expenses&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;expenses&lt;/a&gt;), or investment/financing (off-topic). Similarly, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/payment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;payment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;payment&lt;/a&gt; strikes me as &quot;a payment&quot; more so than &quot;payment for services of an employee&quot;, and I suggest we get rid of it (or at least synonymize it with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/salary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;salary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;salary&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;raise&lt;/a&gt; isn't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; covered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/salary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;salary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;salary&lt;/a&gt;, since it is also tied to promotions, performance, and changes in responsibility. However, I see no compelling reason why we can't broaden &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/salary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;salary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;salary&lt;/a&gt; enough to include it other than potentially having a tag about negotiating (hiring, promotions, raises, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T13:12:44.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="492" CreationDate="2012-10-23T15:36:29.583" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;On this one, I'm thinking a basic strategy is to go with what's intuitive.  Current usage says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/salary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;salary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;salary&lt;/a&gt; - 41 questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/money&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;money&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;money&lt;/a&gt; - 3 - 1 about salary, 2 about other types of money that isn't payment for work&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pay&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pay&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pay&lt;/a&gt; - 6 - none overlap with salary, but look like they could be fused with salary&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/payment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;payment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;payment&lt;/a&gt; - 5 - does overlap with pay - also refers in usage to payment for work&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/benefits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;benefits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;benefits&lt;/a&gt; - 2 - neither of which relate to negotiation, or of compensation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/expenses&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;expenses&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;expenses&lt;/a&gt; - 3 - seems mostly about transfer of money for conditions that are not&#xA;classic salary or payment - like travel costs or other &quot;expense account&quot; type issues&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;raise&lt;/a&gt; - 3 - cases of increasing payment for work within an existing job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give the love of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/salary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;salary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;salary&lt;/a&gt; as a tag, I'd say eliminate &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/money&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;money&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;money&lt;/a&gt; (fuse it into salary or expenses), &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pay&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pay&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pay&lt;/a&gt; (fuse into salary), &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/payment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;payment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;payment&lt;/a&gt; (fuse into salary).  Keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/benefts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;benefts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;benefts&lt;/a&gt; - non-monetary compensation for work, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/expenses&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;expenses&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;expenses&lt;/a&gt; - money provided for incidental costs relating to or required by work, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;raise&lt;/a&gt; - increases in salary within an existing job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T15:36:29.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="488" CreationDate="2012-10-23T15:46:12.027" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think it's moot.  I voted to delete the question because the case is very specific to the asker, and very much a personal choice that will be subject to debate.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to give feedback, I'd say the indication that this isn't an answer as much as a comment is that you ask two very meaningful questions in the course of giving the answer (is this a livable wage? can you telecommute?) - if this was a conversation between two people, you would certainly providing helpful and meaningful input for the question asker - in my dream world for this as a conversation, he'd answer, you'd provide more thoughts, and he'd find an answer to his problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is, this a Q&amp;amp;A site, not a conversation.  You can certainly ask for this kind of clarification in comments - but the answer should be solid enough that &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; person with the same question could get value out of your answer.  As it is, they'd have to write you, answer your questions, get your feedback and then have an answer - it doesn't fit the format of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being fair, I don't think you're the problem - this started as a very personal &quot;what should I do with my job?&quot; question, and it wasn't a good fit in the first place, so it's hardly surprising that the answer you could provide was also not a good fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for trying, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T15:46:12.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="497" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="500" CreationDate="2012-10-23T20:12:18.543" Score="2" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/5770/do-diversity-inclusion-programs-in-the-workplace-have-a-positive-impact/&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; looks like it is going to be one of those that gets voted to close, then voted to reopen, then probably voted to close again. Why not sort it out here? The arguments seem to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's vague, not being very specific about the diversity programs it is talking about&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The general usefulness of diversity programs are an academic rather than a workplace issue&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Diversity programs are about much more than effectiveness of the workplace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="886" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-10-27T23:24:10.113" Title="Diversity programs question - do we want it?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="497" CreationDate="2012-10-24T02:02:51.747" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original post closed, but could be reopened:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is vague, and was rightly closed, if nothing else but to prevent it from getting similarly vague answers prior to cleaning it up and reopening it. From my perspective, the topic isn't what's the problem; this could make a good post for this site, but only with some helpful, collaborative edits from the community, and most importantly, the op himself, Greg McNulty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments should help improve posts, not berate the poster:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to take a moment to point out that it would be extremely helpful if certain people tried to be a bit more constructive in comments on posts like this. Instead of emphasizing how bad the post is and backing Greg, the question asker, against the wall in full on offensive strike mode, perhaps it's better to explain to him how he could &lt;em&gt;improve&lt;/em&gt; his post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is this:  If you're going to leave a comment on a post pointing out a problem, also point out a possible suggestion for how to &lt;em&gt;fix&lt;/em&gt; that problem. Otherwise, just cast your vote and move on. No one needs to hear your opinion on how bad you think the post is unless you can also say how to fix it. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're going to encourage Greg to fix his post, we'd probably have a higher chance of success if we're positive about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can we make this post be a good question for Workplace SE:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I encounter posts like this, I ask myself, &quot;what is Greg &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; asking for in his question?&quot;  He's probably facing some kind of problem with the diversity program, or he wouldn't have asked about it, but he's likely just afraid to speak his mind about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I suggested that he edit and maybe explain how the diversity program affects him, which could lead to describing a real, actual problem that he's facing. Then he could ask for solutions. I'm not sure if my suggestion would make it constructive though, but having more details would give us more to talk about, in a polite, constructive manner, of course...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2012-10-24T02:08:11.350" LastActivityDate="2012-10-24T02:08:11.350" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="499" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-24T09:41:12.427" Score="11" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/30887/the-workplace&quot;&gt;area51 health report&lt;/a&gt;, we have finally gotten past the 1,500 visits per day, leaving the number of questions per day the only red item:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hHhWl.png&quot; alt=&quot;Health report&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do we increase this to an &lt;code&gt;Excellent&lt;/code&gt; level, getting the site to go out of beta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we start a competition, like Programmers did a few months ago? Do we start posting about it in linkedIn and other work related social media sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? What are your suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1513" LastEditorUserId="1513" LastEditDate="2012-10-29T11:06:31.590" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T22:59:07.817" Title="Health report - how can we increase the number of questions?" Tags="|discussion|beta|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="497" CreationDate="2012-10-24T11:46:49.453" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's look at the root of the current question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do these programs encourage &quot;diversity&quot; in a positive way, or do they reinforce ethnic divisions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's a positive way? Which programs? Where? For whom? This is a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; broad question and there's no specific problem at work here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This reads like a Political Science 101 discussion question, it is neither specific for the workplace (the problem area is sociology, not getting &lt;em&gt;work&lt;/em&gt; done in any sense whatsoever) nor is it a specific, answerable question. &lt;strong&gt;It's a debate topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A much more clearly workplace related and much more answerable question was &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4049/what-are-the-benefits-of-multicultural-diversity-in-the-work-environment&quot;&gt;What are the benefits of multicultural diversity in the work environment?&lt;/a&gt; IMO there's still a bit of Not Constructive in there since there's plenty of room for opinion over solution or fact, and the lack of answers actually enumerating the real benefits with real proof kind of indicates these questions aren't great for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer the new question got is also indicative of the &quot;opinions/debate, not answers&quot; problem. There's no solutions, just &quot;what do you think of these programs&quot;. It's also all about &quot;the greater good&quot;. That's not the topic of this site; again, that's a political science issue. A very broad one, to boot. Creating a perfect racially balanced world is awesome. But it's not going to happen in a question on this site, and if it did it's still not really a Workplace specific problem. Dealing with discrimination personally in the workplace is on topic, the greater topic of enforcing racial equality through laws is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can it be reopened? I can't really see how. It's on it's 8th revision and it's still pretty unanswerable, not constructive and not apparently on topic. It's also changed scope pretty significantly at least 3 times (without becoming acceptable at any point) so that's pretty bad. I think it's best to let sleeping dogs lie here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record the question has received a &lt;em&gt;large&lt;/em&gt; number of edits (currently revision # 16) but my opinion of it is more or less unchanged. I'm considering locking it for a content dispute at this point, and/or closing it per community consensus on Meta. If 5 users hadn't used up their close votes the first time, I'm pretty sure the current copy would have been closed as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And with 3 community close votes and -8 score I closed it, again. I don't think this question is going anywhere (good).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-10-24T21:54:40.400" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="497" CreationDate="2012-10-24T12:48:05.167" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bottom line here is: &lt;strong&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face.&lt;/strong&gt;  This question fails to meet that criteria. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question was I am being asked to evaluate a diversity program how do i do that it would be ok, or even how should i go about implementing a diveristy inclusion program?  This question boils down to &lt;strong&gt;lets have a discussion about diversity programs in the workplace.&lt;/strong&gt; That is not constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-10-24T12:48:05.167" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-24T16:48:00.670" Score="1" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/5825/2322&quot;&gt;How to introduce yourself in a telephone interview&lt;/a&gt; being downvoted so heavily (5 at the time I write this) as well as seemingly on track to be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand this question seems really obvious to me (hence my comment) but as best I can tell, the only real problem with the question is that it is slightly on the poll side. Otherwise it is a really good, solid, practical question the asker has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What am I missing why this question is bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit to add that this was &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;closed as off topic by Jim G., SahilMahajanMj, Chad, Yannis Rizos,&#xA;  kolossus yesterday (10/25/2012)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you guys explain why you voted to close this? Not to mention &lt;code&gt;Off Topic&lt;/code&gt; seems like a silly close reason. (It has since been reopened)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-10-28T03:18:42.267" Title="Why is &quot;How to introduce yourself in a telephone interview&quot; downvoted?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="499" CreationDate="2012-10-24T16:53:47.727" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;First things first, that's not necessarily a huge problem; lots of people see the red and think &quot;the site is doomed&quot;. Depending on the topic, &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; sites get well under 15 questions per day and remain quite healthy and even graduate to full sites. It's quite probably the hardest metric to satisfy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, we're not doomed, we could just use more questions to keep getting more fresh content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for getting more questions, I really think they key things are &lt;strong&gt;growth&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;engaging new users&lt;/strong&gt;. We've got a pretty good base of experienced Stack Exchange users who fulfill community moderation duties and plenty of people to answer most sorts of questions. However those experienced users don't tend to &lt;em&gt;ask&lt;/em&gt; all that many questions, which is common on these sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the focus is really on &lt;strong&gt;new users&lt;/strong&gt;. We should share relevant questions and answers as much as reasonable and invite people to the site. Once new people are on the site, they should be given a warm welcome and informed of how to use the site. If a new user makes a mistake, help them. Tell them how to edit their post to get it in shape, or edit it yourself and tell them why. &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;Invite them to chat&lt;/a&gt; (if they have enough reputation; 20 points as long as we're in Beta) and engage them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a fair amount of one-off question users. That's not uncommon either, but remember each new poster has the potential to become a regular. Also remember the FAQ, Meta, privileged, the philosophy of this site...all this crap is pretty complicated. There's plenty of Just-In-Time help around the interface, but when there isn't UI help text, other users are the Just-In-Time help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-10-24T16:53:47.727" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="492" CreationDate="2012-10-24T18:07:37.090" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest synonymizing a few of these&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compensation =&gt; salary pay and raise payment expenses benefits&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lets eliminate and ban the Money tag it does not belong here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-10-24T18:07:37.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="505" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-27T02:04:05.323" Score="0" ViewCount="459" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently got an automated message that &quot;we're looking for long answers...&quot; It seems weird to insist on a lot of words if a few words gets the point across, and who is the &quot;we&quot; who decided what kind of answers &quot;we want?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edited because people on here like lots of words :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the tenets of good writing is not to use more words than are necessary to convey an idea, so it seems to me that insisting on extra words does not increase the quality of the answers, though it may increase the time spent on each page. Perhaps that statistic is important to getting out of beta, but it just seems a poor way to achieve the goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Yannis' answer is a fantastic example of an answer with a whole lot of words in it that doesn't say very much. Obviously, I read the notice when it came up, but it seemed kind of arrogant and more of an opinion than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, it's self-evident that if you're offering an answer to a question that you're recommending it as a solution because you think that's what the person should do. So insisting that that be included in the answer is just silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, people are taking their time out to try to help someone, in a forum where the subject matter could impact the poster's career. Obviously, some people choose to be more anonymous than others, but it seems to me that if you're one of those who cares whether you're upvoted or downvoted, you're not going to be user123456789. So, sometimes the brevity may stem from not wanting to say something that could potentially cause an issue in the poster's current or potential future position. Would you really prefer such people offer no help at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've only asked one question (due to the fact that most questions I might ask are about dealing with a team that doesn't want to move as technologically fast as I do and I'm afraid my frustration might result in a pattern of questions that might make me appear really negative should I decide to move on or should someone on my team see it), but the best answer I got was in a comment. I couldn't mark it as correct, obviously. It's possible that the person posting the comment might have put that as an answer had this rule not been in place. Now, I have a 0% acceptance rate and she didn't get the rep she deserves (if she cares).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The links Yannis posted were somewhat useful, in that they provided the context that not everyone was in agreement about whether short answers were even a problem. They did not answer the underlying question about why those (IMO reasonable) voices were overridden and who decided to send out the automated messages, despite the conflicting opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also seems that the discussions he posted were as much a &quot;moment in time&quot; of a specific self-selected group of workplace users. If the question were to be posted on the regular Workplace site, would the active Workplace users &lt;em&gt;today&lt;/em&gt; agree that short answers are bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, it seems to me that preventing short answers and insisting people put them in comments can result in really long comment threads, which can be much harder to follow (you're not sure if it's actually an answer that someone was afraid to post because it was short and they didn't want their rep nuked, or if it's just a random person weighing in for some other reason).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1437" LastEditorUserId="1437" LastEditDate="2012-10-29T23:24:17.460" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T21:43:00.130" Title="Why should answers be long?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="505" CreationDate="2012-10-27T06:20:35.347" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The full text of the post notice is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're looking for long answers that provide some explanation and context. Don't just give a one-line answer: please explain why you're recommending it as a solution. Answers that don't explain anything will be deleted. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The notice itself answers your question, at least partially, answers should provide some explanation and context. The Workplace strives to be a high quality and low noise Q&amp;amp;A site, I think the expectation for answers that explain their premise (and ideally back it up with references) isn't unreasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore the post notice points you to a blog post, have you read it? The more relevant quote from it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Great subjective questions tend to have long, not short, answers.&lt;/strong&gt; The best subjective questions inspire your peers to share their actual experiences, not just post a mindless one-liner or cartoon in hopes of being rewarded with upvotes for being merely “first.” Sharing an experience takes at least one paragraph; ideally several paragraphs. If I’m asking about how to bake cookies, don’t give me a list of grocery items: milk. butter. vanilla. eggs. There is virtually nothing I can learn from a short, static list of grocery items that make up a recipe. Instead, tell me what happened the last time you made cookies from that recipe! Share your detailed experiences, so that we all might learn from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please read all of it, if you haven't already. Short answers are not inherently bad, but a more thorough answer is almost always preferable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the &amp;quot;we&amp;quot;, it refers to the community. Post notices are applied by moderators, typically at the request of regular users (via flags), and The Workplace community has favoured longer and non repetitive answers since the early days of the site. Even if the answer hasn't been flagged, moderators are generally expected to enforce the community's standards, which typically originate from Meta discussions. Some relevant Meta discussions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/118/what-can-we-do-about-one-line-answers&quot;&gt;What can we do about one line answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/148/are-it-depends-answers-a-sign-of-a-bad-question&quot;&gt;Are &amp;quot;it depends&amp;quot; answers a sign of a bad question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/174/i-dont-know-isnt-an-answer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;I don&amp;#39;t know&amp;quot; isn&amp;#39;t an answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/269/do-we-need-a-policy-on-bad-me-too-answers&quot;&gt;Do we need a policy on bad/&amp;quot;me too&amp;quot; answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/387/has-answer-quality-improved-since-the-early-days-of-this-site&quot;&gt;Has answer quality improved since the early days of this site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the more important discussion is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;FAQ proposal: Back It Up and Don't Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt;, which ironically has a very short answer (but that's only because the answerer is a known troll). The community decided (~reached consensus) to add the &amp;quot;back it up&amp;quot; rule in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, and the phrasing strongly hints towards more thorough answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How should I answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure your answer adds helpful information and is a complete, stand-alone answer. Read other answers first and be sure not to completely restate information that has already been posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that answers should be backed up either with a reference, or experiences that happened to you personally. You should always include in your answer information about why you think your answer is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our preference towards more thorough answers is also codified in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;How to Answer&amp;quot; guidelines&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer the question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read the question carefully. What, specifically, is the question asking for? Make sure your answer provides that – or a viable alternative. The answer can be “don’t do that”, but it should also include “try this instead”. Any answer that gets the asker going in the right direction is helpful, but do try to mention any limitations, assumptions or simplifications in your answer. Brevity is acceptable, but fuller explanations are better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/4507/48&quot;&gt;Your answer&lt;/a&gt; is a comment at best, sorry to be blunt but it doesn't really stand as an actual answer. We are not here only to get the point across, answers should help solve actual, practical problems, and should be valuable to anyone else that's facing a similar problem as the original asker. Answers that don't fundamentally answer the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq#deletion&quot;&gt;might be removed&lt;/a&gt; at any time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-10-27T06:36:24.040" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="497" CreationDate="2012-10-27T23:24:10.113" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this sort of thing leads to discussion, sometimes &lt;a href=&quot;http://freethoughtblogs.com/nataliereed/2012/02/20/thoughts-from-a-diversity-hire/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;excellent, productive discussion&lt;/a&gt;, but SE is not the best place for discussion (except, perhaps, in chat).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="362" LastActivityDate="2012-10-27T23:24:10.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="505" CreationDate="2012-10-28T02:58:09.660" Score="-8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It seems weird to insist on a lot of words if a few words gets the point across...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yep. You're not alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://christianity.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1354&quot;&gt;I've emphasized this on Christianity.SE&lt;/a&gt; where it's a far bigger problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:49:03.407" LastActivityDate="2012-10-28T03:10:13.303" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="502" CreationDate="2012-10-28T03:18:42.267" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close, but I don't remember the exact close reason (the displayed close reason is the majority vote). But I probably picked &quot;Off Topic&quot; as to me &quot;How to introduce yourself in a telephone interview&quot; is exactly the same question as &quot;How to introduce yourself on the telephone&quot;, which isn't really a problem unique to the workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/5825/how-to-introduce-yourself-in-a-telephone-interview#comment11203_5825&quot;&gt;your comment&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Hello, this is $(MY_NAME)&quot; is how I answer my phone 100% of the time I don't know the number and need to avoid with situations like this – enderland Oct 23 at 16:25&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I gather that you also didn't read the question as a workplace problem, why does &quot;Off Topic&quot; seem silly to you? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-10-28T03:18:42.267" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="453" CreationDate="2012-10-29T15:26:19.790" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ethics are a very valid workplace issue.  I can see there's a fear that questions with an ethical component might generate argument and noise rather than constructive debate, but that can be resolved through moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider that part of the point of a &lt;em&gt;professional&lt;/em&gt; code of ethics is to provide consistent and carefully considered answers to difficult moral questions without requiring the individual to conduct their own moral inquiry.  Firstly, that surely gives us a model for our own approach to ethical issues; discuss them in practical workplace terms, rather than as articles of religious faith.  Secondly, it indicates a serious problem if we ban ethical debate; do we exclude all discussion of ethical codes of conduct, despite their being a key element of some professions?  Or do we include only questions regarding recognised professional codes (and then fight endless turf wars over inconsistencies and what should be recognised or not)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this truly becomes a problem issue, we can revisit it. I don't see a reason to exclude this area for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4628" LastActivityDate="2012-10-29T15:26:19.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="505" CreationDate="2012-10-30T13:48:24.920" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not &quot;like lots of words.&quot; I like answers which provide meaningful information and context so that someone in the future finding this site can get value from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often search google and find StackOverflow questions. This causes me to &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; appreciate the difference between short, &quot;here's the answer&quot; questions, and &quot;here's the answer, here's why&quot; questions. If I have a similar issue, one which is not exactly the same - but perhaps super close - I absolutely love having the additional context or explanation a longer, comprehensive answer provides. It bothers me when I find threads on StackOverflow and then realize I have a closely related question but can get no additional insight from the answers listed because they are too short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why I do not like short answers. They do not provide a future reader the context necessary to gain significant value or insight unless the situation is nearly exactly the same as what is asked in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I said it in my comment above: I consistently downvote &quot;answers&quot; which should be comments, because I do not like polluting the site with spam types of answers. I realize downvoting is not necessarily public information by principle but you are asking about this - I am giving you my exact voting philosophy. I downvote answers/questions (as well as upvote) based on the question, &quot;will this be useful in the future to someone coming to this site?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, now a practical example. Note the two blocks of text above and separated by the -------- break. The first, before the separation, could have been my answer. It &quot;answers&quot; your question! However, the second provides the necessary context and reasoning such that someone coming here, either yourself or Yannis Rizos or John Galt, will understand my answer and make it valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This distinction, hopefully shown simply by this answer, is why short answers are bad, and longer answers are, in general, better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2012-10-30T13:48:24.920" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="512" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-31T04:57:43.613" Score="5" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted this here instead of on the question itself so that we could discuss the question without littering the post itself with meta debate. David Weir is a new user, and this could be a good experiment to try bringing these types of discussions/debates to meta right away instead of plastering them all over the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/5926/ive-experienced-a-lot-of-stress-that-may-impact-my-work-what-can-i-do-to-reduc&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;ve experienced a lot of stress that may impact my work. What can I do to reduce it?&lt;/a&gt;, at first glance seemed like a real, actual problem that one would face at work. The issue happened outside of work, but the problem that David is trying to solve is to make sure he can still go to work and be productive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are two potential issues I see with this post:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After answering, I noticed that one of the answers &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/5929/98&quot;&gt;is an extremely short &quot;me too&quot; style answer&lt;/a&gt;, at least it was at the time I posted this. I'm not sure how to judge this as a problem with the question or just a problem with the answers. In general, an answer isn't bad because it's short, it's bad because the length is generally a symptom of a different problem, either the answer isn't fully answering the question, or the question just isn't constructive. The short answer makes the question seem more like a poll, but the question isn't really a poll.... or is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 - If it is a poll, is there a way we can edit it and fix it, or is there something we could ask David to include in his question that would provide more value?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 - If the question is good to go, then what needs to be done to fix the answers? I'm afraid that if we got 10+ &quot;me too&quot; answers, the post wouldn't be very valuable. How do we know listening to a podcast reduces stress better than taking a walk without some form of explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I encourage the community to discuss here instead of on the actual question. David is new to the community, and because of the sensitive nature of the question, I feel it's best to keep debate here instead. Thank you for participating in the experiment! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-11-01T21:12:15.657" Title="Is this a constructive question or is there a problem with the answers? What can be done to make it constructive or fix the answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="512" CreationDate="2012-10-31T06:09:50.940" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;2.5 of the 4 answers the question already got are awful. I can post at least 5 answers right now, each centered around a different stress management technique, but: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not qualified to do so, even if I am relatively experienced with the techniques,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even if I was qualified, the wider Workplace community is generally not qualified to judge the quality of my answers,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even if this was a community of psychologists and/or psychotherapists, medical advice over the internet is extremely dangerous. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is not a self help community, or a community of trained medical professionals. I can understand the urge to post an answer explaining how you personally adapt to stressors and I can also understand how one would feel such an answer is helpful. But it's not, and this is not a free for all discussion forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if the question should be closed or not, but I think it's clear that only two hours since it was posted it's already in trouble. We can either go with the quick fix (close the question) &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; be extremely vigilant with the answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've already downvoted and/or flagged the answers I feel are sub par/don't belong and will not be voting to close the question. I'll keep an eye on the question, and continue to be extremely strict with any further answers, and I'd like to invite everyone else to do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;&quot;back it up&quot; rule&lt;/a&gt;, let's enforce it. We also have a relatively high set of standards, let your votes do the talking. Upvote the answers you feel are useful &lt;em&gt;within the context of the Workplace&lt;/em&gt;, downvote anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2012-10-31T06:09:50.940" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="512" CreationDate="2012-11-01T21:12:15.657" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an apparent bad answer giver, I question the usefulness of this site.  An assortment of the given answers provided advice that is superficial, from a personal perspective in handling a situations that paralleled the OP.  Often for the kinds of problems the OP described, there rarely is little they are going to get from the employer that is really in their best interest and really very limited in relevancy for coping with those kinds of concerns.  It is probably ok to try the employer, but my experience tells me its a path not even worth pursuing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer is bad because, I presume, primarily the answer doesn't talk of the workplace aspect directly and no personal story that details my own trauma.  Sorry for not spilling my guts out over those events.  Outside of morbid curiousity, no one wants to hear those kinds of things.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, I appreciate the feedback Chad gave about 'destructive' activity, and thats my fault for not adequately explaining that strategy without employing the much maligned terminology of 'destructive'.  Worded a different way, fewer people would raise red flags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want this corner of SE to be relevant, I think you are going to need to be a little looser with both the questions and answers you feel are worthy.  Strongly reconsider the policy of aggressively, blindly/anonymously downvoting answers.  I had to hunt meta to find out why I suddenly had seven downvotes, with only Chad giving some indication of why out of all seven I was being beaten up, and his comment came barely an hour ago.  This is by far the worst experience I have had so far with any SE site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="612" LastActivityDate="2012-11-01T21:12:15.657" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="505" CreationDate="2012-11-02T21:40:01.647" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I'm probably a pretty famous monologger on The Workplace, I felt compelled to chime in on this one - I don't think word count should be (or is) our big driver here.  An answer is good if it is thorough.  I tend to flag answers as &quot;too short&quot; if they have so little justification that the only reason I could trust the answer is if I trusted the poster personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems all the more relevant on The Workplace, since very few of these questions have ever been a single faceted issue.  Some technical questions have a very clear, short, correct answer, but almost everything here has some level of trust, belief, or wisdom involved in it, and to prove that your answer really is viable, you need to back it up, not unlike proving a hypothesis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, any answer this long wouldn't bug me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Addition&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, this was a good example of why short answers sometimes fail.  According to the question asker, I missed a big element of the question - who is the &quot;mythical we&quot; in the response and do &quot;we&quot; really want it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll submit the thought here that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's a canned response.  All the canned responses on the SE sites tend to adopt the plural to mean the vague sense of the community at any point in time.  Looking for much more than that in the intent of canned language is probably futile.  It's not a conspiracy theory or anything ... it's just that since there's many mechanisms for user-driven control, they opted for &quot;we&quot; in most of the automated messaging.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;we&quot; who really chime in are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People who down vote a post - requires 125 reputation - and the guidance is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/privileges/vote-down&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  I'll point out that one peice of guidance is &quot;no effort posts&quot; - so just posting &quot;yep&quot; is usually seen that way, as are really, really glib one liners that are more funny than useful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People who vote to delete a post - requires 2000 reputation - is described as part of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;moderator&lt;/a&gt; privilege.  At the time of the writing of this post there are 32 users with that privilege, but if you're interested and looking at this later - go &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and count (I couldn't find another way).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... at any given time, the &quot;we&quot; certainly does change, although my experience has been that it mostly accumulates.  Rabid users with high reputation are pretty likely to stay involved.  In no way is this data driven - but of the 2000+ rep users, I notice about 50% of them online every week, and 25% of them daily.  I quickly clicked into a few whose usernames I &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; recognize and found that they, too, were pretty active recently - I just haven't noticed them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... my advice would be, don't think that the delete-privilege user pool is changing all that quickly.  At this point, it may be growing but not so quickly that I think the opinions have done a 180 degree shift.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also - at any given time, if a post is deleted - it's the users that recommended the deletion that are making the call.  I can't speak for others, but I tend to notice the posts I mark for deletion because they are sitting there with a negative vote and I can't see a way to prod the submitter to improve the post (or I see others have tried and failed)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If other deleters use the same algorithm, then I'd bet that it's not just the deleter pool, but it's swung by any user that downgrades a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, now I've failed in my terseness... There is definitely something to be said for an executive summary, but realize that the elegant, terse writing of an executive summary is often just the lure to get the executive to read at least a few of the details of the paper.  I don't have much respect for people who make big decisions based on a one line slogan, and most of the good executives I know will drill down past the summary in one way or another before they move forward on anything.  I see the post of an answer as more than just the executive summary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T21:43:00.130" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="505" CreationDate="2012-11-03T02:04:49.160" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who Applies Post Notices:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're looking for long answers that provide some explanation and context. Don't just give a one-line answer: please explain why you're recommending it as a solution. Answers that don't explain anything will be deleted. See Good Subjective, Bad Subjective for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what is known as a post notice. Diamond moderators and Stack Exchange employees, anyone with a diamond by their name, have the ability to apply a post notice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases, these are applied in response to community flags. Your answer likely came up in the review queue's &quot;low quality post&quot; filter, due to its length, and some users may have flagged it as &quot;not an answer&quot;. Any user with something like 100 or 200 rep can see posts in the review queue, which means just about any user here could have flagged your post as not an answer. Anyone with 15 reputation can flag a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to flags, one of the moderators likely applied the post notice instead of just outright deleting your answer. The goal, of course, is to give you an opportunity to improve your post and make it valuable to future visitors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of this is quite long, but I'm hoping it provides you with an explanation and background, from my perspective, of why the community chose to enforce answer quality:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange Sites are Better than Forums:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the answers on the site, due to this rule, answer the question in their entirety, and they also provide context to help askers and future visitors to know why those answers are right for them. This not only reduces the number of answers, and reduces noise, but also helps people decide what action to take to solve their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we let everyone post random one-liners everywhere, how useful would 15 to 20 answers on the site be that just didn't explain anything? What it would do is reduce the material to nothing but guesswork for those seeking answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are we discussing Short Answers, or how the community came to this conclusion?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Yannis said, if you want to rehash the discussion, let's do that. So far, you've just complained about the process of coming to this conclusion months ago and seem to be focusing on that point and trying to call Yannis out for being inconsistent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is your argument for allowing these short, one-liner answers? How does this add value to this site? How does this make Workplace SE better than some random snapshot on the Internet where someone posted something vague for future visitors to try and interpret years later?  This really isn't what Stack Exchange is about, and quality is why this Q&amp;amp;A platform is so popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Short Answers Are Not Bad:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as short answers go, I'll take a different approach than the people who say short is bad:  &lt;strong&gt;Short answers are not bad&lt;/strong&gt;, and an answer shouldn't, in my opinion, be removed simply because it is short. However, short is a symptom of something possibly being amiss with an answer. Either it doesn't answer the question fully, or the answer doesn't explain why it is the right course of action, in most cases. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, short answers could indicate a problem with the question. Perhaps someone should leave a comment asking the user to provide more details. Maybe a skilled editor can help clarify the post. Possibly, the question just needs to be closed as not a real question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many cases, short answers mean there is a problem somewhere, but not always.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interpretation Of Your Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result of my stance on short answers, I've read your answer and reread it again, trying to find a reason to take your side and argue for it to be undeleted. The conclusion I come to is that I'm not 100% sure you answered the full question, but the part you did answer didn't really need explanation because it was so obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You did addressed the issue with being fired, which is a concern for the applicant, but you didn't address whether or not it would be an issue to an employer if the applicant consciously quit after 1 year. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You didn't answer this:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;what would you prefer to see in a job applicant? Exactly one year at the last job or 13-14 months?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And you didn't answer this:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the one hand, if I quit after 'one year' it seems more likely to be a conscious choice and something I would have given consideration and planning before doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You said:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you're applying to new jobs while you still have a job, this shouldn't matter, since you obviously haven't left because you were fired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what I get from this is that employers won't think you've been fired if you still have a job, obviously. This makes sense, and again, I agree no real explanation is required here. However, the asker was also concerned that this might make him/her look like he/she planned to leave the job after 1 year, which might look bad to an employer expecting people to stick around and dedicate themselves to 3 or 4 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, you didn't address &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; point or explain why this isn't an issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why Context Matters:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To me, it's self-evident that if you're offering an answer to a question that you're recommending it as a solution because you think that's what the person should do. So insisting that that be included in the answer is just silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So who are you? We don't know you. I really just met you online a few days ago. You seem like an intelligent person, and I even watched you answer an interesting ActionScript problem on Stack Overflow a few nights ago. You even said ActionScript wasn't your area of expertise, yet you still solved the problem. ;)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, user1234 doesn't know you. How does user1234 and the countless future visitors to your Workplace post know that the information you give is useful and correct if you don't provide any context to &lt;em&gt;demonstrate&lt;/em&gt; it's correct? To user1234, you and I are both just random people on the Internet, so without explanation, it's difficult to tell why a solution is a good solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I think you're misunderstanding what the community means by &lt;em&gt;&quot;provide some explanation and context&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. The community isn't asking you to say &quot;I recommend this explanation because I think it will help you&quot;, because you're right, that &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; silly. Instead, the goal is to explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; on a deeper level. Share your knowledge. Why do you think what you're recommending is helpful? Because you say it is?  How can you explain this so that people reading your answer learn from it, instead of merely thinking &quot;I should do this because Amy says so.&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, there's no compiler here to check to see if a solution is good or not. Sometimes, the outcome of an answer on the Workplace may not be clear for months or years, so there's no immediate way for someone to tell if your solution is the one to go with. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-11-03T02:04:49.160" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="517" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="518" CreationDate="2012-11-05T13:12:29.250" Score="9" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we keep here sometime's sensitive conversation's which might change our Supervisor's opinion if they read should User's here post with different username rather than Stack Overflow or the Stack Exchange general account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because sometime's you can complain or ask any suggest which the will indicate to the Supervisor opinion about you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2510" OwnerDisplayName="Cody" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-06-21T02:04:27.213" LastActivityDate="2013-06-21T02:04:27.213" Title="Is it a better idea to post at the Workplace with a different account?" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="517" CreationDate="2012-11-05T14:27:57.913" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It all depends on &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; you ask questions (and post answers). Generally you should be polite, respectful and neutral in your posts anyway, and I can hardly see a problem in your boss seeing posts like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/5980/how-can-we-keep-a-shared-common-area-kitchen-clean&quot;&gt;How can we keep a shared common area (kitchen) clean?&lt;/a&gt; unless you phrase it something like &quot;My coworkers are a bunch of infantile incompetent slobs, how can I get back at them?&quot;. Post here almost like you're talking to an interviewer; don't throw blame around, if there was a problem explain the &lt;em&gt;problem&lt;/em&gt; and what you want to do to overcome it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're unable to ask a question in a way that appears neutral (say a question that seems to imply you're going to quit/looking at opportunities outside your current workplace), you can log out and post a question (sort of) anonymously. Just log out (click the dropdown arrow near your username at the top of the page) and post a question. The question will be attributed to &quot;user325534&quot; or whatever, a new unregistered account. You might have to put in a new email address but that's not publicly facing. The emails aren't validated either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5SXvb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you post a question in this way please try to keep up with comments/edits on the anonymous question like you would any other post; don't just throw a post on us and disappear. Additionally an existing post can be dissociated from your account if you ask (flag the post for moderator attention). It will show up as &quot;anonymous&quot; or something and won't be in your profile (and you lose the points/overall ownership). Don't make a habit of this though, only use it if you've already posted something you don't want on your &quot;record&quot; so to speak, since it's a bit of extra work for moderators (and Stack Exchange employees).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I just used a different name when starting my Workplace account so it doesn't show up in my personal Google results. I've considered doing the same on Gaming, not really because I'm ashamed of it, but I'd really rather my User Experience and Cognitive Sciences contributions show up before anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T16:45:07.907" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="519" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="520" CreationDate="2012-11-06T11:18:50.087" Score="-2" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an extremely minor bug, but on the latest Safari for mountain lion I see that the corner of the tag bubble is messed up. I have to zoom in quite a bit to actually see it very well, but it is there. Is this a Safari-only related problem? You can see the problem on the tag &quot;bug&quot; to the right of this text and the button &quot;Answer this question&quot; (below this post)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TeujN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4801" LastEditorUserId="4816" LastEditDate="2012-11-07T20:23:03.487" LastActivityDate="2012-11-07T20:23:55.417" Title="Corrupted corner on tag" Tags="|bug|status-declined|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2012-11-21T15:16:45.080" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="519" CreationDate="2012-11-07T20:23:55.417" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tags are rendered with pure CSS, so weirdness here is generally a browser bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4816" LastActivityDate="2012-11-07T20:23:55.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="522" CreationDate="2012-11-10T08:00:38.587" Score="4" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if we could remove our close vote from a question after it is edited and has some added meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have voted for closing &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/6122/2598&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. Originally, when this question was posted, it was not very constructive and more likely it seems like an open ended discussion question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now this question has been edited and seems quite useful to the community. So I want to remove my close vote as already there are 3 close votes and 2 more will result in closing the question. So, is there any way to remove the close vote from a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-02-04T15:41:28.343" Title="Can I remove my close vote when the question is edited?" Tags="|support|closing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="521" CreationDate="2012-11-10T15:06:26.273" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/915/can-we-have-the-ability-to-rescind-a-close-vote-before-it-closes&quot;&gt;You can't&lt;/a&gt;. However you can go to the Review page (link at the top of the page) and go through the Close queue and vote &quot;Do Not Close&quot;; if a post gets 3 Do Not Close votes it will be removed from the close queue, however others can still vote to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, once the question has 100 views, close votes will start expiring at a rate of one per day unless another close vote is added, at which point the 4-day timer resets. So if you're concerned about it, just check back in a week or so to make sure the votes expired, and if they didn't and the question got closed, just vote to reopen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T14:12:36.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="523" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-12T08:21:15.847" Score="-6" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/6148/2536&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was asked by a stark newbie to wp.se. The question received about 3-4 downvotes before someone came in and pointed out to the OP what needed to be done. The question was subsequently closed as at -4 votes. Yet, everytime I've come around, the downvoting seems to not stop. The OP has long since gotten the message and has taken his business elsewhere (and acknowledged his misplacement in a comment on the question). Yet some users have taken it upon themselves to continue to downvote the question, eroding his rep further after the fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;however this is the very first question the OP asked on Stack Exchange ever. Let's be a bit more thoughtful and welcoming in the future please, it's not that hard to check a user's profile, see that they have absolutely no familiarity with the network and be a bit more careful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quote above is from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/476/2536&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; by Yannis Rizos that I believe users here need to remember when administering the FAQ to first-timers, after the fact of closing a question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some way we can protect or advise against this? Even a small FAQ entry to discourage such (to me) counter-productive downvoting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2536" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-11-12T14:55:42.033" Title="Disable/Disallow voting on closed questions" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="523" CreationDate="2012-11-12T13:06:18.860" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are assorted problems with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The content isn't locked, you can do &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; with a closed question (vote, edit, retag, comment) except answer it. If it's been improved, it should be eligible for upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it were only eligible for upvotes, not downvotes, that's hardly fair. Upvotes are not a &quot;consolation prize&quot; because someone's feelings might be hurt, either. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Votes are for content, not people. If the content is not useful or extremely off topic then it should be downvoted, period.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvoting a post to -4 removes it from the front page (-8 on meta). For posts that are never going to be on topic (as this post isn't), this is a good thing as it saves a lot of people from having to read an extremely poor or off topic question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on all that I'm opposed to any actual system for preventing this behavior or any sort of social discouragement regarding the behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also important to remember that features like voting and editing are allowed on closed questions because they're not &quot;dead&quot;; that time only comes when they're deleted. And voting can make a big difference in what stays and what goes. I'm much more inclined to delete an answered, closed question at -8 than I am an answered, closed question at +8. An upvoted, closed question might be a good hint the post could be improved (or has been), a downvoted closed post may well be a lost cause. Quality (votes) and topicality (close votes) are separate voting systems for good reason, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-11-12T14:55:42.033" LastActivityDate="2012-11-12T14:55:42.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="525" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="527" CreationDate="2012-11-13T20:58:20.417" Score="21" ViewCount="424" Body="&lt;p&gt;A year ago Stack Exchange ran a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.gaming.stackexchange.com/2011/12/holiday-2011-hat-dash-the-hattening/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hat promotional event&lt;/a&gt; where you could earn &quot;hats&quot; for your gravatar (profile icon) to wear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3WjnY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is going to do a second run of this promo, but they're going to run it on all sites, &lt;em&gt;provided the site wants it&lt;/em&gt;. The hats will be more generic and not as ridiculous (no decapitated Wampa hats). Mods give the final go-ahead here, but I figured I'd ask and see; once there's a clear consensus one way or another we'll handle the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hats would be earned by completing tasks like editing a question, getting upvotes, stuff you do to get badges, but you can show them off while the event is active. These would show up only on the /User page and on question pages, and there's an &quot;I hate hats&quot; button you can use (per-user) to disable hats if you're a hat hater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as a community, do we want the hats promo? Y/N?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T14:25:25.863" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T14:25:25.863" Title="Do we want hats?" Tags="|discussion|hats|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="525" CreationDate="2012-11-13T21:56:22.103" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gr3Vl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Meh&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-11-13T21:56:22.103" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="525" CreationDate="2012-11-14T04:31:32.620" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;We want hats. You guys were supposed to answer &amp;quot;we want hats&amp;quot; and then upvote it and I accept it. Whatever. We clearly want hats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Hats.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pIArs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T16:01:36.310" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="528" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="529" CreationDate="2012-11-14T14:18:08.577" Score="7" ViewCount="458" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/6201/what-type-of-clothing-is-considered-to-be-the-royal-touch-dress-code&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is about dress code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that dress code is tightly related to Workspace topic as it directly affects one's professional setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, many members downvote the question due to off-topic. There's also a close flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/29783/etiquette&quot;&gt;Etiquette&lt;/a&gt; proposal is about at 50% commitment, and such questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/29783/etiquette/43336#43336&quot;&gt;may be on-topic there&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should dress code and outfit be on-topic here on Workplace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2145" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-11-21T14:25:53.177" Title="Dress code - is it on topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2012-11-14T16:05:06.183" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes I think it should be on-topic providing the question deals with the dress code itself, and not the etiquette of when to use it outside of the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, asking what the dress code would be of a particular type of social event is off-topic, however asking what the dress code &quot;business casual&quot; means should be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/6201/what-type-of-clothing-is-considered-to-be-the-royal-touch-dress-code#comment12251_6201&quot;&gt;I said&lt;/a&gt; in the question you linked,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wouldn't close a question as off-topic just because someone was&#xA;  asking what &quot;business casual&quot; was for a social event instead of an&#xA;  interview, and wouldn't close a question that asked what the dress&#xA;  code &quot;Penguins&quot; meant for an interview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most workplaces have a dress code, and the phrase &quot;dress code&quot; is almost always used in relation to the workplace, so I think questions about dress codes themselves are completely on-topic here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The etiquette of when or how to use a dress code on the other hand, may not be on-topic unless the question is also related to the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; To address the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/6201/316&quot;&gt;specific question mentioned&lt;/a&gt;, no I don't think it's off-topic because it's a question about dress-code, but I do think it could be considered too localized because that dress code doesn't exist, so it is very unlikely another user will ever have the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T21:17:16.590" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2012-11-14T16:15:56.080" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dress-code questions about the workplace are on-topic (I agree with Rachel), but that particular question doesn't seem to be about the workplace -- it's a social event, but &quot;people work there&quot; is pretty tenuous.  That one should be closed, just as &quot;what should I wear to my boss's wedding?&quot; would be off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2012-11-21T14:25:53.177" LastActivityDate="2012-11-21T14:25:53.177" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="499" CreationDate="2012-11-14T22:59:07.817" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I would like to see is more users coming from industries other than IT. I would also like to see more HR professionals here answering questions from their perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how to get the word to those people? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did bring up Workplace to several people at the SQLPASS conference last week (including someone who was speaking on workplace issues and someone who manages a virtual chapter on professional devlopement for PASS) and intend to point a young lady  I met there to the site as well as she is having some sexism based troubles that might make for some interesting questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T22:59:07.817" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2012-11-15T13:36:04.313" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with the question is not topicality; dress code questions requiring familiarity with the workplace are on topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is there just &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; such a thing as &quot;royal touch dress code&quot;. It's not a thing. That's the definition of Too Localized: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will this question help future visitors? &lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt; Only people doing to &lt;em&gt;this specific event&lt;/em&gt; could benefit from this particular knowledge because the phrase is made up. The meaning is of course implicit, but divining the meaning behind vague, non-workplace related phrases isn't really a great question either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take this example question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have been invited to a Chili Tuesday at work. What is Chili Tuesday? Will there be Chili or am I expected to &lt;em&gt;provide&lt;/em&gt; chili? Is it a pun, implying the weather is chilly as well? Should I bring a coat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one can answer this beyond someone at that &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; workplace; further, no one outside that specific workplace would &lt;em&gt;benefit&lt;/em&gt; from the answer. Even worse, potentially infinite questions of this form can be asked...on any topic. Q: How do you prepare Creme de la creme western yogurt? A: You can't, I made it up. This is not a site for guessing games and divination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the value of questions where the only reasonable answer is &quot;We have no idea, ask your boss/secretary/whatever sent the message in the first place&quot;? Further, what is the value of &lt;em&gt;potentially infinite&lt;/em&gt; questions where that's the only reasonable answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T13:36:04.313" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="533" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-17T23:16:07.670" Score="5" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would questions regarding how to deal with customers be acceptable? The FAQ is sort of vague in this regard...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="716" LastActivityDate="2012-11-18T03:20:29.137" Title="Questions regarding customer interaction allowed?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="533" CreationDate="2012-11-18T03:20:29.137" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not an official answer, by any means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that it is like anything else that can have &lt;em&gt;in-context&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;out-of-context&lt;/em&gt; relationships to the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly your relationship and interactions with your boss are on topic.  However, there are absolutely components of your relationship with your boss that are very job-specific; and those would &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/102/42&quot;&gt;probably be off topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the same would go for customer relationships.  How you might acquire them, when your role in the sales/service process dictates that you should or shouldn't contact them &amp;mdash; these things would be off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, just as we have many workplace relationship questions here, there are certain aspects of &quot;how to deal with customers&quot; that would definitely be on topic.  Here are some samples that might be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A customer asked me to go around my boss and approve an invoice.  This customer is very important to the company.  How should I deal with this?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I need to contact a customer from a company I no longer work for.  How can I do this appropriately?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe questions like this are every bit as on-topic as other workplace relationship questions we already support, so in answer to &quot;would questions regarding how to deal with customers be acceptable?&quot; I don't think there is one answer that fits all questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2012-11-18T03:20:29.137" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="536" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-18T21:22:46.467" Score="2" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user on our site just asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/6328/98&quot;&gt;When should you form a union?&lt;/a&gt; Because of the issues faced with a recent large corporation and a union in the United States, there is a lot of activity on the Internet about this topic, and many people are searching for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are opportunities to help generate awareness of the site. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/users/482412/samthebrand&quot;&gt;Sam Brand&lt;/a&gt;, a Stack Exchange employee and member of the CHAOS team, made attempts earlier this year to help promote several Stack Exchange sites based on posting questions that involved trending topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had varying success, as some of the questions were shut down by the community for not following certain guidelines. Others made the cut and ended up becoming helpful inroads to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/06/can-stack-exchange-capitalize-on-hot-trends/&quot;&gt;Can Stack Exchange Capitalize on Hot Trends&lt;/a&gt;, Sam gives some advice on how to help capitalize on these trends, based on his experiences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a site’s rules can get in the way of creating the sort of topical content that would make the net a better place. What happened with &lt;a href=&quot;https://money.stackexchange.com/q/14975/5139&quot;&gt;Question #1&lt;/a&gt; illustrates this well. A couple Mondays ago, investing in Facebook seemed like a pretty good idea. So, like thousands of others I googled: “How can I invest in Facebook’s IPO?” What resulted were a jumble of links that referred to E-Trade’s involvement in the initial public offering, but no stories that told me directly whether I was eligible to bid on the shares at the IPO price. I just wanted an answer. So I took the query to our &lt;a href=&quot;https://money.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Personal Finance site&lt;/a&gt;, where the question was quickly closed. The reason for the closure? A similar question had previously been asked at the site, but about Skype’s IPO. Needless to say, Skype is not Facebook, and neither question will ever answer anyone’s question about getting in on any upcoming IPOs. Lacking a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/the-wikipedia-of-long-tail-programming-questions/&quot;&gt;canonical answer&lt;/a&gt;, this is a case where a site should really learn to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/dr-strangedupe-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-duplication/&quot;&gt;love the duplicates&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sam also asks an important question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; So, what can we do? How can Stack Exchange improve in cases like these when a good question with a hot proper noun gets shut down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; Vote to reopen. Not enough rep? Ask your friends to vote to reopen. Flag for moderator attention. And &lt;strong&gt;make your case in the comments&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want an expert answer, put in a little work to deserve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to Sam's advice, I don't think the rules need to necessarily be &lt;em&gt;fully&lt;/em&gt; bent or broken in cases like this. In the question that's currently open on our site, we should ask ourselves what changes, if any, the asker should (or could) make, to help it comply with the rules a bit more. Perhaps the answer isn't to &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; bend the rules, but to also find a middle ground, via editing,  that allows the question to exist on the site while also bringing it closer to the blurry line that is the site's boundary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the only problem is that it's a duplicate, then maybe we let that slide, since it's not like the &amp;quot;What language should I learn next?&amp;quot; questions on Programmers SE, where there exists an endless stream of duplicates. We should ask ourselves if an occasional, or one time duplicate, to take advantage of a trend is really more costly than the potential rewards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, if you look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/6328/98&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, and your first instinct is to vote to close, I encourage you to look for ways to find value in this post. It's questions like this that have potential to increase participation in Workplace SE, and I hope we can find a way to make this question work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-11-19T03:49:42.290" Title="Capitalizing on trends to grow the site" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|announcement|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="536" CreationDate="2012-11-18T22:13:44.463" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't agree. Honestly I find that blog post of dubious use. It really doesn't have an answer beyond &quot;on topic questions which were hot button were fine, off topic or duplicate ones aren't&quot;. So hot button is nice, but largely irrelevant to how the sites work. Gaming for example gets huge bursts of new traffic when a new hot game comes out...but they don't relax their quality standards one bit when it happens. Gaming is one of the largest and most active sites on the network still, so I don't think there's much evidence of need to break rules just to beg for SEO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, this is a duplicate question, not a question that needs other improvement. It hasn't been shut down because it's a hot-button issue. I don't find those parts of the blog post relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question as asked isn't really about the focus on the debate, either. The real debate is whether the union overstepped their bounds or if the management was being unreasonable or some combination of the two. The &quot;problem&quot; wasn't just a union but a &lt;em&gt;strike&lt;/em&gt;. This isn't directly related to the problem at all. The union was already created; whether or not one should form unions is irrelevant to the hot button issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not inclined to leave open a duplicate (of a question of already dubious constructiveness) just so we can get some temporary SEO keywords in there. I seriously doubt they'll be useful in growing our community anyway. We're a community about workplace issues, not politics. The interest in this case (as I've seen) is almost entirely political, and mostly mudslinging in either direction, not well structured debate about whether one should form a union.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-11-18T22:13:44.463" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="536" CreationDate="2012-11-19T03:49:42.290" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was hesitant to not vote to close this initially. But I realized:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This question is nearly the exact same question as the other linked question. The only meaningful difference is the &quot;last resort vs first move&quot; idea, but this is also fundamentally tied into the question of the benefits of unions. There is an amazing answer on the linked post as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is a seriously complicated question which imo is reasonably outside the scope of this site. The question of, &quot;would a union be a good idea?&quot; is not one which can be easily answered in any sense which makes it difficult to be constructive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is (and will probably become more) a hopelessly politically entangled question. All the non-political discussion is directly contained within the duplicate and linked question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The last paragraph of the question basically says, &quot;I don't think there is an answer but I want &lt;strike&gt;guidelines&lt;/strike&gt; a poll.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2012-11-19T03:49:42.290" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="539" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="540" CreationDate="2012-11-20T18:30:50.580" Score="8" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;When switching between the main site and the meta here on The Workplace, my displayed reputation is the same between them, even though the badges are not and the reputation is not shared like this on some other Stack Exchange sites such as Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4710" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T18:37:52.940" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T18:44:05.617" Title="Why is reputation shared between the main and the meta?" Tags="|support|stackexchange|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="539" CreationDate="2012-11-20T18:44:05.617" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please find a copy of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/64268/165773&quot;&gt;canonical answer&lt;/a&gt; given by SE Community Manager at MSO below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://webapps.meta.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; of any of the child metas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation here is entirely derived from the parent website; your reputation is the same as your reputation on the parent website, synchronized hourly. Votes here do not affect your reputation in any way. However, you can earn unique badges here on the meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Please note that offensive penalties, if levied by the community through spam or offensive votes on your posts here, will affect your reputation on the parent website.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has a couple consequences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users have the same powers on the meta site as the parent site.  The more someone is vested in the parent site, it stands to reason that that should follow on the meta site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everything drives from the parent site, which is at is should be.  The meta site doesn't exist as a place to gain rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can cast votes more freely based on the content of the post without it affecting rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, you may not be earning the rep that it shows, but it is still an indicator of activity.  Don't you want to know when you get an upvote?  &lt;strong&gt;You just need to think in terms of what each value of rep gain/loss means in terms of vote activity.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also earn badges on the meta site that are independent of badges from the parent site.  Mortarboard is the first example that comes to mind relating to your rep.  Other badges like Good/Great Question/Answer etc relate to upvotes.  In the SE system, votes tie to rep.  A side effect of it being the same code-base, but I don't see it as a big enough deal that it would warrant changing for the meta sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/new-per-site-metas/&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; entry that discusses the per-site metas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T18:44:05.617" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-11-20T18:44:05.617" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2012-11-21T13:49:18.950" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regretfully Dress Codes are generational topics. The older generations would consider this an On-Topic for the workplace because of the fact that the dress makes the person, and the person dressed well in the workplace makes the company. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gen-Xers generally see a more relaxed view of this, and loose collars and jeans in some cases are acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything under a Gen-X of age tends to seem to forgo a dress code, or to stretch the limits in some cases of acceptable dress in the work place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my opinion, but also my views of what I've seen in the last 20+ years of being in the work force. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I first started I was expected to wear a suit.&#xA;When it hit the late 90's and early 00's it was business causal (Polo and Khakis).&#xA;Today, it seems a shirt with a button, and jeans are acceptable in a lot of places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are going to get some people attempting to keep a dress code but in reality, it comes down to a generational situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The younger generations are going to say no, the older generations I feel are going to say yes, but that's my opinion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me though, I feel dress code is on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2623" LastActivityDate="2012-11-21T13:49:18.950" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="542" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-24T18:27:19.220" Score="4" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is going to happen if someone asks a &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;based on an industry which is not necessarily the most... appropriate? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say for example, someone had a question on the porn industry. It seems you could construct quite a few questions well within the FAQ requirements which would seem quite absurd, yet, seemingly valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, this might be a conversation which is good to have &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; any such questions appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2012-11-26T22:30:22.607" Title="What industries does Workplace cover?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="542" CreationDate="2012-11-24T20:46:39.027" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;On topic questions are welcome, regardless of the industry. If the question is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; about something illegal and follows our normal guidelines, I don't see why we shouldn't welcome it. That includes the porn industry, it's a workplace after all, and we can't really dictate topicality based on personal sensitivities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site strives to be a canonical resource for workplace issues, and excluding certain industries, whichever those industries might be, is antithetical to that purpose. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2012-11-24T20:46:39.027" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="542" CreationDate="2012-11-24T22:03:36.440" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this is to be an site that is international and pan-industry then it is important to note that different countries -and industries -  have different attitudes, cultures and laws that impact on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over-localisation of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;moderation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of questions will discourage others from posting, as will providing negative feedback/comments to posters based on a single cultural or industry perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;workplace slap&quot; issue is a case in point - in some industries being drunk on site is a sacking offence, and as one preson commented, in advertising its just a Friday afternoon.  To go further, in some countries, simply being drunk anywhere or kissing someone that is not you married partner will result in criminal prosecution, as recent cases in Dubai have shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understood this site to be about supporting people with their workplace issues - which to me means seeking to understand their environment and context before passing judegment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4756" LastActivityDate="2012-11-24T22:03:36.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="545" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-25T02:19:43.730" Score="-5" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/52/can-i-trust-employers-that-make-the-first-move&quot;&gt;Can I trust employers that make the first move?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fact: It's impossible to answer either 'Yes' or 'No' to this question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As currently stated, anecdotes and &quot;guesses&quot; about a party's motivation for making an unsolicited offer are the best way to answer this question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I wonder:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we close this question and create a new one?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or should we edit this question to say something like: &quot;How should I respond to an unsolicited job offer? Is there anything that I should bear in mind or consider?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-11-25T02:53:19.540" Title="Shouldn't this question be edited to make it constructive?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="545" CreationDate="2012-11-25T02:53:19.540" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fact: It's impossible to answer either 'Yes' or 'No' to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good. Straight-up yes/no questions tend to be lousy and encourage lazy answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As currently stated, anecdotes and &quot;guesses&quot; about a party's motivation for making an unsolicited offer are the best way to answer this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, those are pretty lousy ways to answer the question. A good answer would involve guidance for gauging the &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; motivation, which at least a couple of existing answers do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or should we edit this question [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing is always preferable to closing, if you are able to resolve outstanding issues by doing so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that this question has already been &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/35/do-we-have-a-quality-control-issue&quot;&gt;discussed&lt;/a&gt; and edited based on that discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2012-11-25T02:53:19.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="542" CreationDate="2012-11-26T16:41:50.317" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to think that if dealing with an industry with ... legal adult content by most cultural definitions - we'd be able to encourage tact and moderation, but wouldn't close and delete immediately.  I see is as basically a more urgent and potentially loaded need for keeping too many technical details fairly generalized.  Admittedly, when talking about porn, the need to jump in quickly may be a bit more urgent than someone getting too eloquent about the variations between a career in develoment vs. quality assurance. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I wouldn't want to get into a situation where we say no to a whole industry provided it's legal in the location in question, and can be asked in such a way that technical details are omitted.  I see most of the terrifying salacious questions of the porn industry as being similar to many of the other &quot;too specific&quot; questions that we either close or massively generalize today.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll also add - that offline I have some friends in adult industries.  I've actually learned a lot from them about how to stay professional, even in very... odd circumstances.  And that every workplace has rules that help people working in the environment manage tricky situations with a bit more grace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="67" LastEditDate="2012-11-26T22:30:22.607" LastActivityDate="2012-11-26T22:30:22.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="548" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-28T02:42:22.273" Score="1" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Refer to my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/6530/what-to-do-if-your-staff-feel-that-you-insult-him&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, the question is being closed as &quot;not constructive&quot; because &quot;there is no right answer to my question&quot;, as claimed by Chad in his comment. But I would argue that a lot of the questions on workplace should be closed also if this policy is enforced strictly. Question such as &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3492/is-it-rude-to-leave-an-interview-early-if-you-have-already-made-your-decision&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it rude to leave an interview early if you have already made your decision?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/5574/how-soon-should-you-return-to-work-after-illness&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How soon should you return to work after illness?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot; are all subjective questions that can have no single right answer, are likely to invite extended discussion and disagreement and therefore, are no more constructive than mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is no worse than the above two examples I cite, therefore I don't understand why my question is closed whereas the above two aren't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the mods reopen my question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5134" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T04:41:00.827" Title="Why close &quot;What to do if your staff feel that you insult him?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="548" CreationDate="2012-11-28T03:35:16.563" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You make a great point about many of the questions on the site being of a subjective nature, and that's fine. Subjective questions are okay as long as they follow the guidelines in Good Subjective, Bad Subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two questions you reference have a different vibe to them. Facts are presented, and at the end, the asker poses a subjective question. The answers are supported by facts, references, or personal experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem that I see with your question is that there is not enough clarification as to what exactly your question is. This is extremely broad:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Am I doing the right thing under this circumstances? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you mean here? Are you doing the right thing about what exactly? Approaching an employee about performance without proof? Asking an employee if he thinks he's giving it his best? Or something else? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that subjective questions that are specific tend to fare much better than very open ended ones like this, which don't help get focused answers. Instead, try something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What can I do to make sure that I don't insult my employees when I approach them about their work performance? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, your question was closed, but deep down I really don't think it's much different than the two questions you cite, but it would help make your case for reopening much stronger if you make some edits such as what I've suggested. Be very clear what your question is and define what problem you are trying to solve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before editing, first take a look at the answers. Do they answer your question? If they do, then you may want to just move on, as edits may invalidate your answers. However, if these answers &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; answer your question, then feel free to give your post a stronger focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once that's done, edit your post here, and the community will take a look and re-evaluate. Good luck! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T03:35:16.563" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="548" CreationDate="2012-11-28T04:41:00.827" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with jmort253's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/549/26&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; in general, and would add the following as a response to the &quot;why close?&quot; question: the five close votes for the community closure may have been split in several different categories, with the final vote being the one that triggered the not-constructive reason.  Or, all five might have been not-constructive votes -- I don't know.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; know that I personally could see three different and equally valid reasons for closing the question; in situations like these it's usually of benefit to look at the comments on the post, especially those from people who cast close votes (as you did, since you referenced Chad's comment and vote, above).  At least one other user commented it might be a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/6409/how-to-deal-with-a-team-in-which-one-of-the-members-doesnt-accept-critique&quot;&gt;How to deal with a team in which one of the members doesn't accept critique?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In looking at your question, it is very much geared toward your very specific situation and asking if &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;, in this instance, are &quot;doing the right thing&quot; -- fair enough, as it's your question!  But in the StackExchange format, we try to ensure the creation (and editing) of questions that solve generalized workplace problems, while still using the specific circumstances that people bring to the table as supporting evidence.  In other words, trying to find the balance of answering a user's question to a practical problem they are facing in the workplace, in a way that is useful to many current and future users -- and often that means editing the question to get to the heart of it, and stripping away specifics.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if we were to do that (strip away the specifics and find the core workplace problem for which an answer would be useful for many different visitors at different times) with your question, it is quite similar to the &quot;How to deal with a team in which one of the members doesn't accept critique&quot; question linked above and also offered in comments as a possible duplicate.  Or, you could turn the situation around &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; leverage answers to that existing question and make your question as &quot;simple&quot; as: &quot;How do I move forward with an employee with whom I tried to teach instead of criticize and offer feedback instead of criticism, who has totally shut down?&quot; Ok, maybe not that specific question, because it's really long, but hopefully you see my point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, I wouldn't open this question myself, especially when it was a community closure.  I would, however, suggest you attempt to edit it as I and others have suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T04:41:00.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="551" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="552" CreationDate="2012-11-29T14:44:46.970" Score="3" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I got the Suffrage badge and kept voting, until I got the &quot;You have no more votes available today.  Wait n hours to vote again.&quot; (or some such)  However, it's now 20 some hours later and I see no Vox Populi badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I realize to get Vox Populi you need several question votes.  I looked through my votes from yesterday and counted 17 question votes.  Maybe I miscounted by one or two, but I can't imagine it was that far off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2317" LastEditorUserId="1513" LastEditDate="2013-02-01T16:08:15.883" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T16:08:15.883" Title="Where's my Vox Populi badge?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="551" CreationDate="2012-11-29T15:17:06.733" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it takes time to appear, but I expect that if that were your issue you would have it already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What likely happened is that you did not meet the criteria for the badge (using the maximum possible 40 votes in one day), but still used all of your votes. You get 30 total votes per day, with an additional 10 votes that can be used on questions. The way these 10 votes works, though, is tricky. You need to use them early in the day. Once you get the countdown on your votes telling you how many you have left for the day, it's too late (but you can then determine the total you are able to cast that day). In order to get the Vox Populi badge, you need to use 40 votes, not just all of your votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some explanation is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5212/167443&quot;&gt;available on Meta&lt;/a&gt;, with a bit &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/90202/167443&quot;&gt;more detail here&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not sure I'm 100% clear on how it works, but I do know that if you want to get the full 40 votes in a day, you need to vote on questions early.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2012-11-29T15:17:06.733" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="553" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-29T16:27:35.083" Score="6" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know going on a badge-quest is probably a tad bit cheesy.  But this one's been bugging me.  I feel like by now I should have read all the sections of the FAQ - so recently I made a deliberate effort to go back through it, skimming areas I knew I'd already read deeply, and making sure I read anything that seemed new to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's been more than a few days and I haven't been awarded the Analytical badge.  How can one tell what one's missed on the FAQ?  I'd happily catch up - since as a user with a lot of privs, it's a very, very good idea for me to be deeply clueful about the FAQ guidance!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2012-11-29T17:57:58.570" Title="Analytical Badge?" Tags="|support|faq-content|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="553" CreationDate="2012-11-29T17:57:58.570" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;FYI - final answer - Rarity was totally correct in his comment above.  I had to click every item in the sidebar.  I strongly suspect I had read every section - possibly by scrolling and clicking to expand sections.  But the badge actually came through when I had clicked every item in the sidebar, using the sidebar only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It worked the same for both main and meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The nerdy tester in me wonders if that's really the functionality we want for this - no matter how someone reads the FAQ, the resulting knowledge they get is the same.  But then there's always some technical details that make other types of implementation tricky...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2012-11-29T17:57:58.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="555" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-30T02:08:28.597" Score="3" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a question here but then I wanted to remain anonymous for a privacy reason just in case if other people from my company looks at the question and recognizes my account name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went ahead and deleted the question, then tried to repost the same question under a different account but now it's giving me the duplicate question error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can I do to get past this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2282" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T17:12:52.133" Title="How can you get past a duplicate question filter error" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="556" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-30T15:16:23.693" Score="4" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;The community closed the following question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/6661/how-do-prospective-employers-screen-your-social-networking-profile&quot;&gt;How do prospective employers screen private social networking profiles?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It had quite a bit of NC content and rightfully should have been closed because of this.  I had edited this out easily and it leaves the very important and interesting question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;How do companies perform social media background checks?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel it is a valid concern as previous questions about background checks on the Workplace were also considered appropriate.  The moderator asks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;IMO &quot;How do they&quot; shouldn't be asked unless it's been established that the answer to &quot;Do they&quot; is yes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that if the question were &quot;Do they ...&quot; then it would be more appropriate for Skeptics however.  Also there do exist companies that specialize in this sort of background check so while it is still relatively unknown that this goes on, it is very clearly a real thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ere.net/2012/06/26/top-10-guidelines-for-social-media-background-checks/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.ere.net/2012/06/26/top-10-guidelines-for-social-media-background-checks/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the question is worthy of being reopened now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2012-12-02T09:48:48.757" Title="How do they? vs. Do they? Social media background checks" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="556" CreationDate="2012-11-30T15:49:23.887" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's clearly real that people search for social media information, but generally this is public information. The question explicitly states they're interested in how recruiters look at information that should apparently be private. Your link doesn't particularly prove that private searches are common:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Search only public content about the candidate on the Internet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've heard certain reports that some companies ask for social media passwords, but A) I'm not sure how real/common that is B) If it's not outright illegal, it's a violation of Facebook's ToS C) if you give them your password, you know how they found your information, so it's not relevant here anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we're back at &quot;real problems you face&quot;; I don't really feel this question makes much sense without some reasoning behind it; did HR know something that should have been private on his facebook? Is it well known that they find this information (I still don't see evidence of this). The question started with &lt;em&gt;&quot;I am just curious&quot;&lt;/em&gt; which is a huge red flag. I edited it out, but I don't feel the question has really risen above plain curiosity at this point. When you're &quot;just curious&quot; with your question, all too often you get answers that are &quot;just guessing&quot;, and those don't really help anyone. At worst they they're incorrect to boot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree that &quot;do they&quot; is only appropriate for Skeptics; while it's certainly on topic for Skeptics if you found a notable claim of such behavior, it's still 100% on topic on The Workplace, and IMO much more relevant to workers than &quot;how&quot;. I mean, how is &quot;how&quot; relevant if places &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; do these seemingly impossible background checks? That takes the question out of practicality and into theory, which isn't really what the site is about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T15:49:23.887" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="555" CreationDate="2012-11-30T17:12:52.133" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The filter is pretty...bad, if Stack Overflow is any indication. I bet any minor change should allow you to post it on the different account. Try changing something minor so it isn't a letter for letter duplicate and post it again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T17:12:52.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="556" CreationDate="2012-12-02T09:48:48.757" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect the &quot;How do companies do social media background checks&quot; question would struggle to find a &quot;best&quot; -or definitive - answer for a couple of reasons :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;how formally or informally this forms part of the process is going to vary considerably from organisation to organisation&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the legality of this kind of check will vary from country to country, as will the level of checks required for positive security vetting&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result, I'd suggest that answers are likely ot be pretty localised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4756" LastActivityDate="2012-12-02T09:48:48.757" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="560" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-03T15:51:09.510" Score="11" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who's been in the workforce for a while, I have experienced some situations which others may encounter in the future.  As such, I think it may be useful to pose questions about these situations, even though resolution has occurred.  Thus, is it okay post such an experience as a question here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:  Of course, I can always phrase a question about a past situation so it appears current.  However, I would rather not do that for everything, so part of my reason for asking this is to find how the community would feel about a question like &quot;10 years ago I faced [SITUATION].  I did [MY RESOLUTION], but don't think that was necessarily the best solution.  What else might I have done?&quot;  The point of this would be to build a repository for others to learn from, since obviously I can't do anything now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2317" LastEditorUserId="2317" LastEditDate="2012-12-05T14:13:22.013" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T15:54:14.447" Title="Is it acceptable to ask questions from the past?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="560" CreationDate="2012-12-03T15:57:51.300" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say so yes. So long as it is not a blatantly &quot;trolling&quot; type question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize the FAQ makes it seem this is not appropriate, but, in some sense, I disagree&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I completely agree with the second part (regarding chatty types of questions) I'm not as convinced you must have an actual problem to ask a valid question for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of this site is not only as a Q/A for current problems, in my opinion, but also a Q/A repository of questions which have relevance for others as well. Having a personal current situation has no bearing on asking a valid question (although it will make it easier, this is for sure).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T15:57:51.300" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="560" CreationDate="2012-12-03T18:21:07.377" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely, as long as it follows the format of Stack Exchange (it is a question, and it's not a question that would get closed/deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, you've found a solution by now, and you can &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/132886/167443&quot;&gt;post that as an answer&lt;/a&gt;! Asking a (quality) question and answering (well) yourself is a great way to share information on these sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you haven't found a solution yet, hopefully asking here will help you find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, pay attention to any feedback you get, and be sure to provide any necessary additional details/clarifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T18:21:07.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="563" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-05T01:49:23.697" Score="14" ViewCount="631" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll soon be stepping down as a ♦ moderator here on workplace at my request; I'm currently sticking around while the Stack Exchange team picks a suitable replacement (there will still be 3 mods for the beta period). To stem any confusion I thought I'd go ahead and announce it myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why am I leaving? That's easy; this is extra work and time and I'm not all too interested in the topic honestly. A better question is why I signed on in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; I want to moderate? When I saw the proposal for Workplace all everyone could talk about is how it would be &quot;Not Programming Related&quot; version 2.0; it would be full of all the crap the other sites don't want, it wouldn't be a useful resource, it'd either be shut down or be a huge mess like the one Programmers found itself in, blah blah blah. I didn't want that stuff to happen. Worse, it seemed like a self-fulfilling prophecy; everyone doubted the site before it even existed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I wanted was to guide the site to a higher standard; the basic assumption seemed to be that this place would have rock-bottom quality standards. That's crap. I knew this community would have growing pains, but I believed a strong culture of quality and well fleshed-out site policies could guide this site to be something useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I look around now and I see community closures within hours. I see users defending, editing and reopening closed posts. I see massive piles of downvotes for zero-substance answers, little tolerance for low quality material, meanwhile helpful, detailed answers are rewarded. I see regulars explaining the policies and helping new users along, and helping flesh out the sites' policy on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site, and more importantly, it's community, is in great shape. I knew this could happen, but was worried it wouldn't; that's why I wanted to lend a helping hand. I like a challenge, and I like making awesome things. You're all doing a great job now, as are Nick and Julie, so I'm going to duck out and leave matters in your capable hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep making this an awesome place, Workplacers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2012-12-05T15:03:41.830" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T01:24:57.630" Title="Rarity's Resignation" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" ClosedDate="2012-12-16T15:55:23.480" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="563" CreationDate="2012-12-05T03:36:27.587" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for the time and effort you've put on the site. Hopefully you'll stick around as a regular user and continue helping the site grow, as you did from day one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2012-12-05T03:36:27.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="563" CreationDate="2012-12-05T04:39:00.673" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought Workplace SE was going to be a disaster. Instead, it's a thriving beta Stack Exchange site. You were a big part of seeing this happen, and this is a disappointing moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People do have lives, and sometimes we do have to take a break. I hope you stay engaged as a user here and continue to provide the outstanding leadership you provided that helped this community get where it is today. Thank you!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-12-05T04:39:00.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="560" CreationDate="2012-12-06T15:47:12.560" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is acceptable to ask how to handle the situation with out saying what actions you took. But once it has happened and has been responded to there is not constructive way to deal with the problem because it has already happened and we can not change the past.  You can say here is what happened how can i recover going forward but not how should I have done this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not think it is OK to say here is what I did, was it wrong?  How ever a question like: &quot;&lt;em&gt;I took X action and a coworker said they found it offensive.  I Do not understand why&lt;/em&gt;&quot; could be ok, provided it X is not along the lines of &quot;I made a sexually aggressive action&quot; or other blatantly inappropriate action/remark.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there is a danger of opening up too many &lt;strong&gt;what if&lt;/strong&gt; rabbit holes for situations that occurred in the past that are unlikely to ever occur the same way again.  To many of these situations are very contextual. And, how a junior should handle a situation is likely different than how a senior should handle it, and that is likely different than how a manager should handle it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you can get good answers to questions about actions that happened in the past if they are asked like they happened now that will also help you answer the question of what should I have done.  But I did X opens up a can of other worms and often times sets a bar of acceptability of actions far lower than it needs to be.  For instance &quot;My coworker told me my haircut made me look like a girl and I punched my boss in the face&quot; set the bar so low that &quot;You should have just flipped him the bird&quot; is an preferable response.  And that answer is likely to get up-votes in the context.  The problem is it is a bad solution and a bad answer. These types of things create broken windows, and lower the bar acceptability for answers to other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you actually want to know if you took the right action (and believe you may have) post your actions as an answer.  The community will let you know if they agree it was the right thing or explain why it was not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2012-12-06T15:54:14.447" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T15:54:14.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="563" CreationDate="2012-12-06T22:01:30.103" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks so much for all your work. I really wanted this place to succeed because I see so many people who are totaly clueless about how the work world works, especially early in their careers. You were critical in making it happen and in getting the beta going in the right direction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditDate="2012-12-11T01:24:57.630" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T01:24:57.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="570" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-11T21:49:00.373" Score="9" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Background&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that we have users suggesting text for our tag wikis and wiki excerpts.  This is great!  We also have plenty of users ready (and apparently willing) to review these suggested edits.  This is also fantastic!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I have just had to reject several edits to our tag wikis.  These suggested edits consisted of dictionary definitions of the terms.  This doesn't help our users, since we know what most of the terms mean — or else we wouldn't be here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/40/a-note-on-tag-wiki-excerpts&quot;&gt;This has happened before&lt;/a&gt; and Robert's note is a great start.  So, here goes on making this an official FAQ question (that sounds redundant, but I think it works).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, how can I write a helpful tag wiki or wiki excerpt that will not get rejected?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-12-12T03:36:09.193" Title="How can I help the site by suggesting text for Tag Wikis?" Tags="|support|faq|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-11T21:49:00.373" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="570" CreationDate="2012-12-11T21:49:00.373" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Step 1&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read Jeff's blog post, &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/03/redesigned-tags-page/&quot;&gt;Redesigned tags page&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; (gripping title, I know).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Step 2&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of searching the dictionary, put yourself in a new user's shoes.  I always find it a bit easier to understand a problem in context, so let's take &lt;strong&gt;Communication&lt;/strong&gt;.  A dictionary definition might &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/3150/revisions&quot;&gt;look like this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Communication is the activity of conveying information through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, visuals, signals, writing, or behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But most users know &lt;em&gt;what communication is&lt;/em&gt;, what they might &lt;em&gt;not know&lt;/em&gt; is &lt;strong&gt;when should I tag my post with &amp;quot;communication&amp;quot;? After all, don't most workplace issues involve some kind of communication?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Great question! (Why thank you. You're welcome!) So how do we do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Look at posts &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/communication?sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;already tagged with that phrase&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to help put yourselves in the user's shoes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a couple examples (maybe not the best, but highly voted at least):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/6200/what-can-i-do-if-i-have-a-colleague-who-is-picking-on-me&quot;&gt;What can I do if I have a colleague who is picking on me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/5672/how-can-you-fix-someone-elses-work-without-seeming-pretentious-mean-or-arroga&quot;&gt;How can you fix someone else&amp;#39;s work without seeming pretentious, mean, or arrogant?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/6584/what-is-the-polite-way-of-asking-your-boss-are-you-there-in-an-im&quot;&gt;What is the polite way of asking your boss &amp;quot;are you there&amp;quot; in an IM?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions all have a common thread.  They are situations when &lt;strong&gt;communication is more difficult or complicated than average&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, let's try something like that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wiki:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Communication in the workplace occurs in many different forms and between many varying parties.  For example, communication may take the form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meetings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Email communication&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Phone calls&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hallway talk&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sales pitches&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Presentations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also may take place between many varying parties, each with different goals, objectives, and cultural or social rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Group Meetings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Informal one-on-one conversations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Formal one-on-one meetings with a manager or direct report&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Phone calls or face-to-face meetings with clients&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good communication is often considered one of the most important workplace skills, and is regarded as &lt;a href=&quot;http://smallbusiness.chron.com/benefits-effective-communication-workplace-20198.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;having many potential benefits&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Communication can become difficult in many situations, such as in times of poor workplace morale, with new team members or bad-tempered co-workers.  It also may simply be difficult when a new and unfamiliar situation arises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Excerpt:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about addressing difficult or complicated communication issues in the workplace.  Communication in the workplace may take place in many forms (email, phone, face-to-face, IM) and between a variety of parties (coworkers, managers, reports, clients).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting yourselves in the user's shoes and thinking about what they might not understand when tagging their question is most important — but also, remember how these are &lt;em&gt;displayed&lt;/em&gt; to users. The &lt;strong&gt;excerpt is the most important, because it is display in the hover card, the tags page, and the top of each tag's own page.&lt;/strong&gt; If a user has a question about using a tag, they are mostly likely to see the excerpt first.  You should pay most attention to it, and it should be clear, concise, and &lt;strong&gt;quickly explain how the word/phrase relates to &lt;em&gt;our&lt;/em&gt; community and questions in particular&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Step 3&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask others for help!  Of course, my suggestions here may not be as helpful as they could be, and should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; be the final copy — I encourage you all to hack, slash, and constantly improve every tag wiki, &lt;strong&gt;especially those on the first page or two of tags&lt;/strong&gt;, as mentioned by Jeff in his blog post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Step 4&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For uber-meta points, also edit this answer to make it even better! I've made it community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I've also put these changes in place: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/communication&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;communication&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;communication&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-12-12T03:36:09.193" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-11T21:49:00.373" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="448" CreationDate="2012-12-16T23:26:31.800" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What we have so far:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what we know so far, thanks to Beth and HLGEM's responses, and Rarity outlining the requirements to implement a blog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scope:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See Beth and HLGEM's answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contributors:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 authors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Schedule:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Weekly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pre-written articles:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 out of 5 as of January 28th, 2013&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What's missing?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How many contributors do we need to get started?:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I see missing here is the number of contributors. Both Beth and HLGEM are our top users, both with an impressive 10k+ reputation on a site that's still in beta. As a result, I'm confident these two people can meet the demands of a weekly schedule, but I also believe it would be more sustainable if we had more people to commit to contributing as authors, and to indicate how frequently that person would be willing to author (or co-author) a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should define how many people, or perhaps contributions per quarter, are necessary in order to be successful with a blog. For instance, if we lose a contributor, will we still have enough content to meet the schedule and keep up with adding new content? With just 2 people, this assumes each person contributes 2 articles per month, or 8 per quarter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How many prewritten articles do we need to jumpstart the blog:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like HLGEM's idea of having some articles already written. But how many? With a weekly schedule, if we have 5 articles in the queue, then we could go 5 weeks without having a new article written. This is like having a blog savings account for the times when time is taken up by other events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How many articles should we shoot for?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We are aiming for at least 5 to get us started. As of January 28th, @Bethlakshmi has one article written so far. Nice work! :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What is our timeline to implement a blog?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the most important consideration is to come up with a timeline. When should we have all of the necessary contributors ready? When should the prewritten articles be ready?  When is the date that we should be ready to approach Stack Exchange and say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We want a blog! We have X people willing to contribute, and those people have already written Y articles. We're ready to publish as soon as the blog is ready.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the holidays coming, and things shutting down temporarily, I was thinking that sometime after the New Year would be a better target date, but it's up to you. To be clear, if we don't meet the decided critical mass of X articles and Y contributors by Z date, then perhaps that means we put the blog idea on hold until there's more support? What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-03-06T04:30:24.133" LastActivityDate="2013-03-06T04:30:24.133" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="448" CreationDate="2012-12-17T13:32:02.550" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Schedule&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A weekly schedule would be awesome, but I don't think it's feasible. We were aiming at a weekly schedule for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://programmers.blogoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Programmers blog&lt;/a&gt; as well, but we soon realized that publishing once a fortnight was far more attainable. We really don't have to decide the schedule &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt; and I'm proposing we do exactly what we did with the Programmers blog and decide the schedule &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; our first articles are already written and we've seen how much we can cope with in practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll have to have a few articles ready (written &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; proofread) before we launch anyway, to convince both Stack Exchange &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; ourselves that we can maintain a blog, so I think the smart thing to do here is to decide the schedule after we've seen how much time it take us to write at least four articles. If I remember correctly we had four articles ready before launching the Programmers blog, so that, in broad terms, also answers the question of how many articles SE expects us to have before they feel confident launching our blog. Five articles, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/572/48&quot;&gt;jmort253 suggests&lt;/a&gt; would be even better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blog maintenance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Three things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A blog chatroom,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blog Overlords, and &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trello.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Programmers we have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/2359/programmers-blog&quot;&gt;chat room dedicated to the blog&lt;/a&gt;, and when we're ready to launch The Workplace blog I think we should consider creating a dedicated chat room here as well. Any blog discussion that's not concrete enough to be posted on Meta should be held in chat, and a dedicated chat room is also very helpful for collaborations. Feel free to ping me in that chat room, if you want more details on the Programmers blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next, the Blog Overlords. On Programmers, initially, there was a general feeling that the moderators would take care of the cruft on the blog, similarly to how we do in the main site. Or, at least, &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; had that feeling (I wasn't a moderator back when the first talks about our blog started). I don't know if the Workplace moderators are interested in contributing to the blog, but I think it would be better if the Blog Overlords were regular users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We started out with one caretaker on the Programmers blog, and he kinda disappeared on us after a while, putting the whole project on hold (hey, real life happens - sometimes), so there really ought to be at least two caretakers. Our current Overlords, World Engineer and Dynamic, are responsible for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Setting up access to both Wordpress and Trello for new contributors,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Guiding new contributors through our blog processes,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maintaining the blog chat room (they are both room owners),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Always being on the lookout for spam comments, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Having final say in all things relating to the blog.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course, as every other blog contributor, they write and proofread articles. Both our Overlords volunteered for the role, and I'm quite sure me threatening to suspend them forever didn't really affect their decision to take point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, we've been heavily relying on &lt;a href=&quot;https://trello.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trello&lt;/a&gt;, to keep track of post ideas and publishing. Our board is private (and perhaps it shouldn't be), if you are interested in taking a sneak peak, ping me in the Programmers blog chat room and I'll give you access to it. All I need is an email and if you already have a Programmers account and want me to send the invite to your account's email, all you need to do is say so. If you don't want to use your Programmers email or don't have a Programmers account, just post your email and I'll delete the message right after I send you an invite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scope&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the Question of the Week concept, but The Workplace is still in beta and we don't get that many questions per day to support a steady flow of QotW articles. It could work, but I see QotW more as a backup plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A great source of inspiration for blog articles is to think... non constructively ;) Most of the questions that we'd close as &quot;not constructive&quot; on the main site, would probably make great blog posts, and if you are interested in contributing, you should look at our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=closed%3a1&quot;&gt;highest voted closed questions&lt;/a&gt; for ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contributors&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need more than two. Beth and HGLEM can certainly cope, but we really need more than two people for the blog to be viable in the long run, at least four or five. Unfortunately I simply don't have the time to contribute to the blog, but I'm certainly hoping a couple more Workplace regulars step up, a Workplace blog would be &lt;em&gt;awesome&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T14:19:47.130" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="574" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-21T00:09:18.423" Score="6" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the time of writing, the only industy specific tag I have seen is &quot;software industry&quot;, and its a popular one - number two on the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the industy can be useful background, I sometimes feel that it can drive localisation of both questions and answers, so that the outcome of what could be a good, generic problem is only applicable to the software industry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the software industry has some unique features, they are not unlike those found in areas like research and development, scientific research or engineering in my experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So should we as a community make a concious effort to try and add more industy tags where-ever we can to expand on this, or do industry tags drive localisation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4756" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T19:56:34.837" Title="Industry specific tags and localisation" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="574" CreationDate="2012-12-21T03:20:54.027" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some workplace problems could have answers that are useful only in that industry or answers that are useful to a wide variety of industries, as long as it still applies to the industry the problem occurred in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider that if I asked a question about a problem in industry A, I could get an answer that applies to A, or I could also get an answer that applies to A, B, C, D, and E industries, but if I get an answer that applies to B and C but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; A, then that's a problem. Industry A must always be inclusive in an answer addressing a problem in industry A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, I don't see this as a localization problem but instead more as a focusing point. Localization is really about those extremely rare situations that won't help a wider audience barely larger than just the asker, but industries are large; there are &lt;em&gt;countless&lt;/em&gt; possible future visitors of just about any industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, I support adding tags for other industries, but an answer should never be limited to just applying to industry A and no other. For instance, this wouldn't be a good comment for us to see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hey user, your answer applies to industry A and B, but the asker was asking about industry A! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would not be good, IMHO. As long as the answer addresses the problem the asker is facing, then it should be considered a good answer, barring other issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's wait a few days to give others an opportunity to weigh in before retagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T03:20:54.027" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="574" CreationDate="2012-12-21T16:14:55.800" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;With a &lt;em&gt;workplace&lt;/em&gt; focus, I don't think industry-specific tags are the way to go.  More useful, possibly, would be job types like &quot;desk job&quot;, &quot;physical labor&quot;, and things of that ilk.  Aren't the workplace problems of a software person pretty similar to those of an accountant who sits at a computer all day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T16:14:55.800" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="574" CreationDate="2012-12-21T17:23:06.733" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love the idea of &quot;types of work&quot; as a tag, possibly in combination with industry.  Then a question asker may be able to search work type, and dig up a useful answer from another industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also - I'd vote to keep industry tags - there ARE cases where the answer for a given question can vary significantly enough to have the answer be specific, even if it's reusable in another context, I'd think that the search capabilities would be helpful enough for rerouting people looking for answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say, though, that we could improve tag editing for industry by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Look for cases where tags for industries could be applied,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;go for the broadest interpretation - for example, if the answer is tagged &quot;software development&quot; but really it would for any sort of develompent, call it &quot;development&quot; and maybe even add a tag for &quot;knowledge work&quot; if it's a really useful, transferable question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;plan that you may want multiple tags for multiple industries.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T17:23:06.733" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="578" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-23T17:01:37.040" Score="9" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7258/should-we-tell-all-performance-related-problems-to-manager&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; and its answers are a really good example of a problem I've been aware of on this site for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are large culture differences between different work environments. Answers often don't reflect this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users of this site seem to be from predominately Western culture (I'm considering this Western Europe, USA, Australia/New Zealand) or India. Questions such as the above have a huge cultural affect even between just Western/Indian culture, not to mention regional/industry differences within either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;These differences are routinely ignored in questions/answers&lt;/strong&gt;. I rarely see this present in either, there seems to be an assumption that all users are in Western culture. I am firmly of the opinion that many questions asked here have answers which are highly localized - by this I mean answers depend on region. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can be better identify questions for which geographic factors (culture, etc) have significant influence on the proper answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8/how-should-we-handle-cultural-issues&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt; is somewhat related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-12-26T20:40:56.970" Title="How can we ensure answers are culturally relevant?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="578" CreationDate="2012-12-23T19:06:40.327" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my experience, the cultural differences, the cultural gap, is narrowing to a certain extent. Working in the US, a project manager doesn't want to have to let someone go just because it's not part of the culture to coach an employee and give him or her all of the tools to be successful; therefore, many executives are bringing the same kind of management style from the Western world to India, and I've personally witnessed these changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, in the example you've cited, the answers should work. The bottom line is if you're working for a company that doesn't help you be successful, then there are others out there that will. This is just one example of a possible answer, however. There may be other valid solutions, both localized to the country of India as well as those that reach a wider audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, the same guidelines apply here as they do on questions related to a specific industry. The answer should &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/575/98&quot;&gt;apply at least to the country/industry that the asker is working in&lt;/a&gt;, but there's no restriction saying answers can't also apply to other locales.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the asker include country of origin?  Absolutely, and I overlooked this in my first clarifying comment to the question. We should all be sure to ask the question askers what country they work in, what industry, and what their specific job function is.  But do we need tags? That I'm not sure yet, and I'd want to hear from others on this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if an answer doesn't apply to a situation, we should leave a comment, edit, downvote, and use all of our other tools to help improve existing answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2012-12-23T19:14:02.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="578" CreationDate="2012-12-23T20:30:18.183" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree culture has a huge impact on the workplace, especially when it comes to defining how relationships and communication should function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even within &quot;Western culture&quot; there are huge differences in how companies and businesses operate.  The line I tend to quote on this is &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mIFhY.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the English are too polite to be honest&lt;/a&gt;, and the Dutch are too honest to be polite&quot;, mainly because I have lived/worked in both countries and see the impact this can have in professional relationships.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Culture has many levels, however - corporate, national, regional, social - that can be &quot;invisible&quot; to people on the inside, and impenetrable to those on the outside.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example - for example scoring on a &quot;360 Degree Leadership Styles Inventory&quot; I took in Australia had to be adjusted from the original (US) culture on some answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result it can be hard to see a &quot;cultural imprint&quot; in a workplace question, or conversely for the original poster to understand that there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a cultural imprint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not suprisingly, there's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede%27s_cultural_dimensions_theory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;huge body of work&lt;/a&gt; devoted to this kind of issue.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the advantages of sites like this is that we can get answers from a range of cultural perspectives;  in many workplace situations there is no &quot;proper&quot; answer, just alternatives that are (hopefully) supported by personal experience or references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &quot;low voted&quot; answer may well have the &quot;best&quot; solution for the original poster, because they can use that within their culture, where the &quot;voting population&quot; may not understand the culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also worth remembering that aspects of other cultures, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kanban&lt;/a&gt; and The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_art_of_war&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Art of War&lt;/a&gt; have had international influence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So - I suspect this will be an issue that we can't easily resolve;  partially because culture is very complex, and partially because the &quot;best&quot; answers could well come from a different cultural context.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4756" LastActivityDate="2012-12-23T20:30:18.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="581" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-25T03:33:04.110" Score="13" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7264/does-an-employer-moonlighting-clause-relate-to-personal-side-projects-and-do-i&quot;&gt;Does an Employer moonlighting clause relate to personal side projects, and do I need permission?&lt;/a&gt; has been closed by five community members as off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; somewhat be construed as an employment law issue. While we're not lawyers, we do have workplace experience, and our experiences may still be valuable, so long as the questions aren't directly asking &quot;Is this legal&quot;, as we're simply not qualified to answer that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Focus on whether or not Workplace Experts can answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On day 2 of private beta, Andrew asks &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/29/are-employment-law-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;Are employment law questions off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;. Thomas Owens comes up with this guideline to help determine if an employment law question is on topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Could I, in a professional environment, be expected to know the answer to this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally know many people who work on side projects where it's both encouraged and allowed, in addition to their own work; and I've also worked in places and have had friends who have worked in places where this is not allowed. While I couldn't give a definitive legal answer like &quot;if you don't tell your employer, you'll be sued for X amount&quot;, I can offer steps to help that person determine the right course of action for their unique situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on this criteria, for this situation, I would not have closed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/29/are-employment-law-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;Tangurena says the following&lt;/a&gt;  when referring to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/234/should-i-encourage-my-coworkers-to-share-their-salaries-with-each-other&quot;&gt;open question on sharing salary information with others&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many questions are going to wander into matters of law. As an example, the question on whether folks should share salary information ends up squarely in the domain of a regulatory agency in the US. While almost none of us will be lawyers, and thus we cannot be giving legal advice, most employment matters are covered by laws and regulations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the salary example, and in the personal project example, both questions drift into a legal area, but there is also a professional Workplace component to them, one that can affect a person's relationship to his/her boss. Specifically, this is a &lt;em&gt;trust&lt;/em&gt; component.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's subjective, of course, but this entire site is about a subjective topic, and as long as we get good answers based on facts, references, or specific expertise, I'm inclined to think the question is acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Using Answers As a Guide on Borderline Questions:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the blog post &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real Questions Have Answers&lt;/a&gt;, Jeff states the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...the six guidelines above depend partly on the questions, &lt;strong&gt;and partly on the answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;emphasis mine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of two answers, one of them is really good. (The other doesn't drift into the legal area, it's just doesn't provide much explanation). Thus, if faced with a question that &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be answered by a lawyer, but that doesn't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to be answered by a lawyer), if it's getting good answers, can we use answers to justify keeping it open?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary of proposed guidelines when evaluating questions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Assuming lawyers can answer the question, could we, as workplace members, also answer the question with facts, references, or specific expertise?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a question is getting good answers, should this help justify keeping the question open, using the same logic Jeff uses for polling questions in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real Questions Have Answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are reasons for and against these guidelines as it pertains to the Workplace SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T21:32:00.440" Title="Defining the on-topic / off-topic line on questions that could be answered by a lawyer" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="314" CreationDate="2012-12-25T04:42:43.730" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bathroom example might be a little bit less localized and more widely applicable if it were edited to be &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;When in a large corporate building, what steps can I follow to locate the bathroom?&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Then an example answer could be:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, bathrooms are usually located more towards the core of the building. This is because the areas where people spend most of their time, their offices or desks, are located closer to windows to maximize outdoor lighting. Since bathrooms typically don't need windows, they can be located in the core. In addition, they're generally located near staircases or elevators, as there is an advantage in running the plumbing in the areas where there's already openings for the stairs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If in doubt as to where the location of the bathroom would be in a building, locate the nearest person that looks like he/she works there, and ask the following question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Excuse me sir/maam, do you know where I might find the restroom?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this person gives you that information, it's customary to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this can serve as an example of how we might edit a potentially too localized question to make it more widely applicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2012-12-25T04:42:43.730" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="581" CreationDate="2012-12-26T17:56:02.620" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see what you mean - there's been quite a few questions out there where I've wrestled with the tradeoff between common sense answers that aren't legal answers from a lawyer but are likely to keep you out of legal trouble versus shying away from it entirely to avoid giving answers I'm simply not qualified to give (legal answers from a lawyer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll admit there's a few key triggers for me, and the question you point out caused at least one, maybe a few:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Legalese&lt;/strong&gt; - &quot;enforceability&quot; is one, so is &quot;jurisdiction&quot; (when applied specifically to the law of a location... I realize there are policitical maneuvers where this is a fine, non-legalese word), &quot;liability&quot; (especially financial), &quot;lawsuit&quot;, &quot;sued&quot; - are all big red flags when I read a question.  If the person is basically asking if one of these legal sounding words could happen to them if they make a given choice, it raises the probability that I'll flag it for closing.  If the question can be restated by the poster as &quot;what is the most advantageous way to do...?&quot; or &quot;what is a sensible approach for addressing....?&quot; then I am far more likely to see that common sense and a bit of research can form a decent answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cases of &quot;I know the rules but I want to do something else&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; - Which is also a case in this answer.  If the question was whether moonlighting could or should be done in a given a case, I'd have plenty of good and bad examples, and be able to write a checklist or something for starting up with moonlighting gigs for fun and profit.  But where the poster says basically &quot;I was told not to and I signed an agreement to that effect, but I want to anyway&quot; - it falls into the range where I'd either point him to the law codes for California and the case law or tell him to get a lawyer, because this is no longer about how to make his office environment productive, successful or generally better - it's about how to evade, ignore or work around a signed agreement, and I can't get there based on common workplace experience.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly, I've often wondered if we could have a special category for closing called &quot;needs a lawyer&quot;.  My thought is that we would be able to collect legal-esque questions in an easily searchable way, and see if there are some common threads we could address through either better guidance, or advancing our common knowledge on how research these kind of questions - for example, if we have better &quot;you need a laywer&quot; litmus test, or even a &quot;what kind of lawyer do you need?&quot; referall program, we might be more helpful than we are now.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also - if we have a &quot;this is a legal question&quot; closing item, then we might inspire posters to realize that what they asked sounded like a legal question, when really it was a more general question, and that would perhaps help with rephrasing the question.  For example, if the sample question was - &quot;how do I get what I want in spite of this rule?&quot; - I could see the community coming up with a variety of answers ranging from &quot;get a lawyer and fight it&quot; to investigating the root cause and presenting a good case for a waiver in a way that doesn't cause any laywer-requirement.  But the question as it is happens to be too pointed towards ignoring a signed aggreement for me to feel comfortable answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2012-12-28T15:27:18.643" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T15:27:18.643" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="581" CreationDate="2012-12-26T20:16:34.830" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was torn between closing as &quot;Off Topic&quot; and being &quot;too localised&quot;, based on the use of Californian law, the signed code of conduct and wanting to work on a start-up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought about edits that could save it from this, and the (remaining) answer actually fits a different question : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I'm thinking about working on a project in my own time that may turn&#xA;  into a start-up idea.  I'm not using company resources.  I have a&#xA;  clause in my employment agreements that says I have to notify the&#xA;  company if I work for someone else, but initially at least I'm just&#xA;  playing around. A lot of start-up ideas never get off the ground.   Do&#xA;  I have to let my employer know about this?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would have drawn out key issues around this, as well as perhaps some more general definitions about paid/unpaid work (for example providing work-related skills pro-bono to a not-for-profit, to a friend's start up, or even writing and selling an App in your spare time.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still nervous about applying such wholesale editing to someone's questions, however, even though it does open the question up to some very interesting areas - but that's just me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is common, however, for employees and employers not to be fully aware of their legal rights and responsibilities.  I have had to push back on staff (and on one occasion, management) pointing out that what they wanted to do (or were doing) was against the law, or met a legal definition (harrasement etc.) that could lead to the court room.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So - my view is that pointing out where there &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be legal implications for what they are doing (depending on local conditions) and suggesting legal advice is the best course of action is fine, but asking for legal advice (or refering to a law, as in this case) is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4756" LastActivityDate="2012-12-26T20:16:34.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="578" CreationDate="2012-12-26T20:40:56.970" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I certainly agree that culture is a huge influencer and one that means there are many cases where an answer that is perfect in one location is extremely limited in another.  And I like the idea that question askers are best served if they can give the community a bit of a clue in location, general industry and job function.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to decide if I care whether it's in tags or the question body, and I'd say I probably slightly prefer having it in the question, but that's such a personal preference that I could easily be talked out of it by almost any moderately well worded opinion. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm most concerned with is finding the balance between not ignoring culture and not being a slave to it.  From a personal perspective - I've spent 100% of my employment history in the US, but I've been an active member of the Indian performing arts community for over 10 years - so I have a depth of experience working in two &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; different cultures - in both cases, I've been both an individual contributor and a boss.  I'd say that having the perspective of diverse cultures is one of my biggest strengths and I have benefitted for many years by having alternate approaches to almost everything and by being willing to admit there are no absolutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize, though, that on a Stack Exchange, this is a problematic answer.  We are geared to help each other by voting and allowing the asker to pick a right answer - which implies there IS an absolute answer.  But we also assume that we can answer each other's questions because we have a large enough audience pool that someone can offer meaningful advice from experience and thoughtul research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So - I wrestle with whether to do anything.  If we encourage downvoting or deletion for answers, I worry we'll &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;loose the benefit of cross-cultural sharing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;severely limit our audience for key user groups as people stop sharing if they don't know enough to address anything particular to the culture&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather see us upvote for answers that are particularly good at being pan-cultural, or on point with the culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2012-12-26T20:40:56.970" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="586" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-28T19:42:36.790" Score="10" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a variety of questions on &quot;how do I deal with a disability/health issue in the workplace?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, we don't have a tag for them (or, at least, one which is being used). I want to make a tag for these sorts of questions but I am unsure what to call it. &lt;code&gt;Disability&lt;/code&gt; strikes me as possible but not all of them are disabilities. &lt;code&gt;Personal health&lt;/code&gt; or something along those lines &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; work but it may not really be obvious to someone who is creating a question to tag it as that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only tag I found which is close is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sickness&quot;&gt;sickness&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T23:40:14.023" Title="How can we tag questions on medical issues?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="586" CreationDate="2012-12-28T19:49:46.740" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great question. I just had the same thought, as I was looking for duplicate questions or a sort of canonical entry.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be &lt;strong&gt;accommodations&lt;/strong&gt;, as workplace accommodations for people with special needs (to use an extremely broad term, encompassing both medically certified disabilities as well as general accommodations that may or may not fall into a legally protected class) is really what we typically talk about here -- how to get accommodations, how to interact with colleagues who might question accommodations, and so on.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T19:49:46.740" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="586" CreationDate="2012-12-28T20:44:28.950" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We probably need to have a &quot;workplace health&quot; tag as well - medical issues in the workplace as per the title can also relate to issues &lt;em&gt;caused&lt;/em&gt; or agrivated by the workplace or work requriements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specific issues we have had to address on this in our office include RSI/OOS, various ergonmic issues around desk and workstation set ups, long haul flights and associated risks, overseas travel and associated (health) risks, back problems, headaches, eye strains as well as stress, depression and other mental health issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions around how to raise these as an issue with management or co-workers, push back if policies were putting people at risk and/or advice on minimising risk would fall into this category. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4756" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T20:44:28.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="581" CreationDate="2012-12-28T21:32:00.440" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the cited question could be saved by changing it to: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I want to start up an LLC in my spare time what steps do I need to&#xA;  take to deal with my moonlighting clause?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also needs the wording of the moonlighting clause.  These are written for protection of both parties(thought usually bias toward the employer) and the idea is to avoid conflicts from popping up after the damage is done.   Thus avoiding the need to go to court. They are usually at least readable and with reading them we should be able to give guidance of how to proceed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It needs a location.  The rules are different in IL, CA, NC, UK, France, and pretty much anywhere else that has its own borders.  So the where the poster is asking about matters here.  It may be that the OP needs to get a lawyer but we should be able to give some guidance before the OP has to get to that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T21:32:00.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="586" CreationDate="2012-12-28T22:54:23.370" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hrm... to me &quot;health&quot; and &quot;disability&quot; and &quot;accomodations&quot; are two different things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;health&quot; - would be things for a healthy life, whether that's healing injuries, preventing them, or just doing what one sees as the right things by one's body.  For example - &quot;To  maintain good health, I want to walk for 5 minutes out of every hour, and eat a healthy meal at lunch.  Given my severely constrained office enviornment, how do I make that work?&quot;  This is not a disability or even an accomodation - it's following two generally accepted practices for good health.  I'd say tag that &quot;health&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;disability&quot; - questions relating to a condition that is not part of the state of being generally human, that requires a consideration that a non-disabled human wouldn't need.  This &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; require an accomodation, but might not.  For example, &quot;I have an unpercievable condition that requires no current accomodation - do I tell my company? who do I tell?&quot; - I wouldn't list that as &quot;accomodation&quot; - it doesn't require one, but it may be related to a disability.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;accomodation&quot; - for things that are actually related to allowing a disabled person to accomplish their stated job functions in a manner that accounts for the condition without posing an undue burden on the company.  Could be in all sorts of contexts... my big concern here is that &quot;accomodation&quot; is standard terminology if you are familiar (at least) with the US legal system or common management practices.  It's not necessarily something that every disabled person may be aware of, so I suspect that many question-askers may not find the tag... but that's not to say that the community can't help with this - particularly if we cross link it to something like &quot;help&quot; or &quot;assistance&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, if we wanted a single grouping for &quot;physical things that affect the job and how to deal with the needs of being human and/or disabled&quot; - we could go with &quot;physical&quot;, &quot;wellness&quot; or something like that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we don't have any tags on this, we definitely should have some!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh!  One more counter question - do we need to also consider things like sick time and physically related emergencies?  Not a disability, but a fact of life, although work policies here vary, there ought to be some sick time best practices...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T22:54:23.370" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="591" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="596" CreationDate="2013-01-01T18:55:10.683" Score="2" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;We get lots of questions which are basically &quot;help me with making decisions regarding my resume please.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we want a question similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/896/how-can-i-determine-a-reasonable-salary-to-ask-for&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7140/how-can-i-evaluate-if-an-optional-certificate-will-help-my-career-or-not&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; except applied to resume questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T08:45:14.503" Title="Do we want a canonical &quot;how to write resume&quot; question?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="591" CreationDate="2013-01-01T18:56:47.363" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I believe we should. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people come here thinking they can receive advice on how to write resumes better, etc. We currently just close those questions as a community, but I think we could greatly increase user retention by having them closed as duplicates - linking to a question answered at length about &quot;factors to consider when writing a resume&quot; rather than just closing as a dead end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect many of those users will never return, thinking &quot;they don't answer my questions&quot; but if there was a duplicate link given perhaps they would be more interested in sticking around the community.  This may be a bit idealistic but, I think it would be good for this site regardless to have such an answer for the resume question as the certification/salary questions from above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7354/recommendations-for-resume-writing-and-linkedin-profile-assistance&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/6690/should-i-use-present-tense-on-an-english-cv-resume&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2097/is-it-worth-listing-the-ability-to-remember-the-order-of-a-shuffled-deck-of-card&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7349/use-europass-format-or-create-custom-resume-template-when-applying-for-internshi&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are just off the &quot;recently edited questions about resumes&quot; list &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resume&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T14:49:20.760" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="591" CreationDate="2013-01-01T20:31:13.727" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of the two questions you've cited, &lt;strike&gt;one of them is community wiki, and the other one could have been marked as community wiki if Rachel, the author, requests it&lt;/strike&gt; Correction, the answer is community wiki, not the entire thread. Not that it's needed though; the suggested edit system sort of eliminates the need to make something community wiki, as any user can already suggest an edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, creating a canonical resume post just for the sake of making poorly formatted resume questions appear on-topic may not be the best course of action. When we create a single, catch-all post, we're no longer focusing on questions about a real, actual problem that we're facing, and when we ask questions about real, actual problems, we can easily end up with 10 or 100 really great questions about how to solve problem X, instead of just 1 post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The canonical post takes all of these potentially awesome Q&amp;amp;A pieces and completely eliminates the potential for growth of our site by limiting one class of questions to a single post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From the blog post, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/the-future-of-community-wiki/&quot;&gt;The Future of community Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/154/grace-note&quot;&gt;Grace Note&lt;/a&gt; points out how avoid community wiki posts, which can be detrimental:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, strive for quality. If you’re unsure a certain question class belongs on the site, don’t tolerate the worst examples — demand that these questions be awesome. Questions shouldn’t be swept under the rug with community wiki; they should get the same respect and treatment as the rest of your Q&amp;amp;A. If those questions are something you are uncomfortable showing to visitors … they probably don’t belong on your site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many things which “need” to be community wiki simply don’t. Sometimes it’s just a matter of understanding the root of a question: “Software to record video games” can be &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/392/how-can-i-record-demos-of-my-gameplay&quot;&gt;turned into a great question&lt;/a&gt; without needing the crutch of community wiki. Or, you may need to break the original question into smaller parts; a rather &lt;a href=&quot;https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/697/how-to-kill-off-community-wiki-entries&quot;&gt;well-timed Ask Different Meta post&lt;/a&gt; explores this very avenue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m relatively new here, but the examples of ‘community wiki’ that I’ve seen so far seem to be actively detrimental to the web site. For example, the ‘What Lion bugs irritate you the most?’ thread takes lots of good questions and answers that could (should?) be individually placed on the main page and effectively hides them in a single thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, I'm wondering if there's a way to take resume questions as they're asked and then edit them into something great. If we can allow resume questions without lowering the quality of the site, and without having to close each and every one of them as a duplicate, then that would create far more value than a single post; it would grow our site and create more good content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good course of action is to find a closed resume question and see if we can edit it into shape so that it fits our scope. If we can make them fit, awesome!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we can't make those questions fit our scope, and they should still be off-topic, then we shouldn't allow them only as closed duplicates, as that sends the message that we consider these low quality distractions to be on-topic when they're really not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As an aside, a resume-writing blog post could be a great piece for our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/448/98&quot;&gt;Workplace Blog&lt;/a&gt;, which still needs 2 more contributors, by the way. :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T22:49:35.363" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="591" CreationDate="2013-01-01T22:41:00.807" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that this is a question where its difficult to get a good single answer, even in a blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignoring for a second the resume/CV issue, there's big cultural variations (photograph vs not as one example) as well as industry (say marketing vs banking vs software), and situational (career stage, online, recruiter, direct application, specific post..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest it is diffcult to break out of any viewpoint that is be definition going to be highly localised in its scope, unless you have worked across a lot of different industries and were involved in screening/comparing resumes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also going to depend on how the resume is processed/screened.  In my role, I &quot;own&quot; the whole process from putting forward the business case for new staff through to making the appointment - others (like HR, team members, management) advise or approve, but it is my call, in the end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other organisations the people doing the screening might not be involved in the interview stages, which, again gives a different perspective. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So - some suggestions I have are for more open questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;What makes a bad resume and why?&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; might help people to avoid the&#xA;common, generic  pitfalls without being to localised to what makes a &quot;good&quot; resume for a specific situation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;What do you look for when selecting a CV or resume for interview?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;might help to keep the answers focussed on the employers/recruiters perspective, as opposed to opinions from applicants as to why they were/n't selected for interview or the role.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;What factors influence you when creating a short list for interview?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; would encourage answers that &quot;kept the end in mind&quot; as much as possible, and perhaps highlight reasons why a good resume alone might not be enough.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4756" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T22:41:00.807" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="591" CreationDate="2013-01-02T14:50:39.013" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, this could be where a blog post/series really shines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We may not be able to post a duplicate question but being able to link to a blog and saying, &quot;resume questions are generally considered off topic for the Q/A part of this site, but some of our awesome bloggers have written a series of articles for consideration when writing a resume.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T14:50:39.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="591" CreationDate="2013-01-02T16:18:45.393" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a better idea would be to create a meta post explaining what kind of resume questions are off-topic or too-localized and why, and how to write a good on-topic resume question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that ask &quot;Is my resume OK&quot; or &quot;Please review my resume&quot; are too-localized, however questions which could be applied to any resume, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/1/316&quot;&gt;Should I include a career objective on my resume?&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/844/316&quot;&gt;Why is a one to two page résumé recommended?&lt;/a&gt; are great questions for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we can write one single canonical question that would apply to all resumes, but we can write up a good set of guidelines explaining what makes a good resume question for this site and why, and direct users there when the post an off-topic or too-localized resume question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T16:18:45.393" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="448" CreationDate="2013-01-03T18:56:53.293" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Saw some topics today that would probably be candidates for the blog (I'm about halfway through drafting my first blog post hopefully will put it up on Trello this weekend) if anyone would be interested in writing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Successful Resume writing&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Things to avoid in resume writing&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Why Facebook is a terrible source for information on potential hires &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2013-01-03T21:59:30.000" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T21:59:30.000" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="598" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="600" CreationDate="2013-01-04T20:02:47.277" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was not sure how to inform everyone, but obviously there has not been any elections but also there is not an election page to tell me when there will be elections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5609" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-01-05T05:46:55.097" LastActivityDate="2013-01-05T05:46:55.097" Title="Election page not found" Tags="|support|status-bydesign|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="599" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-04T20:17:54.417" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just would like to know if it is acceptable use of this site to have resumes or cover letters critiqued with of course all the personal information removed. Is that acceptable use of this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2006" LastActivityDate="2013-01-04T23:16:52.917" Title="Is it acceptable in the workplace to ask for critique of resumes or cover letters? As long as all personal information is removed?" Tags="|discussion|site-policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="598" CreationDate="2013-01-04T20:24:33.140" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beta sites do not have moderator elections, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/248/moderators-pro-tempore-just-like-mamma-used-to-make-em&quot;&gt;moderators are appointed by Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace will have its first election shortly after graduation, but right now we don't know when that is, thus we have no idea when the election will be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-01-04T20:24:33.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="601" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-04T20:43:36.447" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a couple questions I posted myself and I would like to delete and I am not able to. Partly because they are down voted so much. On other stack sites, I am able to delete my own post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: I just joined anther new stack site, asked a question with one rep, then successfully deleted it. I just cannot do it on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5609" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-01-05T05:47:52.817" LastActivityDate="2013-01-05T05:47:52.817" Title="Cannot delete own post" Tags="|discussion|status-bydesign|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="601" CreationDate="2013-01-04T21:17:48.263" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You cannot delete questions that have answers on them.  This is a Stack Exchange-wide rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Side question: why are you needing the delete tool so frequently, on more than one site?]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2013-01-04T21:17:48.263" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="599" CreationDate="2013-01-04T23:16:52.917" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, that is explicitly off-topic per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;Please review my resume/CV&quot;&#xA;Questions need to apply to more than just you. Since this site is here to help&#xA;everyone, and not review to a specific resume, these are not &quot;questions&quot; to&#xA;us as they don't have definite answers.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-01-04T23:16:52.917" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="604" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-09T03:08:52.927" Score="7" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Winterbash is over with, even if winter itself is just getting started, and the hats have all been put away, possibly for next year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange would like to know what you thought about this event. Please leave your feedback on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/161188/what-do-you-think-of-winter-bash&quot;&gt;this post on Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2013-02-05T03:32:12.920" Title="What did you think of the Winterbash event?" Tags="|discussion|announcement|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="605" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-09T17:22:46.377" Score="-14" ViewCount="1192" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm not 100% sure this is on-topic. The essential core of the question is about a personal relationship and a personal issue. While there may be workplace aspects to this situation, none of them have been addressed in the question. Just because two people happen to work together doesn't make it a workplace issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7617/how-should-i-deal-with-an-employee-sleeping-with-my-wife#comment15747_7617&quot;&gt;How should I deal with an employee who has slept with my wife?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Sleeping with my Wife&quot; question is probably the most salacious question that I've ever seen on Workplace.SE. And in light of the fact that &quot;sex sells&quot; in Hollywood, who wouldn't want to &lt;strong&gt;discuss&lt;/strong&gt; this issue on Workplace.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But consider the verb I chose: &lt;strong&gt;Discuss&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Workplace.SE really the best venue for advising a man about how he should confront a coworker who has been sleeping with his wife?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T04:58:50.553" Title="Is this question about handling the aftermath of marital infidelity on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="605" CreationDate="2013-01-09T17:30:56.453" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;The core of that question is &quot;how do I deal with this situation in the workplace?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, it's even more relevant, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The employee is an employee (not coworker)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The employee is a critical employee&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The asker is the business owner&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So all responses will directly be relevant to the workplace because fundamentally, any response the asker takes is a workplace response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would this &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be a Workplace question is a better question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;downvote answers there which don't answer the question but rather discuss. If enough people do this (which I don't believe happens here, but, whatever) to &quot;bad&quot; answers this problem doesn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T17:30:56.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="605" CreationDate="2013-01-09T17:32:44.857" Score="39" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is Workplace.SE really the best venue for advising a man about how he should confront a coworker who has been sleeping with his wife?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it's not. But that's also not really what the question is about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put the popcorn-worthy aspects of the question aside; they've already been dealt with. What remains is a common &lt;em&gt;workplace&lt;/em&gt; problem: how do you deal with an employee who you've been deeply hurt by and no longer feel you can trust? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edits made to emphasize this aspect saved the question, IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T17:32:44.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="605" CreationDate="2013-01-09T17:48:02.040" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;My concern is that the Workplace SE could turn into a help forum for things that aren't really related to the workplace, and since I knew this would be a popular question, I closed it to give the people who wanted to edit it some time to get their edits in before the community reopened it and more answers started flooding in, which I knew they would. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we know from experience, editing a question is much harder if there are a lot of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't disagree with Thomas Owens's assessment, and I think he makes a great point. However, we now have a better question, with answers that should match the question in its current form, and hopefully better answers as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edits &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; help make it more constructive and on-topic, even if it were on-topic and constructive in its previous state; I'm happy with the results, and I've tweeted the question to use this as an opportunity to bring more interest to our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nice job everyone! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T17:48:02.040" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="605" CreationDate="2013-01-10T04:58:50.553" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I recognize a story copied from &lt;em&gt;Godfather&lt;/em&gt; I'll probably be the first to complain about it. On the other hand, I am not going to enter &lt;em&gt;paranoid mode&lt;/em&gt; just because post makes a good reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sometimes just happens that relevant, on-topic, authentic posts have signs of an art - intrigue, emotions, suspense. This could happen to questions and answers, at Workplace and at other SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/4039/168&quot;&gt;I have a member on my team who acts like a boorish pig...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/1485/168&quot;&gt;you go on and on about skill, and how much better you are than more experienced members of your current peers...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/q/293217/89077&quot;&gt;Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/154733/31260&quot;&gt;My boss decided to add a “person to blame” field to every bug report. How can I convince him that it's a bad idea?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T04:58:50.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="610" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="611" CreationDate="2013-01-10T05:24:57.363" Score="5" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/8639/how-to-be-in-less-risky-and-most-profitable-situation-while-moving-from-top-most&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on Workplace SE and am continually editing and modifying as per the users' suggestions. Still, some users are down-voting and voting to close without leaving any comments. I hate this behavior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My specific questions are below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why is this question attracting down votes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I improve my question in order to stop down votes and close votes further and attract positive up votes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5135" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T17:47:34.597" Title="Why is my question attracting down votes and close votes?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="610" CreationDate="2013-01-10T05:51:33.047" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is the question getting downvotes?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've made some edits so far yourself, and this is great! The challenge that I see remaining is that this is essentially a series of really broad questions lumped together all in one. I do think there is a problem to be solved here though, and I think that with some more edits, you can turn this into an upvoted question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What research have you done so far yourself on what it's like to work for smaller companies? Perhaps the downvotes are because people may think you should be able to at least partially answer some of this yourself. I suggest doing a Google search on some techniques for determining if a small company is right for you, as well as some research techniques. If you encounter something that seems confusing or that you don't understand, include it in your question and ask about that instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, try to provide enough information and details so that the question can be answered without having to guess or hypothesize about what the job and company culture is. Every employer is different, and that may make this somewhat hard to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this avoids the game of 20 questions in the comments in order to find out the details about your situation. Again, I think you do have something here that could be edited, and I'd suggest starting with Google and then updating your question with the areas where you're stuck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Voting without leaving a comment:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I encourage people to give askers and answerers advice on how to improve the post by leaving nice, constructive comments. However, many people don't do this either because they aren't good at explaining these things or they've been treated badly by an asker or answerer who didn't take their advice so kindly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To help encourage more people to leave comments on your post, it's best to be as neutral as possible when asking for feedback. In other words, show the community that you're not going to lash out as soon as they leave a comment. &lt;em&gt;I haven't seen you do that or be rude to anyone, but I mention it just to be thorough.&lt;/em&gt; :)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here are some things I've done in the past that have been successful for me:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't address the downvoters. Just ask in general&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;Hey, does anyone know what I can do to improve this post? I see someone downvoted it.&quot;  Chances are, other users who &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; downvote may have thought about it, or maybe they just have some helpful tips on what you can do to improve your post. Be open minded and friendly, and you'll find more people are responsive and willing to help.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If someone is rude to you, don't be rude back&lt;/strong&gt;; instead, remain calm and constructive. Otherwise, other people may wish to excuse themselves from any potential clashes, and this may limit the amount of helpful feedback you receive. Chances are, the person may seem rude as a defense mechanism, and if you're polite in response, you may just find that person warms up to you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, votes are anonymous, and no user is required to disclose whether or not he or she voted on your post. Besides, it just doesn't matter; you don't need the downvoters. There are more viewers on your question than there are downvoters, so there's plenty of other people who will give you good feedback.  Hope this helps! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-01-10T05:57:15.977" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T05:57:15.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="612" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="625" CreationDate="2013-01-10T15:31:55.017" Score="1" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7617/how-should-i-deal-with-an-employee-who-has-slept-with-my-wife&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, is there a way in which we can work out the positive effects on traffic and questions following this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a few good questions from users with referral bonuses but otherwise new to workplace, and assume they've been directed as that question came under the 'hot questions' tab in the stackexchange dropdown, but is there a way of confirming what I think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3165" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-01-13T08:19:04.993" Title="Can we track the positive effects of a popular question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="610" CreationDate="2013-01-10T16:21:28.363" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to be blunt and honest here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an English Language based Q&amp;amp;A.  Your question is badly worded and showed no effort to attempt to conform to SE standards when it was posted.  We have tried to help you correct this in the past by making edits but they were rebuked.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you ask a question here the bare minimum expected is that the question be readable and show thought.  I think that your english skills combined with the way you ask the question make it difficult to understand and it appears like little effort was put in to making it understandable.  I suspect this is more of an appearance than reality but all we have to go on is the appearance.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question you ask &lt;em&gt;&quot;How to be safe and profitable...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  I suspect this is another translation problem.  It does not really mean much to ask &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; question in the western culture in the realm of office work.  If you were talking about gold mining in Africa, or even construction or other physically perilous work then your question makes more sense to us.  I suggest you either find another translation or define what you mean by safe and profitable.  What are the risks you are concerned about?  What are the economic concerns that you have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest next time you ask a question you go to Chat and ask for help with the wording to get it squared away before it attracts large numbers of down votes.  You might even want to ask the question in chat first.  If you really want help there are several of us willing to help you.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2013-01-10T17:47:34.597" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T17:47:34.597" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="612" CreationDate="2013-01-10T16:45:56.430" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beta sites aren't part of &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Data.SE&lt;/a&gt;, however if this site wasn't a beta site you could track user participation in the site through there. I even have some queries saved in &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3140/1130&quot;&gt;an answer of mine on Programmers&lt;/a&gt; that I often re-use to check out a site's user participation trends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However since this is a beta site, the only stats we have access to are the ones on &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/30887/the-workplace&quot;&gt;Area51&lt;/a&gt;. I know some users are actually tracking those stats on a regular basis and graphing the trends, so perhaps ask in chat if anyone has links to these trends. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/31/normalocity&quot;&gt;normalocity&lt;/a&gt; is regularly tracking the site's stats, you can see the latest stats on &lt;a href=&quot;http://karmanebula.com/wpc-blog/2012/8/9/workplacese-stats-users-and-visits.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;his site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/workplace.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quantcast&lt;/a&gt; data, but that only measures visitors and views, not necessarily site participation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be noted that none of this is really tied to a specific question. You can make assumptions that the traffic changes were the result of a really popular question, however its not something that I think we can actually prove.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As a side note, I think the question you linked is on-topic after the latest edits)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T14:40:08.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="612" CreationDate="2013-01-11T04:10:26.583" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ever heard the phrase &quot;a flash in the pan&quot;?  According to my mom, my grandfather and grandmother allegedly used this phrase to talk about Elvis Presley when he made his first break. The idea was that he would have a brief &quot;flash&quot; of popularity and then evaporate into nothingness; he wouldn't even be a one-hit wonder. They were of course wrong about Elvis Presley, as he eventually became known as the King of Rock and Roll, but the idea of the flash in the pan is really true on the Workplace SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, popular questions have a very minimal impact on the site in the long term. While I can't give you specifics on actual traffic numbers, I can tell you that there's basically a spike in views for that day, then things go back to normal, as if nothing ever happened. However, these questions, while interesting, do tend to create a lot of work, as many of the visitors are new or drive by users who don't understand how our site works, and many of our high rep users and moderators must step in to edit, comment on, and flag material that doesn't belong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best strategy for making positive gains is to focus on quality material, and then share that quality material with people whom you think would be interested in the site. Over time, the site will build up enough quality content to where a trend starts happening where the site growth begins to take off exponentially. In short, one question alone will never make the Workplace SE a great site, as it's the combination of all of the great content that will help move us forward as a community of experts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T04:10:26.583" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="616" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-11T19:01:12.377" Score="4" ViewCount="314" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had a number of questions like these lately: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/8765/how-to-handle-a-newcomer-getting-a-larger-stock-option-grant-than-myself-as-oldt&quot;&gt;How to handle a newcomer getting a larger stock option grant than myself as oldtimer with the company? (self deleted, link is for 2k rep users only)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/8759/how-should-i-respond-to-a-manager-apologizing/8760#8760&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/8759/how-should-i-respond-to-a-manager-apologizing/8760#8760&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/8750/how-to-politely-prevent-coworkers-from-altering-ones-contributions-to-a-knowled&quot;&gt;How to politely prevent coworkers from altering one&amp;#39;s contributions to a knowledge base?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize these questions are all different in terms of the events involved, but they all feel rather localized (and in a few questions, they're just plain wrong). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we really want to accept these questions that are all more or less fishing for 'how do I do what I really want to do in a polite way' vs. asking for actual advice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5086" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T14:10:18.687" Title="Repeated Question Meme - &quot;I feel like [my head is going to explode]. How should I handle this?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="616" CreationDate="2013-01-11T19:14:07.073" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think questions that explain a common workplace situation, and ask us the best way to professionally handle that situation, are perfectly on-topic for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/7633749#7633749&quot;&gt;enderland in chat&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By definition of this site, we are going to get a lot of practical&#xA;  questions which are at core &quot;here's a situation. what should I do?&quot; or&#xA;  &quot;I did this. was this a good idea?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key is to make sure the question can be applied to more than just you, and that it's written in such a way that it's open to any solution, and is not solely focused on just &quot;getting your way&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, you can say &quot;How can I politely get my coworker fired&quot;, however the answer you will most likely receive is that you're focusing on the wrong thing, and you should instead bring up concerns about your co-worker to your manager and let them handle the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Providing the question is seeking advice for a workplace situation, isn't localized to just you, and is not just seeking a polite way to have your own way in the workplace while ignoring all the other great advice that users here offer, I'd say it's fine and should be judged the same way you would judge any other on-topic question (does it contain enough detail, is it clear what is being asked, is it overly broad, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="316" LastEditDate="2013-01-11T20:35:01.563" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T20:35:01.563" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="616" CreationDate="2013-01-11T21:00:52.460" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do we really want to accept these questions that are all more or less fishing for 'how do I do what I really want to do in a polite way' vs. asking for actual advice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been thinking about this a fair bit. The main thing I keep coming back to is that a lot of these questions are the StackOverflow equivalent of &quot;give me teh codez.&quot; Someone has a situation (or problem) they want guidance on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's no different to come here and post something which amounts to the workplace equivalent of this - &quot;here's a situation I'm in, halp me plz what do i do.&quot; Most of them have no fundamental question outside of &quot;what should I do?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our FAQ contains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions with a basic question of, &quot;what do I do?&quot; don't meet this criteria almost always. There's normally never an actual problem - unless &quot;I don't know what to do&quot; is a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I am concerned with these types of questions is we can easily become an, &quot;Ask The Workplace&quot; site (like Dear Abby or all those columns) if we are not careful. Maybe this is ok. But if we choose to allow questions which have no fundamental question other than &quot;help me please&quot; this is precisely the type of Q/A site we will become.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;See [here](http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/a/618/2322) for why this sort of post is not appropriate for The Workplace. Please read the [FAQ] to ensure you are asking an appropriate question, thanks!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2013-03-07T14:10:18.687" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T14:10:18.687" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="616" CreationDate="2013-01-11T21:06:27.700" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;How should I handle this is not constructive.  A question should have a problem and an objective clearly defined.  And it should be closed as not constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(The below is intentionally absurd and off topic)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My car is on fire and there is a suitcase full of money in the back seat.  What should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Grab some sticks and marshmellows... That is a perfectly valid answer to the question posed.  But it should not be a valid answer to a question on The Workplace.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could edit the question to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My car is on fire and there is a suitcase full of money in the back&#xA;  seat.  How do I put the fire out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we do not know if that is what the OP wants.  Maybe the OP just wants to save the suitcase full of money.  Maybe they want to know how to prove that the money was in the back seat for insurance, or maybe they want to know how they get to california when their car burned in Kansas.  We can not know and until the OP clarifies we should not attempt to edit and get it reopened(if closed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question gets edited asking for the wrong thing then the OP is not helped.  Just editing a question to have another question open on the site should not be our goal.  We should be trying to build a repository of questions and answers that help with real problems that people actually want solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have dealt with this before and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/44/16&quot;&gt;This was the response from the SE Beta overseers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T21:13:35.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="620" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-11T21:21:48.460" Score="7" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question:&#xA;I would like to find out if there is a difference employers sense from a candidate having a technical undergrad degree vs. one who has a business undergrad, but a technical masters degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how to phrase this appropriately to be on-topic for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Background:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why is because I'm currently in the latter bucket (getting a double MBA/MS in Software Engineering) and I have undergrad degrees in Administration and Economics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm currently applying for summer internships and have found some firms require computer science/engineering undergrad degrees.  My thought is that my application would be fine, as I've gotten into a Master's program for a technical degree, and that should speak to my technical skills/knowledge --&gt; leading to an interview etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found that these companies are not interested, and I think it's based on them not making this connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="870" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T22:29:34.653" Title="How to phrase this question to be on topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="620" CreationDate="2013-01-11T21:57:28.337" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best question for here that I can see is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is my situation...insert details here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I effectively market myself for Technical Internships?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can I do to overcome the bias against a&#xA;business degree(BA) when applying for a internship in a technical&#xA;field?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either of those questions should do well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T22:29:34.653" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="622" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-13T02:24:47.973" Score="2" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought this site is a part of Stack Overflow and that logins are to the same account? I wanted to answer a question here, but it is protected and I had to create a new account so do not have the '10' reputation to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6142" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2013-06-20T13:02:48.860" LastActivityDate="2013-06-20T13:02:48.860" Title="I have a StackOverflow account but cannot answer questions here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="622" CreationDate="2013-01-13T02:37:21.780" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you using the same email for this account?  It is supposed to link to your main account and start you with 101 reputation here to get you past the &quot;new user&quot; restrictions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1512" LastActivityDate="2013-01-13T02:37:21.780" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="622" CreationDate="2013-01-13T07:58:28.443" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;New users are only restricted from answering questions that have been &quot;protected&quot;, and even existing Stack Exchange users with the 100 association bonus still must earn 10 reputation points on &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; site before answering a protected question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions are protected when they attract so many views where they get a lot of &quot;me too&quot; type answers or answers that don't meet the guidelines described in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't have many protected questions, but if there is one you want to answer, first, ask or answer a question on the site that isn't protected, and when you earn at least 10 reputation points, you'll be able to answer the protected question. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, since you must earn 10 reputation points regardless of whether or not you have the association bonus, you may want to login to your Stack Overflow account, and then visit Workplace SE and login with that same account so they are associated. You'll have 101 reputation instead of just 1, which means you will have more privileges. However, as Jim G. mentions in his comment, this relies on you having at least 200 reputation on another Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most importantly, I should add that we protect questions because new users typically don't understand our Q&amp;amp;A format. We're not a discussion forum, and we look for answers that focus on answering the question posed by the asker. For more information, you may want to check out our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;How to Answer&lt;/a&gt; before getting started. Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-01-13T08:04:54.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="612" CreationDate="2013-01-13T08:19:04.993" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see the traffic data for this site on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/workplace.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quantcast&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question changed a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/workplace.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DQDX2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6160" LastActivityDate="2013-01-13T08:19:04.993" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="626" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="627" CreationDate="2013-01-14T04:29:50.030" Score="4" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen about three posts between SE and Workplace where the username of the poster is greyed out/plain text. Please what does this indicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2536" LastActivityDate="2013-01-14T23:29:52.113" Title="Disabled username in question" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="626" CreationDate="2013-01-14T05:41:43.463" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This means that the user does not exist on The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This probably happened because the question was migrated here and the user who asked the question did not have a linked Workplace account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the username is an anonymous username (such as &lt;em&gt;user01234&lt;/em&gt;), then it can be because the user was deleted.  In this case, I have seen cases where that number is the former user's site user ID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="17" LastEditDate="2013-01-14T23:29:52.113" LastActivityDate="2013-01-14T23:29:52.113" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="626" CreationDate="2013-01-14T15:03:08.953" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While Nick is correct that migrated posts may contain greyed out usernames for users who do not exist on the Workplace SE, there is currently a post by a user where there is no migration message. There appears to be no evidence that the post came from somewhere else from what I can tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/8806/how-to-deal-with-a-colleague-who-doesnt-want-to-collaborate&quot;&gt;How to deal with a colleague who doesn&amp;#39;t want to collaborate?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also recall this reported as a bug elsewhere, as someone else on another Stack Exchange site reported seeing a greyed out username on a new post that &lt;em&gt;had not been migrated&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-01-14T15:03:08.953" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1627" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-14T18:05:14.050" Score="20" ViewCount="1082" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This site's core users MUST much more frequently downvote answers even if they are &quot;only&quot; mediocre or we are going to face a consistent decrease in quality&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because (each of these is expanded on at length below):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All (or at least most) our questions are subjective&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anyone can post answers on nearly all our questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Permissibility of mediocre answers invites more mediocre answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no real incentive to stop posting mediocre answers except DVing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/387/has-answer-quality-improved-since-the-early-days-of-this-site&quot;&gt;been discussed before&lt;/a&gt; but I believe is worth a serious revisit at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this is a separate problem from question quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What is unique about The Workplace compared to many other SE sites&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions asked on this site, will, in general, not have an objective answer. There is almost never a &quot;here's THE answer&quot; question asked here. Every single question asked on this site is effectively a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;subjective question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the linked blog post, there are specific qualities desired in subjective answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Back It Up! Principle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Something that happened to you personally&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Something you can back up with a reference&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They talk about how “opinion, by itself, is noise.” They’re not saying&#xA;  that subjective opinions are to be avoided; they’re attempting to mold&#xA;  and shape their inherently subjective Q&amp;amp;A into something constructive,&#xA;  informative and helpful. As it turns out, there is an entire field of&#xA;  subjective “expertise” that has the hallmarks of making great Q&amp;amp;A&#xA;  sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq#questions&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; even specifically has this text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that answers should be backed up either with a reference, or experiences that happened to you personally. You should always include in your answer information about why you think your answer is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as a site, included in the &quot;How Should I Answer?&quot; component of our FAQ is text which requires people to have some sort of &quot;back it up&quot; rule already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Issue 1: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Subjective answers require special care in how they are answered (ie not &quot;here's the answer&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Everyone is an expert here (or can pretend...)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most people cannot go to StackOverflow and contribute answers to problems outside their expertise or familiarity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't have this luxury. Almost anyone who has worked in any capacity can provide some amount of &quot;answers&quot; to the overwhelming majority of constructive questions asked on this site. Anyone who comes here can contribute their thoughts on questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means we have effectively no barrier to entry on our site (which is great, honestly) for answering questions, so anyone can contribute. This is a huge plus for the long term viability of The Workplace. But the problem is anyone can contribute their thoughts, regardless of whether they constitute a &quot;good&quot; answer or not by our site standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This results in &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Issue #2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The barrier to entry at The Workplace is incredibly low (ie non-existent)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Low quality or mediocre answers invite similar answers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prevalence of mediocre answers simply invites more of the similar. Wikipedia has a great article on this topic (officially called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Broken window theory&lt;/a&gt;). The idea (with respect to crime) is when there is a prevalence of small crimes - graffiti, broken windows, etc - this enables more of the same as well as more serious problems. By targeting the &quot;weaker&quot; crimes police can effectively combat crime as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This principle is also very true on our Q/A site. Answers which are low quality (say 1 line answers) invite more of the same. We get this problem nearly every time one of our questions appears on the popular questions list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only is this true with really bad answers, it is also true with mediocre answers which do not really fit our site standard for answers described on our FAQ as well as in the link about subjective questions. If we consistently tolerate mediocre answers we are going to slowly have a decrease in overall quality. It is my opinion that we are already on this route - overall answer quality seems to have been slowly decreasing since I first got active on here (hopefully not because of me...) and the overwhelming majority of answers no longer seem to even try to meet the &quot;good subjective answer&quot; characteristics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Issue #3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consistent mediocre/low quality answers invite more similar answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Upvoting good answers does NOT do anything to encourage only good answers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might, but plenty of mediocre answers receive upvotes here too. Is it true that, most often, answers meeting our FAQ have higher vote counts than mediocre answers? Yes. But that doesn't change the fact that many mediocre answers never receive downvotes and in fact often receive upvotes (especially those on popular questions...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not downvoting mediocre answers does not discourage them. Sure, the best answers float to the top (normally). But without downvotes there is no incentive to stop posting mediocre bad answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention the whole host of repeated answers we get saying basically the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A thought experiment: what would happen to average answer quality on this site do if every answer which was mediocre or &quot;meh&quot; received downvotes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Issue #4:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Without downvotes on mediocre answers, there is no incentive to stop posting them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T20:38:57.830" Title="We need to downvote answers more (even mediocre ones)" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1627" CreationDate="2013-01-14T20:44:59.257" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would disagree with downvoting mediocre answers just for being mediocre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The downvote tooltip reads &quot;This answer was not useful&quot;, so I don't downvote unless the answer is not useful. This includes unhelpful, low quality, and incorrect answers, but does not include &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; mediocre answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where would SO be today if it downvoted mediocre answers and only upvoted high-quality answers? Nobody would answer the thousands of questions that get asked every day because they wouldn't want to spend the time to write an extremely high-quality answer, or face downvotes just because their answer was &quot;mediocre&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/153693/158605&quot;&gt;this MSO post about a badge for having a high rep-per-answer ratio&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I disagree with this proposal as its currently phrased since I think&#xA;  it encourages users to only post a few excellent answers instead of&#xA;  many acceptable answers, which I think would be bad for the site due&#xA;  to the number of questions that get asked here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If we have an &quot;expert&quot; participating in the site, I'd much rather have&#xA;  them answer as many questions as possible instead of spending their&#xA;  time on just a few questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I come to SO seeking help with a specific problem, not a tutorial. I&#xA;  value fast and accurate answers that solves my problem. Sure I&#xA;  appreciate users who take the time to explain things in detail to me,&#xA;  however &lt;strong&gt;I would much rather have a fast answer to my problem than no&#xA;  answer at all&lt;/strong&gt; just because someone doesn't want to ruin their&#xA;  answer/rep ratio to get a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In addition, badges are normally used to encourage specific behaviors,&#xA;  and as someone who posts a lot of quick answers here while waiting for&#xA;  some process or another to finish, I would feel like I'm doing&#xA;  something wrong by posting quick short answers instead of taking the&#xA;  time to write a more detailed answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes I do think we should keep educating users about the &quot;Back it up&quot; rule by leaving comments on answers that are not backed up by facts, references, or personal experience, however I do not think we should be downvoting mediocre answers just because they aren't &quot;expert&quot; quality, especially not if they actually contain &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should be reserving those for answers that are not actually useful, as the tooltip says, and letting the system work as designed, with the best answers getting voted to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in regards to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Overall answer quality seems to have been slowly decreasing since I first got active on here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have found the opposite. I am consistently impressed by the high quality of the some of the answers on here (many of them yours), and think what you may be noticing is more questions and answers overall as the Workplace gains more visitors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure you may be seeing more mediocre or low-quality answers, but we also have more questions, more answers, and more visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would just keep doing what you've been doing: downvoting low quality/incorrect answers, educating and guiding new users about the &quot;Back-it-up&quot; rule or other site guidelines in comments when you see a need for it, and voting up the great questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2013-01-14T20:51:25.613" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="448" CreationDate="2013-01-15T09:10:24.910" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few days back, I was reading a blog Entry on &lt;a href=&quot;http://cstheory.blogoverflow.com/2011/12/how-important-is-knowing-how-to-program-for-tcs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;How important is knowing how to program for TCS?&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cstheory.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CS Theory Community Blog&lt;/a&gt;. This blog entry was actually a summarization of one of popular &lt;a href=&quot;https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/8851/how-important-is-knowing-how-to-program-for-tcs&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; of the community. I really liked the concept of summarizing the highlighting points of a good question. I just thought that its all about Community, who wrote and publish the blog entries, and community members can not play any role in any of the blog articles. but as Rarity and jmort253 highlighted the role of community members in blog writing, I really found it an interesting concept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Scope&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As HLGEM and bethlakshmi have already suggested quite good blog entries. Though I have myself started working on &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Making the adjustment from school to work&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; as suggested by HLGEM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I read some good guidelines about &lt;em&gt;What to Write&lt;/em&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/06/blog-overflow/&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Blog&lt;/a&gt;. Some of proposels, I found somewhat appreciable are,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview top users.&lt;/strong&gt; Just who is that user who is shooting up the reputation leagues?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Highlight top content.&lt;/strong&gt; What great question was posted on the site recently?  Recognize it!  Don’t just copy the question and its answers to the blog, blog about the question and its answers.  A fine line there, eh?  Delve deeper into the question or an answer.  Add more context.  Compare or analyze answers against each other.  There is a lot to work with here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Contributors:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, I dont have much knowledge about Blog caretakers management for other Blogs. But I'd like to suggest that bloggers should work in a Team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Team might be constitued out of Content Writers, proofreaders and if possible Quality Enhancers. The team should be lead of by an Admin, who should have full command over the blog and others team mates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Schedule&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the main thing that should be taken care of. The schedule of blog entries will entirely depend on the Contributers and thier availability. However, we could start with 2 entries a month and once we get good command over the community blog, we could increase the number of blogs posts in a month. Though, not to burdernize it, an entry a week will be sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:32:34.130" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T09:10:24.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1630" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-15T14:04:28.487" Score="8" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is a question which would be applicable only to those in a certain country too localized?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those wondering, in this case, I'm thinking of a question about the distribution (by the employer to the employee) of tax paperwork in the United States (for which I've been unable thus far to find an answer via Google, etc.).  However, I am asking this about anything which might be specific to a given country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2317" LastActivityDate="2013-06-10T22:29:45.970" Title="What is too localized?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1631" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1633" CreationDate="2013-01-15T14:09:25.893" Score="7" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/8840/colleagues-frowning-when-i-take-vacation-days&quot;&gt;This question has been closed as &quot;not a real question,&quot;&lt;/a&gt; but I think the heart of it is a good question. It's also something that's so much of a problem in the United States that there are tons of books and articles and whatnot talking about how much of a problem it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The United States gets a large number of immigrant/foreign workers, and both the foreign workers and younger generations of native workers often have trouble with a company culture that pressures people to not take their paid time off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this is an issue that affects a large number of people, can we reword this question to be acceptable as a &quot;real question&quot; and reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T08:02:44.713" Title="How can we make this question &quot;a real question&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1631" CreationDate="2013-01-15T14:38:51.200" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would disagree that it is &quot;not a real question&quot;, and have voted to reopen it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is clearly that the company culture discourages employees from using their PTO, and the OP is asking if he should let company culture influence how much PTO he uses. He also mentioned that he's not from the US (which I think is relevant), and is not sure if any kind of unspoken &quot;rules&quot; about PTO exist in the US. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I've worked in similar environments, and think this is a good question for the site. I actually had the same question when I first started working too. I used to never take my PTO, or when I did it was with some &quot;valid explanation&quot;, like going on a week-long vacation. Now I take it whenever I feel I want a day off, or when it's going to expire. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've already voted to reopen it, although when I went to try and edit the title and highlight the actual question just now, I see someone has made a more substantial edit that changes the nature of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's determined the edit is too much and gets rolled back, I'll post my changes, but if not I won't bother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The summary of my changes was to change the title to &quot;My colleagues frown on me for using my vacation days. Should I stop using them so much?&quot;, and to clarify in the body a bit more that the OP is not from the US and is looking to find out if there are unspoken rules in the US about taking PTO that he is not aware of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I actually was reading through the edit and realized it invalidated too many of the existing answers because of how much it changed the core question. I've rolled back that edit, and applied the one I was going to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the community decides the current phrasing of the question isn't good enough and rolls it back to Chad's edit, I won't complain, however I'd prefer the question as it is now because it doesn't invalidate so many of the existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit #2:&lt;/strong&gt; I realize why some users were thinking the question was &quot;not-constructive&quot;, so edited the question to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/8840/316&quot;&gt;Should I let company culture influence how I use my PTO?&lt;/a&gt;, which I think is probably the most constructive way we could rephrase the question without losing the OP's original intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T16:34:38.740" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1631" CreationDate="2013-01-15T15:43:52.507" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on other answers on meta about our quality, a significant number of people agree that questions that are chatty aren't really at the core of what we're looking for. Questions that ask &quot;What should I do&quot;, in general, seem to raise a red flag here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not every question with those keywords in it is an immediate &quot;not constructive&quot; or &quot;not a real question&quot; post, but it is cause for concern because it invites &quot;advice&quot; not &quot;answers&quot; in many cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, we could edit this particular post to focus on how to achieve a solution to a problem. For instance, &quot;How can I use my vacation days without people thinking I'm lazy&quot; or &quot;How can I change the culture of our organization so that it's okay to take vacation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current question is &quot;Is this a problem?&quot; or more specifically &quot;How can I tell if there are problems arising from taking vacation?&quot;.  The problem here is that this is arguably speculation and a borderline not a real actual problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chad already made some edits to cut out information that isn't relevant, and these types of edits help keep the focus on solving a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should it &lt;em&gt;stay&lt;/em&gt; closed?  Probably not. We have a great pool of editors in our community who love fixing questions like this. I encourage you to jump in as well and suggest edits that make questions fit our guidelines. Also, remember that as a 1000+ user, you have both &lt;em&gt;close&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;reopen&lt;/em&gt; votes you can cast on questions, and I encourage you to use them to reopen posts that have been fixed (or to close questions that need fixing so we can prevent invalid answers). :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, the challenge we face is how to avoid becoming &quot;Dear Abby&quot; for the workplace. I'm not 100% sure how to avoid that, but asking questions like this in meta is a great way to keep that conversation going by focusing on specific questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T15:43:52.507" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1631" CreationDate="2013-01-15T15:49:48.960" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was fine in my opinion. Was it a &quot;what should I do?&quot; - somewhat, yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the asker was from a different country than the USA and was confused about vacation practices here, because coworkers seemed to look down on them for using vacation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What should I do? Not use them and effectively work for free?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is akin to &quot;my coworkers look down on me for using vacation... how should I deal with this?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this normal behavior in the United States, to have vacation days and not use them (I'm not originally from the US)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a GREAT question (even if not addressing a direct problem) because there is a huge difference between American and European culture on vacation usage. I've had quite a few conversations with Europeans who completely do not understand American vacation policies - not using some of our already limited vacation seems CRAZY to many of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was not &quot;what should I do&quot; it was &quot;I'm confused by this situation I don't understand, here's what I don't understand, here's what I tried, what should I do&quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Big difference in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2013-01-15T16:16:38.433" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T16:16:38.433" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1630" CreationDate="2013-01-15T17:06:21.563" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would not consider a question that applies to an entire country to be too-localized, however it is possible that someone's specific situation within a country may be too-localized, so be sure you phrase your question in such a way that it could apply to more than just you or just your company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only consider a question as &quot;too-localized&quot; if it is unlikely to ever apply to another person or another company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a quick list of what I would consider localized and not/localized (feel free to add to it if needed)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only you - Too Localized&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only your company- Too Localized&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only your profession - OK&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only your industry - OK&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only your country - OK&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that all of these still have to be Workplace-Specific and are subject to all other question standards for this site :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T17:06:21.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1637" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-15T18:02:07.090" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/8849/revisions&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/8849/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am considering implementing a policy that all employees must speak&#xA;  the language of the country where the company is located in when&#xA;  speaking to another employee in the office, even during lunch, breaks,&#xA;  by the water cooler, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The purpose for such a policy would be so that other employees don't&#xA;  feel excluded and perhaps even paranoid if they hear co-workers&#xA;  talking to each other and can't understand them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But I am not sure if this request is reasonable, and how it would&#xA;  affect the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What effects can occur in the workplace from enforcing a policy that&#xA;  all employees are required speak a specific language at all times&#xA;  while in the office?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would prefer a single answer outlining both the positive and&#xA;  negative effects of such a policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I should add that no employees have a problem speaking the local&#xA;  language, and it is already a job requirement to speak it well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T19:34:00.070" Title="Are the changes here appropriate?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|asking-questions|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1637" CreationDate="2013-01-15T18:05:12.347" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First I do not see that the OP is saying that they are wanting to implement that policy.  It is my understanding they would like that policy at their office though not in a position to implement it.  So the change is not reflective of the intent of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, and probably more importantly, it is asking us to evaluate the policy.  This is not a constructive question as posed.  It is asking us to &lt;em&gt;discuss&lt;/em&gt; the merits of the policy.  That just does not make a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T18:05:12.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1639" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-15T18:12:41.547" Score="-8" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have differences of opinion on what a good question is here. But generally we can find a common ground and constructive version for most questions worth saving.  But editing them on the site is counter productive and sometimes creates conflict.  Instead I propose if someone other than the OP wants to save a question that we discuss changes to the question on meta before actually making the edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This policy would not be need to be followed for correcting grammar or clarifying from op comments.  But just for questions that have been closed (are about to be closed) and a third party wants to save them.  I do not think it needs to be an official policy so much as a standing guideline that we follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T21:54:21.750" Title="Can we implement an unoffical policy of &quot;Discuss in meta first&quot; for closed question edits?" Tags="|discussion|questions|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1637" CreationDate="2013-01-15T19:17:17.943" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm the one that made the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came across the question which was both closed and downvoted, but thought at the core it seemed to be an OK question and I wanted to see some answers on it. So thought I'd take a shot at editing it to get it reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basis of the question was asking if it was reasonable/ethical to enforce a policy requiring employees to speak a specific language, which I thought was definitely an on-topic question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since someone pointed out &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/8849/effects-of-a-policy-that-all-employees-should-speak-a-certain-language-at-all-ti#comment17471_8849&quot;&gt;in the comments&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have voted to close, because the question is currently one of ethics, which is off-topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I removed the part about it being ethical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/8849/effects-of-a-policy-that-all-employees-should-speak-a-certain-language-at-all-ti#comment17420_8849&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; raised the question about it's constructiveness:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Debating the merits of a policy is not constructive. From the FAQ &lt;em&gt;You&#xA;  should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual&#xA;  problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the&#xA;  usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so I attempted to make the question be about the actual problem the OP appeared to be facing by making the assumption that it was the OP was the one looking to implement the policy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This assumption was based on the fact he had included &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the policy was going to be implemented in the original question, which made me think he was part of the inner discussions about implementing the policy, and likely had a voice in regards to if it was going to actually get implemented or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had a hard time finding a way to phrase the question in a way that wouldn't be considered off-topic (&lt;em&gt;Is it ethical/legal...&lt;/em&gt;), too localized (&lt;em&gt;Should I implement this policy...&lt;/em&gt;), or not-constructive (&lt;em&gt;List me the reasons why I shouldn't use this policy...&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I finally settled on the current question (&lt;em&gt;What effects can occur in the workplace from enforcing this policy...&lt;/em&gt;) and included a line specifying the ideal answer should include both the pros and cons of such a policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen questions asked this way successfully on many SE sites, and thought the scope (a specific policy's effect on the workplace) was specific enough to be answerable with a single decent answer, and was not broad enough that it would end up with multiple pages of answers and no one-right answer (which is the reason why &quot;polling&quot; questions get closed as  &quot;not-constructive&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than assuming the OP was the one implementing the policy, and adding a specific question to the text to guide the answers towards a higher quality of answer, the rest of the changes were simple rephrasing of what the OP had already said, either in the question itself or its comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I can see how the final question I ended up using (&lt;em&gt;What effects can occur in the workplace from enforcing this policy...&lt;/em&gt;) may be considered a &quot;polling&quot; question by some, and I'm sorry if it was an invalid edit. I would definitely welcome suggestions to rephrase it, or someone else editing it into something that could be universally accepted by SE users as &quot;constructive&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, I think the question is a good one. I personally would have left it at &lt;em&gt;&quot;Is it reasonable to enforce this policy?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, however based on the comments and some of the other closure discussions lately, I didn't think it would be enough to get the question reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T19:34:00.070" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1639" CreationDate="2013-01-15T19:23:57.823" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is a good idea to discuss on meta when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Salvaging a completely awful question (by Workplace standards) into something related but different in scope/question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Changing the question causes existing answers to no longer be relevant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions are super popular and get lots of drive-by votes/answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think much of the problem with questions here is when people ask really vague questions and don't provide additional details themselves or just provide implied questions without really explicitly stating them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can't really guess at their meaning when there is considerable vagueness. Then again, for the SE network, is this really necessary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2013-01-15T19:29:26.907" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T19:29:26.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1630" CreationDate="2013-01-15T20:27:38.100" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;too localized&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet. For help making this question more broadly applicable, see the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key phrase here is &amp;quot;extraordinarily narrow situation&amp;quot;, which to me means that it's so narrow that no one else can relate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good example of a too localized question might be something along the lines of how to create an environment of helpfulness between colleagues on the International Space Station and avoid the effects of low gravity from affecting their moods. There are so few people working in this environment to where only a handful of people may benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are arguably lots of Java programmers who have bosses who still believe in Theory X style management that the answers would be helpful to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many Java programmers are there in the world compared to active astronauts?  The difference is likely merely hundreds for the astronauts vs millions for the Java programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T20:27:38.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1639" CreationDate="2013-01-15T21:54:21.750" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like this should be obvious, but if the choices are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discuss on meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Start an edit war&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then &lt;strong&gt;yes, please discuss on meta and do not start an edit war&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that the rollback tool (as on Wikipedia) is better for vandalism-cleanup than anything, and to a well-intentioned editor is more like a slap in the face.  If you can't build on another editor's changes without reversing them completely, then I'm all for &lt;em&gt;encouraging&lt;/em&gt; all editors involved to come to Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, while &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq#etiquette&quot;&gt;be nice&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is official policy and that certainly applies, I'm not sure how we'd codify this into policy or how it would be enforced if it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of all the closed questions I don't think this is frequently necessary, so I don't think that's the right filter to avoid edit wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's more of a general common sense and courtesy that we should keep with us at all times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T21:54:21.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1644" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-16T15:55:59.967" Score="4" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/8886/are-floating-holidays-payable-when-someone-is-laid-off&quot;&gt;Does everyone know to ask for compensation for floating holidays when someone is laid off?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get that this is a fairly boring question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think this question is one a LOT of people have - even though the answer is &quot;it depends, look up your HR documents or benefits information&quot; in 99% of cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how this is &quot;too localized&quot; - perhaps the exact instance of the question is too localized, but, the generalized question IS a good workplace question in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I've updated the question per some of the discussion below. My updates are minor (imo at least!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-01-17T14:09:43.990" Title="Why was this closed?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1644" CreationDate="2013-01-16T16:15:30.197" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is really a specific employer policy question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While most offices in the US are not going to pay it out the question itself can only be answered by looking at the policies of the office in question.  In addition there are some regulations involved here that in some place may require or forbid paying them out.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only question in this line that can reasonably be asked is how can I find out about my companies policy on paying holidays.  And if you are smart enough to ask that question you are probably smart enough to know the answer already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T16:15:30.197" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1644" CreationDate="2013-01-16T16:28:03.677" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &quot;too localized&quot; because of the way it is asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see that in your answer to the question, you did attempt to give some advice to what might be a better question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can always ask about this sort of thing. You really don't have a whole lot to lose, either (unless you ask in a rude/unprofessional fashion) as it's not a significant amount of your time to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this actually illustrates why it was closed;  this answer, although helpful (if a bit brief) is an answer to a different question.  I don't think it's a particularly great question (&quot;How do I find out if my floating holidays are payable?&quot; is pretty simple and the answer is basically &quot;Ask.&quot;), but it's still a different, and more answerable question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first part of your answer was basically explaining why we can't answer the question as asked.  There is no known answer for every case (or even a wide selection of cases).  That seems to me to be &lt;strong&gt;the very definition of &quot;too localized&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="17" LastEditDate="2013-01-16T17:15:18.397" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T17:15:18.397" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1644" CreationDate="2013-01-16T16:52:38.833" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; answer may be localized, however the question is definitely not too-localized as it applies to any employee that is being laid off from a company that offers floating holidays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We will probably get many questions where the answer is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this as companies are allowed&#xA;  to set their own policy on this matter. You need to ask your HR&#xA;  department about what your company's policy on this is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is OK. It provides the OP the answer they need, and will help other visitors in the future that come across that answer because they have the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best analogy I can think of for this is code questions on Stack Overflow. An answer explaining what the problem is and how to fix it is far better than an answer that posts the exact code to fix the problem. The first answer applies to anyone with the same problem, while the second only applies to the OP's specific situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of this specific question, we can not provide an exact answer for the OP's situation since we do not know the policy of the company he used to work for, and in fact we wouldn't want to as that question would only apply to him, and would not be useful to future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However we can answer their question by telling them what they need to do figure out the exact answer to their situation. In fact, this is better as it will not only help the OP, but also help future visitors with the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am voting to reopen the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="316" LastEditDate="2013-01-16T17:24:08.327" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T17:24:08.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1648" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-16T19:15:18.427" Score="3" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been alot of opining on the asides of questions lately. People feel the need to express their opinion on how awful the situation is and how they would handle it even though it is not part of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is our biggest answer problem. Is there some way we can effectively discourage this? These types of answers tend to get up-votes for the opining even if their answer is not good. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2013-01-16T20:03:23.627" LastActivityDate="2013-01-20T22:37:49.980" Title="Can/should we discourage opining in answers?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1648" CreationDate="2013-01-16T23:42:47.830" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree completely tolerance of &amp;quot;I think/feel like you should do XXX (even though your question was about something different!)&amp;quot; types of answer are a huge problem here. In fact, I've &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1627/we-need-to-downvote-answers-more-even-mediocre-ones&quot;&gt;written a (small?) treatise on this subject&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have fewer problems when answers are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the answer to your question from an objective perspective&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I think you should do XXX or I think you should be asking YYYY&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is we frequently get&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you should do XXX&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the answer to a different question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;types of answers which &lt;em&gt;don't even answer the question&lt;/em&gt; but still get upvoted. People have said previously they don't want to DV these answers as long as they are useful (and it is really easy given the content of our site to add a useful but non-answer, see  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1627/we-need-to-downvote-answers-more-even-mediocre-ones&quot;&gt;here, specifically &amp;quot;Everyone is an expert here (or can pretend...)&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/8845/2322&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; (as well as a lot of other answers there) is a particularly good example of this problem - the question has always been a question centered around culture differences at all points in the revision history - but many answers never addressed this part of the question! Chad and I &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/7669963#7669963&quot;&gt;discussed this in chat&lt;/a&gt; too at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point is: &lt;strong&gt;none of the answers to that question initially addressed the core problem the asker specifically articulated&lt;/strong&gt;. All of them were &amp;quot;oh you are wondering about whether to take your vacation time? yah you should take it!&amp;quot; answers. &lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; of them addressed the reasons the asker felt uncomfortable with taking the vacation time (including the top answer; this has been changed since the last update however).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should add a disclaimer that I am consistently posting comments along the lines of &amp;quot;this doesn't answer the question&amp;quot; when I see this... so it should be fairly obvious my thoughts on this whole matter :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T23:42:47.830" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1648" CreationDate="2013-01-17T03:54:01.337" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this information is somewhat buried in the depths of the FAQ, I thought I'd highlight a point from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;How to Answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer the question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read the question carefully. What, &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt;, is the question asking for? Make sure your answer provides that – or a viable alternative. The answer can be “don’t do that”, but it should also include “try this instead”. Any answer that gets the asker going in the right direction is helpful, but do try to mention any limitations, assumptions or simplifications in your answer. Brevity is acceptable, but fuller explanations are better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I interpret this is that if someone asks how to do X in situation Y, it's perfectly acceptable to explain that it's not a good idea and why, and then explain an alternative and explain why the alternative is better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens all the time on Stack Overflow. For instance, if someone asks a question about how to properly format chat messages received in a Web based chat, and I see they're using polling, I'll let them know that polling just isn't really the way to go. As an aside, I'll provide an answer to their questions as it applies to polling, assuming there is an answer, but I'm always sure to explain why it's just not a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see nothing wrong with this approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if someone didn't address the full question, then we may want to suggest they add more information. I do this by asking follow up questions to the answerers, but the follow ups are taken from the question itself. This is one way we can get people to add more to their answers without putting them on the defensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in some other instances, there's an implied answer. For example, one answerer explained that vacation time is an entitlement and part of your pay, but he didn't explicitly say, &amp;quot;So take your darn vacation already :)&amp;quot;.  So, I just added that part in as an edit so it was clearer to others that he was saying the asker should take his well-deserved vacation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I feel it's difficult to discuss this without specific examples. We discuss specific questions here all the time, so feel free to bring in examples of answers as well. As long as we do it in a respectful manner, we should be able to have an effective discussion about what we can do better. Hope this helps! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-01-17T03:54:01.337" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1644" CreationDate="2013-01-17T14:09:43.990" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't a new category of question. The problem with these questions is that the &quot;answer&quot; boils down to: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't know, ask your HR/payroll/management/sales/etc department&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might seem helpful, but it's not really anything but an admission that you (and likely, no one else on the site) can answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If your answer states that we can't answer the question, you should probably leave a close vote and comment, not an answer&lt;/strong&gt;. This is hardly any different from the &quot;belongs on programmers&quot; answers on Stack Overflow. Arguably they're worse, since there's really &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; we can do. We, the internet, in our infinite knowledge, are more or less unable to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the site that useful if we keep around a bunch of questions where the answer is &quot;there is no answer, ask someone else&quot;? And I know reputation is &quot;fake internet points&quot; to many, but it really irks me that two of the best ways to earn rep on the site are to say &quot;you should quit&quot; and now &quot;ask someone else&quot;. Answers should be reserved when we can answer the fundamental problem at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I see two options here: close as too localized and leave the &quot;ask HR&quot; remarks as a &lt;em&gt;comment&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;make a canonical &quot;who do I ask for this&quot; question&lt;/strong&gt;. The major use case I can see here are newbies to the workforce who legitimately do not know which department they should ask. We could have some general resources to hint that issues of pay and vacation probably go to payroll/HR, what project is your priority goes to your direct manager, etc etc. I'm not sure quite how that would work, but at least the answers would be &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2013-01-17T14:09:43.990" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1653" CreationDate="2013-01-17T23:59:48.737" Score="3" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good question was posted earlier today &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/8964/should-i-report-a-previous-coworkers-arrest-to-management&quot;&gt;Should I report a previous coworker's arrest to management?&lt;/a&gt; and a good answer IMHO has already been provided. But in this particular question, one word (&quot;previous&quot;) makes a major difference in how this question might best be answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the best approach and methodology for addressing those differences?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A single answer which specifically addresses both scenarios?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An 'additional' answer to expand on the other scenario? (Assuming there is already a good answer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Posting a modified/different question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4808" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-01-19T00:08:38.437" Title="When is it appropiate to expand the scope of a question and what's the proper procedure?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1652" CreationDate="2013-01-18T06:39:42.677" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If mentioning the differences between the two scenarios as part of the answer would add more value to the Q&amp;amp;A and more clearly answer the question, then that would be fine, but the additional information should be relevant to help keep it concise and to the point.  In other words, it would be okay to mention the other scenario, but only briefly and as an aside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if there is some really valuable information in there that would otherwise be edited out if one were to follow these guidelines, then the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/05/encyclopedia-stack-exchange/&quot;&gt;ask and answer your own question&lt;/a&gt; feature of Stack Exchange may help. You could ask a second, standalone question and post a full, standalone answer in Q&amp;amp;A format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just keep in mind that it would likely take a lot of work to keep it from being seen as a duplicate, as self-answered questions are still subject to all of the normal Stack Exchange guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-01-18T06:45:45.500" LastActivityDate="2013-01-18T06:45:45.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1652" CreationDate="2013-01-18T15:26:55.093" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fail to see how anything with a &quot;previous&quot; co-worker is a constructive question about the Workplace.  Discussing a previous co-worker's plight is akin to telling your manager that your buddy got arrested.  Why does the manager care?  How does this impact the workplace?  I voted to close it as not constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;My point is, a &quot;previous&quot; co-worker does not matter, thus the initial question here isn't a good fit nor is it constructive to a workplace q&amp;amp;a. Therefore, the &quot;best approach&quot; is to close the question as not constructive.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1685" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2013-01-18T17:50:02.417" LastActivityDate="2013-01-18T17:50:02.417" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1655" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1661" CreationDate="2013-01-18T20:36:30.960" Score="5" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/8730/how-do-i-deal-with-a-coworker-who-listens-to-the-radio-all-day?lq=1&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; about what to do about a co-worker who listened to a loud radio that got closed as a duplicate to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4206/what-can-i-do-about-a-very-loud-coworker&quot;&gt;What can I do about a very loud coworker?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It caught my attention because I work in an office across from someone who frequently likes to play his music quite loudly, and his music tastes are not always the same as mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was trying to get it reopened because a loud co-worker is not the same as a loud radio (for example, Management can make you shut off a radio, but they can't really &amp;quot;shut off&amp;quot; a loud co-worker&amp;quot;), but it got deleted today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/413/delete-votes-and-you?&quot;&gt;meta-faq post about community delete votes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally we only delete closed, low scoring posts with no answers or&#xA;poor answers. Closed posts are all &amp;quot;candidates for deletion&amp;quot; but&#xA;generally only irrecoverably off topic/poor questions without useful&#xA;information in answers should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question does not seem to fit this criteria, so why was it deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TRxMI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/asRSn.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vkdhf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-04-08T17:52:28.167" Title="Why was the question about a co-worker's loud radio deleted?" Tags="|support|closed-questions|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1655" CreationDate="2013-01-18T20:38:30.390" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a system perspective, the question was deleted because three regular community users cast delete votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDITED to answer Rachel's question in the comment re: undeleting.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the guidance in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/413/delete-votes-and-you?&quot;&gt;Delete Votes and You!&lt;/a&gt;, specifically in the &quot;What if I think something was wrongly deleted?&quot; section: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you can vote to delete a post, you can also vote to undelete a&#xA;  post, unless the post was deleted by a moderator or spam flags (it&#xA;  will show a deleted by Community if it's deleted by flags). It takes&#xA;  as many votes to undelete as it does to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally -- but I'm only one of three moderators (at least I was at the time this was written :) )-- I would not unilaterally reopen this or anything else that is currently closed by community votes.  However, if after a meta discussion about the merits of the question, if three community members with undelete privileges (there are currently ~40 users with this privilege) voted to undelete it, I wouldn't also then delete it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2013-01-18T21:45:05.270" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1652" CreationDate="2013-01-19T00:08:38.437" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need to keep in mind that this is a Q/A site - it's not a wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If editing a question clarifies its scope to still allow answers which answer the question, fine&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If not, don't significantly change the question &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because at the end of the day this site only exists because people have real situations they want real advice to. Whether it's a bad question or a rant or a &quot;halp me plz&quot; &quot;question&quot; it is still a real person (like you -- or me) with a real need they want met.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-01-19T00:08:38.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1655" CreationDate="2013-01-19T02:27:12.210" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't delete the question, nor did any moderator delete the question, but the answers don't seem to follow the guidelines for a good subjective question as listed in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.  The back it up rule seems to be missing from the answers, and the material in the answers can be found in a much more comprehensive format in the linked duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I closed the question because, from my perspective, it appeared as if things were going in a direction that wasn't good for the site, and the question was missing some details that would have helped differentiate it further from the linked duplicate. When I closed it, I left the following comment on January 11th:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi demonz, welcome to the Workplace Stack Exchange, the Q&amp;amp;A site for questions about navigating the professional workplace. Please check out the duplicate post as there are a lot of outstanding answers there, and we're just repeating the same things in the answers here. If you find that none of those solutions answer your question, please edit this post with what you've tried, why it isn't working, and why the other answers don't help your situation, and we can reopen this post for new answers. Good luck, and welcome! :) – jmort253♦ Jan 11 at 3:44 edit &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post was edited once after that point to add in the clarifications in small font, but other than that, the post has had no other edits since that point and was finally deleted today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can't say exactly why the three users deleted the post, my guess is they didn't see much value in keeping it around, considering it wasn't getting edited and improved. I'm not sure I would have deleted it myself, at least not without waiting a bit longer, but I don't feel there's enough community support to warrant unilaterally undeleting it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is to convince 3 of the 40 undelete voters to undelete the post. Explain why you think the post has value. You might also explain your plan to turn it around through editing as a means of convincing others to help out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The nice thing about community actions is it takes numbers to get things done, which means there's more distributed energy to invest into turning something so-so into something great. Hope this helps answer your question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-01-19T02:27:12.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="280" CreationDate="2013-01-19T02:35:19.180" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;After &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/164080/why-can-only-moderators-protect-questions-less-than-1-day-old&quot;&gt;the discussion here&lt;/a&gt; brought this back to mind, I've dropped the threshold to 15. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;10 seems &lt;em&gt;dangerously&lt;/em&gt; low to me, in the range where it starts to be ripe for abuse, and unnecessarily stressful to moderate. Consider these 19 questions that &lt;em&gt;would've&lt;/em&gt; had over 10 answers if some answers hadn't been deleted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/1&quot;&gt;Should I include a career objective on my resume?&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/2&quot;&gt;How do I take a vacation when I&amp;#39;m wearing too many hats?&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/37&quot;&gt;Getting a high-quality new hire in a competitive hiring environment&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/47&quot;&gt;How best to indicate that I&amp;#39;ve been the &amp;quot;go-to person&amp;quot; on a resume&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/1152&quot;&gt;What value to the business is there in sending non marketing people to trade shows?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/2366&quot;&gt;Is it unethical to quit just before a project that I&amp;#39;m the only one suitable for begins?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/2732&quot;&gt;What is the proper way to deal with a recruiter who calls during work hours?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/4039&quot;&gt;How can I deal with a difficult coworker?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/4224&quot;&gt;Get a raise to match another job offer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/5698&quot;&gt;Is it ok to ask how old a fellow employee is?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/5906&quot;&gt;How do I eliminate a coworker from a project?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/6001&quot;&gt;How to deal with hundreds of unread mails after an absence?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/6393&quot;&gt;What do I say when resigning after just a month?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/6544&quot;&gt;How can I professionally and politely disagree with Management about my performance review?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/6584&quot;&gt;What is the polite way of asking your boss &amp;quot;are you there&amp;quot; in an IM?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/7197&quot;&gt;How can I approach my boss with bad news?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/7210&quot;&gt;Is December a bad time to submit a job application?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/8701&quot;&gt;Why are romantic relationships with someone who works under you discouraged?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/8899&quot;&gt;How should I respond to an inappropriate question in a job interview?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At 15, the number drops to 3. There are definitely &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; questions in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=answers:11&quot;&gt;that query&lt;/a&gt;, that I think would be better off with more curation and less kibitzing, but there are also a few that've seen quite decent late answers come in at #9, #10 or #11 (and some that should probably just be closed, but that's a separate issue). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=answers%3A16&quot;&gt;please review this list of questions&lt;/a&gt; - if there are any in it that &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be CW'd, clean them up before another answer is posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-01-19T02:35:19.180" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1648" CreationDate="2013-01-20T22:37:49.980" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;@jmort253, I felt the best way to address your comment question was to add another answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/8899/how-should-i-respond-to-an-inappropriate-question-in-a-job-interview&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can anyone suggest a better way of handling something like this so that I do not exclude myself from consideration?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are my thoughts on &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; the answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/8904/2322&quot;&gt;First answer&lt;/a&gt; - this answers the question fine, provides explanation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/8901/2322&quot;&gt;Second answer&lt;/a&gt; - this provides an answer which is an alternative to the top voted one, but makes no attempt to distinguish &amp;quot;personal advice&amp;quot; vs &amp;quot;answering question&amp;quot;ness&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/8906/2322&quot;&gt;Third answer&lt;/a&gt; - this also answers question well, provides explanation, and provides a clear &amp;quot;if I were you&amp;quot; distinction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/8935/2322&quot;&gt;Fourth answer&lt;/a&gt; - this copies content from the first answer effectively by combining phrases together, doesn't really add anything but got upvoted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/8948/2322&quot;&gt;Fifth answer&lt;/a&gt; - this doesn't even attempt to answer the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/8944/2322&quot;&gt;Sixth answer&lt;/a&gt; - this one is worse, because it contains misleading content (regarding legality) and also doesn't even attempt to answer the question yet only received 2 downvotes as of writing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/8916/2322&quot;&gt;Seventh answer&lt;/a&gt; - while technically an answer, it's really poor quality and doesn't even attempt to explain &amp;quot;why&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/8900/2322&quot;&gt;Eighth answer&lt;/a&gt; - I'm including this because the user has 1k+ rep here, but it doesn't even attempt to address the specific question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than the top three answers and two &amp;quot;delete me&amp;quot; answers, there were 6 answers to that question which were mediocre at best -- with the only one receiving more than two downvotes being the &amp;quot;I'm a bad poster&amp;quot; answer posted in a spamming spree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Another question&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7617/how-should-i-deal-with-an-employee-who-has-slept-with-my-wife&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the most popular question we've gotten on here as far as I know. Doing the same thing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/7622/2322&quot;&gt;First answer&lt;/a&gt; - this is a good answer, though it ignores the &amp;quot;why&amp;quot; factor completely for much of it and doesn't actually say&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/8624/2322&quot;&gt;Second answer&lt;/a&gt; - this is the best answer I think, though, it basically just expands a prior answer (third)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/7618/2322&quot;&gt;Third answer&lt;/a&gt; - pretty decent answer, not really explained but mostly self explanatory&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/7620/2322&quot;&gt;Fourth answer&lt;/a&gt; - this is also a decent answer, since it explains &amp;quot;why&amp;quot; employee should be fired, but is still pretty &amp;quot;meh&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/8623/2322&quot;&gt;Fifth answer&lt;/a&gt; - this answer basically ignores the heart of the question and tells the asker, &amp;quot;sorry you should just deal with it&amp;quot; when the question is clear this is not an easy nor feasible option&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/8662/2322&quot;&gt;Sixth answer&lt;/a&gt; - good suggestion for how to solve the problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/8659/2322&quot;&gt;Seventh answer&lt;/a&gt; - this basically copies the fourth answer and only adds additional personal content&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/7621/2322&quot;&gt;Eighth answer&lt;/a&gt; - this answer literally says &amp;quot;I'm not sure anybody can really give you much advice here&amp;quot; and yet received only 1 downvote when all it does is expand on that&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/8630/2322&quot;&gt;Ninth answer&lt;/a&gt; - this answer is TERRIBLE by subjective answer standards; 3 downvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/8676/2322&quot;&gt;Tenth answer&lt;/a&gt; - this doesn't answer the question at all, and basically repeats content elsewhere anyways (1 DV)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/8656/2322&quot;&gt;Eleventh answer&lt;/a&gt; - this answer basically says &amp;quot;idk what you should do&amp;quot; but only got 3 DVs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/8704/2322&quot;&gt;Twelfth answer&lt;/a&gt; - this adds nothing new, but, hey, it at least answers the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest are very much repeating previous answers without adding anything, with the exception of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/8813/2322&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; which actually might be the best answer in this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-01-20T22:37:49.980" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1655" CreationDate="2013-01-21T20:15:57.810" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP posted this question while trolling.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the OP's own profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am the last guy who is not afraid to say the truth in these forums.&#xA;  I´ll ask politicaly incorrect questions even if they take away my&#xA;  beloved experience points, or health points or magic points, or&#xA;  whatever the points they give you happen to be, i´ll answer unpopular&#xA;  answers if they are true, for i am not here to entertain you but to be&#xA;  the voice of reason in a world of increasing violence and censorship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you are like me, unite in this epic quest for truth and rate me up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;United we stand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am a constructive troll&lt;/strong&gt;, meaning that while the tone used in my&#xA;  posts sounds unprofessional, childish, trollish, even ridicule the&#xA;  watchful eye will find deep, delightful and thoughtful truths about&#xA;  tech and society in every line that usually go over most of people´s&#xA;  headses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most of time, my typos and constant misuse of grammar and word things&#xA;  is intentional, sometimes is not. Sometimes is plain ignorance, or&#xA;  plaignorance as i like to call it. Most of my material is not fresh or&#xA;  original, but plain plagiarism, plaingiarism as i like to call it,&#xA;  from the good episodes of the simpsons or stuff like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was there to create problems, was a duplicate of a better question, and had no value in staying on the site to be reopened.  So I cast my vote to delete this question along with his 30 other trolls that he posted in under an hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T20:15:57.810" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1627" CreationDate="2013-01-23T07:57:48.563" Score="-8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am against down voting if the post is already at 0. If they are in a positive score and it isn't following the guidelines of WPB then I down vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this is that having a negative score has negative repercussions to people who may over time make a great contribution to the community at a later point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you give a negative score people lose a few points, if they are already at a low level they just won't bother responding anymore. In some cases you can even cause their privileges to be revoked for something that they may seem petty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a zero score on the other hand means you haven't been dismissed, but you need to improve if you want get a score. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;. I'd only down vote if the post broke the rules and it was &gt;0 score. Otherwise I leave a comment asking them to fix the answer. I only down vote if the post is at 0 if it adds absolutely nothing to the discussion or spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[edit]&lt;/strong&gt; In response to @Enderland comment below. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's take you for example on one of my posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/8819/how-to-convince-colleagues-about-my-point-of-view-in-a-meeting/8829#8829&quot;&gt;How to convince colleagues about my point of view in a meeting?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a possible answer, which if you had been dealing in that area that I often do, you would know it is a well known technique. It had been up for some time and the OP even responded to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you came along and down voted it because you were not knowledgable enough to know this. I saw the down vote long before your some what rude/informal comment as to why you down voted (clearly not intentional, but needs work). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then added what I considered to be pointless background information to make you happy (And you removed the down vote). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now a better response, would have just to ask for clarification or &quot;can you clean it up so it matches our rules?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that I should stress this is me! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most people would see such a thing and say &quot;Screw this&quot; and leave. In fact nearly every question I look at these days has been deemed closed by moderators which while need improvement, could lead to some excellent discourse. It feels less like an exchange and rather a private chat area for a handful of people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try looking at how SO handles such matters. Bad questions aren't just closed. They are normally asked to be corrected in comments, others more knowledgable correct the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3405" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T15:43:06.993" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1631" CreationDate="2013-01-23T08:02:44.713" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best approach for those seeking an answer may be to simply re-frame the original question as one or more &quot;real&quot; question(s).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is already a policy for &quot;not a real question&quot; questions.  By re-framing the question, community members will be respecting the opinions of the members who voted to close the original question while at the same time &lt;em&gt;actually getting answer&lt;/em&gt;.  Also, comments could then be added to the closed question page redirecting members to the re-framed questions. This would have the additional benefit of teaching members how to turn their future &quot;not a real question&quot;s into real questions before submitting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7327" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T08:02:44.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1664" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-24T08:50:58.287" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a follow on from another post here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's examine this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9139/how-do-i-get-an-employee-to-read-and-sign-off-a-policy&quot;&gt;How can I efficiently get all employees to read and sign-off on a policy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now according to the FAQ, this should be closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do I learn to be a...&quot; / &quot;How do I perform the job of a ...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions should be about problems you are encountering or have&#xA;  encountered in the workplace, and not the learning/applying of&#xA;  specific job functions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I am curious in this instance, where would that person post to find the answer to that question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3405" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T22:48:53.020" Title="So where do people go with the off topic questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1665" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-24T10:05:43.093" Score="1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have posted the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9144/how-can-i-safely-convey-at-interview-about-my-failure-in-previous-project-with-l&quot;&gt;How can I safely convey at interview about my failure in previous project with less negative impact?&lt;/a&gt; and one of the high rep user linked this to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7225/is-it-worth-to-tell-a-samaritan-company-mentor-about-my-story-of-particular?lq=1&quot;&gt;Is it worth to tell a “Samaritan” (company mentor) about my story of particular failure? &#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my questions are&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(1) why this question is linked with another?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(2) What norms that we have to follow while linking the question?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(3) When it is appropriate to link one question with another?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(4) How can I link with one question with another?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Research that I have done:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I have searched in workplace meta for this question. Unfortunately I didn't get any results which answers my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19430" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-01-25T07:35:37.100" Title="When we link a question with another and how can I do that?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1665" CreationDate="2013-01-24T11:29:03.930" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You searched the wrong meta for an answer. This topic is extensively covered at MSO, there is even a dedicated &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linked-questions&quot;&gt;meta-tag:linked-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; there, with 40+ questions addressing various aspects of this functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, respective &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/linked-questions/info&quot;&gt;tag wiki at MSO&lt;/a&gt; currently state:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &quot;Linked Questions&quot; sidebar is a user-generated list of related questions shown when viewing a question. &lt;strong&gt;Its content comes from questions that users have linked in the question, their answers, or in comments.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T11:29:03.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1664" CreationDate="2013-01-24T22:48:53.020" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Off topic means only one thing; it's not on topic here. It's not a promise that it's on topic elsewhere, either on Stack Exchange or anywhere else on the internet. There's no obligation for anyone to provide an alternate place for any or all off topic questions; they simply don't belong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, whether something's on topic elsewhere is largely irrelevant to whether it's off topic here. There's some border cases where questions are better served elsewhere but they're kinda okay here, but for the most part just because it's on topic over at Y.SE doesn't mean it's off topic on X.SE and vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I'm not saying this example was entirely off topic and I voted to reopen it after some good edits, but that doesn't change anything else here. It's either on topic or it's not.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T22:48:53.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1665" CreationDate="2013-01-25T04:52:41.063" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, you were the person who linked in the other question question, and gnat simply cleaned it up so that the linked text was more meaningful, letting readers know more about where the link might lead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also linked it for a very good reason. The question was similar to yours, but it didn't answer your question. Adding in the information about why it didn't answer your question is textbook perfect! :)  It helps keep your question from getting closed as a duplicate, and it helps other answerers know what information you &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To link a question to another, do exactly what you did initially, but instead of using the text &quot;this&quot;, try to make the link a sentence or meaningful phrase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if I were to suggest you read about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;how to answer&lt;/a&gt; a question on The Workplace, I'd link the guide in like I just did, not just say &quot;read &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To create a link, in case it's not clear, use the following markup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;[This link goes to Google](http://google.com)&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-01-25T04:52:41.063" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1670" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-25T16:17:31.207" Score="5" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions related to leaving your current job, do we have a good tag for these?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/job-change&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;job-change&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;job-change&lt;/a&gt; but I'm not sure this is appropriate as there are specific things related to leaving a job which don't necessarily match the tag there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-01-25T16:38:32.407" Title="Do we have a &quot;leaving job&quot; type tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1670" CreationDate="2013-01-25T16:38:32.407" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resignation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resignation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resignation&lt;/a&gt; seems to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-01-25T16:38:32.407" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1672" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1673" CreationDate="2013-01-28T19:31:20.040" Score="8" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was viewing the list of questions and this one is at the top of the list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7367/how-can-i-remain-productive-increase-my-productivity-while-working-rotating-shif&quot;&gt;How can I remain productive/increase my productivity while working rotating shifts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I clicked on it to see what was new, I noticed that the OP has recently been adding and removing the &quot;work&quot; tag, presumably to bump the conversation back to the top of the Questions list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-04-10T12:07:06.393" Title="Using tag editing as a &quot;bump&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1672" CreationDate="2013-01-28T19:50:21.330" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's not. Edits should be an improvement to the post. Minor edits (like alternating between adding/removing a tag) for the sole purpose of bumping the post are not appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To draw attention to an old, unanswered question (or a question that lacks a sufficient answer), there are two options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Offer a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/16065/167443&quot;&gt;bounty&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make a meaningful edit to clarify the question or add more (relevant) information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've locked the post for now to prevent further edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2013-01-28T19:50:21.330" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1674" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-30T11:45:19.187" Score="1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a moderator on &lt;a href=&quot;http://academia.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Academia&lt;/a&gt;, and this question has been recently asked on our site: &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/7607/102&quot;&gt;Who is the author?&lt;/a&gt;. It has been suggested that it could be migrated to workplace.SE, what do you think? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7498" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:49:56.923" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T20:07:14.810" Title="Migration request: Authorship of technical documents" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1674" CreationDate="2013-01-30T13:12:25.793" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems more like a question that may require a lawyer than simply someone skilled in navigating the professional workplace; therefore, I'm not sure migrating this question would be good for our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the question isn't going anywhere, so we can wait and see if others think it could have value here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T13:12:25.793" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1674" CreationDate="2013-01-31T20:07:14.810" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid this one is not just a &quot;needs a lawyer&quot; but an &quot;it depends&quot; which goes against our rules in the guidelines for posting.  It's too bad, I agree that the how-tos of publishing a paper from a workplace would be OK with us, but the problem here is that different companies do this guideline differently.  I can see cases where the &quot;author&quot; may not actually be the writer, but the company itself, or where there is a case that a named list of &quot;contributors&quot; may be required.  It has a lot to do with the nature of the business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T20:07:14.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1677" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-01T23:01:11.737" Score="-1" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9317/how-can-i-transition-from-freelancing-back-to-the-corporate-workplace&quot;&gt;How can I transition from freelancing back to the Corporate Workplace?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wrote the text specifically to make the query clearer by breaking it down into the 3 bullet points. It had a couple days to gather people that understood the question and participated in discussion, including an accepted answer and comments including people that voted to close it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see 2 problems here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;if it &quot;isn't a question&quot;, but it generated discussion, how is it bad for the board?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It took ~2 days to close it, during which time the title was edited and a mod commented... occurrences which are rather validating and contribute to, shall we say, disgruntlement.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's relative to a problem that's plagued a different SE board that I'm more active on where the mods down vote responses that provide an actual solution or answer that don't necessarily directly answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion: It's putting the rules above active discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to come off as just bitching here (I won't deny it's annoying), I'd actually like to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5596" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-02-02T06:16:50.753" Title="How is this &quot;not a real question&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|site-policy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1677" CreationDate="2013-02-02T03:47:21.150" Score="3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;The message itself&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, see the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok let's look at this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell what is being asked here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question more or less says &amp;quot;I'm an asshole! help me not be an asshole! but I want to be an asshole&amp;quot; and gives no information about anything specific but rather a few vague statements about what this means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Your specific questions:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I work with the people but then get the heck away when they start into the cliquey talky crap? I've been busted a couple times rolling my eyes and walking away, but that's asshole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this even asking? It's basically a &amp;quot;omg people suck&amp;quot; statement&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How the hell do I make it thru the day without staring at the clock and talking myself thru it &amp;quot;cmon man you can make it... there's a bottle with your name on it when you get home.&amp;quot; I'm seriously out of the habit of punching a clock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a personal problem and considerably more suited for a site dealing with productivity and/or addictions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a pretty direct person in general, how do I not come off as just a gruff asshole?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is completely vague, incomplete, overly broad, and rhetorical to boot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's relative to a problem that's plagued a different SE board that I'm more active on where the mods down vote responses that provide an actual solution or answer that don't necessarily directly answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wait, you are complaining that on a Q/A site, people downvote non-answers?  This isn't a discussion forum (well, meta somewhat is, but not the actual site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People post questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People post answers to these questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People vote on answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowhere is there a &amp;quot;we have a long discussion.&amp;quot; If you want that, go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;. But I suggest you act considerably less hostile and arrogant if you want people to even give you the time of day there....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;My personal thoughts...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to come off as just bitching here (I won't deny it's annoying), I'd actually like to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should consider step 1 of your recovery process: how you say things matters. If you intentionally come across as an arrogant asshole, don't be surprised if people react as such. You likely would have gotten a far better reception here if you HADN'T posted a complete rant that basically comes down to, &amp;quot;help me be an asshole at work. my coworkers don't like this - they are @#%#@ing idiots.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-02-02T03:53:16.340" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1677" CreationDate="2013-02-02T06:16:50.753" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me inject my 2 cents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not pay attention to the question on main site until I saw this question on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went to the subject question and stopped reading it as soon as I saw the word asshole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want people to help you, please stop using those kind of words. If you act in your work place like the way you wrote that question, no wonder you're having problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this answer kills two birds by one stone, i.e. answers both the question here and on main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1193" LastActivityDate="2013-02-02T06:16:50.753" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1680" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-04T00:04:52.360" Score="6" ViewCount="311" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9338/how-to-use-multiple-offers-to-negotiate-a-higher-salary&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is not a duplicate of the linked question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The asker has a key distinction (which was ignored in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/9338/2&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; to the title which changed the question completely... it seems people only voted as duplicate based on this incorrect title?) not present in the linked question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They already &lt;em&gt;verbally accepted&lt;/em&gt; an offer from the company they want to negotiate with now.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the responses in the linked question don't address this at all (in fact some of those responses don't even answer the question themselves...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T15:03:59.963" Title="Why is this question closed as duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|exact-duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1680" CreationDate="2013-02-04T15:03:59.963" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that should not be closed as a duplicate to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/6967/316&quot;&gt;the question&lt;/a&gt; listed, and apparently others in the community agree as it's been reopened by 5 community votes :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/165761/158605&quot;&gt;recently discovered&lt;/a&gt; that questions closed as duplicates will automatically redirect unregistered users to the linked question if they try to view it, which is one reason why we only close as duplicate for &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; duplicates, and not just similar questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T15:03:59.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1682" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-04T20:29:10.000" Score="0" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9381/how-to-encourage-an-employer-to-adopt-the-programmers-bill-of-rights&quot;&gt;How can I encourage my employer to adopt the &amp;quot;Programmer&amp;#39;s Bill of Rights&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has already had a major revision,  Several of us feel this revision changed the question from its original intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original Question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Programmer's bill of rights: does your workplace follow it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here's the link to the bill of rights of a programmer:&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/08/the-programmers-bill-of-rights.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/08/the-programmers-bill-of-rights.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The question is pretty simple, does your workplace follow the bill ?&#xA;  Or is it too good to be true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was a discussion/poll question so it needs to be revised but what do we need to do to make it on topic and help the OP get to the answer they are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Revision 2 changed the question to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The question is are there any workplaces that follow the bill? How&#xA;  does it work in practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I think this needs improved upon as well prior to reopening, it is still in the realm of what the OP was asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what can we do to improve this question so the next edit can be reopened and left open.  Or should the question be left to die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T21:15:49.240" Title="Can the question about the Programmers bill of rights be saved?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1682" CreationDate="2013-02-04T20:36:05.983" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Separate it into multiple questions?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the question and originally voted to reopen once it became &quot;How could one encourage an employer to adopt these practices?&quot; However, I do agree that it's really a number of questions that should be answered separately (as evidenced by the fact that both answers to the question are disjointed &quot;here's what you do for #1, #2, #3, etc.&quot; answers, including mine).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T20:36:05.983" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1682" CreationDate="2013-02-04T20:37:34.750" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Turn it into a single over-arching question?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of asking &quot;how can I fix each failing in the Bill of Rights&quot;, turn it into &quot;how do I open a discussion with my supervisors about improving the quality of the environment?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T20:37:34.750" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1682" CreationDate="2013-02-04T21:11:09.463" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/9381/6&quot;&gt;current version&lt;/a&gt; is OK for this site the way it is, however you are correct that it is not the same question the OP originally asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9381/how-can-i-encourage-my-employer-to-adopt-the-programmers-bill-of-rights#comment19199_9381&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt; on the question that says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@hdman myself, rachel and chad have collaboratively made a few edits&#xA;  to hopefully make your question on topic for this site. &lt;strong&gt;Could you&#xA;  confirm for our sakes if this question still reflects your intended&#xA;  question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should wait to hear back from the OP before doing any further editing to the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP is OK with the changes, I would reopen it, as I think it is a decent question for the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure it could possibly be broken up into 6 different questions, each asking &quot;how can I get my employer to implement X&quot; or even one question asking &quot;how can I get my employer to buy me something&quot;, however ultimately the question deals specifically with a Programmer's work space, and specific tools that are typically accepted as being standard for any decent programming job, and I would not want to see it broken up or changed into something generic &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(A separate generic question asking &quot;how can I get my employer to buy me something&quot; wouldn't be bad too, although I'm fairly sure I've seen one of those either here or on Programmers that had some great answers already)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP is not OK with the changes made, then I would roll back to the original version of the question, re-close it as off-topic, and start discussing if the &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/revisions/185784/4&quot;&gt;current version&lt;/a&gt; of the Programmers question would be on-topic instead, as it more accurately reflects what the OP is trying to ask. (Personally my vote is yes, it would be on-topic here, although I think it would be more on-topic at Programmers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T21:11:09.463" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1682" CreationDate="2013-02-04T21:15:49.240" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Original text is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the link to the bill of rights of a programmer:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/08/the-programmers-bill-of-rights.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/08/the-programmers-bill-of-rights.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is pretty simple, does your workplace follow the bill ?&#xA;Or is it too good to be true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see a way to modify &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; into something which fits a Stack Exchange site without the asker clarifying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I think there are a whole variety of interesting angles to take this, I cannot in honestly suggest which of them will match the asker's intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Modifying the question for the sake of a &amp;quot;better question&amp;quot; when the original intent was not this case ignores the fact that there is a user (real person!) behind the hdman online account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dislike going through such extreme assumptions about what hdman wanted, and as such, until hdman returns and posts what they are looking for, I see no reason to edit this into something which likely doesn't match original intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said I see no reason to not ask those interesting questions which are related -- but not directly relevant to the original text here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;tl;dr&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it cannot be saved without strong and likely inaccurate assumptions about the asker's intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T21:15:49.240" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1687" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-08T17:16:18.517" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would a question about the best answer to a standard interview question be on topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6030" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T19:54:08.510" Title="Question about interview questions on topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1687" CreationDate="2013-02-08T19:33:55.337" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say no to specific, task related questions meant to demonstrate &lt;em&gt;competance&lt;/em&gt; like;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do you do X in excel?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do you design a program for maximum concurrency?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your truck has started to hydroplane, what do you do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like these are specific to certain jobs and require domain expertise. I think the only &quot;interview questions&quot; that would be on topic would be related to general workplace matters, for instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is an interviewer looking for when they ask where I see myself in 5 years?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/3793/42&quot;&gt;How am I supposed to answer &quot;What do you consider your greatest weakness?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How thoroughly should I explain why I want to work for Company X?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also not a fan of the &quot;Which floor do you drop an egg from&quot; or &quot;How many basketballs will fit in this room&quot; questions. They're more of a gray area than the the above question sets. I'd lean towards not allowing them, myself. If the question is just &quot;answer this specific question with a specific answer&quot; I don't think that's really useful; what's more useful is &quot;What is the interviewer hoping to learn from my answer to this?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically my criteria would be that answers should teach you how to &lt;em&gt;respond&lt;/em&gt;, not just an exact answer to regurgitate. There aren't right answers for these kinds of interview questions, but answers which show how X applicant is appropriate/inappropriate either for Company Y or Job Z&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T19:54:08.510" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-09T01:56:30.240" Score="3" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple of minutes ago, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;front page&lt;/a&gt; of the main site showed all the normal header and sidebar stuff, but no questions. I refreshed and re-opened the page several times, and it didn't help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem went away on its own. The problem doesn't appear to have lasted more than a few minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of Sat 2013-02-09 02:25:55 UTC, I'm seeing the problem again -- and it just went away again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="237" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-02-12T17:22:09.270" Title="Brief glitch on The Workplace main page" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2013-02-13T16:03:00.050" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1689" CreationDate="2013-02-12T17:21:59.783" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was transient during the migration between data centers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1513" LastActivityDate="2013-02-12T17:21:59.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1691" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-13T13:08:37.907" Score="-2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really liked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/9508/316&quot;&gt;pap's answer&lt;/a&gt; to the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/9496/316&quot;&gt;What does it actually mean by a good job?&lt;/a&gt;. His answer provides some great information that would be very valuable to our community members, so am making an attempt to &quot;save&quot; that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/9496/3&quot;&gt;some edits&lt;/a&gt; to it to refocus the question a bit last week, and would like to know if the edits are enough to get the question reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It had 4 reopen votes yesterday, but I see today that one has expired so it's down to 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the edit I did to the question to re-focus the question on how to evaluate if a job is a &quot;good&quot; job or not enough to get the question reopened? And if not, is there another edit we could make to the question to get it reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T19:10:00.210" Title="Can we reopen the question about how to evaluate if your job is a &quot;good&quot; job or not?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1692" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1697" CreationDate="2013-02-13T13:42:18.360" Score="68" ViewCount="4509" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of the questions on Workplace are getting an answer along the lines of 'You should quit'. There are some cases where i can see this as a viable answer but the majority of the time I think it shouldn't be used. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main reason why i disagree with it being an answer is that people come to WP with a problem, yet a lot of the time they are told 'Quit' the issue is this isn't actually providing a solution to the problem, its providing a way to avoid the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9643/how-can-i-get-management-to-hold-other-employees-accountable-for-their-actions&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; is asking how to make the managers hold employees accountable for their actions. Yet the number one upvoted answer basically states 'You can't, get a new job or deal with it' and I find these to be unhelpful answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly its obvious that you can always quit if you don't like something, secondly its avoiding the problem not solving it, that problem still exists. and thirdly is because it discourages other, potentially better, answers when its so easy to say 'quit' and get away with it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we be allowing 'Quit' to be an acceptable answer all the time? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2023-04-17T17:52:16.427" Title="Is 'Quit your job' an acceptable answer?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1692" CreationDate="2013-02-13T14:06:12.510" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we should be making this into a rule, as many times the suggestion to quit is a valid answer, or a viable alternative solution to the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However if an answer is solely that &quot;You should quit your job&quot;, and telling someone to quit over that situation is bad advice, you should definitely downvote and comment why you downvoted (so others see why it was downvoted, and don't mindlessly upvote it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be noted that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/9644/316&quot;&gt;the answer&lt;/a&gt; you point out as an example in your question doesn't just say &lt;em&gt;Get a new job or deal with it&lt;/em&gt;. It says that in their experience, ownership doesn't care, and trying to make them care could go badly for you and hurt your career, and ends with the suggestion to either find a new job or deal with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not really a bad answer, as it actually answers the question and suggests two courses of actions to take. Sure it's not a great answer either, and it could be improved by explaining in more detail why their experiences lead to them believing management doesn't care, and why exactly it could hurt your career to keep trying to make them care, but the whole answer isn't just &quot;find a new job&quot;, and I wouldn't consider it &quot;bad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T14:06:12.510" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1692" CreationDate="2013-02-13T19:39:11.137" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quiting may not solve a specific instance of a problem, but that isn't the only purpose of this site. One of the criteria for a good question is if it can be applied to similar situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is discovered that a particular practice drives away enough quality employees, a change for the better is likely to occur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  Also, many people on this site may be working at their first job and have nothing to compare. When a company/boss behaves in a way that isn't common, looking for another job seems reasonable as a solution along with some strategies to change or possibly cope with the situation. This avoids &quot;grass is always greener somewhere else&quot; thinking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8365" LastEditorDisplayName="user8365" LastEditDate="2014-02-04T21:47:28.347" LastActivityDate="2014-02-04T21:47:28.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1692" CreationDate="2013-02-13T19:48:47.833" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;People are coming here looking for help in navigating the workplace.  Telling them that they should quit &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; NEVER be the right answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said there are people coming here asking if they should quit.  Those questions are not about navigating the workplace but rather getting out of the workplace.  Those questions do not belong here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The on-topic constructive questions should be assumed to include the caveat of &quot;Quitting my job is not an option I want to consider.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2013-02-13T20:41:53.670" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T20:41:53.670" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1691" CreationDate="2013-02-13T19:49:50.993" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;NO&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question should not be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to leave this question closed but on the site because it has a good answer... but it is a horrible question.  So as a result of the push to open it I have voted to delete and hope others will join with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T19:49:50.993" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1692" CreationDate="2013-02-13T20:45:00.313" Score="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's way too easy to post &quot;quit your job&quot; as an answer, and almost every post on our site could be answered in this manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, our FAQ and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;How to Answer&lt;/a&gt; both make it clear that proposing viable alternatives in an answer is acceptable, and in some cases, quitting may be a correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But quitting a job is a very big decision and is irreversible, in most cases. Due to the nature and severity of these suggestions, I propose that these answers be held to a much higher standard as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answerer MUST post references to back up the answer. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alternatively, sharing personal experiences MAY be sufficient, but the answer can't just simply contain the words, &quot;in my experience&quot;. The answerer MUST post details about his or her experiences that led to quitting being the correct answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One liner answers suggesting one quit are not allowed. Our FAQ already makes it clear that explanations containing why and how are encouraged. For &quot;you should quit&quot; answers that don't provide explanation and references, I propose downvoting them, leaving a comment helping the answerer improve it, and if it doesn't get fixed, flagging them for removal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify, I believe we can enforce the rules on these types of answers, in a polite, helpful manner, while still allowing answers that offer alternative solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/9644/1&quot;&gt;I don't agree that revision 1 of this answer meets the above criteria&lt;/a&gt;, and I was  considering removing it before the answerer came back and added another paragraph. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; The answerer made some edits to add some additional information about his experiences, which brings the linked post more in line with our goals.  I edited the previous paragraph to include a link to revision 1, so when looking at the &lt;em&gt;current&lt;/em&gt; revision, please keep in mind that the poster is trying to be a good user! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T04:36:54.290" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1691" CreationDate="2013-02-13T20:51:31.763" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most questions on this site have a couple of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/148/17&quot;&gt;it depends&lt;/a&gt;&quot; factors that a good answer will take into account, and give a couple of different options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, with more than one or two, we get quickly to a point where &lt;strong&gt;no single answerer can hope to cover all ground&lt;/strong&gt; and give a &quot;correct&quot; answer to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, in turn, means that there are &lt;strong&gt;many &quot;right&quot; answers&lt;/strong&gt; that our readers will deem &quot;helpful&quot;.  We often attract many &quot;good&quot; answers to &quot;bad&quot; (bad subjective) questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result, of course, is that we get way too many answers (some repeating others), upvote pile-ons, fastest-gun problem (too many answers to pick the right one over the first/early ones), exploding comment threads, and generally all sorts of things that &lt;strong&gt;don't work right in Stack Exchange format&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here is a list of things that this question &quot;depends&quot; on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where you live&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What your goals are&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What industry you are in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your skills&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your credentials&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why you are looking for a new job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What you like&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What you dislike&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your personality type&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Chad has said, narrow this down to one &quot;it depends&quot; variable, and you have a totally different question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good answers don't make good questions.&lt;/strong&gt;  However, this might make a &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; blog post topic (blog posts are great for &quot;this won't cover everything, but it will get you thinking&quot; type questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T20:51:31.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1691" CreationDate="2013-02-14T19:10:00.210" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has no answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any answer is mostly subjective, largely culturally specific, and completely a discussion regardless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way I would consider that a good Stack Exchange question is if instead of &quot;how can I evaluate if a job meets a set of criteria which differs for every person based on their personal value system, cultural norms, and lifestyle?&quot; it was something more specific than... that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T19:10:00.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1700" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1702" CreationDate="2013-02-15T14:03:33.770" Score="8" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order to maintain the high quality of answers on workplace we need to be able to emphasize to those who answer that just being 'right' isn't enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few people (links to come) have questioned why they are being down-voted when their answer is 'right'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently the way we have been tackling this is to down-vote and leave a comment explaining that good answers require an assessment of both the pros and cons of a decision and that an even better answer needs to be timeless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By which i mean, an answer that solves the current problem is a good answer, but one that solves the answer and is able to explain why that is right in a manner that is useful for future visitors is a great answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So aside from the down votes, and the linking to FAQ's on how to answer, is there much more we can do to emphasize that good quality answers require so much more than just being 'right'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen a few people take to the approach of lead by example and have posted some absolutely fantastic answers that are well thought out and well formatted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there much more we can do with the existing toolset? Could so much more be done with additional methods no-one has voiced yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: The above two questions are rhetorical (but relevant) questions. My focus is still on the question in the title&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorDisplayName="user5305" LastEditDate="2013-02-15T14:11:54.853" LastActivityDate="2013-02-16T14:18:04.597" Title="How can we best emphasize that just being 'Right' isn't enough?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1700" CreationDate="2013-02-15T14:16:06.280" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple: downvote and explain that being right isn't enough, and &lt;em&gt;explain that there must be substance to justify the answer&lt;/em&gt;. Simply telling someone that what they've done isn't good enough won't lead to improvement; advising them on how to do better is necessary as well. While the downvote and comment will draw their attention to the fact that there is an issue, having a comment explaining &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; there is an issue and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to fix it is important. Perhaps the comment could include a suggestion for backing up the answer (&quot;can you link to an authoritative reference on this?&quot; or &quot;can you explain how this applies to something you've experienced?&quot; are good starting points).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, this is still not guaranteed. I believe it's more effective than just downvoting and pointing out the problem, since it provides an easier path to resolve (and therefore better understand the problem), but for drive-by answers and confrontational personalities, there is sometimes no solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, moderators can add post notices along the lines of &quot;Citation Needed&quot;, which can add more weight to such comments. These notices also serve as signposts to other would-be answerers that such answers are insufficient, hopefully preventing bad answers and encouraging better answers. If you feel an answer could benefit from such a notice, just flag it for our attention and we will take a look at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2013-02-15T14:25:03.597" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T14:25:03.597" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1700" CreationDate="2013-02-15T14:28:09.497" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I see it, we already have tools for this. I'd use comment like below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;as far as I can tell, this answer violates &quot;back it up&quot; rule from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;answers should be backed up either with a reference, or experiences that happened to you personally. You should always include in your answer information about why you think your answer is correct.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  I think the post would better be edited to include required details, which would help encourage more upvotes, give readers more confidence about the answer, and discourage downvotes / delete flags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing I like about above is it stays away from value judgements. It doesn't call for &quot;right&quot; or &quot;wrong&quot;, it only makes a requirement for claims to be backed up. In my experience so far it works pretty well (two examples today, one answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9623/how-to-politely-ask-a-coworker-to-google-it-instead-of-coming-to-me-all-the-ti/9709#9709&quot; title=&quot;10K only link&quot;&gt;removed&lt;/a&gt;, another one &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9710/when-a-recruiter-asks-what-other-companies-youre-interviewing-with/9711#comment20307_9711&quot;&gt;still here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the FAQ quote used here, as noted &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1700/how-can-we-best-emphasize-that-just-being-right-isnt-enough#comment2117_1702&quot;&gt;in comments&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&quot;the single most important reason for that FAQ section to exist is so that people can freely (and without guilt) downvote posts that explain nothing.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-02-16T14:18:04.597" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1703" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-20T04:39:24.810" Score="3" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am confused by the closing of the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/9773/1193&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/9773/1193&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP was &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; polling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, he was asking the references of poll results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closing reason states that&#xA;&lt;em&gt;We expect answers to be supported by facts, &lt;strong&gt;references&lt;/strong&gt;, or specific expertise, but this question will likely solicit debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would somebody explain the reason of closing this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T13:58:34.103" Title="Why do we close a poll data question?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|closing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1703" CreationDate="2013-02-20T07:51:02.667" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;asking the references of poll results&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At Programmers, I've got a canned comment to accompany a close vote for questions like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5454/31260&quot; title=&quot;as discussed eg here&quot;&gt;Resource requests are not quite welcome at Programmers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. As far as I understand, one would rather present an &lt;strong&gt;underlying problem&lt;/strong&gt; instead - a problem that was intended to be solved with particular resource requested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would prefer similar guidelines to be established at The Workplace as well. Resource requests tend to be open ended and leave a wide open door to spammy answers like &lt;em&gt;look at our company site / at my blog, &lt;code&gt;blah-blah.com&lt;/code&gt;, here you'll find best resources for this&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Have to admit, my past encounter with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/1991/168&quot; title=&quot;&amp;#39;Does empirical research blah-blah&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;resource request question at WP&lt;/a&gt; left quite a bad taste in my mouth, even despite getting a decent amount of upvotes for answering it.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T13:58:34.103" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1703" CreationDate="2013-02-20T13:54:10.210" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, the asker appears to be looking for links to resources, or references, but there isn't a real, actual problem to be solved. While references are a great way to back up an answer, the answers should still contain explanations and substance. The references themselves shouldn't be the only thing in the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do hope we can edit it and reopen it, and I think we can with the asker's help. It seems like a very interesting question, but as it stands, asking for links, or asking for lists of things, whichever the case may be, doesn't fit well with the Stack Exchange Q&amp;amp;A model. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't help but think that there has to be a real reason why the asker is asking for these references. There's a deeper question here that he should ask instead, so that our community can be the experts instead of merely being a proxy for some other experts at some other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you disagree with the close, if you see things that the asker might do that would convince others to vote to reopen, please leave a comment encouraging  the op to do so, or perhaps try the edits yourself. This will help get the question reopened, as well as avoid the close/reopen cycle that sometimes occurs on questions where constructiveness is debatable by the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for bringing this discussion to Meta. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T13:54:10.210" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1706" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1707" CreationDate="2013-02-21T11:20:13.627" Score="5" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently we have a way of viewing the active questions, the newest questions &amp;amp; the most up-voted questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have a tab called 'Unanswered' where every question that has 0 answers (with a positive amount of votes) can be seen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time these cover a broad enough spectrum to go about finding where to direct my attention. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However i would like to see a tab that shows all of the open questions with no accepted answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a tab like this would allow me to direct my attention to only those questions that are deemed acceptable but have no acceptable solution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel this would be something used by more people than just me and i feel it could help improve the quality of this site as it helps direct peoples attention to those unsolved problems, and the more problems we have solved then the more useful this site becomes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realise this might be very similar to the existing unanswered tab, so i suggest doing what we do with the other tabs and give it sub-tabs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for example clicking on Questions lets you choose between newest, votes, etc. But unanswered lets you choose my tags, newest, votes and no answers, i propose the no accepted answers tab be added to that bar along there&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorDisplayName="user5305" LastEditDate="2013-02-21T11:40:30.630" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T16:14:11.460" Title="'Questions with no accepted answer' tab" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1706" CreationDate="2013-02-21T13:23:26.433" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently there is no tab for such question, despite at least &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/86460/167443&quot;&gt;one feature request&lt;/a&gt; asking for one. I don't really expect a tab to be added, mostly because the functionality itself is already available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply use the search term &lt;code&gt;hasaccepted:0&lt;/code&gt; (as the whole search or appended to your search) to filter the results to questions that have no accepted answer. Using it on its own allows you to find all such questions, whereas including other search terms/conditions allows you to be more targeted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;/search&lt;/a&gt; page, there is an &quot;Advanced Search Tips&quot; link to the right of the search button. Clicking this will teach you about more search magic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/efyvf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as actually getting this implemented, I'd suggest upvoting (and perhaps putting a bounty on) the Meta question I've linked (although there is never a guarantee).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T16:14:11.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46" CreationDate="2013-02-21T16:59:24.927" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;1 and 2: off-topic; this site doesn't do career advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3: on-topic (could be worded better) and I think has been asked but I haven't searched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4: as written off-topic, but &quot;what questions can I ask to evaluate $characteristic?&quot; would be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5: too localized, though &quot;which salary surveys are most reliable&quot; (or some such) might be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2013-02-21T16:59:24.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1710" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-27T05:42:13.803" Score="6" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has already been semi-covered &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8/how-should-we-handle-cultural-issues&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/578/how-can-we-ensure-answers-are-culturally-relevant&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to an extent (but not to my satisfaction).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like it or not, the presumed cultural context of this site is likely that of a generic American office. So if someone asks, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/107/what-are-some-guidelines-for-appropriate-social-drinking-in-a-work-related-conte&quot;&gt;&quot;What are some guidelines for appropriate social drinking in a work-related context?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, we should probably assume they added &lt;em&gt;&quot;...in an American office&quot;&lt;/em&gt; afterwards. As the related questions above point out, this is so incredibly dependent on culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Problem&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As much as we can discuss adding tags for various regions, or adding cultural-context to our answers, new users will most likely ignore any such conventions and just end up going on the assumption that this site mirrors their situation (most likely US office work). And anyway, do we really want answers to have a section saying, &quot;Well, here &lt;em&gt;(in Uganda)&lt;/em&gt; we...&quot; in response to a question that is most likely not from anyone involved with Ugandan office culture, and isn't clear that it is referring to Ugandan culture?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Solution&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to add some points to the FAQ to tackle the cultural-context issue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questioners: If you don't state your cultural context clearly, we will assume you work in a Dilbert-esque American office&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answerers: If your answer is not based on a Dilbert-esque American office cultural-context, please be clear about what the context is&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answerers: Alternative cultural perspectives can add insight in to the question so long as they are properly labeled. Many people work in offices with people from many cultures, and/or companies that span multiple continents.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Commenters: The world is bigger than your backyard. Do not judge an answer by the culture it talks about, judge an answer by its clarity and quality. You may not agree with giving horse meat as a souvenir to your coworkers, that doesn't mean it's a bad answer if it is clear that is a good idea if you're in Japan.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general point is that we should have a &quot;default&quot; assumed context for all non-specific questions and answers. We should encourage broader cultural answers so long as they are properly labeled. And we should be clear that the goal is to judge the usefulness of the answer within its context, not make a judgment on the practices of the culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-05-08T20:28:46.467" Title="Assumed Cultural Context and The Workplace" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1711" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1715" CreationDate="2013-02-27T09:15:14.367" Score="5" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently we have been getting a lot of questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9933/job-titles-in-the-web-business-what-do-you-call-yourself-if-regularly-work-wi&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9941/whats-the-role-position-of-person-who-does-almost-every-tech-stuff-in-a-small-d&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first has been closed and the second is on its way there too. Both as too localized, and i agree!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we should be allowing questions like this because if we do does that mean we will be accepting questions that are any combination of any role and we just have to give them a title? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was certain that's not the sort of Q &amp;amp; A format we were hoping for. I bring this up because the first one is being re-opened and is getting comments from people who disagree that it is too localized. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to clarify i think we need a community consensus, should these types of questions be deemed valid as surely anyone who does those jobs has that title, or should we be closing them off as too localized to prevent hundreds of varying combinations of questions that help no-one but the asker. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as i am aware most companies don't let you pick your own title, they tell you what it is depending on what you do for them or depending on what you agreed on at the time of your hiring. Giving straight out answers to people could even be detrimental to them if they assign it to themselves and later find out the company disagrees, its a very person by person, company by company basis as to what your title is, that's why i think they are too localized and that's why i think we should still be closing them off as too localized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your thoughts would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T19:20:24.363" Title="Are 'What am I' questions too localised?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2013-03-12T19:16:57.750" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1710" CreationDate="2013-02-27T09:35:49.663" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with all the points in your solution but the first one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We shouldn't be assuming anything about what culture people are in, if its not clarified and is important to the question then a comment should be left asking the OP to edit it in. After all the purpose of comments is supposedly to add value and clarity to the problem at hand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your other three points are very good, you say we should clarify the context to make sure it is useful to the right people and not judge it based on its culture, but the first seems to break this trend, lending more towards assumption than i think we should. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the idea of having answers such as 'In Uganda' and 'In England' is because this site is supposed to be able to provide answers that will be useful to the current asker and to future askers, If someone asks about X in America and someone asks about the exact same thing in England in a seperate question, it would get closed as duplicate fairly quickly i can imagine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally would prefer one question with all of the answers over one Question and Answer per culture, per question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T09:35:49.663" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1710" CreationDate="2013-02-27T14:10:19.467" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If context is necessary in order to properly answer a question then leave a clarifying comment on the question asking the asker to make an edit to clarify the missing details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for assumptions, it's a bit ethnocentric to assume that every asker is in the United States, regardless of whether that is statistically true or not. As RhysW mentions, even if we get answers from different viewpoints, as long as they answer the question and back up the answer with facts, references, specific expertise, or some experiences that happened to them personally, then the answers are useful to future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure adding anything to the FAQ would be helpful, and I'd want to hear from others on that point before taking any actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, clarifying the perspective is indeed important, and I would think it would be a necessary component of a good, solid, Workplace SE answer in order to satisfy the back it up rule. Thus, adding a clarifying comment to answers that miss this detail and encouraging answerers to fix it would be a great way to help alleviate this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T14:10:19.467" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1711" CreationDate="2013-02-27T14:29:04.233" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;For this question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9933/job-titles-in-the-web-business-what-do-you-call-yourself-if-regularly-work-wi&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9933/job-titles-in-the-web-business-what-do-you-call-yourself-if-regularly-work-wi&lt;/a&gt;, I'm not 100% convinced this is an extraordinarily narrow situation that no one else on the worldwide Internet will face.  Too localized is for situations that are so incredibly narrow that no one else will ever face the same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, lots of people do both development and design. Sure, most programmers and designers only do one or the other, but there is still a significant number of individuals who possess the talents to do both. While there are some specifics in the question -- important when one has a real, actual problem -- there are also some elements that could be applied to other similar situations.  I'm not sure I'd reopen it, but I'm not sure I would have closed it either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9941/whats-the-role-position-of-person-who-does-almost-every-tech-stuff-in-a-small-d&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9941/whats-the-role-position-of-person-who-does-almost-every-tech-stuff-in-a-small-d&lt;/a&gt;, the question asked for &quot;advice from people with experience&quot;, which I edited to try to clean up a bit. Like the first question, I'm not sure too localized fits here either, since there are likely many digital agencies throughout the world who are getting started, and there are likely many other organizations similar to a digital agency to where answers could be useful to future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I'm not 100% convinced that, as a community, we're using the too localized close reason correctly.  This close reason is perhaps the most difficult to understand, and I only use it in situations that are just so narrow that no search terms in Google could land a person on that post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's more, many answers could also be detrimental to an asker if he or she blindly applies the answer without evaluating the impact it might have in his or her situation. This applies to hiring, negotiating with management, or resolving disputes with co-workers. The fact is that every person, as well as their relationships, is also different, yet these tend to be some of our most valuable questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like the first question, I'm not sure I'd close it as too localized, but before my edits, the not constructive close reason came to mind. I'm not sure I'd reopen it either without more editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T14:29:04.233" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1711" CreationDate="2013-02-28T19:20:24.363" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.They are off topic&lt;/strong&gt; because they are about a specific job not about the general workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question of my job title is not reflective of my function, would be fine and could be done in general on &amp;quot;how do I approach having my title corrected?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can even see a question of my job title does not match function &amp;quot;How should I determine if I want to persue changing it?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But anything that is about a specific job is off topic.  All what title should I be questions are going to be about a specific job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T19:20:24.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1716" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-03T13:02:26.317" Score="3" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is my philosophy not to take from the community with out giving anything. That is why before asking any new question I will make sure to answer one question to the best of my knowledge so that it will be useful to at least the asker. I have answered the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10043/name-for-jack-of-all-trades-type-role/10046#10046&quot;&gt;&quot;Name for “jack of all trades” type role&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. However it is attracting down-votes. The question also had down-votes. I have reviewed my answer and didn't find any reasons behind the down votes. Does answering a question with down votes attract down-votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19430" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-03-04T22:13:12.710" Title="Does answering a question with down votes attract down-votes?" Tags="|discussion|support|down-votes|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1716" CreationDate="2013-03-03T13:48:07.170" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you posted isn't an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You posted a series of questions for the asker. If you don't have the ability to post an actual answer (which happens often with questions which are closed, given the criteria for close votes) post comments asking those clarifications beforehand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, you will pick up downvotes (and rightly so in my opinion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-03-03T13:48:07.170" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1716" CreationDate="2013-03-03T17:54:04.523" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it's great that you want to give back, sometimes it's important to understand that the goal of Stack Exchange is to help not just the asker, but to also help the thousands of future visitors who will visit that Q&amp;amp;A piece.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, there is but one asker, but there are countless future visitors who may have the same or a similar problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, even in its edited form, the answer still doesn't appear to be supported by facts, references, or specific expertise. What's more, these things are hard to include in questions that begin with assumptions regarding the incompleteness of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal of Stack Exchange is to provide high quality answers to questions about a real, actual problem the asker is facing. The answers should clearly and definitively answer the question as per the guidelines in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;How to Answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is okay to list assumptions in your answer, please understand that the assumptions you list are actually required in order to give a solid answer, and as enderland mentions, this could be cleared up by posting clarifying comments to the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I want to address something you said in your question, something that I consider very important on Stack Exchange sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is my philosophy not to take from the community with out giving anything. That is why before asking any new question I will make sure to answer one question to the best of my knowledge so that it will be useful to at least the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that the people who ask great, well-researched questions that follow the guidelines in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How to Ask&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; giving back to the community. Some may even argue that questions are much more important than answers, as a single question can set the stage for 5 or more outstanding answers. Without good questions, we don't have good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a person asks a well-researched question, he or she should be putting effort into making sure it's well written, that important details are included, and that he or she has done a basic search to gain a better understanding of the problem so that the answers will actually make sense to the asker. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can lead a horse to water, but we can't make him drink. So when an asker puts in effort to meet the answerers half-way, this is where the real learning happens, and that learning extends to many others who perhaps aren't as articulate enough to ask such well-written questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask questions in this manner, you rock! This site wouldn't exist without you! Don't ever think you aren't giving back by asking good questions! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-03-03T17:54:04.523" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1716" CreationDate="2013-03-04T03:44:41.843" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does answering a question with down votes attract down-votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmm... Probably not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; argue that a downvoted question tends to attract more downvotes because it perpetuates a &lt;a href=&quot;http://cultural-phenomenons.wikia.com/wiki/Bandwagon_effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;bandwagon effect&quot;&lt;/a&gt; that works in concert with a &quot;groupthink effect&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Of course, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1716/does-answering-a-question-with-down-votes-attract-down-votes/1719#comment2161_1719&quot;&gt;as @enderland points out&lt;/a&gt;, the reverse often happens too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;oh someone downvoted this? I like it kinda - here's a sympathy upvote!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-03-04T22:13:12.710" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1720" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-07T14:31:48.207" Score="8" ViewCount="299" Body="&lt;p&gt;We keep getting &quot;I want advice on XXXX&quot; types of questions which are all vague and more appropriate for a discussion board - not a Q/A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt; update the first item under &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq#what-questions-are-off-topic-here&quot;&gt;the list of off topic things&lt;/a&gt; on the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;What should I do?&quot; - &quot;Should I take this job?&quot; - “I need feedback/validation!” - &quot;Please review my resume/CV/Cover Letter&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions without a specific problem are suited for discussion boards - not a question/answer site. Generally, these types of questions are relevant &lt;em&gt;only to you&lt;/em&gt; and off-topic.  Questions which are also useful to &lt;em&gt;other people&lt;/em&gt; are on-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, The Workplace often gets questions about whether to accept a job offer. This is relevant only to the asker and not helpful for others. These types of questions should be rephrased into specific components:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I find the total compensation for a job offer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I ask for additional time to evaluate a job offer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note this also replaces the &quot;Please review my resume/CV&quot; item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site should not be &quot;Dear Workplace, help me please&quot; anymore than Stack Overflow is &quot;Dear Stack Overflow, give me teh codez.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/10274/1&quot;&gt;great example&lt;/a&gt; of this type of 'question'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2013-04-21T19:12:47.180" Title="Can we add &quot;Questions asking for advice&quot; to the list of off-topic questions?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|status-completed|faq-content|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1720" CreationDate="2013-03-07T15:13:41.570" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like a great idea. Adding this to the FAQ doesn't explicitly discourage or eliminate any specific topics but is instead geared towards helping people take their real, actual problem and then focus on describing the problem in a very clear and organized manner. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also makes the asker think about what he or she expects to receive as answers, which I hope would help reduce the extended discussion and amount of not constructive posts!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this is now listed in the list of off-topic questions, it's important that we look at the question and determine if edits can bring it inline with the scope. I'd hate to see users give up, thinking their post is simply off-topic. Instead, I'd prefer they understand that some editing is needed to make it a great question.  See &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1810/98&quot;&gt;this post for more details&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2013-04-21T19:12:47.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1720" CreationDate="2013-03-07T22:01:08.490" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a good idea. I'd like to give it a little time (maybe another day or so) for people to review/propose wording changes/additions/subtractions, and then, barring any (unexpected) substantial opposition, we can make the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T22:01:08.490" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1720" CreationDate="2013-03-08T03:59:28.630" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea has some merit, but isn't this a departure from what the site has been up until this point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, if you look at the highest rep users, many of them have earned many points by answering advice questions, and I don't think that they would be thrilled about losing hundreds of rep points if we deleted those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2013-03-08T03:59:28.630" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1724" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1727" CreationDate="2013-03-12T05:24:04.133" Score="-2" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a very simple question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What problem did the OP face when he posted this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1751/whats-the-correlation-between-guys-with-longer-hair-and-professionalism&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the correlation between guys with longer hair and professionalism?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-03-12T13:31:21.670" Title="What &quot;problem&quot; did the OP face when he posted this question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1724" CreationDate="2013-03-12T11:56:28.327" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP didn't face an actual problem, but this question cannot be closed for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It currently has a net of 21 upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was asked last June.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By themselves, neither of these reasons is enough to keep the question open, but when paired together, they &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; enough to keep the question open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackExchange sites certainly aren't afraid to close popular non-constructive questions, but popular questions must be closed immediately. If they're not, then they tend to pick up constructive answers which bolster the question's perceived &quot;answerability&quot; and solidifies their case for remaining open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2013-03-12T11:56:28.327" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1724" CreationDate="2013-03-12T13:31:15.963" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;All quotes are directly from the original question. We can discuss whether the problem is meaningful or not but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For awhile now, my higher-ups have been saying bugging me to get a hair cut.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Situation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Though, I like it how it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conflict (or problem).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Could someone try to kindly explain this to me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question related to the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-03-12T13:31:15.963" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1724" CreationDate="2013-03-12T13:31:21.670" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;THe problem is stated directly in the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For awhile now, my higher-ups have been saying bugging me to get a hair cut.. Though, I like it how it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user was wondering why such pressure would exist in the workplace, and if there was any cause for it. The highest-scored answer explains a lack of concrete evidence about a link (or absence of a link) between long hair and professionalism, and makes up for that lack of information by providing relevant information from personal experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And again, this question was asked early in the beta period. The community was more concerned with getting quality, on-topic content than with enforcing the &lt;strong&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face&lt;/strong&gt; rule. In fact, if you read the next sentence in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you'll see that it doesn't disallow such questions. While having the potential to be chatty and open-ended, the question is well-worded, and has a great answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-03-12T13:31:21.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1729" CreationDate="2013-03-12T14:01:24.380" Score="3" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our FAQ states that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;If a question requires a lawyer to answer it, we can't help. These situations are simply too specific and too complex to definitively answer on our site.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have tags such as United-states and United-kingdom. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wording of the one for United -Kingdom is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about the workplace that may specifically relate to cultures, customs &lt;strong&gt;or laws&lt;/strong&gt; in the United Kingdom&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one for the United-states is nearly identical apart from the obvious difference between the named country. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if Legal questions are off topic for this site then why do our tags say they are supposed to be used for questions about laws? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this an oversight or is it intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastActivityDate="2013-03-12T14:22:05.797" Title="Tag Wording - Legality" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1728" CreationDate="2013-03-12T14:22:05.797" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it was intentional at the time. Labor laws (and other relevant laws to the workplace) are different between the US and the UK (and between states in the US), so they need to be considered for questions specific to one place or the other. We don't (and can't) give legal advice, so a question about a law or laws is off-topic, but a question to which a law or laws may be relevant is ok, as long as it can be answered by (significantly) more than &quot;There are laws about this, talk to a lawyer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/1046/869&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is a good example of that. There is an issue at hand that would be appropriate for legal action, but it can also be addressed in other ways. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/1049/869&quot;&gt;Bethlakshmi's answer&lt;/a&gt; provides several potential solutions to the problem without the need for lawyers or legal expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-03-12T14:22:05.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1720" CreationDate="2013-03-12T19:46:54.287" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a blanket prohibition against questions that 'ask for advice' would be overkill.  MOST of the questions asked here are requests for advice of one kind or another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps they were added since the OP's post on March 7, but at the moment the examples he cites&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;What should I do?&quot; / &quot;Should I take this job?&quot; / “I need advice,&#xA;  help me!” /&quot;Please review my resume/CV/Cover Letter&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;are list in the FAQ now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The existing FAQ is fine.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-03-12T19:46:54.287" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1732" CreationDate="2013-03-14T11:46:04.883" Score="6" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Theres been some new changes to the way the vote to close system works. Rather than showing just the total close votes like before as a whole number it shows it as (x/5) where x is the amount of votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue i just noticed is this, i went to a question and it was 3/5 i added my vote and instead of diaplaying 4/5 it displayed (3/5)(4/5), i had to refresh the page to get it to display just (4/5). (screen shot on the way)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its nothing major, just something i noticed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9CWyC.png&quot; alt=&quot;Double Vote&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Note, not an isolated incident, easily repeatable&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bmev9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="2007" LastEditDate="2013-03-14T12:10:52.660" LastActivityDate="2013-03-14T12:10:52.660" Title="Total amount of close votes displayed twice" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1731" CreationDate="2013-03-14T12:08:12.287" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks; this will be fixed in the next deploy. It looks like we changed the display from &lt;code&gt;(3)&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;(3/5)&lt;/code&gt;, but the javascript / regex at the client wasn't updated accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2007" LastActivityDate="2013-03-14T12:08:12.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1733" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-17T03:07:24.467" Score="4" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have posted the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10211/is-breaking-a-verbal-agreement-to-pursue-career-advancement-ethical&quot;&gt;Is breaking a verbal agreement to pursue career advancement ethical?&lt;/a&gt; in  Workplace.SE. Surprisely it attracts both down votes and close votes. And finally this question was closed by marking localized. As per the definition from SE FAQs too localized means&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet. For help making this question more broadly applicable&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally feel that the situation is not specific to geographic area or a specific moment in time or not also an extraordinary narrow situation. I believe it is one of the common situation any professional face this situation. And it helps future visitors who are in similar situation. However Firstly I don't understand why it is closed and secondly I don't understand how it fall under the category of too localized. Along with that I don't understand what is the wrong with this question and why community doesn't like this question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Breaking the verbal commitment which has been given under unavoidable circumstances. Is it very localized situation? If so why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit based on responses:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;I understand the close votes may be due to lot of specifics. I have modified the post and removed the as many specific details that I can. It is my experience that I have been reprimanded by other users for not providing enough specifics for some of my earlier questions which causes difficulties to provide accurate answer. Hence I have provide lot of specifics in the above post. Please review the post and let me know if it had any irrelevant specifics which also causes difficulties to answer the question &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19430" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T14:22:07.280" Title="Why is asking about &quot;Breaking commitment&quot; attracting close votes?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1733" CreationDate="2013-03-17T05:14:22.717" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect the users who closed the post did so because there's a lot of specifics to the situation here, so many to where it may be difficult to tell what the problem you're trying to solve is.  Overall, specifics are good, but if the question is so specific that it would apply only to you, then it's not something that we'd really want to have on the site since it wouldn't help future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm sure there are others in your country who have contracts they've agreed to, either verbally or written, that inhibit or prevent them from taking advantage of other opportunities. Hence, I'm not sure it's too localized. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To help get the post reopened, (and keep it open), you might consider editing out any information that isn't relevant to the goal of your post so that people can focus on just the specific problem you're trying to solve.  I've noticed that when a post is too long, it's more difficult to parse and not always clear what exactly the asker is hoping to gain from the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like the post may get reopened. As of the time of this writing, it has 2 out of 5 reopen votes.  Some edits to make it just a bit more concise might be helpful. You're welcome to flag the post for moderator attention if you've made significant edits to make the post more concise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I'd also suggest jumping in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt;. We have some talented editors who are good at helping clean up questions and get them reopened. Good luck! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-03-17T05:14:22.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1733" CreationDate="2013-03-17T13:16:55.643" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect because your main question is basically, &quot;should I take one of these other jobs?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This conflicts very clearly with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Which job should I take?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions asking which job/company/industry is &quot;better&quot; or which fits you best can't really be answered and can only be discussed. This&#xA;  is not a discussion forum, but a Question and Answer site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-03-17T13:16:55.643" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1733" CreationDate="2013-03-18T14:22:07.280" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not constructive to ask us to judge the ethics of an action, and ethics are off topic here anyway.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way I can see making this question on topic and constructive is lay out the situation, explain what your desired outcome is, then ask how you can achieve that and not burn the bridge with the other commitment(or what ever you are trying to achieve in that relationship).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T14:22:07.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1738" CreationDate="2013-03-19T11:49:52.133" Score="3" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen many answers to questions which reference other answers to that same question.  While I can see the value to compiling all of the answers into one, it seems a bit sloppy if it is chained, especially if the referenced answer is deleted.  This can also duplicate content instead of adding anything new.  Shouldn't we require unique answers or is this practice okay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4710" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T10:58:18.193" Title="Is citing other answers in the same question appropriate?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1737" CreationDate="2013-03-19T14:04:50.740" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I do it it's to &lt;em&gt;avoid&lt;/em&gt; duplication, not to &lt;em&gt;create&lt;/em&gt; it.  This typically happens when another answer addresses part of the problem but not all of it and I want to build on that.  I certainly want to give credit where it's due, and why spend the time re-writing in my own words what somebody else already said?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important IMO to only do this when you have something &lt;em&gt;substantial&lt;/em&gt; to add.  If somebody else's answer would have been 90% of yours, just add a comment about the other 10%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the other answer be deleted, answers referring to it can be edited by anyone who can see deleted posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2013-03-19T14:04:50.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1737" CreationDate="2013-03-20T04:53:00.280" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the main points in our FAQ is to avoid copying others. Any answer posted should add value or state points not covered in other areas. While citing information from another answer would be okay, I'd suggest proceeding with care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all the cases where I saw an answer begin with &quot;As userXYZ says...&quot; those posts generally get flagged and downvoted, even if there's additional information. Thus, to avoid having reviewers miss the point that you have a complete, standalone answer, make sure any information you cite from another answer isn't the very first thing people see.  The best approach is to show how your answer differs right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, as JimG mentions in a comment, if you see a post which repeats something someone else said without adding anything new, you can do one or more of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave a friendly, constructive comment with suggestions on how to improve the post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You may downvote the post if you feel it blatantly misses the main points of the don't repeat others rule in the FAQ.  Downvotes send a powerful message that there's something wrong with the content. If a poster improves his/her post, it's a good idea to revisit and consider removing the downvote or changing it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You may flag it as &quot;Not An Answer&quot;, in which case, moderators and other higher rep users will see the flag and can vote to delete the post if there's no way to improve it. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a possibility of improvement, I generally leave the post for a day or two until it's either improved, deleted by the community, or self deleted by the original poster. If the post does more harm on the site than if it were to be deleted, then I'll remove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Monica Cellio says, the main goal should always be to avoid duplication, as it's just noise.  Hope this helps! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-03-20T04:53:00.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1740" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1743" CreationDate="2013-03-21T04:06:30.683" Score="17" ViewCount="454" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just went through the latest 50 questions on the site. Of those 50 questions, 17 of them (34%) have been closed. Of those 17 questions, 10 or 11 clearly explain the reason the question was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A majority of those reasons were copy-paste and did not give any suggestions for how to improve, de-localize, or otherwise broaden the use or appeal of the questions. Yes, many of them were &quot;which job should I take?&quot; which is pretty egregious, but a lot weren't (and many had comments questioning the reasoning behind the close votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I'm also guilty of this, but don't we need to do a better job helping questions become viable rather than running around closing questions (especially those with multiple answers that seem to contradict the view of something being off-topic or too localized)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some Examples:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10389/need-training-guidance-mentor-ship-superior-refuses-to-acknowledge&quot;&gt;Need training, guidance, mentor-ship. Superior refuses to acknowledge [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Honestly, the thing is not too long and he has a genuine work-related&#xA;  problem. I don't get the down votes and close votes at all unless&#xA;  people are just too lazy to read. Lots of pepoel have bosses wh are&#xA;  trying to make sure they fail. There is nothing localized about this&#xA;  problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;– HLGEM&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No reason for the close indicated in the comments. There is no reason that this shouldn't be able to be generalized/broadened, or otherwise made useful for the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4 answers with 27 up-votes to boot, and 9 upvotes on the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10298/should-credit-for-company-patents-be-awarded-to-those-who-did-not-contribute-to&quot;&gt;Should credit for company patents be awarded to those who did not contribute to the invention? [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has a single comment that sort of describes why it may have been closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This sounds like a question of legality, which is not something we can&#xA;  answer on The Workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;– Paul Brown&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think that while the question could use improvement, the question of, &quot;Is there anything wrong with crediting someone for development of a product who wasn't directly involved in the technical aspects?&quot; in itself is not too broad or otherwise too localized. And it certainly isn't a legal question (but rather one of assigning credit, which has wide application in the workplace).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10266/can-a-competing-peer-be-your-supervisor&quot;&gt;Can a competing peer be your supervisor [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely no indication of why this one was closed. It just has the generic off-topic closed label on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;closed as off topic by jcmeloni, pdr, Jim G., Jeff O, gnat 19 hours&#xA;  ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions on The Workplace - Stack Exchange are expected to relate to&#xA;  the workplace within the scope defined in the FAQ. Consider editing&#xA;  the question or leaving comments for improvement if you believe the&#xA;  question can be reworded to fit within the scope. Read more about&#xA;  closed questions here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10229/boss-does-not-answer-questions&quot;&gt;Boss does not answer questions [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No reason on this one either. It has 14 upvotes, 6 answers with 88 upvotes, and was featured on the 'hot discussions' or whatever it is called across the whole SE network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10358/employee-poaching&quot;&gt;Employee Poaching&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was closed with 4/5 re-open votes. I issued the 5th and it has now been re-opened, but there was no reason for the close in the first place in the comments. At any rate, it had many comments, answers, and upvotes before the close as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Point is that while I'm all for closing down a lot of those &quot;what job should I take?&quot; questions, those that have promise (especially those that have several answers and upvotes) are being closed without reason a bit too regularly for my taste. If the active close-voters are being vigilant about marking things as off-topic, could we at least get some comments explaining why? Or even better, get edits and/or comments to try to shape a borderline question in to a good one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T11:16:59.297" Title="34% Close Rate for Last 50 Questions, ~60% of those mention the reason" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|close-reasons|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1740" CreationDate="2013-03-21T22:35:26.017" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think I actually voted to close any of these questions initially. In spite of that, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1720/can-we-add-questions-asking-for-advice-to-the-list-of-off-topic-questions&quot;&gt;here is my definition of what is off topic for this site&lt;/a&gt;. Regardless, from your examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10389/need-training-guidance-mentor-ship-superior-refuses-to-acknowledge&quot;&gt;Need training, guidance, mentor-ship. Superior refuses to acknowledge [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this, there is no question in the title. Imo this is a big warning flag for &quot;help me plz&quot; situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This started with a smartass comment at the bottom. &lt;code&gt;Tl;dr: I wrote it, the least you can do is read it.&lt;/code&gt; Not a good way to get people to read a huge wall of text which is 95% irrelevant to the core question which is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I get training when my boss will not match my training style needs?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The person used 100x as many words to say that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, a lot of information which is ACTUALLY useful (and not that 95% fluff) was added in comments to answers. More relevant information being added in comments than the original question is a good indication the question was not the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I actually didn't think this was an overly bad question worth closing, though the asker probably could - and should - have used 95% fewer words)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10298/should-credit-for-company-patents-be-awarded-to-those-who-did-not-contribute-to&quot;&gt;Should credit for company patents be awarded to those who did not contribute to the invention? [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &quot;question&quot; is bad for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm looking for an objective answer to either justify the feeling in my gut (which I can than bring up in a professional and objective manner to our president), or to absolve the feeling of my gut so that I can come to terms with it. What is the standard in the industry for a case like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How you think this is even a good question is beyond me. The person asks a series of ambiguous statements which amount to &quot;help me fix my gut feeling&quot; (????) and then asks an industry standard? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the while on a completely legal situation which probably is 100% legal considering if they never wrote anything up on this situation or developed documentation then how the hell should we know what is right about it without having a complete understanding of the invention status/contributions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10266/can-a-competing-peer-be-your-supervisor&quot;&gt;Can a competing peer be your supervisor [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has terrible format for here too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can this be harmful for me in long term? What should be done to avoid problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. And??? .... oh, there is no problem presented at all. Literally none. A very very very brief situation is described. Then a generic question which has no answer (anything can be harmful) outside an entire MBA/book on &quot;management techniques&quot; - there is no specific question being asked to actually provide an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10229/boss-does-not-answer-questions&quot;&gt;Boss does not answer questions [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a harder time justifying why this one is bad. But I guess I'll refer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;this blog&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can generally tell when a question is unreasonably subjective. I can’t always describe it, but I know it when I see it. Unfortunately, that’s not good enough to base a policy on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This person is asking a really generalized question which is effectively impossible to answer without significantly more context (his examples are not helpful to even remotely explain what his boss is doing wrong - it &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; seems to me the person needs to be asking, &quot;how can I better ask my boss questions to avoid being a help vampire?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10358/employee-poaching&quot;&gt;Employee Poaching&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ahhh, such a perfect example of a question which seems good at first but you then realize is basically &quot;tell me what to do&quot; and has no question. Well, actually considering the title, it's pretty obvious it's &quot;tell me what to do.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should I report what I suspect to be illegal behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this even an answerable question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I think someone might be doing something which might be illegal and am not sure what to do, help me please&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only meaningful inquiry this person has can relate to whether the community here thinks this is illegal (since the entirety of any answer to this question is based on whether the actions are illegal).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I've said this before, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This site should not be &quot;Dear Workplace, help me please&quot; anymore than Stack Overflow is &quot;Dear Stack Overflow, give me teh codez.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a question/answer site. NOT a discussion forum. Most of these questions above would be better suited on a discussion forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-03-21T22:35:26.017" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1740" CreationDate="2013-03-22T01:39:48.057" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a process in place for handling questions that were closed by the community or moderators, and it starts by doing one or more of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Add a reopen vote. You just need 500 reputation to vote to reopen. If you don't have enough rep to vote to reopen, you may flag the post for moderator attention. If it's clearly a post that can be saved, I will try and edit or reopen the post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Take the discussion to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;Water Cooler Chat Room&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Create a post on meta, &lt;strong&gt;focusing on the discussion on that particular question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The challenge I see with this post is that there's so many examples, and aside from trying to leave more feedback when closing a post, I'm not sure we can come to an actual actionable decision about how to handle these posts since not everyone will agree or disagree that closing or reopening is the right move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The big takeaway for me here is to encourage more commenting when questions are closed. The goal should be to educate folks and give them information they can use to turn their post into something that could be reopened.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the things I do when I see a post closed by the community with no comments is to leave a comment on their behalf. Even if you're not a close voter, if you see &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; a post might have been closed, you could offer up some helpful advice as to what to do to fix the problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The advantage here is that, as an objective third-party, the asker is more likely to view you as trying to help instead of being just one of the people who closed his/her post.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T01:39:48.057" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1740" CreationDate="2013-03-22T10:56:25.433" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;One issue appears to be that the default behaviour is close, rather than edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;enderland's comment was that some of these questions don't have a question in the title. In the examples above, it feels like that is trivially fixable. If a question has a good core, but is badly expressed, the edit button is right there. There is of course an argument about whether this is too much work, but anyone can edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially on sites like this one that skirt the subjective boundary a bit more by their nature, if there's a good question buried in bad style, the correct thing to do is to bring out the good question. Otherwise, you lose potential good examples, and the site acquires a negative feeling (i.e. &quot;We don't like these sorts of questions in these parts&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="510" LastEditDate="2013-03-22T11:16:59.297" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T11:16:59.297" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1737" CreationDate="2013-03-22T10:58:18.193" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I do it it's to avoid duplication, not to create it. This typically happens when another answer addresses part of the problem but not all of it and I want to build on that. I certainly want to give credit where it's due, and why spend the time re-writing in my own words what somebody else already said?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important IMO to only do this when you have something substantial to add. If somebody else's answer would have been 90% of yours, just add a comment about the other 10%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the other answer be deleted, answers referring to it can be edited by anyone who can see deleted posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T10:58:18.193" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1746" CreationDate="2013-03-23T13:35:30.083" Score="6" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9721/coding-marathons-without-office-chair-or-other-office-seating-device/&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; appears to have been recently deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shows as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;deleted by Community♦ 17 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;while I don't necessarily understand what this means (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/173204/what-does-deleted-by-community-mean&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) it seems likely people here voted to delete this question at some point. Unfortunately I cannot find out who these people were given the above message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-03-25T13:26:12.343" Title="Why are questions sometimes deleted by the Community user?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1745" CreationDate="2013-03-23T17:50:10.300" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a rejected migration. The full text of the annotations is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;migrated from programmers.stackexchange.comFeb 16 at 10:22&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;closed as not a real question by mhoran_psprep, jcmeloni, gnat, scaaahu, RhysW Feb 18 at 15:48&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, see the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;deleted by Community♦ 4 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rejected migrations are autodeleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T19:45:24.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1745" CreationDate="2013-03-25T13:26:12.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to rejected migrations, Community will also delete posts that have been deleted by gathering enough spam/offensive flags as well as downvoted, unanswered, closed questions after 30 days (or something like that). Basically any situation where the system auto-deletes a post, Community is listed as the one who pulled the trigger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastActivityDate="2013-03-25T13:26:12.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1748" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-26T02:03:21.843" Score="0" ViewCount="500" Body="&lt;p&gt;Refer to the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10588/how-to-deal-with-a-very-reactive-staff/10595&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this is a valid question; I have a problem (my staff member is so reactive that he behaves like a human robot that can only parse exact instruction, he can't use even a bit of common sense), I describe the symptom of the problem in great detail (no, it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; rant), and I ask the participants here whether they have any solutions to deal with this kind of problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then my question was closed, although it is a valid question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can it be reopened? Or can the closers be more helpful and suggest edits so that this question can be reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some irony:  I come here to ask for tips to manage my employee, and my question gets closed, and I am told to go back to manage the employee. I think the mods are getting a bit too zealous in closing meaningful and well-asked question. No good. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="979" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T02:52:50.483" Title="&quot;How to deal with a very reactive staff?&quot; is a real question, please open it" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1748" CreationDate="2013-03-26T03:42:54.123" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's clear in your post, in the way you write, that you're frustrated. A frustrated writing style lacks objectivity, and on a site where we expect answers to be backed with facts, references, and specific expertise, it's absolutely paramount that questions set the right objective tone so that these subjective questions can get the best answers that will be helpful to future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post in it's current form really isn't a good example of a good, Stack Exchange question; it's not objective. It's also full of meta-commentary, displayed in large, bold-faced font. Those edits should go in comments instead. In short, your question should ideally look like something that will last for years to come, be well-written, and help future visitors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To possibly get a post like this reopened, focus instead on cutting out details that aren't completely important to understanding the context. Instead, explain the facts in a clear, objective manner, without emotion, dramatics, and what may appear to others as over-exaggerations. I suggest removing anything that may make it seem like you might be exaggerating. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, when telling someone that you think a colleague isn't pulling his weight, if you sound &quot;breathless&quot; while explaining it, chances are, the person you're reporting to will take it as a rant and won't take it very seriously, same as our community has done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I'm not saying this &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a rant, but after reading it, it does have a feel like someone blowing off a little steam. Editing the post to present the problem in a more calm, organized manner will not only make the post more valuable, but also address the concerns of the close voters (and any other future close voters; thereby, preventing it from being closed again after being reopened).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, the post also appears to be a duplicate of another post you created in January, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9145/delegation-tasks-by-stewardship-to-someone-who-is-reactive&quot;&gt;Delegation tasks by stewardship to someone who is reactive&lt;/a&gt;.  I'm not sure I can tell you how to solve this problem until the other problems have been fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is to start with some edits to make it appear more objective. Leave out dramatic words and phrases and focus on the facts and behavior.  Afterwards, it will become more clear whether or not we can reopen the post. Keep in mind that, if you need more help with your edits, there are a few folks who hang out in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;Water Cooler Chat Room&lt;/a&gt; who are good at these types of edits. Hope this helps! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T03:42:54.123" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1750" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-26T21:21:12.617" Score="12" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is related the the questions &quot;Wearing earrings to office&quot; and &quot;What is rude on The Workplace?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I placed a comment in the earrings question that looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Down voted: [reason for down vote]&quot;.  I didn't call the OP a name or anything, I list gave the reason for the down vote.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chad reply to my comment as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;It has been declared rude to post in comments that you down voted. You can suggest improvements in comments but you should not include down voted or -1&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I replied to Chad, for now I'll consider the words &quot;down voted&quot; as being forbidden by somebody or other's 'declaration'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest that 'declarations' be listed in the FAQ, but that's not the point right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally appreciate it when someone replies to one of my questions and tells me words to the effect &quot;I down voted you and here's why ....&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chad's comment implies that the act of down voting is rude.  I don't think that's really the case, and banning use of the word seems silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Professionals should have at least a slightly thick skin IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's my bottom line question:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it banned to explicitly say in a comment to a question that the commenter down voted the OP's question?&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why or why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2013-03-26T21:22:30.953" LastActivityDate="2013-03-29T06:16:51.057" Title="Is use of the word 'Downvoted' in a comment really rude?" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1750" CreationDate="2013-03-26T21:26:56.600" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The use of &quot;downvoted&quot; is not itself rude, but most comments of that format aren't the best comments. There is a related discussion on Meta: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/138192/167443&quot;&gt;Is it OK to indicate that I downvoted in a comment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote the accepted answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/privileges/comment&lt;/a&gt; describes the legitimate use cases for comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They are:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   • Requesting clarification from the author;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   • Leaving constructive criticism that guides the author in improving the post;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   • Adding relevant but minor or transient information to a post (e.g. a link to a related question, or an alert to the author that the question has been updated).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's it. Notice that discussions about voting are not in the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Explaining the reason you are downvoting is perfectly fine, but it's not necessary to indicate that you downvoted. It's about the post, not about the votes. Stating that you downvoted them is contentious, and invites discussions that you don't really want or need to engage in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you are able to constructively comment according to these guidelines while mentioning that you downvoted, go ahead. If your comment is simply &quot;Downvoted: Assumption XYZ is wrong&quot;, you should stop and think about a way to write it that would lead to improvement of the question (particularly the kind that would lead to you removing your downvote (such as &quot;Assumption XYZ seems questionable; where is it coming from?&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:37:04.473" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T21:26:56.600" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1750" CreationDate="2013-03-26T22:34:05.620" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not explicitly banned, per se, though as Jim says, comments saying just &quot;+1 for an awesome answer&quot; or &quot;-1 for a terrible answer&quot; are not of the purpose of comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, I don't think I do this except very rarely (in spite of downvoting a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt;...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without fail I leave a comment indicating &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; I downvoted and comments like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10600/career-change-from-automation-to-java-developer#comment22952_10600&quot;&gt;this one which might be deleted soon&lt;/a&gt;, or upvote a comment that indicates why I downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just really rare to find a situation where adding &quot;downvoted&quot; or &quot;-1&quot; to the comment adds any additional value. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T12:24:59.270" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1748" CreationDate="2013-03-26T22:42:02.117" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it takes you nearly 600 words to explain your question it's probably has a ton of extra text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, you are fundamentally asking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have a direct report who does not take any initiative with his project work and does not have detailed or defined job responsibilities. I am expecting him to provide more initiative for his work, for example, when managing the website, he does not back-up the site (because it has not been clearly defined as a responsibility).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I more effectively manage this employee? It seems he only responds to exact instructions and does nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You use a ton more words (with lots of personal commentary) to effectively ask this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: here's a sampling of phrases which strike me as &amp;quot;rantlike:&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;can only parse exact instructions&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;He appears to not be able to use common sense&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;The problem is still that he is just too reactive&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;not able to think for himself&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;is just like a human robot&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... I'm going to stop here, that's just from the first 1/3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not how someone trying to solve a problem describes the situation. It's how someone complaining (or ranting, if you will) describes it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T22:48:00.403" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1750" CreationDate="2013-03-27T00:32:35.933" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will point everyone to this post:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/355/what-is-rude-on-the-workplace&quot;&gt;What is rude on The Workplace?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagreed that this type of thing was rude but was overruled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I now see the reasoning.  If you have a comment to help the poster improve post that.  There is no need to tell them you down-voted or -1.  If you just disagree with the post you can explain why you disagree but just saying you are wrong is not constructive and a down vote does that just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone asks why you down voted then certianly I think it is appropriate to explain if you desire.  We have far to many comments that just basically say your post sucks.  If you can not offer constructive criticism to help the post then consider not leaving a comment at all.  That note is a suggestion to help improve the post not to tell the poster that there post is wrong or that their post sucks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T00:32:35.933" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1755" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1756" CreationDate="2013-03-28T19:14:21.930" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understand the electorate badge, I passed the requirements (600 total votes, at least 25% (150) on questions) a few days ago.  As I type this, my totals are: 602 votes, 221 on questions.  It has been a few days since I cast that 600th vote, but still no badge.  What's up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2317" LastEditorUserId="609" LastEditDate="2014-01-27T14:36:23.913" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T14:36:23.913" Title="Broken Electorate badge?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1755" CreationDate="2013-03-28T19:27:27.260" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need &lt;strong&gt;600 votes on questions&lt;/strong&gt;, with 25% or more of your votes on questions, not 600 total votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the explanation &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/67397/167443&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T19:27:27.260" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1757" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-29T01:13:01.510" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1740/34-close-rate-for-last-50-questions-60-of-those-mention-the-reason&quot;&gt;As already discussed&lt;/a&gt;, there is a tendency to leave close votes without any sort of comment explaining why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I appreciate the recent efforts in adding comments, I think we can head off this issue in the future (or at least give a nice nudge toward proper behavior).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you downvote a question, a little box pops up saying, &quot;Please consider adding a comment if you think this post can be improved&quot; which is great. It suggests that people should think about improving things rather than just closing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have the same thing pop up when someone makes a close vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-03-30T00:33:50.503" Title="Add a Message Similar to Downvote Message when Voting to Close" Tags="|feature-request|closed-questions|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1757" CreationDate="2013-03-29T02:03:06.257" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While leaving comments are helpful, I don't believe it's critical that the same person who voted to close also be the same person who leaves a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a site where all of the users are volunteers, distributing this workload among everyone can help lighten the load and create a more sustainable process where more people are involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1742/98&quot;&gt;in the other thread&lt;/a&gt;, we can comment on posts we didn't vote to close and leave suggestions for improvement, even if we believe the question should not have been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other concern is that not everyone is a good commenter. There are certain people whose skills may not lie in coaching others. Some people aren't good at disarming conflict that may arise from comments that were taken the wrong way or misinterpreted as &quot;hostile&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I'd never wish to see comments be &lt;em&gt;required&lt;/em&gt; -- which of course &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; what you're proposing -- and as long as it's clear that comments aren't required, it may be helpful to display a popup encouraging that a close voter leave a comment suggesting ways to improve the post. If that person can articulate a helpful suggestion, then he or she should by all means post a comment, if he or she has time. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2013-03-29T02:23:58.260" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1757" CreationDate="2013-03-29T02:05:30.267" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Building on this idea is yet another possible solution:  When a post is closed without there being any comments, the post is &lt;em&gt;currently&lt;/em&gt; automatically flagged for moderator attention.  When I see these auto-flagged posts, I look at the post and try to understand why the post was closed and then offer suggestions for improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Building on this idea, I'm wondering if there's any reason we can't auto-flag these posts for the moderator tools queue. (Note that on beta sites, 2K reputation is the threshold to allow users to view flags in the system).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, placing the flag in the 2K/10K mod-tools queue may be more helpful, since the users who will see that attention is needed can possibly look more objectively at the post and offer feedback that is both genuine and not defensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, the flag queue is visible to 2K users on this site when there are 5 or more flags. However, there is a Userscript that displays flags to 2K users even when there is only 1 flag. You can read more about that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/153298/can-we-give-10k-and-2k-beta-users-the-moderator-experience-by-reducing-the-vis&quot;&gt;and the proposal to lower the threshold from 5 to 1.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2013-03-29T02:05:30.267" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1750" CreationDate="2013-03-29T06:16:51.057" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;See no reason to consider being frank about why you are downvoting something any different from saying you voted to close the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very often closing is correlated with a spate of downvotes, or a notice in chat, so it is not very difficult to see the link between the three phenomena. Although StackExchange gives the ability to keep votes anonymous, but it does not enforce it (same as in real life).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being frank and helpful is not the same as being mean and rude. I can see the problem where putting a &lt;code&gt;-1&lt;/code&gt; into a comment may lead to subsequent downvotes, but the line is too thin, in my opinion, to ban the symptom. The underlying cause is group downvoting and the example of Wikipedia shows it is really hard to avoid clique formation; the only viable cure is self-control - asking yourself &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; you are putting a vote this or that way? &lt;strong&gt;Do you judge the question or the answer solely on its merits&lt;/strong&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5433" LastActivityDate="2013-03-29T06:16:51.057" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1761" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1764" CreationDate="2013-04-01T20:21:46.387" Score="8" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;where the site keeps asking me if I want to chat with an expert? Maybe there should be something between being bothered every few minutes and never seeing it again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-12-27T01:11:21.677" LastActivityDate="2018-12-27T01:11:21.677" Title="Am I the only one really annoyed by the new chat feature" Tags="|discussion|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2013-04-09T02:04:44.297" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1762" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1765" CreationDate="2013-04-03T00:21:08.420" Score="1" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag should be used in question related with international careers, international opportunities, multicultural environments, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestion based in &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/53270/international-careers&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;International Careers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; proposal by Aladdin Mannai at Area51.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8298" LastActivityDate="2013-04-03T04:06:53.387" Title="Tag suggestion: international" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1763" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-03T00:33:52.563" Score="4" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do these tags exist if they have no associated questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags: reinterviewing, self-employment, singapore, supplies, untagged, visa, workers-compensation, workplace-routine, phone, quitting, promises, outside-of-workplace, paperwork, multicultural, mexico, masters, library, it-departments, it-industry, inmigration, job-title, jury-duty, customer-relations, demotion, departments, germany, hardware, health, illness, hours, exercise, exit-interview, charity, cliches, assessment, alertness, banking, batna, accommodations, complaint, boss, bosses, headhunter, recruiters and reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, some of the tags seem like duplicates (like bosses and boss), some seem off topic (like hardware, mexico, singapore, germany), some too specific (like batna) and finally, google told me that &lt;code&gt;inmigration&lt;/code&gt; should be &lt;code&gt;immigration&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8298" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:40:12.243" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:40:12.243" Title="Why there are so many tags without any question related to them?" Tags="|discussion|tags|synonym-request|retag-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1761" CreationDate="2013-04-03T03:01:37.537" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was an April Fools joke, and now it's gone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people liked it, some people didn't. A &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of people thought it was an actual feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2013-04-03T03:01:37.537" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1762" CreationDate="2013-04-03T04:06:53.387" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like we already have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/international&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;international&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;international&lt;/a&gt; tag, but only four questions have this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be more questions here that could benefit from having this tag applied to them.  Anyone with 200 reputation or higher on this site can retag questions, but first, it may be a good idea for us to look at the four questions that bear this tag and ask what it means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the questions, the main thing they all have in common is that the asker mentions at least two countries. For instance, one question is about language barriers, while others are about how to find jobs.  Looking deeper, the topics are actually much different, which makes me think that international could be too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect we'd need more information about what other kinds of questions have an international aspect to them before deciding on a tag. It could be better to split it up into more tags depending on the depth of the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/international&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;international&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;international&lt;/a&gt; is necessarily a bad tag, and it could be helpful to add it to other questions, but I suspect there could also be other tags that could apply to these questions as well that would make it easier for people to find information and narrow the scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-04-03T04:06:53.387" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1763" CreationDate="2013-04-03T04:29:08.443" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's categorize these tags so that it's easier to identify areas that might need action...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags with just 1 question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, we should determine if these tags are needed. If they don't have any value, they can be removed and replaced with a better tag. But if the tag is something that could come up again or that could help people find this information, then the tag should remain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;reinterviewing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;self-employment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;singapore&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;supplies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;visa&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;workers-compensation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;workplace-routine&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;phone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;quitting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;promises&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;outside-of-workplace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;paperwork&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;multicultural&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;mexico&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;masters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;library&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it-departments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it-industry&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;immigration (fixed spelling)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;jury-duty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;customer-relations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;demotion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;departments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;germany&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hardware&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;health&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hours&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;exercise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;exit-interview&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;charity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cliches&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;assessment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;alertness&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;banking&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;batna  (Possibly meaning &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiated_agreement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;accommodations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;complaint&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags that are synonyms of other tags:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These tags are synonyms of other tags. This means that the question can be tagged with either tag and still show up in the same tag search. For instance, searching for the tag &quot;boss&quot; or &quot;bosses&quot; shows me the same 122 results as if I searched for the &quot;management&quot; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag synonyms are often used when different people try to use different tags that really identify the same groups of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Boss and Bosses are a synonym of Management. 122 questions hold this tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;job-title is a synonym of title. There are 13 questions with these tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;illness and sickness are synonyms. There are 5 questions with these tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;headhunter and recruiter are synonyms of recruitment. There are 58 questions with this tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;reference is a synonym of references. There are 22 questions with this tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Untagged Questions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;untagged&quot; is a special tag that is used on questions that do not have a tag. Ideally, we should find tags that apply to these posts. Currently, there is only 1 question that has no tags.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-04-03T04:29:08.443" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1770" CreationDate="2013-04-03T20:42:42.630" Score="10" ViewCount="365" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/193802/how-do-i-take-responsibility-for-my-code-when-colleague-makes-unnecessary-improv&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was just asked this morning on Workplace.SE, and was accepted fairly well.  As you can see, it was subsequently migrated to Programmers.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, is this really a suitable question for that site?  After reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5654/are-you-still-confused-about-what-programmers-is-for&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; from Robert Harvey, I'd think not.  Sure, it &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; qualify under &lt;code&gt;freelancing and business concerns&lt;/code&gt;, but so would a lot of other soft questions that were closed when P.SE started to move their site in a different direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a friendly plea—if this question doesn't belong on P.SE, please don't swarm it with downvotes; OP originally asked it in good faith on Workplace.SE, where I would say it's definitely on topic.  The subsequent migration was beyond her control. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30" OwnerDisplayName="Adam Rackis" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T07:31:57.740" LastActivityDate="2013-04-04T19:11:45.640" Title="Curious migration to Programmers.SE" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1767" CreationDate="2013-04-03T23:59:51.600" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I migrated it. It had two off-topic close votes and a flag to migrate to Programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it had upvotes and two answers here. Yes, it would be an appropriate question here. But considering it was about something specifically related to programmers, I felt that the community at Programmers would be better to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It turns out the accepted (and most upvoted) answer is one that was migrated with it. The second most upvoted answer is one that was posted on Programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it may have been appropriate here, it was attracting close votes and migration flags. It seems to have found a home on Programmers (votes, accept, not closed), so I'm fine leaving it where it is. If the mirgation gets rejected, I'll happily reopen it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2013-04-03T23:59:51.600" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1767" CreationDate="2013-04-04T01:12:29.330" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I would have migrated this question, unless it actually received all 5 close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Jim, and others, bring up a great point that we have a site for Programmers, we shouldn't be so quick to kick out great content that fits our site, just because it happens to also fit another site's topic. A healthy Stack Exchange site sometimes has topic borders that are a bit blurry; some overlap is to be expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the blog post, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/03/respect-the-community-your-own-and-others/&quot;&gt;Respect the community – your own, and others’&lt;/a&gt;, Shog9 makes a great point about treating a Stack Exchange site as it's own standalone entity when judging whether or not a question is on topic.  Before we determine if a question is on-topic on another site, we should first determine if it's off-topic on ours:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As members of a community, your first loyalty should be to &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; community. When evaluating a question, you shouldn’t be looking to push it off on some other site; instead, ask if it could be appropriate and on-topic for you, the experts who the author decided to ask. &lt;strong&gt;Be a bit jealous of your site&lt;/strong&gt; – don’t blithely turn askers away simply because their question could be asked somewhere else. Don’t hit them over the head with your scope, help them tailor their question to fit into it – and if that means your site’s scope overlaps a bit with another site’s, so be it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine the asker of that question is a magazine editor instead, and let's say her problem is that a colleague occasionally makes changes to copy she already edited. We know that with grammar, like programming, there's more than one &quot;correct&quot; way to do something.  So let's assume the colleague isn't really correcting any mistakes but is just changing something to promote his own personal style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not 100% sure we'd try to migrate &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; question as quickly. It wouldn't be on topic on English Language and Usage because it's about solving a workplace problem, and it wouldn't be on-topic on Programmers since it has a grammar component to it. Yet, ironically, it would likely fit really well on our site and generate good content for future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I encourage our community to be jealous of our awesome site. Let's not migrate something away just because it has a programming aspect to it. Don't vote to close something just because it also happens to be on-topic on another site. If the question is about workplace issues, let's make the Programmers SE folks beg for these great questions! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-04-04T01:34:55.447" LastActivityDate="2013-04-04T01:34:55.447" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1767" CreationDate="2013-04-04T08:27:22.603" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a curious migration indeed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll start by saying that the migration is now settled. The question was well received on Programmers and even if it's not 100% suitable for the site, there's absolutely no reason to play migration ping pong with it. Even if the Workplace crowd decides that you (we?) want the question back, it's not going to happen, mostly because it wouldn't be a very nice way to treat a new user (especially one that has asked a valid &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; interesting question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it's a question that kind of fits both sites and that creates a very tricky situation. On first read, it seems like a perfectly valid Workplace question, it's a dispute between two colleagues that can be successfully approached (and hopefully solved) as a &amp;quot;people problem&amp;quot;. The two answers the question got before it was migrated &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; a couple that appeared after the migration focus on the social aspects, and that's perfectly fine (although it's a strong hint that the migration shouldn't have happened).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On second read though, I also saw a valid Programmers question in there, one that's about a horribly broken development process. The OP may be approaching this as a &amp;quot;people problem&amp;quot;, but that doesn't necessarily mean her approach will lead to a satisfactory solution or that she's right about the root cause of the problem. I went ahead and posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/193833/25936&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; that focuses on the faults of the OP's development process instead of the social aspects, mostly to see if the Programmers community agrees with me that the problem is (also) a software development one (and of course because I'm a rep whore).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seconds after posting the answer, I realized how much of a mess this really is. We now have a valid question where the two top answers offer approaches stemming from completely different fields of expertise. Although unavoidable for this question and perhaps even desirable, it's not something I like in general and it kinda takes me back to the good old days of Programmers. Nothing inherently wrong with answers that focus on social aspects, or a bit of a variety of approaches in answers, but Programmers is (now) supposed to be a site where you come to find peer reviewed answers on software development problems, and nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not really the case here, most answers are outside of what is commonly thought of as a software developer's expertise. Yes, programmers may have opinions on &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; (we truly do), but Stack Exchange sites are not really a venue for opinion sharing. People come here to read answers that have been thoroughly vetted by subject matter experts and I don't see how that's possible for most of the answers in the question in question. I'm a prolific voter on Programmers and I have absolutely no idea how to vote on most of the answers. That's a problem, if I feel confident enough to post an answer, I should also feel confident enough to evaluate the other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The better approach here, imho, would have been to split this into two questions, one on either site. Cross posting is generally a bad idea and I wouldn't suggest it for questions that aren't truly suitable for both sites, but this one is. A comment would have been enough to kick start the process, something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hey Jesslyn and welcome to The Workplace! Your question is quite interesting and on topic for the site, however I think that some of the more technical aspects of it would be better addressed on our sister site &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Programmers Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; that's more focused on software development problems. We can automatically move the question there if you want, or you could even ask a new question there focused on the code review issues (but please try to tailor it to the site, don't just copy paste it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of cross posting, the original question should have stayed here. jmort253 &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1769/48&quot;&gt;already quoted shog9&lt;/a&gt;, so I'm left with only one option, &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5133/25936&quot;&gt;to quote myself&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programmers and Stack Overflow overlap in expertise, it's not uncommon for questions to fit both sites. It's not always clear if a question is more conceptual (Programmers) than technical (Stack Overflow) and there are questions that sit right on the fence. When questions overlap significantly we tend to let them stay at the site they were originally asked, it's a simple enough solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we need to change the FAQ of either site, and since you're asking this in the interest of keeping Programmers as clean as possible I'd like to encourage you to examine whether a question is a good question before examining whether it fits our FAQ. Only after you decide it's a good question you should start wondering whether it's more suitable for us or Stack Overflow (or any other site). If you can't decide, chances are that it's one of those that fit either site, in which case it's in our interest to keep it here, Stack Overflow gets 5.8K questions per day, we get 35.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea of knowing if the close voters thought the question was at all suitable for The Workplace at the time they casted their close votes, but if they did then their first instinct should have been to keep it here. Even if the question was more suitable for Programmers than The Workplace, it still should have been left where it was originally asked. A migration vote is also an off topic vote, if the question isn't &lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt; off topic for the site, there's absolutely no reason to migrate it. Instead &lt;em&gt;talk to the OP&lt;/em&gt;, explain how they could update their question to be more suitable for The Workplace. Don't just send it away if there's a chance it could work here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What strikes me as very odd is that at least one of the close voters, Chad, went out of his way to find a better home for the question (asking in both chat rooms), but never really engaged the OP in comments, except for posting &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10846/how-do-i-take-responsibility-for-my-code-when-colleague-makes-unnecessary-improv?noredirect=1#comment24705_10846&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt; that isn't particularly useful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is really off topic for the Workplace. It really belongs on programmers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some good information in there if you're a veteran, but not really if you are a brand new user. The comment doesn't explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; this is off topic, &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it belongs on Programmers and &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; is Programmers (the OP didn't have a Programmers account at the time). So, while I certainly don't want this to be misunderstood as scolding (Chad did more than most would), I'd strongly advise against such comments. If you don't have the time or the energy to post a comment that's actually helpful &lt;em&gt;to the OP&lt;/em&gt;, then just don't post a comment at all. Explaining your close votes is great, but you kinda have to actually &lt;em&gt;explain&lt;/em&gt; them. Bare and dry statements don't really explain much, especially to someone that's brand new. And of course if you happen upon a comment that doesn't really explain much, feel free to post your own comment and elaborate. Yes, it adds a bit of noise, but who cares, all comments will go away eventually (right? right!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-04-04T11:34:01.467" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1720" CreationDate="2013-04-04T16:39:50.047" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the threads are already there on the FAQ, but I see plenty of questions that still fall into off topic areas like this, and this question points out some specific flaws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure where to put it, but two litmus tests that I use when voting to close include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are we down to a specific set of choices?&lt;/strong&gt;  Quite frequently this is in the new-job choice area.  When the asker feels a need to boil it down to two or more very particular, non-translatable options,I generally vote to close figuring that there isn't enough reuse to the answers to make it a viable long term question.   My thought for helping it along would be - if you can make it about stereotypical tradeoffs that many people might encounter, then keep it.  If not, this isn't a good forum - we can't be career counselors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please validate my choice&lt;/strong&gt; - Perhaps I'm being too persnickety, but I see a fair amount of &quot;this is what I want to do, is it OK?&quot;   Sometimes we can resurrect it into &quot;what's a best approach to this difficulty?&quot; but I see plenty of editing to get it from point A to point B.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both cases, I can see that we may still be able to help the question asker, but not in the format that it's presented, and I wonder if people are unclear in what they can expect.  Not sure, though, that the FAQ can actually fix the problem - people have to read the FAQ for it to be useful. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="67" LastEditDate="2013-04-04T18:18:11.620" LastActivityDate="2013-04-04T18:18:11.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1767" CreationDate="2013-04-04T19:11:45.640" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is about dealing with the workplace and situations in the workplace.  That question could have easily been generalized and made applicable to the general workplace.  However being a programmer I recognized the same issue that Yannis did, that the problem was not so much the people, as the process.  There are tools and methodologies that exist for programmers that would not translate well to everyone else.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to me the choice was change the question entirely to, what I believe, would be a really great generalized question for the workplace, that addresses what the OP asked: &quot;How do I deal with a coworker how is interfering with my work?&quot;  Or have the question migrated to a community that can address the real problem that the OP was having in her profession, on a site filled with people who also quickly saw what the problem was.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summary: It was not so much the question did not belong here, so much as the OP was able to get answers that were more likely to help her than would have come from here, because it was a programmers problem more than a people problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: I did not suggest changes because it was a good question as it was, just asked in the wrong place.  I still think the generalized question would be a great fit here and I may consider asking it if no one else does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-04-04T19:11:45.640" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1773" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-05T13:58:45.350" Score="13" ViewCount="373" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aarthi (one of the SE Employees on the community team) noted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Much like The Workplace, we'd really like to see more content that&#xA;  isn't software development related. That's not something that will&#xA;  magically change, and the reasons for why are pretty obvious (Stack&#xA;  Overflow). That said, I feel PM and Workplace will have some similar&#xA;  challenges moving forward and as they grow. (It's not by crazy random&#xA;  happenstance that you all share a moderator with that site.) There&#xA;  already seems to be some overlap in the sites' userbases, so it seems&#xA;  to me that you all recognize this implicitly, as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was in response to &lt;a href=&quot;https://pm.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/587/any-update-on-graduation/589#589&quot;&gt;a question about the PM SE moving towards graduation&lt;/a&gt;.  So obviously this is an issue that we will need to overcome to graduate as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can we do to start getting more questions that are not IT/Programmer specific?  How can we grow our community outside of its roots as programmers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:53.330" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T13:30:56.370" Title="How can we diversify our community?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1773" CreationDate="2013-04-05T14:44:07.370" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well this is easy to say what the &quot;what&quot; is - the &quot;how&quot; might be harder. Either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stop answering localized software questions and close/delete them ASAP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Extract generalized questions from software specific wordings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9128/how-can-i-prepare-for-getting-hit-by-a-bus&quot;&gt;when almost all answers focus on software strategies for non-software questions&lt;/a&gt;... &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not think we have an overwhelming problem with this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most specific to software questions are closed here quickly and we have a &lt;strong&gt;lot&lt;/strong&gt; of non-software specific questions. I don't know the percentage but the majority of non-closed questions are not software specific. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Only 2 of the top 50 highest voted questions are even tied to software (and 1 of them is very generalized and the software element is not a defining factor). Expanding to top 100, still only 4 are software focused (from titles, at least).&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything, we have a problem with people &lt;em&gt;assuming&lt;/em&gt; all questions are software questions and answering in kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, we get &quot;help me please / review my resume&quot; types of questions which &lt;em&gt;tend&lt;/em&gt; to be from software people, but they are not by any stretch of the imagination the dominating factor here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think  Aarthi is off base with her assumption :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The specific plan to do this, more practically is:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote or vote to close poor questions &lt;em&gt;immediately&lt;/em&gt; - do NOT say, &quot;well there's a good question here, so I'll leave it open to be edited.&quot; Leaving poor questions open encourages answers - which normally match the quality of the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Strip out the &quot;software specific&quot; elements in the edit phase. This might be possible before the above. But &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; questions asked here are not specific to software. Most have a generalizeable question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only when the question is &quot;fit&quot; for the site, reopen. This site has an active community of people either on the site, chat, and meta, if you see a question which is closed and then edited to be reopened, it's &lt;strong&gt;easy&lt;/strong&gt; to make this happen here. Post on meta and the question probably (if appropriate) is reopened in an hour, nearly at all times of day.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Having a question closed before answers show up is nearly a prereq for this. I have a hard time voting to reopen a question which picked up a few &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1627/we-need-to-downvote-answers-more-even-mediocre-ones&quot;&gt;mediocre&lt;/a&gt; answers regardless of question quality. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-04-05T15:07:11.497" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1775" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-05T17:17:31.757" Score="8" ViewCount="417" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is this question deleted?&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10903/a-junior-employee-is-being-promoted-to-my-manager-possible-counters&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10903/a-junior-employee-is-being-promoted-to-my-manager-possible-counters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is a valid question that needs to be here and could be good question with closing and a little rewrite. There are many people who don't know what todo when they have to work for someone that used to be junior to them and whose skils they may nto respect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-04-06T11:24:20.000" Title="While I agree that this starts as a rant" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1775" CreationDate="2013-04-05T17:20:56.113" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question was deleted by the owner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2013-04-05T17:20:56.113" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1775" CreationDate="2013-04-05T17:26:18.190" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close because of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1774/2322&quot;&gt;exactly what I wrote here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also did not downvote, because of what you say (it was interesting at core, just really rant-ish).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically this step&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote or vote to close poor questions &lt;em&gt;immediately&lt;/em&gt; - do NOT say, &quot;well there's a good question here, so I'll leave it open to be edited.&quot; Leaving poor questions open encourages answers - which normally match the quality of the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-04-06T11:24:20.000" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1775" CreationDate="2013-04-05T17:36:44.170" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I added a question based on what I wanted to answer, but if anyone esle would like to take a shot at improving it, feel free.  Jim if you agree my question is a good one, can you transfer it to Quinma? I didn't realize I could edit a closed question. And I don't need or want the rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10904/my-new-boss-was-junior-to-me-what-do-i-do&quot;&gt;My new boss was junior to me, what do I do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-04-05T17:36:44.170" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1773" CreationDate="2013-04-07T00:30:36.657" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I had to identify actual experts for the Workplace SE who actually are affiliated with a certain entity or career field, I'd have to say that would be human resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many workplaces, the people hired to help resolve workplace issues generally work in human resources.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we could reach out to these groups, could this help expand our user base from a largely technical audience to one that is more general?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main question is whether or not HR personnel would have questions for our community, or would these people be primarily interested in answering them, if at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, we can share The Workplace SE with our non-technical colleagues and encourage them to ask well-written questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, I'm hesitant to promote exclusion of questions with a software component. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1767/curious-migration-to-programmers-se&quot;&gt;Curious migration to Programmers.SE&lt;/a&gt; is an example of a post that could possibly have fit our site that was migrated away because of our bias towards software questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we should encourage more expansion into other fields, excluding the main audience of our site may create an environment that stifles our growth and which eliminates what is otherwise great content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-04-07T13:23:27.207" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1780" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-08T12:49:14.510" Score="8" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the people at my office know of my Stack Overflow account. This account (workplace) is associated with my SO account. However, I want to remove this association as this is a danger to my job. I have asked certain questions on Workplace about my job which can get me into trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="anon" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2013-04-08T15:09:10.570" LastActivityDate="2013-04-08T15:09:10.570" Title="How can I remove this (The Workplace) account association from other stack exchange sites so that It cannot be traced back to me at my office?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1780" CreationDate="2013-04-08T13:23:34.233" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/109054/167443&quot;&gt;no longer possible&lt;/a&gt; to disassociate one account from another, since accounts are now network level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since all associations are done through credentials, disassociating* doesn't really make sense anymore. It's roughly equivalent to &amp;quot;delete this account&amp;quot;, as removing the &amp;quot;associating credentials&amp;quot; would leave the user unusable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in short, it is no longer possible to disassociate accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*The associate button is still available for debugging purposes, it will be going away eventually&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is, however, possible to remove association at the post level. If you've got a particular question or answer you'd like disassociated with your account, flag it for moderator attention, and explain that using the &amp;quot;other&amp;quot; option. We will contact the devs to anonymize it (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/8806/869&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't want future questions associated with your account, you can log out (or use a different browser/incognito browser window) to ask the question as an unregistered user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-04-08T13:23:34.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1782" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1783" CreationDate="2013-04-08T16:01:42.123" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just now discovered that if you click on the actual vote total of a question (between the up/down arrows) it gives a breakdown of the total vote amounts in each direction.  I had no clue this was possible, and was considering suggesting something like it or trying to find a chrome extension to add this functionality (like with RES).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any other hidden gems that people know about to make using this site a bit more...if not easier, at least a bit more in-depth?  If we can come up with some that aren't very well known, perhaps we could add a few lines/a section to the FAQ detailing them, for new readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1374" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-12-27T01:11:53.883" LastActivityDate="2018-12-27T01:11:53.883" Title="Features that should be pushed a bit more" Tags="|discussion|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1782" CreationDate="2013-04-08T16:05:46.870" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/privileges&quot;&gt;privileges&lt;/a&gt; earned by gaining reputation. Most, if not all, of these features are described on the privileges page, along with indicators of your progress towards them (place your mouse over the percentage to see the reputation threshold to unlock it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An additional slightly non-obvious feature is advanced search options. Visit the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;search page&lt;/a&gt; and click &quot;Advanced search tips&quot; on the right for some useful filtering options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also @ replies in comments. You can reply to another user in a comment, and that user will be notified. This is done by sticking an &quot;@&quot; before their name. This (usually) offers autocomplete. You can reply to only one user in your comment, and you can only reply to a user who has commented on or edited that same post. The post author is always notified of new comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also be interested in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/8211/167443&quot;&gt;Hidden features of Stack Exchange?&lt;/a&gt; (covers a lot of Stack Exchange network-wide features), as well as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/59445/167443&quot;&gt;Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, which is a list of all new/recently changed features on the network. While not &quot;hidden&quot;, some of these may not be well-known.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-04-08T19:08:58.337" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1784" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1785" CreationDate="2013-04-08T18:54:22.740" Score="3" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to cancel a close vote you have given or do I simply wait to reopen the question if it is closed?  After the OP reworded the question I feel it should stay open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4710" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-04-09T02:13:02.700" LastActivityDate="2013-04-09T02:13:02.700" Title="Can you cancel a close vote?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1784" CreationDate="2013-04-08T19:02:09.797" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you can't rescind a close vote. However:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close votes expire if the question doesn't get closed (once it has been viewed enough times, and at a set rate as long as no new close votes are cast).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closing is not a permanent end state. If the question does get closed, it can be reopened. You are able to cast a reopen vote even if you cast a close vote (max of 1 each per question).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question has been edited to a point where you feel your close vote is no longer appropriate, then it's likely that either the question will not actually get closed, or it will be reopened rather easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2013-04-08T19:02:09.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1784" CreationDate="2013-04-09T02:01:39.083" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to what Jim said about close votes not being reversible, I also want to add that the best thing you can do in this situation is to become an advocate for getting such posts reopened by drawing attention to those posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, in cases where I've mistakenly voted to close, these are steps I've completed, with some success:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most likely, others may vote to close for the same or similar reasons as you did. Therefore, start by editing the post to eliminate the things that made you vote to close in the first place.  Editing will also bump the post to the top of the active page so others see it in its improved state.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask follow up questions to the asker that may help him/her edit the post in a manner that helps convince others to vote to reopen or that prevents more close votes from accumulating. Make it clear you plan to vote to reopen the post -- if it was closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After editing, post a link in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; and explain what you did to help fix the post. See if you can recruit more reopen voters. If you encounter more close voters, try to understand their concerns. See if you can alleviate those concerns with more edits or clarifying comments to the op.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, we achieve a much better result than reversing the vote would have. Instead, you'll help turn a somewhat borderline question into a solid Q&amp;amp;A piece while also educating the asker on how to better word his or her questions in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-04-09T02:01:39.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1787" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1790" CreationDate="2013-04-09T10:55:29.180" Score="3" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've flagged several questions, answers, and comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these have been subsequently closed, deleted, or amended; but I don't see any response to my flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are moderators responding to flags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT Nov 20th, 2013:&lt;/strong&gt; My flag weight is very high, but for some reason, no action has been taken on my flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the code broken again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditDate="2013-11-21T00:39:29.107" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T03:09:51.257" Title="Are moderators responding to flags?" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1788" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-09T14:18:03.073" Score="5" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found myself flagging a lot of comments with reasoning fairly well given per &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of times these are comments which are either in response to a comment I made (and subsequently deleted) and therefore no longer relevant or otherwise obsolete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally these are not comments which are &quot;MUST BE REMOVED&quot; levels of terribleness or offensiveness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two questions on this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How much are others flagging? I know there is an autodelete if a comment receives enough flags, and so if I know others are approaching comments similarly then I'll keep doing it :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this something the active moderators support? I suspect you all deal with this and seeing the flags for what might seem to be trivial things. Your perspective would be good too.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T03:33:31.997" Title="How aggressively should we flag comments?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1788" CreationDate="2013-04-09T14:36:44.030" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally don't see a lot of comment flags (or a lot of flags in general; the flag queue is usually pretty empty). I can't say for sure if this is because people don't flag a lot of comments or because the flagged comments get auto-deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as support: &lt;strong&gt;comments are not meant to be permanent; I have no problem clearing them out once they've served their purpose.&lt;/strong&gt; If I get a rude/offensive flag on a comment, unless it's blatantly wrong, I delete. Too chatty/not constructive (again, unless it's blatantly wrong), I delete. I've dismissed very few, and edited only one comment (most of the comment was useful, but had a small bit of rude/notconstructive/offensive statement tacked on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I encourage you to flag comments as you think is needed; they are meant to improve the post and not intended to be permanent. Once they've done that, or if they don't try to do that, there's not much point in keeping them around (with some exceptions, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditDate="2014-04-22T03:33:31.997" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T03:33:31.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1787" CreationDate="2013-04-09T16:55:10.970" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've managed to hit the elusive &quot;flag hell-ban&quot;: the majority of your flags have been declined, causing the system to no longer trust you to flag appropriately... As a consequence of this, it deletes your flags rather than showing them to moderators. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll be &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/173878/allow-recovery-from-flag-hellban&quot;&gt;re-working the behavior of this system&lt;/a&gt; soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2013-04-09T16:55:10.970" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1791" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-09T17:35:34.833" Score="3" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;So we have both the &quot;Salary&quot; and &quot;Salaried-pay&quot; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Salary: Monetary compensation for work performed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Salaried-pay: A form of payment where you receive a fixed compensation regardless of the number of hours you work. This is different than receiving compensation specifically for the hours you work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am of the mind that the &quot;salary&quot; tag should be removed, and its synonyms (&quot;pay&quot; and &quot;payment&quot;) promoted instead. &quot;Salary&quot; technically refers to payment upon reaching a fixed interval, contrasting piece wages which are paid for time spent.  Thus, the tag entry for &quot;Salary&quot; doesn't really make any sense, and is overall useless as any question referring to a &quot;Salary&quot; would be better covered with &quot;Salaried-pay&quot;.  Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I just noticed &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/492/figuring-out-the-money-related-tags?rq=1&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; in the sidebar (it didn't show up as I was typing this question up)  Does it change anything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-04-09T17:59:01.247" Title="Question about two tags" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1791" CreationDate="2013-04-09T17:59:01.247" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assume you are referring to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10965/can-a-salaried-employee-have-their-pay-docked-by-the-hour&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; - I actually believe I created that tag while editing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I did this is because right now &quot;salary&quot; is used for mostly anything money related on this site. Most questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/salary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;salary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;salary&lt;/a&gt; are not necessarily specific to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/salaried-pay&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;salaried-pay&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;salaried-pay&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That question is &lt;strong&gt;very specific&lt;/strong&gt; to someone paid with a defined salary and not hourly (or contract). The current tag for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/salary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;salary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;salary&lt;/a&gt; does not really do a good job in these cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said I am not 100% convinced having a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/salary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;salary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;salary&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/salaried-pay&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;salaried-pay&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;salaried-pay&lt;/a&gt; is ideal. But I think it is important to make a distinction between the two, or, at least, rethink how &quot;salary&quot; is currently being used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-04-09T17:59:01.247" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1773" CreationDate="2013-04-09T22:11:03.400" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow, there's a ton of comments and stuff for me to respond to!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I mentioned that PM and The Workplace have a lot in common, I was alluding to PM's reality and what I realize now to be The Workplace's &lt;em&gt;perceived&lt;/em&gt; problems of being software-oriented. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe &lt;strong&gt;enderland&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Yannis&lt;/strong&gt; have the right of it -- there's two parts to this issue. The first is, keeping away poor-quality questions. Whether these tend to correlate to software questions is irrelevant; high-quality content for sites like PM and The Workplace will (usually) be industry-agnostic. Careful editing to ensure this agnosticism in questions &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; answers (as applicable) is important. The second, that answers will often come from a software-development perspective &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; of who we are, is potentially impossible to cure. I'm &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; saying y'all should explicitly downvote these questions, nor should they undergo extensive editing when unnecessary. Let them be, but consider asking the OP to edit his/her response to be industry agnostic. No shame in being industry-specific. (I've asked questions about management consultancy, which occasionally have a conflict-of-interest issue that, while not unique to that industry, is fairly unique in how consultants' engagements are structured.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The perception (real or imagined) of all the content being software-oriented can be mitigated, also, by taking a hard look at &lt;code&gt;/questions/greatest-hits&lt;/code&gt; -- that's the list of most popular and helpful questions on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27" LastActivityDate="2013-04-09T22:11:03.400" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1788" CreationDate="2013-04-10T01:15:59.590" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When it comes to comments, whether or not I delete or dismiss the flags depends on several factors.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;What &amp;quot;comments&amp;quot; are not . . .&lt;/a&gt;, Robert Cartaino clarifies that the purpose of comments are to either improve a post or to seek clarification from an asker. Comments that attempt to answer the question or that don't further one of the aforementioned goals are subject to removal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally only remove comment threads when they're auto-flagged by the Community bot or when it's clear that the comments may further degrade a borderline not-constructive question into extended discussion.  Otherwise, if there are only a few comments, I may leave them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for comments flagged as rude/offensive, I may edit them, delete them, or dismiss them depending on my interpretation of what is rude based on discussions here in meta. Sometimes I edit if it's clear the commenter was trying to be helpful but may be misinterpreted, and I'll do this if there's been no follow up, just to help prevent any trouble resulting from the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is clearly trolling or trying to be offensive, I'll generally remove the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as how many people are flagging, that's tough to answer. I don't always get to see who flagged. Comment flags aren't generally as critical as flags on posts, so I believe it only shows the flagged comment and the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I encourage you to continue flagging. It's a way to draw attention to trouble-spots on the site.  We should check MSO to see if dismissed comment flags affect the elusive flag weight. I don't think they do, but we should check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2013-04-10T01:15:59.590" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1788" CreationDate="2013-04-10T14:52:35.117" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, here are the following comments that should be nuked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spam/offensive stuff: duh&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+1 great question/answer: Yes, we can see the votes. These are only okay if the comment otherwise has substance. If it's useless without the +1 it's still useless with it (same for -1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fix X! Okay, I fixed X!: Obsolete comments have done their work and should go out to pasture&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Long discussions on tangents: new questions should be questions, long one-on-one discussions should go to chat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions asked, then answered in comments: Edit the information into the &lt;em&gt;post&lt;/em&gt;, then flag the comments for removal. If it was important enough ask what industry Bob is in, that information is probably important enough to be in the question, not behind a &quot;10 more comments&quot; fence.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any post with over 5 comments almost certainly could use some comment pruning. There are &lt;em&gt;very very many&lt;/em&gt; posts with over 5 comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that deleting comments from the mod queue is very easy, and it's usually easy enough to delete/not delete on sight given the flag contents and the contents of the comment, so comment flags are very easy to handle. I would personally encourage a lot more comment flagging, given the low volume of comment flags I saw as a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a whole discussion needs to be purged (like a 20 message long back and forth) just flag &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; comment in the thread with a custom flag saying &quot;these should all be burned because of X (except for Y comment because Z)&quot; which makes burning multiple comments much easier. Mods actually get a button to purge all comments on a post instantly, so if that's exactly what needs to be done, just say that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line &lt;strong&gt;there are way more comments than are needed in many questions&lt;/strong&gt; and comment flags are the main way to set that right. Often I'd see a &quot;more than 20 comments in X days&quot; auto-flag before I'd actually get individual &quot;too chatty&quot; &quot;obsolete&quot; &quot;off topic&quot; flags, and the automatic flag is much less helpful for pruning &lt;em&gt;useless&lt;/em&gt; comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="42" LastEditDate="2013-04-10T16:26:38.770" LastActivityDate="2013-04-10T16:26:38.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1796" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1798" CreationDate="2013-04-11T14:11:52.297" Score="4" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;The count of &quot;Views&quot; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11013/is-it-inappropriate-to-ask-about-a-companys-dress-code-during-an-interview&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question isn't displayed correctly. It was 3, when it should be at least 4, assuming that every person viewing the question voted for the first answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did this happen previously?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: It has fixed by now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2197" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-04-11T15:25:00.277" Title="Wrong count of &quot;Views&quot;" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1797" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-11T14:26:36.343" Score="3" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10829/replying-to-job-offers&quot;&gt;What should I do when I&amp;#39;ve been verbally told I would get an offer letter, but still haven&amp;#39;t gotten one after 4 weeks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is poorly formatted, but quite clear in what is being asked...yet is very much a &quot;Which job/opportunity should i take/pursue?&quot; question...violating the FAQ.  However, it could possibly be extrapolated to a very strong, generalized question, and it has generated a pair of fairly decent answers.  I just ding'ed and hit 2k, so I was taking a look at the close vote queue and figured I would test the waters before taking any action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: i went through and tried to fix the question up a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-04-12T17:26:38.060" Title="What should we do with this question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1796" CreationDate="2013-04-11T14:27:42.287" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens from time to time (more votes than views). The view count is not updated in true real-time; there is some caching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More of an explanation of how the view count works is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/90187/167443&quot;&gt;available here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2013-04-11T14:27:42.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1797" CreationDate="2013-04-11T14:32:31.480" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is currently closed as off-topic (for the reason you've cited regarding the FAQ). If you'd like to edit it to improve the formatting, wording, and grammar, that would be a good start towards getting it reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in order to actually reopen it, it would need to be appropriately altered to be on-topic, and still cover what the author wants to ask. For this part, I'd recommend using the comments either to help guide the author to improve it or to figure out what they want to ask and edit the question accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2013-04-12T07:41:38.950" LastActivityDate="2013-04-12T07:41:38.950" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1797" CreationDate="2013-04-12T17:26:38.060" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nice edits between everyone who edited it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've voted to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-04-12T17:26:38.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1801" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-12T19:05:57.530" Score="3" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't often vote to delete questions because I don't feel I have enough Stack Exchange experience to really know how to apply this ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a site, what sorts of questions do we want to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;closed/downvoted and edited&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;closed/downvoted but left around &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deleted (after how long being closed?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="48" LastEditDate="2013-04-12T20:16:50.703" LastActivityDate="2013-04-13T18:55:15.063" Title="As a site, how do we want to determine when to delete questions?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1801" CreationDate="2013-04-12T20:17:05.803" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/413/delete-votes-and-you?&quot;&gt;Workplace Meta-FAQ post about community delete votes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Generally we only delete closed, low scoring posts with no answers or&#xA;  poor answers. Closed posts are all &quot;candidates for deletion&quot; but&#xA;  generally only irrecoverably off topic/poor questions without useful&#xA;  information in answers should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The two day waiting limit is imposed on 2,000 rep users so there's a&#xA;  window where the asker can edit and improve their question, or at&#xA;  least see why their post was closed. Even if you have 4,000 rep,&#xA;  consider waiting until the user sees what was wrong with the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is the standard I try to follow on all SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Low scoring&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No answers, or nothing but poor answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Irrecoverably off topic/poor question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No useful information in answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not recently active (at least &gt;2 days since last activity), and no one is activly working to try to edit/reopen the post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I come across a case where something doesn't match that list but I still think it should be deleted for some reason, I would discuss with the community and/or our human exception handlers (the moderators) first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When voting to delete, I am voting to take content away from the entire community, and I take that responsibility very seriously and try not to let my personal opinion of a post affect my decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2013-04-13T18:55:15.063" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1803" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1804" CreationDate="2013-04-16T00:48:35.593" Score="7" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our current tag line is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;members of the workforce navigating the professional setting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is used everywhere to describe the site. It shows up in the Google description of the site, in the very top of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, at the beginning of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;about&lt;/a&gt; page, on migration links, etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for &lt;strong&gt;members&#xA;  of the workforce navigating the professional setting.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I feel it is missing something. Our site is about the &lt;em&gt;topic&lt;/em&gt; of the workplace, and is not just a Q&amp;amp;A site for members of the workforce to get answers from each other. It's a place to go to get answers about &lt;em&gt;the workplace&lt;/em&gt;, not about &lt;em&gt;my situation&lt;/em&gt; at the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Far too often I see users posting questions here for advice because they are a &quot;member of the workplace&quot;, they are &quot;navigating the professional setting&quot;, and they have a valid question (it ends in a question mark), however their question was still closed as off-topic because it's about their specific situation at the workplace, not about the workplace in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag line is usually the first thing anyone reads about our site, and it should be crystal clear that this is a Q&amp;amp;A site about the Workplace, and not a Q&amp;amp;A site for members of the workforce to get answers from each other about anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was told by Tim Post that typically the tag line of most SE sites is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;This is a site for [acceptable skill level of audience] about&#xA;  [topic]&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;however since our site is about such a broad and subjective topic, and the audience is almost anyone, I think the topic should definitely be first and foremost in our tag line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what can we change it to that will immediately make people think this is a Q&amp;amp;A site about the workplace, and not some Dear Abby forum to get advice from other members of the workforce?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some examples of where/how I see it used:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FAQ page: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace - Stack Exchange is for &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;tagline&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google Links: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Beta Q&amp;amp;A site for &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;tagline&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About page: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;tagline&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migration links (none right now): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;belongs on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;workplace.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br/&gt;Q&amp;amp;A for &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;tagline&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ben Brocka &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/9002746#9002746&quot;&gt;has confirmed&lt;/a&gt; that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dLAs7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;top of the FAQ&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hWjW1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;top of the About page&lt;/a&gt; can be completely edited by moderators, so can we try to focus on alternative phrasings for those two bits of documentation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migration links won't become an issue until after we're out of beta, and the meta description tag &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/9003228#9003228&quot;&gt;doesn't show up&lt;/a&gt; in Google until after a site graduates. I suspect both of them are based on our Target Audience anyways, which is one of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/9004861#9004861&quot;&gt;3 fields&lt;/a&gt; you specify when you create an Area51 proposal, and is probably only modified by the SE dev team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace - Stack Exchange is for members of the workforce&#xA;  navigating the professional setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current About Page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for members&#xA;  of the workforce navigating the professional setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can we change these to that will immediately make people think this is a Q&amp;amp;A site about the workplace, and not some Dear Abby forum to get advice from other members of the workforce?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-05-01T03:57:46.283" Title="Can we update our site description (tag line) in the FAQ and About pages?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|faq-proposed|site-definition|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1803" CreationDate="2013-04-16T00:48:35.593" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best I can come up with is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt; is a Q&amp;amp;A site about the workplace and other career-related topics. It is for members of the workforce to get answers on topics such as the job hunting process, interviewing, salary negotiation, and professionalism within the Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This puts the topic first and foremost in our site's description, and will hopefully make readers immediately jump to the conclusion that our site is about a specific generalized topic, and not that we are just a Q&amp;amp;A forum for getting advice from other members of the workforce about a specific situation you are in at your workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also agree with the problems jmac outlined in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1807/316&quot;&gt;his answer&lt;/a&gt; about the current tag line sounding restrictive to the professional office environment only, and I think this addresses those concerns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be for both the FAQ page and the About page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.357" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T16:27:46.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1805" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1806" CreationDate="2013-04-17T13:57:41.343" Score="4" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something i've been noticing more recently that has piqued my interest is the voting and editing system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They don't seem to work hand in hand nor do they seem like complimentary systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, lets say an answer is posted, of very poor quality, that attracts 10 down votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The poster sees this feedback and decides to update their answer. Now the answer is of much higher quality and had attracted a few up votes, and perhaps one or two of the observant down voters have spotted the edit and retracted their downvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is where the system works well with pursuing continuous improvement and a positive feedback cycle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue is with the 8 other downvoters. The ones who didn't follow the question and who haven't seen the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The person who made the answer is now seemingly punished with these votes despite their efforts to improve upon their errors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a few potential solutions to this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ping a message to the inbox of downvoters when an edit occurs&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would basically mean that if you downvote an answer, or question, and it gets edited, you will get an automated message in the inbox to tell you that an edit has occurred and that you should review your down votes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;@downvoters gets attention&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar system, though i think this one is slightly worse as it could be easily abused. This basically means that @downvoters pings them all to the comment, alerting them of a change if the poster thinks it is significant enough to warrant change. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably not a viable or good solution, but i included it for the sake of covering all bases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clear votes when edited&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially an edit would wipe the slate, new content new votes as it were. I also see many flaws in this solution as it doesn't actually encourage anyone to return and re-vote and you have the issue of rep fluctuation etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore would it be at all viable to implement a system wherein downvoters are pinged when an edit occurs. I don't see how this could be abused and i think it could be a valuble tool in the SE toolbelt to encourage editing and re-voting of those who might not otherwise notice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you all think? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastActivityDate="2013-04-18T15:05:36.953" Title="The issue with up/down votes and edited posts. Ping Downvoters on edit" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1805" CreationDate="2013-04-17T18:42:25.130" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The good news is that a lot of great minds have had these same thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bad news is they've been declined at Meta Stack Overflow already:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Ping a message to the inbox of downvoters when an edit occurs&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1751/allow-an-edit-to-notify-downvoters-i-think-ive-fixed-the-issue-now-please-c&quot;&gt;Allow an edit to notify downvoters: &amp;quot;I think I&amp;#39;ve fixed the issue now - please check&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think this is by far the best suggestion, although could produce too much noise.  It's clearly a popular suggestion, with 273/-13 at Meta SO.  Perhaps you could revive it with a MSO bounty? (I wouldn't say that chances are good, but if you do want to put some attention on this issue, &lt;strong&gt;Meta Stack Overflow is the place&lt;/strong&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;@downvoters gets attention&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/37090/downvoter-sends-a-notification-to-all-downvoters-for-your-post&quot;&gt;@Downvoter sends a notification to all downvoters for your post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Clear votes when edited&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I couldn't find any record of this suggestion, I'm sure you can see the many ways this could be gamed without a significantly more complicated implementation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although there is no current way to bring downvoters back to &lt;em&gt;undo&lt;/em&gt; their votes, edits are a primary cog in the Stack Exchange system and there are already mechanisms to encourage attention to edited posts (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/48579/143601&quot;&gt;bumping the question to the top&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the original answer was &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; bad and got a lot of downvotes, the answerer can always delete their answer and try again.  This would obviously bump the question too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-04-17T18:42:25.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1803" CreationDate="2013-04-18T04:11:02.873" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Issues with the Current Tagline&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;members of the workforce&lt;/strong&gt; navigating the professional setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Retirees, the currently unemployed, and otherwise thoughtful people should also be welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;members of the workforce &lt;strong&gt;navigating the professional setting&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The professional setting&quot; sounds to me like it means &quot;office&quot; which I in no way think the site should be limited to. If someone wants to ask a question like, &lt;em&gt;&quot;Another trucker is using my call sign, how can I bring it up with him?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; I think it should be more than welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What is the site about?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Getting General Guidance (not localized advice)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;About Work-related Topics (not &quot;professional settings&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From Like-Minded Professionals (not &quot;experts&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;My Suggestion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq#questions&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Old:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace - Stack Exchange is for members of the workforce navigating the professional setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange is for &lt;strong&gt;general guidance&lt;/strong&gt; on work-related issues from like-minded professionals. We invite questions that use actual experiences as context to ask a broader question about how to approach a work-related situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;About Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Old:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt; is a question and answer site for members of the workforce navigating the professional setting. It's built and run by you as part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; network of Q&amp;amp;A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt; is a question and answer site for &lt;strong&gt;general guidance&lt;/strong&gt; on work-related issues from like-minded professionals. It's built and run by you as part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; network of Q&amp;amp;A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-04-18T04:11:02.873" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1805" CreationDate="2013-04-18T15:05:36.953" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post questions you feel are unfairly still down-voted to meta here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They will get attention and (if the question is good) probably upvoted by others who - at the very least - feel they have received downvotes which should be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dislike this problem too, but this is a solution I've found pretty effective (same with closed questions post-edit, though we have some people who LOVE clearing out the review queue).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-04-18T15:05:36.953" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2013-04-19T11:07:23.183" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A new thought, why not have paper clips as the badge icons? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of any workplace representative icon better than a paper clip!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been part of the workplace for decades, first in physical form, then again as Clippy the paper clip in word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T11:07:23.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1803" CreationDate="2013-04-20T18:10:07.670" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take this question, which is clearly a general advice poll:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11231/i-have-been-fired-or-not-renewed-my-contract-how-to-get-over-that&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11231/i-have-been-fired-or-not-renewed-my-contract-how-to-get-over-that&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The objective isn't clear. The asker has not specified a clear question that helps askers understand what his goal is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then compare that to this question, which is more clear, objective, and definitive:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11197/how-can-i-approach-career-development-with-a-boss-who-doesnt-seem-to-support-th&quot;&gt;How can I approach career development with a boss who doesn&amp;#39;t seem to support this?&lt;/a&gt;.  However, I can picture the last part of the question saying something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do in this situation?  &lt;em&gt;(unclear objective)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both questions are similar in nature, but the most important difference is in the clarity of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I suspect that many general advice questions have potential to be partially rewritten so that they're more objective. Perhaps the answer is that we be more aggressive in closing, editing, and reopening these posts and leave the &amp;quot;Dear Workplace&amp;quot; wording out of the FAQ.  Even if we make assumptions about the asker and &lt;em&gt;guess&lt;/em&gt; in our edits, that may help solve this problem by getting the ball rolling. If the edits are wrong, the asker can always edit and clarify before we reopen the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, we could also put some tips in the FAQ about how to word these questions so they're more likely to be accepted by the community:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;How to post questions on The Workplace SE:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Workplace SE is not a discussion forum for general advice, so if you have a real, actual problem you're facing, please be sure to clearly state your question, both in the title and in the question body. This will ensure that your question receives answers based on facts, references, and specific expertise.  Posts that don't clearly state the question may be closed by the community for further editing so that the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq#close&quot;&gt;can possibly be reopened&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of asking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How should I handle this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try wording your post so that it's more clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What actions can I take to help ensure that I can resign from the company without management giving me a bad review?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there something I can say to my colleague to salvage our business relationship so that the work environment is not so toxic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may help turn that shoddy &amp;quot;raw material&amp;quot; -- but raw material with &lt;em&gt;potential&lt;/em&gt; -- into something that fits our Q&amp;amp;A model a little better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-04-20T21:04:53.633" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1811" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-21T18:43:17.280" Score="8" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a work in progress. Now that the FAQ has be changed as per &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1720/can-we-add-questions-asking-for-advice-to-the-list-of-off-topic-questions&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, I think we need a guide on &amp;quot;how to ask a question / write an answer&amp;quot; section here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also,  I'm not sure how to best do a work in progress on these sites...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I plan on reducing content from here to make it less TL;DR as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;New User Guide&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Welcome!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello and welcome to The Workplace!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P66LI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may have noticed this is not a normal online community. It is different from most online mailing lists, forums, and discussion boards, as well as even other sites on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites#oldest&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange network&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, this can make the site seem &lt;em&gt;hostile&lt;/em&gt; to new users. This site is focused on high quality questions and answers, and as a result, sometimes your content may be downvoted or even closed. These standards can be frustrating at first, but are required to consistently provide high quality content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Table of Contents&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1813/98&quot;&gt;How to ask a high quality question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1814/98&quot;&gt;How to write a high quality answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-04-23T10:02:30.803" Title="New Users Guide" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|new-users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-04-21T18:57:36.203" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1811" CreationDate="2013-04-21T19:23:12.277" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;How to ask a high quality question&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible you are reading this because you had something you wanted answered about the workplace and came here - only to find it downvoted or even closed. If this is you (or you want to ensure your future questions are good) then this section is for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, questions which are successful here will have both of the following attributes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A specific question which can actually be answered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Useful to users other than yourself &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's talk about the types of questions which are &lt;em&gt;not good&lt;/em&gt; for this format. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; describes some but here are some more detailed explanations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Asking for advice&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, if your question can be easily rephrased &quot;help me make a decision&quot; or &quot;give me guidance&quot; it will be closed. We have seen a &lt;em&gt;large&lt;/em&gt; variety of these, but some of the most popular are:&#xA;  - &lt;em&gt;What job should I take?&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;em&gt;What should I do?&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;em&gt;Should I do XXXXX I don't know?&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;em&gt;I did/didn't do XXXX, was this a good idea?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason these questions are closed is that overwhelmingly these questions are more suited to discussions than a question/answer. No one can answer what is right for &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This community is not a Workplace equivalent of Dear Abby - most of these questions cannot be answered as they are soliciting &lt;em&gt;opinions&lt;/em&gt; on what should, or should not, be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, consider focusing on the &lt;em&gt;answerable&lt;/em&gt; components for your question. For example, you could ask:&#xA; - &lt;em&gt;What are key differences between a large company and a small company to consider when evaluating a job offer?&lt;/em&gt;&#xA; - &lt;em&gt;How can I prevent a coworker from continuing to steal my office supplies?&lt;/em&gt;&#xA; - &lt;em&gt;What are the factors I should consider before doing XXXXX?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are more focused than the first list and, more importantly, they have a specific question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Complaining/ranting.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know, your coworkers are awful and make your life miserable.&#xA;   Unfortunately, letting off steam normally results in a rant rather&#xA;   than a good question. Focus on the &lt;em&gt;specific problem&lt;/em&gt; and leave the&#xA;   emotional and personal details aside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1811/98&quot;&gt;Return to Contents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-04-22T11:41:19.307" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-04-21T19:23:12.277" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1811" CreationDate="2013-04-21T19:25:38.753" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;How to write a high quality answer&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any high quality answer at a minimum:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Responds to a High Quality Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best answer for a rant, discussion, or other low quality question is an edit, a downvote, or a close vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers the underlying Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user's question is, &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9128/how-can-i-prepare-for-getting-hit-by-a-bus&quot;&gt;How can I prepare for getting hit by a bus?&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; don't spend time explaining how to avoid buses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does Not Contain Questions or Conditionals&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your answer contains phrases like, &amp;quot;Depending on the industry...&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Do you use X? if yes...&amp;quot; then use a comment to clarify the question before answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to improve your answers further, here are some good guidelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proofread Your Answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before hitting &amp;quot;Post Your Answer&amp;quot; read through your answer to make sure it answers the question and contains no errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Format Your Answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Form matters, and an answer that uses formatting to make your point clearer will be better received. Check the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;editing help&lt;/a&gt; for details on formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Provides Timeless Information&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about potential questions someone would have if they read what you wrote in 10 years. Industry-specific jargon, and currently trendy technologies may not last. Explaining the concept will get the message across and keep your answer relevant in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1811/98&quot;&gt;Return to Contents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-04-22T11:41:43.120" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-04-21T19:25:38.753" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1819" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1820" CreationDate="2013-04-22T22:29:08.080" Score="19" ViewCount="4733" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to be the default structure of workplace questions.  From the current front page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11246/dealing-with-co-workers-intentionally-working-slower-to-milk-their-work-hours&quot;&gt;Dealing with co-workers intentionally working slower to milk their&#xA;work hours?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11239/how-to-not-let-co-workers-incompetence-affect-my-productivity&quot;&gt;How to not let co-worker's incompetence affect my&#xA;productivity?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11248/should-i-confront-a-colleague-who-uses-another-co-worker-to-air-grievances-with&quot;&gt;Should I confront a colleague who uses another&#xA;co-worker to air grievances with me? [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11247/how-to-deal-with-a-coworker-who-is-a-troll&quot;&gt;How to deal with a coworker who is a troll? [closed]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/6981/how-to-get-a-peer-to-stop-giving-me-orders&quot;&gt;How to get a peer to stop giving me orders?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11161/is-it-discrimination-when-my-boss-treats-me-differently-after-finding-out-that-i&quot;&gt;Is it discrimination when my boss treats me differently after finding out that I'm looking for a new job? [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10159/how-to-ask-software-team-for-basic-yet-important-tasks-without-lowering-morale&quot;&gt;How to ask software team for basic yet important tasks without lowering morale?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, not as bad as I suspected, though I didn't look under some of the more vaguely worded questions that may be of this form under the covers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, obviously dealing with difficult bosses and co-workers is a legitimate workplace topics.  And various advice columnists have built most of their content answering questions like the above in the domain of family and marriage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, it seems that this is not quite what we're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As noted some of these questions are closed.  In other cases, sometimes the question can be re-worded to make them more general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, I wonder if we need to write that the purpose of this board is not to provide a place for you to vent about your bosses and co-workers.  That, in describing a situation you should describe others' behavior using as neutral language at possible, even erring on the side of being too generous.  (e.g. rather than say your boss is &quot;micromanaging&quot;, describe the types of requests your are given).  This is more likely to be generally useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe, it's not such a big deal...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="375" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T23:49:54.757" Title="How do I deal with the fact that I'm awesome and everyone around me sucks?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1819" CreationDate="2013-04-23T01:48:03.983" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No Magic Bullets - Editing the FAQ won't solve the problem:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree these posts are problematic, I'm not entirely convinced editing the FAQ -- adding in lists of things to not do on the Workplace SE -- is the solution.  I speak from experience as a moderator on Project Management, where we sometimes get a lot of shopping-style questions, the ones where askers are merely looking for software that does X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These aren't really good questions on any SE site, and the PMSE community decided it was time to revisit the FAQ. In the end, our FAQ looked a little... unwelcoming.  What's more, dropping links to our FAQ on the posts themselves just came off as passive aggressive, even though that isn't what any of us intended. Long story short, we rewrote the FAQ to make it sound both a little more welcoming and concise. This involved removing most, if not all, of the list of things not to do on PMSE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;Think Bold!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bold Editing and Constructive Commenting to the rescue:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, we can't solve a site's content problems through the FAQ and About pages. However, we can make a &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; difference by editing and leaving constructive, helpful comments -- comments which accompany close votes yet are as nice and encouraging as possible.  To salvage these posts, we'll have to be a little more &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/471/did-the-edits-on-the-question-about-how-to-bridge-the-gap-between-management-and&quot;&gt;forceful in our edits and take some risks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For instance, if your edits change the meaning of a post, so be it.  Let the asker come back and sort it out with edits of his/her own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/471/did-the-edits-on-the-question-about-how-to-bridge-the-gap-between-management-and#comment1347_473&quot;&gt;Be bold in your editing on closed, unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;, but encourage the asker to fix anything you may have broken in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If we can guess what someone is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; asking, and reword the post to focus on specifics, then one of three things will likely happen:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The asker will say we changed the main idea of the question, and he/she will use the existing edits to refine the question even further. If the question is closed, he/she will have some time to correct any editing errors while also ensuring that the post remains constructive. If the community reopens the post, everybody wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The asker won't edit the question, but we'll still have great content for thousands of visitors per day to find through Google searches. While there's just one asker, there are thousands of people who view the content on our site everyday who didn't author the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The asker won't edit the question, and we discover through editing that the post is simply not constructive. These posts will of course remain closed, but we would have closed them anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The world is full of Agonized Aunts, Drama Queens, and Narcissistic Personalities, and many of those people are going to post questionable content on our site.  But by closing early, then editing with extreme prejudice, I'm confident we can not only salvage more content, but we can also grow our site at a sustainable, healthy pace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-04-23T01:53:30.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1803" CreationDate="2013-04-23T02:35:49.933" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;After some prodding, I made some edits to the FAQ. However, I see this as a probationary edit. In the back of my mind sits &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/481/clarifying-that-this-sites-scope-is-a-topic-and-not-a-community-in-the-faq/483#comment1391_483&quot;&gt;the following comment from Rarity&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't really agree with explicitly enumerating what we do here because that implicitly excludes all else. I would rather implicitly include what we do and explicitly exclude what we know to be 99% problematic. What is on topic is the general topic area, not any explicit list of specific items.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd hate to see Rarity's words come back to haunt us. The fact that we have enumerated some topics should serve to help clarify what we do, yet not exclude certain topics just because they're not explicitly listed in the FAQ. In this regard, Rarity makes a great point:  I encourage everyone to be open about what types of questions are asked and evaluate each post on its own merits. In short, our topic should still implicitly include Workplace topics that we don't have listed, until we have a good reason to explicitly exclude it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it appears that these recent FAQ changes are causing more harm than good, we can -- and should -- make more changes to move forward, including rolling them back if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2013-04-23T02:42:21.320" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1819" CreationDate="2013-04-23T13:10:24.420" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1803/316&quot;&gt;updating our opening line about the site&lt;/a&gt; would help more than burying another bullet point somewhere in the Don't Ask section&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our FAQ and About pages both begin with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace - Stack Exchange is for members of the workforce&#xA;  navigating the professional setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's just begging for these kinds of questions, as all of them are by members of the workforce who are trying to navigate the professional setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure many people read the starting line of the site description, and then realize the rest is a big wall of text and just skip past it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we want a site for questions about the &lt;em&gt;topic&lt;/em&gt; of the workplace, and not full of questions about &lt;em&gt;your situation&lt;/em&gt; at the workplace, then we need to make that clear to the users asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wording &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1804/316&quot;&gt;I proposed here&lt;/a&gt; is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange is a Q&amp;amp;A site about the workplace and&#xA;  other career-related topics. It is for members of the workforce to get&#xA;  answers on topics such as the job hunting process, interviewing,&#xA;  salary negotiation, and professionalism within the Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm fine with some variation of that too, but I think we definitely need to change our opening description of the site to being about the topic of the workplace, and not have it only focus on the type of person this site is for. That's just begging for these kinds of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-04-23T13:10:24.420" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1773" CreationDate="2013-04-24T13:30:56.370" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all understand the demographic problem rather well, but IMHO any approach to fix the problem cannot occur from our activities within the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As users we ask questions, provide comments, ensure quality and work within the bounds of our site abilities to provide the content.  We all know why most of us are here, because a lot of us are bored/angry/emotional/egotistical software developers, mostly on StackOverflow, that enjoy writing and helping others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;But this is a marketing problem and NOT a content problem!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I mean by that is that as users we are great at generating quality site content but are limited at marketing.  We can push the site on our social media pages and recommend the site to friends.  StackExchange provides the tools to do just that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How much of us are taking advantage of the social media integration tools?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few of us likely are. Many of us may be a bit ashamed of &lt;em&gt;that one rant&lt;/em&gt; that might get you in trouble.  A lot of workplaces also monitor employee's social media and look for bad mouthing of the employer.  Even if this is rare it is a real enough fear that many of us are hesitant to push the site on our social media feeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How can StackExchange better encourage a grass roots social media campaign?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps one area to look is what made StackOverflow such an enormous success amongst softare developers.  We can say the quality controls, the peer reviewed editing model and yes these played a factor, but ultimately it was the uncanny execution of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gamification&lt;/a&gt; features that took the common bored software developer answering technical questions on a forum, and turned it into a competitive game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all know that Area 51 rewards a modest amount of reputation for emailing, or &quot;sharing&quot; new site proposals with people, and that sharing itself is easy on any site.  The next step is finding the right competitive edge or gamification technique that will encourage a large amount of users to start advertising the site to a broader audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will have a cumulative effect in that more social media buzz and hard links to Workplace will result in increased page rank through Google and Bing, thus furthering the chances that the next 10k user in the making just happens to stumble upon it and then like it enough to stay and contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What else can StackExchange do?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ball is in their court as far as I am considered.  They choose to not graudate Workplace because of a problem that only they can solve at this point so they have to own this and be responsible for fixing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T13:30:56.370" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1824" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1825" CreationDate="2013-04-25T03:05:05.277" Score="-6" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/11013/437&quot;&gt;Is it appropriate to ask about a company&amp;#39;s dress code during an interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am 100% sure that this &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; a real problem that the OP faces.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If this question commands +60, and the accepted answer commands +90, then what does that say about the viability of Workplace.SE?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this really a question that we'd like to feature on our front door? As a shining example of what Workplace.SE is all about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T03:32:15.300" Title="Why did this post get so many upvotes?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-04-25T03:34:00.030" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1824" CreationDate="2013-04-25T03:25:51.310" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is clear, well-written, and about a topic that many people will likely face during the interview process.  Knowing the answers to this question could possibly help someone pass an interview and land a job they need, or it could help someone know that the job they're interviewing for just isn't for them. It could result in someone's increased happiness, either way, by giving them the confidence to know if the position is for him or her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's quite possible this is not a real, actual problem the &lt;em&gt;asker&lt;/em&gt; is facing, we shouldn't take this too literally; it is a real, actual problem someone might likely face or perhaps a problem the asker may have even faced in the past or will face in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We oftentimes suggest to new users that they focus their questions on a problem they're facing because it's the easiest way to get people to think along the lines of what would be a good, constructive topic for a Stack Exchange site.  While it is possible to ask about a problem someone else might have, it isn't always easy, and many people have trouble wording questions in a constructive manner that they don't have a direct interest in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for answers, the top answer meets the guidelines in the FAQ. It's backed up with facts, references, and the specific expertise of the author as a person who has conducted many interviews. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, our users nailed it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T03:25:51.310" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1826" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-26T02:06:00.160" Score="7" ViewCount="329" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1820/7945&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; by jmort, and a suggestion by enderland in chat, I thought it would be useful to create a consolidated post where we can point users to when we downvote/close/edit their questions so that they understand the site guidelines better (and hopefully learn a bit about our thought process).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am yoinking the introduction from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1811/new-users-guide&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; because I think it applies equally well here, and no sense in re-inventing the wheel!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Welcome!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello and welcome to The Workplace!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may have noticed this is not a normal online community. It is different from most online mailing lists, forums, and discussion boards, as well as even other sites on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites#oldest&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange network&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, this can make the site seem &lt;em&gt;hostile&lt;/em&gt; to new users. This site is focused on high quality questions and answers, and as a result, sometimes your content may be downvoted, aggressively edited, or even closed. These standards can be frustrating at first, but are required to consistently provide high quality content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Table of Contents&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1827/5305&quot;&gt;It was a rant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1828/5305&quot;&gt;It was an 'agony aunt' question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1829/5305&quot;&gt;It was asking for legal advice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1830/5305&quot;&gt;It was polling for opinion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1831/5305&quot;&gt;It was asking for advice only useful to me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T07:13:29.313" Title="Why was my question edited/closed/downvoted?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1826" CreationDate="2013-04-26T02:06:00.160" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;It was a rant&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;So I started this computer company, built it up with my buddy Steve, and then this jerk comes in as CEO and tries to take credit for the success of the company while running it in to the ground! I may have lost my temper, and threw a hissy fit, and the next thing I know I'm forced to resign from a company that I founded! What the heck was he thinking?! Doesn't he know that I'm the brains of this outfit! How can I get him to realize what a colossal boob he is?!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every now and again we all run in to situations at work that make us want to tear out our hair and have a proper whinge about. That doesn't mean this is the place to do it. While we all empathize with your situation (and do a fair bit of this ourselves), we take it to the appropriate channels, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;The Water Cooler Chat&lt;/a&gt; or the poor soul sitting next to us at the local bar after work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We encourage bringing up tough situations at work which allow us to solve a problem, but we can't let you use The Workplace as a sounding board for your frustrations, since there are more complaints than constructive solutions to problems out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T02:06:00.160" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-04-26T02:06:00.160" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1826" CreationDate="2013-04-26T02:18:35.580" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;It was an '&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/agony_aunt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;agony aunt&lt;/a&gt;' question&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dear The Workplace, recently I applied for an internship at DeLorean Motors. I think I nailed the interview, because they called me back and said they were considering me for a position as CEO! Right now I'm working at Good Burger as a fry cook, and I really like my coworkers and don't want to let them down. There's also this really cute burger flipper who I have my eye on! But DeLorean is offering me vesting stock options in the company (even though I prefer a higher base salary!). I know this is a great professional opportunity, but I really don't want to let down my colleagues. I am also allergic to time travel, which I hear may be a problem at DeLorean. What should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all want advice on tough choices. It's hard to decide whether to pick schooling or a job, or to decide which job to pick, or when to resign. When you make these decisions there is no &amp;quot;right answer&amp;quot; so we look to get as many different viewpoints as possible. Since these questions don't have any sort of objective &amp;quot;right answer&amp;quot; this isn't the place for them. Future visitors will not get any useful advice from knowing whether you picked the CEO job or stuck as a Good Burger fry cook!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We really like questions that are based on your tough decision that come up, like, &amp;quot;How can I negotiate a better base salary instead of stock options instead of base salary for a senior position?&amp;quot; These sorts of questions may not tell you what to do in the situation, but they will give you hints on how to approach the problem, and they will be useful for people with a similar problem in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T02:18:35.580" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-04-26T02:18:35.580" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1826" CreationDate="2013-04-26T02:28:25.223" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;It was asking for legal advice&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My company got &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/patents/USD504889&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this patent&lt;/a&gt; which was pretty revolutionary at the time and created a brand new market that we were first in to. Soon afterward one of our overseas competitors totally stole that patent and was entirely unapologetic about it! I would like to know what my rights are to sue them in the following countries:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;South Korea&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Japan&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Germany&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;France&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Italy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Netherlands&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Australia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great Britain (Scotland, Wales, North Ireland, and England separately if different)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;United States&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when all else fails it's time to turn to the legal system to solve the problem. The issue is that The Workplace is not a substitute for professional legal advice. If your problem is serious enough that you need to speak to a lawyer, it's best to pony up the money to speak to a lawyer rather than asking here (you do get what you pay for after all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of asking about the legal aspects, you may want to ask a question related to taking legal action, but not actually involving the law. Something like, &amp;quot;How can I minimize the damage to my reputation from a very public lawsuit?&amp;quot; This question will help you solve the fundamental problem without having to resort to asking non-lawyers for legal advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T02:28:25.223" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-04-26T02:28:25.223" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1826" CreationDate="2013-04-26T02:41:39.160" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;It was polling for opinion&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am currently looking for new jobs. What corners in Tennoji, Osaka have you found to offer the best day laborer work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-or-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am currently looking for day laborers. What is the best free newspaper to advertise in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you just want to know what's out there, and ask a question to get the opinions of folks with experience. Unfortunately, these answers quickly become outdated, and they don't really fall in line with the type and quality of questions The Workplace is looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than polling for answers, why not ask a more general question that will help you solve your problem? For instance, &amp;quot;How can I improve the quality of staff I get from temp agencies?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T02:41:39.160" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-04-26T02:41:39.160" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1826" CreationDate="2013-04-26T02:49:53.250" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;It was asking for advice only useful to me&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have had 5 years of experience as the Commander in Chief of the United States, 4 years as a US Senator for Illinois, 8 years of experience as a State Senator for Illinois, have a law degree from Harvard Law School, and a BA from Columbia University. I currently make $400,000, with $50,000 of comped expenses, and a $100,000 stipend for travel. How much can I earn on the speaker circuit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all want to know what our market value is, or how we can improve our employability, or how we can jazz up our resume. Unfortunately, any answer that is provided will apply only to that one situation and isn't too likely to help future visitors. Since the goal of the site is to provide a resource to people other than the person asking the question, questions like these are not appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of asking such a specific question based on the details of your individual situation, why not ask a broader question like, &amp;quot;What is the risk of looking for consulting work before resigning from my current job?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T02:49:53.250" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-04-26T02:49:53.250" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1832" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1834" CreationDate="2013-04-26T13:57:44.587" Score="5" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently we seem to be facing a larger than usual epidemic of users posting comments that are essentially short answers, or semi-answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These comments add nothing to the posts and I feel we should be doing something about them, mainly because comments are supposed to be used 'For adding value to the post'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of this it has been agreed upon before, inclusive of mods, that comments are not supposed to be considered as permanent additions to these posts, which furthers the uselessness of giving answers as comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of this behavior can be found:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11350/is-it-reasonable-to-turn-down-an-onsite-interview-due-to-length&quot;&gt;Is it reasonable to turn down an onsite interview due to length?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can say yes or no, completly your choice. But the company that&#xA;  does the best job checking the skills of those they hire are the least&#xA;  likely to hire this guy. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11350/is-it-reasonable-to-turn-down-an-onsite-interview-due-to-length&quot;&gt;outsourced&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11350/is-it-reasonable-to-turn-down-an-onsite-interview-due-to-length&quot;&gt;my&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11357/what-are-the-benefits-of-having-a-prospective-employee-spend-the-entire-day-in-a&quot;&gt;job&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11350/is-it-reasonable-to-turn-down-an-onsite-interview-due-to-length&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;  articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/17/business/… &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11350/is-it-reasonable-to-turn-down-an-onsite-interview-due-to-length&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;  edition.cnn.com/2013/01/17/business/us-outsource-job-china &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11357/what-are-the-benefits-of-having-a-prospective-employee-spend-the-entire-day-in-a&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;  abcnews.go.com/Business/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11357/what-are-the-benefits-of-having-a-prospective-employee-spend-the-entire-day-in-a&quot;&gt;What are the benefits of having a prospective employee spend the entire day in an interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think it's typically in larger organizations where the bureaucracy&#xA;  dictates that many people have to give the 'OK' to hire. (In other&#xA;  words, it takes all day because a user has to be interviewed by many&#xA;  people)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't want to make a whole answer out of this -- but lunch! You get&#xA;  to eat lunch with the candidate where they are (hopefully) more&#xA;  relaxed and less in &quot;interview mode.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could go on for a while but this seems like enough to get my point across.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should we be doing about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging to be removed?&#xA;Ignoring?&#xA;Upvoting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally i am in favor of flagging for removal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-04-27T20:53:01.577" Title="What do we do about Answers being given in Comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2013-04-26T15:23:47.670" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first step in this situation should be to reply to the comment, suggesting it be posted as an answer. Allow the user who wrote the comment some time to write up and post an answer (maybe it's a comment because they didn't have time to write a whole answer, or the system decided it was trivial and automatically converted it to a comment). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is no response and it seems the user isn't going to write an answer, feel free to go ahead and write up your own answer. If the user does eventually get around to writing up an answer, you can take yours down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly the comment should be removed (once the user has had a chance to see the response about posting as an answer). Simply flag it for mod attention and we will take care of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T15:23:47.670" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2013-04-26T15:31:46.827" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;We want answers to be well-developed, so encouraging people to post these comments as answers, without expanding them, would not serve us well.  It would just set a bad example for what kinds of answers we're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, given a case where the person isn't willing to put in the effort to make a proper answer, the question becomes: is a comment better than nothing, or worse?  I find myself leaving these kinds of comments sometimes for low-value questions, where the question might not survive but I can at least throw a quick hint to the OP to help him &lt;em&gt;solve his problem&lt;/em&gt;.  This doesn't seem wrong to me, but we collectively need to keep it from getting out of hand -- suggestions are fine, but conversations should go to chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T15:31:46.827" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2013-04-27T03:15:46.947" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with suggesting people post their comments as answers, in addition to all of Monica Cellio's points, is that there are just so many comments that attempt to provide a hit and run answer. There are lots of them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Encouraging all of these people to post answers might backfire, and we may get hit with a lot of low quality content.  I'd prefer to just simply see them flagged for comment cleanup and removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried to be good about removing comments when they build up, in the interests of keeping the site on-topic and avoiding extended discussion and debate on the Q&amp;amp;A portion of the site.  I'll continue working on remove the comments that don't seek to improve the post or seek clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I can include a blurb about using answers to answer the question fully as per the guidelines in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, but as far as approaching individual comments, we should only do this if the person said something awesome and definitely has room to expand on it beyond the length of a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way people can help with comment cleanup is to look at comments that contain useful information, and edit them into the question or answer. Or, as Jim suggests, post your own answer and maybe briefly mention the person who posted the comment.  Afterwards, flag the comments as obsolete.  This has no negative effect on the person who posted the comment; it's just part of the normal operations of comment-handling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I go through a long thread of comments, I try to weight each comment individually and preserve useful information. This is especially effective if the comment was posted by the answerer or asker, as this teaches them to update their post with clarifying information instead of leaving it in the comments where it's less likely to be seen. Additionally, the questions in the comments seeking clarification can also be flagged as obsolete, once the issue with the post has been addressed via editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, some comments are okay. They can serve as signposts to other users and teach those new to The Workplace, and those just browsing, what the rules are. It's when the comments head into the double-digits that they become less useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-04-27T16:35:41.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1836" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-27T15:07:29.043" Score="1" ViewCount="457" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11388/what-does-senior-director-mean&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; are becoming more popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should we do with them? I understand their value here, because they often times are legitimate issues within a Workplace but at the same time, they often are specific to each company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was closed recently by&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;closed as not constructive by Jim G., Amy Blankenship, JeffO, SpikyBlue, Paul Brown 6 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With no explanation ???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-05-01T20:01:48.887" Title="Whose title is it anyway (and why was this question closed)?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1836" CreationDate="2013-04-27T16:14:51.220" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you mentioned, the question is legitimate. The asker's problem is that he/she doesn't understand the titles he/she encounters in the workplace, both within the organization and outside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can of course be confusing for a new graduate, or someone who hasn't come to the understanding that titles are either meaningless or apply only to a single organization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, we can only have so many &quot;What does X title mean&quot; questions before all the answers start to look the same.  If you find exact duplicates, vote to close.  But if the question has some differences and still adds value, then we should answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One strategy I use when I find a possible duplicate that I'm not 100% sure about is this:  I put the ball in the asker's court.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drop a link to the suspected duplicate as a comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask the asker to take a look at the answers posted in the other question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If none of those answers actually answer the asker's question, ask the asker to update the post with more details that clarify the differences between the two questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-04-27T16:14:51.220" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1838" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-27T16:43:42.963" Score="4" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any ads or similar revenue generating materials anywhere in the page. So I am wondering, where does the money come in for maintaining this page? I saw sections about hiring employees, but who pays for them and why? Obviously there should be some kind of ROI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7582" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2013-04-29T14:04:59.870" LastActivityDate="2013-05-01T01:03:08.723" Title="How does this site generate revenue?" Tags="|support|site-policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2013-04-27T17:03:17.017" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't realize there would be disagreement on this. Also am sad people missed the irony of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1832/what-do-we-do-about-answers-being-given-in-comments/1835#comment2492_1832&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt; previously...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In seriousness, I really do not think this is a problem. The problem is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; people posting answers as comments (if you can fight that without perpetuating &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1627/we-need-to-downvote-answers-more-even-mediocre-ones&quot;&gt;this problem&lt;/a&gt; let me know) but rather people discussing the question via comments or making opinion judgements, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this site were to ONLY have high-quality answers with lots of comment &quot;answers&quot; I think that would be more than desirable. People can still vote on (or even expand) comments which aren't really comprehensive where appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I would much rather people who want to contribute here but who are not willing/wanting to put the time into comprehensive answers to simply put comments than create answers which get down-voted and which drives them away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2013-04-27T20:53:01.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1838" CreationDate="2013-04-27T17:21:49.770" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace SE is a Stack Exchange Q&amp;amp;A &lt;em&gt;Beta&lt;/em&gt; site, and sites that are still in the beta phase are in a probationary period where Stack Exchange determines if the Q&amp;amp;A site will be a viable Q&amp;amp;A site that will last indefinitely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some beta sites eventually die out and must be closed while others remain in beta until it's clear that there is enough interest and community involvement to where losing a few key members won't significantly impact the site's future success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow could lose its entire first page of top users, and Stack Overflow would still only have a few scratch marks that are easily buffed out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to answer your question, this site doesn't generate any revenue at the moment, and it's funded through the advertising that exists on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt; that have launched completely, such as Stack Overflow.  Once the Workplace SE graduates, it will contain advertisements and generate revenue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As others have pointed out, there are ads for Stack Overflow Careers, which is a revenue generator. Additionally, I occasionally see ads for other Stack Exchange Q&amp;amp;A sites, which are yet another way to make Stack Exchange more &quot;sticky&quot; by getting people hooked on topics that interest them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-05-01T01:03:08.723" LastActivityDate="2013-05-01T01:03:08.723" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1836" CreationDate="2013-04-30T03:27:40.010" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is constructive, but waay too localized and cannot be answered without heaps of extra contextual clues &lt;strong&gt;specific to the organization&lt;/strong&gt; the OP is talking about. @enderland's answer is correct, yet not universally applicable to all countries, sectors or types of hierarchy. Am voting to leave the question closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5433" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T03:27:40.010" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1819" CreationDate="2013-04-30T19:51:20.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the FAQ about which questions people should ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These all seem to qualify, especially from the POV of the questioner. Yes, they're somewhat situational but the FAQ says nothing about that. We cannot fault people for doing what the FAQ tells them to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That people feel the need to ask these things shows that they never had the chance to learn how to operate within their organization. Perhaps there's poor training. Perhaps their manager is abysmal. Perhaps the questioner simply never knew before that it's something which should be asked. Regardless, this is a problem which needs to be resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, not enough people feel comfortable discussing these matters directly with their managers (for whatever reason) but they &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; feel comfortable posing the issue to their peers on StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you change the purpose of this board to disallow people from asking these questions about how to function in the workplace then where will they turn for reliable answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the idea of better focusing the description of the board purpose is a great one, that will not stop this sort of question from arising. People are confused and frustrated and need somewhere they can turn for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of closing the door to this avenue of assistance, if we as a community would like the questions to be more general in nature then we should commit to commenting on them to help the questioner better craft the question they've posed. We're all managers/leaders/etc. We should always prefer helping people solve their problems to just shutting them down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: The problem isn't with the questioners. It's with us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8523" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T19:51:20.917" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1843" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-02T18:22:58.467" Score="1" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11480/i-have-finally-ended-up-with-committing-which-im-not-able-to-fulfill-how-could&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11480/i-have-finally-ended-up-with-committing-which-im-not-able-to-fulfill-how-could&lt;/a&gt;. I feel guilt for what happened and I don't want to end up with this kind of situation again. In the situations I see the mistake or root issue lies with current management. Hence I would like to realize what I have missed in the entire episode so that I can take away lessons from this episode. Instead of appreciating my spirit, people here are demotivating me with their down votes. What is the problem with my question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19430" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T19:24:04.807" Title="Why is my question about keeping commitments attracting down votes?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|down-votes|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1843" CreationDate="2013-05-03T01:13:04.210" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went ahead and closed the post to put it on hold, since it doesn't have answers, to give the community, and yourself, some time to address the issues with the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited your post a little bit to correct spelling and grammar, as many times this can help clarify the ideas you're presenting. However, I'm still not 100% sure the flow is clear. For a problem where there are multiple departments and multiple companies, it's helpful to use some identifier to represent them.  For instance,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When other DCs and Departments approached me with suitable opportunities, such as the finance department, the department I work for, the accounting department,  rejected any transfer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is more clear than:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When other DCs and Departments approached me with suitable opportunities, they have rejected any transfer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wasn't immediately clear who &quot;they&quot; were, so I assumed you're referring to the department you work for, not the department that sent you the offer.  I edited, but only you will be able to clarify further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's another section in the post where you mentioned another employer. While it's important to not mention the names of your employers, you could give them a fake name or identifier to make it easier for us to visualize the situation.  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I work for a company currently, let's call them Company A, and Company B sent me an offer. Meanwhile, Company C, a company I'm interviewing with....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using labels helps us compartmentalize the different aspects of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, ask yourself if there is any information in your post that just isn't important to understand the problem. As a verbose person myself, sometimes I find that I need to go back and review what I've written, think about the main idea, and remove anything that simply isn't important.  Your post may contain information that isn't important; I encourage you to go through and try to make the post more concise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't promise this will be enough to reverse any downvotes or reopen the post, but it's a good first step to making the post more constructive, less localized to only your specific situation, and most importantly, more easily digestable. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T01:13:04.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1843" CreationDate="2013-05-03T08:20:37.907" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for the other voters and closer's but I myself voted down because the question does not seem to meet the requirements of the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions should be asked to solve a specific, solvable problem that is likely to be faced by many people in the workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands this question seems like the sort of thing you would write in to a magazine Agony Aunt where the response is tailored solely to you and your specific &lt;em&gt;situation&lt;/em&gt;. Whereas this site is &lt;strong&gt;Not&lt;/strong&gt; about solving a specific situation but about specific &lt;em&gt;problems&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of this your question is &quot;How can I avoid making commitments I can't keep? &quot; Where the obvious answer is &quot;Don't make commitments you cannot keep. Think about issues before you dive into agreeing, take a step back and summarize the issue, then make an &lt;em&gt;informed&lt;/em&gt; decision&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T08:20:37.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1843" CreationDate="2013-05-03T16:32:01.417" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/9558/5845&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt;, while directed towards email, is exactly the problem I suspect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just replace &quot;email&quot; with &quot;question.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;The Problem&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;People who are super busy don't have the time to spend minutes first reading, then processing (and/or rereading), then responding to your email. This is simply life, there is only so much time in a day, and some people have way more constraints on their time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spending lots of time parsing/processing/understanding/formulating responses/replying to emails from people they don't know or have reason to care about? Probably not high on their  list of priorities - which for the record is probably already completely overloaded anyways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;The Solution&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Write shorter emails (or electronic content) which are easy to answer. This ability is an art, get used to practicing it if you want responses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Make it &lt;em&gt;easy&lt;/em&gt; for someone to respond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I spent a lot of time just now trying to understand and condense your question. It took me a long while to really see what you were asking and I am not very confident I did so correctly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:49:56.923" LastActivityDate="2013-05-05T13:09:55.173" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1843" CreationDate="2013-05-08T20:01:41.347" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downvoted because the problem is not a real problem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem you see: I &lt;strong&gt;CANNOT&lt;/strong&gt; keep my commitment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem we see: I am &lt;strong&gt;CHOOSING&lt;/strong&gt; not to keep my commitment because I like another option better now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question is based on a false premise.  If you could not keep your commitment because you have to move home to take care of your family member with special needs then you have a valid question.  But that is not the case here. You could choose to fulfill the commitment you made, you just &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/the_grass_is_always_greener_on_the_other_side_of_the_fence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;like color of the the grass on your side of the fence better now&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions you could ask that fall in here:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/9338/16&quot;&gt;How to use multiple offers to negotiate a higher salary?&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/4478/16&quot;&gt;How to renege implicit verbal acceptance of a job offer&lt;/a&gt; or &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/111/16&quot;&gt;How do I coordinate the process of pursuing multiple job opportunities at the same time?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think those three questions encompass pretty much anything constructive you can make of your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-05-08T20:01:41.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1850" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1851" CreationDate="2013-05-16T12:07:00.300" Score="8" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/146/are-workspace-ergonomics-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt; and the ergnomics tag I assume that ergonomics questions are on topic for this SE. (Although maybe they should ideally live on the as yet unborn Medical SE?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that in mind I created these two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11789/what-is-the-most-effective-way-to-make-extended-laptop-use-ergonomic&quot;&gt;What is the most effective way to make extended laptop use ergonomic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11790/how-do-you-manage-a-mass-chair-purchase&quot;&gt;How do you manage a mass chair purchase?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first one has been closed as not a real question. My intention is to find out: what is the general ergonomic advice given to laptop users? e.g. Like those little pictures you see given to desktop users about keyboards distance and wrist alignment, but for laptop users specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I know some people who use laptop stands, but I haven't found non-product advice regarding these, so I deliberately left the question open-ended.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe my understanding of ergonomics is too naive, but I'm looking for general advice (e.g. you should sit like X, you should position your screen like Y), not trying to target a specific complaint (e.g. you should do Z to solve your sore left wrist you use for the mouse).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second one is not closely related to ergonomics, just something I want to bear in mind while managing a mass purchase. My intention is to find out: what is a feasible and reasonable way to buy a whole lot of chairs at once, given that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/07/investing-in-a-quality-programming-chair.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;it's worth investing in&lt;/a&gt; but the advice I've found is focussed on individuals not groups. It has been closed as not a real question. This I find confusing because there are some really good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With my intentions in mind, how can I reword these questions so that they are constructive, non-ambiguous, and generally awesome? Uh, and be opened again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9130" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T14:24:30.473" Title="How can I improve these two ergonomics-related questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1850" CreationDate="2013-05-16T14:24:30.473" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You did a really nice job with the chair question.  What makes it such a great question is that you've clearly defined the problem and what you're trying to solve:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can we purchase a large number of chairs (presumably all the same model), and ensure that they are a good fit for everyone, including ergonomically?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is something that applies to the workplace, is a problem in the workplace, and something that our community can answer with facts, references, and specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the other question is a bit more vague; it also contains some elements that aren't fit for the Q&amp;amp;A model.  It's assumed that every question on the Workplace should &lt;em&gt;ideally&lt;/em&gt; be answered with facts, references, and specific expertise, so when we just simply ask for links to other sources, your problem shifts from &quot;here is my problem. How do I do X&quot; to &quot;I know this problem has already been answered, so I just want you to be my proxy and do the research for me&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a subtle distinction. Unfortunately, it can lead to very low quality answers, link-only answers, and may not take into account &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; specific situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, questions like these are prime candidates for editing and reopening.  I'd suggest taking the same approach you take with the chair question.  You're a laptop user. You or someone in your office is experiencing back/neck/wrist whatever pain as a result, and your question is: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a laptop user, what technique or tools can I use to avoid pain in my (wrist/back/neck, etc)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited the laptop ergonomics post to try and get the ball rolling, but I don't know specifically what problems you're coworkers are trying to solve, so I leave that to you to edit further.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mostly, I removed the plea for links and external resources. Instead, &lt;em&gt;word your question so that it treats our community as the experts&lt;/em&gt;. If they don't post resources or experiences to back up their answer, you may downvote those answers or you may leave a comment challenging it. Our community generally upvotes answers that they know to be correct or that are backed up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you've made your edits, I suggest jumping into &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;The Workplace Chat&lt;/a&gt;, drop in a link to your post, and ask if the community can take a second look at your post and help you tailor it further.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, thank you for trying the ergonomics questions here.  Ergonomics is a workplace problem, and it's a topic that I can see our community servicing, as long as we can back up our assertions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T14:24:30.473" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="72" CreationDate="2013-05-16T19:08:25.670" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are not for voting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/139941/143601&quot;&gt;Voting is for voting.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen a lot of &quot;+1 great answer&quot; or slightly disguised variant &quot;+1 I agree with &lt;em&gt;[echo some part of the answer]&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.  &lt;strong&gt;These comments are more noise than signal.&lt;/strong&gt;  I know, I know, we all see those answers (or questions) that &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; get us excited and we want to +1000 them, but we can't, so we want to comment &amp;mdash; &lt;strong&gt;but we shouldn't.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel the urge, consider this advice from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/85733/what-makes-a-good-valid-1-comment#comment214948_85733&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt; (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/87124/143601&quot;&gt;Grace Note&lt;/a&gt;) before you hit the &quot;Add Comment&quot; button:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A good &quot;+1&quot; comment is one that would be just as good without the +1 in front of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your comment doesn't do anything besides echo the original post or add agreement, &lt;strong&gt;chuck it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is already especially susceptible to comment noise.  Please be mindful of the cost of your comment to others, and only post comments that really add value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T19:17:28.223" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1853" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-17T13:04:27.120" Score="9" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early in the private beta we had &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/146/16&quot;&gt;this discussion &quot;Are workspace-ergonomics questions on-topic?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; There was no real resolution at that time besides ask the question and we will see how they fly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is ergonomics on topic? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have had a few questions lately:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/11789/16&quot;&gt;What is the best way to make extended laptop use ergonomic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/11790/16&quot;&gt;How do you manage a mass chair purchase?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That attracted close votes with comments like: Right now this is not really a Workplace question but rather an ergonomics question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think now would be a good time to decide if general workplace ergonomics questions on are on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-05-18T03:49:04.487" Title="Is Ergonomics On-Topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1853" CreationDate="2013-05-17T13:16:36.560" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This should be on topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Repetive motion Injury has the longest average lost time rate of any workplace injury &lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2004/mar/wk5/art02.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a common risk to professionals and proper ergonomics can help reduce the risk, and mitigate the damage from Repetitive motion injury.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.minotstateu.edu/hr/manual/sop_ergonomics.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This problem is widespread and can be debilitating. In general so long as the question is asked in a manner which can be interpreted to be asking for a workplace answer then it should be considered on topic.  The questions still need to meet other requirements (no shopping/list/non-constructive questions) but any ergonomics question asked should be assumed to be asked in context of the workplace unless specifically stated otherwise(which then makes it off topic)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-05-17T13:16:36.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1853" CreationDate="2013-05-18T03:49:04.487" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ergonomics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Free Online Dictionary&lt;/a&gt; defines &quot;ergonomics&quot; as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Design factors, as for the workplace, intended to maximize productivity by minimizing operator fatigue and discomfort: &lt;em&gt;The ergonomics of the new office were felt to be optimal.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about how to maximize productivity in the workplace are definitely on-topic. While the Free Online Dictionary also defines ergonomics as a science, it's a field that directly applies to the types of problems that we're helping people solve. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two questions are either a part of workplace safety or workplace productivity. These are all things that are on-topic on a site about navigating the professional workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-05-18T03:49:04.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1856" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1861" CreationDate="2013-05-20T13:12:11.810" Score="16" ViewCount="1402" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have had several questions that have been closed because they had a legal component to them.  But we live in a heavily regulated society so nearly every question on the site has laws that apply to it.  We all have a basic understanding of the law through training, and just the basic knowledge we need to have success in the workplace.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance we need to know the laws regarding speed limits to drive to work, and those things that we can and can not say in the office to avoid harassment and hostile work environments.  Many of us work in highly regulated industries so as a community we have a wide knowledge of the general laws that apply to people in the workforce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we identify a question that is asking for Legal advice versus a question asking for workplace advice where there are laws that may apply?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="10313" LastEditDate="2023-09-06T17:49:10.147" LastActivityDate="2023-09-06T17:49:10.147" Title="What is asking for legal advice?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|close-reasons|legal-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1856" CreationDate="2013-05-20T16:12:53.213" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone asks &quot;What are my rights?&quot; or &quot;Do employers have the right?&quot; those are defined by labor law specific to each jurisdiction. If the question can reasonably be interpreted as asking about rights, it's best to stay away from an answer, unless you are a lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T18:45:01.473" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T18:45:01.473" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1843" CreationDate="2013-05-20T19:24:04.807" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's actually extremely simple.  your question, while certainly a situation that CAN arise, is not one that will likely help visitors to the site.  It's a retrospective, looking back on a bad choice you made, and asking how you could avoid making such a choice in the future.  Well...you just...don't make the same choice.  It's not going to help anyone, simply because by the time someone tries to find an answer to such a situation they will already be in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the problem itself is one that would have been completely avoided if you hadn't made a mistake.  Questions where the answer is essentially &quot;don't screw up&quot; aren't really on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I'm at something of a loss as to how exactly to fix the question up to be more useful to our site's viewers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1374" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T19:24:04.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1860" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-21T14:55:07.630" Score="-1" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11887/is-it-normal-to-expect-a-software-company-to-allow-me-to-work-two-hours-less-per&quot;&gt;How can I effectively request to reduce the number of Hours I work per week&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because the writer mentions that she is from India, must all answers be framed with in-depth knowledge of India? Or is a more useful answer one that helps folks worldwide?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T15:25:02.637" Title="If a Questioner happens to mention they are from India, does that mean the question is India-specific?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1856" CreationDate="2013-05-21T15:09:32.303" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Legal advice is asking a question that needs an answer by a lawyer, not a HR manager or career guidance counselor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the &quot;legal&quot; question is something that our site's target audience should be expected to know the answer to, then the question is OK for the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I would consider the following &quot;legal&quot; questions OK for the site because they are things that HR managers should know the answer to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/1243/316&quot;&gt;Is it legal to discriminate against smokers in one&amp;#39;s company in Canada or USA?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/3960/316&quot;&gt;What is an equal opportunity employer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/8882/316&quot;&gt;What are the rules regarding electronic distribution of income data forms for tax reporting in the United States?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is one that makes most HR managers say &lt;em&gt;&quot;This is not part of my job domain, let me consult with our lawyer&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, then it is off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/2354/316&quot;&gt;Employers installing keyloggers on work PC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/11493/316&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/11493/316&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/494/316&quot;&gt;Are digitally signed documents legally binding?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a difference between asking &lt;em&gt;&quot;What legal actions can I take for X&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;&quot;What actions can I take for X&quot;&lt;/em&gt; where the answer is &lt;em&gt;&quot;You should be consulting with an employment lawyer&quot;&lt;/em&gt; though. The first I would consider off-topic. The 2nd, probably not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions which ask something along the lines of &lt;em&gt;&quot;I've been wronged by my employer, what are my options?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; are not necessarily off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/1046/316&quot;&gt;How can I force a former employer to pay me without creating too much conflict?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/1252/316&quot;&gt;Company refuses to pay and does not have an address&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other questions which I consider OK are ones where the answer would be &lt;em&gt;&quot;You need to read your contact&quot;&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;&quot;You need to consult with a lawyer&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/11747/316&quot;&gt;Intellectual property (IP) - Who owns the rights to my work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/9427/316&quot;&gt;When should I consider myself to be at work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many new and naive members of the workforce that do not know their rights or legal options at work (I consider myself one of them), and that do not always realize the obvious answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as a summary, if the answer to the question is something that our target audience can be expected to provide, then the question OK. However if they are asking something that is not part of our target audience's expected skill set and knowledge base, then it is off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T15:15:00.447" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1860" CreationDate="2013-05-21T15:19:04.330" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Big difference culturally between western culture and India, which is relevant to the workplace as well. India tends to be much less direct culturally, so one example would be going to your boss saying &quot;this is a problem how can we fix it.&quot; this may be received incredibly poorly as compared to in a US workplace, where such behavior is encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also all sorts of differences in work environment and expectations for employees. Working hours are different, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There just are lots of differences. Answering with an American/western perspective sometimes will completely miss these differences. Just search google for differences in American/Indian workplace culture/expectations. My understanding is the general &lt;em&gt;trend&lt;/em&gt; is for companies in India to be striving to &quot;match&quot; western culture but this is not even remotely &quot;done&quot; obviously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think the job market is far more competitive than in the USA, though I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there is not a one-size-fits-all answer. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/578/how-can-we-ensure-answers-are-culturally-relevant&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt; too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7258/should-we-tell-all-performance-related-problems-to-manager&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is an example where applying a USA centric perspective could very easily do serious damage to someone's career. If you spend time trying to learn the cultural differences, you will see how different India culturally treats feedback than the USA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T15:25:02.637" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1856" CreationDate="2013-05-22T04:02:55.847" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may sound tautological, but if the question is primarily asking for interpretation of the law, then it is a question for a lawyer. If the question is asking for general guidance, of which law is one aspect, then I think it is appropriate for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, if someone asks, &quot;Is it legal to turn a blind eye to fraud by a superior?&quot; it is going to be a legal question, but asking, &quot;What are my responsibilities in regards to reporting fraud by a superior?&quot; the legal side would only be one aspect, and the answer would have value since it would say more than just, &quot;Consult a lawyer.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, I think the approach for The Workplace should be to suggest edits (or aggressively edit) legal questions to cover a broader aspect of the situation whenever possible, and close if the only possible response is, &quot;consult an attorney&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T04:02:55.847" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1864" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-22T18:36:17.647" Score="9" ViewCount="1163" Body="&lt;p&gt;By my understanding of what is said in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not?cb=1&quot;&gt;What &amp;quot;comments&amp;quot; are not . . .&lt;/a&gt; meta &quot;question&quot;, the comment I posted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11908/how-do-i-bring-up-being-misled-about-my-job-role-during-the-interview-period&quot;&gt;How do I bring up being misled about my job role during the interview period?&lt;/a&gt; really should not be a comment.  However, it's not properly an answer to the question either.  Still, I think the information is useful to put out there.  How should I post it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2317" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-05-30T03:47:54.517" Title="How should I post a useful non-answer if it shouldn't be a comment?" Tags="|discussion|faq|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1864" CreationDate="2013-05-22T19:28:12.007" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say extend it into an answer or don't bother.  The essence as the comment is currently written sounds like &quot;don't bother with these solutions - they don't work in practice&quot; - which is a fine opinion, but I think the there's an obligation at that point is to suggest something better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, in this case, the right answer from your experience is &quot;get a new job, don't waste your time&quot; - then justify why it's better to skip talking to your management, and reference techniques for a job hunt when you've only just recently started the job.  There's probably some useful other answers to other questions there that could be harvested and referenced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T19:28:12.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1864" CreationDate="2013-05-22T19:42:09.657" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the full text for convenience:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are not for answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Comments are not a substitute for answering questions. Comments cannot easily be searched, nor can they be edited for corrections or vetted with the community vote. There's no history, no reputation awarded, nor can they be 'accepted' as the best answer. They get little visibility but often keep users from posting proper answers because the question appears to be resolved… albeit, incorrectly. Further, those comment-answers will not bring new users to this site searching for the information. In short, you are hurting rather than helping the site, and your contribution is at great risk of being lost/deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What this means&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you should do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As always, remember that we are looking for substantiated answers.  So, thank you for considering that!  Please continue to help us keep answer standards high.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you feel like you have &quot;advice&quot; but it's not a full answer, do one of three things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comment on an existing answer&lt;/strong&gt;. If there are already significant answers, you can likely find one with similar advice (that you your advice can add to) and add your advice as a comment.  This is already quite common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Request to answerers: If a commenter adds helpful advice to your post in a comment, I encourage you to integrate it into your answer.&lt;/strong&gt;  That is what edits are for, and that way we solve all the problems that Robert mentioned.  We can also consider the comment &quot;resolved&quot;, and if comments are cleaned up, no valuable information is lost.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comment to the asker&lt;/strong&gt;. If there are no suitable answers, but what you have to say doesn't constitute a &lt;em&gt;full&lt;/em&gt; answer, but maybe just related advice, I see no harm in posting it as a comment on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want put words in Robert's mouth, but the way I read what he's saying, is these comments harm the site if they constitute a &lt;em&gt;full&lt;/em&gt; answer, discouraging others from answering the question.  Partial advice is not the same, and may even help propel others to an answer.  I think it's fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keep in mind that these comments should never be considered permanent fixtures of the post, even if they have a lot of upvotes, and they may be cleaned up at any time, particularly if a flood of discussion ensues.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Actually answer the question&lt;/strong&gt;. If you have a real answer, &lt;strong&gt;please put in the time to answer!&lt;/strong&gt;  We need more valuable experts like you.  If you can't do it all once, remember that the answer UI can save a draft for you to finish your answer later.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we (moderators and community flaggers) will do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continue to treat &lt;strong&gt;all comments&lt;/strong&gt; as &lt;strong&gt;transient, disposable post-it notes&lt;/strong&gt;.  They may be deleted before or after being acknowledged, with or without upvotes, and regardless of whether they appear to be benign or harmful.  Personally speaking, I attempt to leave comments around as long as possible, but if extended discussion becomes a problem, we'll bring out the broom.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What everyone should do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you see an opportunity (such as consensus in a comment discussion), &lt;strong&gt;please feel free to edit the improvements back into the post, whether it be a question or an answer&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/76284/143601&quot;&gt;All users can suggest edits&lt;/a&gt;, and there is a reason for that!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Treat comments as if &lt;strong&gt;future visitors won't even see them.&lt;/strong&gt;  Questions and answers are our real fixtures, and should be continually polished, to help the site serve our future visitors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Avoid flagging comments that teach people how to use the site.&lt;/strong&gt; Comments that help guide a user on how to use the site may still be valuable to future visitors, as they help &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt; learn the community norms without having to make the same mistakes as others. In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;, using comments as a signpost to guide users is emphasized below:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;      &lt;p&gt;Whenever possible, try to leave frequent comments on posts where you’ve taken (or considered taking) a moderator action, explaining the reasoning. This is important so that community members can learn the norms of the community and the moderation policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can also apply to regular users who write good, constructive, and helpful comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2013-05-30T03:47:34.453" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1867" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-27T01:22:47.833" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is still interest in hosting a community blog; however, we don't yet have enough content and writers to justify the Wordpress development for an actual Wordpress SE blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think we could eventually have a blog, but there isn't quite enough interest just yet.  So, here's an alternate proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of our community members have blogs or write on topics about the workplace. Since the content on The Workplace is licensed under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cc-wiki Creative Commons license&lt;/a&gt;, this site is a perfect repository of knowledge for someone wishing to do some research on a specific topic and post it on their own, already existing blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of hosting our own blog at this time, does anyone know of popular bloggers we could reach out to who would find our questions and answers interesting material to use as a source of ideas for their own blogs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we can help them find ideas for new articles on their own blogs, the Workplace SE benefits from reference and attribution links back to the questions and answers the author uses to compose his or her articles.  The more blogs that contain links to our content, the greater the potential for more visits and conversions from visitor to contributing user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's your challenge, if you wish to help out:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find workplace-related blogs on the Internet; specifically, successful blogs or those with potential to be successful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Locate an article where the author asks a question of their community.  Look for articles where that question hasn't been meaningfully answered.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide an answer to the question, using a link back to the Workplace SE as a reference supporting the answer you leave in the comments. Remember, the goal isn't to spam these bloggers. Instead, we must add value by contributing meaningful ideas to the discussion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be sure to use the &amp;quot;share&amp;quot; links when sharing questions. This helps you earn the Publicist, Booster, and Announcer badges when new visitors visit The Workplace.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if you know a well-known blogger, ask him or her where he or she gets ideas for what to write about. If the opportunity arises, use the site's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;elevator pitch&lt;/a&gt; to briefly describe what the site is about; emphasize the fact that the content is essentially free to use -- with proper attribution -- and will help that blogger with ideas, answers to questions, and more consistent published articles that will keep their users coming back for more, while still directing that traffic to our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T01:22:47.833" Title="Promoting the Workplace SE through community outreach to bloggers" Tags="|discussion|blog|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1868" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-29T10:19:32.537" Score="4" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/871/our-unofficial-facebook-page&quot;&gt;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/871/our-unofficial-facebook-page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movies.stackoverflow has a facebook page which is used to share interesting questions, answers or meta posts through the use of a facebook page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is my understanding that this is beneficial to a site like movies because everyone watches movies, whereas not everyone is a developer for example. This aids them in gaining extra traffic through the ability to share and pass around posts to a large group of people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that the workplace is also something that could benefit from a community facebook page for a few reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1.) Like movies, everyone has a job, and people are always facing work related problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2.) It could gain us lots of extra traffic, which would be nice to get, especially for increasing our questions per day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3.) Facebook is a very large platform with access to a lot of people, if even 1% take interest in it that's still a huge amount. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this is not without its disadvantages, namely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Someone would have to maintain posting interesting things to it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Someone would have to moderate the comments on it as its a public facing view and racist / abuse comments would not help&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not entirely sure how people will react to this, or if it is even feasible for a beta site to do, but in either case I thought it would be an interesting proposal to put to you all to see what you think. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:49:37.377" LastActivityDate="2013-05-31T02:11:13.173" Title="Do we want a Community Facebook page?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1868" CreationDate="2013-05-29T18:38:03.643" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People are likely to ask and answer questions on facebook instead of coming here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone would need to take on the responsibility of maintaining it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anonymity is much more difficult on Facebook and will limit the audience there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="7945" LastEditDate="2013-05-31T02:11:13.173" LastActivityDate="2013-05-31T02:11:13.173" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-05-30T12:55:20.797" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1868" CreationDate="2013-05-30T03:19:47.580" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Facebook is one of the highest-traffic sites on the internet. It would be a great place to get additional visibility for the site to attract new users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would give us a place to have discussion about questions without cluttering up the SE site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2013-05-30T12:57:50.180" LastActivityDate="2013-05-30T12:57:50.180" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-05-30T03:19:47.580" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1856" CreationDate="2013-06-01T11:00:56.930" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer and reminder: This is not a law office, and I am neither judge nor a lawyer; but I did stay at a certain unnamed motel and this is what I experienced in a remotely similar fashion.  Moreover, I do not often delve deep into meta, but when I do...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is often to advocate for the stance less popular, not because I believe it best, but because I feel the roots of conventional wisdom has grown too strong in this regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so on and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most questions will never point explicitly to a primary premise of being a localized, legal concern with real ramifications, but all questions have immediate legal ramifications whether we [often] think about it not.  Usually it is not the case that we consciously weigh legal ramifications while we ponder more banal matters of our day, but who is to say some SO or Programmers or Security post does not make the difference at some point for the ephemeral 'bad guy'.  There is no way to prevent it.  It is not even remotely possible.  It is completely counter to the ideals of our society.  We cannot be productive if we worry about that sort of thing all the time, so why worry about it at all, especially in a venue like this (so long as it does not create an explicit, controllable conflict of interest for our generous host and our sponsors).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some posters are better at keeping the personally damning aspects out of their initial post.  They keep the question in a sanitized, representative form concerned with general application or purpose of an issue.  That is a safe thing to do.  Occasionally they may unintentionally note or raise the concern of legal ramifications.  At times, the conflict of interest or personal stake leaks through.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is worse in that case, possibly bad advice given, or no advice?  Leave them blowing in the wind, or give them some bare minimum to grab on to?  At least with the bad advice, they have a next step to take, even if they might have to take two steps back.  That is how progress works: sometimes a little forward, sometimes a little back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, whether the concern involves a potentially obvious legal issue or not, the advice seeker must assume some responsibility for seeking the advice of anonymous lay people to their problems, even if we strive and generally provide a good community and good advice with the information we have to work with.  Only if we purposefully or maliciously misrepresent ourselves would our bad advice be particularly unfortunate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TLDR I think we should reconsider how tightly we hold the reigns in regards to questions that smell of legal or legally related concerns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="612" LastActivityDate="2013-06-01T11:00:56.930" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1872" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-06T21:06:25.873" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious why &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/12184/1192&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12183/what-should-i-do-if-i-was-dismissed-for-personal-reasons&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was downvoted.  I followed the &quot;back it up&quot; principle, along with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1826/why-was-my-question-edited-closed-downvoted&quot;&gt;other guidelines&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possibly because it is a closed question?  Does a question being closed merit downvotes for possibly good answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-06-10T15:27:59.573" Title="Are answers to closed questions appropriate to downvote?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|down-votes|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1873" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-07T01:26:48.543" Score="9" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ link&lt;/a&gt; now redirects to a help center. I don't think it has the same information as it used to (it would seem, not 100% positive).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is apparently universally rolled-out across all SE sites according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/182812/introducing-a-brand-new-consolidated-help-center&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I find it much more difficult to find what I'm looking for in there, and I was wondering what, if anything, we have for options in customizing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could a mod chime in and maybe get a discussion started on how we can improve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-06-14T03:29:37.163" Title="Editing the Help Center" Tags="|discussion|faq-content|help-center|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1872" CreationDate="2013-06-07T03:14:58.847" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes will downvote answers posted to questions which are fairly obviously questions requiring some serious work, especially ones which are rantish or &quot;tell me what to do please.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said I didn't vote on your answer either way but have expressed &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1627/we-need-to-downvote-answers-more-even-mediocre-ones&quot;&gt;my thoughts&lt;/a&gt; on when downvoting answers is appropriate previously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.357" LastActivityDate="2013-06-07T03:14:58.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1873" CreationDate="2013-06-07T12:15:35.887" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just taken the time to dig through it a bit, and I agree it's more complicated. I'm unsure of whether the added complexity makes it worse, or if the aggregation and organization of the information will make it easier for new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as editing, the &quot;take the tour&quot; button goes to the old /about page, and it seems mods are able to do some minor editing there (site intro, example question, ask about/don't ask about). Aside from that, the only section we can edit is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/helpcenter/on-topic&quot;&gt;on- and off-topic page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like any other changes will need to be done by the Stack Exchange team (and may be network-wide rather than site-specific, but I'm unsure that's the case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-06-07T12:15:35.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1872" CreationDate="2013-06-08T20:57:12.963" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the question, and its answers, has now been deleted by the community, here is the answer for reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds like there really isn't a lot you can do. I'm assuming you're working &amp;quot;at-will&amp;quot;, which means you can leave or be dismissed at any time for no reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going forward, I would send a message to your former manager and ensure you can get a decent reference. If not, the best option may be to write it off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they gave you a specific reason that you were fired, you can pursue that. Otherwise, moving on is pretty much all you can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you pursue this, it likely will open a can of worms that will overshadow the job that you just left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure you did adhere to the back it up principle here, as there isn't any information included that backs up any of these statements. I'm not sure I would have downvoted this post or mentioned that it needed statements backing it up, as I generally reserve my comments for the worst offenders. Still, I wanted to point out that backing up an answer would include facts, references, or experiences that happened to you personally. Instead, this appears to just be your opinion or advice. That doesn't mean you're wrong or you don't know what you're talking about, just that there's nothing here to validate these statements and &lt;em&gt;prove&lt;/em&gt; that you know what you're talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, I'm not sure whether or not the back it up rule was why your post attracted some downvotes. It could be that it just wasn't possible to give a definitive answer to such a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was scored -5 at the time of its deletion, and it was never clear what the exact problem was. The asker chose to remain extremely vague, stating he/she had a problem with a person named &amp;quot;Q&amp;quot; but never really giving us enough details or context to understand what that problem was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace isn't a place for hypothetical or anecdotal questions; instead, those about real, actual problem tend to work the best because it takes the guesswork out of answering.  As a result, I think it would have been extremely difficult for anyone to give a solid answer to this question because there just simply isn't enough information. Of course, this doesn't mean a hypothetical situation can't be asked here, it just needs to contain enough detail to where we don't have to make up stuff in our heads in order to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, it's possible the answer received downvotes not because the question was closed but because it's difficult to give a solid answer. However, more people thought your post was helpful than not helpful, considering it's positively scored. As Yannis mentions in his comment, downvotes are pretty common here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you did the best you could to answer the question, but perhaps it would have just simply been best to vote to close. Since the post is now deleted, all rep changes, both upvotes as well as downvotes, have been refunded back to you. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-06-08T20:57:12.963" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1872" CreationDate="2013-06-10T15:27:59.573" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your answer had a tone of opinion and provided no objective evidence, and offered no solution which I would consider helpful.  And most importantly the answer was not &quot;Expert Quality&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that many of our questions do not require the answerer to be an Expert.  But when I read a good answer I should not be able to tell that the person answering is not an expert based on how the answer is written.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer you provided would be at home more in a chat room than here on SE.  These type of answers create noise and act as broken windows causing other people to think that they can post the same type of low quality answer unless we deal with them.  As a user the only way I can deal with it is to down vote.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not comment on my down vote there because I did not have any suggestion about how to improve your answer, other than to hit the delete button, which would be more likely to generate more comments, something else I Wanted to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-06-10T15:27:59.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1630" CreationDate="2013-06-10T22:29:45.970" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would not consider a question that applies to an entire country to be too-localized...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1636/437&quot;&gt;I agree with @Rachel&lt;/a&gt;, but I'd also say: 'Don't take it personal' and 'Don't be surprised if it's &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; closed as 'Too Localized''.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen questions which apply to the entire Western world abruptly closed as 'Too Localized'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-06-10T22:29:45.970" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1897" CreationDate="2013-06-11T03:00:57.950" Score="5" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all love &lt;a href=&quot;http://workplace.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look at this site through the eyes of someone who's never seen it before, and see how we stack up against the rest of the 'Net.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/site-eval&quot;&gt;Site Self-Evaluation review queue&lt;/a&gt; is open and populated with 10 questions that were asked and answered in the last quarter. Run a few Google searches to see how easy they are to find and compare the answers we have with the information available on other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rating the questions is only a part of the puzzle, though. Do you see a pattern of questions that should have been closed but are not? Questions or answers that could use an edit? Anything that's going really well? &lt;strong&gt;Post an answer below to share your thoughts&lt;/strong&gt; and discuss these questions and the site's health with your fellow users!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-06-30T04:34:32.270" Title="Let's get critical: Jun 2013 Site Self-Evaluation" Tags="|discussion|site-evaluation|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1879" CreationDate="2013-06-11T08:43:42.313" Score="1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;This is a largely meaningless exercise for Workplace SE, am afraid.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The recent reviews have been automatic.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The information is available on reviewers' activity tabs (profile pages). The value of reviews without doing &lt;strong&gt;at least some research&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;strong&gt;nil&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Reviewer Min time betw. reviews, s Max time, s  Max (w/o gaps) Average (w/o gaps)&#xA;A        3                         26           26             11.8&#xA;B        14                        257          257            56.0&#xA;C        13                        113          113            37.7&#xA;D        28                        42728        151            82.3&#xA;E        3                         20           20             8.7&#xA;M        7                         68           68             16.8&#xA;R        6                         50           50             25.2&#xA;S        4                         30           30             17.4&#xA;T        3                         385          75             18.2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have checked ALL 9 reviewers, and you can see the pattern - the exercise is rather sad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Longest spell of reviews with the same mark: 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5433" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-06-12T17:01:55.193" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1881" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1882" CreationDate="2013-06-11T10:02:57.537" Score="6" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12173/how-do-you-explain-to-your-boss-theyre-wrong-without-making-them-feel-threatene&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for a moderators attention stating in the comments that it was a possible question that may need to be protected due to popularity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the correct procedure for notifying a moderator that a question has become hot and may need to be protected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9133" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-06-12T02:21:04.707" Title="Flagging Questons for Protection" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1881" CreationDate="2013-06-11T15:01:28.500" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm no moderator, so don't take my word as law, but simply put, I don't see whats wrong with that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The use of flags is for getting the moderators attention to a specific issue. It doesn't always have to be pointing out a bad comment or a bad answer, that's why there is the 'other' field. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no other way you could have reliably informed the moderators that a question needs protecting other than the flag system either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in a word 'Yes'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In slightly more words, 'Yes, and thanks for contributing to maintaining the site!'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastActivityDate="2013-06-11T15:01:28.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1881" CreationDate="2013-06-12T02:21:04.707" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, whenever you see something that is out of the ordinary or that could create problems beyond what the community can handle on its own, it's a good idea to flag the post for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases where a question is getting a lot of low quality answers from users new to our site, protecting the question may help minimize the damage and prevent it from getting out of control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the post is at least two days old, you can also consider dropping a link to the question in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;The Water Cooler chat room&lt;/a&gt;, as users with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/privileges/protect-questions&quot;&gt;at least 3500 reputation can protect questions&lt;/a&gt; that meet certain restrictions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any question, even a deleted question, can be protected and unprotected, subject to the following restrictions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question must be at least a day old&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user can unprotect a question protected by him or herself, but not one that has been protected by someone else&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-06-12T02:21:04.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1884" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1891" CreationDate="2013-06-13T12:36:17.523" Score="6" ViewCount="385" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not been with The Workplace for very long but I have &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/when-will-my-site-graduate/&quot;&gt;observed&lt;/a&gt; that when a site is ready it will be launched out of Beta and then be a full &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites#&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Site&lt;/a&gt;. I have learned what it would take for a site to graduate, but I am wondering how far off we are and what is stopping us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More importantly, what can we do to get this site published?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9133" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2013-06-14T15:47:09.413" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T23:59:31.887" Title="When will The Workplace Graduate?" Tags="|discussion|graduation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1884" CreationDate="2013-06-13T13:01:40.810" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We will graduate mostly at the discretion of 'the powers that be' but we can use the statistics site to determine how 'Healthy' a site is, the healthier a site the more likely it is to be graduated. Currently we meet every milestone but question count. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Provided we keep a constructive and active community with a healthy question and answer base then it should only be a matter of time before we make the needed impression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much thanks to Rarity for correcting my understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/30887/the-workplace&quot;&gt;Stats found here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5 questions per day&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Needs Work – &lt;strong&gt;15 questions per day&lt;/strong&gt; on average is a healthy beta, 5 questions or fewer per day needs some work. A healthy site generates lots of good content to make sure users keep coming back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorDisplayName="user5305" LastEditDate="2013-06-13T13:25:43.893" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T13:25:43.893" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1886" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-13T13:22:17.367" Score="8" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184154/closing-changes-on-hold-unclear-too-broad-opinion-based-off-topic-reasons&quot;&gt;Closing changes: on hold, unclear, too broad, opinion-based, off-topic reasons, bye-bye to Too Localized&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The powers that be have decided to play with the way closures now work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most notably:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The [On Hold] period for 5 days before becoming [Closed]. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Too Localized has been dumped in favour of three 'more specific' closure reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Each site will have a list of its own specific pre-selected “Off-Topic” reasons&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to draw the communities attention to point 3. Supposedly the mods will be able to create tailored off-topic closure reasons to the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I can gather of the way it works, presumably we would prefer to keep a short list of reasons, 2-3, with friendly, well designed explanations with easy to understand titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mods can then choose which to implement at their discretion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So taking this into consideration, any suggestions for closure reasons, with good text, should be supplied in an individual answer (and be wiki'd to allow everyone to contribute), to allow voting on to help us show the mods which we think would be best implemented. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, here is the current off-topic list in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;I need advice on...&quot;, &quot;What should I do?&quot;, or &quot;Which job should I    take?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;Is it legal...&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;Please review my resume/CV&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;How do I learn to be a...&quot; / &quot;How do I perform the job of a ...&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;What salary/hourly rate should I look for? How much should I charge    for X?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the current default close reasons for all sites (we cannot remove these, only create a list of specific off-topic items, so any that we add should minimize overlap or confusion with the other standard options):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7TuFd.png&quot; alt=&quot;Current Close Options&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-06-28T03:54:28.723" Title="What tailored off-topic closure reasons do we want?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1886" CreationDate="2013-06-13T17:11:40.040" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are going to want &quot;Too Localized&quot; in some form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps, &quot;Too localized, this question is so narrow in scope that it will be applicable only to the asker and of no value to future users. Try to focus on the generic problem with less focus on the details which apply to your situation.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2013-06-13T17:20:15.710" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T17:20:15.710" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-06-13T17:55:31.960" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1886" CreationDate="2013-06-13T17:15:12.913" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;What should I do? This site cannot decide how you should live your professional life. Questions like this should be rephrased to focus to ask about the factors influencing the decision or the practical problem, rather than simply asking what to do in a situation.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T17:15:12.913" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-06-13T17:55:37.943" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1889" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-06-14T03:30:21.527" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; is where new and existing users go to learn about how Stack Exchange works. It replaces the FAQ and has different sections which can be individually linked in comments to help teach others about the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/help-center&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'help-center'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;help-center&lt;/a&gt; tag is used in The Workplace Meta to identify questions and discussions &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; the Help Center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-06-14T03:30:21.527" LastActivityDate="2013-06-14T03:30:21.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1890" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-06-14T03:30:21.527" Score="0" Body="The help-center tag is used for all questions pertaining to the Help Center, which replaces the FAQ." OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-06-14T03:30:21.527" LastActivityDate="2013-06-14T03:30:21.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1884" CreationDate="2013-06-14T04:33:30.437" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace SE is a site that people are finding useful. One person, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/4710/paul-brown&quot;&gt;Paul Brown&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/9778107#9778107&quot;&gt;recently commented on this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to thank everyone on TheWorkplace for helping me to learn more about professional development and job searching. I recently got a job offer at a really great company and it is largely due to what I have learned on this site! They have a basketball court, a cafeteria, hiking trails and lots of people my age to work with and I can't wait to start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been looking for a good job (read: 40 hour weeks, reasonable work conditions, using new programming languages, etc) for months now and I'm glad that I made myself be extra picky because it was worth the wait.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have some good content here. Overall, we do a great job as a community of pushing the low quality stuff to the bottom or even disposing of it. As we grow, we'll need more avid users who help guide new users and teach them how to formulate good questions and answers. As far as focusing inward, we're doing a pretty good job. We just need to stay the course and continue to build good content. Those posts, even months or years later, will help people who find the site through search engines such as Google. The more we have, the more opportunities there are for people to find us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, we'll need to focus outward as well. In order to grow, we'll have to spread the word using different strategies, such as by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1867/98&quot;&gt;Promoting the Workplace SE through community outreach to bloggers&lt;/a&gt; and through social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. So if you see an opportunity to help one of your Facebook friends with a workplace problem, consider dropping a link to an answer from The Workplace, or ask the question yourself if one doesn't exist, and give the link to your friend! :)  LinkedIn could also present some opportunities to help people out with work-related problems, considering the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question of &lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt; we'll graduate can't really be answered definitively; it's not based on &lt;em&gt;time&lt;/em&gt;.  We'll need to hit a tipping point where growth is exponential and where we have enough users to flag, edit, and vote to close, even if a large majority of top users disappear due to life's demands and even with increased reputation thresholds for those privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key is to just keep using the site as a resource and focus on good content while also sharing helpful posts with our friends and colleagues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-06-14T04:33:30.437" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1886" CreationDate="2013-06-14T13:15:29.550" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking one of them along the lines of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;finger-pointing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question focuses on specific issues with personality traits of coworker(s) or policies of a company. In order to be useful to future readers, questions should focus on the general situation and avoid placing blame or finger-pointing.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meaning of this closure would be to stem or stop the questions we get which are personal attacks on coworkers in a destructive, or at least non-constructive, manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example this could retroactively apply to questions of this ilk:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10704/how-to-save-myself-from-an-irritating-senior-colleague&quot;&gt;How to save myself from an irritating senior colleague&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9326/improve-english-skills-of-a-colleague&quot;&gt;Improve English skills of a colleague&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T02:14:26.797" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-06-14T13:34:30.567" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1886" CreationDate="2013-06-14T13:23:48.913" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another off-topic tag I feel we benefit from would be related to using against these Legal questions we get. (Don't get me wrong, as Chad has pointed out to me many times, some questions have a legal section to them, but isn't focused solely on legal advice) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I agree with him, but there are some questions we get which are blatant attempts to get legal advice and legal advice only. For these questions i suggest this closure:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'Legal Advice'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'This question is seeking a legal answer that does not fall within the realm of a HR professional's expected knowledge base. Try to rephrase the question to remove the legality issues from it. Otherwise, we suggest you consult a lawyer.'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This then covers two purposes. For those questions that can have the legality implications removed and still be a valid question then we suggest they do so. Otherwise, if the legality cannot be removed, we suggest they consult a lawyer (which still provides constructive help)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could apply to answers such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12197/respond-to-a-job-offer&quot;&gt;Respond to a job offer&lt;/a&gt; (Don't be caught out by its name, it directly asks for legal constraints)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3017/how-can-i-research-a-competitor&quot;&gt;How can I research a competitor?&lt;/a&gt; (Directly asks about the legality of researching a competitor)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/82/are-questions-of-law-is-x-legal-questions-off-topic?rq=1&quot;&gt;this Meta question&lt;/a&gt; where Legality questions are further discussed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T09:00:19.847" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-06-14T13:34:35.863" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1627" CreationDate="2013-06-15T15:23:30.163" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the linked blog post, there are specific qualities desired in subjective answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Back It Up! Principle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something that happened to you personally&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something you can back up with a reference&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;{...}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our FAQ even specifically has this text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that &lt;strong&gt;answers should be backed up&lt;/strong&gt; either with a reference, or experiences that happened to you personally. &lt;strong&gt;You should always include in your answer information about why you think your answer is correct.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each answer &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be backed up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You should always include in your answer information about why you think your answer is correct.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...And while many great answers do either cite a source or retell a story based on personal experience - &lt;em&gt;You are &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; required to do so.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Logic&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;metaphors&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;common-sense&lt;/strong&gt; can form the backbone of a great answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the following historical figures. They would all easily achieve &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;-like status if they participated in Workplace.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jesus Christ&lt;/strong&gt; might use parables to back up His answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aristotle&lt;/strong&gt; might use logic to back up his answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Confucius&lt;/strong&gt; might appeal to Confucianism (as an ethical and philosophical system) to back up his answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Benjamim Franklin&lt;/strong&gt; might use pithy sayings packing enormous wisdom to back up his answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet none of them would be too fastidious about citing sources or retelling personal stories!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T23:14:07.593" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1879" CreationDate="2013-06-16T17:42:15.407" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I must admit that my reviews didn't go fast. The instructions tell us to take a different approach to reviewing the posts. Unlike other review queues, the instructions tell us to focus on how a non-Workplace SE user may view our site by forcing us to go check out the competition and do Google searches, as if we were the person looking for the answers and evaluating content in different search results to determine which resource may be most helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's fair to say reviewers are being lazy or not taking their time, but I do think it's possible that maybe some folks have misinterpreted the point of this exercise. This isn't a normal, everyday review queue, and the approach to these reviews is quite different:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Run comparative Google searches on these questions and see if the content is better or worse than what is already out there on the internet. Are the answers correct, clear, useful and informative? Would the question and answer be interesting to the kind of user this site is trying to attract? Choose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Excellent&lt;/strong&gt; if this question is well-written and has a clear, comprehensive answer that is far better than other available resources. This question shows up early in search results.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Satisfactory&lt;/strong&gt; if this question has a clear, comprehensive answer that is comparable or better than the information found elsewhere. This question shows up later in the search results or requires oddly specific search terms to find.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Needs Improvement&lt;/strong&gt; if this question is poorly written, not generally useful, or has an answer that is no better than what can be found elsewhere.  Alternatively, this question does not turn up on the first page or two in Google despite repeated search attempts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skip&lt;/strong&gt; if you are not sure and want to go to the next question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on these instructions, I found that I gave a Satisfactory or Needs Improvement rating to questions that I previously thought were pretty awesome and that I had upvoted!  I found that what I perceived as really awesome posts didn't show up in search results and were buried on the third page, or the posts were on the front page of Google but weren't as good as other material out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The challenge as I see it is that the really useful information is sort of in the long tail. It's useful, but perhaps a bit harder to find. Maybe this is a problem, but maybe it isn't. After all, someone who has a &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; problem will likely tailor their search keywords until they find what they're looking for. I know that when I have a problem, and I do a search, and the generic answer just doesn't cut it, I keep searching until my keywords lead me to the same or a similar problem as what I'm facing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-06-16T17:42:15.407" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1886" CreationDate="2013-06-18T01:52:08.183" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a combined list of what our list would look like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;○ &lt;strong&gt;duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has been asked before and already has an answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;// Our Off-Topic Reasons Go Here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;○ &lt;strong&gt;what should i do?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site cannot decide how you should live your professional life. Questions like this should be rephrased to ask about the factors influencing the decision or the practical problem, rather than simply asking what to do in the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;○ &lt;strong&gt;finger pointing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question focuses on specific issues with personality traits of coworker(s) or policies of a company. In order to be useful to future readers, questions should focus on the general situation and avoid placing blame or finger-pointing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;○ &lt;strong&gt;legal advice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is seeking a legal answer that does not fall within the realm of a HR professional's expected knowledge base. Try to rephrase the question to remove the legality issues from it. Otherwise, we suggest you consult a lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;○ &lt;strong&gt;unclear what you're asking&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it's hard to tell what you're asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;○ &lt;strong&gt;too broad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;○ &lt;strong&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-06-28T03:54:28.723" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-06-18T01:52:08.183" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1879" CreationDate="2013-06-18T03:01:02.370" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Final Results&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11089/how-can-i-minimise-the-damage-to-my-career-when-giving-notice-to-leave-a-bad-wor&quot;&gt;How can I minimise the damage to my career when giving notice to leave a bad work environment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: -10&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 1, Satisfactory: 7, Needs Improvement: 11)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11300/how-much-time-should-a-consultant-bill-for-waking-up-at-300-am-and-doing-5-or-1&quot;&gt;How much time should a consultant bill for waking up at 3:00 am and doing 5 or 10 minutes of work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: 7&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 9, Satisfactory: 8, Needs Improvement: 2)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11660/my-facebook-wall-is-bothering-some-people-at-work-do-they-have-the-right&quot;&gt;My facebook wall is bothering some colleagues at work, do they have the right?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: 8&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 10, Satisfactory: 7, Needs Improvement: 2)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11506/how-can-we-encourage-people-to-visit-conferences-or-do-anything-else-to-improve&quot;&gt;How can we encourage people to visit conferences or do anything else to improve skills?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: 3&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 7, Satisfactory: 7, Needs Improvement: 4)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11546/how-should-interviewers-give-constructive-feedback&quot;&gt;How should interviewers give constructive feedback?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: 7&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 9, Satisfactory: 7, Needs Improvement: 2)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11138/how-to-test-candidates-for-ability-to-deal-with-the-sales-people&quot;&gt;How to test candidates for ability to deal with the sales people?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: 3&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 5, Satisfactory: 10, Needs Improvement: 2)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11236/how-can-i-overcome-a-lack-of-confidence-to-succeed-in-changing-jobs-to-obtain-mo&quot;&gt;How can I overcome a lack of confidence to succeed in changing jobs to obtain more pay?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: -4&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 2, Satisfactory: 8, Needs Improvement: 6)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11456/boss-smokes-and-colleagues-who-smoke-get-insider-info&quot;&gt;boss smokes and colleagues who smoke get insider info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: 6&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 7, Satisfactory: 8, Needs Improvement: 1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11613/potential-risks-of-rescinding-verbal-acceptance-to-apply-for-a-different-positio&quot;&gt;Potential risks of rescinding verbal acceptance to apply for a different position with the same company&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: -1&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 3, Satisfactory: 9, Needs Improvement: 4)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11215/how-do-i-respond-to-the-maximum-travel-days-weeks-question-on-job-application&quot;&gt;How do I respond to the &amp;quot;Maximum travel days/weeks&amp;quot; question on job application?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: -3&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 3, Satisfactory: 6, Needs Improvement: 6)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T13:30:28.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1898" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1899" CreationDate="2013-06-20T12:45:06.503" Score="2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a fair bit of editing of old questions, and closed questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering why? Most of it is meaningless minor grammar/spelling/typo changes. What's the point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like a waste to me, but I wonder if it's really just a handy way to &quot;bump&quot; questions to the top of the list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-06-21T02:02:48.987" LastActivityDate="2013-06-23T04:06:11.317" Title="Why so much editing of very old or even closed questions?" Tags="|discussion|editing|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1898" CreationDate="2013-06-20T15:01:58.070" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like there is currently an effort to remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/etiquette&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;etiquette&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;etiquette&lt;/a&gt; from a bunch of questions.  If this is part of a drive to kill that tag, &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt; don't hand-remove it from the remaining 118 questions; the moderators can ask the community team to kill the tag outright.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Retagging bumps questions, so these should be done in small batches.  I don't know if we have a rule here; on other sites I've seen limits of 5-10 per day so the front page remains useful for other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for grammar edits and the like, I imagine that people are coming across them and fixing things they see that are broken.  That's fine, even for old questions, as general housekeeping.  Edits should be significant -- not just one typo, but several problems or larger problems are ok to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2013-06-20T15:01:58.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1898" CreationDate="2013-06-23T04:06:11.317" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to expand on what Monica mentions about edits being fine for old questions. As contributors to the site, we mostly see and are exposed to the newest questions and answers, not necessarily the old ones. As a result, it's easy to forget or overlook their importance in growing our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the traffic a healthy site receives is from search engines. That means the majority of people who read our posts are not our fellow users but instead are strangers who have never interacted with us. Most of these folks don't post but instead consume the information that has helped others solve their problems in hopes that it solves their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, some of the older questions with the highest views may in fact be the most important ones for our site, and putting forth efforts to polish them helps us stand out as something more than just the forums, more than just random snapshots of the Internet at a specific moment in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for how to retag posts and edit them, Monica said it well: Edits should be significant so as to avoid turning posts into community wiki or bumping them needlessly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-06-23T04:06:11.317" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1903" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1905" CreationDate="2013-06-24T13:01:12.687" Score="4" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;We had a question that has been closed and reopened where the question basically said:&#xA;I did something illegal, am I likely to be caught when a potential employer does a background check:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/12506/16&quot;&gt;Does a background check include if you paid your taxes or not?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thought is these questions are not appropriate unless the illegal act has already been addressed.  In this case paying the taxes, but potentially dealing with the court system or other manners to clear out any potential for us to become facilitators of the crime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T01:48:19.950" Title="How should we deal with questions where there is a potentially illegal aspect?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1903" CreationDate="2013-06-24T13:42:25.750" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is a divide between two separate types of questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand we have questions where people have done something illegal and are coming to us to find a potential loop hole to aid them in either continuing to do illegal activities or to aid them in covering up these illegal activities. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of questions should obviously &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; be acceptable here in the workplace. We don't condone illegal activity and will play no part in aiding a potential crime. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand we have some questions that aren't asking for aid in their illegal activities but are asking about the consequences of their actions and how it reflects on their professional appearance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of questions are not asking for us to help them commit crime or for help covering up a crime. They are asking about the fallout of their previous activities. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on how this is asked I &lt;strong&gt;Do&lt;/strong&gt; think these types of questions can take residence here on the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the event of the above example I think that the OP is not asking for our help in either committing or hiding a crime but they are instead asking &lt;strong&gt;how&lt;/strong&gt; their previous actions will affect their appearance in the workplace and how it will affect their career.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I think it was reopened. What we should do with it now is another matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this divide between the two types of question isn't clear cut, it's going to be blurry and it's going to require input from the community, but in my point of view &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the question or answers that it will get are likely to aid anyone commit or cover up a crime then they are not fit&#xA;  for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorDisplayName="user5305" LastEditDate="2013-06-24T14:33:48.537" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T14:33:48.537" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1903" CreationDate="2013-06-24T15:36:32.980" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fully agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1904/316&quot;&gt;RhysW's answer&lt;/a&gt; that if the question is about how to continue an illegal activity, it is not acceptable, however if its about the consequences of illegal activity and how it affects your professional appearance, work life, or job hunt, then that is OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole question makes me think of the many discussions I've seen on Security.SE about &quot;black hat&quot; hacking vs &quot;white hat&quot; hacking. The most recent summary of their discussions can be found here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://security.meta.stackexchange.com/q/897/16008&quot;&gt;Clarify our stance on black hat questions&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The conclusion seems to be that don't judge a question by its potential use for abuse. The point of the SE sites is to share knowledge, and outlawing anything that &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be illegal or used for illegal purposes prevents that. In addition, much of the material that &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be used for illegal purposes can also be used for good (ie. for getting a job and eventually paying back the taxes that were missed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE sites are here to share accurate and &quot;expert&quot; knowledge. Its not their responsibility to police how their users use the knowledge they gain from the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T15:36:32.980" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1903" CreationDate="2013-06-25T01:48:19.950" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add on to the answers by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/316/rachel&quot;&gt;Rachel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/5305/rhysw&quot;&gt;RhysW&lt;/a&gt; which I agree with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than focusing on the intent of the person asking the question, I think the emphasis should be on evaluating the potential for the question to help well-meaning people in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically in regards to this question, regardless of the asker's intent, I think that there are many circumstances in which the answer to this question could help people in the future. For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John has an accountant do his taxes. He is currently undergoing a background check for new employment and just received a letter from the IRS stating he will be audited. Will that show up on a background check?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-or-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jane has been living in France working for a French multi-national for the past three years. Due to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_earned_income_exclusion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Foreign Earned Income Exclusion&lt;/a&gt; she was told she didn't have to pay taxes in the US and did not file a return. After returning to the US she hired an accountant to handle taxation when she worked in both countries during the year. She is currently undergoing a background check when her accountant lets her know she still had to file a return even if her tax liability was zero for the year. Will this show up on a background check?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these situations are well-meaning people who end up with the same result (a period where they were not filing taxes properly not due to ill-intent). Suggesting that we should remove a potential resource from John and Jane because we assume that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12506/does-a-background-check-include-if-you-paid-your-taxes-or-not&quot;&gt;Alexander&lt;/a&gt; wants to get around paying his doesn't seem like the best approach to make if we truly want to be a resource in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Legality and Ethics are not Absolute&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would this question be appropriate for the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a 19 year-old intern in Buffalo, NY. My coworkers invited me to go drinking with them in Toronto for my farewell party since I can't drink legally in the US. Is this a good idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about this one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am an unmarried Englishman who does business in Singapore. When visiting important clients on a business trip, they insisted I visit a brothel with them. It was made clear that if I do not, I will lose the project and likely my job. While I have no moral objections, what potential consequences will it have with my company if they find out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or how about this one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is 1965, I live in Illinois and am interviewing for a job across the border in Missouri. Interracial marriage is illegal in Missouri but legal in my state. Is it ethical to lie to my employer about the race of my spouse if asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ethics/legality are rarely clear cut. Laws change over time, and by country, as do ethical codes. Rather than judging which questions are appropriate or not based on our own assumptions, we should focus on getting at the heart of the question (how to tackle ethical quandaries) which can definitely help future visitors. While these may seem like extreme examples, I think they are just as valid in tackling workplace issues as questions like, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1810/should-i-go-to-an-interview-i-dont-intend-to-accept-the-job-if-offered&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Should I go to an interview I don't intend to accept the job (if offered)?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T01:48:19.950" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1908" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-26T17:30:38.260" Score="1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;While reviewing re-open question candidates, I clicked the 'Leave Closed' button. I was then prompted with a message, asking me if I'd like to nominate the question for 'Reopen'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;While the pop-up message was completely erroneous, the action, that is clicking 'OK', worked as expected.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; The net effect of this bug was that I wanted to leave &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/10373/437&quot;&gt;a certain question&lt;/a&gt; closed, but the review system honored my button click as if I wanted to reopen that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T17:43:51.083" Title="When Reviewing Re-Open Candidates, The Message Prompt is Wrong" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1886" CreationDate="2013-06-26T19:00:13.670" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shopping/Product Review&lt;/strong&gt;  - &quot;The question currently appears to be asking for a review of a product or recommendation for a product.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T19:00:13.670" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-06-26T20:15:30.787" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1886" CreationDate="2013-06-26T19:03:26.213" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Requesting a List of Answers&lt;/strong&gt; - &quot;This question currently appears to be requesting our users to post a list of potential answers.  This type of question does not work well with the SE Format where we seek to find the &lt;strong&gt;ONE&lt;/strong&gt; right answer.  Consider revising the question to focus on a seeking a single solution rather than a list of possibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T19:03:26.213" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-06-26T20:15:35.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1911" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1913" CreationDate="2013-06-28T10:45:10.517" Score="10" ViewCount="755" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just joined this site and would like to ask a question, but I'm concerned about employers/colleagues etc seeing my posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I keep the questions anonymous?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9691" OwnerDisplayName="Sam Healey" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2013-06-29T20:47:24.093" LastActivityDate="2013-06-29T20:47:24.093" Title="How can I ask questions on this site anonymously?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2013-06-29T20:47:03.077" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1911" CreationDate="2013-06-28T10:47:57.703" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Open an anonymous browser session (InPrivate, incognito, whatever it is called in the browser you are on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't require people to be logged in for them to ask a question (or answer, for that matter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1513" LastActivityDate="2013-06-28T10:47:57.703" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1911" CreationDate="2013-06-28T21:59:06.320" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another simple option: make an account that doesn't have your real name or picture. Don't fill out your profile with identifying information.  (Who am I anyway?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some downsides to this, for instance, if you want to use the careers site, or want to brag about your points in an interview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="249" LastActivityDate="2013-06-28T21:59:06.320" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1879" CreationDate="2013-06-30T04:34:32.270" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the impressions I have of The Workplace site is it's kind of a 'Dear Abbey' Q&amp;amp;A.  The emotional level in this is far more involved than in Chemistry, History, Stack Exchange, etc. since people are dealing with the perceptions of their employers, co-workers, etc.  In short, this thing is kind of like 'Dilbert', the cartoonist was bored and sent a drawing to an electronics magazine once in awhile, then suddenly he was commenting on the 1980s/1990s corporate culture and it turned into a cultural phenomenon. In short, rating the questions on this site is going to be fundamentally different from more 'objectively' demonstrable answers.  When someone gets 23 answers and 2K hits in one day for a question you're putting 'on hold', someone isn't understanding the draw of the site.  'Facts' may be less material than emotionally intelligent responders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9517" LastActivityDate="2013-06-30T04:34:32.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1915" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1916" CreationDate="2013-07-02T18:17:27.043" Score="4" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;From: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What questions are off topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;I need advice on...&quot;, &quot;What should I do?&quot;, or &quot;Which job should I take?&quot;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions looking for opinions on what to do but with no specific problem are suited for discussion boards (not a question/answer site) and generally will be closed on The Workplace as &quot;&lt;strong&gt;not constructive&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot; For information on how to write a good subjective question see here. Remember a real question has an answer, not just opinions or ideas.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bug = 'Not Constructive' is no longer a close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T19:04:47.827" Title="Verbiage Must Be Updated" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1915" CreationDate="2013-07-02T19:04:47.827" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've updated it to use the &lt;strong&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/strong&gt; close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T19:04:47.827" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1917" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2075" CreationDate="2013-07-03T15:36:56.237" Score="12" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;So there's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/work&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;work&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;work&lt;/a&gt; tag. It's only on 7 (all but 2 closed) questions but we should probably just get the tag blacklisted to save ourselves future headaches instead of editing them out (and spamming up the front page). The tag applies to almost/all questions on the site (by necessity) so it really shouldn't be used at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Objections? Anyone? Bueller?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:59:20.650" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:59:20.650" Title="Blacklist the Work tag" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|burninate-request|tag-blacklist-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1918" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-03T16:55:36.580" Score="3" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12813/how-to-approach-getting-rid-of-geese-from-workplace&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; has received (at time of posting) 4 close votes with nearly no explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;suspect&lt;/em&gt; it's because people are skimming, deciding it has nothing to do with The Workplace based on some background given in the question, and then immediately voting to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given at least two of them are &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/close/4042&quot;&gt;review vote closes&lt;/a&gt; I suspect this is the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to happen frequently on this SE. I understand this question is not trivial to answer since it is heavily office-politics based (as well as generic because lots of people deal with situatinos like this in their workplace), but how can we avoid this sort of problem in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-07-04T02:33:19.027" Title="Why is this question receiving close votes?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1917" CreationDate="2013-07-03T19:19:42.227" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree, but I do think we should redesign/define it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Work&quot; has two meanings.  It is either the action of performing some sort of service for compensation and/or other reasons, or the product of such an action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tl;dr, Someone works on something, which produces work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that perhaps we should pick one of these two main definitions and focus on it.  Say, the noun form.  Questions dealing with finished, deliverable work (like the first two currently holding the &quot;Work&quot; tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1374" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T19:19:42.227" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1918" CreationDate="2013-07-03T19:25:18.173" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I reviewed and voted to close because the vast majority of the question is just background and setup.  You're asking, essentially, how to politely and/or delicately handle an issue that could cause...conflicts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you seem to be shoehorning this into an overly-specific and narrow scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and I did in fact read the whole question originally, including the edits made by rarity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1374" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T19:25:18.173" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1922" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1923" CreationDate="2013-07-04T10:39:18.007" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to make an edit to my comment on the below answer to a question as I feel I may have been a little terse with my response to it. When I went to edit...I can't, only delete. Are you still able to edit your comment on a answer or has this been removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SCRdj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9133" LastActivityDate="2013-07-04T12:06:40.973" Title="Unable to edit a comment on a answer" Tags="|support|comments|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1922" CreationDate="2013-07-04T12:06:40.973" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are still able to edit comments, they haven't changed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rules have always been the same as those for voting, you can only change a vote within X amount of time of it being made, you can also only edit a comment within a small amount of time of posting it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastActivityDate="2013-07-04T12:06:40.973" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1929" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-09T14:11:49.237" Score="1" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12951/is-insomnia-a-valid-reason-to-file-for-a-sick-leave&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; seems like it has great potential to yo-yo from close/reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am creating this to discuss the question rather than simply vote/comment up a storm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T03:51:43.013" Title="Insomnia Question - Discussion" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1929" CreationDate="2013-07-09T14:28:01.063" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that in order for us to stop it from yo-yo-ing we first need to discuss &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it might yo yo in the first place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question seems to balance on the fringe of an interesting work place issue and something that is going to differ greatly depending on location and culture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this would be an interesting question to keep around because in most workplaces, being 'tired' isn't synonymous with being ill despite the degrading effect it has on both your ability to work and your general health. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that if we assume all workplaces will say 'no' to it and then have answers provide solid, evidence backed points that one could use as the basis of encouraging a company to understand the influence of insomnia then the question could be very solid. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, answers might point out its effects on ones health and efficiency in the workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T14:28:01.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1929" CreationDate="2013-07-09T14:45:07.643" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In places I've worked, it's common for people to not come in if they haven't had enough sleep. Also, there's the question of places where the work is dangerous, like airline pilots. Then there's the military, where sleeplessness is just part of the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, I agree this is an interesting question that will also yield different answers. Perhaps editing the question to focus on a specific industry might help and editing to make one of the requirements of answering that people provide fact-based explanations or share experiences that happened to them that back up the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; I closed this post for now; the top voted answer is a one line answer with no back up references. The question was also edited to ask a non-workplace question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made this decision by looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Six Subjective Guidelines to a Good Subjective Question&lt;/a&gt; and asked myself if this question met those guidelines. For most of those guidelines, the question in it's current form doesn't meet what's listed in the blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this question could work if it were somehow more focused on something non-theoretical, or even if answerers followed the six guidelines in answers. I've seen good answers save a so-so question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-07-11T03:51:43.013" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T03:51:43.013" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1932" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1934" CreationDate="2013-07-09T16:11:43.763" Score="-2" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm throwing an idea out there about an event for everyone to get together and throw ideas out there for new questions that would benefit all the users and hopefully increase some site traffic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment we're averaging 5.5 questions per day according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/30887/the-workplace&quot;&gt;stats&lt;/a&gt;. Although I know these shouldn't be taken literally and its all about quality not quantity. I can't help feeling something like this may do some good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have 62 users with over 2k rep and I know some may not be active it will give people a chance to ask some good quality questions they may not have thought of before and give everyone a chance to chat and bond so to speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9133" LastActivityDate="2013-07-10T16:22:17.777" Title="Brainstorming Event" Tags="|discussion|chat|event|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1932" CreationDate="2013-07-09T20:52:44.277" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't a terrible idea, we would just need to make sure folks don't just go out half-cocked and start writing every single question that comes out of the discussion. One thing we've all learned is that hypothetical or &quot;fake&quot; questions tend to sound like what they are, fake or manufactured, and it takes a special skill set to write a question so that it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; sound like there's a real, actual problem to be solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If managed properly, this could help us better define our scope, or identify real, actual problems we've observed our colleagues face that we could ask on their behalf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;Water Cooler chat room&lt;/a&gt; has scheduling features built in to where we can schedule an actual event in the chat room and advertise it in the bulletin board on the main Q&amp;amp;A page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is interest in this, and a plan for making people aware of what the goals are, we can make arrangements to schedule something. But it's critical that everyone involved believes that quality trumps quantity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest doing this in two scheduled phases.  In the first meeting, you simply identify some possible questions, but &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;don't ask them on the Q&amp;amp;A part of the site, not yet&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. We don't want to flood the site with questions that aren't going to work out as this might just make people feel bad who are really trying to help.  Then, before the second meeting, pick a few of the best questions and work together to ask them and edit them as a group so they're outstanding posts. We might also consider whether these should be community owned posts, meaning anyone can edit them and no one single person gains all the reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, at the end of the first meeting, you might just decide that, hey, this really &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a bad idea and none of these questions will work. In that case, there's no harm done.  Conducting this experiment in a controlled manner will likely yield better results than visiting the site one morning and finding it flooded with downvoted, closed questions. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-07-10T05:53:44.047" LastActivityDate="2013-07-10T05:53:44.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1932" CreationDate="2013-07-10T16:22:17.777" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure we need more questions, but what we really need is (a) more agreement on scope and (b) more questions that don't have to go through a close/edit/reopen cycle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One recent example of (a): people mustered close votes for an ergonomics question, but our scope says that's on-topic.  Obviously not everybody agrees.  As part of generating a bunch of new questions, let's try to vet the scope &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; they get asked rather than &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On (b), anecdotally (i.e. I have no real data) it looks like we close a lot of questions, compared to other sites I'm on.  While some of that is the scope-diasgreement issue, more is that many questions aren't asked well initially -- they're too personalized, or too rambly, or too opinion-seeking, or something.  So before we adk a bunch of new questions, let's try to help people &lt;em&gt;ask them well&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of a brainstorming session, I suggest having a few sessions where people bring (real) questions that they want to ask and people here help to refine those questions in chat, with spectators.  Seeing the back-and-forth will teach people what assumptions they need to validate, what questions they need to ask themselves about their questions, and so on.  On the main site, on the other hand, once a question has been fixed the comments tend to get purged (which is good!), so somebody coming along later doesn't get that education (beyond what he can glean from the edit history).  Chat logs, on the other hand, are approximately forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess what I'm suggesting is not a brainstorming session but a &lt;em&gt;practicum&lt;/em&gt;, where people try to actually &lt;em&gt;develop&lt;/em&gt; a smaller number of good questions, collaboratively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2013-07-10T16:22:17.777" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1935" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-11T15:11:43.583" Score="7" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13025/how-do-i-overcome-my-credit-rating-in-reference-to-applying-for-jobs&quot;&gt;This question here&lt;/a&gt;, the OP is asking about how to mitigate the impact having a low credit score has on getting a job.  An odd question, but one that could potentially be applicable to many people (especially in today's economy).  It has, however, gained one downvote and three closure requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the closure requests I could accept, even if I don't fully agree with it.  The question could be interpreted as an opinion-based one.  However, the two clove votes for it being a &quot;legal&quot; related question baffle me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this actually a legal matter i'm not noticing?  And how could we better shape this question to help people out more significantly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: the question has now been closed due to the legal reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T17:56:51.967" Title="What's going on with this credit rating question" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1935" CreationDate="2013-07-11T17:56:51.967" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand where the legal issue is. The question is basically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;I have an issue that at first glance may cause a potential employer to reject me, it won't be found on my resume and isn't illegal but it will show up if they do a background check. How and when should I address it?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be a bankruptcy; low credit score; that my first spouse was an axe murderer; that somebody with my same name is wanted by the FBI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They don't want help fixing their credit report, or paying off the debt. They want to know how to overcome the hurdle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question for the HR exports and hiring mangers is, how have potential employees addressed the issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T17:56:51.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1937" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-12T04:16:31.040" Score="1" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Discussion:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should be done with questions that aren't overwhelmingly bad, but have little redeeming future value?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Background:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many questions on this site which aren't off-topic, and aren't innately bad, but at the same time don't help the long-term usefulness of The Workplace. Here is a recent example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13017/possible-drawbacks-of-zero-turnover&quot;&gt;Possible Drawbacks of Zero Turnover&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question seems to have been accepted as a reasonably good question by the community (9 upvotes, 6 answers), but a slightly deeper look shows some serious issues. Using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; criteria on a 0-3 scale:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;★☆☆ Great subjective questions inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;★☆☆ Great subjective questions tend to have long, not short, answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;☆☆☆ Great subjective questions have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;★☆☆ Great subjective questions invite sharing experiences over opinions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;☆☆☆ Great subjective questions insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;★★★ Great subjective questions are more than just mindless social fun.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question isn't impartial (it strongly implies that low turnover is bad, rather than asking whether it is). Instead of asking how to determine if low turnover is a benefit or a curse, it dodges the interesting part and looks for corroboration that the current situation is bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of the issues with the question, the answers aren't so great either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/13022/7945&quot;&gt;Here are some potential problems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/13028/7945&quot;&gt;It depends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/13018/7945&quot;&gt;It depends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/13019/7945&quot;&gt;My personal experience was...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/13035/7945&quot;&gt;It is abnormal, and therefore bad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/13036/7945&quot;&gt;Let me rephrase the question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there are some tidbits of useful information (the 5th answer has some good stats, though unsourced), for the most part it is just confirming the assumption the asker made rather than providing information valuable to people reading in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may disagree with my assessment of this question, but there are many others like it, where there are upvotes and answers, but very little long-lasting content of worth. How should we deal with questions like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-07-12T16:29:49.960" Title="How should we deal with &quot;passable&quot; questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1937" CreationDate="2013-07-12T04:26:03.147" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I strongly &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1819/how-do-i-deal-with-the-fact-that-im-awesome-and-everyone-around-me-sucks/1820#1820&quot;&gt;agree with jmort&lt;/a&gt; on The Workplace needing more &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/471/did-the-edits-on-the-question-about-how-to-bridge-the-gap-between-management-and&quot;&gt;aggressive edits&lt;/a&gt; to get good quality that will be useful for people who stumble on this site from outside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases of &amp;quot;passable&amp;quot; questions, I would be far happier if people took a step back before answering and thought, &amp;quot;Will this be useful to a broader audience?&amp;quot; That means using comments to confirm the content, trying to work through issues with bias or assumptions of a &amp;quot;right answer&amp;quot; from the getgo, and otherwise laying the ground for a great question that will have a broader appeal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case the core question would be so much better if it asked how to determine if the low turnover rate is causing a problem than assuming that it is causing a problem and asking what the result of those problems may be. The first invites anyone who has been in a stable job to revisit their assumptions of what a good workplace should provide, the second will just serve as a google result for people wanting to prove low turnover is bad (even if the answers don't actually do that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I think rephrasing/rescoping like this would make the question better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How can I determine if low turnover is a benefit or a problem?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/jolts.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bls statistics&lt;/a&gt; turnover on average is about 2% per month for office jobs (&amp;quot;Professional and Business Services&amp;quot;). With 15 developers, we would expect someone to change jobs every 3 months or so. Over the 5 years I've worked here, that would be 4 employees a year, or 20 total job changes. Instead there have been zero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When in a job with a turnover rate far below average, how can I determine if it is a sign of a good working environment or a warning sign indicating stagnation or other problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-07-12T04:26:03.147" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1937" CreationDate="2013-07-12T14:56:36.737" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the &quot;it depends&quot; answers are bad as long as they provide clear explanations and meet the goal of giving the asker the information he or she is looking for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important that we distinguish between things that lead to debate because there is no right answer (Java vs C++ / Python vs Perl, etc) and questions where there could be two mostly non-disputable correct answers, good or bad, depending on factors such as the environment. Workplace culture isn't an exact science, so things like zero turnover could mean two completely different things depending on the environment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judging by the lack of inflammatory comments on the post itself, I get the impression that no one has made claims that we all can't relate to as people who have worked in different workplaces or who know people who work in different places. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as answers are backed by a reference OR share an experience to back up a claim OR explain why and how, then I don't see any major red flags. Can we improve these posts though, absolutely, but I don't think most are problematic. There's one that, while the answerer put a lot of work into the post, I'm not really sure it answers the question. He edited it, but I haven't had a chance to re-read it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I would give this a 1-star on the &quot;long, not short&quot; answers. We seem to be doing ok there. I also feel like people are explaining &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; if not &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;em&gt;How&lt;/em&gt; is tough in this case, as the op is simply trying to understand a concept. &lt;em&gt;How&lt;/em&gt; is more applicable where there's a problem to be solved &lt;em&gt;&quot;How can I make low turnover an advantage in our company?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; vs &lt;em&gt;&quot;Why is low turnover bad in some companies?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  The best question might be &lt;em&gt;&quot;Why is low turnover bad in some companies and how can we use that as an advantage?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we were to edit the question, we could edit to focus on the missing &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; component, but I'm personally not convinced that's necessary and it may invalidate some of the answers. Before making the edits, I'd suggest trying to get the answerers in chat -- or post a link to this meta discussion on the post -- so we could work in conjunction with them; if they're involved, they're less likely to react negatively to several people downvoting and commenting on what are reasonably helpful posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I advocate bold edits -- jmac even quoted me on that -- but think of that more as a strategy for questions which are closed or are going to be closed. Think of bold edits as more of a tool to prevent something that otherwise could be useful from being closed and in danger of being completely removed from our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-07-12T14:56:36.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1937" CreationDate="2013-07-12T16:29:49.960" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the recent changes to the close reasons have created a few problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1: It has opened up the door for non questions like this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2: It has provided guidance that point good subjective question to be closed as asking for opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This specific question does not have a problem to be solved.  There is very little context provided, and no answer is right.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question could be changed to  &quot;What concerns should I have about the health of my company in this scenerio?&quot;, but i do not think we have enough context to answer this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that reason I voted to close to broad.  Get context and change and it fits right there in a question that is legitimately too localized, but completely on topic so not really closable unless you want to call it opinion based, because lets face it 99% of our questions here are opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-07-12T16:29:49.960" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1941" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-16T21:23:48.667" Score="2" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/13188/2322&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/13188/2322&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is going to be closed (hopefully) since it's a vague complete mess. It's not even remotely appropriate for Stack Exchange in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After being closed, it will then get locked and eventually auto-delete, in spite of having what might be a good core question there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does someone here have to approve migration from The Workplace? I do not understand why questions such as the above are transferred here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-07-16T21:23:48.667" Title="How can we get SE to stop migrating questions which clearly need work here" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2013-07-17T02:59:40.760" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering an elevator pitch as a 15 second commercial for the site, I'd suggest something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In your lifetime, you may have a dozen jobs at most. With billions of jobs out there, chances are there are some gaps in your knowledge about the workplace. The Workplace aims to provide expert knowledge to help fill in those gaps. From interviewing (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1478/how-can-i-overcome-years-of-experience-requirements-when-applying-to-positions&quot;&gt;&quot;How can I overcome 'years of experience' requirements?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;) to negotiation (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/896/how-can-i-determine-a-reasonable-salary-to-ask-for&quot;&gt;&quot;How should I determine a reasonable salary to ask for?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;) and beyond, someone should be able to help shed light on your workplace issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T02:09:44.500" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1943" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-17T05:24:10.220" Score="10" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a comment in chat about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/the-7-essential-meta-questions-of-every-beta/&quot;&gt;The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta&lt;/a&gt;, I looked to see if we had done work on deciding how we want our tagging to be handled. While I found small discussions of bits and pieces, I didn't see any giant universal tag discussion. So I'm creating one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some things I think we should do with tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create synonyms for similar tags where needed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Minimize one-time tags that provide little/no future value&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add descriptions to tags without one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Decide how to differentiate between tags, and hopefully retag some of the most popular questions along those lines&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a list of tags on The Workplace and the count of questions with that tag as of July 17th, 2013, using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/tags#page=3&amp;amp;pagesize=100&amp;amp;order=desc&amp;amp;sort=name&amp;amp;filter=default&amp;amp;site=workplace&amp;amp;run=true&quot;&gt;stackexchange API&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/acquisition&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;acquisition&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;acquisition&lt;/a&gt; - 4 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alertness&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alertness&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alertness&lt;/a&gt; - 1 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/applications&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;applications&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;applications&lt;/a&gt; - 64 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/appraisal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;appraisal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;appraisal&lt;/a&gt; - 3 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/asia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;asia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;asia&lt;/a&gt; - 1 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/australia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;australia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;australia&lt;/a&gt; - 2 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/background-check&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;background-check&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;background-check&lt;/a&gt; - 9 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batna&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batna&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batna&lt;/a&gt; - 1 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/benefits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;benefits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;benefits&lt;/a&gt; - 7 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/billing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;billing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;billing&lt;/a&gt; - 4 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/blogging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;blogging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;blogging&lt;/a&gt; - 3 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bonus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bonus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bonus&lt;/a&gt; - 7 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/break-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;break-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;break-time&lt;/a&gt; - 3 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/burnout&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;burnout&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;burnout&lt;/a&gt; - 3 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/business&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;business&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;business&lt;/a&gt; - 6 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/business-cards&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;business-cards&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;business-cards&lt;/a&gt; - 4 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/canada&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;canada&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;canada&lt;/a&gt; - 7 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/career-development&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;career-development&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;career-development&lt;/a&gt; - 149 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/careers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;careers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;careers&lt;/a&gt; - 36 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/career-switch&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;career-switch&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;career-switch&lt;/a&gt; - 11 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/certification&quot; 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- 1 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/work-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;work-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;work-time&lt;/a&gt; - 8 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following tags have only 1 question, and should be looked at by the community to determine if they are better off merged with other tags, made a synonym, or removed entirely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alertness&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alertness&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alertness&lt;/a&gt; - 1 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/asia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;asia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;asia&lt;/a&gt; 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class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;salaried-pay&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;salaried-pay&lt;/a&gt; - 1 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/server&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;server&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;server&lt;/a&gt; - 1 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software&lt;/a&gt; - 1 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/supplies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;supplies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;supplies&lt;/a&gt; - 1 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vesting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vesting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vesting&lt;/a&gt; - 1 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/workplace-routine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;workplace-routine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;workplace-routine&lt;/a&gt; - 1 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many country/region tags which were partially discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25/should-we-have-country-specific-tags&quot;&gt;this Meta thread&lt;/a&gt;, but we may want to revisit the topic since there seems to be a bit of a mess currently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of the tags also seem like they could be duplicates, or they should be properly labeled to explain their usage. There are also a significant amount of tags without any description, which should be worked on, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/189090/add-tag-description-to-the-tag-query-on-stackexchange-api&quot;&gt;but unfortunately it doesn't seem like the API will let me find them easily&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:39:37.910" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:39:37.910" Title="The Workplace Tag List Project" Tags="|discussion|tags|synonym-request|retag-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1943" CreationDate="2013-07-17T14:41:09.770" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's some holistic tagging ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;1 - Location Tags&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the most sensible idea is to take our best crack at segmenting tags into regions with overlapping workplace cultures.  Some of this might be population dependant, but the overriding goal should be that if a given culturally-specific answer would apply to multiple areas in the same part of the world, it have a generalized tag.  Under that principle, I'd currently propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;US - there's just so darn many of us, and we do get into US specific norms and law.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Canada - maybe - just because there ARE some issues out there that are separate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;European Union - I'm willing to believe that there are different norms between countries, but I think the population is better served with a tag that accomodates more questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Britain&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Australia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asia &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Southeast Asia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;South America&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Middle East&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over time, I'd be up for separating the regions that are not countries into more country specific tags - but at the moment, I've noticed a collection of questions around countries who are recipients of the shift in tech work to SE Asia who have a set of common problems that could be leveraged across countries - the language/culture barriers in these trends are more similar than they are different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Job-specific tags&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like &quot;developer&quot; and &quot;software&quot; - I'd like to do away with completely.  A litmus test I often use for recommending a close is that if the question can only be useful to someone in that field, it shouldn't be on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind broader categories like:&#xA;- knowledge-work&#xA;- engineering&#xA;- academics&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I think there are generalities that can help a larger audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Issue specific tags&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we'll always have to prune a bit here - people will always come up with tags for their special issue which isn't so special.  I know one of the meta threads a while back was an attempt to cleanup tags in the vicinity of hiring and applying for jobs.  Looking at the low-count list, I think we managed to keep that area clean, but now need a cleanup on tags relating to leaving your current job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example - exit interview could be merged with termination...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But some of the issue speicific tags that are low-question number may be question asker branching out into new and valid areas - like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;vesting, leave of absence, intellectual-property, injury prevention, probation - all seem like good tags to keep around&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Stuff to help me do my job?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's have one tag - equipment - to replace hardware, server, stationary, supplies and anything else that one needs to do one's job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Time to Eliminate&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are at a point where I think a good slim-down would be useful.  I think we should kill, or come up with a really solid, useful definition for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't hate these - I'd agree to keep if we had a rock solid definition - alertness, morale, respect, salaried-pay &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I worry that these lead down the needs-a-lawyer path - citizenship, contract-extension, immigration, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cliches &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;credentials - worth checking, but I think we already have a synonym in the vicinity of resume stuff.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;job-acceptance &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;library &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;mauritius &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;paperwork  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;portfolio - can keep if it is distinct from resume questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;promises&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;referrals &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;workplace-routine &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2013-07-17T14:41:09.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1945" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-18T10:12:20.417" Score="-6" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should we introduce &lt;code&gt;hypothetical&lt;/code&gt; tag to indicate that the question asked is not a question related to personal (or a friend's) issues at work, but rather a theoretical issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People answering the question would know that there isn't (much) more additional info, since the question asked is not a 'real' problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking hypothetical questions would help us at wp.se to generate more content.&#xA;Of course same standards are to be applied to these hypothetical questions as for the all the others questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More questions means more user interaction, more content and hopefully more help for guests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9379" LastActivityDate="2013-07-18T20:17:30.127" Title="Policy for asking hypothetical questions to generate more good content" Tags="|discussion|tags|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1945" CreationDate="2013-07-18T16:45:48.577" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would not support this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have asked 21 questions here seriously (plus an April Fools joke, which could definitely have been real). My questions have a mix of &quot;directly personally relevant&quot; vs &quot;I'm curious about&quot; questions. I have also asked a few to get a comprehensive question for some of the more frequently discussed topics here (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11482/how-can-i-convince-management-to-allow-employees-to-purchase-vacation&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7355/to-what-extent-do-attributes-making-a-resume-good-generalize-across-industries&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4298/what-are-practical-ways-to-deal-with-reply-all-happy-coworkers&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11197/how-can-i-approach-career-development-with-a-boss-who-doesnt-seem-to-support-th&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as a question is of a good format for the site, I personally do not care if it is your situation, a friend's situation, or a completely hypothetical situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2013-07-18T16:45:48.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1945" CreationDate="2013-07-18T17:10:54.490" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree, per &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1945/policy-for-asking-hypothetical-questions-to-generate-more-good-content?noredirect=1#comment2885_1945&quot;&gt;@MonicaCellio's description of meta tags&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Meta tags (e.g. &quot;homework&quot; on other sites) are discouraged on Stack Exchange. If a question is good it shouldn't matter if it's hypothetical or real; if there isn't enough information, then either that needs to be addressed or it's not a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not meta tags are allowed or not, I felt I should address this part of your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;People answering the question would know that there isn't (much) more additional info, since the question asked is not a 'real' problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Monica says, there should always be enough information.  A hypothetical question should be fine, but if there isn't enough &quot;information&quot; (or a detailed enough description of the problem), then it becomes unanswerable anyway.  There will be too many possible answers to the question and the whole thread will become a discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We avoid these questions that are too broad, regardless of whether they are hypothetical, because they don't work well in Stack Exchange's model.  The format sorts just one answer to the top, but everyone sees many answers they like.  It becomes a poll or popularity contest instead of narrowing down on one real answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2013-07-18T20:17:30.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1948" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-22T19:38:31.283" Score="3" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have posted a question about learning from my lead and mentor who is busy and not open up so much. The question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13171/how-to-learn-from-a-mentor-who-is-not-open-so-much&quot;&gt;How can I learn from Senior team member who has fear of being replaced?&lt;/a&gt;. It receives good answers as well as good up votes. But it is still put on hold. Then I have edited the question and improved where ever I feel improvements required. After that it has been closed. If I review my question basically I have structured my post below&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) I have clearly explain context and problem that I am facing&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(2) I have given my experiences(Which are facts and not my opinions)  with him&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(3) Finally I have put specific and clear question to the community&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not able to see anything wrong with my post and I need community help to improve my question further. Please find my questions below&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) Close voters, Please explain why you have voted it to close and what your are expecting in order to improve this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(2) I am not putting any of my opinions in that post. But still it is closed as &quot;Opinion based&quot;. Can some one explain me why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19430" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T01:23:36.263" Title="Closed a question. Need help to reformat the question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1948" CreationDate="2013-07-22T20:13:13.583" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;opinion-based&quot; close reason doesn't mean that your question is based on your opinions, but that answers to it would be based primarily on the opinion(s) of whoever writes the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done some editing to trim it down and make it clearer/easier to read. That may help it gather some more reopen votes (it currently has 1, and needs 5 to be reopened).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also bring up your concerns about this question in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;The Workplace Chat&lt;/a&gt;. You'll likely get a few different opinions there about what can be done to improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2013-07-22T20:13:13.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1950" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-23T18:09:04.570" Score="7" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how to flag a user, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/10072/user10072&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/10072/user10072&lt;/a&gt; seems to have been just posting a spam answer in several questions. I know I just confirmed flags for at least 2 of his/her posts. Is there a correct way of bringing users like this to diamond's attention, or is flagging each spam answer the correct way to go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T01:34:00.443" Title="Filing report on user" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1950" CreationDate="2013-07-23T18:19:30.850" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flagging each spam answer would probably be sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't &lt;em&gt;directly&lt;/em&gt; flag a user, but you can flag any of the user's posts with a custom flag and explain the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2013-07-23T18:19:30.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1948" CreationDate="2013-07-24T05:10:54.507" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Just as a preface, I think it's fantastic you are looking for ways to improve your post BVR. I really do think that any user who wants to&#xA;learn how to ask better questions deserves respect. If the below post&#xA;comes across as harsh, it isn't intended as such, and I hope you won't&#xA;take personal offense (as it isn't intended in the slightest).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question comes across as a rant to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It assumes the mentor is the problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It offers no information on what solutions have been tried&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answers would tell you &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; to try instead of &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to solve the problem because of 1. and 2.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to follow in the same vein as questions like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10229/boss-does-not-answer-questions&quot;&gt;Boss does not answer questions [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7182/how-can-i-convince-employees-to-solve-their-own-it-problems&quot;&gt;How can I convince employees to solve their own IT problems? [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to be approaching critical mass of, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1819/how-do-i-deal-with-the-fact-that-im-awesome-and-everyone-around-me-sucks&quot;&gt;How do I deal with the fact that I'm awesome and everyone around me sucks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, as-is, these sorts of questions are a very poor fit for The Workplace based on past history. Rather than asking an open-ended question that complains about a person and essentially asks, &amp;quot;How can I fix them?&amp;quot;, you should ask a different question that promotes strategies on how to deal with an aspect of the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;I think my mentor is an introvert, how can I make it easier for him to mentor me?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think my mentor is an introvert because he:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rarely engages in small chat with anyone in the office&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prefers spending breaks and lunch alone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prefers dealing with technical issues rather than communicating&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a new employee and have only been working with him for a week, so&#xA;I'd like to give my best shot working with him rather than asking for&#xA;a different mentor or going over his head. When dealing with a&#xA;technically competent coworker who is introverted, what can I do to&#xA;make it easier for him to teach me what he knows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question doesn't assume that this is a problem with him, it just explains that you think he is an introvert for reasons A, B, and C. Rather than saying, &amp;quot;How the heck can I fix him?&amp;quot; you're asking, &amp;quot;How can I make myself more approachable to an introvert?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That makes the question a lot more answerable to a broader audience, because it allows people to provide information about introverts like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this TED talk&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/03/caring-for-your-introvert/302696/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Atlantic article&lt;/a&gt;, as well as sharing personal anecdotes about how to best work with someone who is introverted (for instance, scheduling meetings ahead of time so that they know when it will end and can prepare themselves ahead of time, or setting aside a specific &amp;quot;mentoring time&amp;quot; to go over any and all problems in the day rather than interrupting when something comes up, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not saying that your question should be the one I drafted above, but rather the question should be about the &lt;em&gt;problem&lt;/em&gt; and not about the &lt;em&gt;person&lt;/em&gt; for us to be able to answer well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until it changes to be about the &lt;em&gt;problem&lt;/em&gt;, I will refrain from voting to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-07-24T05:10:54.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1953" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-25T00:34:12.193" Score="3" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked a question in Workplace Stack Exchange, and it received good up votes and significant number of answers. The question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13171/how-can-i-learn-from-a-mentor-who-doesnt-seem-interested-in-teaching-me&quot;&gt;How can I learn from Senior team member who has fear of being replaced?&lt;/a&gt;. Then it is put on hold and closed. Then I have initiated a discussion thread in meta to get to know feedback about my question and to know reasons for closing. The discussion thread is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1948/closed-a-question-need-help-to-reformat-the-question&quot;&gt;Closed a question. Need help to reformat the question&lt;/a&gt;. I got constructive feedback and areas of improvements for my question. However if I modify the question as per the feedback the focus and question will be changed drastically and I am afraid all answers might become irrelevant to the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my specific questions are as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) In such situation how can I edit the question. Is it OK to have answers which seems to irrelevant to the question. Will it forces all answers to modify or delete?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(2) Is it suggestible to post altogether brand new question?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19430" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T15:22:29.653" Title="Modifying a question significantly which receives many answers and good number of votes" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1948" CreationDate="2013-07-25T01:23:36.263" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think one key issue with the question, as I commented there, is that it's not at all clear that it's this person's &lt;em&gt;job&lt;/em&gt; to be your mentor.  Can you please clarify what expectations were actually set, as opposed to ones you assumed?  If I knew I had somebody for only a month I sure wouldn't invest much time in mentoring him -- not because I'm a mean person (I'm not) but because it's going to be hard for me to get much work from him, after subtracting my supervision time, in the first place that I'm not going to take on more.  If I'm &lt;em&gt;told&lt;/em&gt; to mentor someone, though, that's very different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you are asking one of two questions, but I can't tell which:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do I get my assigned mentor to do his job?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do I persuade my supervisor to invest effort in mentoring me when it's not part of his job?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I did vote to reopen before realizing that the question was still ambiguous.  I wouldn't cast that vote now.  I did not vote on the question itself (in either direction), and I think most of the answers are not very useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T01:23:36.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1953" CreationDate="2013-07-25T02:47:54.157" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like you're question was put on hold, edited and improved, and then reopened. However, there are 3 close votes, so some edits may help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, on posts that are put on hold, I advocate that we focus on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1820/98&quot;&gt;bold edits that help improve the post and make it awesome&lt;/a&gt;. The easiest questions to be relentless in our edits on are those that are downvoted and which have no upvoted answers. On those, the sky is the limit because when you hit rock bottom you can only go up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;But what about when there are answers?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this does get a little dicey when there are answers. In general, if the post would likely be deleted if no one edits, then I'd say be bold in your edits, but when there are answers this gets a little tougher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't say there's really a right or wrong answer to this. Me personally, I'd love it if we could just edit anyway and put the responsibility on the answerers to edit their posts, as it was them who decided to post answers on a question that doesn't quite fit the format. However, realistically speaking, this isn't always possible because the &lt;em&gt;entire community&lt;/em&gt; must be 100% behind the idea that the answers need edits, and that can create problems if we're not unified. So in the interests of maintaining the cohesiveness of the community, if any answers have more than roughly 5 upvotes, I'd say you should try to edit your post so their answers don't become useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, there are 7 answers, with 1 deleted post that only 2k+ users can see. Only one of those answers has any up votes. Therefore, I'd say make your edits, but only so far as to address concerns in the comments that make the community reject your post.  Rewriting the entire post wouldn't be cool, nor would unnecessary edits or drastically changing the meaning of your post. But editing to keep it from being put on hold again would be awesome.  Since no one has really voted on most of the answers, the edits wouldn't create any awkward situations where the top voted answer doesn't make any sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, it just depends on the situation; use your best judgement to improve the question without creating unnecessary work for those who have already posted.  Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Should I post a new question?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases, I don't see this being necessary. That also includes &lt;em&gt;this case&lt;/em&gt;. In most cases, if a post can't be edited, it most likely will never work out on Stack Exchange. In situations where I've seen new questions asked, either a significant amount of time went by and &lt;em&gt;another user&lt;/em&gt; asked the question, or the original question actually contained more than one question and needed to be split into two, such as Matt Harrison's question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13390/is-job-hopping-bad-for-a-developers-career&quot;&gt;Is job-hopping bad for a developer&amp;#39;s career?&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13392/how-can-i-use-my-leverage-at-my-current-employer-to-help-create-an-environment-w&quot;&gt;How can I use my leverage at my current employer to help create an environment with less, direct hands on management of my work?&lt;/a&gt;, which originally were a single question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, this is just based on my experience. It's entirely possible, but not always necessary. Again, I wouldn't suggest it here, as most Stack Exchange communities frown at just reposting a duplicate question, and I don't want to see your awesome efforts taken negatively. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T02:47:54.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1956" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-25T13:37:55.773" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;A low-quality post appeared in the flag queue and I clicked the &quot;flag&quot; button to reinforce it.  Only after doing that did I realize that I could just cast a delete vote instead.  Mine was the third vote, so that deleted the post.  I felt bad about the now-obsolete flag that I couldn't withdraw, and out of curiosity looked at my flag history to see if the system had been smart enough to auto-resolve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It did.  That's good.  It also marked it as helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should that have happened?  It's probably not a big deal (how often does the situation come up, and do we really care about a few &quot;bonus&quot; helpful flags on the way to Deputy and Marshal?), but it seemed odd to have, essentially, resolved my own flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think a flag in this case should be declined (there &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; a problem, after all, and we don't want to mis-train the Community flagger), but perhaps, as with comments that are deleted by their owners before the flag is handled, there should be an intermediate &quot;obsolete&quot; state?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-07-28T20:02:18.723" LastActivityDate="2013-07-28T20:02:18.723" Title="Should I have been able to mark my own flag as helpful?" Tags="|support|bug|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1953" CreationDate="2013-07-25T15:22:29.653" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with @jmort253, but wanted to put it differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Stack Exchange system is seen as a living thing.  It has a historic quality - it's a body of knowledge that should be there for everyone, with old posts often being timeless.  But it's &quot;living&quot; in the sense that the goal of each question is to get a helpful answer that can help others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is too open ended, opinion based, or too specific to a given case, it won't be useful to the community and should be edited.  &lt;em&gt;Regardless of the presence or absence of answers.&lt;/em&gt;  If the question can't meet the goal of generating useful, votable answers, it won't survive - it'll get marked for deletion, at which point, any relevant answers will disappear along with it.  And even if the question should survive, if the answers aren't helping you, then they aren't helpful answers, and the question needs to be updated to clarify what you are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(1) In such situation how can I edit the question. Is it OK to have answers which seems to irrelevant to the question. Will it forces all answers to modify or delete?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; some answers that you find helpful, tune your question to preserve and align with these useful answers.  But if you aren't getting helpful answers, clarify the question, the answers will take care of themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers can be flagged and edited by users with a certain reputation level, and posters can delete their own posts.  When a question is updated, it bumps up to the top of the list again, so it won't linger in obscurity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What generally happens, is that the useful answer set gets upvoted, and thus rises to the top of the page.  Irrelevant answers get downvoted and often deleted - so the community prunes this information, much like the first attempt at a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(2) Is it suggestible to post altogether brand new question? discussion&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can save the question, I'd recommend it.  The edit to the question is viewable, so those of us that read the site frequently can put it in context and understand how it's evolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T15:22:29.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1956" CreationDate="2013-07-25T15:57:28.963" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't actually a bad thing. If something is really bad and should be removed faster than the community can handle it, casting a delete vote followed by a flag can help resolve it faster, especially if it's a very low quality or not an answer flag because other 2k users can see it and do something about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your flag was likely marked as helpful because the post was deleted, either by a mod or by other users casting delete votes, so it sounds like your flag was useful!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T15:57:28.963" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1959" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1961" CreationDate="2013-07-26T00:18:41.343" Score="6" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;In February, we had a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1687/question-about-interview-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;brief discussion&lt;/a&gt; on whether specific interview questions were on topic. Rarity was the only answer, upvoted significantly, saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say no to specific, task related questions meant to&#xA;demonstrate &lt;em&gt;competance&lt;/em&gt; like;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do you do X in excel?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do you design a program for maximum concurrency?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your truck has started to hydroplane, what do you do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like these are specific to certain jobs and require domain&#xA;expertise. I think the only &amp;quot;interview questions&amp;quot; that would be on&#xA;topic would be related to general workplace matters, for instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is an interviewer looking for when they ask where I see myself in 5 years?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/3793/42&quot;&gt;How am I supposed to answer &amp;quot;What do you consider your greatest weakness?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How thoroughly should I explain why I want to work for Company X?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also not a fan of the &amp;quot;Which floor do you drop an egg from&amp;quot; or&#xA;&amp;quot;How many basketballs will fit in this room&amp;quot; questions. They're more&#xA;of a gray area than the the above question sets. I'd lean towards not&#xA;allowing them, myself. If the question is just &amp;quot;answer this specific&#xA;question with a specific answer&amp;quot; I don't think that's really useful;&#xA;what's more useful is &amp;quot;What is the interviewer hoping to learn from my&#xA;answer to this?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically my criteria would be that answers should teach you how to&#xA;&lt;em&gt;respond&lt;/em&gt;, not just an exact answer to regurgitate. There aren't right answers for these kinds of interview questions, but answers which show&#xA;how X applicant is appropriate/inappropriate either for Company Y or&#xA;Job Z&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently we are not being consistent about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/10498087#10498087&quot;&gt;In Chat&lt;/a&gt; enderland was down on this question by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/7978/happybuddha?tab=questions&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;happybuddha&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13409/how-to-handle-the-what-is-your-super-power-interview-question&quot;&gt;how to handle the “what is your super power” interview question [on hold]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is On Hold, it seems users agree with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the same user has other similar questions with a very different result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 Upvotes, 5 Answers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11528/how-to-handle-the-tell-me-a-joke-interview-question&quot;&gt;how to handle the “tell me a joke” interview question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;8 Upvotes, 6 Answers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12573/why-do-interviewers-ask-how-do-you-keep-abreast-of-changes-in-technology&quot;&gt;Why do interviewers ask “How do you keep abreast of changes in technology”?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Note: This question was originally, &amp;quot;How do you respond to&amp;quot; but was edited to &amp;quot;Why do interviewers ask&amp;quot; after the fact&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 Upvotes, 5 Answers (Closed): &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13085/how-to-handle-absurd-interview-questions&quot;&gt;How to handle “absurd” interview questions? [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 Upvotes, 9 Answers (Closed): &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11411/how-does-a-non-team-player-answer-questions-about-team-playing&quot;&gt;How does a non team player answer questions about team playing [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course these sorts of questions are not only limited to this user, and other questions have a very different reception:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;70 Upvotes: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/8899/how-should-i-respond-to-an-inappropriate-question-in-a-job-interview&quot;&gt;How should I respond to an inappropriate question in a job interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;32 Upvotes: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4056/interview-question-why-did-you-leave-your-previous-role&quot;&gt;Interview question: Why did you leave your previous role?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;31 Upvotes: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3688/how-should-i-respond-to-the-classic-introduce-yourself-question-in-an-intervie&quot;&gt;How should I respond to the classic “Introduce yourself” question in an interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know we're still a beta site, and playing a lot of this by ear, but I think we should do our best to create some sort of consistency to make it easier for users to grok what we're trying to accomplish here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Discussion&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What guidelines should we be using to determine if questions are on or off-topic in regards to responding to 'typical' interview questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Considerations&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the standards above seem to indicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions applicable to any interview (why did you leave your job, how to introduce yourself) are ok&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions applicable to a specific subset of interviews (specifically software ones, for the 'keeping abreast of technology' and 'what is your superpower') seem to be not ok&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions applicable to specific candidates responses to interview questions (like the 'non-team player' question) are not ok&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not saying this is the way it should be, it's just the way I would read the stance of the community. Let's try to firm this up so that we can give clear guidance to new posters and limit confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T15:48:14.917" Title="What determines if a question about interview questions is on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1959" CreationDate="2013-07-26T01:52:48.240" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason I voted to close &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13409/how-to-handle-the-what-is-your-super-power-interview-question&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13409/how-to-handle-the-what-is-your-super-power-interview-question&lt;/a&gt; was because it was a question which is blatantly polling for answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a typical software developer interview, what is a good answer to this interview question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could be the most acceptable way to answer this ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no indication from the question the asker of any interest whatsoever in a &amp;quot;why&amp;quot; or anything other than simply getting a list of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good subjective, bad subjective&lt;/a&gt; this question pretty seriously falls short on guidelines #1, #2, #4, #5, and completely fails #6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T01:52:48.240" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1959" CreationDate="2013-07-26T02:17:35.910" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the most interesting points worth looking at is that this question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13409/how-to-handle-the-what-is-your-super-power-interview-question&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13409/how-to-handle-the-what-is-your-super-power-interview-question&lt;/a&gt;, is on hold, and this question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11528/how-to-handle-the-tell-me-a-joke-interview-question&quot;&gt;how to handle the &amp;quot;tell me a joke&amp;quot; interview question&lt;/a&gt;, is open, up voted, and answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The joke question did give us some trouble.  Out of 8 answers posted, 3 were deleted as the answerers responded with polling-type answers and didn't understand that the asker was looking for a &lt;em&gt;process&lt;/em&gt; for determining how to answer the joke question, not an actual, cookie-cutter, give-me-a-fish type answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the surface, it sounds like we as a community may have made a mistake. But take a deeper look at the two questions. The joke question has more &lt;em&gt;substance&lt;/em&gt;. The asker describes a problem. How does one know, in just 2 minutes of talking to an interviewer, what type of joke to tell without being offensive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, take a deeper look at the super power post. &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;In a typical software developer interview, what is a good answer to this interview question&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. This is classic, polling 101. However, this post has a lot of promise. I think that if we edit it to focus more on process, why an interviewer would ask that, etc, then the post would be useful, but we'd likely also have to delete 3 out of 8 answers since someone would likely just post &amp;quot;superman.............&amp;quot; (including all the dots to meet the minimum content length on the answer field. :)  That doesn't mean it won't work, it just means we have to be careful about how we word the post &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; be ready to help users who might not understand how to answer on our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's my assessment on some of the other posts you link to:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13085/how-to-handle-absurd-interview-questions&quot;&gt;How to handle &amp;quot;absurd&amp;quot; interview questions?&lt;/a&gt; - We might want to take another look at this. I don't see it as a rant. The question is a bit biased, so maybe we can edit to define &amp;quot;absurd&amp;quot; or use words that are less inflammatory or that more objectively describe the type of question the op refers to. It's broader than the joke or super powers question, but it's not so broad that it's worthless. It actually adds value to have all of these questions on our site, and it might even be a good idea to link them together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11411/how-does-a-non-team-player-answer-questions-about-team-playing&quot;&gt;How does a non team player answer questions about team playing&lt;/a&gt; - In May, I edited this question to see if I could justify reopening it. After the edits, it appeared to be a good question, but I was worried about some of the answers from the question in its previous form, so I left it for the community to decide. It has over 1000 views, and I'd be interested in us doing a self-eval on it. You know, the kind where we go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; and do a search for the post, comparing the other sites with ours. I just did this, and when one includes the terms &amp;quot;non-team player&amp;quot;, this post is generally right smack at the top of the list! :)  While this WikiHow post, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikihow.com/Answer-a-Team-Player-Interview-Question&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Answer a Team Player Interview Question&lt;/a&gt;, does an awesome job, I think we can add value too if we edit and format some of the answers so they're more organized and use bulleted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/8899/how-should-i-respond-to-an-inappropriate-question-in-a-job-interview&quot;&gt;How should I respond to an inappropriate question in a job interview?&lt;/a&gt; - This post is open, but it's similar to the question asked by happybuddha about how to handle &amp;quot;absurd&amp;quot; questions. In this example, the phrase &amp;quot;inappropriate question&amp;quot; is well-defined, using an example that most HR reps in the United States would agree fits that definition. While it still has a mild polling aspect to it -- some are tempted to give the cookie cutter give-me-a-fish answer -- most of the answers help the question meet the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;6 Subjective Guidelines of Good Subjective Questions&lt;/a&gt; and are of the teach-me-&lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;-to-fish variety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The best advice that I have for how to judge a question is this:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't judge a book by it's cover:&lt;/strong&gt; Meaning, don't judge the post by it's title alone. Two questions that may sound very similar may have been composed entirely different. It's the post body that really determines whether the post will fit, and it's the title that helps grab attention and also help other community members see it's value. If you see a post getting close votes that is similar to one that was successful, consider editing it to improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keep in mind we are evolving:&lt;/strong&gt; - Some posts we've closed in the past might be worth looking at again. We've learned a lot as a community running The Workplace, and it's possible we may look at a post again, take what we've learned from editing other posts, and see ways to make an older, closed post work on our site. If the older post can't be edited and reopened, for instance, because of highly upvoted answers, maybe the things we didn't catch in time on that post could be caught earlier on newer posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Judging questions is very subjective:&lt;/strong&gt; Each question should be looked at on its own merits. The way a post is worded has a major impact on how people answer it. The main thing to look at is this: &lt;em&gt;Will the post still attract people to our site a year from now? Is the content valuable? Will it help people find our site? Will it attract people who will ask serious, quality questions?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider this quote from Aarobot, from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real Questions Have Answers&lt;/a&gt; blog post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, some questions that are worded as very obvious polls actually get reasonably good, well-written answers. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/14856/3249&quot;&gt;Best practices that you disagree with&lt;/a&gt; for an example. On Seasoned Advice (Cooking.SE), I can point to several examples of &lt;a href=&quot;https://cooking.stackexchange.com/q/9562/41&quot;&gt;weak questions&lt;/a&gt; or even &lt;a href=&quot;https://cooking.stackexchange.com/q/9533/41&quot;&gt;joke questions&lt;/a&gt; that, given an &lt;strong&gt;early&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;comprehensive answer&lt;/em&gt;, did not devolve into pointless blathering. On the flip side, I’ve seen questions that were definitively &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; phrased as polls that were &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; greeted by dozens of poor-quality answers; take, for example, one of Stack Overflow’s oldest: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/q/8472/38360&quot;&gt;Practical non-image based CAPTCHA approaches?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take Aarobot's quote with a grain of salt. We definitely don't want questions with 100 answers, but the point this user makes is worth considering. Not every question that feels like it's going to give us trouble is going to be a bad question for the site, and not every question that looks good is going to actually be a good question. Part of our community growth process is to learn from experience so we can identify good and bad questions based on past experience and hopefully turn the bad ones into good questions before its too late! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T02:17:35.910" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1959" CreationDate="2013-07-26T15:48:14.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am way lesser experienced than other posters here, but allow me to say : I definitely think there should be a place here where people can post specific interview questions which are unusual in interviews. The answers may seem to seek an opinion, but how else can such questions be answered ? Seemingly obvious answers to questions like &quot;how can I be better prepared to answer what is 2 + 2&quot; should not be entertained. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many interview specific questions aren't really polling for answers (which chit chatting questions would do) but asking for help from experienced members of the community on what is the best way to be prepared to be run over with such questions. It could be a terrible loss for the poster of the question to lose out on a job opportunity because of this. Although someone may think that one is better off without such a job, but in my experience mostly, the only thing between a great company and a great opportunity is an interviewer refusing to move past such unusual questions and even refers answers to such mindless questions as yard sticks of measuring one's 'thinking on the feet' etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all of my questions that were singled out, you can see that I genuinely was caught off guard. Primarily, I don't understand the value of such a question in an interview. But what questions the interviewer asks is out of my control and the least of my worries. I need to crack that interview and get that job. What is in my control is to be prepared for such questions thrown at me in the future. I am sure other readers who would have been equally caught off guard, would be better prepared. Also it is but obvious that after being baffled at such interview questions my productivity at my usual place of work takes a hit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7978" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T15:48:14.917" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1964" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-29T06:21:45.327" Score="3" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;As The Workplace grows and looks to leave Beta, I think there are a few things cleanup duties that we should start doing to make the site tidier. Rather than create giant laundry lists which have less than stellar motivational powers, I am going to toss in what I'm doing and why I'm doing it, and the community can act (or not) as preferred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this is still a (relatively) small site, cleanup is easy, and we can improve the quality of the site to make it a better resource for future users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Project #1: Duplicate Review&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following five questions are &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=answers%3A%3E%3D1+is%3Aquestion+closed%3Atrue+duplicate+views%3A%3E%3D500&quot;&gt;duplicates with answers that have over 500 views&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/550/how-can-you-evaluate-your-market-value&quot;&gt;How can you evaluate your market value?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/5854/how-can-i-delay-job-offer-acceptance&quot;&gt;How can I delay job offer acceptance?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/592/optimal-office-size-cubicles-versus-small-rooms-versus-open-plan&quot;&gt;Optimal office size: cubicles versus small rooms versus open plan?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/395/how-long-can-i-wait-to-respond-to-a-job-offer&quot;&gt;How long can I wait to respond to a job offer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4521/when-should-someone-accept-more-responsibilities-without-more-money&quot;&gt;When should someone accept more responsibilities without more money?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since these are relatively high-view closed questions, I want to make sure of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is actually a duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is adequately answered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The original question contains all the information in the duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the pseudo-workflow I am using:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1rh6T.png&quot; alt=&quot;Duplicate Cleanup Workflow&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the 5 questions listed above, here is the action I have taken:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Added &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/896/how-can-i-determine-a-reasonable-salary-to-ask-for/13463#13463&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to the original&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Added &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/13464/7945&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Added &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/13465/7945&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No action (accidentally voted to reopen)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4521/when-should-someone-accept-more-responsibilities-without-more-money#&quot;&gt;reopen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next steps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=answers%3A%3E%3D1+is%3Aquestion+closed%3Atrue+duplicate+views%3A200-500&quot;&gt;13 questions with 200-500 views&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions with &amp;quot;no action&amp;quot; may be candidates for deletion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If my approach can use refinement, or if someone can suggest a better way to go about this sort of stuff, please feel free to let me know. I plan to do similar things with high-view/high-score closed questions to determine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should they be reopened&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should they be edited and reopened&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should they be closed but left for future generations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should they be deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will start a separate meta entry when I start tackling that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T06:21:45.327" Title="Summer Cleanup Project #1: Duplicate Review" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|exact-duplicates|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1965" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-30T09:00:26.583" Score="5" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13476/should-follow-up-be-promised-in-a-cover-letter&quot;&gt;review item&lt;/a&gt; for &quot;closed w/o comment (auto)&quot;. But this is my only option:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MaExD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I supposed to just leave it as-is? I added a comment, but I still only have the option to flag/disagree. If I do nothing, won't the flag just disturb the next person to come along to the review queue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-07-30T23:33:30.437" Title="What am I supposed to do with this review item?" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1965" CreationDate="2013-07-30T16:46:39.543" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;On beta sites, when a question is closed without any comments, Community automatically flags it for attention (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/187715/167443&quot;&gt;see here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These flags have popped up in the flag queue from time to time (whenever this happens).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems the text of the flag has recently changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can just leave it until a diamond mod dismisses it; I doubt anyone will be &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; disturbed by its presence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically the two actions you could take in addition to flagging for attention or as invalid are close and delete:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close: It's already closed, so this option is not available.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete: Posts with a score higher than -2 can't be voted for deletion until they've been &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/177675/167443&quot;&gt;closed for two days&lt;/a&gt;, so this action isn't available.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2013-07-30T23:33:30.437" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1967" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-05T06:53:16.907" Score="1" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last Week I cleaned up [high-view Duplicate questions](Summer Cleanup Project #1: Duplicate Review). This week I am tackling closed non-duplicate questions with over 1000 views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Project #2: High View Closed Questions&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=views%3A1000&quot;&gt;currently 318 questions with over 1,000 views&lt;/a&gt;. There are 15 non-duplicate &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Ayes+views%3A1000&quot;&gt;closed questions with over 1000 views&lt;/a&gt; (duplicates removed manually). These 15 questions represent almost 5% of our high-view questions (if defined as 1,000 views). Many of these questions are likely victims of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11602/what-formula-should-be-used-to-determine-hot-questions&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™&lt;/a&gt;, but there is the possibility that they are high views because they provide information that is valuable to users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/911/getting-fired-on-the-second-day-how-do-i-cope-with-it&quot;&gt;Getting fired on the second day, how do I cope with it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12692/when-and-how-to-fire-a-unproductive-engineer&quot;&gt;When and how to fire a unproductive engineer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/454/does-keeping-ones-desk-extremely-clean-appear-lazy&quot;&gt;Does keeping one's desk extremely clean appear lazy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/572/is-it-unprofessional-to-play-games-during-lunch-hours&quot;&gt;Is it unprofessional to play games during lunch hours?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10229/boss-does-not-answer-questions&quot;&gt;Boss does not answer questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/915/working-late-without-overtime-pay-good-idea-or-not&quot;&gt;Working late without overtime pay, good idea or not?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10769/jokingly-told-my-boss-i-quit-on-april-fools-and-i-think-i-just-got-fired&quot;&gt;Jokingly told my boss &amp;quot;I quit&amp;quot; on April Fools, and I think I just got fired&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11411/how-does-a-non-team-player-answer-questions-about-team-playing&quot;&gt;How does a non team player answer questions about team playing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/772/is-it-acceptable-to-use-pirated-software-on-the-job&quot;&gt;Is it acceptable to use pirated software on the job?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12939/i-just-got-a-job-that-i-cant-afford-to-go-to-how-to-resolve&quot;&gt;I just got a job that I can't afford to go to, how to resolve?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4247/improving-social-interaction-at-work&quot;&gt;Improving social interaction at work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2951/stuck-in-boring-programming-jobs&quot;&gt;Stuck in boring programming jobs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3598/is-it-normal-for-a-company-not-to-contact-you-after-a-lengthy-interview-to-let-y&quot;&gt;Is it normal for a company not to contact you after a lengthy interview to let you know you didn't get the job?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2772/where-can-i-go-take-a-nap-during-the-day&quot;&gt;Where can I go take a nap during the day?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11161/is-it-discrimination-when-my-boss-treats-me-differently-after-finding-out-that-i&quot;&gt;Is it discrimination when my boss treats me differently after finding out that I'm looking for a new job?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went through each question and answer one-by-one to see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is on-topic for the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If editing it would make it on-topic for the site without making the answers seem out of place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is any valuable information in the question/answers that make it popular&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the general workflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R9goE.png&quot; alt=&quot;Workflow for High-View Closed Questions&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(for those of you unaware, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126587/what-is-a-historical-lock-and-what-is-it-used-for&quot;&gt;here is the meta thread on a historical lock&lt;/a&gt; on meta, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered&quot;&gt;here is an example&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Results&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/911/getting-fired-on-the-second-day-how-do-i-cope-with-it&quot;&gt;delete&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/928/7945&quot;&gt;maple_shaft's answer&lt;/a&gt; has some good info, borderline historical lock)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12692/when-and-how-to-fire-a-unproductive-engineer&quot;&gt;delete&lt;/a&gt; (this question would have been better as, 'When is it acceptable to ask an employee to attend training outside of work hours?', but as-is it seems to be a bit beyond help)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/454/does-keeping-ones-desk-extremely-clean-appear-lazy&quot;&gt;delete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/572/is-it-unprofessional-to-play-games-during-lunch-hours&quot;&gt;delete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10229/boss-does-not-answer-questions&quot;&gt;delete&lt;/a&gt; (goodbye 660 rep!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/915/working-late-without-overtime-pay-good-idea-or-not&quot;&gt;delete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10769/jokingly-told-my-boss-i-quit-on-april-fools-and-i-think-i-just-got-fired&quot;&gt;historical lock&lt;/a&gt; (not sure I agree with the historical lock on this, but it's already done so I can't delete vote or flag it)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11411/how-does-a-non-team-player-answer-questions-about-team-playing&quot;&gt;delete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/772/is-it-acceptable-to-use-pirated-software-on-the-job&quot;&gt;delete&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/777/7945&quot;&gt;Mark Booth's answer&lt;/a&gt; has some good info, borderline historical lock)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12939/i-just-got-a-job-that-i-cant-afford-to-go-to-how-to-resolve&quot;&gt;delete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4247/improving-social-interaction-at-work&quot;&gt;delete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2951/stuck-in-boring-programming-jobs&quot;&gt;delete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3598/is-it-normal-for-a-company-not-to-contact-you-after-a-lengthy-interview-to-let-y&quot;&gt;delete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2772/where-can-i-go-take-a-nap-during-the-day&quot;&gt;delete&lt;/a&gt; (though this has &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/2794/revisions&quot;&gt;an edit by Jeff Atwood himself&lt;/a&gt; - ran out of delete votes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11161/is-it-discrimination-when-my-boss-treats-me-differently-after-finding-out-that-i&quot;&gt;delete&lt;/a&gt; (ran out of delete votes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Conclusions/Next Actions&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought there would be a lot more high-view questions with good answers, but it really does seem that a vast majority of these were doomed by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11602/what-formula-should-be-used-to-determine-hot-questions&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™&lt;/a&gt; -- lots of poor answers to an off-topic question that just got featured on 'hot questions'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those of you with 5,000 reputation, you should have a bunch of topics in the delete queue to vote on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Ayes+views%3A500&quot;&gt;another 28 closed questions with over 500 views&lt;/a&gt;. There are likely some very good questions out there that got closed mistakenly, or can be reopened with minor edits. Just have to figure out how to find them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next I am planning on tackling &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184/what-is-the-norm-of-closing-the-question&quot;&gt;Is it appropriate/normal/appropriate if _______?&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; questions, as well as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Ayes+score%3A10&quot;&gt;high-votes (not just high-views) questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-08-05T14:55:50.167" Title="Summer Cleanup Project #2: High View Closed Questions" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1967" CreationDate="2013-08-05T14:55:50.167" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think some of these questions can be beneficial even if they are closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I basically went through this list, thinking, &quot;would I ever want to link to this question in the future?&quot; and if the answer was &quot;yes&quot; I did not vote to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm torn, but this situation will come up from time to time. No vote from me&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think this is a question a lot of people will have. Also no vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I actually voted to reopen this question, I've wondered about this too. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ditto. This question answer is, &quot;depends on culture&quot; and I think the answers do a great job of this&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I also think this is beneficial, we get questions periodically which have very similar elements to this one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Torn on the overtime question. I suspect this will be useful to link as there are often questions here about OT.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This somehow has 10,000 views (?). I might be biased.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I should have closed the latest question, on &quot;brainsizing&quot; as a dup of this. I'm torn on this, I actually voted to reopen. Lots of people tend to have this question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meh. I would recommend lock on this, because again, this is a question a lot of people will have.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Complete meh, here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An ok question, too poll-like. But another common workplace problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another complete meh&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Definitely would rather lock than delete this one. We could probably link this to 1/2 the interview questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meh?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Woah, 2 delete votes? This is something which also happens a lot - perhaps the title is misleading, but this also happens to a lot of people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-08-05T14:55:50.167" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1692" CreationDate="2013-08-07T16:40:44.013" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/13634/2322&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; is such a good example of this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP has a situation which, in both the original and edited question, is basically asking&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I make my situation bearable until I find a different position?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the top voted answer is, &quot;just quit!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer is popular and advice the asker already knew, but completely misses the point of the question. Yet has received some 30 upvotes and only a handful of downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-08-07T16:40:44.013" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1970" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-08T18:21:26.277" Score="3" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13593/how-do-i-deal-with-hiring-reservations-when-resume-is-affected-by-brainsizing/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; should remain undeleted. Lots of people on this site have asked questions where that entire question/answer sequence would be relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since being active here, I have found a lot of people who post questions here seem to have an, &quot;I'm so awesome, why won't the world work with me&quot; attitude which is the core problem in that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter to me if the OP there is a complete arrogant punk or someone who is normal. My hunch is people disliked that question not based on the merit of the question but on their personal feelings towards the attitude of the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of that, I would like to undelete &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13593/how-do-i-deal-with-hiring-reservations-when-resume-is-affected-by-brainsizing/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. It was recently deleted but since a moderator cast a delete vote, I cannot cast an undelete vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T01:23:54.023" Title="Don't brainsize me, bro (discussion on brainsizing question)" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1970" CreationDate="2013-08-08T18:36:09.283" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just because a question has some potential value does not mean that the question as it sits adds value to the site.  If you were to ask the question constructively and that question is not deleted then your new good question is liable to be closed as a duplicate.  Bad questions should be deleted so that good questions can come in and replace them with out being closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW if the OP had ever tried to fix the question I suspect it would not have been deleted, or at least not yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T18:36:09.283" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1972" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1975" CreationDate="2013-08-08T19:42:22.470" Score="3" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT [4/21/14]: I'm bumping this to the top for our new moderators.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1789/9549&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, but I see the problem persists, so let this be a friendly reminder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the comment box clearly states &lt;code&gt;avoid comments like &quot;thanks&quot;, &quot;+1&quot;, &quot;me too&quot;&lt;/code&gt;, I see these comments are much more common in this site than on others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely many of us have been guilty of this in the past, myself included, but come is it &lt;em&gt;really necessary&lt;/em&gt; to state your agreement &lt;em&gt;every time&lt;/em&gt; you see a good answer? That's what upvotes are for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to appeal to the community, please restrain yourselves. These comments do not add value, and may even obscure others that do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1795/9549&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; suggests, can we be more aggressive flagging non-constructive comments while at the same time avoid making them? What else could be done in order to get the point across? For example on SO the comment &lt;a href=&quot;http://mattgemmell.com/2008/12/08/what-have-you-tried/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;What have you tried?&lt;/a&gt; is being explicitly blocked, would it be wise to do the same? (yes that measure &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; sound more authoritarian than it should be, just to give an example)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T14:25:42.977" Title="Why so many +1 comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1973" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-08T20:51:27.207" Score="8" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm noticing a significant number of questions (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13727/should-i-get-another-bsc-degree-in-order-to-have-better-work-prospects&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13722/nothing-to-show-for-the-past-several-months-at-work&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;) that seem to be asking for advice so tailored to the questioners situation that they are essentially personal advice. Other sites in StackExchange (e.g. Christianity) tend to forbid those questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we forbid them also?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(P.S. if you don't think the questions I linked to are really that personal, feel free to answer this and indicate how personal they should get before they are closed - if at all)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="886" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T22:25:01.413" Title="Personal Advice" Tags="|discussion|site-policy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1973" CreationDate="2013-08-08T21:19:20.883" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went ahead and put the first question on hold because we really can't tell the asker whether or not he should get a CS degree; however, I left the second question because it describes a problem in the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only suggestion I have for the second question is to edit it a bit to focus on a more definitive question at the end than &quot;What should I do&quot;, which would make it a better question. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T21:19:20.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1972" CreationDate="2013-08-08T21:22:30.193" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see anything wrong with comments that highlight important points in a long answer. That comment makes me want to read the answer to see what the fuss is about.  On the other hand, comments that do nothing more than say &quot;+1 good answer&quot; should just be flagged and removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also edit out -1's from comments as the goal is to guide users not punish them, and rubbing their noses in the fact that we downvoted their post can drown out any helpful information the user receives that may help him or her improve the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T21:22:30.193" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1973" CreationDate="2013-08-08T22:25:01.413" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1720/can-we-add-questions-asking-for-advice-to-the-list-of-off-topic-questions&quot;&gt;my thoughts&lt;/a&gt;, more or less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I typically vote to close questions which are, &quot;tell me what to do&quot; that don't have a clearly defined question other than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T22:25:01.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1970" CreationDate="2013-08-09T01:23:54.023" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was deleted by request of the author.  It has now been anonymized and undeleted.  I'll let the community cast delete votes again if they wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T01:23:54.023" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1979" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-13T07:25:34.687" Score="2" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I need to know if there has ever been any question asked about different methods of periodically evaluating team members. If so, please provide me the links to some of those questions or tell me what tags they have been assigned. If this is not the right place to ask such question, which site is more appropriate? programmer.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2919" LastActivityDate="2013-08-13T12:38:06.687" Title="Question about evaluating team members" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1979" CreationDate="2013-08-13T12:38:06.687" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?tab=relevance&amp;amp;pagesize=50&amp;amp;q=evaluate%20is%3aquestion&quot;&gt;46 search results for &quot;evaluate&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. Some cover evaluating team members, some cover job opportunities; they've got several differnt tags, depending on the details of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a question in mind, searching some particular key words or phrases from it may help you find more relevant results. Additionally, the Ask Question page suggests related questions as you type your question's title, and is often more helpful than the search feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't go into much detail about what you're looking for/want to ask, so I feel the need to warn you that questions &quot;where every answer is equally valid&quot; can be a challenge to fit into the Stack Exchange format. I'd suggest looking through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/asking&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; before asking, and possibly proposing your question here on meta first for some feedback/discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-08-13T12:38:06.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1982" CreationDate="2013-08-18T05:51:34.247" Score="1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was closed and then deleted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13511/what-are-the-ramifications-of-a-wrong-id-on-a-contract/13512#13512&quot;&gt;What are the ramifications of a wrong id on a contract?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have had several discussions on whether legal questions are on or off topic (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/82/are-questions-of-law-is-x-legal-questions-off-topic?rq=1&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/581/defining-the-on-topic-off-topic-line-on-questions-that-could-be-answered-by-a?rq=1&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1856/what-is-asking-for-legal-advice&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to name a few).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While asking, &quot;What happens if my name is backwards for a contract signed under singapore law?&quot; is definitely off-topic, knowing where to look in a contract for this information is rather general (clauses are very similar in most countries) seems to be relevant. While I can understand closing the question to try to refine it, is this question really so far beyond the line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this really a clear line we should draw in the sand as a question that has absolutely no redeeming value to the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-08-18T07:53:35.890" Title="Why was this borderline legal question not only closed but deleted as well?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1981" CreationDate="2013-08-18T07:53:35.890" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, we try to exercise discretion when using the delete feature, leaving closed posts sit around so the community can review them, improve them, or vote to delete them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, the question askers specifically request that their questions be removed, which happened in this case. When this happens on an open post, with many upvotes and an accepted answer, we try to do everything in our power to preserve the content and put in a request to disassociate the question from the user account, leaving &quot;Anonymous&quot; as the user name instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for downvoted, closed questions with few upvotes, we lean towards just removing the post, since it's a time consuming process to disassociate an account. In this case, I'm not sure it's worth undeleting this post considering its low value and the fact that it's been closed for more than two weeks with no reopen votes or improvements.  Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-08-18T07:53:35.890" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1983" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-19T16:22:41.353" Score="10" ViewCount="270" Body="&lt;p&gt;We say that questions asking for legal advice are off-topic (rightly so).  I always thought this meant &quot;what should I do in this situation?&quot; (which may also be too localized), or &quot;what exactly does this clause of an employment contract mean&quot;, and stuff like that -- specialized questions for which you really need to consult a lawyer, not anonymous people on the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I was surprised by the close reason for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/13869/325&quot;&gt;Illegal interview/application questions in the UK?&lt;/a&gt; .  Yes the question should be closed for asking two different questions in one, but after separation I would expect both questions to be appropriate.  This seems to be a general question about hiring/interview limitations in the UK; if it were instead asking what the illegal questions are in the US, I don't think anybody would have blinked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what am I missing?  What makes this question off-topic &lt;em&gt;as a legal question&lt;/em&gt;, and should we then apply the same metric to any question that asks about things you can't ask/do in the hiring process?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I don't have a horse in this race; I'm just puzzled and asking for clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="10313" LastEditDate="2023-09-06T17:49:45.270" LastActivityDate="2023-09-06T17:49:45.270" Title="What is &quot;legal advice&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|close-reasons|legal-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1984" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-20T08:11:47.480" Score="2" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I asked two questions, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/13883/8233&quot;&gt;How can I evaluate which title to use (Mr./Ms.) when e-mailing a prospective employer?&lt;/a&gt; (not the original title) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/13774/8233&quot;&gt;What is a “Fast Paced Company”?&lt;/a&gt;, both of which were marked as &quot;overly broad&quot; and downvoted. The consensus I got from the comments was that they were downvoted because the simplest answer was &quot;it depends on the company&quot;. I was especially puzzled by this on the former because &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/1604/8233&quot;&gt;this question on addressing your boss via e-mail&lt;/a&gt; was very similar (even including &quot;It depends on your boss&quot; as an answer), but did not receive the same backlash that mine did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on my two questions and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/148/8233&quot;&gt;this meta discussion&lt;/a&gt;, there seems to be an unwritten rule that questions where &quot;it depends&quot; is an answer are bad questions that should be downvoted on this site, and that this seems to have developed fairly recently. Being new to this site, I didn't know these unwritten rules and didn't see anything on the help documentation about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;What types of questions should I avoid asking?&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that this is an unwritten rule (or at least there are situations where &quot;it depends&quot; questions are definitely bad), should we update the help pages about this so that new users can know not to ask these questions (and what they should ask instead)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8233" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T08:17:34.740" Title="Should we update the &quot;Don't Ask&quot; Help Page to Address &quot;It Depends&quot; Questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1985" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1986" CreationDate="2013-08-20T23:38:33.207" Score="4" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is going on with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13885&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt;? 4 people agree with my comment (close vote reason), but only 1 close vote is shown, and I can't vote again. Was the thread closed and re-opened already?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-08-20T23:55:26.777" Title="Close vote broken?" Tags="|support|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1985" CreationDate="2013-08-20T23:55:26.777" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Close vote isn't broken -- according the revision history, the post was reopened by 5 community members (6 hours ago at the time of this writing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastActivityDate="2013-08-20T23:55:26.777" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1984" CreationDate="2013-08-21T08:17:34.740" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are some meta threads that may help you in your quest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1873/editing-the-help-center&quot;&gt;a discussion for updating the Help Center pages&lt;/a&gt;, but that doesn't seem to have gotten much traction. Perhaps this is a good time to go revisit it and start fixing some of those pages to better reflect what the community views as on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also created &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1826/why-was-my-question-edited-closed-downvoted&quot;&gt;this list of reasons questions are often closed and downvoted&lt;/a&gt;, perhaps some of these could be incorporated in whatever edit was there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions about how to title a mail or what is typical strike me as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1830/7945&quot;&gt;Polling for Opinion&lt;/a&gt;. As stated in that thread:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;It was polling for opinion&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am currently looking for new jobs. What corners in Tennoji, Osaka have you found to offer the best day laborer work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-or-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am currently looking for day laborers. What is the best free newspaper to advertise in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you just want to know what's out there, and ask a question&#xA;to get the opinions of folks with experience. Unfortunately, these&#xA;answers quickly become outdated, and they don't really fall in line&#xA;with the type and quality of questions The Workplace is looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than polling for answers, why not ask a more general question&#xA;that will help you solve your problem? For instance, &amp;quot;How can I&#xA;improve the quality of staff I get from temp agencies?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people aren't a big fan of the way I wrote those, and they may not be appropriate for the about page, but the basic concepts all seem to have gotten upvotes, and may be appropriate to incorporate in to the &amp;quot;what questions not to ask&amp;quot; page in the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T08:17:34.740" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1988" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-21T11:40:45.817" Score="4" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious why this isn't being considered off-topic: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13907/how-can-i-find-and-evaluate-interviewing-software&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13907/how-can-i-find-and-evaluate-interviewing-software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If asking about &quot;software used for interviews&quot; is permissible because it's somehow related to the workplace, would &quot;best software for word processing&quot;, or &quot;favorite software for spreadsheets&quot;, or &quot;good software to fill out expense forms&quot; be on-topic as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems to me software selection questions belong elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-08-22T02:12:04.390" Title="Isn't asking about software off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1988" CreationDate="2013-08-21T14:10:49.670" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No clue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I just saw it and voted to close :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If asking about &quot;software used for interviews&quot; is permissible because it's somehow related to the workplace, would &quot;best software for word processing&quot;, or &quot;favorite software for spreadsheets&quot;, or &quot;good software to fill out expense forms&quot; be on-topic as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why I don't really think this sort of question is appropriate here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would a question like, &quot;how to pick the best power tool for framing a house?&quot; be on topic? Probably not...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2013-08-21T16:05:19.160" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T16:05:19.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1988" CreationDate="2013-08-21T14:12:04.670" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I originally cast a close vote as &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot;, which is how I typically vote to close poll-like questions these days.  The other examples you gave would also be questions that I would vote to close as &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot; because of the formation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think questions about software are automatically off-topic, but the question would have to be about the interaction between the tool and the workplace (yet not how to do X job with Y tool) to make it on-topic and specific. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T14:12:04.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1991" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1992" CreationDate="2013-08-21T14:30:39.907" Score="1" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can this question be off topic and put on hold ? &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13898/how-can-i-overcome-lack-of-local-experience?noredirect=1#comment33581_13898&quot;&gt;How can I overcome &amp;#39;lack of local experience&amp;#39;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;It asks a specific question and is tagged appropriately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar questions have been answered before : &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1478/how-can-i-overcome-years-of-experience-requirements-when-applying-to-positions&quot;&gt;How can I overcome &amp;quot;years of experience&amp;quot; requirements when applying to positions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7978" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T15:01:40.783" Title="Why is this question put on hold?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1991" CreationDate="2013-08-21T14:49:35.697" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first thought when I saw it on the front page (didn't have time at the time to read it) was that it could end up being a duplicate of the second question you've linked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While that may be the case (I'm not completely convinced; it could be different enough), I do disagree with the current closure. I've reopened it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it got closed again (as a duplicate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T14:49:35.697" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1991" CreationDate="2013-08-21T15:01:40.783" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally voted to close the question because, as jmac pointed out in a comment, you seem to be asking four different questions, like: &quot;(1) what is 'local experience' (2) how do you overcome unwritten requirements (3) what do Australian IT employers/recruiters want (4) how should I handle this job rejection&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure which, really, is your primary question, or how close these assumed questions are to your primary question, but if these four do encompass your questions, I would say that 1 is possibly answerable although with a lot of conjecture unless it is something specific to Australia and someone here knows that, 2 I believe has a duplicate somewhere on this site but I haven't looked yet, 3 is really broad, and 4 is probably unanswerable by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as with everything, a focused question is a better question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T15:01:40.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1988" CreationDate="2013-08-22T02:12:04.390" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get the impression we're falling into the trap of closing what may be a good, on-topic post for our site simply because the question contains a few trigger words that light up that part of our brain that tells us a post doesn't fit our format. It's easy to fall into that trap, and I've definitely caught myself reaching for the close vote button before really seeing the potential. This is why I closed the question and then doubled back by editing and reopening the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software recommendation vs evaluation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's true that software &lt;em&gt;recommendation&lt;/em&gt; questions are off-topic, questions about how to &lt;em&gt;evaluate&lt;/em&gt; software, software that applies to a workplace problem and not a job function, may not necessarily fit into the definition of being off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most Stack Exchange sites mark software &lt;em&gt;recommendation&lt;/em&gt; questions as off-topic because they:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tend to generate a lot of spam&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tend to attract answers that aren't backed with facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tend to become obsolete once a cooler software solution comes along.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, software &lt;em&gt;evaluation&lt;/em&gt; questions are of a different breed. They:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tend to attract answers supported by facts, references, and specific expertise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tend to explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are more than just mindless, social fun. (It takes more effort to explain how to evaluate something or what steps to take to select the best solution).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, I get the impression we didn't 100% close this post because we thought it was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/qa-is-hard-lets-go-shopping/&quot;&gt;&quot;shopping question&quot;&lt;/a&gt; but perhaps instead because interviewing blurs the lines between a workplace problem and a job function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Is &quot;Interviewing&quot; a Workplace problem or a &quot;specific job function&quot;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's where things get a little complicated. We know that &quot;interviewing&quot; is 100% on topic on The Workplace, while &quot;construction&quot; and &quot;software development&quot; and &quot;project management&quot; are definitely off-topic. We've concluded that questions about a specific job function are off-topic and that only workplace problems are on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But isn't interviewing also a specific job function? Isn't interviewing a job function of human resources or perhaps a job function of any managerial role?  I've often thought that if our site can claim one professional group as it's true experts, that it would be the human resources folks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thus, if interviewing is on-topic -- &lt;em&gt;if the specific job function of successfully interviewing candidates is on topic&lt;/em&gt; -- then it stands to reason that evaluating tools that help a person be a better interviewer may also be on-topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should evaluate each question on our site based on its own merits. Deeming this off-topic simply because someone &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; ask about power tools, or computers, or the best shoe polish to use to shine one's shoes before an interview, that feels a bit like cutting off our nose just to spite our face. We would surely close those latter questions, but if the only reason we can find for closing a post is that others &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; ask something else off-topic, that seems misguided and not good for our site's overall health.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If human resources questions are off-topic because questions about hiring candidates also is a job function, then what is this site really about? At some point, there needs to be a common-sense approach to determining what is and isn't on-topic. Sometimes there's not really objective criteria we can look at when defining the borders of our site topic. The lines oftentimes get pretty blurry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-08-22T02:12:04.390" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1995" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1996" CreationDate="2013-08-22T18:35:18.003" Score="6" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;A fellow member keeps informing me (in comments in this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/13935/7978&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/13935/7978&lt;/a&gt;) that I am leading towards a question ban. &#xA;Can someone explain why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7978" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-08-24T01:45:06.470" Title="What leads to a question ban?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1995" CreationDate="2013-08-22T18:57:01.197" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow (and I believe Meta Stack Overlow, and possible ServerFault/SuperUser) has an automated question ban that kicks in after a certain threshold is crossed (details aren't public, but it's based on question scores, question closures, and question deletions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This automated ban does not exist on other Stack Exchange sites (such as this one), so you won't get automatically banned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if this user is suggesting such a thing (probably unaware there isn't one here), it's probably because of a (perceived, at least, but not necessarily real) pattern of issues with your posts. Do you have a lot of closed/deleted questions? Questions with negative votes? If so, I'd encourage you to edit/improve them, but you seem to have several positively received questions, so I'd say it's largely a non-issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: I don't think you have anything serious to worry about at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2013-08-22T18:57:01.197" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1995" CreationDate="2013-08-23T01:54:59.870" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/help/question-bans&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; on SO sites has information on Question Bans. In addition, there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86997/what-can-i-do-when-getting-we-are-no-longer-accepting-questions-answers-from-th&quot;&gt;meta thread on SO&lt;/a&gt; that also covers it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the highlights:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Why am I getting this message?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;about&lt;/a&gt; links on&#xA;every page, the Stack Exchange web sites are &lt;em&gt;question and answer&#xA;sites,&lt;/em&gt; not help forums. This implies that all posts are expected to&#xA;have some value for later visitors too. To enforce that, and to&#xA;prevent &lt;a href=&quot;http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;help vampires&lt;/a&gt; making&#xA;the answerers turn away from the communities, low-quality questions&#xA;and answers are blocked. This includes posts from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;users who can't be bothered to form sentences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;users who don't do the most basic kinds of research themselves&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;users who barely even explain what it is they are trying to do&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/56817/can-we-prevent-some-of-the-low-quality-questions-from-entering-our-system/60294#60294&quot;&gt;automatic&#xA;filter&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;is in place to ban questions and/or answers from IP addresses or&#xA;accounts with a history of extremely poor posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid bypassing the filter its internal rules are a secret, but it&#xA;is partly based on downvotes cast by other members of the communities.&#xA;If the other members of the site consistently give your posts a low&#xA;ranking, you should try to identify the reason(s) for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you have posted too many poorly-received questions or answers,&#xA;you will be banned from posting more, and you will see the error&#xA;message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot speak for the person who made the comment, but my guess is it was because you have a very poor history of success with the questions you ask. Only &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/7978/happybuddha?tab=questions&quot;&gt;2 out of your 11 questions&lt;/a&gt; have been acceptable to the community as posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[closed] &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11411&quot;&gt;How does a non team player answer questions about team playing [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[not closed] &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11528/how-to-handle-the-tell-me-a-joke-interview-question&quot;&gt;how to handle the “tell me a joke” interview question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[closed] &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11873/how-to-effectively-deal-with-interview-rejection&quot;&gt;How to effectively deal with interview rejection? [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[closed/reopened] &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12512/what-alternatives-do-i-have-for-time-limited-code-challenges-when-the-schedule-i&quot;&gt;What alternatives do I have for time-limited code challenges when the schedule interferes with my current job?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[closed/reopened] &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12573/why-do-interviewers-ask-how-do-you-keep-abreast-of-changes-in-technology&quot;&gt;Why do interviewers ask “How do you keep abreast of changes in technology”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[closed] &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13085/how-to-handle-absurd-interview-questions&quot;&gt;How to handle “absurd” interview questions? [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[not closed] &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13137/what-is-a-professional-way-to-customize-personal-note-in-linkedin&quot;&gt;What is a Professional way to customize personal note in linkedin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[closed] &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13240/how-does-one-search-for-a-job&quot;&gt;How does one search for a job [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[closed] &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13409/how-can-i-determine-a-good-way-to-answer-the-super-powers-interview-question&quot;&gt;How can I determine a good way to answer the super powers interview question? [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[closed/reopened] &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13898/how-can-i-overcome-lack-of-local-experience&quot;&gt;How can I overcome 'lack of local experience'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[closed] &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13935/elevator-etiquette&quot;&gt;Elevator etiquette [on hold]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-08-23T01:54:59.870" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1995" CreationDate="2013-08-24T01:45:06.470" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The types of questions that benefit our community as a whole are those that are about real problems, problems that can have a real, measurable impact on your career or the career of another. These are the types of questions that people on Google are searching for because they need an expert answer to a tough problem. This doesn't mean social etiquette questions, such as the elevator question, are off-topic, but the questions should ideally involve something that has an impact on your work, not just be something you're merely curious about.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Jim mentions, there are no automated bans on this site, but I encourage you to think of the Workplace SE for more serious issues and not just a sounding board for things that are trivial. To bring this site to graduation, we need everyone's help in populating it with content that will help build a larger community of experts, as well as provide the type of answers to tough problems that people are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, you might be able to edit the elevator etiquette post to highlight a greater importance. For instance, how one behaves in social situations at work can possibly affect promotions, team assignments, and who is considered a valuable asset. Perhaps it's possible that the way one behaves on an elevator may have an effect on these outcomes. You just might have to find a way to highlight that importance in the question so that the community doesn't see it as trivial. Using logic, reason, and good edits will get you much farther than name calling and personal attacks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maintaining good quality content on a Stack Exchange site is tough, and it requires patience and understanding from both question askers as well as members of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-08-24T01:45:06.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1983" CreationDate="2013-08-26T00:34:56.290" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We actually had &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1856/what-is-asking-for-legal-advice&quot;&gt;an extended discussion on what legal advice is&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Legal advice is asking a question that needs an answer by a lawyer, not a HR manager or career guidance counselor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the specific case of this question, I don't think that's the main issue. Even if the answer was clearly given in regards to the legality/illegality, it won't solve the issue. This person has clearly been asked about religion during interviews, and whether it is legal or not doesn't much matter if it's being asked anyway. Some far better ways the question could be phrased would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;What are the consequences for refusing to answer a question about religious affiliation during an interview in the UK?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;When is the best time to bring up special religious requirements when applying for work in the UK?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These sorts of questions may have a legal component involved (if it is illegal, that would certainly help answer the first question), but at their heart they are asking how to navigate the actual problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of &quot;legal&quot; questions that I read seem to amount to someone trying to find a way to punish activity they don't like/find distasteful. Here are some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7017/do-i-have-any-legal-recourse-regarding-verbal-job-offer&quot;&gt;Do I have any legal recourse regarding a verbal job&#xA;offer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1243/is-it-legal-to-discriminate-against-smokers-in-ones-company-in-canada-or-usa&quot;&gt;Is it legal to discriminate against&#xA;smokers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2354/employers-installing-keyloggers-on-work-pc&quot;&gt;Is it legal for employers to install keyloggers on work&#xA;pcs?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12788/conflict-of-interest-in-the-hiring-process&quot;&gt;Is it legal to refuse to hire based on where I currently&#xA;work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3510/how-to-handle-employer-expecting-someone-to-do-work-against-their-conscience&quot;&gt;Can I take legal action against an employer who makes me do his&#xA;kids' homework?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What a lot of these questions share is that responding to the legal component rarely actually solves the underlying problem. I think that the question you are asking about suffers from the same issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if it were a question from the other side of the table, I think it would be fair game. For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it illegal to discriminate on the basis of special religious requirements in the UK?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We are putting out ads for Position X in Location Y in the UK. There&#xA;  are many people of religion Z in the area who require special religious&#xA;  considerations which limit their ability to work the hours expected by&#xA;  our owner. Under what circumstances are we allowed to legally&#xA;  discriminate, and how do we best address this legally during the&#xA;  interview process?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-08-26T00:34:56.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2000" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2002" CreationDate="2013-08-27T00:31:16.820" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/13970/437&quot;&gt;Should you list a desired position title in your resume?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that the above question &lt;a href=&quot;https://mobile.twitter.com/StackWorkplace/status/371606836275068930&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;was tweeted by @StackWorkplace&lt;/a&gt;; to which I have to say...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;...Seriously?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is probably on-topic but it's &lt;em&gt;painfully&lt;/em&gt; mediocre, and it's not exactly the type of content that we want to promote on Workplace.Beta.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did a human tweet this question? Or did an automated algorithm tweet this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, we really need to think about the type of content that we promote on Twitter. We certainly don't want the @StackWorkplace account to be tweeting noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T03:01:02.933" Title="Who on Earth tweeted this painfully mediocre question?" Tags="|discussion|support|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2013-08-27T01:34:33.760" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Workplace.SE - Your place for non-localized, widely applicable questions that can be answered with facts that can be backed up with either an anecdote or hyperlink.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T01:34:33.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2000" CreationDate="2013-08-27T03:00:34.497" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/StackWorkplace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;@StackWorkplace Twitter account&lt;/a&gt; is indeed run by an automated bot. No human runs this account. What's more, each Stack Exchange site has its own Twitter account that automatically tweets open, up voted questions. I assume the question was up voted at the time it was tweeted although now it has a score of zero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/183407/155826&quot;&gt;How does the twitter bot work?&lt;/a&gt;, the algorithm to determine when -- and if -- to tweet is based on how hot the question is based on views. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, I'm not sure this question is really all that bad. It's not a difficult problem, and there's likely already answers out there on the Internet that answer this question, but it's definitely something that both applies to the workplace and can be answered with facts, references, and specific expertise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's good someone is keeping an eye on the feed though. If it were to tweet negatively-scored or closed questions, that would &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; be something that we would want to address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T03:00:34.497" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-29T00:43:48.803" Score="6" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to ask a question about interpersonal relations in a school robotics team. As far as I can tell, this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Represents a group dynamic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Simulates (or creates somewhat of an analog for) a professional environment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is a workplace, though not an official one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this category of question appropriate for The Workplace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8712" LastActivityDate="2013-08-29T01:02:14.483" Title="Are questions concerning the dynamics of clubs and projects on-topic for The Workplace?" Tags="|discussion|support|on-topic-definition|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2003" CreationDate="2013-08-29T01:02:14.483" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming the question is about graduate students, you may or may not have better luck at &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Academia SE&lt;/a&gt;. I've never participated there; I just know it exists. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we have had students ask questions here before about problems faced while working on a project.  I assume your question is on professionalism and regarding a professionalism problem. If that's the case, your question could work assuming you remain concise, objective, and write your question in Q&amp;amp;A format so that there's an actual question for users to definitively answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before posting, take a look around the site at up-voted questions to get a feel for things. Here's an example of a good question with a slight academic twist that's related to resume writing:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13765/how-to-describe-my-position-in-course-projects&quot;&gt;How to describe my position in course projects?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's another one that involves a group project at a University: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/5906/how-do-i-eliminate-a-coworker-from-a-project&quot;&gt;How do I eliminate a coworker from a project?&lt;/a&gt;.  If this answers your question, then awesome! If it doesn't and you end up posting, be sure to make it clear how your problem differs, which will help avoid your question being marked as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:49:56.923" LastActivityDate="2013-08-29T01:02:14.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2005" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-29T09:50:17.483" Score="5" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I have recently been having a batter at the tags to see if we can remove any we don't need. Define any that are undefined and re-tag those we think are redundant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As suggested by Monica Cellio I will instead post an answer for each tag as well as what I think should be done with it, agreement / disagreement is then as simple as a up or down vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to disagree and explain why if you do so. I can't do the deletions myself so will rely on community agreement to determine what we should do with each of these tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorDisplayName="user5305" LastEditDate="2013-08-30T09:11:31.463" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T14:48:46.810" Title="RhysW's Tag Reviews - Suggested Course of action" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2006" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-29T18:37:08.743" Score="6" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see through the activity part of my profile that I voted to close a question but I don't see anywhere that says what my reasoning was (there are three different reasons on the question so far).  Is there no way to see which of the reasons is the one I submitted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4710" LastActivityDate="2014-03-01T04:46:12.563" Title="Is there a way to see how I voted to close?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2007" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-30T00:09:51.910" Score="3" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the summer &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1943/the-workplace-tag-list-project&quot;&gt;I compiled a list of tags&lt;/a&gt; in the hopes to clean things up, and recently RhysW has &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2005/rhysws-tag-reviews-suggested-course-of-action&quot;&gt;done some good work going through tags as well&lt;/a&gt;. In that thread (as well as in mine) there was a suggestion which &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2005/rhysws-tag-reviews-suggested-course-of-action#comment3020_2005&quot;&gt;Monica Cello&lt;/a&gt; stated as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestion: if the question were just &amp;quot;which tags should we clean up?&amp;quot; and then separate answers covered individual tags or groups of related tags, then voting would indicate community support. Otherwise you're going to have to tease it out from comments or possibly competing mega-answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as a first shot, I would like to tackle Location Flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my tag post above, bethlakshmi said the following about location tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the most sensible idea is to take our best crack at segmenting&#xA;tags into regions with overlapping workplace cultures. Some of this&#xA;might be population dependant, but the overriding goal should be that&#xA;if a given culturally-specific answer would apply to multiple areas in&#xA;the same part of the world, it have a generalized tag. Under that&#xA;principle, I'd currently propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;US - there's just so darn many of us, and we do get into US specific norms and law.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Canada - maybe - just because there ARE some issues out there that are separate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;European Union - I'm willing to believe that there are different norms between countries, but I think the population is better served&#xA;with a tag that accomodates more questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Britain&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Australia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Southeast Asia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;South America&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Middle East&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over time, I'd be up for separating the regions that are not countries&#xA;into more country specific tags - but at the moment, I've noticed a&#xA;collection of questions around countries who are recipients of the&#xA;shift in tech work to SE Asia who have a set of common problems that&#xA;could be leveraged across countries - the language/culture barriers in&#xA;these trends are more similar than they are different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently we have the following location tags (as best as I can figure), along with their post counts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-states&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-states&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-states&lt;/a&gt; - 48&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-kingdom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-kingdom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-kingdom&lt;/a&gt; - 22&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/india&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;india&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;india&lt;/a&gt; - 16&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/canada&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;canada&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;canada&lt;/a&gt; - 7&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/uk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;uk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;uk&lt;/a&gt; - 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/australia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;australia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;australia&lt;/a&gt; - 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mauritius&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mauritius&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mauritius&lt;/a&gt; - 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/germany&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;germany&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;germany&lt;/a&gt; - 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pakistan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pakistan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pakistan&lt;/a&gt; - 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/asia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;asia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;asia&lt;/a&gt; - 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25/should-we-have-country-specific-tags?rq=1&quot;&gt;discussion in 2012&lt;/a&gt; that said we should limit country specific tags to questions where the country is integral to the question. Just because the person asking is in Mauritius doesn't mean the question should have the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mauritius&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mauritius&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mauritius&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Action Suggestions&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Remove country-specific tags for non-country-specific questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommend we go through all these questions, tag by tag, and remove it from any question that is not unique to that country, and then see how many questions we are left with containing those tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Create obvious synonyms&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very least, we should consolidate &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/uk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;uk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;uk&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-kingdom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-kingdom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-kingdom&lt;/a&gt; and/or make them synonyms (I would do it, but you need at least 5 reputation in a tag to suggest a synonym -- silliness).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Consolidate tags where possible&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we are going to use tags for specific countries/regions in the future, I think it may be helpful to create a logical framework for which countries/regions we will support (and how we should support them). For instance, we could use UN region codes and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ISO-3166 country codes&lt;/a&gt;. Google has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/geochart?csw=1#Continent_Hierarchy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;handy table showing which countries are in which subregion/region&lt;/a&gt; which we could use to set it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For countries which have a hefty following (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-states&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-states&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-states&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-kingdom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-kingdom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-kingdom&lt;/a&gt;) we can keep them as-is. For regions with a bit less visibility, we can use the region names from the UN (such as Caribbean, Central America, etc.). The major issue is that we, as a community, would have to retag questions manually, since someone will likely look for their country name, not for an arbitrary region name they may not associate with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:58:46.277" Title="Location Tags - What Should we Do?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|synonym-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2008" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-30T01:06:37.437" Score="2" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the only tag representing an industry. We do not have a tag for law-firms or healthcare-industry or agriculture or otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt; - 277 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is likely due to the history of the Workplace (since SE was originally designed for folks in the software industry), but it also stands out as being a glaring exception in the tag list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This issue &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/574/industry-specific-tags-and-localisation&quot;&gt;has been brought up before&lt;/a&gt; but nothing has been done (unfortunately), so here we are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like location tags (country, region), very few of these questions are actually specific to the software industry. Take the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=[software-industry]%20closed%3ano&quot;&gt;top 10 questions&lt;/a&gt; in that tag for instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1478/how-can-i-overcome-years-of-experience-requirements-when-applying-to-positions&quot;&gt;How can I overcome &amp;quot;years of experience&amp;quot; requirements when applying to positions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/450/how-can-i-encourage-a-culture-of-punctuality-in-a-software-company&quot;&gt;How can I encourage a culture of punctuality in a software company?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10456/how-can-we-protest-a-deadline-that-is-too-short&quot;&gt;How can we protest a deadline that is too short?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1518/how-should-i-deal-with-colleagues-asking-me-to-hide-problems-with-their-work&quot;&gt;How should I deal with colleagues asking me to hide problems with their work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/794/how-can-i-reduce-the-size-of-a-long-resume-without-hiding-all-my-skills-and-expe&quot;&gt;How can I reduce the size of a long resume without hiding all my skills and experience?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12173/how-do-you-explain-to-your-boss-theyre-wrong-without-making-them-feel-threatene&quot;&gt;How do you explain to your boss they&amp;#39;re wrong without making them feel threatened?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12058/is-it-ethical-to-read-programming-books-on-the-clock&quot;&gt;Is it ethical to read programming books on the clock?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10343/how-can-i-use-my-masters-degree-to-get-a-higher-salary&quot;&gt;How can I use my masters degree to get a higher salary?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3335/just-got-an-initial-job-offer-how-do-i-ask-for-more-without-any-real-justificat&quot;&gt;Just got an initial job offer. How do I ask for more without any real justification?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10047/how-to-deal-with-a-team-lead-direct-report-that-acts-unprofessionally&quot;&gt;How to deal with a team lead direct report that acts unprofessionally?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these questions are about topics where experience from other industries won't help. &lt;em&gt;&quot;How can I encourage a culture of punctuality in a software company?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; could just as easily be &lt;em&gt;&quot;How can I encourage a culture of punctuality?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;em&gt;&quot;Is it ethical to read programming books on the clock?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; could be &lt;em&gt;&quot;Is it ethical to read work-related books on the clock?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; I'm sure there are carpenters who would love to know &lt;em&gt;&quot;How do you explain to your boss they're wrong without making them feel threatened?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; And I'll bet that there are advertising folks who would love to know &lt;em&gt;&quot;How can we protest a deadline that is too short?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love to go through this list of questions and take the following action on each:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it is of questionable worth, vote to close (many of the lower-rated questions would almost certainly be closed if they were asked today)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it is not related to software at all, remove the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt; tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If no value is lost by removing details related to the software industry, edit and then remove the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt; tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that have value but aren't on-topic by today's standards should be listed somewhere (chat? here?). Questions that are specific to the software industry and cannot apply to others but are still on topic and have value should also be displayed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By minimizing the amount of flotsam in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt; tag, we can see how many questions are truly limited to a single industry, and make it easier to decide how we want to deal with future industry-related questions. Do we want a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/retail&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;retail&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;retail&lt;/a&gt; tag? A &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/call-center&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;call-center&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;call-center&lt;/a&gt; tag? A &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/automotive-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;automotive-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;automotive-industry&lt;/a&gt; tag? Or do we want something more like what GuyM discusses in the previous discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'd suggest the &quot;hip start-up&quot; is a good tag, as is &quot;corporate&quot;, and probably &quot;family-run business&quot;, were these are relevent to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Found the culprit of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt; tag!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10/are-non-it-workplace-questions-on-topic/19#19&quot;&gt;Are non-IT workplace questions on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've created the software-industry tag (for lack of a better label) to tag my (one) question that was actually domain specific – &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10/are-non-it-workplace-questions-on-topic/19#comment9_10&quot;&gt;Rarity Apr 10 '12 at 22:24&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:58:14.370" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:58:14.370" Title="Industry Specific Tags - What Should we Do?" 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  <row Id="2009" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-30T01:44:01.737" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are currently 216 tags on The Workplace. We can clean up a lot of the tags, and retag a lot more, but as long as users &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;only need 150 reputation to create new tags&lt;/a&gt; it is just going to happen again and again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to discuss a general categorizing of tags in to grand categories to make it much easier to find similar questions in the right sidebar, and to help people posting questions find similar questions to reduce duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Proposal&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions on this site are broadly categorized in to these categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about getting a job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about leaving a job (voluntarily or otherwise)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about issues with the current job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within each of these overarching categories there will be a lot of sub-categories, but in general questions should rarely (if ever) overlap. Each one of these questions could have relevant sub-tags. For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about getting a job/hiring for a job&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;resume/cv/cover letter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interviews&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;negotiation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;networking&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hiring&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about leaving a job/letting someone go&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;'restructuring'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;mergers &amp;amp; acquisitions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;exit interviews&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;remaining vacation days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;severance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;recommendations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about a current job&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;management&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;corporate culture&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;raises&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;promotions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;learning/education&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(the above list is obviously not exhaustive)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Reasoning&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags are used to find similar questions. Unfortunately, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cover-letter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cover-letter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cover-letter&lt;/a&gt; may not find a question tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resume&lt;/a&gt; By putting both these questions under the umbrella of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/finding-employment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;finding-employment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;finding-employment&lt;/a&gt; or something similar, we would be sure that even if a past question was tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resume&lt;/a&gt; with a very similar question, posting a question tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cover-letter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cover-letter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cover-letter&lt;/a&gt; would have a better chance of created 'related questions' showing the similar thread. This would assist with finding duplicates, giving new users more reference points to look at, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also make the process of categorizing existing posts much easier. We could go through the major tags, and automatically add a single tag based on which category that tag fits in. This would allow us to more quickly weed through the questions and create a more accessible knowledge base based on which part of the employment process people are looking for answers about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would also allow us to make very helpful wikis, since each tag could be associated with a category, and the tag wiki for each of these could include the major sub-tags associated. This would allow people to tag with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/interviewing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;interviewing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;interviewing&lt;/a&gt; for instance, and automatically have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/finding-employment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;finding-employment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;finding-employment&lt;/a&gt; pop up as a suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Discussion&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any situations where one of these three tags will absolutely not apply? Should there be other tags included, or a slightly more broken down structure? Is the concept of having required tags unecessarily pigeon-holing potential users rather than making the site/answers more accessible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T01:44:01.737" Title="General Tag Classification: Categorizing the Madness" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2053" CreationDate="2013-08-30T08:46:04.780" Score="11" ViewCount="1449" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/404/tag-clarification-ethics-vs-etiquette-vs-professionalism&quot;&gt;tag-clarification-ethics-vs-etiquette-vs-professionalism&lt;/a&gt; we discussed the similarities between Etiquette and Professionalism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jim made the point that etiquette and professionalism could be defined as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Etiquette:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;conventional requirements as to social behavior; proprieties of conduct as established in any class or community or for any occasion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;a prescribed or accepted code of usage in matters of ceremony, as at a court or in official or other formal observances.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;the code of ethical behavior regarding professional practice or action among the members of a profession in their dealings with each&#xA;  other: medical etiquette. (looks like there is a bit of overlap&#xA;  between ethics and etiquette)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Professionalism:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the standing, practice, or methods of a professional, as distinguished&#xA;  from an amateur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if we really look at the definitions it seems that &lt;em&gt;professionalism&lt;/em&gt; is essentially &lt;em&gt;etiquette&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;in the workplace!&lt;/strong&gt; and given that all questions here is about the workplace, these tags are essentially one in the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moving away from the definitions lets have a look at the current tag definitions on the site itself. We have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Etiquette: The set of written and unwritten rules of conduct that make&#xA;  social interactions run more smoothly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Professionalism: Professionalism refers to how you come across to&#xA;  others in a work environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So one of these talks about social interactions and the other about how you come across to others, during social interactions....oh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To exacerbate the problem lets have a look at the questions being asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Picking the top voted etiquette question we can see that it is actually also the top voted professionalism question. hmm, so they aren't defined differently, or really used differently either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the best way to make my point would be to get you to look at all the questions tagged etiquette, if you can find one tagged etiquette, that wouldn't make sense to be re-tagged professionalism then please point it out! I've had a cursory glance and I see no questions that benefit from being differentiated as etiquette, rather than professionalism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a few examples: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/662/how-can-i-ask-my-interviewers-for-feedback-following-an-interview&quot;&gt;how-can-i-ask-my-interviewers-for-feedback-following-an-interview&lt;/a&gt; Tagged etiquette, but this is a question about how you are presenting yourself in a professional situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2620/is-it-considered-rude-to-turn-down-a-job-after-initially-accepting-it&quot;&gt;is-it-considered-rude-to-turn-down-a-job-after-initially-accepting-it&lt;/a&gt; Tagged etiquette, but this is essentially another question on how you are viewed in a professional environment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking all of this into consideration I suggest the following course of action. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Redefine the tags&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The definition for Professionalism should be changed, as '&lt;em&gt;Professionalism refers to how you come across to others in a work environment.&lt;/em&gt;' is a bit vague, instead i suggest the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions referring to how one presents themselves and interacts with&#xA;  others in a professional environment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A professional environment is then considered any place where you are on the clock, be it at the office, in an interview, at a client site, or even during team activities outside of hours. As everything you do in these times affects your &lt;em&gt;professional image&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Etiquette on the other hand would be redefined as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions referring to how one presents themselves and interacts with&#xA;  others outside of the professional environment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because professionalism is essentially etiquette but in a professional environment. The problem then is that etiquette is to be used for non work environments, but ALL of our questions should be about the professional environment, we are the workplace after all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this folds back to my main point. Questions tagged etiquette should be re-tagged with professionalism and the etiquette tag should then be removed. The two tags are currently being used interchangeably and the fact that this is now &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; the third meta post about it there is clearly some confusion that we should work to mitigate&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-09-08T20:32:54.470" Title="Etiquette and Professionalism" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2005" CreationDate="2013-08-30T08:58:25.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batna&quot;&gt;batna&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - As jmac correctly pointed out to me this doesn't infact refer to a small town in algeria it is infact an acronym for &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best alternative to a negotiated agreement&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In either case we already have negotiation that can be used for this tag. I removed it from the one question it was on and I suggest deletion / removal of this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: Removed from all questions, awaiting tag to fade away&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T09:10:26.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2005" CreationDate="2013-08-30T08:59:45.203" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cliches&quot;&gt;Cliches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - This was used on only one question which has been downvoted and closed. The tag serves no purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest removal from the question followed by removal of the tag itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: The question with this tag is now deleted; tag will fade away if not used again&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T14:48:46.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2005" CreationDate="2013-08-30T09:00:56.647" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/humor&quot;&gt;humor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - This tag isn't even on any questions nor do I see it having a use as it is essentially a meta tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest total removal of this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: Removed from all questions, awaiting tag to fade away&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T09:09:55.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2005" CreationDate="2013-08-30T09:03:11.387" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/library&quot;&gt;library&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - I'm unsure if this tag serves any purpose. Anywhere I can see it being used could be replaced by education or training&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggested deletion of this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: Added deletion votes to the question with this tag (question is closed and negative, awaiting question to be deleted for the tag to fade away&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T09:09:16.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2005" CreationDate="2013-08-30T09:04:39.627" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/server&quot;&gt;server&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - This is being used as a term relating to a specific piece of equipment, unless we are also going to make tags for holepuncher, stapler and pens I suggest we remove this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: Removed from all questions, awaiting tag to fade away&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T09:10:10.997" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2005" CreationDate="2013-08-30T09:05:42.880" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alertness&quot;&gt;alertness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - A meta-tag describing the state of the person, not describing the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest deletion of this tag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: Removed from all questions, awaiting tag to fade away&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T09:07:45.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2005" CreationDate="2013-08-30T09:06:47.353" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conversation&quot;&gt;conversation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - Used once on a now closed question. Doesn't seem to serve any purpose that communication would not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggested removal&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: Added deletion votes to the question with this tag (question is closed and negative, awaiting question to be deleted for the tag to fade away&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T09:09:30.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2005" CreationDate="2013-08-30T09:08:00.013" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hardware&quot;&gt;hardware&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - A meta-tag describing the equipment (like server).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggested removal of this tag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T09:08:00.013" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2005" CreationDate="2013-08-30T09:09:04.190" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/promises&quot;&gt;promises&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - This tag is used only once to describe the situation more than the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggested deletion of this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T09:09:04.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2005" CreationDate="2013-08-30T09:11:00.040" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/work-time&quot;&gt;work-time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - There is no real pattern to how people are using this tag. The closest i can find might be to do with it being during working hours, but as this is the workplace then nearly every question is going to be during work hours so this tag servers no purpose. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggested deletion of this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T09:11:00.040" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2005" CreationDate="2013-08-30T09:14:32.300" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/business&quot;&gt;business&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/company&quot;&gt;company&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - These are both very ambiguous in their use age, there doesn't seem to be any predefined pattern to how these are used. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If anything I would say these tags are redundant and should be burninated&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T09:14:32.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2005" CreationDate="2013-08-30T09:15:49.837" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/job&quot;&gt;job&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - This tag seems redundant because every question here will relate to a job in some way therefore &lt;strong&gt;I suggest a burnination of this tag&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T09:15:49.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2007" CreationDate="2013-08-30T09:20:29.430" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really like bethlakshmi's idea for changing the location tags. The main reason that these location tags seem to be used is to differentiate between different culture types. Some countries have the same / similar cultures so it would make sense to merge them under one tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though the use age of these tags will need to be changed. &lt;strong&gt;They are no longer location tags, they are now culture tags&lt;/strong&gt;. Making that obvious to people might take a bit of work on our behalf but I think it is something that will be worth it in the long run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T09:20:29.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2008" CreationDate="2013-08-30T09:26:32.420" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with you here. If we have an industry specific tag for one thing we don't have a leg to stand on if we try to stop industry specific tags for every other industry in existence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of this seems to be legacy from the origins of workplace, where everyone was a software developer. A lot of these problems aren't even software industry specific as you correctly pointed out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no one is adverse to this suggestion then I think we should go through each question and if it is worth keeping then editing it so that the question doesnt rely on the software industry to exist, given that a lot of these questions are just about human - human interaction there really is no reason why it would be different answers for different industries. different cultures sure, but if someones superior is cracking the whip then the course of action will be the same if youre a dev, or a secretary or a plumber.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An added advantage of this is that it should help drive more traffic our way because it will be more generic and thus apply to a wider group of people. This could also help up to build the side of our community that isnt software dev's. A push that could certainly increase our daily traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T09:26:32.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2005" CreationDate="2013-08-30T09:34:07.573" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/injury-prevention&quot;&gt;injury-prevention&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - This is used in one place, it's not really any different from the health tag (health is defined as: Questions relating to ones physical or mental well-being)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T09:34:07.573" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2005" CreationDate="2013-08-30T09:45:02.000" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/credentials&quot;&gt;credentials&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - This is used on one question only, and even there it could be interchangeable with certification. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggested deletion of this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T09:45:02.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2005" CreationDate="2013-08-30T09:46:21.710" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/corporate-structure&quot;&gt;corporate-structure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - this is on one down voted and closed question and doesn't seem to serve any purpose. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggested deletion of this tag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T09:46:21.710" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2005" CreationDate="2013-08-30T10:07:42.597" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/location&quot;&gt;location&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Less than 10 questions mostly for asking about relocation or about two offices that are in different places, could probably be removed and replaced by other relevant tags as applicable&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T10:07:42.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2010" CreationDate="2013-08-30T14:03:37.497" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ldwUh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(alternatively just set it as a synonym)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T14:03:37.497" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2030" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-31T19:57:39.737" Score="2" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a lot of geo-specific questions get rejected in workplace, but I feel like there ought to be an appropriate place somewhere on SE to ask questions about whether an interview strategy I have might not be serving me as well in Silicon Valley/Bay Area as it has in Chicago? Are location-specific culture questions reasonable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="423" LastActivityDate="2013-08-31T20:18:59.150" Title="Geo-specific Culture questions?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2030" CreationDate="2013-08-31T20:18:59.150" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sort of confusion is precisely why Stack Exchange removed the &quot;Too Localized&quot; close reason, as keywords such as &quot;city&quot; or &quot;location&quot; kept setting of all kinds of alarm bells in our heads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key is to find the balance between a long tail problem that can't easily be found on the Internet and questions that aren't so specific to where no one else in the world will ever have that problem.  Actually, Stack Exchange was built to solve the long tail questions, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/05/encyclopedia-stack-exchange/&quot;&gt;Joel Spolsky mentions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...we’re trying to move even more of the world’s long-tail, detailed knowledge into Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you describe it so far, I don't see anything wrong with that sort of question, as long as you're planning to ask it in Q&amp;amp;A format and in a way that can be answered with facts, references, or personal experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-08-31T20:18:59.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2032" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-03T08:56:57.077" Score="5" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently we seem to be attracting much more 'new' (or new to the workplace) users, whether or not this is because of our increased amount of hot questions in the ticker or not is beyond me, but in either case I think this would be a good time to clean up some of our 'bad' questions, these are the ones that are voted into the negatives, closed, with no chance of saving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should be doing this to ensure that any and all new users who come to the workplace don't mistakenly fall into thinking that these are example of OK questions because we have still got them around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I will be posting a List of the questions I think we should be drawing attention to to get deleted or saved as a question per answer (yes the irony is lovely), please vote accordingly and feel free to tell me I'm wrong if you disagree with my judgement!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2016-03-17T18:09:55.183" LastActivityDate="2016-03-17T18:09:55.183" Title="Cleaning up a few of our Low-voted closed Questions" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2032" CreationDate="2013-09-03T09:01:18.060" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13208/it-hiring-management-just-wants-a-warm-body&quot;&gt;IT-hiring-management-just-wants-a-warm-body&lt;/a&gt; - The question on this is 'What are some things that every lazy IT person doesn't want to do?'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has already been decided that this is off topic, and it has been knocked down to -7 with 0 upvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this question can be saved as it is a list question about what people don't like. This question is basically a poll or discussion question that serves as a bad example of what is expected of a good question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It already has 1 delete vote (from before this post was even made) so requires only a little bit more intervention to get this one buried. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T09:01:18.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2032" CreationDate="2013-09-03T09:04:49.557" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11076/how-would-you-define-invoiceable-software-rd-and-likewise&quot;&gt;how-would-you-define-invoiceable-software-rd-and-likewise&lt;/a&gt; - This is yet another list question asking what is and isn't ok to charge your client for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question itself has been knocked down to -6 with 0 upvotes and i do not think it can be saved to be on topic for us here at the workplace. It could potentially be on topic at a site about freelancing or contracting but I don't think such a site exists. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I will be throwing a delete vote at this question too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T09:04:49.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2035" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2076" CreationDate="2013-09-03T09:50:25.527" Score="12" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/job&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;job&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;job&lt;/a&gt; tag should be burninated, and here is why you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; agree!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of The Workplace is to answer difficult questions that people have about (not surprisingly) their workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So therefore it stands to reason that every question that is on-topic should be, in some way, about the job that person has, or is trying to get. Be it interviewing for a job, a question about the management at your job, a question about receiving a promotion in your job, a question about changing jobs or, heaven forbid, quitting your job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recurring theme around all of these on topic question is that it revolves around the idea of a job, therefore isn't it right to assume that every question, by default, should have a job tag? I certainly think so, and because it would be applied to everything it really needs to be applied to nothing and just assumed its there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's have a look at what we would lose by burninating this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions with this tag: 16&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions with this tag that are open: 7&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Followers of this tag: 0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag Wiki: Empty&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;hmm, so we have a less than 50% open rate, no followers, and no description. This lack of description is meaning that the tag is being applied to all manner of things across the board from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11915/after-a-job-interview-is-it-inappropriate-if-i-want-to-talk-to-an-employee-in-p&quot;&gt;speaking to employees in private in a job interview &lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10656/is-it-okay-to-convince-a-potential-employer-to-hire-you-even-if-you-are-overqual&quot;&gt;convincing an employer you are worth hiring despite being overqualified&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far I am yet to see a question that benefits from this tag. Nobody follows the tag, it has no description and every question that has this tag, could have it removed / replaced by a better tag with no detriment to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case closed, let the burnination begin!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In all serious, if you think I am wrong in my judgement please don't hesitate to point it out to me, if the tag can be saved, given a good description and retroactively applied without it covering every single on topic question then please feel free to suggest it!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:56:49.817" Title="Burnination of the 'Job' tag" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|burninate-request|tag-blacklist-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2036" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-03T13:22:05.760" Score="5" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I currently think of questions and answers as having three 'states'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is on topic, well thought out, properly articulated and is not a poll or trying to incite discussion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer focuses on key points and weighs both the pro's and con's of a choice. Perhaps with references to external sources as required. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is a poll, is attempting to incite discussion, is off-topic, poorly researched, poorly articulated or will provide little to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer doesn't weigh the pros and cons, or doesn't source references, or seems like a guess and maybe doesn't even answer the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Needs Improvement&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of questions and answers may have some aspects of the bad points and some aspects of the good points. With a little guidance and effort these posts could be brought into the realm of &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So? What of it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What i currently see with questions and answers is the ones in the ticker for hot questions getting lots of up-votes from people outside of our usual community. Or maybe a really poor question being down-voted to -6 or -7 before being deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But currently we have hundreds of questions and answers sitting at around -1, 0 or 1 votes despite having hundreds of views. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this is a community outreach, Vote up those good questions! Vote down those bad ones, suggest improvements to the ones that need improvement! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm confident that every question and answer here will fall into one of these three groups, and every group requires action of some kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why would we bother?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm so glad you asked me this, imaginary viewer! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The benefits of voting more liberally and suggesting improvements will give us a more active community. This also gives us a larger pool of view points to determine the exemplary answers from the mediocre. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With our seeming influx of new members visiting having many votes around makes it very easy to see which answers are good, which are bad, which are fantastic and which are terrible. If everything ranges from -1 to 1 on average its very hard to spot what's a bad question, and what's just vendetta voting. But it is &lt;strong&gt;VERY&lt;/strong&gt; easy to spot the good and bad when the range varies from -10 to 10!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also helps us discover your views and take them into consideration. If you think something is bad, vote it down, this shows us its bad and means its more likely going to be easily spotted for deletion or improvement by the community!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;all in all, the votes are there to separate the exemplary from the terrible, don't be afraid to vote!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T01:13:33.483" Title="Community Outreach: Be more liberal with Voting!" Tags="|discussion|questions|answers|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2037" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2039" CreationDate="2013-09-03T15:20:21.947" Score="4" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/14206/325&quot;&gt;How do I prevent myself from leaning too close to the monitor?&lt;/a&gt; is currently on hold.  The &quot;edit&quot; link is not available (this isn't a rep problem), and comments are disabled.  The post is behaving as if it's locked, but there's no &quot;locked&quot; banner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was migrated from another site and then put on hold here.  I suspect that's relevant, as other on-hold questions (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/14200/325&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, for instance) have comments and editing enabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems like a bug.  How can the question be fixed if we can't comment or edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T13:13:39.440" Title="On-hold question is not editable and comments are disabled; why?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|closed-questions|migration|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2038" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2044" CreationDate="2013-09-03T15:29:39.013" Score="8" ViewCount="320" Body="&lt;p&gt;At this moment, 7 of the top 10 questions are either On Hold, or Closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone consider this a problem? How does this compare to other SE forums?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T18:01:51.907" Title="High volume of questions being put On Hold or Closed - is that a problem?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2037" CreationDate="2013-09-03T15:58:30.633" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a migrated question is closed on the target site, it is a &quot;rejected migration&quot;. The question is locked, and automatically deleted after a period of time. If you think such a question can be salvaged, you can flag a mod to unlock it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T15:58:30.633" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2038" CreationDate="2013-09-03T16:26:20.757" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comparing us to other SE forums is a bad idea, the way each site works is generally similar but the crowds they attract can differ vastly. From what it looks like we have just had a case of some users who aren't fully familiar with the specific rules ask some questions which the community has requested be improved before we continue onwards with them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the users they are nearly all new to the site, starting from 0 rep, or the 101 rep markers. This is because we recently had a large amount of questions reach 'hot question' status, which got us flung into the ticker for a few days straight. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of this the new users found out about the site and asked their questions right away. This has caused some of them to not quite be up to standards and get put on hold or closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no i would not be too worried about it as this usually happens after questions make it to the ticker. It will only be a problem if most of our questions are closed / on hold all the time for a few weeks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T16:26:20.757" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2038" CreationDate="2013-09-03T17:16:39.157" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do consider this a problem.  But the problem is not that the specific questions are closed but that this has been a common occurrence regularly through out the life of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are 3 main factors that contribute to this (In my opinion)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Workplace is going to be full of soft questions that are basically asking for opinion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We do not have controls in place that will help users avoid asking bad questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We seem to have some users that Vote to close anything that they are not interested in.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 - The nature of this site means we should not throw away all opinion questions.  But we need to focus questions towards constructive questions (How do I do rather than what does everyone else think).  Look at the question and see if it is asking for a solution to a problem, an explanation of something, or is it a &quot;doesnt this suck&quot; question.  We need to close the doesnt this suck questions.  Other questions that can be fixed should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 -  I do not know what the options are here.  I think we could help alot if we were able to add some controls that will help users ask better but that is under SE Control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3 - All we can really do is help edit the questions to improve them and reopen the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T17:16:39.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2038" CreationDate="2013-09-03T21:51:21.843" Score="-5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this moment, 7 of the top 10 questions are either On Hold, or Closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone consider this a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6943975&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;It's a &lt;strong&gt;huge&lt;/strong&gt; problem.&lt;/a&gt; It's also &amp;quot;the elephant in the room&amp;quot; that we aren't paying attention to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In theory, a site &amp;quot;reboot&amp;quot; might erase any negative feelings that began during Workplace.Beta.SE's inception, but I have difficulty conceptualizing what this &amp;quot;reboot&amp;quot; might look like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that a site reboot would be difficult or impossible, maybe we should redefine what's on-topic here at Workplace.Beta.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to be honest - Although I've been upholding the letter of the law with my close vote, sometimes I feel like the law doesn't make any sense; and sometimes I wish that I had been a more vocal participant when this site was being conceptualized on Area 51.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does this compare to other SE forums?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure. But if nothing else, StackExchange should consider its experience with Workplace.Beta.SE when choosing future Beta moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-12-22T19:21:22.503" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2043" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-03T22:46:42.840" Score="4" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;This thread was closed as asking for legal advice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14220/how-can-i-minimize-the-risks-of-moonlighting-in-violation-of-my-contract&quot;&gt;How can I minimize the risks of moonlighting in violation of my contract?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not seem to fall under the guidelines &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1856/what-is-asking-for-legal-advice&quot;&gt;discussed in the linked meta thread&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Other questions which I consider OK are ones where the answer would be &quot;You need to read your contact&quot; or &quot;You need to consult with a lawyer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For instance, if someone asks, &quot;Is it legal to turn a blind eye to fraud by a superior?&quot; it is going to be a legal question, but asking, &quot;What are my responsibilities in regards to reporting fraud by a superior?&quot; the legal side would only be one aspect, and the answer would have value since it would say more than just, &quot;Consult a lawyer.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would appreciate re-open votes (I have already issued mine), and while I understand it is easy to click 'close', I would urge people to take time to make sure the question is really off-topic (it can't be answered within site guidelines as addressed in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; and on this meta), and that it can't be saved by an edit and turned in to a productive question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Prior to my edit the question had already collected 1 close vote from jcmeloni I believe.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T22:46:42.840" Title="Why was this thread closed as asking for legal advice?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2038" CreationDate="2013-09-04T00:54:58.393" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace SE is a very subjective subject, and on new Stack Exchange sites, sometimes it's not quite clear what the site will be about, despite having an Area 51 proposal and commitment phases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community consisted of folks who were around in the beginning days of Programmers SE, and many recall the troubles that site went through with quality; hence, the community defended quality at all costs, sometimes at the expense of questions that may have been a good fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's extremely tough to figure out where the line is between what is a good question and what is not a good question for a community, especially on a site where the experts can't be defined with a single term, like &quot;engineer&quot; or &quot;writer&quot; or &quot;chemist&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been said that the private beta and the early period are the most important time for a site and set the tone for years to come.  The folks who volunteered their time during the site's early period stuck their necks out to defend quality and make sure this site didn't go through the same mistakes as previous communities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result, we have a community of experts in the Workplace who not only answer questions but also protect the site's quality, and as we move forward, we'll continue to redefine the site's scope. Perhaps we'll also let our guard down more as we realize that we're not in danger as we were in the first early months of the site's beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't disagree with any of the closures on the main page nor am I concerned that they're closed/on hold. Those posts have problems, but I also strongly feel that we can and should use these opportunities to reach out to those users, help them with their edits, and show them the benefits of creating a good Stack Exchange question and how -- by asking good questions -- they are themselves &quot;giving back&quot;, even without having answers to contribute of their own. Most of the questions do indeed look like some helpful editing and encouragement could bring them up to par with the level of quality this community has come to expect. The toughest challenge we face is not just maintaining quality but maintaining quality with smiles on our faces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-09-04T00:54:58.393" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2045" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-04T00:55:59.880" Score="7" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Now that we have graduated, I think we should re-visit this discussion. As an official site, we should strive to clearly state what is on- and off-topic here to help guide new users to become productive contributors, and lessen confusion over why certain types of questions are closed.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Background&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1873/editing-the-help-center&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; Jim said we could edit the on-topic and off-topic pages of the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see several issues with the pages as they currently are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On-topic page discusses what is off-topic more than how to ask a good question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Off-topic page discusses what is on-topic (or how to ask a good question) more than the on-topic page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nowhere is there an explanation of what the various close reasons mean&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Guidelines for answers are tacked on at the end of the on-topic page sort of as an afterthought&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see the pages broken down in to manageable chunks that discuss a specific concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to Ask a Good Question&lt;/strong&gt; When a new user comes and posts a question that has merit (has an answer, will be useful to other people, etc.) but needs a bit of improvement to get the quality up, we can make edits and/or post a link to this page in the comments explaining why it was changed the way it was. This will help people who ask good questions ask better questions in the future.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is My Question On Hold?&lt;/strong&gt; When someone asks a question receiving close votes because it entirely misses the mark, it would be nice to have a single page that explains what the close reasons are, and what they mean. We can just link it in the comments so that the user understands that it isn't the quality of the question, but the direction of the question that is the issue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What Makes a Good Answer?&lt;/strong&gt; Occasionally (okay, not occasionally, quite often on migrated or 'hot' questions) people will give answers that don't actually answer the question or won't be of use to people in the future. What makes a good answer here is very different than on other sites, and having a single page to direct new users to would help to acclimate them to the semi-unique aspects of the Workplace.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Discussion&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I like the division above (since it will make it easier to point users in the direction of the advice they need), others may not agree with me, and it may be a challenge to have three separate pages. Let's discuss if this division of pages makes sense first, and then we can focus on actually drafting the pages to be more useful to users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, here are the current pages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;On-Topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt; is a Q&amp;amp;A site about the workplace and other career-related topics. It is for members of the workforce to get&#xA;  answers on topics such as the job hunting process, interviewing,&#xA;  salary negotiation, and professionalism within the Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed&#xA;  answers to every question about the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;What questions are off topic here?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;I need advice on...&quot;, &quot;What should I do?&quot;, or &quot;Which job should I take?&quot;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions looking for opinions on what to do but with no specific problem are suited for discussion boards (not a&#xA;  question/answer site) and generally will be closed on The Workplace as&#xA;  &quot;primarily opinion-based.&quot; For information on how to write a good&#xA;  subjective question see here. Remember a real question has an answer,&#xA;  not just opinions or ideas.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;Is it legal...&quot;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If a question requires a lawyer to answer it, we can't help. These situations are simply too specific and too complex to&#xA;  definitively answer on our site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;Please review my resume/CV&quot;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions need to apply to more than just you. Since this site is here to help everyone, and not review to a specific resume,&#xA;  these are not &quot;questions&quot; to us as they don't have definite answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;How do I learn to be a...&quot; / &quot;How do I perform the job of a ...&quot;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions should be about problems you are encountering or have encountered in the workplace, and not the learning/applying of&#xA;  specific job functions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;What salary/hourly rate should I look for? How much should I charge for X?&quot;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions regarding salary are too localized to the city, timeframe, job sector and specific skills. Answers to these questions&#xA;  become quickly outdated and just aren't helpful to others.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;For general salary hunting tips, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/896/how-can-i-determine-a-reasonable-salary-to-ask-for&quot;&gt;How can I determine a reasonable salary to ask&#xA;  for?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For more help, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;&quot;What types of questions should I avoid&#xA;  asking?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;How should I answer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Make sure your answer adds helpful information and is a complete,&#xA;  stand-alone answer. Read other answers first and be sure not to&#xA;  completely restate information that has already been posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that answers should be backed up either with a reference,&#xA;  or experiences that happened to you personally. You should always&#xA;  include in your answer information about why you think your answer is&#xA;  correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;look around&lt;/a&gt; to see&#xA;  if your question has been asked before. It’s also OK to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/helpcenter/self-answer&quot;&gt;ask and&#xA;  answer your own&#xA;  question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is not specifically on-topic for The Workplace Stack&#xA;  Exchange, it may be on topic for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;another Stack Exchange&#xA;  site&lt;/a&gt;. If no site currently exists&#xA;  that will accept your question, you may&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;commit&lt;/a&gt; to or&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76974/how-can-i-propose-a-new-site&quot;&gt;propose&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  a new site at &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Area51&lt;/a&gt;, the place&#xA;  where new Stack Exchange communities are democratically created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;Off-Topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;What types of questions should I avoid asking?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First, make sure that your question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;on-topic for this&#xA;  site&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual&#xA;  problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the&#xA;  usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an&#xA;  entire book that answers your question, you’re asking too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your motivation for asking the question is “I would like to&#xA;  participate in a discussion about ______”, then you should not be&#xA;  asking here. However, if your motivation is “I would like others to&#xA;  explain ______ to me”, then you are probably OK. (Discussions are of&#xA;  course welcome in our real time web chat.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To prevent your question from being flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/helpcenter/deleted-questions&quot;&gt;and possibly removed&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;  avoid asking subjective questions where …&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;every answer is equally valid: “What’s your favorite ______?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;your answer is provided along with the question, and you expect more answers: “I use ______ for ______, what do you use?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;there is no actual problem to be solved: “I’m curious if other people feel like I do.”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;you are asking an open-ended, hypothetical question: “What if ______ happened?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;your question is just a rant in disguise: “______ sucks, am I right?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(The above section was adapted from &lt;a href=&quot;http://faq.metafilter.com/tags/chatfilter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MetaFilter’s&#xA;  FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some subjective questions are allowed, but “subjective” does not mean “anything goes”. All subjective questions are expected to be&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;constructive&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; What does that mean? Constructive subjective questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;tend to have long, not short, answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;invite sharing experiences over opinions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;are more than just mindless social fun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For more detail, read about our &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;guidelines for great subjective&#xA;  questions&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  and blog post about how &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;real questions have&#xA;  answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is about the site itself, please don't ask it here.&#xA;  Visit our meta-discussion site, where you can talk about things like&#xA;  what questions are appropriate, what tags should be used, suggest a&#xA;  feature, point out a bug, or generally discuss how this site works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;Closed Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;What does it mean if a question is &amp;quot;closed&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;on&#xA;  hold&amp;quot;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Why are some questions marked &quot;on hold&quot;?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions that need additional work or that are not a good fit for this site may&#xA;  be put on hold by experienced community members. While questions are&#xA;  on hold, they cannot be answered, but can be edited to make them&#xA;  eligible for reopening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions that are edited by the original poster within five days&#xA;  of being put on hold are automatically added to a reopening queue for&#xA;  community review. Questions that are not reopened within five days&#xA;  will change from &lt;code&gt;[on hold]&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Each closed or on-hold question provides a reason that helps the&#xA;  original poster (or other community members) know what they'd need to&#xA;  do in order to get the question reopened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These are the categories of questions that may be closed by the&#xA;  community:&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/help/duplicates&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;duplicate&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - the&#xA;  fundamental goal of closing duplicate questions is to help people find&#xA;  the right answer by getting all of those answers in one place&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;This question has been asked before and already has an&#xA;  answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please&#xA;  edit this question to explain how it is different or ask a new&#xA;  question.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &#xA;  &#xA;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/helpcenter/on-topic&quot;&gt;off topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; - each&#xA;  community decides which specific topics are and are not allowed on&#xA;  their site.&#xA;  &#xA;     &lt;blockquote&gt;This question does not appear to be about the workplace&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;/helpcenter/on-topic&quot;&gt;within the scope defined by the&#xA;  community&lt;/a&gt;. What's on- and off-topic is not always intuitive, so it&#xA;  may be necessary to reword the question to fit this site's scope after&#xA;  reviewing the community guidelines.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;     &lt;p&gt;Consider editing the question or leaving comments for&#xA;  improvement if you believe the question can be reworded to fit within&#xA;  the scope.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;unclear what you're asking&lt;/b&gt; - sometimes we need more&#xA;  information in order to help solve your problem    &lt;blockquote&gt;Please&#xA;  clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to&#xA;  highlight exactly what you need. The way the question is currenty&#xA;  written, it's hard to tell exactly what you're asking.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;     &lt;p&gt;Edit your post to be more specific about what you're looking&#xA;  for, and be sure to address any concerns that other users brought up&#xA;  in the comments.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;too broad&lt;/b&gt; - if your question could be answered by an&#xA;  entire book, or has many valid answers, it's probably too broad for&#xA;  our format&#xA;  &#xA;     &lt;blockquote&gt;There are either too many possible answers, or good&#xA;  answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to&#xA;  narrow down the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered&#xA;  in a few paragraphs.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/b&gt; - discussions focused on diverse opinions are&#xA;  great, but they just don't fit our format well.&#xA;  &#xA;     &lt;blockquote&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion&#xA;  based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to&#xA;  be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than on facts,&#xA;  references, or specific expertise.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Who can put questions &quot;on hold&quot;?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Users with 500 reputation can cast up to 24 close votes per day.&#xA;  When a question reaches 5 close votes, it is marked &lt;code&gt;[on&#xA;  hold]&lt;/code&gt;, and will no longer accept answers. Those users may vote&#xA;  to reopen questions the same way. Each user may only vote to close and&#xA;  reopen a given question once. (For example, if you vote to close a&#xA;  question that is closed and then later reopened, you cannot vote to&#xA;  close it again.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Moderators may close or reopen any question with a single vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For more about reopening questions, see &quot;What if I disagree with the&#xA;  closure of a question? How can I reopen a closed question?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Why are some questions marked &quot;closed&quot;?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions are marked &lt;code&gt;[on hold]&lt;/code&gt; for the first five days&#xA;  after closure to encourage edits and improvements to the question. If&#xA;  a question is edited by the original poster when it is marked&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;[on hold]&lt;/code&gt;, it will automatically be placed in a review&#xA;  queue to be considered for reopening. If it is not reopened within&#xA;  five days, the &lt;code&gt;[on hold]&lt;/code&gt; notice automatically changes to&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt;.There is functionally no difference between an&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;[on hold]&lt;/code&gt; question and a &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt; one;&#xA;  neither can be answered until it is re-opened, but they both allow&#xA;  comments, votes and edits. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T09:23:37.203" Title="'On-Topic' and 'Off-Topic' sections of the help center" Tags="|discussion|faq-content|faq-proposed|help-center|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2037" CreationDate="2013-09-04T01:10:34.813" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went ahead and unlocked the post. The one line answers that I saw made me think it wasn't really going to be a good question for our site. It had the classic feel of a &quot;poll&quot;, so I closed it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When migrated questions are closed, answers from the migration source are all automatically deleted, and the post is automatically locked. When I saw that the one-line answers were all from the other community and were deleted, I realized that I probably should have just removed the other answers instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post in it's current form isn't strong enough for me to justify reopening it, but I went ahead and unlocked the post to give our community an opportunity to make their edits and cast reopen votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-09-04T01:10:34.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2038" CreationDate="2013-09-04T01:39:51.117" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Hot Questions&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the past two weeks I have noticed 4 questions from the Workplace on the 'hot questions' list. These questions introduce a flood of new questions in to the site (much more than if there isn't a question on that list).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;more on the hot question curse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/99077&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Limited Resources&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When there are fewer questions, we seem to be doing a good job of offering advice, editing questions, nudging people in the right direction, and answering all at the same time. But when the quantity of questions increases, those resources get spread thin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Triage&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing a question is a lot of work. You have to make sure you understand what the asker's concern actually is, you have to figure out whether that fundamental concern can be made on-topic, and then you actually have to rewrite the question to ask that question while staying on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A close vote, however, is very easy. You just click a couple buttons and you are done. This may not be the best way, but it would seem many people believe this is a better alternative than leaving them open and having the new users see open questions of low quality when they come via a hot question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Improving Quality&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally the flood of new people from the hot questions should be a boon to the site. Some of those people visiting could be the next RhysW or jmort and improve our capacity to be a good resource in the future. If the closed questions are accompanied by friendly advice on how to improve them, and don't drive away those potential productive users, then there is no issue. In that sense, I strongly agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2044/7945&quot;&gt;jmort&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also strongly feel that we can and should use these opportunities to reach out to those users, help them with their edits, and show them the benefits of creating a good Stack Exchange question and how -- by asking good questions -- they are themselves &amp;quot;giving back&amp;quot;, even without having answers to contribute of their own. Most of the questions do indeed look like some helpful editing and encouragement could bring them up to par with the level of quality this community has come to expect. The toughest challenge we face is not just maintaining quality but maintaining quality with smiles on our faces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-09-04T01:39:51.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2045" CreationDate="2013-09-05T03:00:37.957" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;The below text would be given in the case a user asks a question with a good fundamental workplace issue, but isn't phrased in a way to get great answers.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;On-Topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What makes a question good?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best questions will describe a specific workplace issue being faced. That issue should apply to other people in other positions and not just focus on your specific situation. For instance, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1478/how-can-i-overcome-years-of-experience-requirements-when-applying-to-positions&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How can I overcome “years of experience” requirements when applying to positions?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is better than &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How can a developer with 2 years of experience get a job with 3-7 years of experience?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ClKaH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Questions limited to a specific job position, or to your specific situation, are usually a subset of a broader question that applies to your position and your specific situation as well&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When asking, think about what details are actually relevant to the fundamental problem. Is there something unique about years of experience requirements for software developers that wouldn't apply to a salesperson, a tour guide, or a welder? If not, you should consider leaving it out of the question so that people who don't share your position will still read over it and offer their device. Making the pool of people who can answer broader will get more people to read your question and share their expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions will apply only to your industry, but the same concept applies. For instance, if you are in the active military and want to become a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientious_objector&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Conscientious Objector&lt;/a&gt; you are in a very different situation than someone who is working at an office and doesn't agree with the management direction. In this case, you should limit your question to the largest group of people this applies to. &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How are applications for conscientious objectors evaluated?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; is much better than, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How can I apply for conscientious objector status as a non-commissioned member of the US Navy?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of questions will be subjective, but there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, and Bad Subjective questions&lt;/a&gt;. Good subjective questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tend to have long, not short, answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;invite sharing experiences over opinions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are more than just mindless social fun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What makes an answer good?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good answers will not only answer the question being asked, but supply valuable information explaining &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; it is the right answer. Great answers should do more than just give an answer, they should explain how to find the right answer in similar situations or with slightly different details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A great answer will make the question even better. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/183&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is asking a relatively simple yes/no question, but the answers by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/189/7945&quot;&gt;Andrew&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/6059/7945&quot;&gt;VinnyRoe&lt;/a&gt; provide tactics to tackle salary negotiations helpful to anyone wondering who should give the first number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best answers will be useful tomorrow, in a month, in a year, and hopefully even in a decade. They will provide any reader with a similar problem with the resources and reasoning to tackle the problem just by reading through it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often, the best answer is not to provide an answer at all. If the question is unclear, or important information is missing, using comments to clarify before answering will help improve the question as well as giving you the resources you need to provide a good answer. Sometimes the question will have been answered better elsewhere, and pointing the asker to that question will give better help quicker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T05:35:50.947" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-09-05T03:00:37.957" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2045" CreationDate="2013-09-05T05:02:23.167" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;The following text would be for users who are getting downvotes, etc. whose questions are likely going to be closed for being out of line with site guidelines&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;Off-Topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What is wrong with my question?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community is made of volunteers who want to help, and even though it doesn't feel good, constructive criticism is necessary to maintain a high-quality resource. To maintain the quality of the site, our users will often downvote posts that don't meet our guidelines and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;put them on hold&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some of the most common reasons a question may get a bad reception, and how to improve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Questions asking for Personal Advice&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I just got offered a job with a significant pay increase, but I really like my current job. What should I do?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal of the Workplace is to provide you with resources to make a decision, but you are the only one qualified to make life-changing decisions on your own career. Questions that ask for career advice are not well suited for the Workplace. Rather than asking which choice to make, ask about how to make the decision easier with a question like, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How should I approach my current company about being headhunted with a significant salary increase?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;My company is going through restructuring and I'm worried I'll be laid off next. What can I do?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I really hate my current job and want to quit, but I don't have another job lined up. Should I quit anyway?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Chatty or Social Questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Is it better to wear a red tie or a blue tie on the first day of work?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Open-ended questions with no answer are better suited for discussion forums or the Workplace Chat (&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;the Water Cooler&lt;/a&gt;). Since all opinions are equally valid, the answer becomes a discussion of personal preference. On the other hand, asking &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How can I decide what I should wear to work on the first day?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; could be an interesting question because it will teach future users how to decide what to wear (and you can even apply it to figure out if you should wear the red or blue tie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;What is your favorite salary negotiation tactic?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;What is your opinion of assigned parking spaces?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Questions without a Problem&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I work for a company with a flat management structure. Is this normal?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the question isn't addressing a problem, the only possible answer can be &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/148/are-it-depends-answers-a-sign-of-a-bad-question&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;it depends&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; which is a sign that the question could be improved. If your problem is that you don't like the flat management structure, then you should ask a question aimed to solve your problem with the flat management structure (e.g. &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How are divisive issues resolved in a company with flat management?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;). This will allow you to get answers that directly relate to a problem that you (and others in the future) face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;My team is having success with Sandler sales training. What is the best sales training?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I was just given an unexpected 15% raise, why?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Legal Questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I was just fired without notice or a warning because my boss doesn't like me. Is that legal?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The law changes dramatically depending on where you are, and what your contract says. Even if we had access to your contract and all relevant details, asking questions here is no substitute for asking a lawyer. Rather than asking about the legal details, asking about general procedure (of which one part is to consult a lawyer) makes for a better question, like &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;What can I do if I believe I've been fired unjustly?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Is it legal for employers to prevent you from having a second job?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;What are my legal obligations to report tax evasion by my employer?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Rants disguised as Questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;My manager is incompetent and nobody likes him. He doesn't show the smallest common courtesy. How can I deal with it?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all have bad days, and sometimes our working situation isn't ideal. Sometimes we all need to get rid of some of the stress, but this is not the right place to do it. If your purpose is just to complain about your situation or your coworkers, you can try taking it to the Workplace Chat (&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;the Water Cooler&lt;/a&gt;) where someone may be willing to listen, or send a message to a friend who will lend you an ear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way to improve a rant disguised as a question is to not rant it in the first place. Sleep on the problem, talk with someone close, think through the causes, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;create a good question to improve the situation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How can I improve my question?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of the members of the community will do their best to help improve your question as soon as it appears. After you ask, you may want to stick around to see if there are any questions in the comments, and to support anyone trying to help improve the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also read up on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;what makes a good question&lt;/a&gt;, and trying to make your question fit those guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are still having trouble applying it to your question, you can visit the Workplace Chat (&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;the Water Cooler&lt;/a&gt;). You can post a link to your question and ask for people to suggest how it can be improved. Even though the initial downvotes may not feel good, we are all volunteers who appreciate people who take the time to try to improve their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T05:46:35.507" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-09-05T05:02:23.167" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2045" CreationDate="2013-09-05T06:41:53.487" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;This would be linked to for any questions put on hold or closed to help explain what the potential reasoning could be&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;Closed Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why was my question put &lt;code&gt;[on hold]&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make sure questions get good answers, experienced users can put questions on hold. While questions are on hold, they cannot be answered, but they can be edited to make sure they are &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;good questions&lt;/a&gt; that meet &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;site guidelines&lt;/a&gt; so that they will get high-quality answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is a community of experts volunteering their time to help. Putting a question on hold is not a punishment and isn't meant to be discouraged. Questions put &lt;code&gt;[on hold]&lt;/code&gt; are done so as a sign to the community that the question needs some editing to make sure it gets the right answers. If you or a member of the community edits the post, experienced users will be asked to take another look at it and decide to re-open it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it isn't re-opened within 5 days, the status of the question will change from &lt;code&gt;[on hold]&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt;. Even if the question is &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt; you can still edit it and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;ask a question in the Workplace Meta&lt;/a&gt; to get it re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each closed or on-hold question provides a reason that helps the original poster (or other community members) know what they'd need to do in order to get the question reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;List of Close Reasons&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Duplicate&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has been asked before and already has an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal of the Workplace is to be a resource for future visitors. When someone asks a question that has already been answered, we refer the person with the question to the other question for an answer. If you believe that the question asked is not really a duplicate, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;ask a question in the Workplace Meta&lt;/a&gt; to explain why the other question is not a duplicate and does not answer your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Personal Advice&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on what job to take, what skills to learn, etc. are off-topic as the answers are rarely useful to anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is asking for guidance on what to do, or what job to take, this close reason is used. Refer to the list of questions that are &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;off-topic&lt;/a&gt; to improve your question, or come to the Workplace Chat (&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;the Water Cooler&lt;/a&gt;) to ask for advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Legal Advice&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions seeking legal advice are off-topic as they require answers by legal professionals. See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1856/what-is-asking-for-legal-advice&quot;&gt;What is asking for legal advice?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question needs to be answered by a lawyer it is off-topic for the Workplace. The law is incredibly complex and detailed and requires specialists to give proper advice. Due to the format, legal questions are inappropriate here. Please refer to the list of questions that are &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;off-topic&lt;/a&gt; to see advice on how to improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Unclear What You're Asking&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a question contains a lot of different questions, or doesn't seem to be asking a question at all. We may try to get clarification in the comments to help improve the question, but if we can't see a question to answer we will put the question on hold. If you see this reason, try to read what you asked objectively and make sure there is a clear question (that isn't &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;off-topic&lt;/a&gt;) in what you wrote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Too Broad&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This reason is often used when the question is open-ended and tries to ask too much at once, or when one question tries to ask too many different questions all at the same time. Questions should be practical and have a clear answer based on actual problems you are facing, so try focusing the question on one specific issue rather than something that you could write a book about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Primarily Opinion-Based&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;good subjective, and bad subjective&lt;/a&gt; questions. Questions that don't have a clear answer, or where each answer is valid, or that poll for opinions are a better fit for a discussion forum, not for the Workplace. To improve your question, refer to the explanation of what is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;off-topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question doesn't fit in to any of the fixed reasons to put a question on hold, users can add a custom message explaining the reason it is off-topic which appears in the comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This questions is off topic because it doesn't appear to be related to the Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If other people choose the same reason, that comment will be upvoted. You can ask for clarification in the comments, in the Workplace Chat (&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;the Water Cooler&lt;/a&gt;), or ask for clarification by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;asking a question in the Workplace Meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T06:41:53.487" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-09-05T06:41:53.487" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2035" CreationDate="2013-09-05T13:13:00.483" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;One reason this tag might be good, some questions here are about the process applying for a job and some are more about the actual job itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, this distinction is so minor I don't think anyone is going to correctly apply it. I can safely say I'm not going to bother being the tag police for it, at least...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T13:13:00.483" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2010" CreationDate="2013-09-08T20:32:42.627" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This did come up as a question during the first days of our site, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/47/is-the-etiquette-tag-a-synonym-of-professionalism&quot;&gt;Is the Etiquette tag a synonym of Professionalism?&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/36/abby-t-miller&quot;&gt;Abby Miller&lt;/a&gt; makes a great point about the differences between professionalism and etiquette.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, on our site, the professionalism tag was used on over 230 questions and etiquette was used on about 134 questions (if memory serves).  It seems that most people aren't familiar enough with the terms to see the differences when applied to the workplace. Furthermore, to avoid confusion, the best course of action seemed to be to make them synonyms.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, both etiquette and professionalism now point to the professionalism tag. To retag all of these questions would be a massive undertaking, but if someone were to go through and systematically retag these, the synonyms could be removed, but for now, the synonyms seem to be the best approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-09-08T20:32:42.627" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2036" CreationDate="2013-09-09T01:13:33.483" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are all the questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aquestion+score%3A-2..2+views%3A%3E500&quot;&gt;from -2 to 2 in score, with over 500 views&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/6687/how-to-overcome-perception-problems-and-understand-my-work-environment-and-my-ma&quot;&gt;How to overcome perception problems and understand my work environment and my management accurately?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7454/is-a-30-second-pause-after-a-salary-offer-a-good-tactic&quot;&gt;Is a 30-second pause after a salary offer a good tactic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/5825/how-to-introduce-yourself-in-a-telephone-interview&quot;&gt;How to introduce yourself in a telephone interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2658/what-kind-of-business-fields-are-available-to-a-programmer-who-no-longer-wants-t&quot;&gt;What kind of business fields are available to a programmer who no longer wants to program?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3245/negotiation-for-fulltime-conversion-after-internship&quot;&gt;Negotiation for Fulltime Conversion After Internship&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9643/how-can-i-get-management-to-hold-other-employees-accountable-for-their-actions&quot;&gt;How can I get management to hold other employees accountable for their actions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9337/how-to-plan-prioritize-and-organize-work-day-and-tasks-effectively&quot;&gt;How can I prioritize and Organize my tasks and then plan my day effectively?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3739/im-not-a-software-engineer-any-more-but-what-am-i&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3739/im-not-a-software-engineer-any-more-but-what-am-i&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4478/how-to-renege-implicit-verbal-acceptance-of-a-job-offer&quot;&gt;How to renege implicit verbal acceptance of a job offer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1716/what-is-the-purpose-of-a-recruitment-agency&quot;&gt;What is the purpose of a recruitment agency?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13308/my-current-boss-asks-surprising-questions-which-havent-been-asked-by-a-boss-bef&quot;&gt;My current boss asks surprising questions which haven&amp;#39;t been asked by a boss before, how should I respond?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7017/do-i-have-any-legal-recourse-regarding-verbal-job-offer&quot;&gt;Do I have any legal recourse regarding verbal job offer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3554/does-one-months-notice-period-mean-30-or-31-days&quot;&gt;Does &amp;quot;one month&amp;#39;s notice period&amp;quot; mean 30 or 31 days?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11438/how-to-tell-my-boss-that-i-do-not-want-to-do-a-task-that-is-too-simple-for-my-ex&quot;&gt;How to tell my boss that I do not want to do a task that is too simple for my experience&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9035/is-pressure-on-working-while-on-sick-leave-considered-mobbing&quot;&gt;Is pressure on working while on sick leave considered mobbing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10358/employee-poaching&quot;&gt;Employee Poaching&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2951/stuck-in-boring-programming-jobs&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2951/stuck-in-boring-programming-jobs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2376/difference-between-manager-and-director&quot;&gt;Difference between Manager and Director&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/8819/how-to-convince-colleagues-about-my-point-of-view-in-a-meeting&quot;&gt;How to convince colleagues about my point of view in a meeting?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;8 of these questions are closed. They should almost certainly be downvoted (or have a reopen vote cast, if that is your cuppa). These questions are getting a reasonable amount of attention and are in the 'meh' zone &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2036/community-outreach-be-more-liberal-with-voting#comment3054_2036&quot;&gt;as Chad puts it&lt;/a&gt;. 'meh' or not, don't you all want to get a bit closer to your &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/badges/44/electorate&quot;&gt;electorate badge&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T01:13:33.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2055" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2078" CreationDate="2013-09-09T03:01:05.020" Score="7" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all love &lt;a href=&quot;http://workplace.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look at this site through the eyes of someone who's never seen it before, and see how we stack up against the rest of the 'Net.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/site-eval&quot;&gt;Site Self-Evaluation review queue&lt;/a&gt; is open and populated with 10 questions that were asked and answered in the last quarter. Run a few Google searches to see how easy they are to find and compare the answers we have with the information available on other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rating the questions is only a part of the puzzle, though. Do you see a pattern of questions that should have been closed but are not? Questions or answers that could use an edit? Anything that's going really well? &lt;strong&gt;Post an answer below to share your thoughts&lt;/strong&gt; and discuss these questions and the site's health with your fellow users!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T09:49:25.663" Title="Let's get critical: Sep 2013 Site Self-Evaluation" Tags="|discussion|site-evaluation|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2055" CreationDate="2013-09-09T09:38:08.020" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13046/resigning-when-you-have-multiple-bosses-in-multiple-locations&quot;&gt;Resigning when you have multiple bosses in multiple locations?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I marked this Question as &lt;em&gt;Satisfactory&lt;/em&gt;. It is short and to the point and doesn't bombard users with irrelevant information. This makes it very concise and easy to see the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately this question only has one answer which means that future users won't be able to get a good overview of the pros and cons of each potential solution. This could be improved upon by retroactively providing alternate solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ability to find in Search Engines (Google)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is quite easy to find when searching phrases such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Resigning%20when%20you%20have%20multiple%20bosses&amp;amp;rlz=1C1CHFX_en-GBGB543GB543&amp;amp;oq=Resigning%20when%20you%20have%20multiple%20bosses&amp;amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.7043j0&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Resigning when you have multiple bosses&lt;/a&gt;&quot; Ranks us 1st&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Resigning%20when%20you%20have%20multiple%20bosses&amp;amp;rlz=1C1CHFX_en-GBGB543GB543&amp;amp;oq=Resigning%20when%20you%20have%20multiple%20bosses&amp;amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.7043j0&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8#q=multiple%20bosses,%20resigning&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;multiple bosses, resigning&lt;/a&gt;&quot; Ranks us 1st&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers compared to other sites answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found only &lt;strong&gt;ONE&lt;/strong&gt; other site that dealt with resigning when you have multiple bosses, and that site was &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120617113853AA0sH5G&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Yahoo Answers&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm confident that we are now the leading provider for information on resigning when you have multiple bosses. It is for this reason that I urge more answers covering more points to be retroactively posted to ensure the prolonged use of our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T09:38:08.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2055" CreationDate="2013-09-09T09:49:09.967" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13137/what-is-a-professional-way-to-customize-personal-note-in-linkedin&quot;&gt;What is a Professional way to customize personal note in linkedin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question itself is ok, clear and concise. Marked as &lt;em&gt;Satisfactory&lt;/em&gt;. Though probably has more tags than needed. I.e its not specific to Australia or interviewing, that's just the intention the OP has, for this reason they were used more like meta tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;High quality answer that makes sure it answers a much wider band than just the specific scenario asked by the OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only one answer but it covers so many points that it doesn't really bother me too much. Though of course, if someone has an alternate answer please feel free to add it in!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ability to find in Search Engines (Google)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had to mark low for this, no matter what search terms I used nothing I could find took me to our SE. Instead all links were focussed around LinkedIn itself. Something I don't think we can change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers compared to other sites answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't find another site that focussed on the question and answered the way we do, but I also couldn't even find out site through searching. If we can make it more obvious to find our site we will have an advantage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T09:49:09.967" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2055" CreationDate="2013-09-09T09:57:07.417" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13232/whats-an-employee-stock-option-scheme&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s an employee stock option scheme?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question itself contains background information from the OP's specific scenario and could use some generalisation to ensure it applies to a wider range of situations. But the question asked is good and clear so it's not something that overly bothers me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only one answer but that's to be expected from a 'What is X' question so this is fine by me. The answer is of good quality and covers the Why as well as the what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ability to find in Search Engines (Google)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very very poor. Even if you google the question word for word identical to how we have it here we aren't even on the first page of results. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers compared to other sites answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have roughly equivalent qualities to other sites. I am happy with everything bar our SEO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T09:57:07.417" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2055" CreationDate="2013-09-09T11:01:11.183" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13675/when-keeping-track-of-your-hours-should-you-round-at-all&quot;&gt;When keeping track of your hours, should you round at all?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very short, simple and clear question that makes it very user friendly. I'm a fan of these types of questions as its easy for people to see if it is the same problem that they are facing or not with ease.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3 Good answers offering differing view points, providing a large amount of information that users can pick a solution from. Overall i am happy with the state of the answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ability to find in Search Engines (Google)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tracking%20worked%20hours,%20rounding&amp;amp;rlz=1C1CHFX_en-GBGB543GB543&amp;amp;oq=tracking%20worked%20hours,%20rounding&amp;amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3.3842j0&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tracking worked hours, rounding&lt;/a&gt;&quot; Ranks us 3rd&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tracking%20worked%20hours,%20rounding&amp;amp;rlz=1C1CHFX_en-GBGB543GB543&amp;amp;oq=tracking%20worked%20hours,%20rounding&amp;amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3.3842j0&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8#q=rounding%20worked%20hours&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;rounding worked hours&lt;/a&gt;&quot; doesn't rank us on the first page&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could use a lot of work to be honest, we get ok results the more specific the searchers are but we would benefit a lot more if we could get shorter phrases to direct to us&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers compared to other sites answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our answers generally agree, we suggested asking HR as it is company specific and it seems to be the consensus on every other site that doing so can get your company in trouble for incorrectly billing clients, thus making it a business problem not a personal issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall i ranked this as satisfactory, as our SEO could be improved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T11:01:11.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2055" CreationDate="2013-09-09T11:21:22.693" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13531/how-can-i-get-off-on-the-right-foot-with-a-new-intern-who-is-older-than-i-am&quot;&gt;How can I get off on the right foot with a new intern who is older than I am?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;High quality, still nice and short, lays out the issue very clearly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fantastic answers! 7 answers covering a range of methods and one 'answer' that was an admitted comment. If deletion of this goes through then I will be happy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ability to find in Search Engines (Google)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=intern%20older%20than%20i%20am&amp;amp;rlz=1C1CHFX_en-GBGB543GB543&amp;amp;oq=int&amp;amp;aqs=chrome.4.69i57j69i59j69i61j69i59l2j69i60.2289j0&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;intern older than i am&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&#xA;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=intern%20older%20than%20me&amp;amp;rlz=1C1CHFX_en-GBGB543GB543&amp;amp;oq=intern%20older%20than%20me&amp;amp;aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j69i61.3920j0&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;intern older than me&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&#xA;Both rank us 1st in google so im happy with the ability for people to find this information&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers compared to other sites answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can find no other site that even acknowledges this as a question so we currently hold the market on this information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall this is the first one i am happy to mark as Excellent!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T11:21:22.693" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2055" CreationDate="2013-09-09T11:30:20.003" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13308/my-current-boss-asks-surprising-questions-which-havent-been-asked-by-a-boss-bef&quot;&gt;My current boss asks surprising questions which haven&amp;#39;t been asked by a boss before, how should I respond?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could be a bit shorter, its lengthy and at the bottom im pretty sure it needs to be edited or removed as it is very rude and doesn't pain a good picture of what this sites quality is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Id like to point out that the below is NOT a comment, its actual content of the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@HLGEM and @notmyrealname it is perfectly normal for a manager, or anyone else, to ask what one is doing. What point are you trying to make and how do you relate your point to this question? No where in this question did I say it's strange for the manager to ask what it is I'm currently doing. I do have trouble answering the question what I am doing latter when the job involves a lot of variability but this is an entirely different question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest removing this part.(Incase its edited during the review this is here for posterity) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good quality answers that tackle it from a range of views. The top two answers are outstanding. Overall i am happy with the quality of the answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ability to find in Search Engines (Google)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Difficult to find unless searching exactly the title. I suggest retitling as this will really help us to find it easier through searches. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers compared to other sites answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very generic question so hard to find other answers on it, overall im happy with our answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In conclusion i marked this as Needs Improvement. The question has potentially rude content towards some members and it is hard to find by searching.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T11:30:20.003" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2055" CreationDate="2013-09-09T12:42:54.507" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13239/if-you-feel-that-a-younger-more-impressionable-employee-is-being-lead-astray-i&quot;&gt;If you feel that a younger, more impressionable employee is being lead astray, is it appropriate to intervene without their knowledge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good quality question, no extraneous details that aren't needed. Gets straight to the point and addresses his problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good quality answers that apply to many situations, not just the one that the OP specifically asks, which make these stellar answers in my eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ability to find in Search Engines (Google)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Difficult to find, an issue i've noted with long title names is that they are difficult to match up when searching unless you are almost word for word correct. We can improve this by retitling to give a more generalised view of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers compared to other sites answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not something i've found on other sites, once again we hold the primary knowledge it seems, which is very good for us if only more people could find it easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall i marked as satisfactory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T12:42:54.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2055" CreationDate="2013-09-09T13:03:00.543" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13706/sending-references-and-transcripts-along-with-resume-and-cover-letter&quot;&gt;Sending references and transcripts along with resume and cover letter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok quality, could do with editing to clear up the details that are OP specific and aren't needed for correct answers to be given. This would make it apply to more people making it of greater use to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good set of answers, some say yes some say no, all explain why. Overall im happy with the quality of these answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ability to find in Search Engines (Google)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with all longer names you have to almost type the title word for word to even appear in the top 10 for results, could be improved upon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers compared to other sites answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Annoyingly we dont rank highly but we are the only ones providing an answer to the question, with the results that beat us focussing on writing cover letters rather than the issue as described. Overall we have the best answers to this issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T13:03:00.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2055" CreationDate="2013-09-09T13:11:30.183" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13627/how-do-companies-handle-he-said-she-said-situations-with-no-objective-evidence&quot;&gt;How do companies handle &amp;#39;he-said she-said&amp;#39; situations with no objective evidence either way?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good question, could do with being split by paragraphs so it doesn't feel like so much of a wall of text to improve the user experience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first answers are good, the others could use some work, as clarified in the comments, though nothing seems to have changed. Would be nice to see some improvements made from the original writers but at the first are so good im not too bothered by this as the overall advice will still be good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ability to find in Search Engines (Google)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do not rank highly, even with almost word for word searching we are outranked by song lyrics from the song &quot;he said she said&quot; I don't think there is a lot we can do about this as the song lyrics will always be more searched. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers compared to other sites answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hubpages.com/hub/he-said-she-said-whos-telling-the-truth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Some sites&lt;/a&gt; potentially beat us on this, choosing to provide lots of information rather than a short concise summary as favoured by our answers to the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall i marked as satisfactory&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T13:11:30.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2055" CreationDate="2013-09-09T13:15:39.883" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13042/when-is-it-acceptable-for-a-subordinate-to-earn-more-than-a-manager&quot;&gt;When is it acceptable for a subordinate to earn more than a manager?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok quality, short and to the point with a clear title. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very good quality, this could have ended up by a poll but instead we got some fantastic answers covering both the pros and cons of specific points. Overall i am &lt;em&gt;Very&lt;/em&gt; pleased with the content we have for this question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ability to find in Search Engines (Google)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Annoyingly there are lots of news articles with similar headings as ours so we are outranked on searches until you nearly match the title word for word. I dont think there is a lot we can do about this to beat a news site, too many views per day&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality of Answers compared to other sites answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall i am pleased with the quality of our answers compared to the news sites. If only we could get people outside of the SE network to see it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T13:15:39.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2066" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-09T14:13:12.780" Score="8" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Chat room has the amazing ability to be able to have scheduled events that overlay on the main site to encourage people to partake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is we don't really seem to have anything to schedule! Space.stack exchange schedules around launches to watch together, some other sites schedule around live streams of related topics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This serves two fold, one, it builds up the community feeling having everyone together chatting and discussing, it encourages users to stick around and maybe partake in more discussions and reviews. Two, it gives us a chance to build a solid user base, communication and inter user relationships are very good at encouraging repeat visits and could do wonders for the site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What events do you think we could schedule to encourage users to use more of the sites features than they may realise? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post some suggestions below so we can vote on them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T03:30:10.187" Title="What events can we schedule for Chat?" Tags="|discussion|chat|event|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2066" CreationDate="2013-09-09T14:14:21.660" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;New User Welcome Sessions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could have a scheduled weekly or bi-weekly session where we welcome the new users to the site, if we can get them to take part in features such as chat early on it should help us both guide them into correct use-age of the site and cement their love for the site that will undoubtedly follow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T14:14:21.660" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2066" CreationDate="2013-09-09T19:46:30.120" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Collaborative Editing sessions to edit questions from the Evaluation review queues, assuming that info is still available somewhere.  A session dedicated to picking one or two questions and improving them could be good for increasing the utility of our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T19:46:30.120" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2008" CreationDate="2013-09-11T01:00:27.973" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I could see the fate of the software industry tag going in either direction -- either removed or kept -- it's important to keep in mind that something IT related is still on-topic if it represents a workplace problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's more, I'm not entirely convinced editing out specific industry details would help. Sometimes the industry specifics help paint a clearer picture of the problem and give it context that may otherwise be missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question about punctuality in a software company is a perfect example where answers may differ depending on the job roles. Due to the nature of the work, where the perceived need for punctuality among creative types &lt;em&gt;may not be&lt;/em&gt; as strong as the need for folks involved in shift work, it may arguably not be mission critical for the creative professionals to have set schedules. However, in shift work, where one party cannot leave until another shows up or in situations where production activities within the entire organization come to a screeching halt with somebody's absence, the answers may lean more towards ways to actually accomplish enforcing set schedules with facts, references, and specific expertise from workers and managers in those organizations or fields.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we encourage folks to post questions about real, actual problems they're facing, it makes sense that those problems will contain specifics that give the post substance. Otherwise, we risk becoming too generic or making the questions sound too hypothetical.  This also leaves the door open for variations on a problem where answers may be different depending on the industry, which equates to the potential for more great content for our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also opens the door for more variations in the types of experts we attract to The Workplace. Similar to how Stack Overflow successfully attracts Python and Java experts in the same space, we may also successfully attract IT, Software, and professionals from those other fields we long for, if we provide expert level content that isn't too watered down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-09-11T01:06:03.003" LastActivityDate="2013-09-11T01:06:03.003" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2066" CreationDate="2013-09-11T23:13:58.637" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Resume review session:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Have questions on your resume? Want some general feedback?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-09-11T23:13:58.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2066" CreationDate="2013-09-11T23:20:29.917" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;General career advice/discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of people seem to have &quot;what should I do with my life/career&quot; types of questions. I suspect a time acknowledging this might be interesting at the very least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-09-11T23:20:29.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1917" CreationDate="2013-09-12T03:40:43.960" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zm85C.png&quot; alt=&quot;Burninated&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please care for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tags/untagged&quot;&gt;the widows and orphans&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-09-12T03:40:43.960" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2035" CreationDate="2013-09-12T03:41:53.607" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zm85C.png&quot; alt=&quot;Burninated&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please care for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tags/untagged&quot;&gt;the widows and orphans&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-09-12T03:41:53.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2066" CreationDate="2013-09-14T22:13:46.073" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blog Ideas and Blog Action Items:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/448/do-we-want-a-community-blog/572#572&quot;&gt;progress towards having a blog&lt;/a&gt; seems to have died down, but a chat session dedicated to re-energizing this idea may help move it forward, especially if people commit to writing actual content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While pledges to help edit or submit ideas are great, only real, tangible action will bring this idea to life. The writers are the most important. missing pieces of this puzzle, and without them, this idea won't see the light of day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of our top users, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/67/bethlakshmi&quot;&gt;Bethlakshmi&lt;/a&gt;, has submitted content on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://trello.com/b/dbDNztpy/workplace-blog-board&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trello Board&lt;/a&gt;, so we are farther along than when this idea first surfaced over a year ago, and there are plenty of ideas for an actionable person to choose from if he or she needs something to write.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-09-14T22:13:46.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2055" CreationDate="2013-09-16T03:01:09.717" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Final Results&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13531/how-can-i-get-off-on-the-right-foot-with-a-new-intern-who-is-older-than-i-am&quot;&gt;How can I get off on the right foot with a new intern who is older than I am?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: 6&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 7, Satisfactory: 3, Needs Improvement: 1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13706/sending-references-and-transcripts-along-with-resume-and-cover-letter&quot;&gt;Sending references and transcripts along with resume and cover letter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: 6&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 6, Satisfactory: 3, Needs Improvement: 0)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13232/whats-an-employee-stock-option-scheme&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s an employee stock option scheme?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: 4&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 5, Satisfactory: 4, Needs Improvement: 1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13239/if-you-feel-that-a-younger-more-impressionable-employee-is-being-lead-astray-i&quot;&gt;If you feel that a younger, more impressionable employee is being lead astray, is it appropriate to intervene without their knowledge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: 4&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 5, Satisfactory: 3, Needs Improvement: 1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13627/how-do-companies-handle-he-said-she-said-situations-with-no-objective-evidence&quot;&gt;How do companies handle &amp;#39;he-said she-said&amp;#39; situations with no objective evidence either way?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: 3&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 4, Satisfactory: 5, Needs Improvement: 1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13046/resigning-when-you-have-multiple-bosses-in-multiple-locations&quot;&gt;Resigning when you have multiple bosses in multiple locations?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: 2&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 3, Satisfactory: 6, Needs Improvement: 1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13042/when-is-it-acceptable-for-a-subordinate-to-earn-more-than-a-manager&quot;&gt;When is it acceptable for a subordinate to earn more than a manager?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: 1&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 3, Satisfactory: 8, Needs Improvement: 2)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13675/when-keeping-track-of-your-hours-should-you-round-at-all&quot;&gt;When keeping track of your hours, should you round at all?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: 0&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 4, Satisfactory: 4, Needs Improvement: 4)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13308/my-current-boss-asks-surprising-questions-which-havent-been-asked-by-a-boss-bef&quot;&gt;My current boss asks surprising questions which haven&amp;#39;t been asked by a boss before, how should I respond?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: -2&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 2, Satisfactory: 3, Needs Improvement: 4)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13137/what-is-a-professional-way-to-customize-personal-note-in-linkedin&quot;&gt;What is a Professional way to customize personal note in linkedin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: -3&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 1, Satisfactory: 5, Needs Improvement: 4)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T09:49:25.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2079" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-17T03:36:31.730" Score="7" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks to some efforts from members of the community, we've since created a more targeted definition of what our site is about. The nature of our topic has made this challenging, but here is what we've come up with so far as taken from our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Center's On-Topic section&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt; is a Q&amp;amp;A site about the workplace and other career-related topics. It is for members of the workforce to get answers on topics such as the job hunting process, interviewing, salary negotiation, and professionalism within the Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've done a fantastic job of setting some clearer boundaries as to what is and isn't on topic, and this definition makes that pretty clear, which is important for a healthy Stack Exchange site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, a user asked the question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14443/what-to-do-when-overwhelmed-at-work&quot;&gt;What to do when overwhelmed at work?&lt;/a&gt;, and this was closed as off-topic. The post has some notable problems, such as bordering on a shopping question, but it got 3 really great answers that focused more on process than taking the bait and answering with a one liner link answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question could be edited to focus on the process, but the question still remains if this area, workplace productivity, is on-topic on The Workplace. We know some sites share a healthy overlap with other sites, and this post would clearly be on topic on &lt;a href=&quot;http://productivity.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Productivity SE&lt;/a&gt;, but the question we must answer is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a question about how to be more productive in the workplace on topic on &lt;em&gt;our&lt;/em&gt; site, The Workplace SE? Why or why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T16:20:50.400" Title="Is workplace productivity on topic on The Workplace SE?" Tags="|discussion|site-definition|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2079" CreationDate="2013-09-17T05:06:41.937" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Executive Summary&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say that while not off-topic, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/productivity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;productivity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;productivity&lt;/a&gt; is toeing the line and likely better at Productivity.SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Where does it have more overlap?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there going to be be more overlap between workplace productivity and non-workplace productivity questions, or workplace productivity vs. workplace unrelated to productivity questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the top voted questions over at productivity:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I get myself out of bed in the morning?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I deal with distractions when working on a computer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does listening to music help or hurt productivity?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I improve reading speed and comprehension?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Early birds vs. night owls: what does research have to say?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I make myself stop doing addictive activity?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the top voted questions here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7617/how-should-i-deal-with-an-employee-who-has-slept-with-my-wife&quot;&gt;How should I deal with an employee who has slept with my wife?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3492/is-it-rude-to-leave-an-interview-early-if-you-have-already-made-your-decision&quot;&gt;Is it rude to leave an interview early if you have already made your decision?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1478/how-can-i-overcome-years-of-experience-requirements-when-applying-to-positions&quot;&gt;How can I overcome &amp;quot;years of experience&amp;quot; requirements when applying to positions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9128/how-can-i-prepare-for-getting-hit-by-a-bus&quot;&gt;How can I prepare for getting hit by a bus?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/662/how-can-i-ask-my-interviewers-for-feedback-following-an-interview&quot;&gt;How can I ask my interviewers for feedback following an interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9283/how-can-i-tell-people-to-get-to-the-point&quot;&gt;How can I tell people to get to the point?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An expert on workplace productivity would be able to answer likely 5/6 questions on productivity. A productivity expert would likely be able to answer 0/6 (maybe 1/6 if you consider having people getting to the point to be productive) over here. So the experts will congregate there, which makes this sort of question more likely to get an expert answer there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Borderline Off-Topic Aspects&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&amp;quot;How do I learn to be a...&amp;quot; / &amp;quot;How do I perform the job of a ...&amp;quot;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions should be about problems you are encountering or have encountered in the workplace, and not the learning/applying of specific job functions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While 'getting stuff done' isn't exactly a &lt;em&gt;specific job function&lt;/em&gt;, it certainly does toe the line. For instance, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How can I be more productive at managing inventory levels?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How can I increase productivity of bug reporting?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; are certainly things that strike me more as &amp;quot;How do I do my job?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Productivity as a Potential (but not only) Solution&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/productivity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;productivity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;productivity&lt;/a&gt; question like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I just got a horrible performance review because my boss says I don't finish tasks on time. I am working 60 hour weeks but none of my coworkers are having the same issue. How do I become more productive at the workplace?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the Workplace approach would be to figure out what the fundamental issue behind the poor review was (was it poor communication? was it failure to report delays in a timely fashion? was it actually just poor workplace efficiency?), and then to find a way to solve that problem (explaining how to report effectively, or how to deal with delays in a project, or how to explain an underestimate to a boss, etc.). One of the potential solutions would be become more efficient in X or Y or Z, but &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to become more efficient in X, Y, or Z would be better suited for productivity.SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Suggestion&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say we burninate the tag, and migrate the questions (when good questions) to productivity instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T05:06:41.937" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2079" CreationDate="2013-09-17T15:54:12.220" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not really sure why Productivity.SE exists (having not seen it before today), but while there's overlap, I think &lt;em&gt;workspace-related&lt;/em&gt;, but not &lt;em&gt;specific-job-related&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;purely-personal&lt;/em&gt;, productivity questions are on-topic here.  They might also be on-topic there, but overlapping scope is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since The Workplace isn't just about the space but about job/career stuff, it seems natural to ask questions like &quot;how do I improve my team's ability to meet deadlines?&quot; and &quot;how can I keep the daily status meeting short and focused?&quot; and &quot;how can I better focus on my work in a noisy cube farm?&quot; here.  But it isn't ok to ask questions like &quot;How do I increase my sales numbers?&quot; (job-specific) and &quot;How do I increase my reading speed?&quot; (too general/personal) here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a productivity question is about &lt;em&gt;productivity in the workplace&lt;/em&gt; it's on-topic here.  If it's about productivity in general it's not.  If a question is about a specific job function it's also off-topic, quite aside from whether it's about productivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the question that prompted this meta post, my reaction to it was kind of &quot;meh&quot; -- not because of topicality but because it seems kind of localized and subjective.  A different question about multi-tasking or dealing with frequent interrupts would be just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T15:54:12.220" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2079" CreationDate="2013-09-17T22:27:25.873" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion any question with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/productivity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;productivity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;productivity&lt;/a&gt; which can fit here without the tag should stay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Does my question &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; the productivity tag to make sense?&quot;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes - migrate to Productivity.SE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No - keep here&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2013-09-18T16:20:50.400" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T16:20:50.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2066" CreationDate="2013-09-18T23:34:26.720" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Job Hunting/Networking Sessions&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are willing to share your real name (via resume) or the like, you may as well go whole-hog and focus on networking. For better or for worse, a lot of our users seem to be in the software industry in some form or another, and many seem to come here when looking for a job. Creating contacts via the site and sharing leads may have value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Bear in mind, I don't think I'd do this one myself, but it may fit the theme of the site at any rate)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T23:34:26.720" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2084" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-19T05:34:50.880" Score="0" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the ways Workplace SE could provide more value is by creating a platform to help employers and job candidates create high quality job postings and job applications, which will help candidates attract the best employers and employers attract the best candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The process:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We attach an employer/candidate review site to Workplace SE and give it an appropriate name. Employers post job postings, and the community peer reviews them. They're not publicly available until they receive X number of +1 reviews and any edits are approved by the employer. Likewise, candidates post job applications that are also peer reviewed. Like the job postings, the applications cannot be submitted to employers until they receive a certain number of +1 reviews and any edits are approved by the applicant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once both job postings and applications are vetted, candidates with highly polished job applications then choose to apply for the highly polished job postings that best fits them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is to make the process of hiring an employee or finding a job be  quicker, since both the employer and candidate written materials will be the best they can be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this something that would work as an added feature on Workplace SE?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/conversation/peer-review-for-resumes-and-job-postings&quot;&gt;chat transcript between jmac and myself for more context&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2013-09-19T09:48:42.263" LastActivityDate="2013-09-19T09:48:42.263" Title="Peer review for resumes and job postings" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2085" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-20T07:51:46.483" Score="5" ViewCount="617" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have had a discussion in the past about whether or not &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1692/is-quit-your-job-an-acceptable-answer?lq=1&quot;&gt;'Quit Your Job' is an acceptable answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been noticing this in comments quite a bit. This is the one that caught my attention spurring this post, but since I can't search comment text, it isn't easy to find additional examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leave. CEO is where the buck stops, and is the last authority of appeal. If they are refusing to accept responsibility then the company suffer a lot. Bad CEOs kill companies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14025/how-should-you-handle-a-superior-blaming-you-for-a-mistake-that-was-actually-the/14028#comment33930_14025&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't think we should be saying this in comments if they aren't appropriate one-line answers. I have flagged the above comment in the hopes it is removed, and hope that in the future, people will do the same if they catch a similar sort of comment/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The conventional wisdom &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1697/7945&quot;&gt;as stated by jmort&lt;/a&gt; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's way too easy to post &quot;quit your job&quot; as an answer, and almost&#xA;  every post on our site could be answered in this manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, our FAQ and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;How to&#xA;  Answer&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  both make it clear that proposing viable alternatives in an answer is&#xA;  acceptable, and in some cases, quitting may be a correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But quitting a job is a very big decision and is irreversible, in most&#xA;  cases. Due to the nature and severity of these suggestions, I propose&#xA;  that these answers be held to a much higher standard as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The answerer MUST post references to back up the answer. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Alternatively, sharing personal experiences MAY be sufficient, but the answer can't just simply contain the words, &quot;in my experience&quot;.&#xA;  The answerer MUST post details about his or her experiences that led&#xA;  to quitting being the correct answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;One liner answers suggesting one quit are not allowed. Our FAQ already makes it clear that explanations containing why and how are&#xA;  encouraged. For &quot;you should quit&quot; answers that don't provide&#xA;  explanation and references, I propose downvoting them, leaving a&#xA;  comment helping the answerer improve it, and if it doesn't get fixed,&#xA;  flagging them for removal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To clarify, I believe we can enforce the rules on these types of&#xA;  answers, in a polite, helpful manner, while still allowing answers&#xA;  that offer alternative solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone has any further comments, please go ahead and share (especially if you think this type of comment has any value), otherwise please pop up a flag whenever you see one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mod-type folk, how should we flag these (I flagged as 'non-constructive', but since these are your guys' work, I want to know what will make it easiest for you to handle).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T13:37:28.510" Title="Being More Aggressive about &quot;Just Quit&quot; Comments/Answers" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2085" CreationDate="2013-09-20T15:45:18.903" Score="-3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Being More Aggressive about &quot;Just Quit&quot; Comments/Answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we're already being sufficiently aggressive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@jmac: You highlighted one offence. Does this issue occur in abundance? If so, can you point to at least three cases which were not adjusted by the moderators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2013-09-20T15:45:18.903" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2085" CreationDate="2013-09-23T18:42:42.120" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I'm one of the persons that supplies this answer from time to time, I'll describe my thinking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are people that can be persuaded, and those that are immutable to any suggestion or entreaty.  If someone is not paying attention, or simply cannot, for whatever reason, alter course in a situation that is untenable, then the person having to live with it should chart a course out.  The speed with which this should be done is dependent on 'immediacy of harm'.  In some cases, remaining on duty puts customers, employees, or the general public at risk.  One particular situation I hear about repeatedly has to do with licensed electricians that go work for big factories or warehouses: often the plant is grossly out of code, and some elements are dangerous.  The electrician makes their supervisor aware of the issues and the supervisor says 'we're not spending the money, drop it'.  It is better to be far away when the situation implodes - you have done what you can and it isn't enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a business is no longer competitive, all efforts to carry on as normal are wasted effort. As people have noticed, bankrupt companies have stranded their pensioners, so the idea of working until retirement and hoping for the best is useless. This is a trap, and it isn't worth getting caught in it.  Therefore, if one is 20 years into a 40 year career, and the people in leadership roles are quite obviously clueless, the safe course of action is to find an industry that is competitive - note that in some American industries, not a single company is making money.  At various times this has been automobiles, oil, hotels, airlines, commercial real estate, etc. so one has to find a growing line of business, not just an employer.  Often in such situations the people that could alter the outcome would love to, and really feel for you, but there's nothing they can do.  You have to take matters into your own hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9517" LastActivityDate="2013-09-23T18:42:42.120" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2088" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2089" CreationDate="2013-09-25T18:20:21.033" Score="3" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14642/open-toe-shoes-in-the-workplace&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14642/open-toe-shoes-in-the-workplace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did this get deleted by Community so fast? Was it because the user was removed/deleted or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rZ5hq.png&quot; alt=&quot;This question was&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T13:22:58.200" Title="How did this question get deleted by &quot;Community&quot; so fast?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2088" CreationDate="2013-09-25T18:43:51.463" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the user was deleted, causing the question to be deleted as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users can delete themselves voluntarily, or be deleted for violations of the Terms of Service (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/126471/167443&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T13:22:58.200" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2085" CreationDate="2013-09-27T13:37:28.510" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As has been stressed, &lt;em&gt;&quot;quitting a job is a very big decision and is irreversible&quot;&lt;/em&gt;; a responsible answerer would do their best to ensure reader that such a serious advice is justified in a given case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any answer of just-quit kind, if not backed up with a compelling justification, is &lt;em&gt;guaranteed&lt;/em&gt; to get my downvote - on the grounds of being insufficiently responsible (per tooltip: &quot;This answer is not useful&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I specifically expect of this kind answers is an explanation for a &lt;strong&gt;&quot;just&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; part, namely, what in given case makes it preferable over other, &quot;alternative&quot; quit options. One example of an alternative option is: &quot;Start looking for a new job and quit &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; you get a more appealing offer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not going to flag just-quit answers, because per my understanding of current site standards, these do not qualify as flaggable offense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, voting, commenting and post quality evaluations are &lt;em&gt;mine&lt;/em&gt; and, if I find that answer does not meet expectations outlined above, I am going to vote it down with comment like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;per my reading, suggested approach is not sufficiently explained (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2090/168&quot;&gt;more details on that at meta&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T13:37:28.510" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2091" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-28T14:10:07.643" Score="4" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it just me, or are others seeing 0 Questions on the main site this morning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other StackExchange sites seem normal. Are there problems only with Workplace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2013-09-28T14:10:07.643" Title="Are all the questions gone?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2092" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-30T12:10:04.633" Score="5" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer to a question was deleted &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14680/is-it-my-responsibility-to-inform-hr-of-illegal-events-performed-by-coworkers-th/14687#14687&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasoning for deletion is:&#xA;Help Center &amp;gt; Answering&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why and how are some answers deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers that do not fundamentally answer the question may be removed. This includes answers that are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;commentary on the question or other answers&#xA;asking another, different question&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;“thanks!” or “me too!” responses&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;exact duplicates of other answers&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;barely more than a link to an external site&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;not even a partial answer to the actual question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of those reasons are relevant.  It is a short answer that fulfills answering the question and does not need to be expanded upon.  So why was it deleted when it was receiving upvotes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1685" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T18:55:57.437" Title="Reasoning for answer deletion?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2092" CreationDate="2013-09-30T12:30:19.077" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine I stopped writing anything after the above line, so my answer to your question here was simply &quot;It wasn't a good answer.&quot; Would you feel as if I answered your question well? What I said would definitely be &lt;em&gt;true&lt;/em&gt; and probably get some upvotes but it would be a really low quality answer to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this text which is currently on the answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're looking for long answers that provide some explanation and context. Don't just give a one-line answer; explain why your answer is right, ideally with citations. Answers that don't include explanations may be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1627/we-need-to-downvote-answers-more-even-mediocre-ones&quot;&gt;my thoughts&lt;/a&gt; on the matter in a generic sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answer was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should mind your business. Let HR and the hiring managers worry about properly conducting background checks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally downvoted but did not vote to delete. This is a comment at best because you don't explain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why should the OP &quot;mind your own business?&quot; Obviously the asker is curious about this. Saying basically &quot;no&quot; to a more complicated question is difficult&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Let's say the situation was &quot;I murdered coworkers at my last company.&quot; Nothing in your answer indicates the situation would be any different.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T12:30:19.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2094" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-30T12:36:41.870" Score="4" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I decently often reject minor edits such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/5382&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; for being too minor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following is a &quot;rejection&quot; reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This edit is too minor; suggested edits should be substantive improvements addressing multiple issues in the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems everyone else approves these. Or at the very least, most people have very few rejected edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a site do we want to approach edits in the sense of, &quot;does this improve the post?&quot; and if so, approve it - regardless of how minor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-10-02T05:18:07.133" Title="How, as a site, do we want to handle minor edits?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2094" CreationDate="2013-09-30T13:16:01.193" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, I agree with your rejection as &quot;too minor&quot;. There are other wording issues with the question that could be improved, but that the edit didn't touch. If that's the case, &quot;too minor&quot; is accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Minor edits &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; acceptable in the case where only a minor edit is needed. If there are a couple typos (or a their/they're/there mistake or similar), but the post is otherwise fine, then the edit, while minor, is not &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; minor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I reccommend rejecting edits as &quot;too minor&quot; in two particular cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trivial edit that doesn't necessarily &lt;em&gt;improve&lt;/em&gt; the post (changing &quot;5&quot; to &quot;five&quot; or some such thing)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Minor edits that leave other issues untouched&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T13:16:01.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2094" CreationDate="2013-09-30T13:27:31.210" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The edit should not have been rejected, the word in the title was incorrect. It wasn't a minor word in the middle of a long question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lesson you taught the new user was that changing the word in the title wasn't good enough. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You rejected the edit because there were other changes that the question needed, but you then didn't make them. If you had made them, and then credited the suggested edit as being helpful the new user might have learned to be bolder in their changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T13:27:31.210" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2092" CreationDate="2013-09-30T18:55:57.437" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace SE is a very subjective topic, one where it's difficult to identify exactly who the experts are.  As a result, our community has decided to apply the fundamentals from The Six Guidelines for a Good Subjective Question from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first two of the six guidelines focus on how answers should explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; and should be longer instead of shorter. It reads as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Great subjective questions inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”.&lt;/strong&gt; The best subjective questions invite explanation. If you’re asking for a product recommendation of some kind, you want answers to contain detailed information about the features and how they can be used, and why you might want to choose one over the other. “How?” and “Why?” has more lasting value than a bunch of product-feature bullet points or a giant enumerated list, no matter how extensive. In contrast, the bad subjective questions let answerers get away with hit-and-run answers that maybe provide a name and a link — but fail to provide any sort of adequate explanation, context, or background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Great subjective questions tend to have long, not short, answers.&lt;/strong&gt; The best subjective questions inspire your peers to share their actual experiences, not just post a mindless one-liner or cartoon in hopes of being rewarded with upvotes for being merely “first.” Sharing an experience takes at least one paragraph; ideally several paragraphs. If I’m asking about how to bake cookies, don’t give me a list of grocery items: milk. butter. vanilla. eggs. There is virtually nothing I can learn from a short, static list of grocery items that make up a recipe. Instead, tell me what happened the last time you made cookies from that recipe! Share your detailed experiences, so that we all might learn from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've also adopted a version of the &quot;Back It Up Principle&quot;, based on the early experiment with Moms4Moms: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The folks at Moms4mom owned up to the subjective issue and came up with a set of principles to create useful subjective discussions on parenting: the Back It Up! Principle. Back It Up! means that your answers must be based on either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Something that happened to you &lt;strong&gt;personally&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Something you can &lt;strong&gt;back up&lt;/strong&gt; with a reference&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They talk about how “opinion, by itself, is noise.” They’re not saying that subjective opinions are to be avoided; they’re attempting to mold and shape their inherently subjective Q&amp;amp;A into something constructive, informative and helpful. As it turns out, there is an entire field of subjective “expertise” that has the hallmarks of making &lt;strong&gt;great Q&amp;amp;A sites&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's clear you feel passionate about your answer, so you could edit and expand upon your answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;back it up&lt;/a&gt; and explain why a person shouldn't get involved in being a whistleblower.  When you do, feel free to flag it and we'll take a look at undeleting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T18:55:57.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2094" CreationDate="2013-10-01T01:25:06.880" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Stack Overflow, being strict with minor edits makes sense because there are more people trying to game for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/badges/49/copy-editor&quot;&gt;Copy Editor Badge&lt;/a&gt;. We only have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;2,245 questions here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aanswer&quot;&gt;8,356 answers&lt;/a&gt; so gaming the badge is far more difficult (it would be a lot more obvious if someone were constantly adding in edits -- our top reviewer only has 120 or so reviews).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the low probability of someone causing a serious burden through overzealous editing, I think we should be a bit more lax. I will accept suggested edits which do any of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make the post clearer (I believe this edit falls into this category)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fix obvious errors in spelling and grammar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adjust tags to fit the question better&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add relevant information from comments to the question/answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will reject edits (or improve and not mark as helpful) that meet the following criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Changing the style of the post without making it clearer (&lt;em&gt;&quot;I strive to perform to my manager's expectations&quot;&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;&quot;I try to do my best&quot;&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adjusting spelling for localization purposes (center to centre, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Changing a single typo when there are obvious other errors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Suggested edits on closed questions (I will usually just vote to delete)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Suggested edits on low-quality questions that are very old and haven't been active recently (I will just vote to close)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically, if the edit is well-intentioned (it makes the post better), even if that is a minor thing like clearing up a few &lt;em&gt;their/there/they're&lt;/em&gt;s, I think it should be encouraged (it is making the site a nicer place). Edits that bump garbage to the top of the queue or seem like an attempt just to get +2 reputation or otherwise pointless should be discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T01:25:06.880" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2094" CreationDate="2013-10-01T23:17:32.323" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the option of rejecting edits as too minor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I worry that a continuous stream of minor edits can cause the question to drift from its original intent, and invalidate perfectly good answers. I think these minor changes also discourage new members from posting questions - particularly if English isn't their primary language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't like us to become the grammar/spelling police. Instead, I think it's wise to focus on content, instead of minor typos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T23:17:32.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2094" CreationDate="2013-10-02T05:18:07.133" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would have approved that edit. As a general rule, edits to improve titles are not considered too minor and should be approved, assuming they significantly improve the ability to draw users and outside visitors to the post. This means the edit to the title should have some meaning. If we're fixing a spelling error or rewording something so it's less confusing, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;approve&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. But if someone is changing a word from one synonym to another synonym of equal quality where the improvement didn't clarify the title, then perhaps a &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;disapprove&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; would be okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But any edit that improves a title should, as a general rule, be approved. Here's why:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only do titles grab our attention, but they play a huge role in SEO. A user searching on Google for &amp;quot;How to be found by headhunters&amp;quot; may not click on the link if it looks unreliable due to major typos, or in this case, wording that just doesn't make a lot of sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A variation of this particular question was also asked on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/96665/typo-edits-in-the-title-to-approve-or-not-to-approve/96666#96666&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, and here's the answer posted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood ♦&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just noticed these were title changes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In titles, I think it is much more important to get key words correct&lt;/strong&gt; -- so in the case of title edits, yes, these are OK and I would approve them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they were trivial body changes, I would be much less supportive of this, per &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/in-defense-of-editing/&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/in-defense-of-editing/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bold emphasis isn't mine. That's all Jeff. SEO is something Stack Exchange considers very important, and our most powerful Stack Exchange feature, the editing feature, is what helps make sure a Google searcher clicks &lt;em&gt;our&lt;/em&gt; link and not someone else's. Hope this helps clarify! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-10-02T05:18:07.133" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2102" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-07T10:02:19.087" Score="3" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TL;DR      I intend to remove answers I don't think are adding value or&#xA;  answers that are suggesting legally or morally dangerous things. Not&#xA;  just because they are downvoted. I'm doing it on a case by case basis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site as a whole has some absolutely fantastic questions and answers and some of the users we have are able to provide phenomenal support for a wide range of topics, as a whole the tone of the community here is very good and seems to be slowly improving!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we are not without our baggage, we do have a number of answers that may be best to remove.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tell-tale signs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tell tale signs of our current 'bad' answers are that they are quite old, a month or two at least, highly down voted, and have usually incited discussion in their comments just because they are sowing discontent in the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't confuse these with good, value adding answers that have been down-voted though. The plan is to remove those that don't add value, not those that are just disagreeable.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Also included in this will be those answers that seem to offer dangerous advice that could land the asker in serious trouble either legally or morally.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?page=170&amp;amp;tab=votes&amp;amp;q=is:answer&quot;&gt;if I select by answers, order by votes, and look at the very last page&lt;/a&gt; we have a good place to begin investigation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Plan&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I plan to be working backwards through these, gradually getting towards the more positively scored answers. I will be trying to do something about every single one of these answers in a push to improve the quality of our answers as a whole. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My efforts will either result in flagging, voting to delete, or leaving a comment where I think the answers are salvageable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How you can help&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those of you with 4k reputation at least you are welcome to join me and help in a few ways. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hopping on the last pages and working backwards like I am&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Going to the review page and checking the delete tool to either agree or disagree with my deletions. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those of you who do not have the 4k rep you can still help by working &lt;em&gt;forwards&lt;/em&gt; rather than backwards. These will be the less down-voted answers that may still be salvageable with an edit, or a polite comment to the original poster. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For answers that I think are on the edge I may bring to meta for discussion, if you wish to help then please do the same and avoid discussions in the comments, either taking them to chat or to meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thankyou in advance, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T14:11:19.797" Title="Deleting answers and improving site quality" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2102" CreationDate="2013-10-07T12:10:00.563" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not all downvoted content should be deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A decently well written answer which is downvoted because the content is disagreeable is not one I'll cast a delete vote on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal philosophy is basically to ask, &quot;does this add value to the site?&quot; - sometimes even if a question or answer is downvoted the answer is yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-10-07T12:10:00.563" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2102" CreationDate="2013-10-07T12:45:36.837" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not all downvoted answers should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoted answers (especially with comments) can add value. They basically say &quot;here is one approach to solving your problem. It's not a good idea; don't do it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/1507/869&quot;&gt;this answer about working for free&lt;/a&gt;. The community generally agrees that it's a bad idea (shown through the downvotes), and there is a comment explaining why. Clearly, the idea occurred to at least one person as a solution to the problem, so it's useful to keep around something refuting that idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than go for deletion of such answers, I'd recommend the first action be to try to add comments to explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it's a bad idea. If that's not a viable option, then deletion may be appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-10-07T12:56:17.523" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2105" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-07T23:37:24.713" Score="5" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2102/deleting-answers-and-improving-site-quality&quot;&gt;Rhys's post on deleting low-value answers&lt;/a&gt;, there were many people who stated that downvoted answers have value themselves (for instance &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2104/7945&quot;&gt;this answer by Jim&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not all downvoted answers should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoted answers (especially with comments) can add value. They&#xA;basically say &amp;quot;here is one approach to solving your problem. It's not&#xA;a good idea; don't do it.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/1507/869&quot;&gt;this answer about working for&#xA;free&lt;/a&gt;. The community&#xA;generally agrees that it's a bad idea (shown through the downvotes),&#xA;and there is a comment explaining why. Clearly, the idea occurred to&#xA;at least one person as a solution to the problem, so it's useful to&#xA;keep around something refuting that idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than go for deletion of such answers, I'd recommend the first&#xA;action be to try to add comments to explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it's a bad idea. If&#xA;that's not a viable option, then deletion may be appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/199827/is-it-okay-to-upvote-someones-questions-so-i-can-speak-with-them-in-chat&quot;&gt;FAQ on Comments on meta.SO&lt;/a&gt; comments are clearly intended to be temporary (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are disposable:&lt;/strong&gt; unlike posts, there's no revision history, and they can be deleted without warning by their authors, by&#xA;moderators, and in response to flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;When should comments be deleted?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;Comments are temporary &amp;quot;Post-It&amp;quot; notes left on a question or&#xA;answer&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;You&#xA;should not expect them to be around forever&lt;/strong&gt;: Once a clarification&#xA;has been made, an edit added to the post to include new information,&#xA;or the issue in the comment is otherwise resolved, it is subject to&#xA;deletion. In reality, many obsolete or chatty comments remain&#xA;untouched due to the high volume of comments posted, but this does not&#xA;mean that they can't or shouldn't be deleted in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I share &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2102/deleting-answers-and-improving-site-quality#comment3203_2104&quot;&gt;gnat's take on things&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that it would be better to have an (upvoted) answer that&#xA;lays out the idea in the impartial tone and follows up with a&#xA;compelling explanation for why it would be bad. If there was such an&#xA;answer, I wouldn't mind deletion of the one that gives a pretty shaky&#xA;&amp;quot;proof by comment and downvotes&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question I want to place to the community is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Are 'Whatever you do, don't...' Answers Appropriate?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/1507/869&quot;&gt;the answer used as an example by David&lt;/a&gt;, would it be appropriate to make an answer saying something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it may seem tempting, do not offer to work for free. Working for free may get your foot in the door, but it will cause the employer to value your work at nothing because you're providing it for free. This will hurt your chances to negotiate with the company for a full-time position&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not answer the question, but it does provide valuable information that is currently hidden in a -7 downvoted answer, and a comment clarifying that the answer is a bad idea. Personally I think that having such an answer would be better than having the downvoted answer as-is, but I wanted to run it by the community first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-10-14T02:42:21.197" Title="Are &quot;Don't do...&quot; Answers Appropriate?" Tags="|discussion|quality|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2105" CreationDate="2013-10-08T01:27:32.020" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 27 answers posted on that particular question, and for every new answer added, that's information that gets drowned out by the noise created by the other answers. Even if that noise is valuable, it's still hard to hear over the noise of all of the other valuable information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, it seems that it may be best to stick to answering the question. While this 27 answer question is an extreme example, if we allow just any information to be posted, we risk taking the focus off the actual answers to the question or even ending up with questions with 10 posts where none of those posts actually answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To some degree, we see this occasionally on some answers, and I feel like we're already pretty lenient when this occurs, letting some slip under the radar as long as they also address the core question. Officially saying, &quot;post whatever you want&quot;, could make it very difficult to moderate a site where the lines may already be a bit subjective and blurry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What helps mark this particular example answer as a bad answer is the number of down votes. If folks want to learn more, there's a comment posted that adds value. But posting an answer that doesn't answer the question, in a network where &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real Questions Have Answers&lt;/a&gt;, somehow seems like it could create more problems than it solves. Here's a small portion of the conveyed message from that blog post: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions should I not ask here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;we are being asked an open-ended, hypothetical question: “What if &lt;strong&gt;__&lt;/strong&gt; happened?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A big part of making a great question is in focusing on great answers. If we let answerers do whatever they want and don't moderate them, then the questions may very well take the brunt of the blame for creating poor quality content. By making sure answerers also follow good subjective practices, we help create great questions we may not have otherwise been able to support.  Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T01:27:32.020" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2107" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-11T21:34:36.167" Score="19" ViewCount="333" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, something happened here where multiple users basically trolled someone asking a question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question itself was not in a format which really fits here, but the users were trolling over issues unrelated to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N7Smy.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following comment chain happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UQNTh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I'm not happy about the fact that multiple people here are ok with basically telling others their legitimately stressful situation is &quot;whining&quot; and grow up because they are more awesome than them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However this all happened very quickly, over less than an hour. I flagged the question with a description of what was going on (at least from my perspective, perhaps I am off base here, but this seems like behavior which should NOT be tolerated on this site towards any user, let alone new users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this response appropriate - or is there a more appropriate response?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-03-30T12:59:08.427" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T12:59:08.427" Title="How should hostility like this be handled or escalated?" Tags="|discussion|trolling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2107" CreationDate="2013-10-12T05:29:47.617" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was pretty disappointed in reading those comments, but I'm also hopeful they're isolated incidents from people who, for whatever reason, might just be having a bad day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People who are successful -- the real experts -- don't need to belittle others in order to feel better about themselves, and I'm hoping that new users who visit our site understand that when people boast about how great they are, it's because there's an area in their own lives that's really lacking and that this is just someone trying to make up for their own insecurities in some other area of their lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The really truly successful people, those who are truly happy with how their lives and careers have turned out, don't need to respond with such hostility, just because someone else may not physically be able to handle the same amount of stress that they did. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line is that we're trying to build a resource of knowledge to help people become more successful in the workplace.  Rudeness, belittling comments, and participating only with the goal of making others feel bad is contrary to that goal and has no place here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all have our strengths and our weaknesses, even hardened military veterans who worked 50 hours a week and dug holes and cleaned rifles while studying for exams are weak at &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt;. We all also have good days and bad days and are humans who make mistakes, but what we can do is this:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you're having a bad day, before you post a comment, read it a couple times and put yourself in the shoes of the other person. Try to look at the world through their eyes.  Think about something that you're not good at and imagine what it might feel like if someone better than you at that thing treated you the way you're about to treat this other person. None of us are good at everything, and if someone were to take a good long hard look, they can find our faults too.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's remember that the sole reason this site exists is to help the people coming from search engines who  have real, actual problems. Without them, we don't have a site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for what to do when you see something like this happening, here's what you can do:  When in doubt, flagging is usually the best option. You can flag a comment, or if the entire conversation has degraded you can also flag the post and use the Other (needs ♦ moderator attention) option. Our goal is to simply diffuse the situation and create a great site for asking and answering workplace questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-10-12T18:50:21.950" LastActivityDate="2013-10-12T18:50:21.950" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1884" CreationDate="2013-10-15T07:41:39.727" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Executive Summary&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did a bit of number crunching, comparing us to other beta sites, and the non-beta sites to see where we stand on the numbers showed &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites#questions&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. The categories I looked at are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions (Total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers (Total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users (Total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Visits/Day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions/Day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions, we are behind all non-beta sites. For answers we beat Skeptics, and are neck and neck with Theoretical Computer Science. For users we beat Mathematica, Bicycles, Travel, RPGs, Christianity, and Mi Yodeya. For visits we beat UX, RPGs, Mathematica, On Startups, Mi Yodeya, and Theoretical Computer Science (we are neck and neck with Travel and Bicycles). For questions per day we beat Bicycles, Theoretical Computer Science, OnStartups, and Skeptics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, I think we are getting mighty close as we are pulling in line with non-beta sites in almost every category, and have a very significant audience compared with many non-beta sites. If we keep providing valuable information for visitors, I think we will find ourselves with a non-default theme &lt;strong&gt;soon&lt;sup&gt;TM&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Additional Info on Close Ratio&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did a bit more analysis based on gnat's comment below. I looked at the following sites for ratio of closed questions both in the past month, and total, and compared it to our site. Here are the results (last month questions / last month closed / last month closed %, total questions / total closed / total closed %):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Travel&lt;/strong&gt; ( 223 / 56 / 25.1% ; 5,185 / 654 / 12.6% )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mi Yodeya&lt;/strong&gt; ( 234 / 14 / 6.0% ; 8,728 / 446 / 5.1% )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Workplace&lt;/strong&gt; ( 157 / 66 / 42.0% ; 2,318 / 566 / 24.4% )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bicycles&lt;/strong&gt; ( 121 / 11 / 9.1% ; 3,791 / 165 / 4.4% )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Theoretical Computer Science&lt;/strong&gt; ( 150 / 14 / 9.3% ; 4,859 / 207 / 4.3% )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers OnStartups&lt;/strong&gt; ( 115 / 27 / 23.5% ; 9,874 / 579 / 5.9% )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skeptics&lt;/strong&gt; ( 91 / 22 / 24.2% ; 4,049 / 367 / 9.1% )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have dramatically more closed questions than any non-beta site ratio-wise, both recently and overall. Because of the topic (and the urge for people to ask for personalized advice) this may be avoidable, but in the meantime we can continue to work on deleting closed questions (or at least voting them down so they will be auto-deleted), and editing salvageable questions and reopening them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is how we rank among the beta sites in each category. If you want to do your own analysis, I have a CSV dump at the bottom of this answer (it ain't perfect, numbers are rounded, blah blah blah).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Questions&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rank: 25/65&#xA;Total: 2.3k&#xA;Lowest in Non-Beta sites: 3.8k (Bicycles)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Since &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/200252/how-are-the-questions-per-day-calculated&quot;&gt;it seems deleted questions aren't counted&lt;/a&gt;, ironically our efforts in cleaning things up may be hurting our raw numbers here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Answers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rank: 8/65&#xA;Total: 8.5k&#xA;Lowest in Non-Beta sites: 5.5k (Skeptics)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Users&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rank: 3/65&#xA;Total: 8.5k&#xA;Lowest in Non-Beta sites: 2.5k (Mi Yodeya)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Visits/Day&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rank: 6/65&#xA;Total: 7.8k&#xA;Lowest in Non-Beta sites: 1.7k (Theoretical Computer Science)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Questions/Day&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rank: 16/65&#xA;Total: 5.6&#xA;Lowest in Non-Beta sites: 3.3 (Skeptics)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Data Dump&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Site,Beta?,Q,A,% A,Users,Visits,Q/Day,Age;&#xA;Stack Overflow,0,5900000,11000000,0.77,2400000,6000000,7100,5y3m;&#xA;Mathematics,0,185000,284000,0.84,83000,94000,456,3y3m;&#xA;Ask Ubuntu,0,121000,156000,0.69,147000,285000,195,3y3m;&#xA;Super User,0,191000,321000,0.76,199000,501000,182,4y3m;&#xA;Server Fault,0,160000,298000,0.82,141000,198000,98,4y6m;&#xA;TeX - LaTeX,0,48000,71000,0.97,33000,53000,63,3y3m;&#xA;WordPress Answers,0,37000,51000,0.8,30000,26000,52,3y2m;&#xA;Unix &amp;amp; Linux,0,30000,53000,0.86,43000,62000,50,3y2m;&#xA;Drupal Answers,0,31000,40000,0.72,17000,22000,47,2y7m;&#xA;Physics,0,24000,41000,0.87,23000,22000,46,2y11m;&#xA;Meta Stack Overflow,0,57000,96000,0.88,90000,8500,46,4y4m;&#xA;Cross Validated,0,27000,33000,0.71,24000,22000,45,3y3m;&#xA;Geographic Information Systems,0,25000,36000,0.79,18000,20000,43,3y3m;&#xA;Arqade,0,35000,62000,0.94,39000,237000,42,3y3m;&#xA;English Language &amp;amp; Usage,0,28000,76000,1,40000,118000,40,3y2m;&#xA;MathOverflow,0,44000,80000,0.8,28000,17000,38,4y1m;&#xA;Ask Different,0,32000,53000,0.78,45000,119000,37,3y2m;&#xA;Electrical Engineering,0,21000,44000,0.93,22000,27000,35,3y1m;&#xA;Programmers,0,28000,115000,0.98,89000,49000,31,3y1m;&#xA;SharePoint,0,29000,39000,0.68,14000,28000,31,2y6m;&#xA;Android Enthusiasts,0,17000,23000,0.74,34000,65000,23,3y1m;&#xA;Database Administrators,0,17000,26000,0.88,24000,32000,22,2y9m;&#xA;Mathematica,0,11000,18000,0.9,8200,5000,20,1y9m;&#xA;Game Development,0,17000,33000,0.9,30000,15000,18,3y3m;&#xA;Information Security,0,10000,25000,0.98,27000,22000,17,2y11m;&#xA;Web Applications,0,13000,19000,0.81,35000,55000,14,3y4m;&#xA;Home Improvement,0,8600,17000,0.92,12000,29000,12,3y3m;&#xA;Webmasters,0,14000,26000,0.94,24000,11000,12,3y3m;&#xA;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy,0,11000,22000,0.95,15000,19000,8.3,2y9m;&#xA;User Experience,0,9300,30000,0.99,28000,7400,8.3,3y2m;&#xA;Photography,0,9200,26000,0.99,16000,16000,8.1,3y3m;&#xA;Christianity,0,4100,10000,0.99,4300,11000,7.4,2y2m;&#xA;Travel,0,5200,10000,0.99,7200,7900,7.3,2y4m;&#xA;Mi Yodeya,0,8700,16000,0.89,2500,1900,6.9,2y5m;&#xA;Seasoned Advice,0,8400,23000,0.99,14000,61000,6.2,3y3m;&#xA;Role-playing Games,0,5800,18000,1,6400,5300,6,3y2m;&#xA;The Workplace,1,2300,8500,1,8500,7800,5.6,1y6m;&#xA;Bicycles,0,3800,12000,0.98,7500,7800,5,3y2m;&#xA;Theoretical Computer Science,0,4900,8600,0.81,14000,1700,4.9,3y2m;&#xA;Answers OnStartups,0,9800,30000,0.98,18000,3800,3.6,3y1m;&#xA;Skeptics,0,4000,5500,0.86,11000,15000,3.3,2y8m;&#xA;Ask Patents,0,722,1700,0.87,4500,1200,1.7,1y1m;&#xA;Stack Apps,0,1600,1800,0.69,14000,458,0.5,3y7m;&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T23:59:31.887" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2102" CreationDate="2013-10-15T14:11:19.797" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be worth removing answers who blindly assume that the question relates to the US with out looking at the questions locale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On example is this the top answer for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15028/what-kind-of-activities-are-allowed-if-your-job-contract-prohibits-any-other-occ&quot;&gt;What kind of activities are allowed if your job contract prohibits any other occupation or business?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which starts quoting Minnesota law and IRS guidelines which have absolutely zero relevance to the Question which is about UK employment contracts  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10870" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T14:11:19.797" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="312" CreationDate="2013-10-17T02:22:52.263" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;For people struggling to perform their civic duty, here are a few queries that may help:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aquestion+views%3A1000+score%3A..3+closed%3Ano&quot;&gt;Open Questions with over 1000 views and Scores Less than 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that haven't been closed and have over 1000 views are useful (or at least easy to find). There are less than 500 questions with over 1000 views, so we should make sure that they are good representatives of our site. If they are poor quality, we should edit them in to form, or close them. If they are good quality, we should vote them up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aanswer+isaccepted%3Ayes+score%3A..3&quot;&gt;Open Questions with a Score Less than 3 with an Accepted Answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that have an accepted answer show that the asker found one of the answers useful. If the answer is not of good enough quality to upvote, it should be brought in to line with quality guidelines or downvoted (with better answers upvoted as well). If it is good enough, then it should be upvoted immediately (ditto with the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=answers%3A10+is%3Aquestion+score%3A10+closed%3Ano&quot;&gt;Open Questions Scored Better than 10 with more than 10 answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions with 10 answers probably have some good answers, and some bad answers. You can help this process along to make the good answers more visible, and the bad answers hidden away at the bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-10-17T06:42:23.493" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-10-17T02:22:52.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2113" CreationDate="2013-10-21T09:22:18.057" Score="7" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/15181/3192&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/15181/3192&lt;/a&gt; does not belong here, and could be migrated to StackOverflow or Programmers.SE. (I am not implying that the question is good enough to be asked there.) However, when I flag the question and suggest migrating it, the only option I find is the migrate it to this meta site. Is this because I do not have sufficient reputation, or this is how the site is designed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T18:48:09.580" Title="How can we migrate questions to other SE sites?" Tags="|support|migration|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2112" CreationDate="2013-10-21T14:18:42.027" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The list of potential migration destinations is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/96345/167443&quot;&gt;intentionally limited&lt;/a&gt;, and is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/79960/when-voting-to-migrate-an-off-topic-question-why-is-the-list-of-sites-limited/79961?noredirect=1#comment643718_79961&quot;&gt;controlled by the development team&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think another site would be appropriate, flag using the &quot;other&quot; reason and explain. Moderators have the ability to migrate anywhere (doesn't mean it &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; get migrated, but we will look into it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T18:48:09.580" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2112" CreationDate="2013-10-22T03:00:05.860" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Don't Migrate Crap&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is Rule #1 of Migrations &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/89169/please-just-close-garbage-questions-instead-of-moving-them-to-programmers-se/89171#89171&quot;&gt;as stated by Jeff Atwood Himself&lt;/a&gt;. This question is horrid, and should not be migrated as it is not appropriate for any site in the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is not crap, then feel free to flag as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2113/7945&quot;&gt;stated by Jim&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T03:00:05.860" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-22T17:38:58.810" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15121/what-are-the-common-risks-when-working-for-an-it-consultancy&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; about working for a consultancy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are certain consultancy firms which employ their consultants at client location as contractors. I believe there are certain risks and disadvantages to this approach that the candidate should be aware of and plan to mitigate. I strongly believe the answers and this question are not opinion based. There are certain facts also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, consultancies generally work on corp to corp contracts. They charge client more and they pay less after their margins. So your expectations from the client is more than what you get paid. If you are an immigrant worker they hold your VISA and hence it has its own risks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are certain risks that I am aware of. I believe the above question is not opinion based. People who believe it is opinion based, can you please explain why and how? If you agree with me, please vote to reopen the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19430" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T08:06:46.590" Title="Why is the question about risks for working for a consultancy closed as opinion based?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2115" CreationDate="2013-10-23T08:06:46.590" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you originally &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/conversation/discussion-between-bvr-and-jmac&quot;&gt;asked in chat&lt;/a&gt;, I pointed you to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1524/what-is-the-difference-between-freelancer-and-contractor&quot;&gt;What is the difference between freelancer and contractor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was upvoted and had useful answers, so I thought that asking a similar question about switching from full-time salaried employee to contractor would be good (since we amazingly don't seem to have one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead it looked like you were asking, &lt;em&gt;&quot;I heard that consultants aren't great to work for, what do you think?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; The question changed from what I anticipated was going to be one describing the difference in roles/responsibilities, to one polling for opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I voted to close as &lt;em&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T08:06:46.590" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2117" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2118" CreationDate="2013-10-28T16:53:02.587" Score="3" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've come to realize that StackExchange is not the right place for my question and I want to close it (I have voted close already). I don't want to delete it though, because I think the responses and reactions to my question are valuable nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thing is, I can't find an option to actively close the question. Is it intended that I can't do that, or am I just too blind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10912" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T17:00:07.350" Title="I want to close my question, why can't I do that?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2117" CreationDate="2013-10-28T17:00:07.350" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It takes 5 votes from the community (or one from a moderator) to close a question. You can vote to close your own question, but that's just one of the needed votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question has close votes (or has been flagged for closure by a user without enough reputation to actually vote to close), it appears in the &quot;Close Votes&quot; review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T17:00:07.350" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2119" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-30T04:09:51.580" Score="7" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/5839&quot;&gt;This suggested edit&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/11101/mihai-nicolae&quot;&gt;Mihai Nicolae&lt;/a&gt; was more appropriate as a meta post, so I am adding the content of the edit here for discussion by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was regarding the question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15365/is-a-complex-test-which-benefits-the-company-an-ethical-practice&quot;&gt;Is a complex test which benefits the company an ethical practice?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please reopen this question, as it falls in the general category of &quot;Is X ethical?&quot; questions. Of course, discussions about ethics, thus philosophy, will always be surrounded by presumably opinion-based answers, but denying this category of questions would be unfortunate: no question related to workplace ethics would be allowed. And if you can't talk about workplace ethics on a site about workplace, then a lot is lost from the beginning. Moreover, I believe I can provide rigorous arguments in order to support my choice. Of course, even mathematics starts from axioms, but I will state the &quot;axiom&quot; in my answer.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T13:31:23.137" Title="Ethical Questions Should be Allowed" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|closed-questions|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2119" CreationDate="2013-10-30T06:18:55.480" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Putting aside the discussions of ethics, let's look beneath the surface at what the question is really about and also ask ourselves if this question meets the broad guidelines of a good subjective question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers to this question so far are opinion based, but many contain detailed explanations to help support those viewpoints.  What's more, the question meets the following six subjective guidelines from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; blog post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Great subjective questions inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the answers provide explanations for why interviewers may be administering such practices. At least one of the answers I read offers some input on how to tell if you're being taken advantage of -- how to tell the difference between an employer's evaluation and an employer taking advantage of free labor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Great subjective questions tend to have long, not short, answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the answers go into great detail and are quite thorough. There are a few short ones that could probably be improved, but overall most of the answers appear helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Great subjective questions have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question presents a real, actual problem the asker faces or has faced. There's no ranting, flamebait, or attempts to create debate or argument. Multiple viewpoints are presented in answers, and again, some of the answers teach the audience how to catch fish and avoids just giving them fish. We see this in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/15371/98&quot;&gt;Alex N.'s answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Great subjective questions invite sharing experiences over opinions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No actual references are used in any answers, but experience definitely plays a role in The Workplace. At least two answers include personal experiences that satisfy our site's back it up rule. Most certainly, some good edits could help other answers meet this guideline as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. Great subjective questions insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've agreed that answers can be backed with experiences that happened to us personally.  Some of the answers &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; need to be improved in this area. We can use comments to tease these out of answerers, and then edit them back into the posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. Great subjective questions are more than just mindless social fun.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question's topic is of a very serious nature, and it's one that I picture many interviewees worry about. Under the hood, the question is really about fairness and equality. Is the technique of using a real project to evaluate a candidate fair to that candidate? Is it taking unfair advantage of that person?  What does this tell us about the company's culture? These are surely expert level questions, yet they flirt heavily with the boundaries of our site's Q&amp;amp;A model, and they're quite subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know subjectivity isn't always a bad thing, and looking at the six subjective guidelines from the blog post, it seems this question could very well have a home here. We should strongly reconsider reopening the post with the understanding that all of the answers must support these six guidelines. It's not just the question-asker's responsibility to create great Stack Exchange content; that responsibility also belongs to the answerers and editors as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T06:18:55.480" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2119" CreationDate="2013-10-30T11:49:48.720" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was unable to find a proper duplicate, only marginally related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the author of the question, here is my (personal, subjective) input regarding ethics and questions arguing ethics. I find all of them subjective since I don't think objective morality exists. The notions of morally right and morally wrong always lead to large and complex battles especially because moral disagreements are rarely rationally resolvable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree that this is a subjective question implied by the ethics matter, I tried to phrase it as objectively as possible as to cover more general notions (interview - unpaid test - company benefit). If my unrefined English skills have led to misunderstanding the question as a totally subjective question, I would appreciate rephrasing assistance from a native English speaker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After my thorough search on &quot;workplace&quot;, I found no proper answers (or duplicate questions), so I believe that this question adds value to the community since it represents common practice and situations that many people have confronted before. Just rephrase it if you don't like it :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11086" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T11:49:48.720" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2119" CreationDate="2013-10-30T13:31:23.137" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close and would argue to keep it closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this practice ethical, developing your company software using candidate testing? I have recently declined to solve the test, I'm trying to figure out if I exaggerated / overreacted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see an actual, practical question here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead it is effectively asking, &quot;hey what do you all think about having developers do tests to benefit the company?&quot; - there is no definitive question other than this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the answers are naturally &quot;here is what I think on this!&quot;  This of course makes sense since there is no real practical question or problem so all you are going to get is people's thoughts on the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T13:31:23.137" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="448" CreationDate="2013-10-31T02:01:01.143" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really want to see this happen now that &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/10/podcast-53-lets-go-rio/?cb=1&quot;&gt;we were featured on the SE podcast&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And now, this week’s &lt;strong&gt;Featured Site:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;The&#xA;  Workplace&lt;/a&gt;. It’s still in beta,&#xA;  and we don’t usually talk about betas in our featured site segment,&#xA;  but this site is especially interesting because its answers are much&#xA;  less factual than most other sites… and yet it’s still successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9283/how-can-i-tell-people-to-get-to-the-point&quot;&gt;Get to the point!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1963/how-do-i-deal-with-difficult-but-talented-employees&quot;&gt;How do I deal with difficult but talented employees?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  is relevant to David’s daily work life.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;There’s some good information on workplace transitions. Joel says it’s a self-help group for commiserating. Jay disagrees!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;a href=&quot;https://trello.com/c/YmnLHNv0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;added a draft of a blog post&lt;/a&gt; explaining the difference between a Good Subjective question and a Great Question. I would appreciate anyone willing to review/edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also like to hear about &lt;a href=&quot;https://trello.com/c/GlJlsHO7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;how the Workplace has helped Rhys' Career Development&lt;/a&gt;, and I think that several users could share some great information &lt;a href=&quot;https://trello.com/c/1rvKqaq1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;on the three biggest mistakes they've made in their career&lt;/a&gt;. I would also love to see one of our more experienced Workplace Experts write on &lt;a href=&quot;https://trello.com/c/IN3ylH30&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Advice to New Hires&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am more than happy to contribute multiple articles, or to edit any articles that need reviewing -- this would definitely be a positive thing to have with the increased exposure, and allow us to tackle some topics that may be useful to a broader audience but not great for individual questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-10-31T02:01:01.143" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2124" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-02T22:29:45.823" Score="4" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the ideas for blog articles involves highlighting people whom we've helped. While there are multiple approaches to this, such as the contributor blogging him or herself about the experience, another approach involves interviewing the beneficiary and then writing a blog article with those questions in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we certainly want to give the blog author and beneficiary the freedom to talk about the points that they feel are most important, what are some basic questions we should cover or that may help get the ball rolling?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T10:03:22.803" Title="If someone were to interview a Workplace SE user for a blog article highlighting how we've helped them, what basic questions would we cover?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2124" CreationDate="2013-11-05T00:27:26.293" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Executive Summary&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the interview should cover 4 general topics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Background of the person&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pre-Workplace Experience&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What brought them to The Workplace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How The Workplace Helped&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should present someone the audience can relate to, explain where they were when they joined, cover why they joined, and explain how joining helped them. While the interview should go in that order (because people are better chronologically), if writing in a non-interview format it is probably better to tell a story based on what the answers are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Background&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My favorite interviews are the ones where the interviewee is shown first and foremost as a person I can relate to (or at least understand). Actions in a vacuum are boring and can sound contrived, so we should get a sense of who the person is first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some sample questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you were going to explain what you do to an elementary school kid, how would you describe your job?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What did you study in school?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What made you want to study that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you were in elementary school, did you ever imagine you would be doing what you do now?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What generation do you identify with?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is your passion outside of work (or is your work your passion)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, get a brief idea of the person, who they are, what they want to be, and what makes them tick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Pre-Workplace&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before explaining how the Workplace helped, we should understand where the interviewee was before joining the Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some sample questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where were you in your career (schooling) when you joined the Workplace?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What (if anything) were you doing to further your career (5-year plan, etc.)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How long did you see yourself staying in that job?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you had to describe your situation in one word, what would it be and why?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace could make people change their long-term plans, or look at their current job differently, or just keep everything the same save their attitude about their current situation. We should get an idea of where they were so we can see where they've changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Joining The Workplace&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should know how they found the site, how they use the site, and what they think we can do to make it even better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sample Questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When did you start participating in The Workplace?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What made you take the plunge?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What part of the Workplace has helped you the most (others' questions, others' answers, answering myself, asking myself, chat, etc.)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After joining, what areas do you think the Workplace still has room to improve?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Post-Workplace&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now that they've participated, how did it actually help them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sample Questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How has the Workplace changed your perspective on your career?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is your long-term plan now?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you think the Workplace has a role in helping you achieve those goals moving forward too?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Revisiting the same people in the future, and comparing what they thought with what they did would be interesting too. But for now let's just get an idea of where they plan to go, and how they plan to get there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-11-05T00:27:26.293" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-11-05T00:27:26.293" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2126" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2129" CreationDate="2013-11-06T22:58:55.973" Score="21" ViewCount="1015" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe we have a user posting questions based on the plots of soap operas that are not broadcast in the US or Europe.  Several of the questions have been popular though not really believable.  Is there anything we can/should do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a green light for me to post questions as though I were Leroy Jethro Gibbs, or maybe McGee?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T18:45:19.160" Title="Should anything be done about a user posting fake questions" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2126" CreationDate="2013-11-07T00:53:19.647" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1932/437&quot;&gt;@Michael Grubey's appeal&lt;/a&gt;. Then consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2126/should-anything-be-done-about-a-user-posting-fake-questions#comment3287_2126&quot;&gt;@NickC's comment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I write, &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/30887/the-workplace&quot;&gt;Beta.Workplace.SE&lt;/a&gt; is currently trending at a mere 4.7 questions per day. &lt;strike&gt;This is unacceptable. At this rate, the site will never graduate.&lt;/strike&gt; We need good questions! If you see a workplace dilemma in a movie or a book, then consider submitting a representative question to Beta.Workplace.SE. You can submit it with either your &quot;normal&quot; Workplace account or a throwaway account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, please consider what &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/98/jmort253&quot;&gt;@jmort253&lt;/a&gt; had to say about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1825/437&quot;&gt;taking the &quot;real problem&quot; standard too literally&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While it's quite possible this is not a real, actual problem the asker is facing, we shouldn't take this too literally; it is a real, actual problem someone might likely face or perhaps a problem the asker may have even faced in the past or will face in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2013-11-07T12:41:07.140" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2126" CreationDate="2013-11-07T02:47:47.780" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Executive Summary&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good question is a good question. As long as the questions follow the site guidelines and are &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;practical, answerable questions based on actual problems&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; I think they should be welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Wait, you left something out!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, the actual phrase from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; is: &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems &lt;strong&gt;that you face.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; I left out the last part above because it isn't relevant to whether or not a question is good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, I had no need to update my resume when I asked this question, but with nearly 50,000 views over the past 8 months, I would hope that asking it made the internet a better place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10006/how-should-i-indicate-language-proficiency-on-my-resume&quot;&gt;How Should I Indicate Language Proficiency on my Resume?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The Big Picture&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions are meant to frame a problem. Whether or not it is framed based on a circumstance I think I'll have in the future, one I had in the past, one that my friend had, or yes, even one from a soap opera, so long as the problem being framed is practical and answerable based on problems people actually face, it should be welcome here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, let's say I'm a manager, and I see two members of another group having a row over some issue. Their manager handles the issue in a top-down style, but I think it could have been handled between the two members themselves (and that the other manager was premature in acting). If that person posts a question saying, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;When should inter-personal conflicts be brought to a manager?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; despite it not being an actual problem they are currently facing, we should encourage it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not our responsibility to determine the veracity of a problem being relevant to the person asking, only to decide if the problem is practical and properly framed so that it will get good answers and provide value to future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;So we should all post soap-opera based questions?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only if you think it's a good practical and answerable question that people will likely face. Asking &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How can I deal with my father's first wife marrying my boss while I'm having an affair with him?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; should probably be closed in a heartbeat. But if you're watching a Law &amp;amp; Order episode about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Code_of_Silence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;'Blue Code of Silence'&lt;/a&gt; and decide to ask, &amp;quot;What is my responsibility to report someone taking responsibility for the mistakes of a coworker?&amp;quot; you may help the many people out there dealing with that type of situation if you frame the question well (using the episode as inspiration for the concept, rather than the details).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Common Sense + Community Moderation = Success&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use common sense, and trust in community moderation. So much of what we do falls under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I know it when I see it&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; principle that a blanket ban is probably going to prevent some good along with potential abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are specific concerns with a particular user making strings of questionable questions (based on soap operas or otherwise), flag them for a moderator to handle if it is causing the quality of the site to suffer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/vote-early-vote-often/&quot;&gt;Vote Early and Vote Often&lt;/a&gt;, and help shape our community with feedback on top of that moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-11-07T02:47:47.780" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2126" CreationDate="2013-11-07T03:02:41.087" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is possible that someone might post a question about a problem that they aren't personally facing. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But I don't recommend it unless it's based on a real problem.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; I have seen this done before, but it's incredibly rare and difficult to pull off without there just being something &lt;em&gt;off&lt;/em&gt; about the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steer clear of fake problems&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to workplace problems derived from soap operas, comedies, or other forms of entertainment, the problems faced are entirely fictional, grossly overdramatized, or don't accurately reflect a situation that would present itself in the real world. The only exception might be documentaries or works based on non-fiction. To allow such questions on our site might cross a line that may do more harm than good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you believe a question is actively harmful to the site, please flag it using the &lt;strong&gt;other (needs ♦ moderator attention)&lt;/strong&gt; flag option, and describe the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;A Problem doesn't have to be yours, if you're careful!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this doesn't necessarily mean the question has to be &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; problem, it should just be a &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; problem. Here's something &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood ♦&lt;/a&gt; told the Project Management SE community during their early days to &lt;a href=&quot;https://pm.meta.stackexchange.com/a/154/34&quot;&gt;help attract more experts to their site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Invite notable bloggers to weigh in on 'best of' interesting PM questions. &amp;quot;We're not sure how to answer {question link}, do you have any advice?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ask PM questions on their behalf. If they write a blog entry or ask something (on their blog, twitter, or facebook) that contains a question -- actual or implied -- post it as a question here. Wait and see what kind of response it gets, then bring it to their attention. &amp;quot;I thought you brought up a really interesting question, and it got some interesting answers here {question link}.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/04/helping-the-experts-get-answers/&quot;&gt;Helping The Experts Get Answers&lt;/a&gt; for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Health/Stats of The Workplace SE&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for our site's health, take a look at this Area 51 snapshot &lt;strong&gt;taken just &lt;em&gt;six&lt;/em&gt; months ago on May 6th, 2013&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hj351.png&quot; alt=&quot;May 6, 2013&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In May, our stats showed 2,909 visits per day. However, fast forward to today, &lt;strong&gt;November 6, 2013&lt;/strong&gt;, and you can see we have a &lt;strong&gt;whopping 8,028 visits per day!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2rIEy.png&quot; alt=&quot;November 6, 2013&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With such phenomenal growth, this means that &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;what we're doing is working! People are using our site as a resource&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, and we even &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2123/98&quot;&gt;have people with success stories to tell&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last thing we want to do right now is trade our quality for quantity and try to game the system, especially when our community has worked so hard to create such a great resource of knowledge that is actually helping people be more successful in their careers!  Let's keep doing what we're doing, and look out for more Workplace SE success stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-11-07T04:06:02.057" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2126" CreationDate="2013-11-07T10:06:59.443" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not really believable&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, above indicates a problem, no matter if the question was copied from plot or not. When I sense it, this is usually a good reason to vote down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, in addition, I can spot and spell what exactly feels &lt;em&gt;not really believable&lt;/em&gt;, it's a clear case to add a comment asking to clarify it and cast a close vote / &quot;Unclear&quot; (of course, assuming further reopen after asker adds a satisfactory clarification).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see, it looks more productive to focus on &quot;unbelievable&quot; aspects of the problematic questions. Vote these down and close appropriately - which will in turn (not coincidentally) inhibit undeserved popularity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; the original plot happens to be sufficiently realistic and detailed for a real question, and &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; asker will be able to reproduce it correctly, so be it. Unless of course asker reveals enough details to let one discover a source plot - which would make a case to flag / meta complaint about &lt;em&gt;unattributed copying&lt;/em&gt; and quite likely even a good reason for deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastActivityDate="2013-11-07T10:06:59.443" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2126" CreationDate="2013-11-07T11:36:24.387" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a simple question to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Does a posted question benefit Workplace.SE?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes, then I'm ok with the question. If no, then I'm not. The problem with many of these &quot;soap opera&quot; types of questions are that on the whole they negatively affect Workplace.SE in my opinion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really have no problems with questions not being real so long as they are good for the Workplace overall, which means they are on topic and appropriately scoped for the site, containing a real question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(note that most soap opera questions we've seen here have been &quot;tell me what to do I'm not sure what my problem is!&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-11-07T11:36:24.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2132" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-07T15:30:14.453" Score="7" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/12056064#12056064&quot;&gt;this comment by @jmac&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;...I have a long-standing bias for jargon-filled software industry questions that really ask a simple general question like, &quot;My boss can't stick to his own project plan. How can I convince him to stop moving the goal posts?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prima_facie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Prima facie&lt;/a&gt;, I view &lt;code&gt;&quot;How can I convince Person 'X' to do 'Y'?&quot;&lt;/code&gt; questions with suspicion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each question assumes that doing 'Y' is widely considered a good thing to do. In many cases, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13359/how-do-i-encourage-co-workers-to-recycle#comment32222_13359&quot;&gt;this is a false assumption&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many times, the OP is just looking to feed his/her &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;confirmation bias&lt;/a&gt;, and he/she will actively refuse any answers which contradict it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Changing someone's mind is often &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/13294/437&quot;&gt;&quot;a very difficult thing to do&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's my question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are &quot;How can I convince Person 'X' to do 'Y'?&quot; questions a good fit for TWP?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T02:41:48.020" Title="Are &quot;How can I convince Person 'X' to do 'Y'?&quot; questions a good fit for TWP?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2133" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2144" CreationDate="2013-11-08T02:20:21.350" Score="9" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/opportunity&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/opportunity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason to keep this super generic tag around?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see it no where, not now here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:56:28.700" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:56:28.700" Title="Opportunity is nowhere" Tags="|discussion|tags|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2132" CreationDate="2013-11-08T02:41:48.020" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Executive Summary&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How do I get X to do Y&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; question format is definitely not always an issue, take this very successful question for instance: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/450/how-can-i-encourage-a-culture-of-punctuality-in-a-software-company&quot;&gt;How can I encourage a culture of punctuality in a software company?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue is what the X and Y are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;X as Boss vs. X as Subordinates&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are a boss, it is your job to get people to do stuff. If you can't, that is a serious issue that definitely has a place being discussed here. You also have a lot more leeway to actually do something about it if your subordinates aren't doing what they need to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reverse often falls in to one of the pitfalls on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;don't ask page of the help center&lt;/a&gt;, namely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;your question is just a rant in disguise: “______ sucks, am I right?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if it does fall in to that pitfall (as many questions often do), we should comment, close, and/or aggressively edit the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Y as Do Their Duty vs. Y as Do What I Want&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are talking about someone doing what they are supposed to do (come in on time, give a promised raise, manage a problem in the office if a boss, etc.), then the question is far more likely to have value. Many of these things are virtually common sense requests that unfortunately are also commonly ignored by the people who should do them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you want someone to do whatever you think should be done, you tend to fall in to the same traps as before listed on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;don't ask page of the help center&lt;/a&gt;, namely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;your question is just a rant in disguise: “______ sucks, am I right?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Examples&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How do I convince my employees to come to team meetings on time?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Boss to Employee + Common Sense)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How do I convince my employees to fill out TPS reports?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Decent question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Boss to Employee + Not So Common Sense)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How do I convince my boss to support training new team members?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Decent question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Employee to Boss + Common Sense)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How do I convince my boss to put me in charge of decision-making?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Employee to Boss + Not So Common Sense)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T02:41:48.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2124" CreationDate="2013-11-08T10:03:22.803" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;One finds that the people that show up here are often in a state of crisis. One finds people watching their employer go bust, their project fold, their co-workers bailing out, their co-workers driving them crazy, etc. So the first sentence has to convey the 'motivator' - why someone came here with a request for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is 'self-help' stuff all over the place. Since much of what goes on here is related to software development, this is 'developers talking to developers'.  In that respect some advice is unique - it's also interesting in that in some professions there are people that would refuse to ask for help in public forums - medical practitioners being the most likely.  They might find that the answers here help, even though we aren't putting it in their context.  The points of materiality are relatively high incomes, various combinations of advanced training and years of experience, and complex situations - particularly those with ethical considerations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It more or less goes without saying that many of the initial questions are badly composed. The feedback on this helps the poster explain what they want - good in itself - as well as lead them to a resolution. Thus a blog interview should invite the person to explain how the cycle of questions and answers shaped their thinking and understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9517" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T10:03:22.803" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2139" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-08T12:04:15.003" Score="9" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to feel that I am helping others by providing answers to questions and situations that are bothering them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to write conversationally. When helping people in person, I usually end by wishing them luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, when I write &quot;Good luck&quot; in an answer here, for some reason it is often edited out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that? What is the value in editing out an honest wish for the questioner? How does removing the phrase &quot;Good luck&quot; make this a better community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T16:00:48.707" Title="Is it necessary to edit out the phrase &quot;Good luck&quot; from answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2139" CreationDate="2013-11-08T12:06:34.833" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might be interested in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2950/should-hi-thanks-taglines-and-salutations-be-removed-from-posts&quot;&gt;this post from the main SE site meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Particularly &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/203727/193412&quot;&gt;this answer on a question which is a duplicate&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T12:06:34.833" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2141" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-08T14:16:07.033" Score="3" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are questions related to benefits in the U.S. too localized? For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why do employers typically offer health plan x vs. y?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I convince my employer to offer health plan z?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4547" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T15:17:40.107" Title="Are U.S. health benefit questions too localized?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2141" CreationDate="2013-11-08T15:17:40.107" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, don't get too hung up on &lt;em&gt;location&lt;/em&gt; for the too localized close reason, as it's not about location. In fact, &lt;em&gt;this is why that close reason has been removed from the list.&lt;/em&gt; Too localized is more about how many people would be likely to have the same problem as you, and when you measure the number of people in &lt;em&gt;millions&lt;/em&gt;, it's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; too localized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first question is actually more broad and overly speculative than localized. It's the exact opposite. Employers do things for a wide variety of reasons that are not publicly available knowledge, and this doesn't seem like something that can be answered without opinion only. There's also no problem to be solved here,  and the best questions tend to be about a problem you're facing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of speculation, let's get to the heart of the matter. Why do you want to know why employers offer X vs Y?  Why is that a problem for you?  Tell us about that problem. Include details about the problem so that we have plenty of context to be helpful, and try to be as objective in your post as possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second question sounds more like a problem you're facing and could fall under workplace negotiations. Make sure you include information about the situation to help others get context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, motivation does play a role. If your question is about the benefit itself, such as: &quot;Why doesn't Kaiser Permanente have hours on Sunday?&quot; then it's off topic.  Make sure the question is about US health benefits &lt;em&gt;as it applies to the workplace.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't a guarantee the post won't be put on hold. If it is, use the comments and &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; as tools to help edit and improve the post so that it might be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example questions about benefits, see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/benefits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;benefits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;benefits&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T15:17:40.107" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2139" CreationDate="2013-11-08T16:00:48.707" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Let's Build an Encyclopedia&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal of Stack Exchange is to form an encyclopedia of knowledge that's helpful to future visitors for years to come, using a Questions and Answers format, and every time you post a question or an answer, you're planting a seed that helps grow that knowledge. It's important to recognize that most of the people who visit Workplace SE aren't people with actual accounts. Instead, they're people with real problems who typed that problem into the Google search box and landed on one of our posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We never see these people nor do we directly interact with them, but they're there, watching everything we do and soaking up the knowledge we've built here. Many who create accounts know the rules just from watching us interact in comments, and the new users who know the rules are more likely to become avid users with 200+ reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;We're showing new users we're a Q&amp;amp;A site, not a forum&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people may think of this as a forum because many questions feel like they could be a discussion. But forums are nasty places. Before Stack Exchange, I remember digging through noisy threads, oftentimes not finding my answer until page 18, 1/2 way down the page, after filtering out all of the &amp;quot;I have the same problem too&amp;quot; messages and other noise. Forums are actually just random snapshots of the Internet at a specific point in time. All those grammar errors, spelling issues, and clarity problems are forever stuck, forcing all future readers to go through the same steps that others went through in trying to find answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But it's important we fight the urge to delve into the discussion because it gives those future visitors the wrong idea.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;  Eventually, some of those future visitors will decide that Workplace SE has helped them so much that they want to give back, and we want them to hit the ground running. If there's too many conversational elements in answers, users may not realize we're not a forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The easiest new user to deal with is one who already has an understanding of how the site works. Users who don't have that understanding, even when dealt with gently, may throw their hands up in frustration and leave. In fact, if you read posts from 1 rep new users, there's just something that feels different about those posts. They're sloppier, don't have good whitespace, and just contain a lot of aspects that one might expect to see on a forum, not an encyclopedia of knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Why do we remove noise&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The information above about new user adoption is just one reason to avoid being too conversational in posts, but the other reason is to filter out noise. All of those greetings, salutations, thank you's, and other taglines tend to take up space and create clutter, not in the database :D), but on the actual page. They take up valuable screen real estate. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Most of the people visiting this site see ads; they don't have the same experience as avid users, where Stack Exchange filters those out for users who create content.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;  Just view the site in incognito mode to see what random visitors see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oftentimes, these taglines, greetings, or thank you's are put on their own lines. Which means we've introduced more whitespace and pushed more content down the page, making users have to scroll in order to see the big picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In questions, greetings are the worst, because they take up room on the front page, pushing out all of the important stuff. Imagine what the front page would look like if every post title was &amp;quot;Plz help!&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Help m1&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;HEEEELLLPPP!&amp;quot; followed by more noise that tells us nothing about the actual problem. In short, this is also about making it easy for our community to moderate posts by maximizing our ability to properly vet questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;So should we edit this stuff out&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to take the approach of only intervening if there's a problem. If you look at my answers, I've probably included &amp;quot;Hope this helps&amp;quot; or something similar, but I try to make it a point of not putting that on it's own line so I don't take up unnecessary vertical space on the screen. If someone edits it out, so be it. I'd rather err on the side of less noise than more noise. But to maximize the use of space, you could just include it on the same line and know that if it gets edited out, just let it go. Less noise is always better than more noise. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T16:00:48.707" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2133" CreationDate="2013-11-09T19:49:52.307" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just untagged the last two questions. No one seems to have objected or downvoted and there were only a few questions anyways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-11-09T19:49:52.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2145" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-09T19:53:17.027" Score="7" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Convince me the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/employees&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;employees&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;employees&lt;/a&gt; is worth keeping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems too vague to really matter, since most questions here are about employees, and the tag can't really provide any meaningful additional information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To save you some searching time, here is the full tag wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions relating to the people who work for a company&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:56:13.290" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:56:13.290" Title="What value does the &quot;Employees&quot; tag show?" Tags="|discussion|tags|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2145" CreationDate="2013-11-10T12:33:18.580" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe a tag as general as &quot;employees&quot; is useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this is workplace.stackexchange, &quot;employees&quot; is implied in pretty much every question. You might as well have a &quot;work&quot; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If tags are to be of any real benefit, they must be discriminatory. That is, selecting a tag must exclude a majority of unrelated questions. I can't see that happening if &quot;employee&quot; were used as defined in the tag wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2013-11-10T12:33:18.580" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2147" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2149" CreationDate="2013-11-12T20:21:25.827" Score="4" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this site has many people chanting the 'This is a Q+A site, not a forum' mantra, many of those users(and others) like to be 'User Detectives.' They search for relevancy between the current question being asked and previous questions or participation on other exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, I asked a general question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16619/capitalizing-on-a-desperate-employer-during-turnover&quot;&gt;Capitalizing on a desperate employer during turnover&lt;/a&gt;. One of the answers &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/16625/7945&quot;&gt;was focused on the software industry&lt;/a&gt; based &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16619/capitalizing-on-a-desperate-employer-during-turnover#comment40163_16625&quot;&gt;on the fact that I was a member of SO and Programmers&lt;/a&gt; even though I didn't mention an industry in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this type of behavior be frowned upon?  It can quickly derail a question when someone starts referencing outside information, especially since any connections are strictly speculative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9212" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-11-15T10:30:01.823" Title="Should background information on the user asking a question be used to answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2147" CreationDate="2013-11-13T00:40:57.943" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think &quot;should this be allowed?&quot; is the right question. We aren't in the habit of categorically banning comment topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The right question is &quot;is the behavior abusive?&quot; If so, then it is never ok.  Please &lt;strong&gt;flag&lt;/strong&gt; or report abusive comments and we as moderators (or the Stack Exchange team) will take a look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you aren't talking about abusive comments, then I wouldn't really know what to address.  Personally, I don't think there's a good reason to enforce artificial blinders on users of the community involved in answering a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if you have any examples of this and you aren't sure what bucket it fits in to, you are welcome to link to it here or flag it so we can take a look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2013-11-13T00:40:57.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2147" CreationDate="2013-11-13T04:37:21.427" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Executive Summary&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Information should be self-contained in the post. If someone wants to play detective and believes something they find is relevant to clarifying the scope of the question, they should do so via comment on the question and the question should be edited if that information is confirmed and useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Confession&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been pretty bad at this in the past. I've &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/10230/7945&quot;&gt;used a user's profile to determine their age and refine an answer&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13898&quot;&gt;used a user's past post to make assumptions about their current question&lt;/a&gt;. These were bad things, and I really shouldn't have done them. So take this from a reformed contributor who now recognizes his own folly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not all bad though, I also use the same power of investigation to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15255/company-maybe-going-public-how-does-it-affect-the-existing-employees#comment37946_15255&quot;&gt;warn users that they may not be as anonymous as they think when asking&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The Appeal of the Forbidden Fruit&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following someone's profile in to the rabbit hole is easy, and digs up all sorts of stuff. With the growing size of the SE network, I can determine whether you like games, what your religion is, what programming languages you use (or don't use), and probably even get a good guess at your age and geographic location even if not in your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it is really tempting to focus on the specific situation rather than the general question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15161/how-should-i-approach-interviewing-through-an-interpreter/15178#15178&quot;&gt;guilty&lt;/a&gt;) because it's just a lot easier to focus on your strengths than to take the time to generalize your experience. So if you can grab someone's age or location from their profile and start talking about that time you were 22 years old and working in Monrovia, Liberia, it feels like you're offering super specific advice and doing good. And that is awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;But it Causes Problems Long-Term&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several issues with assuming information based on detective work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The information may disappear&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users detach accounts or delete them, so whatever trail of breadcrumbs you followed may not exist in a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The question may not refer to a current personal situation&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of people who &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14414/&quot;&gt;ask questions for friends&lt;/a&gt;, or who ask questions based on past events or events they have seen elsewhere. By using the user's information, you may be misreading the situation entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The question is no longer self-contained&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People come to this site through search engines which look at the title, body, and tags of a question. Our Google Overlords have not yet found out how to spider through all interconnected information on a user and make those inferences. So when someone stumbles on to a question about taking advantage of a crisis to get better salary, and see a summary of the tech market and why you can do better, they will likely be a wee bit confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And confusion is bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Proposed Solution&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing detective work is fine. It may help you understand the person asking better, and give you a better idea of how you want to answer. However, before hitting that &lt;kbd&gt;Post Your Answer&lt;/kbd&gt; button including that information, post a comment on the question asking if the information is appropriate for that question. If it is, then it can be incorporated in to the question as an edit, and everything becomes self-contained and relevant again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is posting based on details they dug up about you, and you don't think it is relevant in that case, just leave them a brief comment like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like your answer is focusing on the software industry, but I think this is a situation that can be found in almost any industry, so I'm looking for a more general answer. I appreciate the information, but could you please [edit] your question to make it industry agnostic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to downvote it if it's not helpful because of the detail included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just remember that at the end of the day, your information is publicly available, and while it may hurt the quality of the site if questions and answers aren't self-contained, that doesn't mean these answers should be flagged unless they are abusive in some way. Feel free to downvote, but don't expect a lightning bolt to smite any user who uses the tools at their disposal to collect publicly available information on you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-11-13T04:37:21.427" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2147" CreationDate="2013-11-13T06:55:33.997" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow has a heavy influence on most of the sites in the Stack Exchange network. So it's only natural for some material to have a slight software bias.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind though that -- even if someone doesn't answer the question as you like -- most people are genuinely trying to be helpful.  However, if your question doesn't have anything to do with software, and you get an answer that doesn't answer your question, you could:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave a helpful comment, politely asking the answerer to re-read your question again and address the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downvote the post if it's not useful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Upvote other posts that provide helpful information to move those posts to the top and push the unhelpful posts to the bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from that, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2148/98&quot;&gt;as NickC mentions&lt;/a&gt;, we really can't ban people from looking at others' profiles. But in general, answers should take into account the material in the question, not what's in a user's profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-11-13T06:55:33.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2153" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-14T14:02:08.257" Score="12" ViewCount="572" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Update&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3 weeks following this discussion, the question has been closed, is&#xA;sitting at -2 score, and has two answers with a combined +1 score.&#xA;This is not to say &amp;quot;I told you so&amp;quot;, but rather to say that if the&#xA;community disagrees with an aggressive edit, I would strongly invite&#xA;those who disagree with aggressive edits to find another way (be it&#xA;supporting the poster through comments, or making less aggressive&#xA;edits, or even just casting reopen votes if they think the original&#xA;post is correct).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As-is, this post has fallen in to limbo, the asker hasn't been seen since asking the question, hasn't contributed anything else, and hasn't accepted an answer. Not the best outcome we could have hoped for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Background&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1819/how-do-i-deal-with-the-fact-that-im-awesome-and-everyone-around-me-sucks/1820#1820&quot;&gt;aggressively edited&lt;/a&gt; this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16682/how-can-i-respond-to-an-uncomfortable-working-environment-beside-quitting&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16682/how-can-i-respond-to-an-uncomfortable-working-environment-beside-quitting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I made the edit, it had no answers, a downvote, and a close vote. Had I not edited, I would have added another close vote and downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/16682/2&quot;&gt;Here is my edit&lt;/a&gt;. After my edit, it managed to increase its score to +1, prior to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/16682/4&quot;&gt;this rollback&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/3405/simon-odoherty&quot;&gt;Simon&lt;/a&gt;. Prior to the rollback, I had received &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16682/how-can-i-respond-to-an-uncomfortable-working-environment-beside-quitting#comment40369_16682&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/9517/meredith-poor&quot;&gt;Meredith Poor&lt;/a&gt; which read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@jmac - my feeling is that the edit was too aggressive, however I agree that the original post shows quite a bit of drift.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two hours later the question was put on hold by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Community Reception of Aggressive Edits&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a long history of aggressive edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to be as fair and accurate collecting the data as I could to give an honest picture of what sorts of edits I have been making, not to try to make me look good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on those stats, I have 30 aggressive edits. Of those 30, 4 were received poorly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One for being a duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Two with negative score and closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One where the asker strongly disagreed with my edit (though didn't roll it back, may be due to unfamiliarity, happy to take the hit on this one)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the remaining 27, almost half (13) of the askers thanked me or otherwise commented that they agreed with my edit in some way (at any rate, were not being negative). Two were mixed message comments. The other 12 had no comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not to toot my own horn. I believe that our responsibility as volunteers on this site is to do our best to help people. I try to do that through aggressive edits. Many questions we get quickly collect a few close votes and downvotes and are gaining the wrong kind of momentum early. When I can see a core question that I think will help the person asking, I make those edits, because I think a question that benefits the asker will be good for them, and good for The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Discussion&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people have experienced confusion about these aggressive edits, so I am putting my experience out there for the community. Do we want these sorts of edits? And when are they appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Data&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the questions I used for stats for your review:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;16 upvotes: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11304/what-information-guarantees-should-i-get-from-a-company-in-financial-difficulty&quot;&gt;What information/guarantees should I get from a company in financial difficulty?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7 upvotes + &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11331/how-can-i-negotiate-a-bonus-in-to-a-base-salary-raise#comment26230_11331&quot;&gt;thanks&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11331/how-can-i-negotiate-a-bonus-in-to-a-base-salary-raise&quot;&gt;How can I negotiate a bonus in to a base salary raise?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;20 upvotes + &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11908/how-do-i-bring-up-being-misled-about-my-job-role-during-the-interview-period#comment28296_11908&quot;&gt;thanks&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11908/how-do-i-bring-up-being-misled-about-my-job-role-during-the-interview-period&quot;&gt;How do I bring up being misled about my job role during the interview period?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 upvotes but closed as dupe: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12123/is-it-poor-etiquette-to-give-unsolicited-suggestions-when-new-on-the-job&quot;&gt;Is it poor etiquette to give unsolicited suggestions when new on the job?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 upvotes (questionable whether asker appreciated the edit or not, see comments): &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12217/how-can-i-negotiate-a-salary-increase-in-a-new-job&quot;&gt;How can I negotiate a salary increase in a new job?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 upvote + &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12329/what-in-a-background-check-can-be-grounds-for-revoking-an-offer#comment29482_12329&quot;&gt;thanks&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12329/what-in-a-background-check-can-be-grounds-for-revoking-an-offer&quot;&gt;What in a background check can be grounds for revoking an offer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 upvotes: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12439/how-should-i-negotiate-a-salary-with-conflicting-information&quot;&gt;How should I negotiate a salary with conflicting information?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;8 upvotes: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12460/how-can-i-tell-my-manager-the-task-i-was-assigned-is-beyond-my-current-ability&quot;&gt;How can I tell my manager the task I was assigned is beyond my current ability?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 upvotes (possibly not aggressive): &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12501/how-should-my-resume-address-a-6-year-period-to-receive-a-4-year-degree&quot;&gt;How should my resume address a 6-year period to receive a 4-year degree?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;-1 score and closed: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12676/is-my-contract-still-valid-if-my-job-has-changed&quot;&gt;Is my contract still valid if my job has changed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10 upvotes and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12800/what-is-the-best-way-of-approaching-a-former-employer-for-a-job#comment30833_12800&quot;&gt;thanks&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12800/what-is-the-best-way-of-approaching-a-former-employer-for-a-job&quot;&gt;What is the best way of approaching a former employer for a job?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 upvote and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12830/what-criteria-should-i-use-to-judge-job-posting-sites#comment30832_12830&quot;&gt;thanks&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12830/what-criteria-should-i-use-to-judge-job-posting-sites&quot;&gt;What criteria should I use to judge job-posting sites?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 upvotes and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13193/how-can-i-prevent-a-notice-period-from-being-unreasonably-extended#comment31661_13193&quot;&gt;thanks&lt;/a&gt;, but rolled back later by the asker: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13193/how-can-i-prevent-a-notice-period-from-being-unreasonably-extended&quot;&gt;How can I prevent a notice period from being unreasonably extended?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 upvotes and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13202/is-it-appropriate-to-approach-references-based-on-interviewer-comments#comment31761_13202&quot;&gt;thanks&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13202/is-it-appropriate-to-approach-references-based-on-interviewer-comments&quot;&gt;Is it appropriate to approach references based on interviewer comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;8 upvotes and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13883/how-can-i-decide-if-i-should-use-a-title-mr-ms-when-e-mailing-a-prospective#comment33507_13883&quot;&gt;thanks&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13883/how-can-i-decide-if-i-should-use-a-title-mr-ms-when-e-mailing-a-prospective&quot;&gt;How can I decide if I should use a title (Mr./Ms.) when e-mailing a prospective employer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;14 upvotes: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13979/how-can-i-sell-a-blue-collar-technical-background-when-applying-for-white-collar&quot;&gt;How can I sell a blue-collar technical background when applying for white-collar technical jobs?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;-1 score and closed: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14220/how-can-i-minimize-the-risks-of-moonlighting-in-violation-of-my-contract&quot;&gt;How can I minimize the risks of moonlighting in violation of my contract?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;13 upvotes and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14237/how-can-cultural-adaptability-be-evaluated-when-hiring-an-employee-from-another#comment34374_14237&quot;&gt;thanks&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14237/how-can-cultural-adaptability-be-evaluated-when-hiring-an-employee-from-another&quot;&gt;How can cultural adaptability be evaluated when hiring an employee from another country?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;11 upvotes: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14461/how-can-i-avoid-divisive-political-issues-at-work&quot;&gt;How can I avoid divisive political issues at work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;13 upvotes: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14763/how-can-i-delay-an-interview&quot;&gt;How can I delay an interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;16 upvotes: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14921/how-much-should-i-say-in-an-exit-interview&quot;&gt;How much should I say in an exit interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;68 upvotes and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15115/how-can-i-respond-to-an-employee-who-objects-to-working-on-certain-projects-on-e#comment37501_15115&quot;&gt;thanks&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15115/how-can-i-respond-to-an-employee-who-objects-to-working-on-certain-projects-on-e&quot;&gt;How can I respond to an employee who objects to working on certain projects on ethical grounds?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;12 upvotes and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15161/how-should-i-approach-interviewing-through-an-interpreter#comment37744_15161&quot;&gt;thanks&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15161/how-should-i-approach-interviewing-through-an-interpreter&quot;&gt;How should I approach interviewing through an interpreter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;12 upvotes: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15182/when-should-i-address-being-made-redundant-when-applying-for-jobs&quot;&gt;When should I address being made redundant when applying for jobs?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10 upvotes: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15383/what-information-is-important-when-introducing-yourself-to-coworkers-you-have-ne&quot;&gt;What information is important when introducing yourself to coworkers you have never met?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7 upvotes and reopened: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15488/how-can-an-organization-keep-the-benefits-of-generalists-on-large-scale-projects&quot;&gt;How can an organization keep the benefits of generalists on large-scale projects?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 upvotes (questionable whether asker appreciated the edit or not, see comments/revision history): &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15506/how-should-i-decide-whether-to-take-over-someone-elses-work-tasks&quot;&gt;How should I decide whether to take over someone else&amp;#39;s work tasks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 upvote + &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15539/what-are-the-risks-of-omitting-short-term-employment-when-applying-for-positions#comment38948_15539&quot;&gt;thanks&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/15539/revisions&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/15539/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 upvote + &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15545/i-want-to-find-ways-to-get-past-phone-interviews#comment38957_15545&quot;&gt;thanks&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15545/i-want-to-find-ways-to-get-past-phone-interviews&quot;&gt;I want to find ways to get past phone interviews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 upvotes + &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15547/when-is-it-appropriate-to-let-on-to-your-boss-you-are-looking-at-other-jobs#comment38965_15547&quot;&gt;strong disagreement&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15547/when-is-it-appropriate-to-let-on-to-your-boss-you-are-looking-at-other-jobs&quot;&gt;When is it appropriate to let on to your boss you are looking at other jobs?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I left out the two questions I edited today. You can take a look at my revision history &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/7945/jmac?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=revisions&amp;amp;page=1&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; if you want to check to see if I left any big edits out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T17:46:21.353" Title="Aggressive Edits" Tags="|discussion|editing|aggressive-edits|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2153" CreationDate="2013-11-14T14:42:26.430" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I rolled it back because the edit basically removed a large amount of context of what the person was saying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your edit: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am a new female employee in a mostly male office environment, with an unsatisfying job scope. I brought this up with my manager &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;vs &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Due to those facts I recently had a talk with my boss (I initiated it) on the advice of the team lead to discuss my career so far and the future prospects for me at my company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your edit appears to imply that she is complaining about the lack of job scope and that there are too many men in her work environment, when her meeting was to discuss her career. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also &quot;male office environment&quot; was further expanded on by her with: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, I work in a predominantly male team where the concept of manners and the kind of polite behaviour I am accustomed to is mostly absent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you left it out that she is dealing with a male team that do not act professionally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the question certainly needs to be cleaned up, but not at the expense of removing the context of the question, as it just leads to answers which don't help the OP.  (TBH it looks like two questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Edit]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to clarify. I have no issue at all with your aggressive edits (I even up voted your link just now). However I felt that your edit did not convey what the OP was asking, so any answers to the edit would have been off topic and not have helped the OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reversion was not a perfect solution but at least others reading the question would see the proper context and possibly clean up the question better. Feel free to edit again with the proper context. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3405" LastEditorUserId="3405" LastEditDate="2013-11-14T15:08:33.457" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T15:08:33.457" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2159" CreationDate="2013-11-14T20:39:24.783" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/16672/7978&quot;&gt;How to handle hostility in interviews?&lt;/a&gt; which was marked duplicate and closed. I had also posted a similar question some time ago: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/14390/7978&quot;&gt;Breaking the accent barrier in a telephone interview&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;The questions are &lt;em&gt;similar&lt;/em&gt; to an extent and even though I answer in the comments and specify that the second question is centered on how I can be better prepared for hostility in interviews (in my scenario arising out of communication-al challenges), I wasn't clear enough for members of workplace.  How could I have been more clear in expressing the differences between both these questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7978" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-11-15T00:32:47.210" Title="How could I have been clearer in my most recent question?" Tags="|discussion|exact-duplicates|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2156" CreationDate="2013-11-14T20:42:04.697" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How could I have been more clearer in expressing the differences between both these questions ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the issue was the same in both questions, but you didn't realize it (and actually argued against it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T20:42:04.697" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2156" CreationDate="2013-11-14T21:01:33.393" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could have removed the specific references that made everyone but you realize that the problem was that you were misunderstanding the interviewer due to his accent.  And just focused on how you were perceiving his words rather than the specifics.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you focus on the specifics it can be perceived as a rant by the people reading the question, and those people start to focus on the specifics and trying to solve the actual problem instead of the question you asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a way you could have phrased your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I had attended a Skype interview recently with a pretty known firm in&#xA;  a foreign country. Part of the interview involved a fairly easy task&#xA;  but the interviewer used a term I did not understand.  While trying to&#xA;  clarify the interviewer seemed to become hostile and made sarcastic&#xA;  remarks about people from my country.  Eventually I was able to&#xA;  understand what he wanted and the interview progressed.  But by this&#xA;  time the mood had soured and in the end the firm decided not to make&#xA;  me an offer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What can I do to salvage an interview if it has turned based on a&#xA;  misunderstanding?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This becomes an answerable question... but I think you can probably also see that the new question is a duplicate of the question that your original version was closed for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other important thing to realize is sometimes you can not salvage a situation.  There are points of no return where no standard answer is going to have an effect.  There may be something you can do in the moment or very situation specific to save the interview.  But in this case chances are by the time you recognized this interview turned it was beyond any standard response.  So maybe you would be better of asking how you can better prepare for an interview to avoid it going south in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2013-11-14T21:32:44.980" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T21:32:44.980" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2156" CreationDate="2013-11-15T00:32:47.210" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Executive Summary&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to make your questions clearer and more distinct:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain the situation objectively&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stop focusing on irrelevant details&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Listen to constructive feedback&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Explain the Situation Objectively&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question was filled with your own bias:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a coding test and the person on the other end interviewing me was a person with a &lt;strong&gt;very heavy accent&lt;/strong&gt; (The accent was middle Eastern/Asian but his enunciation of words was more in line with how Cantonese/Mandarin), and, &lt;strong&gt;in hindsight, subtle hatred towards the US in general&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When after 5 minutes of back and forth on 'Did you mean X/Y/Z' when I finally understood what he wanted, I said 'I see, you want an empty array created ?' to which &lt;strong&gt;he angrily replied&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;Is that how Americans call MTRI, huh ?&amp;quot;. Some more &lt;strong&gt;subtle chiding and a few other sarcastic remarks&lt;/strong&gt; were also passed during the rest of the interview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As expected, very unfortunately, I did not make it through and lost an opportunity with a supposedly great Australian firm. &lt;strong&gt;However unjust I may think my technical evaluation was&lt;/strong&gt;, what are some of the ways one can handle these types of situations in the future ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bold phrases show your personal bias toward the situation. It is natural to feel this way, but when you put it in the question, it taints the potential answers and implies that you are looking for people to agree with you, rather than inviting people to look at the situation objectively, and determine for themselves what types of strategies may work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Stop Focusing on Irrelevant Details&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You say the question is, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How to handle hostility in interviews?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; so focus on that rather than trying to explain the details of why the hostility happened. You explain many details that are irrelevant to the actual hostility:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The accent was middle Eastern/Asian but his enunciation of words was more in line with how Cantonese/Mandarin&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During the interview he wanted me to create an empty array of Strings in java. He said, &amp;quot;I want create MTRI (Em-tee arr-eye, literally pronouncing individual letters)&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ironically, MTRI also is used commonly to point Mother Tongue/Regional Influence issues in accent/English correction classes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some more subtle chiding and a few other sarcastic remarks were also passed during the rest of the interview.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These details are irrelevant. There was a miscommunication which caused friction in the interview. How can you overcome the friction in an interview after a misunderstanding?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Listen to constructive feedback&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have a habit of dismissing the feedback of people who comment on your questions. You try to convince them why your question is fine as it is, rather than accepting the constructive criticism as an opportunity to improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shockingly, this rubs a lot of people in the wrong way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you aren't writing objectively, and put in a lot of irrelevant detail, people have to parse through those parts and interpret them to get to the question. The more they have to wade through, the less likely they will come to the same conclusion you did in your question. So when they do wade through it and come away with a different message, this is great feedback on how to improve your message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone comes away from your question with, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;So you had trouble understanding an interviewer, this seems like the same problem as this other question&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; it means that you are probably focusing too much on the accent portion, and not enough on the hostility portion. Take comments as community willingness to help improve your question, not an opportunity to be defensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Revised Question&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So following these comments, I would edit your question to read as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How can I clear the air after a misunderstanding in an interview?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was having a technical interview by phone when I had a misunderstanding with the interviewer causing friction that hadn't been there at the start. The interview went downhill and I didn't get the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Misunderstandings happen, and can't be entirely avoided. How can I clear the air after a misunderstanding in an interview to prevent it from turning the tone of the entire interview negative?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this revised question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does not place blame (it is objective)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does not focus on the details of the misunderstanding&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does not sound anything like the prior question about accents&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not going to make this edit myself, but if it were to read something like the above, I would happily reopen, upvote, and answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-11-15T00:32:47.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2147" CreationDate="2013-11-15T10:30:01.823" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often the thrust of a question implies quite a bit of context. Aside from IT, there are talent shortages in the medical profession and in the oil and gas business in general and in petroleum engineering in particular. While the medical profession is 20% of the economy, it is relatively rare to have 'massive turnover' - the constraints on wage growth are severe. The skills collection isn't nearly as volatile as in IT.  Similarly, the oil and gas business is tiny in comparison - a situation where 'everybody knows everybody' in the oil patch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone trying to make a generic question may not realize how much baggage they're dragging into the conversation. For a 'stable company' to be losing employees at a serious clip means wage growth in the respective job market is substantial, this is most likely when demand is growing exponentially and supply is constant.  I invite anyone to name the other professional specializations where this is occurring in the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus the question was raised: 'how did you know this was IT?'. Only at that point did I start poking around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone spends a lot of time reverse engineering huge data files and obscure languages, their brains get used to spotting patterns.  This gets reinforced by other events - I recall seeing the proposed development timeframes for the Airbus 380, Boeing Dreamliner, and 'healthcare.gov' and laughed out loud. These dates were driven by concerns that had nothing to do with bottom up engineering estimates, and everything to do with being able to close deals with customers or politicians. So I 'see' a lot of things in these questions that others don't, or that they do but choose to tune out. Anyone that thinks I'm making assumptions should challenge them. If I've made a bad one I'll back off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, however, one can see clues scattered all over the place - language that suggests a poster is from Asia, spelling or syntax that looks European, corporate policy issues that one would only find in America.  These impressions can be way off.  If so, I can either discard the answer or edit it.  However, in general I'll bring whatever I can find in context to the response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9517" LastActivityDate="2013-11-15T10:30:01.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2161" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-15T11:07:14.383" Score="4" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/16691/6022&quot;&gt;question on Workplace SE&lt;/a&gt;. I got a great comment from the Indian guy (it was the first comment under my question). Later I got in an argument with a person who made irrelevant edits to my question. Moderator jmort253 came in and deleted everything, including the first comment, that was probably the most relevant answer to my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand why he deleted the argument, but why did he delete the relevant comment? Is there any rule on Stack Exchange that justifies such &quot;moderation&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6022" OwnerDisplayName="Tomas" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-11-23T23:38:41.323" Title="Why did a moderator delete a comment which answered my question?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2161" CreationDate="2013-11-15T11:09:00.203" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's no big deal. Even moderators aren't perfect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was probably deleted by mistake along with the other comments. You can flag your question and explain your concern. The comment can be undeleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12333" OwnerDisplayName="juergen d" LastActivityDate="2013-11-15T11:09:00.203" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2161" CreationDate="2013-11-15T13:46:49.307" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments aren't intended to be answers to questions; they are intended to clarify and improve the question. They should be used to ask for any missing information, explanations of ambiguous wordings, or to suggest other improvements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users can also improve a question by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;editing it directly&lt;/a&gt;, which is a core feature of the Stack Exchange model. Several good-faith edits were made to your question in order to improve it. As worded, you were simply asking for opinoins on a situation, which &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;are discouraged&lt;/a&gt; (and, as you can see with your question, get closed by the community).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The disscussion going on in the comments got hostile pretty quickly, so I'd definitely consider jmort's action to be the correct course. TheSilverBullet can re-post his response as an answer if desired. It could then be voted up, and you could even mark it as the accepted answer to the question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" OwnerDisplayName="Jim" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2013-11-15T13:46:49.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2161" CreationDate="2013-11-15T16:45:38.227" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome to The Workplace SE, Tomas! I'm the moderator who deleted the comments on the question, and I wanted to take a moment to clarify points regarding comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Comments&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post was flagged by a community member asking for a comment cleanup. We have an active community of users who support keeping comments on-topic, and those folks regularly flag stuff that's out of place. In short, I generally don't do comment cleanups unless there are flags that specifically point out areas that need attention on our site. On Workplace SE, we outlined our approach to comments early on to prevent this Q&amp;amp;A site from becoming misinterpreted as a discussion forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/72/98&quot;&gt;What &amp;quot;comments&amp;quot; are not...&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are not for answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are not a substitute for answering questions. Comments cannot easily be searched, nor can they be edited for corrections or vetted with the community vote. There's no history, no reputation awarded, nor can they be 'accepted' as the best answer. They get little visibility but often keep users from posting proper answers because the question appears to be resolved… albeit, incorrectly. Further, those comment-answers will not bring new users to this site searching for the information. In short, you are hurting rather than helping the site, and your contribution is at great risk of being lost/deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our goal is to ensure content posted here scales and can help future visitors. As a question asker, having your question not only serve your needs but also serve the needs of hundreds or thousands of future readers is something to be proud of. If you've ever done a search for an answer on Google and had to wade through pages of garbage to finally find your answer on page 18, 1/4 of the way down the page, you'll know exactly what I mean by forums not scaling. :)  By focusing only on properly vetted answers, we eliminate the problems faced by users searching for answers in forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned earlier, answers don't belong in comments, but I did retrieve it for your reference in case you or someone else would like to post it as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel like you need to ask, please do. Or simple &amp;quot;how are you doing?&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;how are things with you?&amp;quot; will help. Losing a parent is a heavy burden, which mostly people don't mind sharing. (I'm Indian) – TheSilverBullet 21 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-11-15T17:02:08.183" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2165" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2166" CreationDate="2013-11-19T13:21:34.473" Score="19" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's hat time of year again...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is doing &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/promos/12/winter-bash&quot;&gt;Winterbash&lt;/a&gt; again. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/525/869&quot;&gt;We joined the fun last year&lt;/a&gt;, so I was looking to get opinions about this year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This year, it will run from 16 December 2013 to 3 January 2014. It is essentially, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/525/do-we-want-hats#comment1566_525&quot;&gt;enderland said last year&lt;/a&gt;, a &quot;totally fun feature with no drawbacks&quot; (unless you hate hats, or fun).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T21:23:07.903" Title="Do we want more hats?" Tags="|discussion|hats|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2165" CreationDate="2013-11-19T15:08:19.700" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we should have hats! Vote here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Only upvotes will be counted)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="716" LastEditorUserId="716" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T17:53:16.947" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T17:53:16.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2165" CreationDate="2013-11-19T15:11:23.560" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, we don't like hats, or fun! Vote here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Only upvotes will be counted)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="716" LastEditorUserId="716" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T17:53:26.810" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T17:53:26.810" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2168" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-19T22:27:15.710" Score="9" ViewCount="318" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had some questions asked recently that were edited by the community that changed the meaning of the post significantly, at least in the eyes of the asker or other members of the community. This resulted in some debate and discontent in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16691/how-can-i-express-sympathy-to-a-coworker-whos-father-was-about-to-die&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16691/how-can-i-express-sympathy-to-a-coworker-whos-father-was-about-to-die&lt;/a&gt; and the question referenced in the meta discussion on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2153/aggressive-edits&quot;&gt;Aggressive Edits&lt;/a&gt;, were both edited but led to some disagreements. More recently, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16722/how-should-i-adjust-my-interview-questions-to-for-female-candidates#question&quot;&gt;How should I adjust my interview questions for female candidates?&lt;/a&gt; was also edited, and the edits weren't well received by the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been a proponent of bold editing. While bold or aggressive edits can indeed yield positive results, sometimes this backfires. It's no one's fault. None of us can read minds, and we're all doing the best we can to create great content and help askers find answers, but the recent discontent does suggest that we might need to come together and &lt;em&gt;slightly tweak&lt;/em&gt; our approach to editing.  As the pendulum swings back and forth between the two extremes of no editing and complete, open editing, we're making great progress in terms of finding the sweet spot where we find balance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can we do as editors to help avoid conflict with askers when editing, and how should we handle edits where there might be disagreement?  Should we wait for a question to actually be put on hold before resorting to aggressive or bold edits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-11-28T11:58:15.340" Title="How should we adjust our approach to editing to minimize conflicts?" Tags="|discussion|editing|aggressive-edits|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2168" CreationDate="2013-11-20T01:00:46.497" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should consider that heroic answers aren't always best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before making a heroic edit, we should ask the OP if they'd like a little help fixing their post so that it will remain open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving a comment saying,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Hi OP, I've made a heroic edit to make your post more constructive...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;may seem condescending if the edit is not welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T01:00:46.497" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2170" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-20T01:50:50.877" Score="0" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a question which was put on hold. Where exactly is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/16812/7978&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; asking for legal advice ? I have read through &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1856/7978&quot;&gt;this entire thread&lt;/a&gt; and I don't see the question I ask fits even loosely as asking for legal advice, in the opinion of other members. I have clearly stated that all I want to do is be better prepared for such a situation in the future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7978" LastEditorUserId="10313" LastEditDate="2023-09-06T17:49:26.533" LastActivityDate="2023-09-06T17:49:26.533" Title="Is this question asking for legal advice?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|close-reasons|legal-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2170" CreationDate="2013-11-20T02:06:16.253" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I looked up the contract and there is no mention of such royalties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contracts are typically drawn up by a lawyer and enforced in a court of law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T02:06:16.253" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2168" CreationDate="2013-11-20T02:09:54.497" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few key things that I think one must keep in mind while editing a question. These are some of the things one can ask him/herself before editing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Context : How can you be sure of portraying the same context that the OP originally intended? Are you 100% sure of the situation OP faces ? If not, avoid tweaking the context. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Typos : Yeah, go ahead fix em. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Grammar : Sure, fix it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Regional Influence : One of the most important things I have learned working in international companies is, what people write is &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; people think, and, that people tend to think in their native language. What might seem like a statement to someone bred in an American conversation style, really is a question for someone who is typing that out in India. People from different religions also tend to ask questions in a certain way and tweaking them could change the entire context from the OPs perspective (There was a question which asked how to treat Mulsim women). Examples escape my mind now, but I can edit this answer when I come across some.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The most important question the editor should ask is, does this question really require editing ? What is &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; contribution ? What is the point of editing a question merely for the sake of it not being put on hold. Is the question answering the OP ? More importantly is it contributing to workplace's Q&amp;amp;A&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;I think the only way to handle conflict resulting from an edit is to roll it back and let the question take its way. &#xA;Workplace is an international Q &amp;amp; A site. People from all over the world are contributing in developing a great question base. &lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Aside : I am a big fan of your edits. IMO, you are, indeed, one of the best editors. This is a great question and shows how conscious you are.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7978" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T02:09:54.497" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2168" CreationDate="2013-11-20T02:22:44.873" Score="9" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Executive Summary&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My stance on edits is simple: a closed question doesn't get answers and can't help the asker or any future visitors. If an edit can turn a non-productive closed question in to a resource, then that is a net positive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the devil is in the details. I think there are three issues that need to be tackled:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What balance between asker happiness and question quality are we after?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When should we edit to maximize that balance?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How should we inform the people whose questions we edit?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Acceptable Loss&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are not going to be able to find an edit policy which keeps every single asker happy, and still maintains high quality standards that keep questions open. Often questions are very off-topic when originally asked, and minor edits will not make a difference on whether the question stays open or closed. Some askers may be put off by an aggressive edit at first, but that is just an invitation to have them work with us to make it on-topic. If someone is not willing to put in the effort to work with the community, I won't lose any sleep over it if they decide not to participate here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we need to judge the balance based on three criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What percent of edited questions do we want to remain open?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What percent of edited questions do we want positive feedback from the asker on?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What percent of edited questions are we okay with having negative feedback on?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should aim for a 90% success rate in keeping questions we edit open. If we edit the question and it doesn't stay open, we run the risk of alienating the user and we don't manage to actually help them out. I think we should aim for at least a quarter of the users we help thanking us for our support. And I think we should aim for less than 5% of people being actively upset with our edits. These are all fuzzy numbers, based roughly on my experience in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2153/aggressive-edits&quot;&gt;Aggressive Edits meta question&lt;/a&gt; (my stats are 90%, 40%, and 10%).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;When Should We Edit?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the issue with the reaction to edits has to do with timing. If a question is closed and downvoted with no answers, there will likely be a lot less opposition than if the question has upvotes, answers, and is open. If a question has been open for 12 hours and then is edited, it is going to have a very different reaction than if it's been open for 12 minutes, or if it has been around for 12 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that questions should either be edited soon after being asked, or that we should wait until they are closed (or soon to be closed, if it has 4 close votes and you would issue the 5th without an edit, I am okay with that too). If we make a quick edit with a helpful comment, then the asker can participate in the editing process and it feels like they have more control. If you wait 12 hours and they come back to a totally different question with a bunch of answers, they may feel like their question was hijacked without their consent, especially if the answers don't help respond to their concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would recommend something like this for a workflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is new, make a comment first, and make a quick edit to get the asker to participate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is several hours old and still open, only edit if it looks like it will be closed (it has no good answers, downvotes, close votes, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is already closed with no answers, have at it (anything is better than a no-answer closed question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Comments are Key&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Giving a reason for an edit usually makes the edit easier to stomach. The key points of an effective comment are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explaining why you decided to edit this question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explaining how this will benefit the asker&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explaining that the asker is encouraged to participate in the edit process&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, take &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14237/how-can-cultural-adaptability-be-evaluated-when-hiring-an-employee-from-another#comment34343_14237&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt; on a question I made an aggressive edit to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello kaushcho, and welcome to the Workplace! This is a great question that is unfortunately attracting a few close votes due to the formatting&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. I've edited it a bit to hopefully prevent more close votes and get you better answers&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;. If you think I missed the point entirely, or otherwise screwed it up, feel free to edit it&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; (I took out details on his evaluation, since you are asking about evaluating the cultural -- not technical -- aspects). Thanks for the great question and I hope you'll stick around!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The superscript numbers correspond to the various portions above. I am sure to let the asker know that I'm not just editing for my own sake, that the question was getting close votes. I let them know that I'm editing it for the asker's benefit -- so they can get better answers and not have the question closed. And I make sure to let them know that even though I made the edit, they are encouraged to make sure the question still matches what they want to ask. The rest is just friendliness to take the edge off what is a really aggressive edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that whenever we make an edit, we should be sure to leave a friendly comment explaining at least these three things to try to involve the asker in improving their own question. Unfortunately, the comment threads in both of the referenced questions have been deleted, so I can't see if that may have been a factor in the bad reactions there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T02:22:44.873" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2170" CreationDate="2013-11-20T06:28:38.713" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's a legal question, but I'd close it as &lt;em&gt;unclear what you're asking&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem isn't clear, nor is it clear what an appropriate answer would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can understand, the situation is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You do freelance work on a successful app&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You list the freelance work on your resume&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Company follows-up on your work history&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;App-company calls you up and makes a joke about royalties for using them as a reference&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real question seems to be, &lt;em&gt;&quot;Why would they make that joke?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; which really, has nothing to do with contracts, and isn't something any of us can really know. I could speculate, but it would really be a shot in the dark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T06:28:38.713" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2165" CreationDate="2013-11-20T06:57:53.967" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always thought the letters look better with hats. I fully agree with this glorious venture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;a ⇒ â&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;c ⇒ ĉ&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;d ⇒ ḓ&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;e ⇒ ê&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;g ⇒ ĝ&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;h ⇒ ĥ&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;i ⇒ î&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;j ⇒ ĵ&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;l ⇒ ḽ&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;n ⇒ ṋ&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;o ⇒ ô&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;s ⇒ ŝ&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;t ⇒ ṱ&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;u ⇒ û&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;w ⇒ ŵ&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;y ⇒ ŷ&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;z ⇒ ẑ&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vive le chapeau!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;帽子万歳!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T06:57:53.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-20T13:38:05.873" Score="0" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to post anonymously through my subscribed account and still track the answer properly? I recently did this by signing out, posting, then coming back onto my account, however, I was unable to edit the question later when some people had commented on it, since it was an unregistered account I posted with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This board in particular would benefit from being able to post questions anonymously, but track them under your profile still. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12388" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T13:38:05.873" Title="Anonymous posting" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-11-20T16:16:12.287" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2165" CreationDate="2013-11-20T21:23:07.903" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I don't think I would want a hat. For many profile icons that are out there, a lot of them are indeed icons from the yore. It would desecrate the icons themselves, IMO. It would bother me to see the profile icon of say Dalai Lama or a happy-buddha wear a hat. Also it would be disturbing to see other icons which are sentimental in nature, wear a hat. Head gear has huge social impact in many parts of the world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7978" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T21:23:07.903" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1787" CreationDate="2013-11-21T03:09:51.257" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Response to Nov 20th edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your active flags are on a post we're still keeping an eye on.  You should probably see those cleared out in the next day or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see flags sitting in the active state, it's generally because we're watching to see how something plays out or haven't yet decided what action to take or even if action is required. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example would be a not an answer flag where we suspect there's a chance someone is very likely to edit and improve the post, which saves us from having to delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T03:09:51.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2179" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-21T16:06:39.827" Score="-1" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does a duplicate question by definition not mean that the answers for that question already exist? The marking even says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question already has an answer here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the questions on the stack right now, I am taking this question as an example:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/16827/7978&quot;&gt;How to encourage or triggers others to help me when everyone seems busy with their task&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Even if it was answered before being marked as duplicate, don't we want to delete answers to questions which we mark as duplicate? If not, what's the point of marking a question as duplicate? Wouldn't it make more sense to mark it as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'hey other answers to a similar question here:'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7978" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-11-22T01:06:12.543" Title="Why are answers allowed on questions which are marked duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2179" CreationDate="2013-11-21T17:55:48.960" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there are answers they pre-date the question being marked as a duplicate, as Jim said in a comment.  If the answers are useful we shouldn't delete them, nor penalize people who answered a question in good faith.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the questions can be &lt;em&gt;merged&lt;/em&gt; so all the answers end up in one place, but this eliminates the &quot;signpost&quot; of the duplicate.  So if one of the questions is not different enough to provide a different search path -- if the questions are asked very similarly, or if one of them is just not very good -- then merger can be an answer.  But if we want the signpost, then unfortunately there's no way to move answers while leaving the question in place.  Editing the other question to add a back-pointer to the other answers would be useful in that case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T17:55:48.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2179" CreationDate="2013-11-22T01:06:12.543" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please consider the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question closure isn't final in the sense that these questions &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be reopened.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions get closed when either a moderator or five SE members vote to close the question. But votes are just votes. They're a manifestation of someone's opinion; and they shouldn't preclude the OP from marking an answer as the accepted answer, especially in light of the fact that the question &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be reopened.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2013-11-22T01:06:12.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2161" CreationDate="2013-11-23T23:31:04.793" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems rather odd to paste a few comments onto the end of an answer. I would have thought a moderator could re-open a question, paste in the comment as a new answer, then close the question again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But hopefully it helps Tomas. I know helping the original question writer isn't really the primary goal of workplace.stackexchange, but perhaps this is a good enough resolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2013-11-23T23:38:41.323" LastActivityDate="2013-11-23T23:38:41.323" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2183" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-25T23:04:59.780" Score="1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think often a question is downvoted/put on hold/closed because it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has a simple answer that seems obvious not warranting a 'real answer'. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In which case, just answer the question!). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Applies to a general situation that can't be covered by a single answer. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In which case give an outline or different options or approaches). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16866/whats-the-best-way-to-structure-an-email-that-has-suggestions-for-workplace-pro&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16866/whats-the-best-way-to-structure-an-email-that-has-suggestions-for-workplace-pro&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;On hold (unclear) and -3 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question is asking for a format/template for writing an email. &#xA;Possible answers are either provide a template, or agree or clarify the answer the OP gave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16921/underpaid-and-overworked-how-must-i-approach-my-boss&quot;&gt;Underpaid and overworked, how should I approach my boss?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On hold (opinion based) and -1 votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guy in what appears to be a bad work situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer could a be a outline of your options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;eg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quitting is an option.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How to bring this up with your boss. (eg. outline the additional work you're doing, and the role you've played in improving the company, this is deserving of a significant raise). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16897/when-is-it-okay-to-consult-others-on-work-im-doing-after-being-told-i-take-up&quot;&gt;When is it okay to consult others on work I&amp;#39;m doing (after being told I take up too much of their time)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;+2 votes and on hold (opinion based)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guy being told off for asking too many questions in work place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer could be a structure around asking colleagues for work, or an outline of what generally acceptable work practises are. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Placing the questions on hold makes it because they can't then be answered, when someone might have a good answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10911" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T23:04:59.780" Title="Too quick to put questions on hold?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2013-12-03T07:33:24.740" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2187" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-26T03:02:50.153" Score="10" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our SE is based on asking how to deal with workplace situations.  There is no one right answer and many times the questions that are more complex and require more thought are just being closed for being opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This close reason does not fit here well, or this site does not fit SE.  But either way we need to address the fact that many questions that are suitable for the site are being closed because they are asking for solutions that do not have one right answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we address this problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="115" LastEditDate="2014-12-05T00:52:41.360" LastActivityDate="2014-12-05T00:52:41.360" Title="Can we eliminate the close reason &quot;Primarily Opinion Based&quot;?" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|close-reasons|vote-to-close|opinion-based|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2187" CreationDate="2013-11-26T04:56:27.557" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Executive Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;13.3% of the questions asked on this site since the 'primarily opinion-based' close reason was introduced on June 26th, 2013 have been put on hold for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite that (rather large) number, I do not advocate eliminating the close reason as it does have a place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do advocate &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2173/7945&quot;&gt;aggressively editing questions&lt;/a&gt; to try to keep them open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Keeping the Reason&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but some questions will tend to get answers almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(okay, that was tongue-in-cheek, but accurate)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take some of these questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12631/how-do-you-define-short-stay-in-a-particular-job&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12631/how-do-you-define-short-stay-in-a-particular-job&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12678/what-is-considered-a-big-raise&quot;&gt;What is considered a big raise?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12796/what-programming-languages-are-most-hire-able&quot;&gt;What programming languages are most &amp;#39;hire-able&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12951/is-insomnia-a-valid-reason-to-file-for-a-sick-leave&quot;&gt;Is insomnia a valid reason to file for a sick leave?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are simply impossible to answer because there isn't a general answer. They are all value judgments that will be different for each person, each company, each background. These questions aren't a good fit for TW, and should be closed. How else would they be closed currently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perfectly clear what is being asked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Definitely not too broad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not asking what job to take/how to do your job/legal advice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need a way to close these questions, and 'primarily opinion-based' seems to capture them well from where I sit. The primary issue is that the person isn't asking to solve a problem, they are asking for confirmation of something they already believe. Basically, they are trawling for agreement rather than resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this is part of the reason &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/10/podcast-53-lets-go-rio/?cb=1&quot;&gt;&quot;Joel says [The Workplace is] a self-help group for commiserating&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions should not be asking for us to provide a bullet list of answers, but rather a way to think about the problem in order to come to our own conclusion. Telling someone what programming languages are the most popular right now (or most likely to get you hired) won't be of much value to someone in a year, it will just be a bullet list of little value. We want to discourage that, and focus on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Aggressive Edits&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What these questions do have is the core of a good question. It doesn't take much to turn &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12796/what-programming-languages-are-most-hire-able&quot;&gt;What programming languages are most &amp;#39;hire-able&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt; in to a productive question like, &lt;em&gt;&quot;Should I decide what skills to study over the next 4 years based on the current job market for those skills?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By changing the direction of the question (but not the core concept of how to decide what skills to learn), the asker will get helpful advice they can apply to decide on their own, and they have a broader base of experience to choose from (since how to decide which skills to learn is something far more broadly applicable than just to software languages).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we don't change it, then we should close it, because to be perfectly honest, these questions rarely get good answers to be worth keeping the questions open for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Data Collection Method&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ran &lt;a href=&quot;http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/advanced-search#page=4&amp;amp;pagesize=100&amp;amp;order=desc&amp;amp;sort=activity&amp;amp;closed=True&amp;amp;filter=!g8QAQ-cMDIh8m*S%284rY.MBH*IqR5pUKyhye&amp;amp;site=workplace&amp;amp;run=true&quot;&gt;this query&lt;/a&gt; to get all the closed questions on TW since the close reasons changed on June 26th, 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aquestion+is%3Aclosed+created%3A2013-06-26..2013-11-26&quot;&gt;705 questions asked&lt;/a&gt;, there were 322 questions closed with the new and improved close reasons (percentages are of closed questions/of asked questions):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;94 (29.2%/13.3%): primarily opinion-based&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;88 (27.3%/12.5%): off-topic (can't separate more)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;57 (17.7%/8.1%): duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;46 (14.3%/6.5%): unclear what you're asking&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;37 (11.5%/5.2%): too broad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Data Dump&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the 300+ closed questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;11-25, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16921/&quot;&gt;Underpaid and overworked, how should I approach my boss?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-25, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16897/&quot;&gt;When is it okay to consult others on work I&amp;#39;m doing (after being told I take up too much of their time)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-22, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16865/&quot;&gt;Happiness and joy in the workplace?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-22, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16861/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16861/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-19, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16803/&quot;&gt;Are spelling errors in my rejection letter an HR trap or an act of negligence?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-19, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16800/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16800/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-19, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16782/&quot;&gt;Self-arranged trial contracting job (permatemp-like) unethical?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-19, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15078/&quot;&gt;Asking for more deterministic and easily measured work assignments in new job&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-18, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16778/&quot;&gt;Been requested that we work overtime in order to get the project delivered, would that let the team down?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-18, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16758/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16758/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-18, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16750/&quot;&gt;Does an ultimatum require two weeks notice?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-18, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16692/&quot;&gt;Is it ethical to exclude terminally ill employees from end-of-year layoffs?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-15, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15572/&quot;&gt;How long is too long to wait for a response after a final interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-11, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15573/&quot;&gt;Fast learning cycle, how to keep up with it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-10, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16601/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16601/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-09, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15553/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15553/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-05, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15474/&quot;&gt;How to list remote contract/freelance work on a resume?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-05, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15441/&quot;&gt;To what extent is it common practice to inform others of who is going to be at a meeting?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-30, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15351/&quot;&gt;How to be constructive and solve problems in an unconstructive environment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-30, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15267/&quot;&gt;Job screen asked for a questionnaire but rejected my responses as inadequate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-29, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15380/&quot;&gt;What are differences between quantitative analyst and data scientist in IT companies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-29, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15365/&quot;&gt;Is a complex test which benefits the company an ethical practice?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-29, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15311/&quot;&gt;Should I dress sloppy for an interview to see if they really mean it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-28, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15328/&quot;&gt;What months/seasons in each year are there more openings and less openings?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-26, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15290/&quot;&gt;Why do companies disregard investing in productivity equipment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-24, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15163/&quot;&gt;How do I avoid volunteering for weekend on-call support?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-22, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15145/&quot;&gt;How can I climb the corporate ladder while being disabled and having other life commitments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-22, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15140/&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Skills didn&amp;#39;t meet the requirements for this position&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-21, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15156/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15156/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-21, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15155/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15155/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-21, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15112/&quot;&gt;Is it not right to write/blog something useful whilst working?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-20, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15162/&quot;&gt;Appearing in Skype interview wearing undershirt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-18, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15065/&quot;&gt;Why would they interview if they would never meet my minimum salary?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-10, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14971/&quot;&gt;Who would be laid off first?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-09, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14881/&quot;&gt;Dealing with jealous and overcontrolling ex-boss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-07, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14913/&quot;&gt;Is it rude to ask recruiter for same day appointment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-07, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14888/&quot;&gt;How Can I Convince My Boss That Traveling for Work Is Non Productive?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-01, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14744/&quot;&gt;How does the number of masters degrees matter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;09-30, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14732/&quot;&gt;Is this harassment or discrimination or nothing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;09-26, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14633/&quot;&gt;Should titles be included in LinkedIn names?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;09-17, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14459/&quot;&gt;Use Adjectives to describe yourself&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;09-13, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14387/&quot;&gt;Should I list by project or by accomplishment on my resume?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;09-11, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14352/&quot;&gt;Is it a good practice to ask candidates to read or write code in a programmer interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;09-05, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14234/&quot;&gt;Is it appropriate to do a follow-up email when not applying for a specific position?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;09-03, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14200/&quot;&gt;Is it inappropriate to ask the CEO for his salary/job description?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;09-02, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14206/&quot;&gt;How do I prevent myself from leaning too close to the monitor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-30, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14175/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14175/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-30, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14146/&quot;&gt;How much information should I give my former boss when I lost a company key?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-29, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14040/&quot;&gt;How long do I wait before sending a follow up email?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-28, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14037/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14037/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-28, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14034/&quot;&gt;Ethics in negotiations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-28, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14012/&quot;&gt;Listening in in a negotiations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-27, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14010/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14010/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-27, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11350/&quot;&gt;Is it reasonable to turn down an onsite interview due to length?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-26, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13963/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13963/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-25, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13936/&quot;&gt;How to Rate Job Interview Process&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-21, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13887/&quot;&gt;Frequent job switches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-21, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13870/&quot;&gt;Should I ask my new employer for an extra laptop charger?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-19, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13851/&quot;&gt;Front End Developer Screening Preparation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-19, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13824/&quot;&gt;Is hiring a single software engineer common or reasonable for smaller companies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-17, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9596/w&quot;&gt;What factors do I need to take into account when considering ban of eating at desk?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-16, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13815/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13815/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-16, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13809/&quot;&gt;Should I put enrollment into but not starting study in resume?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-13, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13771/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13771/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-09, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13738/&quot;&gt;How a status email should look like?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-08, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13695/&quot;&gt;Boss making me do inappropriate punishments at work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-08, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13687/&quot;&gt;Internet Monitoring Report spotted job searching&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-02, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13576/&quot;&gt;Is it acceptable to take the cell phone number when leaving?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;08-02, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13557/&quot;&gt;What should a software engineer&amp;#39;s personal web page look like?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-31, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13392/&quot;&gt;How can I use my leverage at my current employer to help create an environment with less, direct hands on management of my work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-30, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13479/&quot;&gt;Is a job with a flaky employer worth pursuing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-30, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13476/&quot;&gt;Should follow-up be promised in a cover letter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-30, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13473/&quot;&gt;Should I still follow up when I&amp;#39;d planned to even though the application deadline was extended?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-27, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13435/&quot;&gt;Is it a good management style to degrade oneself so others feel comfortable approaching?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-24, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13384/&quot;&gt;What I should do when I don&amp;#39;t like to buy a take away for my colleague daily after my lunch outside of office?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-24, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13383/&quot;&gt;Internet usage after-work hours&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-22, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13310/&quot;&gt;Can I use secret information when asking for a payrise?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-18, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13272/&quot;&gt;My office has finally unfrozen salaries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-18, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13240/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13240/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-18, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13231/&quot;&gt;Question about benefits coverage responsibilities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-16, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13101/&quot;&gt;Salary discussion while I&amp;#39;m actively searching for a new job&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-15, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13049/&quot;&gt;Incoming splitting gone wrong&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-14, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13057/&quot;&gt;Director not directing senior managers, should we confront them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-11, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12951/&quot;&gt;Is insomnia a valid reason to file for a sick leave?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-10, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12983/&quot;&gt;What does a very small raise that is equal to the inflation rate mean?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-10, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12962/&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;ve handed in my resignation letter. My manager texts me asking for salary details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-09, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12813/&quot;&gt;How to approach getting rid of geese from workplace?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-07, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12907/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12907/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-03, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12796/&quot;&gt;What programming languages are most &amp;#39;hire-able&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;07-02, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12763/&quot;&gt;Good question to ask a potential employer at a job interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;06-29, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12692/&quot;&gt;When and how to fire a unproductive engineer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;06-28, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12678/&quot;&gt;What is considered a big raise?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;06-26, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12644/&quot;&gt;Overpaid on a low position&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;06-26, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12631/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12631/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-11-26T23:40:35.513" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2189" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-26T21:14:18.480" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16910/if-companies-can-afford-a-counter-offer-why-dont-they-pay-that-before-the-empl&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; has recently been put on hold for being &quot;unclear as to what you're asking&quot;. Why? It's clear what the question is, what's the hangup?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3332" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T07:44:19.787" Title="This question is very clear however it was put on hold" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2187" CreationDate="2013-11-27T14:03:33.203" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree completely with this suggestion, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All questions here are primarily opinion based &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This close reason seems to get used incorrectly from my anecdotal experience&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Primarily opinion based&quot; means something different for SE than it does in standard English - this is super confusing to most people I suspect&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T14:03:33.203" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2187" CreationDate="2013-11-27T15:25:32.043" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a response to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2188/16&quot;&gt;answer by Jmac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Primarily opinion based is too easy and tells our users nothing that will help them improve.  Maybe we could have a close reason of question needs to be refined to replace the opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the the top closed questions from jmacs list and what I feel they should be closed as or if they should not be closed at all. I did not include all of them but there is enough sample here to show what I mean.  Many of these questions that are wrongly closed are questions that are not necessarily good questions, but they are on topic and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;5 people not liking the question should not be enough to close them&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.  There should be good valid reasons and opinion based has become our go-to for getting around that.  Please note that I am as guilty as anyone else as half of the ones I marked wrongly closed I am listed on.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;11-25, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16921/&quot;&gt;Underpaid and overworked, how should I approach my boss?&lt;/a&gt;  , No question being asked (Off topic)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-25, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16897/&quot;&gt;When is it okay to consult others on work I&amp;#39;m doing (after being told I take up too much of their time)?&lt;/a&gt;  , wrongly closed&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-22, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16865/&quot;&gt;Happiness and joy in the workplace?&lt;/a&gt;   , Off topic - Not about navigating the workplace&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-22, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16861/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16861/&lt;/a&gt;  , Not enough information to answer... but on topic&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-19, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16803/&quot;&gt;Are spelling errors in my rejection letter an HR trap or an act of negligence?&lt;/a&gt;   , wrongly closed&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-19, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16800/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16800/&lt;/a&gt;  , Too Broad&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-19, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16782/&quot;&gt;Self-arranged trial contracting job (permatemp-like) unethical?&lt;/a&gt;  , Off topic ethical judgement&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-19, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15078/&quot;&gt;Asking for more deterministic and easily measured work assignments in new job&lt;/a&gt;   , wrongly closed&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-18, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16778/&quot;&gt;Been requested that we work overtime in order to get the project delivered, would that let the team down?&lt;/a&gt;   , wrongly closed&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-18, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16758/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16758/&lt;/a&gt;  , Off Topic&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-18, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16750/&quot;&gt;Does an ultimatum require two weeks notice?&lt;/a&gt;   , wrongly closed&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-18, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16692/&quot;&gt;Is it ethical to exclude terminally ill employees from end-of-year layoffs?&lt;/a&gt;  , off topic&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-15, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15572/&quot;&gt;How long is too long to wait for a response after a final interview?&lt;/a&gt;   , wrongly closed&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-11, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15573/&quot;&gt;Fast learning cycle, how to keep up with it?&lt;/a&gt;  , off topic&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-10, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16601/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16601/&lt;/a&gt;  , off topic job function&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-09, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15553/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15553/&lt;/a&gt;  , too broad&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-05, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15474/&quot;&gt;How to list remote contract/freelance work on a resume?&lt;/a&gt;   , wrongly closed  (could be unclear what you are asking)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11-05, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15441/&quot;&gt;To what extent is it common practice to inform others of who is going to be at a meeting?&lt;/a&gt;   , wrongly closed  (though I could see off topic job function)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-30, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15351/&quot;&gt;How to be constructive and solve problems in an unconstructive environment?&lt;/a&gt;  , off topic job function&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-30, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15267/&quot;&gt;Job screen asked for a questionnaire but rejected my responses as inadequate&lt;/a&gt;   , wrongly closed&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-29, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15380/&quot;&gt;What are differences between quantitative analyst and data scientist in IT companies?&lt;/a&gt;  , off topic (though I think it should be on topic that is for a different question)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-29, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15365/&quot;&gt;Is a complex test which benefits the company an ethical practice?&lt;/a&gt;   , off topic&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-29, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15311/&quot;&gt;Should I dress sloppy for an interview to see if they really mean it?&lt;/a&gt;   , wrongly closed&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-28, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15328/&quot;&gt;What months/seasons in each year are there more openings and less openings?&lt;/a&gt;  , off topic&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-26, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15290/&quot;&gt;Why do companies disregard investing in productivity equipment?&lt;/a&gt;  , off topic (or wrongly closed)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-24, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15163/&quot;&gt;How do I avoid volunteering for weekend on-call support?&lt;/a&gt;   , wrongly closed&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10-22, primarily opinion-based, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15145/&quot;&gt;How can I climb the corporate ladder while being disabled and having other life commitments?&lt;/a&gt;   , wrongly closed  or Too broad&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T19:13:00.277" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2168" CreationDate="2013-11-27T15:50:13.227" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that any edits to &quot;Save&quot; a question should only happen after the question has been closed, unless the OP has clarified, or the question can be easily reworded. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we need to close the questions quickly and start punishing people who answer bad questions with downvotes and comments explaining that.  I am sure that this part will not be well recieved but unless we can stop the bad answers from being populated, then we have to choose between agressive edits quickly or deal with answers that do not fit the question that gets revised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T15:50:13.227" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2153" CreationDate="2013-11-28T09:31:59.143" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Example: 'How does a programmer change programming languages, professionally?'.  Someone offered up an edit to strip out the C#/MVC/ROR specific nature of the question to make it 'generic'. One of the comments was that this belongs in 'Programmers' due to the specific nature of the question. If someone puts in a response to the programmer question then it gets converted to 'generic', then the person answering the question is going to be asked to make the answer 'generic'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a named programming language is too specific, but if made 'generic', it should be left at the 'generic' programming level - not 'across the board to any given professional skill'.  Software development has it's respective quirks, they might not interest anyone in chemical engineering or orthopedics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People migrate 'long distance' in software development - what this means is that there are millions of developers that shift abruptly into areas of specialization they're not familiar with.  Engineers in other disciplines tend to have a limited set of employers and limited variety in their work, in comparison - there aren't 10 million businesses drilling oil wells.  If you build bridges on contract in New Jersey, the bridges there aren't likely to be much different from the ones in Illinois.  In comparison, someone could be writing C++ for 'gaming machines' in 2007 and SPSS for a state insurance board in 2009.  It's a stretch, but it does happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9517" LastActivityDate="2013-11-28T09:31:59.143" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2168" CreationDate="2013-11-28T11:58:15.340" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16960/how-does-a-programmer-change-programming-languages-professionally&quot;&gt;'How does a programmer change programming languages, professionally?'&lt;/a&gt;.  Someone offered up an edit to strip out the C#/MVC/ROR specific nature of the question to make it 'generic'. One of the comments was that this belongs in 'Programmers' due to the specific nature of the question. If someone puts in a response to the programmer question then it gets converted to 'generic', then the person answering the question is going to be asked to make the answer 'generic'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a named programming language is too specific, but if made 'generic', it should be left at the 'generic' programming level - not 'across the board to any given professional skill'.  Software development has it's respective quirks, they might not interest anyone in chemical engineering or orthopedics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People migrate 'long distance' in software development - what this means is that there are millions of developers that shift abruptly into areas of specialization they're not familiar with.  Engineers in other disciplines tend to have a limited set of employers and limited variety in their work, in comparison - there aren't 10 million businesses drilling oil wells.  If you build bridges on contract in New Jersey, the bridges there aren't likely to be much different from the ones in Illinois.  In comparison, someone could be writing C++ for 'gaming machines' in 2007 and SPSS for a state insurance board in 2009.  It's a stretch, but it does happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9517" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-11-28T11:58:15.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2196" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-28T16:00:54.130" Score="4" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer to &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16975/how-to-handle-a-subordinates-inability-to-provide-adequate-customer-service-due?noredirect=1#comment41299_16975&quot;&gt;How to handle a subordinate's inability to provide adequate customer service due to their personal/family issues?&lt;/a&gt; was downvoted aggressively. Some comments that appear under the original post indicate that this turns out to be a classroom exercise and probably isn't 'real'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators tend to like 'to the point answers' - Did you answer the question that was asked? When I meet people face to face and they pose questions like this, I generally challenge the assumptions behind the question.  In many cases there is a 'cultural slant' - one can see differences between, for instance, people in Asia and the Middle East, and people in North America - sometimes due to the question itself, other times due to the language.  Regardless of where they're from, a lot of people seek work for a big company in a full time role that has recruiting staff and HR people. In such circumstances they are either unaware of or refuse to consider alternative scenarios - a changed approach may get them what they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I've learned from the real world is one is often asking the wrong question. Therefore my responses are designed to get the OP to rethink the framework. Maybe it's appropriate to precede the answer with a disclaimer, maybe there should be a link to a topic somewhere else that explores the alternative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where, or what, is the dividing line between 'alternative approach' and 'simply immaterial'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9517" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-11-30T03:37:51.920" Title="Recognizing the difference between 'exact' answer and 'real' answer" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2196" CreationDate="2013-11-28T16:55:10.273" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like your answer (except for that first sentence) and think it contains good food for thought. It is not directly answering the question, but I'm all for giving different views or answering questions the OP &quot;&lt;em&gt;didn't even think to ask&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't think there is such a thing as a clear dividing line.&lt;/strong&gt; It's very much &lt;em&gt;personal impression, what is considered helpful&lt;/em&gt; in which case and so just going ahead and talking about &lt;em&gt;some very different point of view can come across like it's off topic&lt;/em&gt;, or the question wasn't read properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest not passing over the question placed, when suggesting alternative approches. We should either &lt;strong&gt;give short 'to the point answers'&lt;/strong&gt; or refer to other existing answers we agree with and point out that there may also be another view on this topic, &lt;strong&gt;before going ahead with an alternative.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10912" LastEditorUserId="10912" LastEditDate="2013-11-28T19:24:25.433" LastActivityDate="2013-11-28T19:24:25.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2196" CreationDate="2013-11-28T18:07:58.300" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You provided a wall of text of your opinion with no references or citations to back you up.  You made quite a few claims of fact about culture and expectations, those really need a citation back up your opinion and analysis of the problem is not what we are looking for.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then in the end I reread this answer 5 times and I still do not know what point you were trying to make.  It seems to be more of a lecture on the taboo of using the word secretary than an attempt to answer the question of how to deal with an employee who is letting personal problems interfer with their job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally some of us(or at least I) do not like answers to questions that are clearly out of scope of the SE.  The answer makes it harder to edit the question to bring it on topic.  An edit to this question would be possible but any edit is likely to invalidate the existing answers.  So if the question should be closed, do not answer right away.  If you do you are likely to get a few downvotes as penalty.  I personally have not voted yet... I am not sure If i will or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing to remember is that we are not actually here to solve the specific problem of the user but to provide a reference that future users can use to solve their own problem.  Your answer got me no closer to dealing with our CSR that also is having problems providing customer service because of personal issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2013-11-30T03:37:51.920" LastActivityDate="2013-11-30T03:37:51.920" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2199" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-28T23:51:39.997" Score="3" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16866/whats-the-best-way-to-structure-an-email-that-has-suggestions-for-workplace-pro&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16866/whats-the-best-way-to-structure-an-email-that-has-suggestions-for-workplace-pro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10911" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2013-11-30T00:45:52.527" Title="What is unclear about this question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2196" CreationDate="2013-11-29T01:45:53.007" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Executive Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You clearly have a ton of insight in to your field and your profession, and those are both great attributes. You put effort in to your answers, and that is great too. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean it's a great fit for the Stack Exchange Format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where, or what, is the dividing line between 'alternative approach' and 'simply immaterial'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not your question will be helpful to people with a similar problem who come across your answer to the question via a search engine. If your answer is too localized to that specific asker or to a specific industry or a specific point in time, people who come across it from a search engine with slightly different details will be unable to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Stack Exchange Concept&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our questions/answers are more like encyclopedia articles than they are conversations. What we want to be left with is a question with a clear answer that explains a solution so that people who wander in from a search engine have something to help them with their problem with slightly different specifics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I've learned from the real world is one is often asking the wrong question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are face-to-face, and working in a setting where there is a back-and-forth, then this is absolutely the correct approach. Ask questions. Figure out what the real details of this specific situation are, correct any misconceptions, and create an approach that works for that specific situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at my edit history, you will see that this is exactly what I try to do with my aggressive edits. I try to back up the question one step to ask about the broader picture, allowing the person asking to re-evaluate their stance by looking at their own situation from a more objective place. In the end the question still helps the person, but it also helps future users who don't have the same specifics, but are suffering from the same problem (and may be asking the same wrong question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are looking to give customized answers for each person, I recommend a forum of some sort, but the SE approach is very different from forums which is why what works in other mediums does not work well here. When you focus on the specific details instead of the general problem, the answer becomes a one-off of little lasting value to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Other SE Quirks&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some comments that appear under the original post indicate that this turns out to be a classroom exercise and probably isn't 'real'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Chad pointed out, as a community we tend to dislike answers to questions that should be closed because it sends the message that even if it isn't appropriate according to site guidelines, posting the question will still get answers. Even if the answer is good, we want our users to show restraint in answering bad questions to make sure we can maintain good quality content for future users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators tend to like 'to the point answers' - Did you answer the question that was asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As explained in my comment, the moderators have very little to do with voting (we have 2 active moderators, so at most they can represent 2 downvotes). The community in general does not frown on longer answers. Here are my top 5 answers, their score, and their word counts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10229/boss-does-not-answer-questions/10230#10230&quot;&gt;Boss does not answer questions&lt;/a&gt;, +67, 1,068 words&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12187/how-do-i-resign-when-i-know-my-employer-will-lose-a-big-client-when-i-leave/12193#12193&quot;&gt;How do I resign when I know my employer will lose a big client when I leave?&lt;/a&gt;, +62, 421 words&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12173/how-do-you-explain-to-your-boss-theyre-wrong-without-making-them-feel-threatene/12190#12190&quot;&gt;How do you explain to your boss they&amp;#39;re wrong without making them feel threatened?&lt;/a&gt;, +41, 945 words&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11740/what-projects-can-i-write-in-my-resume-if-all-my-company-projects-are-confidenti/11743#11743&quot;&gt;What projects can I write in my resume if all my company projects are confidential?&lt;/a&gt;, +39, 376 words&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15115/how-can-i-respond-to-an-employee-who-objects-to-working-on-certain-projects-on-e/15118#15118&quot;&gt;How can I respond to an employee who objects to working on certain projects on ethical grounds?&lt;/a&gt;, +35, 208 words&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;For reference, your answer is 714 words, which is slightly above the 604 average of these questions&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The length is not the issue. However, as you point out, there is an expectation that you answer the question that is being asked. Since this is a resource where future hits will mostly come from search engines, answers that do not answer the question asked are going to be less useful to someone than answers that do. If you aren't tying what you say to how it affects the answer, then it isn't even easy to apply regardless of how useful the information in the answer is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-11-29T01:45:53.007" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2199" CreationDate="2013-11-29T02:10:35.777" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I think might make this a little unclear is that your question seems to be something that you could answer by doing a Google search on some persuasive communication techniques. I didn't close the post, but I suspect that the people who did vote to close may believe there's more to the question than what you've given us, and to them, that may mean it's a bit unclear. No one likes to answer a question only to have the asker say, &quot;No! I already thought about trying X, but that won't work because my problem consists of Y.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's assume you already did some research on communication techniques and discovered some helpful information but are just unsure of how to apply those techniques. If you can edit your post to describe why it is your stuck, it will make it more clear to the answerers exactly what it is that you don't understand but on a much deeper level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only will this likely get you a really great answer, but it will also be more helpful for others who have a similar issue that wasn't solved by simply reading some guidelines on good persuasive communication.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-11-29T02:10:35.777" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2196" CreationDate="2013-11-29T03:52:25.440" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really appreciate you bringing this to meta constructively, and I'm hoping this information will help you find some techniques to help make your writing a little more direct while still preserving your own uniqueness in your writing style, as uniqueness is important. The challenge I see is it's not always clear what actions you're suggesting the asker take to solve his/her problem. That's not to say your posts don't contain that information, but I find I have to reread several times to figure out what you're saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Basically, to sum it up, try being more direct in your answers, and immediately make it clear what you think the asker must do to solve his or her problem. Describe how to approach the problem. Only then should you follow with experiences that support that actionable topic sentence and other information that you feel is important.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For most of us reading for the first time, it appears that you picked a keyword out of the asker's question, the word &amp;quot;secretary&amp;quot;, for instance, and then proceeded to write an essay on how the word &amp;quot;secretary&amp;quot; is a leftover archetype of the 1950's. You do mention the asker should change his work culture, but it's not clear how he should begin doing this, as you only mention this briefly at the end as if it's an afterthought. Instead, center your post around what actions to take to effectively make that change happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's more, your posts could benefit from using headings to help organize your thoughts. Also, use an active voice in lieu of a passive voice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a user on our site, and on &lt;a href=&quot;http://pm.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Project Management SE&lt;/a&gt;, who writes long answers, and what I've learned from this user's posts is that it's much easier to get the point across when using an active voice versus a passive voice. Telling the asker immediately what actions he or she must take brings clarity to the posts and sets the tone for where your writing takes the reader. Here is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14168/why-do-interviewers-ask-if-one-has-experience-developing-mission-critical-apps/14198#14198&quot;&gt;one of CodeGnome's answers on our site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also find that using headings that clearly state what each paragraph is about will help others parse your content much easier. For instance, CodeGnome uses headlines such as, &amp;quot;Don't guess, ask&amp;quot; or in this &lt;a href=&quot;https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/9819/timetabling-solution-for-small-tutorial-college/9821#9821&quot;&gt;other example answer from another site&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;quot;Fix your process, then pick a tool&amp;quot;, to clearly indicate what actions the asker should take and what each paragraph is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The TL;DR isn't necessary, in my opinion, but having a clear, actionable topic sentence may prove helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more writing tips, please see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailywritingtips.com/active-voice/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Daily Writing Tips - Active Voice&lt;/a&gt;, which describes how using an active voice will not only make your writing more concise but also make it easier for people to read, which helps make your intentions clearer and eliminate confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-11-29T03:57:25.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2196" CreationDate="2013-11-29T15:43:57.770" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, thanks for coming here. In my first days on StackExchange it took me a while to get used to &quot;how things work.&quot; The Q/A format is considerably different than 99% of other internet sites, which tend to be forums and considerably more &quot;just drop your thoughts into a thread and that's fine.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll be completely honest, most of your answers seem filled with bitter &quot;back in my day&quot; and &quot;nom nom nom everything is about the software industry&quot; personal anecdotes rather than answering a question. I've also not voted on that particular answer for what it's worth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few people here have made reference to some &quot;back it up&quot; ideas. Here's how I basically vote on answers on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does it answer the question?&lt;/strong&gt; A lot of answers here are interesting but ultimately don't answer the question being asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does it attempt to explain why it's correct?&lt;/strong&gt; Many answers here also basically are drive by &quot;here's my 2 cents!&quot; without explaining why. This is what I interpret &quot;back it up&quot; as - does an answer include justification as to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the reader should believe it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it helpful?&lt;/strong&gt; This is normally when I determine to upvote (the other two generally are criteria which invite downvotes if not successful). Helpful answers which answer the question and have some justification for why they are right get upvotes from me. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With respect to your answer here, the core question being asked was not &quot;should we reclassify our secretaries?&quot; which is what you answered. The problem the OP has doesn't relate to your answer at all - &lt;em&gt;perhaps&lt;/em&gt; in a minor sense. But literally everything other than&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The right approach in this situation has less to do with discipline or replacing an employee as it does with creating a working environment that handles contingencies and respects people's skills and responsibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;doesn't really relate to the question (see my first bullet point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-11-29T15:43:57.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2199" CreationDate="2013-11-30T00:45:52.527" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the question is now &lt;strong&gt;too broad&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is going to be very hard to answer this question because effective varies greatly depending on what you are trying to suggest, and persuasive is going to vary based on who you are trying to convince.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not going to cast a reopen vote to a question that still needs to be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-11-30T00:45:52.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2126" CreationDate="2013-12-05T18:35:15.437" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should anything be done about a user posting fake questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is a good fit for the site, I would do nothing and allow it to stay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A fake question that is a &lt;strong&gt;good fit for the site&lt;/strong&gt; is a &lt;strong&gt;good fit for the site&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A fake question that is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a good fit for the site can be addressed as any other question that does not fit the site. (Edit, close, down vote, ...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this a green light for me to post questions as though I were Leroy Jethro Gibbs, or maybe McGee?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think so. (Those are fictional characters, right? Not impersonating real people.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are posting questions that are &lt;strong&gt;truly&lt;/strong&gt; a good fit for the site, then those questions would be both &lt;strong&gt;good for the site&lt;/strong&gt; AND &lt;strong&gt;entertaining&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that a bad thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12436" LastEditorUserId="12436" LastEditDate="2013-12-05T18:45:19.160" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T18:45:19.160" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2211" CreationDate="2013-12-06T14:56:51.920" Score="5" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;When an OP asks for a down vote clarification, power users should be able to click a button to add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17162/is-asking-employees-to-wear-formal-clothing-on-client-visit-meaningful#comment41809_17162&quot;&gt;following comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the absence of a specific comment, you might find it useful to assume that a downvote means the downvoter thought that &quot;This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful&quot;, since that's what the downvote button offers as a tooltip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T16:41:06.530" Title="Feature Request - Down Vote Explanation" Tags="|feature-request|comments|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2209" CreationDate="2013-12-06T15:07:44.070" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe at least as soon as the overall rating is negative, there could be an 'info' icon with that as the hover text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that's already the hover of the downvote button, but people apparently don't get that (I didn't know until today) and this request is about making this detail obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10912" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T15:07:44.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2209" CreationDate="2013-12-06T16:41:06.530" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/2116/21539&quot;&gt;This user script from StackApps&lt;/a&gt; allows you to add pro-forma comments to any post on any site.  It comes with some standard ones, but you can edit the list to either change those or add new ones.  A &quot;welcome to our site&quot; message is a good one to have (with link to the &quot;about&quot; page, optionally).  You can use this script to create a comment like the one in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When using pro-forma comments you should &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; review for that specific context before just clicking &quot;post&quot;.  The script gives you an edit buffer, not a posted comment, for just that reason.  Please don't be mindlessly mechanical, but there's no reason to keep typing the same message over and over again by hand either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:43.347" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T16:41:06.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2212" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-09T01:35:22.753" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17202/im-underpaid-when-and-how-to-approach-this-with-my-boss&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17202/im-underpaid-when-and-how-to-approach-this-with-my-boss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this question he articulates his position clearly, and asks clear questions, yet it has attracted at least 3 down votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted his question could be quite a lot more concise,  to avoid the 'tl;dr' factor of a relatively simple question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this question attracting downvotes? Is it because it's been marked duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10911" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T02:26:01.870" Title="Why is a question about being underpaid attracting downvotes?" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2212" CreationDate="2013-12-09T02:14:24.860" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on what job to take, what skills to learn, how to negotiate a raise based on your specific skillset, etc. are off-topic as the answers are rarely useful to anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T02:14:24.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2212" CreationDate="2013-12-09T02:26:01.870" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't DV it, but as I said in a comment before seeing that, put this into the &quot;Ask a question&quot; box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm underpaid! When, and how, to approach this with my boss?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's annoying to me when people post a duplicate question after seeing a very clear duplicate. This to me says &quot;I can't be bothered to look at the questions the site said are related and one in fact turns out to be the identical question I am asking, but, it'd be nice if the community answered mine instead!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T02:26:01.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2215" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2231" CreationDate="2013-12-09T03:01:11.967" Score="3" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all love &lt;a href=&quot;http://workplace.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look at this site through the eyes of someone who's never seen it before, and see how we stack up against the rest of the 'Net.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/site-eval&quot;&gt;Site Self-Evaluation review queue&lt;/a&gt; is open and populated with 10 questions that were asked and answered in the last quarter. Run a few Google searches to see how easy they are to find and compare the answers we have with the information available on other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rating the questions is only a part of the puzzle, though. Do you see a pattern of questions that should have been closed but are not? Questions or answers that could use an edit? Anything that's going really well? &lt;strong&gt;Post an answer below to share your thoughts&lt;/strong&gt; and discuss these questions and the site's health with your fellow users!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T03:01:10.210" Title="Let's get critical: Dec 2013 Site Self-Evaluation" Tags="|discussion|site-evaluation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2215" CreationDate="2013-12-09T09:04:57.950" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a lot of trouble finding most of these through google (private browsing mode) without using absurdly specific search terms (virtually copy-pasting the question title). Several of the questions were very specific to the asker (rather than generalized advice) which made them poor resources even if they were stumbled across.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe others will disagree, but this review was an eye-opener to me on the importance of making sure that the questions are good and general, and that answers focus on the more general problem rather than the specific person asking. If I were coming in from Google on several of these, I would assume it was a forum of some sort, rather than a resource to get straight answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the review is finished, I'll post my detailed results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T09:04:57.950" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2217" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-10T23:57:18.563" Score="2" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was posted a couple days ago:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17254&quot;&gt;How should I handle a conflict of interest of a coworker?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Three of four answers stop just short of saying the CEO is a criminal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/17273/7945&quot;&gt;MrFox's answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if the CEO is getting some sort of kickbacks for spending the corporation's money in a certain way, they are breaking the law. They are not just doing something shady or immoral, this is white collar crime that can carry a jail term. In a more lenient case it would just be a shareholder lawsuit. Either way, this is a pretty serious matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/17255/7945&quot;&gt;MeredithPoor's answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite possibly the behavior of this manager is criminal. If it has left your customers exposed, it will destroy your business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/17267/7945&quot;&gt;Michael Zedeler's answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are sourcing work from a company that you are the slightest affiliated with, you are in a conflict of interests. This may potentially be very harmful to the company that you are working for and in some cases illegal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter two answers are the more extreme of the three (MrFox lists illegality as only two out of three possible explanations in this case), and are both heavily downvoted, but I strongly feel that these sorts of answers are not appropriate and should be flagged/removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do not provide legal advice because that is the realm of a lawyer. While not legal advice, accusing third-parties of illegality or wrongdoing on the basis of a question has a huge potential for harm if the person asking takes action based on those (potentially very wrong) assumptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we flag answers that imply the legality/illegality of actions as asking for legal advice so as to have them removed? Is downvoting the only appropriate recourse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T15:28:17.563" Title="Should we judge the ethics of a third party's behavior on the basis of a question?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|flagging|legal-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2218" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2220" CreationDate="2013-12-11T15:04:35.857" Score="11" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seriously, the front page is currently a wall of closure (7 of 10 closed) and the few questions that &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; closed have close votes (5 close votes in the remaining 3 questions). I understand the site review is driving people towards higher standards for questions, but simply closing them all probably isn't the best approach for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1740/34-close-rate-for-last-50-questions-60-of-those-mention-the-reason&quot;&gt;this has come up before&lt;/a&gt; especially around giving feedback for closure so questions can be improved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least on other SE sites, it's close -&gt; edit (if at its core is a good question) -&gt; reopen, but here there seems to be very little of the community improvement of questions. Is there something we can do to encourage that (other than simply setting the example)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What other options do we have to improve question quality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2196" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T00:33:10.337" Title="How can we improve question quality without closing *everything*?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2217" CreationDate="2013-12-11T20:20:56.770" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any question that asks us to judge the ethics or legality of a situation or policy should be off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question does not do that specifically, but the answers decide to try to answer that anyway.  I have flagged several of the answers as very low quality because they do not attempt to answer the question but instead attempt to judge the legality or ethics of the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is &quot;Is the situation as described a conflict of interest, and if so what can be done about it.&quot;  None of the current answers even try to address that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T20:20:56.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2218" CreationDate="2013-12-12T00:33:10.337" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Executive Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave comments telling users that their posts are getting negative attention, and more importantly, how to fix it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Aggressively edit posts (especially closed posts) where the asker has stopped participating (doesn't respond to clarifications) and there is a good core question that can be drawn out&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our track record as a community isn't too good on these of late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Background&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are three ways to deal with less than stellar questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close to maintain site quality&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit to improve question quality&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment to maintain user involvement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are not mutually exclusive choices, and everyone seems to agree they are necessary, but the devil is in the details:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What order should we close/edit/comment in?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who is willing to close/edit/comment?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is our theory actually being put in to practice?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Close-Edit-Comment Order&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we have had many different discussions on meta about aggressive edits, and about closing questions, the community consensus seems to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closing isn't bad so long as we don't abandon questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing aggressively is good if it gets answers useful to the asker and provides a quality resource for future visitors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Commenting to let users participate in the process is important to make sure we don't alienate newer users who may become productive participants&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real issue is that nobody seems to agree with the order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2193/7945&quot;&gt;Chad says&lt;/a&gt; we should close first:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that any edits to &amp;quot;Save&amp;quot; a question should only happen after the question has been closed, unless the OP has clarified, or the question can be easily reworded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2169/7945&quot;&gt;Jim G. says&lt;/a&gt; we should comment before editing to get consent:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before making a heroic edit, we should ask the OP if they'd like a little help fixing their post so that it will remain open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2173/7945&quot;&gt;My personal belief&lt;/a&gt; is that editing first with a comment is okay:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that questions should either be edited soon after being asked, or that we should wait until they are closed (or soon to be closed, if it has 4 close votes and you would issue the 5th without an edit, I am okay with that too)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Close-Edit-Comment Participation&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing and commenting are hard. They require more effort, more time, and more tact than voting to close. It is natural that there will be fewer editors than commenters, and fewer commenters than close-voters. But it would seem that the balance may be a bit out of alignment since we have so many closed questions, and far fewer people commenting and editing them to become productive questions for the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Note: There is absolutely nothing wrong with voting to close, and I don't want to discourage that behavior, I just want to point out that in addition to the close-voting we need to have people working to improve content quality otherwise we will naturally end up with walls of closed questions, which seem to bother many members of our community&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also going to be natural ebbs and flows to participation in any community. Members move on to new opportunities and have less time for us, or find themselves too involved and take a step back to spend time on their hobbies or their families, and sometimes we get new members who have a different perspective, and this is all okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point is that we get out of The Workplace what we put in to it as a community, so it's all nice and good to say we &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be doing X, Y, or Z, but they won't get magically done by someone else if we don't pitch in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Putting Theory to Practice&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how are we doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took all the closed questions from the last week (12/05-12/12) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Atrue+created%3A2013-12-05..2013-12-12&quot;&gt;this search&lt;/a&gt;. The full list is below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of these 30 questions, 11 had no comment explaining why the question was receiving close and/or downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were only 7 questions which had a comment explaining why the post was receiving negative attention, and how to fix it. Of those 7, a majority were by me or jmort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only two questions were edited to try to improve the question. One by Jim, one by jmort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eight questions were closed without a comment or an edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Commenting and editing need to be a community effort and not limited to two or three people. After all, we wouldn't want the community to collapse if one of those more active members &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9128/how-can-i-prepare-for-getting-hit-by-a-bus&quot;&gt;gets hit by a bus&lt;/a&gt;, would we?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17162/is-asking-employees-to-wear-formal-clothing-on-client-visit-meaningful&quot;&gt;Is asking employees to wear formal clothing on client visit, meaningful?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17296/are-there-any-uk-laws-about-allergies-in-the-workplace&quot;&gt;Are there any UK laws about allergies in the workplace?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17196/diversification-of-skills-in-spare-time&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17196/diversification-of-skills-in-spare-time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17251/adp-payroll-checks-not-given-rate-or-hour&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17251/adp-payroll-checks-not-given-rate-or-hour&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17259/does-an-employer-need-to-keep-my-job-open-for-me&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17259/does-an-employer-need-to-keep-my-job-open-for-me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17277/should-one-bargain-on-wage-to-achieve-a-manager-position&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17277/should-one-bargain-on-wage-to-achieve-a-manager-position&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17260/ive-discovered-that-our-dba-is-abusing-his-position-what-do-i-do&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;ve discovered that our DBA is abusing his position. What do I do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17110/the-boss-asks-to-return-money&quot;&gt;The boss asks to return money?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17145/where-do-cvs-have-a-smaller-weight&quot;&gt;Where do CVs have a smaller weight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17156/is-not-having-the-ability-to-program-the-end-of-my-testing-career&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17156/is-not-having-the-ability-to-program-the-end-of-my-testing-career&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17202/im-underpaid-when-and-how-to-approach-this-with-my-boss&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17202/im-underpaid-when-and-how-to-approach-this-with-my-boss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17219/tech-work-culture-in-the-u-s&quot;&gt;Tech work culture in the U.S&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17291/did-you-feel-in-over-your-head-at-your-entry-level-job&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17291/did-you-feel-in-over-your-head-at-your-entry-level-job&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17203/how-can-i-change-career-path-from-it-support-analyst-to-software-developement-te&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17203/how-can-i-change-career-path-from-it-support-analyst-to-software-developement-te&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17193/how-to-prepare-for-meeting-with-hr-and-reporting-manager-with-prediction&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17193/how-to-prepare-for-meeting-with-hr-and-reporting-manager-with-prediction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17222/reply-does-not-answer-the-questions-asked-ways-to-react&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17222/reply-does-not-answer-the-questions-asked-ways-to-react&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17240/what-is-the-advantage-to-the-employee-to-be-salaried&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17240/what-is-the-advantage-to-the-employee-to-be-salaried&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17284/if-someone-doesnt-reply-your-email&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17284/if-someone-doesnt-reply-your-email&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17275/do-self-employed-also-write-resumes&quot;&gt;Do self-employed also write resumes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17205/how-to-prepare-for-interview-during-technical-round-in-software-industry&quot;&gt;How to prepare for interview during technical round in Software Industry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17250/starting-from-scratch-can-someone-transitioning-careers-be-successful&quot;&gt;Starting from scratch: can someone transitioning careers be successful?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17285/what-should-i-tell-about-myself-in-a-interview&quot;&gt;What should I tell about myself in a interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17232/how-do-i-avoid-driving-with-a-coworker-who-drives-dangerously&quot;&gt;How do I avoid driving with a coworker who drives dangerously?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17191/just-starting-my-career-in-development-many-questions&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17191/just-starting-my-career-in-development-many-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17164/im-the-last-in-the-office-to-have-my-yearly-appraisal-and-have-been-told-there&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17164/im-the-last-in-the-office-to-have-my-yearly-appraisal-and-have-been-told-there&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17209/if-i-get-blamed-for-a-delay-i-didnt-contribute-to-how-can-i-defend-myself&quot;&gt;If I get blamed for a delay I didn&amp;#39;t contribute to, how can I defend myself?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17290/what-should-you-know-about-your-department&quot;&gt;What should you know about your department?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17289/how-can-i-keep-my-job-and-grow-when-my-former-peers-undermine-my-promotion&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17289/how-can-i-keep-my-job-and-grow-when-my-former-peers-undermine-my-promotion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17272/electronic-employee-signatures-on-important-documents&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17272/electronic-employee-signatures-on-important-documents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17300/how-long-time-does-it-take-to-bring-a-new-hire-up-100-productivity&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17300/how-long-time-does-it-take-to-bring-a-new-hire-up-100-productivity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" 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  <row Id="2221" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2223" CreationDate="2013-12-12T12:18:36.750" Score="11" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;A poster asks for the definition of a common term that is easily found via a Google search or in Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it Ok for my answer to reference the Wikipedia article? Or is providing a link to Wikipedia (or other site) considered a &quot;no no&quot; on stackexchange?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, it seems silly to flood workplace.stackexchange with &quot;What is X?&quot; questions that have already been fully answered in places like Wikipedia. To me, this is the definition of a &quot;does not show any research effort&quot; question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if this sort of question is allowed to remain, isn't it a waste of time to provide yet another definitional type of answer? Shouldn't this sort of definitional question be off-topic/closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2013-12-14T22:10:08.920" LastActivityDate="2013-12-14T22:10:08.920" Title="What if a question asks for a definition that is easily found via a Search or in Wikipedia?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2221" CreationDate="2013-12-12T14:09:48.743" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that other SE sites tend to close things that are simple/common definitions. I think that's a fine approach for the workplace too. That said, it's not uncommon for an answer to link to wikipedia (or elsewhere) to provide a definition and then elaborate with how it applies to the specific question or the implication of those facts. Those sort of questions provide value I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2196" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T14:09:48.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2221" CreationDate="2013-12-12T14:11:01.177" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the information is readily available (read: on wikipedia or equivalent), then I would link to the wikipedia article, and leave a comment saying something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hey user, and welcome to [workplace.se]! Have you taken a look at this [wikipedia article]? It seems to answer your question pretty clearly, but if your question isn't answered there, any chance you could [edit] it to be more clear about what you're asking that isn't found in articles like that? Thanks in advance!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then I would vote to close as 'unclear what you're asking'. I don't think this is ideal, but if something can be answered with a quick google search or on wikipedia, I don't think we should just summarize that article. It isn't of much benefit to anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T14:11:01.177" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2217" CreationDate="2013-12-12T15:08:45.797" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, ethicality and legality are different things. Your title talks about eithics and your question is about legality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree that specific legal advice is not permitted, I think &lt;strong&gt;if a question asks about certain behaviours, and it may be illegal, it is entirely appropriate that the questioner be warned about the potential illegality.&lt;/strong&gt; Not doing so would probably be worse for the questioner than not doing so. For example, if a questioner were to say that one of his workers had got pregnant and asked about firing her to avoid giving maternity leave, an answer that didn't point out this would be illegal (in most jurisdictions) would be seriously incomplete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions specifically asking about legality should be off topic, but that wasn't the case with these examples. It would be better for answers that claim behaviours to be illegal were covered with appropriate caveats (&quot;may be&quot;, &quot;if it is as you describe&quot;, etc.), but that's a matter of phrseology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should also note that one of the answers you single out was upvoted and accepted. The others were downvoted for reasons other than the claim of illegality. I don't think the community thinks this is a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="886" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T15:08:45.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2217" CreationDate="2013-12-12T15:16:44.693" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first answer dealt with the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17254&quot;&gt;the specific question on TWP&lt;/a&gt;.  This will deal with the question that was asked at the end of THIS question here on Meta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we flag answers that imply the legality/illegality of actions&#xA;  as asking for legal advice so as to have them removed? Is downvoting&#xA;  the only appropriate recourse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NO.  But they should be sourced.  If someone is claiming it could be illegal they should be able to provide a reference to the laws they feel may be being violated, or a link to a similar situation where the result was a criminal or civil case being filed, and preferably concluded that agreed that the situation violated the law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/255/168&quot; title=&quot;enforced in FAQ&quot;&gt;back it up policy&lt;/a&gt; but for some reason this has not been enforced in quite some time.  When you see these problems I urge you to flag the answer and request that the back it up policy be enforced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T15:28:17.563" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2226" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2232" CreationDate="2013-12-12T17:25:11.073" Score="8" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/17338/7777&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/17338/7777&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand how this question at it's core is any different from a &quot;What job should I take?&quot; question, which as I understand it is verboten here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paraphrasing here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*The new job (which I already accepted) is nice, pays more, and moves my career along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The old job could be nicer, might be negotiated into paying as much, and might promise to move my career along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I give them a discount and thus be able to choose the old company?*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T05:57:56.787" Title="Is this any different from &quot;What job should I take?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2221" CreationDate="2013-12-12T18:18:39.530" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should strive to answer anything that is on topic here.  You do not have to up vote those questions but there is no reason to reject them just because they seem simple to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Check Google(or any other site)&quot; is never an appropriate response here or anywhere else on SE.&lt;/strong&gt;  We are attempting to provide a comprehensive compendium for dealing with workplace and job search issues.  If someone has a question and they come here first I do not think that is a bad thing.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel the question is beneath you then ignore the question.  You do not need to comment, flag, or take any action.  If you think it is a bad question for what ever reason you can down-vote.  If you have nothing to offer to help improve the question then there is no reason to comment.  Your down-vote signifies that you think the question is not of high quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there are terms that are more common in specific industries/areas that are less common elsewhere.  In the Midwest we rarely have companies trying to start a &quot;Greenfield&quot; project.  We do not have a huge IT Base and what we have is mostly in support of industry.  In Silly valley and the west coast in general I expect there are far more of these types of opportunities.  Someone from a foriegn country may have no idea what they mean.  Asking for a definition or what they mean in the context should not be something that we rebuke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2013-12-12T18:33:49.467" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T18:33:49.467" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2228" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2229" CreationDate="2013-12-15T19:13:23.010" Score="3" ViewCount="1027" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, congratulations to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/70/maple-shaft&quot;&gt;@maple_shaft&lt;/a&gt;! He just &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/12648142#12648142&quot;&gt;spawned a new process&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now to his question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17409/giving-two-weeks-notice-when-on-maternity-paternity-leave&quot;&gt;Giving two-weeks notice when on maternity/paternity leave?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When giving two weeks and one is on family medical leave (viewed as short term disability in the US), would this be considered a reason to &lt;strong&gt;blacklist&lt;/strong&gt; the person from future employment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, there are only two possible answers to this question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No. Based on my experience, your wife will &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; be blacklisted if she gives her two weeks notice while on maternity leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes. Based on my experience, your wife &lt;strong&gt;will&lt;/strong&gt; be blacklisted if she gives her two weeks notice while on maternity leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I'll bet you 100 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Schrutebucks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Schrutebucks&lt;/a&gt; that @maple_shaft will choose the most convincing &lt;code&gt;No, she will not be blacklisted...&lt;/code&gt; answer as the accepted answer because it's most favorable to his situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My Questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are questions like this a good fit for this site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we want to welcome questions where the OP is most likely looking to feed his/her &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;confirmation bias&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T00:30:28.310" Title="How should we deal with questions where the OP is looking for someone to tell them something that they want to hear?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|questions|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2228" CreationDate="2013-12-15T21:37:39.770" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's a good question, then it shouldn't matter if the poster choose whatever answer is most favorable to his situation. I suspect that's what happens in the majority of acceptances anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good question is a good question - no matter which answer is accepted, if any are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll bet if you analyze all the questions asked, the majority are looking for confirmation about their feelings anyway. And many questions follow this pattern very closely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Doing Individual Projects worth enough?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What should I consider before wearing Google Glass to a job interview when I do development for them? (Originally, Is it appropriate to wear Google Classes to an interview?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bring printed list of questions to interview&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All sound to me like they could be retitled &quot;I'm planning to do X. That's ok, right?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2013-12-15T21:37:39.770" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2228" CreationDate="2013-12-16T00:30:28.310" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the majority of TW questions are going to be asked about situations in which the OP desires confirmation of their position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are just a couple types of potential perspectives questions will be asked from.  The first is an employer seeking how to handle a situation; the second is an employee doing the same.  If it's an employer then they are either wanting confirmation of the approach to take OR seeking how others approach certain policy formation.  The latter isn't as likely as the former.  Why?  Well, that has to do with the people approaching a website for answers vs asking their own HR/Legal departments.  Namely, businesses that can afford to pay for expert advice will.  More to the point, you won't see a Microsoft, General Motors or Aetna manager posting a question on how to handle a workplace question here; they will ask their HR department.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may see questions from new startups asking how to define things like vacation policies or when to term someone.  However the type of person that is an entrepreneur is someone who will generally already have a position on a topic before they seek outside advice...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next group are employees.  Employees are going to ask questions about how to deal with bosses, company policies and coworkers.  Again, confirmation bias is incredibly likely here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to answer the question in the title: &lt;em&gt;&quot;How should we deal with...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  The answer is simply to give them the truth as you see it: unvarnished and to the point.  In many cases it will likely boil down to how you would handle the given situation given your own perspective.  How the OP decides to take that is completely up to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your other questions:&#xA;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Are questions like this a good fit for this site?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  I think that if you toss out questions like this then there won't be a site.  So proceed with caution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Do we want to welcome questions where the OP is most likely looking to feed his/her confirmation bias?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  Same answer as above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12635" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T00:30:28.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2215" CreationDate="2013-12-16T03:01:10.210" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Final Results&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15144/how-to-handle-and-engage-employees-in-a-secretive-company-culture&quot;&gt;How to handle and engage employees in a secretive company culture?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: 5&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 8, Satisfactory: 5, Needs Improvement: 3)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15456/how-to-determine-in-an-interview-if-people-enjoy-working-for-the-company-or-the&quot;&gt;How to determine in an interview if people enjoy working for the company or the work they do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: 5&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 8, Satisfactory: 4, Needs Improvement: 3)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15273/what-comprises-pay-package&quot;&gt;What comprises pay package?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: -1&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 2, Satisfactory: 12, Needs Improvement: 3)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15075/to-be-a-successful-new-manager-must-i-stay-competitive-against-my-reports&quot;&gt;To be a successful new manager, must I stay competitive against my reports?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: -2&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 3, Satisfactory: 10, Needs Improvement: 5)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15093/how-to-work-with-some-who-has-a-dramatically-different-pace-of-work&quot;&gt;How to work with some who has a dramatically different pace of work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: -2&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 3, Satisfactory: 8, Needs Improvement: 5)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15253/getting-a-reference-from-a-hostile-work-environment&quot;&gt;Getting a reference from a hostile work environment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: -2&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 1, Satisfactory: 12, Needs Improvement: 3)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15221/should-i-mix-different-professional-aspects-in-my-linkedin-account&quot;&gt;Should I mix different professional aspects in my LinkedIn account&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: -3&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 2, Satisfactory: 10, Needs Improvement: 5)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15513/how-can-i-stay-focused-and-enjoy-work-when-i-am-the-only-member-on-a-team&quot;&gt;How can I stay focused and enjoy work when I am the only member on a team?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: -4&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 2, Satisfactory: 8, Needs Improvement: 6)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15374/am-i-hired-for-a-job-after-completing-new-hire-paperwork&quot;&gt;Am I hired for a job after completing new hire paperwork?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: -6&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 0, Satisfactory: 10, Needs Improvement: 6)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15072/leaving-a-job-how-to-erase-my-footprints&quot;&gt;Leaving a job: how to erase my &amp;quot;footprints&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Net Score: -7&lt;/strong&gt; (Excellent: 1, Satisfactory: 7, Needs Improvement: 8)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T03:01:10.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2226" CreationDate="2013-12-17T05:57:56.787" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it isn't apparently -- it has been closed and deleted by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system works!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T05:57:56.787" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2233" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-17T15:29:17.660" Score="2" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/17334/9549&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; has been put on hold. I normally wouldn't look twice and trust the 'hive mind' SE operates on but this time it struck me as a bit odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote the relevant parts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My previous job title was 'Senior development engineer' [...] Compared to a programmer in a large corporate, software house I am probably equivalent to a mid level programmer [...] [Recruiters] associate this word with being in charge of a team of software developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and goes on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you think it would be wise to change my title to something like 'Software Engineer' to remove the confusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has been put on hold as primarily opinion-based. So far so good, but let's take a look at the answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/17348/9549&quot;&gt;Ross Dew's answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think you are under valuating yourself. [...] Just make it clear at interviews that you were senior more with a bias towards project design and direction rather than people organization and I'm sure you'll be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/17345/9549&quot;&gt;jmoreno's&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tell the truth, use your actual title. The value and meanings of titles are company specific. [...] If you are working with a recruiter and are afraid that he will be looking for the wrong jobs for you, then have a discussion with him &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/17340/9549&quot;&gt;HLGEM's&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Always put in your exact title, it is something easily checked in a reference chek and can look bad if you changed it. [...] Discuss with the recruiters that you are looking for mid-level positions not senior ones, [...] I am more comncerened with acual accomplishments than titles when I hire. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/17335/9549&quot;&gt;my own&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't think you need to. Senior sounds nice. [...] You are not responsible for what a recruiter assumes your previous role entailed, only for what you say it did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the answers say the same thing, each for different reasons. Of course there's &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;good subjective and bad subjective&lt;/a&gt; but this site makes it a point to include bits of personal experience - which (arguably) might make it a bit more subjective than others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is this: If an otherwise well-formed question gets closed as opinion-based, but attracts answers of the same opinion (which suggests consensus therefore not individual opinion), should the question be re-opened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the reasons above I'd like to see the question re-opened, but I'd also like some discussion on the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T09:56:10.470" Title="Is a question opinion-based if all answers are of the same opinion?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|opinion-based|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2233" CreationDate="2013-12-17T15:51:47.810" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question literally is asking (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you think it would be wise&lt;/strong&gt; to change my title to something like&#xA;  'Software Engineer' to remove the confusion or &lt;strong&gt;is this a bad idea&lt;/strong&gt; as&#xA;  it undermines my previous level of responsibility?.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the definition of the type of question we should avoid that asks for opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said I suspect that this question could be saved with a few edits to ask this constructively in a way that would not change the basics of the question or invalidate any of the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps, &quot;Is it acceptable to prospective employers if I alter a title on my resume to reflect the duties performed rather than the title assigned by the company?  Are their risks to doing this?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that question would pass the good subjective test in my book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T15:51:47.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2235" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-17T19:31:00.127" Score="4" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the question asks &quot;Is X a good idea?&quot; (as this one does), doesn't that pretty much require opinions, and thus falls into the &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot; bucket of questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2577/is-highlighting-top-performers-a-good-idea&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2577/is-highlighting-top-performers-a-good-idea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this good subjective or bad subjective - I can't tell?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T06:37:36.557" Title="When the question asks &quot;Is X a good idea&quot; - isn't that pretty much assured to be &quot;opinion based&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2233" CreationDate="2013-12-17T19:36:46.790" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is a question opinion-based if all answers are of the same opinion?&#xA;  ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If an otherwise well-formed question gets closed as opinion-based, but&#xA;  attracts answers of the same opinion (which suggests consensus&#xA;  therefore not individual opinion), should the question be re-opened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to get too Zen here, but for me, a question is judged on it's own merits, not on the answers it draws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same question either is or isn't opinion-based when it has no answers, one answer, many answers all with the same opinion, many answers with differing opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case at hand, if the question has been closed as &quot;opinion based&quot; at the instant when it happens to have only a single opinion expressed in all the answer, then re-opened, what happens if it then attracts answers with differing opinions? Is it closed again? Seems odd to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judge questions how ye may, but don't depend on the current answers to guide you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T19:36:46.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2233" CreationDate="2013-12-18T00:00:04.393" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's difficult to formulate an answer to this question that abides by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1627/we-need-to-downvote-answers-more-even-mediocre-ones/1894#1894&quot;&gt;Back It Up! Principle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I voted to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:40:25.820" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T00:00:04.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2235" CreationDate="2013-12-18T06:37:36.557" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Executive Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are three things I look at when dealing with subjective questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it addressing practical, answerable questions based on actual problems?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it 'Good Subjective'?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it 'feel' right?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Practical Problems&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think as a bare minimum, a question needs to be designed to solve a problem. If there is no problem, it is a poll, and SE is not a great place to go polling for info. As &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/75035/209637&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood pointed out&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is really what you want, you need to do it on another engine. Ours simply cannot support these kinds of frivolous, pure entertainment based content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time this will separate the wheat from the chaff, and I don't even have to think any further. This is a quick heuristic to catch the worst of the bad subjective questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question may have a fundamental problem, but it isn't clear at all what that problem is with its current phrasing. If it were asked today I would leave a comment saying something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hey Fixpoint, and welcome to [workplace.se]! Is there something in particular that makes you worry that posting top performers will hurt motivation? If so, it may help to explain the reasons you are worried about this change. For instance, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;My company started posting top performers in a newsletter, and some of my colleagues are getting demotivated because they aren't included despite considering themselves top performers, what is the best way to prevent this from causing people from becoming demotivated? Is there additional motivation that the newsletter creates that I may be missing?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; Thanks in advance!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they didn't respond to that, I'd almost certainly vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Good Subjective&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a love-hate relationship with the Good Subjective article. I think it is a good set of guidelines, but I don't think it entirely captures what makes some of the questions on the site good or useful to the greater internet population. Regardless, it's a good place to start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Great Subjective questions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;... inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;... tend to have long, not short, answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;... have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;... invite sharing experiences over opinions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;... insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;... are more than just mindless social fun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my read, on a scale from 1-3 (1 being bad, 3 being awesome, 2 being passable), it would get a 2-2-3-2-3-3. Which would make it good. But since it isn't addressing a clear issue as explained above, I don't think that alone makes it a good fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question was clear, I think it would be good subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;My Gut&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up. I know some of you are going to say &amp;quot;I did look it up, and that's not true.&amp;quot; That's 'cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, look it up in your gut. I did. My gut tells me that's how our nervous system works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;- Stephen Colbert&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The regular users here have read hundreds of questions. We are very familiar with high-quality, and low-quality, and all the stuff in between. Sometimes a question just feels 'right' or feels 'wrong' and the existing rules don't explain why. If I had to explain the thought process, these are some of the questions I ask myself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will this be useful in the future as-is (to me or to others)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it isn't useful as-is, is there a good core question here that can be focused on?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will we provide information equivalent or better to existing resources?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our end goal is to have good content. If the content isn't good enough as posted, we can edit to improve it, or close it if we don't know how. Regardless of whether it meets the guidelines or not, sometimes it's a matter of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I know it when I see it&lt;/a&gt;. We don't want rules to trump quality, so when it doubt, go with your gut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T06:37:36.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2239" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2240" CreationDate="2013-12-19T12:16:33.450" Score="8" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does it make sense for me to go back and improve an answer to a question that has already been put on hold?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thought is that it does, because the question may never get deleted, and may even be re-opened at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2013-12-20T07:24:28.960" LastActivityDate="2013-12-20T07:24:28.960" Title="Is it reasonable to improve an answer to a question that has been put on hold?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2239" CreationDate="2013-12-19T16:16:03.940" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;So long as a question is live on the site, I don't think its status should matter in deciding whether to edit an answer.  The same guidelines that would apply to any other edit (substantial, improvement, respect the author's voice, etc) apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you're there, take a look at the question.  Could it be worthy of reopening with an edit?  If so, can you make that edit?  Since your answer-edit is going to bump the question anyway, see if you can help there too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T16:16:03.940" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2242" CreationDate="2013-12-19T16:38:32.857" Score="6" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/17513/10912&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; just popped up in my review queue and the author even states that it is not really answering the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm wondering, do we flag it anyway? Do we leave it in place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think this particular one is a good answer and like the fact that it questions assumptions that lead to that question in the first place, so I tend not to flag or downvote it, but I'm also aware that there have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1627/we-need-to-downvote-answers-more-even-mediocre-ones&quot;&gt;discussions&lt;/a&gt; about the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10912" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2013-12-20T04:09:56.110" Title="How finnicky do we want/have to be with answers that don't fit the question but the overall topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2241" CreationDate="2013-12-20T04:09:56.110" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first thing to consider is our target audience. We're writing this content for people coming from search engines who have the same problem as the asker. So let's look at this issue from their perspective. If you're searching for ways to turn down a promotion politely, chances are you've already made your decision. In this case, coming across material that tries to talk you out of it may be considered noise. Our goal isn't to try and talk people out of decisions they've made but instead to provide answers to help them solve problems they're facing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer linked would be analogous to looking in the dictionary to find out what the word &quot;superlative&quot; means, only for Webster to pop out of the monitor and go &quot;no, you really want to look up the word 'zoology'&quot; and then redirect you to the entry on zoology. You would be frustrated, and you'd have a tough time using the dictionary as a resource if it magically redirected you to stuff you weren't looking for. Most of the time when we have a problem and Google it, we expect to find answers to &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; problem and not some other problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's more, consider that one of the other ways we add value is that users can quickly determine if the page they've landed on will be helpful. Less is more, and if you've ever had to search for something in a forum, it can be frustrating when you've looked through 30 pages only to determine that nothing there is helpful. On Workplace SE, we want people to know within minutes whether or not the answer to their problem can be found on the page they landed on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, had the question been framed around how to determine whether to accept or decline a promotion, this post would have tons of value. If it's truly worth preserving, perhaps there is a different question where that answer would have value and could be re-posted. If you find such a question, feel free to suggest that in a comment to that answerer. We're happy to leave a link to that as a comment on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Additional note:&lt;/strong&gt; On such questions it may be helpful to edit out trigger words and trigger phrases like &quot;this doesn't answer the question&quot;, as I've almost accidentally removed material that &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; answer the question. Sometimes we all get set on auto-pilot, and seeing the trigger words/phrases may alter our perceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-12-20T04:09:56.110" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2243" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-23T08:47:39.167" Score="-3" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/17596/437&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17293/what-is-a-greenfield-project-in-it&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, can we add the following close reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question appears to be off-topic because it is a question in search of an objective definition; not a question seeking answers backed up by experience, reason, and/or logic. Google is your friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Related - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2221/437&quot;&gt;What if a question asks for a definition that is easily found via a Search or in Wikipedia?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T18:08:01.633" Title="Can we add a new close reason?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2244" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2245" CreationDate="2013-12-24T14:55:35.400" Score="7" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does one get an answer undeleted?  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17599/salaried-employee-not-being-paid-what-steps-can-i-take/17600#17600&quot;&gt;My answer&lt;/a&gt; was deleted, and I have modified it to respond to the comment.  What else need be done to undelete it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8736" OwnerDisplayName="atk" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T15:06:02.273" Title="Looking to undelete an answer" Tags="|support|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2244" CreationDate="2013-12-24T15:28:13.153" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bringing it up here on meta is a good start. Flagging the post for moderator attention is another option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, it would take three votes from users with the delete privelege to undelete a deleted answer, but since one of the users who voted to delete in this case was a moderator, it will take a moderator to undelete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you've expanded the answer, I've gone ahead and undeleted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2013-12-24T15:28:13.153" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2243" CreationDate="2013-12-30T15:02:08.223" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Logic is not an acceptable way to back up an answer.  Logic can be flawed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead perhaps when some what asks what a term means a well written answer with links to sites that back up the description, as well as examples of how the person writing the answer has experienced the term in the workplace would be much better.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in short these types of questions should be very much on topic and are the bread and butter of a Q&amp;amp;A Site.  &lt;strong&gt;We should never be suggesting to our users that they go somewhere else to learn about navigating the workplace.&lt;/strong&gt;  And part of that is understanding the terminology used in the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said we should not address specific acronyms as many different places have their own acronyms which mean different things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2013-12-30T18:08:01.633" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T18:08:01.633" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2006" CreationDate="2013-12-31T04:06:22.780" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is currently unsupported; but you are welcome to submit a feature request on meta.stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T04:06:22.780" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2249" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2256" CreationDate="2013-12-31T23:24:56.320" Score="8" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this question is a good fit &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/17725/7978&quot;&gt;Short name vs legal name on resume?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;There are going to be people with this problem at the workplace and this should be a valid question on the workplace stack. Why is this question put on hold ? Of course as a lot of answers, the answer to this question is going to be based on commonly accepted norms/opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; : I have made an attempt to edit the question and generalize it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7978" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T13:10:34.393" Title="Why is the religious name vs legal name question on hold" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2250" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2251" CreationDate="2014-01-01T23:31:54.800" Score="2" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to understand why  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/17764/2651&quot;&gt;Tips and advice for getting consistent pay raises and in general advancing one's career in corporate bureaucracies&lt;/a&gt; is being downvoted because none of the comments actually point to reasons why. I've tried to clarify the question to the point where I think it is specific enough in scope to solicit answers but so far I'm just getting a lot of comments directed personally to me instead of addressing the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have given the background for the question. I have provided a specific insight on my end that in theory should improve my chances of success in advancing my career and I've closed the question by asking for more examples of such actionable insights. I would like to know what else is there to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user2651" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T16:12:38.600" Title="Unclear downvote reasons" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2250" CreationDate="2014-01-02T00:48:30.930" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know why the question was downvoted. Explanations for downvotes aren't required and are seldom offered. But just because a question is downvoted, that doesn't mean you won't get a helpful answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that some feel that your question is too specific, and not applicable to a wide enough workplace.stackexchange audience, or is otherwise &quot;not useful&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that your question currently has 2 Close votes due to:&#xA;&quot;There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T00:55:36.483" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T00:55:36.483" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2252" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-06T00:51:48.390" Score="11" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;2013 was a great year for workplace.se:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We helped several users &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/3060?m=11466569#11466569&quot;&gt;improve their real-life situation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We were &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/10/podcast-53-lets-go-rio/?cb=1&quot;&gt;featured on the SE podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We have seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2126/should-anything-be-done-about-a-user-posting-fake-questions/2129#2129&quot;&gt;a huge increase in visits and active users&lt;/a&gt; getting us closer to graduation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=created%3a2013-01-01..2013-12-31%20is%3aquestion&quot;&gt;worked hard on defining the scope of the site and maintaining question quality&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;We&lt;/s&gt; RhysW &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2005/rhysws-tag-reviews-suggested-course-of-action&quot;&gt;cleaned up a lot of our tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are lots of things that we have accomplished as a community, and I look forward to working with all of you in 2014 to continue making The Workplace a better resource to help real people improve their professional lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A New Year brings new opportunities and a fresh start. What do you think our focuses in 2014 should be on? These can be big or small, but let's get the community thinking about what we can all do to improve this site and contribute positively to The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T14:07:37.280" Title="Workplace.SE 2014 New Year's Resolutions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2252" CreationDate="2014-01-06T01:18:40.087" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Get the Blog Started&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've been &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/448/do-we-want-a-community-blog&quot;&gt;discussing a Workplace.se blog since 2012&lt;/a&gt; but haven't actually gotten one going. A new year means we can take a new shot at getting some of our regular users to contribute to a blog and create a different type of resource for our users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T01:18:40.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2252" CreationDate="2014-01-06T01:23:48.513" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Vote Early, Vote Often&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite having a lot of users, we have a lot of questions with few votes. From 2013 alone, there were &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=created%3A2013-01-01..2013-12-31+is%3Aquestion+score%3A0&quot;&gt;120 questions with 0 score&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=created%3A2013-01-01..2013-12-31+is%3Aanswer+score%3A0&quot;&gt;666 answers with 0 score&lt;/a&gt;. We need to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/vote-early-vote-often/&quot;&gt;Vote Early, and Vote Often&lt;/a&gt; in 2014 to give better signals to our users about the quality of our contents. We only have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/badges/44/electorate&quot;&gt;9 people with the electorate badge&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/badges/32/civic-duty&quot;&gt;62 with civic duty&lt;/a&gt;. Let's all work harder on voting on our questions to make sure that the good content rises above the mediocre and bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T01:23:48.513" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2250" CreationDate="2014-01-06T02:22:42.723" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note: As Joe's answer points out, downvotes are anonymous and are not required to be explained. There are a zillion &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; on Meta Stack Overflow asking for people to be forced to explain themselves, but they are constantly declined. As a result, the below is speculation on my part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that ask for 'Tips or Advice' are usually downvoted because they are viewed as off-topic and low quality for the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/75035/209637&quot;&gt;Polling is a bad fit for the SE format&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/qa-is-hard-lets-go-shopping/&quot;&gt;Recommendations are a bad fit for the SE format&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your question in specific, it seems like you've already solved your own problem (you realize that the issue is that you have to communicate your value better to your bosses), and you are just asking for any other advice. As explained in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;, questions should be &lt;em&gt;&quot;practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, so when it seems like you've already solved the problem, it makes the question hard to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T02:22:42.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2249" CreationDate="2014-01-06T02:26:59.887" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks to your great edit, it has been re-opened, and has a great answer to boot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep up the good work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(For those of you wondering what a good edit looks like, this is a great example -- he generalized the question to tackle the larger issue, removed details that are irrelevant to the larger question, and made it far easier to answer -- great job!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T02:26:59.887" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2249" CreationDate="2014-01-06T13:10:34.393" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the edit. The original question was much more interesting. It wasn't a question about a diminutive name vs full name or married name vs maiden name; but two wholly different names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T13:10:34.393" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2252" CreationDate="2014-01-06T14:07:37.280" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you think our focuses in 2014 should be on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearer, easier to understand rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, far too many people visit Workplace, post a question, and have it immediately put On Hold for a variety of reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasons don't seem very consistent. They are frustrating for me - I have to believe they are frustrating for new visitors as well. And I wonder if we lose valuable contributors and traffic due to this lack of consistency as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T14:07:37.280" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1950" CreationDate="2014-01-07T23:19:16.280" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just FYI, spam flags are handled a bit specially on the SE network, and enough spam flags will automatically hide posts by that user and give a heads up to the moderation team to take a look at it. This is usually done very quickly (the same user posted a similar message on academia, and perhaps Super User as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see spam, flag it, and then if you feel so compelled, hop in to &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; and just say &lt;em&gt;&quot;Spam:&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and post a link to the question (it will 'onebox' the post in question so we can all click directly to it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the post still exists in 15 minutes despite this, you can raise a custom flag for the moderators (as Jim suggests), and/or you can hop in to &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/89/tavern-on-the-meta&quot;&gt;Meta Chat&lt;/a&gt; which usually has users who can handle it if you link to it there. This should rarely be necessary, since most of these sorts of posts are caught and dealt with very very quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="7945" LastEditDate="2014-01-08T01:34:00.443" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T01:34:00.443" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2260" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2261" CreationDate="2014-01-08T17:49:56.860" Score="5" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this question on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17889/outsourcing-some-software-development-tasks&quot;&gt;Outsourcing some software development tasks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other non-software questions that were this industry specific have been rejected in the past, if I recall correctly. It seems that this question is too narrow for workplace, no?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T19:38:11.327" Title="Is a question specifically about outsourcing software development on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2260" CreationDate="2014-01-08T19:38:11.327" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is definitely not about navigating the professional workplace. It's specifically about how to negotiate outsourcing agreements. Furthermore, the asker is looking for a list of things he/she is missing instead of asking something more specific.  Stack Exchange doesn't really work very well for &quot;brainstorming&quot; type questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If edited, such a question might work on another Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T19:38:11.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2262" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2263" CreationDate="2014-01-10T23:03:51.573" Score="0" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question I would like to ask in a way that will not make the answers primarily opinion based but I'm not sure if it can be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a Software Engineer and basically I see little benefit in hiring Senior Software Engineers from outside the company as the amount of time it takes them to get up to speed, you could probably take one of the standard developers and train him to senior level and just hire a new developer.  I want to know basically if this is naive thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can this be asked in a question and answer format, or did I just do that and answer my own question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12616" LastEditorUserId="12616" LastEditDate="2014-01-11T00:12:27.260" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T00:12:27.260" Title="Can a question that is discussive be provided with an SE approved answer?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2262" CreationDate="2014-01-10T23:27:57.500" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could ask for what you might be overlooking. Or just ask for the benefits outside talent can bring over training existing employees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically when you find yourself stating your opinion and ask for others, you can alternatively just go ahead and ask for arguments of the opinion contradicting yours. If those arguments can be based on researchable facts, it makes for an awesome question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And trying to find a contradicting point of view to your current one is always a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10912" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T23:27:57.500" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2264" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-11T22:26:16.443" Score="2" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, this seems too narrow, and focuses solely on an individual's specific case, to be viable for Workplace:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17980/advice-on-how-to-manage-a-side-project-that-a-separate-company-wants-to-use&quot;&gt;Advice on how to manage a side project that a separate company wants to use?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone disagree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T02:19:49.083" Title="Is this question too narrow for Workplace?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2014-01-14T02:19:49.083" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not entirely convinced the question is on topic on The Workplace. The question is coming from someone who is dealing with an external entity, not a member of his workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the question is about how to protect intellectual property and what ways the developer could profit from the work he's done.  It sounds like this question would be a better fit at &lt;a href=&quot;http://freelancing.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Freelancing SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've considered migrating the question or Freelancing SE, but since it's already been migrated once, has no close votes, and has an answer, I'm wondering, what makes this a Workplace SE question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, I don't see it as being too narrow, just not really a question about the workplace. Stack Exchange focused on solving long tail problems, the kind that you may not find searching articles, blogs, and other generalized resources. However, it could probably be edited a bit to use more of an active voice. It seems like the author is &quot;thinking out loud&quot; in the post. I don't think that makes it closeable, but such edits would make it feel more like what we are used to seeing in Stack Exchange questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T02:19:49.083" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2266" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-14T19:40:04.440" Score="6" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;This one was interesting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18079/medical-exam-for-shipboard-employees/18082#18082&quot;&gt;What types of medical conditions prevent employment on a cruise ship?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't see any reason to close it, but it also had the problem of being almost a question that is better with a lawyer or doctor...  If someone asked about &quot;what will make me fail a drug test for a developer job?&quot; - it'd get closed down pretty quick, as this is somewhere between &quot;it depends&quot; and &quot;get a lawyer&quot; as there's probably a legal side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?  Is this truly on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took a shot, figuring it was, and then thought the discussion would be worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-01-16T23:53:20.230" Title="Medical question - on or off topic?" Tags="|discussion|help-center|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2266" CreationDate="2014-01-15T01:08:44.650" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Too Specific&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; should &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; be a reason to close a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Long-tail' questions may be hard to answer, but they will drive traffic to our site since we are a resource better-equipped to allow people to find (and answer) that type of question. Closing it to eliminate that possibility is a very bad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The medical aspect is definitely something different. Like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1856/what-is-asking-for-legal-advice&quot;&gt;legal questions&lt;/a&gt;, I think we need to judge whether or not you need to be a doctor to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal feeling is that this current question as-is doesn't fall in that category. Beth provided a great answer that answers the question without having to go in to medical details. It outlines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why the companies have medical restrictions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What sorts of conditions may fall under those restrictions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That we aren't in a position to judge whether or not this specific case is okay or not&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first two points are perfectly on topic for this site, just like a question asking about what sorts of things may come up in a background check to block employment. What we want to avoid is questions that ask about the third point alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Good:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;When applying for a job working in the public sector, what types of information in a background check can block employment?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;When applying for conscientious objector status in the military, what criteria is used to determine whether the request is legitimate?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Bad:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;I have a misdemeanor conviction for passing a bad check. Will this show up on my background check and bar me from working in a law office?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;I have an incredibly rare mental disorder called kuchigeri, will that be covered under my employer's health insurance?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this question, I would just rephrase it. Currently:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you know of any specific medical conditions that may prevent someone from getting a job on a cruise ship? i did my medical and my SGPT/ALT blood test result was slightly elevated and i am a bit worried that it may prevent me from getting the job&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposed revision:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am applying for a job on a cruise ship and was asked to take a medical exam as a condition of employment. What sorts of information that comes up on a medical exam would prevent the cruise company from hiring me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the question is locked I can't make the revision, but I think that question would be perfectly reasonable for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comments, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2266/medical-question-on-or-off-topic/2267?noredirect=1#comment3680_2267&quot;&gt;Chad says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this question should probably stay closed because the important part is the test results that potentially indicate liver damage. Removing that context changes the question and is unlikely to get the answer the OP wants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have two choices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave the question closed and have it be useless to everyone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the question to be answerable and provide limited help to the person who asked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter is preferable because someone else with a similar question could be helped by the limited answer, while a closed question with no answer won't help anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our goal is to build a resource for &lt;strong&gt;future&lt;/strong&gt; visitors, not just answer whatever narrow question someone is asking about today. Sometimes that means we make an &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2153/aggressive-edits&quot;&gt;aggressive edit&lt;/a&gt; that allows the question to get answers even though it is a different question from what is originally asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing should be a last resort for questions that can't be salvaged or aren't a good fit for our format, not something we move to first just because we can't answer the person's question as-is. As a community we should be improving posts, not just acting as a panel of judges to decide their fate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-01-16T23:53:20.230" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2268" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2667" CreationDate="2014-01-15T23:55:27.173" Score="12" ViewCount="623" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NEWS FLASH:&lt;/strong&gt; After &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/19514/209637&quot;&gt;6-8 weeks&lt;/a&gt; of waiting, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/188465/beta-sites-should-be-in-the-data-explorer&quot;&gt;you can now write queries for beta sites using the data explorer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The data explorer uses &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transact-SQL&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TSQL&lt;/a&gt; which seems to be similar to regular SQL with a few variations. You can browse existing queries and yoink stuff from them as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, taking &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/216297/209637&quot;&gt;this query from Jon Ericsson&lt;/a&gt;, I created &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/the%20workplace%20stack%20exchange/revision/160172/203889/votes-per-post&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a version for The Workplace&lt;/a&gt;. I am horrible at SQL though, as I am not a programmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm sure some of you are! Let's try to identify things that we as a community want to look at, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are close votes increasing or decreasing?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is our ratio of up/downvotes increasing or decreasing?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are we getting more one-off questions, or are there regular users?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are questions after a popular question of higher or lower quality?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you create a query, just link it here, and we can all take a look at it and collaborate on it, and we can track the data we get from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-10-28T23:12:23.053" Title="Beta Sites Data is Now Accessible Through the Data Explorer" Tags="|discussion|statistics|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2268" CreationDate="2014-01-16T03:27:53.677" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/revision/160191/203924/top-close-voters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Top Close Voters for Closed Questions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;gnat - 3752&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jim G. - 2027&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IDrinkandIKnowThings - 1864&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;jcmeloni - 1182&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Christopher Estep - 1053&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Michael Grubey - 813&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lilienthal - 808&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jan Doggen - 772&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dawny33 - 748&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;scaaahu - 704&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; @gnat is correct: These stats are skewed because &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/157462/can-some-metadata-about-deleted-posts-be-included-in-data-se&quot;&gt;close votes cast on deleted posts are not included in Data.SE.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-10-28T23:12:23.053" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2270" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-16T17:11:38.677" Score="6" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Still trying to understand how things work...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't this question asking for a &quot;Poll&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18138/how-many-hours-do-you-expect-to-clock-in-a-40-hour-week&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18138/how-many-hours-do-you-expect-to-clock-in-a-40-hour-week&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-01-16T23:58:43.080" Title="Isn't this a request for a &quot;Poll&quot; type answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2270" CreationDate="2014-01-16T19:56:13.070" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's close this ASAP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2014-01-16T19:56:13.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2270" CreationDate="2014-01-16T23:58:43.080" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always tread lightly on migrated questions. Questions that get migrated here will be locked and unable to be edited if they are voted to close, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/13223563#13223563&quot;&gt;I thought that post was sorely in need of an edit at the very least&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(it is in sore need of an edit at the very least, and will likely get closed and locked before it gets the edit it needs)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was trying to manage the huge burden that was being caused by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18119/what-is-a-friendly-way-to-let-managers-know-that-having-good-developers-is-a-p&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (10k views in 24 hours!), and by the time I got around to thinking about an edit, it already had answers and had no close votes. So I passed on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think it was a poor question that should have been edited &lt;em&gt;prior&lt;/em&gt; to migration, but that's a separate discussion entirely. As-is, I think it should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-01-16T23:58:43.080" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2268" CreationDate="2014-01-17T01:52:13.123" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/160432/votes-and-posts-per-day&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a query that shows upvotes, downvotes, questions, and answers per day&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use these for trends and the like. You can probably relatively easily include stuff like close votes as well if you felt compelled. I am just awful at SQL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="7945" LastEditDate="2014-01-27T07:24:14.017" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T07:24:14.017" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-08-01T16:22:53.973" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2284" CreationDate="2014-01-17T01:59:30.713" Score="5" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18152/how-to-handle-an-ignored-request&quot;&gt;How To Handle An Ignored Request&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question the user is asking how to deal with that his technical service request is apparently being ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this is plainly to do with negotiating the workplace, and I can't see why it would be offtopic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10911" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user10911" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T04:09:32.837" Title="Why is a question about dealing with ignored service requests off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2268" CreationDate="2014-01-20T08:21:25.263" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Data for &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/revision/161189/205379/users-by-date-joined#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;New Users by Week&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3136/are-we-going-down-hill/3140#3140&quot;&gt;adapted from one of Rachel's Queries posted on Programmers.SE&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T08:26:45.823" LastActivityDate="2014-01-29T12:56:55.863" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-08-01T16:22:48.243" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2268" CreationDate="2014-01-20T08:31:06.193" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A list of &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/161190/most-viewed-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Most Viewed Questions&lt;/a&gt; (all questions with 20k plus displayed below):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10006&quot;&gt;How Should I Indicate Language Proficiency on my Resume?&lt;/a&gt; - 76,632&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7617&quot;&gt;How should I deal with an employee who has slept with my wife?&lt;/a&gt; - 64,018&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3492&quot;&gt;Is it rude to leave an interview early if you have already made your decision?&lt;/a&gt; - 63,113&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1478&quot;&gt;How can I overcome &amp;quot;years of experience&amp;quot; requirements when applying to positions?&lt;/a&gt; - 47,709&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/947&quot;&gt;Job offer contingent on background check: when to give notice?&lt;/a&gt; - 47,137&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/922&quot;&gt;When is it appropriate to take sick leave due to work stress/fear of burnout?&lt;/a&gt; - 36,912&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7406&quot;&gt;Leaving a job very early to accept another offer&lt;/a&gt; - 35,043&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18119&quot;&gt;What is a &amp;#39;friendly&amp;#39; way to let managers know that having good developers is a privilege?&lt;/a&gt; - 34,635&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2620&quot;&gt;Is it considered rude to turn down a job after initially accepting it?&lt;/a&gt; - 33,753&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10203&quot;&gt;What is appropriate email follow-up etiquette after no response?&lt;/a&gt; - 26,283&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/662&quot;&gt;How can I ask my interviewers for feedback following an interview?&lt;/a&gt; - 22,016&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2074&quot;&gt;Is it benificial to show online certificates on a CV?&lt;/a&gt; - 21,094&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/790&quot;&gt;How to list contracting on resume&lt;/a&gt; - 21,064&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2366&quot;&gt;Is it unethical to quit just before a project that I&amp;#39;m the only one suitable for begins?&lt;/a&gt; - 20,159&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T07:05:10.007" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-08-01T16:22:37.977" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2277" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2283" CreationDate="2014-01-21T06:48:07.343" Score="3" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would just like to ask if questions like &quot;How does a X Profession enter Y Company/Industry&quot; on topic or off topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have read this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126/are-how-do-i-change-my-career-from-x-to-y-questions-off-topic-not-constructive&quot;&gt;Question&lt;/a&gt;, but I don't believe we have reached a consensus yet. What if the question was not Localized?  (Ex. How does a Programmer Enter UN or NASA? (Programmer can be from any country) (no such actual question exists.. yet.))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12484" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T01:55:12.037" Title="are Career Path Questions off topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2278" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-21T14:13:58.777" Score="2" ViewCount="418" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/9128/2322&quot;&gt;How can I prepare for getting hit by a bus?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point, this question became community wiki but I don't see a compelling reason for it to remain so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a note, there are quite a few deleted answers on that question which I'm assuming helped push it to CW status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T08:14:27.580" Title="Un-community wiki this question?" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2268" CreationDate="2014-01-21T15:44:55.250" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/90852/top-reopen-voters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Top Reopen Voters for Reopened Questions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;92 Chad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;89 gnat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;81 enderland&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;79 Rachel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;49 RhysW&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;42 jmort253&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;42 jcmeloni&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;42 CMW&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;37 jmac&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;33 Joe Strazzere&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nice job guys! Editing + Reopening is part of what is making this site great :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It should be noted that you can't query Close/Reopen votes directly, which is why this query is based off the PostHistory table and successfully reopened questions only. There's a meta proposal &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/160981/158605&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to change that.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2014-04-11T14:35:45.970" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2278" CreationDate="2014-01-21T17:17:45.720" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've removed Community Wiki status from the question. It was auto-CWed because it crossed the answer threshold, not including deleted answers (15 non-deleted + 4 deleted = 19 total; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1659/869&quot;&gt;threshold is 15&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-01-21T17:17:45.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2268" CreationDate="2014-01-21T21:13:31.617" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/161629#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;# Asked, # Closed, and # Re-Opened per week&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OJEKX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that this query evalutes Post Activity per week, not new posts and their current status. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example it shows you how many questions were closed in a week, regardless of when they were posted, instead of how many questions were asked that week but are now closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="316" LastEditDate="2014-01-29T12:55:49.297" LastActivityDate="2014-01-29T12:55:49.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2278" CreationDate="2014-01-22T01:32:33.747" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that manually removing CW status from questions may be a slippery slope later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CW status is automatically put in place to minimize people piling answers on high-view questions in the hopes of getting easy reputation. If we manually remove the CW status on questions, then it circumvents that mechanism, which I think is a good mechanism. We do regularly get answers on older questions, and that will increase as we continue to grow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we want to remove that mechanism (or change the threshold), it will make the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/216260/reorder-questions-picked-for-hot-list-based-on-adjusted-hotness-score-discard-s&quot;&gt;current issue with hot questions&lt;/a&gt; even more pronounced in the short-term, so I'm not a fan of that idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, for this question I don't see it as much of an issue now, but I think we may want to use caution going forward in making this sort of request. At least by having this comment here, anyone who stumbles across this request in the future will realize that it should be viewed in the context of when and why it was done, rather than &lt;em&gt;carte blanche&lt;/em&gt; to ask CW status to be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T01:32:33.747" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2277" CreationDate="2014-01-22T01:55:12.037" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Executive Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that they are going to be decidedly off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no real problem being solved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The talent of the individual trumps anything we could write&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers would generally not be helpful to future readers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;No Real Problem&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our help center clearly states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What problem is being faced here? &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How can a window washer become a nuclear scientist?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; is not a specific problem. Does the person want to leave their job? Then that's the problem, and that's what should be asked about. Does the person want to become a nuclear scientist but keeps getting turned down due to lack of education? Then that's the problem, and that's what should be asked about. Hypothetical, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How would I go about...&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; questions aren't a good match as they are polling for opinion rather than defining a problem that can be solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Talent &amp;gt; Answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For our &lt;em&gt;Good Will Hunting&lt;/em&gt;-esque window washer, any advice we could give if it weren't already off topic due to not being about a problem would amount to something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get the proper education/skills for the target position&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Apply to jobs in that industry&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be willing to start off at a lower position to gain experience&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; is contingent on #1. If the person hasn't taken the first step themselves to make sure that they have the skills/ability to actually do that job, then there is no amount of advice that we can provide that will trump that oversight. And it's the obvious first step.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone does take that first step, then the second is easy too. And if they take the second but still can't get the job, then they have a very specific problem that would make a great question here: &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;When switching fields, does it make more sense to apply for positions equivalent to my experience rather than age?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Not a Good Resource&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we do start giving answers anyway, then people will start using that as an opportunity to ask what skills they need. And we clearly state &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;in the help center&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;How do I learn to be a...&amp;quot; / &amp;quot;How do I perform the job of a ...&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions should be about problems you are encountering or have encountered in the workplace, and not the learning/applying of specific job functions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We aren't career counselors because it won't help future visitors who have a different set of skills, and a different set of needs, or a slightly different career choice. And as explained earlier, any advice we do give won't guarantee that someone can get that job, that depends on them being able to pick of the skills to make them an asset to the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are more than happy to help with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to interview&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to appeal your skills&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to address specific concerns brought up by employers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are going to be applicable to a far wider range of people. But questions asking &amp;quot;How does an A become B?&amp;quot; are not going to help out future visitors who find the question through a google search since the answers are always dependent on the person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T01:55:12.037" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2274" CreationDate="2014-01-22T04:09:32.837" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Post Reopened by jmac, Jim G., THE DOCTOR, gnat, enderland&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;occurred Jan 18 at 15:50&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like the community ended up agreeing with you. It currently isn't closed, so the community doesn't think it's off-topic. Community moderation remains effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T04:09:32.837" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2278" CreationDate="2014-01-22T08:14:27.580" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Removing the automated community wiki status is something we should approach with the understanding that once a moderator removes the community wiki, the system will no longer step in and apply this safeguard, should additional answers pile on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On such questions, it's our responsibility as a community to ensure we watch such posts to keep them free of spam, me too, and low quality answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is already protected against answers from very new users, so this shouldn't actively harm our site and should be fine. But let's all be sure to keep our eyes open for trouble, if it gets bumped to the top of the active page again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T08:14:27.580" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2268" CreationDate="2014-01-23T02:53:46.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/revision/162191/206734/questions-by-number-of-answers#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Number of Questions by Answer Count&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will be used shortly for cleaning up some of those outliers. We have over 700 questions with over 5 answers. There is something wrong with that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/revision/162191/206762/questions-by-number-of-answers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is a better query that polls questions that have never been closed, but leaves out those that were re-opened, if someone good at SQL could fiddle with it so it only shows the results for open questions, that'd be swell)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="7945" LastEditDate="2014-01-23T06:38:35.260" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T06:38:35.260" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-08-01T16:22:25.967" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2287" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2351" CreationDate="2014-01-23T07:14:37.720" Score="15" ViewCount="596" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Due to graduation, privilege levels have dropped to the point where most of us can no longer delete answers making this less productive. We can revisit it in the future when we have more 20k+ users.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back in May 2012, Rarity asked about how we should deal with bad or &amp;quot;me too&amp;quot; answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/269/do-we-need-a-policy-on-bad-me-too-answers&quot;&gt;Do we need a policy on bad/&amp;quot;me too&amp;quot; answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More recently, bad deleted posts pushed one of enderland's questions in to CW mode causing much gnashing of teeth:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2278/un-community-wiki-this-question&quot;&gt;Un-community wiki this question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When questions here get popular, they get a lot of views, and a lot of answers because of the subjective nature of this site and the feeling that anyone is qualified to post their opinion as an answer. While &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/216260/reorder-questions-picked-for-hot-list-based-on-adjusted-hotness-score-discard-s&quot;&gt;gnat is leading the charge to solve the hot question issue&lt;/a&gt;, in the meantime something we can do is clean up these posts with tons of answers, and improve the quality of the site for people looking at some of our most popular questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2286/7945&quot;&gt;run a query&lt;/a&gt; showing the number of posts we have with each range of answers. Here are the results for posts that have never been closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LB6pU.png&quot; alt=&quot;Graph of Query Results&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am going to wager that a question with 25 answers probably has a lot of answers that are less than ideal. But don't take my word for it, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1478/how-can-i-overcome-years-of-experience-requirements-when-applying-to-positions&quot;&gt;see the post&lt;/a&gt;. Not to pick on anyone, but is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/1482/7945&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; really worthy of 6 upvotes when compared with the other answers in the question? I would wager not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I want to do is, starting from the questions with the most answers, get the community (that means you!) focused on cleaning up one per week. This is my proposed workflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I will list direct links to the question and each answer, and the starting score&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For the week, I would love your cooperation in voting on as many of those answers as possible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any answer that does not offer anything unique compared to the other answers should be downvoted since the downvote text is 'This answer is not useful'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any obvious mistakes (formatting, typos, grammar) should be fixed with an edit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At the end of the week (Friday Japan Time, Thursday US Time) I will show the &lt;em&gt;change in score&lt;/em&gt; between the starting point, and the ending point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions that have dropped below -1 can be voted by trusted users, -3 by normal users -- bad answers should get a vote for deletion so it gets sent to the queue&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We can then go through the review queues to finalize any deletes that didn't get completed during the review&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers that had a large negative drop but remain positive can be reviewed by the mods who can delete them anyway (we can always undelete or create separate meta discussions if merited)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the number of answers drops, CW status for the question can be removed (if desired) to encourage future users to contribute quality answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Appreciated but not required is flagging comments that say things like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1478/how-can-i-overcome-years-of-experience-requirements-when-applying-to-positions#comment3189_1503&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;+1 for mentioning that skills do not increase in direct proportion to experience.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I plan to start this project next week. If you have any concerns, or can improve the workflow, or otherwise have a good idea on how to do this in a better way, share it here. Starting next week we will go through the questions one by one until we end up with a better resource. If you are willing to contribute what shouldn't be more than 20 minutes a week to this, please add a comment and show support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the data for how many questions have each amount of answers, and a link to an advanced search to find them (only questions with more than 10 answers listed):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;25 Answers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Afalse+answers%3A25..25&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;23 Answers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Afalse+answers%3A23..23&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;19 Answers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Afalse+answers%3A19..19&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;18 Answers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Afalse+answers%3A18..18&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;17 Answers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Afalse+answers%3A17..17&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;16 Answers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Afalse+answers%3A16..16&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;15 Answers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Afalse+answers%3A15..15&quot;&gt;5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;14 Answers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Afalse+answers%3A14..14&quot;&gt;8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;13 Answers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Afalse+answers%3A13..13&quot;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;12 Answers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Afalse+answers%3A12..12&quot;&gt;12&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;11 Answers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Afalse+answers%3A11..11&quot;&gt;13&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10 Answers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Afalse+answers%3A10..10&quot;&gt;26&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that pace we can get all questions down to under 15 answers (the Community Wiki threshold) by Spring, meaning that we can manage future answers by searching every now and again for questions with over 15 answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T01:34:56.543" Title="Cleaning Up Bad Answers on Popular Questions" Tags="|discussion|support|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2287" CreationDate="2014-01-23T07:59:25.340" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Please vote to delete the bad answers, and if any answers require mod intervention or flagging of comments, please flag as need-be so we can move on to the next question next week.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Results&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We placed &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/1478/timeline&quot;&gt;57 votes&lt;/a&gt; on the question this week for a net change of -10 in the score of the answers in the question. Two answers were deleted, and 4 additional answers can be deleted (negative score) dropping the answer total from 25 to 19. Personally I think too many marginal answers were upvoted despite not contributing anything to the quality of the Q&amp;amp;A on the question. Moving forward, let's remember that if there are 19 answers, people are not going to read all 19, so it is very important we make the good answers more visible by downvoting/deleting marginal answers with no added value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the result of each answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1479&quot;&gt;(▼2) 7 → 5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1480&quot;&gt;(▼3) 7 → 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1482&quot;&gt;(▼2) 6 → 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1483&quot;&gt;( ― ) 10 → 10&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1484&quot;&gt;( ― ) 51 → 51&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1485&quot;&gt;(▲4) 160 → 164&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1487&quot;&gt;(▲1) 14 → 15&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1488&quot;&gt;(▲4) 33 → 37&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1489&quot;&gt;(▼1) 3 → 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1490&quot;&gt;(▼1) 2 → 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1494&quot;&gt;(▼3) 1 → -2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1497&quot;&gt;( ― ) 4 → 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1499&quot;&gt;(▼2) 1 → -1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1501&quot;&gt;(▼1) 2 → 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1502&quot;&gt;(▼2) 0 → -2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1503&quot;&gt;(▼2) 6 → 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1504&quot;&gt;( ― ) 2 → 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1507&quot;&gt;(▼1) -8 → -9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1533&quot;&gt;(▲1) 1 → 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1556&quot;&gt;(▼1) 2 → 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3318&quot;&gt;(▲4) 12 → 16&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3327&quot;&gt;(▼3) 2 → -1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3348&quot;&gt;( ― ) 2 → 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3397&quot;&gt;(▼2) 0 → -2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7279&quot;&gt;(▲2) 2 → 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1478&quot;&gt;How can I overcome &amp;quot;years of experience&amp;quot; requirements when applying to positions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Created:&lt;/strong&gt; May 29 '12 at 12:55&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Score:&lt;/strong&gt; +137&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Views:&lt;/strong&gt; 48,044&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Answers:&lt;/strong&gt; 25&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1479&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1480&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1482&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1483&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 10&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited May 07 '13 at 14:49&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1484&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 51&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited May 06 '13 at 10:26&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1485&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 160&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Aug 20 '12 at 14:06&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1487&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 14&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Aug 20 '12 at 21:12&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1488&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 33&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Sep 10 '12 at 21:48&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1489&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1490&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1494&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1497&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1499&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1501&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1502&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1503&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1504&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited May 29 '12 at 22:58&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1507&quot;&gt;Initial Score: -8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1533&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1556&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited May 31 '12 at 20:16&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3318&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 12&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Jan 24 '13 at 20:10&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3327&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3348&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Dec 27 '12 at 16:17&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3397&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7279&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-02-14T16:12:53.977" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2014-01-23T08:29:06.330" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about watches for badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was the tradition started many decades back of giving an employee a gold watch for retirement. While we don't want folks to retire, it's topical, and may be a good fit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I failed art in high school and was told I draw wrong by my teacher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sample:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZtZmu.png&quot; alt=&quot;Watch Badges&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May need to touch up to insides of the watches too like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MI48c.png&quot; alt=&quot;Version 3&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though having the hands constantly stopped at 9am may not be what we're aiming for. 3pm perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T08:29:06.330" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2014-01-23T08:50:38.300" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Handshake for a logo, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hU9w9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://vector-magz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/handshake-icon2.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/111/168&quot;&gt;water cooler&lt;/a&gt;, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5sr2k.gif&quot; alt=&quot;http://www.aperfectworld.org/clipart/office/water_cooler.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sm123.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/13353604#13353604&quot; title=&quot;suggested by Yannis&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/conversation/chatting-various-ideas-of-site-logo-at-wate-cooler&quot;&gt;Chatting various ideas of site logo at Water Cooler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.357" LastActivityDate="2014-01-25T22:22:25.230" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-23T14:24:33.150" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2291" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-23T12:51:46.610" Score="5" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like an (unexperienced?) user creates new account each time they lose prior one. Accounts that seem to be their are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/13670/newboss&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/13670/newboss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/14140/newboss&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/14140/newboss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/14197/newboss&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/14197/newboss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/14211/newboss&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/14211/newboss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be more, it is rather difficult for a regular user to find out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions posted from above accounts so far are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18248/how-to-earn-the-respect-of-a-team-that-is-frustrated-by-and-skeptical-about-chan&quot;&gt;How to earn the respect of a team that is frustrated by and skeptical about change?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18249/should-i-stay-irreplaceable-in-the-company-by-keeping-all-skills-to-myself&quot;&gt;Should I stay irreplaceable in the company by keeping all skills to myself?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18498/what-can-i-do-when-my-staff-dislikes-me-and-is-explicit-about-it&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18498/what-can-i-do-when-my-staff-dislikes-me-and-is-explicit-about-it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18531/how-to-respond-when-my-senior-staff-is-constantly-negative-towards-me&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18531/how-to-respond-when-my-senior-staff-is-constantly-negative-towards-me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18536/how-to-prevent-a-mutiny-by-the-senior-employees-whom-i-manage&quot;&gt;How to prevent a mutiny by the senior employees whom I manage?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can this be somehow sorted out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is especially troublesome that some questions seem to be related or duplicates but it's hard to handle this as accounts differ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt; - as pointed in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2291/one-user-seem-to-be-posting-from-at-least-four-accounts-please-help-to-sort-i?noredirect=1#comment3736_2291&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;, one particular &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/7389&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; suggests that there's yet another account - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/14262/user14262&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/14262/user14262&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update2&lt;/strong&gt; - checking my older flags, discovered two more accounts worth checking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/13141/newboss83&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/13141/newboss83&lt;/a&gt;  &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;posted question:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17883/how-to-deal-with-dramatic-and-over-alarmed-employees&quot;&gt;How to deal with dramatic and over-alarmed employees?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/13170/newboss83&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/13170/newboss83&lt;/a&gt;  &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;posted deleted answer:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17883/how-to-deal-with-dramatic-and-over-alarmed-employees/17913#17913&quot;&gt;How to deal with dramatic and over-alarmed employees?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-01-25T05:28:00.627" Title="One user seem to be posting from (at least) four accounts, please help to sort it out" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2292" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2296" CreationDate="2014-01-23T17:47:31.563" Score="2" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/18362/8233&quot;&gt;Is it ethical to write answers to work-relevant Stack Exchange questions on the clock?&lt;/a&gt;. For several days it was open and became one of the most popular sites on Stack Exchange. However today I noticed that it was closed because it was &quot;primarily opinion based&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree that the comments are generating a lot of opinons that would probably be better suited for chat, I think that the question itself is just as acceptable as similar ethics-based questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/12058/8233&quot;&gt;Is it ethical to read programming books on the clock?&lt;/a&gt;, which have not been closed as opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how can I edit this question in order to make it &quot;not opinion based&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I realize that some of this may come from a disagreement over whether or not ethics are or are not on topic (and indeed, a different interpretation of some previous discussion of some previous ethics-based questions). It was my understanding that it was on topic, as indicated by the presence of the linked question and others like it. If this is not the case, then tell me how I can reword the question so that it is on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8233" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-01-24T01:07:16.023" Title="How to reword question on ethics to be &quot;not opinion based&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2292" CreationDate="2014-01-23T18:18:06.707" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is not actually about ethics.  It is asking us to answer with a moral judgement on an activity which is always going to be opinion based.  The reason for that is that is what you are asking for, an opinion on the morality of the action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some potential ways to reword this question so it would be acceptable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What value do businesses get from their employees participating at&#xA;SE during their work day?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is an effective policy for minimizing non productive time spent on SE?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I show value to my employer for the time I spend asking and answering on SE?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the questions would be better focused on TWP or what ever SE you are asking about but the questions are constructive and answerable. That is what we look for in good SE Questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2014-01-23T18:27:29.317" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T18:27:29.317" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2294" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-23T19:47:51.850" Score="2" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the purpose of determining on-topic/off-topic is this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18551/weighing-pros-and-cons-of-quitting-against-other-life-circumstances&quot;&gt;Weighing pros and cons of quitting against other life circumstances&lt;/a&gt; fundamentally any different than one asking &quot;what job should I take&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-01-24T00:09:50.583" Title="Is this the same as &quot;what job should I take&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2294" CreationDate="2014-01-24T00:09:50.583" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I were to rewrite the question down to its simplest form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can I quit anyway?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16816/&quot;&gt;I shouldn't resign before finding another job&lt;/a&gt;, but I really don't like my job. Is it okay to leave anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is looking for confirmation of the asker's beliefs, not for actual constructive advice. As discussed in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is definitely not practical or answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-01-24T00:09:50.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2292" CreationDate="2014-01-24T01:07:16.023" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; contains the following guidance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking, &lt;em&gt;&quot;Is it ethical?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; is not a workplace issue, it is a personal decision issue. A problem related to the workplace would be something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Company policy states that &lt;em&gt;&quot;Company resources should only be used for work-related duties. The internet should not be used to write personal blog posts, browse Facebook, etc.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; That policy is not strictly enforced (management turns a blind eye to people who check their personal e-mail at work, or check Facebook during lunch for instance). Getting answers on Stack Overflow seems to be in line with the policy, but I am unsure whether answering question applies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Personally I believe answering questions benefits my employer because it improves my understanding of the skills required for my job, and improves my communication and problem-solving skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't want to put my manager in a difficult position. If I ask, the policy may indicate that he has to say no to be in line with the policy, while in practice he seems to be willing to turn a blind eye. Is this a situation where the expression &lt;em&gt;&quot;It is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission&quot;&lt;/em&gt; applies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is clear: you don't want to put your manager in a tough situation. The question is clear: is this a good occasion to keep your mouth shut and apologize if it becomes an issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue with your question as-asked is it is asking us to make a judgment on what is acceptable while entirely ignoring company policy which is what would cause the problem in the first place. You are essentially asking us, &lt;em&gt;&quot;If you were the boss, would you allow people to use SO during work hours?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; which is a hypothetical question that will only solicit discussion -- not practical answers that will help future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question got popular because a lot of members of the Stack Exchange network browse from work (likely in violation of their company policies), and want to feel justified in what they're doing. That unfortunately gave you the wrong signal in what is appropriate for the site, and made it harder to properly edit and put on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In situations like this, I would recommend not trying to edit your question (because of the existing votes and answers that would be dramatically impacted), but rather than ask a separate question that focuses on asking &lt;em&gt;&quot;practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face&quot;&lt;/em&gt; assuming that you actually do have a problem, and that the current question didn't give you an answer you could apply to that problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-01-24T01:07:16.023" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2297" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-28T07:00:10.707" Score="2" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of our users, EMS, asked this question which has been put on hold by the community:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18551/&quot;&gt;Weighing pros and cons of quitting against other life circumstances&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18551/weighing-pros-and-cons-of-quitting-against-other-life-circumstances?noredirect=1#comment45863_18551&quot;&gt;He does not understand the reasoning behind it being closed&lt;/a&gt; (the following has been abridged by me to get to the heart of his question from multiple comments, please read the full comment string to understand full context rather than assuming this is the discussion verbatim):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given that I have had a lot of experience with other Stack Exchange sites for the past few years, I always read a new site's guidelines and make an earnest effort to design questions that fit well within those guidelines. Our subjective opinions may differ about the question, but I have definitely tried to make it very clear what I am asking, and to ensure that what I am asking very clearly fits with the site's goals for productive questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've come to accept closed questions as part of the Stack Exchange world. Meta sites do not offer fair ways for question-posters to provide context and evidence that their questions, as-asked, do satisfy the FAQ and guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Meta does not actually offer a fair chance for a user to defend their question as-asked. It's not difficult for four or five people to misinterpret a question, to subjectively dislike it, or to infer a tone that readers didn't generally infer. So the random opinion of four or five folks is not a good signal (although, sure, it's better than nothing). The trouble is that moderators who read meta essentially universally side with votes to close or migrate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;meta discussions virtually never lead to a moderator saying, &quot;You know what, the original post was valid as-it-was, so let's roll everything back to that and remove the close/migrate flags.&quot; This happens so rarely that it makes me lack faith in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'd also like to point out that there are several answers to the question, some of which have several up-votes. They seem as on-topic for the site as any other post about quitting that I've read on this site. I believe this is further evidence that the votes to close, and the opinion that the question is &quot;too vague&quot;, are unjustified. I don't expect anyone to agree with me, essentially because of the exact asymmetry problem I have been talking about (folks will just cheer for their side of the argument)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this question actually on-topic?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If not, why isn't it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T07:51:58.437" Title="Why is this question considered off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2297" CreationDate="2014-01-28T07:51:58.437" Score="4" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SE is not about you (or me, or him, or her)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give respect to gain respect&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voice your concerns appropriately&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;SE is not about you&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our subjective opinions may differ about the question, but I have definitely tried to make it very clear what I am asking, and to ensure that what I am asking very clearly fits with the site's goals for productive questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't about how hard you tried, or how much you think your question is appropriate for the site. The goal of SE is to be a long-term resource for people facing similar problems. If the community does not agree that your question will meet those goals, we may &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2153/aggressive-edits&quot;&gt;edit it aggressively&lt;/a&gt;, vote to close it, or handle it as we see fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is a fundamental tenet. And it applies to everything I contribute just as equally as it does to what you contribute. If it doesn't have lasting value, we don't want it here. What constitutes lasting value is subjective, and comes down to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I know it when I see it&lt;/a&gt; a lot of the time. No amount of debating over the letter of the law will change the reason those rules exist: to make a better resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Give Respect to Gain Respect&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not difficult for four or five people to misinterpret a question, to subjectively dislike it, or to infer a tone that readers didn't generally infer. So the random opinion of four or five folks is not a good signal&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/leagues/195/alltime/workplace/2012-04-10?sort=reputationchange&amp;amp;page=6&quot;&gt;261 members with 500 reputation&lt;/a&gt; (who have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;ability to close and reopen questions&lt;/a&gt;). We are not 'random people', we are members of this community who have put time in to understand what our community standards are, and what types of questions will make us a better resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 5 people who closed your question are #6, #14, #30, #9, and #66 for reputation in our community. We all have experience with both the meta discussions on what constitutes quality questions on this site, as well as read countless questions (and provided many answers) to people who ask questions here. We are pretty far from 'random people' when it comes to maintaining the quality of content on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are not out to get you. SE is not about you. It's about quality content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Voice your concerns&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta does not actually offer a fair chance for a user to defend their question as-asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is fine to disagree with us. You too are part of the community. But there is a time and a place for it. Making passive-aggressive comments to people trying to help is not appropriate. Remember to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/behavior&quot;&gt;be nice&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are all human. We all make mistakes. Our word is not gospel. But if you want to bring up a disagreement, do it in the proper venue (meta). Here we are more than happy to hear what you have to say about your question and why you think it should be handled differently. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2274/why-is-a-question-about-dealing-with-ignored-service-requests-off-topic&quot;&gt;And it does work sometimes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are 256 people who have the power to reopen your question. If, at the end of the day we disagree, then you can be a good sport and make an appropriate edit to your question, or take our comments to heart for the next time that you ask a question. We are all reasonable people and willing to listen, all we ask is that you do the same in return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T07:51:58.437" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2299" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-28T20:57:46.947" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18688/is-it-unorthodox-and-unethical-to-play-office-politics-games-in-a-big-company&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18688/is-it-unorthodox-and-unethical-to-play-office-politics-games-in-a-big-company&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has been put on hold for being opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it's an interesting and important subject, would be good to discuss it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we improve it to be a more objective question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10911" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-01-29T00:06:45.780" Title="How can we improve this question about office politics?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2299" CreationDate="2014-01-28T21:24:52.143" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of the &quot;Is X unethical?&quot; questions that mainly bring up opinions. Paired with &quot;Should I make allies?&quot; and &quot;Do I have to play along?&quot; which might fall into the category &lt;em&gt;we can't tell you what skills to learn&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's besides what the OP intended the question to be but I think this could be turned into a valuable, objective question by listing the things OP saw/experienced and then asking for how to survive this environment &lt;strong&gt;without&lt;/strong&gt; playing along/politicising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10912" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T21:24:52.143" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2299" CreationDate="2014-01-29T00:06:45.780" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Is it okay to play office politics?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; is not a good question for the site because it doesn't explain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The reason for asking (the problem/goal)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is considered 'office politics'?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If those are explained, then it can be a great question that is appropriate for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What is your problem/goal?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18688/is-it-unorthodox-and-unethical-to-play-office-politics-games-in-a-big-company#comment46003_18688&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt; saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best questions here ask &amp;quot;practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face&amp;quot;. Right now your question doesn't explain what your problem is. Are you suffering right now by not playing politics? Is there some issue that you are having that makes you ask this question? Without something specific to provide an answer on, it is very difficult to know what you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are happy not playing politics, and you aren't suffering from any issues from not playing them, what does it matter? How are we supposed to answer without just saying, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I think you should/shouldn't for these reasons&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;? That is going to be opinion-based regardless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need to know what the goal is, which means we need to know what the specific problem is that the asker is trying to overcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What do you consider office politics?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Office Politics' does not have some specific fixed meaning. For some people, office politics could mean &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11816/why-is-it-important-to-gain-visibility-in-the-workplace&quot;&gt;gaining visibility in the workplace&lt;/a&gt;, for others it could be throwing someone in front of a bus to get a promotion. What is considered 'orthodox' or 'ethical' is greatly dependent on what the person considers office politics. Asking in general means that we will all have to opine on what we think office politics means. That won't be too helpful, as it adds another layer of opinion to any answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Rephrasing the question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a good question about office politics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My office has a lot of internal politics, and promotions are highly tied to how you get along with the various factions in the office. I prefer to play Switzerland and have my value show through my work with minimal headaches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently I was put up for a promotion to team lead by my boss. I don't want to turn down the promotion, but I have heard through the grapevine that my coworker Alice who is more active at politics is also being considered for the same position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that if I tell my boss about a mistake Alice hid from him on a project last year, I would almost be guaranteed the position. I don't feel right about doing it, but at the same time I feel I deserve the promotion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I get a deserved promotion without being involved in office politics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why the question is being asked (I want a promotion but don't want to be involved in politics)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What I consider office politics (letting my boss know about deficiencies in someone else's work who is being considered for a promotion)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Open-ended questions are bad for Stack Exchange sites. &amp;quot;Is it ethical?&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Is it professional?&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Is it normal?&amp;quot; are just inviting discussion, not the solving of an actual problem people face. The main focus may be on the ethics of playing politics in the office, but at those answers would be forced to address the stance the asker is taking and speak to the current problem specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-01-29T00:06:45.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2302" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-29T05:47:27.523" Score="5" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I spoke with the Programmers mods about migrations from Programmers to Workplace, and the rejection rate is about 40%. We definitely gain a lot of good content from Programmers. It's &lt;em&gt;awesome&lt;/em&gt; that the Programmers community thinks of our site and helping users find answers, but I also think we can reduce the amount of posts that get closed after migration to our site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should we ask other sites to do prior to migrations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Check with a moderator?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ask in the Water Cooler?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something else?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the Programmers mods asked if we can write a meta post with some brief guidelines on how to tell if a question with a programming slant would be a good fit for our site. What are the main points we should highlight?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-01-29T14:44:57.370" Title="How do we handle migrations from other sites currently, and how do we want to handle them?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2302" CreationDate="2014-01-29T06:37:22.870" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main issue I have with migrated posts is that they can't be closed and then edited (the migration gets rejected and they get sent back). To prevent this unfortunate occurrence, I would suggest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If someone on Programmers understands TWP, they should &lt;strong&gt;edit it prior to migration&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If nobody on Programmers understands TWP, they should ask in the Water Cooler for someone to edit it (and be around to approve the edit)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If nobody is around in the Water Cooler, they should use best judgment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18544/liability-for-company-development-equipment&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; could have been edited to change it from, &lt;em&gt;&quot;Can they do that?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;&quot;How can I negotiate to avoid that?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18138/how-many-hours-do-you-expect-to-clock-in-a-40-hour-week&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; would have been a good fit if it were changed from, &lt;em&gt;&quot;How many hours do you guys log?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;&quot;How do you handle non-work hours like lunches or meetings when allotting manpower?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; or something of the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there is a lack of community consensus on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2168/&quot;&gt;when and how to edit&lt;/a&gt;, these questions have a higher chance to become missed opportunities if they get closed after being migrated (yes, I know we can flag you and you can unilaterally revoke the lock). A far better approach is to edit them prior to coming over, so that they get received well -- it will also get users more interested in our community if they see what our community standards are and aren't welcomed by downvotes and/or close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally whoever migrates the post can do the edit on the Programmer's side. If not, they should come to The Water Cooler and ask if someone can do it. If there isn't anyone around and they are impatient, they should use their best judgment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-01-29T14:44:57.370" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2302" CreationDate="2014-01-29T12:29:11.803" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I'm lurking in the p.se chat they ask me nearly 100% of the time prior to a migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally am very candid on my thoughts regarding question quality and acceptance here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to work most of the time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2014-01-29T12:29:11.803" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2305" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-29T19:08:21.217" Score="2" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18726/rudeness-back-biting-unprofessional-attitude-common-workplace-problem&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18726/rudeness-back-biting-unprofessional-attitude-common-workplace-problem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user initially asked 'Does my workplace suck, or is it just me?' (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/18726/revisions&quot;&gt;edit history&lt;/a&gt;), which listed several issues he has in his workplace. The question was put on hold.  He's since edited it to be more objective, and trying to narrow it to one issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With one of these too broad questions, where it's actually a pretty good, but not suitable/answerable question, I think keeping the original question and closing it and asking new questions, is better than editing the original, as it provides feedback for what makes a bad question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10911" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-01-29T21:47:14.303" Title="Is it better to ask a new question than edit the existing one, when the existing one was pretty off track?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|asking-questions|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2305" CreationDate="2014-01-29T19:25:34.100" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is edited and improved to the point of being reopened then the question will do fine.  If it is just edited and reopened with out being improved, it will continue to get hammered.  If the OP asks a new question that is basically the same rant that this questions is, I would expect it would be less well received than the original.  The first one gets some benefit of the doubt that the OP did not know better.  The second one does not get that same benefit of the doubt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-01-29T19:25:34.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2307" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-29T23:39:47.230" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18739/how-do-i-convince-my-boss-to-get-rid-of-our-open-office-and-give-us-individual-o&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18739/how-do-i-convince-my-boss-to-get-rid-of-our-open-office-and-give-us-individual-o&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is not a duplicate, as it is about convincing management, not the productivity value of individual offices. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10911" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T03:02:49.343" Title="This question about how to convince management to use individual offices is not a duplicate" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2308" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-30T01:42:17.817" Score="7" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18746/how-to-politely-request-salary-budget-information-before-spending-personal-time&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the core of the question is good: &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How do I discuss money before investing my time in pursuing a potential job?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue is that the asker is commenting on every answer saying, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;But this doesn't work.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand I think this question will be useful to future readers who may be in the same situation. On the other hand I don't like the constant commenting as it is turning in to a discussion rather than a Q&amp;amp;A. The question as-asked is good and useful, but the asker's comments indicate that it isn't useful to the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see three possible ways to handle the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit and Reopen&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now the questions reads as &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How do I discuss money before investing my time in pursuing a potential job?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; What he is actually asking is &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How can I negotiate a salary well above the expected/advertised range of the opening prior to proving that I have the skills that merit such exceptional treatment?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we do the edit, then at least the asker's question matches what he is trying to convey in the comments. And while the second question is of infinitely less use to future visitors, at least it is still a 'practical answerable question based on actual problems you face'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Recommission the Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the question as-is is actually useful and seems like it will have lasting use, we could co-opt the question as-is to preserve that useful information. This would require purging comments, potentially making the original question a community wiki, and otherwise letting the asker know that the question has more use as-is, though he is free to ask an alternate question if the good answers we've provided don't solve the one he is facing now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Leave it Closed&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6190/what-recourse-is-there-for-a-post-that-is-locked-for-reasons-that-one-does-not-u&quot;&gt;this poster may have issues with editing his posts or co-opting them&lt;/a&gt;, we could just leave it closed as-is. As-is, the question is unclear what is being asked as the comments, questions, and answers are not all on the same page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think the best choice is to leave it as-is and re-open since that makes the best resource for us moving forward. But I'd like to hear from the community what the best choice is for us. I don't want to lose good content if I don't have to, but at the same time I don't think it's an ideal choice either. Is there anything else you can think of that can help fix this situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-01-31T22:25:11.550" Title="How should we handle questions made worse by the asker rather than the content of the Q&amp;A?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|specific-question|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2307" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:02:49.343" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first step in convincing management that open offices are a bad a idea is to gather the evidence. Which is exactly what the other question does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel the best answer to the question is &quot;see other question&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T03:02:49.343" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2310" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:17:09.667" Score="3" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2258/7945&quot;&gt;confusion by some of our regulars about what is on-topic&lt;/a&gt;, as well as &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/15752/yannis-rizos&quot;&gt;confusion from regular users and mods who post here&lt;/a&gt;, and due to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/13471920#13471920&quot;&gt;request by gnat&lt;/a&gt; I think we need to create a quick 'What is on-topic?' FAQ to clearly state what is or isn't off-topic. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2045/on-topic-and-off-topic-sections-of-the-help-center&quot;&gt;I have tried this in the past&lt;/a&gt;, but it didn't catch, so I figure a community wiki approach here to flesh out some ideas may be a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I've read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; about what is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;what I shouldn't ask&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm still a bit confused. How can I decide if my question is appropriate for The Workplace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T22:16:16.377" Title="How do I know if a question is on-topic for The Workplace?" Tags="|support|on-topic-definition|faq-content|faq-proposed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2310" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:17:09.667" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask yourself three questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it clear what my problem is?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it clear what I want a solution to accomplish?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will my question be useful to people in the future?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Make Your Problem Clear&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the most common reasons questions get closed on The Workplace is that the problem that the person is facing isn't clear. Many people are frustrated with a situation, and use their question as a platform to rant against the situation rather than outlining their problem. Ask yourself, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Will someone reading my question understand what my problem is?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we can't understand what your problem is, we can't offer a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Avoid the following types of non-questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rants:&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;My boss is a jerk for reasons X, Y, Z&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Polls:&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;Is it normal for the smartest employee to be passed over for a promotion?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rants will likely be closed as &lt;em&gt;unclear what you're asking&lt;/em&gt; since there is no question. Polls will likely be closed as &lt;em&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/em&gt; since there is no proper answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Explain Your Desired Solution&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure that you properly scope the question so that we know what you're looking for in an answer. If your problem is that your employer hasn't fulfilled a verbal promise to give you a raise after your first year with the company, where do you want to go from there? Do you want to know when to bring it up? Do you want to know how to bring it up tactfully in a performance review? Do you want to know how to prevent him from doing the same thing next year?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we don't know what your goal is, we can't give an appropriate answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Avoid asking for advice on the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should I do?&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;I have a choice between A, and B. Which should I take?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you have any advice for my situation?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it legal?&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;My company did C. Can I sue them?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is designed to provide answers to help you decide what to do, not to make decisions for you. Questions that ask us to make decisions for you will be closed as &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt;. We are also not a place to get questions on legal issues, and recommend you consult an attorney if you want to know what the law says. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1856/what-is-asking-for-legal-advice&quot;&gt;Legal questions&lt;/a&gt; will also be closed as &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is not Ask Aunty, we are a Q&amp;amp;A site.  Asking for advice on the situation is a cue to many that you are asking for an opinion.  You could be asking about a solid and answerable problem, but when you ask for advice it seems like you are asking for opinions. Instead ask plainly for a solution to the problem without asking for advice, opinions, or thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Use to Future Readers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is a long-term resource for other people with the same problem and desired solution looking for answers, so questions asked here should be useful to future readers. Questions should be applicable to more than a certain company, a certain point in time, or a certain uncommon situation. If your question is unlikely to be useful to anyone but you, it won't help improve The Workplace as a resource for future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Avoid questions that depend on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Specific Work History:&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;What jobs are appropriate for someone with X years of A, and Y years of B?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Specific Company Environments:&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;What is the job description of a Director vs. a General Manager?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Specific Location/Time:&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;What is an appropriate salary for a Certified Electrical Engineer in East Lansing, Michigan?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of questions may get downvotes (a downvote indicates that &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;), and may be closed as this type of question often does not clearly explain the problem, or desired solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;These are Just Guidelines&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you clearly define the problem, explain what you want in a solution, and have a question that is useful to future visitors, that does not guarantee that it is a good question. Due to the subject nature of our site, a lot of judgments on quality are subjective and come with experience (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I know it when I see it&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). Here are some topics which are more likely to get closed than others:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ethics:&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;Is it ethical to play office politics?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Do I Do My Job:&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;How should an accountant calculate business expenses?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interpersonal Relations:&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;How can I tell my spouse I don't want to work in the same company anymore?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you still think your question is appropriate, post it. We will do our best to give you advice on how to edit and improve it if we don't think it quite fits, and are more than willing to help you create quality content for the site. Welcome to the Workplace!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T22:16:16.377" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-31T05:47:13.050" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2308" CreationDate="2014-01-30T08:41:45.917" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this specific case I have declined the reopen vote and suggest recommissioning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The original question is 'How to get budget information in an early stage?'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The top ranked answer is simply 'bring it up ASAP' and questions the assumption that the information is hard to get &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP keeps writing 'yes, but' comments that make it a mess. E.g. he wants a definitive answer instead of doing the work himself, e.g. not addressing &quot;the least common denominator there is you and your words, so maybe take a closer look at what you're saying and how you're saying it&quot; in the top ranked answer. One answer from 'doing the work' could be that he fires an email question back to a technical contact, instead of trying another route (look up and contact HR).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the comments the focus seems to change as you notice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 and 2 make a good Q&amp;amp;A.&#xA;Annoying as 3 might be, it does not distract from 1.&#xA;4 makes for a new question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, ask the user to post a new question as you suggest, and remove all the comments not pertaining to the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I have not yet made a comment regarding 3 since I feel that adding yet another comment does not make it more readable; may do so after the question has been cleaned up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8036" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T08:41:45.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2308" CreationDate="2014-01-30T14:39:28.573" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote no.  The op wants to have a discussion about the topic not ask a question.  We have tried to explain that this is a QA site but the op does not seem to care.  I do not have a problem with the question so much as the endless comment discussion that we can not get stopped.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally we would have an active mod that would step in as this is an obvious exceptional case.  But since we do not have that option, out only recourse is to use the tools we do have and close the question until the OP wants to play nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T14:39:28.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2308" CreationDate="2014-01-30T19:10:04.560" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ha! I first thought this was complaining about &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; Q: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18712/why-are-html-resumes-not-accepted&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18712/why-are-html-resumes-not-accepted&lt;/a&gt; :-) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the best attitude is to treat a Q at face value and judge the Q independently.&#xA;Do not judge the &lt;em&gt;combination&lt;/em&gt; of the Q, your assumptions about it, the answers and the comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are problems with any answers or comments, whoever makes them, then those should be dealt with. Problem answers or comments can be flagged and edited or removed, can't they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10954" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-01-31T22:25:11.550" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2287" CreationDate="2014-02-03T00:39:41.813" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/450/how-can-i-encourage-a-culture-of-punctuality-in-a-software-company&quot;&gt;How can I encourage a culture of punctuality in a software company?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Created:&lt;/strong&gt; Apr 12 '12 at 17:34&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Score:&lt;/strong&gt; +72&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Views:&lt;/strong&gt; 19,143&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Answers:&lt;/strong&gt; 23&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Results:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We placed 73 votes, deleted 6 answers, and made a net score change of +9 to the question. Here are the results of each answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/452&quot;&gt;(▼2) 5 → 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/453&quot;&gt;(▲3) 43 → 46&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/461&quot;&gt;(▲1) 110 → 111&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/509&quot;&gt;(▲8) 90 → 98&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/510&quot;&gt;( ― ) 21 → 21&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/514&quot;&gt;(▼1) 19 → 18&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/546&quot;&gt;( ― ) 9 → 9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/895&quot;&gt;(▲2) 13 → 15&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/904&quot;&gt;(▲2) 4 → 6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/941&quot;&gt;(▼1) 0 → -1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/941&quot;&gt;please delete me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1003&quot;&gt;(▲2) 6 → 8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1018&quot;&gt;(▲2) 16 → 18&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1179&quot;&gt;(▲4) 36 → 40&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1184&quot;&gt;( ― ) 7 → 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1188&quot;&gt;(▼2) 9 → 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2440&quot;&gt;(▼6) 10 → 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2442&quot;&gt;(▲2) 9 → 11&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2443&quot;&gt;(▲2) 28 → 30&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2444&quot;&gt;(▼3) -2 → -5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2458&quot;&gt;(▲3) 8 → 11&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2522&quot;&gt;(▼3) 2 → -1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2563&quot;&gt;(▼1) 6 → 5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/6771&quot;&gt;(▼3) 0 → -3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/452&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 5&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Sep 10 '13 at 14:38&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/453&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 43&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/461&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 110&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/509&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 90&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Apr 13 '12 at 7:06&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/510&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 21&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Jul 12 '12 at 4:45&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/514&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 19&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/546&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 9&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Jul 17 '12 at 7:55&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/895&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 13&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/904&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/941&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1003&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1018&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 16&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Apr 26 '12 at 21:12&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1179&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 36&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1184&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 7&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited May 31 '12 at 11:55&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1188&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2440&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 10&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2442&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2443&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 28&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Dec 20 '13 at 16:24&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2444&quot;&gt;Initial Score: -2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2458&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2522&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Oct 01 '12 at 20:30&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2563&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 6&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Jul 17 '12 at 15:50&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/6771&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 0&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Jun 26 '13 at 8:37&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-02-17T01:32:49.867" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2319" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2333" CreationDate="2014-02-03T22:49:39.140" Score="16" ViewCount="374" Body="&lt;p&gt;About 8 months ago we had this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1884/when-will-the-workplace-graduate&quot;&gt;When will The Workplace Graduate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the things that came out of that was that we needed to grow more and about 3k questions would have us at the mark that we would be self sustaining.  We are almost there.  Our visits per day has been exploding and our core user base is strong.  We have become a great site that is helpful the many in real world situations.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think its time for us to move to the next step. Are we missing something to graduate?  If so I hope that SE Would let us know.  Otherwise please let us graduate.  In the alternative if the SE powers do not think we are quite there can we get an extra mod or 2 to help handle the volume that we have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T21:44:17.490" Title="Are we ready to graduate?" Tags="|discussion|graduation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2321" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-04T00:06:40.807" Score="22" ViewCount="4099" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2287/&quot;&gt;Cleaning Up Bad Answers on Popular Questions&lt;/a&gt; a comment by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/373/yamikuronue&quot;&gt;Yamikurone&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2287/cleaning-up-bad-answers-on-popular-questions?answertab=active#comment3784_2315&quot;&gt;There seems to be a flood of &amp;quot;Not an answer&amp;quot; flags on answers on this post. Many of the answers so flagged were, in fact, trying to answer the question. If they're low quality, downvote instead please.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fundamental issue on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/450/how-can-i-encourage-a-culture-of-punctuality-in-a-software-company&quot;&gt;the post in question&lt;/a&gt; is that the asker is clearly asking, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How do I make my team more punctual?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; while many of the answers say, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;This is why you shouldn't make the team more punctual.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these sorts of answers appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/514/7945&quot;&gt;Here is one (slightly abridged) example&lt;/a&gt; with +18 score:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible to convince them to take it, but you'll need good&#xA;arguments and there almost certainly will be lingering resentment&#xA;about it. You may or may not lose good people over this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From your description the main reason appears to be jealousy from&#xA;other departments. Have you considered giving the other departments&#xA;the same perk?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: Don't do it unless you think it's worth losing some of them&#xA;over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer says it is possible, but doesn't explain how. It suggests making other teams less punctual rather than fixing the problem that the asker wants solved. It says not to do it because you may lose people when the asker clearly stated &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I have the full support and backing of the senior management team and am empowered to employ whatever devices I feel appropriate to get this taken care of.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this an appropriate answer to the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;References:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1692/is-quit-your-job-an-acceptable-answer?lq=1&quot;&gt;'Just Quit' is generally not an appropriate answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2105/are-dont-do-answers-appropriate&quot;&gt;When 'Don't do X' is an appropriate answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T16:03:06.587" Title="When asked 'How can I foo the bar?' is 'Don't foo the bar' an appropriate answer?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|answers|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2321" CreationDate="2014-02-04T00:37:49.037" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off: I don't think that particular answer is a good one for the &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Don't foo the bar&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; category and should be down-voted, though not necessarily closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Don't foo the bar!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer that just says that, is generally not an answer to me, since it does in fact not answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;When is not-an-answer an answer?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it explains why some premise of the question is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the example above there are several answer that don't answer the question any more than the cited one, but they explain in more detail &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the premise (that not being on time is the actual problem) is wrong or should at least be revisted and then proceed to give alternate problem interpretations with proposed solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my book, this is also in line with what the help center explains &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answer the question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[…] The answer can be “don’t do that”, but it should also include “try this instead”. Any answer that gets the asker going in the right direction is helpful, […]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10912" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-02-04T00:52:28.860" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2321" CreationDate="2014-02-04T06:05:32.833" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my mind, the best answer by far was from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/2458/7945&quot;&gt;bethlakshmi&lt;/a&gt; (heavily paraphrased):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As companies grow out of the start-up phase there can be growing pains and not everyone will fit. Make sure you've explained the situation properly, make sure you know what type of people fit the role, and establish a process to hire and fire to get people who can succeed in the new culture&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were searching on google for how to handle this sort of issue, that is exactly the sort of answer I would want to find. &lt;a href=&quot;http://hbr.org/2014/01/how-netflix-reinvented-hr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Even progressive companies like Netflix&lt;/a&gt; realize that as companies grow, changes need to happen, and sometimes that means a previously great fit won't be a good fit for the new culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a non-software guy, I often struggle with questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt;. I don't like the sense of entitlement that comes out in many of the questions as I don't think it has a good impact on us as a quality reference. Software questions get popular due to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/216260/&quot;&gt;hot question list&lt;/a&gt; and we end up getting Q&amp;amp;A that feel more like forums than they do a resource for future visitors. Do we really want answers that say things like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;The Catholic Church had the same power during the Inquisition, look at how that turned out!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That adds no value at all to the answer and does not reflect well on our community. That is an extreme example, but there are plenty of developers who seem to take these sorts of questions personally rather than answering them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;As for the other workers in the company, if they didn't have the foresight to spend nights and weekends beating their heads against a Computer Science book trying to understand formal logic so they could enjoy the perks of being a developer, then frankly, that's their problem.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/98/jmort253&quot;&gt;jmort&lt;/a&gt;, this just reads to me as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1819/&quot;&gt;How do I deal with the fact that I&amp;#39;m awesome and everyone around me sucks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;And for devs like myself, who much prefer dodging rush hour and who get a horrendously nasty case of SAD in the winter, but can't think of any dev-friendly places closer to the equator I'd rather live, it's as big of a deal as pulling health benefits.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These comments do not contribute to our value as a resource. The policy decisions in a different company that you don't work at were made for a reason. Why not give the question the benefit of the doubt, and answer objectively based on the problem explained?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is old, and I think it's a great chance for us to clean up some of these to make them better reflect what we want to be. Remember what happened to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/200144/165773&quot;&gt;&quot;Not Programming Related&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. If we want to be a good resource, we need to be serious about voting up quality, not opinions we agree with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T07:59:45.033" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2319" CreationDate="2014-02-04T14:13:26.670" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(simple answer, was just going to leave it at that but then decided I would expand.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's active and I am finding it useful and have recently become one of your regular visitors. Obviously it's not as busy as some of the others, but it's getting there. I would say it should..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13940" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2014-02-04T15:24:48.860" LastActivityDate="2014-02-04T15:24:48.860" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="521" CreationDate="2014-02-04T15:41:28.343" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since 2013-07-15, close votes can be retracted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more details on that, refer to MSO feature request &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/915/can-we-have-the-ability-to-retract-a-close-vote-before-it-closes#comment582472_915&quot;&gt;Can we have the ability to retract a close vote before it closes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;...implemented what &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/915/can-we-have-the-ability-to-rescind-a-close-vote-before-it-closes/167514#167514&quot;&gt;animuson so succinctly suggested&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Basically, when clicking the close button again after already having voted to close, change the original &quot;Vote to Close&quot; button to be a &quot;Retract Vote&quot; button:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DaBdp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Retract Vote&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Clicking the &quot;Retract Vote&quot; button will trigger a confirm dialog to confirm that you really want to retract and notifying that the action is irreversible (and you can't vote again). Then once confirmed, simply mark the vote as &lt;strong&gt;expired&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2014-02-04T15:41:28.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2326" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-05T08:11:54.937" Score="2" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe they have kept closing or downvoting questions that are in fact very relevant and at the same time I see many questions with lots of answers that... in all honesty, seem like a list of opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who here decides what are opinions and what are answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whats the difference between the two?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sense there are some double standards here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user15706" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2014-02-05T14:18:00.143" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T05:51:23.110" Title="Who on this site decides what is too specific, too broad and too subjective?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2326" CreationDate="2014-02-05T09:12:27.093" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/160960/what-is-community-moderation-and-what-can-i-do-to-help&quot;&gt;community moderated&lt;/a&gt; site.  This means everyone in the community decides what complies with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;on topic&lt;/a&gt; guidelines as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you get rep points and your privileges increase, one of the privileges is to down vote if you think a question is off topic, later you can &quot;flag&quot; a post which is to report it as off topic and that you think it should be closed, providing a reason.  Later still you can review and agree or not agree with existing flags, closing, migrating or leaving them alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question for example, is off-topic because it does not relate to the workplace.  All Stack Exchange sites have a meta equivalent in which you can ask questions related to that specific site.  i.e. this question should really go on meta-workplace.  Hence all your close votes.  And now the migration of the question from the main site to Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12616" OwnerDisplayName="Ross Drew" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T19:03:37.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2326" CreationDate="2014-02-05T10:21:36.690" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a 'regular' on another stack exchange site that's recently started looking at this one, I do think this site might have some problems around questions like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, stack exchange sites are &lt;em&gt;question and answer&lt;/em&gt; sites rather than forums for discussion and debate, and &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; Q&amp;amp;A sites need objective questions and objective answers. As such, its hard to criticise people for following those guidelines when maintaining the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a large number of questions here that essentially can be answered with &quot;That's up to your [current/prospective] boss&quot; or &quot;you need legal advice, which we can't give&quot;. This is what drives a lot of questions to be closed, I think, as most questions around employment will shade into at least one of those areas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's left is  the well qualified opinion. Essentially a professional opinion rather than the rambling thoughts of a random passer-by. This is true even on the IT based sites where you might expect us to deal with facts. A coder's solution to a problem on stack overflow is a professional opinion expressed via code, and that's acceptable. So it is here, if you ask me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yes, it's a difficult line to walk, especially on sites that deal with &quot;soft&quot; issues like this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="300" LastEditorUserId="300" LastEditDate="2014-02-05T10:26:37.927" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T10:26:37.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2329" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2334" CreationDate="2014-02-05T16:04:08.220" Score="2" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm asking because I don't know if it would fit on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm quitting my job on short notice as a developer concepter. As I've&#xA;  been in charge of several projects, how can I make sure that the&#xA;  company won't have much trouble (&quot;when we are gone let happen what&#xA;  may&quot;).   I finished the projects I had, I still have 2 days to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it good enough? Isn't it too broad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9353" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T17:42:30.063" Title="Is this question too broad?" Tags="|support|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2326" CreationDate="2014-02-05T16:06:54.310" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, the opinion-basedness of a question is determined by how likely an actionable answer is to come from it. For example,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Are all project managers jerks?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if one were to have a detailed study, including data from thousands of PM, and proving they are indeed not ALL jerks, there's still nothing to be done with the answer. On the other hand,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;What should I do about my project manager who is making it difficult to do my job?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is equally based in opinion, but it prompts advice about what someone can DO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13361" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T16:06:54.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2331" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-05T17:28:52.130" Score="46" ViewCount="886" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’m &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/stephane_m_&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stéphane&lt;/a&gt;, the new designer at Stack Exchange. First, I wanted to announce that this site is now starting the process of moving out of beta to become a fully-graduated site! &lt;strong&gt;Congratulations!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Graduation and Your Site Design&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Graduation comes with a few perks. I have already begun work on your sites design, which will give you your own unique theme that reflects your topic and culture. This will help brand your site as unique, even while you share common elements with other sites that show you are part of a bigger Stack Exchange family. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the design goes up, you will receive a link in the footer of other sites in the network, along with the ability to migrate content to and from other sites &amp;mdash; and the notoriety of a public launch that says, &quot;Congratulations, you finally made it!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I wanted to present some ideas and discuss my design thought process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During my research on the community, I read a lot of questions and answers posted on the main site. Most were on quite serious topics (e.g. coworker/employers relationships, job security, interviewing etc). I'd like our site to evoke a friendly and more relaxed feeling while talking about these important issues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Concept&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main concept is to approach topics in a milder way to contrast with the seriousness of the corporate world. I wanted to create a calm, friendly place similar to a “coffee break/water cooler break” environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a design point of view, I want the site to look simple, clean and light-hearted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Mood board&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was looking for illustrations with office related items, drawn in a simple and playful way. &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZcMr1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Moodboard&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Color scheme&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ouhVj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Color scheme&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went with mostly blue shades for the site, with orange for an accent color. Blue symbolizes peace, calm and serenity, but also sensitivity and wisdom. On the other hand, orange warms up the overall tone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Logo&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the logo, I’m using an origami icon for the “O” letter. As a logo mark, it stands out on its own and can be easily translated to other sizes, or for promotional materials for the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;click on the image below to see the full resolution version&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9gi4p.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9gi4p.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Logo&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Overall site design&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’ve put familiar objects in the header which remind us of our daily jobs in order to evoke a professional workplace feeling. I wanted everything to be clean, sharp and flat so it doesn't overwhelm the menu and the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;click on the image below to see the full resolution version&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d2oI4.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d2oI4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Home page&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;click on the image below to see the full resolution version&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Ki3T.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Ki3T.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Question page&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;click on the image below to see the full resolution version&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oC8FO.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oC8FO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Errors pages&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the design captures the mood I was going for. I'd love to hear your feedback. If there are no major design changes, we're hoping to launch the site soon. Thank you for being an awesome community!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13131" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2014-02-10T06:13:36.330" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T18:23:11.977" Title="Site design for Workplace.se" Tags="|discussion|design|graduation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2319" CreationDate="2014-02-05T18:11:02.243" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It must be, otherwise why would they create this fantastic concept site for us!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2331/site-design-for-workplace-se&quot;&gt;Site design for Workplace.se&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone else feel like getting drunk and TPing Shog9's house?.... ohhh me neither :p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:40:25.820" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T18:12:48.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2319" CreationDate="2014-02-05T21:44:17.490" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to clarify, yes, &lt;strong&gt;The Workplace is graduating!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community team has been well aware of all the progress this site has made, and we decided it was time. Your new &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2331/site-design-for-workplace-se&quot;&gt;site design&lt;/a&gt; is in its final stages, thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/stephane_m_&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stéphane&lt;/a&gt;, the newest addition to the SE design team. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a few weeks, the new brand new skin for The Workplace will go live. Until then, sit tight, and keep doing what you've been doing to make The Workplace great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11118" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T21:44:17.490" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2329" CreationDate="2014-02-05T23:49:18.907" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2329/what-can-i-do-to-simplify-my-departure#comment3821_2329&quot;&gt;As gnat said&lt;/a&gt;, this may be more appropriate to Programmers.se than it is here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As explained in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;, questions asking how to perform the duties of your job are generally off-topic here. If you want to ask generically, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9128/how-can-i-prepare-for-getting-hit-by-a-bus&quot;&gt;how can I prepare for not being around?&lt;/a&gt; which is a rather company-agnostic question, it is likely okay. If you want to ask about your specific role and the specific details that concern you as a developer, it may be more productive at programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you want the general explanation, read the bus question, and if that doesn't cover what you're talking about, ask away! If you want to get more specific about what you should do as a developer, you may want to take gnat's suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T23:49:18.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2321" CreationDate="2014-02-06T05:15:02.970" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is really - &lt;strong&gt;How can I accomplish this goal?&lt;/strong&gt;.  That is not a good goal to have is not an appropriate answer.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question were &lt;strong&gt;How can I accomplish this goal by doing Y?&lt;/strong&gt; Then do not do Y may be an appropriate answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the example question the OP wants to accomplish a goal, that goal is to get people to arrive in time for team meetings on a regular basis.  Telling them that it is a bad goal is not helpful.  So no it should not be acceptable and should be flagged as not an answer and down-voted and the answers removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the goal is &lt;strong&gt;blatantly&lt;/strong&gt; abusive or illegal we can say that and close the question saying that we can not help break the law.  But we should not be providing answers that say you should not do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2017-03-03T16:03:06.587" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T16:03:06.587" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2326" CreationDate="2014-02-06T05:51:23.110" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question you're asking on the main site involves a lot of speculation, debate, and guessing. What's more, it's not a problem regarding the workplace. Thus, the question isn't a good fit for our site, as questions that encourage discussion and debate aren't really what Stack Exchange is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The topic you're asking about is indeed an interesting one. Issues related to jobs becoming obsolete do indeed affect people's lives and is something that society may need to address.  It's a good question, but it's not a good fit for a Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;What types of questions should I avoid asking&lt;/a&gt; for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T05:51:23.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2337" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-07T06:53:00.227" Score="5" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace seems pretty subjective. There are guidelines for &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective Questions&lt;/a&gt;, but what are the guidelines for answers? When should I flag an answer as 'Not an Answer'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2014-02-15T21:16:06.043" LastActivityDate="2014-02-15T21:16:06.043" Title="When should I flag an answer as 'Not an Answer'?" Tags="|support|faq|answers|flagging|faq-proposed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2337" CreationDate="2014-02-07T06:53:00.227" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The goal of any Stack Exchange site including The Workplace is to provide a high-quality resource for future visitors. Answers provide value in the following three ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answering the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explaining &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; it is correct&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Providing additional information not covered by other answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer doesn't match all three criteria, you should downvote, leave a comment explaining how the answer can be improved, and flag it as 'Not an Answer' if it isn't edited. Maintaining the quality of the site means making sure that answers actually address the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answer the Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer needs to answer the question being asked. Answers can fail to do this in one of three ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asking for clarification in the answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding information to another answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answering a question that hasn't been asked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarifications&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the question isn't clear and to give a good answer requires a bit of additional information. That is what &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; are for. If you need more information to provide an answer, make a comment instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Adding Information&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you agree with another answer, but want to add an additional thought. Don't just answer, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I agree with everything that Alice said. I just want to add...&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; Make sure that you answer the question fully, or if you agree with what Alice said, you can make a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt;, or even make an &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; to her post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Changing the Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone asks, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How should I list awards on my resume?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; any answer should include details on how to include awards in a resume. People will come here from search engines because they are looking how to do it. If you think that awards shouldn't be included on resumes most of the time, that's fine to add, but make sure you also tell someone how they should include that Nobel Prize they won.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Explain &lt;em&gt;Why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;How&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;Answers should be backed up either with a reference, or experiences that happened to you personally&lt;/a&gt;. So you think awards should be listed chronologically on a resume. Why? And how? Why chronologically? Should I list my high school science fair blue ribbon before my Nobel Prize? Do you list the award first? The year achieved first? What you received the award for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers should not just state an opinion. Avoid using words like, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I think&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;In my opinion&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. That is implied. Rather than adding qualifiers, focus on adding explanation and/or evidence to back up your answer and it will be better received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This rule applies to any answer, but is very strongly enforced against answers &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1692/is-quit-your-job-an-acceptable-answer&quot;&gt;that tell the asker to quit their job&lt;/a&gt;. There are a lot of reasons that someone cannot easily quit their job, so if you do believe that is your answer, focus extra hard on making sure you provide very good justification for your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Provide Additional Info&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/172/what-can-we-do-about-me-too-answers&quot;&gt;Me too answers are strongly discouraged&lt;/a&gt;. Make sure that your answer provides a different perspective over other answers, or is more comprehensive in explaining &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; over an existing answer. If there is a very solid answer you agree with, then upvote it, don't just post another answer saying the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have additional information you want to add, feel free to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; instead of making a new answer. Duplicate answers don't add any value to the site. Adding more answers to a question means it is harder for people looking for the answer to their question to find what they are looking for since the same information may be stated several times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-02-07T10:07:10.147" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2331" CreationDate="2014-02-07T13:24:58.263" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well done! I particularly like the Stapler in the 404 page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not too sure everyone will understand the image on the &quot;something bad happened&quot; page, though. Are 2 cup coffee machines universal enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2014-02-07T13:24:58.263" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2331" CreationDate="2014-02-10T18:12:07.983" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site design looks great, and I particularly like the images of typical office products across the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My few complaints about it though are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't like the all-caps used in some areas, such as the META links on the sidebar, the user names, and the ASKED cards. The all-caps in the headers of the sidebar seem fine though.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The date in the &quot;Answered&quot; box is hard to read on some monitors due to the extremely light font color. I think it should be a bit darker, as this is information I sometimes want to see.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those paperclips in the upper right are far too small. They should be much longer, and ideally should look a little bit more like paperclips instead of safety pins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not sure why, but it looks extremely strange to have the word &quot;Share&quot; capitalized when the word &quot;edit&quot; is not. Can we get them all lowercase like other SE sites I see?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm being a bit nit-picky here, but the &quot;Accepted Answer&quot; check mark doesn't really stand out to me. The shade seems like it doesn't quite match the rest of the site, and I feel like the box with white background makes it blend in a little too much with the up/down arrows&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AdDEo.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2wVB2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gDl3w.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall though, I love the design, colors, and logo. Great job! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="316" LastEditDate="2014-02-10T18:23:11.977" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T18:23:11.977" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2321" CreationDate="2014-02-12T09:38:08.120" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Explaining the asker why fooing bars in general is a bad idea instead of explaining how to foo bar's might provide value. It might even provide more value than a straight answer, because it prevents someone from making a mistake. But it doesn't answer the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The asker might be forced by a higher power to do this, even though they know it's a bad idea. So they must find a way to do it with a minimum amount of damage.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are special circumstances which apply which make fooing a bar a viable solution in this special case.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even when you know these circumstances don't apply to the special situation of the asker, a future visitor might be in a different situation where bar-fooing is more applicable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You might be wrong (yes, i know, that's really unlikely. I just added this point for completeness)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I would recommend to structure an answer to such a question like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain why you think that fooing the bar is a bad idea under these circumstances&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continue with &quot;When you are still determined to foo the bar after all the reasons I gave you to not do it, then this is what you could do:&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain how to foo a bar causing minimal damage.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9959" LastEditorUserId="9959" LastEditDate="2014-02-13T14:02:24.493" LastActivityDate="2014-02-13T14:02:24.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2345" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-13T13:30:30.777" Score="7" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question had me wondering: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/19218/auditions-and-money-problems&quot;&gt;How to audition for a singing/acting job without the money to travel to their location?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a question like &quot;I want to work for IBM. How can I get an interview?&quot; on target?&#xA;Is a question like &quot;I want to interview at Google. What specific interview questions will they ask?&quot; on target?&#xA;Is a question like &quot;Does anyone know if Mom-and-Pop Store offers good benefits?&quot; on target?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to understand. In general, is it Ok to ask questions that have relevance for a single company only? Does the size of that one company matter? What kind of consistent guidance can we offer to questioners?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T00:10:21.103" Title="Are questions about one particular company on target?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2345" CreationDate="2014-02-13T15:11:21.050" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally I would say no.  But Disney is one of the few exceptions.  They have a dramatically different on-boarding and recruiting process than any other company I am aware of.  For this reason the advice and methods that apply to the vast majority of companies do not apply to Disney.  If Disney was a company of a few hundred or even a few thousand people it may not be valid.  But in 2003 when I went through orientation at Disney they employed over 500,000 cast members in the Disney brand companies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there exists another company of similar size and global reach as Disney that also uses a non standard recruitment process then I would say that a question regarding them would be acceptable as well.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the other reason that this question should be on topic is that there is a Good answer to this question that will likely surprise many people, that can help people in the future.  This is not as straight forward as it seems. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2014-02-13T15:47:34.700" LastActivityDate="2014-02-13T15:47:34.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2345" CreationDate="2014-02-13T15:48:59.383" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be the flip side of the coin to Chad's answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking how to get a job at Disney is something that only Disney is going to be able to answer at any given point in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like these are essentially asking how to get a job, or how to do a specific part of a job (even if that part is applying) and we have long agreed that this is off-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We even have a custom close reason agreeing that asking for the specific of a job, or how to get a job is off-topic and I stand by this decision. Disney may have a slightly different recruiting process but that neither changes the scope of the site or the nature of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will we allow any company with a slightly different recruitment process to have its own individual tailored questions and answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastActivityDate="2014-02-13T15:48:59.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2321" CreationDate="2014-02-14T07:02:49.790" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;How would you answer the question &quot;Have you stopped beating your wife yet?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Yes&quot; and &quot;no&quot; are the only literal answers.  If either of those were selected, it would be acknowledging the hidden assumption that you beat your wife.  In this case, the best answer is not to answer the question directly, but to challenge its assumptions.  &quot;I don't beat my wife, and I would never do such a thing&quot; might be a good answer, or &quot;I'm not married&quot;, even though neither directly answers the question.  If directly answering would be a trap, best not to fall into it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, every question is really two questions: the literal question asked, and an implied question of &quot;this is my wording of a question, the circumstances surrounding it, and my assumptions; what should I do?&quot;.  Sometimes the literal question is a great question; sometimes not so much.  If the literal question is fine, it should be answered, and maybe the implied one too, if it's different enough from the literal one.  If the literal question betrays a bad assumption on the part of the question asker, the implied question is the one that needs an answer, although the literal question might still be worth answering too.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the question you link, there is an assumption that having a culture of punctuality on a software development team is indispensable -- even more important than having your developers get their work done well.  Many developers reacted with horror to this assumption.  This is not bad, and does contribute to this site as a resource.  A manager with a similar set of presumptions could easily run across this question and find out that developers are likely to be rather sensitive about this issue (and why they respond like that).  That is a more useful outcome than if the same manager ran across a prescription for how to lay down the law, implemented it, and ended up chasing away his best developer and reducing the rest of the team's morale.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of your question, you ask (as I read it) if questions like &quot;My senior managers are supportive of my implementing [bad idea].  How do I do it?&quot; should be required to answer the literal question (How do I do it?).  In my opinion, no, they should not be required to.  The important thing to say is that [bad idea] is a bad idea.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8846" LastActivityDate="2014-02-14T07:02:49.790" CommentCount="25" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2349" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-14T16:46:39.760" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/19283/2322&quot;&gt;How much am I expected to know as a technical student co-op?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is answerable with a minor edit to clarify the question is &quot;what are expectations of coop students?&quot; rather than &quot;what technology should I know?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-02-14T16:46:39.760" Title="This now locked question is answerable" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2287" CreationDate="2014-02-17T01:37:11.133" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1478/&quot;&gt;How can I overcome &amp;quot;years of experience&amp;quot; requirements when applying to positions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Created:&lt;/strong&gt; May 29 '12 at 12:55&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Score:&lt;/strong&gt; +141&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Views:&lt;/strong&gt; 49,533&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Answers:&lt;/strong&gt; 19&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Results&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A total of 22 votes were placed on this question, no answers were dropped in to the negatives, and none were deleted. Here is the change:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1479&quot;&gt;( ― ) 5 → 5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1480&quot;&gt;( ― ) 3 → 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1482&quot;&gt;( ― ) 4 → 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1483&quot;&gt;( ― ) 10 → 10&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1484&quot;&gt;(▲4) 53 → 57&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1485&quot;&gt;(▲5) 165 → 170&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1487&quot;&gt;( ― ) 15 → 15&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1488&quot;&gt;(▲1) 38 → 39&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1489&quot;&gt;(▼1) 2 → 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1490&quot;&gt;( ― ) 0 → 0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1497&quot;&gt;( ― ) 3 → 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1501&quot;&gt;(▼1) 1 → 0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1503&quot;&gt;( ― ) 4 → 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1504&quot;&gt;( ― ) 2 → 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1533&quot;&gt;( ― ) 2 → 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1556&quot;&gt;(▼1) 1 → 0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3318&quot;&gt;(▲2) 18 → 20&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3348&quot;&gt;(▼1) 2 → 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7279&quot;&gt;( ― ) 5 → 5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1479&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1480&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 3&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited May 29 '12 at 13:42&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1482&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1483&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 10&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited May 07 '13 at 14:49&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1484&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 53&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited May 06 '13 at 10:26&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1485&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 165&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Aug 20 '12 at 14:06&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1487&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 15&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Aug 20 '12 at 21:12&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1488&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 38&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Sep 10 '12 at 21:48&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1489&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Jan 29 '14 at 11:11&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1490&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1497&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1501&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1503&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1504&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited May 29 '12 at 22:58&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1533&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1556&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited May 31 '12 at 20:16&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3318&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 18&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Jan 24 '13 at 20:10&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3348&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdZFN.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited&quot; title=&quot;edited Dec 27 '12 at 16:17&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7279&quot;&gt;Initial Score: 5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T01:34:03.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2345" CreationDate="2014-02-18T00:10:21.103" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe nobody here can answer. That's fine. Just because the question is hard doesn't mean it won't be useful to someone in the future if it can be answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Long Tail&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace should be home to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Long Tail&lt;/a&gt; questions as well as short tail ones. Stack Overflow would be a far worse place if it said you could only ask about javascript, php, or c++ for instance. The fact that you can get good support for even minor framworks/languages like google-visualization is tremendous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we grow, these sorts of questions (and the experts who can answer long-tail questions) should increase if we want to remain a good resource. Deleting these questions now because they are too specific does us no good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Unanswered is Okay&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe none of us works for Disney and can't give a good answer to the question. Maybe we all are stumped by the question and can't give any real advice. That's fine. Unanswered questions don't cause any harm to the system. Most sites don't have a 100% answered rate. If we do, I'd say we aren't challenging ourselves accepting good (but obscure) questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it looks like some of us can actually give it a shot. It looks like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/19218/how-to-audition-for-a-singing-acting-job-without-the-money-to-travel-to-their-lo#comment47661_19218&quot;&gt;Chad has a good grasp on this&lt;/a&gt;. With a bit of Google elbow-grease and a bit of effort, he may be able to put together a comprehensive answer (with sources!) explaining how recruiting works for Disney, which may help out hundreds or thousands of future visitors who are looking for that resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Don't Worry about Clutter&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;But jmac!&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; I hear you cry, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;our gorgeous clean site without blemish will be cluttered by overly specific garbage questions!&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; Fear not. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221/how-does-deleting-work-what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that&quot;&gt;There are systems in place to handle that&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a question has a negative score, it will be auto-deleted in 30 days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a question has no answers, no score, less than 1.5 views/day on average, and less than two comments it will be deleted in a year&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These will be cleaned up if they are just too niche for our userbase. And that's fine! But if someone comes along who can answer it, that is a great way to grow experts for our community in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Caveat Answeror&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not mean that we should encourage people to include a specific company. This doesn't mean we shouldn't focus on questions being made broad and applicable to more people when possible. It just means that if something really is different and a long-tail question, we shouldn't close it just because we can't answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep good questions, even if super-specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit mediocre questions, to make them in to good questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Close bad questions, because they provide no value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T00:10:21.103" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2353" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2354" CreationDate="2014-02-18T13:29:34.287" Score="4" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that I received a &quot;User removed&quot; message from The Workplace last week, and my rep is reduced by 15. The funny part of this is that I haven't visited this section for few weeks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So may I know what is going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10737" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2014-02-18T13:51:36.220" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T13:51:36.220" Title="Why am I removed?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2353" CreationDate="2014-02-18T13:51:11.530" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't from &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; being removed. Some other user was removed. When a user is removed, all of the votes cast by that user go away. In this case, it seems a user was removed who cast upvotes on your posts (three upvotes on questions is +15, or one answer and one question). Since these votes have gone away, the reputation you gained from them has been lost as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T13:51:11.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2355" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-19T11:33:13.490" Score="5" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;We get a number of questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/19414/job-offer-after-internship&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; which basically boil down to the asker not knowing what to negotiate or when to negotiate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we had a comprehensive question and answer that detailed &lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt; it's good to negotiate and &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it's good to negotiate these things, would this be on topic and beneficial to workplace to point these types of users at?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad answers to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should negotiate on the 25th of June&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should negotiate 2 weeks after moving house&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good answers to this would be a long the line of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's best to negotiate when you have a real need for something different to what you are being offered. For example if the pay they are offering you is below what you need to pay rent then it is best to negotiate this value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should not try to negotiate just for the sake of wanting more, trying to get things you don't really need can come across as greedy, and negotiating for far more than you need can result in you not even getting considered&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course these are just examples and I imagine that others can come up with additional points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question still stands: &lt;strong&gt;Would a canonical Q&amp;amp;A of when and why you should negotiate help the workplace?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is not fit for the main site, would having a question of that ilk be useful to have here on meta to point people to instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-02-19T11:33:13.490" Title="Would a comprehensive 'When should I negotiate and why' question benefit the workplace?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2356" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-20T04:14:42.483" Score="5" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Graduation is coming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deletion of -1 scored answers is going from a 4,000 reputation privilege to a 20,000 reputation privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time for some easy cleanup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote on the post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Improve if you think it can be saved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it can't be improved:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote to close (for questions) or vote to delete if closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote to delete (for answers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following searches will return a bunch of posts. I will group them in to easy bunches so that you can do them in bitesized chunks. Tackling questions first will delete attached answers which may be 一石二鳥 (two birds one stone), so let's tackle those first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will do my best to track progress. Due to limitations in the number of flags, we may not be able to vote to delete all members of a group. Such is life. If there are particularly offensive ones, you can always flag in general and have a mod take care of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=score%3A-7..-5&quot;&gt;29 posts scored -5 or worse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=score%3A-4..-4+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;23 questions scored -4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=score%3A-3..-3+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;23 closed questions scored -3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=score%3A-2..-2+is%3Aquestion+closed%3Atrue+answers%3A1..100+duplicate%3Afalse&quot;&gt;54 closed questions scored -2 that won't be auto-deleted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=score%3A-4..-4+is%3Aanswer&quot;&gt;27 answers scored -4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=score%3A-3..-3+is%3Aanswer+created%3A2010-1-1..2013-1-1&quot;&gt;20 old answers scored -3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=score%3A-3..-3+is%3Aanswer+created%3A2013-1-1..2013-8-1&quot;&gt;33 answers from 2013 scored -3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=score%3A-3..-3+is%3Aanswer+created%3A2013-8-1..2014-8-1&quot;&gt;27 recent answers scored -3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=score%3A-2..-2+is%3Aanswer+created%3A2011-1-1..2013-1-1&quot;&gt;31 old answers scored -2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=score%3A-2..-2+is%3Aanswer+created%3A2013-1-1..2013-7-1&quot;&gt;41 answers from 2013 scored -2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=score%3A-2..-2+is%3Aanswer+created%3A2013-7-1..2014-8-1&quot;&gt;64 recent answers scored -2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-02-20T10:06:16.940" Title="Graduation, Privileges, and Deletion" Tags="|support|faq-proposed|graduation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2357" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-20T04:43:58.703" Score="20" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;As many of you know, Workplace SE is pending graduation as soon as the design passes it's final QA inspection. I wanted to take a moment to outline some of the changes that will occur so you know what to expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;New Design&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most noticeable change, when it comes to graduation, will occur when Stack Exchange replaces the 2.0 Beta theme with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2331/site-design-for-workplace-se&quot;&gt;The Workplace SE's very own custom design&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Links from other graduated sites, and advertising&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Graduated sites are typically linked from the footers of other graduated sites. Since Workplace SE is in a new Stack Exchange category called &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites#professional-traffic&quot;&gt;Professional&lt;/a&gt;, stay tuned to see how this gets addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Graduated sites are also revenue generators. We'll get our own meta thread where we create our own ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Privileges&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Privileges on Beta sites are set to a reduced threshold to help get more users involved in the daily community moderation activities. With graduation, with the site scope fully defined, these privileges reset back to their default values. Here's a brief overview of some of the changes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beta privileges:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;150   Create tags&#xA;350   Access review queues&#xA;500   Vote to close, reopen, or migrate any questions&#xA;1000  Edit other people’s posts, vote to approve or reject suggested edits&#xA;1500  Vote to approve or reject suggested tag wiki edits&#xA;2000  Vote to delete closed questions, access to moderation tools&#xA;3500  Protect questions to prevent answers by new users&#xA;4000  Vote to delete negatively voted answers and stronger question deletion votes&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Graduated site privileges:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 500  Access review queues&#xA;1500  Create tags&#xA;2000  Edit other people’s posts, vote to approve or reject suggested edits&#xA;3000  Vote to close, reopen, or migrate any questions&#xA;5000  Vote to approve or reject suggested tag wiki edits&#xA;10000 Vote to delete closed questions, access to moderation tools&#xA;15000 Protect questions to prevent answers by new users          &#xA;20000 Vote to delete negatively voted answers and stronger question deletion votes&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To see all of the graduated site privileges ahead of time, see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Help Center Privileges page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use graduation as an opportunity to use all your votes to vote on great content. This will help boost our collective reputation and lift others up to those higher levels. In the meantime, use your flags and comments to help deal with trouble spots. Moderators will be keeping a close eye on things to help make a smooth transition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Moderator Elections&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of moderators, while we've heard nothing official yet from the Stack Exchange community team regarding moderator elections, we do know that graduation is when communities hold their elections to select moderators. The winners of the elections replace the provisional pro temp moderators appointed during the public beta phase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an overview of what to expect during the elections, please see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/12/stack-exchange-moderator-elections-begin/&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Moderator Elections Begin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Preparing for graduation by cleaning house&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a good time to prepare for graduation by using your privileges and access to leave this site in a good position when it launches. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2356/graduation-privileges-and-deletion&quot;&gt;jmac compiled a list of questions with delete votes&lt;/a&gt;. I'll be going through this shortly to take care of any obvious low quality material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also help by editing posts to clean up spelling, grammar, or formatting issues. If a question is inappropriately tagged, use this as an opportunity to retag it. While you're at it, upvote good content and downvote the bad. As always, if you see anything that you aren't able to fix, be sure to flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's exciting to see this site graduate, and I'm looking forward to seeing Workplace SE with it's new theme. The hard work that this community put into defining the scope of this site has paid off!  Nice work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T15:14:03.603" Title="Prepare for graduation" Tags="|discussion|graduation|announcement|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2356" CreationDate="2014-02-20T05:19:35.480" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've started to go through some of the most heavily downvoted posts. Posts that were noise or that were not serious, I've removed. However, I encountered cases of heavily downvoted incorrect answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, it's helpful to show incorrect answers as this tells future readers what not to do, especially if there are comments that indicate why the answer is wrong. I haven't deleted these, for this very reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When going through posts, ask yourself whats wrong with the post. If it's just that the answer is wrong, we may want to leave them as long as there aren't already a lot of answers. It's a judgement call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-02-20T05:19:35.480" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2359" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-20T13:58:00.280" Score="4" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7406/leaving-a-job-very-early-to-accept-another-offer&quot;&gt;Leaving a job very early to accept another offer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why this question hasn't been closed. The core question is &quot;Should I leave my current job for the other?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this different from other &quot;What job should I take?&quot; questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm just shooting for understanding here. I'm not lobbying for action either way)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-02-20T14:37:18.793" Title="Why is this question not closed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2359" CreationDate="2014-02-20T14:24:15.177" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The difference between &quot;Should leave current job for another&quot; and &quot;What job should I take&quot; is that the first has the subject already in a job, while the other ask a second opinion on something that really can only be answered by the one asking on a personal level. The person who ask the question you refer to is asking for what I translate as an ethical judgement. Is it wise to leave a current job for a better and more tempting job? How will it look from a professional standpoint? The answer is yes, and it will not look too bad unless he/she leaves with both middle fingers raised shouting &quot;F**k you all!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, it's an ethical question, not a personal choice question, even tho I do see your point that it looks a bit like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15950" LastActivityDate="2014-02-20T14:24:15.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2359" CreationDate="2014-02-20T14:37:18.793" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree it should be closed, but because it's asking for opinions. &quot;Should I leave my current job?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The outcome is the same as if asking &quot;which of the two should I go with?&quot;, but it's in fact a different question. I'm not saying, you're wrong, but giving a conceivable reason, why people might have shied away from flagging it as that first option or flagging it at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10912" LastActivityDate="2014-02-20T14:37:18.793" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2362" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2363" CreationDate="2014-02-20T16:54:45.353" Score="-3" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/19469/salary-on-unusual-job-name#comment48319_19470&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt;, this excellent answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm not sure why you feel the need to compare. If you must, compare it&#xA;  to other jobs that you feel sure you could land. That's the only thing&#xA;  that is relevant anyway. If your title is to be &quot;Director of Zerble&quot;,&#xA;  but the only other jobs you could land are Dishwasher, or Parking Lot&#xA;  Attendant - compare the offer to those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...was converted into &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/19469/salary-on-unusual-job-name#comment48312_19469&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt;, causing OP to accept &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/19470/13535&quot;&gt;a lesser answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's not about the title. It's about what you'll be doing. Find out&#xA;  what the role involves and then determine what others call it. Then&#xA;  you can do some meaningful comparisons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You need to do more research - talk to the company and its employees&#xA;  about what the job entails. It's not as simple as plugging a few&#xA;  things in to an Internet search engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the length threshold were a little shorter, this may have been prevented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13535" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-02-20T17:29:54.037" Title="Answer length threshold too high?" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ClosedDate="2014-02-20T18:45:49.553" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2362" CreationDate="2014-02-20T16:57:22.807" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing was converted into a comment from an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The opposite happened, someone left a comment and that comment was then expanded into a non-accepted answer after being requested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably there were comments that have since been deleted that Joe had left which became part of the answer there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2014-02-20T16:57:22.807" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2364" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-20T21:16:14.670" Score="48" ViewCount="413" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you can see the new design just went live. Which means this site has been officially launched! Congratulations! Thank you for your valuable &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2331/site-design-for-workplace-se&quot;&gt;design feedback&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're still seeing the old favicons, please load the follow urls and do a hard browser refresh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.sstatic.net/workplace/img/favicon.ico&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://cdn.sstatic.net/workplace/img/favicon.ico&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.sstatic.net/workplacemeta/img/favicon.ico&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://cdn.sstatic.net/workplacemeta/img/favicon.ico&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have also themed the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chatroom&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/StackWorkplace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt; account and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/newsletters/newsletter?site=workplace.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;newsletter&lt;/a&gt; template for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see any CSS/styling bugs, please start a new post and tag it with &quot;design&quot; and &quot;bug.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congrats on the launch and thank you for being an awesome community!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13131" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T19:14:31.663" Title="New Design Launched" Tags="|discussion|design|graduation|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2365" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2376" CreationDate="2014-02-21T01:52:22.060" Score="4" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't upload an image to demo the problem. Gray cover blocks the dialog; clicking anywhere makes it all go away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="13131" LastEditDate="2014-02-21T14:51:51.487" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T14:52:41.520" Title="Bug uploading images on meta" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|css|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2365" CreationDate="2014-02-21T04:16:00.847" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; The same issue is happening on the main Workplace site which is far worse than just no photos on meta. Please fix both at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue may be the Z-index of the background when the dialog pops up. Using the developer tools, I get the following HTML for the gray box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;wmd-prompt-background&quot; style=&quot;position: absolute; top: 0px; z-index: 1000; opacity: 0.5; height: 2009px; left: 0px; width: 100%;&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the z-index is placing it above (rather than behind) the dialog box, we won't be able to click any buttons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I manually change the code so that the z-index is 0 the box disappears (probably hidden behind the site background) and I can use the dialog no problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm going to guess it's the z-index.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T04:16:00.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2367" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2387" CreationDate="2014-02-21T04:47:13.153" Score="6" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;The right part is cut off (lines up with the sidebar from the main page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oZzgF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="7945" LastEditDate="2014-05-09T08:20:44.517" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T08:20:44.517" Title="Suggested edit CSS bug" Tags="|bug|status-reproduced|design|css|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2368" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2378" CreationDate="2014-02-21T04:49:10.040" Score="5" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a lot more spacing between questions on the main pages (main and meta) than on some other sites (&lt;a href=&quot;https://judaism.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Mi Yodeya&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;EL&amp;amp;U&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;MSO&lt;/a&gt; for example).  At my current window size and zoom level, I'm seeing 5 questions here on Workplace Meta but 7-8 on the others.  It looks like most of the extra space is between the top of the title text and the separator bar above it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshots taken in a default browser configuration (no add-ons) while not logged in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kdn5t.png&quot; alt=&quot;The Workplace&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For comparison:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LuCOK.png&quot; alt=&quot;EL&amp;amp;U&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The screen shots are from Chrome (23.0.1271.95) on XP.  I see the same behavior in Firefox on XP (18.0.1) and OS 10.6 (27.0.1).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:42:06.653" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T16:59:16.290" Title="Questions on main pages are very spread out vertically; is that intentional?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2369" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2398" CreationDate="2014-02-21T04:49:32.337" Score="4" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;The flag indicator is black-on-black. The text is visible, but the indicator is not very noticeable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LZEUk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="202" LastEditDate="2014-02-25T20:44:55.810" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T20:44:55.810" Title="Black on black flag indicator" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|css|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2370" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-21T04:59:10.167" Score="1" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the 'Post Your Question' (or Answer, or 'Add Another Answer') button on my screen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FRg2M.png&quot; alt=&quot;Answer Button&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;The color being odd is only in the screenshot for reasons beyond my comprehension, it is the proper lighter reddish color on my screen&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The font there is an absolutely hideous Japanese font (I'm on a Japanese OS), and it should ideally be styled with some more appealing font to prevent the ugliness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T04:59:10.167" Title="'Post Your Question' button uses default system font" Tags="|bug|design|css|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-21T06:36:58.703" Score="2" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;After every post there's the user info (name, rep, badges). This is what it looks like on Meta.SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dbeVg.png&quot; alt=&quot;My user flair on M.SO&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what it looks like on TWP:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zwhws.png&quot; alt=&quot;My user flair on TWP&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On MSO it is one consistent font size for both the type of action and the date. On TWP the timing is many points smaller than the type of action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it's minor, but shouldn't they both be the same size?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="13131" LastEditDate="2014-02-24T14:47:08.797" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T14:47:08.797" Title="Funky text styling above user flair" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|css|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2372" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-21T07:01:27.657" Score="4" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like there's another issue with flagging in the 10k user tools. Here is what it looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sPiJI.png&quot; alt=&quot;Flag Dialog&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, the container for the content seems to be the cutoff for where I can see the dialog. The background of the site seems to be above the flag dialog (which is bad).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike the grey box issues over the buttons, this &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; doesn't seem to have a z-index property:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div id=&quot;popup-flag-post&quot; class=&quot;popup&quot; data-postid=&quot;19489&quot; style=&quot;position: absolute; top: 1984px; left: calc(50% - 350px); display: block;&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T07:01:27.657" Title="Z-Index Issues in the 10k Tools Flag Queue" Tags="|bug|design|css|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2373" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2394" CreationDate="2014-02-21T07:10:25.487" Score="4" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;, there is a button that shows all rooms with our logo on it. It looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bqOLZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;button screenshot&quot; title=&quot;button screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, the bottom right of the icon is the same color as the button background, making our logo look like a funky magnet. Or a claw from one of those claw crane games where you try to snag prizes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(this is not a serious issue)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2014-02-26T07:05:58.890" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T07:05:58.890" Title="Button Color and Logo Color are Shared Making for Funky Magnet" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|css|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2373" CreationDate="2014-02-21T14:45:19.183" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the prize IS getting into the chat rooms...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T14:45:19.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2375" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2379" CreationDate="2014-02-21T14:50:42.373" Score="1" ViewCount="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;See screenshot below for issue, or look to the top of the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PbtCi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="202" LastEditDate="2014-02-21T17:25:35.477" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T17:25:35.477" Title="Search box doesn't fit in header area" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|css|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2365" CreationDate="2014-02-21T14:52:41.520" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's fixed on the development server. Will be on live site after the next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your feedback @jmac&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13131" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T14:52:41.520" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2368" CreationDate="2014-02-21T16:58:42.830" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The spacing between the questions is intentional. We want a relaxed feel, so white space helps a lot accomplishing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13131" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T16:58:42.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2375" CreationDate="2014-02-21T17:25:21.960" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I pushed a fix for this to our dev server. The change will be on live site after our next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T17:25:21.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2380" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-21T20:35:01.670" Score="3" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PW3Wv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The urr, title says it all really... and if you were still confused, I'm pretty sure the picture explains it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you're &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; confused... the &quot;Take the 2-minute tour&quot; button, which is shown for logged out users is too big for the container it sits in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16141" LastEditorUserId="202" LastEditDate="2014-02-21T21:20:49.590" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T21:20:49.590" Title="&quot;Take the 2-minute tour&quot; button is too big" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2380" CreationDate="2014-02-21T21:20:42.777" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a huge button for sure! I've pushed a fix to dev, it will be live after our next production build(within 24 hours)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T21:20:42.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2367" CreationDate="2014-02-21T22:02:59.477" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very temporary fix:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your inspector, search the node with ID &quot;suggested-edit-[some number]&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the styles for that node find class '.question-summary'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Set its width to 100%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10912" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T22:02:59.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2383" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-22T20:18:19.800" Score="1" ViewCount="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you can see, in the suggested edit queue, the diff changes on the right are not all visible due to it being cut off. I replicated the bug in both Chrome 32, Safari 7.0.1, and Firefox 27.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you run this, you can see all of the content:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$('.question-summary').css('width','955px');&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vMStG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Suggested Edit cutoff top&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z9xjf.png&quot; alt=&quot;Suggested Edit cutoff bottom&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-02-22T20:18:19.800" Title="The Suggested Edit side-by-side comparison is cut off on the right side" Tags="|bug|design|css|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2014-02-22T21:19:25.180" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2384" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-24T01:27:20.443" Score="4" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just wanted to extend a big &quot;Thanks&quot; to TWP community for a great effort to push us over the goal line to graduation. We came a long way guys, and it would've never been possible without some big contributions from some key members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks a lot guys! And good luck to all candidates in the upcoming moderator election. This is gonna be a big one. Let's keep everything going in the right direction!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T01:27:20.443" Title="Thanks TWP Community!" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2014-04-18T22:39:14.223" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2385" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-24T08:34:23.970" Score="7" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure if this is the right place to ask (if not, please move it elsewhere so it can be answered).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen some really great questions on this forum, but many of the answers seem specific only to people working in the IT world or are programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this to be a bit restrictive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason for this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any sites for all professions in general?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user16211" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T09:15:27.647" Title="Are the questions on this site only for IT workers and programmers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2385" CreationDate="2014-02-24T08:44:42.067" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is the correct please to come and ask workplace related questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have correctly identified that a large amount of our current questions and answers are mostly programmer-centric. This isn't because everything else is not on topic though, this is predominantly because the community we have here is largely comprised of programmers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as your question is about problems faced in the workplace, isn't overly broad, and isn't solely a personal issue then it is likely to be on topic here, if you are unsure you can always ask in Chat (requires 50 rep) or on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;meta.workplace&lt;/a&gt; for clarification. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have a useful &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;help page&lt;/a&gt; that might be worth you checking out to get familiar with our limitations here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T08:44:42.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2367" CreationDate="2014-02-24T14:45:27.417" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This issue has been fixed. The change will be on live server after our next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13131" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T14:45:27.417" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2371" CreationDate="2014-02-24T14:46:57.263" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This issue has been fixed. The change will be on live server after our next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13131" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T14:46:57.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2389" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-24T20:18:42.370" Score="3" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/19490/is-a-prospective-boss-who-is-hiring-after-firings-a-proceed-with-caution-or-d&quot;&gt;Is a prospective boss with a history of quick hirings and firings a &amp;quot;proceed with caution&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;do not proceed&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; , which was recently closed as too opinion based, was intended as a narrow question. One prospective employer hired two or three people and then fired them very quickly, taking a nasty view of them. What I wanted to know was, as I explicitly stated, from a human resources perspective, is working with him a &quot;proceed with caution&quot; or a nonstarter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments broaden the question appreciably. One person broadened it to include whether I was competent for job title X, and my attempt to say, &quot;I asked question A, not question B. I would like your answer to A, and if I want input on question B, I will raise that in a separate question.&quot; But it failed; the question was now both whether the boss was a nonstarter from an HR perspective and whether my competencies matched the position. And other things retrofitted my question to be in an elastic sense more about &quot;Should I take job Y,&quot; which was off limits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What, if anything, could I have done to retain focus on what is now closed as a too opinion-based question? I asked a question about a very narrow topic, but it seems to have been subject to a minor brainstorm, and that brainstorm seemed to pave the way to go from my explicit, narrow intent to be more open-ended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be helpful in this case? Should I have just said &quot;I am interested in knowing whether, from a human resources perspective, being hired after a boss has quickly hired and fired two or three other programmers and has nasty things to say about them, is a nonstarter or proceed with caution; if I have other questions, I will bring them up in separate notes?&quot; The closing of the question as opinion-based seems like I wasn't the only person who didn't like the open-ended &quot;Should I take job X?&quot; question the discussion turned to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8198" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T02:47:39.090" Title="How can I deal with other people broadening my question when I have tried and failed to keep it focused?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2389" CreationDate="2014-02-24T20:43:22.240" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is not your typical workplace forum.  We are a Q&amp;amp;A Site that is focused on questions that are answerable objectively and completely.  The question you want to ask is basically a poll of our users about what they think about your situation.  That sort of thing is something we actively attempt to avoid here.  The question you have asked can not really be answered in an objective and complete way.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments have been an attempt to help you get the question reopened.  If you do not want to change the question to meet the standards of the site then the question will likely remain closed.  You marked an answer as accepted so it seems that you have an answer that works for you.  So leaving the question closed should not be a problem for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T20:43:22.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2391" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-24T20:47:22.980" Score="3" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be quite a bit of unneeded padding in the comment box. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sAzi4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking about half the current padding would look better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T20:47:22.980" Title="Too much padding in the add a comment box" Tags="|bug|design|css|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2389" CreationDate="2014-02-25T02:47:39.090" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of our fantastic, insightful editors took a moment to slightly reword some things in the question to make it a better fit. The answers explain &lt;em&gt;how you can decide&lt;/em&gt; how to proceed. The answers are objective and include plenty of reasoning. In short, they're the types of answers we're looking for from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's true the answers are &quot;it depends&quot;, the objectivity presented in both the questions and answers influenced my call to reopen the post. In questions like this, we can't necessarily make decisions for you, but we can definitely tell you &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to make a decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T02:47:39.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2393" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-25T07:24:41.313" Score="2" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Much like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2365/bug-uploading-images-on-meta&quot;&gt;previous issue with image uploads&lt;/a&gt;, a similar grey block is blocking me from reviewing edits entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I click this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3ds8d.png&quot; alt=&quot;Suggested Edit Waiting&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IVp7V.png&quot; alt=&quot;Evil Grey Box&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any interaction (right or left click) causes the suggested edit review to disappear entirely. The offending grey box according to my developer tools states that it is this div:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div style=&quot;height: 2355px; display: block;&quot; id=&quot;lightbox&quot; class=&quot;no-esc-remove&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Free the suggested edits!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.357" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T15:11:07.510" Title="Grey Box Blocks Reviewing Edits" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|css|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2373" CreationDate="2014-02-25T14:40:17.567" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're going to use a darker blue for the chatroom button background color so the logo doesn't show up as a magnet. The change will go live after our next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T14:40:17.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2395" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-25T16:57:14.687" Score="2" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;With this new design, the notification box next to posts indicating flag history/comment deletion history no longer shows up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Not sure the best way to screenshot something &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; showing up, but if anyone can grab a screenshot of what it &lt;em&gt;used to&lt;/em&gt; look like (maybe from another beta site), that might be helpful.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a screenshot from another beta site that shows the asterisk next to a moderated post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lZsS4.png&quot; alt=&quot;menu expanded&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="13131" LastEditDate="2014-02-27T15:11:40.403" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T15:12:41.267" Title="Flags and deleted comment notifications not showing up next to posts" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|css|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2396" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2397" CreationDate="2014-02-25T17:52:26.760" Score="4" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user profiles ( &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/10042/michaelt&quot;&gt;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/10042/michaelt&lt;/a&gt; ) are in all caps.  Cutting and pasting from mine gives &quot;MICHAELT&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DJFex.png&quot; alt=&quot;Snippit of my profile&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this be changed to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_caps&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;small caps&lt;/a&gt; format so that if a name is copied and pasted it would instead come back as 'MichaelT'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came across this while grabbing a name to @ping someone in chat (which I don't know if it is case sensitive or not, but wasn't going to paste all caps either way - thats yelling their name).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10042" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T20:42:09.737" Title="All caps in the user profile?" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2396" CreationDate="2014-02-25T20:42:03.020" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I pushed a fix for this, made the user name on profile page to have regular case. The change will go out after the next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T20:42:03.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2369" CreationDate="2014-02-25T20:44:39.513" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have rolled out a consistent color scheme for suggested edit and flag indicators in global top bar. Flag will be orange and suggested edits be in dark maroon color background. This change will go out after the next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T20:44:39.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2399" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-26T07:35:35.517" Score="1" ViewCount="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;At first, I thought the icon-inbox and icon-flag were positioned too high, so I compared to a beta site, and I determined that what is making them look like they're positioned too high is that the font color too closely matches the background color on the Workplace SE icons, which puts the eye on the rectangles instead of on the text values.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the beta sites, the font foreground color is powerful enough to put focus on the actual text, which is centered between the top of the black bar and the bottom of the black bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When comparing the two sites, you can see the spacing is the same; it's just the colors drawing the eye to focus on different things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I like the orange color of the flag indicator background, just something might be amiss with the font-color. It would also be easier to read if the font colors stood out more. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kKxQ6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Comparing beta inbox/mod icons with Workplace inbox/mod icons&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, looking at the edit-count (suggested edit icon) the positioning does appear to be different. I don't think it matters since it's in a different group, but I thought I'd include another screenshot in the interests of being thorough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/87ZfF.png&quot; alt=&quot;edit-count icon vs flag icon&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2014-02-26T07:42:25.403" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T07:42:25.403" Title="Font on icon-inbox and icon-flag is too light" Tags="|bug|design|css|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2400" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-26T13:40:17.387" Score="3" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/admin&quot;&gt;moderator tools page&lt;/a&gt;, the &quot;25% or less&quot; highlighting is grey, like the rest of the text. It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; bold, but I don't think that's really sufficient highlighting. I believe this used to be red before graduation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ftpLO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T13:40:17.387" Title="Moderator stat highlighting not very visible" Tags="|bug|design|css|moderator-tools|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2401" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-26T20:21:48.400" Score="4" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently I think many of the Not an Answer or Very Low quality flags we see should have been some other flag, but we do not have that flag.  This flag would give us that other option.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be good for the answers that are I think you should do X type of answer, or I think you are being treated unfairly, etc.  Many times the sympathy is widely shared so the answers get voted up despite the fact that they do not provide a quality answer that is going to be useful in the future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also give us a mechanism for clearing out answers to questions that were asking for the opinions when posed, but could be made constructive if not for the answers that already exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flags would still just be for alerting the moderator of the need for action, but perhaps if we get to a certian threshold for the flags it could automatically trigger the back it up blurb that moderators can current set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T20:21:48.400" Title="Can we add a Flag reason for answers of: Provides Opinion Only" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|answers|flagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2402" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-26T21:02:41.657" Score="16" ViewCount="484" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been noticing for a couple months that the 10k flag queue seems to have NAA and VLQ flags for things that I think wouldn't be flagged that way on other sites I'm active on.  These are generally poor answers (usually pure opinion) deserving of downvotes, but my understanding of those flags is that there's a higher bar.  Are we using these flags correctly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My understanding from things that CMs have posted on MSO and per-site metas (no links handy right now, sorry) is that these mean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;NAA: does not even attempt to answer the question (a &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;unsupported&lt;/em&gt; answer isn't NAA)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;VLQ: Shog once evocatively described this kind of post as &quot;a steaming cowpile&quot;.  That is, VLQ means &quot;unredeemable&quot;, not just &quot;anecdote&quot; or &quot;wrong&quot; or &quot;opinion&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If those aren't what these flags mean on &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; site, could we have some better local definitions?  I've been finding in recent weeks that I feel deterred from acting on that flag queue at all, while especially post-graduation I should be taking a more active role with it.  Please help me understand how I should be viewing these flag types.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2014-02-26T21:12:53.230" LastActivityDate="2014-05-08T10:09:55.953" Title="Are we using NAA and VLQ flags correctly?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2403" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-27T02:33:19.297" Score="9" ViewCount="391" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the advice of Shog, this has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/224763/improving-the-system-to-deal-with-bad-answers&quot;&gt;reposted on Meta, slightly simplified&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's no shock that we have a lot of poor answers here. We are having &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2402/are-we-using-naa-and-vlq-flags-correctly&quot;&gt;issues with understanding the current flagging&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2287/cleaning-up-bad-answers-on-popular-questions&quot;&gt;problems with old questions with lots of bad answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kismet brought jmort, Shog9, and myself in to chat at the same time, where &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/conversation/flagging-discussion&quot;&gt;we had a discussion on the issue of poor answers&lt;/a&gt; (note: pretty long, but enlightening discussion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Fundamental Problem&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone asks a bad question we can put it &lt;strong&gt;[On Hold]&lt;/strong&gt; to allow the poster to improve the post. If it doesn't get improved, then it will be deleted in a regular cleanup and our site is a better place for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no such option for answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since graduation, we have lost a lot of people able to delete answers. That means the mods have to get involved. We are limited to voting (which doesn't have much impact when a question gets popular with lots of sympathy upvotes), or flagging (which many people seem to think we aren't using properly). This is less than ideal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community needs to have a way to deal with poor answers in the same way that it deals with poor questions, preferably without moderator intervention, and still giving people a chance to improve their answer prior to deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Solution&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have a great tool similar to putting a question on hold in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/172571/how-rare-should-post-notices-be&quot;&gt;post notices&lt;/a&gt; like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this post by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, these post notices can only be added by moderators, meaning that while any 3k user can vote to close a question, we are incredibly limited in our ability to do the same to answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's change that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Proposed Workflow&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a question receives answers over a certain threshold, those answers are tossed in a queue for review&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For users over a certain reputation threshold, one of the options for that queue can be to add a post notice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a certain amount of users vote to add a post notice, it gets automatically added to the post without moderator action required&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once a post is given a post notice, if it isn't edited in a certain number of days (like the 5 for a question to go from [On Hold] to [Closed]), it is added to the Low Quality Review Queue and can be deleted regardless of score&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Proposed Post Notices&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the following post notices would be good for our site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Insufficient Explanation&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone just gives an answer without explaining &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; it is the appropriate answer, we can use this existing post notice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're looking for long answers that provide some explanation and context. Don't just give a one-line answer: please explain why you're recommending it as a solution. Answers that don't explain anything will be deleted. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Does not Cite Sources&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone posts something about statutory or regulatory requirements (for instance, they say something is not permitted under the Americans with Disability Act) but doesn't actually cite the relevant portion of the text to allow people to confirm the answer, we can use this existing post notice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Me Too Answers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often we have answers that don't actually add any value. They contain the same advice, same reasoning, same explanation, and just end up taking up space rather than providing value. We don't have a post notice for this, but I think we should request one be added with a notice like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Information in this post has already been provided in other answers. Please help improve this answer by adding additional information not already given in other answers. Answers duplicating content may be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T20:51:31.097" Title="Improving the System for Dealing with Poor Answers" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|answers|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2403" CreationDate="2014-02-27T06:01:05.110" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Two Stage Workflow&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the workflow because it breaks things out into stages. It takes more than one person to make a call to add the post notice, then it takes more than one person to delete, with deletion only being allowed on positively scored posts &lt;em&gt;if the answer had previously been reviewed and left unimproved&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two stage approach gives answerers some time to get feedback through comments before the answers are ultimately removed. It also gives other community members a chance to edit in citations. I've put citations in other answers before to avoid deleting something that I personally thought had value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This approach, if executed and implemented with care, could lessen the chance of abuse, while also keeping things from slipping through the cracks.  There are currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aanswer+hasnotice%3A1&quot;&gt;31 answers with post notices&lt;/a&gt;, and some are fairly old, having flown just below the radar. This plan would help ensure they're dealt with in a timely manner while still giving the community time to collaborate and resolve issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Are there different types of posts with different answering requirements?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other important point that you've brought up is that there are different types of posts. On some, it makes sense to require citations and official references and for those posts to be removed if citations and references can't be produced. But there are other types of posts where only real experiences, backed up with explanations of &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;, can validate them, since there is no &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; solution to that problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key is to be able to differentiate between the types of posts that need the citations and the types of posts that need the full how and why explanations. Perhaps we can break down certain tags into these two categories. Categorizing types of answers makes it more clear what guidance to give the folks answering as well as what guidance to give folks making decisions about the posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Proposed Moderator Workflow to Test the Proposed Review Changes:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a proposed plan for the moderator workflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On newly posted answers, community members flag as &amp;quot;needs citation&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;needs explanation&amp;quot; post notice. &lt;em&gt;If you have suggestions for improving the post, please leave a helpful comment.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moderators evaluate and add the post notice and leave a comment, if necessary. (We pretty much do this anyway)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the flag is helpful, we mark it as helpful and clear it off our plate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once per week, we drop the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&amp;amp;q=is%3aanswer%20hasnotice%3a1&quot;&gt;post notice answers search, sorted from oldest to newest&lt;/a&gt; into the Water Cooler or meta where community members review, attempt to improve, and &amp;quot;re-flag&amp;quot; the post as either &amp;quot;improved - remove post notice&amp;quot; or &lt;strike&gt;&amp;quot;very low quality&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;sub&gt;see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2561/98&quot;&gt;updates to flagging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt; meaning it hasn't met the guidelines for a good Workplace answer and needs to be evaluated for removal. This last part is where we typically lose sight of things and where this proposal may prove to be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;At this time, what I've written is just a proposed idea. Let's hear some more feedback on this before making these adjustments.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE: For the most recent flagging guidance, please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2561/98&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T20:51:31.097" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2402" CreationDate="2014-02-27T06:56:16.810" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is an example of a post where I would expect to see a &lt;strong&gt;very low quality&lt;/strong&gt; flag. If I were to leave a comment here, I'm 99.9% certain this post will not be improved by the poster and there is no way anyone else could begin to improve it simply because there's nothing there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iVsly.png&quot; alt=&quot;Very Low Quality&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &lt;strong&gt;not an answer&lt;/strong&gt;, I've seen these flags on the following types of posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions as answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments as answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers that answer the question, but they're missing key elements from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; like explanations of &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;, objectivity, or citations/references.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we had a &quot;primarily opinion based&quot; flag, I'd say we'd then only use not an answer flags for the first two cases and not the latter. But for now, not an answer is pretty standard for answers that don't meet guidelines of a Workplace answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T06:56:16.810" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-27T14:20:07.617" Score="2" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of extra space around the content in the &quot;mod&quot; dialog on posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NyMVU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recall the &quot;actions&quot; link/title being on the left (along with the occasionally relevant &quot;info&quot; link), rather than below the X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T14:20:07.617" Title="Moderator dialog content very spaced out" Tags="|bug|design|css|moderator-tools|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2393" CreationDate="2014-02-27T15:10:56.493" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This issue has been fixed. The change will be on live server after our next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13131" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T15:10:56.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2395" CreationDate="2014-02-27T15:12:41.267" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This issue has been fixed. The change will be on live server after our next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13131" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T15:12:41.267" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2409" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-27T16:37:27.210" Score="3" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CF0e8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text box runs outside of the current popup window.  I think based on other windows like this that the window is to small that or the textbox is too big.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="202" LastEditDate="2014-02-28T18:47:21.000" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T10:13:07.470" Title="Chat Comment Flag window needs to be wider" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|css|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2410" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-27T18:15:37.547" Score="3" ViewCount="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;When there are multiple flags on a post, and some have already been handled, the contrast is extremely minimal between the two, and it's not easy to see the difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the picture below, the VLQ flag has been handled, but the NAA has not. Can you tell?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LAYRR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we maybe get rid of the gray background, and use more clearly differentiated text for the two?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T18:15:37.547" Title="Minimal contrast between handled and unhandled flags" Tags="|bug|design|css|moderator-tools|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2411" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-27T20:35:12.930" Score="8" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;p&gt;You guys have gotten your own design! And with that, you now have the opportunity to setup Community Promotion Ads! We're still pretty fresh into 2014 so not much lost ground here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;at-the-office story blogs &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;220 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/2411&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:40:25.820" LastActivityDate="2014-11-15T01:09:59.700" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2014" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2015-01-01T03:15:05.243" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-02-27T20:35:12.930" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2411" CreationDate="2014-02-27T20:35:12.930" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/StackWorkplace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nWWnm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Help this community grow -- follow us on twitter!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T20:35:12.930" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-02-27T20:35:12.930" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2413" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2443" CreationDate="2014-02-28T02:25:32.113" Score="6" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;On meta I am seeing no difference in color between visited and unvisited links, either titles on the main page or other links on individual pages.  In the following screen shot, I have visited the second question but not the first:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QZrNS.png&quot; alt=&quot;question titles&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the following screen shot, I have visited my profile but not Stéphane's, nor have I visited the MSO post in this browser (I posted that comment from elsewhere):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4ykCT.png&quot; alt=&quot;question page&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These links used to be visibly different.  I believe the change happened within the last 24-36 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I turned off Stylish to verify that no custom CSS is causing this; no change.  Main looks fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MacOS 10.6, Firefox 27.0.1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="13131" LastEditDate="2014-03-10T10:12:10.060" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T10:12:10.060" Title="No contrast on meta between visited and unvisited links (new behavior)" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2414" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-28T07:09:08.523" Score="3" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;For those who are going to submit images for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2411/community-promotion-ads-2014&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads&lt;/a&gt;, I figured that I would share some info to make things easier for you. I am basing everything off the original image added by Grace Note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nWWnm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Sample Twitter Ad&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Colors&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ouhVj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Color Selection&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The colors used here are primarily (all RGB):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dark Blue: 45,77,98&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Mid Blue: 53,171,221&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Light Blue: 172,218,218&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Light Red: 238,231,223&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Red: 251,98,82&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Background: 243,243,243 or 250,250,250&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Dimensions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated, the dimensions should be 220 x 250. The sample ad has a border around it, you can use this basic one as a template for future images if you'd like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0DSaW.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blank Canvas&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Note: The real background color for the site seems to be 243/243/243, but the image used by Grace Note and the template above uses 250/250/250. It probably isn't visible to anyone by eye, but hey, just throwin' it out there&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Fonts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The font size used in the image is (most likely) 12pt. At that size the text is easily readable (as seen in the logo), so use this as a starting-point when deciding how big to make text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The font used for the Workplace Logo is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whatfontis.com/Corsica-MX-Regular-Cond-aviation.font?text=WORKPLACEmeta&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cosica MX Regular Condensed&lt;/a&gt; which is not free. If anyone knows of a good alternative, please share it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Logo&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not found a better quality logo to use than the one used in the image. So I just recreated it since it's pretty simple, and made it really big so no matter what size you reduce it to, it should look decent even if you change the background color of the ad, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GWOfc.png&quot; alt=&quot;Logo&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Note: The logo is copyright of StackExchange and should not be used for nefarious purposes that contradict their &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal&quot;&gt;terms of service&lt;/a&gt;, particularly &lt;strong&gt;2. Network Content&lt;/strong&gt; which says, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;All trademarks, service marks, and trade names are proprietary to Stack Exchange and/or third parties. Subscriber shall abide by all copyright notices, information, and restrictions contained in any Content accessed through the Services.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, which applies to logos which are stated in the footer of each page as: &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;site design / logo © 2014 stack exchange inc&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Additional Resources&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2331/site-design-for-workplace-se?cb=1&quot;&gt;The original site design post has many images&lt;/a&gt;. You can also take screenshots if you want to use the stapler, the robot, the coffee machine, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-02-28T07:16:17.903" Title="Design Guidance for Community Promotion Ads" Tags="|support|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2415" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-28T07:35:04.153" Score="3" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hopefully everyone has read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2411/community-promotion-ads-2014&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads&lt;/a&gt; already. In order to give us a chance to discuss potential ideas, I figured I would toss this here to allow people to discuss their ideas so that we can expand and improve on them before tossing together the ad (also to collaborate on design if people want to do that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have an idea for an ad, please give a general outline such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Who&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who will the ad be targeted at?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Where&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where will the ad point those people to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why will this ad will benefit our community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T05:19:59.877" Title="Brainstorming Community Promotion Ad Ideas" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2415" CreationDate="2014-02-28T07:35:04.153" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Who&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People who are just starting out their careers who browse here from a search engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Point them to a meta-post containing a list of questions that go over the basics for someone looking for a first time job such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/896/how-can-i-determine-a-reasonable-salary-to-ask-for&quot;&gt;How can I determine a reasonable salary to ask for?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/662/how-can-i-ask-my-interviewers-for-feedback-following-an-interview&quot;&gt;How can I ask my interviewers for feedback following an interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3265/in-an-interview-is-it-required-to-have-questions-for-the-interviewer&quot;&gt;In an interview, is it required to have question(s) for the interviewer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/209/how-important-is-a-grade-point-average-on-a-resume&quot;&gt;How important is a grade point average on a resume?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(these are just examples, I'm sure there are better questions out there for this, and if not, we should brush up the ones we have, and possibly create the ones we don't)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New employees will find us from Google when looking for an answer to some of these basic questions. If we create an ad that they see that points them to other helpful content, we have a better chance of having them get involved with the community rather than just getting their answer and moving on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may also get us good content from new hires which will help us improve our content as a resource for future job seekers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Sample Ad&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jxbvg.png&quot; alt=&quot;First Job Ad&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T04:31:24.250" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2417" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-28T12:07:08.287" Score="5" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;We use flags here in a way which is good given the nature of our site. However, these are different than what other less &quot;subjective&quot; sites use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love to see a flag for the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does not add anything unique.&lt;/strong&gt; We get lots of answers which are effectively smaller versions of other answers which often get hit with &quot;not an answer&quot; or &quot;very low quality.&quot; I think these answers are not good for the site and I will continue downvoting them (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1627/2322&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No justification given.&lt;/strong&gt; Something to cover the many drive by &quot;here's my thoughts with no explanation&quot; types of answers which don't even come close to satisfying the &quot;back it up&quot; idea. I also downvote many of these, especially short 'comment' answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.357" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T03:56:07.837" Title="Is it worth creating a meta.SO proposal for custom flags?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2409" CreationDate="2014-02-28T18:47:12.657" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have pushed a fix for this to our dev server. The change will be live after our next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202" LastEditorUserId="13131" LastEditDate="2014-03-10T10:13:07.470" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T10:13:07.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2417" CreationDate="2014-03-03T00:31:47.387" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the goal is just to add those two specific custom flags, then this is the right place to ask for them. All meta posts are notified to the SE team regardless of which meta they are posted on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, on the other hand, you are a member of several communities, and all communities could use custom flags, then posting a request for custom flags as a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; on meta.so is a great way to involve members of all affected communities and get more eyes on the issue (including some from sites you may not be involved in but who could benefit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2403/improving-the-system-for-dealing-with-poor-answers&quot;&gt;Improving the System for Dealing with Poor Answers&lt;/a&gt; I wanted to get our community behind the idea. I know that this is an issue for Programmers as well, and gnat has brought that to their attention too. I also know that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/217587/209637&quot;&gt;this is an issue for UX as well&lt;/a&gt;, so I will likely re-post at meta.so. Note that our meta post has &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/223462/group-link-only-answers-and-veiled-as-answers-answers-into-their-own-category/223470#223470&quot;&gt;been referenced on meta.so already&lt;/a&gt;, so I think there's a good chance that it will have value posted there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But adding a couple flags unique to TWP is probably best off being posted here, getting good community support, and then allowing Grace Note and the other Community Managers to pass that along through their channels. As you may recall &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/1754137#1754137&quot;&gt;the community team can work magic in a quick way when needed for individual communities&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T00:31:47.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2417" CreationDate="2014-03-03T03:14:30.730" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;After having spent a week heavily moderating posts to make up for the loss in close voters and delete voters, I'd have to say I'm a major fan of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2403/98&quot;&gt;this proposal to include post notices in the workflow and to create a review queue&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More flag reasons may just lead to more burden on moderators, which means more cases of one person making a judgement call on the entire community's behalf as well as more cases of burnout. When these moderation activities are amortized across several users, the burden doesn't fall onto any one single individual, which means the elected moderators can stand at the ready to objectively step in to handle the exceptional cases. I don't mind making the tough calls, but I also know that Stack Exchange definitely works better when the community has the tools to fix problems themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went ahead and added post notices to posts this week, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=hasnotice%3A1+is%3Aanswer&quot;&gt;here's 42 answers with post notices&lt;/a&gt; sorted by newest, so go to the bottom of page 3 for the oldest stuff. The older stuff is easy to delete because it's clear no one is going to fix whatever problems there were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on how this goes, we can talk more about whether or not this process works and what could make it better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T03:56:07.837" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2415" CreationDate="2014-03-03T05:19:59.877" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Who&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regular members who don't participate in community moderation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A landing page (meta post?) for folks starting to moderate including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Links to privilege levels&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Links to the help center/FAQ on each privilege you can have&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Links to the review queues&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post-graduation, we have lost a lot of ability to self-moderate. By teaching people the ropes, we can hopefully get some people who aren't moderating regularly to hop back in, and folks who are interested in learning our moderation style to read up on it and hop in when they hit the right privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Sample Ad&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HwGPT.png&quot; alt=&quot;We Want You Robot Ad&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T05:19:59.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2268" CreationDate="2014-03-03T08:08:15.540" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/212660/old-and-short-answers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Answers with Under 50 Words&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of these should be flagged and/or deleted depending on score and content, based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2404/7945&quot;&gt;the discussion here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T16:26:35.773" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-08-01T16:22:19.670" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2423" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-04T02:21:32.180" Score="9" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have had multiple discussions on what constitutes legal advice here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/29/are-employment-law-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;Are employment law questions off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/581/defining-the-on-topic-off-topic-line-on-questions-that-could-be-answered-by-a?rq=1&quot;&gt;Defining the on-topic / off-topic line on questions that could be answered by a lawyer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1856/what-is-asking-for-legal-advice&quot;&gt;What is asking for legal advice?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1983/what-is-legal-advice&quot;&gt;What is &amp;quot;legal advice&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the close vote changes in June, 2013, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.jp/#q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fworkplace.stackexchange.com+%22Questions+seeking+legal+advice+are+off-topic+as+they+require+answers+by+legal+professionals.+See%3A+What+is+asking+for+legal+advice%3F%22&amp;amp;start=20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;we have closed 27 different questions as 'asking for legal advice'&lt;/a&gt; that haven't been deleted yet. None of the discussions we've had seem to advocate blanket closing of anything that mentions a law or regulation, yet we seem to be doing that anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My understanding of the previous discussions on what constitutes legal advice is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Asking What the Law Says is Okay&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If a workplace expert (manager, HR, etc.) would be expected to know&#xA;  the information, then it is okay to ask. So if someone asks what the&#xA;  law says regarding, for instance, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Americans with Disabilities&#xA;  Act&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;  I would hope that we would be able to point the person to a relevant&#xA;  resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Asking for Legal Advice Based on the Law Isn't&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So if I say, &lt;em&gt;&quot;The law says A, B, C. I want to do X which goes against&#xA;  the spirit of B, but isn't explicitly prohibited under the law. Can I&#xA;  still be in trouble with the law for doing X?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; then it is off-topic.&#xA;  I am not asking for what the law says (in order to allow me to make a&#xA;  decision on whether my action is okay or if I want to consult a lawyer&#xA;  to make sure), but rather for legal advice on the interpretation of a&#xA;  law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my perspective, the following types of questions should be perfectly reasonable under this policy (given that they are edited to be clear, etc.):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14467/should-my-employer-pay-for-my-2-weeks-am-i-eligible-for-unemployment&quot;&gt;Should my employer pay for my 2 weeks? Am i eligible for Unemployment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17296/are-there-any-uk-laws-about-allergies-in-the-workplace&quot;&gt;Are there any UK laws about allergies in the workplace?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/19614/being-asked-to-leave-a-permanent-contract-legal-rights&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/19614/being-asked-to-leave-a-permanent-contract-legal-rights&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13869/illegal-interview-application-questions-in-the-uk&quot;&gt;Illegal interview/application questions in the UK?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet all the above questions were closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love questions like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are the laws regarding collection of unemployment in Japan? (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/archives/373&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What constitutes a disability under the ADA? (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ada.gov/ada_intro.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are very handy, and there is a good possibility that we can provide a resource that is better than the ones available, or specific guidance on variations that aren't easily accessible on the web. That is how we can create value, but it also means we can't just auto-close questions which seem to be talking about the law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What criteria does a question need to stay open when discussing a law/regulation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do we communicate those criteria to users? (current advice &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2020-02-12T23:05:34.027" Title="What criteria do we need for questions regarding the law/regulations to be allowed?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|closed-questions|legal-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2423" CreationDate="2014-03-04T03:14:07.667" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, it's definitely key that questions be about a real, actual problem. It's key that we clarify that our goal isn't to become a law encyclopedia, even of laws that apply to the workplace. Thus, questions should contain plenty of detail about &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the person is asking the question so that there's context, so there's something for future visitors to search for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, take this &lt;a href=&quot;https://freelancing.stackexchange.com/questions/1499/does-an-american-business-need-to-have-a-foreign-office-to-employ-foreign-worker&quot;&gt;Freelancing SE question about hiring workers in other countries&lt;/a&gt; and add a bit more details about &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; this person is interested in hiring someone from another country, and you have a question that can be answered factually, with references from a law text, and that address a very specific problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;A real experiment in allowing legal questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Freelancing SE, during the site's private beta, the community overwhelmingly felt legal questions were critical to the site's mission, and some people are actively trying to push for legal questions to be backed 100% with actual official government regulatory documentation. &lt;a href=&quot;https://freelancing.stackexchange.com/a/1465/64&quot;&gt;This Freelancing SE answer about whether a business can have two completely different services&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent example of how effective this approach can be. There's just something about that answer that instills &lt;em&gt;trust&lt;/em&gt;. As a reader, I feel I either have a solid answer or at least know where to go to find an answer for my specific state or jurisdiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Supporting legal questions on Workplace SE won't be easy, and I would think this would require &lt;em&gt;very strict guidelines&lt;/em&gt; as to what is and isn't an answer, but I do believe that under the right circumstances and with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2403/improving-the-system-for-dealing-with-poor-answers&quot;&gt;the right community tools and support&lt;/a&gt;, this could work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;We're not a beta site anymore&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conversely, we just graduated. Our community fought long and hard to figure out exactly what this site is about. We have a formula in place that clearly works, and adjusting the dials on the machine may have unintended consequences. Therefore, any decision to allow legal questions is one that shouldn't be taken lightly and one that ideally must involve overwhelming support from the community of users who would help moderate them, as well as the creation of a &lt;em&gt;solid&lt;/em&gt;, well-thought out plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say, for now, we should watch what the &lt;a href=&quot;http://freelancing.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Freelancing SE&lt;/a&gt; community does and learn from their experiences. This is a new site with a similar topic as The Workplace SE, and it may be best to watch how events there unfold before attempting this here. Let them be the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/canary_in_a_coal_mine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;canary in the mine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T03:14:07.667" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2423" CreationDate="2014-03-04T12:13:54.853" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever questions of law appear, we need to consider the impact of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would a reasonable questioner act on the advice of the respondents? And if so, could the questioner get herself/himself in legal difficulty doing so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It worries me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Should my employer pay for my 2 weeks? Am i eligible for Unemployment&quot; seems relatively harmless. At worst, the OP discovers that the advice given was flawed and is either disappointed at not receiving the expected benefit, or was advised incorrectly and never pursued a benefit that could have been gained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly &quot;Are there any UK laws about allergies in the workplace?&quot; seems harmless. The OP could be mislead into thinking that laws do or do not exist, but eventually will probably discover the truth either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad legal advice for &quot;Being asked to leave a permanent contract? Legal rights?&quot; could result in someone avoiding a case where they could have received contractual relief for improper dismissal. This may or may not have amounted to a lot of money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Improper advice for &quot;Illegal interview/application questions in the UK?&quot; could result in a significant lawsuit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we start permitting workplace legal advice from people who aren't lawyers, should we also permit workplace medical advice from non-doctors? I know this is a slippery-slope argument, but it is worrisome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at other (non-stackexchange) sites, you'll see a ton of bad, and potentially dangerous, legal and medical advice being dispensed. It makes me cringe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, laws and regulations change all the time. What may be proper and legal today, might be completely illegal tomorrow. How permanent do we want our legal answers to be here? How can we convey &quot;this is the law as I understand it today?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, laws and regulations are highly locale-specific. While locale-specific questions/answers tend to be regarded as off-topic here, questions about the law would seem almost inevitably to be even more local-specific. What is legal in Massachusetts, may well be illegal in Texas (this same-sex partner benefits), and clearly has an entirely different set of laws covering it that another country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does our &quot;back it up&quot; policy mesh with dispensing legal advice? Unless you are a lawyer (and sometimes even when you are), you may not have the requisite knowledge to back up an answer concerning the law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other thing that worries me is - how do we convey what is and what isn't on topic to the community? A statement like &quot;Questions regarding legality are off-topic&quot; is far easier to understand than &quot;Some legal questions are off-topic, and some are permitted&quot;. I think this community struggles with the off- versus on-topic decision enough as it is. You only have to look at the number of [On Hold] questions on the front page to see how difficult it is for questioners. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I just worry too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2014-03-04T15:38:29.980" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T15:38:29.980" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2423" CreationDate="2014-03-04T16:34:05.087" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We need to make a distinction between questions about &lt;em&gt;what the law is&lt;/em&gt; and questions about &lt;em&gt;how the law should be applied to a particular situation&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;  I think the former are valid questions here and the latter are trouble waiting to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a moderator on Mi Yodeya, where we have an analogous problem: people asking what they should do in a particular situation (which is really a question for their rabbis), versus asking what the &lt;em&gt;halacha&lt;/em&gt; (Jewish law) on a subject is.  We have the following custom close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for a practical ruling (p'sak halacha) are off-topic.  For practical advice &lt;a href=&quot;https://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/9146&quot;&gt;consult your rabbi&lt;/a&gt;.  Try to broaden the question so it applies to a wider audience, such as by asking what sources are applicable to the situation.  (&lt;a href=&quot;https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1734&quot;&gt;More information&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the &quot;broaden&quot; language here.  It's fine for somebody to &lt;em&gt;describe a situation&lt;/em&gt; (so long as it's not so localized that it will never be of broader interest), but the question needs to be &quot;what does the law say&quot; or &quot;what are the relevant sources&quot;, not &quot;what should I do&quot;.  I understand that Christianity.SE has a similar policy with what they call pastoral-advice questions; you can ask what official doctrine is, but not what you should do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Mi Yodeya was setting its policy we got input from other sites where legal questions come up, but unfortunately I no longer remember the details.  A look around the network should turn up other sites where this is an issue; The Workplace isn't alone here and we can learn from prior art.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:42:06.653" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T21:16:09.947" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2427" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-04T17:29:06.490" Score="5" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can nolonger see addtional comments if they are  enough tht some are hidden at first. Nor can I see the points I have earned today or the comments (at the top not the actual posts) people have made on my posts. (I can see that in other sO sites)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also can no longer add comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I keeo getting teh Capcha which I as an older person find virtually impossible to read. I had to go through many differnt ones before I foudn one I could read.  Can we make this easier to read?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastEditorUserId="93" LastEditDate="2014-03-04T17:42:51.417" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T20:02:39.677" Title="Did we change something today" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2429" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-05T16:32:18.357" Score="4" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current effort to be stricter with unsupported answers has made me realize that some of my older answers come across that way too, and probably the only reason they haven't been targeted (yet) is that they're upvoted and I have high rep.  In most of these cases my answer is based not on cited studies but on my experience and observations from decades in the work force -- valuable, but just one person's observations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I go back and qualify those answers to say more about what experience they're based on?  On the positive side, it makes the answer a little more supported.  On the negative side, I'm bumping old posts just to say this is based on my experience, which people have apparently inferred and deemed ok because they voted for those answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm well aware that the plural of &quot;anecdote&quot; is not &quot;data&quot;, but the answers seem valuable nonetheless.  Should I make an effort to improve these?  At all?  Systematically?  Only if poked by a comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T01:54:31.187" Title="Should I be proactive in supporting my older answers?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2429" CreationDate="2014-03-05T17:39:24.247" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. If your answers have survived this long, then they are probably fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you seem a bit confused about the &quot;Back It Up&quot; principle. Please see my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1894/437&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T17:39:24.247" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2429" CreationDate="2014-03-05T22:37:38.833" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at your answers and see if they explain why they are correct.  Explaining why the answer is correct is more important than explaining how you know the information.  If you can not explain why then an anecdote of how your experience shaped your opinion is appropriate.  If you quote specific stats then you should really have some reference for them even if it is &quot;based on my experience.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had some of my older answers down-voted for that reason and as it happened I either deleted the answer, or updated it to meet the standard.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T22:37:38.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2429" CreationDate="2014-03-06T01:54:31.187" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editing older posts: Focus on the worst of the worst&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's a certain answer that &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; bugs you and it's going to keep you awake at night, then I'd say go for it and edit away. But no one should feel like they need to go through everything in their answers list and make everything perfect. Quality, like many things, is subjective, and as long as we have more high quality material than we do low quality material, I'm happy with where things are heading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During one of the pre-graduation cleanups, one of my answers did come up in the discussion, so I used that as an opportunity to add more objectivity to my answer, as did others to theirs. So there's nothing wrong with making some improvements if you so choose, especially since editing is one of the most important tools on our site. However, this was done during a controlled effort where we focused on one question per week to limit the amount of material being bumped to the top of the page.  Since that question was being edited and bumped anyway, I also edited my answer, even though I didn't feel like it was ever really on the chopping block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the worst of the worst is now history, the best course of action may be to wait until we &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2287/cleaning-up-bad-answers-on-popular-questions&quot;&gt;resume the cleanup efforts jmac started before graduation&lt;/a&gt; and edit then, if your posts are on one of those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as an aside, for anyone else reading, this is also why it's so important to provide respectful, constructive comments. When those cleanups do resume, it's important folks understand there are users like Monica out there who are interested in helping out by improving her own posts. So comments don't always need to take an authoritative tone. In my experience, friendly tones tend to have a better chance of leading folks to take action anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T01:54:31.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2433" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-06T12:01:00.693" Score="5" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I read this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/20136/need-help-on-this-interview-question&quot;&gt;Need help on this Interview question&lt;/a&gt; I wondered if it should be considered on topic or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this question is acceptable, I'd expect a huge flood of &quot;How to answer this interview question?&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter to me either way, but in other non-stackexchange forums, I've seen this flavor of question become overwhelming. I could easily imagine a new stackechange community devoted entirely to asking and answering interview questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a precedent to be set here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T12:43:26.900" Title="Is it on-topic to provide individual answers to interview questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2014-03-07T01:02:56.953" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2434" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-06T23:29:23.597" Score="3" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;The hover state on links seems to be unpleasantly sticky in Opera.  The mouse out handler doesn't seem to be always called.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm running Opera 12.16 on Ubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GHhDv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16794" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T23:29:23.597" Title="Hover state seems to be sticky" Tags="|bug|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2435" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2436" CreationDate="2014-03-07T05:58:36.897" Score="7" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;We &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2364/new-design-launched&quot;&gt;graduated on February 20th&lt;/a&gt; which was two weeks ago. And that is awesome. But due to the loss of privilege, we are working the moderators to the bones with our flags and general cleanup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we all know that our moderators can clear Not An Answer flags with a single click, we may want to think about who will step into the Justice League in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when are we going to get around to this election thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T19:40:35.850" Title="When are Elections?" Tags="|support|graduation|moderation|moderators|elections|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2435" CreationDate="2014-03-07T19:40:35.850" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;We usually start looking into running elections about 30 days after a site graduates. Y'know, give it some nice foot room when they stew with their new design and privileges first, let people get comfortable and adjusted to the new reign. Exact dates may vary as we always start elections on Mondays and the graduation might not line up for precisely 30 days from that day to a Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That puts us at about... March 24th as the Monday that it will most likely start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T19:40:35.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2437" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2444" CreationDate="2014-03-08T17:11:58.877" Score="6" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything starts grayed out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gzJ6f.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking anything causes the popup to disappear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Works fine on meta, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="13131" LastEditDate="2014-03-10T10:13:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T17:17:57.677" Title="Add image doesn't work on Chrome" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|css|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2438" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-08T19:36:02.730" Score="4" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Attached screenshot of the review queue, under the Windows version of Chrome. I'm unable to see the bottom stuff in the panel. If I scroll down/up, I see more of it, but never the whole thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RGLpb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11026" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2014-03-08T21:33:03.540" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T21:33:03.540" Title="Issue with how the site displays on Chrome" Tags="|bug|design|css|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2014-03-25T11:55:26.783" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2439" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-08T23:12:07.137" Score="12" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;h3&gt;AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for &lt;em&gt;Workplace SE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/10912/cmw&quot;&gt;CMW&lt;/a&gt; asked for a list of the links that we oftentimes drop in comments. I started using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/2116/autoreviewcomments-pro-forma-comments-for-se&quot;&gt;Pro-forma comments Stack Apps script&lt;/a&gt; to increase my efficiency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find that I almost never use the defaults that come with the script and that I rely entirely on my own tailored versions that use my personal wording and style. I also tend to insert them into the comment box and then tailor it to the situation. Every person is different and every post is different, and we don't need robots to deal with people, we need &lt;em&gt;people&lt;/em&gt; to help other people succeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Import/Export markup:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Highlight the content in the box below and paste into the import/export section of the Pro forma comments modal window. Edit the comments to tailor to your own style, then save:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;###Comments as answers&#xA;Comments are intended to help improve a post or seek clarification. Please don't answer the questions in the comments. These can't be easily voted on as the best answers, and they may inadvertently prevent other users  from providing real answers. Please see [How should I post a useful non-answer if it shouldn't be a comment?](http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/a/1866/98) for more guidance.&#xA;&#xA;###Comments as answers 2&#xA;Please don't use comments to answer questions as this may prevent others from providing full, complete answers that the community would vote on. Please see [How should I post a useful non-answer if it shouldn't be a comment?](http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/a/1866/98) for more guidance.&#xA;&#xA;###Back it up rule&#xA;Hello and welcome to The Workplace SE. Our Q&amp;A site put in place some [back it up](http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/123/should-we-add-a-back-it-up-rule-to-the-faq-now) guidelines to help get the best answers. Can you [edit] your post to include references or relate this to a personal experience. Also, be sure to answer the full question. Good luck! :)&#xA;&#xA;###Chatty comments&#xA;Please avoid using comments for extended discussion. Instead, please use [chat]. On Workplace SE, comments are intended to help improve a post. Please see [What &quot;comments&quot; are not...](http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not) for more details.&#xA;&#xA;###Insufficient explanation&#xA;Hello user, welcome to The Workplace. On our site, we're looking for answers with some depth that explain *why* and *how*. Our goal is to build a library of knowledge for navigating the professional workplace. Please consider an [edit] to expand, and be sure to answer the full question. See [answer] for details.&#xA;&#xA;###Deleting answer&#xA;On The Workplace, we're looking for answers with some depth that explain *why* and *how* and that are ideally backed by facts, references, and personal experiences. Please see [Why and how are some answers deleted](http://$SITEURL$/help/deleted-answers) and [How do I write a good answer](http://$SITEURL$/help/how-to-answer), as well as [The back it up rule](http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others) for more details.&#xA;&#xA;###Polling questions&#xA;Hello, welcome to The Workplace, a Stack Exchange Q&amp;A site. Chatty, open-ended questions tend to not work out so well on our site, since almost every answer will  be correct and we can't as easily vote on them to rank the best answers. Instead, ask questions about a real, actual problem you're facing, which includes plenty of details so answers are more targeted. For more details, please see [ask] and [about]. Good luck!&#xA;&#xA;###Quit your job&#xA;Hello! On The Workplace, our site's goal is to build a professional library of knowledge for future visitors who have problems navigating the workplace. Advising someone to quit their job is a *big move;* as a result, we hold these answers to a higher standard. Please consider an [edit] to your post to meet our site's [back it up](http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/q/255/98) guidelines, and also see [Is 'quit your job' an acceptable answer](http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/a/1697/98). Good luck.&#xA;&#xA;###Closing question that could be reopened&#xA;Hello, we put your post on hold to give you time to clarify it via an [edit]. When you edit your post, it gets pushed back into a [review queue](https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/reopen) where the community can [work together to get the post reopened](https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/reopen-questions). Hope this helps.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-08-30T22:23:10.440" Title="Community moderation comments template" Tags="|support|faq|comments|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-03-08T23:12:07.137" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2439" CreationDate="2014-03-08T23:30:38.533" Score="9" Body="&lt;h1&gt;General Stack Exchange moderation resources for &lt;em&gt;Workplace SE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some resources that help make Workplace SE easier to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Stack Apps browser add-ons:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/2116/autoreviewcomments-pro-forma-comments-for-se&quot;&gt;AutoReviewComments Stack Exchange Script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Blog articles:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt; describes the theory behind community moderation and helps put high rep users and moderators in the right mindset. Keep in mind that it's designed to be a guide, not a rule, and many people will interpret this in different ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; outlines six subjective guidelines to good subjective questions. It's also a precursor to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;The Workplace's back it up guidelines&lt;/a&gt;. It's not just questions that should follow the six guidelines. Answers should approach every question with those goals in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real Questions Have Answers&lt;/a&gt; picks up where Good subjective, Bad Subjective leaves off and digs a little deeper into the subject, going as far as suggesting that some questions that appear to be polling questions may not actually be polling questions. The key is to ask if the question is about a real, actual problem. Also, look at the answers and ask if they follow the six guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;real questions have &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;, not &lt;em&gt;items&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;ideas&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;opinions&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Workplace SE Meta posts:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;What comments are not...&lt;/a&gt; is an official response from the Stack Exchange community team regarding how they view comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;Back it up rule&lt;/a&gt; contains the official &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center text&lt;/a&gt; that outlines what our community expects answers to contain. Answers that follow these guidelines generally also meet the six subjective guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T23:40:06.883" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-03-08T23:30:38.533" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2411" CreationDate="2014-03-10T00:17:29.670" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/20323/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x9tUK.png&quot; alt=&quot;First job? We can help!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T00:17:29.670" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-03-10T00:17:29.670" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2437" CreationDate="2014-03-10T00:33:30.520" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bug seems to be caused by the following CSS rule:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#header {&#xA;    z-index: 2;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this rule a problem?  It's because any element with a &lt;code&gt;z-index&lt;/code&gt; value other than &lt;code&gt;auto&lt;/code&gt; establishes a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Understanding_z_index/The_stacking_context&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;stacking context&lt;/a&gt; that subsumes all elements under it in the DOM.  And, as it happens, the image upload popup is, for some reason, nominally located inside the header:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/smhtZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of developer tools&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;while the semitransparent box used to &quot;gray out&quot; the rest of the page is located outside it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, it doesn't really matter if the popup div has a z-index of 10, 100, 1000 or 1000000; as long as it's located inside the header in the DOM, and as long as the header has a z-index value of 2 (and thus defines a new stacking context), the popup also behaves &lt;em&gt;as if its z-index was 2&lt;/em&gt; with respect to everything outside the header.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The proper way to fix this would be to change the popup-generating code to make sure that both the popup itself and the gray background behind it are injected into the same place in the DOM, and thus into the same stacking context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the mean time, however, a quick and dirty fix would be to just remove the &lt;code&gt;z-index: 2&lt;/code&gt; value from the header.  At a glance, I can't see any obviously harmful side effects from this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Ah, wait, I do see an issue: the small paperclip / oval thingies on the top right corner of the page need the z-index boost to render on top of the content area.  Fortunately, this is easy enough to fix with the following CSS rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#header { z-index: auto }&#xA;#header:after { z-index: 2 }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ps. Since Stéphane Martin's fix doesn't seem to have gone live yet, I've gone ahead and included the two CSS rules above in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/4486/stack-overflow-unofficial-patch&quot;&gt;SOUP&lt;/a&gt; v1.10 release.  Just to be safe, they're currently only applied to workplace.SE; if you find any other SE sites affected by this bug, please let me (and the SE devs!) know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2139" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:43.347" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T17:17:57.677" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2413" CreationDate="2014-03-10T10:11:58.933" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I increased the color difference between visited and unvisited links, the change will occurs after the next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13131" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T10:11:58.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2437" CreationDate="2014-03-10T10:13:28.423" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have pushed a fix for this to our dev server. The change will be live after our next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13131" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T10:13:28.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2445" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2446" CreationDate="2014-03-10T11:59:27.650" Score="3" ViewCount="1210" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question had a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/217573/165773&quot; title=&quot;here&amp;#39;s why I call it misfortune&quot;&gt;misfortune&lt;/a&gt; to be widely exposed in the hot list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/20074/some-of-the-employees-dont-check-if-everything-has-been-flushed-properly-and-th/20076#20076&quot;&gt;Some of the employees don&amp;#39;t check if everything has been flushed properly and that the bowl is clean&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Newer question is a slight variation of above, and is in the hot list too (why wouldn't it, having magic combination of words &lt;em&gt;toilet&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;manager&lt;/em&gt; in the title):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/20318/what-should-i-do-about-the-discovery-that-a-manager-is-not-flushing-the-workplac&quot;&gt;What should I do about the discovery that a manager is not flushing the workplace toilet after use?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's our take on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt; As far as I can tell, we've got yet another case like described above. This question had a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/217573/165773&quot; title=&quot;here&amp;#39;s why I call it misfortune&quot;&gt;misfortune&lt;/a&gt; to be widely exposed in the hot list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/36790/how-to-deal-if-female-colleagues-dressing-style-is-disturbing-me&quot;&gt;How can I interact professionally with female colleagues whose appearance I find distracting?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Newer question is a slight variation of above, although it is not yet in the hot list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/36841/how-to-deal-if-colleagues-dressing-style-is-disturbing-me&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/36841/how-to-deal-if-colleagues-dressing-style-is-disturbing-me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-11-28T21:17:41.440" Title="Copying questions that had a misfortune of being widely exposed in the hot list" Tags="|discussion|questions|quality|hot-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2445" CreationDate="2014-03-10T14:20:56.440" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm for quickly/proactively dup-closing such candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which implies the need for active voters with the same opinion or mods who just go ahead and do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10912" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T14:20:56.440" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2447" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-11T21:25:38.953" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to establish something along the lines of SO's &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Questions asking for code&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There you were required to demonstrate your grasp of the situation and explain what attempts you made so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this feels similar to questions like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/20451/10912&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/20451/10912&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is basically asking for a strategy to tackle a certain issue, much like asking for code. And with the same requirements (&lt;code&gt;show that you understand the issue&lt;/code&gt;; &lt;code&gt;explain what you tried so far&lt;/code&gt;) these might be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Problem&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of this type of questions are closed as &lt;code&gt;too broad&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;opinion based&lt;/code&gt;, while I think they can be salvaged when viewed like explained above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They fall on the side of &lt;code&gt;Employee to Boss + Common Sense&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2134/10912&quot;&gt;as described here&lt;/a&gt; and with some guidance, I think we can get answers of the &lt;code&gt;good subjective&lt;/code&gt; kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Suggestion&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's put a custom close reason in place, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions looking for strategies to tackle a specific situation need to demonstrate &lt;strong&gt;a detailed understanding of the situation&lt;/strong&gt; and detail &lt;strong&gt;attempts to solve the issue including how they didn't work&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that the close reason doesn't exist on SO anymore, but I still think it is a good idea and I hope it will do a better job as a close reason encouraging posters to salvage these types of questions than &lt;code&gt;too broad&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/code&gt; do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10912" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T15:23:09.207" Title="Asking for strategies" Tags="|feature-request|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2447" CreationDate="2014-03-12T00:38:10.107" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/211080/improving-demonstrate-a-minimal-understanding-close-reason&quot;&gt;removed this close reason&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As of now, the &quot;minimal understanding&quot; off-topic reason is gone. Instead, the top-level &quot;Unclear what you're asking&quot; reason links to a new, Stack Overflow-specific Help Center page that focuses on guiding readers toward including the sorts of information that make for a good Stack Overflow question. This page is moderator-editable, and in addition I've started a discussion to solicit suggestions for improvement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with its removal and wouldn't want to see it added here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original version of this reason on SO was to basically tell the asker, &lt;em&gt;&quot;Even if I gave an answer, you wouldn't understand how to implement it&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/215220/209637&quot;&gt;The example I gave in the discussion there was a question like this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Putting on Toesy Socks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;I am trying to put on my socks to keep my feet warm, but it isn't working. I can get them on my feet, but they don't stay well, and they&#xA;    don't fit properly despite being large enough to fit my feet. I know&#xA;    they are properly sized, and I definitely don't have them inside out.&#xA;    How can I fit this sock &lt;em&gt;Insert Image of Glove&lt;/em&gt; on to my feet? I am new&#xA;    to Toesy Socks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question would definitely be eligible for a great big:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for code must &lt;strong&gt;demonstrate a minimal understanding of the problem being solved&lt;/strong&gt;. Include attempted solutions, why they&#xA;    didn't work, and the expected results. See also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/156810/stack-overflow-question-checklist&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&#xA;    question&#xA;    checklist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But here I am, no closer to getting the glove on my foot, and&#xA;  wondering where the heck I went wrong. I definitely explained my&#xA;  problem, my attempted solution, what my expected results are, and even&#xA;  included a fancy picture of my sock! Why is this question getting&#xA;  closed? SO users are mean! Why is everyone a fascist?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think the fundamental issue is that this is being used to say, &lt;em&gt;&quot;You&#xA;  are clueless beyond anyone's ability to help you&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, and there is no&#xA;  way to explain that nicely, especially to people who can't distinguish&#xA;  between a glove and a sock despite being a sentient being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How does this help us get better content?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say I am a new user who asked the question you refer to. I think it seems like a reasonable question, but now suddenly it's been closed with that message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions looking for strategies to tackle a specific situation need to demonstrate &lt;strong&gt;a detailed understanding of the situation&lt;/strong&gt; and detail &lt;strong&gt;attempts to solve the issue including how they didn't work&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I edit my question to add the following information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;I have sent e-mails to the senior management asking for their RSVP and attendance, as well as a proposed seating arrangement that would have them mingle more, but I did not get a response&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this make it a good question now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two goals to closing questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closing content that will never fit (polls, 'what should I do?', legal questions, questions not related to the workplace, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explaining how the question can be improved and giving the asker a chance to improve the question for content that could fit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From where I stand, this reason would accomplish neither.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What's wrong with the existing reasons?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may say that just adding the example of what has been tried and why it doesn't work doesn't meet the first half of your reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions ... need to demonstrate a detailed understanding of the situation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what does this really mean? If this person explained that they have been in charge of social event planning for several companies for over a decade, they likely have a detailed understanding of the situation. But that doesn't make the question good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we really want to say is that the question is &lt;em&gt;unclear what you're asking&lt;/em&gt; -- if there are details missing, then we should ask for those details, not close with a reason that will only serve to confuse. For instance, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/20451/how-can-we-get-upper-management-support-and-participation-in-company-events-such#comment50918_20451&quot;&gt;this is a great comment by thursdaysgeek&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How are you related? Are you putting on the parties, another member of managment, just an attender? In other words, what is your responsibility for solving this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal should be to guide the person asking to an edit that can make it a good question. The close reason doesn't do that. Alternatively we need to be very clear about why the question will never be a good fit. Neither of the messages that we are delivering with this close reason provide that because they are just asking for effort -- no amount of effort will save a question unless that effort is properly directed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Asking for Strategies&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many questions that ask for strategies either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are unclear (they don't explain what they want to do, what their role is, and what limitations they are under making this hard to solve)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are primarily opinion-based (they are an open-ended request for suggestions rather than looking for a summary of how to deal with the situation to allow people to think up their own ways to solve it)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are too broad (effectively asking how to get people to trust you, or give you more responsibility, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our job is to figure out which of these categories the question falls in to. If it doesn't, we need to think hard about what is rubbing us the wrong way about the question, and why we think it should be closed, rather than giving a one-size-fits-all close reason that allows us to close it without a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T00:38:10.107" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2447" CreationDate="2014-03-12T00:57:30.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Describing what you've tried -- or including details -- does several things:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It removes assumptions others might have about your specific problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It eliminates the need for others to ask clarifying questions in the comments, since the problem description includes enough details to help answerers fully understand the issue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It allows answerers to spend more time writing great answers, which eliminates lower answer scores, reduces the moderation burden, and creates more happiness in the community. Answerers either gain more reputation or a stronger sense of satisfication from helping others; less time is wasted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question askers get better, stronger, more targeted answers to their questions while interest in the problem is at its peak.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you've done is clearly identified an actionable strategy an asker can use to prevent a question from being too broad. Include what you've tried and what happened, and you'll get better, more targeted answers. Saying what to do tends to work out better than saying what &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find a question like the one referenced, I think your comment, one with a friendly, helpful tone, will yield much better results than one based on an authoritative &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you MUST do this or ELSE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;  tone. Your comment is a great example of how to approach such questions as it shows you're here to help, not to be the Stack Exchange police:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi poster, welcome to The Workplace. This is kind of a hard question to answer, because we don't know your upper management, so we can't give you a right answer as to what works. Maybe if you mentioned what you tried so far, it can help narrow it down to what you could try. For example, have you tried just explaining to them, what you posted here? That without their example, people tend to not bother? –  CMW&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, keep in mind there are many great questions where a user hasn't -- or can't -- try something, at least not without changing the dynamics of the problem. Examples include work relationships or team dynamics where trying one thing makes it harder to try other things. Thus, it's important to tell the difference between a broad question that needs more details and a detailed, great question that doesn't mention what the user tried but doesn't necessarily require that information either. After all, we're only trying to prevent this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;too broad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T00:57:30.917" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2450" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-14T17:32:40.627" Score="3" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;When searching for keywords, I noticed that the lowercase letter &quot;i&quot; is missing the space between the line and the dot.  This makes is look like the letter &quot;l&quot;.  This is on Firefox 27.0.1 on Windows 7, though I have not checked other browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s4XOv.png&quot; alt=&quot;i or l&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16723" LastEditorUserId="12282" LastEditDate="2014-03-17T11:40:55.470" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T11:40:55.470" Title="The letter i looks like l in search" Tags="|bug|design|search|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2451" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-17T16:01:15.570" Score="30" ViewCount="681" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a thank you for &lt;em&gt;being awesome&lt;/em&gt; by working so hard to launch a successful site, if you are on page 1 or 2 of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... I'll be reaching out to you this week to get your information to send you a little care package. What's in this special package for us, you ask? Well I'm &lt;em&gt;glad&lt;/em&gt; you asked, because I'm about to &lt;strike&gt;tell&lt;/strike&gt; show you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Sticker Packs!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZuSo7.png&quot; alt=&quot;Sticker Packs&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;T-Shirts!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u8cB1.png&quot; alt=&quot;T-Shirts&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;And a surprise item, RED STAPLERS!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rpW6C.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Don't lose this one&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you aren't on the list, don't despair - we've got some stuff in reserve for events, and now that you're fully graduated you'll probably see me drop in a few times a year for some fun &amp;amp; impromptu contests here on Workplace Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you again to &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; that helped make this site a success, and I'll be in touch with you soon!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update (3/24)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got a bit backlogged last week, I'll be contacting folks today and tomorrow (no, you didn't miss an email).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5657" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-05-10T23:09:04.570" Title="Workplace Stack Exchange - Top User Swag (With A Surprise!)" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2452" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-17T21:13:12.627" Score="5" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every so often when I visit the site or even just refresh the page I get the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kgPjk.png&quot; alt=&quot;missing text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the text is apparently missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Highlighting the text or clicking where a link would be show the text and a second refresh usually brings the text back, though at the moment it's being particularly reluctant to appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas what could be happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's happening on Meta too. I just refreshed this question and got exactly the same issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7" LastEditorUserId="4" LastEditDate="2014-03-21T15:33:47.483" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T15:33:47.483" Title="Every so often all the text on The Workplace goes missing" Tags="|bug|status-reproduced|design|css|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2453" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-18T07:39:25.097" Score="4" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to see an option available to the OP where they can return to their question once their issue has been addressed/resolved/concluded to say what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &quot;how should I...&quot; questions, it would be so nice to read the original question, the answers and comments and then have the OP tell what hey finally did and what happened would be very useful - it would give some context to how the answers helped or hindered their particular situation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The section should NOT be about expanding the original question or asking another question/starting the discussion cycle again. It should be simply a decsription o what action they took (and why) and what it resulted in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example question - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/20609/how-should-i-tell-a-coworker-their-headphones-are-too-loud&quot;&gt;How should I tell a coworker that his headphones are too loud?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example &quot;follow up&quot; - &quot;We took the entire team to the cafe area of our building for a coffee to discuss several work matters. One item on the agenda was office environment and I was nominated to bring the matter up in a very general/non individual way. Everyone agreed without feeling singled out and since that day last week, my co-worker has noticeably lowered the volume on their headphones&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T04:36:06.077" Title="Follow up section on a question" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2453" CreationDate="2014-03-18T11:10:20.977" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think that if the question is good, then these would make great blog posts to explain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What advice you did/didn't take&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What the results were&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whether or not you'd come back to TWP to ask in the future&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, we aren't quite at that point yet. Generally we've been pretty lax about allowing people to have significant edits including follow-up info, but moving forward we probably want to avoid it, which is why I suggest some blog posts instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T11:10:20.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2453" CreationDate="2014-03-20T04:36:06.077" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the interests of keeping the Stack Exchange engine standardized throughout the network, I'd say simply adding the follow up as an answer would be best.  After all, this seems to work really well on Stack Overflow. Many times we see askers come back and post their solution as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If their answer is the one that solved their problem, they can even mark it as the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T04:36:06.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2456" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2484" CreationDate="2014-03-20T17:40:18.997" Score="5" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/14393594#14393594&quot; title=&quot;&amp;#39;preferably @gnat or @Chad, or anyone else related to this whole hot question poor answer crusade that&amp;#39;s been going on....&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;Posted on behalf of jmac.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea to test automating review of answers that fail to meet site-specific guidelines has been proposed by SE Community manager &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/226162/165773&quot; title=&quot;Improving the System to Deal with Bad Answers&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;let's test this first, see where it works and where it falls apart, and then implement the system that emerges. Pick a site you're active on and propose a campaign based on this process but using the existing tools: flag and ask for a notice to be added, flag again after &lt;code&gt;n&lt;/code&gt; days and ask for the post to be removed. Track the results. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we please run proposed testing at Workplace?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I understand, for this we would need to establish a list of predefined flag messages / templates and agree upon how many days to wait prior to re-flagging for removal &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2456/testing-proposal-automating-review-of-answers-that-fail-to-meet-site-specific-g#comment4205_2456&quot; title=&quot;as pointed in comments&quot;&gt;if answer hasn't been improved&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Supplementary materials:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2403/improving-the-system-for-dealing-with-poor-answers&quot;&gt;Improving the System for Dealing with Poor Answers&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MSO follow-up - &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/224763/improving-the-system-to-deal-with-bad-answers&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Improving the System to Deal with Bad Answers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Water Cooler follow-up - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/conversation/post-notices-experiment-what-and-how-to-test&quot;&gt;post notices experiment: what and how to test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;FAQ proposal: Back It Up and Don&amp;#39;t Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2439/community-moderation-comments-template&quot;&gt;Community moderation comments template&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2417/is-it-worth-creating-a-meta-so-proposal-for-custom-flags&quot;&gt;Is it worth creating a meta.SO proposal for custom flags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2014-03-26T04:22:29.773" Title="Testing proposal: automating review of answers that fail to meet site-specific guidelines" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|answers|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2457" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-20T21:28:41.830" Score="3" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the last two days I've observed that there are 5 Workplace questions in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/questions?tab=hot&quot;&gt;Hot Network Questions&lt;/a&gt; list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that list contains 100 questions and there are more than 100 sites in SE network, equal distribution would mean less than one question per site in that list. How come Workplace presence is 5x more than average? What purpose does this serve?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/conversation/cultural-clash&quot; title=&quot;see: &amp;#39;cultural clash&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;danger&lt;/a&gt; that this amount will blow up to, say, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HNqJur7RXY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;that&amp;#39;s what is likely to happen then...&quot;&gt;10 questions&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some sort of technically enabled limit, like &quot;no more than 5 questions from Workplace in the list&quot;? If yes, what &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/222993/165773&quot; title=&quot;oh my there may be less of repeated clicks repeated clicks repeated clicks repeated clicks repeated clicks repeated clicks repeated clicks repeated clicks repeated clicks&quot;&gt;bad&lt;/a&gt; could happen if that limit is dropped to 1 or 2 or 3 questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;at MSO: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/226304/165773&quot;&gt;“SO questions are penalized” in the hot list - how does that work, can it be done for other site(s)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2514&quot;&gt;Do we want such a &amp;quot;handicap&amp;quot; (whatever it means) for Workplace questions in the hot list?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T09:33:51.687" Title="How come there are 5 Workplace questions in the hot list?" Tags="|support|hot-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2153" CreationDate="2014-03-21T17:46:21.353" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the end result was exactly what should have happened here.  In the end the question was deleted.  If you think that a version of the question would be worth having on the site that is different from the original question asked, then write your own question.  But completely reworking a question that eliminates the original question nearly completely is not the way to handle it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T17:46:21.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2456" CreationDate="2014-03-21T20:55:47.093" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Data we need to collect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What happens to answers that get this post notice?  Possible values: edited and notice removed, edited but insufficient (notice not removed), notice removed sans edit (successfully contested), answer deleted by owner, answer deleted by mod/community after the waiting period, answer deleted by mod/com early.  Did I miss any?  Or do we only care about &quot;fixed&quot; and &quot;gone&quot;, without the detailed breakdown?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of the flags requesting this notice (how do we identify those?), how many were accepted (notice added) and how many dismissed?  In other words, how good is the community at identifying problem answers in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe: how many answers are deleted (by non-owners) without going through this process.  These are the ones that are considered to be unredeemable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things we need to do to prepare:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Decide how we'll collect the data.  If we're going to use the Data Explorer, we need to make sure everything we'll need is queryable there.  Or we could decide to do it manually (which means, in practice, mods doing it).  This depends in part on how many of these we expect to have, which depends on:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Decide how long to run this experiment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Build the queries we'll use to collect the data.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Decide on the community workflow.  By what means (what type of flag?) do community members nominate a post for a post notice, &lt;em&gt;within the current tool set&lt;/em&gt;?  (Need to find out, if using SEDE: is the text of custom flags available in the data explorer, or only that they were mod flags?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Decide on the moderator workflow.  Moderators need to review the requests, add notices, and perhaps do something to set a reminder (which could be low-tech, like a list on meta, or developing the right query).  When the waiting period is up, moderators need to either remove the notices (if the post was improved) or delete the posts (otherwise).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Decide how we decide.  Once a post has a notice and gets an edit, how does the community decide if it's good enough to remove the notice?  Moderators shouldn't have to read minds or decide on their own.  During the experiment, should we just plan to use a chat room for reaching informal consensus, or what?  (We don't have the equivalent of &quot;reopen&quot; votes for answers, so there's no review-queue support here.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Decide what the waiting period is.  How long do we allow for edits (or challenges) before acting on answers with notices?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I miss anything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T20:55:47.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2460" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-24T20:00:08.157" Score="8" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&amp;amp;A with the candidates.  This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2502/2014-moderator-election-qa-questionnaire&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how it'll work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the nomination phase, (so, until March 31st at 20:00:00Z UTC, or 4:00 pm EDT on the same day, give or take time to arrive for closure), this question will be open to collect potential questions from the users of the site. Post answers to this question containing any questions you would like to ask the candidates. Please only post &lt;em&gt;one question per answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We, the Community Team, will be providing a small selection of generic questions. The first two will be guaranteed to be included, the latter ones are if the community doesn't supply enough questions. This will be done in a single post, unlike the prior instruction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a perfect opportunity to voice questions that are specific to your community and issues that you are running into at current.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the phase, the Community Team will select &lt;strong&gt;up to 8 of the top voted questions submitted by the community&lt;/strong&gt; provided in this thread, to use in addition to the aforementioned 2 guaranteed questions. We reserve some editorial control in the selection of the questions and may opt not to select a question that is tangential or irrelevant to moderation or the election. That said, if I have concerns about any questions in this fashion, I will be sure to point this out in comments before the decision making time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once questions have been selected, a new question will be opened to host the actual questionnaire for the candidates, containing 10 questions in total.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not the only option that users have for gathering information on candidates. As a community, you are still free to, for example, hold a live chat session with your candidates to ask further questions, or perhaps clarifications from what is provided in the Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions or feedback about this new process, feel free to post as a comment here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:40:25.820" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T20:08:55.580" Title="2014 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Question Collection" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2460" CreationDate="2014-03-24T20:00:08.157" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a set of general questions, gathered as very common questions asked every election. As mentioned in the instructions, the first two questions are guaranteed to show up in the Q&amp;amp;A, while the others are if there aren't enough questions (or, if you like one enough, you may split it off as a separate answer for review within the community's 8). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T20:00:08.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2462" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-24T20:51:41.313" Score="5" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2014 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T20:51:41.313" Title="2014 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|moderators|election|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-03-24T20:51:41.313" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2014-03-24T21:00:46.407" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thnk our top person should get something extra in her packet. @bethlakshmi really deserves it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T21:00:46.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2460" CreationDate="2014-03-25T00:30:52.893" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would you do if you found a flagged, positively scored answer where 10 users flagged it as not an answer and 10 users flagged it as invalid?  How would you handle a case where the community is clearly divided on what to do with a post, yet the community is also unable to remove the post on their own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T00:30:52.893" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2460" CreationDate="2014-03-25T02:23:26.987" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the top two or three challenges facing the site as it moves forward, and what do you plan to do as a moderator to address them?  What have you already done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T02:23:26.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2460" CreationDate="2014-03-25T02:25:15.630" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you see a question or answer with major issues, such as being argumentative or poorly-written, what tool do you reach for first and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T02:25:15.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2468" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2469" CreationDate="2014-03-25T03:16:27.473" Score="7" ViewCount="332" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/21144/168&quot;&gt;question (10k only - deleted)&lt;/a&gt; (partial quote):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;How do I handle a manager who lacks leadership skills?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am a software engineer with considerable qualifications. My manager is a high school drop out, who is, despite that, quite qualified technically and very intelligent. However, on more than a few issues he is a terrible leader, due to his lack of training as a leader and lack of knowledge as a programmer. How do I handle this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Per my reading, this is an &lt;em&gt;agony aunt&lt;/em&gt; case that has been discussed before:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/410/should-we-have-an-agony-aunt-tag&quot;&gt;What should we do with questions about personal dilemmas with no right answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/21146/168&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;full&lt;/em&gt; quote):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Change to another employer. He is not going to change his management style nor increase his level of competence nor go back to school nor improve his attitude just for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Per my reading, this is the &lt;em&gt;just quit&lt;/em&gt; case that has been discussed before:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2085/being-more-aggressive-about-just-quit-comments-answers&quot;&gt;Being More Aggressive about &amp;quot;Just Quit&amp;quot; Comments/Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I miss something above? Is there something we could do about this question and answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-03-29T20:59:19.667" Title="&quot;My manager hopelessly sucks, what do I do?&quot; - &quot;Just quit.&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2468" CreationDate="2014-03-25T03:46:42.137" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there something we could do about this question and answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely! Any user on our site with at least 50 reputation who understands and supports our mission to &lt;em&gt;make the Internet a better place&lt;/em&gt; can add comments with the resources they need to improve their post. If you haven't installed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/2116/autoreviewcomments-pro-forma-comments-for-se&quot;&gt;Pro-forma comments for SE&lt;/a&gt; and loaded it up with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2439/98&quot;&gt;community moderation comments template&lt;/a&gt;, please consider doing so now. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I added a similar comment and put a &quot;citation needed&quot; post notice on this post. While I'm certain the answerer posted with good intentions, it definitely needs more attention if it's to remain. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the softer nature of our topic, this is still a Stack Exchange Q&amp;amp;A site. It's important that our site represent the best in quality so we continue to be viewed as &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; place to go when people with &lt;em&gt;real problems&lt;/em&gt; want answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is a Stack Exchange Q&amp;amp;A site, and the platform doesn't work very well as an advice forum. We went ahead and deleted the closed question. Due to the number of answers, it didn't seem feasible to edit and fix the problems without creating more problems. It's possible the question could be re-asked in a form that meets the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; guidelines. To be successful, steer clear of phrases such as the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What should I do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any advice you have would be great!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I handle this?  &lt;em&gt;(Instead, be specific about what you want to handle)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, it's not that it was a bad question; it just isn't a good question for Stack Exchange. It may fit much better on a discussion forum or in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt;. Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:43.347" LastActivityDate="2014-03-29T20:58:39.177" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2460" CreationDate="2014-03-25T04:26:02.410" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;How would you approach &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2402/are-we-using-naa-and-vlq-flags-correctly&quot;&gt;handling NAA and VLQ flags&lt;/a&gt; on answers? Would you be comfortable judging these flags by the same criteria as are established at strictly technical, coding sites like Stack Overflow, where answer quality can be typically verified with computer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.357" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T04:26:02.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2460" CreationDate="2014-03-25T04:29:59.297" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;How would you enforce &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;Back It Up and Don't Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt; FAQ rules? Would you consider a bare link to Wikipedia page (eg: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;42&lt;/a&gt;, without any accompanying quotes) a legitimate backup? Would you be comfortable managing cases when checking for repetition would require studying multiple other answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:40:25.820" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T07:23:55.407" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2460" CreationDate="2014-03-25T04:37:01.303" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you consider &lt;em&gt;regularly&lt;/em&gt; checking &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/close&quot;&gt;close votes queue&lt;/a&gt;, would you be comfortable making &lt;em&gt;binding&lt;/em&gt; decisions on closing / leaving open questions in the queue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;For the reference, currently site has &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;about 50 users&lt;/a&gt; with close vote privileges and queue shows 20 questions pending.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T04:37:01.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="149" CreationDate="2014-03-25T06:00:17.223" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we should allow workplace questions that help thousands of folks in the workplace -- no matter how &quot;obvious&quot; the answer may seem to some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a flood of bad comments or answers, lock the question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10954" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T06:00:17.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2475" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-25T08:01:09.507" Score="6" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;The default bottom part of the site overlaps the flagging reasons dialog.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I always have the latest Firefox version (27.0.1 as of this writing)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aOsQD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8036" LastEditorUserId="13131" LastEditDate="2014-03-26T14:42:37.757" LastActivityDate="2014-03-26T14:42:37.757" Title="Layout (z-order?) bug when flagging questions" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2476" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-25T16:08:53.233" Score="13" ViewCount="394" Body="&lt;p&gt;As experienced job-seekers (and regular readers at The Workplace) know, an interview is a two-way street.  Just as it's important for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2460/2014-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;community to ask questions of candidates&lt;/a&gt;, it's also important for those candidates to have answers about key parts of the job.  Sometimes the best answers come from the incumbents rather than the hiring managers (SE).  So I'm going to presumptuously ask some questions on behalf of candidates known and unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Current moderators&lt;/strong&gt; (and ex-moderators, if we have any), could you answer the following questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do you love about the moderator job on TWP?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do you spend your moderation time?  Which tasks take the largest amounts of time?  And roughly speaking, how much time do you spend on moderation tasks (not counting your &quot;just plain user&quot; time like asking and answering questions)?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What have been your biggest challenges as a moderator?  Without revealing privileged information, can you talk about how you (personally and collectively) have addressed them?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything you're hoping the new moderators will do or change that you never quite got around to?  What's on your &quot;moderator wish list&quot;, and why is it important?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What advice do you have for somebody considering this job?  What are the questions people should be asking but aren't?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T21:23:16.643" Title="Current moderators: please tell us about the job" Tags="|discussion|moderators|election|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2460" CreationDate="2014-03-25T17:30:30.400" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two experienced users, both good contributors at times, just can't get along. Every time they interact &lt;em&gt;in any way&lt;/em&gt;, sparks fly. Acrimonious comments pile up, distracting everyone from the actual questions being answered. Tit-for-tat flags and votes accumulate. Passive-aggressive meta posts ruin your buzz. You suspect the moderators on other sites are talking about you behind your back, clucking like so many biddy hens about your misfortune...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T17:30:30.400" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2475" CreationDate="2014-03-25T18:14:57.570" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For question pages (like this one), the workplace.SE style sheet currently includes the following workaround for this bug:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.question-page #content {&#xA;    z-index: auto;&#xA;    position: static;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which partially overrides the global default rule:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#content {&#xA;    z-index: 1;&#xA;    position: relative;&#xA;    overflow: hidden;&#xA;    /* extra attributes omitted for brevity */&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alas, review pages don't have the &lt;code&gt;question-page&lt;/code&gt; class, so the workaround above is not applied, and so this bug still happens there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I'm not sure why the &lt;code&gt;z-index: 1&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;position: relative&lt;/code&gt; attributes on the &lt;code&gt;#content&lt;/code&gt; div are even needed, as disabling them entirely doesn't seem to cause any visible problems on any pages I can find.  Frankly, I suspect they're remnants of old CSS kluges related to the page header (and specifically to the two cutesy little &quot;paperclip&quot; ovals that extend down from the header to overlap the content) that have since been replaced by a better solution.  If so, my suggestion would be to simply eliminate them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ps. The &lt;code&gt;overflow: hidden&lt;/code&gt; rule, however, &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; required on this site, since the content div here has visible border and background styles.  Without it, the content div won't establish a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Block_formatting_context&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;block formatting context&lt;/a&gt;, and thus will not expand in height beyond its &lt;code&gt;min-height: 450px&lt;/code&gt; to encompass the (floated) main bar and sidebar inside it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2139" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T18:14:57.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2460" CreationDate="2014-03-25T21:19:07.067" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The mods here tend to get mistreated by some of the users(mostly low rep but not all). The users can be rude, and obnoxious when their questions/answers/comments are being moderated, and the more experienced users are likely to question some of your decisions as a mod. Do you think you have the temperament to withstand this, keep a good attitude, and turn the exchange into something constructive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T21:19:07.067" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2460" CreationDate="2014-03-25T22:08:04.863" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is a fairly active site with a significant amount of moderation activity needed.  How would you classify the amount of time you would be able to devote to moderation activities?  Are you up for the commitment that may be needed?  Are you willing to stick it out and stay active even when it gets challenging and frustrating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2014-03-25T22:14:23.870" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T22:14:23.870" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2481" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2482" CreationDate="2014-03-25T23:13:48.877" Score="3" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;To the right of the question there is a section of linked questions.  Should that really include closed questions as well?  I find it awkward to see an interesting question and go to it, only to find that it is closed.  If it's not a good question, why publicize it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example I hit today.  I was reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/21292/approaching-details-which-show-a-high-level-of-intelligence-on-the-cv/21305#21305&quot;&gt;When should I include information in my resume to indicate I have a high IQ?&lt;/a&gt; and saw the linked question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fAINc.png&quot; alt=&quot;side bar picture&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and I clicked on the one about a complex test, only to find it closed.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WRbJR.png&quot; alt=&quot;title of closed question&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we are supposed to improve the question so that it can be opened and answered, then having it in the list is appropriate.  If not, why even link it?  At  the least, it would be nice to know it is closed before bothering to click on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="249" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-03-26T00:02:14.930" Title="Should the linked questions section list closed questions?" Tags="|support|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2481" CreationDate="2014-03-26T00:02:14.930" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they're supposed to be linked. They're closed, not deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I find these very useful when following up on duplicates - the sidebar cross-links the original, those closed as duplicates, and any other questions closed or linked among them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastActivityDate="2014-03-26T00:02:14.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2476" CreationDate="2014-03-26T02:47:50.670" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you love about the moderator job on TWP?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really enjoy making the Internet a better place. It might sound kind of cheesy, but before Stack Overflow came along, it was a nightmare to search the Internet for answers to questions. Stack Overflow helped make my colleagues and I more productive, and it's great to be able to contribute to other Stack Exchange resources, such as The Workplace. The most enjoyable part is seeing and working with others all over the world who are also passionate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do you spend your moderation time? Which tasks take the largest amounts of time? And roughly speaking, how much time do you spend on moderation tasks (not counting your &quot;just plain user&quot; time like asking and answering questions)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest time consumer is the flag queue, and it's where I spend a majority of my time on the site. Some issues can be resolved with a comment, some with editing, some with post removal or post closure. Sometimes the answer is to reopen a post, and sometimes the answer is to simply make others aware of its existence and let the community do the work. It's always best when a post can be improved because it keeps people motivated.  They see their efforts pay off rather than merely stifled. If I think there's value, I'll drop a link in chat to see if anyone can edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also spend a lot of time in meta, both Meta Workplace SE as well as Meta Stack Overflow. MSO is the network meta, so it's helpful to know what's happening there as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for plain user time, I still occasionally answer questions, but not at the same rate as before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What have been your biggest challenges as a moderator? Without revealing privileged information, can you talk about how you (personally and collectively) have addressed them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest challenge for me, at first, was getting over the fear of making a mistake. Did I delete when I should have commented. Should I have closed that post? Should I reopen it?  The answer, for me, was only to take action if I could justify it in meta objectively. I also discovered that sometimes just being honest is best, as well as being willing to work with people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there anything you're hoping the new moderators will do or change that you never quite got around to? What's on your &quot;moderator wish list&quot;, and why is it important?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping the new moderators will continue leading based on A Theory of Moderation. I re-read it regularly. I'm also hoping we can continue using comments and editing as the #1 tool of moderation. There's also talk of a blog. It's tough to manage the flag queue &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; focus on taking on more ongoing responsibility, so ultimately it may be best for a non-moderator to push that forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also hoping situations continue to lean in the direction of being judged on a case by case basis. Both as a regular user and a moderator, it's easy to get caught up in enforcing &lt;em&gt;rigid rules&lt;/em&gt; without remembering why they're there in the first place. Using the word &lt;em&gt;guidelines&lt;/em&gt; in place of &lt;em&gt;rules&lt;/em&gt; may help remind us all that flexibility may be required in exceptional circumstances, and one size doesn't necessarily fit all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What advice do you have for somebody considering this job? What are the questions people should be asking but aren't?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most actions are immediately reversible, so if you do make a mistake, just go fix it and then leave an objective comment explaining your reasoning. You don't need to apologize, necessarily, just remain objective and factual.  Use it as an opportunity to teach others what to look for, as others may have missed the same things you did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything is a grey area; nothing is black and white. So be willing to work with people if they're really upset by something you did or something you're about to do. There's a fine line between keeping the site clean and keeping people excited. Know that there are certain levels and degrees of action you can take. For instance, instead of closing, edit, or protect instead and add stipulations that you're strongly considering closing the post if there isn't an answer cleanup. There are ways to meet people in the middle without compromising the end goals. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, take breaks if you need to. Pace yourself so you too will continue to be excited. There's your fellow moderators, as well as the community team, who will step in and help, if needed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, don't take any actions if you're emotional. There are 300+ moderators in the Stack Exchange network, and they're available to help bounce ideas off. If you need to vent, do it in private, then when you come back, you'll be able to make much clearer, more objective decisions. If you're not sure you can stay objective, ask for help from the community team or a fellow moderator. You're never alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-03-26T02:47:50.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2456" CreationDate="2014-03-26T04:22:29.773" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As pointed out, this can't be done with the Data Explorer unfortunately. We will need some community manager help to get the data, but we can lay out what sort of data we want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What are we trying to find out?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Are post notices successful?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; is the question we're trying to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What is success?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is where things get sticky, but I'd advocate the following measures of success for post notices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post notices result in &lt;strong&gt;more successful edits&lt;/strong&gt; of answers with them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post notices &lt;strong&gt;clearly indicate poor posts&lt;/strong&gt; that should be deleted if not edited&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like with putting question 'on hold', our goal for putting post notices would be to give the answer a chance to be improved, and if not, indicate that it is a good candidate to be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How can we measure that?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should gather the following information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;# of answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;# of edited answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;# of successful edits&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;# of edited answers deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;# of non-edited answers deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will allow us to see if we are improving the rate of edits, the quality of edits, and whether the edits are capable of saving the posts from deletion or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need to compare to a baseline. I suggest comparing the following three categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers with a post notice (test case)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers with &gt;=1 downvote, negative score, and a comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers with &gt;=1 downvote, negative score&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Get a table like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;              # answers | # edited | # successful edits | # edited/del | # non-edited/del&#xA;Post Notice&#xA;DV + Comment&#xA;All Answers&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2014-03-26T04:22:29.773" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2460" CreationDate="2014-03-26T07:24:53.600" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A large majority of moderation can be done by the community with enough reputation. Since we just graduated, there is a big gap between the privileges we had as a community a month ago, and the privileges we have today. With time, we will build more users who can form the basis for stronger community moderation again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What moderation (closing, editing, deleting, commenting, tagging, flagging, etc.) would you like to see the community be more active in, and how will you encourage that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2014-03-26T07:24:53.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2476" CreationDate="2014-03-26T14:16:03.443" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you love about the moderator job on TWP?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Helping the site maintain its quality standards. I've found Stack Exchange to be immensely useful, and have always appreciated the quality of content. Being able to play a larger role in maintaining that level of quality has definitely been the best part of moderating the site. I want users who come to the site to feel like they've found something that can actually help them in a meaningful way, rather than a collection of commentary on a topic they're concerned about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do you spend your moderation time? Which tasks take the largest amounts of time? And roughly speaking, how much time do you spend on moderation tasks (not counting your &quot;just plain user&quot; time like asking and answering questions)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The flag queue.&lt;/em&gt; As the site has grown, the queue has grown. This growth has been accelerated by graduation, since fewer people have the priveleges to handle flags (fewer flags taken out of the queue), and fewer people have the priveleges to take more direct action (more flags into the queue). At this point, pretty much all of my participation on the site is handling flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What have been your biggest challenges as a moderator? Without revealing privileged information, can you talk about how you (personally and collectively) have addressed them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Getting used to the diamond, and everything that comes with it. I'd never been hesitant to vote to close a question, since the closure would only happen if there was enough agreement from other users. Unilaterally closing a question (and having it noted that the closure was done by a moderator) is a bit different. I've found the best approach to deciding whether to delete or close something to be the &quot;moderators as human exception handlers&quot; philosophy. I ask myself &quot;can the community handle this issue on their own?&quot;. If it seems unlikely, or seems to be a touchy subject, I'll step in. If it &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; easily be handled by regular users, then the decision to act is based on whether action now is more beneficial/less detrimental than waiting for enough regular users to take action.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dealing with people. In the real workplace, you can meet with people face-to-face to sort out issues. You can gauge emotion, tone, attitude, etc. and have an actual conversation about the issues at hand. Online, you're limited to text (and whatever assumptions about tone/intent you make), and face-to-face talks just don't happen. You can never tell how engaged a person is in a conversation, whether they're taking it seriously, or if any changes will come out of it. Since there's so much room for misunderstanding, you need to choose your words more carefully.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deleting comments. Plenty of comments make interesting points and are highly voted, and might be worth keeping around, but don't directly try to improve or clarify the question/answer. Deciding which should stay and which should go can be a bit delicate. Usually my decision is based on the &quot;comments are temporary post-it notes&quot; definition in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;. However, I'll sometimes leave a comment (as in not delete an existing comment) if I think it adds something useful. A prime example is constructive disagreement on answers. The votes can tell you whether people like an answer or not, but a good comment can explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there anything you're hoping the new moderators will do or change that you never quite got around to? What's on your &quot;moderator wish list&quot;, and why is it important?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participate more in a more direct sense. Ask/answer more questions (it's been a while since I've done either) and participate in chat (again, it's been a while). It's important to demonstrate that you're more than just a site janitor. Questions and answers demonstrate you genuinely care about the topic at hand and have knowledge/expertise to share. Participation in chat shows an interest in the community, and is a valuable way to hear concerns of users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What advice do you have for somebody considering this job? What are the questions people should be asking but aren't?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely be prepared to commit time to the task, especially while the site is freshly graduated and fewer people have the power to act. There are plenty of flags to handle, and that can definitely eat up all your time on the site, but you should make sure you participate further via questions, answers, and chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-03-26T14:16:03.443" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2475" CreationDate="2014-03-26T14:42:24.690" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We do need the position:relative but I removed it on the mod &amp;amp; review pages. This way you won't have the bug anymore. A fix has been pushed, it'll be live after the next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13131" LastActivityDate="2014-03-26T14:42:24.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2476" CreationDate="2014-03-26T20:21:06.910" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you love about the moderator job on TWP?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love most that I get to play a part in the issues that help make the community great. Since that's a pretty generic answer, I'll give a couple specific examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I like dealing with flags that get me involved in community interaction.  Some things are flagged because a drive-by-user posted junk and will never be back.  It's nice to keep things clean, but it's more rewarding when I get to help solve someone's problem, such as where a new user needs help understanding the community in order to form their question to get the best answers.  Or, when a dispute over content reveals a new issue we've never considered before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I love being a part of the deep consideration that goes into handling complex issues.  The other moderators on this site really care about the community, too, and I love working with others to solve problems with an attitude of &amp;quot;how do we make this a win for everyone?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you spend your moderation time? Which tasks take the largest amounts of time? And roughly speaking, how much time do you spend on moderation tasks (not counting your &amp;quot;just plain user&amp;quot; time like asking and answering questions)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By far, reading takes the most time.  I feel like I can't appropriately serve the community unless I'm aware of the content (Qs and As), and the interactions that have taken place (comments and meta).  I haven't been too active lately primarily for this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will handle a few flags here and there, but my approach is meticulous and detailed.  I know that an inappropriate moderator action can have a lasting impact, so I want to make sure I know what's going on before I make conclusions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any prospective moderator should be prepared to spend a large amount of their time digesting what's going on in the community.  I'm convinced that you can't be successful without that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What have been your biggest challenges as a moderator? Without revealing privileged information, can you talk about how you (personally and collectively) have addressed them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases I've been needed not just to moderate content or fiddle with admin bits, but to moderate human issues.  In this case, the biggest challenge is removing &lt;em&gt;my own&lt;/em&gt; bias so that I don't introduce yet another set of variables to  already-complicated issues.  Whenever you are a third party to these situations, you certainly risk making things worse than before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To handle this, I've tried to look to other shining examples and emulate them.  We have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/about/team&quot;&gt;fantastic community team&lt;/a&gt; that really &lt;em&gt;get&lt;/em&gt; people, and set a great example for how to lead with perspective and calm, fair, firm, and objective reasoning.  There are a lot of Workplace users who are great examples to look at, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Sidebar: That's one of the things that I love about the Workplace, especially as a moderator.  The very topic of the site helps me be a better member and moderator.  So many good and thoughtful answers to help give me perspective.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also tried to remember that at the end of the day, each individual user has something they want to get out of this site.  How can I help them achieve it?    I'm an optimist in this sense -- I think in most cases we can achieve a majority of our users' goals, even if they may seem in conflict at first.  I always try to remember: without users we have nothing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything you're hoping the new moderators will do or change that you never quite got around to? What's on your &amp;quot;moderator wish list&amp;quot;, and why is it important?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What advice do you have for somebody considering this job? What are the questions people should be asking but aren't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll answer both of these questions together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all there's a great deal of validation and trust that comes with an elected moderator position, so I'm quite excited for those that earn it.  The community respects you, so make sure you value that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, this site needs well-formed but flexible principles. &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Strong opinions, loosely held.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;  There is a lot of ground left to define, but we've come a long way.  Moderators are a key part of defining the principles this site is run on.  But everyone needs to be prepared for new issues to arise and to discard old ideas that aren't working anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, a moderator is really a servant. I hope the new moderators will really buy into that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;People&lt;/strong&gt;. There's nothing more important than the users of this site.  All members of the community, starting from the moderators, will need to be aware of how to cultivate positive interactions and relationships with new users and make them feel welcome, while upholding the high standards of quality that we all hope for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Culture&lt;/strong&gt;. And because the site is made up of people, it will have a culture whether it is intentional or not, so it's best that it be guided based on civility and principles that we want.  And it needs to be protected as new users come on board.  These new users will come from anywhere, so there will be a period of time where some don't &amp;quot;get&amp;quot; how things work here.  Moderators especially must be careful to teach without pushing away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What questions should people be asking?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably many, but there are others better to think about this than I.  However, one important question is related to the idea of principles above.  &amp;quot;What guidelines are working and which aren't?&amp;quot;  In particular, we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5/does-this-site-need-a-back-it-up-rule&quot;&gt;back it up rule&lt;/a&gt; that I think is owed a ton of credit for the high quality answers we see.  However, I still see with frequency that this is confusing to new users.  &amp;quot;Well of course, my 'experience' is backing it up!  How do I cite that!?&amp;quot;  I think we can do a better job of easing this tension.  But it's a tough problem, and I don't know what the answer is!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wow, great questions!&lt;/em&gt;  Really made me think.  I want to thank you and the rest of the community for being a great example of human interaction and leadership for me to look up to, and for making the site what it is so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-03-26T20:21:06.910" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2460" CreationDate="2014-03-27T02:58:16.390" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If elected, do you plan to increase your time on the site, or are you going to spend about the same amount of time but reallocate it?  If the latter, what &lt;em&gt;won't&lt;/em&gt; you be doing as much of now?  What is the opportunity cost to the community of you becoming a mod?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-03-27T02:58:16.390" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2468" CreationDate="2014-03-27T14:17:48.160" Score="-4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there something we could do about this question and answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Change to another website.  People are not going to change their voting style nor increase their level of competence nor go back to the drawing board nor provide greater relevance just for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;/humor&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1717" LastActivityDate="2014-03-27T14:17:48.160" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2460" CreationDate="2014-03-28T18:04:41.983" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you think your actions towards lower-quality posts will be more like an &lt;strong&gt;Exception Handler&lt;/strong&gt; or a &lt;strong&gt;Janitor&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it another way, do you prefer to sit back and let the community try to resolve if questions should be closed or open on their own, or do you prefer to step in as soon as you can to try and resolve a question's state immediately using moderator actions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I realize a moderators duties will involve using both styles of moderation depending on the situation, however I would like to know which direction moderator candidates lean towards first in cases that are not so clear)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastActivityDate="2014-03-28T18:04:41.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2492" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-31T05:01:10.760" Score="5" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some questions here might be of a nature which would bring the author into  difficulties with his current employer. Is it therefore acceptable to ask such questions here in the name of a friend?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16936" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T06:57:52.773" Title="Is it appropriate to ask for a friend of a friend?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2492" CreationDate="2014-03-31T06:57:52.773" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone can ask a question anonymously by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/395/can-you-add-an-ask-anonymously-feature-for-stack-exchange-sites-like-this-and-on&quot;&gt;creating a throwaway account&lt;/a&gt;. Just click the 'log out' button at the top of the site, and ask away -- it won't be tied to your main account if you don't want it to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, for whatever reason, the person wants to ask this through your account for whatever reason, realize that you are not anonymous, and depending on how much trouble the person could get in to for the information in the question, the information is still not 100% anonymous because it is still attached to your name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would suggest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If possible, have your friend's friend create a throwaway account to ask the question so that they can put it in their own words and respond to comments/questions if they come up without having to go through you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If not possible, be sure that your post is a good question, follows the rules in the help center, and that your friend is willing to answer questions to it through you if clarification is required&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As discussed in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1947/7945&quot;&gt;separate meta post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;there should always be enough information. A hypothetical question should be fine, but if there isn't enough &quot;information&quot; (or a detailed enough description of the problem), then it becomes unanswerable anyway. There will be too many possible answers to the question and the whole thread will become a discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We avoid these questions that are too broad, regardless of whether they are hypothetical, because they don't work well in Stack Exchange's model. The format sorts just one answer to the top, but everyone sees many answers they like. It becomes a poll or popularity contest instead of narrowing down on one real answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is about hypothetical questions, but a question asked on behalf of a friend-of-a-friend is quite similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T06:57:52.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2494" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-31T07:54:44.140" Score="5" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've wondered about this before, but my current example is this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/21729/contracting-role-versus-permanent-role-what-is-the-difference&quot;&gt;Contracting role versus permanent role? What is the difference?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is voted to be closed as a duplicate of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/4011/difference-between-contract-and-full-time&quot;&gt;Difference between contract and full time?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is more of a general question though, as I think it's not really constructive to send people who want to help through a string of closed questions. If a question is a duplicate of another question that is closed, in my opinion the duplicate should be closed for the same reason, not just for being a dup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feature request&lt;/strong&gt; here is to not list closed questions in the duplicate search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10912" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2016-05-19T15:51:23.567" Title="Should we mark questions as duplicate of closed questions?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2494" CreationDate="2014-03-31T08:08:27.010" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Full disclosure: I was the close voter who marked the duplicate as stated above&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My method is (maybe too) simple: will clicking the link get the person the answer they are looking for? If yes, vote to close as a dupe. If no, consider leaving it open and answering it better than the information in those other closed questions. If you do it well enough, then vote to close those other questions as dupes of this new one if it is far superior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the dupe I pointed to actually addresses the difference only between full-time and contractor in the answer, I figured that was the better of the two. The third one tosses in a third category of employee and is a lot longer, but likely won't do a better job answering the asked question. And anyway, if the first dupe doesn't have enough, that person can always click through to the second dupe and decide themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T08:08:27.010" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2496" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-31T12:41:00.967" Score="7" ViewCount="525" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm new to Workplace.SE, though I'm active on other SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I've noticed is that there is a downvoting police, that goes around giving -1 to anything they don't like. Go to the main page, and there is a whole list of questions with 0 and -1 scores. Several questions I gave a +1 to have a score or 0 or lower(which means others downvoted them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the same with many answers. They have a plus score, and I found them useful; yet when I come back a few minutes later, they have gone to negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these questions were valid, though they could have been written better. But is that enough reason to mark them down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the people of this site too eager to give downvotes? Is this a good practice to get more people into the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Thanks for downvoting my question. I guess it proves my point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9690" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditDate="2014-04-11T14:21:33.240" LastActivityDate="2014-04-11T14:21:33.240" Title="Are the Downvoting police too active?" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2496" CreationDate="2014-03-31T13:57:24.983" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of the down votes seem to be in regards to answers either not being answers or not meeting the guidelines listed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;The Help Center&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How should I answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure your answer adds helpful information and is a &lt;em&gt;complete, stand-alone answer.&lt;/em&gt; Read other answers first and be sure not to completely restate information that has already been posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that answers should be backed up either with a reference, or experiences that happened to you personally. You should always include in your answer information about why you think your answer is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good alternative to the back it up rule is to make sure your answer provides plenty of detail to back up your claims. Following the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Six Subjective Guidelines&lt;/a&gt; is a good way to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, down votes are a tool used to push unsubstantiated, as well as incorrect content, to the bottom of the page.  Our site exists to help not just the asker but all future visitors who come here from Google searches.  To achieve that goal, we need to be sure that these visitors trust us. Otherwise, we're just random people on the Internet making claims that may or may not be true. If that's what our site is about, then people with real problems to solve won't trust that this is &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; place to come for real answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, many of us do leave comments that are hopefully friendly and encouraging. We want people to participate, but we also want contributions to be positive and correlate with our site's mission to make the Internet a better place. Not everyone will get that. Those that do will take heed of those comments and do some editing, and the community can, and does, review their down votes and even reverse them when newcomers fix the problems with their posts. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T13:57:24.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2460" CreationDate="2014-03-31T13:58:19.327" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you determine whether a question is asking for Legal advice which is off topic, or just a workplace question that has a legal aspect that would be on topic? Or do you feel that any question that has a legal aspect should be off topic?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you comfortable taking legal action to shut these questions down even though the community may feel that the question belongs here? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is wrongly closed as off topic for the legal aspect are you comfortable reopening the question?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T13:58:19.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2496" CreationDate="2014-03-31T13:59:46.920" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One thing I've noticed is that there is a downvoting police, that goes around giving -1 to anything they don't like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good, the system works. We encourage people to downvote content they don't find useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's the same with many answers. They have a plus score, and I found them useful; yet when I come back a few minutes later, they have gone to negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, other people didn't find said answers as useful as you did. It happens, you shouldn't lose sleep over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some of these questions were valid, though they could have been written better. But is that enough reason to mark them down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. If you want to help those questions get upvoted, you could try fixing them. You can comment and ask for clarifications, or you can edit them. Or both. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, a downvote is just a signal to readers that there's something wrong with the question. If you agree those questions could have been written better, then I don't see what's your problem with people signalling just that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are the people of this site too eager to give downvotes? Is this a good practice to get more people into the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, at least not in my experience. I'd say it's the opposite, really, this site has had &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1627/we-need-to-downvote-answers-more-even-mediocre-ones&quot;&gt;a bit of a history with upvoting crap&lt;/a&gt;. But it's getting better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, downvoting &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; scare some contributors away. However, we don't just want to get more people in this community. That's relatively easy. What we really want is to get people to stick around and become more and more active over time. Our main way of achieving that goal is to constantly provide quality content, and downvoting is one of our primary quality control tools. Thus, in the grand scheme of things, downvoting is a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T14:05:18.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2496" CreationDate="2014-03-31T18:26:55.107" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some of these questions were valid, though they could have been written better. But is that enough reason to mark them down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure. There are other reasons to downvote something, but &quot;hard to read&quot; is legit. This isn't some grade-school essay contest where you get points just for completing the assignment - if your question &lt;em&gt;or answer&lt;/em&gt; isn't accessible and understandable by others, it's just noise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And no, there isn't too much down-voting here. Over the past 28 days, the site has seen 2,066 down-votes and &lt;strong&gt;12,070&lt;/strong&gt; up-votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T18:26:55.107" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2496" CreationDate="2014-03-31T19:30:37.680" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see your point - and at least can agree to the observation that in my experience, as well, the downvoting is faster and more likely on this site than on many other SE sites I've seen.  I'm torn on whether that's good or bad and/or what it means.  Being so torn, I don't have a great answer on what to do (if anything) about it, but here's some observations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nature of questions is a bit different&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace has wrestled with this since it's inception.  Our questions are a bit different and there are times when SE has even debated whether these types of questions can even fit the SE format in a useful way (there was &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/10/podcast-53-lets-go-rio/?cb=1&quot;&gt;a podcast between Joel and Jay on this&lt;/a&gt; a while back).  The problem is that The Workplace questions can be both very opinion oriented and have more than one successful path.  I think there will always need to be some fast-acting downvoting to provide a certain deterrent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things I feel are particularly hazardous here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;highly opinion driven questions - they almost always boil down to &quot;I'm right, aren't I?&quot; - it may be we can reword them, but I see enough of them in a week that I don't mind the gut reaction to the question being a downvote, to hopefully deter users from getting in the habit of submitting this type of question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sagas of woe - long questions that tell such a particular set of circumstances that I can't see how they can possibly be reuseable.  While the specifics of lines of code can be really helpful on Stack Overflow, the intimate details of a person's background and the last 5 years of a horrible problem is both hard to read and hard to answer.  If it can be summed up and made generic, great, - but I'm glad to see the penalty start with downvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that bad questions &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be saved, but every time we try to save a question, we also risk morphing the question so heavily that it's no longer useful to the original asker.  That really breaks the mold of the site, and starts to drive us away from the usefulness of answering actual questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why it's bad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dislike the trend of &quot;come to The Workplace, get a downvote&quot; and I do worry that it happens too often. I think if you got slammed for your first question, then it's unlikely we'll hear about your second or third question - and those might be really useful additions to the knowledge base and the greater good.  In all honesty, I think we have a couple of key entrance question areas and I'd like to see the question base broaden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why it's good&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can't be the pit of every badly worded question.  There's awards for those who help make questions better and that's a useful function for members of the community.  Downvoting may highlight the very areas that need a fix, and at a minimum, they highlight what &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to do.  Hoping that by downvoting &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; we'll somehow improve the forum doesn't seem  like a way to go here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2014-04-01T08:09:10.957" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T08:09:10.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-31T20:08:21.973" Score="7" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&amp;amp;A thread for the candidates. Questions collected &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2460/2014-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;from an earlier thread&lt;/a&gt; have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers. Not every question was compiled - as noted, we only selected the top 8 questions as submitted by the community, plus 2 pre-set questions from us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a candidate, your job is simple - post an answer to this question, citing each of the questions and then post your answer to each question given in that same answer. For your convenience, I will include all of the questions in quote format with a break in between each, suitable for you to insert your answers. Just &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/85055e38-8410-4de2-8b2b-99b4e1d7f020/view-source&quot;&gt;copy the whole thing after the first set of three dashes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once all the answers have been compiled, this will serve as a transcript for voters to view the thoughts of their candidates, and will be appropriately linked in the Election page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck to all of the candidates!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would you do if you found a flagged, positively scored answer where 10 users flagged it as not an answer and 10 users flagged it as invalid? How would you handle a case where the community is clearly divided on what to do with a post, yet the community is also unable to remove the post on their own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you see a question or answer with major issues, such as being argumentative or poorly-written, what tool do you reach for first and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Two experienced users, both good contributors at times, just can't get along. Every time they interact in any way, sparks fly. Acrimonious comments pile up, distracting everyone from the actual questions being answered. Tit-for-tat flags and votes accumulate. Passive-aggressive meta posts ruin your buzz. You suspect the moderators on other sites are talking about you behind your back, clucking like so many biddy hens about your misfortune... What do you do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are the top two or three challenges facing the site as it moves forward, and what do you plan to do as a moderator to address them? What have you already done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If elected, do you plan to increase your time on the site, or are you going to spend about the same amount of time but reallocate it? If the latter, what won't you be doing as much of now? What is the opportunity cost to the community of you becoming a mod?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A large majority of moderation can be done by the community with enough reputation. Since we just graduated, there is a big gap between the privileges we had as a community a month ago, and the privileges we have today. With time, we will build more users who can form the basis for stronger community moderation again. What moderation (closing, editing, deleting, commenting, tagging, flagging, etc.) would you like to see the community be more active in, and how will you encourage that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you enforce &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;Back It Up and Don't Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt; FAQ rules? Would you consider a bare link to Wikipedia page (eg: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;42&lt;/a&gt;, without any accompanying quotes) a legitimate backup? Would you be comfortable managing cases when checking for repetition would require studying multiple other answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The mods here tend to get mistreated by some of the users(mostly low rep but not all). The users can be rude, and obnoxious when their questions/answers/comments are being moderated, and the more experienced users are likely to question some of your decisions as a mod. Do you think you have the temperament to withstand this, keep a good attitude, and turn the exchange into something constructive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T19:56:50.257" Title="2014 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Questionnaire" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2504" CreationDate="2014-03-31T20:27:53.027" Score="11" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a new user of Stack Exchange. I have gotten a pretty good response to the first question I have answered, and nothing but unhelpful responses to every question after that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases I have gotten downvotes with no comment, or a copy and pasted comment I have seen applied to every new user posting regardless of the quality of their answer. In most cases the comment is in regards to not repeating answers, although I read all of the major answers and not add one of my own unless I have at least one new thing to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that the nature of this site means that there are more than one solution and makes it hard to know the level of experience of the answerer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do not feel that the comments are constructive at all, they seem to actively discourage me from posting anything rather than improving my answering skill. And I feel that &lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt; being overly critical of newer users stifles open discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for addressing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13271" LastEditorUserId="13271" LastEditDate="2014-04-01T12:03:44.420" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T12:38:14.470" Title="Can we make the Workplace exchange less hostile to new users?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2503" CreationDate="2014-03-31T22:15:24.457" Score="6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Generally&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are trying to make the experience for new users one that is as positive as possible, but we are also concerned for the quality of this site and the value to its community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While new users of course are important to us, we don't want to be too lenient and let site quality drop. This might cause a broken window effect, we strive to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Your answers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I currently only see 3 of your answers on your profile, and from those, one is rather exceptional, in length and quality as in appreciation by the community. One is +/- 0 without comment, which is unfortunate, and one is rated negatively with a longer but not really productive comment thread. The latter is unfortunate as well, but can happen. I personally don't see anything wrong with your post, but others seemed to disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Bad luck&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the biggest negative factor there was bad luck, as your post might have drowned it older, highly-rated answers and only those thoroughly reading (and downvoting) everything may have gotten there. Or maybe people didn't agree that your answer adds value over what had already been said. It's hard to tell and I hope that you don't take too negative a feeling from this. It happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Downvotes&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will also rarely get real feedback from downvoters. Some users are thorough about it, helping you improve, some just want to weigh in with a vote and probably hope that somebody else that agrees with them will point out what they found wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Taking it personal&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please try not to take any downvotes persona. I'm aware sometimes they may be and sometimes it is hard to bounce these things off. I hope with time, more positive feedback will make this much easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Negative feelings&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope to guide everybody who feels feedback (or lack thereof) affects them negatively to our chat, to take this up in direct conversation. Even the most active people miss things and can't weigh in everywhere, but we usually linger around &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;the water cooler&lt;/a&gt;, happy to talk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10912" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T22:15:24.457" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2502" CreationDate="2014-04-01T00:16:16.790" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would you do if you found a flagged, positively scored answer where 10 users flagged it as not an answer and 10 users flagged it as invalid? How would you handle a case where the community is clearly divided on what to do with a post, yet the community is also unable to remove the post on their own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making controversial decisions can be tough. The people who participate enough to flag and/or dispute flags are smart people who do it because they care about the site and the issue at hand. There's validity to both arguments (assuming there was no major edit to render the flags obsolete, which makes this trivial), and some people will be satisfied and some disappointed either way. If I can find any clear-cut rule/guideline saying it's off-topic, not constructive, etc, then I'll delete/close/migrate. If it's in a grey area, I base the decision on whether I expect it to add value to a future visitor. If I think it it might be helpful to someone, it stays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you see a question or answer with major issues, such as being argumentative or poorly-written, what tool do you reach for first and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume &quot;major issues&quot; to mean I can't simply edit the question into shape. In that case closure &amp;amp; comment. I want to make sure I leave a useful, constructive comment, and possibly delete any less-than-constructive comments already left. A lot of times people will comment to explain the closure, but not explain how to get the post reopened. Both points are important, but a path to reopening the question (if there is one) is key. Closing is important to prevent answers (and more importantly non-answers) from building up, and can deter less useful comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Two experienced users, both good contributors at times, just can't get along. Every time they interact in any way, sparks fly. Acrimonious comments pile up, distracting everyone from the actual questions being answered. Tit-for-tat flags and votes accumulate. Passive-aggressive meta posts ruin your buzz. You suspect the moderators on other sites are talking about you behind your back, clucking like so many biddy hens about your misfortune... What do you do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is probably the most difficult type of thing to deal with. You don't know these people personally, and will (most likely) never see them face-to-face. Defusing conflict over the internet, especially between people who just don't get along and might not want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first step is to undestand each persons point of view. What do they want? What bothers them about the other person? Remeber that even if you think one or both (or all 7) people involved are being unreasonable, they don't. In this case, I'd personally contact each user involved. Make it clear that the constant conflict is an issue, but that you understand their point of view and why they get involved. Tell them that since the interactions between the involved parties tend to turn so negative, they should be avoid, and the user should instead flag any relevant posts and explain to the moderators what the issue is. We can take a look and figure out how to handle the situation, and nobody has to deal with people they can't stand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are the top two or three challenges facing the site as it moves forward, and what do you plan to do as a moderator to address them? What have you already done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Graduation/growth. As the community continues to grow, issues arise more and more often. Since graduation, fewer users have the means to deal with these issues, meaning a lot more work falls on those who do (both high-rep users and moderators). This issue will lighten up as more users gain priveleges, but this is definitely a busy time to be in this position.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scope/appeal. Our goal is to be focused on the workplace in general, not just on software developers' wokplaces. Coming from the Stack Exchange network, it's understandable that a high percentage of our users fit the tech category. However, a question is much more helpful to a broader audience if they don't have to worry about it being specific to one industry. Keeping questions generalized while making sure people still get the answers they're looking for can be a challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this is the kind of situation the directly-contact-the-user feature was designed for. Calling them out in public will only make the situation worse. A personalized confidential message, though, can be a lot more beneficial (if worded correctly). Acknowledge the disagreement/conflict, since it clearly exists, but don't place the blame on anyone (if serious contibutors are arguing, it's not to cause trouble, it's because they have strong but differing opinions). Let the user know that the conflict casts a negative light on the community they've put so much into, and that rather than argue in comments, they should use moderator flags. We can look at the situation and decide on (and execute) the most appropriate course of action. Remember that you can always ask about the reasoning behind a moderator action (whether in chat or on meta). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If trouble continues, a &lt;em&gt;short-term&lt;/em&gt; suspension (with an appropriate explanation) may be warranted. We don't want to lock our best contributors out, but a suspension can highlight the seriousness of the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderator chatroom. It's the perfect place to confidentially work out disagreements about how to handle any issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually just dealt with this today. I disagreed with a deletion, so I went over to the room to ping the mod who did the deleting. I pointed out why I disagreed, and asked if there was any objection to reopening it. In this situation, the feeling was pretty nuetral on the other end, so I went ahead and undeleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important to remember that moderators are regular people, and any action can be undone. Just because I delete something doesn't mean it needs to be deleted forever, or even that I'm 100% sold it should be gone. I'm absolutely open to other moderators questioning or disagreeing with my actions, and I'd hope they expect the same from me. Making unilateral decisions is not a privelege that should go unchecked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If elected, do you plan to increase your time on the site, or are you going to spend about the same amount of time but reallocate it? If the latter, what won't you be doing as much of now? What is the opportunity cost to the community of you becoming a mod?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to increase my time on the site (currently between 30 minutes to an hour a day), but I'm not sure that's practical at this point. I've been moderating this site for over a year, so I think you all have a pretty good idea of what to expect. If elected, I plan to increase my time in the Water Cooler, since I've been so absent lately. The cost is less time digging through the flag queue, which since graduation has tended to be between 5-10x the size it was beforehand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A large majority of moderation can be done by the community with enough reputation. Since we just graduated, there is a big gap between the privileges we had as a community a month ago, and the privileges we have today. With time, we will build more users who can form the basis for stronger community moderation again. What moderation (closing, editing, deleting, commenting, tagging, flagging, etc.) would you like to see the community be more active in, and how will you encourage that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the biggest issues we've had has been non-answers and borderline non-answers. Since graduation, &quot;Not An Answer&quot; flags have increased quite a bit. A lot of these posts fall under question #1. Commenting on these is important (explain what we expect and how/why the answer doesn't meet those expectations), and deletion prevents encouraging similar answers. Unilarteral moderator action can work, but it can also cause the &quot;this forum is terrible the moderators hate me&quot; response, whereas several regular users acting sends a stronger message (&quot;&lt;em&gt;we&lt;/em&gt; don't accept this&quot; vs &quot;&lt;em&gt;Jim the mean angry mod&lt;/em&gt; doesn't like this&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you enforce &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;Back It Up and Don't Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt; FAQ rules? Would you consider a bare link to Wikipedia page (eg: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;42&lt;/a&gt;, without any accompanying quotes) a legitimate backup? Would you be comfortable managing cases when checking for repetition would require studying multiple other answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Don't repeat others&quot; can be a tough point. Some questions really have one specific point to be addressed, and there may be wide agreement on how to address it. Does the fastest answer deserve to be the only answer? The main point of the proposed solution is likely to be similar across answers, but as long as each answer provides a unique, useful explanation, I think they're fine to stay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Back it up&quot; is important. We've got real issues we face in the workplace, and we're trusting strangers on the internet for advice. That advice had better have some substance to it. I don't have a problem deleting answers like this, since they can always be undeleted once they've been edited. Commenting is definitely critical here, to let the user know what we're looking for. If it's somewhat useful as-is, a post notice is probably sufficient, although non-action may warrant deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The mods here tend to get mistreated by some of the users (mostly low rep but not all). The users can be rude, and obnoxious when their questions/answers/comments are being moderated, and the more experienced users are likely to question some of your decisions as a mod. Do you think you have the temperament to withstand this, keep a good attitude, and turn the exchange into something constructive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely. Users should definitely question actions they disagree with. We moderators are also people, and can and do make mistakes from time to time. We've got the ability to do all sorts of things on our own, but that doesn't mean we're always right. It's important to understand that users get rude or obnoxious because they feel they've been wronged, not because they're terrible people. An honest explanation can be enough to clear up such a situation, but a good moderator needs to be open to the possibility that the action they've taken might not be the best way to address the issue. Remember, there's a chatroom for site moderators, and a network-wide room for all Stack Exchange moderators, so there is no shortage of people to take a second look if you start questioning something you did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T00:16:16.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2502" CreationDate="2014-04-01T01:01:04.453" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would you do if you found a flagged, positively scored answer where 10 users flagged it as not an answer and 10 users flagged it as invalid? How would you handle a case where the community is clearly divided on what to do with a post, yet the community is also unable to remove the post on their own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flags aren't always very descriptive. If there are 10 flags, and 10 flags saying those aren't the right flags, that doesn't give a clear idea of what the community:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thinks the real issue is&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wants to be done with the post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thankfully we have a meta. And in the meta we can discuss what the issue(s) with the question and/or the way it was flagged were, resolve that case (or get something more substantive than 20 flags split down the middle), and have something to refer to when dealing with similar issues the next time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you see a question or answer with major issues, such as being argumentative or poorly-written, what tool do you reach for first and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A toss-up between comment and edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are good when the changes can only be made by the author (if the question is unclear or requires clarification that only the author can give). Edits are good when the question is clear, but the wording or formatting can be improved to make it a better fit while still answering the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Two experienced users, both good contributors at times, just can't get along. Every time they interact in any way, sparks fly. Acrimonious comments pile up, distracting everyone from the actual questions being answered. Tit-for-tat flags and votes accumulate. Passive-aggressive meta posts ruin your buzz. You suspect the moderators on other sites are talking about you behind your back, clucking like so many biddy hens about your misfortune... What do you do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd wager that this isn't the &lt;s&gt;first&lt;/s&gt; &lt;s&gt;second&lt;/s&gt; umpteenth time this has happened on the SE network. Why reinvent the wheel? Talk to the mods across the network, ask them how they've handled it and what's worked well, and then apply the best ideas given my read of the specific situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are the top two or three challenges facing the site as it moves forward, and what do you plan to do as a moderator to address them? What have you already done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clearer Guidelines for Contributors&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our corner of the SE network can be difficult to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=define+grok&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;grok&lt;/a&gt; for new and experienced users alike. A lot of our questions have multiple different types of close votes on them, and many highly-voted posts are coupled with negative comments and lots of downvotes. Maintaining quality becomes a lot more difficult if the community (both new and experienced users) aren't on the same page when it comes to what makes us a good resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have done my best to &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/meta.workplace/revision/178555/229151/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;initiate/participate on meta&lt;/a&gt; to address some of the issues that we've come across. While that is great, a majority of users will not dig through meta. As moderator, I would like to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1873/editing-the-help-center&quot;&gt;update the help center&lt;/a&gt; to better reflect our community guidelines based on our meta discussions to help improve understanding of what content we are trying to collect, and how to improve existing content to match those guidelines if it doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Community Moderation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many things our community is doing very well at. We are getting better at closing and downvoting content that isn't a good fit and requires some attention. On the flip side, we could use some work on commenting and editing that content to give it the attention it deserves instead of/in addition to the voting. Especially for users who have had a drop in privileges post-graduation, the best tools for improving content are still available: commenting and editing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been pretty open about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2153/aggressive-edits&quot;&gt;how I feel about editing&lt;/a&gt;, and if you browse the site for a bit I think you'd have a hard time avoiding my comments. I have tried to encourage others to edit or comment by asking in chat and by making appeals (much like this one) for more commenting and editing. When I first joined The Workplace, seeing comments and edits by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/98/jmort253&quot;&gt;jmort&lt;/a&gt; made me follow in his footsteps in part because he was a moderator leading by example. I would hope attaching a diamond to my contributions up until now (and moving forward) may have the same effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coordinating with the Community Team&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of the nature of our site, we tend to have different issues/needs than many of the other sites in the SE network. We often butt heads with the Community Team on things like &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/217573/the-anatomy-of-a-hot-question&quot;&gt;hot questions&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/224763/improving-the-system-to-deal-with-bad-answers&quot;&gt;the ability to deal with poor answers&lt;/a&gt;. Butting heads isn't a bad thing, but it needs to be a two-way street. We need to have good communication with the rest of the SE network, especially the Community Team, to make sure that we can find mutually agreeable ways to solve some of these issues and create a stronger, broader SE network as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like many of our members, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/209637/jmac&quot;&gt;I am quite active on meta.so&lt;/a&gt; (with over 10k rep there). I believe I have a good dialogue with members of the community team (like Shog9) who can be seen in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;The Water Cooler&lt;/a&gt; from time to time sharing stats and bouncing ideas off of us. I think that having a healthy relationship with the &lt;em&gt;Powers That Be&lt;/em&gt;™ will result in a better site for us, and a better SE Network overall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd wager that this isn't the &lt;s&gt;first&lt;/s&gt; &lt;s&gt;second&lt;/s&gt; umpteenth time this has happened on the SE network. Why reinvent the wheel? Talk to the mods across the network, ask them how they've handled it and what's worked well, and then apply the best ideas given my read of the specific situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Don't worry -- it isn't Deja Vu. That is a direct copy-paste of my answer to the earlier question about regular users butting heads.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First I would ask them in private in a non-accusatory manner to explain their reasoning for the action. If I still disagree, I'd share my perspective. If we come to an agreement, then all is well. If not we can discuss the best way to handle it, either asking the third mod, the community on meta, or the other mods on the SE network depending on what we agree is the most appropriate for the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If elected, do you plan to increase your time on the site, or are you going to spend about the same amount of time but reallocate it? If the latter, what won't you be doing as much of now? What is the opportunity cost to the community of you becoming a mod?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't plan on increasing my time on the site. Likely handling moderator duties will take time away from answering questions. We have a great community of experts who provide high-quality answers, so I doubt the absence will be noticed or harmful to the quality of our site as a resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A large majority of moderation can be done by the community with enough reputation. Since we just graduated, there is a big gap between the privileges we had as a community a month ago, and the privileges we have today. With time, we will build more users who can form the basis for stronger community moderation again. What moderation (closing, editing, deleting, commenting, tagging, flagging, etc.) would you like to see the community be more active in, and how will you encourage that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I strongly believe that the community should be more active in commenting and editing. I will continue to lead by example, and participate in chat to try to get other regulars to contribute as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you enforce &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;Back It Up and Don't Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt; FAQ rules? Would you consider a bare link to Wikipedia page (eg: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;42&lt;/a&gt;, without any accompanying quotes) a legitimate backup? Would you be comfortable managing cases when checking for repetition would require studying multiple other answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enforcement of rules (including the back it up rule) is primarily a community activity. I hope that the community will continue to speak out with votes, comments, edits, and flags (where appropriate) to take care of them without moderator involvement. If there are cases where the community cannot handle it (heavily upvoted answers, for instance), I have no problem taking the time to review several answers, come up with my own conclusion based on the community signaling and my own gut, and taking action (which doesn't mean unilateral moderator action, but could be making a meta post, asking in chat, leaving a comment, or making an edit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The mods here tend to get mistreated by some of the users(mostly low rep but not all). The users can be rude, and obnoxious when their questions/answers/comments are being moderated, and the more experienced users are likely to question some of your decisions as a mod. Do you think you have the temperament to withstand this, keep a good attitude, and turn the exchange into something constructive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already collected some statistics on my interactions along with my work on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2153/aggressive-edits&quot;&gt;aggressive edits&lt;/a&gt; and think I have a pretty good record of turning potentially confrontational interactions in to something constructive. Like anyone, I have bad days, and sometimes find my buttons being pushed, but I try hard to take a step back and stay constructive when the going gets rough. At the end of the day, this is volunteer work, and &lt;s&gt;while&lt;/s&gt; because I'm passionate about our community, I am careful about keeping the experience positive to maintain that level of contribution from our users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T01:01:04.453" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2503" CreationDate="2014-04-01T02:38:13.517" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does look like none of us left any feedback in comments, until now, and that's unfortunate because you seem like you could be a really great contributor to our site. Thanks for bringing this up in a constructive manner! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked through some of your posts and edited one or two of them. The ones I looked at, I didn't see anything glaringly out of place, but I could see how someone &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; not quite see what you were saying. &lt;strong&gt;With my edits, I fixed the following things:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Split some large blocks of text into paragraphs. This psychologically makes it easier to read and compartmentalize the information for the reader.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On one answer, your solution was creative and unexpected, so I could see how someone might not see it as an answer. I inserted the question in your post as a quote block so it was more clear what you were addressing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is to look through the rest and see if you can't edit to make things a bit more clear and readable, if applicable. Edits will bump the post to the top of the &quot;active&quot; page where users can review, offer comments, and even change their votes. For help with the editor in terms of formatting posts, see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;advanced editing help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing about our site:  We like seeing answers backed up by facts, references, or experiences that tell future readers you're not just some random person on the Internet making unsubstantiated claims. If there's an area where you see you could expand on a claim you made, either with an explanation or ideally citations, that also helps too! See &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;the back it up guideline&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you need more help, jump into chat as CMW suggests. There's generally people there happy to help! Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T02:38:13.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2502" CreationDate="2014-04-01T03:19:07.053" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would you do if you found a flagged, positively scored answer where 10 users flagged it as not an answer and 10 users flagged it as invalid? How would you handle a case where the community is clearly divided on what to do with a post, yet the community is also unable to remove the post on their own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That the community is unable to remove it is, in a way, tangential; if it's that controversial, then even if the community &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; remove it, others in the community could also &lt;em&gt;restore&lt;/em&gt; it.  The real issue is that we have a major division over some element of our scope.  We need to hear from the people casting those flags (NAA and invalid) to understand where they're coming from.  Either there's a misunderstanding or something about our guidelines isn't clear (at least for this case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see two reasonable next steps here and I've used both, depending on some fuzzy evaluation of the specific situation.  One is to post on meta asking about this case (&quot;is this an answer according to our guidelines?&quot; or the like), summarizing anything that's been brought up in comments or custom flags on the post.  This &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; elicit responses that explain, in more space than a custom flag allows, either what's wrong with the post or why those other flags are wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other approach is to bring it up in chat, pointing out the post and saying that we're getting conflicting flags.  I don't name any names; that would violate flaggers' privacy.  But I ask if people could explain the issues on each side; some of the flaggers will probably do so, but if somebody &lt;em&gt;else&lt;/em&gt; does so in addition or instead, that still helps.  If the problem isn't clear then chat can be a good way to gather input.  (There'll probably be a meta post later, assuming the discussion doesn't end quickly with the discovery of a basic misunderstanding.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's no clear community consensus, then I err on the side of inclusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you see a question or answer with major issues, such as being argumentative or poorly-written, what tool do you reach for first and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit + comment if I can fix it; comment alone if I can't.  As I said to another question, my approach to comments is to assume best intentions and that I'm misunderstanding.  If the problem is that the post violates site policy (e.g. not backing up an answer), I link to the relevant meta post.  If the user is new then I start off by welcoming him and suggest he take the site tour if he hasn't already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a question and the situation is dire I'll close it, but that's not the first tool I reach for.  In general the community should handle problem posts to the extent it can -- with votes, edits, comments, and flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Two experienced users, both good contributors at times, just can't get along. Every time they interact in any way, sparks fly. Acrimonious comments pile up, distracting everyone from the actual questions being answered. Tit-for-tat flags and votes accumulate. Passive-aggressive meta posts ruin your buzz. You suspect the moderators on other sites are talking about you behind your back, clucking like so many biddy hens about your misfortune... What do you do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from the custodial work (like cleaning up inappropriate comments), I'd try to initiate private conversations&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; with each of them (separately) to probe what the problem is.  Ask questions; &lt;em&gt;listen&lt;/em&gt; to what the user says; check frequently that what I'm hearing is what he's saying; assure each that we want the positive contributions from &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; of them but the fighting is a problem.  I'd try to judge in these conversations if a private discussion between them (with mods present) would be productive, and if so suggest that we all sit down to talk together.  (I'm saying &quot;I&quot; but in most cases I would expect the mod team to have discussed the situation first.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It needs to be clear to each user that they are both being judged against the same standards (as are all users); if the process does not appear to be scrupulously fair then there will always be doubts and that can become poisonous.  This is even more important when there is a power imbalance, for example if one of the arguing users is a moderator or a community manager (which I've seen happen, unfortunately).  If, heaven forbid, one of my fellow moderators were involved in such a situation, I'd bring it up in our site's moderator chat room before approaching the other user.  If the moderator can see his own contributions to the conflict, then we can decide if it makes sense for him to initiate the discussion with the other user (hat in hand).  If not, then I would proceed.  If the problem were somebody else with a diamond, like a community manager, then I'd bring it up with my fellow mods so we can figure out what to do next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The diamond carries extra responsibility here because everything you do on the site carries that badge of official-ness.  Appearances matter, and if you can't admit that you're wrong when you are (as we all are sometimes), the moderator job isn't a good fit for you.  Naturally, I expect to be held to the same standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &quot;Private&quot; here means &quot;between the user and the mod team&quot;, not &quot;between the user and only me&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are the top two or three challenges facing the site as it moves forward, and what do you plan to do as a moderator to address them? What have you already done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of our top challenges is the &lt;strong&gt;shortage of users at the highest privilege levels&lt;/strong&gt; (post-graduation).  We have an active community and those privileges will come back in time, but in the short term the moderators are going to have to take some actions that ought to come from the community.  The community seems to have closing/reopening questions under control, but we're short on delete votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried to encourage users to do what they can before asking mods to act -- cast a close/delete vote if you can and flag if you can't, leave comments, and vote.  Unilateral mod action should be rare.  When I see a VLQ flag but no downvotes, or a custom flag suggesting closure but no close votes, I see users who need to be reminded to help.  Depending on the situation I will (and do) bring such things up in chat, in comments on the post, or on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another challenge is &lt;strong&gt;posts that don't follow our guidelines&lt;/strong&gt; (like &quot;back it up&quot;).  We should review our help-center pages, tour, and key meta posts to make sure they're as clear, concise, and well-linked as they can be, but then our main challenges are (a) education (leave helpful comments) and (b) curation.  There's another question about enforcement of guidelines, so see there for more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A third challenge is the &lt;strong&gt;issue of hot questions&lt;/strong&gt;.  I didn't say that &lt;em&gt;hot questions&lt;/em&gt; are the challenge; they are too, but even more important than the hot questions themselves, IMO, is the frustration the whole issue is causing on our site.  We've got people lobbying heavily for changes to the formula, people saying it's not a big deal, people trying to influence the results by voting on questions on another site, and quite a bit of chat discussion.  I'd like to find a way to calm the agitation and move ahead more productively.  I think we have to weather a few months and then we'll have enough trusted users to bring the problem under control; let's not let the frustration get to us in the meantime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can, alas, be a common problem with people who come from a &quot;forum&quot; background.  As with the fighting users in an earlier question, I'd invite him into a private chat to talk about it.  I'd emphasize that we value his positive contributions and then talk about what's expected in comments.  I would presume that he has good intentions and doesn't understand our norms.  (An ideal outcome here is that the user comes to understand the problem and offers to remove his problem comments &lt;em&gt;himself&lt;/em&gt;, but failing that, I'd do necessary cleanup.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the behavior continues, the next step would be a mod message.  If that doesn't help, or if he crosses from arguments to outright trolling or other abusive behavior, then it's time for a short suspension (in consultation with the other mods).  I hate having to suspend people, but sometimes you have to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't hypothetical for me; here's &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/14509434#14509434&quot;&gt;a recent example of my reaction&lt;/a&gt;.  If the action was public (almost everything is) then I raise the issue in the site's main chat room to seek community input.  Sometimes I missed something in the history that called for prompt action; sometimes the other mod changes his mind; sometimes the community speaks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When raising an objection (not just here but in general, like when commenting on a problem post), I strive to &lt;em&gt;ask questions&lt;/em&gt; or talk about &lt;em&gt;my own understanding&lt;/em&gt;, rather than &lt;em&gt;making assertions about the other&lt;/em&gt;.  &quot;I'm having trouble understanding X&quot; or &quot;this seems on-topic to me; can we reopen?&quot; invites conversation; &quot;you're wrong&quot; or &quot;this is unclear&quot; invites conflict.  I prefer to assume that we're all adults who want to get along, and that we all have different communication styles and assumptions about what's obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If elected, do you plan to increase your time on the site, or are you going to spend about the same amount of time but reallocate it? If the latter, what won't you be doing as much of now? What is the opportunity cost to the community of you becoming a mod?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I plan to spend about the same amount of time on the site as I have been.  This means that I will probably answer fewer questions.  I also probably won't be able to spend a lot of time in chat, though I'll make sure to at least review logs and stars and check in with my fellow mods.  So long as &lt;em&gt;somebody&lt;/em&gt; is there often I don't think we &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; need to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A large majority of moderation can be done by the community with enough reputation. Since we just graduated, there is a big gap between the privileges we had as a community a month ago, and the privileges we have today. With time, we will build more users who can form the basis for stronger community moderation again. What moderation (closing, editing, deleting, commenting, tagging, flagging, etc.) would you like to see the community be more active in, and how will you encourage that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see more votes (up/down, close, delete where applicable).  Sometimes we have a post with negative comments or flags but &lt;em&gt;not a single downvote&lt;/em&gt;, or a question with comments showing that the question is unclear but no close votes.  I've been known to point out that mismatch in comments or in chat and will try to do more of that.  We seem to be doing well with closures once that first vote is cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Soon NAA flags will feed into the low-quality-posts review queue (just like VLQ flags).  This &lt;em&gt;greatly increases&lt;/em&gt; the community's ability to remove posts that don't meet our standards without waiting for moderators.  When that rolls out we'll need to post on meta and encourage people to help out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our community seems pretty willing to edit, which is great.  Any time we can improve a post to &lt;em&gt;prevent&lt;/em&gt; closure or downvotes, instead of closing/downvoting and hoping somebody else fixes it, we all win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hadn't thought about it until this question, but our tagging could use some review and refinement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you enforce &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;Back It Up and Don't Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt; FAQ rules? Would you consider a bare link to Wikipedia page (eg: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;42&lt;/a&gt;, without any accompanying quotes) a legitimate backup? Would you be comfortable managing cases when checking for repetition would require studying multiple other answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;em&gt;bare&lt;/em&gt; link is not useful nor backup, but a link accompanied by &lt;em&gt;a couple sentences&lt;/em&gt; is, just barely, a backed-up answer.  I'd like to see more and might still downvote, but it meets the guideline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Checking for repetition is a hassle because you have to really read everything (it's not like we're dealing with cut-and-paste).  I expect the community to do a lot of the work here.  Don't just flag saying &quot;repeats other answers&quot;; point out which ones.  I'm not allergic to reading all the answers, but that might not be the highest priority &lt;em&gt;for moderators&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the main question, about enforcement.  I think our main issue here is Back It Up, and for this I'd like us to use annotations -- not as an end state but as a way of tracking and revisiting these posts.  It's a two-stage process: when a non-compliant post is brought to our attention and there's no obvious edit to fix it, comment (if no one else has already) and drop an annotation on it.  Then, periodically review the annotated posts; if the problem hasn't been fixed in a reasonable amount of time (to be determined, but somewhere between a few days and a week) then delete the post.  The &quot;citation needed&quot; annotation shouldn't be sitting around on the site for weeks to months; its purpose is corrective, not shaming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The mods here tend to get mistreated by some of the users(mostly low rep but not all). The users can be rude, and obnoxious when their questions/answers/comments are being moderated, and the more experienced users are likely to question some of your decisions as a mod. Do you think you have the temperament to withstand this, keep a good attitude, and turn the exchange into something constructive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I do, and the users on Mi Yodeya seem to agree.  I'm not afraid to make unpopular decisions, yet I approach the job with humility, openness, and the knowledge that I might be wrong (and if I am I'll correct the matter).  I've been active here for almost two years, so what you've seen already is pretty much what you'll get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T03:19:07.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2502" CreationDate="2014-04-01T04:16:30.867" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would you do if you found a flagged, positively scored answer where 10 users flagged it as not an answer and 10 users flagged it as invalid? How would you handle a case where the community is clearly divided on what to do with a post, yet the community is also unable to remove the post on their own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that more flags would make it easier to decide what to do, but if flags are equally divided, that's not the case. What I would do is look for evidence in past meta discussions for guidance. Oftentimes, Meta Workplace, MSO, and the Stack Exchange blog contain helpful information that can make it more clear what action to take in certain circumstances. If it's not clear from the SE meta documentation, I may poll the community in chat or meta for specific guidance, as long as I think it won't create conflict. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, if it's not actively harmful to do nothing, and I can't justify action, I will ask other moderators to take a look or simply do nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you see a question or answer with major issues, such as being argumentative or poorly-written, what tool do you reach for first and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first tool I reach for is the edit button. Even if my gut reaction says the post is unsalvageable, I'll edit anyway. Sometimes cleaning up distractions like bad spelling, bad grammar, bad formatting, or certain choice of words can make it more clear to me, or even to others, what can be done to fix a post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's clear a post needs to be closed, I'll close and leave a comment. I make it a point to try and always leave a comment taking responsibility for the action, even if I'm the 5th person on the closed by list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Two experienced users, both good contributors at times, just can't get along. Every time they interact in any way, sparks fly. Acrimonious comments pile up, distracting everyone from the actual questions being answered. Tit-for-tat flags and votes accumulate. Passive-aggressive meta posts ruin your buzz. You suspect the moderators on other sites are talking about you behind your back, clucking like so many biddy hens about your misfortune... What do you do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best course of action is to prevent things from getting too far out of control. It's easier to take both parties aside early on and have a one on one conversation, in a private chat, than it is to wait until those sparks have created a raging inferno where the entire community is involved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many times, it's best to delete inflammatory comment threads entirely.  By wiping the entire thread, one person is less likely to feel singled out, which may lead to backlash from either party. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I feel as long as people are being civil towards one another, I try to stay out of any arguments or debates anyone is having and let them resolve the issues themselves. Healthy meta debate is important for healthy community growth and resolution of community and site issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are the top two or three challenges facing the site as it moves forward, and what do you plan to do as a moderator to address them? What have you already done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Growth will be the number one challenge. This site has a core group dedicated not only to helping people find answers but also to taking community moderation seriously in terms of ensuring our site continues to be a valuable resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ironically, the Stack Exchange platform was designed to avoid the &quot;forum problem&quot;, yet the problem of noise is still very real. To prevent this, it's important that the core group continue to grow, as more and more casual users post questions and answers. The way to accomplish this is by continuing to be welcoming, open, and fair to all users while still adhering to our community standards. This is something I've encouraged from the very start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguments will happen. Anywhere there's people there will be civil discourse. We all know comments are temporary, so most of these extended discussions will be flagged and removed. As long as people are civil, there's really no need for a moderator to get involved other than removing the comment threads. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If posts are rude/offensive and there's a pattern, I'd leave a comment reminding the community of the help center guidelines. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, if a question is closed by anyone, there's usually a good reason. However, that doesn't mean some editing couldn't make a case for reopening the post. After all, that's the point of putting questions on hold is to fix the problems with that post and then reopen it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are even some open questions that could still use &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; editing to make them more attractive. So as long as I can improve the post somehow, I probably will reopen it if I feel strongly about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if I did outright disagree, there are likely community members who do as well, and most likely one of them will open a meta discussion, start a conversation in chat, and go through the community process of getting the post reopened, which generally involves some editing to fix perceived problems. In short, I could most likely do nothing and let the community address it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I did see a case where I outright disagreed and no one else seemed to notice, I'd mention it privately and take the stance that &lt;em&gt;I'm probably missing something really important&lt;/em&gt;. In the end, the moderators are exception handlers, and a good moderation team likely won't be closing borderline questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a deletion, I assume there was a good reason and may try to find out why. If I don't see why, I'll ask. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I seriously doubt there would be any major disagreements between myself and any candidate on this list, it's important that this disagreement never spill over into the community. Instead, use past meta discussions and blog posts as a guide. Also, moderators in great disagreement over something should seek assistance and guidance from the Stack Exchange community team or other moderators. It's also possible both could agree to post an objective meta post to get more information from the community. If posted, the wording should be constructive and objective. It's important to appear united, not divided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not to say two moderators can't have a discussion in a meta comment thread, just that extended, heated debate is best done in private, at least in my experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If elected, do you plan to increase your time on the site, or are you going to spend about the same amount of time but reallocate it? If the latter, what won't you be doing as much of now? What is the opportunity cost to the community of you becoming a mod?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been a moderator on this site for over a year. So most of my time is already spent in the flag queue and meta. Before the flag queue increased, I spent time community building: Tweeting questions, leaving comments, answering some questions both in meta and on the main site. But as the queue increased, most of my time is dealing with issues. As the site welcomes more 10k and 20k users, I suspect I'll be back to wandering around more, perhaps checking for obvious items in the review queue, or even posting some answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A large majority of moderation can be done by the community with enough reputation. Since we just graduated, there is a big gap between the privileges we had as a community a month ago, and the privileges we have today. With time, we will build more users who can form the basis for stronger community moderation again. What moderation (closing, editing, deleting, commenting, tagging, flagging, etc.) would you like to see the community be more active in, and how will you encourage that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With graduation, there is a gap, narrowed both by privileges as well as a spike in traffic, so we'll need to close this gap by up voting content that shines and down voting content that doesn't meet the mark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there were two areas where I'd say we need an increase, that's editing first, commenting second, and down voting third. Sometimes, a helpful edit followed by a comment can show a new user what we're looking for and help get them started in terms of being a good contributor. Even if the post is down voted, saying &quot;Hey, I edited to make it more clear what you meant by X, as that helps make your answer more useful. If you can also fix Y, that might help reverse those down votes.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you enforce &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;Back It Up and Don't Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt; FAQ rules? Would you consider a bare link to Wikipedia page (eg: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;42&lt;/a&gt;, without any accompanying quotes) a legitimate backup? Would you be comfortable managing cases when checking for repetition would require studying multiple other answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The back it up guidelines are one of the toughest and most confusing aspects to this site. I see a good answer as either one that follows the back it up rule with citations, or explanations that include why and how, but I also see a good answer as one that follows the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Six Subjective Guidelines in the &quot;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&quot;&lt;/a&gt; blog post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see this blog post as being just about questions. The answers themselves should approach subjective questions objectively, with a fair and impartial tone. The back it up rule's origins can be traced back to this blog post, so it's sort of a restatement of what the back it up guideline means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one area where I really feel citations are a must is with anything legal. Personal experiences don't really count here. We need legal citations from official, .gov websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for enforcement, ideally the link should include context. If I'm familiar with the material I'll just edit it in, or I'll ask the answerer to do it. Most people who take the time to add a link are happy to edit it themselves or will give you enough information in a reply to where you can still do it for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to repetition, I only check if someone mentions it in a comment or as the flag reason. Moderators aren't beat cops on patrol, they're janitors called in to help sweep up a mess in most situations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The mods here tend to get mistreated by some of the users(mostly low rep but not all). The users can be rude, and obnoxious when their questions/answers/comments are being moderated, and the more experienced users are likely to question some of your decisions as a mod. Do you think you have the temperament to withstand this, keep a good attitude, and turn the exchange into something constructive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This goes back to making sure there's a good reason for what I'm doing. As a regular user, you can vote to close questions, and generally, you won't get called out... well... &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/478/98&quot;&gt;most of the time...&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel as long as I think about what I'm doing before I do it and know what I'm  going to say if someone asks, I feel I won't have a problem. As long as I choose my words carefully, I've found that most situations end on a positive note.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T04:16:30.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2503" CreationDate="2014-04-01T04:57:28.903" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two main reasons I believe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You tend to answer popular questions that have many answers already&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First posts are automatically reviewed in a queue&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;You Answer Popular Questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are your answers and which # answer it is (based on undeleted answers only):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18071/is-it-considered-poor-etiquette-to-negotiate-when-offered-a-raise/18086#18086&quot;&gt;Is it considered poor etiquette to negotiate when offered a raise?&lt;/a&gt; - 7th answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18119/what-is-a-friendly-way-to-let-managers-know-that-having-good-developers-is-a-p/18134#18134&quot;&gt;What is a &amp;#39;friendly&amp;#39; way to let managers know that having good developers is a privilege?&lt;/a&gt; - 8th answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18362/is-it-ethical-to-write-answers-to-work-relevant-stack-exchange-questions-on-the/18433#18433&quot;&gt;Is it ethical to write answers to work-relevant Stack Exchange questions on the clock?&lt;/a&gt; - 9th answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/21292/when-should-i-include-information-in-my-resume-to-indicate-i-have-a-high-iq/21502#21502&quot;&gt;When should I include information in my resume to indicate I have a high IQ?&lt;/a&gt; - 13th answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, you answer a lot of popular questions. While this isn't necessarily a bad thing (we appreciate good answers regardless), we do have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;don't repeat others&lt;/a&gt; rule:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before you answer, you should read other answers and think whether or not - &amp;quot;Does your answer add substantial value or new input which hasn't already been covered in one or multiple answers above?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When there are already a half-dozen answers to a question, by the time they read your answer they have likely already read the same thing in the other answers, and are less likely to upvote it (or even downvote it) because of this rule. It is also considerably more effort to review and comment on one answer out of a dozen (although that doesn't mean it's a good idea not to say anything).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Review Queue&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But your first answer was on a question with a lot of answers too, right? So why was the reception (the upvotes, the comment) so different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a user posts their first question or answer, it automatically gets reviewed in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/146988/new-review-queue-first-posts&quot;&gt;First Posts Queue&lt;/a&gt;. The First Posts Review Queue shows only the post and the question it is an answer to (if it isn't a question), so people generally look at the question as if it is the only answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means that someone will look over your post without reading the other dozen answers, are more likely to upvote it, and give you comments on the quality of the answer in a vacuum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Suggestion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the question choice, it seems like you come here and contribute to questions on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/questions?tab=hot&quot;&gt;Hot Network Questions List&lt;/a&gt;. We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/217573/the-anatomy-of-a-hot-question&quot;&gt;a long history with Hot Network Questions&lt;/a&gt;, and have struggled with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2287/cleaning-up-bad-answers-on-popular-questions&quot;&gt;cleaning up popular questions&lt;/a&gt; because of the exposure they get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of our repeat visitors contribute to more than hot questions -- they will ask questions of their own, or visit some of our less popular questions, or help us edit/comment to moderate and improve the content on our corner of the web. While I'm sorry you had a bad experience, please understand that your experience is most likely unique and not how our average user feels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;That isn't to say that you shouldn't provide good content where you can&lt;/em&gt;, just realize that it is a lot harder to provide good original content when you're competing with a half dozen other people for limited answer elbow room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T08:11:17.520" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2503" CreationDate="2014-04-01T12:38:14.470" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My thoughts, in much less organized fashion than the others:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I evaluate each answer individually. Your first answer here was great and I commented as such.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When there are already lots of answers, additional answers need to be &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; - not just rewordings of existing answers. When a question hits community wiki status, I tend to be &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; willing to downvote answers which don't contribute (though I'd not downvoted yours, interestingly) because the additional answers now are causing those with quality answers to no longer benefit any reputation from them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is not a forum, it's a question answer site. &lt;strong&gt;This is a fundamental difference between Stack Exchange and the majority of the internet.&lt;/strong&gt; Lots of generic answers start making a lot of noise and hurt the ability of the site of be a good question/answer site. Would you rather each question receive 5 high quality answers or 15 lower quality ones?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have a lot more &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1627/2322&quot;&gt;thoughts here&lt;/a&gt; on this whole subject. Answer quality is something I am very much an advocate for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, I almost never downvote without leaving a comment of any sort. The exception is almost always &quot;hot questions&quot; which start attracting a lot of answers which quite frankly take a lot of time to respond to and deal with appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T12:38:14.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2513" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-02T04:35:57.360" Score="4" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not a &quot;The workplace stack exchange&quot; user, but I visit it sometimes when there are hot questions from the site on the side bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I have found that the upvote and downvote buttons do not show up. But I can still click them. I will try to post a image if possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else seen such behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I use Firefox 21.0 on my Ubuntu 12.10 computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18376" OwnerDisplayName="Aditya Patil" LastEditorUserId="18376" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T05:07:04.093" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T05:07:04.093" Title="The workplace has invisible upvote and downvote buttons sometimes?" Tags="|bug|design|css|voting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2514" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2516" CreationDate="2014-04-02T07:19:22.480" Score="1" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2457/how-come-there-are-5-workplace-questions-in-the-hot-list&quot;&gt;How come there are 5 Workplace questions in the hot list?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When discussing above question in elections chat, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/14505373#14505373&quot; title=&quot;quote source&quot;&gt;Shog noted&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;...TWP needs a handicap&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  with 100+ sites, none of them should have more than a handful in the list at once&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we want to establish a handicap mentioned above, for the reasons stated above?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T12:25:50.600" Title="Do we want such a &quot;handicap&quot; (whatever it means) for Workplace questions in the hot list?" Tags="|discussion|hot-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2502" CreationDate="2014-04-02T11:44:11.380" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would you do if you found a flagged, positively scored answer where 10 users flagged it as not an answer and 10 users flagged it as invalid? How would you handle a case where the community is clearly divided on what to do with a post, yet the community is also unable to remove the post on their own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the heart of the issue is that the community is so largely divided on an aspect of our scope. I feel the best course of action here is to raise the issue on meta, see why people think it should / should not be included, and work towards a conclusion that the majority can agree on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases like this, just making an overruling decision is unlikely to have helped anyone, and it will just happen again and again until we have a clearer scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you see a question or answer with major issues, such as being argumentative or poorly-written, what tool do you reach for first and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try to first reach for the Edit button, followed shortly by the comment and then share buttons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit is to try to clear up the big issues that I see, such as clearing up the grammar to make it better written and to clear out the argumentative text if possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I follow this by leaving a comment, letting the original poster know that I have changed their content and to see if it still holds true to what they wanted, if not I try to engage them and help them add the new content whilst remaining non-aggressive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is followed by share, on occasion, sometimes I need help, I’m no superhuman who can fix absolutely everything, I know we have a strong community and I try to play to their strengths, see if they can improve the post where I could not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Two experienced users, both good contributors at times, just can't get along. Every time they interact in any way, sparks fly. Acrimonious comments pile up, distracting everyone from the actual questions being answered. Tit-for-tat flags and votes accumulate. Passive-aggressive meta posts ruin your buzz. You suspect the moderators on other sites are talking about you behind your back, clucking like so many biddy hens about your misfortune... What do you do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Provided neither of the users were being threatening or abusive I would attempt to patch up the damage where possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would attempt to speak to them both in private, find out the root cause, and be clear to both that I want to come to a fair solution where neither feel like I’m taking a ‘side’. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would ask them what they think the solution should be, even if they don’t have one, asking them to think about it might be enough of a nudge in the right direction to realise the scope of their actions. If they do have a solution that they both agree on, then even better, let’s see if we can implement this successfully with agreement from the rest of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are the top two or three challenges facing the site as it moves forward, and what do you plan to do as a moderator to address them? What have you already done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Growth. Spread of Users. Depth of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since graduation there has been a steady flow of new users swarming the site. One of the challenges is going to be teaching these users how to use the site, what we do and don’t accept, and importantly, making them feel like a part of the community whilst still pushing for more growth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stemming from this the second challenge will be making sure that we have a good spread of users, I would really like to get a lot of breadth in our questions and answers, currently we are very developer or manager central, and we are missing out on hundreds upon hundreds of topics. Encouraging those users to the site when they might be the first in their field to be active here will be a challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alongside these challenges I think we need to maintain the depth of our answers, making sure they are more than just opinions or guesses. This might not be a challenge currently, but if we are successful in the first two challenges then this could definitely rear up&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would address the flags on an individual basis, making sure those flags are valid and are not just a result of people being harsher on the user due to historical reasons. If there is a pattern in the valid flags, i.e they are always for the same issue, then I would strive to address the user, privately, on this and encourage them to work on patching up this area. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Explaining what the user has to gain by changing will remain my main tool, but maintaining quality will always be at the forefront of my actions too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Communication communication communication. It all comes down to making sure we agree on the correct course of action, if the correct course isn’t clear and it’s split between us then we’re off to meta to converse with the community. &#xA;As mods it’s our job to accurately reflect the needs and wants of the community, if we are divided there is a chance the community is too. In this respect it’s very similar to what would need to be done if the community was split on what to do in certain situations&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If elected, do you plan to increase your time on the site, or are you going to spend about the same amount of time but reallocate it? If the latter, what won't you be doing as much of now? What is the opportunity cost to the community of you becoming a mod?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My time will probably increase slightly, predominantly my actions are editing, commenting, reviewing and conversing in chat and on meta, I would like to think this would remain as is, with additional time being spent to address the issues raised to moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A large majority of moderation can be done by the community with enough reputation. Since we just graduated, there is a big gap between the privileges we had as a community a month ago, and the privileges we have today. With time, we will build more users who can form the basis for stronger community moderation again. What moderation (closing, editing, deleting, commenting, tagging, flagging, etc.) would you like to see the community be more active in, and how will you encourage that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing. Without a doubt I would like to see more editing, from all users. Jmac has done a fantastic job encouraging people to edit rather than close but I think a lot more progress can be made. Let’s not forget that we as a site lose out when we close a question that could have been fixed / improved. I’m not going to force people to edit, not everyone contributes to the site in the same way, but I would definitely like to encourage it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you enforce &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;Back It Up and Don't Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt; FAQ rules? Would you consider a bare link to Wikipedia page (eg: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;42&lt;/a&gt;, without any accompanying quotes) a legitimate backup? Would you be comfortable managing cases when checking for repetition would require studying multiple other answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bare links to any site, Wikipedia or not, I don’t consider a valid answer. An answer is about more than just saying ‘Do X’ or ‘Read this’, answering is about explaining why X is the advantageous path, answering is about explaining why reading that information will help to solve the issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result I would be comparing answers based on their ‘why’ as much as their ‘what’, two answers with different sources, but the same reasoning, would have been better as an edit into the original post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would try to enforce DRY by merging answers where appropriate and explaining to the users what I did and why I did it so that they can make that same choice themselves in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The mods here tend to get mistreated by some of the users(mostly low rep but not all). The users can be rude, and obnoxious when their questions/answers/comments are being moderated, and the more experienced users are likely to question some of your decisions as a mod. Do you think you have the temperament to withstand this, keep a good attitude, and turn the exchange into something constructive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the key to being able to handle users like this is to try and understand &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they feel that way. A user is unlikely to be angry for no reason and I would make it part of my job to understand what caused their anger, did I say something out of line? Could what I have said been interpreted incorrectly? &#xA;Feedback on your actions comes in all forms, good and bad, I would be foolish to ignore this feedback. I most certainly have a patient temperament, having worked a number of customer service and customer facing jobs I am used to things being ‘my fault’ whether that is true or not, and I have learnt a lot about patience and people handling from these experiences&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T11:44:11.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2514" CreationDate="2014-04-02T12:25:50.600" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; dislike the idea of Workplace becoming a specialized Stack Exchange site. The more things which are specific to here the more problems we are going to have longer term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this reason, I would be opposed to this idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T12:25:50.600" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2502" CreationDate="2014-04-02T15:42:24.983" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would you do if you found a flagged, positively scored answer where 10 users flagged it as not an answer and 10 users flagged it as invalid? How would you handle a case where the community is clearly divided on what to do with a post, yet the community is also unable to remove the post on their own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I would discuss this question with (other) moderators, and come to some sort of consent on removing or keeping it. If other moderators can't be reached within a sensible time frame, I would turn to meta and the help center for rules or precendents applicable to this case and act on my personal judgement according to what I found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is a one-size-fits-all answer to this as every post is different and thus deserves individual consideration. Just going ahead and closing controversial posts, I find as mis-guided as taking this situation as a general stale mate and not acting at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you see a question or answer with major issues, such as being argumentative or poorly-written, what tool do you reach for first and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, this very much depends on the issue. A question may be so broad or off topic or even unintelligible, that it's best to put it on hold right away, others may be workable from the start. All posts with these kinds of issues need guidance though, so if no such comment existed yet, I would leave a comment, explaining the issues I see including tips on fixing those. If a sufficient comment was there already I would probably not weigh in with another comment about it, as to not discourage the OP from improving their answer. Too much criticism, however constructive can do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in conclusion, I would make sure there is a constructive comment, explaining the issues, for extreme cases I will consider proactively putting on hold, and either way I would flag the post to make sure it's in the review queue, for others to take a look at as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Two experienced users, both good contributors at times, just can't get along. Every time they interact in any way, sparks fly. Acrimonious comments pile up, distracting everyone from the actual questions being answered. Tit-for-tat flags and votes accumulate. Passive-aggressive meta posts ruin your buzz. You suspect the moderators on other sites are talking about you behind your back, clucking like so many biddy hens about your misfortune... What do you do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since both users are experienced contributors, I would address this topic with each of them individually, explaining how they kill buzz and cause additional work for mods with their flag battles. I'd be more than happy to mediate, should there be a lasting issue, but it may just be two people not getting along, which I can accept. In that case, I would &lt;em&gt;strongly&lt;/em&gt; encourage them to either take their disputes to The Water Cooler where others may or may not chime in, or to some private chat room where they are free to call each other names all day, as far as I am concerned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for moderators of other sites, I couldn't care less. We probably do the same occasionally, so it's all good fun to me. As long as it doesn't bleed into our chat or meta discussions, let them hen away in their corner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are the top two or three challenges facing the site as it moves forward, and what do you plan to do as a moderator to address them? What have you already done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My top points are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Guiding new users to comply with our quality expectations as best they can&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ensuring quality in our posts that make hot list and may attract lemming answers/votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guiding new users to comply with our quality expectations as best they can&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This I do by keeping an eye on the first post queue and generally looking around for posts from low-rep (thus probably new) users, so I can comment on them and, if necessary, guide users to our help center and relevant meta posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ensuring quality in our posts that make hot list and may attract lemming answers/votes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every now and then I check which of our posts are on the hot list and pay special attention to those, to check if something needs flagging or commenting, if it gathers lemming answers or sympathy votes on rather bad answers or dups/low quality answers start piling up. Then I will flag/vote/comment accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all stuff I'm doing already. I'm very active in keeping our review queues empty with special regard to close votes, low quality posts and first posts. And checking the hot list is becoming a hobby :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me valuable answers outrank annoying or argumentative comments because they add lasting value to the community for future readers and comments can be cleaned up. In this case, again, I would try to engage them in a conversation and raise the topic to make them aware of the situation, ideally finding some common ground on how to improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we're dealing with (responsible, grown-up) human beings, I'd rather not take any rash action or jump them with some help-center or meta articles unless all other options have been tried.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's just me, but here again, my tool of choice is conversation. Trying to figure out, why it has been closed and find common grounds on whether it should or shouldn't stay that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is no way to find a common course of action, I would respect their decision as they put their name to it and in my opinion in-fighting hurts more than it could possibly help in this situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If elected, do you plan to increase your time on the site, or are you going to spend about the same amount of time but reallocate it? If the latter, what won't you be doing as much of now? What is the opportunity cost to the community of you becoming a mod?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I might be able to spend even more time here, but I'm not sure. It's quite a lot already. I would certainly spend more time dealing with flags or other moderator tools and less time dealing with queues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, the queues are all that I have access to, so I use them extensively, to help improve the site and guide new users into activity. That's also why I'm ranked the way I am in the queues' stats, despite only being here for around 6 months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A large majority of moderation can be done by the community with enough reputation. Since we just graduated, there is a big gap between the privileges we had as a community a month ago, and the privileges we have today. With time, we will build more users who can form the basis for stronger community moderation again. What moderation (closing, editing, deleting, commenting, tagging, flagging, etc.) would you like to see the community be more active in, and how will you encourage that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would see way more users cast delete votes. I think when it comes to closing, commenting, tagging and flagging, the community is doing a very good job already (though I don't know how much of it is coming from current or potential moderators). Delete voting used to be pretty decent, too, so I have high hopes for when our active users re-gain delete privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to encourage this through chat and conversations (how did I never realize, I'm that talkative?). I'm actively trying to get every remotely active participant to be active in our chat room anyway, to build a stronger community. So this will just go hand in hand with communicating necessities like casting delete votes to clean up older stuff or generally helping keep an eye on everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you enforce &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;Back It Up and Don't Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt; FAQ rules? Would you consider a bare link to Wikipedia page (eg: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;42&lt;/a&gt;, without any accompanying quotes) a legitimate backup? Would you be comfortable managing cases when checking for repetition would require studying multiple other answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) How I handle these rules right now is by leaving a comment explaining the rule and how it applies to the current question. In more severe cases I also leave a downvote which doubles as a reminder to review this question. I'm also happily trying to involve the post in chat, if something needs to be discussed or is unclerar. If the poster refuses to engage, after some time has passed I will flag the answer for review. Except for that last part, I don't think my approach will change when granted moderation privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) While links to concise wikipedia pages or specific sections may be valid as backing for a post, I would still ask that relevant sections of the linked resource be included in the answer, if only on grounds that links (even wikipedia links) may change or become obsolete and we want answers to stay useful to future generations! My approach here is not limited to wikipedia, I treat other (credible) resources the same way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) It's something I've been doing since I first read about &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;Back It Up and Don't Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. I think this in immensely valuable and if I can't do it at the time I find a potential repetitive answer, I'm usually making a note to get back to it later that day. Except for &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt; being a bit time consuming, I really don't see a big deal in this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The mods here tend to get mistreated by some of the users(mostly low rep but not all). The users can be rude, and obnoxious when their questions/answers/comments are being moderated, and the more experienced users are likely to question some of your decisions as a mod. Do you think you have the temperament to withstand this, keep a good attitude, and turn the exchange into something constructive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't easily get angry, especially not with new users, and for the more experienced ones, I spend long hours near the water cooler, happy to discuss everything and find a common denominator. Past experiences with kids groups as well as sales jobs taught me a good deal of patience and when all else fails, sticks and stones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10912" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T15:42:24.983" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2518" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2519" CreationDate="2014-04-03T03:32:33.353" Score="7" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't we have the link to the league table on the user profile page? Y'know, in the right corner, just above the histogram (like we have it on Stackoverflow)? Or is there another place on WP where there's a link to the league tables?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2536" LastEditorUserId="1249" LastEditDate="2014-04-08T17:46:47.893" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T17:47:46.870" Title="League/Ranking table link" Tags="|bug|profile-page|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2518" CreationDate="2014-04-03T03:54:40.970" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nice catch!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who don't follow, this is what the rep section of your profile looks on SO (and MSO):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C8F43.png&quot; alt=&quot;SO Rep Panel&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Clicking on the link sends me &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/leagues/1/alltime/stackoverflow/2008-07-31/1933347#1933347&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Your results may vary.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is what it looks like here (and all non-SO sites I checked including Super User):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JF0tG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Our Rep Panel&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea why. This may be a good question to ask on MSO. It may even be a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any rate, if you want to check out your ranking in the league, you can visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/leagues/195/week/workplace&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;. That is for the weekly version, but you can see whatever you want with the handy dropdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T03:54:40.970" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2520" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-03T06:09:33.533" Score="7" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;So when a user asks a question, they get a &lt;s&gt;helpful&lt;/s&gt; sidebar that looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QXVbA.png&quot; alt=&quot;HOW TO ASK sidebar&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The things that are linked are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;The Help Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How to Ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/183414/can-the-how-to-ask-sidebar-be-edited&quot;&gt;I already knew this and wondered if it could be edited&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Spoiler Alert!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; It can be edited by devs only :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 10 months since asking that on meta, I hadn't given it a thought until one of our distinguished users &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/22000/&quot;&gt;asked an off-topic question&lt;/a&gt; and then made &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/22000/do-the-views-presented-on-this-site-do-not-necessarily-represent-those-of-my-em?noredirect=1#comment55656_22000&quot;&gt;this delightful comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you should put that information in the sidebar next to the question - would probably be better than putting it in the help center. I don't visit the help center before I ask a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now while we could get on our high horses and tell users to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;RTFM&lt;/a&gt;, we know they don't, which is why we have all sorts of systems in place to nudge people in the right direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be a good idea for us to revisit this sidebar, and perhaps request the devs to take a second look at letting us lowly individual communities edit the sidebar to make the user experience better. This may save us a lot of headaches in the long run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we want to be able to edit the sidebar?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If so, what the heck should be in there?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discuss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T06:34:31.430" Title="Asking Guidance Sidebar" Tags="|discussion|help-center|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2520" CreationDate="2014-04-03T06:32:02.740" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;jmac has flagged a couple off my answers as off-topic so I thought I'd put in my two cents. based on the on-topic center that he has linked both times, here's my attempt at putting the contents of that page in a concise form for the sidebar (in addition to what is already there):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;DO NOT ASK:&#xA;- questions involving a specific job &#xA;- legal questions&#xA;- questions regarding your CV/resumé&#xA;- questions about how to do a job&#xA;- questions regarding salary&#xA;to see why these are not appropriate, &#xA;see the [help center][1]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or something along those lines&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18184" LastEditorUserId="7945" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T06:34:31.430" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T06:34:31.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2523" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-03T13:23:25.713" Score="4" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I close voted a question as &quot;duplicate&quot; this morning on my Nexus 4 - the view is really screwed up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't get a good picture right now but the view has a few weird things on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote count width is really narrow (1 character) so the list of votes is vertical, not horizontal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The red frame around the previews is really wide with a huge white space on the right&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;back to similar questions&quot; link is very close to the link to the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not really sure how to best explain it, perhaps the best way is for others to look at the mobile view and attempt to close a question as duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also not exactly sure how the view is supposed to look, but I seem to remember this view being considerably cleaner when I used this before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="131" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T23:08:56.553" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T23:08:56.553" Title="Mobile close vote view completely broken on duplicate" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2524" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2526" CreationDate="2014-04-04T16:09:15.437" Score="-3" ViewCount="1250" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/22076/16&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/22076/16&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note: &lt;strong&gt;the answer has been considerably improved since this question was posted here&lt;/strong&gt; is the link to the version this question was referring to:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/22076/1&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/22076/1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since no one else has stated it yet - this situation reads like your&#xA;  manager is laying the groundwork to fire you. In your position, I&#xA;  would expect that in 30 days, you'll be called into your manager's&#xA;  office and will be fired. Yes, even if you improve, and no, there's&#xA;  probably nothing you can do at this point to change that. At the very&#xA;  least, your manager has already made up his mind that he wants to fire&#xA;  you, and will seize any excuse to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As such, the only option you have is to get a new job, before you lose&#xA;  this one. (It's often said that the best reference for a job is&#xA;  currently having one, so if you wait until after you're fired, you&#xA;  will find it substantially more difficult to get another position.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question asks basically what can the OP do to save his job because quitting(and presumably getting fired) is not an option for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer says there is nothing you can do, and jumps to the conclusion that the manager is a dishonest person out to get him and there is nothing the OP can do.  The question predictably hit the hot list and the lemmings that came along quickly decided they liked this defeatist answer that is not helpful, and really shows no effort to back it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also point out that dispite the posters claim: &quot;Since no one else has stated it yet&quot;... &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/22061/16&quot;&gt;an answer that was posted several hours earlier&lt;/a&gt; includes this possibility, while providing a possible strategy for the op saving his job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here is the truth of your situation. You have one foot out the door,&#xA;  and if your manager was allowed to, you would probably already be&#xA;  gone. Your manager went through a lot of work to get to this point.&#xA;  His expectations for you are low and he is not likely to give you any&#xA;  slack at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He has no intention of helping you, the point of this exercise is to&#xA;  either forge you into a quality employee or break you. You will come&#xA;  through this either stronger, and with a better understanding between&#xA;  the 2 of you what the expectations are, or you will be gone. If he&#xA;  gives you an impossible action item at your meeting tomorrow just&#xA;  realize that is his out if you step out of line. It is the proverbial&#xA;  axe over your neck. It is there to make you feel uncomfortable and to&#xA;  remind you that your future with the company is in his hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T02:49:17.447" Title="Is this a &quot;Bad&quot; answer and what should be done with it?" Tags="|discussion|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2524" CreationDate="2014-04-04T16:26:38.027" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe, personally, that while this does not answer the individual specific questions that the OP asked it gives the best overall advice for the situation that the OP is in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see more depth to the answer and bullet points about making the remaining time at the company as fruitful as possible to attempt to leave the company on a good note but anything that recommends anything less than looking for other employment would be a horrible answer in my eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/22041/i-received-a-written-warning-for-my-performance-how-can-i-save-my-job/22114#22114&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; is a lot closer to what I would like see though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17083" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-04-04T17:09:17.463" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2524" CreationDate="2014-04-04T17:00:49.077" Score="-3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this a “Bad” answer &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes absolutely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's assume there is a 95% chance the asker of that question is going to get fired. The answer in question tells the asker, &quot;that 95% is actually 100%, don't even bother trying to address the 5% chance.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is... the question is regarding the 5% chance. The answer doesn't address this part at all, with possible exception of restating what the asker already says (which is hardly an answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth I hardly believe it's 95% myself since all we have seen is the perspective of the asker. There is no indication of previous conversations, attempts both parties have made to clear up communication, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A parallel which will make this clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I went to the doctor today and they said I have a pretty serious illness. The doctor recommended that I do some things I don't really understand, what should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a good answer to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;You should prepare your will because the doctor told you you are going to die. There's nothing you can do to save yourself, sorry!&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because that is nearly exactly the situation Chad mentioned. The only difference is that everyone is an &quot;expert&quot; on Workplace issues and no one would presume to be an &quot;expert&quot; on medical issues from an external perspective like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2014-04-05T13:55:35.880" LastActivityDate="2014-04-05T13:55:35.880" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2518" CreationDate="2014-04-04T18:45:25.783" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was a bug. It somehow got turned off accidentally, but it should be working again now. Thanks for the report!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Turns out this was an expensive thing to calculate; we need to do some optimizing before turning it back on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1249" LastEditorUserId="1249" LastEditDate="2014-04-08T17:47:46.870" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T17:47:46.870" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2530" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2531" CreationDate="2014-04-05T17:27:16.090" Score="12" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I have been seeing a lot of people referring to the masses as 'lemmings' because they upvote answers that are not perfect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;strong&gt;EXTREMELY&lt;/strong&gt; disrespectful and should not be tolerated in posts, including in meta. The fact that this is acceptable behavior by 'respected' members here at the workplace is just ridiculous. Can we please ensure that such posts are promptly removed and repeat offenders are removed from the site. This site is supposed to be professional and insulting the people who the answers here should be for (The masses) is not professional at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wish to refer to people as lemmings, please first attempt it with your bosses and clients and see how that works in the actual workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for a question here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is referring to people as lemmings and other generic insults actually acceptable behavior that people tolerate here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17083" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2014-04-05T19:16:42.950" LastActivityDate="2014-04-09T19:53:51.780" Title="Disrespect toward users when using &quot;lemmings&quot; to describe upvoting users" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2530" CreationDate="2014-04-05T17:45:10.757" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't think of &quot;lemming&quot; as being an objectionable term, but considering lemmings are known to all &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#Misconceptions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;follow one another off a cliff&lt;/a&gt;, I can see how some could find this a bit irksome if they're in the target group. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we all do it. All of us at one point have been a victim of our own blindness to the truth, which is really what the phrase is intended to convey. Truth be told, up voting poor content, in a way, does steer our site more towards falling off a cliff. What brought our site to the point where the world finds it useful is in our focus on quality answers to questions about real problems. A lot of folks joining our community today will learn quite a bit from the resources in the Stack Exchange blog, starting with &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real Questions Have Answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When anecdotal, personal advice, one liner answers, or information that can't or isn't properly backed up is voted up, that dilutes our site's goals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, it's important that dialogue remain constructive. Using language that angers or puts people on the defensive only serves to deafen those who the message is intended to reach.  At the same time, if the only constructive argument is &quot;I liked that post&quot; or &quot;eh, it's not &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; bad&quot; then we're failing in our mission to make the Internet a better place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-04-05T17:45:10.757" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2530" CreationDate="2014-04-05T19:41:02.680" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is going to be a comprehensive answer getting at not only what you are asking but the implied question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site community (other SE subjective sites have similar divisions, this isn't unique to the Workplace) is divided fairly definitively into two differing perspectives on &quot;what makes an answer good.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answers should be held to strict standard&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar to reasons discussed in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; blog post, this perspective more or less entails desiring answers to basically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer question being asked (not provide interpretation or simply provide commentary)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Include &quot;why should I find this answer to be correct?&quot; justification. Oftentimes this can be very basic, and something like, &quot;I think you should do X because of some reasons.&quot; &#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A shocking number of answers here do not even attempt to explain why they are correct&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is very basic, sometimes will be referred to as &quot;back it up principle.&quot; All this means is answering &quot;why is this answer right?&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be downvoted when not meeting the above criteria and upvoted when they do&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answers which are useful should receive upvotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is constrasted with another perspective, which effectively answers the question as to whether an answer is acceptable for the site by much less stringent criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, this is a simple check - &quot;is this answer useful?&quot; Sometimes, &quot;do I agree this is good perspective?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer does not necessarily have to fully answer the specific question being asked but rather can be, as in the case of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;recent answer&lt;/a&gt; being discussed, more a &quot;helpful perspective&quot; or be beneficial for the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;So what?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is referring to people as lemmings and other generic insults actually acceptable behavior that people tolerate here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one here is intentionally being disrespectful. The fundamental issue is what I outline above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Site regulars who frequent meta/chat and regularly are involved in shaping the community, &lt;em&gt;tend&lt;/em&gt; to fall into the first category. Visitors tend to be the second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The phrase &quot;lemmings&quot; generally is used to people who are unfamiliar with the general quality standards of this site as articulated on meta/FAQ pages (or people who only experience The Workplace via the &quot;hot questions&quot; listings). Those people become frustrated when answers violating the points I articulated in the first post are continually upvoted, in spite of on the whole failing some or all of the criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding &quot;generic insults&quot; - you are going to have to be more specific to actually get any meaningful insight into what you are hinting at here. I've been around this site for nearly two years and am not sure what &quot;generic insults&quot; you've seen. Almost all hostile behavior gets flagged and cleaned up nearly immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2014-04-05T22:01:47.037" LastActivityDate="2014-04-05T22:01:47.037" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2530" CreationDate="2014-04-05T21:16:52.147" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is referring to people as lemmings and other generic insults actually&#xA;  acceptable behavior that people tolerate here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a term I would use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with your feelings that there is increasing disrespect being shown here on meta and in chat. I find that unfortunate - I've seen this sort of unpleasant behavior in other forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as &quot;acceptable&quot; and &quot;tolerated&quot;, I think the evidence speaks for itself. While some commenting styles are aggressively edited and moderated, the disrespect appears to be increasing, particularly since graduation from Beta. So it clearly &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; tolerated, and I guess we can assume it's considered acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, at least in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2014-04-05T21:16:52.147" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2524" CreationDate="2014-04-05T23:44:20.163" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Guess I may as well weigh in...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole reason I posted this answer is because every other answer (yes, even yours, @Chad ) was incorrect, and actually &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;dangerous&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to dalbaeb, and I didn't want him to have to rely onbad advice, because he didn't get any good advice.  And yes, those answers are all bad advice because they all start from the assumption that the poster &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; save his job, when it's pretty obvious he can't.  The &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; good advice in this situation is exactly what I suggested - find a new job, because you're getting fired.  It's harsh and unfortunate, but it's true.  As I also suggested, if the OP is hellbent on not leaving his current position, the approach is to get other job offers, but not accept just yet... so he can take one of them when he's fired in a month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No other answer (at least at the time I posted mine) refuted that dangerous assumption, and are all harmful because they don't help dalbaeb prepare for the vastly most likely outcome, which is that in a month, he's fired.  I didn't address any other outcome, because they're all so unlikely as to not be worth considering. By the exact same token, no one suggested that the OP but lottery tickets and hit a multi-million dollar jackpot so he doesn't need a job, which is probably even a little more likely to happen than the OP saving his job through improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be willing to update my answer if the OP asks why I'm so certain he's being fired, but that wasn't the question, and I thought it was so painfully obvious that it didn't need saying - based on the number of upvotes the answer got, it seems safe to say that 60 or so other people thought it was obvious too.  Frankly, I also didn't want to muddy things up, or take focus away from what is by far &lt;strong&gt;the most important thing to dalbaeb - that his boss has already started the process to fire him.&lt;/strong&gt;  More than everything else combined, that's what he needs to be made aware of, and that's what he needs to prepare for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said all that, I do think that rather than relying on this question and answer for that function, it would be better to have a canonical question along the lines of &quot;what are some signs my boss is trying to fire me,&quot; and an answer laying out what to look for... which would include, but not be limited to, almost everything that happened to dalbaeb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3188" LastActivityDate="2014-04-05T23:44:20.163" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2524" CreationDate="2014-04-06T02:02:47.723" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As this is meta, I think the whole entire point of StackExchange is that you provide an answer, people come by and advise whether or not this is a good answer or not, and then they vote on it accordingly. Unless it's spam, inappropriate, or not an answer (in which cases it's generally my experience that it'll get downvoted to oblivion anyway), I see absolutely no reason why any moderator should feel the need to flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get that some people don't appreciate the tone and would rather focus on the chance (which, I agree with the author of the post, is a small chance) that the OP is not merely set up to get canned. However, there is something in the answer - namely, I think, it's no-nonsense approach - that caused an awful lot of people to upvote it - and I think it ought be left as is as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get that this isn't the answer that some of you would leave. Well, welcome to democracy, and welcome to StackExchange. The most popular answer isn't always the one you agree with (it isn't always the right one; however, it's also my experience that the wisdom of crowds words really, really well on this site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17355" LastActivityDate="2014-04-06T02:02:47.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2530" CreationDate="2014-04-06T02:20:47.660" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that in addition to the objectionable phrasing, like most offensive commentary it speaks more to the attitude of the person using the term than any other step they could take. To be honest, if you think of people as &quot;lemmings&quot; or &quot;sheeple&quot; who will go along with dumb ideas only because they are popular, then perhaps the StackExchange network is not the right place for you. The whole entire point of StackExchange is that the wisdom of crowds prevails. Although there is some (limited) moderation, by and large reputations are earned on this site by giving answers that people agree with, and those answers are then sorted in order of popularity (although the original asker gets the first say as to which answer is on the top).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sites like workplace.se are a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; off the beaten path here; the primary purpose of SE is to provide answers for software developers, and all these other sites have sprung up because it was working so well. I do get that there is a &lt;em&gt;bit&lt;/em&gt; more subjectivity here than there is in programming (although not as much as you might think - I've seen it happen on programming SE sites several times where the #1 answer isn't necessarily the one that I think is the best). However, the principle still applies: answers are not ranked in order of goodness because there is no objective way to measure goodness. Rather, they are ranked in order of popularity. In theory (and I should say almost always in practice) the cream rises to the top and the sludge drops to the bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the model work? Well, I'm not aware of a direct equivalent to workplace.SE but for .NET programming there is MSDN, in which devs ask questions which are answered by certified specialists who by and large actually work for Microsoft. I can't tell you how many times I have gone to an MSDN &quot;answer&quot; and wanted to pull my hair out over the double posts (moderators there seem to do a decent job of moving cross-posts but do not - I suspect because MS support reps are graded by the number of posts they get rather than their quality - delete posts which become repeats of others), half answers, and typical techie-guy &quot;lol probs ur problem is u sux&quot; type responses. Even though I develop primarily in .NET on a .NET related platform, I actually find myself having to use Chrome instead of IE because Bing results go to MSDN first where Google goes to SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17355" LastActivityDate="2014-04-06T02:20:47.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2524" CreationDate="2014-04-06T03:46:51.387" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Workplace SE is about answering questions about problems in the workplace. These problems, in order to be answered completely in Q&amp;amp;A format, must have plenty of detail in order to &lt;em&gt;fully&lt;/em&gt; answer the question. Our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;help center guidelines on how to answer&lt;/a&gt; clarify that alternative solutions are acceptable, so long as assumptions and limitations are addressed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer the question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Read the question carefully. What, specifically, is the question asking for? Make sure your answer provides that – or a viable alternative. &lt;strong&gt;The answer can be “don’t do that”, but it should also include “try this instead”.&lt;/strong&gt; Any answer that gets the asker going in the right direction is helpful, but do try to mention any limitations, assumptions or simplifications in your answer. Brevity is acceptable, but fuller explanations are better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;emphasis is mine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One might interpret these guidelines to mean the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alternative solutions are acceptable, with full explanations&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answerers should address why the asked-for solution isn't viable, and should strongly consider explaining how to proceed with the asked-for course of action even if it isn't the &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; course of action.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answer does address how to try and keep the job&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this example, the answerer did address what the asker should do to increase the likelihood of not being terminated, even though the answerer doesn't feel it's possible. However, it may not have been clear. Thus, I edited the post to add in some headings and a topic statement in the last paragraph to make it more obvious what the suggested alternative is and separate it from the unbiased, unassuming answer. I always suggest using headings in posts where people need to separate alternatives from the actual no-assumptions-answer to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answerer had left out the paragraphs after the &quot;Hope for the best&quot;, then I'd be more inclined to agree that the post doesn't meet criteria for being an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Interpretations of &quot;don't do that, try this instead&quot;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do hold answers to a slightly higher standard here, simply because with this topic, solutions to problems can't always be tested before their implemented, such as on other sites. So perhaps a good way to break down guidelines for alternative answers is as one of the following phrases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;don't do that, try this instead. &lt;em&gt;But if you really have to do that then here's what you do...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;don't do that, try this instead. &lt;em&gt;But what you're trying to do isn't feasible because of X, Y, and Z.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many answers on Stack Overflow follow this format, such as when programmers ask how to do a certain thing, and an answerer says, &quot;Hey, you really don't want to do that because... but if you want to do that anyway, here's how...&quot;, so this isn't really a new concept. In this case, the answerer did that, but it just wasn't 100% clear. Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-04-06T03:46:51.387" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2538" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-06T22:51:27.043" Score="14" ViewCount="349" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nearly &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5/does-this-site-need-a-back-it-up-rule&quot;&gt;two years to the day since &quot;back it up&quot; was introduced to Workplace&lt;/a&gt;, there seems to be a lot of confusion regarding what the principle looks like on The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt; says about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that answers should be backed up either with a reference,&#xA;  or experiences that happened to you personally. You should always&#xA;  include in your answer information about why you think your answer is&#xA;  correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have spent a lot of effort over the past year and a half using community tools available to me to keep this as part of our site culture (editing, voting and commenting) . However, it quite often feels that there is a very small number of site regulars doing this or supportive of &quot;back it up&quot; via voting. The first part of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2532/2322&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt; is my perspective on how the community is split.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5/does-this-site-need-a-back-it-up-rule&quot;&gt;discussions&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;FAQ discussions&lt;/a&gt; indicate nearly universal support for this to be part of the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am concerned as a community we send conflicting messages when some users downvote/comment content not answering &quot;why&quot; while the majority upvote it. I am hoping for a frank discussion answering two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should this site retain the &quot;back it up&quot; principle as articulated in the FAQ material?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If so, how should the primary method be to encourage answers to satisfy it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Relevant and related meta discussion on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/505/why-should-answers-be-long?rq=1&quot;&gt;why should answers be long&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T01:31:38.627" Title="What should the &quot;Back it up&quot; policy look like for The Workplace" Tags="|discussion|faq-content|answers|back-it-up|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2538" CreationDate="2014-04-06T23:36:27.250" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm relatively new here, but I feel that for the types of questions asked on Workplace, it's impossible to always have firsthand experience or even a reference that backs up your answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that my most upvoted answers did not come from direct experience, and most of my workplace knowledge has come to me secondhand. In other words, I've heard a lot of stories from around me that allows me to give out good advice for some situations. It's impossible to cite references in those instances, as those stories were never posted online in a written fashion, but it doesn't deter it from being good advice. I also have upvoted (and downvoted) others' answers, not because they were referenced or cited, but because it was sound advice (or bad advice).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I've gathered, the point of the voting system on SE is to be able to agree as a community on what the best answer is to a question. Frankly, it's up to the community as a whole to determine what makes for sound advice and what makes for bad advice. Though it's nice to have references attached to answers to help the community to decide that, references aren't necessary for that decision. Finally, if the community for some reason loses its collective mind and upvotes an obviously bad answer, we have moderators to step in and fix the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the &quot;back it up&quot; policy is practically impossible to enforce. I could &lt;em&gt;say&lt;/em&gt; that everything in my answers comes from firsthand experience, but that would be a lie. However, you couldn't prove that; you just have to assume good faith in the matter and vote on the quality of the answer as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, I don't feel like the &quot;back it up&quot; policy should stay in place. The community seems to have, by default, reached the opposite consensus, and again, it's really unenforceable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However&lt;/strong&gt;, the 2nd sentence of the policy should absolutely stay in place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should always include in your answer information about why you think your answer is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This part is what determines the quality of any answer here, and already seems to determine whether an answer is voted up or down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17404" LastActivityDate="2014-04-06T23:36:27.250" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2538" CreationDate="2014-04-07T00:10:47.897" Score="-1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am concerned as a community we send conflicting messages when some&#xA;  users downvote/comment content not answering &quot;why&quot; while the majority&#xA;  upvote it. I am hoping for a frank discussion answering two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should this site retain the &quot;back it up&quot; principle as articulated in&#xA;  the FAQ material?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that the &quot;back it up&quot; policy is only sporadically followed. And it's even more sporadically enforced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I agree that the community is receiving mixed messages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the way to examine the question &quot;Should this site retain the 'back it up' principle&quot; is to consider: Is the site being harmed right now by the lack of a consistent following of this principle? I would argue that it isn't being harmed at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Workplace has graduated out of Beta in spite of having no strong consistently-followed &quot;back it up&quot; policy. And to my untrained eyes the community is thriving (am I mistaken? is it not thriving?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to follow a policy of &quot;no unnecessary rules&quot;, and I just don't see that there is currently a problem requiring this rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd vote No - we shouldn't retain the &quot;back it up&quot; policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my $0.02&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2014-04-07T00:18:36.283" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T00:18:36.283" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2538" CreationDate="2014-04-07T00:14:06.433" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a bit newer here but I think that the rule is a bit silly and removes the ability to post common sense, thoughtful answers simply because it is something you know, not something you have experienced. I have read SEVERAL psychology books, I utilize this on a daily basis with my professional life. I have no clue exactly where I read, or what lead to my knowledge, for a lot of what I know. Should I not answer the question because I can not remember where I learned about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I however do not think that portion should be removed. Instead, add a single word into it and it is fixed. That word being preferably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that answers should &lt;strong&gt;preferably&lt;/strong&gt; be backed up either with a reference, or experiences that happened to you personally. You should always include in your answer information about why you think your answer is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17083" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T00:14:06.433" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2538" CreationDate="2014-04-07T00:29:50.300" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should this site retain the &quot;back it up&quot; principle as articulated in the FAQ material?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. The first half of the current policy should be removed and the second half elaborated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I care about the question, &quot;is this answer useful to future readers with similar questions?&quot; The answer is generally no when an answer is &quot;do this.&quot; The answer is generally yes when answered, &quot;do this because of this reason.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing the &quot;why&quot; allows future readers to understand how the answer may apply in their similar yet slightly different situation. Very few people will have &lt;em&gt;identical&lt;/em&gt; questions to previously asked questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that paragraph be changed to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that answers should provide sufficient explanation as to &quot;why is this answer correct?&quot; Don't just answer &quot;do X&quot; but rather answer &quot;do X because...&quot; Additional information can be found here*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*this would link to a meta post with examples and detailed explanation. Note that for some types of answers &quot;because of these reasons&quot; and for others a link to official documentation is &quot;why.&quot; This meta post would also allow everyone who is downvoting answers missing the &quot;why&quot; to provide a link with more than &quot;workplace has back it up principle, yo&quot; as a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T00:29:50.300" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2524" CreationDate="2014-04-07T13:29:59.227" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; a bad answer at the moment you asked that meta question. Of the issues you listed, my primary concern about it is that it opens with a very questionable statement: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;no one else has stated it yet&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (referring that &quot;this situation reads like your manager is laying the groundwork to fire you&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I see it, it was already stated in another answer that was posted few hours prior to that, the one you also quote: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;You have one foot out the door, and if your manager was allowed to, you would probably already be gone&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is worth noting that the troublesome statement has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/22076/revisions&quot; title=&quot;see revision 2&quot;&gt;edited out of the answer later&lt;/a&gt;, about when you posted this on Meta, so the readers who don't look into edit histories of the posts will probably find it okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I can't unlearn what I know and I keep asking myself, if answerer missed such a simple and easy to verify thing, what else could they miss? chances for the asker to keep their job? opportunity for asker to improve?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T13:29:59.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2546" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-07T16:47:16.320" Score="5" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user has asked a lot of questions here without registering:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/21837/2322&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/21837/2322&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/22228/2322&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/22228/2322&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/21674/2322&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/21674/2322&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/21546/2322&quot;&gt;If I love my job (and company), but my role has been stripped of responsibilities, what will I gain from staying?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/21471/2322&quot;&gt;How can I explain in an interview that I quit due to being passed over for a promotion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/21427/2322&quot;&gt;How to react when I am demoted for reasons not related to my performance?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are quite a few unregistered accounts I can see (there may be more questions/accounts):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/18503/antarcticgorillas&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/18503/antarcticgorillas&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/18280/antarcticgorillas&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/18280/antarcticgorillas&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/18154/antarcticgorillas&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/18154/antarcticgorillas&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/17960/antarcticgorillas&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/17960/antarcticgorillas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should this be handled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T01:55:04.130" Title="Is there any way to merge accounts which are unregistered?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2551" CreationDate="2014-04-07T19:55:07.960" Score="6" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;First: Congrats on graduating! I love the new design (kudos to the designers) overall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this has been bugging me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O6jjr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice how 'tomorrow' is &lt;em&gt;ever so slightly&lt;/em&gt; smaller than 'ends'? It turns out that it's specified to 11 point font, while the 'ends' is in 12 pt font. Can we please do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iq6h6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user16467" LastEditorUserId="13131" LastEditDate="2014-04-08T07:41:04.690" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T07:41:04.690" Title="Timestamps in the Community Bulletin look out of place" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|css|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2548" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-08T00:09:30.263" Score="8" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Executive Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions with a lot more comments than upvotes tend to be problematic for our site. When you see a question without a lot of comments from different users, consider a close vote for &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Unclear What You're Asking&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, or editing the question to include clarifying information from the comments below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Background&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was browsing the front page this morning trying to see what questions were active. I came across this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/22284/potential-employer-willing-to-bend-over-backwards-for-an-interview-good-or-bad&quot;&gt;Is it a good or bad sign if a potential employer is willing to bend over backwards for an interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;9 upvotes, 2 answers, one with 21 upvotes. Looks pretty good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only there are 14 (!!!) comments on the questions, and clarifications under the top answer too. Yet no close votes. If there are 14 comments needed to discuss the question but not having enough meat to be an answer on their own, to me it's pretty clear that the question is &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;unclear what you're asking&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; (and have voted to close as such).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the question is necessarily bad, just that as-is our community is having issues understanding how to answer it (which is why people comment). Also telling is that the top answer has double the upvotes as the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Solution&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we want to keep question/answer quality high, I think questions like this should be fixed early either by closing and then commenting/editing, or by a quick edit when it first appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I created a &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/revision/181546/233508/comment-count-to-score-ratio-identifying-problematic-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quick query&lt;/a&gt; that identifies posts like this. And a lot of them seem to be problematic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T04:26:30.153" Title="Consider Close Votes when there is an Extended Comment Discussion" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2546" CreationDate="2014-04-08T01:55:04.130" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been happening in increasing frequency. To get the accounts merged, the user will need to request it.  I left the following comment under the most recent post from this person:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hey AntarcticGorilla, the creation of multiple questions does lead to some problems, so if you're planning to continue to participate, I encourage you to register and then &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/merging-accounts&quot;&gt;see these instructions on how to request an account merge&lt;/a&gt;. When contacting the team, you may want to reference &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2546/is-there-any-way-to-merge-accounts-which-are-unregistered&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt; as one of our users was kind enough to put together links to all your profiles. :)  Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just in case this person loses access to the most recent account, please feel free to reuse this or a variation of this comment if another question pops up from yet another new account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T01:55:04.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2548" CreationDate="2014-04-08T04:26:30.153" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it would depend on the type of comments out there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's more a conversation being held between a few people (as it seems to mostly be with the linked question), it may be best to simply point them to the Water Cooler or other chat room, where it's much more suitable to hold a elongated conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the comments seem to be shaped more like simple answers (which I've also noticed quite a bit), we may consider encouraging the user to expand on the comment and post it as an actual answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if most of the comments are questions asking for clarification of the question, or if they're those comments are trying to make assumptions that may or may not be reasonable, then yes, we should consider closing the question for one reason or another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments should be used for short bits of clarification on the question (or answer), not for answers by users looking to avoid being voted upon, and not for conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17404" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T04:26:30.153" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2547" CreationDate="2014-04-08T07:40:48.803" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is fixed. It will be live after our next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13131" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T07:40:48.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2538" CreationDate="2014-04-08T16:06:10.783" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it should be kept but the enforcement of it needs to be increased.  But I am infavor of a change in the wording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should always include in your answer information about why you&#xA;  think your answer is correct. Don't just answer &quot;do X&quot; but rather&#xA;  answer &quot;do X because...&quot; Additional information can be found here.* &#xA;  Please note that answers should be backed up with references and/or&#xA;  experiences that happened to you personally where appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are past the point of needing to worry about retaining users and keeping the site growing.  Our recent growth has shown a rise in the amount of low quality content I and many visitors consider noise.  These are answers that do not answer the question, just comment on some tangent, or provide an opinion on the subject.  People agree with these sentiments so they end up getting voted up because anyone can vote reguardless of rep.  This prevents the higher rep people from removing the posts and puts the noise on top of the actual useful information, the signal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We fought hard to get through the low quality days of the early site.  It doesn't take much searching of the posts from the first month or 2 of the site to find the low quality posts, some of them from me.  But we made that effort and got through it and got to the point where we had a working site that was attracting new visitors and now contributors.  Most of those contributors will eventually figure out how to post good content.  If we keep the bar high they will pick it up faster and our site will stay high quality.  If we lower the bar it takes longer and we will lose more than we gain.  This site will become a site for commiserating and sharing war stories just like all the other workplace forums on the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is time to stop worrying about scaring off users.  If they are only posting low quality answers and refuse to try to meet site standards, their answers should be deleted quickly, and only undeleted when their posts meet site standards for quality.  If these users decide not to return the community will survive and continue to grow because we have a library of high quality content already. Because of the sympathy votes many times this will take moderator action as the result of flags.  But we need to flag these, and the mods need to take that action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How should it work:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All answers must be complete, authoritative, and explain why. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should start by pointing out the policy and helping to edit to correct where possible, when not it &lt;strong&gt;should be tagged with the explain why banner&lt;/strong&gt;.  (Ideally as long as this or any other banner remains the upvote arrow should be disabled)  After 7 days of non compliance if the post is still voted above 0 the mods should delete the post.  Then the OP should flag when they have corrected the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers that make a claim of fact should be required to be referenced or clarified that it is merely the opinion of the poster.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Claims of fact are like &quot;90% of workers do this at some point during the day&quot;,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;Most employers have adopted a policy similar to X&quot;,  &quot;The law is that you do X&quot;, or any other claim that is definitive.  If it is the answers's opinion experience, then stating that provides clarification that it is up to the reader to evaluate the &lt;em&gt;truthiness&lt;/em&gt; of the statement.  A reference provides the reader with a source for the claim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers in this category need a back it up banner that states the need to clarify if this is an opinion or to provide a reference to back it up.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2014-04-09T15:19:52.123" LastActivityDate="2014-04-09T15:19:52.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2538" CreationDate="2014-04-08T17:39:47.107" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Back it up Policy should be abandoned completely.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not being embraced by the flood of new users who are coming to dominate the site and they want a site that allows for opinions and discussion on the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this site fails as a result we can come in after and cull the good answers from the ashes and rebuild the site and enact more stringent policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T17:39:47.107" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-14T20:21:26.107" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2554" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-08T20:09:40.063" Score="22" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/1&quot;&gt;1st moderator election&lt;/a&gt; has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 3 new moderators are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/98&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/98.png&quot; alt=&quot;jmort253&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/325&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/325.png&quot; alt=&quot;Monica Cellio&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/7945&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/7945.png&quot; alt=&quot;jmac&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They'll be taking over for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the existing crew&lt;/a&gt; shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be sure to give a hearty &quot;Thank you!&quot; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/248/moderators-pro-tempore-just-like-mamma-used-to-make-em&quot;&gt;the Moderators Pro Tempore&lt;/a&gt; who served this community during the beta: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/42/rarity&quot;&gt;Rarity&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/26/jcmeloni&quot;&gt;jcmeloni&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/17/nickc&quot;&gt;nickc&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/98/jmort253&quot;&gt;jmort253&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/869/jim&quot;&gt;Jim&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/1&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opavote.org/results/6018905831112704/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;view a summary report online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T22:35:52.343" Title="2014 Community Moderator Election Results" Tags="|discussion|moderators|election|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2530" CreationDate="2014-04-08T21:14:59.873" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off If you actually read the question and feel the answer was right and deserved an upvote... &lt;strong&gt;YOU ARE NOT A LEMMING&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you followed the link from the hot list, never really read the question just the title and maybe a couple lines, then skipped to the first answer read the first couple lines of the first answer, thought that sounds about right, clicked upvote went then went back to the hot list... Then you are a lemming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are not a lemming for disagreeing with me, gnat, or anyone else.  You are a lemming for following the hot list over the cliff, not bothering to actually read, and just clicking the up vote on the first answer that seems likely to be reasonable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lets face it we probably all have done it at one time of another.  When we see an interesting hot list question title, we click it, start skimming answers and the first one we see that makes us feel our quest is complete we up-vote and go on our way.  The problem with our site is 99% of all of the other sites are also a potential user on this site so our hot questions attract more lemmings.  Normally its less of an issue but occasionally an answer that does not meet the standards is the one the lemmings hit on, that compounds the problem.  That was the case this week.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there are some people that think that it is the right answer.  I think that it is 95-99% problable.  But that answer says its 100% which means it needs to be backed up with a higher level to show why it is 100%.  That is where the answer fails and why it is a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2014-04-09T14:55:20.880" LastActivityDate="2014-04-09T14:55:20.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2530" CreationDate="2014-04-09T16:42:34.997" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should avoid name-calling because it violates &lt;strong&gt;be nice&lt;/strong&gt;.  We can talk about &lt;em&gt;behaviors&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;patterns&lt;/em&gt; without resorting to calling people lemmings or sheeple or (from another site) heretics or (per Godwin's Law) worse things.  Please, let's remember that we're talking about fellow human beings, and absent evidence to the contrary, ones who are probably trying to do what they think is right but who need to be educated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If answers (or questions) are utter garbage, we should use the tools available to remove them.  If they are poor but fixable, we should use the tools available to fix them.  If we think a user can be guided, we should do so, politely.  I'm saying &quot;we&quot; because this is a community capable of distributed maintenance -- address the parts you can address, leave the parts you can't, and let's all please stay constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2014-04-09T19:53:51.780" LastActivityDate="2014-04-09T19:53:51.780" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2524" CreationDate="2014-04-10T02:49:17.447" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chad asked me to share my views &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/14814412#14814412&quot;&gt;in chat&lt;/a&gt; as a mod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, this is a great example of when the community is best-equipped to handle it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Person posts answer that makes statements/assumptions some community members disagree with&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Community discusses issue and refers the answerer to that discussion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answerer updates answer to address concerns&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, when an answer like this that is &lt;em&gt;primarily&lt;/em&gt; okay (it contains helpful information that relates to the question and is well-written) but has a glaring mistake to members of the community (in this case that it assumed there was no chance of keeping the job), the community will leave a friendly comment explaining their concerns along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hey Hopeless, welcome to [workplace.se]! Generally speaking, we discourage &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;just quit&lt;/a&gt; answers and prefer that answers &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;address the question being asked&lt;/a&gt;. While you may be right that the job is doomed, is there any chance you could [edit] your question to address how to increase the chance (no matter how small) of keeping the job? Thanks in advance!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2153/aggressive-edits&quot;&gt;my experience&lt;/a&gt;, posters tend to be happy when our users participate positively in improving content, especially with a friendly comment that explains &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; someone objects to their post, and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to fix it (sort of like our best answers explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While meta questions are great too (and encouraged!), you (the general you, not just you specifically Chad) are likely to get better results if the meta question is objective and doesn't try to lead to a conclusion, and lets the community freely discuss it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the process could have been handled a bit more smoothly on this one, but hey, it's a learning experience, and we ended up with a good result. Net win for the Workplace, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T02:49:17.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2558" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-10T03:28:08.050" Score="2" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1855/how-much-should-i-slack-off&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18138/how-many-hours-do-you-expect-to-clock-in-a-40-hour-week&quot;&gt;about&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/697/is-it-frowned-upon-to-take-unproductive-breaks-while-on-the-job&quot;&gt;idling&lt;/a&gt; at work gets closed as subjective, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1916/how-much-slack-to-give-a-programming-contractor&quot;&gt;other&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17119/how-much-time-in-between-companies-you-are-in-will-you-be-considered-a-job-hopp&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; that also ask about how &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11300/how-much-time-should-a-consultant-bill-for-waking-up-at-300-am-and-doing-5-or-1&quot;&gt;much&lt;/a&gt; time are spared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, from the management point of view, if the project deadlines have already been sacrificed, then how much of idling time can we attribute to the failure to deliver? &lt;strong&gt;How do managers measure and define the acceptable range?&lt;/strong&gt; I think this is no different that those interview and job hoping questions, except one is in operations the other is in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/566/how-can-i-measure-motivation-in-an-interview&quot;&gt;HR&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question I wanted to ask, but is warned by the blue popup bubble that it &quot;appers subjective and is likely to be closed&quot;, is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are the management tools that are/can be used you use to measure,&#xA;  quantify and benchmark to define an acceptable idle time and frequency&#xA;  of idling? e.g. 7.5 seconds on Farmville every 1 minute, versus 15&#xA;  mins in the pantry for every 2 hours of work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this a valid question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked this question to Google but didn't get an answer, so I wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;https://activitysampling.codeplex.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;small application&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_sampling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;measure the keyboard and mouse input idle time&lt;/a&gt;. At the end of one day, I personally clocked 45mins of idle time, while the worse performing member clocked 2:30 hours. Sure, this application is not perfect, people can still chat on Skype and surf SE like I am doing now, but I think this is a good start. With this result, I can quantify the quantify the acceptable range and I think this makes an appropriate answer for the above question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I post &lt;em&gt;the question&lt;/em&gt; on Workplace now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5473" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-04-14T06:46:18.143" Title="Why close questions about Work Sampling, Slacking and Idle Times" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|specific-question|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2558" CreationDate="2014-04-10T03:45:45.083" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about instead asking for the problems associated with measuring time like this and how they can be abated?  That would be on topic and constructive. You could even ask how to determine the acceptable range. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question you are asking about the range is going to be opinion based.   And most of those opinions are going to be that there is no way to actually quantify it.  That is not going to help anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T03:45:45.083" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2560" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-10T04:10:12.553" Score="4" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have over 15 reputation and have been given the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;flagging privilege&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the guidelines for &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/58035&quot;&gt;spam and offensive flags&lt;/a&gt;, but it seems The Workplace has &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2402/are-we-using-naa-and-vlq-flags-correctly&quot;&gt;different standards for 'very low quality' and 'not an answer' flags&lt;/a&gt;, when/how should I use them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T00:07:21.627" Title="When/how should I flag content as 'very low quality' or 'not an answer'?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|faq-proposed|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-10T04:10:12.553" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2560" CreationDate="2014-04-10T04:10:12.553" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;When should I flag?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flags are a way to let the moderators know about issues with content on the site that can't be handled by the community, or are so harmful to the community that they need to be dealt with promptly. If you aren't sure whether or not to flag, consider asking in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;asking a question on meta&lt;/a&gt; for guidance first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How should I use 'very low quality' and 'not an answer' flags?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;it is very low quality&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has severe formatting or content problems. This question is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might need to be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the content can be saved with an edit or a comment, then it isn't very low quality. Very low quality flags should be reserved for content like this answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8BbR9.png&quot; alt=&quot;very low quality post&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iVsly.png&quot; alt=&quot;very low quality post&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It isn't offensive, it isn't an advertisement, but it wouldn't fit as a comment, question, or an answer and should be removed. If you see content like this, feel free to downvote and flag immediately, and the flag will be reviewed by a mod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;it is not an answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was posted as an answer, but it does not attempt to answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2337/when-should-i-flag-an-answer-as-not-an-answer&quot;&gt;related faq explaining what constitutes an answer here&lt;/a&gt;. An answer is not an answer if it does not:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; it is correct&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide information not covered in other answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because it doesn't meet those criteria now doesn't mean the moderators need to handle it. First consider making a friendly comment explaining &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the answer is not an answer and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to fix it (or make an edit to fix it yourself), and give it a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the person doesn't fix it in a reasonable time (at least 24 hours, more if a weekend or during the holidays), and it cannot be saved by editing it yourself, then feel free to issue a 'not an answer' flag. As 'not an answer' flags now send posts to the low quality review queue, particularly poor answers that don't address the question being asked can be flagged without a comment in a pinch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;other (needs ♦ moderator attention)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question needs a moderator's attention. Please describe exactly what's wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have under the 125 reputation required to edit, or under the 50 reputation required to comment, but you still think the post is wrong for some reason, you can flag as 'other' asking a moderator to add a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/post-notice/info&quot;&gt;post notice&lt;/a&gt; for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;citation needed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;insufficient explanation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Explain which post notice you would like added, and a moderator agrees with your assessment they will either make a comment, or add a post notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of reputation, if the content needs attention for reasons that don't fall in to existing flag categories, please use the 'other' option with a clear message to the moderators explaining what the problem is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T00:07:21.627" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-10T04:10:12.553" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2562" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-10T06:54:01.727" Score="12" ViewCount="584" Body="&lt;p&gt;When posting my answer I check that it doesn't repeat others &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;as required by our FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In current UI, this becomes difficult when question already has many answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would want that questions with 10 or more answers (including deleted ones) have additional UI allowing me to review each of previous answers individually prior to posting my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a sense, this is sort of an enforcement of an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/86893/165773&quot; title=&quot;explained eg here&quot;&gt;&quot;Atwood's warning&quot;&lt;/a&gt; that pops up when one attempts to answer questions with multiple answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did you read through all the existing answers first to make sure your answer will be contributing something new?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Side note, personally I would prefer above to be there even earlier, at 5-7 answers; it is proposed at 10 because at this point it becomes &lt;em&gt;way too cumbersome&lt;/em&gt; to check prior answers in regular UI.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such a UI could be similar to one currently used in review queues (which is not surprising as what I want is basically kind of review). Features I would want to have there are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;allowing me to traverse between answers (&lt;em&gt;next/previous&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;showing me preview of my answer among others, as if it was already posted,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;preferably with an option to &lt;em&gt;submit&lt;/em&gt; an answer, enabled after I took a look at all other answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;allowing me to return back to editing my answer (&lt;em&gt;cancel review&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2014-11-14T09:30:47.990" Title="When there are many answers already, help me check that mine won't repeat others" Tags="|feature-request|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2563" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-10T12:13:16.197" Score="3" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;We had &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/112/is-project-management-on-topic&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; in meta a while back about what should go in Workplace and what should go in Project Management. I wanted to bring this back up, as we just received &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/22482/how-to-deal-with-too-many-requirement-changes-which-are-not-documented-at-one-pl&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not suggesting that we reopen it, as I do agree with the unrelated close reason, but my question here, again, is where do we draw the line between project management and workplace issues? Would Workplace only have to do with the people management side of projects?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, should we put something to this effect in the FAQ, with the small chance a new user will stumble across the FAQ before making his/her first question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17404" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T13:47:55.767" Title="Line between Workplace and Project Management" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2563" CreationDate="2014-04-10T13:47:55.767" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no hard line between one site and another. The borders aren't clearly defined, such as when crossing between one country and another; instead, some topics blur a bit and overlap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pm.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Project Management SE&lt;/a&gt; is a site for questions in the field of project management. Managing project teams is one thing that is on topic. Thus, it's possible that a question asked here might also fit there and vice-versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question you reference is also on-topic for &lt;a href=&quot;http://programmers.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Programmers SE&lt;/a&gt; since it's about requirements documentation.  Now, project management is actually considered a field that stands on its own, and a competent project manager should be able to manage a software project, construction project, and other temporary endeavors without having domain knowledge or even getting involved in requirements elicitation.  For instance, one key responsibility of a project manager is to manage the schedule. Scope creep is another project management topic. As such, this question is close to something that would be asked on one of those sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we don't migrate questions just because they &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be on-topic somewhere else. If a question is on-topic &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;, then our first loyalty is to our own site. Instead, try to make the question fit our site even more via editing and suggestions in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is closed, we still would only migrate it if it's a shining example of a great Stack Exchange question that's so valuable that it would be a travesty to let it die. These questions are grammatically perfect, represent the best of Stack Exchange, and are something the target site would be happy to have on their site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a majority of closed questions, they'll likely remain closed. Posts that are off-topic tend to have other issues. For instance, this particular post is closed as &quot;unclear&quot;. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T13:47:55.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2560" CreationDate="2014-04-10T18:49:54.900" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Submitted as an answer since I couldn't find a way to match below into neither of comment / chat message / meta question.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/2561/1&quot;&gt;Original revision of the proposed FAQ&lt;/a&gt; contains a statement that makes me uncomfortable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the post is fixable, and the poster is not given time to fix it before the flag is issued, the flag will most likely be declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fail to see how above approach can scale. It works fine when site gets 1 to 3, maybe 5 bad answers a day, but now &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites#professional-traffic&quot;&gt;traffic stats&lt;/a&gt; say we are getting 16 questions/day, with about 4x as much answers meaning 60-80 answers a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I observe today, it looks quite realistic for site to eventually receive 200-300 answers a day, 20-30 of which would be of the low quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If above approach allows to handle 20-30 low quality answers a day, I would like to see an explanation on how that could be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, I would appreciate explanation on how this would be better compared to an &lt;em&gt;alternative flow&lt;/em&gt;, when answer gets deleted (with mod comment - there is a feature that guarantees such a comment to reach the author), author edits it and flags for undeletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only benefits that I can see in theory of letting low quality posts stay visible are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Less burden for moderators to deal with undelete flags from post authors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opportunity for non-&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;10K&lt;/a&gt; editors to salvage these posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opportunity for community regulars to indicate troublesome posts by voting it down, thus explicitly teaching other readers about site quality norms&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Having moderators handling every immediately submitted flag won't scale&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's take a closer look at above...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Less burden to deal with undelete flags&lt;/strong&gt; - per my observations, there were no complaints about this at larger sites (SO and Programmers) so it's unlikely to happen to start with. And, even if it happens, there is a known, tried and true way to deal with: flags can be off-loaded to a dedicated review queue for users with sufficient privileges (10K in this case) to handle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Opportunity for others to do salvaging edits&lt;/strong&gt; - it's unrealistic that active editors will be able to cope with substantial loads of stuff like that. Again, looking at larger sites like SO and Programmers, this doesn't happen there. Also, which is probably even more important, it doesn't feel &lt;em&gt;fair&lt;/em&gt; to off-load this to editors, if you consider that salvaging bad answers would essentially block them from improving those that already have reasonably good content to start with (&lt;em&gt;&quot;optimize for pearls not sand&quot;&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indicate troublesome posts by voting it down&lt;/strong&gt; - given the observed frequency of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/conversation/voting-pattern-that-doesnt-have-politically-correct-name-yet&quot; title=&quot;&amp;#39;Cases where the insiders&amp;#39; votes would&amp;#39;ve brought a post&amp;#39;s score &amp;lt; 0, but outsider votes were present in sufficient quantity to make the post&amp;#39;s score positive: 147&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;voting pattern that doesn't have politically correct name yet&lt;/a&gt;, it is more likely that opposite will happen, and low quality answers voted up by outsiders for popularity reasons will make broken windows, teaching site visitors the wrong way. How many upvotes were there on that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2468/168&quot;&gt;just-quit answer in an agony aunt question&lt;/a&gt;? What did it teach readers until it was deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Having moderators handling every immediately submitted flag won't scale&lt;/strong&gt; - right, this won't scale. Thing is though, experience of larger sites (where delayed flagging is used) indicates that alternative won't scale either. Here I am specifically referring to changes introduced in low quality review queue a while back when &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5222/165773&quot;&gt;six 2K users were allowed to delete answers&lt;/a&gt;. You see, delayed flagging doesn't help. Sites practicing it experience scaling issues and are forced to delegate deletion of low quality posts to wider community anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summing up, mentioned statement seems to do more harm than good for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider changing approach, so that troublesome post is quickly deleted with mod comment, without keeping it visible (expecting that author willing to salvage would find and edit it while deleted, then flag for moderator to review and undelete).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;For the sake of completeness, I can see how site like SO can afford such an approach in &lt;em&gt;their site-specific&lt;/em&gt; guidelines: having 2,000 (that's &lt;strong&gt;two thousands&lt;/strong&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;trusted users&lt;/a&gt; capable of quickly, directly removing bad stuff at their own discretion, without any flags at all makes it not that important. But Workplace is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot; title=&quot;we&amp;#39;ve got 4 (that&amp;#39;s *four*) trusted users as of now&quot;&gt;not like that&lt;/a&gt; and is unlikely to become like that anytime soon.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-04-30T16:59:17.377" CommentCount="11" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-10T18:49:54.900" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2562" CreationDate="2014-04-13T13:47:05.560" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;To avoid misunderstanding, I realise that feature like this would make it &lt;em&gt;technically harder&lt;/em&gt; for me to post an answer. Imagine I am willing to add 20th answer to some question, that would mean I have to pass through checking 19 prior answers before posting my own, go figure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if I really believe that my answer is &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; important, such difficulties shouldn't and wouldn't stop me. Quite opposite, as a responsible answerer, I would be grateful for making it more convenient for me to ensure that my answer is really valuable, that it will stand out among others and ultimately contribute to Stack Exchange goal to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/12/stack-overflow-gives-back-2010/&quot; title=&quot;quote source: 'We believe our mission as a company is to make the internet better...'&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;make the Internet better&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another consideration worth stressing is that as an author of a new answer, I am in quite unique position to help enforce &quot;Don't Repeat Others&quot; rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just think of it, any &quot;outside&quot; reviewer willing to ensure this rule would have to compare each answer against each other, a daunting task when there are many answers (&lt;code&gt;n&lt;/code&gt; factorial comparisons when there are &lt;code&gt;n&lt;/code&gt; answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As opposed to that, my task as reviewer is much easier, I only need to check &lt;code&gt;n&lt;/code&gt; existing answers from others against mine (which I know by heart, which makes comparison only easier). I think that giving responsible answerers an opportunity for such a review would be very beneficial for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2014-04-13T15:22:24.683" LastActivityDate="2014-04-13T15:22:24.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2567" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-13T21:58:52.333" Score="1" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/22545/is-lowering-employees-self-esteem-a-practised-management-technique/22557?noredirect=1#22557&quot;&gt;Is lowering employee&amp;#39;s self-esteem a practised management technique?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has been put on hold for being unclear, but I thought it seems like a pretty straight forward question, (even if it does apparently irk some rankles). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17187" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-04-14T00:05:06.630" Title="What is unclear about this question asking if something is a practised management technique?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2567" CreationDate="2014-04-13T22:52:42.743" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best Workplace Stack Exchange questions are about real, everyday problems that people face in the workplace and that attract objective, fact-based answers, or answers based on experiences backed up either with an explanation or with reference material to help support assertions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that don't involve a real problems are difficult to handle objectively on our platform. Such questions tend to devolve into discussion, either in comments or in answers themselves (which should be used only to provide full, standalone answers to the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions should I not ask here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion. This is not a discussion board, this is a place for questions that can be answered!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've presented interesting ideas, and it is an interesting topic, but the essence of the question is to simply confirm something that you believe to be true.  So far, there's one good answer, based on direct personal experience, but after that, things become a little unclear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's one detailed answer that includes some data related to public schools. The question appears to ask for studies related to a certain bad management practice, and it's not clear how this data justifies such actions. I suspect this could be clarified with some edits from the answerer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The two answers at the bottom basically speculate. They're best guesses, and they are not what we're looking for according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;how should I answer&lt;/a&gt; section in the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;With that said, it &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be possible to focus the question a little more strongly on a clear goal. Here's what I suggest:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the section where you talk about this being a good technique, you mention Google. It's not clear whether you're suggesting Google practices these techniques or that they don't practice them. I'd suggest clarifying that part or possibly even removing the company name as different people react differently to these company names. In short, try to stick to facts, things known to be true to avoid biasing answers or distracting answerers from the goal of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Instead of confirming what you believe to be true, your question might have even more value if you can focus on ways to combat this management technique. I suspect you're asking this question because you are either facing this problem as a manager yourself, or you're facing it as an employee working for such a manager. Focusing on providing details about your specific problem (assuming you &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; facing this problem) will lead to solutions to that problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a community dedicated to questions about navigating the professional workplace, I'd like to see us make more use out of the tools provided by Stack Exchange. Our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; is a great place to hold in-depth discussion about the pitfalls of different management topics and to share research. As our site continues to grow, chat will play an important role in filling the gaps that can't be filled on the Q&amp;amp;A portion of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, we've been talking about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/448/do-we-want-a-community-blog&quot;&gt;starting a community blog&lt;/a&gt;, and the results of research about bad management practices and how to overcome them (as a manager yourself) or how to effectively deal with them (as an employee) could arguably make for a great article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As much as I'd like to give you more ideas to make this work here in the Q&amp;amp;A portion of the site, I honestly don't think it can work in the way that you're hoping to.  Speculative questions are great for learning and great for discussion, but these tend to do a lot better in areas more fit for discussion. Hope this helps and thanks for participating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-04-13T22:52:42.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2567" CreationDate="2014-04-14T00:05:06.630" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the question was clear, but very odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2014-04-14T00:05:06.630" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2570" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-14T02:17:16.513" Score="8" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an unofficial list of various changes to The Workplace, modeled after &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/59445/recent-feature-changes-to-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To see the list in reverse chronological order (latest entry on top), &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2570/recent-changes-to-the-workplace?answertab=active#tab-top&quot;&gt;sort Answers by latest activity first&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2015-08-03T12:16:39.587" Title="Recent Changes to The Workplace" Tags="|support|faq|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-14T02:17:16.513" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2570" CreationDate="2014-04-14T02:17:16.513" Score="6" Body="&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;August 2014&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2014-08-27: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2899/168&quot;&gt;Comments without upvotes are now hidden if a question has more than two answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2014-08-19: The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2874/98&quot;&gt;2nd 2014 Summer Moderator Election&lt;/a&gt; results are in. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/2322&quot;&gt;enderland&lt;/a&gt; wins the election and joins the moderation team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2014-08-12: Stack Exchange releases network-wide feature that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/237976/155826&quot;&gt;allow moderators to move some comments to a chat room&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2014-08-04 The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2816/summer-2014-community-moderator-election&quot;&gt;2nd 2014 Summer Moderator Election&lt;/a&gt; begins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;July 2014&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-07-23: Moderator &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/7945&quot;&gt;jmac&lt;/a&gt; leaves the moderation team and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/07/please-welcome-jmac-community-manager-of-the-rising-sun/&quot;&gt;joins Stack Exchange as a community manager&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;April 2014&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2014-04-13: The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;About Page/Tour&lt;/a&gt; has been updated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2014-04-13: This document was created&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2014-04-08: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2554/2014-community-moderator-election-results&quot;&gt;2014 Community Election&lt;/a&gt; completed, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/98&quot;&gt;jmort253&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/325&quot;&gt;Monica Cellio&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/7945&quot;&gt;jmac&lt;/a&gt; elected moderators&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;February 2014&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-02-20: site graduation - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2364/new-design-launched&quot;&gt;New Design Launched&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;January 2014&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-01-21: trusted users at TWP can protect questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/3060?m=13304581#13304581&quot;&gt;without having to wait 24 hours&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T09:20:58.663" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-14T02:17:16.513" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2570" CreationDate="2014-04-14T05:57:49.700" Score="4" Body="&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;January 2013&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2013-01-19: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1659/168&quot;&gt;community wiki threshold set to 15 answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-04-14T06:39:26.937" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-14T05:57:49.700" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2558" CreationDate="2014-04-14T06:46:18.143" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;On-topic off-topic at The Workplace is often an exercise in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I know it when I see it&lt;/a&gt;. Older questions (like some of those you linked) would be less appropriate now, like many of the questions on Stack Overflow from 2008/2009 when it first started. Rather than focus on contrasting 6 different questions on very different topics, let's focus on your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From your explanation, I think there are three areas where you may run in to trouble:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your question isn't clear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your problem isn't clear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It may be read as asking how to do your job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Your Question Isn't Clear&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're asking two different questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;from the management point of view, if the project deadlines have already been sacrificed, then how much of idling time can we attribute to the failure to deliver? How do managers measure and define the acceptable range?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One is asking for tools, one is asking where to assign blame (which the tools could be used to measure).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Your Problem Isn't Clear&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As explained in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; Ideally your question will explain the problem, explain how you've tried to solve it and why it didn't work, and then let the experts in our community give you their answers based on that information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can't define your question well, it may be because you still aren't clear on the problem. It sounds like the actual issue you're facing is that a project missed the deadline, people want to blame someone, as a result they want to monitor idle time and figure out if it's 'excessive'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's the case, you may want to focus less on the tool you created, and more about explaining why you are focusing on measuring employee slack time after a project misses its deadline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How Do I...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the problem, and the question asked, people may determine that this is more about how to do your job rather than a problem that involves the Workplace. Be sure that your question is about how to solve a general workplace issue, and isn't about, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How should I measure time spent idle?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; which is going to be something that you and your company has to figure out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know what you'd end up asking, but I recommend taking the time to think about what the problem is, if the question scopes your problem well, and if it's clear that there are solutions that the community can provide and evaluate objectively that aren't just providing tool suggestions, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-04-14T06:46:18.143" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2574" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-14T09:15:04.790" Score="7" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;So prior to becoming a mod, I really wanted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2045/on-topic-and-off-topic-sections-of-the-help-center&quot;&gt;update the help center&lt;/a&gt;. Unfortunately, we only have access to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic section&lt;/a&gt; for free editing by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We had a brief chit-chat amongst the mods, and had a few thoughts on what we could do to work with the tools we have (including community feedback, as you guys are awesome) to make our help center more fantastic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Uses&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the discussion we came up with the following 5 ways we often use the help center:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;For people who clearly don't understand the site scope (this could be tour)&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For people who are asking a question a bit wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For people who have their question closed (what the reasons mean, how to fix it)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For people answering (don't repeat others, back it up, longer not shorter, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;The first was taken care of with our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2570/recent-changes-to-the-workplace&quot;&gt;updated about page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Suggestion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a lot of information to shove all in one page, and it's a bit unwieldy to read if all the information is in there. So rather than shoving it all in and making it menacing for our new users who we are most likely to point to it, we can add links to meta posts describing each of the various sections. That way we can keep the help center brief, but add additional information for folks who want to click through and read more about our reasoning in logic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, a lot of what we are about isn't &lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6828/was-the-experiment-with-five-monkeys-a-ladder-a-banana-and-a-water-spray-condu&quot;&gt;blindly following rules&lt;/a&gt;, but rather sharing what our thought process is as a community on what makes us work, and letting people use common sense to apply that to their experience here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;More Concrete Suggestion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here is what we are thinking may be a good way to go about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Create a meta-question &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; for each off-topic section of the help center&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;I need advice on...&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;What should I do?&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;Which job should I take?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;Is it legal...&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;Please review my resume/CV&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;How do I learn to be a...&amp;quot; / &amp;quot;How do I perform the job of a ...&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;What salary/hourly rate should I look for? How much should I charge for X?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should be able to clearly explain to a new visitor (or old veteran alike) exactly why these types of questions are off-topic. If we can't create a nice convincing reason that people shouldn't ask for us to review their CV's, then we should ask ourselves why, and then either remove it from the help center as a verboten topic, or come up with a darn good reason and add it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Eeeek! My question is on hold!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should have a meta question that explains what you should do if your question is put on hold. This should explain the basics of each close reason, and link to resources (like the above) giving more detail on why things are closed for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But most importantly, it should explain how to fix the question. We should explain that people can edit their posts at any time, and that questions put on hold can be reopened after editing automatically by the community (so no need to delete and repost, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;We should have a FAQ for answerers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When an answer gets downvoted and/or negative comments, we should have an article we can use to point out why. This should go over the reasons that answers get downvoted, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;Back it Up and Don't Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt;, etc. Again, we should explain how people can improve their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Then You Do the Hokey Pokey Edit It All Together&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we can arrange this in to a nice short comment-friendly magic-linked (&lt;code&gt;[help/on-topic]&lt;/code&gt; in a comment will automatically link as 'help center' in the comment) to a veritable vault of knowledge. With links. To useful references. That will help new and existing users alike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;But We Need Your Help!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are but three mods, and the community are the ones who decide what is on/off-topic, and are the ones who write a bulk of the meta content we have. We want your help in putting together these &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;. And we want to know if you think we're missing the forest through the trees. Please use this as a discussion to let us know if this makes sense, if it doesn't, if something needs to be tweaked, and then in a week we can start making some of these FAQ drafts for anyone and everyone to contribute to and make our site more understandable to new and veteran users alike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-04-15T17:09:12.327" Title="Improving the Help Center (take two)" Tags="|discussion|help-center|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2575" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-14T19:03:30.513" Score="4" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while ago an edit was proposed to one of my questions, reviewed and rejected by another contributor. Now every few hours the edit is being added to my inbox for my attention. I can't do anything with it, because it was already rejected, so I skip. But a few hours later it comes back again. Does anyone have any way to deal with this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens with just the global inbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/10044&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/10044&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="886" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-04-14T19:09:14.490" Title="Infinitely recurring edit review" Tags="|bug|suggested-edits|notifications|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2574" CreationDate="2014-04-15T11:44:03.480" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2574/improving-the-help-center-take-two#comment4574_2574&quot;&gt;suggested in comments&lt;/a&gt;, here's a brief analysis of an example at Programmers meta that seems to be efficient in communicating close reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6483/why-was-my-question-closed-or-down-voted&quot;&gt;Why was my question closed or down voted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What works well&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Convenient to use in comments.&lt;/strong&gt; Open the post, and you can immediately copy link related to specific close reason as these are positioned near the top and conveniently grouped in a structure resembling close dialog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Convenient to overview and maintain.&lt;/strong&gt; Details for all close reasons are located under a single question, each in own separate answer. Reader / editor can study them all or pick particular one for a deeper dive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Convenient to read for question askers.&lt;/strong&gt; Each close reason is addressed in a separate answer, so that asker lands straight in the relevant position when referred to from question comments. Each answer is 15-40 lines long (think of half page / one page resume), formatted for easier reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I regularly have to retract close vote (&lt;em&gt;now that's a real pleasure!&lt;/em&gt;) after referring asker to &amp;quot;their&amp;quot; part in comments, following improvements made in the question after my comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Related reading&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; sections at the bottom - can't tell if it's of much use for askers (except for maybe giving them sort of assurance that there is a solid foundation behind each close reason) but when closure discussion goes beyond a single comment, I tend to refer links in this section for supplementary, more thorough posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What doesn't work&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Quick links&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; like &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6490/&quot;&gt;Why was my question closed as too broad?&lt;/a&gt; First issue is, titles of these look more appropriate for &lt;em&gt;already closed&lt;/em&gt; questions while I found these really useful as early as possible (see my note regarding retracted votes above), sometimes even without casting close vote, go figure. Another thing I noticed is, people seem to better follow neutral looking meta URLs instead of loaded link titles - &lt;code&gt;http.../a/6490&lt;/code&gt; reads less scary than &lt;code&gt;too broad&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Double-reasons&lt;/strong&gt; - when question has more than one problem, referring in comments to explanation of single &amp;quot;prevalent&amp;quot; problem regularly leads to only that single issue being fixed. When this happens, I honestly feel like stuck because repeating trick with posting comment referring to next issue doesn't feel fair. Luckily, in most cases when I saw this happen, some other site regular chimes in and explains remaining issue to the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-04-15T17:09:12.327" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2577" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-15T21:16:37.867" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question on what is the best way to go into programming field, especially where I can work from home, and my question was put on hold&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/22712/what-are-general-traits-that-recruiters-look-for-in-programmer&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/22712/what-are-general-traits-that-recruiters-look-for-in-programmer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any advice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, you're probably not asking this question because you're&#xA;  merely curious. Something tells me that there's actually a real&#xA;  problem beneath that question that we just haven't exposed. Have you&#xA;  interviewed for a job as a programmer? Did it not work out so well?&#xA;  Are you hoping to learn something that helps you nail your next&#xA;  interview?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes there is an actual problem, it's rather complex:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've suddenly become a single mother (expecting in Oct 2014) and now I am wondering how I will take care of my child (other than grandparents, nannies), and would like to keep my options flexible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm currently at an IT job that is not the right fit for me. However I need to clear a certification related to my current job function by Oct 2014 (better to finish what was already started, I cleared one out of three required exams already, and I am very close to clearing the second one)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am interested in a job that allows me to work from home, preferably with flexible hours, and the advice I have been given is that many programming jobs fit this description&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I excelled in programming (and I was very focused while doing this, and I otherwise get easily distracted) in college and graduate schools, but it has been 15 years since I did serious programming. However if minor programming is needed at my job, my boss turns to me&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I get back in the game? So far I've been given great advice such as actively participating in open source projects, set up GIT on my machine, actually do programming (don't worry too much about certifications), getting smart on algorithms, study remote jobs offered on stackexchange website, etc. Is there anything else I should think about? Time is limited right now, and I want to plan best as I can. I'll start working my plan probably in beginning of 2016 (after my child is more than a year old)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would this be considered a detailed question? Perhaps TMI? Feel free to edit it to make it appropriate for these forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18729" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-04-16T21:28:34.500" Title="What question is appropriate for getting guidance from advanced programmers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2577" CreationDate="2014-04-16T00:16:30.917" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best questions on Stack Exchange are those about a real, actual problem someone is facing. These questions tend to be very specific and get answerers thinking along the lines of how to solve a problem faced by the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a Q&amp;amp;A site, questions that are overly broad, speculative, or which require extended discussion tend to not work out as well. In this instance, the answer would depend on the recruiter and his or her personality, as well as how he/she pictures the ideal candidate. This also differs based on position and the type of programming job. In essence, this question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;primarily opinion based&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;discussions focused on diverse opinions&lt;/a&gt; are great, but they just don't fit our format well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than on facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, this may be just a little outside of our scope, as Workplace SE deals primarily with problems faced in interviewing, professionalism, job hunting, and other topics listed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;the help center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you're probably not asking this question because you're merely curious.  Something tells me that there's actually a real problem beneath that question that we just haven't exposed. Have you interviewed for a job as a programmer? Did it not work out so well? Are you hoping to learn something that helps you nail your next interview? If so, tell us about that. Tell us what you tried, what you think worked and what you think didn't work. Not only will it be a more interesting question about a real problem, but you'll likely get better answers that are based on problems &lt;em&gt;you're&lt;/em&gt; facing as someone trying to master the next interview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the question is slanted towards programming, if you steer clear of technology questions, we &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be able to make this question more targeted with a little editing.  For further guidance in getting started with some edits, see the six guidelines to a good subjective question in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt;. Hope this helps and thanks for participating!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-04-16T00:16:30.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2579" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-16T08:30:53.137" Score="4" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came upon &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d4eaF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for which editing was disabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt; keyword at the bottom shows a different font (size?) which I think is not intended:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d4eaF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using the latest FireFox (currently 28.0)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8036" LastEditorUserId="1513" LastEditDate="2014-04-16T10:35:15.153" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T02:57:58.153" Title="Minor layout issue: incorrect font (size?)" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2580" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-16T13:30:25.727" Score="2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been criticised for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/22719/16309&quot;&gt;posting answers&lt;/a&gt; that don't adress the question itself but the intent behind it or are somehow related. I understand that I shouldn't be noisy but I find in some situations it provides additional information (like in the answer linked above). Or should it just be a comment then? In order to not put too much noise in that post itself I want to discuss this here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16309" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-04-17T05:16:30.660" Title="Does an answer have to adress the question directly?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2580" CreationDate="2014-04-17T04:43:26.227" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your participation on our Workplace SE Q&amp;amp;A community site!  Our goal is to become a resource of knowledge for future visitors with career questions, general workplace problems, and other topics listed in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the principle challenges that Stack Exchange strives to solve is what's known as the forum problem, where forums and chat rooms simply don't scale very well, as described in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most forums and chat rooms have a scale problem. As in, &lt;em&gt;they don’t&lt;/em&gt;. The more people that join the discussion, the more noise each of those connections bring. So the forums get progressively noisier and noisier, and suddenly one day … &lt;a href=&quot;http://scobleizer.com/2009/11/02/the-chat-roomforum-problem-an-apology-to-technosailor/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;you stop learning&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;… eventually the experts (i.e. people who are teaching you stuff) get drowned out and you are left with an experience that looks more like the magazine rack at a grocery store than a book shelf at Harvard. — Robert Scoble&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before I found Stack Overflow, if I had a problem that I needed to solve which required research on the Internet, I found I would carefully craft various search terms that led to what I thought may contain solutions, or information that might lead to those solutions. Instead, I found myself swimming in a sea of forum posts, which oftentimes consisted of people asking the same question, people posting information that was based on nothing but guesses, and people berating other users for their lack of knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sometimes there would be people posting tangential information, which still wasn't what I was looking for.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oftentimes, the answer might be buried on page 29 of a 52 page thread, halfway down the page. In the worst cases, I might go through the &lt;em&gt;entire thread&lt;/em&gt; and still be left empty-handed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then one day I found Stack Overflow links start popping up in my search results. I didn't know why, but the content always seemed to have the answer to my problems. It got to the point where I found myself clicking on only those links and ignoring the other search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wasn't until I started participating and learning about how Stack Exchange communities work that I realized &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; these sites are so helpful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you're a professional, and you're searching for the answer to a problem, you can tell relatively quickly whether or not the content behind that link will solve your problem or if you should keep looking elsewhere.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even on Stack Overflow posts that &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; have the answer, I could still make that determination in less than a minute, and that lack of noise is what makes these communities so powerful and helps them scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have helpful information to add, my suggestion is to try and add it in as part of a larger answer to the question that's being asked. This helps ensure that our content is useful to all the hundreds and thousands of future visitors searching the Internet for answers to their problems. We want them to land on Workplace SE and tell as quickly as possible whether or not the answer is here. Hope this helps, and thanks again for participating!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I saw your edits, and I cleaned up your post a little bit based on your reasoning in your edits. Nice edits! I feel like a little bit of detail goes a long way!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-04-17T05:16:30.660" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2582" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-17T15:05:19.903" Score="0" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a Stack Overflow profile which I publicize among my friends / potential employers etc. But I would not like people to see or know what questions or answers I post on sites like The Workplace. It is very easy to know the real life references from my post if a person knows me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to express my concern about all of my questions being visible to any one who knows my Stack Exchange username. I am actually restraining my self from posting some questions pertaining to my workplace as many of my colleagues are active on Stack Overflow and they can easily know the context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a way I can hide my questions which I am not aware of, I apologize for posting this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16825" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2014-04-18T16:39:29.773" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T16:39:29.773" Title="Privacy concerns" Tags="|discussion|profile-page|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2014-04-17T21:01:21.733" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2579" CreationDate="2014-04-18T02:57:58.153" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, that's a CSS bug all right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the normal links, we have the following CSS rule:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.post-menu &amp;gt; a {&#xA;    color: #888;&#xA;    padding: 1px 6px;&#xA;    font-size: 12px;&#xA;    margin-right: 1px;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the disabled links aren't actually links; they're &lt;code&gt;span&lt;/code&gt; tags with the class &lt;code&gt;disabled-link&lt;/code&gt;, and are styled like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.disabled-link {&#xA;    color: #888;&#xA;    opacity: 0.6;&#xA;    padding: 0px 3px 2px;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice the wrong padding and the complete lack of &lt;code&gt;font-size: 12px&lt;/code&gt;.  Relacing the disabled link style with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.disabled-link {&#xA;    color: #888;&#xA;    opacity: 0.6;&#xA;    padding: 1px 6px;&#xA;    font-size: 12px;&#xA;    margin-right: 1px;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(or at least overriding it for the post menu, if that class is also used somewhere else) should fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2139" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T02:57:58.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2402" CreationDate="2014-04-18T11:02:49.790" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Look ma, it scales&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, below is what I learned by studying how &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts&quot;&gt;Low Quality review queue&lt;/a&gt; works at Stack Overflow. Per my understanding of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/59445/recent-feature-changes-to-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;recent feature changes&lt;/a&gt;, NAA and VLQ flags push post into this queue unless it has been already reviewed there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Side note it's not the first time that I am active in this queue but things feel &lt;em&gt;really different&lt;/em&gt; compared to &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6095/31260&quot; title=&quot;back then, in December 2012, I did few hundreds reviews in this queue, then dropped it&quot;&gt;my past experience&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Oblivious of meta&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Review in this queue is supposed to run without any meta guidance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a matter of simple math: there are about &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users?page=850&amp;amp;tab=reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot; title=&quot;850 pages by 36 users each ~= 30,000&quot;&gt;30,000 eligible reviewers (2Kers)&lt;/a&gt;, while top viewed &lt;em&gt;flags&lt;/em&gt; question at MSE has only about &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bflags%5D+views%3A17000&quot;&gt;18K views&lt;/a&gt; - including views from lower rep users, as well as views from users of other SE sites and from all the internet at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;No diamonds&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Review in this queue is supposed to run without diamond moderator involvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a matter of simple timing: in straightforward cases, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/4579267&quot; title=&quot;example&quot;&gt;deletion takes only a few minutes&lt;/a&gt;. If it was expected that moderators control such a fast paced activity, they would have to be on a 24x7 permanent watch, which is &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/14524409#14524409&quot; title=&quot;'It's a frickin' volunteer position - you do it when you have the time to do it.'&quot;&gt;certainly not the case&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Mob rules, balanced&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first glance, it seems that just six-seven 2K users can in theory create a death ring and remove 20 &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; answers a day through flagging and consequent voting in LQ queue (20 is review limit when queue has less than 1000 items).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But system is indeed designed to prevent anything like this from happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To start with, if post author ever notices deletion they can simply undelete it &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/184568/165773&quot; title=&quot;'post authors can always undelete posts deleted by low-rep users via /review - however, doing so will raise a flag for moderator review...'&quot;&gt;solely at their discretion&lt;/a&gt;. And this is not all, system appears to be designed to either &lt;em&gt;dissipate&lt;/em&gt; into disputed flag or alert moderators any time when things deviate from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_path&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;'default scenario featuring no exceptional or error conditions...'&quot;&gt;happy path&lt;/a&gt; (&amp;quot;happy path&amp;quot; here being unambiguous decision of reviewers and voters that post isn't wort keeping, followed by total negligence of its author).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the sake of completeness, moderators have means to block repetitive abusive flagging (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/175405/165773&quot;&gt;flag suspensions&lt;/a&gt;). But if you think of it, system is designed so that most bad flags are expected to be blocked before they even bother a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When there are 30,000 &lt;em&gt;mostly reasonable&lt;/em&gt; reviewers in the queue, chances for a substantially mis-flagged post to pass through without being stopped by regular reviewers are pretty slim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;First round: light as the breeze&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, it looks like no risk and no pain are involved for all the parties in the initial phase of dealing with VLQ/NAA flags. Worst case for flagger is they get painless &amp;quot;disputed&amp;quot; flag. Worst case for author who noticed deletion of their answer is they click undelete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad answers are easy and quick to delete, and when deletion mistakes happen, it's easy to revert for post author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Interesting that per my observations, SO &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/hot-questions/info&quot;&gt;hot questions&lt;/a&gt; recently look like carrying less of trash answers than it was before. Not having 10k over there, I can only guess, but it's quite possible that garbage simply is quickly cleaned up via queue (and if the posters undelete, moderators get notified and can intervene).&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it feel like for a (responsible) flagger?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a word, great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best thing is, one doesn't need to study cumbersome rules of the game anymore. You just flag answers you feel better be deleted and regularly check &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/157344/165773&quot;&gt;amount of your disputed flags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you feel like it's higher that you would want it to be, you visit posts with your disputed flags and try to figure what could make your peers - regular 2K users - disagree with your flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system feels simple, transparent and fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What does this mean for Workplace?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hard to tell, because amount of posts, flags, reviewers and moderators differs so dramatically. Taking into account site specific quality requirements like &lt;em&gt;Back It Up / Don't Repeat Others&lt;/em&gt; adds to the complication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Above approach works at Stack Overflow but they simply don't have an alternative due to large scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At smaller sites, it is technically possible to have more mod control over review queues, for example like in Programmers close queue (where moderators tend to intervene when it looks like there's too much stuff in there) or even a really tight control like in Low Quality queues at Programmers and Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Related reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/184568/165773&quot;&gt;What can cause an answer to get deleted without information about who actually deleted it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/204691/165773&quot;&gt;A single “looks good” should not mean the post is “good”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/95275/what-is-a-disputed-flag&quot;&gt;What is a disputed flag?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/226092/lets-get-rid-of-the-10k-flag-queue&quot;&gt;Let's get rid of the 10K flag queue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/251175/stack-overflow-is-not-yet-a-vast-wasteland-a-history-of-moderator-tooling&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow is not yet a vast wasteland: a history of moderator tooling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-05-08T10:09:55.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2585" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-19T21:24:53.353" Score="5" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are the below questions unique to specific jobs / career paths (i.e. not generalizable)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they off topic for this reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/102/are-questions-about-fulfilling-specific-job-functions-on-topic&quot;&gt;similar&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2277/are-career-path-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm still left a bit unsure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/22910/what-would-my-actual-duties-be-per-this-job-description&quot;&gt;What would my actual duties be per this job description?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/22947/what-are-common-job-titles-for-roles-that-helps-to-improve-cross-functional-busi&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/22947/what-are-common-job-titles-for-roles-that-helps-to-improve-cross-functional-busi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that these would fall under:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on what job to take, what skills to learn, etc. are off-topic as the answers are rarely useful to anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, as per &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;the help center&lt;/a&gt; (the first reason), this appears to be more for opinion-based questions, which this doesn't really seem to fall under. Or does this fall under &lt;code&gt;&quot;How do I learn to be a...&quot; / &quot;How do I perform the job of a ...&quot;&lt;/code&gt; (even though it doesn't seem to classify as &quot;the learning/applying of specific job functions&quot;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't we perhaps modify the above reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on what job to take, what skills to learn, &lt;strong&gt;advice which can't be generalized to other jobs or career paths&lt;/strong&gt;, etc. are off-topic as the answers are rarely useful to anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or have a close reason specifically for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And modify &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;the on-topic page&lt;/a&gt; a bit with regard to this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-04-20T18:37:47.193" Title="Are these questions unique to specific jobs / career paths and thus off topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2586" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2587" CreationDate="2014-04-20T17:47:35.373" Score="3" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I approved the first edit to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/22983/work-pressure-due-to-ineffecient-co-worker&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (the one made by user &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/12655/yochannah&quot;&gt;yochannah&lt;/a&gt;), but regret doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can I revert this somehow?&lt;/strong&gt; I could not find a way. I have 2031 rep at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[FWIW: Reason: She italicized a sentence that may have only been an interpretation by the OP - it does not deserve the emphasis.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8036" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-04-21T13:56:15.583" Title="I approved an edit too quickly - can I revert this?" Tags="|support|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2586" CreationDate="2014-04-20T18:01:23.210" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no way to revert your approval of a suggested edit. However, once a suggested edit gets approved (or rejected) you can always edit again to fix remaining problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I went ahead and edited to remove the italics and also fix remaining problems, like the title, other grammatical issues, and punctuation issues. I marked the suggested edit as helpful due to the fixes in other areas, but rejecting may arguably also have been a correct approach considering there were other areas left untended. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, suggested edits should fix &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; problems with a post, unless the edit fixes a major problem with the post, such as a title edit or clarifying something in the body of importance. Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-04-20T18:01:23.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2585" CreationDate="2014-04-20T18:37:47.193" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The thing that stands out about the two questions you referenced is that it appears we, as a community, may have actually done a good job in answering them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both cases, while somewhat speculative, user &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/233/jb-king&quot;&gt;JB King&lt;/a&gt; answers by taking an objective stance, describing a few different likely solutions. The fact that there's references to Wikipedia articles suggests that there is somewhat of a standard regarding job titles, even if some companies do make up their own titles or sometimes tweak the job descriptions based on their own whims.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing about generalization is scale. For our site to continue to succeed, questions and answers should apply to enough people to where the content will help &lt;em&gt;lots&lt;/em&gt; of people. This is of course a subjective criteria, one which is difficult to compartmentalize. Thus, Stack Exchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/185102/155826&quot;&gt;removed the &quot;too localized&quot; close reason&lt;/a&gt; precisely because many people misunderstood what types of questions to use it for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question about a job title, and the answers, may benefit many people also looking for work in the same career field. Sure, it won't benefit &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt;, but it should benefit enough people to where it provides some measurable value to future visitors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other point to consider is this: Really general questions may arguably be more likely to be &lt;em&gt;basic&lt;/em&gt; questions, questions that have already been asked and answered in other places. To disallow questions that aren't &quot;general enough&quot; may inadvertently throw out the tougher questions that Joel Spolsky, CEO and co-founder of Stack Exchange, describes &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/04/19.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;in the blog post titled, &quot;Sites for experts&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The power of the Stack Exchange platform is detailed, &lt;em&gt;expert&lt;/em&gt; answers to extremely rare, ‘long-tail,’ highly technical questions. To get expert answers, you need experts. To attract experts, you need a site where people are asking very interesting and hard questions, not the basic questions, so that it’s clear that this is a PRO site, not a consumer/enthusiast site.... and remember, the pro sites WILL attract the enthusiasts, but not the other way around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer more definitively, I wouldn't suggest adding these to the close reasons while the questions are &lt;em&gt;open&lt;/em&gt; and getting good, useful answers. However, I'd like to hear more from members of the community before any definitive decisions are made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-04-20T18:37:47.193" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2589" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-21T11:29:58.917" Score="-6" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I suppose this may belong to meta but I am unable to post there, so please move it there if you have the permissions to do so&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been following this site for a few months and also asked a couple of questions over different periods of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it very helpful that people can exchange so many ideas, however, one feature I find regrettable is the fact that downvoting is often not entirely clear, especially if it is not supported by at least a comment about the reason for being downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(see, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/23000/&quot;&gt;this question about career advancement in a family business&lt;/a&gt; - how do I know what I can improve there? How do I know what's wrong about it?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The worst part of it is that when a question is downvoted, it has little chance to attract visibility and thus further help to be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel there have been a large number of very legitimate questions that have been downvoted for unknown reasons; &lt;strong&gt;how can anyone say for sure that those reasons themselves were not subjective?&lt;/strong&gt; Since the scope of this site is to actually be objective, I feel there should at least be a justification for why a question should be dropped from the visibility list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a clarification, the user asking the question, or other users, may at least have a chance to improve the text and bring it back to being on-topic, thus leaving some space to making the question more productive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this would result in a win-win situation and increase cooperation on the website instead of causing negative feelings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18915" OwnerDisplayName="EricPJW" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T14:46:06.943" Title="Reason for downvoting should always be clarified in order to help improve question" Tags="|feature-request|down-votes|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2589" CreationDate="2014-04-21T13:54:41.730" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downvote most often because I think the answer is wrong.  Telling the poster that I think they are wrong is not helpful.  the downvotes do that on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer is wrong then the only way to suggest a fix is to suggest they delete their answer.  Since many of the answers are opinions and it is just my opinion that it is wrong I do not even want to suggest that and would have an issue with someone else suggesting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this reason alone I think this is a suggestion that should not be implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2014-04-23T14:46:06.943" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T14:46:06.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2589" CreationDate="2014-04-21T18:04:59.937" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/135&quot;&gt;This has been discussed many times before on MSO... well, MSE now, and it's as good as it's gonna get&lt;/a&gt;.  There will be no mechanism to force people to explain a downvote, and thus, most people won't.  As to why, three main reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People will type anything in a textbox to &quot;get past it,&quot; so forcing people to comment on a downvote results in a lot of garbage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;6 comments all saying &quot;your post sucks&quot; are not useful, and do more harm than good.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's already a tooltip next to the downvote button.  Read it, as it covers the vast majority of downvotes.  Not like you're entitled to an explanation of a voter's vote anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3188" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2014-04-21T18:04:59.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1972" CreationDate="2014-04-22T14:25:42.977" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that leaving comments that consist entirely of &quot;+1 (padding to get to 15 characters)&quot; on lots of posts is noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a comment starts out &quot;+1&quot; and then elaborates or refines some particular point, I see that comment as valuable even though it started out with &quot;+1&quot;.  Ditto &quot;-1&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one other category of &quot;+1&quot; comments that I tend to be more lenient with on other sites, and would like to know how this community feels about it (by votes or comments here): a comment that welcomes a new user.  We &lt;a href=&quot;https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/q/190&quot;&gt;do this&lt;/a&gt; on Mi Yodeya and I've seen that make a real difference in how people perceive the site.  Note that this should be &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; comment per recipient, ideally on his first positive contribution; if someone else has already welcomed the new user you can just upvote that comment, and if this is the third good post from the same new user you don't need to keep it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:39:04.447" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T14:25:42.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2593" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-22T16:58:19.010" Score="4" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is the first post stemming from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2574/&quot;&gt;Improving the Help Center (take two)&lt;/a&gt;. It is listed as &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq-proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq-proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq-proposed&lt;/a&gt; so that the community can add to and comment on the contents. We can clean up additional answers and comments later on, so don't hesitate to point out if you think something should be added, changed, or removed. We can edit this portion of the help center freely, so let's make it splendid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I read &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;the help center&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm still a bit confused about what is off-topic and why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The help center mentions the following types of questions as being off-topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2594/168&quot;&gt;&quot;I need advice on...&quot;, &quot;What should I do?&quot;, or &quot;Which job should I take?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2595/168&quot;&gt;&quot;Is it legal…&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2596/168&quot;&gt;&quot;Please review my resume/CV&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2597/168&quot;&gt;&quot;How do I learn to be a...&quot; / &quot;How do I perform the job of a …&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2598/168&quot;&gt;&quot;What salary/hourly rate should I look for? How much should I charge for X?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you help me understand why certain things are off-topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T08:54:57.787" Title="What questions are off-topic here?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|on-topic-definition|faq-proposed|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-22T16:58:19.010" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2593" CreationDate="2014-04-22T16:58:19.010" Score="3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;&amp;quot;I need advice on...&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;What should I do?&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;Which job should I take?&amp;quot;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone sharing their opinion is great for forums, or discussions with your friends, but aren't a great fit for The Workplace. As we explain in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;about&lt;/a&gt; page, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;This site is all about &lt;strong&gt;getting answers&lt;/strong&gt;. It's not a discussion forum. There's no chit-chat.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you ask what you should do, everyone can only tell you what &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; would do in that situation, and there is no way to provide an answer that will work for anyone or that can be marked as correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find yourself asking a question asking for advice, try rephrasing your question in a way that gets you information that will help you make your own decision. Instead of asking &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Should I quit?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; try asking &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How can I solve [the problem making me want to quit]?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; If you can't solve the problem, then you can make your own decision on whether or not to quit your job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sample questions that fall in to this category:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I change careers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I ask for a raise?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I quit my job? (etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T16:58:19.010" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-22T16:58:19.010" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2593" CreationDate="2014-04-22T17:06:06.233" Score="4" Body="&lt;h3&gt;&amp;quot;Is it legal…&amp;quot;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is not a substitute for proper legal advice. If your question asks us to tell you whether or not a specific situation is legal, or to interpret the law to let you know what to do, we aren't going to be able to help you and strongly suggest you consult an attorney.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your legal question could be answered by an HR professional (not a lawyer), then it may be okay here. Asking about payroll tax may be okay, but asking if you can retrieve unpaid employer tax contributions that were not paid after you were terminated is something you will have to ask a lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before asking a question about the law, think to yourself, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Is this something that comes up regularly for people in the workplace?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; If not, you should probably consult an attorney rather than asking it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sample questions that fall in to this category:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was it legal for my employer to fire me?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can I sue my employer if they do not honor a verbal agreement?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can my employer enforce a contract with an illegal provision in it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite this prohibition there is a legal component in almost everything we do in the workplace.  As such questions that are asking for facts about the law or how perform some action that is legal are on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sample questions with a legal component that are on topic:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is required to take extended leave using FMLA Protections?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Under what circumstances should my employer be required to pay me overtime?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A former employer refuses to grant my relieving letter how do I proceed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information on legal questions please refer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2426/325&quot;&gt;this answer to another question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We need to make a distinction between questions about &lt;em&gt;what the law is&lt;/em&gt; and questions about &lt;em&gt;how the law should be applied to a particular situation&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;  I think the former are valid questions here and the latter are trouble waiting to happen...&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T19:05:22.660" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-22T17:06:06.233" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2593" CreationDate="2014-04-22T17:10:34.847" Score="6" Body="&lt;h3&gt;&amp;quot;Please review my resume/CV&amp;quot;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As explained in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;about&lt;/a&gt; page, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;This site is all about getting answers.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; Asking us to review your resume/CV is not a good fit for our format since there will be no answer that will help future readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking us to critique your resume will not help future visitors, as each person will have different experiences and writing styles, and we aren't designed to be an individual resume/CV review service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than asking us to review your resume, try to generalize your question so that it can help future visitors. Asking us, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Please review my skills section&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; is not okay, but asking &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10006/how-should-i-indicate-language-proficiency-on-my-resume&quot;&gt;How Should I Indicate Language Proficiency on my Resume?&lt;/a&gt; will let you know how to update your resume and help future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T17:10:34.847" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-22T17:10:34.847" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2593" CreationDate="2014-04-22T17:20:03.093" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think these two reasons may need to be split out in to two separate ones -- asking what degree to get or what career path is required to get a certain job is quite different from asking how to do your job. Both are off-topic, but for different reasons&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&amp;quot;How do I learn to be a...&amp;quot; / &amp;quot;How do I perform the job of a …&amp;quot;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we understand that many people want to know how to change careers or how to get a certain role, they aren't a good fit for our format. There are millions of careers out there, and in many different companies -- each has different requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those requirements should be listed in the job description. Rather than asking us, you should take a look at those job requirements and talk to the companies about the roles you want to work in, since they are the only ones who can tell you what you need to do to get those positions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you already have the skills and want to improve your chances, why not ask a question about how to improve a certain aspect of your resume or cover letter to better appeal to that company instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sample questions that fall in to this category:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I become a game developer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What certification should I get if I want to work in sports data analysis?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What languages are best to learn if you want to be a UN interpreter? (etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T17:20:03.093" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-22T17:20:03.093" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2593" CreationDate="2014-04-22T17:24:30.457" Score="6" Body="&lt;h3&gt;&amp;quot;What salary/hourly rate should I look for? How much should I charge for X?&amp;quot;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much people are paid depends on supply and demand in the market. Asking us how much you should be paid is asking us to determine how much demand there is in your market for your skills, how good your skills actually are, and what your relationship with your (potential) clients is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are going to be worse at that than you are. Rather than asking, why not take a look at what similar positions are paying in your area, going on a few interviews, or re-negotiating with your clients to see if they are willing to pay more than they currently are? That will get you an answer far more quickly than asking us here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to ask &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to approach clients to ask for more money, or about salary negotiation in interviews, do a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=&quot;&gt;search&lt;/a&gt; to make sure it hasn't already been asked, and then feel free to ask a specific question about that instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T08:54:57.787" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-22T17:24:30.457" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2600" CreationDate="2014-04-23T11:03:27.260" Score="12" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to flag a User, rather than just flagging all the spam answers that user posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/18962/globalhunt&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/18962/globalhunt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T05:18:28.980" Title="Is it possible to flag a User?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2599" CreationDate="2014-04-23T12:37:28.590" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kind of, but not directly. You can't flag the &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt;, but you can flag any (rather than all) of the user's posts with the &lt;strong&gt;other (needs ♦ moderator attention)&lt;/strong&gt; reason and explain the situation. The mods can take it from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T12:37:28.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2411" CreationDate="2014-04-23T14:09:39.673" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2652/we-want-you-for-community-moderation&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SAYp1.png&quot; alt=&quot;We Want You! To Make TWP Better&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-05-20T00:59:38.783" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-23T14:09:39.673" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2538" CreationDate="2014-04-24T01:31:38.627" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the site should use the Back It Up! policy on questions that contain subjective elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a mod on RPG.SE.  We have seen a very strong differential in quality of answers based on our site learning to adhere to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; rules.  Theoretical answers, even when popular and backed with votes, are very low quality compared to answers coming from real experience. They &quot;sound good&quot; and get votes from people who like (that person, their mindset, their grammar, their opinions) but that has little to do with whether it works in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; should be normative guidance for all SE sites and it is what raises Stack Exchange above the &quot;Yahoo Answers&quot; level of &quot;look I too can write an uninformed opinion.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, references count as backing it up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something that happened to you personally&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something you can back up with a reference&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having seen it happen to someone else counts, reading it in a source counts. Wishful opinions of &quot;I'm sure this is how it would happen, though I have no basis for that&quot; does not count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do your SE a favor for the long term and fully understand and implement &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; as normative guidance for your answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T01:31:38.627" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2603" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-24T19:03:47.913" Score="5" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the reasons questions asking for advice about which jobs should they go for are marked as off topic are they aren't relevant to many people, if anyone except the original poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I have come across &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/23155/jobs-that-suit-disabled-workers&quot;&gt;one question&lt;/a&gt; (that I did flag for this very reason) that seems to consider a group of people, in this case disabled people in general. As this question is relevant to a wider range of people could it, and others like it, be considered on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the question to answer is does the question reach a wide enough range of people to be considered helpful and a good question. I think in answering that we'll automatically answer my other question of whether the specific question should be on topic. However I don't know how to judge that, so I'm asking those of you who have much more experience in this matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17512" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T20:51:41.223" Title="Could questions asking for job advice for a group of people be considered on topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2603" CreationDate="2014-04-24T20:51:41.223" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question makes me think of a similar one on Aviation Meta:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://aviation.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/309/would-recommend-me-an-aircraft-for-this-mission-questions-be-appropriate&quot;&gt;https://aviation.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/309/would-recommend-me-an-aircraft-for-this-mission-questions-be-appropriate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, you will get a lot of answers that will be valid and correct, but no one answer will be the best or the most correct.  And that's why it doesn't fit the Q/A format of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18054" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:52:28.333" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T20:51:41.223" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2599" CreationDate="2014-04-25T05:18:28.980" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you encounter a user posting nothing but spam, and it's clear the user created that account simply for the purpose of posting spam and nonsense, it's best to flag as spam. Although, as Jim says, feel free to also flag a post as &quot;other&quot; if there really is something you need to describe in greater detail, but in general spam needs little explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Stack Exchange system is programmed to handle these types of flags differently than other flags. They stand out a lot more, and there are measures that Stack Exchange put in place to help prevent more spam from that same user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see a post flagged as spam, I generally do some digging to see if the user has a pattern. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T05:18:28.980" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2606" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-25T15:53:45.567" Score="9" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of questions ask something that could be answered (sometimes very easily) by looking at an employer's policies/rules, or by asking your boss, but can't be answered by our community (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/23189/869&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest close reasons we have to this is &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While answers can be based on facts, references, or specific expertise, those facts/expertise are &lt;em&gt;not relevant&lt;/em&gt; to the particular situation, since policy varies by company (and industry, and locale).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In these situations, the best we can say is &quot;ask your boss&quot; or &quot;check your company policy&quot;, which isn't an answer to the question (more of a link-only &quot;the answer is over here&quot; question without an actual link). It would be helpful if we could close these questions as &quot;too localized&quot; or similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T17:45:20.333" Title="Can we have a &quot;specific to one company&quot; close reason?" Tags="|feature-request|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2607" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-25T16:46:54.413" Score="9" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see quite a few questions that are culture specific that tend to attract US Centric answers. As a result the answers are completely wrong because the way things work in US are completely different than how they work in Europe, India, or most of the rest of the world outside US and Canada.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything we can do to highlight the Country specific tags so that answerers are more likely to take note of the specific culture being asked about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2014-04-28T12:48:10.443" LastActivityDate="2016-05-04T01:38:45.387" Title="Is there anything we can do to highlight the country/culture specific tags?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2606" CreationDate="2014-04-25T17:45:20.333" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question appears to be off-topic because it is about regulations or agreements that are company-specific and don't have universally applicable answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a custom close reason for this type of question. It may need some refinement and I'm open to suggestions. If you like it the way it is, feel free to pick it up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10912" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T17:45:20.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2609" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-26T14:31:52.703" Score="5" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;The off topic flags don't currently offer any option for when a question doesn't fit within the framework of Workplace. I site &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/22332/does-linkedin-recruiter-help-consultancies-or-agencies-in-the-way-it-should-be&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; as an example; it's not relevant at all to Workplace and so when trying to flag I was looking for something along those lines, but there are only 3 specific reasons for flagging a question off topic currently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need an option along the lines of &lt;em&gt;This question is off topic because it doesn't appear to be about the workplace.&lt;/em&gt; This would be similar to how SO has an option for flagging questions for not being about programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17512" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-04-26T14:38:25.070" Title="New off topic reason required for flags" Tags="|feature-request|flagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2607" CreationDate="2014-04-26T23:28:57.547" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding a tag to cover which country it is for would be a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;meta tag&lt;/a&gt;; these types of tags don't describe the content of the question and are discouraged. This information should be included in the body of the question instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said I do like jmorts idea of having a flag in the tags that could identify whee he user is posting from. If this could pick up from their IP all the better as that stops the user from having to add it themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17512" LastEditorUserId="17512" LastEditDate="2014-04-26T23:53:54.403" LastActivityDate="2014-04-26T23:53:54.403" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2607" CreationDate="2014-04-27T03:00:35.647" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have some location tags already and I don't see a problem with them; I don't think they're &quot;meta&quot; in the same way that, say, &quot;homework&quot; is a meta tag.  If the locale is important to the question then calling that out in a tag seems kosher to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;, regardless of what we do with tags, if the locale matters I want to see that in the &lt;em&gt;question body&lt;/em&gt;.  Tags are too easy to miss (though I love the idea of adding flags, which would make these ones more prominent).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please&lt;/strong&gt;, if you see a question where locale matters and it's not stated, ask for that information and vote to put on hold until we get it.  (Feel free to also bring up in chat for more votes if it looks like premature answers are a risk.)  If the information was provided in a comment, please edit it into the question.  And if you see answers that don't apply to the stated locale, please comment and/or flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-04-27T03:00:35.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2612" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-28T14:42:18.573" Score="5" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/23263/is-there-a-simple-non-offensive-way-to-flag-bike-shedding?noredirect=1&quot;&gt;asked a question&lt;/a&gt; after checking it hadn't been asked already. I'm an experienced stack exchange user so I made the question pretty unambiguous, explaining terms, giving examples and background, showing prior research, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user &lt;code&gt;Gnat&lt;/code&gt; posted a 'possible duplicate' comment and I immediately responded clarifying the difference between the questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ORJ57.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gnat then posted a link to a very long meta thread, with no explanation, but the top voted answer was saying that people who were receiving incorrect &quot;close as duplicates&quot; votes should edit an explanation of the difference into the question. So I did exactly this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It still got closed as a duplicate anyway:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KiuoN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's really no similarity between the questions at all except that both involve dealing with (very different) behaviours that can make meetings less productive. It's not just me who thinks so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PjQiC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged the incorrect closing, with no response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dealing with these spurious close votes has eaten up time and caused an already-long question to get even longer, and the question took around an hour and half to be re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm unlikely to use this site again, but I thought I should flag that people might be closing questions without reading them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4559" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T18:33:20.520" Title="Why was this question closed as a duplicate?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2612" CreationDate="2014-04-28T18:33:20.520" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sorry your first experience with this site was not more positive.  I hope you won't write us off over one post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes questions are erroneously closed.  Fortunately, the same process that leads to closure also leads to reopening, as happened here.  Sometimes a question really does need to be edited; other times well-intentioned voters misunderstand (or something isn't clear) and think it's about something other than what the author intended.  In a large, worldwide community with a wide mix of user backgrounds, misunderstandings are unfortunately inevitable.  It's what we &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; about them that matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the sequence of events that I can see on the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question was asked, obviously with a fair bit of care.  This wasn't one of the unclear dry-by one-liners we sometimes get.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Three hours later it was closed by community vote.  During this time a comment about the possible duplicate was made and the OP responded, with a comment and then edits, to explain why it's not a duplicate.  Nobody commented further during this time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An hour after that the question was reopened, with supporting comments and another edit.  The edit comment suggests that OP was mightily frustrated by that point (but I don't know if anybody saw that at the time).  Also during that hour, this meta question was posted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;More comments appeared.  I saw a flag and cleaned up the thread, removing obsolete comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would have helped if people involved had left more-helpful, or sometimes &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt;, comments earlier.  Not everybody is able to leave helpful comments and there's no requirement that you accompany a vote with a comment, but this is just a gentle reminder to all that &lt;em&gt;if you can&lt;/em&gt;, constructive comments can help improve posts and alleviate frustration.  And let's all remember that the earliest comments set the tone for what follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other side, this was 3-4 hours of disagreement, with the question being closed for one hour, and then the question was improved and reopened.  All of this was done &lt;em&gt;by the community&lt;/em&gt; (not the moderators), both the closure and the reopening.  It's always frustrating when people disagree about a post, but the process here &lt;em&gt;worked&lt;/em&gt;, and pretty quickly.  I encourage all to try to be patient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T18:33:20.520" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2618" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2619" CreationDate="2014-05-01T00:04:18.033" Score="6" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of comments that are essentially answers, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/23416/what-does-approved-by-mean-on-an-invoice&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It means that someone with authority signed off on your invoice as authoritative and that your demand for payment, as documented by your invoice, moves forward toward your goal of being fully paid - a goal which will be achieved when everyone with the requisite authority and responsibility has signed off on your invoice. If it sounds bureaucratic and deliberate, that's because it is bureaucratic and deliberate. They weren't going to liberate your money just on your say-so, right? :) –  Vietnhi Phuvan 43 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks, Vietnhi! So what do I actually put in the boxes? Where my guesses correct? –  invoicehelp 42 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You don't get to fill in the boxes! For the same reason that I'd get rich if I got to approve my own invoices :) Submit your invoice to your client. Either your client fills in the boxes because your client has the authority, or your client passes on the invoice to someone in the client's hierarchy who has authority to liberate your money. But you gotta take the first step amd submit that invoice to your client :) –  Vietnhi Phuvan 37 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could take those two comments and make them into a halfway decent answer.  Is that appropriate?  (In this case, I don't actually know enough to make an answer on my own, so perhaps it shouldn't be me using the comments.  On the other hand, the OP seems to think the comments/answer is helpful.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/54718/how-should-i-handle-questions-which-are-answered-in-the-comments&quot;&gt;meta question&lt;/a&gt; starts from the person asking the question, how to respond when the answer is in the comments.  This question is from the view of someone coming across a question where there isn't an answer yet, except for in the comments, and those comments appear to be at least the start for a good answer.  Perhaps the answer for both this and that are the same, and this should be considered a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="249" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-01-20T05:44:12.853" Title="Is it proper to take comments and make them into an answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2618" CreationDate="2014-05-01T00:40:44.487" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's nothing wrong with answering a question based on a comment you saw, as long as you can validate it as per the back it up rule with facts and references, or experiences that happened to you personally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can say that I've definitely seen comments that have sparked some ideas in my head and got me to think about a problem and a solution. In the end, the goal is to help the asker and future visitors, and if we should gain ideas from others who don't take the time to contribute answers, then this is sort of a win. However, the answers I ultimately post are based on my own knowledge and experiences. Thus, while a copy/paste verbatim answer may be considered inappropriate, the actual content that would come from us as the authors is ideal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;Comments are intended to seek clarification or help improve a post&lt;/a&gt;, and moderators delete such comments that don't fall within these guidelines. Since the answers in comments can't be properly voted on and ranked, they're basically noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I'd suggest using comments to encourage these commenters to leave actual answers. You can certainly leave such encouraging comments, and I think I've even seen you leave such comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, if we must choose between losing content posted incorrectly in comments or having someone like you take the time and care to develop a great answer, then we should choose the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:40:25.820" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T01:00:36.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2620" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-01T13:23:38.960" Score="7" ViewCount="350" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand the use of this site if I cannot ask &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/22802/how-do-you-handle-co-workers-that-want-to-converse-with-you-in-the-bathroom&quot;&gt;How do you handle co-workers that want to converse with you in the bathroom?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can offer you at least 100 questions over the past two months that answers are just as opinion based as mine.  Even a moderator for the site agrees in the comments.  I think that this is an easy out for some people who just want to close things they don't like.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either there should be black and white rules for this or people who abuse this and close things should be reprimanded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/23599/how-to-avoid-the-resignation-reason-rumor-mill&quot;&gt;How to avoid the resignation reason rumor mill?&lt;/a&gt; - this happens less than my issue and is answered solely on opinion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/23484/had-miscarriage-how-to-deal-with-coworkers&quot;&gt;Had miscarriage, how to deal with coworkers&lt;/a&gt; - 100% opinion based and also happens way less frequently&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/23580/how-to-network-with-a-person-you-dont-know-on-linkedin&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/23580/how-to-network-with-a-person-you-dont-know-on-linkedin&lt;/a&gt; 100% opinion based answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/23583/how-can-i-deal-with-a-non-technical-team-leader&quot;&gt;How can I deal with a non-technical team leader?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/23525/should-you-highlight-a-small-mistake-or-pretend-it-didnt-happen&quot;&gt;Should you highlight a small mistake, or pretend it didn&amp;#39;t happen?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to hear some insight on how the above questions are less opinion based than mine so that I can write a less opinion based question in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16609" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T17:03:52.220" Title="What is opinion based?" Tags="|discussion|opinion-based|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2620" CreationDate="2014-05-01T13:32:25.223" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/strong&gt; - discussions focused on diverse opinions are great, but they just don't fit our format well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than on facts, references, or specific expertise.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Either there should be black and white rules for this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the sentiment, but with the subjective nature of The Workplace, the clarity you seek isn't likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T13:39:28.960" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2622" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2624" CreationDate="2014-05-01T18:35:17.623" Score="-4" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators need to assess this situation, quickly.   &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/23388/do-i-have-to-relinquish-my-pc-password-to-my-former-boss&quot;&gt;Do I have to relinquish my PC password to my former boss?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many decent, thoughtful answers with negative 2 to 4 down votes. That is highly anomalous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6079" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T21:33:14.080" Title="High down vote count on many answers, by different users, all on the same question" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|moderation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2622" CreationDate="2014-05-01T19:39:19.787" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many answers that are starting to be restatements of the same ideas mentioned by other, earlier answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see one of your answers is in there, too.  Chad makes a good point that not everyone has a regimented exit process for employees.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also: just because your answer gets downvoted, it's not worth a meta post assuming there's something afoot. If you are that worried about your e-point level, delete the answer and move on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18054" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T19:39:19.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2622" CreationDate="2014-05-01T21:33:14.080" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has gotten almost 4k views in about a day.  It's getting a lot of attention, and attention naturally leads to votes (in both directions).  Moderators do not have the ability to inspect votes on individual posts; votes are private and Stack Exchange takes this very seriously.  &lt;em&gt;Sometimes&lt;/em&gt; we can learn about &lt;em&gt;patterns&lt;/em&gt; of suspicious voting, but this involves many posts taken in the aggregate.  None of that will help here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Attention also leads to answers, lots of answers.  The question is one that invites opinion-based answers, and some answers there are already annotated as needing to add support.  Many of the answers are mutually repetitive, but it's hard to point to any answers that are &lt;em&gt;wholly&lt;/em&gt; repetitive.  (If we had that, this would be grounds to remove those answers as violations of &quot;don't repeat others&quot;.)  Some users are probably downvoting answers that they see as mostly repetitive, and some are probably downvoting for unsupported statements of fact (like &quot;you have X right&quot; or &quot;they have Y right&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question becomes &quot;hot&quot; we tend to see unusual voting compared to other questions on the site.  It's actually been something of an uphill battle to get people here to downvote answers, so what you're seeing may be that change starting to kick in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, general advice for questions like this (not speaking to your answer in particular):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there are lots of answers already, make sure (a) you have something &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; to say and (b) it's major enough to rate its own answer.  If there's already a good answer that covers most of what you would have said but there's &lt;em&gt;just this one little thing&lt;/em&gt;, please consider proposing an edit to the existing answer instead.  Readers will be better served by 5 well-developed answers than 20 smaller ones, each containing some nugget of information.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Be sure to support what you say.  Don't just tell us what you know; tell us how you know it.  The more attention a question gets the more likely it is that people will push back if you don't, so you may as well just do it up front.  It'll make a better answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the existing answers suggest that people are understanding the question in different ways (e.g. are we talking legal rights, ethics, typical practices...?), review the question.  Is it unclear in some way?  Should you leave a comment asking for clarification?  Is there some edit you can make that will improve it for answerers?  Or does it need to be put on hold?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your efforts.  I'm sorry this question is frustrating you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T21:33:14.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2620" CreationDate="2014-05-01T21:55:41.190" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;I can offer you at least 100 questions over the past two months that answers are just as opinion based as mine.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please list all 100, and I will close them immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T21:55:41.190" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2626" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2627" CreationDate="2014-05-01T23:17:56.403" Score="1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice that when I am not logged into Workplace and I want to ask a question, clicking on &quot;Ask Question&quot; takes me to the page to create the question rather than the sign in page. This is in contrast to other SE sites which I've used which do the opposite (prompt me to sign in before taking me to that page). Is this a bug? Why does Workplace differ in this regard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17541" LastEditorUserId="869" LastEditDate="2014-05-02T12:52:50.130" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T12:52:50.130" Title="Pressing &quot;Ask Question&quot; while not logged in does not take me to the log in page" Tags="|support|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2626" CreationDate="2014-05-02T02:27:14.347" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;On some sites, you must register in order to post a question or answer. For instance, on Stack Overflow, this adds a nice barrier to entry that helps to prevent a lot of low quality posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On other sites, you can simply post with an unregistered account and then link those questions and answers to your account once you've taken the plunge and created one. However, there are some pitfalls with this approach. If a person posts questions and answers and then clears his or her browser cookies prior to registration or sign-in, then the reference to that unregistered account is lost. We oftentimes encounter users who lock themselves out of the ability to edit and comment on their own posts, simply because they were forced to create an unregistered account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I recommend signing in or registering prior to posting, simply to prevent losing access to your contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T02:27:14.347" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2628" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-05T21:28:20.577" Score="5" ViewCount="537" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/20769/how-to-resign-in-a-company-that-doesnt-allow-2-weeks-notice&quot;&gt;How do I go about resigning in a company that doesn&amp;#39;t allow two weeks&amp;#39; notice?&lt;/a&gt; is a popular question -- 12k views, question at +64, top answer at +110, 10 answers.  A couple of the answers have the &quot;we're looking for long answers that explain&quot; post notice, and some answers have been flagged.  &lt;em&gt;None&lt;/em&gt; of the answers really back up what they say with sources or experience, but that's probably due to the nature of the question.  Most of them do explain their reasoning to some degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not real clear to me &lt;em&gt;on this question&lt;/em&gt; where the line between &quot;acceptable answer per our site rules&quot; and &quot;delete that&quot; is.  None of the annotated/flagged answers are egregious one-liners; they seem to offer &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; reasoning for what they suggest, though we could wish for more.  Some of the other answers don't seem all that different in this regard.  Yet some have drawn negative feedback and others have not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm asking for a review of this question and its answers.  What should we do here (if anything), and, just as importantly, &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;?  What guidelines apply to this collection of posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T19:57:07.857" Title="What should we do with answers on the &quot;resign and leave immediately&quot; question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2629" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-05T21:31:03.103" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eg This answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/23683/17187&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/23683/17187&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen it a few times, the term 'recruiter' being used to refer to the hiring manager at the employing firm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that a recruiter is someone who works independently of the employer, acting as a middleman to find talent for the employer to interview. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is my understanding correct, if so, and what term should be used here instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17187" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T22:10:53.513" Title="The term 'recruiter' being used incorrectly" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2629" CreationDate="2014-05-05T22:10:53.513" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two kinds of recruiters (at least in my experience in the US).  Third-party recruiters are (or work for) independent agents that have both companies and job-seekers as clients; they win when they match these up, and they work on commission.  This is the more common use of the term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But some companies also have in-house recruiters, people who work for that company and have, as a primary job function, finding and filtering candidates for open positions.  They may be salaried employees.  My last employer had such a person, and Google has several (judging from my LinkedIn mail); those are but two data points.  So it's not correct to say that a recruiter always works independently of the employer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, the recruiter is &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; different from the hiring manager.  This case sounds like a mistake.  Feel free to offer an edit to the post to correct the reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T22:10:53.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2628" CreationDate="2014-05-06T14:26:37.977" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2 answers that have the banners that have not been addressed should be deleted.  They can always address the issues and flag to have them un-deleted if they correct the issues that lead to the banner in the first place.  I would probably comment with something to that effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/20776/16&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; ...  has been properly handled by the community.  I do not like the answer and think it is wrong, but it is a valid answer with an explanation of why.  It has been downvoted by the community but I do not think it needs to be deleted through moderator action.  If it happens to get several flags from the community asking for it I could see taking action, but the question is old enough I would be surprised if that happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-05-06T14:26:37.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2632" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2638" CreationDate="2014-05-06T15:16:58.147" Score="2" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we get data similar to one &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/231064/165773&quot;&gt;quoted here&lt;/a&gt; but closer approximating hot questions, that is limited to ones with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=views%3A1000&quot;&gt;over 1-2K views&lt;/a&gt;? And preferably &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/220109/request-for-hot-question-vote-statistics/231064?noredirect=1#comment759161_231064&quot; title=&quot;see here: &amp;#39;limiting this to 180 days... could easily skew the votes on a given post significantly&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;not limited to 180 days&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Asked here &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/220109/request-for-hot-question-vote-statistics/231064#comment759162_220109&quot; title=&quot;&amp;#39;post something on TWP&amp;#39;s meta if you want more data for that site, @gnat - I&amp;#39;ll try to dig this up&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;per advice at MSE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your convenience, data referred above is also quoted here (voting on deleted posts is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/220109/request-for-hot-question-vote-statistics/231064?noredirect=1#comment759157_231064&quot; title=&quot;as explained here&quot;&gt;included&lt;/a&gt;). Note this data doesn't take into account whether question was in the hot list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Defining &quot;outsider votes&quot; as votes cast by someone who hasn't yet earned even 15 reputation on the site at the time the vote was cast&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And looking at all votes cast during the past 180 days&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We'll define &quot;outsider agreement&quot; as a case where outsider votes on a post are &gt; 0 and insider (folks who've earned &gt;= 15 rep on the site) upvotes - insider downvotes are also &gt; 0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We'll define &quot;outsider disagreement&quot; as a case where outsider votes on a post are &gt; 0 and insider votes are &amp;lt; 0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cases of outsider agreement: &lt;strong&gt;2,680&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cases of outsider disagreement: &lt;strong&gt;277&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cases where the insiders' votes would've brought a post's score &amp;lt; 0, but outsider votes were present in sufficient quantity to make the post's score positive: &lt;strong&gt;147&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Total posts voted on by outsiders in the past 180 days: &lt;strong&gt;3870&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Total posts voted on by insiders in the past 180 days: &lt;strong&gt;7186&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Total posts voted on by both groups in the past 180 days: &lt;strong&gt;3053&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; What is the difference between outsider disagreement (277) and insider negative but for outside votes (147)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; So... Imagine you &amp;amp; I see an answer &amp;amp; we both downvote it. It's at -2. Then 3 people come in with nothing but the association bonus and up-vote it. It's at +1. There are 147 cases like that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now imagine @enderland and @RhysW both downvote the same answer, so it's at -1 again. There are 277 cases like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Total insider votes during the past 180 days: &lt;strong&gt;29,479&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Total outsider votes during the past 180 days: &lt;strong&gt;12,837&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; am I reading this right -- there were ~700 posts that only outsiders voted on (insiders didn't)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; something like that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm not breaking this down any further right now, but a really common case for that involves answers to questions being upvoted by the asker&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; Ok, so if I'm reading all this right, we have significant &quot;outside&quot; participation, but only in 5-10% of cases does that participation disagree with the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; Right. And if you consider that even most of those 5-10% are &quot;controversial&quot; in the sense that they're getting both up-votes and down-votes from insiders, you can see there's a lot to be gained from community education.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-05-11T23:23:17.203" Title="Request for hot question vote statistics" Tags="|support|voting|statistics|hot-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2628" CreationDate="2014-05-07T19:57:07.857" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tl;dr&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/20769/timeline&quot;&gt;unclear for a while&lt;/a&gt;. In current state, it looks okay and allows to evaluate answers based on regular quality norms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When originally posted, question lacked important details mostly related to asker's employer and specifics of connection between employer and client. At this stage, it would be better to close the question until further clarification - doing so would help avoid answers based on wrong guesses about missing details (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/20801/168&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This issue has been later corrected, first in the comments, next in question edit - so that as of now, there seem to be no reasons to close it (at least none that I could find upon several re-reads).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the very first revision, question contained details that could be used to evaluate answers quality and legitimately delete one-liner answers as lacking explanation for what is asked about: &quot;Would the 2nd option be considered disrespectful&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Above reads somewhat vague to me, but it was further clarified to reasonably solid shape, by explicitly stating what asker wants to achieve: &quot;I want them to continue to like me for professional purposes (possible recommendations, in case our paths meet again, etc.)&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding answers - as far as I can tell, in its current shape question allows evaluation based on regular site norms: whether an answer authoritatively addresses asker's concern, whether it matches the situation described and whether it complies with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/255/168&quot;&gt;back it up and don't repeat others&lt;/a&gt; requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T19:57:07.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2634" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-07T22:48:58.723" Score="8" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes leave '+1 for XYZ' comments on answers, to emphasise what it is about the answer that I like. These aren't general '+1 Good answer :)' comments, they have an amount of specificity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these comments still discouraged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17187" LastEditorUserId="17187" LastEditDate="2014-05-07T23:15:58.003" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T17:59:07.743" Title="Are '+1 for [something about the post]' comments discouraged?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2634" CreationDate="2014-05-07T23:10:34.870" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a grey area where we trust the community to use their best judgment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a rule of thumb: if you're on the fence, don't make a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Comments are Second-Class Citizens&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not?rq=1&quot;&gt;Robert Cartaino's explanation&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are not intended for long-term storage of important information. But that transiency doesn't mean you can use comments for random, parenthetical asides. &lt;strong&gt;If your comment isn't likely to change the content of the post, please do not post it&lt;/strong&gt; for someone else to clean up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What this generally means is the default stance toward comments is 'delete on sight' when they come up for moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Does Your Comment Add Value?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1788/how-aggressively-should-we-flag-comments/1789#1789&quot;&gt;Rarity's post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;+1 great question/answer: Yes, we can see the votes. These are only okay if the comment otherwise has substance. If it's useless without the +1 it's still useless with it (same for -1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're going to have to trust your judgment on that. Generally speaking, if there are a lot of comments on the post already, or the post is older than a few days old, I would really appreciate it if you erred on the side of restraint, because...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Comments are a Pain in the Derriere to Cleanup&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read up what &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/251176/1933347&quot;&gt;Jon Ericson said&lt;/a&gt; about comments -- he has plenty more if you search around, but comments are not fun to cleanup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though this may seem absurd, it probably takes more time for someone to moderate a comment than it does to make the comment in the first place. That doesn't mean don't make the comment, but it just means that you should be aware that at some point in the future, someone will have to take some time to read through your comment (and others) to figure out what to do with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When in doubt, err on the side of silence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T23:10:34.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2014-05-10T23:09:04.570" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just got my package today - very well done! Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2014-05-10T23:09:04.570" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2632" CreationDate="2014-05-11T23:23:17.203" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, so these numbers are for the entire history of the site and include all posts - questions, answers, deleted, closed, whatever. It does not, for what should be obvious reasons, include deleted/retracted &lt;em&gt;votes&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Posts with outsider agreement: 8673               &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Posts with outsider disagreement: 685                   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Posts where outsider + insider upvotes overrode insider downvotes: 76                                           &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Total outsider-voted posts: 10046                      &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Total insider-voted posts: 18346                     &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Total insider + outsider voted posts: 9657                                 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Total outsider votes: 40171                &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Total insider votes: 105718              &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok. So that's a good baseline. Now, here are the numbers for questions that got at least 1K views:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Posts with outsider agreement: 1023               &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Posts with outsider disagreement: 15                    &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Posts where outsider + insider upvotes overrode insider downvotes: 2&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Total outsider-voted posts: 1055                       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Total insider-voted posts: 1210                      &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Total insider + outsider voted posts: 1054                                 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Total outsider votes: 8964                 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Total insider votes: 15639               &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastActivityDate="2014-05-11T23:23:17.203" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2634" CreationDate="2014-05-12T12:19:29.680" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you do a downvote, it is customary to use comments to explain why, so the author and any readers learn what specifically you disliked about the answer. This tells the author and anyone else what kind of behavior exactly you would like to discourage in the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an extension of this it makes also sense to explain why you upvoted something. It gives the author and anyone who reads it feedback about what behavior specifically you endorse and would like to see more of in the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments like &lt;em&gt;&quot;+1 for proper formating your answer&quot;&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;&quot;+1 for finding and linking so many reputable sources for your claim&quot;&lt;/em&gt; tell people &quot;Do this too, and you get more upvotes!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is, however a kind of +1 comment I see a bit more critical, and that's the &lt;em&gt;&quot;+1 for having the same opinion I have&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Personal opinions are not a good thing on stackexchange in general and should be avoided. There is a reason we have the &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot; close-reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers should be judged based on their factual accuracy and usefulness, not on how much you share the viewpoint of the author.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rewarding people for expressing certain opinions makes the community one-sided and discourages people from expressing unpopular (but still valid) viewpoints which would offer a useful alternative perspective.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9959" LastEditorUserId="9959" LastEditDate="2014-05-12T17:59:07.743" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T17:59:07.743" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2640" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-13T11:13:04.887" Score="8" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/23996/quitting-a-company-that-recently-had-an-ipo&quot;&gt;Quitting a company that recently had an IPO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me this is just another flavor of &quot;What job should I take?&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T12:20:29.640" Title="Does this question fall under &quot;What job should I take&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2640" CreationDate="2014-05-13T12:20:29.640" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think it is. I have closed it for now, though I invite the community to take a look at it and see if there are any edits on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you see an off-topic post like this from a new user, I encourage the community to leave information explaining this to the user to act as a guide for how they can improve the post. On this one, I left the following comment pointing them to resources to figure out what our guidelines are, which ones their post doesn't follow, and inviting them to improve their post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hey DotnetDude, and welcome to [workplace.se]. As explained in our [about] page, we're a bit different from other sites. Questions here should focus on practical answerable questions based on actual problems you face as described in our [help/dont-ask]. As explained in our [help/on-topic], questions asking for career advice are off-topic here. If you can [edit] your question to make it more general and applicable without asking for guidance, it will automatically be reviewed by the community. Thanks in advance!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are willing to take a few minutes to install the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2439/community-moderation-comments-template&quot;&gt;pro forma comments script&lt;/a&gt; that jmort uses, making these comments won't take much effort on your part and can make it quick and easy to add these comments yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When moderating the site, the most pleasant surprise I get is a great informative comment explaining our guidelines here and inviting the person to the community. It makes our job much easier, and puts forward a good message from our community about our standards, and the SE concept of community moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for bringing this up here -- meta posts discussing questions like this are good to help us figure out what content we want, and help raise community awareness of the types of issues we face. Keep up the good work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T12:20:29.640" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2642" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-13T23:38:20.360" Score="2" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to start with a positive note, the questions on this site seem to have increased in quality so I thank you for all your hard work promoting it.  Now to the negatives.  The font color on the site and the 'frammed' color background leave a lot to be desired.  Nearly all fonts used are a faded grey (SIMILAR QUESTIONS, UP-VOTES, NUMBER OF ANSWERS, QUESTION TEXT, ANSWER-TEXT) and are hard to read or look de-emphasized for some reason. Thank you for the great job and please take this as constructive criticism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per request I am putting a picture with the de-emphasized areas circled in red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9829" LastEditorUserId="9829" LastEditDate="2014-05-13T23:56:56.353" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T23:56:56.353" Title="The look and feel of this SE site (Propose making the most the text darker)" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|design|css|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2690" CreationDate="2014-05-15T03:00:56.530" Score="10" ViewCount="803" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;questions that are not answerable — discussions, debates, opinions — should be closed as subjective&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; says. And then it goes on to give us 6 guidelines about what makes a great subjective question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tend to have long, not short, answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;invite sharing experiences over opinions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are more than just mindless social fun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The Trap&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Four of six of these talk about the quality of the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; and not the question. But if we focus on the quality of the answers we end up falling in to a horrible trap -- the root issue is not the answers, it is that the &lt;em&gt;question itself&lt;/em&gt; probably wasn't a great subjective question to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since becoming a mod, I have been handling flags. As a normal user, I gravitated toward posts that seemed like they would interest me in one way or the other. When you become a mod, you get a feed of places where the community sees problems -- a lot of these are focused on answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to the 'privilege' of being able to focus on a stream of potentially problematic posts, I have a much better grasp on how to avoid the trap that Good Subjective, Bad Subjective can lead users to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Identifying Bad Subjective Questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;There are people in this world who do not love their fellow human beings, and I &lt;strong&gt;hate&lt;/strong&gt; people like that.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tom Lehrer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that focus on people are usually bad subjective. They are not answerable, they do not have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone, because they focus on the person the issue is with rather than solving the actual issue itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two major variations on these questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1819&quot;&gt;How do I deal with the fact that I&amp;#39;m awesome and everyone around me sucks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I deal with this person I work with that I don't like very much/agree with/want to deal with at all?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these types of questions are &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;questions that are not answerable — discussions, debates, opinions&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; and they &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;should be closed as subjective&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.  They are not asking about how to solve a problem. They are looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/10/podcast-53-lets-go-rio/?cb=1&quot;&gt;a self-help group for commiserating&lt;/a&gt;, not a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;practical, answerable question based on actual problems that you face&lt;/a&gt;. They are asking for validation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both types of questions tend to ask a question of &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How do I get X to do Y?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; While this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18119/&quot;&gt;can be a good helpful question to others&lt;/a&gt;, often times it is not (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/24381/abusive-boss-just-began-working-there&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; (10k+ only), &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/24396/&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/24222/7945&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/24076/1&quot;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;, etc.). The good questions focus on solving a problem that stems from working with other people in general, while the problematic ones focus on a problematic person in specific. The former are usually lighter on the &lt;em&gt;he said she said&lt;/em&gt; explanations, and are easy (for me personally) to relate to my workplace experiences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the best interest of the Workplace's value as a resource for people seeking practical answers to answerable questions involving workplace problems, I think these problematic questions ('agony aunt' questions looking for commiseration rather than solutions) need to be discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The Right Tool for the Job&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest thing we have to a tool for dealing with these questions is the &lt;em&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/em&gt; close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now in an ideal world, people would connect the dots and figure out that this is exactly the problem with this sort of question. And perhaps in the future it will. But as we grow, we should clearly label this specific type of question as problematic, as it is the biggest source of bad subjective questions right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like your input to help come up with a method to describe this type of questions to make it clear to both the people asking them, and the people browsing our site, that questions relating to problems with individuals that can't be solved or applied to other situations in other workplaces are not a good fit for our site. My previous attempt (which was not clear enough and not well-received) was as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about how to handle specific &lt;strong&gt;interpersonal conflicts are not &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;practical answerable questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Interpersonal problems should be brought up with your manager or HR department who can actually do something about the person(s) causing them. Please ask questions about solving a practical problem rather than the person causing the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we do a better job of expressing this type of problematic question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Primarily opinion-based would continue to be used for questions that poll for opinion or ask for recommendations, like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the best font to use in a resume?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the normal amount of vacation days for an IT worker?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the normal per diem for overseas business trips? (etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For clarity, the most up to date revision of this close reason is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2690/98&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-06-12T23:36:17.620" Title="Good Subjective/Bad Subjective and Agony Aunt Questions" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|close-reasons|closing|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2645" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-15T17:40:07.737" Score="7" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/14273/jakegould&quot;&gt;a user&lt;/a&gt; who appears to edit posts largely to change &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt; (apostrophe) to &lt;code&gt;’&lt;/code&gt; (modified letter apostrophe). &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/24076/revisions&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt; (revision 2) (includes a minor edit to the title, adding a mistyped question mark to a title ... that's not a question, and changing 3 &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt;'s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to minor to me, not to mention that I consider the choice between &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;’&lt;/code&gt; to be ones own (I personally think &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt; looks better though) and, as such, you shouldn't be changing this in edits (unless you're rewriting large parts of the post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At best it's an attempt at making an edit appear more significant to prevent rejection as &quot;too minor&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these edits appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who's approving these things anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T04:37:34.737" Title="Is changing apostrophe type as the predominant part of an edit acceptable?" Tags="|discussion|editing|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2645" CreationDate="2014-05-15T20:55:25.783" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen an uptick recently in suggested edits (yay! community!) that I've &lt;strong&gt;rejected as too minor&lt;/strong&gt;, including suggestions that are purely in changing characters such as the one you describe (boo :( ). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try to adhere to the rejection reason: &quot;This edit is too minor; suggested edits should be substantive improvements addressing multiple issues in the post.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are character or spacing changes that affect readability in a positive way, that's one thing -- such as adding paragraph breaks and transitions to walls-of-text -- but changing spacing or characters for the sake of...reputation? Bumping the question up? Something else? Too minor, IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastActivityDate="2014-05-15T20:55:25.783" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2645" CreationDate="2014-05-16T04:00:55.363" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The edit by that user is completely invalid, so much so that at first I mistook them for improvements and had the highlighting backwards in my head.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see edits like this that are completely invalid, they should be rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases where an edit slips through, one thing many people may not realize is that you can @ping the editor on a post.  The autocomplete isn't there, so it may feel like they won't get the message, but the @ping will work to give someone some editing feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2014-05-16T04:37:34.737" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T04:37:34.737" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2645" CreationDate="2014-05-16T04:32:42.677" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal four guidelines for &lt;strong&gt;suggested&lt;/strong&gt; edits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;objectively&lt;/strong&gt; improve the post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fix &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; problems at once&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;do not&lt;/strong&gt; change the meaning of the post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;leave a &lt;strong&gt;clear&lt;/strong&gt; edit summary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Objectively improve the post&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This generally means fixing the stuff that is mentioned in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;help center on editing&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To fix grammar and spelling mistakes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To clarify the meaning of the post (without changing that meaning)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To include additional information only found in comments, so all of the information relevant to the post is contained in one place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To correct minor mistakes or add updates as the post ages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To add related resources or hyperlinks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone who takes the time to read your suggested edit in context of the comments and with the clear edit summary should think it is a no-brainer improvement. This means I strongly advise against making changes that &lt;strong&gt;primarily&lt;/strong&gt; affect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;changing capitalization to your preferences (I Don't Care How Much You Hate Title Case, or randomly Capitalized Words in an otherwise normal sentence)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;changing punctuation to your preferences (face it; nobody knows how to use a semi-colon)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;changing type of emphasis (some people use &lt;code&gt;code blocks&lt;/code&gt; for emphasis, which is silly, but that doesn't mean changing it to &lt;strong&gt;code blocks&lt;/strong&gt; is a substantive change)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Fix all problems at once&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're going to edit the post, do it right. Someone has to review your edit, and if you only fixed half the problems that means they are torn between rejecting (and losing some stuff), accepting (and still having the post need more work), or editing to correct the stuff you missed (and taking up time they may not have wanted to spend on copy editing when they did a review).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more other stuff you fix in a post, the more leeway you have with switching cosmetic things the way you like them. For instance, if you come across a post like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[URGENT]!!! HELP NEEDED NOW PLZ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;thx for accespting question. im uplying to job with job descript: must be good with language but dont know how to list language on resume. right now my details are speaking mant diferent languages and very good speaker in aall but dont know how to put on resume docuemtn as requested. requested for languages of english, british english, australian english, new zealand english, and canadian english eh? thx in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this has &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10006/how-should-i-indicate-language-proficiency-on-my-resume&quot;&gt;the core of a good question&lt;/a&gt; so it's definitely in our best interest to edit it. But there are just so many problems from spelling to capitalization to clarity (and just about everything else).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are willing to go through the trouble to edit all the mistakes and make it coherent, I will happily give you carte blanche to make it look however you feel it should. If you just change an &lt;em&gt;its&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;it's&lt;/em&gt;, and then make 10 times the volume of changes in formatting, you're focusing less on improving the content, and more on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=define+peccadilloes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;peccadilloes&lt;/a&gt;. Which ain't great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Do not change the meaning of the post&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a huge believer in the power of an &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2153/aggressive-edits&quot;&gt;aggressive edit&lt;/a&gt;, but they are probably beyond the scope of a &lt;strong&gt;suggested&lt;/strong&gt; edit as they are incredibly difficult to handle for a reviewer (who may or may not share my enthusiasm with that type of edit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clarifying the post with comments (particularly those by the author, but from other users if they have deciphered abbreviations or jargon that is unfamiliar to you) is all good and doesn't fall under the changing the meaning thing. But it isn't cool if you change a question that is asking, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How do I foo the bar?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How do I bar the foo?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; without some sort of indication that was what the person really meant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Leave a clear summary&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the goal of your edit? The more minor your change, the more important it is to be clear about what it is that you've actually done. Many changes can seem incredibly minor if the person reviewing has it in markup mode rather than display mode, or vice versa (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/15022/2&quot;&gt;sorry palacsint!!!&lt;/a&gt;), so a simple 'fix formatting' may end up rejected as too minor when it really was a great change if you were looking at it in a different mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is more work, but it's less work that confusing the reviewers and ending up with a couple rollbacks that could have been prevented with a slightly more verbose comment. And the goal is to get the change put in, right? Clear summaries build character (or so I'm told).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T04:32:42.677" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2644" CreationDate="2014-05-18T17:45:25.287" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am new to Workplace S/E but have contributed to several other S/E sites, and I am also an employer. What I am noticing in questions here is something I also notice in the workplace, which is that a lot of people don't understand how work works. They are new to work or they are new to a particular work environment. They don't get how teams work, how heirarchy works, how negotiations work, how &quot;playing well with others&quot; works, how hiring works, and how conflicts should be resolved. Additionally, many of them are new to S/E, and they don't understand how S/E works. The result is subjective questions or questions that don't fit scope, an issue in every S/E site I have been on (all non-tech).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder how we help the new user acclimate. A number of questions I have looked at are written by people for whom English does not appear to be the first language. These are people who may have a different cultural outlook than the predominant US focus, who are trying to figure out how work works, and now we are asking them to figure out how S/E works as well before we will answer their question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggested close reason in this post assumes that the questioner has a clue how to solve interpersonal problems, and the fact that they are are asking the questions says to me they don't. Our goal, I think, is to help them translate their very specific situation into a question that is more general and could apply to others. So for example, if a questioner is telling us about a run-in with a coworker and asks what to do about it, we would like to see that question generalized into &quot;What is the professional way to handle a situation where a coworker is misrepresenting your work to clients?&quot; (with the questioner's example provided). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure the suggested close reason is going to help a new user, particularly one from a non-US culture, figure out how to make his question better. I am not sure I have a better idea, however! Here's an attempt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your question is very specific to your work situation. In order to&#xA;  make the answers provided here more useful to other readers, please&#xA;  reword the question in your post to be more general. See examples&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;here&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;here&quot; would be samples that show it is fine to describe your specific situation, but show a before and after sample of how to generalize the actual question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19277" LastActivityDate="2014-05-18T17:45:25.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2650" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2651" CreationDate="2014-05-19T14:53:57.693" Score="7" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;After participating in &lt;em&gt;Workplace&lt;/em&gt; for a while, I've found myself able to answer quite a few questions about US workplaces based on my experience both as an employee and as an employer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, some other &lt;em&gt;Workplace&lt;/em&gt; participant will chime in with some point that happens to be misleading. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, this question's comment streams contain some opinions about US employment verification that aren't consistent with the way business is actually done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/23590/first-day-of-internship&quot;&gt;First day of internship&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now look, I don't lose sleep when someone's wrong on the internet. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/386/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://xkcd.com/386/&lt;/a&gt;)  But questioners and readers might be misled by strongly-held opinion masquerading as fact. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the community standard for this sort of thing in comments? Is it worth worrying about? Flagging? In answers, a downvote is the obvious recourse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15811" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T17:38:33.017" Title="Should we flag comments containing errors or counterfactual opinions?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|quality|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2650" CreationDate="2014-05-19T17:38:33.017" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your efforts to help maintain site quality.  We rely heavily on the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you noted, there are tools available for wrong information in &lt;em&gt;posts&lt;/em&gt; (including downvotes, votes to delete in severe cases, and sometimes careful edits), but comments are more limited.  Further, only moderators can address flags on comments; unlike (certain) flags on posts, there are no review queues where the community can act on its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators are exception handlers, not arbiters of correctness.  The diamond does not bestow the power to know when a post/comment is correct or incorrect.  Therefore there is little we can do in response to a &quot;this is wrong&quot; flag (how do we know you're not the one who's wrong?), on either a post or a comment.  So my recommendations are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; comment (if no one else has already), explaining your objections in a polite and professional way.  If you can link to relevant sources, so much the better.  Comments are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; for extended conversations, but such a response will at least clue in readers that there's more to learn here.  Note: if any of this comment discussion belongs in the post, suggest that the author incorporate it.  Try to direct followup to chat (&quot;[chat]&quot; in a comment is a magic link to the site's main room, by the way).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the comment has already been addressed, e.g. by an edit to the post, then the comment is obsolete and you can flag it that way.  (If its obsolescence won't be obvious to someone who hasn't followed the whole history of the post, it's better to use a custom flag to explain what you mean.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the comment is &lt;em&gt;really, really, dangerously wrong&lt;/em&gt; -- by which I mean something along the lines of &quot;will kill you&quot; or &quot;will send you to federal prison&quot;, not &quot;will cost you the interview -- then after leaving your comment explaining the problem, flag with a custom flag and we'll take a closer look.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you see a back-and-forth exchange (argument or otherwise) in a comment thread, or comments that are obsolete, not about improving the post, or otherwise not what comments are for, please flag.  At that point we probably don't care much who's right; if it's not serving the purpose of comments and it's posing a problem, we'll generally delete those.  If this applies to most of the comments on a post, it's easier for us if you flag the post instead of the individual comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T17:38:33.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2653" CreationDate="2014-05-20T00:58:25.777" Score="10" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;[The Workplace] is built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&amp;amp;A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about the workplace.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;                    &lt;/sup&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sm3ex.png&quot; alt=&quot;We want YOU for community moderation&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With great power comes &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/?tab=moderation&quot;&gt;great responsibility&lt;/a&gt;. So as a user of this site who wants to make it even better, what the heck can I do anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-05-20T01:04:51.740" Title="We Want YOU for Community Moderation" Tags="|support|faq-proposed|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2652" CreationDate="2014-05-20T00:58:25.777" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is designed for &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; the users, and we want to help make it as easy for you as possible to take ownership and shape our community. All improvement starts with a little step from you, our community, so why not start today?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/vote-early-vote-often/&quot;&gt;Vote early, vote often&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/?tab=moderation&quot;&gt;your superpowers for good&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Help shape our site &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta&quot;&gt;by posting on meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Vote Early, Vote Often&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting is at the core of the Stack Exchange Model. It helps identify the useful (and not so useful) information that we collect from our users. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_rising_tide_lifts_all_boats&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A rising tide lifts all boats&lt;/a&gt; and voting adds to our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;reputation economy&lt;/a&gt; which lets our users do more and better moderate our community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when you're browsing around the site, and you find a question or answer to be good or bad, click those little arrows to the left of it! It will help us be a more useful resource to future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Use Your Privileges&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you gain reputation, you get access to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/?tab=moderation&quot;&gt;all sorts of magical powers&lt;/a&gt; that will help you moderate the site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3,000 review &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/close&quot;&gt;close votes&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/reopen&quot;&gt;reopen votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2,000 review &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits&quot;&gt;suggested edits&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts&quot;&gt;low quality posts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;500 review &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers&quot;&gt;late answers&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts&quot;&gt;first posts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;125 vote down&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;15 &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;flag posts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;15 vote up&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you notice a funky orange number at the top of your screen, it means there is something productive you can do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lOtdj.png&quot; alt=&quot;Top Bar Image&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are you waiting for? That's 42* things that can be done!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;* Review queue items may differ depending on reputation. Offer not valid in Hawaii or Alaska. Cannot be combined with any other coupon or offer. All sales are final.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Help Shape Our Site&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If The Workplace is a company, then the main site is the office/shop floor where the work gets done. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;The Workplace Meta&lt;/a&gt; is the board room/stockholders meeting, and you're invited to help shape our direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you grow with the site, you will probably notice some things that can be improved, or things that you have questions about. That's what meta is for. Feel free to post here any time to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get support on site features with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/support&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;support&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;support&lt;/a&gt; tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Help discuss and define site scope and community moderation with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Suggest improvements to make our site even better with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Report problems with the site not working properly with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt; tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-05-20T00:58:25.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2654" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2656" CreationDate="2014-05-20T05:33:05.653" Score="5" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/24224/why-are-german-employers-so-reluctant-to-hire-part-time-software-developer&quot;&gt;Why are German employers so reluctant to hire part time software developer?&lt;/a&gt; was recently put on hold for being off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did read &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;the page on what is on topic for The Workplace SE&lt;/a&gt;, but I found nothing that would explain why the question is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What exactly is off-topic about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T14:58:39.353" Title="What is off-topic about asking why German employers are reluctant to hire part-time developers?" Tags="|discussion|offtopic|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2655" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-20T05:53:36.707" Score="6" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am delaying moving forward with this until we resolve &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2644/good-subjective-bad-subjective-and-agony-aunt-questions&quot;&gt;the problematic parts&lt;/a&gt; as brought up by several users including &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2659/7945&quot;&gt;Chad, jcmeloni&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2672/7945&quot;&gt;mxyzplk&lt;/a&gt;. It isn't going away, but we want to make sure that we are all on the same page about what questions we want to have custom close reasons for, and that we agree as a community that we aren't tossing the baby out with the bathwater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Background&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All sites on the SE network have the following &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;fixed close reasons&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unclear What You're Asking&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Too Broad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primarily Opinion-Based&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the four default reasons, each site is given 3 custom off-topic reasons they can use to close questions. Currently we have two:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;Questions seeking &lt;b&gt;advice on what job to take, what skills to learn, etc.&lt;/b&gt; are off-topic as the answers are rarely useful to anyone else.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions seeking &lt;strong&gt;legal advice&lt;/strong&gt; are off-topic as they require answers by legal professionals. See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1856/what-is-asking-for-legal-advice&quot;&gt;What is asking for legal advice?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been recent meta requests for an additional two more:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about how to handle specific &lt;strong&gt;interpersonal conflicts are not &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;practical answerable questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Interpersonal problems should be brought up with your manager or HR department who can actually do something about the person(s) causing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2644/good-subjective-bad-subjective-and-agony-aunt-questions&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question appears to be off-topic because it is about regulations or agreements that are company-specific and don't have universally applicable answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2606/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, anyone with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/&quot;&gt;close privilege&lt;/a&gt; can write in a custom close reason that is displayed as a comment and closes the question as off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Problem&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have 4 potential custom close reasons, but only 3 custom close reason slots. You don't need to ask a question on &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;math.se&lt;/a&gt; to figure out that there's a slight logistical problem there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since April 1st, the Stack Exchange Data Explorer has allowed us to &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/revision/195829/253388/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;create queries looking at close reason&lt;/a&gt;. Unfortunately, it doesn't distinguish custom close vote reasons for non-SO sites at the moment, which means we can't get an easy breakdown of which custom close reasons (or write-in reasons) we use the most to get a better grasp of what we are best to get rid of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Research&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there were only 262 questions closed as off-topic according to the above query, I just went through the titles and make generous judgments of which ones I thought were likely closed as asking for legal guidance. This is not a very scientific approach (more like an educated guess), but it should give us a decent enough ballpark figure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the 262 questions that were closed as off-topic, by my (admittedly simple) count, 52 of them were close as legal advice. That is less than 20%. That means custom reasons and the 'what should I do?' type questions take up 80% of our off-topic close votes. And most of those are probably 'what should I do?' questions (which becomes clear if you look at the titles from the query I linked above).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What Should We Do?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose the following three custom close reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;This reason is disputed, please continue the discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2644/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about how to handle specific &lt;strong&gt;interpersonal conflicts are not &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;practical answerable questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Interpersonal problems should be brought up with your manager or HR department who can actually do something about the person(s) causing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be used for questions along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1819&quot;&gt;How do I deal with the fact that I&amp;#39;m awesome and everyone around me sucks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=how+convince+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;How can I convince X to do Y?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Desired result: have the user edit the question to focus on a solvable problem, rather than the person causing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be used for questions along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I work on the weekend, can I get time off during the week in exchange?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many days of paid leave can I carry over until the next year?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What travel expenses can I receive compensation for? (etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;What job should I take?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; and legal advice questions would have their reasons combined:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions asking for &lt;strong&gt;advice on what to do are not &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;practical answerable questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g. &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;what job should I take?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;what skills should I learn?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;is it legal?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;). Questions should get answers &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;explaining &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to make a decision&lt;/a&gt;, not advice on what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be used for the same types of questions that we use the existing two reasons for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Discussion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are no objections, I would like to implement this at the end of this week. If you have questions, comments, concerns, or potential improvements to the reasons I have provided, please share them here with a comment or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, the character limit for custom close reasons is 400 characters (the last reason I listed above is at exactly 400).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T03:01:13.340" Title="Custom Close Reasons for The Workplace" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2654" CreationDate="2014-05-20T06:07:54.227" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry 'bout the confusion nvoigt. This is one of the quirks with our close vote system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People voted to close with a custom reason&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The custom reason gets listed as a comment (not in the close reason)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The close reason defaults to 'off-topic'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though it may not have been obvious, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/24224/why-are-german-employers-so-reluctant-to-hire-part-time-software-developer#comment63472_24224&quot;&gt;gnat's comment was actually a custom close reason he entered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question appears to be off-topic because it is about regulations or agreements that are company-specific and don't have universally applicable answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment is automatically generated whenever someone uses a custom close reason. Whenever someone else agrees with that reason, an upvote is automatically added. Currently it is at +5, which means people seemed to agree with the reason listed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, with the write-in reasons, the banner that ends up getting put on the question explaining the close reason is quite vague. This is just the way it works after the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184154&quot;&gt;close vote changes&lt;/a&gt; in 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I don't agree with the reason that was picked, I don't think it is on-topic because it is asking for people's opinion on a phenomenon that you haven't actually shown exists or is a widespread problem (your evidence is anecdotal and based on not getting a few jobs in a row). If you can show that there is a real problem here (with German employers not wanting to hire part-time developers), then adding that information to the question would improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But while you're improving that part, you can go a step further. Rather than asking why they do it (which won't help you if you want a part-time development job), why not ask how to find the part-time jobs that are out there, or alternatively how to negotiate with an employer to hire you part-time for a full-time position, or something that will solve your problem (of not being able to get a part-time developer role)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope that helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-05-20T06:07:54.227" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2657" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-20T23:16:06.617" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/24289/are-discretionary-bonuses-in-finance-roles-essentially-scams&quot;&gt;Are discretionary bonuses in finance roles essentially scams?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally thought that this was a great question, leading to good discussion about the nature of corporate/finance work culture and how bonuses are paid. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect the reason that it's being downvoted is the opinionated tone of the original question. As Joe S put it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From your words (&quot;scam&quot;, &quot;dupe&quot; &quot;absurd&quot;), it seems as if you have&#xA;  already drawn your own conclusion. Try to confirm that with your boss&#xA;  rather than just assuming. Then decide what you want to do about it&#xA;  (if anything), other than just be unhappy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can this question be edited to put it in more objective terms and make it a good question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17187" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T07:13:48.957" Title="What's the problem with the 'Are performance bonuses a scam' question, and can it be improved?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2657" CreationDate="2014-05-21T00:30:47.583" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was closed because it was 'primarily opinion-based' according to the community as stated in the banner below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my perspective, this is not a good fit for our site because it goes against several of the guidelines for having good subjective questions listed in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is no actual problem to be solved: “I’m curious if other people feel like I do.”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;your question is just a rant in disguise: “______ sucks, am I right?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The author spends the first 5 paragraphs explaining his distaste for how the system currently works. The last paragraph contains a question which I read as, &lt;em&gt;&quot;So that's how our crappy bonus system works, how can I get the bonus without doing the stuff that my company awards bonuses for?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; How can we answer that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The information provided to scope the question is in direct disagreement with the desired result. And I think that the asker, who is presumably quite intelligent, sees the disconnect and is venting with a rant thinly disguised as a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real questions have answers&lt;/a&gt; and as-posed, there are no good answers to this question because of the way it was phrased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can see a question that doesn't fall in to that trap, I invite you to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2153/aggressive-edits&quot;&gt;make an aggressive edit to the question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T07:13:48.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2655" CreationDate="2014-05-21T13:29:54.677" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about how to handle specific interpersonal conflicts are not&#xA;  practical answerable questions. Interpersonal problems should be&#xA;  brought up with your manager or HR department who can actually do&#xA;  something about the person(s) causing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am against the implementation of this close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this close reason will shut down a lot more questions than the intended SPECIFIC questions.  I can see this close reason being used far more broadly than intended.  We already have issues with more difficult, but answerable and on topic questions, being closed for primarily opinion based.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be in support of a close reason that was specific to the convincing another person to do something.  These questions are rarely savable with out a heroic rewrite of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2014-05-23T16:50:43.093" LastActivityDate="2014-05-23T16:50:43.093" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2655" CreationDate="2014-05-21T13:35:16.960" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for advice on what to do are not practical answerable&#xA;  questions (e.g. &quot;what job should I take?&quot;, &quot;what skills should I&#xA;  learn?&quot; or &quot;is it legal?&quot;). Questions should get answers explaining&#xA;  why and how to make a decision, not advice on what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am in support of this being added as an off-topic close reason.  I think it needs to be modified to specifically bar asking &quot;What should I do?&quot; rather than &quot;How can I accomplish X&quot; which are both what should I do questions but the former is answerable and on topic(assuming X is a workplace navigation problem).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for general advice on what to do are not practical&#xA;  answerable questions. Questions should seek answers explaining how to make a decision, or should include a specific goal you wish to&#xA;  achieve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The off topic questions about skills to learn and jobs to take should be left in the current close reason as it is being used appropriately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T17:30:15.380" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T17:30:15.380" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2661" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2662" CreationDate="2014-05-22T23:49:35.317" Score="7" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/24413/entry-level-unemployed&quot;&gt;Guidance for entry level job seeker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is clearly not very good quality. It comes from place of frustration from the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a common problem that this person is facing, and point of this stack exchange is &lt;em&gt;to be useful&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how can we, perhaps edit and answer, this question such that is useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17187" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-05-23T01:28:05.117" Title="Is there a way to answer this 'I can't find a job!' question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2661" CreationDate="2014-05-23T01:22:58.393" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;With a question like this, the best thing to do is to close it as too broad as quickly as possible. The sooner the better. Most importantly, it's critical that someone leave a nice, friendly comment explaining that the goal is simply to give the asker more time to answer some of the clarifying questions from the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment should essentially emphasize that we really want to provide the best value we can, and to reduce clutter in the answers, we've put the post temporarily on hold just to give the asker a breather -- a chance to add more helpful details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from that, we can't really help with initial editing because we simply don't know what the full scope of the problem is, but what you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; do is add more clarifying questions in the comments. The nice thing about these questions is that, with an asker who understands we're here to help, there's a very strong chance we can turn the post into something not just useful for the asker but also to future readers with the same problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For really broad questions, think of clarifying comments as a way to draw out information that you would personally edit into the question, if you knew that information existed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps, and thanks for bringing attention to this post. I've put it on hold temporarily, so please vote to reopen once there are more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2014-05-23T01:28:05.117" LastActivityDate="2014-05-23T01:28:05.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2655" CreationDate="2014-05-26T00:26:11.047" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can combine the legal and company-specific reasons thus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on &lt;strong&gt;company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies&lt;/strong&gt; should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking &lt;strong&gt;legal advice&lt;/strong&gt; should be directed to legal professionals; see: What is asking for legal advice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-05-26T00:26:11.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2655" CreationDate="2014-05-26T00:54:45.453" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having reviewed the linked question about the interpersonal reason (and noting its upvotes), I propose a variant on that version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about &lt;strong&gt;how to handle interpersonal conflicts&lt;/strong&gt; are not &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;practical answerable questions&lt;/a&gt;. Interpersonal problems should be brought up with your manager or HR department. Please ask questions about &lt;em&gt;solving a practical problem&lt;/em&gt; rather than &lt;em&gt;the person causing the problem&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-05-26T00:54:45.453" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2268" CreationDate="2014-05-26T05:08:14.807" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Community Health Queries&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/revision/161189/205379/users-by-date-joined#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;New users per week&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/161629#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Activity per day&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/160432/votes-and-posts-per-day&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;alternative query&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/s&gt; (currently broke)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/161411/site-activity-and-votegraph#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Site Activity, comment, Voting graph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/166314/site-activity-ratios#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Site Health Answer, accept, comment, etc. Ratios&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/171748/distinct-contributors-per-week#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Distinct Contributors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Finding potential problems for cleanup&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/revision/172333/219790/old-and-short-answers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Answers with under 50 words&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/195635/topx-commented-question?TopX=100&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Posts with lots of comments&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/195686/threads-with-the-largest-number-of-comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;alternative&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Ranking Queries&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/90852/top-reopen-voters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Top reopen voters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/revision/160191/203924/top-close-voters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Top close voters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/161190/most-viewed-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Most viewed questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/167924/top-x-user-reputation?Days=180&amp;amp;TopX=18#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Query to show reputation increases of top users over time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Utility&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/revision/162191/206762/questions-by-number-of-answers#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions by number of answers&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/revision/162191/206734/questions-by-number-of-answers#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;alternative&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/195691/oldest-500-pending-review-tasks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;What's in the review queue?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/195762/average-number-of-votes-on-all-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Voting patterns vs. other SE sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/174836/distribution-of-close-reasons&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Close reasons over time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/revision/197867/256246/close-rate-by-tag-tags-with-4-questions-only&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Close rate by tag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/211638/percentage-of-questions-closed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Percentage of Closed Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/revision/211648/276376/percentage-of-answers-on-closed-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Percentage of Answers on Closed Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T13:30:10.720" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-05-26T05:08:14.807" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2668" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-27T01:25:44.053" Score="3" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I am not too sure if this is “Workplace” specific, or a question best suited for the larger Stack Exchange world. If this question can be moved to a more appropriate place, please do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this morning I came across this bizarre/stilted question that refers to events from 2010:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/24524/what-should-ceo-do-when-he-is-about-to-die-about-appointing-new-ceo-in-this-situ&quot;&gt;What should CEO do when he is about to die about appointing new CEO in this situation?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond the very stilted wording &amp;amp; references to 2010, something else stood out to me: The text itself has tons of odd unicode “gremlins” in it. Mainly in what appear to be spaces, but actually are something else. Perhaps non-breaking spaces? Who knows. It’s one of those things I bet I could dissect deeper, but had better things to do today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, my hunch that it was fake was confirmed by the user &lt;code&gt;jonsca&lt;/code&gt; who discovered the question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://onlinevu.blogspot.com/2014/05/mgt501-human-resource-management.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;lifted from some H.R. management text or test&lt;/a&gt;. Kudos to &lt;code&gt;jonsca&lt;/code&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So anyway knowing this text was so littered with an inhuman amount of unicode cruft that caused any attempt to edit futile at best, is there any automated way the Stack Exchange filtering system can detect stuff like this &amp;amp; perhaps flag it right away?  Or is that part of the CATCHA mechanism that pops up every now &amp;amp; then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me the clean text that comes from a valid question when entered automatically trumps the unicode junk seen in this post. But unclear if Stack Exchange actually does detect stuff like this &amp;amp; it comes through?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically: This was obviously not a real question just even from the formatting. How can we combat this stuff? Considering the clear data discrepancies on a unicode level, can better filtering be put in place to catch junk like this before it hits the system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14273" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T18:03:21.453" Title="Detecting fake/spam questions via bizarre unicode gremlins?" Tags="|support|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2014-05-27T18:03:21.453" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not a huge issue that really requires a solution beyond the normal process that the SE framework provides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case the question was off topic.  It was more appropriate for a business policy SE than here.  The users identified, and handled the question in the appropriate manner and it has been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T18:03:21.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2670" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-27T21:41:08.653" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Q: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/24560/will-not-disclosing-that-i-worked-as-a-contractor-not-an-employee-count-against&quot;&gt;Will not disclosing that I worked as a contractor not an employee count against me in a hiring decision?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP is very anxious and we've ended up with a cyclical and not very useful conversation in the comments. Can it be removed? Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit to add: not the first comment! That one is useful...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12655" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T08:15:19.123" Title="Can someone please nuke the comments on my answer to this question?" Tags="|support|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2670" CreationDate="2014-05-27T23:08:40.783" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've removed the comment thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future, you can use a custom flag on the post to make this kind of request.  Only moderators (and the posters of the comments) can remove comments, so while a post on meta reaches more people it doesn't, in this case, reach more people who can fulfill the request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below each post you should have a 'flag' option if you have over &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/&quot;&gt;15 reputation&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k42WG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Flag location under every post&quot; title=&quot;Flag location under every post&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dhdDH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Flag Dialogue&quot; title=&quot;Flag Dialogue&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also flag comments directly (but if there are multiple comments you want to have removed, it is often quicker and easier for everyone if you flag one comment and ask to have all related comments removed as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You're welcome to post on meta if you prefer; just pointing out an alternative.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T08:15:19.123" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2644" CreationDate="2014-05-28T03:36:33.240" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I agree with this close reason.  It seems to contradict two items that I think are more important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Workplace dynamics/interactions should be on topic, in fact one might say that's one of the primary topics of interest to this SE (given that legal/policy stuff is somewhat undesirable and ends up with &quot;go see a lawyer or your HR rep&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;SE philosophy is strongly &quot;Ask about &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; problem&quot; - not &quot;generalize it to some generic state.&quot; so &quot;How do I convince a generic manager about something about promotions&quot; isn't actually a good SE question, it &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be about your particular situation to a reasonable degree.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that Good Subjective, Bad Subjective and the Back It Up! guidelines were developed for Parenting, which is very, very similar. &quot;My kid is talking back to me at age 5, how do I get them to quit it?&quot; Pretty much every Parenting question focuses on a person (a child) by their nature. These rules made the SE format work for questions of that form, which are of the same nature as interpersonal workplace questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, psychology, sociology, initiative, empowerment, etc. are not objectively answerable because there are too many variables and &quot;it depends&quot; - but that's why GS/BS exists, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;per the post on it&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How do I convince X of Y&quot; is an OK question. People who have relevant experience doing something similar should answer with what they did and what worked/didn't work for them. It can certainly be answered in a subjective, but not speculative, manner. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You seem to be stating a priori that these questions are negative and polluting the site, but the ones that are well formed and coherent don't detract from my POV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a mod on RPG Stack Exchange and we have similar group dynamics questions - what to do about an annoying player or domineering game master - I feel like by strongly enforcing the GS/BS rules these are largely good questions that help people. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=how%20convince%20is%3aquestion&quot;&gt;https://rpg.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=how%20convince%20is%3aquestion&lt;/a&gt;, or even more on point our &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/group-dynamics&quot;&gt;group-dynamics tag&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/problem-players&quot;&gt;problem-players tag&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/problem-gm&quot;&gt;problem-gm tag&lt;/a&gt;. Of course, some have answers that start with &quot;make sure you're not the problem because it sounds like you may be,&quot; but you can see how questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/4317/how-does-a-player-correct-a-gm-mistake-without-being-a-rules-lawyer-or-pushover&quot;&gt;How does a player correct a GM mistake without being a rules lawyer or pushover?&lt;/a&gt; are basically identical to Workplace.SE questions if you replace &quot;GM&quot; with &quot;boss&quot; and &quot;player&quot; with &quot;employee.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some more post question edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see where you're going now - you're referring to questions that are too much up in the grill of &quot;no, this ONE specific dude.&quot; I think that can be thought of as &quot;too localized&quot; but there's a fine line between, again, posting your problem and posting a hypothetical problem, and the refinement of info on the former is usually better - one of the reasons &quot;too localized&quot; was removed as a close reason network-wide (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184154/closing-changes-on-hold-unclear-too-broad-opinion-based-off-topic-reasons&quot;&gt;Closing changes: on hold, unclear, too broad, opinion-based, off-topic reasons, bye-bye to Too Localized&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/185102/responding-to-your-too-localized-concerns&quot;&gt;Responding to your &amp;quot;too localized&amp;quot; concerns&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because, in the end, if you are following the primary SE rule of asking questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Focus on &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;questions about an actual problem you have faced&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Include details about what you have tried and exactly what you are trying to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then it's going to be about a specific person, or specific situation, or specific job application, or whatever.  Can you separate &quot;person&quot; and &quot;issue&quot; when the issue is interpersonal relations? I don't think so, not completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, having said that, we do have people &quot;go down the rabbit hole&quot; too much on the specific situation on RPG.SE at times. What we generally say is &quot;use this as a specific example of the issue at hand&quot; - because if you are really answering according to GS/BS you're going to cite similar experiences you've had - going too much into the person/situation at hand is usually moving to speculation (guessing about them) as opposed to good subjective (sharing experience from yourself). Over time we've simply encouraged the community to reward answers that cover the underlying issue well (even with bits that may not be directly relevant to the specific incident) but if you ask &quot;generic&quot; questions not tied to a specific incident, then all anyone can do is speculate - Bad Subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:45:51.523" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T12:40:30.487" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2673" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-28T13:32:11.177" Score="5" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When sorting the questions on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;main site&lt;/a&gt; by the number of votes, the sorting is not done correctly. What I mean is that a single page will contain questions from x votes up until y votes (where x and y are very very far apart, something like +50 and -10).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steps to reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;go to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;main site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click on &quot;Questions&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click on &quot;votes&quot;, to sort them by votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;go, for example to page 6 (in my case, 15 questions per page is selected)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;see that the top of the page has a question with score +48, at the bottom there is one with score -8 (minus eight)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;go to the next page (7), the questions should have a score less than or equal to -8. Instead, they start with score +45.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked at 2 other StackExchange sites and couldn't reproduce the problem, so it must be specific to The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14043" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T13:32:11.177" Title="Incorrect question sorting" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2674" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2689" CreationDate="2014-05-29T16:40:12.060" Score="6" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did a cursory search, but couldn't find if this bug has been reported before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the &quot;related questions&quot; sidebar, questions that happen to have a reputation count of three or more digits is overflowing. For example, the post &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/9283/1531&quot;&gt;How can I tell people to get to the point&lt;/a&gt;&quot; has 105 reputation, and displays as the below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see this behavior on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/2282/1531&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;. I'm currently running Firefox 29 on Windows 8.1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the gray box needs to be widened a bit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KabCW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;overflowing&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1531" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T09:02:38.650" Title="Reputation count for questions with 100+ rep overflows in &quot;related questions&quot; section" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|css|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2644" CreationDate="2014-05-29T22:55:46.943" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should really abandon the pretense at knowing what is &quot;primarily opinion based&quot;. Almost &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; in The Workplace is about opinions! Unless the question is about some regulation, procedure or technical issue, it will invoke opinions. Ironically, i once had a question that had a strong technical component and you and others closed it for being &quot;primarily opinion based&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10954" LastActivityDate="2014-05-29T22:55:46.943" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2676" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-05-30T00:38:56.237" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is proposed for inclusion in the FAQ. Questions should use this tag if they want their question included in to the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19759" LastEditorUserId="19759" LastEditDate="2014-05-30T01:36:00.833" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T01:36:00.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2677" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-05-30T00:38:56.237" Score="0" Body="This question is proposed for inclusion in to the FAQ." OwnerUserId="19759" LastEditorUserId="19759" LastEditDate="2014-05-30T01:35:52.953" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T01:35:52.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2655" CreationDate="2014-05-30T02:32:03.827" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about how to handle specific interpersonal conflicts are not practical answerable questions. Interpersonal problems should be brought up with your manager or HR department who can actually do something about the person(s) causing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Could we reword this to something like:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about solving interpersonal conflicts should be clear as to exactly what the problem is and what you hope to achieve as a goal. Posts without a clear goal are not practical answerable questions. Please see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; for guidance on how to reword this post to make it more clear, constructive, fair, and/or impartial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2014-05-30T03:01:13.340" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T03:01:13.340" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2644" CreationDate="2014-05-30T05:42:41.893" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me be a bit more blunt. Agony Aunt questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Complain about a person and their actions as the problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do not set specific goals for resolving the issue&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Usually can be described of as a rant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's take a sample question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/24089/my-boss-being-very-unreasonable-and-demanding&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/24089/my-boss-being-very-unreasonable-and-demanding&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I trust that nobody in the community thinks this is a valuable question that will benefit having as a resource in the future. And that's why it was closed. There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/revision/197870/256257/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;many undeleted questions which fit this mold&lt;/a&gt;. And there are many more which have been since-deleted. But &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/revision/197870/256262/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;these questions are closed for various reasons&lt;/a&gt; which can be confusing if the actual reason we're closing (that they are Agony Aunt 'questions' better classified as rants) is expressed differently by different users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do not want Agony Aunt questions. We want to be clear that the entire type of question that caused Joel to call us &lt;em&gt;&quot;a self-help group for commiserating&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. We want to provide practical advice to solve problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want a close reason that clearly identifies these types of questions, and labels them as off-topic without taking legitimate questions about workplace relationships that can be solved, and can scale to other people in similar situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My original suggestion was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about how to handle specific &lt;strong&gt;interpersonal conflicts are not &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;practical answerable questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Interpersonal problems should be brought up with your manager or HR department who can actually do something about the person(s) causing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is striking people as too broad, and will take good with the bad. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2678/7945&quot;&gt;jmort suggested&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about solving interpersonal conflicts should be clear as to exactly what the problem is and what you hope to achieve as a goal. Posts without a clear goal are not practical answerable questions. Please see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; for guidance on how to reword this post to make it more clear, constructive, fair, and/or impartial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is close, but suggests that if you rant about your boss (like in the previous question) and tack on, &lt;em&gt;&quot;I want my boss to stop treating me poorly&quot;&lt;/em&gt; that it would be on topic (even though it still is neither practical nor answerable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2665/7945&quot;&gt;Monica suggested&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about &lt;strong&gt;how to handle interpersonal conflicts&lt;/strong&gt; are not &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;practical answerable questions&lt;/a&gt;. Interpersonal problems should be brought up with your manager or HR department. Please ask questions about &lt;em&gt;solving a practical problem&lt;/em&gt; rather than &lt;em&gt;the person causing the problem&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really like this one, but apparently the community isn't 100% behind it because they are afraid that mentioning 'interpersonal conflicts' will have it applied to other useful questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My revised suggestion will be blunt and it will be as clear as possible about what I want to limit. Hopefully someone here can suggest a tweak to make it more diplomatic yet still clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real questions have answers.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Rather than explaining why your situation is terrible, or why your boss/coworker makes you unhappy, explain what you want to do to make it better. See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;For clarity, the most up to date revision of this close reason is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2690/98&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T05:41:00.770" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2680" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2681" CreationDate="2014-05-30T15:14:52.677" Score="3" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use Stylish to increase various font sizes on SE.  (This seems to work better than zooming the site, which sometimes breaks other layout.)  I can't figure out how to target a post notice for styling (there doesn't seem to be a relevant class).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/24640/325&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; has two annotations, a post notice and a protection notice.  The HTML source for the former is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    &amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;div class='question-status'&amp;gt;&#xA;                &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;We&amp;amp;#39;re looking for long answers that provide some explanation&#xA;                   and context. Don&amp;amp;#39;t just give a one-line answer; explain why your &#xA;                   answer is right, ideally with citations. Answers that don&amp;amp;#39;t include&#xA;                   explanations may be removed.&#xA;                &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and for the latter is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    &amp;lt;div class=&quot;question-status&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;h2&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;protected&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; by &amp;lt;a href=&quot;/users/7945/jmac&quot;&amp;gt;jmac&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;span class=&quot;mod-flair&quot; title=&quot;moderator&quot;&amp;gt;♦&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; &#xA;            &amp;lt;span title=&quot;2014-05-30 00:53:39Z&quot; class=&quot;relativetime&quot;&amp;gt;14 hours ago&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;/h2&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&#xA;            This question is protected to prevent &amp;amp;quot;thanks!&amp;amp;quot;, &amp;amp;quot;me too!&amp;amp;quot;, &#xA;            or spam answers by new users. To answer it, you must have earned at least 10 &#xA;            &amp;lt;a href=&quot;/help/whats-reputation&quot;&amp;gt;reputation&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; on this site.&#xA;        &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overriding font-size on &lt;code&gt;question-status&lt;/code&gt; doesn't do the trick.  I'm trying to target the actual text of the notices.  How do I do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm a CSS novice, but so far finding &quot;class=foo&quot; in promising places and attaching styling seems to be working out.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-06-01T03:00:18.857" Title="How can I target post notices with custom CSS?" Tags="|support|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2680" CreationDate="2014-05-31T02:47:11.727" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The text on the post notices appear to be wrapped in a paragraph tag, a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, which in turn is wrapped inside a &lt;code&gt;div.question-status&lt;/code&gt;.  With this knowledge, we can build a CSS selector specific enough to target paragraph tags that also happen to be enclosed in these divs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/19492/155826&quot;&gt;Many Memes of Meta for jQuery&lt;/a&gt;, here's some jQuery that targets these post notices, both on questions as well as answers, and increases the font size:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$('.question-status p').css('font-size','15px');&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of using real, actual CSS, you could also target these notices like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.question-status p {&#xA;    font-size: 15px !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2014-06-01T03:00:18.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2682" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-02T14:04:47.293" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is some discussion about adding custom close reason for questions that are asking for general advice or are just rants.  To me these are not neccessarily off topic, as they are usually about navigating the work place but just questions that are not asked appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off topic questions are questions that are about topics that are not about navigating the workplace or are related but have been designated as out of bounds to the workplace.  For instance questions asking for Salary ranges, or which job to accept are related but have been declared off topic.  No matter how the question is worded the question is off-topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have one exception and that is questions asking for legal advice.  Most questions in this realm can be saved by instead of asking if they are OK or at risk, by asking how they can achieve their goal properly.  But we have said that if you ask for legal advice that is a no-no mostly because of the potential risk it puts on SE and this site, as well as the fact that legal answers are rarely definite and that with out a detailed analysis it is rarely possible to give decent advice based off of the limited details provided here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is should we be adding other off topic reasons that can usually be edited to be on topic with out changing the core of the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance if a questions says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My boss hates me what should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should it be ok to close this as off topic then edit it to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My boss hates me, How can I find out why so I can address the issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Question overly simpified I know)  The question here is still basically the same just clarified what the goal is.  The topic is still the same but based on the question asked it is on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2014-06-02T14:17:01.437" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T03:36:56.193" Title="Should off topic reasons allow for questions that are editable to be on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|offtopic|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2682" CreationDate="2014-06-03T02:39:35.617" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think &quot;off-topic&quot; means &quot;wholly off-topic and unredeemable&quot;, any more than the other close reasons mean &quot;unredeemable&quot;.  A question is put on hold when, &lt;em&gt;as written&lt;/em&gt;, it does not satisfy site rules.  If it can't be fixed, it'll eventually move from &quot;on hold&quot; to &quot;closed&quot; and, potentially, be deleted.  If it &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be edited and reopened, then the close reason no longer applies (and is removed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of close reasons as applying to the current state of the question.  They're not necessarily existential statements about the underlying topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T02:39:35.617" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2682" CreationDate="2014-06-05T03:23:00.200" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see off-topic as meaning &quot;off-topic in its current format&quot;. To me this means that something that's off-topic could be edited to bring it within bounds. What might be missing from the close reason in question is some information on what the asker can do to edit it into shape. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going with the Stack Overflow example, posts are closed as off-topic if they're missing code to replicate the problem behavior. However, askers can easily fix this problem by including the simple example needed to help askers get started. Many closures are prevented in this manner, and many posts are summarily reopened once the problem with the post is improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For The Workplace, the question is whether or not this off-topic close reason would properly communicate what steps are needed to sufficiently improve the question. On The Workplace, some workplace interpersonal relations questions, when they contain rants, lack of objectivity, and one-sidedness, are a great example of a post that is only close-able depending on its wording. While these types of questions do get closed, we oftentimes bring them back into scope by editing out rants and rewording the post so it's more constructive and objective. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the concern is that it won't be clear to people the questions can actually be edited and improved, is it possible to clarify that in the close reason how the post can be fixed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T03:36:56.193" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T03:36:56.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2685" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-05T17:38:05.973" Score="6" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/25837/my-first-freelance-project-took-me-twice-as-long-as-estimated-how-should-i-pro&quot;&gt;My first freelance project took me twice as long as estimated - How should I proceed?&lt;/a&gt; , it took the OP twice as long as he had estimated to finish a project (missing a few updated deadlines on the way, too). It was his first project. I commented only half-joking that that was really not a bad estimate for a first freelance project. I actually think that the comment contributed to the OP's question by putting it into perspective, and I stated that I was not being sarcastic, in order to avoid misunderstandings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment got deleted with a reference to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&lt;/a&gt;. That page has a few examples of what are good comments and what are bad ones, but my remark doesn't seem to fit either really well. Perhaps it could be seen as &quot;minor or transient information&quot;, but clearly not in a technical sense (as a link to an article would be). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This incident inspired my request for comment here, for future reference: Are such general comments which are neither &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;requests for clarification &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;constructive criticism&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;nor additional information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;indeed unwanted? What's your current practice, and what would you like to see?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19715" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T12:10:45.680" Title="Is it appropriate to leave a comment which is a general remark on the question?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2685" CreationDate="2014-06-05T23:46:02.000" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;thanks for posting this on meta for clarification. I was the one who deleted the comment (among many other comments), here was my general thought:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While it was tangential information, it was most useful to the asker, and he had (presumably) already read it since he added a comment after yours&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/25838/7945&quot;&gt;Wesley's answer&lt;/a&gt; says basically the same thing (that double isn't that bad for a first project)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Our focus is on Q&amp;amp;A, and we want to make sure that comments add value to those posts, rather than distract people from the content we optimize for&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As explained in the help center you linked (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comments are &lt;strong&gt;temporary&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;Post-It&quot; notes left on a question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get a ton of comments, and they take time to deal with. When in doubt, I delete. The longer the discussion/more comments there are, the more likely it is I will delete them. If you feel we removed valuable content that isn't available elsewhere then please let us know with a meta post like this one and we can look in to it, or even better, find a way to include them in to an answer (of your own or through an edit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T23:46:02.000" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2688" CreationDate="2014-06-06T21:19:46.887" Score="14" ViewCount="534" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, I tested posting a question from unregistered, 0-rep account: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/25955/test-a-question-from-unregistered-0-score-account&quot;&gt;the link that I hope soon will be deleted and remain visible only to moderators and 10K users&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is how it went:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I filled the title&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;test a question from unregistered, 0-score account&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I filled the text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;test a question from unregistered, 0-score account&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For more details, refer MSO: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252061/what-effect-would-introducing-a-small-barrier-for-new-users-to-ask-a-question-ha/254278?noredirect=1#comment37307_254278&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252061/what-effect-would-introducing-a-small-barrier-for-new-users-to-ask-a-question-ha/254278?noredirect=1#comment37307_254278&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I added the tag as system didn't let me ask without it&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I have chosen &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/work-environment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;work-environment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;work-environment&lt;/a&gt; in case if that matters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I added (totally phony) email as system didn't let me ask without it: &lt;code&gt;test@example.com&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that, I was able to post. Nice? Not! I was expecting to see at least the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How To Ask&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I can say is WTF. Totally new users are literally invited to drop anything at the site without even a hint to help them understand what it is about and how it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-06-07T17:13:24.787" Title="test failed: a question from unregistered, 0-score account" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2020-05-06T07:32:11.170" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2687" CreationDate="2014-06-07T17:13:24.787" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like Server Fault is the only site that redirects to the full &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/questions/ask/advice?&quot;&gt;How to Ask&lt;/a&gt; page. Stack Overflow, Super User, Ask Ubuntu, Programmers SE, and Stack Apps, for instance, all require creating an  account (and most likely show the full How to Ask page prior to allowing the user to post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All other sites I've looked at appear to only mention How to Ask as a brief aside in the top right sidebar of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;Ask Question&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I honestly can't remember at the moment if it was like this a few years ago. I do know you don't need to create an account to post on most of the Stack Exchange sites, but that's a separate issue from not showing the How to Ask page, which seems like something that should potentially be enabled, assuming it would actually help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing is that new users who hit the main page, they do see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;Take the 2-minute tour&lt;/a&gt; button, which takes them through the About page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the smaller sites, I believe the idea is that, since they get less traffic than Stack Overflow, there's not as much of a disincentive to prevent people from posting, since the community can help users fix problems with their posts, or close, flag, and delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-06-07T17:13:24.787" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2674" CreationDate="2014-06-09T09:02:29.830" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This issue has been fixed, it will be live after our next production build&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13131" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T09:02:29.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2644" CreationDate="2014-06-10T05:39:51.937" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here is the most up to date revision of the rant question close reason: (taken from jmac's answer and posted here for clarity)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real questions have answers.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Rather than explaining why your situation is terrible, or why your boss/coworker makes you unhappy, explain what you want to do to make it better. See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T05:39:51.937" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-06-10T05:39:51.937" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2691" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-10T06:27:06.120" Score="22" ViewCount="2161" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Get a Room, &lt;em&gt;a Chat Room!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did you know it only takes &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/chat-rooms&quot;&gt;100 reputation to create a chat room on Workplace SE&lt;/a&gt;?  It's not a moderator-only privilege, nor is it reserved only for the highest reputation users. Virtually anyone can create their own room for a certain topic, whether it be career advice, interpersonal issues, management issues, resume writing, workplace education, and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are two things that we'd like to tackle as a community:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reduce our use of extended discussion in comments, and use them &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;for what they're intended for&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make better use of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat room functionality&lt;/a&gt; provided to us by the excellent developers at Stack Exchange.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chat is an underused tool on The Workplace, yet we have users in our community with over 300 comments posted in just a 30 day period. The evidence speaks for itself; people like to chat. Yet, comments on the Q&amp;amp;A site leads to a lot of  unnecessary cleanup, not just for moderators but for all of our diligent community flaggers who work tirelessly to help keep the clutter under control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reduce the distractions caused by comments, we're going to take a much more active role in removing them, yet we don't want to stifle the social nature of our community. So let's instead redirect it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's how you can help:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you see a comment thread starting to get long, drop a link to a chat room,  and encourage the commenters to use it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're one of our chattier, social butterflies, make your new challenge one of utilizing chat more as a tool. Keep a link to your chat room in your back pocket&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; as a go-to place for all your longer discussions, and drop the link in the comments whenever your discussions get longer than a few comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make it a point to clean up your comments once they've served their purpose. For instance, if you've edited a post to include information from the comments, flag those comments as obsolete and/or delete them if they're your own.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, we only have &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;The Water Cooler&lt;/a&gt;, our site's main chat room, but there's a potential for a whole lot more places to hold discussions and &lt;em&gt;constructive, friendly&lt;/em&gt; debates. These are great places for all of the things that aren't on-topic on the main Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Get My Chat Room Now&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; You can mark any chat room as a favorite by clicking on the star in the top right area of the screen, near the name (while in the room) or on the info page.  The star will turn yellow when you do.  On the main chat page, if you go to &amp;quot;rooms&amp;quot; you can then go to &amp;quot;favorites&amp;quot; and see all your starred rooms -- handy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-07-11T10:48:26.483" Title="Get a Room, a Chat Room!" Tags="|support|comments|chat|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2685" CreationDate="2014-06-11T12:10:45.680" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the comments are actually some of the most interesting content on the stackexchange sites. And honestly, let's be real, the chat rooms aren't really working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If comments really are supposed to be like &quot;temporary post-it notes&quot; then why not just delete all of them automatically after a certain amount of time or after the activity on the question has died down? Stackexchange could even post a warning comment that the comments will be blown away in x days. At least that would be predictable and much preferable ad-hoc deletion at the whim of a do-gooder moderator while the discussion is in progress (not suggesting that anyone here is a do-gooder moderator :-) ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, the achilles heel of stackexchange is the false assumption that &quot;good&quot; questions have &quot;one correct&quot; objective answer. That might approach reality for some topics, but for others like Workplace, there are problems. In a topic as INTRINSICALLY subjective as &quot;navigating the workplace&quot; there are always other facets to consider, complications, and tangents which could transform one's thinking about the question at hand. Comments really help for those &quot;side-issues&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that clutter from comments dilutes the intent of stackexchange, and understand why comments should be deleted (at least eventually). What I find annoying is deletion of comments while a discussion is still active. Please stop doing that. A better way to handle it is to just automatically delete comments after activity has died down. That way your time as a moderator can be better spent encouraging people to frame their good comments into useful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7572" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T12:10:45.680" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2693" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-12T07:10:21.560" Score="16" ViewCount="9104" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have updated the custom off-topic close reasons according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2644/good-subjective-bad-subjective-and-agony-aunt-questions&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2655/custom-close-reasons-for-the-workplace&quot;&gt;discussions&lt;/a&gt; held here on meta. The close reasons below are our new off-topic close reasons. As answers to this question, I am making individual answers for each close reason that explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it is off-topic and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to edit the post to get it reopened. These answers will be linked in each close reason and are intended to help out askers who had their questions closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on &lt;strong&gt;company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies&lt;/strong&gt; should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking &lt;strong&gt;legal advice&lt;/strong&gt; should be directed to legal professionals. For more information, click &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2694&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be used for questions where the answer lies in legal advice or company-specific policies that cannot be answered by an HR specialist from another company. For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My company is not allowing me to carry over vacation days, can they do that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it legal for an employer to fire an employee for committing a crime?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How much notice do I need to give to leave my job?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions which ask for guidance on how to find the answer, rather than the specific answer for their company, are still on-topic and should not be closed for this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for &lt;strong&gt;advice on what to do are not &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;practical answerable questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g. &lt;em&gt;&quot;what job should I take?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;&quot;what skills should I learn?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;). Questions should get answers explaining &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to make a decision, not advice on what to do. For more information, click &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be used for questions that ask for personalized advice rather than answers that explain &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I take the job in the big multi-national company or the up-and-coming startup?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What should I do if I hate my job but need the money?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What programming language should I learn?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that ask for advice on how to go about solving a problem rather than what decision to make are still on-topic and should not be closed for this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Questions require a goal that we can address.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  Rather than explaining the difficulties of your situation, explain what you want to do to make it better. For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2696&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be used for questions which come across as rants because they focus on problems with an individual rather than asking how to solve problems related to a poor relationship in the office. For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why am I so smart and everyone around me sucks?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why did I get rejected from this job I applied to?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I make my boss be less of a jerk?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that ask how to deal with the consequences of an interpersonal problem are still on-topic and should not be closed for this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Note: These are my examples, and there are probably better ones. If you can think of any, please feel free to edit the above to better match the concept&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers that follow below are advice &lt;em&gt;for askers&lt;/em&gt; who have their questions closed and want to fix them to get them re-opened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T19:46:22.197" Title="Custom Off-Topic Close Reasons Change" Tags="|support|faq|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-06-13T02:53:14.767" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2693" CreationDate="2014-06-12T07:10:21.560" Score="13" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on &lt;strong&gt;company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies&lt;/strong&gt; should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking &lt;strong&gt;legal advice&lt;/strong&gt; should be directed to legal professionals. For more information, click &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our goal here at The Workplace is to help out people in the future who are facing the same problem. When the solution to a problem is company-specific due to company rules or regulations, future visitors who come across it may not find anything that is helpful to their situation in a different company with different rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about rules specific to your company are best asked to your manager or someone in HR. Questions should be able to be answered by an HR professional in another company, and shouldn't require specific legal expertise (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1856/what-is-asking-for-legal-advice&quot;&gt;what is asking for legal advice?&lt;/a&gt;). Legal questions should be posed to your company's legal department or another attorney.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another alternative is to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; your post to remove some of the company-specific details to ask a question that will apply to other people in the same situation but in a different company or position. For instance, instead of asking &lt;em&gt;&quot;How much notice do I need to give to leave my job?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; you can ask &lt;em&gt;&quot;If my company rules do not state a period of notice, how should I determine how much notice to give?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T15:37:02.093" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-06-13T02:53:14.767" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2693" CreationDate="2014-06-12T07:12:11.757" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for &lt;strong&gt;advice on a specific choice&lt;/strong&gt;, such as what job to take or what skills to learn, are difficult to answer objectively and are rarely useful for anyone else. Instead of asking which decision to make, try asking how to make the decision, or for more specific details about one element of the decision. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2693#2695&quot;&gt;More information&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our goal here at The Workplace is to help out people in the future who are facing the same problem. When people ask us for personalized advice, a lot of the specific details will not apply to other people who come across the question since their details may be slightly different and they can't determine whether or not the answer is appropriate for their situation.  It's also hard to answer these questions objectively; we're not looking for collections of unsupported opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about what decision to make are best asked to your friends and family, or maybe Facebook. You can always try asking in our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; where the rules are quite a bit more relaxed. Sometimes talking through a decision can help, so it's best to pick a format designed for that sort of back-and-forth discussion. The Workplace is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;not that place though&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another alternative is to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; your post to ask about &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; you should make the decision, rather than just &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; decision to make. For instance, instead of asking &lt;em&gt;&quot;Should I take the job in the big multi-national company or the up-and-coming startup?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; you could ask a question that will help you make that decision, like &lt;em&gt;&quot;How can I figure out the financial health of a startup I am applying to by asking questions in an interview?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-08-09T19:46:22.197" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T19:46:22.197" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-06-13T02:53:14.767" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2693" CreationDate="2014-06-12T07:13:42.207" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Questions require a goal that we can address.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  Rather than explaining the difficulties of your situation, explain what you want to do to make it better. For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2696&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our goal here at The Workplace is to help out people in the future who are facing the same problem. Often people caught up in an unfortunate situation will focus on the details and specifics of the other people involved, and that can make the question read as a rant which is difficult to answer, and difficult to apply to even a slightly different situation that someone who finds the question may be facing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that focus on how terrible a situation is are better suited for sharing with friends over a &lt;s&gt;beer&lt;/s&gt; beverage of your choice. You can always try asking in our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; where the rules are quite a bit more relaxed. Sometimes just venting makes you feel better about the situation even though nothing about it has changed, so it's best to pick a format designed for more casual conversation. The Workplace is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;not that place though&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another alternative is to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; your post to remove some of the more subjective portions that may be classified as a rant, and focus instead on how to solve the problems that this bad situation has caused. For instance, instead of asking &lt;em&gt;&quot;Why did I get rejected from this job I applied to? The hiring manager is clearly biased against people smarter than him.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  you could rephrase it to be a bit more objective, &lt;em&gt;&quot;How can I show off my intelligence in an interview without coming off condescending?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; It may not make the interviewer any less of a jerk, but it will help you the next time you find yourself in that situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-08-23T13:48:37.937" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-06-13T02:53:14.767" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2697" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-16T13:13:10.587" Score="11" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see quite a few questions like this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27341/how-to-deal-with-requests-to-work-off-the-clock&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27341/how-to-deal-with-requests-to-work-off-the-clock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Please note: I'm not appealing this particular close decision; I'm raising a more general issue and using this question as an example.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like this don't quite fit the StackExchange mold because they describe a situation but don't ask a specific question. So, the question gets put on hold for being off-topic.  In the example case, @jmort253 specifically explained what was needed, which is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the thing, though. In my experience people in situations like this often seek help partly because they don't know how to formulate their questions. They're in a workplace situation that doesn't &lt;em&gt;smell&lt;/em&gt; right but they don't know exactly why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a specific and well-known reason for that: Workplace issues are often iceberg issues. That is, they are 90% about stuff that's below the surface. In many cases, a good path to solving the problem is to have a non-confrontational conversation. But that's hard in situations with power imbalance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the example case the iceberg issue is &quot;Boss, are you asking me to work without wages?&quot;. Even deeper and more significant are the questions &quot;Did I do a bad job on this task? Did you have an expectation that I didn't meet? Are you going to fire me?  Are you angry with me? &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the rest of us have iceberg issues too. The question &quot;are you asking me to work without wages?&quot; immediately crashes into my personal &quot;STOP! That's immoral and illegal!&quot; iceberg. So, I might reflexively click &quot;close: we don't do legal issues&quot; on the question.  But it isn't a legal issue (not yet, anyhow). Advising employees (how) to ask clarifying questions is definitely on-topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could have left the question open. In that case, I might have advised the questioner: Say, &quot;boss, please tell me more about what you expect from me on projects like this one. What do I need to do differently, if anything, to meet your expectations?&quot;  That question basically means &quot;boss, where are your icebergs, and which one am I crashing into?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To restate my question: Should we on Workplace close questions where questioners have a workplace problem but aren't quite sure how to reason about it -- how to navigate the icebergs?   If we don't close those questions how can we best help those users? Useful answers about how to navigate the icebergs will help all our visitors, so they're worth keeping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15811" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T01:51:08.247" Title="How best to help people who are stuck reasoning about workplace issues?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|site-policy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2697" CreationDate="2014-06-16T18:53:08.183" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem here is 2 fold.  A) we dont know what the OP wants to do.(work it or not) B) We have no idea what the actual employment status of the OP is (Contractor, hourly employee, salaried employee)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The assumption here is the the OP is paid an hourly wage (or bills at an hourly rate) but it could just be that the OP is salaried but reports their hours worked.  There are issues with not reporting hours worked in this situation but there is no legal issue.  A company can choose whether or not to charge for the hours over normal or not.  There could be other issues we do not know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perhaps the OP is going to be terminated if this work is not completed by Monday morning... I would work a few hours on Saturday rather than get fired.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the OP a freelancer on a fixed price contract to be completed by Monday?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a comp time policy in place?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has the op been given some time where they missed work hours during the week but were not forced to clock out, and now the business needs them made up?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It could be a bluff given Monday morning to the OP to get their work done by Friday at quitting time or work off the clock on Saturday(with no intent to follow through)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly there are arguments to be made for working off the clock or not for any of these situations.  But those arguments belong in answers to the question.  With out having the important details it is impossible to tell what the situation of the OP is.  The question provides no real details to the situation just what could be a hypothetical question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question gets fleshed out with more details then we can provide an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way to help the OP is to ask the important questions in comments, though I suspect the OP is a drive by and will not likely return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T18:53:08.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2697" CreationDate="2014-06-17T06:35:01.543" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we on Workplace close questions where questioners have a workplace problem but aren't quite sure how to reason about it -- how to navigate the icebergs? If we don't close those questions how can we best help those users? Useful answers about how to navigate the icebergs will help all our visitors, so they're worth keeping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We definitely want to put these on hold, but we want to do it &lt;em&gt;delicately&lt;/em&gt; and with the full intention of following up and taking it off hold as soon as there's some editing activity to help reduce or eliminate the amount of speculative answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I typically try to step in and put them on hold as soon and early as possible, with the honest intention of reopening the post as soon as there's a little more detail in the body of the post. I try to make that clear in the comments for these users, that the hold is preventative and in their best interests too, not just in our site's best interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In these situations, here is how you can help:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ask clarifying questions in comments.&lt;/strong&gt; If you have questions for the asker, leave them in the comments. The #1 problem is that we don't quite understand the full scope of the situation, and by asking the right clarifying questions, we can help identify what's hiding beneath the surface and find the true problem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit responses back into the post.&lt;/strong&gt; If the asker responds in the comments, encourage him or her to add the response to the body of the post, or add the information on their behalf as an edit, then flag the comment as obsolete. The editing bumps the post back to the top of the active page so reopen voters see it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Solicit reopen voters.&lt;/strong&gt; If the iceberg does get uncovered via editing, jump into &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;The Workplace Chat&lt;/a&gt; and see if you can find more reopen voters, or create a meta post. Edited posts also get added directly to the reopen vote queue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flag the post.&lt;/strong&gt; If a moderator put the post on hold, and it's clear the hold is merely designed to help the asker eliminate the noise of speculative answers, you can also flag the post for moderator attention, and if it looks like the asker is playing an active role in engaging the community positively, I may likely take the post off hold right away.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the ultimate goal of both the &quot;unclear&quot; and sometimes the &quot;too broad&quot; close reasons, to help the asker uncover the true problem and tease out the details so we can give this person, and our readers, the best answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T06:35:01.543" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2697" CreationDate="2014-06-18T01:51:08.247" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think people who ask questions have a lot of unorganized analysis already done in their head! its because they cannot arrive to a solution themselves they reach out to forums like these. And for the very same reason the questions may sometimes sound vague. But putting them to hold or closing them does nothing to help them and puzzles them even more so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22268" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T01:51:08.247" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2701" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-18T01:56:02.040" Score="8" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've been told that the purpose of comments is to improve posts and that comments are meant to be temporary post-it notes.  My post is getting a lot of comments; what exactly am I supposed to do about that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T03:58:55.017" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T16:14:56.563" Title="Best ways to address comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|faq-proposed|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2701" CreationDate="2014-06-18T01:56:02.040" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might get several types of comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Asking for clarification: edit your post to address whatever was unclear.  After you've done so, flag the comment as obsolete.  (Make sure it really is -- that you have made the edit!)  See more about editing below.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Arguing against your answer: if the objections raised in the comment are ones you can address in the post and you don't think it would be too tangential, consider editing your post to address them.  (See more about editing below.)  If the comment seems to arise out of a misunderstanding (the person thought you said X when you said Y), leave &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; comment politely pointing out the misunderstanding. Do not get into a long back-and-forth in comments; do feel free to use chat to discuss anything that comes up on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Additional information (e.g. a source for something you said): edit to incorporate if it makes your answer stronger.  It's polite to give credit to the person who suggested it, particularly since the comment will probably be cleaned up at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comments that aren't constructive or otherwise shouldn't be there: flag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A word about editing: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of posts on The Workplace like Wikipedia articles, not like posts on your blog or an email thread.  That is, the current version of the post should read like a seamless, integrated whole.  Don't append additions with &quot;edit&quot;, &quot;edit #2&quot;, etc, and there's no need to quote comments in order to respond to them.  Instead, edit the post to take that feedback into account and produce a version that, had you posted it earlier, the comments you're addressing wouldn't have been made.  The full revision history is available, so you really don't need to call out your edits as edits -- just make the post better.  By and large, you are writing for people who will only ever see the final version, not for people who've been following every development along the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for making the effort to improve your posts.  Every improved post makes The Workplace a better site, thus making the Internet better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T01:56:02.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2703" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2705" CreationDate="2014-06-19T08:18:08.693" Score="4" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;That question came up when I was reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27527/what-is-the-target-market-of-a-commercial-photography-business-partnership&quot;&gt;this user question&lt;/a&gt;. Reading the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help&lt;/a&gt; did not help me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, I tend to consider a business (location) as a workplace, even for a one-person company, but on the other hand the user does not have a business yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8036" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T14:22:08.267" Title="Are questions about setting up a business/writing a business plan on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2703" CreationDate="2014-06-19T08:57:18.450" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27527/what-is-the-target-market-of-a-commercial-photography-business-partnership#comment68425_27527&quot;&gt;A business plan is inherently subjective and predicated on many localized factors.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T08:57:18.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2703" CreationDate="2014-06-19T14:22:08.267" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about the business domain itself are off-topic, same as questions about what job to take or what degrees/certifications to pursue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, questions about setting up the workplace itself, like a question we had not long ago about finding office space for a one-person business, are about the workplace and are on-topic.  (The question you linked to isn't that, but the wording of this meta question could be interpreted as asking about this too, hence this paragraph.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T14:22:08.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2701" CreationDate="2014-06-20T15:34:52.420" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a comment adds to impact of the answer, I will append it wholesale to the answer, with full attribution to the author. I will also respond to the comment if the comment cries out for a good response. I think of my answer as a total: the original answer plus whatever appropriate comments and responses to comments make the answer more appropriate and compelling. The idea is that the answer plus the comments and the responses to comments all converge toward a single idea,. If they don't converge, then we have an open ended forum discussion on our hands - forums are good and/or great but forums are not answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By appending the comments and the response to comments - as long as they converge - into the original answer, I get to enhance the original answer without having to do heavy duty integration and editing work. Yes, I am lazy - I try to get the job done with minimum work :) Plus, it's nice to see how the answer gets enhanced from its original form thanks to the input of my commenters :) I claim there is a method to my madness :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if someone comments back to me &quot;your answer sucks because you did not take into account ...&quot; and they've got a good point, I'll edit the body of the body of my original answer to cover up my tracks :) I am not sure that I gave full credit to the last person who did this to me but knowing myself the way I do, I am pretty sure that I didn't - I don't know why, but I never get awards for sportsmanship :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16993" LastEditorUserId="16993" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T16:14:56.563" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T16:14:56.563" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2707" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-21T11:54:40.443" Score="4" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Title says it all... I'm a bit frustrated now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am looking for guidance on career development. Why is there a tag for career development if a valid question on career development is somewhat &quot;taboo&quot; here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really know whether I understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please help!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22473" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T19:51:21.330" Title="Why are my questions about what experiences lead to becoming a CEO always being downvoted/deleted?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2707" CreationDate="2014-06-21T19:51:21.330" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not that a question about improving one's career is off-topic. Instead, the question you're asking is too broad for our site's Q&amp;amp;A format. As a Stack Exchange site, we're not a discussion forum, and the questions we've chosen to field on our site are those that are self-contained, provide plenty of detail about a real, actual problem you're facing, and that can be answered in a few paragraphs or more, without extended discussion or debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question about how to become a CEO is first and foremost way too broad, something that entire books have been written about, and something that has already been asked and answered elsewhere on the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out our site's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;list of topics in the Help Center&lt;/a&gt; for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, if your questions are put on hold, the idea is that you would edit that post and improve it. Simply copy-pasting closed or on-hold questions into new posts simply creates a lot of noise on our site, and dilutes our community's efforts to help edit and improve them for release back into the pool. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see you have a couple accounts, I'd suggest registering your account so you don't keep losing it. This will help make it easier for you to edit and improve your post, and also, as you gain reputation, that will also accumulate in one place. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T19:51:21.330" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2709" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2711" CreationDate="2014-06-23T23:41:15.780" Score="2" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27709/mobile-developer-intern-interview-questions&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27709/mobile-developer-intern-interview-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are requests for interview questions for specific jobs on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it limited only to software-related jobs, or could everyone ask for specific interview prep questions for the job they happen to be seeking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T03:24:19.037" Title="Is a request for job-specific interview questions on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2709" CreationDate="2014-06-24T02:52:58.687" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We try to put these on hold as quickly as possible, but if they're modified, they can &lt;em&gt;lead&lt;/em&gt; to great questions. It's a matter of digging a little bit to get at the deeper question. In these instances, we can help by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2699/98&quot;&gt;asking clarifying questions in the comments to tease out more details&lt;/a&gt;, which hopefully would be different than merely listing possible interviewing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I pointed the asker to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Six Guidelines of a Good Subjective Question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Constructive subjective questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tend to have long, not short, answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;invite sharing experiences over opinions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are more than just mindless social fun.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T02:52:58.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2709" CreationDate="2014-06-24T03:24:19.037" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is not for software-related jobs only. Kindergarten teachers, plumbers, dentists, construction workers, and astronauts should all be welcome here. (And I'll bet some of them would have fascinating workplace questions. :-) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, questions about specific jobs are off-topic, and IMO questions about job-specific interview questions are similarly off-topic.  As jmort253 notes in his answer, sometimes these can be reworked into broader questions that are on-topic, which is welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T03:24:19.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2712" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-24T08:57:17.290" Score="0" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought the Stackoverflow question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27555/team-members-spending-too-much-time-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Team members spending too much time on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; was somewhat familiar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched for productivity and found a question which in the essence is the same, but isn't targeted at specifically Stack Overflow: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1785/how-can-i-make-sure-my-remote-workers-are-not-slacking-off&quot;&gt;How can I make sure my remote workers are not slacking off?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it upvoted that much simply because of it containing the word Stack Overflow? Can questions be created for similar sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13302" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T14:42:00.033" Title="How is the 'Stackoverflow' question not a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|hot-questions|up-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2712" CreationDate="2014-06-24T14:00:21.717" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The one question is asking about general management of remote workers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current question is specifically about spending time on SO.  The problem is that a limited amount of time at SO is acceptable and when used as a resource is helpful in performing their job.  The question here is how to get the OP's employees to walk the right side of the line between acceptable use and excessive overuse that wastes time and resources of the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions are definitely related but not duplicate in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T14:00:21.717" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2717" CreationDate="2014-06-24T18:39:36.197" Score="15" ViewCount="303" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/27700/325&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; asks what empirical research exists on the subject of increasing salary by changing jobs versus seeking promotions in the same company.  That sounds on-topic to me, but it's been closed by the community.  One comment said it was asking for links to other resources.  I commented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think a good answer to this question would &lt;em&gt;describe&lt;/em&gt; this empirical research, not just point to it. That seems like an on-topic question to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chad responded:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would agree if someone asked a question that said I have this reseach can someone explain what it means in this context. Asking for the research is not though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, I would think that &quot;explain these research results to me&quot; would be off-topic for us, unlike &quot;what is the research&quot;.  But I digress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't the first &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/235/325&quot;&gt;question asking about evidence/research on a workplace topic&lt;/a&gt; we've gotten.  That one was pretty well-received by the community and got a good answer (not just a link).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still don't see the problem with the present question, but obviously at least five community members do (and there are no reopen votes).  One of our persistent problems is questions that seek and/or attract opinion-based, unsourced answers -- here we have a question that's &lt;em&gt;explicitly asking for sources&lt;/em&gt;, but it's closed.  The topic about which it seeks research is solidly in our scope: it's a question about wages and raises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this question closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-07-08T12:25:28.123" Title="What's wrong with the &quot;empirical research&quot; question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2714" CreationDate="2014-06-24T19:09:06.890" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you misunderstood my comment. I was agreeing that explain the research to me would be on topic but only if you already have the research you want explained.  Go out and find the research and then explain it to me is not what we are here for.  We are not a crowd sourced search engine we are a question and answer site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could see room for questions that ask &quot;Has their been any research into this and what were the results?&quot;  If that is basically what you were trying to say then I agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is asking for a list(BAD) of research results.  They are not looking to have it explained or to find out if it is true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make matters worse lets parse the question that they want researched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does empirical research indicate whether changing jobs &lt;strong&gt;CAN&lt;/strong&gt; improve&#xA;  your salary?  &lt;em&gt;emphasis mine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here a sample set of one result that says yes is enough provide a yes result.   where a sample set of millions of nos is not enough to definitively provide a no result.  For this reason there is going to be no research data on this because it is not a question worth researching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I think the OP probably actually wants is something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Statistically, over X years do people have an increase in overall salary by&#xA;  switching jobs regularly or sticking with one employer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question can be asked and answered in our format but the OP does not want our answers they only want a link to an external reference.  That question is probably a good question for here, and a great answer should be able to link the OP to the information they desire.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a set standards for how our site operates and when you try to go outside of those standards with a question the question is off topic.  The question could be modified to be on topic but first the OP needs to concede that a normal Workplace SE answer is desired and rework the question as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T19:09:06.890" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2712" CreationDate="2014-06-25T14:42:00.033" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I am the OP and my answer would be biased. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1785/how-can-i-make-sure-my-remote-workers-are-not-slacking-off&quot;&gt;question you linked for duplicate&lt;/a&gt; deals with the general perception that &lt;em&gt;may be&lt;/em&gt; remote workers are slacking off. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my particular case, my team was working properly just before I &lt;em&gt;(and only I)&lt;/em&gt; encouraged them to use Stack overflow &lt;em&gt;(not just for reading posts but for posting answers)&lt;/em&gt; and then it seems that they become addicted to it some what like gaming. I tried formal and informal avenues to address the issue, but nothing seems to have any effect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, how is that different to workers spending time on facebook or news. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack overflow has been beneficial to developers in increasing their skill set and benefit the productivity. Usually one would learn about new things, better coding skills and improve the communicate skills. Because of that particular reason, my team didn't consider this as slacking off. As long as they were spending a reasonable amount of time, it was ok. But when the balance shifted more towards Stack overflow and less towards work, we started seeing problems and hence the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it upvoted that much simply because of it containing the word Stack&#xA;  Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes definitely it is. But spending time on SO is different that spending time on social media, news or any other activity which would relate to &lt;em&gt;slacking off&lt;/em&gt;, since SO involves learning.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22400" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T14:42:00.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2714" CreationDate="2014-06-26T11:58:50.727" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What's wrong with the “empirical research” question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think far too often these questions can be interpreted as &quot;I'm too lazy to use search engines, can someone please give me a bunch of links to sites showing 'empirical evidence' for my topic?&quot;  As such, I think that should be off-topic (as I've been told that answers in the forms of links are off-topic as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with Chad that asking for a discussion about the topic, and perhaps an explanation of the empirical results would be on-topic. In that case though, I would expect that the original poster should present the links resulting from her/his own search, should explain her/his own interpretation, then ask for clarification or alternative interpretations. Basically, the same as I required of my children when they asked for help with their homework: first, show your work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's hard for someone other than the original poster to &quot;improve&quot; these &quot;empirical research&quot; questions enough to save them, since (at least by my definition) a &quot;good&quot; question like this requires work from the original poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2014-06-26T11:58:50.727" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2720" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-29T04:59:03.920" Score="2" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to an earlier version of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27915/how-can-i-impress-upon-a-manager-the-value-of-a-respectful-management-style&quot;&gt;How can I impress upon a manager the value of a respectful management style?&lt;/a&gt; I've been told that questions asking for a resource are off-topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I check the on-topic and off-topic pages in the help center, this is not mentioned at all.  If this is one of the standards of this site, it should be clearly stated so that posters have an easier time asking on-topic questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18036" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T04:59:03.920" Title="If asking for a resource is off-topic, that should be stated in the help center" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|help-center|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2721" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-30T02:28:35.603" Score="5" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original version of this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27915/how-can-i-impress-upon-a-manager-the-value-of-a-respectful-management-style&quot;&gt;How can I impress upon a manager the value of a respectful management style?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;asks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are there any resources you can recommend that document the value of a respectful, cooperative management style&lt;/strong&gt; that we could share with the manager to help them move toward a more effective and respectful management style?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was closed as off-topic and the comments reflected that it was considered off-topic because it asked for a resource.  (The post has since been edited and re-opened.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comments on this meta thread: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2720/if-asking-for-a-resource-is-off-topic-that-should-be-stated-in-the-help-center&quot;&gt;If asking for a resource is off-topic, that should be stated in the help center&lt;/a&gt; @jmac states that he doesn't think it is in fact the case that asking for a resource is necessarily off-topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... is it in fact off-topic?  Or should it be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18036" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T23:51:35.463" Title="Is asking for resources off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|offtopic|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2721" CreationDate="2014-06-30T07:40:05.537" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, many questions we get asking for resources tend to degrade into what we call &quot;polls&quot;. The problem generally manifests in the form of an overly broad question, or one where there's a hidden problem that the asker doesn't disclose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the answers may help the asker, there's a feeling that something is missing, and what's missing is the opportunity for our community of experts to weigh in with solutions based on their numerous experiences. Questions simply asking for resources treat our community as a simple proxy to information already posted elsewhere, instead of as the experts they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, these list-oriented questions tend to attract a lot of low quality posts, as well as answers that don't take into account the full problem. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;In short, they lessen the chance that you as an asker get the answers to the real, underlying problem.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, tell us about the real, actual problem you're facing. Include plenty of details. Tell us what you've tried or are thinking of trying and why that didn't work. Including our community in the details of the problem helps bring us closer to it and increases the likelihood that you'll get the best possible answers to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it may still be okay to ask for some extraneous resources. In fact, our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;back it up rule strongly encourages it&lt;/a&gt;. Including qualified research on top of an already well thought answer helps add authority to that answer and helps demonstrate that it is in fact a &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; answer. Just be sure to also give &lt;em&gt;us&lt;/em&gt; an opportunity to expand that research by analyzing &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; problem, which most likely will be different than some cookie-cutter cut-and-paste solution on the Internet. Hope this helps clarify!  For further reading, check out the blog post, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real Questions Have Answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T07:40:05.537" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2721" CreationDate="2014-07-01T23:51:35.463" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I personally discourage posting of 'list' questions like 'give me the 10 best business books' or 'what blogs should I read as an online marketer?', I see absolutely no harm in people asking for the existence of a specific resource &lt;em&gt;if that specific resource is not obvious or easy to find&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, I would have absolutely no issue with a question that asks &lt;em&gt;&quot;Where can I find resources indicating the minimum notice period as a salaried employee in Japan?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; Now some of you may say &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.jp/#q=minimum+notice+period+as+a+salaried+employee+in+Japan%3F&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;just google it&lt;/a&gt;, but if you take the time to actually google it, you will find out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most resources don't actually give an answer to the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those that do answer it from the &lt;em&gt;employer&lt;/em&gt; perspective&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; For those of you dying to know the answer, it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/invest/setting_up/laws/section4/page8.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;two weeks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our goal is to provide answers to questions that people are searching for so that they don't have to dig through search results or forum threads, but rather just to get a good answer when they click through to SE. I see no harm in having questions that make information/resources that are tough to find through a google search more accessible so long as it isn't a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/225370/&quot;&gt;link only answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the original revision of your question is asking for a resource that isn't easily found, and isn't problematic for our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T23:51:35.463" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2724" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-02T13:40:29.803" Score="1" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we see content that is abusive, offensive, dangerous, advising potentially illegal behavior, or lacking credible references or explanation(not following back it up) are we expected to edit it out even if we do not see a way to make the answer/question constructive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this is the proper time to use flags but it seems that at least one of our moderators has a different opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-07-02T14:41:13.957" Title="Are regular users expected to edit when we see bad content?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2724" CreationDate="2014-07-02T14:41:13.957" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the post is nothing but abusive/offensive content -- that is, there'd be nothing left if you edited that out -- then flag as offensive (and vote to delete if you can).  Accepted offensive flags carry a 100-reputation penalty to the poster (or last editor), which should indicate that they are for &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/58032/what-are-the-spam-and-offensive-flags-and-how-do-they-work/58035#58035&quot;&gt;serious situations&lt;/a&gt; that can't be fixed through milder means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer is merely &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt;, even &lt;em&gt;dangerously wrong&lt;/em&gt;, the proper tools are downvotes and comments.  People are allowed to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/386/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wrong on the internet&lt;/a&gt;.  In severe cases you can encourage a community deletion, either through votes (hard to come by right now, I know) or consensus on meta (more attainable), but moderators won't usually delete these kinds of answers unilaterally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer is wrong and you're &lt;em&gt;highly confident&lt;/em&gt; that the author didn't mean it -- for example, he clarified in comments but didn't edit -- then you are encouraged (but of course not required) to edit the post.  That's part of collaboratively making the site, and therefore the internet, a better place.  But &quot;wrong&quot; doesn't call for flags; fix it if you can and want to or vote and/or comment and then move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a post doesn't follow our back-it-up rule then it should get fixed or annotated.  We've had a lot of discussions around this and I don't think the community is 100% aligned.  What I personally do depends on the severity of the situation: if I think it &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be backed up but it's not currently, then I'll usually leave a comment first and give the author a little time to respond before hanging the annotation badge of shame on his post.  But if I think the post is farther away from that state -- if it's just a one-liner opinion, for example -- then I go straight to annotating (or, as a user, flagging for annotation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aside:&lt;/strong&gt; if a question is getting a lot of attention and you're seeing annotation-worthy answers, it would be helpful to look at the other answers while you're there.  When we annotate a post we (legitimately) open ourselves to the challenge of &quot;why mine and not that other one that's just as bad?&quot;.  Try to help us out with that, ok?  If I get a flag on one of 10 answers on a hot question and I don't have time right now to examine the other 9, I'll just sit on it until I have time.  That delays action.  Sorry, but we moderators have day jobs too; we need the community's help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To me this is the proper time to use flags but it seems that at least one of our moderators has a different opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You made a recent, vague meta post about this and declined to edit the post with &lt;em&gt;specifics that we could talk about&lt;/em&gt; when I asked you to.  Vague complaints can't be investigated or discussed.  Moderators are limited in what information we can reveal, so I can't post your flags and our responses for others to comment on.  If you want to talk about specific flags, &lt;em&gt;bring them up&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2718/325&quot;&gt;decline one offensive flag from you&lt;/a&gt; where a simple edit would have fixed the problem.  I wrote you a response explaining why I did that.  Did you see it?  I also responded to your comment on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2014-07-02T14:41:13.957" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2727" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2730" CreationDate="2014-07-04T15:10:48.890" Score="6" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;All of the questions I see on this site are related to office jobs in companies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I work freelance, and I don't have any questions at the moment, but if I ever do is this site appropriate for freelance-related questions? (I hope so, because I love the answers I see here in general - although most of the questions make me thankful that I don't have an office job...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15912" LastActivityDate="2014-07-05T03:23:10.790" Title="Are questions related to running a freelance business on topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2729" CreationDate="2014-07-04T18:29:54.643" Score="2" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone named Hammond Something posted a question about what to do after his boss exposed himself. Early comments indicated that people on this board thought it was a joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it is difficult for men to believe that this is for real, but women have been putting up with this kind of offensive behavior in the workplace since they joined the workforce, and it is not a joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This OP's boss wore no underwear, left his pants unzipped, AND THEN put his foot up on the desk, putting his genitals at eye level. It MAY have been inadvertent, but the coincidences make me think sexual harassment, and we have not even given the question an opportunity for answer, we have given the OP no advice, and we have in fact ridiculed him in our comments and deleted his question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think the question was not properly worded (not an easy situation to describe), could we edit and re-post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19277" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-04-08T17:49:15.840" LastActivityDate="2018-04-08T17:49:15.840" Title="I was answering a question and it disappeared" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2728" CreationDate="2014-07-04T18:43:20.553" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sexual harassment, by and directed at either men or women, is a serious matter.  Questions about how to deal with such occurrence in the workplace are solidly on-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question...was not that.  For background, we've deleted five copies of this question in the last 15 hours or so.  The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/28158/325&quot;&gt;first version&lt;/a&gt; (requires 10k rep to see) mocked the boss for the, err, perceived lack of quality of said genitalia, said explicitly that it wasn't seeing the genitalia that bothered him but rather its size, and ended with something like &quot;how can I respect that guy now?&quot;.  There was no indication that the OP felt harassed, only squicked.  This combination of factors led multiple users to conclude that it was an attempt to troll the site, not to solve a problem.  Slightly-altered versions of it then kept appearing (as new questions, not edits).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking personally, even if the question is sincere, &quot;how do I overcome my negative feelings from this?&quot; isn't really a question we can answer.  That question is more in the realm of psychology.  &quot;How do I un-see that?&quot; doesn't really seem like a &lt;em&gt;workplace&lt;/em&gt; question to me.  If others disagree with this then I will of course defer to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If somebody would like to ask a question about how to &lt;em&gt;respond, in a workplace context&lt;/em&gt;, to this kind of situation, feel free.  The question should provide a little more detail -- is this a one-time occurrence or part of a pattern?  Has the boss had other questionable behavior?  Have there been other cases of possible harassment and, if so, what was done about them?  Etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T18:50:13.167" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2727" CreationDate="2014-07-05T03:23:10.790" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answer is, &lt;em&gt;&quot;It depends&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. We have many questions from people who could as well be freelancers (questions about going over time or over budget for a contracted project for a client), which we are more than happy to keep open here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7315/&quot;&gt;How do I fix my reputation with a client when I fell through for a project?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27584/&quot;&gt;Taking on multiple clients in the same niche - conflict of interest?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/20358/&quot;&gt;What is a tactful way to address client&amp;#39;s lack of cooperation with a project?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are just examples, but to me these could all be asked by a freelancer and wouldn't make the question any less appropriate for our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your questions are more about the nitty gritty of freelancing in specific, &lt;em&gt;&quot;How do I create an invoice?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;&quot;How should I provide a cost breakdown of a project to a client for evaluation?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; or the like, then &lt;a href=&quot;https://freelancing.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Freelancing.SE&lt;/a&gt; (a Stack Exchange Beta site) may be a better place. Just be sure to &lt;a href=&quot;https://freelancing.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;read their help first&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, if you want to ask here, I invite you to. The worst that happens is that it gets closed and/or moved to freelancing.se instead. There are many questions that can be on-topic on multiple sites on the network, and that's perfectly okay, so ask wherever you feel most comfortable and it will help us define our scope, and also help you get a better idea of which questions fit where best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look forward to reading your questions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:57:34.550" LastActivityDate="2014-07-05T03:23:10.790" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2731" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-05T15:38:56.607" Score="-4" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because I have asked more than one question, I cannot simply click 'delete'. I have asked them in a private message and have used the account deactivation form twice but with no response. This was 20 hours ago. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if the moderators' refusal to grant my request is a vindictive response to me asking workplace-related questions they do not like. In any case, please deactivate my other account&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/22789/hammond-druthers&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/22789/hammond-druthers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'll be deactivated this one immediately after asking this question). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;H-Druth&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22813" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T14:53:16.463" Title="Why won't the moderators delete my account?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2731" CreationDate="2014-07-06T00:39:06.710" Score="5" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators are not able to delete your account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The proper deletion procedure is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/deleting-account&quot;&gt;written in the help center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even through that procedure it takes over 24 hours&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the moderators won't delete your account because we can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T02:51:21.687" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2714" CreationDate="2014-07-07T22:16:38.403" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;True, I am not all that concerned with workplace.SE at all, however this seems to be just plain weird. Why would asking for research be wrong here, whilst at least on UX.se, skeptics.SE, biology.SE, physics.SE and money.SE these questions are either accepted or even encouraged. StackExchange is not meant to answer personal questions (which are deemed too specific), but questions which have future value. Asking for empirical research fits that &lt;strong&gt;perfectly&lt;/strong&gt;. And it's not like the answers will become too long for a Q&amp;amp;A format as long as the question itself is specific enough. It might happen that nobody feels like answering the question, and that's fine, but closing the question as off topic seems like a great great waste. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, as becomes extremely evident on sites like skeptics.SE, it's never just linking to research, it's also about critically evaluating it's value in the context of the question. The question discussed here for example asks just for the research, but if it would've been phrased like the following&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to know if you get more wages by working for the same company and asking for a promotion, or by changing jobs. Please support any answer with proper emperical research, I am not looking for anecdotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it seems like a perfect fit for the Q&amp;amp;A format. The difference is that now the focus of the question is on the career path one should take to maximize wages rather than research about which career path one should take to maximize wages, but this unclearity was only introduced by moderator intervention either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12607" LastEditorUserId="12607" LastEditDate="2014-07-08T12:25:28.123" LastActivityDate="2014-07-08T12:25:28.123" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2734" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-08T01:11:33.980" Score="2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Been using many SE sites (starting with SO) for a few years now. Questions are closed/put on hold in most sites by 5 votes from people who have crossed a certain threshold of points. I myself vote for closing questions regularly on Stack Overflow.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, here my question was put on hold by just one person - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28200/how-to-prepare-for-people-who-have-been-made-offers-not-joining&quot;&gt;How to prepare for people who have been made offers not joining&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So does Workplace SE follow a different moderation model than other SE sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22822" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-07-08T02:56:47.867" Title="Is Workplace SE not community moderated like other SE sites?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2734" CreationDate="2014-07-08T02:56:47.867" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;On all sites on the network, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;Moderators have binding votes&lt;/a&gt;. Some sites use them more than others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post in question had received flags about a large number of comments that needed to be cleaned up. I read through the post and the comments and noted that the question was hypothetical, and members of the community were not able to get clarifications to help answer the question as a result of it being hypothetical. Rather than trying to sort through all the comments (and delete important clarifying information), I voted to close it instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All sites on the SE network have the same page in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions &lt;strong&gt;based on actual problems that you face&lt;/strong&gt;. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hypothetical questions are often problematic because you are making assumptions about what the problem is, which makes it hard for people to answer. For instance the very first comment asks: &lt;em&gt;&quot;Why are people turning down the job offer 20 days later? Are they accepting a counteroffer from their current company?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; to which you responded, &lt;em&gt;&quot;it could be any reason - does it matter - I am sure there must be a percentage of people who accept the offer and then not join.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top answer says &lt;em&gt;&quot;If people are turning you down after accepting your initial offer then you need to ask yourself why. You should also be asking them why, if possible, too.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; But the catch is that nobody is turning you down, because this is a hypothetical, and all we end up is a bunch of people hypothesizing about potential causes of a made-up problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That isn't so useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have three options open to you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit your question to actually flesh out the problem and make it specific enough to answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit your question to better explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you feel this will become a problem, and ask how to prevent it if possible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Disagree with me and find 5 members of the community willing to cast reopen votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-07-08T02:56:47.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2739" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2740" CreationDate="2014-07-08T11:15:34.910" Score="2" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per my understanding, conversion to community wiki does not occur automatically (anymore).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this question seems to be converted to CW after &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/28304/revisions&quot; title=&quot;&amp;#39;Post Made Community Wiki by user22881&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;15th answer&lt;/a&gt; was posted to it: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/83/selecting-interview-attire-for-a-technical-job-interview&quot;&gt;Selecting interview attire for a technical job interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did that happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/228940/165773&quot;&gt;Stop using community wiki as a reputation denial mechanism&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Community wiki isn't a tool for reputation denial. We originally had all these automatic triggers mostly to leverage existing systems to handle abuse situations. While it can be said that it &quot;worked&quot;, it also very largely didn't work, and a lot of pain was had by people who had legitimate contributions or labored tirelessly on their posts only to be basically slapped in the face.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;That ends today. I'm happy to announce that we have &lt;strong&gt;removed all of the automatic triggers that convert a post to community wiki&lt;/strong&gt;. Edits by the original author, edits by other people, and even volume of answers, all of these no longer cause a post to be automatically converted to community wiki. There will instead be flags for moderator action cast in these situations, but they are mostly to let moderators be aware of what is going on with posts. That will help take care of the actual abuse scenarios, and as an added bonus, it means that moderators will not only know that such things happened but also be able to speak directly to abusive users and take additional measures as necessary. Community wiki shouldn't be even on one's mind when viewing these flags.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;The blog post &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/04/putting-the-community-back-in-wiki/&quot;&gt;Putting the Community back in Wiki&lt;/a&gt; discusses the intent behind the change, why it was assessed, and the impact we hope for the change. This was, after all, not just a mechanical change, but &lt;strong&gt;a shift for the whole ideal of Community Wiki to remove its punitive usage&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-07-08T11:34:38.547" Title="Why was this question made community wiki?" Tags="|support|status-bydesign|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2739" CreationDate="2014-07-08T11:34:17.017" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/83/revisions&quot;&gt;timeline for the question&lt;/a&gt; you will see that the question was made a community wiki in October 2013, prior to the change discussed in the linked meta discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All answers to a CW question are automatically changed to CW themselves, which is why that specific answer shows that it was made CW today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is behavior as intended as far as I can tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-07-08T11:34:17.017" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2741" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-08T14:41:26.317" Score="6" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that we've graduated and have had many more meta discussions here to refine our scope, I thought it was a good time to take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;our custom section of the help center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can edit this however we like. The current wording has been basically unchanged for the past year. For now, let's use the answers here as a discussion to clarify what we want to put in here. For reference, take a look at a &lt;a href=&quot;https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;very new site&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://expatriates.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;a somewhat new site&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;some giant technology-related site&lt;/a&gt; for different examples of how this section is used. We are not stuck to a specific format or list of sections, and can totally change the one that we have below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, each answer will give a brief outline of what sections, and what major topics will be covered. Once we have a good idea of what we want in there, we can start discussing the nitty gritty details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the current text of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt; is a Q&amp;amp;A site&#xA;  about the workplace and other career-related topics. It is for members&#xA;  of the workforce to get answers on topics such as the job hunting&#xA;  process, interviewing, salary negotiation, and professionalism within&#xA;  the Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With your help, we're working together to build a library of&#xA;  detailed answers to every question about the workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;What questions are off topic here?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&quot;I need advice on...&quot;, &quot;What should I do?&quot;, or &quot;Which job&#xA;  should I take?&quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Questions looking for opinions on what to&#xA;  do but with no specific problem are suited for discussion boards (not&#xA;  a question/answer site) and generally will be closed on The Workplace&#xA;  as &quot;primarily opinion-based.&quot; For information on how to write a good&#xA;  subjective question see here.&#xA;  Remember a real question has an answer, not just opinions or ideas. &#xA;  &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&quot;Is it legal...&quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;If a question&#xA;  requires a lawyer to answer it, we can't help. These situations are&#xA;  simply too specific and too complex to definitively answer on our&#xA;  site.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&quot;Please review my resume/CV&quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions need to apply to more than &lt;em&gt;just you&lt;/em&gt;. Since this&#xA;  site is here to help &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt;, and not review to a specific&#xA;  resume, these are not &quot;questions&quot; to us as they don't have definite&#xA;  answers.  &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&quot;How do I learn to be a...&quot; / &quot;How do I&#xA;  perform the job of a ...&quot; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Questions should be about problems&#xA;  you are encountering or have encountered in the workplace, and not the&#xA;  learning/applying of specific job functions. &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;What salary/hourly rate should I look for? How much should I&#xA;  charge for X?&quot; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Questions regarding salary are too localized&#xA;  to the city, timeframe, job sector and specific skills. Answers to&#xA;  these questions become quickly outdated and just aren't helpful to&#xA;  others. &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;For general salary hunting tips, see How&#xA;  can I determine a reasonable salary to ask for?&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For more help, see &lt;a href=&quot;/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;&quot;What types of&#xA;  questions should I avoid asking?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;How should I answer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Make sure your answer adds helpful information and is a&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;complete, stand-alone answer&lt;/em&gt;. Read other answers first and be&#xA;  sure not to completely restate information that has already been&#xA;  posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that answers should be backed up either with a&#xA;  reference, or experiences that happened to you personally. You should&#xA;  always include in your answer information about why you think your&#xA;  answer is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;/search&quot;&gt;look around&lt;/a&gt; to see if your question&#xA;  has been asked before. It’s also OK to ask and answer your own&#xA;  question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is not specifically on-topic for The Workplace&#xA;  Stack Exchange, it may be on topic for another Stack Exchange site.&#xA;  If no site currently exists that will accept your question, you may commit to or propose&#xA;  a new site at &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Area51&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;  the place where new Stack Exchange communities are democratically&#xA;  created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:37:04.473" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T06:20:55.940" Title="Updating the Help Center" Tags="|discussion|help-center|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2741" CreationDate="2014-07-09T04:51:53.017" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the current structure of our help center, which closely matches that of SO. The only thing I would change is the &lt;strong&gt;How to Answer&lt;/strong&gt; section which feels out of place since this is about asking questions (and is in the 'How to ask?' section of the help center).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is how I would like to structure it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Our general topic&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finding employment (resumes/cv/cover letters, recruiters, hiring-managers, interviews, negotiations, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maintaining employment (promotions, pay increases, harassment, bullying, poor working conditions, communication problems, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leaving employment (notice period, breaking the news, handing over work, reference letters, relieving letters, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Definitely off-topic things&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions asking for advice on what to do (including reviewing resumes, CVs, cover letters, e-mails, specific salaries, billing rates, market worth, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions that focus on ranting about problems rather than trying to solve them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;that aren't a good fit for the SE format&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Still confused?&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get some guidance from regular users in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;Water Cooler Chat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask a question on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Workplace Meta&lt;/a&gt; about the rules&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Look for other sites on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Network&lt;/a&gt; that may be a better fit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T06:00:52.637" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2743" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-10T07:17:24.697" Score="2" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently noticed that comments are removed in many questions. &#xA;Why is that happening? &#xA;Most of the time, I found very good answers to my questions in comments rather than actual answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a good idea to clear most of the comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17852" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditDate="2014-07-12T15:17:21.257" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T15:17:21.257" Title="Why did all comments suddenly start disappearing?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2743" CreationDate="2014-07-10T07:53:31.783" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comments are temporary &quot;Post-It&quot; notes left on a question or answer. They can be up-voted (but not down-voted) and flagged, but do not generate reputation. There's no revision history, and when they are deleted they're gone for good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are meant to be temporary, and they are &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; intended as somewhere to put answers. Answers should be turned in to answers. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/72&quot;&gt;What “comments” are not&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are not for answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Comments are not a substitute for answering questions. Comments cannot easily be searched, nor can they be edited for corrections or vetted with the community vote. There's no history, no reputation awarded, nor can they be 'accepted' as the best answer. They get little visibility but often keep users from posting proper answers because the question appears to be resolved… albeit, incorrectly. Further, those comment-answers will not bring new users to this site searching for the information. In short, you are hurting rather than helping the site, and your contribution is at great risk of being lost/deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I notice a lot of comments, I delete all the ones which shouldn't be comments because we get a &lt;strong&gt;lot&lt;/strong&gt; of comments here, a lot more than we should. The only comments I tend to keep are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments that ask for clarification of a question/answer that haven't been responded to by the author in the post yet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments that add to a post by providing additional information that hasn't been edited in to the post yet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I have a little extra time, I will edit the answers to clarification questions/the additional information provided in a comment in to the post, and then delete the obsolete comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T07:53:31.783" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2746" CreationDate="2014-07-10T12:08:48.563" Score="2" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28241/my-manager-thinks-showing-up-early-doesnt-show-as-much-enthusiasm-as-staying-la/30385#30385&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; has already attracted 3 close votes but I am completely confused as to why. If someone has left a comment concerning it, I can't tell because every comment has been deleted. I'm pretty confused because judging by the community's reaction this question is very relevant and has even been edited by someone to put the most relevant points right at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19336" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T13:31:25.977" Title="Why the close votes?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2745" CreationDate="2014-07-10T13:31:25.977" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;None of the comments explain why, and I can't offer any insight beyond all three votes were issued for the following reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real questions have answers.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Rather than explaining why your situation is terrible, or why your boss/coworker makes you unhappy, explain what you want to do to make it better. For more information, click &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2696&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My assumption (bearing in mind that I didn't cast a vote) is that your question strikes many people as a general complaint about your situation without indicating what exactly you want to do to improve the situation. As a result they may be under the impression that you are ranting rather than asking a question that can be answered/solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More specifically, you are basically saying, &lt;em&gt;&quot;Me and my manager have a difference of opinion -- who's right?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; which isn't exactly the most actionable of questions (determining who is right won't solve the problem).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now the question is still open, and you've gotten 12 answers. Even if it does get closed, you have gotten &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; more eyes and responses to your question than most on the site. I don't see a huge problem that needs action, but hopefully someone else will pop in and explain their reasoning for your reference when asking questions in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T13:31:25.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2747" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-10T15:20:51.807" Score="4" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;(It's hard for me to believe that this question has not been asked before, but I couldn't find a duplicate.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking specifically of a question like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/29377/prevalence-of-offshoring-in-the-information-security-industry&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.   Answers for this question will obviously be opinion based, although I think reasonable people can probably disagree on whether it's appropriate for this site, since we often allow questions that draw upon users' opinions rather than upon hard data if those questions are asked properly. The question is currently on hold, but several people disagree with its on hold status. Similar situations appear to arise pretty often.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &quot;gray area&quot; questions like this, is it better to delay answering until a clear direction emerges on the question's appropriateness, or is it considered OK to answer and let these decisions be made later?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14047" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T15:20:51.807" Title="When should a question not be answered?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2748" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-10T23:36:37.163" Score="17" ViewCount="1393" Body="&lt;p&gt;our name is The Workplace, and we have a comment problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We definitely have a comment problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We have tried to fix it, but haven't succeeded yet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We want your help to figure out a way to do that&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;We have a growing comment problem:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is our comments by week since the Workplace started out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/edit/207645#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9tPWZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Comments by Week&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, from January this year we have seen a marked increase in the number of comments we are getting. Bear in mind this does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; include deleted comments, of which there are many hundred per week that are being deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a more specific example, at the time of this edit, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30533/is-there-a-dress-code-for-women-in-software-industry&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; is 15 hours old and already has &lt;strong&gt;59 comments&lt;/strong&gt;. Currently none are deleted. Take a look and tell me that all these comments are appropriate and useful to high-quality Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What we've tried&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;tried explaining what comments are for&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are not intended for long-term storage of important information. But that transiency doesn't mean you can use comments for random, parenthetical asides. &lt;strong&gt;If your comment isn't likely to change the content of the post, please do not post it&lt;/strong&gt; for someone else to clean up. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have tried &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2691/get-a-room-a-chat-room&quot;&gt;recommending chat instead&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chat is an underused tool on The Workplace, yet we have users in our community with over 300 comments posted in just a 30 day period. The evidence speaks for itself; people like to chat. Yet, comments on the Q&amp;amp;A site leads to a lot of unnecessary cleanup, not just for moderators but for all of our diligent community flaggers who work tirelessly to help keep the clutter under control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yet we still get a whole lot of comments, and plenty of meta posts trying to ask the community what to do about them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2701/&quot;&gt;Best ways to address comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2685/is-it-appropriate-to-leave-a-comment-which-is-a-general-remark-on-the-question&quot;&gt;Is it appropriate to leave a comment which is a general remark on the question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2634/are-1-for-something-about-the-post-comments-discouraged&quot;&gt;Are &amp;#39;+1 for [something about the post]&amp;#39; comments discouraged?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2691/get-a-room-a-chat-room&quot;&gt;Get a Room, a Chat Room!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2743/why-suddenly-all-comments-are-started-to-disappear&quot;&gt;Why did all comments suddenly start disappearing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are just the posts in &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/comments&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comments&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; since April!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What can be done?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like you guys to let us know what can be done to prevent comments from drowning out the core information on the site: questions and answers. As explained in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; for every SE site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should submit a comment if you want to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Request &lt;strong&gt;clarification&lt;/strong&gt; from the author;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave &lt;strong&gt;constructive criticism&lt;/strong&gt; that guides the author in improving the post;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add relevant but &lt;strong&gt;minor or transient information&lt;/strong&gt; to a post (e.g. a link to a related question, or an alert to the author that the question has been updated).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We definitely are getting far more comments that isn't in one of those categories than in it, and that is creating noise for people seeking our high-quality answers, and adding additional burdens to the community on flagging and cleanup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we solve this problem short of turning off commenting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2015-08-15T06:30:38.887" Title="Our Comments Problem" Tags="|discussion|comments|moderation|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="26" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2014-07-11T10:53:47.630" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely agree with @aroth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The label &quot;add comment&quot; causes people to react the same way they do at every other site - they leave a comment. If this were happening only rarely, then it would be reasonable to blame the writer. But since this happens continuously, you must blame the interface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want to limit this to leaving clarifying questions or suggestions for improving the Question (or Answer) - choose a more descriptive label. Don't use the word &quot;comment&quot; since that word clearly has implications that don't match the field's intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, it comes across as over-moderation, and sometimes as arbitrary moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't a &quot;naughty user&quot; issue - it's a &quot;bad UI&quot; issue. It can be fixed, rather than trying to be taught.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2014-07-11T10:53:47.630" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2014-07-11T11:00:19.850" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since users appear to want to be chatty, make it easier for them to chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, users are forced to leave the Question/Answer UI and figure out how the chat system works. Too much work; not worth the effort for many.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, consider adding a link within the main UI, labeled something like &quot;Discuss this Question/Answer in more detail&quot; which leads the user directly to a Chat Room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you make the access to chat as easy as clicking the &quot;add comment&quot; link, you'll have more chatters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2014-07-11T11:00:19.850" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2752" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-11T14:07:48.270" Score="5" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wanted to check about this question in meta before I go posting it anywhere:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a very particular type of clipboard, specifically an 8 1/2 x 11 version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cgetools.com/double-clip-clipboard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; (the one depicted can only be purchased in 6x9). It is for my office as we often work outside in windy conditions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vWhuU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Double clip clipboard&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've spent a fair amount of time googling but cannot find what I am looking for. There are many strange &quot;weatherproof&quot; designs, but I need something simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that I am using incorrect search terms or that I don't know what industry this item would most commonly be used in. Is there a way for me to phrase a question so that it would be on topic? Perhaps asking, &quot;What is the technical name for this item?&quot; or &quot;What industry would I find a double clip clipboard in?&quot; (if that is even the correct name for this item).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is not a way to phrase the question so that it is on topic could someone suggest a decent forum I might be able to go to and ask? Also I am not sure if there is a better location on stack for this question than &quot;workplace&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; I believe that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/54/are-questions-about-office-furniture-off-topic&quot;&gt;this question about office furniture&lt;/a&gt; is similar, but it asked more about how to deal with the culture in the office rather than particular information about furniture itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25014" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T04:22:09.670" Title="Asking about a specific type of office supply" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2014-07-11T16:22:29.330" Score="34" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Does The Workplace have a particular problem with comment volume?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked at the ratio of comments to posts (including deleted of both) and tallied up the sites on the network that average more than 2.5 comments per post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;C/P  Site&#xA;---  ----&#xA;4.08 Skeptics  &#xA;3.8  Politics  &#xA;3.06 Jewish Life and Learning&#xA;3.06 History   &#xA;2.94 Mathematica&#xA;2.87 Puzzling Stack Exchange&#xA;2.81 Linguistics&#xA;2.78 Christianity&#xA;2.75 The Workplace&#xA;2.72 Theoretical Computer Science&#xA;2.63 Philosophy&#xA;2.57 MathOverflow&#xA;2.52 Code Golf &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list included quite a few meta sites that I removed (notably The Workplace Meta at 2.86) because most sites have more commenty meta than main sites. This isn't surprising because meta tends to be more discussion-oriented than factually-oriented.  The bottom of the list is largely populated with sites that died of lack of activity or are dying and have fewer than 1 comment per post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the place workplace issues have on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;scale of subjectivity&lt;/a&gt;, the volume of comments per post here doesn't seem too extreme. (The math-related sites are somewhat of an anomaly. They rely heavily on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.mathoverflow.net/a/247/36770&quot;&gt;comments for collaboration&lt;/a&gt;.) It's natural that more comments will be needed to clarify questions and answers when the subject has no independent method of verifying the truth of assertions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is the problem growing?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, it depends on how you look at it. I've forked your query and added a couple more lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/207674/comments-per-week#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aH3rQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Comment per Post&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The green &lt;code&gt;C_per_P_100&lt;/code&gt; line is comments per post multiplied by 100 so that it will fit on the sameish scale. Comments per post has held steady while number of questions and answers has increased smartly since the beginning of the year. It's not so much that people are getting more commenty as that there are more things to comment on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Does this mean there's no comment problem?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not at all. There are a few things I haven't looked at that might be a problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comment distribution&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If comments were spread evenly, 2.75 comments on each and every post seems not overwhelming. But if a few questions gather many comments (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28338/how-do-you-decide-when-to-go-home-for-the-day&quot;&gt;How do you decide when to go home for the day?&lt;/a&gt;) the problem can be quite noticable. For moderators especially, the automated &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/144694/1438&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;too many comments&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; flag ensures that such posts are noticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comment length&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few short comments are less problematic (at least in terms of space used) compared to the same number of long comments. We are working on making &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/235255/proposed-tweak-to-comment-ui-for-long-threads&quot;&gt;single-line comments take just one line&lt;/a&gt;, which could further reduce the space consumed by short comments. (On the other hand, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/204402/hide-trivial-comments&quot;&gt;long comments tend to be higher quality&lt;/a&gt;. See the next point.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comment quality&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to think that comments on Skeptics, Mi Yodeya, Christianity, History, and Philosophy (the sites on the 2.5+ comments per post list that I'm familiar with) are fairly constructive on the whole. There aren't many &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2634/are-1-for-something-about-the-post-comments-discouraged&quot;&gt;+1 comments&lt;/a&gt; as I recall. If comments are mostly of the chatty sort on The Workplace and not helpful in clarifying the post they are attached to, there could very well be a growing problem that's not reflected in any statistic. Given my reading of the linked meta posts, it sounds as if the quality of comments, rather than their volume &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt;, is the problem here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to solve a problem with comments, we need to clearly identify what, precisely, the problem is. My look at the data suggests that The Workplace includes more prolific commentary than most sites, but not excessively more. On the other hand, if comments distract from rather than augment the prime mission of a Q&amp;amp;A site, we may need to explore aggressive corrections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9899" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-07-13T19:36:02.330" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2754" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2756" CreationDate="2014-07-12T00:20:45.913" Score="6" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks to me that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hr&lt;/a&gt; is a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/human-resources&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;human-resources&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;human-resources&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any questions which are tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hr&lt;/a&gt; in a different way then &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/human-resources&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;human-resources&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;human-resources&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also notice that half the question asked with this tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hr&lt;/a&gt; have been asked in the last few weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So are the two tags synonymous?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:38:40.983" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:38:40.983" Title="Tag synonym: [hr] and [human-resources]?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|synonym-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2752" CreationDate="2014-07-12T04:22:09.670" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I keep overthinking this. It is a straightforward question that will help you solve a practical answerable problem involving the workplace. That should be on topic here by my best estimation. If the community disagrees, we can discuss it again if it gets closed without an answer, but for now I'd say just go with it. Solve that problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T04:22:09.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2754" CreationDate="2014-07-12T04:24:31.197" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, and now the system knows they are synonyms too. Nice catch! Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T04:24:31.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2014-07-13T09:04:26.690" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;I second what Joe Strazzere said.  Or reiterate what I said on the other post.  Whichever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have a comments problem; &lt;strong&gt;you have a UX problem&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have to explain to people &quot;what [Feature X] is for&quot;, then &lt;strong&gt;[Feature X] is broken&lt;/strong&gt;.  If [Feature X] is intended to be used in a way that is orthogonal to the way people intuitively use it, then &lt;strong&gt;[Feature X] is broken&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Software interfaces need to be intuitive.  They need to clearly convey to the user what's expected of them (graphically, without using a wall of text), and they should conform to the expectations created.  Having explicit instructions/a manual is nice, but it's not reasonable/practical to expect that end-users will read and/or follow it.  The acronym '&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;RTFM&lt;/a&gt;' exists for a reason, and that reason is not because people are good at reading or following instructions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the comments problem (if there is one; as Jon Ericson &lt;em&gt;very correctly&lt;/em&gt; points out the metric you want to look at is comments per post/answer, not the absolute number of comments made, and by that metric the commenting rate is holding flat) is merely a symptom of an underlying UX problem.  And instead of attacking the symptom (which on a personal level I find to be very inappropriate, as I have seen a number of useful, helpful, and insightful comments get deleted under the guise of &quot;improving the QA site&quot;; and this is also &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; something I've seen happen on other SE sites), you should go after its root cause.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I see it, the root cause begins and propagates roughly like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have a feature in the interface that calls itself 'add comment'.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The concept of a 'comment' is &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/comment?s=t&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;well defined&lt;/a&gt;, both linguistically and within the web/blog/forum/general Internet context.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People use the 'add comment' feature to make &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/comment?s=t&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;, according to their intuitive understanding of what a 'comment' is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While the comments made generally abide by the same content guidelines as questions/answers (in terms of being respectful, on topic, and not vulgar/abusive), they don't fit the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;modified definition&lt;/a&gt; of a comment that has been adopted here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Manual action is taken to weed out all of those &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/comment?s=t&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; that aren't &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2743/why-did-all-comments-suddenly-start-disappearing&quot;&gt;Frustration ensues&lt;/a&gt;, on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2691/get-a-room-a-chat-room&quot;&gt;all sides&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Item #1 is the root of the issue.  As long as the UI says 'add comment', #2 and #3 are going to follow as a consequence of human nature, how people interact with software, and the fact that &lt;strong&gt;you're trying to use 'comments' in a way that's different from how the rest of the Internet uses comments&lt;/strong&gt;.  And as long as #2 and #3 happen, #4, #5, and #6 will follow.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two things I can see that will break the cycle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stop saying 'comment' if you don't really mean 'comment'&lt;/strong&gt;.  Change that 'add comment' to 'suggest an improvement' or 'message the author' or something else that's more in line with what you actually want people to do.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then next to it perhaps put a 'discuss this question/answer' (or even a 'comment') link that opens chat (preferably a lightweight version of chat, that lets people leave their initial message in a way that's similar to how 'add comment' currently works).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Abandon the modified definition of 'comment'&lt;/strong&gt;.  Just let people make comments, and only hit the 'Delete' button when something truly abusive, obscene, nonsensical, or off-topic gets posted.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd argue that this would be in-line with how the current Stack Exchange UI 'expects' to be used.  Long strings of comments auto-collapse, so that only the highest rated ones are displayed and an extra click is needed to view the complete thread.  So the feature is self-limiting, in that once a certain threshold is reached adding more comments to a post does not actually add any more clutter into the interface.  Perhaps that threshold could be dialed down to just 3 or 4 comments.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted not all comments will be 'useful', but a good number of them will.  I often find very useful information in comments on SO, particularly in terms of updates being provided against an older answer that has been superseded or modified by new information (you might say that the author should just update the original answer, but that doesn't always happen; particularly on older answers).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm grateful for the comments on SO.  They've helped me many times.  I don't see why comments on The Workplace need to be handled any differently, and I find it concerning that on this site I've seen many helpful comments just disappear into nothing.  I don't believe such deletions improve the quality of the QA site, and I think it's doing a disservice to the people who took the time to post those comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bottom line:&lt;/strong&gt;  As long as your interface says 'add comment', that's what people will do.  If you don't want that, fix the interface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1717" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-07-13T09:04:26.690" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2014-07-13T17:32:12.043" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the problem isn't the &lt;em&gt;average&lt;/em&gt; number of comments but that there are some &lt;em&gt;big, fast-growing clumps&lt;/em&gt; of them, would it be possible to raise the bar for entry on &lt;em&gt;those&lt;/em&gt; posts?  It's far better to prevent chatty/non-constructive/argumentative comments from getting there in the first place than to clean them up later, if we can manage it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How might we do that?  Here are some possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lower the number of comments needed before you get the &quot;let's continue this in chat&quot; suggestion.  I don't know what that threshold is right now, but it seems to allow two people to go back and forth three or four times right now.  And when that happens it's usually an argument, and arguments have high likelihood of not being useful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have something like protection that restricts commenting.  This would allow moderators (or the community, preferably) to prevent drive-by comments on posts that are getting a lot of activity.  Like protection, it should require a certain amount of reputation &lt;em&gt;on this site&lt;/em&gt; to be able to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When comment velocity reaches a certain threshold (N comments/hour), either temporarily prevent further comments (for some number of hours) or queue comments for review.  (That last probably won't happen as it's major new work, but comment review could help with other situations too, like new users' first comments.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An aside&lt;/strong&gt;: Requesting clarification to a post is one of the primary purposes of comments.  So long as the issue remains we should keep those comments.  So it needs to remain possible to leave them; turning off all commenting would be too extreme.  It's most of the &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; uses of comments that cause problems, and that my suggestions above are intended to counter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2014-07-18T02:56:09.883" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T02:56:09.883" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2759" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-15T02:16:56.910" Score="3" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am an entrepreneur with 2 software businesses, both quickly growing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a lot of questions and advice I need on handling fairly specific situations to my business. So far I haven't found a good place to discuss these important issues except for personal mentors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe in sharing knowledge/experiences I get to help others. I also believe in the &quot;knowledge of the masses&quot; and making decisions based off of concrete facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of my questions involve:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Forming Company Policy - on anything from security to HR.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Examining reasons why certain corporate policies exist and figuring out alternatives (ex: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30561/why-is-there-a-stigma-in-corporations-against-revealing-hourly-rates-and-salarie&quot;&gt;Why is there a stigma in corporations against revealing hourly rates and salaries? Anyone implement “transparent salaries” policy?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leadership - how to be a good leader&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are good and bad qualities in employees - ex &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30597/what-qualities-in-a-developer-should-be-encouraged-by-leadership-in-a-starup&quot;&gt;what makes a good and bad developers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interview Strategies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Compensation strategies &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ideas for employee satisfaction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ideas to encourage transparency&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Encouraging certain behaviors - question would be whether or not it's in company's best interest to encourage something&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discourage other behaviors &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thinking of incentives to encourage those behaviors and disincentives to discouraged the bad ones&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Advise on handling difficult employees (phrased as &quot;employee x is doing y. I want him to do z&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finance: how to get loans, cash flow problems, credit card usage&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skimming through the questions on Workplace.StackExchange, they usually seem to be asked from the &quot;employee&quot; POV. I would really like a place where managers/leadership like myself could ask questions as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My theory is the reason why there are so many dissatisfied employees is because management generally doesn't have enough open discussion to figure out better ways to manage. For the most part it's hard as an entrepreneur to get unbiased advice on how they should handle a situation. They're just expected to &quot;fix it&quot; or &quot;know&quot;. In fact upper management looks down on managers who come whining to them about how to solve problems. This could be a &quot;safe place&quot; for managers to start asking the questions in their head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of times these questions get down-voted (especially in the beginning), and I'm not 100% sure why...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to have a meta discussion on what types of questions the community wants and why. I would also like some advice on how to phrase my questions better to be accepted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25076" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T02:45:14.007" Title="What types of questions should be encouraged/discouraged for Managers/Leadership/Entrepreneurs?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2014-07-15T02:45:14.007" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace welcomes questions from both employees and employers (and prospective ones of each).  Many of the topics you listed would be on-topic if asked in an appropriate way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What Stack Exchange sites in general do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; welcome is opinion-based discussion-forum posts.  We're really focused on asking answerable questions and getting good answers to those questions.  Good questions ask &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;, not &lt;em&gt;what should I do&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;is this better than that&lt;/em&gt; (or its cousin &lt;em&gt;this is better than that, right?&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some helpful reading material:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real Questions Have Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;What types of questions should I avoid asking?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T02:45:14.007" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2761" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2762" CreationDate="2014-07-17T17:25:25.437" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order to help rectify the Comments Problem (as described elsewhere), I'd like to be able to see a full list of all my comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way, I could go and delete the comments that didn't result in appropriate clarification and/or changes to questions or answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to do this? For example, is there a link on my Profile page that would display such a list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2014-07-17T19:45:10.763" Title="Can I see all of my Comments in one place?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2761" CreationDate="2014-07-17T17:27:55.893" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a link on your profile under activity, then filter by clicking &quot;comments&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/7777/joe-strazzere?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=comments&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/7777/joe-strazzere?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-07-17T19:45:10.763" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2763" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-18T09:10:26.183" Score="5" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30609/how-to-politely-recommend-someone-they-dont-need-to-read-the-details-but-to-sig?noredirect=1#comment73200_30609&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30609/how-to-politely-recommend-someone-they-dont-need-to-read-the-details-but-to-sig?noredirect=1#comment73200_30609&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm unclear the reason for downvotes. Perhaps some think it's a bad idea in the first place, and if that is explained in an answer all is good but why the need to downvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16748" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-07-20T16:55:05.650" Title="Are downvotes for if you think it's a bad situation described or think it's a poor question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2763" CreationDate="2014-07-18T13:16:27.673" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my experience here over the past years, people primarily downvote and upvote basically based off:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do I like this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not anything other than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you suggest a &quot;bad idea&quot; or an unpopular idea, you'll get downvotes, regardless of question merit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conversely, questions which programmers can empathize with &lt;em&gt;generally&lt;/em&gt; get upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, often answers are voted on &quot;yeah, I agree!&quot; vs &quot;yes, this is a good answer&quot; criteria. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T13:16:27.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2763" CreationDate="2014-07-18T15:44:53.303" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of both, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good question that's asked badly can attract downvotes, but you're asking about the reverse, a well-asked question that's about something that strikes the reader as a really stupid idea.  For that, I fall back on the guidance given in the mouse-over text on the buttons: is this question &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is about something that's a bad idea but comes up a lot, I'll probably upvote the question and look for (or write) a &quot;don't do that; here's why&quot; answer.  Hypothetical example: &quot;How can I get my employees to work long hours every week without increasing their compensation?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if a question just has &quot;bad idea&quot; written all over it, something that I can't imagine being a common or serious problem in the workplace, I'm likely to downvote that no matter how well it's written.  Hypothetical example: &quot;My company doesn't pay me enough; how can I embezzle money from the corporate account without being caught?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question you linked to is somewhere between these.  IMO it's not very well-asked, and it seems to be looking for help with something that's a bad idea (convincing his boss to waive his responsibilities), and it's not something that strikes me as a real problem to be solved.  As one of the answers put it, &quot;what's the big deal?&quot;  (I'm not accusing the asker of insincerity; I just think that if he's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; actually trying to get his boss to sign without reading, then it's kind of a trivial question, boiling down to &quot;how do I tell my boss I've already read this?&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T15:44:53.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2776" CreationDate="2014-07-18T22:54:36.230" Score="7" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30846/transgender-in-the-uk-should-i-use-my-female-name-on-my-cv-even-when-it-refers&quot;&gt;Transgender in the UK, should I use my female name on my CV even when it refers to male accomplishments?&lt;/a&gt;, we had several comments about users trying to find similar questions about the specific challenges with gender identity issues in the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found these two other questions which would be an ideal fit for this tag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27403/what-are-tools-resources-i-can-use-to-check-a-company-for-transphobia-and-sexism/27407&quot;&gt;What are tools/resources I can use to check a company for transphobia and sexism during a job search?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30590/when-to-let-potential-empoyers-know-im-trans&quot;&gt;When to let potential empoyers know I&amp;#39;m trans?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but can't seem to find any others through searching. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A dedicated tag would group these questions for the benefit of interested experts and visitors alike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure what exactly is needed to justify a new tag (or even what the ideal naming of the tag should be), but was interested on the community's thoughts on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: to avoid an explosion of tiny, very specific tags without many questions, we could use a more umbrella term, such as gender (as suggested by Adrian), and add the very specific tags as synonyms of the larger tag (as suggested by Jmac).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-07-22T11:12:21.573" Title="Should we add a &quot;gender&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2763" CreationDate="2014-07-20T16:55:05.650" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nobody is happy answering questions of the type &quot;What can I do to push this really bad idea through ? Help me&quot; That kind of question leaves a bad taste in the mouth. I'd like to think that we are about helping askers exercise sound judgement and solid professional behavior, which will help them and other readers navigate their career in a sound, solid way. You are not only about the answers you give but about the questions you ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Form in the form of a well constructed question matters, but content matters at least the much. People go to this site for cpntent not necessarily to exclusively marvel at how well a question is constructed. Content in the form of solid, actionable answers to specific questions that are scalable to a number of people is what keeps the readers coming back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16993" LastActivityDate="2014-07-20T16:55:05.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2779" CreationDate="2014-07-21T13:06:03.257" Score="3" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have often come across questions that could given various different contexts or personal points of view be answered in more than 1 way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I do this my second answer is deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this? Surely any answer I give is perfectly valid in its own right as long as it is constructive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22641" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T15:08:33.210" Title="Multiple Answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2772" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-21T15:37:24.560" Score="6" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quote by jmac in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30716/how-to-deal-with-less-productive-days?noredirect=1#comment73970_30716&quot;&gt;How to deal with less productive days?&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;it is definitely answerable, it's just not specific or practical -- everyone has these days. They come with the territory of working. Why does something special need to be done with them in your case? Why is this a special problem that needs solving? Without clearly specifying what your problem is in this case, the answers are unlikely to be anything more than, &quot;This is what I do when I am feeling lazy / baby kept me up / had a hangover&quot;, and that isn't so useful. Hope that explains it, if not, bring it to The Workplace Meta. Thanks in advance&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If everyone has the same problem once in a while, why are those questions not wanted because they aren't special enough? The question comes from an actual problem at the workplace. Why make it fancier than it is. If everyone has the problem they might find The Workplace when they seek for an answer and in my opinion they find a very great one in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/30726/revisions&quot;&gt;Joe Strazzere's answer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13302" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T23:47:09.570" Title="Should questions be special?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2773" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-21T19:40:42.923" Score="3" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/24396/how-to-work-with-an-argumentative-qa-engineer-at-software-house&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/24396/how-to-work-with-an-argumentative-qa-engineer-at-software-house&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My understanding is a question at -3 with no answers closed several months ago should have been automatically deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot vote to delete/downvote however since the question is locked due to a failed migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T23:49:50.000" Title="Why didn't this question get automatically deleted?" Tags="|support|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2772" CreationDate="2014-07-21T23:47:09.570" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about 'special' but I think the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;Help Center's 'Don't Ask' Page&lt;/a&gt; is very clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To prevent your question from being flagged and possibly removed, avoid asking subjective questions where …&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;every answer is equally valid: “What’s your favorite ______?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;your answer is provided along with the question, and you expect more answers: “I use ______ for ______, what do you use?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is no actual problem to be solved: “I’m curious if other people feel like I do.”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you are asking an open-ended, hypothetical question: “What if ______ happened?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;your question is just a rant in disguise: “______ sucks, am I right?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Polls typically fall under the first bullet point there. When asking what people do when they are having a less-productive-than-normal day, every answer is going to be equally valid. The actual question you asked was &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How to deal with days in which you feel less productive?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; and here are the (paraphrased) answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not a problem unless it's happening very regularly for a reason&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not an issue, so maybe you can leave early&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not an issue, but you can take a walk and try to re-focus&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go home or try Personal Productivity Stack Exchange&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not an issue if it's a random unproductive day, but if it's procrastination, here are some ways to tackle it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not an issue, but here's what I do when it happens&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do less fun tasks, maybe be more social&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You could be being less productive, or not want to do your assigned tasks for some reason&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Occasional days are not an issue, but if they're happening regularly, is one of these the problem?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't worry about the occasional day, but if this is happening regularly, is one of these the problem?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Facebook! Or self-growth! Whatever!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do minor tasks that you have to get out of the way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;This is where you really should know your strengths and weaknesses! Identify them and work with them to achieve a positive outcome, even your weaknesses may result in a positive outcome.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By my count, the consensus seems to be, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;This happens to everyone, don't sweat it&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. But people are concerned because it sounds like you have a specific problem that you think needs being solved, which is why several people bring up entire lists of clarification questions for if it is happening regularly. If I were having a less productive day, reading through those 13 answers will &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; help me be more productive and solve my problem. If I am having regular unproductive days, then the two answers that are trying to address that are filled with a dozen more questions that there is no way for me to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;TL;DR&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It isn't clear that you have a problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It isn't clear what you want in a solution&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As asked it is basically, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;What do you do when you don't feel like working?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;chatty, open-ended question that diminishes the usefulness of our site&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; and is definitely not &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;practical, answerable question&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; as a result. Four other people voted to close it in addition to me, so it definitely was a community decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T23:47:09.570" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2773" CreationDate="2014-07-21T23:49:50.000" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2773/why-didnt-this-question-get-automatically-deleted#comment6098_2773&quot;&gt;Monica says&lt;/a&gt; probably because it was locked due to the failed migration. As it had no answers, and was of no value to our community, it has been manually removed for the time being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T23:49:50.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2767" CreationDate="2014-07-22T00:00:14.230" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For now I have changed 'sexuality' to 'gender' as per the comments, but I think that this brings up separate problems (specifically that 'gender' will be specific to gender-related issues, and can just as easily apply to men working in a female-dominated workplace, or women working in a male-dominated workplace, as well as trans- members in various workplaces, while at the same time not covering issues related to being homosexual that aren't necessarily related to gender).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone could please take the time to make a good &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/approve-tag-wiki-edits&quot;&gt;tag wiki&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gender&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gender&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gender&lt;/a&gt; to be clear what it should be used for, that would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-07-22T00:00:14.230" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2777" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-22T03:03:56.233" Score="-15" ViewCount="387" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess someone is peeved at me, but doesn't have the courage to reveal themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  17:36   downvote    My boss gave me everyone's pay by mistake and mine is lower, how can I increase it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  17:36   downvote    Should I tell my co-workers that branch manager uses drugs (crack) at the office?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  17:35   downvote    Addressing burnout when applying for a new job&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  17:34   downvote    Convincing my manager to let me work from home&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  17:33   downvote    My facebook wall is bothering some colleagues at work, do they have the right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  17:31   downvote    What could happen if I ignore or disobey HR while getting fired?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  8 hours ago     2 events     How to get external feedback for improving one's programming style/work habits&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  8 hours ago     downvote    Is it appropriate to ask about a company's dress code during an interview?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  8 hours ago     downvote    What to do after being passed over for a promotion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  1 hour ago  downvote    'Thanks' for a raise? How to reply?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some answers quite old.... But not a single comment...&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8625" LastEditorUserId="8625" LastEditDate="2014-07-22T16:28:06.567" LastActivityDate="2014-07-22T16:28:06.567" Title="Will the real serial downvoter please stand up?" Tags="|discussion|support|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2777" CreationDate="2014-07-22T04:58:54.933" Score="23" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But not a single comment... are you afraid of getting your ears boxed again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would you say that? Are you in the habit of engaging in long, argumentative discussions with folks who comment on your posts? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, then you have your answer. Why bother commenting if it's just gonna make you defensive and nasty? If you want folks to offer constructive feedback, you have to be willing to accept it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, please read: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126829/what-is-serial-voting-and-how-does-it-affect-me&quot;&gt;What is serial voting and how does it affect me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2014-07-22T04:58:54.933" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2771" CreationDate="2014-07-23T15:08:33.210" Score="3" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions that can have multiple answers that approach a problem from an entirely different angle are probably problematic themselves&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the case of two answers that are applicable depending on the conditions, even if they are mutually exclusive, one answer is probably more effective for future readers, but splitting them up is okay if that is your preference&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In this specific case, you had one good answer, and one ... not good ... answer, so you probably should have stuck to the good one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Multiple answers likely indicate a problematic question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it possible to provide multiple answers to the question? If there is a clarification question that can be asked to limit the amount of answers, that should be done &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; writing an answer. For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Do I have to write a resignation letter if my contract is ending?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; *&amp;quot;If you have no choice in the matter, you do not need to write one because the company is essentially forcing you to resign, but if you are voluntarily not renewing an offered contract, even if the old one is expiring, you should&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than giving two opposite answers, it may be more useful to ask in a comment, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Were you offered a contract renewal and you are going to decline it, or is your contract not being renewed at the choice of your employer?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. If you find yourself thinking that there are more than one totally valid and good answers to the question, then you should probably take a second look at the question before answering instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answers are better when grouped&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As explained on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt;, good subjective questions invite answers that explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; -- one good way to do that is to focus on explaining the thought process behind the answer(s) rather than just giving the conclusion. Take this question for example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12047/is-it-ever-acceptable-to-round-up-my-gpa-on-my-resume&quot;&gt;Is it ever acceptable to round up my GPA on my resume?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I could provide two answers to this. One explaining that it is okay to round up, and explain why, and then make a separate answer for no, and explain why. But that only explains &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; I think each way, and doesn't provide any explanation of &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; the asker should make that decision for themselves. Instead I combined both perspectives in to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12047/is-it-ever-acceptable-to-round-up-my-gpa-on-my-resume/12056#12056&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt;, and I think it is a better answer for it (&lt;em&gt;disclaimer: I may be biased&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe there are some corner cases where it is better to have separate answers. I cannot think of one in the time I've spent on Stack Exchange, but it's possible. If you do, feel free to provide two separate high-quality examples that meet the Good Subjective, Bad Subjective criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;That wasn't the case this time&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should have stuck with your undeleted answer in this case. I think you know why; if you truly want to discuss the details, I am more than happy to, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27900/office-flatulence-is-getting-out-of-control/27917#27917&quot;&gt;it really wasn't a great case to discuss multiple answers&lt;/a&gt; (link is 10k only).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it bluntly, even if that was your only answer on the question, I am relatively certain it stood a good chance of being deleted by the community without any mod intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T15:08:33.210" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2014-07-24T09:21:06.500" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2748/our-comments-problem#comment6087_2753&quot;&gt;gnat asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;could you get similar data for ratio of comments to posts but limited only to posts having comments? I mean, like, if there are for example 99 posts without comments at all and one with 100 comments, saying &quot;average 1 comment per post&quot; wouldn't be very informative, I'd prefer a more detailed breakdown, like, using same example, &quot;1% posts has comments and posts having comments get 100 comments average&quot;, something like that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ran &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/210055/comment-distribution&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a query&lt;/a&gt; to get the number of threads with certain bins of comments. I realized as I was doing the analysis, that part of the reason that Jon's analysis seems so reasonable is that it is looking at &lt;em&gt;per post&lt;/em&gt; stats whereas as mods we look at &lt;em&gt;per thread&lt;/em&gt; stats. After all, if you get a flag on a comment on an answer, you end up scrolling up to the question, and seeing all the comments on the way. That means that the feeling of being overwhelmed by comments is not limited to a single post, but rather a set of posts all attached to the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ran this for all (non-meta) sites on the network, and to make the data a bit more accessible, I took the biggest commenting sites from Jon's post, and SO as a comparison, and charted the &quot;# of comments curve&quot;, or cumulatively what % of posts have under that amount of comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pJeWa.png&quot; alt=&quot;% of Post Threads with Under X Comments&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically, the further left the curve starts, the larger % of post threads have fewer comments. So in Stack Overflow's case (the blue line) about 95% of posts have under 10 comments in the Q&amp;amp;A thread. This may be a bit difficult to grok, and that's okay, it's a ton of data and a poor attempt to make it simple, so what I invite you to look at is the far right of the chart, where The Workplace is dramatically lower than any other site on the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2.1% of all TWP post threads get &lt;strong&gt;over 50 comments&lt;/strong&gt; -- that is absolutely massive, and a significant distraction from the Q&amp;amp;A. Since the dawn of time, that is 112 different threads with over 50 comments, and of those, 54 (48.2%) have happened since we graduated. Here are the 9 threads since graduation that have gotten over 100 comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-03 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/20098&quot;&gt;Project Manager asks for complete 100% confidence everytime committing code&lt;/a&gt; (108)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-03 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/21292&quot;&gt;When should I include information in my resume to indicate I have a high IQ?&lt;/a&gt; (101)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-04 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/22041&quot;&gt;I received a written warning for my performance, how can I save my job?&lt;/a&gt; (113)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-04 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/22270&quot;&gt;How can I communicate better with a co-worker who is not a good listener?&lt;/a&gt; (103)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-04 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/23388&quot;&gt;Do I have to relinquish my PC password to my former boss?&lt;/a&gt; (131)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-05 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/23705&quot;&gt;How should I deal with bullying while looking for a new job?&lt;/a&gt; (103)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-06 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/27116&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;m not being hired, presumably because I have Asperger&amp;#39;s. Is there anything I can do about it?&lt;/a&gt; (144)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-06 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/27484&quot;&gt;Administrator thinks I, an IT volunteer student, am hacking the school network&lt;/a&gt; (102)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-07 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/30533&quot;&gt;Is there a dress code for women in software industry?&lt;/a&gt; (191)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's take that last one. There were 15 posts totalling roughly 29,000 characters (at 6 characters per word, that's roughly 5,000 words). There were additionally 191 comments totalling roughly 51,000 characters. That's roughly 8,500 words using the same math. The reading volume of the comment exceeded the reading volume of all the posts combined. When comments balloon, they create a significant additional burden to the reader to slog through for people who are coming in from a search engine looking for a straight answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At an average reading speed of 250 words per minute, it would take 20 minutes to get through all the posts. To dig through the comments would be an additional 34 minutes. That is a significant additional burden to ask our visitors. That's why comments are intended to be temporary, so that they don't distract. But 191 comments means someone has to go through and clean up 191 comments -- that someone is the mod team. And at the very least, the mod team has to read through those 34 minutes of comments to decide what to keep, and usually several times over several days as the flags roll in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are definitely getting a lot more comments grouped up than we used to, and we are definitely pretty unique among the network in the number of extremely-high-volume comment threads we get (even when compared to places with higher numbers of comments per post). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T13:50:24.583" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2781" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2782" CreationDate="2014-07-26T00:02:26.150" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31300/inspirational-transgender-people-in-the-field-of-technology&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31300/inspirational-transgender-people-in-the-field-of-technology&lt;/a&gt; has been put on hold as off topic, however it may be salvageable and does not really fit into any of the other SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/16791978#16791978&quot;&gt;mod who closed it&lt;/a&gt;, the question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Not about the workplace itself but the tech field&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Likely to generate lots of short/link answers when we strive for complete answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;May be too opinion-based&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how do we want to handle this as a community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T04:51:44.997" Title="Can we get this question on topic?" Tags="|discussion|offtopic|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2781" CreationDate="2014-07-26T04:51:44.997" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, let me start by saying that questions about transgender-related problems in the workplace would definitely be something I'd love to see our community help with. Solving problems in the workplace, especially the long-tail &lt;em&gt;hard&lt;/em&gt; problems, is something we're good at doing, and it's why we're here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;No problem to solve&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in this case, there's really no problem to solve. The post is essentially just asking us to compile a list of some known transgendered people in the tech industry. On Stack Exchange, the Q&amp;amp;A format works best when there are &lt;em&gt;practical, everyday problems&lt;/em&gt; that lead to answers that teach, not just tell. This leads to answers that are ranked based on what the best solution is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I don't see how we can really help with this using Q&amp;amp;A tools. Putting together a list of people in technology would actually be something more fit for a wiki, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; or something similar to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Geek_Feminism_Wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Geek Feminism Wiki hosted on Wikia.com&lt;/a&gt;. Perhaps finding a home there, or creating another resource on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikia.com/Special:CreateNewWiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikia&lt;/a&gt; would be the way to go. I'd suggest starting with wiki platforms in mind, since those resources are more tailored to hosting this type of list-based content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once that's done, if someone were to have a specific, real problem involving transgender issues in the workplace, and the question can be reasonably scoped to where there is a definitive question with a clear goal, then I encourage that person to ask it &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;, because answering clear questions about problems faced is what we do best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Dig deeper for the real problem&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, when I see questions asking for lists, I can't help but think there's a problem hiding underneath the surface, a problem the asker isn't telling us about. So in this case, I suggest countering these polling questions with questions of your own in the comments, such as one or more of the following questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can you tell us what are you hoping to have this person mentor you on?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's making you ask a question about who the successful transgendered techies are?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a problem you're facing that you can't solve without a mentor? How will this person help you?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, one of the above clarifying questions might uncover the problem the person is trying to solve. If we find what that problem is by &lt;em&gt;teasing it out of them&lt;/em&gt;, we can ask that person to edit the question to focus on that problem instead, so that our experts can help in more ways than just being a substitute for a search engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you or anyone else is able to find the problem and need help editing, I encourage you to jump into our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt;, as we have some people who hang out in that room who are excellent editors. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T04:51:44.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2783" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2812" CreationDate="2014-07-26T17:08:03.193" Score="5" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have done some research into tag cleanup and am looking for community feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just like when &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2005/rhysws-tag-reviews-suggested-course-of-action&quot;&gt;RhysW did the same thing&lt;/a&gt;, I will post one answer for each recommendation, feel free to add your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ps. I don't actually have enough rep to make synonyms or insta-edit, etc. so it probably won't be me making these changes (as much as I would love to help).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:36:34.100" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:36:34.100" Title="Another tag discussion!" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|synonym-request|" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2783" CreationDate="2014-07-26T17:08:03.193" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Retag&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hiring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hiring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hiring&lt;/a&gt; to  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hiring-process&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hiring-process&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hiring-process&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per Monica Cellio's suggestion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hiring-process has 280 questions and a tag wiki &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hiring has 2 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastEditorUserId="7945" LastEditDate="2014-08-04T00:57:15.370" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T00:57:15.370" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-07-26T17:08:03.193" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2783" CreationDate="2014-07-26T17:09:20.300" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Synonym&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/termination&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;termination&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;termination&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/firing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;firing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;firing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this one is pretty clear&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;termination has 27 questions and a tag wiki (which says &quot;&lt;em&gt;also known as being fired&lt;/em&gt;&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;firing has 10 questions and no wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastEditorUserId="7945" LastEditDate="2014-08-04T00:57:21.673" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T00:57:21.673" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-07-26T17:09:20.300" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2783" CreationDate="2014-07-26T17:10:38.033" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; Thanks RhysW!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Burninate&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/company&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;company&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;company&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/business&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;business&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;business&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fail to see how these tag can add any value to a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there are 10 questions which use company, no tag wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;there are 15 questions which use business, no tag wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;there one question which only uses it as a tag and it has been closed&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't think anyone can be an expert in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/company&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;company&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;company&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/business&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;business&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;business&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;pretty much every question on the site is about a company/business or has a company/business involved&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It has already &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2021/19839&quot;&gt;been recommended to be burninated&lt;/a&gt; a year ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T21:16:28.970" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-07-26T17:10:38.033" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2783" CreationDate="2014-07-26T17:11:54.737" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Synonym&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-states&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-states&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-states&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/usa&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;usa&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;usa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;united-states has 92 questions and a proper tag wiki &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;usa has 6 questions and its wiki says &quot;&lt;em&gt;United States of America&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastEditorUserId="7945" LastEditDate="2014-08-04T00:57:00.537" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T00:57:00.537" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-07-26T17:11:54.737" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2783" CreationDate="2014-07-26T17:13:10.583" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Retag&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/industry-conference&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;industry-conference&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;industry-conference&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conference&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;conference&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;conference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't feel that adding industry to conference adds anything new to it and is less easy to guess when adding tags... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are 5 questions for industry-conference with no wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is 1 questions for conference but there is a tag wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we need both tags but please share your thoughts on this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastEditorUserId="7945" LastEditDate="2014-08-04T00:57:41.527" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T00:57:41.527" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-07-26T17:13:10.583" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2783" CreationDate="2014-07-26T17:14:19.540" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Umm...&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/consultants&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;consultants&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;consultants&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/consulting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;consulting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;consulting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These tags could be different with consulting being used for questions where the asker is the consultant and the consultants tag being used for hiring or handling consultants. However I am seeing that the consulting tag is being used in the way mentioned earlier, but the consultant tag is being used for both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands I don't think that having both tags is useful, with a retagging and a wiki on each one they could be. What course of action is best?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T17:14:19.540" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-07-26T17:14:19.540" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2783" CreationDate="2014-07-26T17:15:23.530" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; Thanks RhysW!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Burninate&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reinterview&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reinterview&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reinterview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this tag it too localized to be helpful in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are only 2 questions using the tag and they both also use the interviewing tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The difference between reinterviewing and interviewing can easily be specified in the title&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think it would be difficult to ask another question with this tag without it being a duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastEditorUserId="19839" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T21:28:16.780" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T21:28:16.780" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-07-26T17:15:23.530" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2783" CreationDate="2014-07-26T17:16:30.313" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; Thanks RhysW!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Burninate&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/white-collar&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;white-collar&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;white-collar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is very helpful and is minimally used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are only 2 questions using the tag and they both also use the white-collar tag (and they were both closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no tag wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;I can totally see someone asking about white-collar crime with this tag (and not in a good way...)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastEditorUserId="19839" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T21:27:55.737" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T21:27:55.737" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-07-26T17:16:30.313" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2783" CreationDate="2014-07-26T17:18:10.487" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Retag&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tech-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tech-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tech-industry&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm studying computer engineering, I know that the tech industry isn't just software, but the questions using this tag don't totally agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;software-industry has 454 questions and a proper tag wiki &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tech-industry has &lt;strike&gt;21 17 18&lt;/strike&gt; 14 questions and no wiki &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However this is not the whole story, as I mentioned, tech does not solely mean software. Of the 14 questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;15 11 6&lt;/strike&gt; 5 should be tagged software-industry (the questions are all closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;8 need either tag (its not clear in the question which is more applicable) (6 of which are closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 should have the tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am seeing is that the tag is being used improperly, I think that a retagging should do the trick, but it might just get misused again. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastEditorUserId="7945" LastEditDate="2014-08-04T00:56:26.247" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T00:56:26.247" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-07-26T17:18:10.487" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2783" CreationDate="2014-07-26T17:19:15.480" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Synonym&lt;/strong&gt; (or retag and burninate) &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/developer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;developer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;developer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Developer is just a software-developer, which I think fits in the software-industry tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;developer has 18 questions and no tag wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;software-industry has 454 questions and a tag wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any questions in the developer tag which are not about software development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T17:19:15.480" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-07-26T17:19:15.480" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2783" CreationDate="2014-07-26T17:20:25.237" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Different tag?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recommendation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recommendation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recommendation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag wiki is pretty clear, the tag is for letters of recommendation, but at first glance I might think that it is for making a recommendation to my colleagues or company (we should use jquery!). &lt;strong&gt;Can rename it to [recommendation-letter] or something?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastEditorUserId="7945" LastEditDate="2014-08-04T00:57:30.200" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T00:57:30.200" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-07-26T17:20:25.237" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2783" CreationDate="2014-07-26T17:21:38.880" Score="-2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Burninate&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fresher&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fresher&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fresher&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;em&gt;I had no idea what a fresher was until I saw the tag wiki&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastEditorUserId="19839" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T21:31:06.460" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T21:31:06.460" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-07-26T17:21:38.880" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2783" CreationDate="2014-07-26T17:22:43.523" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Burninate&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/systemadmin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;systemadmin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;systemadmin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the tag is too technical/specific and is unlikely to be of any help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastEditorUserId="7945" LastEditDate="2014-08-04T00:56:19.553" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T00:56:19.553" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-07-26T17:22:43.523" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2783" CreationDate="2014-07-26T17:23:49.287" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Synonym or retag&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/professionalism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;professionalism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;professionalism&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unprofessional-behaviour&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unprofessional-behaviour&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unprofessional-behaviour&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Professionalism includes unprofessional-behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Professionalism has a lot of questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;unprofessional-behaviour has 12, no wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I could argue that unprofessional-behaviour might be helpful, I think there are too many questions tagged with professionalism which apply to unprofessional-behaviour to make the tags worth staying separate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T17:23:49.287" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-07-26T17:23:49.287" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2014-07-26T17:37:51.567" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me see if I understand all this. This is a community driven site, correct? The community finds some questions/answers uninteresting and posts few comments. The moderator looks down upon this and declares it is good. The community finds some questions and answers interesting and helpful, and posts multiple comments. The moderator looks down upon this and declares it bad. Perhaps your problem could be solved by prohibiting interesting questions and helpful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25372" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T17:37:51.567" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2799" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-26T14:29:17.080" Score="5" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who chooses which answers are retained, and which are removed on Workplace. Exactly who are they and what are their credentials?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25372" OwnerDisplayName="System 360" LastActivityDate="2014-07-28T18:58:46.480" Title="Why are Workplace answers removed without an explanation?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2799" CreationDate="2014-07-26T18:56:54.753" Score="11" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Answer deletion and undeletion&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Phillip mentioned in the comments, regular community members with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;trusted user privilege&lt;/a&gt;, users who have earned at least 20,000 reputation on our site, have the ability to cast delete votes on negatively scored answers. After 3 delete votes by at least 3 trusted users, the answer is removed. The answer can also be removed by lower reputation users if the post ends up in the low quality review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll also see users around the site with a diamond to the right of their username. These are either elected or appointed moderators or Stack Exchange employees. These folks have the ability to put any question on hold instantly or reopen it for answers instantly, and can remove answers that don't meet the site guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users with less than 20,000 reputation can flag answers that don't meet our community's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;back it up&lt;/a&gt; guidelines. Moderators then review the flags to see if the post needs to be removed, if it can be edited to meet our guidelines, or dismiss the flag if it has no merit.  In general, when moderators remove an answer, we leave comments explaining why. In general, we try to leave comments suggesting how the answers can be improved so the answerer has an opportunity to fix the problems. Many times, these end up being the best answers on our site since they get a lot more care. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But to clarify, we rarely, if ever, delete answers on site without explanation unless it's just blatant spam or other noise.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, if you want to learn more about a specific user, some users provide some details about themselves in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/25372/system-360&quot;&gt;their user profile&lt;/a&gt;, so you can always check that out to learn more about a specific user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Perhaps you're referring to comments?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I noticed you don't have any deleted answers, so I suspect you're referring to comments. Comments on Stack Exchange are intended to be temporary post-it notes used to help a user improve their post or to seek clarification. They're not intended to actually answer the questions. You can read more about that in the post &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;What comments are not...&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regular users around the site help with this cleanup effort by flagging posts with a lot of comments or by flagging the comments individually. Moderators then make the call as to how to handle the flag. If we're sure the comments have served their purpose, we generally remove them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this may seem odd to some, there's a very important reason behind doing this. Our goal as a community is to avoid the scalability issues known as &amp;quot;the forum problem&amp;quot;, as described in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most forums and chat rooms have a scale problem. As in, &lt;em&gt;they don’t&lt;/em&gt;. The more people that join the discussion, the more noise each of those connections bring. So the forums get progressively noisier and noisier, and suddenly one day … &lt;a href=&quot;http://scobleizer.com/2009/11/02/the-chat-roomforum-problem-an-apology-to-technosailor/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;you stop learning&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;… eventually the experts (i.e. people who are teaching you stuff) get drowned out and you are left with an experience that looks more like the magazine rack at a grocery store than a book shelf at Harvard. — Robert Scoble&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because we believe so deeply in &lt;em&gt;learning&lt;/em&gt;, we are willing to go to great lengths to suppress the discussion, debate, and opinions that — while plenty entertaining — cause most forums to inevitably break down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a platform dedicated to teaching and learning, it's important that we stick to what has made these sites so great, and that is the Q&amp;amp;A -- the focus on good detailed questions with a clear problem, and objective answers explaining both &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;, backed by facts, references, and experiences or explanations that demonstrate the answer is correct. Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T19:34:19.973" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2014-07-26T21:26:41.573" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In you other post, you made my point completely. Perhaps I was too subtle. If this is a community driven forum, it should be driven in the direction indicated by the community, not by your personal wants and opinions. If it's a moderator driven forum, that's not necessarily bad. Just give up the &quot;community driven&quot; claim. If the community wants to make 50 comments on a post, that means that there's great interest in the subject, and lots of people have something, if not a complete answer to contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I spent 20 years as  Professor of Computer Science, hopefully enlightening such as yourself. Very early I learned that the most efficient means of education was not lecture, but group interaction. I also learned patience. I learned that everyone has something to contribute, and when I was facilitating discussion groups, it was my role to seek out those that were a little reticent and enable them to contribute. Aren't the comments on this forum much the same thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your purpose was, as you claim, education, you'd value comments, rather than trying to find a way to discourage their contribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd guess the root of the problem is perception. Most people understand the word &quot;comment&quot; to mean something other than what you'd have it mean. You could perhaps satisfy your need for control by weighting comments. You could post the one's that meet your criteria at the top, and relegate the ones of which you don't approve, or perhaps don't understand to the bottom. That way, people could stop reading when the value fell their level of interest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, messing with my profile was really, mature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25372" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T21:26:41.573" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2799" CreationDate="2014-07-28T02:26:45.873" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is not a forum. Comments which are chatty belong on reddit or yahoo answers or chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want that method of discussion you are going to consistently be annoyed, frustrated, and fighting the entire Stack Exchange business model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is a Q/A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who chooses which answers are retained, and which are removed on Workplace. Exactly who are they and what are their credentials?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a member and vote to delete answers/questions which I do not find to add to this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My vision for this site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Providing comprehensive, detailed, and thought-out answers to constructive workplace questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you want to know when I vote to delete things or vote them down, simply ask that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to get a feel for what a &quot;comprehensive, detailed, and thought-out answer&quot; is look &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/2322/enderland?tab=answers&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; as I generally try to add only answers which I feel meet this criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-07-28T02:26:45.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2804" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-29T18:57:44.573" Score="5" ViewCount="332" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31326/reducing-the-salary-after-job-offer&quot;&gt;Reducing the salary after job offer?&lt;/a&gt; is getting a lot of attention, probably because it started out as a &quot;bad stuff happened to me - is this ethical?&quot; question, which is a magnet for opinions and anecdotes.  It is currently +58/-2.  I have edited the question to focus more on the &quot;why would they do this?&quot; aspect, which is at least an answerable question.  (I see no close votes, so did that instead of mod-closing as &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two of the answers are anecdotes that, to me, stop short of actually answering the question.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/31340/325&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt; is +31/-1 and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/31365/325&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; is +6/-4.  Both tell stories and offer opinions about the unethical nature of what happened, but neither answers why a company would do this.  One of these answers has attracted NAA flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if anything should be done with this question and its answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T19:51:08.747" Title="What should we do about the &quot;reduced offer&quot; question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2804" CreationDate="2014-07-29T19:51:08.747" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both answers are low quality, chatty, tangential musings, one at +6/-4 is more prominently so and has been luckily caught on that faster and double-luckily has quickly got a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31326/reducing-the-salary-after-job-offer/31340#comment75000_31365&quot; title=&quot;&amp;#39;This does not answer the users&amp;#39; question&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;comment clearly pointing the issue to readers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the answers score, in this case it has very little to do with their quality. Per my observations, the question has been stuck in the hot list for about 3 days which substantially skewed voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Broken quality norms in hot questions at smaller sites are business as usual, of other recent examples it &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/249892/started-wrong-with-a-project-should-i-start-over#comment504116_249892&quot;&gt;happened at Programmers yesterday&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...there's 100x larger Stack Overflow and hot list at sidebar sends at us &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/183109/165773&quot;&gt;ignorant voters &quot;armed&quot; with association bonus&lt;/a&gt;. Our site is just too small for 24x7 &quot;close duty&quot; to guarantee properly handling questions before they arrive... and when they arrive, it's often all over - their votes and views trash all the efforts of community regulars (as it happened here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Above rant mentions &quot;question&quot; and &quot;close duty&quot;, but if you only replace these with &quot;answer&quot; and &quot;voting duty&quot;, it will precisely describe the very issue you ask about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given above, I believe the right thing to do would be to delete both answers (as these both now have moderator comment explaining what's wrong). Score being positive / high shouldn't protect the garbage, we already have had the experience deleting low quality / highly voted answers in another hot question, and as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2468/my-manager-hopelessly-sucks-what-do-i-do-just-quit#comment4237_2468&quot;&gt;one of moderators pointed back then&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When it comes to moderation, I hold positively scored posts to a higher standard than the negative ones.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T19:51:08.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2806" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2875" CreationDate="2014-07-30T01:17:42.653" Score="4" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at the new questions when I noticed &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31486/awkward-conversations-in-elevators-lifts-how-to-avoid&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which had three tags including &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/elevator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;elevator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;elevator&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lift&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lift&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lift&lt;/a&gt; which seemed to be proposed by the person who asked the question. Since these did not seem like helpful tags I retagged the questions and removed the offending tags. I then went to look the other questions they just asked and saw that they also proposed a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/greeting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;greeting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;greeting&lt;/a&gt; tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what stumped me, we don't have a greeting tag, it seems a little bit localized but there are a number of questions about greeting others. The tag feels useless without all the old questions not allowing it for that reason would would kind of defeat the point of making a new tag at all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when is it appropriate to make a new tag and if you do, should you go an retag all the old posts to which it applies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T23:34:25.063" Title="Questions about creating a new tag" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2807" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-31T05:30:36.103" Score="5" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of highly voted comments were removed from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31476/junior-colleague-is-questioning-my-methodology-in-front-of-client/31479#31479&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; and others. Instead of deleting them, and asking people to move to chat, why not auto-archive all such comments and move them to chat so that they are not lost? May be create a new chatroom for that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit. Thanks to jmac for &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/93444/provide-a-tool-for-moderators-to-migrate-comments-to-chat&quot;&gt;this discussion link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My idea is to have a separate chat &quot;page&quot; for each answer. There could be X comments on the original answer. After say 24 hours are done since posting the answer and mods have started cleaning up the comments, they could activate the chat &quot;page&quot; that will auto-archive all comments. Then can then remove comments that think were not good enough to be on the main site. Score of the comment will be visible on the chat page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4614" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T15:15:39.403" Title="Why delete comments? Why not archive them to chat?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2807" CreationDate="2014-07-31T13:30:36.347" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is not a discussion board or a forum. Period. Meta sites are a bit different, but the main sites are not this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary purpose of this question/answer site is clear and direct questions with clear answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are chatty and more appropriate for discussion boards. If an answer or question is needing large numbers of comments to add clarity/value then &lt;strong&gt;it's either a bad post or the comments are pointless&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think an interesting strategy would be to automatically migrate comments to chat if there are ever more than 5 comments on a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T13:30:36.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2807" CreationDate="2014-07-31T15:15:39.403" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments shouldn't be used to chat in the first place.  Having a tool to migrate comments to chat would help, but the real solution is to &lt;em&gt;not misuse comments in the first place&lt;/em&gt;.  If people who want to have an extended discussion would &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2691/get-a-room-a-chat-room&quot;&gt;get a room&lt;/a&gt; in the first place, their contributions to the discussion would be much more durable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace isn't a discussion forum, and if people try to turn it into one we will keep deleting those comments because they harm the site.  So if you want to chat and don't want to have your messages deleted, get ahead of the problem -- go to chat in the first place, either the main [chat] or a new room, drop a link to the chat room in a comment (yes, that comment would stick around), and carry on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I would oppose a wholesale &quot;migrate all comments to chat&quot; function.  Comments that seek clarification and haven't been addressed yet &lt;em&gt;should stay&lt;/em&gt;; the point is to get the question addressed.  It's everything &lt;em&gt;else&lt;/em&gt; that should move.  But no automated system can figure out which are which, so a human has to be involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T15:15:39.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2268" CreationDate="2014-08-01T19:34:01.507" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/213068/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tag Wikis that are Too Short&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be useful for expanding the tag wikis that are empty or very close to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cut-off of 40 characters for summary and 100 characters for full wiki were plucked out of thin air and adjusted slightly (there were a bunch of decent summaries between 40 and 49 characters), so feel free to tweak it as needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some ways to improve this query that I haven't done yet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Detect which tag wikis are plaintext and need better formatting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Detect which tag wikis are word for word copies of the summary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Ignore tags that are already synonyms of other tags&lt;/strike&gt; completed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="19612" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T21:23:13.980" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T21:23:13.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2783" CreationDate="2014-08-04T00:55:22.810" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have completed the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/systemsadmin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;systemsadmin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;systemsadmin&lt;/a&gt; has been removed from three questions and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/systemsengineering&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;systemsengineering&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;systemsengineering&lt;/a&gt; as well from one of them (discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2796/7945&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Made &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/usa&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;usa&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;usa&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-states&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-states&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-states&lt;/a&gt; (thanks Monica! discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2787/7945&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recommendation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recommendation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recommendation&lt;/a&gt; has been changed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recommendation-letter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recommendation-letter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recommendation-letter&lt;/a&gt; on all 14 questions (discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2794/7945&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/firing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;firing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;firing&lt;/a&gt; has been changed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/termination&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;termination&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;termination&lt;/a&gt; and a synonym has been created (discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2785/7945&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/industry-conference&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;industry-conference&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;industry-conference&lt;/a&gt; has been changed and made a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conferences&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;conferences&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;conferences&lt;/a&gt; (as discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2788/7945&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T00:55:22.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2814" CreationDate="2014-08-04T04:28:31.753" Score="5" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This change is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot; title=&quot;Help Center &amp;gt; Asking &amp;gt; What topics can I ask about here?&quot;&gt;now live&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2741/updating-the-help-center&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt;, with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2693/custom-off-topic-close-reasons-change&quot;&gt;changes to the close reasons&lt;/a&gt; we should really look in to updating the help center to match how we close questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below is the current markup for the current article. If you have suggestions on how to change it, please feel free to add an answer or edit an existing one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt; is a Q&amp;amp;A site&#xA;  about the workplace and other career-related topics. It is for members&#xA;  of the workforce to get answers on topics such as the job hunting&#xA;  process, interviewing, salary negotiation, and professionalism within&#xA;  the Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With your help, we're working together to build a library of&#xA;  detailed answers to every question about the workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;What questions are off topic here?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&quot;I need advice on...&quot;, &quot;What should I do?&quot;, or &quot;Which job&#xA;  should I take?&quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Questions looking for opinions on what to&#xA;  do but with no specific problem are suited for discussion boards (not&#xA;  a question/answer site) and generally will be closed on The Workplace&#xA;  as &quot;primarily opinion-based.&quot; For information on how to write a good&#xA;  subjective question see here.&#xA;  Remember a real question has an answer, not just opinions or ideas. &#xA;  &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&quot;Is it legal...&quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;If a question&#xA;  requires a lawyer to answer it, we can't help. These situations are&#xA;  simply too specific and too complex to definitively answer on our&#xA;  site.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&quot;Please review my resume/CV&quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions need to apply to more than &lt;em&gt;just you&lt;/em&gt;. Since this&#xA;  site is here to help &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt;, and not review to a specific&#xA;  resume, these are not &quot;questions&quot; to us as they don't have definite&#xA;  answers.  &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&quot;How do I learn to be a...&quot; / &quot;How do I&#xA;  perform the job of a ...&quot; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Questions should be about problems&#xA;  you are encountering or have encountered in the workplace, and not the&#xA;  learning/applying of specific job functions. &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;What salary/hourly rate should I look for? How much should I&#xA;  charge for X?&quot; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Questions regarding salary are too localized&#xA;  to the city, timeframe, job sector and specific skills. Answers to&#xA;  these questions become quickly outdated and just aren't helpful to&#xA;  others. &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;For general salary hunting tips, see https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/896/how-can-i-determine-a-reasonable-salary-to-ask-for &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For more help, see &lt;a href=&quot;/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;&quot;What types of&#xA;  questions should I avoid asking?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;How should I answer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Make sure your answer adds helpful information and is a&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;complete, stand-alone answer&lt;/em&gt;. Read other answers first and be&#xA;  sure not to completely restate information that has already been&#xA;  posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that answers should be backed up either with a&#xA;  reference, or experiences that happened to you personally. You should&#xA;  always include in your answer information about why you think your&#xA;  answer is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;/search&quot;&gt;look around&lt;/a&gt; to see if your question&#xA;  has been asked before. It’s also OK to ask and answer your own&#xA;  question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is not specifically on-topic for The Workplace&#xA;  Stack Exchange, it may be on topic for another Stack Exchange site.&#xA;  If no site currently exists that will accept your question, you may commit to or propose&#xA;  a new site at &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Area51&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;  the place where new Stack Exchange communities are democratically&#xA;  created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T16:09:45.543" Title="Proposed change to the on-topic section of the Help Center" Tags="|feature-request|on-topic-definition|help-center|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2813" CreationDate="2014-08-04T04:28:31.753" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt; is a Q&amp;amp;A site about the workplace and other career-related topics. With your help we're working to build a library to every question about the workplace related to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finding employment (resumes/cv/cover letters, recruiters, hiring-managers, interviews, negotiations, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maintaining employment (promotions, pay increases, harassment, bullying, poor working conditions, communication problems, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leadership in the workplace (motivating people, encouraging people, making decisions, holding hard conversations, intervening in unproductive situations,  asking for and giving help, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Terminating employment (notice period, breaking the news, handing over work, reference letters, relieving letters, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What questions are off topic here?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2694&quot;&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695&quot;&gt;Questions asking for advice on what to do&lt;/a&gt; (including &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2596&quot;&gt;reviewing resumes, CVs, cover letters, e-mails&lt;/a&gt;, asking for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1856/what-is-asking-for-legal-advice&quot;&gt;legal advice&lt;/a&gt;, as well as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/896/how-can-i-determine-a-reasonable-salary-to-ask-for&quot;&gt;specific salaries, billing rates, market worth&lt;/a&gt;, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2696&quot;&gt;Questions that focus on ranting about problems rather than trying to solve them&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;Questions that aren't a good fit for the Stack Exchange format&lt;/a&gt; (see also &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; for information on how to ask a subjective question suitable for the Stack Exchange format)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Still not sure?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many questions here describe challenging situations in the workplace. As you have written your question, have you taken the time to formulate a real, answerable, question? For example, &amp;quot;What should I do about an arrogant co-worker?&amp;quot; is not answerable, but &amp;quot;What can I say to my arrogant co-worker to ask her advice with my project?&amp;quot; is answerable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask for help in our chat room &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;The Water Cooler&lt;/a&gt; (requires &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;20 reputation&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask a question on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;The Workplace Meta&lt;/a&gt; about a specific question or rule&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Look for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;another Stack Exchange site&lt;/a&gt; that may be a better fit for your question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there isn't a place on the Stack Exchange Network where your question fits, you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;create a new proposal for that topic on Area 51&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T15:33:45.203" CommentCount="9" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-08-19T23:40:17.267" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2815" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2825" CreationDate="2014-08-04T18:14:38.837" Score="3" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen many answers that are based on a single person's experiences - these are typically down-voted, however I don't see any particular stance on them - should it just be implemented as a rule to answer questions with general answers and avoid anecdotes which may or may not represent the industry at large? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25301" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T23:33:49.623" Title="Should personal experiences be included in an answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2816" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-04T20:16:07.343" Score="6" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's that time again... One of the moderators on The Workplace recently became &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/07/please-welcome-jmac-community-manager-of-the-rising-sun/&quot;&gt;an SE employee&lt;/a&gt;. Now, the community needs to elect a new moderator on TWP to fill their shoes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The 2014 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T20:31:09.687" Title="Summer 2014 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|moderators|election|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-08-04T20:16:07.343" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2817" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-04T20:18:20.243" Score="11" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once again, in connection with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2816/2014-community-moderator-election&quot;&gt;the summer moderator elections&lt;/a&gt;, we will be holding a Q&amp;amp;A with the candidates. To repeat the rules from last time around, this will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2859/summer-2014-moderator-election-qa-questionnaire&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;    Here's how it'll work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the nomination phase, (so, until Monday, August 11th at 20:00:00Z UTC, or 4:00 pm EDT on the same day, give or take time to arrive for closure), this question will be open to collect potential questions from the users of the site. Post answers to this question containing any questions you would like to ask the candidates. Please only post &lt;em&gt;one question per answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We, the Community Team, will be providing a small selection of generic questions. The first two will be guaranteed to be included, the latter ones are if the community doesn't supply enough questions. This will be done in a single post, unlike the prior instruction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a perfect opportunity to voice questions that are specific to your community and issues that you are running into at current.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the phase, the Community Team will select &lt;strong&gt;up to 8 of the top voted questions submitted by the community&lt;/strong&gt; provided in this thread, to use in addition to the aforementioned 2 guaranteed questions. We reserve some editorial control in the selection of the questions and may opt not to select a question that is tangential or irrelevant to moderation or the election. That said, if I have concerns about any questions in this fashion, I will be sure to point this out in comments before the decision making time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once questions have been selected, a new question will be opened to host the actual questionnaire for the candidates, containing 10 questions in total.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not the only option that users have for gathering information on candidates. As a community, you are still free to, for example, hold a live chat session with your candidates to ask further questions, or perhaps clarifications from what is provided in the Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions or feedback about this process, feel free to post as a comment here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T20:02:19.043" Title="Summer 2014 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Question Collection" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2817" CreationDate="2014-08-04T20:18:20.243" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a set of general questions, gathered as very common questions asked every election. As mentioned in the instructions, the first two questions are guaranteed to show up in the Q&amp;amp;A, while the others are if there aren't enough questions (or, if you like one enough, you may split it off as a separate answer for review within the community's 8). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T20:18:20.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2817" CreationDate="2014-08-04T22:10:48.787" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2465/19612&quot;&gt;Asked by Monica Cellio during the previous election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the top two or three challenges facing the site as it moves forward, and what do you plan to do as a moderator to address them? What have you already done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T22:10:48.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2817" CreationDate="2014-08-04T22:14:18.260" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2464/19612&quot;&gt;Asked by jmort253 during the previous election, adjusted on jmac's advice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would you handle an issue that has many members of the community on either side and the community is too divided to settle on an single conclusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T00:29:38.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2817" CreationDate="2014-08-04T22:16:22.450" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2466/19612&quot;&gt;Asked by Monica Cellio during the previous election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you see a question or answer with major issues, such as being argumentative or poorly-written, what tool do you reach for first and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T22:16:22.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2817" CreationDate="2014-08-04T22:19:19.323" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2477/19612&quot;&gt;Asked by Shog9 during the previous election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two experienced users, both good contributors at times, just can't get along. Every time they interact &lt;em&gt;in any way&lt;/em&gt;, sparks fly. Acrimonious comments pile up, distracting everyone from the actual questions being answered. Tit-for-tat flags and votes accumulate. Passive-aggressive meta posts ruin your buzz. You suspect the moderators on other sites are talking about you behind your back, clucking like so many biddy hens about your misfortune...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2460/2014-moderator-election-qa-question-collection#comment4266_2477&quot;&gt;Clarification from Monica Cellio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When answering, candidates should address how their responses change (if they do) if the two have a privilege imbalance, for example if one has a diamond (mod or staff) that allows him to make unilateral decisions (delete, close, flag rejection, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T22:19:19.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2817" CreationDate="2014-08-04T22:21:20.373" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2491/19612&quot;&gt;Asked by Rachel during the previous election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think your actions towards lower-quality posts will be more like an &lt;strong&gt;Exception Handler&lt;/strong&gt; or a &lt;strong&gt;Janitor&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it another way, do you prefer to sit back and let the community try to resolve if questions should be closed or open on their own, or do you prefer to step in as soon as you can to try and resolve a question's state immediately using moderator actions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I realize a moderators duties will involve using both styles of moderation depending on the situation, however I would like to know which direction moderator candidates lean towards first in cases that are not so clear)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T22:21:20.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2817" CreationDate="2014-08-04T22:26:27.280" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2489/19612&quot;&gt;Asked by Monica Cellio during the previous election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If elected, do you plan to increase your time on the site, or are you going to spend about the same amount of time but reallocate it? If the latter, what &lt;em&gt;won't&lt;/em&gt; you be doing as much of now? What is the opportunity cost to the community of you becoming a mod?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T22:26:27.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2815" CreationDate="2014-08-05T03:51:04.303" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personal experiences &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be included in an answer, but they are neither mandatory nor sufficient by themselves when developing an acceptable answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can look here for more information: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1894/437&quot;&gt;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1894/437&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T03:51:04.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2817" CreationDate="2014-08-05T05:01:46.670" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Workplace SE grows, it may experience the problems of scaling, also known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://scobleizer.com/?p=5980&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;the forum problem&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. If elected, what will you do to help prevent the signal to noise ratio from becoming too low?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T05:01:46.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2828" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-05T12:11:02.957" Score="8" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other day jmac and I were chatting and he raised the opinion that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;was a terrible tag&lt;/strong&gt; and he makes some good points. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone works for twitter in HR are they in the software-industry? I currently work for an insurance company as a programmer, do I work in the software-industry? You get the idea. A simple solution to this would be to just change the tag to something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-developer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-developer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-developer&lt;/a&gt; but I think there is more to it than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do we have an industry specific tag in the first place, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/576/19839&quot;&gt;I thought they were bad&lt;/a&gt;? Well the software-industry tag is wildly popular at least partially because the majority of Stack Exchange users know about SE because of stackoverflow&lt;sup&gt;[citation-needed]&lt;/sup&gt;. Additionally as a software developer myself, I like to think there are a number of unique issue we face such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17885/what-is-the-best-way-of-listing-technical-skills-in-a-resume&quot;&gt;listing our skills on a resume&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12058/is-it-ethical-to-read-programming-books-on-the-clock&quot;&gt;frequently having to learn on the job&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18362/is-it-ethical-to-write-answers-to-work-relevant-stack-exchange-questions-on-the&quot;&gt;because the industry changes frequently&lt;/a&gt;, etc... Until I realized I use to face exactly those issues when I was lifeguard. What I am saying is &lt;em&gt;all industries have unique issues&lt;/em&gt;; I don't even think there are &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; unique issues as a developer compared to other industries. Just because there is a lot of software related questions it doesn't make it okay for them to have an industry specific tag (for all you fellow programmers, just because everyone around you is using floats as their iterator in a for loop, &lt;em&gt;doesn't mean you should&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally the work environments of software developers vary wildly between companies; compare a company which still run a 9-5, waterfall based development shop to companies like Valve which have 100% time (like google's 20% time, but you just work on whatever you want always). The point is, just because we both program does not mean that we face the same problems or the solutions that we face will be the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jmac also raised the point that it is unlikely that we can just burn the tag once and for all since people will just keep creating new tags...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u5djk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Hydra&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or if you prefer some 7 year old Ian art (thank jmac for this one):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eMalH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ian&amp;#39;s supreme artistic talent&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Weigh in! Should we be tempting fate by adding more programming tags? Changing the software-industry tag? Giving poor jmac/mods a bigger sword to try and fight the programming hydra?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T23:25:59.177" Title="software-industry tag discussion" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2815" CreationDate="2014-08-05T12:48:13.427" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that adding personal experience to an answer can make it better, just make sure that your whole answer is not riding on that experience&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example jmac said this about a good answer he saw in the chat one time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;your post was backed up with personal experience, referenced the important rules, and even linked to a relevant post on another SE! That's a great answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding personal experience can help others relate, but just because you were in such a situation does not make you an expert! Make sure you show that are an expert as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T12:48:13.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2828" CreationDate="2014-08-05T14:47:59.613" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first thoughts on the topic is that the rep needed for adding tags is too low. The 'Hydra' problem, from the perspective of a new user still learning the ropes of TWP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I see it, the active members are very concerned with making sure good answers get the votes they deserve. That being the case, I pulled quite a bit of my rep from around three answers. I'm nowhere near familiar enough with the community and and how TWP operates to create a tag or a less than obvious synonym. Even with my recently acquired review rep, I'm still timid to use it while I get a feel the community's expectations. Juxtaposed with main SE, I've had to work for the bit of rep I have. It's not heavily modded and sometimes feels like a free for all. I've been there for years, and have put down quite a few questions and answers and my TWP score is almost the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL,DR - Quick accumulation of tag privs is a function of the community being engaged, potentially to the detriment of organization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What to do? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can we raise the rep required to create tags?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Start a review queue for new tags (Can this even be done?), turn off creation and all requests be made through TWP.Meta?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I noticed the 'new tags report' in the tags section, or some more data.stackexchange wizardry with added focus on these tools for the moderators to prune problematic new tags as they arise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's helpful, I'm working on a query to show the posts tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt; that have at least four total tags so to see how much damage a burnination would do. I'm thinking we might be able to work on re-tagging ones under the line if they aren't too plentiful and hoping it wouldn't be missed on the rest. Not sure i'll get to it today though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;edit: Posts tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt;, total tag count distribution&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CuIQz.png&quot; alt=&quot;Distribution of tag count for posts tagged with software-industry&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Metaception - the art here is magnificent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18336" LastEditorUserId="18336" LastEditDate="2014-08-08T11:05:58.937" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T11:05:58.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2831" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2832" CreationDate="2014-08-05T18:24:03.433" Score="3" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;30 points disappeared from my Rep yesterday. It was 902 when I went to bed, when I woke up yesterday AM it was 872. I checked the reputation, voting tabs, etc. and didn't see anything. No downvotes, no user dropped etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any idea what's going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8625" LastEditorUserId="99" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T20:06:05.583" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T20:29:17.870" Title="30 rep points disappeared yesterday" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2831" CreationDate="2014-08-05T18:48:59.503" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/31026/2322&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/31026/2322&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer was deleted when the question &quot;How to explain the experience I have gained in three years is greater than the time implies [closed]&quot; was deleted; you had 30 rep from this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the first part of this answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1) If you indeed have such a wealth of experience, list it in your resume. If you've done big things, tell about them, and apply for jobs you think are appropriate for your experience, as you assess it. Are you bound only to follow the instructions of a particular recruiter? &lt;strong&gt;JUST DO IT - MARKET YOURSELF.&lt;/strong&gt; You don't have to sound like you're &quot;the greatest thing since sliced bread&quot;, that will work against you, but don't be shy! And play it smart - if you're applying for a job that would pay $75k for someone with 7 years experience, discount yourself a bit, so someone will be more willing to give you a chance to prove yourself. And if you do get a call, back up your resume claims with knowledge - &lt;strong&gt;strut your stuff&lt;/strong&gt; - and you just might get lucky and land that big job you want. I'm not acquainted with your entire situation, but I'd think that you have very little to lose and a great deal to gain by going that route.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T20:29:17.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2817" CreationDate="2014-08-05T19:18:26.590" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would you be willing to unilaterally close more popular questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/31892/2322&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; which very clearly are off-topic, according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;site FAQ and guidelines&lt;/a&gt;, even if you are the only close vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oftentimes these questions can cause problems if not closed quickly as they pick up answers which make editing the question impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T19:18:26.590" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2817" CreationDate="2014-08-05T20:15:12.257" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Splitting this off from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2818/19612&quot;&gt;Grace Note's post of default questions&lt;/a&gt; as we have several sub 10k rep candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T20:15:12.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2828" CreationDate="2014-08-05T21:12:27.883" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;After &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17033368#17033368&quot;&gt;discussions in chat&lt;/a&gt;, burnination is too harsh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt; does seem overused, it does have its place as a filter criteria for questions that are &lt;strong&gt;uniquely related to the software industry&lt;/strong&gt;. The current challenge we are facing is that many of the questions it is tagged on are not specific to the software industry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make this tag more useful, we should review all the questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt;, and retag them if they are not specific to this industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that we are currently at 495 tagged questions and don't want to flood the active list with old questions that we are fixing, we will have to limit how many questions we retag per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monica has suggested an excellent method for decoupling the review from the retag, so that users without retag permissions can participate in the review, and we can perform bulk operations on the questions that need cleanup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we are ok with moving forward on this, I'll set up some community wiki posts for &quot;Questions unique to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt; (Keep Tag)&quot; and &quot;Questions that are more general than the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt; (Remove Tag)&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="19612" LastEditDate="2014-08-19T23:25:59.177" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T23:25:59.177" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2476" CreationDate="2014-08-06T08:15:12.560" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you love about the moderator job on TWP?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other mods. More than anything else, having two people you work closely with and can bounce ideas off is a learning experience. 99% of a site is the community, but the remaining 1% that the mods handle is made infinitely better by having a good team that's working with you to solve the problems that need to be handled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do you spend your moderation time? Which tasks take the largest amounts of time? And roughly speaking, how much time do you spend on moderation tasks (not counting your &quot;just plain user&quot; time like asking and answering questions)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flags: 60%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta: 30%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Misc: 10%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I average about 30 minutes per day handling moderator-related stuff (though not always 30 minutes a day, there is a little give and take since the other moderators can cover when you are busy, and vice versa).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What have been your biggest challenges as a moderator? Without revealing privileged information, can you talk about how you (personally and collectively) have addressed them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone in our community tends to have strong opinions. We all have slightly (or very) different ideas on what our site is, what it should be, and why there is a gap in the first place. And that is awesome and I wouldn't change it for anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's take the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2748/our-comments-problem&quot;&gt;Comments discussion&lt;/a&gt; for instance. The overwhelming voice is that comments aren't the community's problem, they are the fault of the UI/stupid rules/aren't a problem in the first place at all. Yet what the community can't see is the volume of comments that get flagged, and how much time we as a mod team spend dealing with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we make meta posts. And discuss whether we are being too hard/too soft in regards to the issue, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2691/get-a-room-a-chat-room&quot;&gt;try to come up with alternate solutions&lt;/a&gt;, but at the end of the day it's up to the community to decide what they want to do about the issue. Ideally we come to a conclusion as a community, but in the meantime we have to handle those daily tasks when there is no consensus, and that can be tough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there anything you're hoping the new moderators will do or change that you never quite got around to? What's on your &quot;moderator wish list&quot;, and why is it important?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really wanted to get a better collection of &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; posts. We have some good information, but it needs to be organized. A lot like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2783/another-tag-discussion&quot;&gt;our tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What advice do you have for somebody considering this job? What are the questions people should be asking but aren't?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;99% of what a mod does can be done just as well (and &lt;s&gt;sometimes&lt;/s&gt; usually better) by the community:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Commenting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reviewing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Creating consensus on meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other 1% is janitorial work (flag handling, etc.) and making executive decisions when there isn't a consensus in the community. To be a good mod, make good use of the tools you have before being a mod, and then make sure you have the extra passion for this community to handle the decidedly less glamorous remaining 1%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T08:15:12.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2837" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-06T17:33:45.067" Score="-6" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems that everytime I disagree with someone, a serial downvoting binge is launched. I thought this was a forum for &quot;professionals&quot;. I guess I was wrong:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  47 mins ago     downvote    Addressing burnout when applying for a new job&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  47 mins ago     downvote    Convincing my manager to let me work from home&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  48 mins ago     downvote    My boss gave me everyone's pay by mistake and mine is lower, how can I increase it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  48 mins ago     downvote    How do I ask for a higher compensation when the work I'm doing is meant for higher ranks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  57 mins ago     downvote    Should I hand in my resignation at the end of the month or when I decide to leave?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  58 mins ago     downvote    Implications of refusing a 'software engineer' role working for people who were forced to hire me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  1 hour ago  downvote    How can I ensure future coworkers do not see my break schedule as laziness?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  1 hour ago  downvote    How to deal with unskilled co-workers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  1 hour ago  downvote    Professionalism and Rejecting Job Offers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  1 hour ago  downvote    What to do after being passed over for a promotion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  1 hour ago  downvote    How/where can I get external feedback for improving programming style and general work habits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-2  1 hour ago  downvote    Can a “not-so-good” project on a resume hurt my chances?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-4  26 mins ago     2 events     How should students applying for internships/co-ops mention classes they have taken and the things they &#xA;accomplished in class?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8625" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T17:37:25.817" Title="Can we please grow up here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2014-08-07T00:39:47.750" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2837" CreationDate="2014-08-06T17:37:25.817" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this is from serial downvoting, I wouldn't worry too much about it because it should be reversed within 24 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/126857/265769&quot;&gt;official explanation of the serial voting reversal functionality&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T17:37:25.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2839" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-06T18:07:49.793" Score="-9" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downvoted this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27403/what-are-tools-resources-i-can-use-to-check-a-company-for-transphobia-and-sexism&quot;&gt;What are tools/resources I can use to check a company for transphobia&#xA;  and sexism during a job&#xA;  search?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After downvoting, I was prompted to add a comment explaining my reasons, which were that I found the language of the question  - &quot;sexist&quot; and &quot;transphobia&quot; - and &quot;&lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt;&quot; unnecessarily provocative - bordering on rant: Not everyone who doesn't want to deal with TG's can or should be characterized using such loaded terminlogy. Neutral language would have sufficed for the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My comment apparenly ruffled the feathers of others for PC reasons. The language of the question was allowed to stand, but my comment was deleted. Such actions amount to inapproprate political censorship. If this is a site for professionals to exchange information,  questions should be written in a neutral,  adult fashion, not used as a platform for promoting political agendas and rants. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also edited the question and replaced the  provocative language with language that was neutral but did not in any way distort the intent of the question. My edits were also rejected. Again, it appears that there are those on this site that are more interested in promoting a particular political agenda than discussing workplace issues in a professional manner. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO this site loses a great deal of its credibility through such behavior and policy. Why is this allowed and condoned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(It also appears that I have been subject to a rash of serial downvoting as the result of my remarks, perhaps by more than one member. )&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8625" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T00:27:11.267" Title="Why does this site support political censorship and editorializing?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2839" CreationDate="2014-08-07T00:27:11.267" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comments were not removed because of 'political censorship', they were removed because &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;comments are not for debate or discussion&lt;/a&gt;. If you do not want comments to be removed, take care to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/behavior&quot;&gt;be nice&lt;/a&gt; and keep in mind &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;the purpose of comments&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that the words 'sexism' or 'transphobia' are politically charged, then the proper course of action is to bring them up as questions on meta for the community to weigh in on. If you want to avoid 'political censorship' then I strongly believe that trying to force edits to posts without any sort of discussion or input from the community is the absolutely wrong way act. And discussing them in comments is just not the appropriate place for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T00:27:11.267" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2841" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-07T02:31:13.413" Score="3" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just broke a contract in about one month to leave for a better job. The reasons are justifiable. The employer is asking me some questions which I think are meant to trick me into not getting my wages. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to put about 10% of my contract on this forum because I have some questions about the contract. I will make that as a separate question. I will NOT include any confidential information such as employer name, client name, trade secrets, salary, locations etc. I will only mention conditions like &quot;If you terminate the contract before 1 year, then will not pay you last month's salary&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I do this ? I want to know before I put this info out here. I am sure it will make a good question for SO. I could rephrase it if you want. I understand that rephrasing might alter the meaning, but I will take great care to see it does not happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user25987" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T08:19:31.580" Title="Is it okay to put parts of my contract online without naming client or employer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2841" CreationDate="2014-08-07T03:24:25.493" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;To repeat what all the comments have said: take this to an attorney. Do NOT crowdsource legal advice, or specific contract questions, especially if there's an element of &quot;is the other party trying to trick me&quot; in your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer the questions you're proposing to ask, anyone answering you would need to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;see the full exact text of your contract&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;be highly conversant with the labor laws under which the contract was governed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything else...you may get incorrect or incomplete answers to your questions, which could cause you to take actions that would make your situation worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22432" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T03:24:25.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2066" CreationDate="2014-08-07T03:30:10.187" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Outrageous Work Stories&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of us have them. They are clearly off topic in questions and answers, but should be fine in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, isn't this what goes on at the physical water cooler?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T03:30:10.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2841" CreationDate="2014-08-07T08:19:31.580" Score="7" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From the perspective of Stack Exchange, it is your responsibility to make sure you have the rights to share your contract&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even if it is legal to share, that does not guarantee there will be no consequences from doing it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even if you shared it, legal questions are generally off-topic here&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, even if it is okay, you probably are better off not sharing because we probably won't be able to answer your question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Are you okay sharing your contract?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is what our &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal/content-policy&quot;&gt;Content Policy&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copyright.&lt;/strong&gt; Using copyrighted material does not constitute infringement in all cases. In general, however, users should be careful when using copyrighted content without the permission of those who created it. It is our policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (&amp;quot;DMCA&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So from our perspective (as SE), it is your responsibility to ensure that you aren't infringing on anyone's rights when you share content here. Whether or not you have that right is a separate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Sharing is not without consequence (even if legal)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because it is theoretically legal to share your contract doesn't mean that your employer cannot raise a stink, cannot bring you to court anyway, or otherwise make your life miserable. Just because you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; share something doesn't mean you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; share something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;We do not do legal advice here&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like your ultimate purpose is to ask for legal advice from our community. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/82/are-questions-of-law-is-x-legal-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;Legal questions are off-topic here&lt;/a&gt; and are usually closed very promptly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Laws vary from state to state, locality to locality, and country to country. Furthermore, the laws change frequently, and sometimes interpretation of the law may be different than the actual case law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we intend this site to be a resource of helpful information, these questions must be explicitly disallowed and closed. Information is only helpful if it's correct, and since it's impossible to verify the accuracy of that information without consulting an attorney, we must close them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T08:19:31.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2828" CreationDate="2014-08-08T01:07:57.900" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 477 questions currently tagged 'software-industry'. A wholesale manual retagging is probably going to be unreasonably tough on the community (though if you think you can do it, I am all for that too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, I think we should just blacklist the tag, and when new tags pop up, we blacklist those too. We can do this wholesale, which would mean that we would just have to look for untagged questions afterwards and clean those up manually (which would be far less than 477).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should get rid of the tag for all the reasons you explained in the question. It's not a good tag. We can always check for new tags when they are small, and make sure they are only baby hydras.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T01:07:57.900" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2828" CreationDate="2014-08-08T18:10:02.803" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt; tag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, tags are filter mechanisms that allow me to filter questions for ones that are most likely to interest me, or that I feel I would be uniquely qualified to answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not know of any other way to filter the posts for ones that are specific to just the software-industry, or that are targetting the software-industry-specific answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag allows me to do just that, and I would be a sad panda to see it go away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As a side note, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2851/316&quot;&gt;I fully support industry-specific tags&lt;/a&gt; providing there is something unique about the question/industry that makes it different from a general generic answer that would apply to every single industry)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.357" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T20:03:33.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="574" CreationDate="2014-08-08T18:49:08.640" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags are used to categorize the question, not the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're used for filters, to help narrow down the list of questions to ones that I feel I would be most interested in viewing, or that I would be best qualified to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not see anything at all wrong with industry-specific tags on a question, providing the question is not so generic that there would be an industry-wide catch-all answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will scale better as the site grows, and provides a useful way for users to filter down to just the section of questions they are interested in, much the way that Stack Overflow is divided by language tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those that argue &lt;em&gt;&quot;We don't want to have duplicate answers for every industry!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, fear not!  Nobody said you have to mark duplicates based on matching tags, so providing there is nothing special to take into consideration about industry B that would make the answer on industry A not complete or comprehensive, mark it as a duplicate! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;Some examples to demonstrate cases where I think the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt; tag is warranted to get an industry-specific answer: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/3425&quot;&gt;What do employers expect from new graduates?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9899&quot;&gt;Is it reasonable to quiz the interviewer during technical interviews?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11938&quot;&gt;How to list programming technologies on a resume?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/12058&quot;&gt;Is it ethical to read books while on the clock?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions could be asked in a generic form, however they would not be nearly as useful nor easy to find without the context of the software-industry tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T19:56:34.837" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2817" CreationDate="2014-08-09T09:29:12.590" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;@maple_shaft: You've been a fantastic moderator on Programmers.SE for some time, but I see that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/70/maple-shaft?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=all&quot;&gt;you haven't really contributed a whole lot to TWP.SE in 2014&lt;/a&gt;. Should we be concerned that you're splitting your attention between multiple StackExchange sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@enderland: Without question, you've been a TWP.SE powerhouse for a long time. But &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/2322/enderland?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=comments&amp;amp;page=5&quot;&gt;you took a self-imposed sabbatical between April 8th and July 3rd&lt;/a&gt;. Are you fully invested in the site again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T09:38:09.087" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2854" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2855" CreationDate="2014-08-10T09:54:45.203" Score="1" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the best way to handle a situation where I believe a moderator is biased? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a moderator is the problem, who moderates the moderator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8625" LastEditorDisplayName="user5305" LastEditDate="2014-08-10T19:30:27.003" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T19:30:27.003" Title="What should I do if believe a moderator is biased?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2854" CreationDate="2014-08-10T10:14:29.207" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there is actually a moderator that is as biased as you claim, there should be individual moderator actions that are problematic. You can bring those actions to meta and see if the community agrees with you that they were incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one extremely important aspect when bringing the issue up here on meta, and that is to make it about the individual decisions, not about the moderator as a person. Your meta post shouldn't even mention the name of the moderator acting, just the post and the facts. This kind of issue is handled far, far better if everyone stays close to the facts and avoids making the issue personal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A reasonable moderator will change their behaviour if they are convinced that some of their past actions were incorrect. Often such disagreements simply indicate an area where the commmunity hasn't come to a consensus on the rules, and a meta discussion can solve this by coming up with better rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a moderator is continuing to misuse their position in your view, use the &quot;contact us&quot; link in the footer. The complaints about moderators will be handled by the SE commmunity team. They moderate the moderators, and can talk to them or in the worst case also dismiss them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user26048" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T10:14:29.207" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2856" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-10T13:19:15.357" Score="6" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you may be aware, tomorrow the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/2&quot;&gt;Workplace Summer Election #2 begins&lt;/a&gt;, and we'll all have the opportunity to decide who will help with the leadership and janitorial efforts that help keep The Workplace SE running. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;The elections have now begun!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;For the candidates, as well as the constituency:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange created an &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/16203/workplace-2014-election-number-2&quot;&gt;Election Chat Room&lt;/a&gt;, which is a place to discuss the candidates, ask questions, and most importantly, allow the candidates themselves to come out and interact with the community. Think of this as being similar to your locally-elected representatives going door to door to meet with the people whose vote they wish to earn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, I've only seen a couple of our candidates in this chat room, and I encourage more to jump in. Don't let nervousness get the best of you. Being visible, even if you can't answer every question, is a great way to stand out from the pack and help ensure your name comes to mind once users enter the virtual voting booth! Good luck to everyone in the upcoming elections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update:  Chat Transcripts Below:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the candidates have made their way into the election chat room. I've provided links to transcripts where candidates have interacted with members of the community and each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've learned quite a bit from my interactions with them, and I hope this helps in making your final decisions. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those candidates who have not yet joined us, there is still time for more interacting. Please join us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T21:17:46.100" Title="Election chat rooms - A place to meet your constituents" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2817" CreationDate="2014-08-10T14:43:41.640" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does The Workplace have a Comments Problem?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, what do you believe is the problem, and how would you plan to deal with it as a moderator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T14:43:41.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2476" CreationDate="2014-08-10T21:23:16.643" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I wasn't a mod when I asked the question but I am now, so I'll talk to myself a bit. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you love about the moderator job on TWP?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being part of a solid moderator team is great.  You will not be doing this alone.  We've all been able to learn from each other, both about the site and about moderation.  We each have stronger and weaker skills, but the &lt;em&gt;team&lt;/em&gt; is pretty darn solid.  I'm looking forward to having a new person in the mix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you spend your moderation time? Which tasks take the largest amounts of time? And roughly speaking, how much time do you spend on moderation tasks (not counting your &quot;just plain user&quot; time like asking and answering questions)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I average about 30 minutes a day on mod tasks on the site.  I'm not counting meta participation in that; I'd do that as a user anyway.  Most of the time goes to handling flags, some to tracking changes on our most-active questions, and some to investigating patterns of behavior (being intentionally vague here, but if I see a pattern in flags, I look to see if it's isolated or part of a bigger picture).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My chat time is pretty erratic; I tend to monitor the transcripts of our rooms but often don't enter a room unless I have something to say.  I should probably be more available in chat, as that's an important means for people to casually ask a mod a question.  OTOH, many questions can be handled by higher-rep users too.  OT3rdH, we don't want chat to become a ghost town.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What have been your biggest challenges as a moderator? Without revealing privileged information, can you talk about how you (personally and collectively) have addressed them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there is a mismatch between site rules -- both our own agreed-upon rules (like &quot;back it up&quot;) and SE rules (like &quot;Q&amp;amp;A, not forum&quot;) -- and what people do.  Let me talk about the forum problem: we have a major disconnect over use of comments, which produces (a) lots of comments to dig through, (b) flags on those comments, and (c) complaints when we &lt;em&gt;handle&lt;/em&gt; those flags or otherwise clean up.  But even &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; the community wholeheartedly said &quot;we want a forum, not this site&quot; (which it hasn't), we &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; wouldn't do that, because we are also part of Stack Exchange.  So moderating all that can be a little draining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there anything you're hoping the new moderators will do or change that you never quite got around to? What's on your &quot;moderator wish list&quot;, and why is it important?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see some more meta cleanup -- not &lt;em&gt;removing&lt;/em&gt; anything, to be clear, but I'd like us to refine a small collection of posts for which there's frequent need to link.  Such posts should be well-written, targeted, and free of the extensive discussion that sometimes happens in comments (which is otherwise proper &lt;em&gt;on meta&lt;/em&gt;).  Jmac started to do some of this; I had lofty intentions but haven't done anything about them.  It's important because most users &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to do the right thing but might not know &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;, so giving them good guidance is essential to helping them succeed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Some of these meta posts might more properly go into the Help Center.  Where possible, we should absolutely do that.  We have limited control over that.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What advice do you have for somebody considering this job? What are the questions people should be asking but aren't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Advice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Work to get the community to do the things it can do.  I do a little happy dance every time I see a helpful comment about one of our more-common issues &lt;em&gt;from someone who hasn't done that in the past&lt;/em&gt;.  Encourage other users, remind them of what they can do, and, when needed, be prepared to push folks a little.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remain part of the community.  Don't stop asking, answering, commenting, editing, etc.  You're a mod but you're also a user; if you become &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; a mod you won't enjoy the site as much.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Get (or stay) involved on the network.  The Workplace is a great little corner of SE, but it's only one of 127 sites.  I think the best moderators are active on several sites, so they can bring lessons learned from other sites to The Workplace and so they can get valuable network perspective. And if you aren't already paying attention to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;MSE&lt;/a&gt;, I recommend you do so.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Think long-term.  A diamond is (potentially) for life, so before standing for election, think about the level of commitment you can offer.  Yes you can step down of course; nobody's going to hold your feet to the fire.  But look past the next couple months and ask yourself: do I have the time and energy to do this for a while?  Will this still be fun in a year?  And the flip side of that: if you don't have it &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt; that's ok; there'll be opportunities later, because (a) sometimes people do step down (or get hired by SE :-) ), and (b) the site is likely to grow and need a larger team over time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't currently think of any questions that ought to be asked of all the candidates that aren't; y'all are doing a good job on that.  I'll be stepping into the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/16203/workplace-2014-election-number-2&quot;&gt;election chat room&lt;/a&gt; to ask some candidate-specific questions, and I encourage everybody else to do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T21:23:16.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2859" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-11T20:01:47.507" Score="8" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&amp;amp;A thread for the candidates. Questions collected &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2817/summer-2014-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;from an earlier thread&lt;/a&gt; have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers. Not every question was compiled - as noted, we only selected the top 8 questions as submitted by the community, plus 2 pre-set questions from us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a candidate, your job is simple - post an answer to this question, citing each of the questions and then post your answer to each question given in that same answer. For your convenience, I will include all of the questions in quote format with a break in between each, suitable for you to insert your answers. Just &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/913d03bd-0b28-4e51-9b13-9671c95441f4/view-source&quot;&gt;copy the whole thing after the first set of three dashes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once all the answers have been compiled, this will serve as a transcript for voters to view the thoughts of their candidates, and will be appropriately linked in the Election page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck to all of the candidates!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Workplace SE grows, it may experience the problems of scaling, also known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://scobleizer.com/?p=5980&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;the forum problem&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. If elected, what will you do to help prevent the signal to noise ratio from becoming too low?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are the top two or three challenges facing the site as it moves forward, and what do you plan to do as a moderator to address them? What have you already done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you think your actions towards lower-quality posts will be more like an &lt;strong&gt;Exception Handler&lt;/strong&gt; or a &lt;strong&gt;Janitor&lt;/strong&gt;? To put it another way, do you prefer to sit back and let the community try to resolve if questions should be closed or open on their own, or do you prefer to step in as soon as you can to try and resolve a question's state immediately using moderator actions? (I realize a moderators duties will involve using both styles of moderation depending on the situation, however I would like to know which direction moderator candidates lean towards first in cases that are not so clear)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would you be willing to unilaterally close more popular questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/31892/2322&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; which very clearly are off-topic, according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;site FAQ and guidelines&lt;/a&gt;, even if you are the only close vote? Oftentimes these questions can cause problems if not closed quickly as they pick up answers which make editing the question impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you see a question or answer with major issues, such as being argumentative or poorly-written, what tool do you reach for first and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Two experienced users, both good contributors at times, just can't get along. Every time they interact in any way, sparks fly. Acrimonious comments pile up, distracting everyone from the actual questions being answered. Tit-for-tat flags and votes accumulate. Passive-aggressive meta posts ruin your buzz. You suspect the moderators on other sites are talking about you behind your back, clucking like so many biddy hens about your misfortune... What do you do about it? When answering, candidates should address how their responses change (if they do) if the two have a privilege imbalance, for example if one has a diamond (mod or staff) that allows him to make unilateral decisions (delete, close, flag rejection, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does The Workplace have a Comments Problem? If so, what do you believe is the problem, and how would you plan to deal with it as a moderator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle an issue that has many members of the community on either side and the community is too divided to settle on an single conclusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T21:17:53.710" Title="Summer 2014 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Questionnaire" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1627" CreationDate="2014-08-11T20:38:57.830" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please, no. Do not downvote too much. I can tell you couple reasons for that if you wish:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is not a fortunate form of negative criticism; it's not constructive, and it feels worse to the target person than it seems. In most cases, you don't want to lose the person, you want them to get better. For that, constructive and encouraging criticism is necessary, and that's not something a downvote can serve.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;SE sites that consider downvotes to be a rare thing are nice places to be at. Yes, I speak from my own experience, my &quot;home site&quot; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;TeX&lt;/a&gt;, typical vote record here is 1 downvote for 100--1000 upvotes, and we are all happy: we get high quality contents, we get better answers scored higher than not so good ones etc. Atop of that, we get people willing to improve their answers, learn the policies etc. The fact that you don't want to downvote the post means, if you want to give feedback, that you have to comment on it. This improves the communication between the users. Observe that while we're not of the most busy sites, our chat room is busy almost always.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know, there are other factors that influence the fact that TeX.SE is a relax and nice place, but still, I see that the positive air and lack of downvotes is one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conclusion: No, mediocre answers shouldn't be downvoted. Only answers giving &lt;em&gt;really bad, unacceptable advice&lt;/em&gt; should be downvoted. Distinction between excellent, good and mediocre answers should be based on upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6133" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:11.937" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T20:38:57.830" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2859" CreationDate="2014-08-11T21:28:42.957" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to requote every question, so that my answers are easier to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Forum Problem&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;To me, the biggest symptom of the forum problem we have is duplicate questions.  Closing questions &quot;as a duplicate of&quot; seems to work quite well.  I believe this approach has been very effective.  There will be a constant issue of new users joining and not understanding the tools and scope of the site, which is where moderators need to step in.  Migrating questions to more relevant sites is certainly useful, as well.  In fact, that's how I came to the Workplace site, as a question I had answered on another site was migrated here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Challenges&lt;/strong&gt; - The biggest challenge facing Workplace is the contradictory nature of WIKI tag creation against the site rules.  The availability of tags such as &quot;Ethics&quot; - which, by definition, is a question of &quot;What should I do when ...,&quot; are in direct opposition to the prohibition on &quot;What should I do?&quot; This fundamental conflict in the site's implied structure needs to be addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Exception Handler / Janitor&lt;/strong&gt; In my mind, a moderator is an administrator, in the classic sense of the word.  To fit the scope of the question, then &quot;Janitor&quot; is my answer.  The community has to guide the conversations.  The role of the administrator is to execute the will of the community.  The real question becomes whether this site is to be run as a Constitutional Republic or a Representative Democracy.  That is, do the &quot;FAQ and Guidelines&quot; trump the expressed will of the Community, or does the will of the Community trump the &quot;FAQ and Guidelines?&quot;  I believe it is the role of the Administrator to &quot;sweep up&quot; downvoted answers and questions, only stepping in preemptively when posts become abusive or ad hominem attacks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unilaterally close more popular questions...&lt;/strong&gt; - In short, no.  If a question is &quot;popular,&quot; then by definition, the Community has accepted it.  The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/31892/2322&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; provided in this example is a very good demonstration of the opposition of having an &quot;Ethics&quot; tag while simultaneously having the prohibition on &quot;What to do&quot; in the guidelines.  The site, itself, is in conflict and that conflict is not properly settled by heavy-handed moderation, but rather by addressing the root conflict and resolving it.  Perhaps an &quot;Ethics.StackExchange.com&quot; site is in order, but that's a little too &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_of_Solomon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sword of Solomon&lt;/a&gt;&quot; in my mind.  I believe the FAQ needs to be modified to concur with the expressed will of the Community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q/A with Major Issues&lt;/strong&gt; - Argumentative answers are not necessarily bad, but they don't stand well out-of-context if the answer being &quot;argued&quot; with is removed, later.  Answers with personal attacks in them are an issue.  Answers/comments that are attacks I have flagged as such, and as a moderator will remove.  Answers that are argumentative I would edit to just the content being advanced, removing references to the content being argued against.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badly written questions/answers are difficult.  If it's a question of bad grammar, vaguely defined pronouns, or limited English skills, I edit as best I can discern, being careful not to alter the OP's content to the point it's no longer representing their position.  If it's indiscernible, I leave a comment asking the OP to edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;User w/ valuable answers, but arguments/flags&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;The first question would be is the user advancing a consistent argument, or are they &quot;trolling?&quot;  If a user is advancing a position, rather than attacking another user, then their positions should stand unless downvoted by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;...closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;This is actually the very reason I am running for moderator.&lt;/strong&gt;  Very valuable questions have been closed and deleted, recently.  Questions that clearly belong on Workplace and that the community has supported.  If we are to stand behind the claims made at &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;The Workplace Tour&lt;/a&gt;, that good questions are voted up and good answers earn reputation points, then the unilateral deletion of popular questions in blind obedience to &quot;The Rules&quot; absolutely has to be stopped.  If that is allowed to continue, then &lt;strong&gt;the entire premise of Workplace is flawed.  This has been a fundamental failing of the existing moderation team, in my opinion, and needs to be stopped.&lt;/strong&gt;  Either that, or we admit that the tour is not representative of this site, and with every claim, add the caveat &quot;at the moderators' discretion.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Two experienced users... just can't get along.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;First, realize that you're the site moderator, and not their parents. As a moderator, you can't make them like each other.  Questions, answers, and comments with personal attacks in them, be they passive-aggressive or explicit, need to be pulled down immediately for the sake of the site.  If a moderator is abusing their authority in these &quot;battles,&quot; they should be asked to step down immediately.  If the party were staff, then the SE management would need to be contacted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments Problem&lt;/strong&gt; Issue? Yes. Problem? No, but getting there.  The &quot;Issue,&quot; IMO, is that the comments have become a place for retorts to an answer, rather than requests for clarification or explanation.  I believe this is something moderators can do a lot about, by explaining that users should downvote answers they disagree with, rather than debating them.  Users who disagree with answers should post their own, &quot;competing&quot; answers, and let the votes speak.  Goes against the grain of human nature, a little bit, but it's how the site (apparently) was intended to function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Divided Community&lt;/strong&gt;  I would run for moderator to implement change.  Beyond that, it is difficult to answer without knowing the specifics of the hypothetical issue.  As a principle, though, I support the right of individuals to advance their own positions, but not to attack others.  Libertarian, for lack of a better definition.  I would try to arbitrate the issue based on that principle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who have slogged their way through all of the above.  Thank you, and I ask for your support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9264" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T21:35:28.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2859" CreationDate="2014-08-12T00:20:12.643" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Workplace SE grows, it may experience the problems of scaling, also known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://scobleizer.com/?p=5980&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;the forum problem&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. If elected, what will you do to help prevent the signal to noise ratio from becoming too low?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Close early, close often, and leave a helpful comment&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also plan to edit where I can (or drop a question/answer that needs edit help into chat). I learned how to comment constructively by seeing what kind of comments the mods were leaving, hopefully other community members will follow my lead. Closing questions early, while seemingly harsh, still allows the community to re-open them after proper editing has taken place. I feel that by leaving comments that explain why something doesn't meet our standards, it is possible to be both friendly to newcomers and still maintain quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers cannot be closed and reopened, they can only be deleted and un-deleted. I would be hesitant to delete an answer that needs work because &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;a mod's deletion of an answer cannot be undone by undelete votes from the community&lt;/a&gt;. I would prefer to use the other tools available, such as post notices and comments to nudge the poster to edit and improve their answer. I also feel that multiple answers competing for upvotes and the accepted flag provides a decent incentive to keep answer quality high. Since good questions tend to lead to good answers, I would prefer to focus on keeping question quality up and only deleting answers that are flagrantly breaking the rules, and otherwise let community downvotes take care of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are the top two or three challenges facing the site as it moves forward, and what do you plan to do as a moderator to address them? What have you already done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top challenges I see are &lt;strong&gt;the comments problem&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;the forum problem&lt;/strong&gt;. I discuss these in more depth on the specific questions as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address the comments problem, I plan to get rid of non-constructive comments as soon as I see them (leaving a message explaining why). If comments are constructive and have been edited into the post, I'll delete them. If the comments have not been edited into the post, I'll post a warning that they will be deleted in time period X, then circle back and delete them after the warning period elapses. As a user, I flag problematic comments I see as well as post the &quot;what comments are for&quot; message using the pro forma SE comments script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also leverage the newly released &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/237976/265769&quot;&gt;migrate comments to chat tool&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; where appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address the forum problem, I plan to &lt;em&gt;close early, close often, and leave a helpful comment&lt;/em&gt;.  Closing the question provides some breathing space for edits to take place, and allows the community to reopen it when they feel ready to do so. As a user, I flag to close since I don't have the rep to vote to close. I also leave comments about why I flagged it, with some additional guidance for how the users can edit and fix the question. I also suggest edits on questions where I feel that I have the time to do the question justice. This is sometimes grammar, spelling, and word choice fixes on fresh questions, or it is larger changes when a link is dropped into the chat room and help is requested on an older, abandoned question. I make sure to leave a comment explaining my changes, especially when the OP is a new user and might not be familiar with our system yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really flag answers unless they are &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/deleted-answers&quot;&gt;violating the rules&lt;/a&gt;. Because of the rep penalty, I tend to only downvote when I personally feel that an answer is truly &quot;bad&quot; and prefer to upvote the other, better answers on the same question. I will leave a comment if I see something missing from an otherwise great answer, and that something has not been addressed by other answers on the same question. As a mod, I would focus more on improving question quality and let the competitive nature of multiple answers improve the answer quality, stepping in to delete answers which violate the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you think your actions towards lower-quality posts will be more like an &lt;strong&gt;Exception Handler&lt;/strong&gt; or a &lt;strong&gt;Janitor&lt;/strong&gt;? To put it another way, do you prefer to sit back and let the community try to resolve if questions should be closed or open on their own, or do you prefer to step in as soon as you can to try and resolve a question's state immediately using moderator actions? (I realize a moderators duties will involve using both styles of moderation depending on the situation, however I would like to know which direction moderator candidates lean towards first in cases that are not so clear)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extremely low quality posts (spam or offensive) need to be deleted as quickly as possible. Hopefully the community can line up the spam/offensive flags to take care of that without moderator involvement, but I am fine to jump in as a &lt;strong&gt;janitor&lt;/strong&gt; nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the larger question of low quality (but not spam/offensive) questions, I believe in &lt;em&gt;closing early and often with a helpful, constructive comment&lt;/em&gt; along the lines of a &lt;strong&gt;janitor&lt;/strong&gt;. Most questions have a seed of greatness, but that seed tends to be buried deeper on the low quality posts. Closing early can give both the OP and the community time to edit, comment, and grow that seed to the point where we have a beautiful question, ripe for answering. Each edit puts the question back into the reopen queue, allowing the community to use reopen votes when it does meet our quality guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a slightly different approach in mind for low quality (but not spam/offensive) answers. Questions can be closed and reopened by community votes. Answers cannot be closed and reopened, they can only be deleted and un-deleted. Furthermore, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;moderator deletions of answers &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; be overturned by votes from the community&lt;/a&gt;, they would need to be brought up in chat or meta and undeleted by a moderator. Because of the more limited community recourse, I would be much more hesitant to delete a gray-area answer and would rather put up a post notice, or add helpful comments so that an answer is improved through edits. I feel that my approach to answers is more of an &lt;strong&gt;exception handler&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would you be willing to unilaterally close more popular questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/31892/2322&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; which very clearly are off-topic, according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;site FAQ and guidelines&lt;/a&gt;, even if you are the only close vote? Oftentimes these questions can cause problems if not closed quickly as they pick up answers which make editing the question impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yep. &lt;em&gt;Close early, close often, and leave a helpful comment&lt;/em&gt;. Closing the question will allow some breathing room for the question to be edited into a better form and the community can vote to re-open after it is on topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you see a question or answer with major issues, such as being argumentative or poorly-written, what tool do you reach for first and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It depends on what the issues are as well as what the rest of activity on the site is like. If a quick edit is all that is needed to get the question back on track and I am in a place to make the fixes, I would edit it and leave a friendly comment about why I made those changes. If the question needs more work, I would put it on hold and leave friendly comments indicating why. After the question is edited and meets the standards, it should attract the necessary reopen votes from the community. As I've said before, &lt;em&gt;close early, close often, and leave a helpful comment&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For answers, I am much more hesitant to edit (as they tend to be from more active community members), and would prefer to leave a comment explaining any gaps I see. After that gap is addressed and folded into the answer, I would delete the comment and upvote the answer if appropriate. If the only thing wrong with an answer is some grammar or spelling, I would be comfortable making an edit, but I would prefer not to interfere with an answer's content or meaning unless it was a truly extraordinary case. I also see the community's voting patterns as doing a decent job of improving answer quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would nuke the comments if they are not constructive. I would also discuss it with the other moderators to make sure that there is actually a pattern in the comments from that user and its not my own bias. The outcome from that discussion would probably dictate how I would proceed from there, but it would likely involve reaching out to the user in a private setting as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Context is also important as well. I would handle a user intentionally posting inflammatory comments differently than a user who gets flags and arguments from users that disagree with their perspective or point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would assume that I missed something, and reach out to talk to that mod in a private setting to understand their reasoning. If we were unable to come to an agreement, I would ask another mod (or some other third party) to arbitrate. In the unlikely event that we still couldn't reach any sort of consensus, I would raise it on Meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Two experienced users, both good contributors at times, just can't get along. Every time they interact in any way, sparks fly. Acrimonious comments pile up, distracting everyone from the actual questions being answered. Tit-for-tat flags and votes accumulate. Passive-aggressive meta posts ruin your buzz. You suspect the moderators on other sites are talking about you behind your back, clucking like so many biddy hens about your misfortune... What do you do about it? When answering, candidates should address how their responses change (if they do) if the two have a privilege imbalance, for example if one has a diamond (mod or staff) that allows him to make unilateral decisions (delete, close, flag rejection, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would definitely discuss with other mods or the CM team to get their input. As a new mod, I would lean on the collected wisdom of the other site mods for such a serious issue. Most likely, the solution would involve mediating the dispute by meeting with each individual one on one in a private setting, then meeting with both of them in a private chat or something like that and working through a mutually agreeable solution. If the users cannot play nice, then they may end up with a timed suspension to cool off. At the end of the day, we are building a repository of useful knowledge... comment/flag/vote wars do not contribute to that and should be removed lest they encourage others to do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a privilege imbalance, I would still reach out to both of the users in a private setting, but I would also reach out to someone who has the authority to take necessary action on the user with higher privileges. For another mod, it might be other mods on their site or the community team. For SE staff, it would be an uninvolved member of the community team. If there were mod privileges being used inappropriately, I would &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/28869/265769&quot;&gt;escalate&lt;/a&gt; that immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does The Workplace have a Comments Problem? If so, what do you believe is the problem, and how would you plan to deal with it as a moderator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do have a comments problem. I've seen threads go to personal attacks, and as a mod I would remove those as soon as I see them (leaving a comment explaining why). There are some more gray area comments, where it is closer to a debate about the post, so it does have some merit as far as constructive criticism of the post, but the problem I see is that either the comments never make it back into the post via edits, or that the edits are made but the comments are not removed by the owners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are a problem because I agree with what &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17065487#17065487&quot;&gt;jmort253 mentioned in chat&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;code&gt;the value of any individual comment approaches zero with each comment added.&lt;/code&gt; When I google something and land on any SE page, chances are it is close, but not exactly the same as the problem I am facing. My goal is to figure out if the SE question and answer are applicable to my situation as quickly as possible. One or two comments on a post mentioning that a particular answer is out of date or pointing out some subtle detail are very useful. Trying to get through a whole wall of jokes, or +1/-1, or restatements of things already mentioned in the post just to get to those useful points is very frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike vote to close/vote to reopen, I don't see a community mechanism to undo deleting a huge swath of comments and I know that it is plastered all over the place that comments are temporary, but given that the community still pushes back when comments are deleted, I would prefer to leave a comment mentioning that the comments will be removed in time period X, then come back and remove the comments after the warning period elapses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also leverage the newly released &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/237976/265769&quot;&gt;migrate comments to chat tool&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; where appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle an issue that has many members of the community on either side and the community is too divided to settle on an single conclusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would post on meta or raise it in chat so that the community can weigh in and future visitors can see our thought process. If possible, I would try to find some acceptable middle ground that is not great, but is at least agreeable to everyone involved. I would lean more towards any available options that are more reversible so that our hands are not tied should the community evolve and change its mind later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T20:48:30.823" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2859" CreationDate="2014-08-12T02:47:35.950" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Workplace SE grows, it may experience the problems of scaling, also known as &quot;the forum problem&quot;. If elected, what will you do to help prevent the signal to noise ratio from becoming too low?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will aggressively close questions which are blatantly off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also will add post notices to answers failing to meet the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;criteria defined in the help center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both these I will take care to discuss with the current moderators to ensure I do not overstep the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/site-moderators&quot;&gt;role of site moderators&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are the top two or three challenges facing the site as it moves forward, and what do you plan to do as a moderator to address them? What have you already done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question and answer quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions - closing them sooner, before picking up spam answers. It's hard to &quot;rescue&quot; a poorly written question once written. An edit, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/32129/2322&quot;&gt;the one to this question&lt;/a&gt; done before answers roll in can dramatically affect overall quality.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers - sometimes it's too late and a question was not closed. Posting links to the site meta content (both meta.Workplace as well as the FAQ/guides) and adding post notices to relevant answers where appropriate. If this is received poorly I will initiate meta.Workplace discussions to better understand the community desire for the FAQ/how to's to be changed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you think your actions towards lower-quality posts will be more like an Exception Handler or a Janitor? To put it another way, do you prefer to sit back and let the community try to resolve if questions should be closed or open on their own, or do you prefer to step in as soon as you can to try and resolve a question's state immediately using moderator actions? (I realize a moderators duties will involve using both styles of moderation depending on the situation, however I would like to know which direction moderator candidates lean towards first in cases that are not so clear)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will act pretty similar to how I act currently, the exception being I will be much more cautious in casting delete votes (as they would become binding) and close votes on more &quot;middle ground&quot; questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many questions here are blatantly &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;off topic&lt;/a&gt; however. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I become more knowledgeable and comfortable as a moderator I will likely become more and more an exception handler. I actually find that considerably fewer answers now get my delete votes, anyways, and so in many cases a downvote and potentially a comment explaining why will be sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would you be willing to unilaterally close more popular questions such as this one which very clearly are off-topic, according to the site FAQ and guidelines, even if you are the only close vote? Oftentimes these questions can cause problems if not closed quickly as they pick up answers which make editing the question impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I would, see the above regarding questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are significant objections to questions clearly in violation of the on/off topic FAQ information then I will raise the issue on meta to determine whether:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The FAQ/on topic criteria need to be changed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There needs to be better awareness of what those criteria are&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you see a question or answer with major issues, such as being argumentative or poorly-written, what tool do you reach for first and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I currently immediately cast a close vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, I also make subjective evaluation. If I feel that either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user has a legitimate, interesting, and beneficial question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Language of the post makes it confusing/argumentative in spite of a good core question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will generally &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/2322/enderland?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=revisions&quot;&gt;edit the post as I have done many times in the past&lt;/a&gt; and clarify the question.  I have found, anecdotally, this often causes answer quality to go up if done early.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases users will be &lt;a href=&quot;http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;help vampires&lt;/a&gt; and in these cases I generally do not try to edit the post but may leave a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Handle the flags as normal. Potentially discuss with the user if they frequent chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume there are defined criteria for when moderators can take actions such as suspending users, etc, and unless these are met there is no cause for any abnormal moderator action. If this is even remotely the case I would discuss with other moderators first before taking action (except in extreme cases).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask them about it first and likely discuss in chat, and if this does not generate resolution, post on meta to get the community input (with the other moderator permission, though knowing the current moderation I fully expect chat would be the resolution to 95% of any actual disagreement in the first place).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Two experienced users, both good contributors at times, just can't get along. Every time they interact in any way, sparks fly. Acrimonious comments pile up, distracting everyone from the actual questions being answered. Tit-for-tat flags and votes accumulate. Passive-aggressive meta posts ruin your buzz. You suspect the moderators on other sites are talking about you behind your back, clucking like so many biddy hens about your misfortune... What do you do about it? When answering, candidates should address how their responses change (if they do) if the two have a privilege imbalance, for example if one has a diamond (mod or staff) that allows him to make unilateral decisions (delete, close, flag rejection, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This never happens... but when it has in the past, I have recommended the users to ignore each other and stop provoking each other (and done so myself when I was one of the users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the event this involves myself or another moderator I will probably discuss with Stack Exchange employees to determine the appropriate response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does The Workplace have a Comments Problem? If so, what do you believe is the problem, and how would you plan to deal with it as a moderator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just also thought of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2854/what-should-i-do-if-believe-a-moderator-is-biased#comment6305_2854&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which might be related, as if you read the question history you will see might apply here too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is derivative of poor question quality. Dealing with question (and answer, for that matter) quality should result in less confusing and controversial questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think one of my first actions would be to make a meta post recommending SE change the comment UI &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2750/2322&quot;&gt;as per Joe's suggestion&lt;/a&gt; since the UI causes this, and considering I have a UX background well...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I likely would also be more prone to when addressing comment flags posting along the lines of, &quot;If you want to discuss this please use Chat, comments are not intended to be discussion&quot; etc. I probably also would discuss with the money.SE moderators as they have a much, much, &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; more hands on &quot;cleanup&quot; approach to comments which I think works well for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle an issue that has many members of the community on either side and the community is too divided to settle on an single conclusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it actually important? If not, I probably wouldn't care or be involved at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it require moderation input? If not, ditto.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it does require moderator input I would likely seek the advice/input from current moderators at either this site or elsewhere to better understand the importance of a moderator decision on the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T03:02:50.963" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2864" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-12T06:23:50.150" Score="7" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally visit this site on my mobile phone, a Samsung Galaxy Note3. However the elections page does not seem to have a mobile version like most of the site and the desktop page that is available is not working, at least on my phone (I'm using the Chrome mobile browser).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly could others please check to see if this is unique to my phone as I don't have another phone handy to check with. And secondly if it's not just me can this be raised with the devs? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until I get chance to visit the site on a desktop I cannot vote. This seems to be a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be strictly limited to the Chrome browser. At jmorts request I tried the default phone's browser and it worked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17512" LastEditorUserId="17512" LastEditDate="2014-08-12T07:30:44.917" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T07:30:44.917" Title="Elections page not working on mobiles?" Tags="|bug|elections|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2865" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-12T15:35:10.723" Score="11" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately, there's been some questions about whether &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2748/our-comments-problem&quot;&gt;The Workplace has a comment problem&lt;/a&gt;. After spending some time talking with jmac and Shog9 (and reading more of this site's content), I'm convinced that the problem is not that there are too many comments in absolute terms, but that comments tend to cluster around specific questions. One answer that particularly stuck out proposed &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2757/9899&quot;&gt;we don't agree on the definition of a comment&lt;/a&gt;. As a result, some folks are annoyed that tangential comments exist on posts while others are annoyed that such comments are deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As designed, Stack Exchange comments rest somewhere between the 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; and 5&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/comment?s=t&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;definitions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4. a note in explanation, expansion, or criticism of a passage in a book, article, or the like; annotation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5. explanatory or critical matter added to a text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we are philosophically opposed the 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; definition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2. gossip; talk: &lt;em&gt;His frequent absences gave rise to comment.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that still leaves a lot of room for gray areas—especially on a site as spongy as this one. (That's not a criticism, by the way. Since most everyone has worked at some point in their lives, few questions are immune to relevant commentary by all comers.) However, our comment system leaves no room for gray: comments are either potentially shown to all or deleted. (And this &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a criticism.) Users may flag a moderator for deletion or cast a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/204402/hide-trivial-comments&quot;&gt;potentially ambiguous upvote&lt;/a&gt;. So we have a system where reasonable people might agree to disagree and an unreasonable system doesn't let them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My proposal won't fix the problem, but it might ease the conflict. &lt;strong&gt;Once a question has more than two answers, only comments with at least one upvote will be displayed. All others will be hidden.&lt;/strong&gt; Truth be told, this mechanism is already in place, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/edit/216962&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the threshold is set at 15&lt;/a&gt;. To get an idea of what it'd look like see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/794/how-can-i-reduce-the-size-of-a-long-resume-without-hiding-all-my-skills-and-expe&quot;&gt;How can I reduce the size of a long resume without hiding all my skills and experience?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question itself has 5+ upvoted comments, so the top 5 (by score) are shown. This is per usual. But the accepted answer has 7 comments and just one is shown (at the time I'm writing). I don't happen to think this method pulls the &lt;em&gt;very best comments&lt;/em&gt;, but it does give users some agency in choosing which comments are seen. And it avoids the pitfall of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/204486/1438&quot;&gt;hiding relevant information from posts that are less popular&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you think this would help ease the conflict over comments?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One pitfall of hiding comments is that unequivocally negative comments might go unnoticed. Therefore it will be important to flag rude or offensive, not constructive, and obsolete comments when you notice them. And moderators are still be encouraged delete such comments. That still leaves &amp;quot;chatty&amp;quot; comments, which tend to be solidly in the gray zone between useful and noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To handle long comment threads that should probably be in chat, we are introducing a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/93444/provide-a-tool-for-moderators-to-migrate-comments-to-chat&quot;&gt;tool to allow moderators to migrate comments to chat&lt;/a&gt;. When moderators recieve the automated &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/203062/1438&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;too many comments&amp;quot; flag&lt;/a&gt;, they will be able to create a custom chat room and copy all the extant comments on a post into that room. A new comment that points to the new room will be added to the post. Then, at their discretion, the moderator may delete comments as they see fit. We are testing the feature on a few sites (including this one), but it will be rolled out network-wide soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9899" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T22:30:38.807" Title="Should we hide comments on question with several existing answers?" Tags="|feature-request|comments|moderation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2865" CreationDate="2014-08-12T16:18:02.113" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you think this would help ease the conflict over comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hard to tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the core problem is the &quot;number of comments&quot; - then hiding many of them probably won't help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the core problem is that the &quot;wrong kind of comments&quot; are being posted (ie, random, parenthetical asides) - then hiding many of them probably won't help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the core problem is that people should be using Chat rather than Comments for much of what they are saying - then hiding many of them probably won't help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the core problem is the uneven distribution of comments - then hiding many of them probably won't help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the core problem is short, single-line text - then hiding many of them probably won't help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the core problem is comment quality - then hiding many of them probably won't help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the core problem is the amount of real estate taken up by comments - then hiding many of them seems like it would help.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the core problem is comments distracting readers from the content of answers - then hiding many of them seems like it would help.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2014-08-12T16:57:54.597" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T16:57:54.597" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2865" CreationDate="2014-08-12T16:48:16.020" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this will help especially with popular questions that get lots of comments quickly, before the post author even has time to react (and meanwhile everybody has to scroll through them to get to the answers).  Make those opt-in for the reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also tend to see people posting answers as comments; once there are answers there are probably answers that cover those same points, so it helps to collapse the comments until we're able to delete them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of our comment noise comes from back-and-forths between pairs of users.  Sometimes these are non-constructive arguments and they should just be deleted, but sometimes there are valid points that the author of the post should address, so we want the comments to be available.  Since the most-important reader of such comments is the author and he'll get an inbox notification, collapsing them for everybody else seems helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a risk that the &quot;wrong&quot; comments will be chosen, because people like to upvote humor and snark.  The answer there is for non-constructive comments to be removed no matter how many votes they have.  (So people need to flag.)  I had such a comment here once at over +40 and was at the time annoyed to see it go, but it was the right decision.  It wasn't helping and it was inviting more of the same (more comment noise).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using language like &quot;I think&quot; and &quot;seems&quot; because we won't really know until we try it -- but I'm optimistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I'm particularly excited by your last paragraph.  As a moderator, I look forward to having another choice between (a) leaving piles of comments on the site because no &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; one is non-constructive &lt;em&gt;enough&lt;/em&gt; to merit deletion and (b) users getting upset because I removed marginal comments.  Not every comment deserves a second life in chat and I'm quite willing to kill ones that aren't helping, but for those collections of middle-ground comments, this should help a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T16:48:16.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2859" CreationDate="2014-08-12T19:14:08.767" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Workplace SE grows, it may experience the problems of scaling, also known as &quot;the forum problem&quot;. If elected, what will you do to help prevent the signal to noise ratio from becoming too low?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of gray areas left by our site's rules that are intended to allow a wide variety of questions and answers. Unfortunately, this only works when moderators use the gray areas to widen the scope of questions, and not limit. As a moderator, I will only halt messages that very clearly violate the rules of this forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are the top two or three challenges facing the site as it moves forward, and what do you plan to do as a moderator to address them? What have you already done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with many sites like the Workplace who have taken time to cultivate a strong group of like-minded people to answer questions, there are some things that moderators can address: people, personalities and progress.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People represent the reason for our presence. If no people participated in the Workplace, our site would die. As such, as moderators, we have a duty to ensure we and our site is welcoming to new people and providing wise answers to thier questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personalities are what drives our questions/answers in the directions they go. Just as we cultivate our members, so too should we embrace the different and varied personalities that make our site interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Progress is the tangible result of our ability to shepherd our site as it becomes more welcoming to new people. Growth in new directions is a great thing, as long is this progress is in-line with the purview of the Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you think your actions towards lower-quality posts will be more like an Exception Handler or a Janitor? To put it another way, do you prefer to sit back and let the community try to resolve if questions should be closed or open on their own, or do you prefer to step in as soon as you can to try and resolve a question's state immediately using moderator actions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally believe any moderator who closes out questions prematurely is failing to do thier job well. Folks come here to ask questions important to them; I have seen many strong topics that need to be addressed closed out because of moderators' heavy-handed closing.  I would rather work with an OP to improve a question or answer (thereby retaining a person) than simply shutting it down. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would you be willing to unilaterally close more popular questions such as this one which very clearly are off-topic, according to the site FAQ and guidelines, even if you are the only close vote? Oftentimes these questions can cause problems if not closed quickly as they pick up answers which make editing the question impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is made of people who have a number of varied points of view, backgrounds, and goals. Who are we to summarily shut down a question of a high degree of interest to the community simply because it may not be fully compliant with our rules?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you see a question or answer with major issues, such as being argumentative or poorly-written, what tool do you reach for first and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer to discuss it with the individual via e-mail. This way I can get a good understanding of where they are coming from, and if the argumentative nature of the post was intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does The Workplace have a Comments Problem? If so, what do you believe is the problem, and how would you plan to deal with it as a moderator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't feel this is a problem.  It leads to clarification and opens up new ways of thinking about questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle an issue that has many members of the community on either side and the community is too divided to settle on an single conclusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would speak with other moderators about it and encourage us to come together as leaders with a unified voice on the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25306" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T19:14:08.767" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2856" CreationDate="2014-08-14T04:06:56.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chat transcripts with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/2#post-31842&quot;&gt;enderland&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17060426#17060426&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17060426#17060426&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17063561#17063561&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17063561#17063561&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T04:06:56.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2856" CreationDate="2014-08-14T04:08:17.593" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chat transcripts with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/2#post-31898&quot;&gt;Matt Giltaji&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17064338#17064338&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17064338#17064338&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17065023#17065023&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17065023#17065023&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T04:08:17.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2856" CreationDate="2014-08-14T04:09:24.673" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chat transcripts with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/2#post-31834&quot;&gt;Wesley Long&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17084145#17084145&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17084145#17084145&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17085962#17085962&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17085962#17085962&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T04:09:24.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2856" CreationDate="2014-08-14T04:11:46.143" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chat transcripts with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/2#post-31884&quot;&gt;Mike Van&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17103946#17103946&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17103946#17103946&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T04:11:46.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2874" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-19T21:34:46.633" Score="15" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/2&quot;&gt;2nd moderator election&lt;/a&gt; has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/2322&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/2322.png&quot; alt=&quot;enderland&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He'll be joining &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the existing crew&lt;/a&gt; shortly — please thank him for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice as he learns the ropes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/2&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opavote.org/results/6066715192459264/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;view a summary report online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T20:21:53.993" Title="Summer 2014 Community Moderator Election Results" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2806" CreationDate="2014-08-19T23:34:25.063" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best thing you can do when making a new tag is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Creating a tag wiki and tag excerpt to explain how it is used&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Retag any obvious questions that fall in to it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a tag exists, and is clear to new users, it will be used in the future. If there is only one question with that tag, it may be auto-deleted in the future. So definitely try to retag a couple questions, if for no other reason than if you can't find other questions to retag, it may not be an ideal tag to use right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T23:34:25.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2874" CreationDate="2014-08-19T23:49:57.187" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks everyone, looking forward to helping out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully everyone who voted or ran continues to be excited about the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T23:49:57.187" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2874" CreationDate="2014-08-20T02:26:11.910" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations enderland! We look forward to your great support as we continue our Workplace adventure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25306" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T02:26:11.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2874" CreationDate="2014-08-20T11:46:08.303" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations enderland!  I am glad that it was you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T11:46:08.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2880" CreationDate="2014-08-22T07:15:01.630" Score="4" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just tried to add tag &quot;india&quot; to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/32738/officially-5-days-working-but-we-work-on-many-alternate-saturdays-to-get-things&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, but the &quot;virtual user&quot; &quot;community&quot; instantly rejected this edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did this happen? Should that happen at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22228" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-08-22T19:49:04.033" Title="Why did virtual user &quot;community&quot; reject a tag edit?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2879" CreationDate="2014-08-22T19:20:00.890" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I looked at the fancy mod timeline view, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2879/why-did-virtual-user-community-reject-a-tag-edit#comment6384_2879&quot;&gt;gnat's right&lt;/a&gt;, someone else made an edit that overrode yours. It was just bad timing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10344" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-08-22T19:49:04.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2881" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-23T22:54:38.047" Score="2" ViewCount="544" Body="&lt;p&gt;I been on this Q&amp;amp;A site every day for the past six months. I have seen OP's include the word &quot;professional&quot; in what it seems every single question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The word &quot;professional&quot; tends to be most used by those who least have a clue what it means, and it grates on me when they do that. I have 25 years of experience as a professional, I have 16000 rep points and the number of times I have used the word &quot;professional&quot; on this site is less than the number of fingers in your hands. And in real life? I used that word maybe five times, if that, in the course of a 25+ year career.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a professional, I don't need to remind everybody that I am a professional. But at the same time, I am not thrilled at the air being filled with the word &quot;professional&quot;, especially in what seems to be the most trivial contexts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we do something about it to mitigate or manage the overuse of this word, or do I have to live with it and consider it as a price we all have to pay for participating in the Workplace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example 1:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/32778/what-is-a-professional-way-to-stay-in-touch&quot;&gt;what is a professional way to stay in touch?&lt;/a&gt;  Translation: How do I stay in touch with a manager?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example 2: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/22276/professionalism-and-rejecting-job-offers&quot;&gt;professionalism-and-rejecting-job-offers&lt;/a&gt; Translation: How do I decline job offers? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there is this prize winner - Example 3: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/25915/how-to-professionally-leave-an-internship&quot;&gt;how-to-professionally-leave-an-internship&lt;/a&gt; Translation: how do I say I am quitting my internship?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: I just looked at the list of the all-time top users: EVERY single one of them has the &quot;professionalism&quot; tag attached to their thumbnail picture. I also looked at the list of the top users for the year so far - Only one of the top 12 does not have &quot;professionalism&quot; attached to their thumbnail picture, and that person is No. 12. This may be an indication that we are using &quot;professionalism&quot; as a catch-all tag category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16993" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-08-30T20:13:35.267" Title="Am I the only one who finds the words &quot;professional&quot; overused in the Workplace?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2881" CreationDate="2014-08-24T01:44:21.147" Score="6" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Definition of &amp;quot;Professional&amp;quot;:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/professional&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Merriam-Webster dictionary&lt;/a&gt;, we find the following subdefinition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c (1) :  characterized by or conforming to the technical or ethical standards of a profession (2) :  exhibiting a courteous, conscientious, and generally businesslike manner in the workplace&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that the people asking these questions are essentially asking how to get from point A to point B in a manner that's courteous, respectful, and conscientious. In essence, asking how to quit one's job professionally implies one may want to do so in a manner where that person exhibits the above traits, as outlined in section c(2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dictionary outlines several subdefinitions of the word &amp;quot;professional&amp;quot;, both as nouns as well as adjectives. Thus, it's quite possible that, while these folks are using the term correctly, the default definition that comes to mind for one person may very well differ for another. However, both definitions may be correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Editing Guidelines:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it doesn't appear that the word is being used incorrectly, your proposed title edits do in fact make the goal more clear, which is what we're looking for on Stack Exchange. What helps clarify the goal is that you've transformed the title from a partial phrase into an &lt;em&gt;actual, simplified question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say it would be fine to edit these titles with the goal of making them more clear, but I wouldn't suggest launching an all-out war on the term itself. If I were editing those titles, I'd be subtle about it. I'd leave an edit message along the lines of &amp;quot;fixing title&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;edited title to make it clear what your question is&amp;quot;.  I can see some edit wars possibly brewing if someone were to say &amp;quot;your use of professionalism is incorrect!&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;removing professionalism as it's overused!&amp;quot;. Thus, it's helpful to wrap up such edits within the broader context of simply clarifying for the reader. Understanding the psychology of how people perceive edits to their posts can help make those edits more successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, title edits which clarify a post are considered substantial edits, since titles are what grab the reader's attention from the main page. If editing the post body alone, I'd strongly suggest fixing any other issues that exist in that post. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-08-24T01:44:21.147" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2883" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2884" CreationDate="2014-08-24T15:36:40.953" Score="6" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I write this, the entire 'unanswered' page is 'relieving letter' questions, two of them authored by 'Community'. Are there really so many distinct, non-duplicate, questions on this subject?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user13659" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2015-03-24T15:28:16.533" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:39:39.577" Title="Is there no relief from 'relieving letters' questions?" Tags="|discussion|canonical-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2883" CreationDate="2014-08-24T15:51:55.320" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd never heard of relieving letters before the topic started showing up here.  But that's westerner's bias, I think; in some parts of the world this is apparently a very big deal, such that people cannot legally start a new job without being able to produce these letters from prior employers.  Think of it as a reference check with a really, really big stick attached (backed by law, even).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took a quick look at the eight unanswered questions, and none jumped out as duplicates to me.  I haven't read them closely; if you think there are duplicates there, please link to them here on this meta post so we can get input from people who are more experienced with this topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange supports what are called &quot;long tail&quot; questions, ones that are hard or obscure that might take a while to get answers.  Naturally, such questions will hang out on the &quot;unanswered&quot; list.  I suspect that we have relatively few users here who know this topic, and that's probably why the list is so skewed.  If a question is &lt;em&gt;unanswerable&lt;/em&gt; it should be closed, but if it's merely &lt;em&gt;unanswered&lt;/em&gt; because the right person hasn't come along yet to answer it, that's not a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-08-24T15:51:55.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2885" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2886" CreationDate="2014-08-25T00:12:26.513" Score="9" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've appeared here because, having bitched a bit about the some of the hot questions from this site, I thought I'd make an effort to pitch into the ordinary process and see what it's like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to that this site resembles some of the other 'inevitably subjective' sites; in the end, most answers will be opinion or personal experience, not objective, provable truth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the second question I ventured to answer was '&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/32808/is-there-a-professional-way-to-refuse-a-time-consuming-programming-task-given-as/32844#32844&quot;&gt;Is there a professional way to refuse a time-consuming programming task given as a test for a job?&lt;/a&gt;'. Since it's a question about why companies that hire ask for certain things, and since, as it happens, I'm the CTO of a company that hires programmers, and does the very thing in question, it seemed to me that what I know about the process would prove useful. So I mentioned my job to 'back it up,' and make it clear that I'm not just making stuff up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This did not go down very well with the OP :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly, I did not offer a direct answer to 'how to turn it down', but rather some background on why it happens and how the someone might approach it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, meta-persons, what's your advice? Continue to note my job when answering from my experience? Or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user13659" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T02:05:46.590" Title="Does 'back it up' apply 'round here?" Tags="|discussion|back-it-up|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-12-18T16:09:41.407" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2885" CreationDate="2014-08-25T00:23:10.293" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/255/325&quot;&gt;back it up (and don't repeat others)&lt;/a&gt; rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mentioning your position and experience is exactly right here.  Please keep doing that.  If you're answering a question about what interviewers do, explaining your background in interviewing/hiring is highly relevant.  Some questions require different kinds of backing-up (like data), but many of our questions can be addressed through experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry the OP didn't like your answer.  Give it time; in the grand scheme of things the OP is one person, and no one person speaks for the entire community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T00:23:10.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2885" CreationDate="2014-08-25T00:44:44.827" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will add that simply mentioning your position is helpful, but also mentioning a specific example you've dealt with helps as well. I feel like you did this by explaining that you've encountered candidates who looked good on paper but couldn't hold up when it came time to deliver. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the comments, the question is asking how one might refuse the task, but it also included an OR condition where the asker asks if it's best to just jump through the hoops anyway.  On Workplace SE, like any Stack Exchange site, it's important to clearly and directly state what action the asker should take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds like you're implying one should bite the bullet and jump through the hoops. You've already explained &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;, but I think directly adding that in a sentence or two will solidify your answer. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T00:44:44.827" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2885" CreationDate="2014-08-25T01:55:17.883" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Continue to note my job when answering from my experience? Or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, note your job when it's relevant to the question being asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you indicated, being a CTO not only adds some gravitas to the answer, but can provide the &quot;prove it&quot; portion as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You unfortunately provided parts of an answer that the OP (and perhaps others) didn't want to hear. In those cases we all can expect to be downvoted. That's just part of the way things tend to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T01:55:17.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2885" CreationDate="2014-08-25T02:05:46.590" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just another thought, sometimes people come here wanting to hear a specific answer or type of answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In those cases you might give an answer which is different and receive negative feedback from the asker (or even the community at large, through downvotes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T02:05:46.590" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2815" CreationDate="2014-08-25T23:33:49.623" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mention your personal experience if it helps understand why your answer is the way it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some readers may decide to adjust your answer to their own case if they decide that your own personal experience does not apply to their case, which exactly what we want them to do - apply their judgment to their own case based on the structure you provided for your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We love comprehensive answers with backup in the form of facts, life experience and sound reasoning included. We are definitely not fond of pre-packaged answers with no information as to how they were arrived at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16993" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T23:33:49.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2891" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-26T12:27:29.110" Score="13" ViewCount="522" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Background&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like other successful Stack Exchange sites, The Workplace gets a lot of questions. This is great! And we have a good-sized group of knowledgable users who answer those questions. This is great, too! Helping people get answers to their questions about the workplace is what the site is for, after all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But sometimes questions that are obviously not good fits for the site &lt;em&gt;as written&lt;/em&gt;  get asked. Often, these questions can be improved with an edit or put on hold until the asker can clarify. A question put on hold is not a bad thing; it is how the community can help revise/clarify a question before reopening it. After a time, if a question cannot be salvaged (or there is no community interest), &quot;on hold&quot; changes into &quot;closed.&quot; This process is by design -- questions that don't fit should be put on hold quickly &lt;em&gt;with the goal of editing and reopening them whenever possible&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The Problem(s)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's the problem? As a site, we do not do this consistently. Some of us do, of course, and the moderators are not shy about unilaterally putting questions on hold when needed. But meanwhile, many answer those questions instead of voting to close them (or flagging to close). Often, by the time five users or one moderator see a close-worthy question, it has several answers already. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is wrong with a question getting answers? Isn't helping the asker a good thing? The main problem is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When we edit a question, we're not supposed to invalidate existing answers. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the existing answers answer a question that &lt;em&gt;shouldn't have been asked in the first place&lt;/em&gt; it causes a lot of work for a lot of people. A couple times recently we moderators have made the decision to make the edit anyway and leave comments on the answers pointing out the change. That has not always been received well. But we will prioritize fixing a question so it belongs here over protecting answers that &lt;em&gt;ought not have been posted yet&lt;/em&gt;. Keep in mind a large audience for this site is people arriving through Google. Well-formed questions with great, clear, relevant answers help these people immensely!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is another problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When ill-fitting questions with highly-upvoted answers remain on the site, other readers see them and conclude that this is ok -- even though the questions are closed. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, that question about how to avoid paying your payroll taxes totally shouldn't have been here, but the &quot;dude, you need a lawyer not the internet!&quot; answer still gets highly upvoted and causes &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;broken windows&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since graduation we have seen an increase in answered closed questions, questions whose closure was not ambiguous or controversial, questions that couldn't be fixed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We want to break this cycle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;How you can help&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two key ways you can help:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First, actively use your site &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;community privileges&lt;/a&gt; and vote to close unclear or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;off-topic&lt;/a&gt; questions.  If you don't have enough reputation to vote to close you can still flag, which only takes 15 reputation. If you do not know how to best use these tools ask here on meta or in chat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Help with cleanup (see below).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're going to try being more proactive with cleaning up old question. We moderators plan to post questions facing deletion every week or two on meta for the community to review. We want your input on these questions. Can they be edited and fixed? Should they be deleted? Many of you can vote to delete and nearly everyone can edit/vote or post replies to the meta discussion. Moderators are not the sole arbiters of content here -- we want your input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Concluding thoughts&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a note to anyone who consistently posts answers to these questions: with deletions being more timely, you will likely see more rep losses (rep is only lost from deleted content within a short window of time). So when you see a question that is pretty clearly a poor fit in its current form, we urge you to prioritize the needs of the community by helping to close and then fix the question rather than simply answering. But once the question is fixed and reopened, please do answer it -- and know that your answer will likely endure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please help us make &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;The Workplace&lt;/a&gt; the best place on the Internet for focused questions with good answers about navigating the workplace. As said above, you can help by voting to close (or flagging) problematic questions, editing the ones you can improve, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; answering questions that are obviously going to be closed, and participating in these deletion reviews. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: Moderators may still delete some questions outright, without going through this community review. This does not happen often but we are not going to tie our hands. Users with 10k rep are encouraged to periodically review &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tools&quot;&gt;posts with delete votes and recently-deleted posts&lt;/a&gt;. We want your help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T09:44:46.873" Title="Repairing our broken windows - we need YOUR help!" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|broken-windows-review|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2891" CreationDate="2014-08-26T13:40:29.807" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/237391/165773&quot;&gt;questions with multiple close votes&lt;/a&gt; are being heavily advertised to whole SE network and &lt;em&gt;naturally&lt;/em&gt; attract attention (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/01/the-trouble-with-popularity/&quot;&gt;The Trouble With Popularity&lt;/a&gt;), answering these makes easy repz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to abundant, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/183109/165773&quot; title=&quot;see &amp;#39;The association bonus should not enable users to vote on every site&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;indiscriminate&lt;/a&gt; exposure, these questions and answers simply &lt;strong&gt;gain upvotes faster than we can close&lt;/strong&gt;. It's easy to see how this happens on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/20318/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt; of a typical closed question that had a misfortune to even briefly pop up in the hot list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sup&gt;We are not (and unlikely will ever be) like Stack Overflow, where over 20,000 users with close vote privileges guarantee that any inappropriate question that pops up at sidebar quickly collects enough votes to close, no matter when it gets promoted to hot list. To have similar effect at site of our size, close voters would have to be on a 24x7 watch, monitoring what gets exposed - but this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/14524409#14524409&quot; title=&quot;&amp;#39;It&amp;#39;s a frickin&amp;#39; volunteer position - you do it when you have the time to do it.&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;not how things are supposed to work&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if &quot;hot reputation&quot; becomes short-lived due to quick deletions (which I &lt;em&gt;fully support&lt;/em&gt;), broken windows will remain. Majority of users won't see deleted questions, they will see answers like ones about properly flushing the toilet getting their 20+ score even though the question is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2445/168&quot;&gt;blatant, trollish dupe&lt;/a&gt; - and they will follow this as they see it as clear way to gain reputation easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may probably hope that this problem is &quot;self-correcting&quot;, that as site grows and we get more close voters this will somehow resolve but don't hold your breath. Per my observations on larger and older site (Programmers.SE), the problem will remain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wnfxS.png&quot; alt=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wnfxS.png&quot; title=&quot;example: question with 4 votes down and close at #7 in the hot list, gaining lemming upvotes from all around SE network, fully exploiting The Trouble With Popularity. How does it feel like for community regulars who voted down and close?&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T16:18:22.050" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2891" CreationDate="2014-08-26T16:19:11.600" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A couple times recently we moderators have made the decision to make&#xA;  the edit anyway and leave comments on the answers pointing out the&#xA;  change. That has not always been received well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We(or at least I) voted for you guys hoping you would do just that.  There are times where it is only the moderators that should be taking those actions, and this is probably the primary one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that you are getting push back but &lt;strong&gt;I beg you to continue editing anyway&lt;/strong&gt;.  In fact I would say that if the answers are not updated to answer the new question delete them, or even delete them preemptively and allow them to make edits and flag for undeletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can do our best to replace panes of glass but if the police sit around allowing people to keep breaking the windows without consequence nothing is going to change.  Better to build a reputation as a site that does not tolerate bad answers than one that does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T16:19:11.600" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2898" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-26T20:05:09.863" Score="6" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;As part of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2891/repairing-our-broken-windows-we-need-your-help&quot;&gt;efforts to help fix closed questions&lt;/a&gt; on our site, below are ten Workplace SE questions posted for community review. We'll leave this post open until Sunday, and then we'll handle whatever remains. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tools at your disposal include editing, voting to delete or voting to reopen, and you may discuss the questions in chat and on meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wish to start a meta discussion about one of the posts, please use one answer below per question, and then use the comments underneath that answer to discuss that post. This helps keep information about a post in one spot: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27998/technical-position-but-questions-about-temperament&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27998/technical-position-but-questions-about-temperament&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28000/how-to-divide-profits-between-2-partners-one-of-whom-is-lazier&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28000/how-to-divide-profits-between-2-partners-one-of-whom-is-lazier&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28045/concerns-about-password-sharing&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28045/concerns-about-password-sharing&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28048/how-valuable-is-a-distance-mba-course&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28048/how-valuable-is-a-distance-mba-course&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28171/data-scientist-cover-letter&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28171/data-scientist-cover-letter&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28183/was-shown-a-salary-of-upper-management-twice-in-a-week-does-that-mean-the-com&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28183/was-shown-a-salary-of-upper-management-twice-in-a-week-does-that-mean-the-com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30438/how-to-deal-with-communication-barriers&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30438/how-to-deal-with-communication-barriers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30658/appealing-a-1st-writen-warning-and-how-i-go-about-it&quot;&gt;What should I do about receiving an unwarranted written warning?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30609/how-to-politely-recommend-someone-they-dont-need-to-read-the-details-but-to-sig&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30609/how-to-politely-recommend-someone-they-dont-need-to-read-the-details-but-to-sig&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30606/took-my-work-keys-home-and-they-are-shared-between-workers-why-should-i-call-my&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30606/took-my-work-keys-home-and-they-are-shared-between-workers-why-should-i-call-my&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T09:44:40.620" Title="Broken Windows for Review Week #1" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|broken-windows-review|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2899" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-26T22:30:23.617" Score="6" ViewCount="644" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple of weeks ago, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2865/9899&quot;&gt;I asked&lt;/a&gt; if we should adjust a setting to more aggressively hide comments. The feedback we got was was useful and  seemed to be in agreement that it was worth a try. So this afternoon, I changed the site setting to hide unupvoted comments on question pages with more than 2 answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like your feedback. After a few days of getting used to comments, please let me know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Did it get easier to read the questions and answers, make no difference, or make it harder?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are valuable comments being hidden?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have you changed your comment voting strategy?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you leave fewer comments? More? No difference?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything else I should know?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9899" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2014-09-16T22:24:18.137" Title="Comments without upvotes are now hidden if a question has more than two answers" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2898" CreationDate="2014-08-27T00:20:39.143" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;8. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/30658&quot;&gt;What should I do about receiving an unwarranted written warning?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi Can you please tell me if you have to be handed a warning letter or can it just be emailed to you, also how do you appeal you're case kind regards&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the excellent d♦uble-diam♦nd hold notice (courtesy of pre-mod enderland and Monica Cellio), this question should be deleted as it is not possible to salvage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is not much background information about what the letter contains or why it was given&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The asker has not been on the site since the original posting to provide any sort of clarification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any edits would be very speculative due to the lack of background and clarification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We would be better off focusing on a new question if it comes up again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T00:20:39.143" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2901" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-27T11:41:38.480" Score="4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are questions which ask solely about the origin of a phrase such as this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/32963/what-is-the-origin-of-phrase-breaking-down-silos&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/32963/what-is-the-origin-of-phrase-breaking-down-silos&lt;/a&gt; considered on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T18:56:44.190" Title="Are &quot;Word Origin&quot; questions on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2901" CreationDate="2014-08-27T18:56:44.190" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;By itself the question is off topic here. I can see a question that asks &quot;What does this phrase mean and where did it come from?&quot;  In that case it is on topic because it is about navigating the work place.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My coworkers keep saying to give them the pickle.(them being our customers) what does that mean and where does that saying come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then an answer with links to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.giveemthepickle.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt; and explaining what it means would make sense and be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T18:56:44.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2903" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-29T19:32:19.900" Score="2" ViewCount="333" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question here was put on hold because it was 'off-topic'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/33045/is-it-unprofessional-to-listen-to-music-while-at-work&quot;&gt;Is it unprofessional to listen to music while at work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;About professionalism not about company regulations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not specific to my company but in the workplace in general&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;About the workplace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not about me specifically&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why was it marked as off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26526" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-08-30T18:43:53.650" Title="What is off-topic about asking if it's unprofessional to wear headphones while at work?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2903" CreationDate="2014-08-30T18:43:53.650" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question asking if something is professional is by definition primarily opinion based. The responses will differ depending on culture, from corporate to federal. Everyone will have a different opinion, and none of these opinions can be backed with any factual data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, The Workplace SE works best for questions about a real problem you're facing. As an example, there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7533/how-can-i-make-wearing-headphones-at-work-more-acceptable&quot;&gt;How can I make wearing headphones at work more acceptable?&lt;/a&gt;  This question has a clear, actionable goal in mind, and the answers provide details on what a person can do who wishes to make this more acceptable in their workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can edit with a clear goal in mind, we can look at reopening, but I suspect your question would become a duplicate of the one I linked. You should check out that post and see if it solves your problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-08-30T18:43:53.650" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2898" CreationDate="2014-09-01T19:45:23.990" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are the results of this review:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27998/technical-position-but-questions-about-temperament&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27998/technical-position-but-questions-about-temperament&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's the core of some good questions there, but this was closed as too broad and the review did not prompt any further actions from the community.  Deleted.  I invited the OP to re-ask more-specific questions from this as new questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28000/how-to-divide-profits-between-2-partners-one-of-whom-is-lazier&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28000/how-to-divide-profits-between-2-partners-one-of-whom-is-lazier&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off-topic, downvoted, no further activity.  Deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3 &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28045/concerns-about-password-sharing&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28045/concerns-about-password-sharing&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was deleted once before, and was undeleted on July 30 to allow the author to rework it.  There has been no further activity, so deleted again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4 &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28048/how-valuable-is-a-distance-mba-course&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28048/how-valuable-is-a-distance-mba-course&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off-topic, no further activity.  Deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5 &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28171/data-scientist-cover-letter&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28171/data-scientist-cover-letter&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had one non-mod delete vote; no other activity.  Deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;6 &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28183/was-shown-a-salary-of-upper-management-twice-in-a-week-does-that-mean-the-com&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/28183/was-shown-a-salary-of-upper-management-twice-in-a-week-does-that-mean-the-com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Too broad, no further activity.  Deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;7 &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30438/how-to-deal-with-communication-barriers&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30438/how-to-deal-with-communication-barriers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Too broad, no further activity.  Deleted.  Invited the OP to re-ask specific questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;8 &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30658/appealing-a-1st-writen-warning-and-how-i-go-about-it&quot;&gt;What should I do about receiving an unwarranted written warning?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result of Matt's answer here (thanks!), this got a heroic edit and three reopen votes from the community.  Reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;9 &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30609/how-to-politely-recommend-someone-they-dont-need-to-read-the-details-but-to-sig&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30609/how-to-politely-recommend-someone-they-dont-need-to-read-the-details-but-to-sig&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closed as unclear, OP did not edit and hasn't been back in several weeks, heavily downvoted.  Deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;10 &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30606/took-my-work-keys-home-and-they-are-shared-between-workers-why-should-i-call-my&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30606/took-my-work-keys-home-and-they-are-shared-between-workers-why-should-i-call-my&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closed as off-topic, OP has visited the site since but hasn't improved the question, no further input from the community, heavily downvoted.  Deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T19:45:23.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2906" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2927" CreationDate="2014-09-01T20:37:15.907" Score="5" ViewCount="309" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Broken Windows for Review Week #2&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As part of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2891/repairing-our-broken-windows-we-need-your-help&quot;&gt;efforts to help fix closed questions&lt;/a&gt; on our site, below are ten Workplace SE questions posted for community review. We'll leave this post open until Sunday, September 7th, and then we'll handle whatever remains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tools at your disposal include editing, voting to delete or voting to reopen, and you may discuss the questions in chat and on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wish to start a meta discussion about one of the posts, please use one answer below per question, and then use the comments underneath that answer to discuss that post. This helps keep information about a post in one spot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31691/how-to-deal-with-sending-wedding-invitations&quot;&gt;Send wedding invitations to some co-workers but not all&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30889/how-do-i-deal-with-a-colleague-who-wears-socks-and-sandals-to-work&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30889/how-do-i-deal-with-a-colleague-who-wears-socks-and-sandals-to-work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/29377/prevalence-of-offshoring-in-the-information-security-industry&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/29377/prevalence-of-offshoring-in-the-information-security-industry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31790/delayed-start-date-and-compensation&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31790/delayed-start-date-and-compensation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30908/how-widespread-is-the-usage-of-employee-monitoring-software&quot;&gt;Don&amp;#39;t know if my company uses employee monitoring software - how to adjust behavior?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30716/how-to-deal-with-less-productive-days&quot;&gt;How to deal with less productive days?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31221/as-a-web-developer-how-can-i-determine-whether-to-focus-on-contract-work-or-sta&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31221/as-a-web-developer-how-can-i-determine-whether-to-focus-on-contract-work-or-sta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31112/how-to-push-back-when-colleagues-send-work-to-me-they-can-do-themselves&quot;&gt;How to push back when colleagues send work to me they can do themselves?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30858/normal-verbiage-on-resume&quot;&gt;Is there a best practice for word choice on resumes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31075/how-to-deal-with-a-touchy-irritable-supervisor-who-is-much-older&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31075/how-to-deal-with-a-touchy-irritable-supervisor-who-is-much-older&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T09:45:04.193" Title="Broken Windows for Review Week #2" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|broken-windows-review|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2906" CreationDate="2014-09-01T21:19:25.550" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1 &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31691/how-to-deal-with-sending-wedding-invitations&quot;&gt;Send wedding invitations to some co-workers but not all&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there is a good question in here: in a situation where you interact with lots of coworkers on a regular basis, how do you go about only inviting &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; of them to an event (in this case a wedding)?  I think an edit that refines the &quot;how do I deal with it?&quot; language into a request for practical steps to take to do this without causing workplace strife could save it.  The top two answers seem valuable; one answers how to do it and the other offers a workaround to soothe ruffled feathers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T21:19:25.550" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2906" CreationDate="2014-09-01T22:11:49.573" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5 &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30908/how-widespread-is-the-usage-of-employee-monitoring-software&quot;&gt;Don&amp;#39;t know if my company uses employee monitoring software - how to adjust behavior?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original post was speculative and overly broad. However, the post has been edited and is a bit more fitting for Q&amp;amp;A format. This post does still seem a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; broad, but the answers fit the goals of our site, which is to teach, not just tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answerers take into account different possible scenarios, without making assumptions about the asker's situation, and these answers provide possible ways that the asker might approach finding an answer that matches that person's workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it focuses on the &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;, it's possible that future visitors to this question can also use the information in the answers to find out if their workplace monitors employees and how they should approach the use of the Internet in their own workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While closing this question was the right move, this is an area where our community of close/reopen voters should definitely circle back and review this post and to possibly &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;vote to reopen&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T22:11:49.573" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2883" CreationDate="2014-09-02T01:55:06.493" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're feeling overwhelmed by the &quot;relieving letter&quot; questions, you could apply the same solution I have: Adjust your interest filters to suppress anything tagged &quot;relieving-letter&quot; (or maybe &quot;india&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done that with a number of tags which suggest that the question is going to be one I really can't respond usefully to, and it does help. The questions aren't hidden completely, but they're greyed out so you know you'll probably want to avoid them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastEditorDisplayName="user8036" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:39:39.577" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:39:39.577" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2906" CreationDate="2014-09-02T16:10:53.497" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;8 &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31112/how-to-push-back-when-colleagues-send-work-to-me-they-can-do-themselves&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to push back when colleagues send work to me they can do themselves?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was closed as &quot;unclear&quot;, yet seems clear enough now.&#xA;Perhaps it became clearer after the edits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T16:10:53.497" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2906" CreationDate="2014-09-02T16:13:45.517" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;6 &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30716/how-to-deal-with-less-productive-days&quot;&gt;How to deal with less productive days?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one got a fair number of upvotes and an accepted answer. Is it worth deleting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T16:13:45.517" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2906" CreationDate="2014-09-04T13:14:43.190" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/30889/18336&quot;&gt;How do I deal with a colleague who wears socks and sandals to work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question reads almost like the OP was trolling, probably unintentional under the auspices of humor but it also has a personal attack as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The body contains statements like...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Constantly mock him into submission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I should also add this colleague is quite eccentric and has been know to cut his hair in the style of Martin Luther.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question as written is pretty bad and could be deleted completely without much second thought. I feel there is a question here about approaching a coworker about a dress code issue, I browsed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dress-code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dress-code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dress-code&lt;/a&gt; tag for something similar to no avail. The edits would have to be drastic to to the effect that it might be easier to just ask it again after deleting this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18336" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T13:14:43.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2913" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-05T02:04:30.627" Score="4" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason I am concerned is that I started  with removing the &quot;professionalism&quot; tag when there is no content in the post that has anything to do with &quot;professionalism&quot;. Then I noticed that some posters were festooning their posts with tags. The cumulative impact, when people search by tag, is of course, not pretty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is one example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/33333/career-advice-is-it-time-to-quit-software-engineering&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/33333/career-advice-is-it-time-to-quit-software-engineering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This individual had five tags including the overused &quot;professionalism&quot; tag. I also took out his &quot;work environment&quot; tag. In his case, the only tag that's relevant is &quot;career development&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand, I am not happy when posters overtag. On the other hand, it's easier for me to clean up when a poster puts up too many tags than when a poster is not adding a tag that they should be including.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16993" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T02:14:23.203" Title="Do we have a guideline for posters to follow when tagging their posts?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2913" CreationDate="2014-09-05T02:11:24.877" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general goals are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use all applicable tags (the limit is five, and not one or two, for a reason)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Be consistent; if similar questions do (or don't) use a particular tag, follow that lead so tag searches don't become useless&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, no site's tag set is static and ours could do with some review and cleanup.  For individual questions, if you think a retagging is in order, go for it.  If you notice a pattern, please bring it to meta (as has been done, inconclusively so far, for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/professionalism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;professionalism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;professionalism&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T02:11:24.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2915" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-05T17:23:44.027" Score="2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/33323/how-do-you-handle-a-lead-who-is-verbally-abusive-to-you-and-makes-misleading-st&quot;&gt;How do you handle a lead who is verbally abusive to you and makes misleading statements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few of us worked very hard to get this question in a format that is within the guidelines of the Workplace.  It has now been put on-hold as off-topic. Could someone please explain how dealing with an abusive lead is not within the topics to be discussed on &quot;the Workplace&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25306" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T20:49:09.137" Title="Please explain why this post is off-topic" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2915" CreationDate="2014-09-05T20:27:20.040" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question reads as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I hate my boss&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The options open to me don't appeal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What should I do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see a &lt;em&gt;practical answerable questions based on actual problems you face&lt;/em&gt; in there. I see a complaint about the current situation and absolutely no indication of what would count as solving the problem, why approaching HR (a solution they brought up themselves) isn't ideal, or what the heck they are expecting in an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T20:27:20.040" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2917" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2919" CreationDate="2014-09-05T21:19:25.560" Score="4" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw that my answer to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27469/who-can-sign-my-resignation-letter&quot;&gt;Who can acknowledge my resignation letter?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; has been &quot;unaccepted&quot;. Given that it had been accepted for month I am surprised is there a justification for that ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4913" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-11-14T16:50:43.190" Title="Why has my answer been &quot;unaccepted&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2917" CreationDate="2014-09-05T21:34:44.683" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You would have to ask the asker of the question to get a definitive answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People can accept/unaccept answers whenever they want, as far into the future as they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T21:34:44.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2917" CreationDate="2014-09-05T23:48:07.097" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had this happen to me on Stack Overflow a few times. When it happens, I just leave a nice comment for the asker saying something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hey userXYZ, I just noticed the unaccept on the answer, and I thought I'd check in and see if you need any help. Can you elaborate on what the problem is in an edit to your question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tells them that I saw the unaccept and also demonstrates my willingness to provide whatever might now be missing from my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, a user may unaccept an answer if something didn't work as planned, or if they wish to try and attract more answers. Just be constructive when reaching out, and everything should work out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T23:48:07.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2920" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2921" CreationDate="2014-09-06T16:22:08.247" Score="0" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18413/how-do-you-handle-an-interview-for-a-candidate-who-is-performing-poorly&quot;&gt;How do you handle an interview for a candidate who is performing poorly?&lt;/a&gt; at the start of the year. It's still my best question, and one that I was reasonably proud of. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It went onto the hot list and became community wiki pretty quickly as a result, but given that posts no longer become wikis automatically, I really wouldn't mind being able to gain points for new up votes ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that it might be a good idea to try and clean up some of the answers, though?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12655" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-09-06T21:29:40.030" Title="De-wiki this question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2920" CreationDate="2014-09-06T21:29:40.030" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not against removing the wiki status, if the posts can be improved. Mostly, this is because we either want good, on-topic questions on the site or we want to remove them in favor of focusing on high signal content. So if the post is to remain open, we should clean up the things that would have caused it to go into the wiki status in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a lot of content there. Some of it may be noise, some of it may be signal. If there are similar answers, maybe they need to be removed as per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;don't repeat others&lt;/a&gt; guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also suggest looking for posts that fundamentally don't answer the question. To do that, we must ask what that question is. Perhaps an edit to put all the questions in one spot at the bottom will be helpful. Right now, they're kinda spread out. I generally edit posts so that multiple (but related) questions are at the bottom anyway, so that answerers can easily glance back up at them to verify they've answered what is asked, without having to repeatedly skim the entire post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an answer that, while useful from the perspective of an interviewee, is something that I'm not 100% sure answers what you're asking. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/18417/98&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/18417/98&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Don't take this as me advocating for deletion, just that it might be a signal that the question might be a bit too broad, which would explain how the wiki filter got triggered in the first place.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what do we do with these? Do we edit them, remove them? Do we broaden the question a bit to make the answers fit better?  I'm not 100% sure what the best approach is on this particular question. It got over 17,000 views, so I'd not want to remove whatever it is that folks found helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At a minimum, having some editor-types go through and review it, even if we just copy edit and make the content look more professional, will leave it in a better state when and if we do de-wikify it. Let's use this as an opportunity to do that review you're asking for. Editing will bump it to the top so it's more visible to the community. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-09-06T21:29:40.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2922" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2942" CreationDate="2014-09-09T05:03:36.927" Score="4" ViewCount="538" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Broken Windows for Review Week #3&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As part of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2891/repairing-our-broken-windows-we-need-your-help&quot;&gt;efforts to help fix closed questions&lt;/a&gt; on our site, below are ten Workplace SE questions posted for community review. We'll leave this post open until Sunday, September 14th, and then we'll handle whatever remains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tools at your disposal include editing, voting to delete or voting to reopen, and you may discuss the questions in chat and on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wish to start a meta discussion about one of the posts, please use one answer below per question, and then use the comments underneath that answer to discuss that post. This helps keep information about a post in one spot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31650/is-it-common-for-the-workforce-to-not-be-educated-about-about-relieving-letters&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31650/is-it-common-for-the-workforce-to-not-be-educated-about-about-relieving-letters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31478/best-way-to-communicate-that-there-is-too-much-work-to-do&quot;&gt;Best way to communicate that there is too much work to do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31568/is-it-okay-to-use-an-office-printer-to-print-personal-documents&quot;&gt;Is it okay to use an office printer to print personal documents?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30858/normal-verbiage-on-resume&quot;&gt;Is there a best practice for word choice on resumes?&lt;/a&gt; (carry-over from last week, where it received some help but needs more; please take another look)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31560/last-day-and-medical-coverage&quot;&gt;Last Day and Medical Coverage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(auto-deleted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/177675/165773&quot; title=&quot;'Automatic deletion of closed, abandoned questions for questions meeting the following criteria...'&quot;&gt;roomba script&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31521/what-to-do-when-your-office-loses-electricity&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31521/what-to-do-when-your-office-loses-electricity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31409/how-can-i-determine-whether-or-not-i-should-ask-for-a-raise-and-how-do-i-approa&quot;&gt;How can I determine whether or not I should ask for a raise, and how do I approach my boss with this?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31501/what-to-do-when-you-are-in-an-internal-interview-process-and-current-manager-off&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31501/what-to-do-when-you-are-in-an-internal-interview-process-and-current-manager-off&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31487/is-there-an-expected-behaviour-when-you-keep-running-into-someone-at-work-can-y&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31487/is-there-an-expected-behaviour-when-you-keep-running-into-someone-at-work-can-y&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31326/reducing-the-salary-after-job-offer&quot;&gt;Reducing the salary after job offer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T01:54:35.677" Title="Broken Windows for Review Week #3" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|broken-windows-review|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2891" CreationDate="2014-09-09T05:13:53.583" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This statement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Keep in mind a large audience for this site is people arriving through&#xA;  Google. Well-formed questions with great, clear, relevant answers help&#xA;  these people immensely!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...seems to be at odds with this goal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since graduation we have seen an increase in answered closed&#xA;  questions, questions whose closure was not ambiguous or controversial,&#xA;  questions that couldn't be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We want to break this cycle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users in that first group, who have typed a query into Google (who is supremely competent at directing users to content that is relevant to them, generally regardless of how well or poorly curated that content may be) and found that someone has asked their question, are not best served by finding a question with no answer(s).  They're looking for an answer to their question, not a well moderated placeholder stating that their question will not be answered here for one reason or another.  That last scenario can, in fact, be extremely frustrating for the poor Googler.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus I'm skeptical about whether &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; answering a question that is likely (or even certain) to be closed purely on the basis that the question is likely to be closed is really the best approach.  Or whether every answered closed question is a broken window.  It seems like some are, and some likely are not; a question can be clear and well formed and answerable yet still be an obvious candidate for closure.  But if the goal is to help people (such as the OP, and anyone who asks a similar question through Google), then it follows that such questions should be answered when they can be.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1717" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T05:13:53.583" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2922" CreationDate="2014-09-09T05:38:27.977" Score="4" Body="&lt;h3&gt;10. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31326/reducing-the-salary-after-job-offer&quot;&gt;Reducing the salary after job offer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is upvoted fairly highly and has several highly voted answers, including one answer with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;one hundred upvotes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. I think it's safe to say that the community agrees with the usefulness of that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we can and should edit to save this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T05:38:27.977" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2922" CreationDate="2014-09-09T06:54:11.513" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h3&gt;3.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31568/is-it-okay-to-use-an-office-printer-to-print-personal-documents&quot;&gt;Is it okay to use an office printer to print personal documents?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Highly upvoted, and in my opinion extremely likely to reoccur if deleted.  Also it seems like the close reason is inappropriate, as based upon my reading of the question the OP is asking if it is &lt;em&gt;generally&lt;/em&gt; okay to print personal things on an office printer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP was not asking for an answer specific to their company, and I think that while this may technically be a company-specific policy, in the &lt;em&gt;vast&lt;/em&gt; majority of cases the policy is &quot;personal use of company equipment is not allowed&quot; (or near enough to that effect).  Thus closing the question for 'seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies' is excessively pedantic and the question should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1717" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T06:54:11.513" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2922" CreationDate="2014-09-09T13:56:31.910" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;4. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30858/normal-verbiage-on-resume&quot;&gt;Is there a best practice for word choice on resumes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has been edited since it was closed and I think it is a decent question that can be answered and is in scope.  The title could be better but the question it self should be ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T13:56:31.910" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2906" CreationDate="2014-09-10T00:38:21.950" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Results:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31691/how-to-deal-with-sending-wedding-invitations&quot;&gt;Send wedding invitations to some co-workers but not all&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reopened (with a mod casting the fifth vote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30889/how-do-i-deal-with-a-colleague-who-wears-socks-and-sandals-to-work&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30889/how-do-i-deal-with-a-colleague-who-wears-socks-and-sandals-to-work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleted by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/29377/prevalence-of-offshoring-in-the-information-security-industry&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/29377/prevalence-of-offshoring-in-the-information-security-industry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No activity.  Deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31790/delayed-start-date-and-compensation&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31790/delayed-start-date-and-compensation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No improvements during the review; OP hasn't been back since asking it; one delete vote from the community.  Deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30908/how-widespread-is-the-usage-of-employee-monitoring-software&quot;&gt;Don&amp;#39;t know if my company uses employee monitoring software - how to adjust behavior?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This received a major edit, and the meta answer supporting it has two upvotes.  The question has not yet been reopened.  No further action at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30716/how-to-deal-with-less-productive-days&quot;&gt;How to deal with less productive days?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meta post supporting this one has three upvotes.  The question has no current reopen votes (votes age away and can't be recast when that happens).  We're going to leave this one alone for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31221/as-a-web-developer-how-can-i-determine-whether-to-focus-on-contract-work-or-sta&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31221/as-a-web-developer-how-can-i-determine-whether-to-focus-on-contract-work-or-sta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Received one delete vote; no other activity.  Deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31112/how-to-push-back-when-colleagues-send-work-to-me-they-can-do-themselves&quot;&gt;How to push back when colleagues send work to me they can do themselves?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edited and reopened by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30858/normal-verbiage-on-resume&quot;&gt;Is there a best practice for word choice on resumes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was edited but not yet reopened.  We carried this forward to the next list to give the community more time to review it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31075/how-to-deal-with-a-touchy-irritable-supervisor-who-is-much-older&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31075/how-to-deal-with-a-touchy-irritable-supervisor-who-is-much-older&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Received one delete vote; no other activity.  Deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two reopened, two improved but not yet reopened (please take another look), five deleted, one left alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T00:38:21.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2928" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-09-10T09:47:40.103" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regular posting of some closed questions at Workplace meta for community review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2891/repairing-our-broken-windows-we-need-your-help&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2891/repairing-our-broken-windows-we-need-your-help&quot;&gt;Repairing our broken windows - we need YOUR help!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're going to try being more proactive with cleaning up old question. We moderators plan to post questions facing deletion every week or two on meta for the community to review. We want your input on these questions. Can they be edited and fixed? Should they be deleted? Many of you can vote to delete and nearly everyone can edit/vote or post replies to the meta discussion. Moderators are not the sole arbiters of content here -- we want your input...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2014-09-10T14:46:09.033" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T14:46:09.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2929" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-09-10T09:47:40.103" Score="0" Body="Regular posting of some closed questions at Workplace meta for community review." OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2014-09-10T14:46:14.720" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T14:46:14.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2899" CreationDate="2014-09-10T14:34:55.027" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this the majority of the time. It took a lot of getting used to initially but I'm liking it more and more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially as a moderator, where many of the comments are basically opinions and discussion points rather than improvements/questions/suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However one thing that really irritates me as a moderator is when I post a comment which is a &quot;mod message&quot; and it's auto hidden. ESPECIALLY when it's a &quot;comments deleted&quot; comment, it would be nice if this wasn't automatically hidden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However. I would never implement this across the board without a much more clear explanation and plan for &quot;what is a comment on Stack Exchange?&quot; because SE uses them differently than the rest of the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the internet uses comments as &quot;hey here's my thoughts!&quot; but SE does not. As a result you are going to have to fight everyone to make people &quot;get&quot; this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is wasted effort in my opinion. Fighting symptoms rather than the cause is a big waste of everyone's time, especially moderators (who have to cleanup and delete all the &quot;normal comments that don't fit on SE&quot; comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should add, becoming a moderator has had a much more significant effect on the overall number of comments I have left than this will...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2014-09-12T00:34:55.267" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T00:34:55.267" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2899" CreationDate="2014-09-11T01:01:49.930" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Unintended consequence?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I clicked on the &amp;quot;answer&amp;quot; button and was greeted with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uNJUe.png&quot; alt=&quot;screen shot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had not expected the comment-collapse threshold to be tied to the ask-them-if-they-really-want-to-add-an-answer threshold.  This warning looks a little peculiar on a question that only has two or three answers.  It was, after all, designed for questions with ten+ answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the two must be connected, then we might want to consider raising the threshold a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; -- to 3 or 4, maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T01:01:49.930" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2899" CreationDate="2014-09-11T01:12:13.597" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this change makes it much easier for &lt;em&gt;visitors and casual readers&lt;/em&gt; to read the question and get right to the answers.  Questions attract a lot of pseudo-answers and chit-chat in comments, and even the comments that are &quot;what comments are for&quot; are generally only helpful for the OP (because they're requests for clarification).  For other comments that should be seen, like links to related questions, voting on the comment mitigates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;em&gt;regulars and readers who want to see everything&lt;/em&gt;, the full comments are one click away and don't even require a page reload (it's an inline change).  That's low-cost.  People who are about to add more comments to a collapsed, busy thread -- who must have at least 50 rep to do so, so we're not talking new accounts from Google here -- are automatically presented with the full batch of comments first.  They might not read them, but they aren't going to add comment #17 without noticing.  I haven't seen signs that people are leaving more poor comments than they used to because of the initial collapse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would &lt;em&gt;slightly&lt;/em&gt; prefer it if this collapsing applied only to comments on the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; but not on the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;.  Comments that point out problems in answers are not mainly for the author, unlike requests for clarification on the question, so they should be seen without having to click for each answer.  However, a single comment vote makes these visible, so this is not a big deal.  Were you to raise the number of votes needed, though, that could be a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen a lot of &quot;tactical voting&quot;, e.g. people voting up one side of an argument to get it above the fold.  That's good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T01:12:13.597" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2899" CreationDate="2014-09-11T12:04:50.370" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are valuable comments being hidden?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, some valuable comments are certainly being hidden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I understand the behavior once a question has 2 answers, all new comments are hidden until they gain at least one upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly some of those new comments are valuable, and being hidden makes them less likely to gain a vote and thus become visible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2014-09-11T12:13:10.783" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T12:13:10.783" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2899" CreationDate="2014-09-11T12:19:31.713" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you leave fewer comments? More? No difference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No difference as far as leaving comments. If I feel a comment is warranted (in order to clarify the question or answer), I leave one as I always have. Some are getting hidden due to this new UI behavior, but I still provide the comments anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I am now doing is going back and deleting all my comments a day or two after leaving them. We've been told that lots of comments is a bad thing, so I'm trying to do my part in keeping the quantity of comments down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T12:19:31.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2935" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2937" CreationDate="2014-09-11T14:45:50.677" Score="5" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would be an appropriate course of action for answers that are affected by edits done to questions per Broken Windows Review? In particular, how should we (should we?) take answer score into account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most common case so far seems to be answers quoting parts of the questions that are removed in editing (examples: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/31328/168&quot; title=&quot;score ~100, edited by author to account for question edits&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/31327/168&quot; title=&quot;edited by author&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/31350/168&quot; title=&quot;score ~10, not (yet?)edited by author&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;) but there could probably be other cases of &quot;de-synchronisation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to better understand what is expected of authors, reviewers, editors, flaggers and moderators involved in broken windows review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T16:04:54.770" Title="Answers affected by question edits performed per Broken Windows Review" Tags="|discussion|answers|editing|broken-windows-review|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2935" CreationDate="2014-09-11T15:14:27.980" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blow all of the answers away.  If the answers get edited they can flag to have them undeleted.  If not then no harm no foul and the answers are not there to confuse new people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T15:14:27.980" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2935" CreationDate="2014-09-11T16:04:54.770" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for raising this important issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The broken-windows reviews are still a new effort, so &lt;em&gt;at least for now&lt;/em&gt;, I'd appreciate it if the meta posts discussing these questions could also address specific answers.  Sometimes existing answers are fine, sometimes a minor edit will fix them, and sometimes something bigger is needed.  Instead of trying to come up with a one-size-fits-all answer before we have much experience with this, how 'bout highlighting the cases where something bigger is needed?  Then the community can weigh in or, ideally, help bring them into sync.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When changing a question in a way that affects an answer (which is rare outside of this effort), I leave comments on affected answers to point out the change and ask for an update.  If the author has visited the site recently, I prefer to give him a chance to make the changes himself first.  I recommend this here too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T16:04:54.770" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2938" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-12T15:13:49.223" Score="11" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;While adding tags to a question I asked, I noticed that the box that displays as you type in a tag was getting cut off.  Also, the list of &quot;Similar Questions&quot; was overflowing down to the bottom of the page (where the links to different SE sites are).  Here is a screenshot to better explain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vYwvs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I am using Firefox 32.0.2 on Windows 7, 64-bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16723" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2014-09-25T14:39:41.760" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T02:38:07.187" Title="Tags cut off, Similar Questions overflowing" Tags="|bug|design|css|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2899" CreationDate="2014-09-15T20:14:16.963" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/33465/2322&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt; where very, very clearly this doesn't stop people from commenting everywhere:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t1miy.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This problem is far more pervasive than &quot;can we see comments or not.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's just on the question itself, there are lots of other comments everywhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T20:22:09.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2922" CreationDate="2014-09-15T23:52:43.943" Score="3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;8. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/31521/18336&quot;&gt;What to do when your office loses electricity?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I could, I would vote to delete this question. Jmort put a comment down after one day to let the OP know it's off topic as written. OP has not returned to comment, clarify or edit. It's currently at -7 and closed. The answers, strictly speaking about the ones with positive votes say the same thing...ask your boss. Each company will have it's own policy to govern this, I don't think much of anything could be gleaned from the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18336" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T23:52:43.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2899" CreationDate="2014-09-16T00:09:28.763" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've been tracking a bunch of variables since this experiment started and the only obvious change we've noticed is that more people are clicking on the &amp;quot;show X more comments&amp;quot; link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QOhfu.png&quot; alt=&quot;Big increase in people needing to click something in order to read comments.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was no particular difference in the number of comments left or number of votes cast on comments, though &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/225403/comments-per-day#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the data is fairly noisy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GgnWj.png&quot; alt=&quot;Comment stats per day&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked at some &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/225404/questions-with-more-than-2-answers#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;statistics for questions with more than 2 answers&lt;/a&gt; and the results are not worth showing. Little, if anything, changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Summary&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because more comments are hidden, people have to show comments roughly twice as often as they used to. But we have not found any particular changes in behavior that we can measure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9899" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-09-16T22:24:18.137" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2922" CreationDate="2014-09-17T01:42:36.033" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Results:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31650/is-it-common-for-the-workforce-to-not-be-educated-about-about-relieving-letters&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31650/is-it-common-for-the-workforce-to-not-be-educated-about-about-relieving-letters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31478/best-way-to-communicate-that-there-is-too-much-work-to-do&quot;&gt;Best way to communicate that there is too much work to do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposed (in a comment) as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/10456/16&quot;&gt;How can we protest a deadline that is too short?&lt;/a&gt;.  Did that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31568/is-it-okay-to-use-an-office-printer-to-print-personal-documents&quot;&gt;Is it okay to use an office printer to print personal documents?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This got a small number of mixed opinions.  It currently has one delete vote.  No action at this time; anybody should feel free to edit to make it more clearly on-topic, or bring it up in a new meta post, or vote to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30858/normal-verbiage-on-resume&quot;&gt;Is there a best practice for word choice on resumes?&lt;/a&gt; (carry-over from last week, where it received some help but needs more; please take another look)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been edited, had lukewarm support on meta, and has two reopen votes that aged out.  No action taken at this time; anybody who feels strongly for either reopening or deletion is invited to raise it in a new meta post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31560/last-day-and-medical-coverage&quot;&gt;Last Day and Medical Coverage&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was auto-deleted by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/177675/165773&quot; title=&quot;&amp;#39;Automatic deletion of closed, abandoned questions for questions meeting the following criteria...&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;roomba script&lt;/a&gt; during the review.  Nobody objected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31521/what-to-do-when-your-office-loses-electricity&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31521/what-to-do-when-your-office-loses-electricity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31409/how-can-i-determine-whether-or-not-i-should-ask-for-a-raise-and-how-do-i-approa&quot;&gt;How can I determine whether or not I should ask for a raise, and how do I approach my boss with this?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposed (in a comment) as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16921/underpaid-and-overworked-how-should-i-approach-my-boss&quot;&gt;Underpaid and overworked, how should I approach my boss?&lt;/a&gt;.  Went with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31501/what-to-do-when-you-are-in-an-internal-interview-process-and-current-manager-off&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31501/what-to-do-when-you-are-in-an-internal-interview-process-and-current-manager-off&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No discussion on meta and the OP hasn't been back since August 1.  Deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31487/is-there-an-expected-behaviour-when-you-keep-running-into-someone-at-work-can-y&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31487/is-there-an-expected-behaviour-when-you-keep-running-into-someone-at-work-can-y&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31326/reducing-the-salary-after-job-offer&quot;&gt;Reducing the salary after job offer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edited and reopened by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary:&lt;/strong&gt; 1 edited and reopened, 2 re-closed as duplicates, 1 improved but still closed, 1 no action, 5 deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T01:42:36.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2943" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-17T01:50:42.950" Score="7" ViewCount="389" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've been working on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2891/325&quot;&gt;repairing our broken windows&lt;/a&gt; for a few weeks now.  We've had three rounds of community review (results are posted on each week's post).  We're seeing some good participation from the community -- editing, discussing, and voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that experience, before we continue we'd like to ask you, the repair crew, how it's going.  Is our process working?  Are we posting a reasonable number of questions for review in each batch?  Are we allowing enough time?  Should we be selecting candidates differently?  Do you feel that your feedback is being heard and that we're (all) resolving disagreements appropriately?  Is there anything you'd like us to change in how we do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We won't be posting a new review list this week, so please take that time to give us feedback on the process instead.  Thanks for your help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.357" LastActivityDate="2014-09-19T06:30:20.023" Title="Repairing our broken windows: first intermission" Tags="|discussion|broken-windows-review|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2943" CreationDate="2014-09-17T15:54:30.577" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like I can say as a new visitor/member of the site, it doesn't feel particularly clear what the &quot;community&quot; is looking for... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seem to be a lot of somewhat interesting or valid-ish questions that are On Hold... get negative votes right away without a particular amount of help to get the question on the right track.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/33822/27084&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; and it was immediately downvoted.  There was a comment by a high rep member saying it wasn't about navigating the workplace when then intent of my question was to get a document available for new employees on how to navigate my particular workplace... That may seem meta, but on topic.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the need for a new site to keep the questions clear to set an example for questions in the future, but I think Workplace would be a lot more welcoming by first trying to fix the questions or leave comments without the downvotes and Hold requests at least until the person has a chance to respond.   Particularly people with 101 rep coming in who are members of other Stack Exchange communities that know how the system works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27084" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T18:49:11.510" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2943" CreationDate="2014-09-18T10:53:16.410" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(expanding point made in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2943/repairing-our-broken-windows-first-intermission#comment6612_2943&quot;&gt;prior comments&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommend that posts indicated as troublesome in review (questions and answers) were commented with the references to respective meta posts. Preferably by moderator, to better indicate that there is a community effort going on, not a personal initiative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of now, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/204311/165773&quot;&gt;meta effect&lt;/a&gt; activities going on such posts, voting, edits, deletions sometimes look like coming out of thin air. This doesn't feel healthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect &quot;back-linking&quot; to meta to help visitors and contributors better learn how site is run and moderated and understand that they &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/268115/839601&quot;&gt;can participate too&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;most powerful moderation tool is given at really modest rep 5: &lt;strong&gt;participate in meta&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another note is more of a personal wish because I can't tell if other reviewers feel the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would appreciate if questions picked for review round all had the same close reason (or maybe two reasons if one can't make a sensible list). Or if these were at least grouped by close reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking back on how it went in prior rounds, I realise that it often happened that everything I learned reviewing some question has to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/20074/some-of-the-employees-dont-check-if-everything-has-been-flushed-properly-and-th&quot;&gt;flushed properly&lt;/a&gt; and pretty thoroughly after I was done with it, because next question had totally different kind issues and troublesome answers in it respectively reflected that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I could review more productively if I could do it on a group of questions having similar issues (which seems to be typical case with questions having same close reason).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-09-19T06:30:20.023" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2946" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-18T13:22:21.640" Score="3" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason I am asking is that this article by Lazzlo Bock, the HR for Google, on how (not) to write a resume just appeared on LinkedIn: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140917045901-24454816-the-5-biggest-mistakes-i-see-on-resumes-and-how-to-correct-them&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Biggest Mistakes I See on Resumes and How to Correct Them&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lazzlo Bock is planning to write a couple more articles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that the advice he gives would be helpful to all of us - I also like that he goes into the rationale for his advice - including the experienced ones :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16993" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2015-03-24T15:28:06.733" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T15:28:06.733" Title="Do we have a procedure for recommending good sources, or a place where we can store the links to these references?" Tags="|discussion|canonical-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2946" CreationDate="2014-09-18T14:30:05.650" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We absolutely have such a place: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tags/resume/info&quot;&gt;'resume' tag wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Procedure for this has been introduced in Stack Exchange blog article: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/03/redesigned-tags-page/&quot;&gt;Redesigned Tags Page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best practices for how to fill it can be found at Meta Stack Exchange, in posts tagged... not surprisingly, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/69584/165773&quot;&gt;tag-wiki&lt;/a&gt;, for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/69585/165773&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/49723/165773&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a really inspiring example of how it can be done well, refer &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/tags/scala/info&quot;&gt;'scala' tag wiki at Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; - few hundreds useful references, carefully picked, structured for comfortable use and study, maintained with &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/posts/3607000/revisions&quot; title=&quot;42 revisions as of now&quot;&gt;great love and care&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:37:04.473" LastActivityDate="2014-09-18T14:30:05.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2946" CreationDate="2014-09-18T15:27:26.780" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another option too could be a more canonical question, even if you asked it, to have a duplicate/reference for other questions. I've asked a few questions purely for the &quot;this question keeps coming up in related fashions and yet there's not a good duplicate or related question&quot; reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of my questions are like that and I know several other active users have some too. I'm sure I'm missing some on this list, but here are some:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/896/2322&quot;&gt;How can I determine a reasonable salary to ask for?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/20945/2322&quot;&gt;What is a relieving letter? What are the consequences of not having one?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/9128/2322&quot;&gt;How can I prepare for getting hit by a bus?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/11197/2322&quot;&gt;How can I approach career development with a boss who doesn&amp;#39;t seem to support this?&lt;/a&gt; (see the bounty text at bottom of question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/7355/2322&quot;&gt;To what extent do attributes making a resume &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; generalize across industries?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/11816/2322&quot;&gt;Why is it important to gain &amp;quot;visibility&amp;quot; in the workplace?&lt;/a&gt; (this had a lengthy chat discussion before it was posted about this idea)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-09-18T15:27:26.780" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-20T22:02:18.327" Score="4" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that some questions are using a tag layoff for circumstances where they are referring to some one being fired or being made redundant and not a layoff in the technical sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Formally a layoff has a specific meaning in hr terms (and in some places legal differences) i.e., you might lay off a night shift but those laid off have a right of return should work pickup  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might it be better to do away with laid off and just have fired and redundancy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19290" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:53:35.383" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:53:35.383" Title="Are the tags used for types of termination fit for purporse" Tags="|discussion|retag-request|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2950" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-26T22:26:37.293" Score="4" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14588/which-path-would-be-better-in-the-long-run&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14588/which-path-would-be-better-in-the-long-run&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question doesn't meet our standards and is an excellent candidate for deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Questions seeking advice on what job to take, what skills to learn, etc. are off-topic as the answers are rarely useful to anyone else.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-09-27T08:01:15.337" Title="This question doesn't meet our standards and is an excellent candidate for deletion" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2951" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2952" CreationDate="2014-10-07T10:21:10.977" Score="7" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently we've had a slew of &quot;How do I ask  for &quot; questions e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/34652/asking-for-prmotion-to-manager&quot;&gt;asking for promotion to manager&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/34646/how-do-i-ask-my-boss-for-the-commission-raise-i-was-guarateed-in-writing&quot;&gt;asking for commission&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While these may be workplace concerns, in general the answer is going to be one of &quot;just ask him!&quot; or &quot;we can't answer without knowing you, your boss, the company, your employment contract and/or a slew of other detail&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: are these questions still valid, and if not how do we cope with them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13947" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T14:20:59.203" Title="&quot;How do I ask&quot; questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2951" CreationDate="2014-10-07T13:11:53.197" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;in general the answer is going to be one of &quot;just ask him!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the &quot;how do I ask?&quot; questions could easily be rephrased as &quot;when I ask, how can I best be prepared, and what arguments can I use, in order to achieve my desired result?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T13:11:53.197" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2953" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-09T07:52:56.190" Score="1" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now it seems like there has been lot of down vote lately for my answers. So Workplace won't allow me to add any more answers to questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So can someone give me link or steps to delete one's profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27514" OwnerDisplayName="i am with you" LastEditorUserId="7945" LastEditDate="2014-10-15T14:06:12.453" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T14:06:12.453" Title="How to delete profile from Workplace?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2953" CreationDate="2014-10-09T15:05:51.420" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is some context you might want to know why your answers are not being received well. Looking at your answers, it seems many of them are very short, more like &quot;here's my thoughts&quot; and do not necessarily comprehensively answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/34585/2322&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/34585/2322&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is relatively presumptuous and not really worded well. I have a hard time following it, as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/34584/2322&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/34584/2322&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/34566/2322&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/34566/2322&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/34565/2322&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/34565/2322&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/34563/2322&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/34563/2322&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;None of these really address the question very comprehensively and doesn't explain &quot;why is this right?&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;This link&lt;/a&gt; has some good advice on how to improve your answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/34564/2322&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/34564/2322&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Again, this is only tangentially answering the question and does not explain &quot;why&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if you spend some time and focus your answers on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answering the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explaining &quot;why is this right&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of them will receive upvotes and be better received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T15:05:51.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2953" CreationDate="2014-10-10T01:38:19.833" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/7979/165773&quot;&gt;delete your account&lt;/a&gt; if you want, but if you're interested in participating here, it would be better to tackle the problem that's causing you to be blocked right now.  If you improve some of your downvoted posts so that they can be upvoted instead, the block will go away.  The block isn't meant to be &lt;em&gt;punitive&lt;/em&gt;; it's there to keep people from flooding sites with low-quality posts.  We're not trying to make you go away; we're trying to put a temporary stop in place so that you can make improvements and then continue participating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enderland has given you some &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2954/325&quot;&gt;specific advice&lt;/a&gt; on your posts.  Please consider that, and any comments you received, and look over your posts with that in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T01:38:19.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2956" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-14T04:16:50.827" Score="3" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just reading this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/34890/5114&quot;&gt;“Should We Enjoy at our Workplace or should we Work all the time”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that as currently written this is off topic.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But if I we change the focus to be about;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;What activities are good for promoting team cohesiveness so that in the &lt;strong&gt;long term&lt;/strong&gt; they are more focused&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that still to vague or unfocused?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I would really like, is to find concepts/techniques, philosophies that can be applied at a work place that promotes worker well being (for the worker) and increased productivity (for the company).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5114" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T05:00:38.560" Title="Enjoy our workplace" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2956" CreationDate="2014-10-14T05:00:38.560" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rewording of the question to ask for a list of activities turns the question into a polling question.  Unfortunately, that's not what we're looking for on Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, can you think of a way to describe a real, actual problem in the workplace -- something that isn't so overly broad? Perhaps there's a clarifying question you can ask the asker in the comments to get that person to think more deeply about why this is a problem. If you can help uncover a real problem to solve, then it's possible to make something similar to this work.  The key is to add more specific details, or get the asker to add more specific details. Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T05:00:38.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2951" CreationDate="2014-10-15T14:20:59.203" Score="5" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By the volume of questions that we get in this format, clearly this is a topic of interest for many folks in the workplace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most seem to be practical answerable questions based on actual problems people face&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you think the answer is simply, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;just talk to X about Y&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; then you probably aren't grokking the real problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;These questions are common&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly there is an audience for these questions, and people tossing words in to a Google search is bringing them here, but not giving them the answer they are looking for. That is what this site was created to solve. I would highly encourage looking for ways to accommodate this demand, rather than to toss the baby out with the bathwater in trying to prevent them, because...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;These are good questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are definitely practical (who at some point in their career doesn't need to talk to their boss/coworker about something that they don't feel comfortable talking about). They are definitely actual problems that people face. They also tend to be things that you learn through doing (and screwing up) several times in your career, which is why many of the people posting on meta here who have been in the workplace for a few years think that the answer is obvious, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The answer isn't 'just talk to them'&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of your audience. People asking these questions may legitimately not know everything you do. Maybe they don't realize that work is work, and that their boss is a human (and probably recognizes that they are a human too). Perhaps they don't realize that it's okay to quit a job and not feel bad about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to read between the lines of the questions. Leave comments to try to dig out the real problem. And then make an edit to the question to better phrase what the person is really trying to figure out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then answer it. With gusto. And yes, maybe when you re-read it you may feel that it reads a lot more like a pep talk than it does an authoritative manager-esque &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;this is the proper procedure when bringing up a raise to your boss&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, but sometimes the procedure is less important than understanding the attitude you need to carry it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions have value because people keep finding our site and thinking we are a good place to ask them. So why don't we channel our inner new employee and help people solve their problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T14:20:59.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2960" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-20T01:56:08.880" Score="5" ViewCount="816" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Broken Windows for Review Week #4&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As part of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2891/repairing-our-broken-windows-we-need-your-help&quot;&gt;efforts to help fix closed questions&lt;/a&gt; on our site, below are approximately ten Workplace SE questions posted for community review. We'll leave this post open until Sunday, October 26th, and then we'll handle whatever remains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tools at your disposal include editing, voting to delete or voting to reopen, and you may discuss the questions in chat and on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wish to start a meta discussion about one of the posts, please use one answer below per question, and then use the comments underneath that answer to discuss that post. This helps keep information about a post in one spot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Too broad&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/32167/can-i-sell-to-the-company-im-employed-something-i-have-made&quot;&gt;How do I sell to the company I&amp;#39;m employed something I have previously made&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31819/interview-role-play&quot;&gt;interview Role Play&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/32036/what-is-the-point-of-a-video-call-interview-as-opposed-to-a-telephone-interview&quot;&gt;What is the point of a video call interview as opposed to a telephone interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Off-topic - not &amp;quot;practical answerable questions&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Real Questions Have Answers&amp;quot; close reason:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31824/pressured-to-take-work-home-by-colleagues&quot;&gt;Pressured to take work home by colleagues?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31748/how-to-cope-with-multiple-rejections&quot;&gt;How to cope with multiple rejections&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31747/how-to-perform-well-at-work-when-i-am-discouraged-and-demoralized-by-company-pol&quot;&gt;How to perform well at work when I am discouraged and demoralized by company politics?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/32179/ive-been-short-changed-during-contract-negotiations-what-should-i-do&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;ve been short changed during &amp;#39;contract negotiations.&amp;#39; What should I do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Off-topic - legal/ethics, regulations&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31991/is-it-ethical-to-claim-reward-points-for-a-purchase-made-with-company-funds&quot;&gt;How can I determine if I can reward points for a purchase made with company funds?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/32142/some-comments-have-been-made-about-me-in-the-exit-interviews-of-people-in-my-dep&quot;&gt;Some comments have been made about me in the exit interviews of people in my department, Do I have right to see them&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Primarily opinion based&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31862/how-much-does-a-first-job-in-software-development-matter&quot;&gt;How much does a first job in software development matter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Unclear what's being asked&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;11&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31746/how-to-react-when-boss-is-disappointed-in-you-because-of-a-technical-error-you-h&quot;&gt;How to react when boss is disappointed in you because of a technical error you have no influence over?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-11-13T03:57:34.287" Title="Broken Windows for Review Week #4" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|broken-windows-review|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2960" CreationDate="2014-10-20T15:13:59.620" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Re 3,4,8 (and I'm biased as an accepted answerer for 8).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the questions are highly rated, and there are are several highly rated answers on those questions would suggest to me that the community found them helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that in a new community there is a fine line between generating visitors and maintaining a pure vision - but I think that there is a little too much zealotry over what constitutes a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12224" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T15:13:59.620" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2960" CreationDate="2014-10-20T22:00:08.807" Score="3" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/32167/can-i-sell-to-the-company-im-employed-something-i-have-made&quot;&gt;How do I sell to the company I&amp;#39;m employed something I have previously made&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made some edits to this question that I think address the problems.  Is more needed, or is this suitable now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T22:00:08.807" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2964" CreationDate="2014-10-21T13:43:08.397" Score="2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;There must be a better StackExchange site for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/35206/how-to-ask-for-details-to-a-poorly-reviewer&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/35206/how-to-ask-for-details-to-a-poorly-reviewer&lt;/a&gt; no?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T13:54:25.150" Title="Better StackExchange site for this question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2963" CreationDate="2014-10-21T13:54:25.150" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I migrated it to ux.stackexchange.com since the primary issue is a user experience issue, not a workplace issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of their moderators were online, hopefully they come here if it was not scoped right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T13:54:25.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2960" CreationDate="2014-10-23T00:41:20.887" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can I sell to the company I'm employed something I have made&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the question being &quot;too broad.&quot; It is a very specific set of circumstances that can arise to anyone who has worked in software development. It's happened to me, twice. The question also qualifies the circumstances, well. I believe the question could be closed to prevent &quot;Me, too,&quot; but I believe the question itself is valid and should remain. You will notice the question has received a lot of upvotes, as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9264" LastActivityDate="2014-10-23T00:41:20.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2411" CreationDate="2014-10-23T01:17:28.760" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://startups.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qs0TF.png&quot; alt=&quot;Visit Startups.SE!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25154" LastEditorUserId="618" LastEditDate="2014-11-15T01:09:59.700" LastActivityDate="2014-11-15T01:09:59.700" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-10-23T01:17:28.760" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2968" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2969" CreationDate="2014-11-06T15:30:24.010" Score="9" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/35868/co-leader-quit-in-anger-now-says-it-doesnt-count-how-to-enforce&quot;&gt;Co-leader quit in anger, now says &amp;quot;it doesn&amp;#39;t count&amp;quot;: how to enforce&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above question was closed due to being Off Topic.  The off topic parts of the question appear to be the use of the word &quot;teacher/advisor&quot; and a comment by the OP stating that she is still in school.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the situation itself is very generic.  If we substituted the word &quot;manager&quot; for &quot;teacher/advisor&quot; then we have an otherwise common issue that people face when sharing leadership responsibility and dealing with the problems of personality conflicts.  Further, in this particular case the OP had to apply for and be &quot;hired&quot; for the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: should a question actually be closed simply due to setting (school vs office building) or should questions which are also commonly faced within a traditional workplace setting be on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12635" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-11-06T16:06:43.187" Title="Off topic, but only because of setting" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2968" CreationDate="2014-11-06T16:06:43.187" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My question is: should a question actually be closed simply due to setting or should questions which are also commonly faced within a &quot;workplace&quot; setting be on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a user with 4500 reputation you can do a lot of things to help with situations like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can edit questions to make them more on topic (I edited &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/35905/2322&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; slightly this morning for exactly these reasons)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can vote to reopen &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can post on meta to discuss the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions which get edited after closing are automatically added to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/&quot;&gt;reopen community vote queue&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would encourage you to take advantage of the other community moderation tools as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-11-06T16:06:43.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2970" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-07T02:43:25.410" Score="2" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I placed a comment on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/35845/how-to-tell-sender-they-forgot-the-attachment-without-embarrassing-them&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, recommending the OP to recommend Gmail to the other party due to its &quot;did you forget to attach the file?&quot; feature. This comment has disappeared for some reason and I don't know why (I think you should be able to see it with over 10k rep). Moreover, there is another comment there now saying essentially the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Im curious what happened to my comment. Was it removed (and why) or is there some bug deleting comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25347" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-11-07T10:21:03.447" Title="What happened to my comment?" Tags="|support|comments|moderation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2970" CreationDate="2014-11-07T02:52:12.513" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted that comment, along with several followups and a brewing argument over the relative merits of Gmail and other platforms.  Thank you for alerting me to the fact that others subsequently started that discussion again; I've now deleted those and left a comment saying so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/72/325&quot;&gt;Comments are not for discussions and they especially aren't for answers.&lt;/a&gt;  A quick comment pointing someone in the right direction is generally harmless, but when they spawn long threads and those threads get flagged, or we just come across them in the normal course of using the site, mods tend to delete them.  You should think of comments as ephemeral; if you want something to be more durable, find a way to incorporate it into an answer.  If you want to have a discussion, please do so -- in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2691/325&quot;&gt;a chat room&lt;/a&gt;, not in comments on a question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2014-11-07T02:52:12.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2970" CreationDate="2014-11-07T03:11:40.623" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding on to what Monica said, when you go to post a comment on a question you see the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rOfqX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments which Monica deleted there did not ask for more information nor suggest improvements to the question. Some of them were sort of answers, but the majority were a discussion tangentially related to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/19757/193412&quot;&gt;lengthy FAQ about comments here&lt;/a&gt;. I would encourage you to read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;information page&lt;/a&gt; on comments, too, specifically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When shouldn't I comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comments are not recommended for any of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suggesting corrections that don't fundamentally change the meaning of&#xA;  the post; instead, make or suggest an edit;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answering a question or providing an alternate solution to an existing&#xA;  answer; instead, post an actual answer (or edit to expand an existing&#xA;  one);&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Compliments which do not add new information (&quot;+1, great answer!&quot;);&#xA;  instead, up-vote it and pay it forward;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Criticisms which do not add anything constructive (&quot;-1, see previous&#xA;  comments you scallywag!&quot;); instead, down-vote (and provide or up-vote&#xA;  a better answer if appropriate);&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Secondary discussion or debating a controversial point; please use&#xA;  chat instead;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Discussion of community behavior or site policies; please use meta&#xA;  instead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-11-07T03:11:40.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2960" CreationDate="2014-11-08T23:55:03.563" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Re (9): Depends on where you are, what laws you're under, what company policies are... but in general the direct answer is &quot;No, that's considered confidential/personal information and you have no inherent &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; to see it. Which is just as well since someday the tables may be turned and you may want to say things you'd rather not have attributed.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2014-11-08T23:55:03.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2975" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-10T17:36:51.470" Score="-3" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer has been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/36023/8146&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/36023/8146&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment for it notes that the first version didn't keep in line with SE's professionalism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T19:24:21.320" Title="What went wrong with this answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2975" CreationDate="2014-11-10T18:27:14.770" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would encourage you to read through the sections in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/stackexchange&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; regarding Stack Exchange's model. This details expectations of users on Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, the entire section on &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt;&quot; would be worth reading. I deleted the answer in question as multiple moderators agreed it violated much of that policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T18:27:14.770" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2975" CreationDate="2014-11-10T18:31:15.943" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post reads more like something that would appear in a discussion forum, not a Stack Exchange answer that's been edited to represent the best quality content on the Internet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Look, Bob is a sociopath or autistic or something. Weird people can be good at IT because they get to memorise things and then be all wow with it. Whatever, a thick skin will be useful...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the Internet, one of the things that convey social proof that you know what you're talking about is the words you use and your writing style. Objective, factual answers tend to work much better to meet this goal than words or phrases that make it sound like your opinion.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When writing answers on Stack Exchange, try to focus on content with an objective, clear focus. Avoid making assumptions about the asker's situation or giving personal advice. Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T18:31:15.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2975" CreationDate="2014-11-10T19:24:21.320" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I saw the offensive flags I reviewed the post to see if a simple edit could fix it.  The unprofessional tone and snarky language ran through the first half of it, so I didn't see a simple edit.  Here are some examples of content that's out of line on a professional Q&amp;amp;A site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Look, Bob is a sociopath or autistic or something. Weird people can be good at IT because they get to memorise things and then be all wow with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, you shouldn't be trying to diagnose Bob.  Second and more importantly, drawing an apparent equivalence between &quot;sociopath&quot; and &quot;autistic&quot; is seriously out of line, and &quot;weird people&quot; adds to the problem.  Third, while I'm not a medical professional, I don't think that's what autism means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now, everybody hates this advice, but i will give it again anyway: life is too short to waste it with scum. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bob may be scum, but you're not setting a great tone here with that choice of language.  (If it'd just been that I'd've ignored it; I'm &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; saying &quot;scum is a dirty word on this site&quot;.  I &lt;em&gt;am&lt;/em&gt; saying that it contributes to the case against this post.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cue the people who will now tell you how you have to hang in there, he really loves you, the beatings will stop, you are a good wife... Oh wait, wrong group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Starts off snarky (&quot;cue the people...&quot;) and then you're drawing allusions to domestic violence?  Ick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some useful excerpts from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rudeness and belittling language are not okay. Your tone should match the way you'd talk in person with someone you respect and whom you want to respect you. If you don't have time to say something politely, just leave it for someone who does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think your tone matched &quot;the way you'd talk in person with someone you respect&quot; etc?  Do you think it was free of belittling language?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bigotry of any kind. Language likely to offend or alienate individuals or groups based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. will not be tolerated. At all. (Those are just a few examples; when in doubt, just don't.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think the &quot;autistic&quot; remark was in line with this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please read the whole policy.  It's short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you edit this post to be more appropriate (I suggest cutting most of the first part and rewriting around the stuff you added in the second revision), we will review to see if it can be undeleted.  Note that the second revision added (only), so everything that was problematic in the first revision remains present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T19:24:21.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2979" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-13T03:56:54.193" Score="139" ViewCount="3691" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Be nice.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt; policy. The Workplace is no exception to this policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lately we moderators have been spending a lot of time dealing with comments and posts including such things as name-calling, personal attacks, condescending answers to sincere questions, and other content inappropriate for a professional site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All members of this community are expected to abide by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt; policy. If you have any questions please ask, either here, on another meta post, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;The Workplace Chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How can you help?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you see rudeness or inappropriate content, please don't engage or directly respond. Instead flag the comment/post(s) so that we can take care of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The members of this community have worked hard to build a site where people can receive good, professional answers to their workplace questions. Please help us maintain the high standards that people have come to expect from Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2018-04-29T16:00:52.863" LastActivityDate="2018-04-29T16:00:52.863" Title="Public service announcement: Keeping the Workplace Professional" Tags="|discussion|faq|site-policy|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2917" CreationDate="2014-11-14T16:50:43.190" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The usual reason for this is that another answer has been added, and the question asker thinks that answer is a better fit than yours. You might take this opportunity to improve your answer, or you might decide that the asker is right - the new answer does suit better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pretty rare to see an unaccept when a new answer hasn't been added. The one time I saw it was on SO where someone went and unaccepted all the accepted answers they could as a way of protesting some site policy they disliked. It had nothing to do with the answer or the answerer and there was nothing anyone could do about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you go look at the question and there is no accepted answer at all any more, just shrug and move on. If the now-accepted answer (whoever replaced you) deserves an upvote, give it one. I wouldn't leave a meta comment asking the reason for the switch, I'm not sure there's much to gain from that. If a reread of your old answer inspires you to improve it while you're there, go ahead - and then you could comment with an @mention for the asker saying what you've done. But especially on this site, where subjectivity and opinion play a bigger role than they do in, say, programming language syntax, askers changing their mind is just something that can happen and not really something you need to react to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102" LastActivityDate="2014-11-14T16:50:43.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2982" CreationDate="2014-11-19T02:46:37.877" Score="15" ViewCount="333" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the last couple years Stack Exchange has done something fun and lighthearted as the year ends, &lt;strong&gt;Winter Bash&lt;/strong&gt;.  Winter Bash is an annual event that can run on any Stack Exchange site that chooses to participate. Users earn “hats” for their gravatars by completing certain tasks (analogous to badges, but temporary). Certain actions trigger the user receiving a hat, which their gravatar can “wear”. We track everyone’s progress earning hats in a leaderboard, and you can track your own progress across all sites where you participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This year the event will run from December 15 to January 4.  Individual users who don’t want to participate, don’t want to see hats, and/or are generally anti-hat will have an “I hate hats” option available.  And just like last time, at the end of the event, all hats will go back into storage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, shall we opt in again this year?  &lt;strong&gt;Please upvote the answer you favor but don't downvote&lt;/strong&gt;, so we can get a clear sense of how people feel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2014-11-29T23:43:39.497" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T23:43:39.497" Title="That time of year again -- hats!" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|hats|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2981" CreationDate="2014-11-19T02:47:26.137" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes!  Hats are fun.  Or if you don't think they're fun, at least they're harmless -- you can ignore them if you don't want to play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T02:47:26.137" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2981" CreationDate="2014-11-19T02:48:40.950" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No!  We don't want hats.  Coworkers might see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T02:48:40.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2981" CreationDate="2014-11-19T03:37:50.090" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I not want hats with this avatar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T03:37:50.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2985" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-21T20:36:54.780" Score="4" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Ask Ubuntu, when you select a multiline comment that the OP posted, the background on the name is below selected text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AjkSr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZFO2nm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a small gap there (2px).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the workplace it is different:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WzGCh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C5NbIm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overlap! That's 9px there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Removing the padding doesn't help 100% though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XIE5e.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still 2px overlap there...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adjusting the margins also doesn't seem to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29827" LastActivityDate="2014-11-21T20:36:54.780" Title="Original-poster's-name-background overlaps blue selection" Tags="|bug|design|comments|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2981" CreationDate="2014-11-22T18:44:04.870" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Just for an additional choice that folks can vote on ...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meh. Hats or no hats - it doesn't matter to me either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2014-11-22T18:44:04.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2987" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2988" CreationDate="2014-11-23T18:08:36.600" Score="12" ViewCount="357" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several days ago (perhaps week before last?), I posted a comment on this answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/36407/16724&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/36407/16724&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As closely as I can recall, my comment was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer is the most generous/gracious/nicest answer here. Although, if you have two of the same cup, how can you tell them apart?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone later replied something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cups like this often come in different varieties, so you could get one that is slightly different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(That wasn't very close to the text, but that was the basic point.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those comments have since been deleted, and I'm very confused about why. My original comment raised what I considered to be a valid point (How do you tell them apart?). I suppose the mention of it being nice/generous/gracious might be considered chatty, but when I originally made the comment, I felt that pointing it out was important since the answer was sitting at a net -4 votes. (I clearly am not the only one to hold that opinion, as it has since received a net +24 votes and is sitting at +20.) The second comment was purely useful; it addressed the concern I raised (or at least attempted to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone shed some light on the reason for deleting these comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16724" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T14:44:55.673" Title="Reason for deleting comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2987" CreationDate="2014-11-23T21:06:01.207" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are, at present, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2748/168&quot; title=&quot;see &amp;#39;Our Comments Problem&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;26 deleted comments&lt;/a&gt; on that answer.  If yours and the response had been the only ones they probably wouldn't have attracted any notice, but they ended up as part of a larger set of comments that had largely descended to arguments about what is or isn't passive-aggressive, assertions and counter-claims that this rewards bad behavior, and some heated comments that were definitely over the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2979/168&quot; title=&quot;see &amp;#39;Public service announcement: Keeping the Workplace Professional&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&quot;be nice&quot; line&lt;/a&gt;.  Not &lt;em&gt;yours&lt;/em&gt;, to be clear, but many others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your comment asked a good question.  The ideal response would be for somebody to edit the answer to address that concern by adding a note that it might come in a different color for easy distinction.  Comments aren't meant to be long-lived (durable content should be in questions and answers), and in the end, while cleaning up the pile there, I decided that this particular point wasn't all that critical here (other answers address ways to distinguish your mug from others').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That still leaves the part of your comment that said that this is a kind/gracious response.  A later comment covered that in a little more detail so I didn't think we need two, so I deleted yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was nothing wrong with your comment &lt;em&gt;on its own&lt;/em&gt;; it was just a victim of circumstances.  I'm sorry this caused you any upset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.357" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T14:44:55.673" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2989" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-25T16:53:07.980" Score="8" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related to this question - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/36711/2322&quot;&gt;Should I include side project in resume?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is very similar to multiple previous questions. Additionally we often get questions around this subject, there are questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/1272/2322&quot;&gt;Are side projects acceptable &amp;quot;work experience&amp;quot; for an entry level worker?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/35413/2322&quot;&gt;How should I list a paying side project that is concurrent with &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; job?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/9553/2322&quot;&gt;How do I mention my spare time projects in resume?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/12067/2322&quot;&gt;Should I list a technology blog on my resume?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/28103/2322&quot;&gt;Adding hobby projects to resume?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention the numerous questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=side+project&quot;&gt;related to side projects&lt;/a&gt;. I'm sure I missed several but there are many &lt;strong&gt;many&lt;/strong&gt; questions on this site all nearly identical. This one had some close votes and I cast the fourth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure how to best proceed on these sorts of questions. We get them &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; often and nearly all of them relate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am thinking it might be beneficial to somehow combine or otherwise create a cannonical question addressing, &quot;How should I represent side projects and hobbies on my resume?&quot; in a single question which can more completely be referenced for ALL questions on this topic. Similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/896/2322&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; for salary expectation questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2014-12-05T12:54:39.547" Title="Side projects on resumes" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2989" CreationDate="2014-11-25T19:03:33.163" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this sounds like a really good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To flesh out the comments, I think that there maybe need to be a couple of different answer types (or perhaps two questions):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The one for the newbies&lt;/strong&gt; who desperately need experience in their field and maybe have done small projects, and &lt;strong&gt;one for experienced people&lt;/strong&gt; with larger projects, possibly in a different field. I'd certainly answer the two differently - prestigious / exciting 'side projects' may be too big to consider as a side project at all, whereas a quick'n'easy side project done to demonstrate ability may well be worthwhile but still small fry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12655" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T19:03:33.163" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2991" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2992" CreationDate="2014-11-27T15:12:43.100" Score="3" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/36463/is-it-automatically-bad-to-install-steam-on-your-office-computer-and-run-it-duri&quot;&gt;Is the subject of installing Steam on your office computer one which should&amp;#39;t even be mentioned?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was not a company-specific question.  Even before I edited the question, it was clear that I was asking about a universal practice about whether it's generally considered acceptable to even &lt;strong&gt;ask&lt;/strong&gt; about it in &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; workplace.  If this were company-specific, I would have just taken care of it myself and asked my superiors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was starting to remove this account, for several different reasons, but it's taking long enough for me to start to think about changing my mind.  But I wanted to know whether it was generally considered bad practice to even ask your bosses about this, this was clear from before I edited the question, and people shouldn't have to edit their questions and run to meta every time they don't word something with the same quality as a best-selling novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please reopen.  Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Wasn't sure to tag this with &lt;code&gt;discussion&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;support&lt;/code&gt;.  One of them was basically required, so I just went with both for now.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12532" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T23:33:35.193" Title="Please reopen a post about what's generally acceptable to ask superiors or read into the employee handbook" Tags="|discussion|support|status-completed|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2991" CreationDate="2014-11-27T17:48:46.687" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that with the edits this question is on-topic here.  I don't think it's about company-specific policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it should be answered in an IT-agnostic way; if a company has IT policies about installing software then of course that needs to be taken into account, but otherwise, is there a stigma about games? That's a reasonable question IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the edits, the question received two reopen votes (which aged away) and three &quot;leave closed&quot; votes in the review queue.  I'd like to see more community support before using mod powers to unilaterally reopen.  I encourage people to take another look at vote to reopen (if you can) or comment on this meta question.  Of course, if you feel it should remain closed please also use this meta question to discuss that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T17:48:46.687" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2993" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-03T07:37:23.910" Score="10" ViewCount="1167" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the context of Workplace, what makes a question close-worthy based on this reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;primarily opinion-based&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this makes much sense for many Stack Exchange sites, where facts and references are expected, I'm having difficulty seeing how the lion's share of questions here &lt;em&gt;could not be&lt;/em&gt; primarily opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, a moderator decided this question was close worthy for that reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/36790/how-to-deal-if-female-colleagues-dressing-style-is-disturbing-me&quot;&gt;How can I interact professionally with female colleagues whose appearance I find distracting?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can't disagree that this situation is subjective, I fail to see how this would be different from the many (unclosed) questions of a similar style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/19740/how-to-deal-with-a-colleague-who-wants-to-groom-me-for-the-job-unsolicited?rq=1&quot;&gt;How to deal with a colleague who wants to groom me for the job unsolicited?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27518/how-to-deal-with-egotistical-arrogant-senior-colleague?rq=1&quot;&gt;How to deal with egotistical, arrogant senior 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href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11044/how-to-deal-with-unresponsive-colleagues&quot;&gt;How to deal with &amp;quot;unresponsive&amp;quot; colleagues?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18215/how-to-deal-with-an-incompetent-colleague&quot;&gt;How to deal with an incompetent colleague?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9446/how-can-i-deal-with-favoritism&quot;&gt;How can I deal with favoritism?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/20780/how-to-deal-with-know-it-alls&quot;&gt;How to deal with subordinate know-it-all&amp;#39;s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a 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href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/21632/how-do-i-deal-with-a-co-worker-who-thinks-his-own-shortcomings-are-funny&quot;&gt;How do I deal with a co-worker who thinks his own shortcomings are funny?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/6973/how-do-i-deal-with-a-boss-who-is-not-doing-her-job-and-gets-defensive-when-asked&quot;&gt;How do I deal with a boss who is not doing her job and gets defensive when asked for her help?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Curiously, I found that the question of distracting dress was if anything was &lt;em&gt;less opinionated,&lt;/em&gt; judging by the number of empirical studies referenced in its answers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the distinction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8769" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T09:32:55.890" Title="What are &quot;opinion-based&quot; questions?" 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  <row Id="2994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2993" CreationDate="2014-12-03T16:57:14.303" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're not the only one who struggled to see &amp;quot;how the lion's share of questions here could not be primarily opinion-based.&amp;quot; I, along with many others here and elsewhere on Stack Exchange, struggled with this for a long time... Robert Cartaino put together &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;some pretty good guidelines for constructing questions that discourage answers consisting of little beyond unsubstantiated opinions&lt;/a&gt;, but the epiphany for me came with the blog post &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real Questions Have Answers&lt;/a&gt; which built on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/75168/should-polls-be-maintained-as-community-wiki-questions-or-should-they-be-closed/75179#75179&quot;&gt;Aarobot's answer regarding poll questions&lt;/a&gt;. You should take some time to read &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of those posts, but the relevant portion boils down to this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Does the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; provide criteria for evaluating the usefulness of the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything else builds on that. If the asker constructs a framework for evaluating the answers, then we're no longer left to judge each answer based &lt;em&gt;solely&lt;/em&gt; on our own subjective opinions; we can instead attempt to gauge whether or not they solve the asker's problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the question I closed - as well as some of the other questions in your list - fail to provide that framework. We're given a scenario in which the asker feels uncomfortable, but not a desired outcome nor any constraints that might necessarily apply to the solution. That doesn't prevent good answers (there are a couple of them posted there), but it doesn't discourage bad ones either - and worse yet, it robs us of the ability to quickly &lt;em&gt;identify&lt;/em&gt; bad answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/238594/how-many-questions-escape-community-protection-because-of-reputation-gained-with&quot;&gt;a school of thought&lt;/a&gt; that says the solution to this is to just clamp down harder on new users when an open-ended question is posted. But while that can buy y'all time to reformulate a question, it doesn't solve anything if you don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/36790/how-to-deal-if-female-colleagues-dressing-style-is-disturbing-me/36792#36792&quot;&gt;the well-regarded answers on that question&lt;/a&gt; was posted by a veteran member of this site, and boils down to &amp;quot;just ignore it&amp;quot;. That... Probably doesn't solve the asker's problem. Indeed, if he'd been willing to flesh out his problem a bit more, I suspect we'd find he was already &lt;em&gt;trying&lt;/em&gt; to ignore distractions and failing... &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/19740/how-to-deal-with-a-colleague-who-wants-to-groom-me-for-the-job-unsolicited&quot;&gt;This has been the case in the past&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's the root of the problem here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1819/how-do-i-deal-with-the-fact-that-im-awesome-and-everyone-around-me-sucks&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;How can I deal with this?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; ...is not an answerable question.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without anything more specific than &amp;quot;how do I deal/handle?&amp;quot;, these become &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2644/good-subjective-bad-subjective-and-agony-aunt-questions&quot;&gt;classic Agony Aunt questions&lt;/a&gt;. The asker is struggling with something, and presents us with his tale of woe... &lt;strong&gt;But doesn't identify what he actually wants to accomplish or what's preventing him from accomplishing it.&lt;/strong&gt; So our army of helpful Agony Aunts jumps into action and lays out their trademark advice. &amp;quot;Toughen up!&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Quit your job!&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Have you tried a nice cup of hot tea?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They make for good reading while you're having your morning coffee and danish. Hey, Pauline Phillips is dead; gotta get your cheap feelings of moral superiority &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt;, right? &lt;strong&gt;But they &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; make for good answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when I see questions like this, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2644/good-subjective-bad-subjective-and-agony-aunt-questions&quot;&gt;I follow jmac's advice&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest thing we have to a tool for dealing with these questions is the primarily opinion-based close reason&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't want to do likewise, then I recommend &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1819/how-do-i-deal-with-the-fact-that-im-awesome-and-everyone-around-me-sucks/1820#1820&quot;&gt;following jmort's lead&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;we can make a huge difference by editing and leaving constructive, helpful comments -- comments which accompany close votes yet are as nice and encouraging as possible. To salvage these posts, we'll have to be a little more forceful in our edits and take some risks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did the former earlier, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/36790/revisions&quot;&gt;now I've attempted to do the latter:&lt;/a&gt; replacing the closing &amp;quot;how do I personally handle this?&amp;quot; with a specific goal and a request for help in accomplishing it. &lt;strong&gt;Note that this completely invalidates several existing answers to the question&lt;/strong&gt; - in particular, &amp;quot;get over it&amp;quot; is in no way an answer. Invalidating existing answers is never fun; ideally, such corrections would be made &lt;em&gt;before the question is answered&lt;/em&gt; - but if there are answers worth preserving, it is better late than never.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Whatever&lt;/em&gt; option you choose, &lt;strong&gt;don't leave these questions to fester&lt;/strong&gt;, or pin your hope on a technical solution. Turning these questions into something answerable or shutting them down are the two options here; if you don't do either, they'll assuredly come back to bite you on down the road. &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/the-six-subjective-question-guidelines-enforcement-notice&quot;&gt;It's happened before.&lt;/a&gt; And...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gorgon-crona.deviantart.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/33DtM.png&quot; alt=&quot;I can't deal with that&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T19:06:19.113" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2620" CreationDate="2014-12-03T17:03:52.220" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answering the general question about &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot;, and not addressing the specific examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, if a question reasonably invites supported answers (based on studies, trend analysis, pure reason, etc), then it's not &lt;em&gt;primarily&lt;/em&gt; opinion-based even if it asks for opinions.  On the other hand, if a question is likely to draw only &quot;well I think you should do X&quot; responses, that's primarily opinion-based and should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes this is just a matter of wording.  &quot;Which is better, a big company or a small one?&quot; is primarily opinion-based.  On the other hand, &quot;what are the major differences between working for a large company (100k employees internationally) and a small start-up (10 people in an incubator environment)?&quot; is more concrete and answerable.  Notice what I did there; just asking about the differences between &quot;large&quot; and &quot;small&quot; would still be problematic, though maybe &quot;too broad&quot; at that point.  Even better than this would be &quot;how do I evaluate offers from...? I'm already considering X, Y, and Z factors; what have I missed?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask questions that benefit from expert analysis.  Don't ask questions that are better suited for chatting with your friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T17:03:52.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2993" CreationDate="2014-12-03T18:41:17.343" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2994/325&quot;&gt;Shog's answer&lt;/a&gt; raises some good points, but it misses the mark in some fundamental ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've had, and closed, many &quot;agony aunt&quot; questions.  This is not one of them.  Especially with the community edits, the question focuses on what the OP can do when placed in this uncomfortable position.  It meets the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2995/325&quot;&gt;bar I just laid out in another meta post&lt;/a&gt; for not being &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot;.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;  We get a lot of those too, but this isn't one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP is not asking for validation; he's asking for a coping mechanism.  I think that's reasonable.  Could it be more specific?  Yes, certainly -- in particular, it would be helpful to know what he's already tried.  I think it's pretty obvious that the desired outcome is &quot;still working here and not feeling uncomfortable&quot;, and it seems fairly clear to me that he's not trying to change &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; behavior but &lt;em&gt;his&lt;/em&gt;.  That's reasonably scoped.  As as the OP of this meta question points out, many other such questions have done fine here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shog points out one answer as unhelpful.  I agree with that assessment.  That answer went through the low-quality-posts review queue &lt;em&gt;twice&lt;/em&gt;, which should tell you something about its flag history, but ultimately it was not deleted by the community.  I seriously considered deleting it myself based on all the negative feedback I saw, but in the end I didn't -- while it is my opinion a &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; answer, it's not a &lt;em&gt;non-answer&lt;/em&gt;.  Shog has argued for letting considerably worse than that stand on other sites, saying that the remedy for a bad answer is a downvote.  That's what I followed here.  For those who can't see it, that answer has 16 downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely the solution to a bad answer isn't to close the question; if it were, a few people could wreak havoc on sites across the network.  Rather, the solution is for the community to use downvotes and deletion votes.  Or tell us clearly that you want the mods to take a firmer hand.  Or, you know, edit it if there's something to be salvaged; 58 people apparently think there's merit there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I'm not citing that post as a source of authority; I'm citing it to avoid repeating myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:40:25.820" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T18:41:17.343" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2993" CreationDate="2014-12-04T09:32:55.890" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't going to go out on a limb, but since the statement was made referring...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/238594/how-many-questions-escape-community-protection-because-of-reputation-gained-with&quot;&gt;a school of thought&lt;/a&gt; that says the solution to this is to just clamp down harder on new users&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...I would like to address that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To start with, if you click the link &lt;em&gt;clamped&lt;/em&gt; as &quot;school of thought&quot;, you'll find plain support request to provide statistics to learn whether particular feature works as intended. There is nothing there indicating desire for &quot;clamping harder&quot; (few isolated examples in comments only serve to illustrate that stats are requested not just of idle curiosity).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the system that &quot;clamps&quot; new users, it is already there, for about half year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/226619/165773&quot;&gt;Auto-protect questions that get more than N answers from new users in a 24-hour period&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &quot;school of thought&quot; that established &lt;em&gt;clamping new users&lt;/em&gt; is Stack Exchange team&lt;/strong&gt;. And they did it network wide, not just for Workplace. Except for using couple of our posts to demonstrate details of the new system, its announcement did not even mention Workplace as a specifically troublesome site...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...which is not surprising. Per my observations, at Workplace (as opposed to, say, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/271158/839601&quot; title=&quot;example: ten repetitive one-liner answers tolerated at the question with over 200K views, go figure&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;) we have got a fairly strong &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1627/168&quot;&gt;culture&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/255/168&quot;&gt;norms&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2468/my-manager-hopelessly-sucks-what-do-i-do-just-quit#comment4237_2468&quot; title=&quot;&amp;#39;When it comes to moderation, I hold positively scored posts to a higher standard than the negative ones...&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;moderator will&lt;/a&gt; to deal with troublesome answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe we can handle this with the help of the system and without such help. And even when system is actively working &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/237391/165773&quot; title=&quot;by advertising close-worthy questions&quot;&gt;against site community&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T09:32:55.890" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2998" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2999" CreationDate="2014-12-04T19:45:58.743" Score="15" ViewCount="462" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is becoming too focused - in question type, but also language used - on software workplace issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now we have a question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/37019/8146&quot;&gt;about the difference between junior and senior engineers.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is really an &quot;appropriate&quot; workplace question, it utterly relates to programming, and not to the workplace. It should be moved to the programmers site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't draw attention to a one off, but I'm noticing a lot of &quot;engineering&quot; questions popping up here. This isn't &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; a site for engineers trying to navigate between SAP and Software Masters and Google. It is a site for people from all different roles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get the feeling that the constant rise of &quot;engineering-focused&quot; questions is going to effectively change this from &quot;The Workplace&quot; to &quot;The Engineers Workplace&quot;. Can we migrate this question, and possibly consider some type of &quot;white-washing&quot; overly specific engineering questions to become more generic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As as example of white-washing, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/37069/8146&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; makes use of agile terminology (&quot;sprints&quot;), which aren't used outside of software engineering. I would argue that this question should really be edited to remove all engineering specific language, unless it is obviously pertinent to the question. It is a pretty generic question, but with the terminology used it becomes both useless to a non-engineer, and implicitly makes the site more for engineering than other careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would reduce the overall feel of this being a site for engineers to discuss coding, and might end up welcoming questions from more diverse careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T08:51:25.077" Title="This is becoming too engineering focused" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2998" CreationDate="2014-12-04T20:32:57.343" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have a ton of time right now, but here is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1774/2322&quot;&gt;related answer I wrote previously&lt;/a&gt;. I think that's still applicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Realistically, most questions here which are &quot;software dev&quot; have problems not specific to software development. The ones that are specific are generally either 1) bad questions or 2) &quot;tell me what job/skills to take.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These can almost always be easily edited to remove the specificness of software development. In this case, it really can't, and I just closed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That would reduce the overall feel of this being a site for engineers to discuss coding, and might end up welcoming questions from more diverse careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think part of the problem is several of the more active editors from previous times are not as active. This site is community moderated. Everyone can edit posts (if you have less than 2,000 reputation it will go to a review queue). Anyone with over 3,000 reputation can vote to close and those without it can flag to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/37053/2322&quot;&gt;Here is an example&lt;/a&gt; of a question like I'm describing. The &lt;em&gt;core question&lt;/em&gt; has nothing to do with Computer Science - I just &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/37053/revisions&quot;&gt;edited it&lt;/a&gt; to remove that part.  This is possible on many questions specific to software/engineering and generally those which it is not true for should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took a few minutes and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/37069/revisions&quot;&gt;significantly edited&lt;/a&gt; the second question. This is a good example of a question where the core question has &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; to do with software development and can be edited out, to focus on what is actually being asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2014-12-05T04:47:59.003" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2989" CreationDate="2014-12-05T12:54:39.547" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a really good idea too. How about something like the following? (I've just included bullet points as headers - obviously it will need fleshing out!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Q: How should I represent side projects and hobbies on my resume?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alongside my full-time job, I've worked on a variety of smaller projects that I think have taught me skills I'd like to bring out when applying for future roles. How can I bring these out without employers thinking &quot;less&quot; of them for not being fully-fledged positions?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Is my hobby or side-project worth including on my resume at all?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Discussion of types of projects, the difference between a hobby and a project, scope, and how to judge a project's worth from an employer's perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- What kind of things should I think about writing when I list my side project?&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;Details on how to extract skills and figures from the project and think about the impact the project as had, even if it is not a business-oriented one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- What other experience should I group side projects with on my resume?&lt;/strong&gt; Answers questions about whether it should come under &quot;Volunteering&quot;, &quot;Work Experience&quot;, &quot;Hobbies&quot;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- My supervisor/friend/next-door-neighbour thinks it's not worthwhile if it's not paid - how can I convince them otherwise?&lt;/strong&gt; Covers things like contribution to worthwhile open source projects and considers ways to spin them positively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- I was doing paid work part time alongside my old job, and I don't want potential new bosses to think I'm not dedicated to the day job. How do I include both?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Covers a quite specific situation, but is a question I'm sure many people have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this covers most bases, as it breaks a project down into several aspects than could apply to both an ongoing position or a small contribution. Bullet points can also be added to cover other cases if required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user29632" LastActivityDate="2014-12-05T12:54:39.547" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3001" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-08T16:07:34.890" Score="4" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there anything we can do regarding the huge number of questions along the lines of: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;I've been offered Job A and am waiting for an offer on Job B, can I accept Job A's offer and renege on it later?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;How do I turn down a job offer to accept another?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Can I accept a job while waiting for another interview?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;How do I ask a company to speed up their interview process so that I don't have to decline another job?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etc. Is there anything we can do about these other than flag them as duplicates? What's the preferred method to deal with them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28766" LastEditorUserId="28766" LastEditDate="2014-12-08T16:52:57.980" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T00:07:26.683" Title="&quot;Two job offers/application processes&quot; questions (Job A vs Job B) - there are a LOT" Tags="|discussion|best-practice|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3001" CreationDate="2014-12-09T00:07:26.683" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the questions relating to how to I accept an offer when I have: already accepted another; or started last week, or want to leave a company on short notice; the OP generally has already decided what they want to do, but they want help in executing the plan. That is where it seems impossible to stop people from wanting to ask their version of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They always see their condition as special: I am just out of college; I had no idea the other company would make an offer; The other company is more well known; bigger; smaller; I never expected ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their goal is to find the perfect sentence that will allow them to change their mind, but not close a door on the first company, and not feel guilty about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when the question is closed as a duplicate the OP goes quietly into the night; other times they don't. I used to flag them as duplicates but now I get the feeling that it isn't worth it because it takes too long to find an exact duplicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T00:07:26.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3005" CreationDate="2014-12-09T19:29:54.427" Score="5" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this ok to reopen given the edits I made?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/37248/8146&quot;&gt;How do I represent a lengthy career marred by a recent short stint at a role I was let go from in my CV?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-03-04T04:30:43.937" LastActivityDate="2018-03-04T04:30:43.937" Title="(Done) Is this viable for reopening?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3004" CreationDate="2014-12-10T03:18:10.417" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It had 3 reopen votes - I just cast the fourth (and binding).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Great edit!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T03:18:10.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3006" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-12T12:07:07.080" Score="6" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/38454/8146&quot;&gt;about a male gender specific job platform&lt;/a&gt; is actually referring to (as near as I can tell) &lt;a href=&quot;http://ablystaffing.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;to this site&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know why the OP decided to change the gender in the quotes, but it is misleading, and would &lt;em&gt;imply&lt;/em&gt; some sort of gender-related political message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this site is the vehicle through which legal advice is meant to be disseminated, so the question is already off topic. It also seems to be a springboard for some sort of gender-related political message, and in the very least deliberately misleads in the language of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this site really need to be embroiled in gender politics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T12:07:07.080" Title="Can we close this gender-politics question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5" CreationDate="2014-12-16T15:21:38.577" Score="-1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;linked blog post&lt;/a&gt;, there are specific qualities desired in subjective answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Back It Up! Principle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something that happened to you personally&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something you can back up with a reference&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;{...}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our FAQ even specifically has this text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that &lt;strong&gt;answers should be backed up&lt;/strong&gt; either with a reference, or experiences that happened to you personally. &lt;strong&gt;You should always include in your answer information about why you think your answer is correct.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each answer &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be backed up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You should always include in your answer information about why you think your answer is correct.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...And while many great answers do either cite a source or retell a story based on personal experience - &lt;em&gt;You are &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; required to do so.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Logic&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;metaphors&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;common-sense&lt;/strong&gt; can form the backbone of a great answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the following historical figures. They would all easily achieve &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;-like status if they participated in Workplace.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jesus Christ&lt;/strong&gt; might use parables to back up His answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aristotle&lt;/strong&gt; might use logic to back up his answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Confucius&lt;/strong&gt; might appeal to Confucianism (as an ethical and philosophical system) to back up his answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Benjamim Franklin&lt;/strong&gt; might use pithy sayings packing enormous wisdom to back up his answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet none of them would be too fastidious about citing sources or retelling personal stories!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T15:21:38.577" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3008" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-16T20:24:18.513" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;We see lots of questions both here and on &lt;a href=&quot;http://programmers.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Programmer's&lt;/a&gt; along the lines of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I graduated and went on an interview and they asked questions I couldn't answer. Was I really supposed to be learning that stuff? No one told me. It's not fair. I have my diploma and someone owes me a job.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems to be the Dunning-Kreuger effect in action. The graduate didn't really learn the material and doesn't understand that some students mastered it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of these questions are closed as &quot;not a real question&quot; or &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot; but they keep coming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there somewhere we can write the canonical answer to these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94" LastEditorUserId="94" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T21:40:50.387" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T02:32:57.840" Title="Do we need a canonical answer to &quot;I got my degree but then I interviewed and the questions were too hard.&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3008" CreationDate="2014-12-17T02:32:57.840" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hear you, but I wouldn't really worry about it or lose any sleep over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Merry Christmas!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T02:32:57.840" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3016" CreationDate="2014-12-17T20:55:45.043" Score="6" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a bunch of very old questions being edited for minor grammatical and phraseology changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just tidying up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's getting rather tedious to see all these old questions dredged up and pop up to the top, only to find the reason is a very minor edit. Nothing new or interesting is ever added to improve the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be better to block edits for very old questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2014-12-20T13:24:47.090" LastActivityDate="2014-12-21T23:55:05.110" Title="Should we block edits of very old questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3010" CreationDate="2014-12-17T21:28:23.993" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably a result of users trying to unlock the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/245397/265769&quot;&gt;time lord hat for winterbash&lt;/a&gt;, which involves editing 5 questions that are at least one year old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T21:39:43.320" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2998" CreationDate="2014-12-18T17:39:55.653" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I felt that I should answer this as one of the original members of the Area51 proposal and site beta, AND as a community moderator on Programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the key reasons that the Workplace proposal even came to be was as a result of the Programmers site trying to transform itself from Stack Overflow's garbage heap of soft, unfocused and frankly poor quality non code related questions to a site that focuses on core software development matters that have objective answers and are not focused on code or implementation.  One of the hurdles of reaching this goal was that nearly half of all questions were being closed, many of those because they were career and workplace style questions that were general enough to really apply to anybody working in an office or any kind of IT project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hope was that a site could be built for people that had general career, workplace questions and stop the deluge of off topic questions from making it to our site.  It was clearly a resounding success, now the problem is really the opposite one for this site now.  Where Programmers was having a deluge of general workplace questions, now Workplace is getting a deluge of software development specific workplace questions and this is likely dissuading non developers and even more so for non IT workers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me make one thing perfectly clear to start:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Programmers Help Center&lt;/a&gt; on what is Off Topic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;general workplace issues, office politics, and job hunting (check out The Workplace instead)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;career advice, salary, or compensation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions absolutely do not belong on Programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that being said, my suggestion to improve things on the Workplace fall in line with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2999/168&quot;&gt;enderland's answer&lt;/a&gt;.  We need to make a concerted editing effort to remove extraneous software development and engineering related information from questions wherever possible.  This is challenging though because some of the best most applicable answers to some of these amazing questions could only be written by a software developer, for software developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shouldn't be a surprise that developers and engineers vastly outnumber non IT related people on this site.  This is an overall Stack Exchange problem that they have massive popularity in their flagship sites: Stack Overflow, Super User and Server Fault amongst the development community around the world, but then they struggle rather significantly to built popularity and gather experts in a user base that isn't composed of IT folk.  Sites like Quora IMHO do a much better job of marketing and attracting experts in other fields.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So essentially the deeper problem at play here is one that only Stack Exchange can solve.  The more specific problem this site faces is a symptom of this.  In the past when the direction of the site is at odds with the general community, we tend to solve it by the community splitting out into another site, or helping to build a more specific site for such questions to belong to.  Perhaps the answer is another Area 51 Proposal for a Software Development Workplace site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T08:51:25.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3013" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3014" CreationDate="2014-12-19T16:02:33.410" Score="2" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/38650/325&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; has one delete vote, one reopen vote, one offensive flag, and a lot of discussion in comments (some of which are also flagged).  What should be done with this question?  Please discuss here, not in further comments that mostly won't be seen.  Or just act -- if you've got votes in either direction, use 'em.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T18:47:12.727" Title="What should be done with the &quot;Christmas party slap&quot; question?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3013" CreationDate="2014-12-19T20:03:38.407" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this question can be reopened until it becomes a specific, answerable question. Right now the question boils down to &quot;I did something bad, now there are consequences, I have stress, what should I do?&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments and answers seem to focus on varying degrees of &quot;OP you shouldn't have done that, deal with the consequences and don't do it again&quot;. From my perspective, these are not useful answers to the OP or future google guests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similarly themed question on academia, &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/30539&quot;&gt;I was caught cheating on an exam, how can I minimize the damage?&lt;/a&gt; is a much better question because of its tone as well as listing out specifically what the OP is looking for as an outcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The academia question also has fantastic answers that explain why and how the OP should learn from this. Our christmas party slap answers are nowhere near that level of quality yet, and won't be able to reach that level until the quality of the question improves to the point where it is answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leave it closed, let the community edit it&lt;/strong&gt;, the edits will kick it into the reopen queue and the reopen voters will move it appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19612" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:49:56.923" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T20:03:38.407" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3010" CreationDate="2014-12-21T13:16:06.383" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have nothing against somebody else volunteering to do the tidying up. Most of those who do the tidying up seem to be newcomers or occasional participants to the site and I personally welcome their efforts to contribute in a positive capacity. Neatness counts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not crazy about edits to old questions that do something substantial by redirecting the thrust of the question and thus introduce a misalignment between the newly edited question and the answers that were provided for the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16993" LastActivityDate="2014-12-21T13:16:06.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3010" CreationDate="2014-12-21T20:41:18.070" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we should categorically block edits to old questions; if someone comes across an old, unanswered, little-viewed question and that's because it's badly written, I &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; that person to improve it if possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I ask people to be mindful of the effects of editing: an edit bumps the post, which is right and proper, but bumping old posts 20 at a time pushes 20 &lt;em&gt;newer&lt;/em&gt; posts &lt;em&gt;off&lt;/em&gt; the front page, depriving them of attention.  So, try to be polite -- edit things that are &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; on the front page or do older ones in smaller batches so that we can help people who had great questions just yesterday, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in the current case many of the edits were done by people without enough reputation to edit directly.  That means people needed to approve those edits.  When going through the suggested-edits queue, it's a good idea to be mindful of the cumulative effect of your approvals.  Maybe some suggestions should just wait in the queue a while longer.  (Or if they're too minor, you can reject them.)  If we all try to do our part we can improve the posts on the site without pushing new posts off the front page too quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2014-12-21T23:55:05.110" LastActivityDate="2014-12-21T23:55:05.110" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3017" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-28T08:40:44.940" Score="2" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an on-hold question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/38804/dropping-off-your-resume-in-person-for-a-job-that-does-not-exist&quot;&gt;Dropping off your resume in person for a job that does not exist&lt;/a&gt;. Whilst an answer is probably subjective unless anyone is aware of peer-reviewed literature on the matter, I think detailed constructive answers are possible. Given the reason for being on-hold is 'advice on what to do' a charge which could be made against many allowed questions on this site I was wondering if further details can be given on the offending nature so I can avoid it in future and perhaps amend this question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27635" LastEditorUserId="27635" LastEditDate="2014-12-28T16:17:31.613" LastActivityDate="2014-12-28T18:05:19.870" Title="Is it possible to reopen this question or add some details about what makes it off topic?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3017" CreationDate="2014-12-28T18:05:19.870" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question could possibly be edited to fit our format.  For example, it could fit a lot better if the questioned contained more details about the problem you want to solve. In its current form it feels a bit speculative. This doesn't mean there is no hope for the question just that more specifics would give answerers a stronger idea of what kind of job you're applying for, what you have tried unsuccessfully so far, etc.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you could also include some research you've found on how to create your own job.  This may also be helpful but is not necessarily required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is no guarantee that this makes it fit our topic, but please feel free to jump into The Workplace chat if you want to run anything by core community members.  Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-12-28T18:05:19.870" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3019" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-29T17:32:53.450" Score="11" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently visited &lt;a href=&quot;http://workplace.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;WorkPlace&lt;/a&gt; for the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the front page, it looks like most questions have multiple downvotes, and many questions are closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm all for downvoting and closing bad questions (and hopefully leaving constructive feedback at the same time), but this seems out of control!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the work of a few disgruntled down-voters? or is the level of snark on the Workplace.SE just out of control?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30630" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T17:47:06.560" Title="Many Q's downvoted and closed?" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3019" CreationDate="2014-12-29T17:47:06.560" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Workplace SE, like many other SE sites, focuses on specific goals. Specifically, questions should be about a real problem faced in the workplace and should be something we can answer factually without guesswork.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at a few down voted questions on the main page, they can be improved via editing by focusing on the quality of the communications.  If you feel a question has hidden value, edit it to make sure it is well written, using good spelling and grammar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also leave comments to ask the askers clarifying questions that will help unearth enough detail to make the questions more answerable with facts and references. While not a guarantee, this may help get the questions upvoted and reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T17:47:06.560" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3022" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-01T02:42:17.873" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I am pretty sure I accepted an answer given by a poster named HLKEM to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/38910/improving-communication-with-international-coworkers-from-another-culture/38925#38925&quot;&gt;this question here&lt;/a&gt;. However, just now I went back to add some relevant details, and the green checkmark signifying that the answer was chosen by me as been the best was no longer present. I am sure I did not remove it. The checkmark seen right now was placed there by myself prior to writing this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondarily, the order of the answers seem to have been swapped. Although @Scaahu's answer has one more up vote (3) than HLKEM's(2), its been moved downwards in the answers listed. Usually, answers are rated in descending order by # of up-votes, no?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could have happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T22:53:54.033" Title="Accepted answer to question no longer shows green check mark + change in answer order" Tags="|bug|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3023" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-01T03:14:29.647" Score="5" ViewCount="318" Body="&lt;p&gt;The dawn of a new year, 2015, now approaches, or has already approached, either way it means that it is now time for the site's first new cycle of Community Promotion Ads!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;at-the-office story blogs &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;220 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/3023&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2020-12-30T03:22:56.323" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2015" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T03:14:29.647" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3023" CreationDate="2015-01-01T03:14:29.647" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/StackWorkplace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/23CD7.png&quot; alt=&quot;Help this community grow -- follow us on twitter!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T03:14:29.647" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T03:14:29.647" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3022" CreationDate="2015-01-01T22:53:54.033" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see anything suspicious in the post history.  Is it possible that you mis-clicked or accidentally clicked again to unaccept it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the sorting, the accepted answer is always shown first regardless of voting, &lt;em&gt;unless&lt;/em&gt; it's a self-answer.  If you accept your own answer to your question it is sorted by votes.  You can use the controls on any question to sort answers by age, most-recently active, or score; the default is score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T22:53:54.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3023" CreationDate="2015-01-01T22:55:18.363" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://startups.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qs0TF.png&quot; alt=&quot;Visit Startups.SE!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T22:55:18.363" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T22:55:18.363" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3023" CreationDate="2015-01-01T22:56:55.330" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/20323/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x9tUK.png&quot; alt=&quot;First job? We can help!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T22:56:55.330" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T22:56:55.330" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3028" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-02T09:55:24.407" Score="8" ViewCount="605" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/38765/is-there-a-standard-or-professional-way-to-call-off-because-youre-too-drunk-to&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/38765/is-there-a-standard-or-professional-way-to-call-off-because-youre-too-drunk-to&lt;/a&gt; is a worrying one, however, there's still a case for it to be permissable on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I find concerning, however, is it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/38781/1956&quot;&gt;accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;, which tells the OP to lie to his boss and advises of psychological 'ways around' the impending bad credit that the OP will inevitably get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that this answer in-particular is against the sentiments of this site, which advocates professionalism. The answer itself is not professional, and exists on very shaky moral grounds. I find it very difficult to understand a reason for this answer still existing on the site, other than the fact that the OP finds it useful (for reasons that it supports his attitudes to work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If users are to use the advice given in the accepted answer, then it may cause the user to be discredited, or even disciplinary action could be taken against the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we close/delete the answer?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Alternatively, perhaps we can open a dicussion on it. Am I alone in my views?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1956" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T06:40:56.597" Title="How should we deal with the drunk driving question's accepted answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3028" CreationDate="2015-01-02T19:38:38.640" Score="15" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What I find concerning, however, is it's accepted answer, which tells&#xA;  the OP to lie to his boss and advises of psychological 'ways around'&#xA;  the impending bad credit that the OP will inevitably get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I feel that this answer in-particular is against the sentiments of&#xA;  this site, which advocates professionalism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original poster gets to determine which answer to his question is accepted, not the &quot;sentiments of the site&quot;. Them's the rules around here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the question is just trolling, and I voted that it be deleted, but not due to which answer was accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2015-01-02T20:08:57.893" LastActivityDate="2015-01-02T20:08:57.893" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3028" CreationDate="2015-01-03T05:04:09.460" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question feels more like something that would fit a mental health site than a professional workplace question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On closed questions, askers should make an effort to work with the community to fix whatever problems exist with a post. In this case, the asker didn't want to make any changes. Hence, I went ahead and removed the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T05:04:09.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3028" CreationDate="2015-01-03T23:11:38.190" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree that it isn't the most professional question, there are many others about fake sick days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer answers the question, the problem is the question, which isn't really suitable&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no professional way to respond to a question regarding being too drunk to drive (and therefore too drunk to work), as the very nature of the problem is a lack of professionalism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28766" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T23:11:38.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3032" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-03T23:39:30.450" Score="34" ViewCount="716" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know there are a few posts like this one, but this isn't an &quot;answer&quot; per se. It's an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those of us who have been on this SE for at least a couple of weeks, know the general idea behind writing a question that's relevant for this SE. However, most of those who ask questions, are completely new to the SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I write a question on Workplace, I have to choose my words very delicately in order to not get downvoted and closed. Those who are new here, don't know this. They are asking questions specific to their workplace and situation, because that's what they need help with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, the Workplace StackExchange seems like its community is very bitter. And most of the questions that aren't being closed or put on hold, are asked by those who already have a non-trivial amount of points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line, being new on this SE is hard. And some of the comments people leave are just insensitive and rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27480" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T06:35:52.740" Title="People don't know they're walking on egg shells" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3034" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3035" CreationDate="2015-01-05T04:52:17.367" Score="11" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of questions start with a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; long-winded story, before getting to the actual question. I recognize that for the type of questions asked here, some context is necessary to provide good answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, 5 or more &lt;em&gt;paragraphs&lt;/em&gt; describing the author's education, all of their past jobs, the projects worked on during those jobs, how far their workplace is, how they commute to work, details of their colleagues' personalities, company policies that they don't agree with, the size of their office, and so on and on&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, before coming to a single sentence question is unnecessary and avoidable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I honestly lose interest in the question if I cannot figure out a tangible issue within the first 3 paragraphs or so, which is especially worse if it starts with a poor title, such as &quot;What should I do in this case?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else see this as a problem? Other than having an established user edit out the irrelevant details from the question each time, is there anything else we can do about it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I am exaggerating a little here ... only a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T05:34:38.550" Title="What can we do about *very* long winded stories in questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3034" CreationDate="2015-01-05T05:34:38.550" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;On The Workplace SE, there is indeed a such thing as &lt;em&gt;too much information™&lt;/em&gt;. Posts that are too short tend to be overly broad and bland, but posts with too much detail, oftentimes written in breathless desperation, tend to contain information that just doesn't matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A post author's goal should be to draw in the reader with interesting content, and posts that go on endlessly do the opposite of this and drive many readers away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes this is a sign the question isn't a good fit for our site, especially if the end result is a &quot;what do you think&quot; type question, but in many cases a comment asking the asker to be more concise, or perhaps helpful edits from the community, can create something much more focused, more interesting, and more easily answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T05:34:38.550" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3036" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3038" CreationDate="2015-01-07T13:26:11.823" Score="8" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;They refer to the same topic. I suggested this in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; and @MattGiltaji pointed me here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30751" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:52:25.040" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:52:25.040" Title="Suggestion: merge tags &quot;remote&quot; and &quot;telecommute&quot;" Tags="|discussion|retag-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3037" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-07T16:32:26.243" Score="5" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;This problem has been discussed before here (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2038/3192&quot;&gt;High volume of questions being put On Hold or Closed - is that a problem?&lt;/a&gt;) and again here (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3019/many-qs-downvoted-and-closed?cb=1&quot;&gt;Many Q&amp;#39;s downvoted and closed?&lt;/a&gt;), so I won't go into that discussion again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if we could &quot;collapse&quot; these questions, with the user having the option of expanding them. This is similar to how&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WEegt.png&quot; alt=&quot;Without expansion&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;expands to the following on clicking the triangle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hc4JA.png&quot; alt=&quot;After expansion&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, right below the ALL QUESTIONS title, we could have an option &quot;See On Hold/Duplicate/Closed Questions&quot;, which when clicked on would show such questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been on SE for long enough to realise that this should be posted on meta.SE, but I thought of posting it here first because other sites may not recognise this as a significant problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.357" LastActivityDate="2015-01-07T16:32:26.243" Title="&quot;Collapse&quot; on-hold, duplicate and closed questions?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3036" CreationDate="2015-01-07T17:09:34.840" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have merged them and created a synonym (from &quot;remote&quot; to &quot;telecommute&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-01-07T17:09:34.840" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3039" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3040" CreationDate="2015-01-08T17:02:52.667" Score="5" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that since the last few days, I am unable to make edits to questions. The &lt;code&gt;edit&lt;/code&gt; option below the question is disabled, although &lt;code&gt;share&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;flag&lt;/code&gt; are available (see below screenshot). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pfenP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Edit is grayed out&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am able to edit &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; though. Hence, it doesn't look like I have been banned from editing, besides I don't recall doing anything &quot;bad&quot; on this site to warrant such a ban. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug with the site? If not, have I been banned from editing questions? If so, I would like to know why, so that I can avoid doing it in future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One such question where I notice this issue is the following:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/40129/3192&quot;&gt;Can a new employer legally change my start date?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realised that I don't see this problem on other questions. There was a bit of confirmation bias at play here. I tried editing &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; question yesterday (still trying to recall what that question was) and saw the option disabled. I decided to edit one question today (the one above), and saw the option disabled again. I just jumped to the conclusion that this option is disabled for me entirely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T17:30:21.310" Title="Why am I unable to edit questions?" Tags="|support|design|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3039" CreationDate="2015-01-08T17:30:21.310" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, that's peculiar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the example you linked to, there is one edit pending already.  If I attempt to edit that question, I'm presented with the pending edit for review.  The system can only handle one pending edit at a time, so that needs to be cleared before another edit can be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't yet have enough reputation to review (or directly make) edits, so the system can't ask you to handle that pending edit first.  So it just punts and doesn't let you submit the edit at all, which is a little confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you get anything useful in the tooltip if you hover over the edit link?  A general guideline on SE is: if you don't understand what you're looking at it, try hovering.  Yeah, we all have to stumble over that and learn it; sorry.  (If there's nothing helpful in the tooltip, please update the question with what you do see and maybe we can at least get that changed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T17:30:21.310" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3042" CreationDate="2015-01-08T18:00:44.073" Score="5" ViewCount="265" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/40131/437&quot;&gt;How common is it that salaries are made public?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is primarily opinion-based, but someone can develop &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/40134/437&quot;&gt;a very reasonable answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we leave it open?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T14:57:53.337" Title="This question is primarily opinion-based, but it's a reasonable one. Should we leave it open?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3041" CreationDate="2015-01-09T00:37:16.443" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would disagree that it's an opinion-based question.  While a good source for the data is hard to come by, the question itself is very objective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The three answers it has received so far seem pretty on-point.  Chris Lively's answer is certainly subjective, but not opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RualStorge's 4th section should probably be removed, as it wanders away from the question.  However, I'd leave that to him as a comment for him to consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would side with leaving it open, and pruning any answers that appear that focus on the merits of open wage structures, rather than answer the question about their occurrence rates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9264" LastEditorUserId="12635" LastEditDate="2015-01-12T14:57:53.337" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T14:57:53.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3028" CreationDate="2015-01-09T21:28:05.870" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvote the question. The purpose of SE sites are to be knowledge repositories, not morality police.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30381" LastActivityDate="2015-01-09T21:28:05.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3032" CreationDate="2015-01-10T03:32:33.493" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is pretty much the same on all the good SE sites, and that's the way it should be: The goal of the SE sites is not to be simply a blog or discussion board, but to serve as something of an authoratitive knowledge base on the subjects dealt with.  So yes, the bar is high. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience on the various sites, which is fairly significant, (and I have closed one or two long running, fairly high scoring accounts for personal reasons) 95% of the time that your question is closed, it's for good reason - but you often have to read the comments carefully and go through the relevant online documentation to understand why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8625" LastEditorUserId="8625" LastEditDate="2015-01-11T00:35:58.340" LastActivityDate="2015-01-11T00:35:58.340" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3028" CreationDate="2015-01-11T13:03:54.990" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although this particular question is deleted now, I would provide an answer for the generalized situation where an asker accepts a bad answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The stackexchange system gives the asker sole authority over with answer too accept. When they choose poorly, there is no way to override their decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However what you can do is downvote the accepted answer so other readers realize that the asker made a poor decision at which advise to follow. You can also try to flag the answer and get it deleted so the asker has to choose another one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9959" LastActivityDate="2015-01-11T13:03:54.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3032" CreationDate="2015-01-11T23:26:13.737" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can understand why it may seem a bit harsh for beginners, but if one really wants to be part of the SE community I think he'll get over it pretty quickly and will make the effort to learn how things work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why I think it's important to keep it this way: those of us who are used to the quality of question and answers that can be found on SE tend to forget that the general level of the rest of Internet Q&amp;amp;A, discussions and forums websites is actually pretty low.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It takes strong moderation to maintain an above-average level through the years and with so much users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30532" LastActivityDate="2015-01-11T23:26:13.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3047" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-14T19:46:10.300" Score="4" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/35893/17337&quot;&gt;As a developer, how can I ask for more freedom when confronted with a tight IT security policy?&lt;/a&gt; had been closed as off-topic with a note saying that it wasn't a question. Specifically, the note says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Real questions have answers. Rather than explaining why your situation is terrible, or why your boss/coworker makes you unhappy, explain what you want to do to make it better. For more information, click &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2696/17337&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that that's exactly what this question was doing: asking how to go about trying to improve the situation of overly-restrictive IT policies that hinder the productivity of developers. The question seems decidedly on-topic and is definitely a question (the specific question being asked is even bolded at the bottom of the question.) It does not seem to fit the description of the given close reason in any meaningful way. It is not a question that is specific to one particular situation; it's something that happens in many companies and is relevant to many future visitors. The question itself and several of the answers have rather positive vote scores, so apparently quite a lot of people found it relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose answers will be at least somewhat subjective, but not really any more so than almost every question on Workplace SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is why was it closed (and, if there's not a good reason, can we reopen it?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17337" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-01-16T00:39:58.170" Title="Why was the question about how to ask for changes about security policy closed?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3047" CreationDate="2015-01-16T00:39:58.170" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's currently a lot of filler in the post.  The user is ranting a little bit, and perhaps the reasoning for why the policy is bad could be summed up using less words.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conciseness helps keep the focus on the question and removes it from the complaints.  Perhaps one way to work to get this question reopened would be to gut some of the stuff that just plain isn't needed in order to answer the core question, how do we change a restrictive policy at work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an old question. It has 12 answers though, so the question is would editing to cut out the fluff invalidate any of them.  If you think you can remove the excessive information without invalidating answers, go ahead and give it a shot. Editing the post should bump it back into the reopen review queue. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2015-01-16T00:39:58.170" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3032" CreationDate="2015-01-19T06:35:52.740" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are right it is hard to write a good question for this site.  That is actually by design.  The reason people come here instead of other internet sites and forums is because we have high standards which reduces the clutter.  That bar is high for everyone new and old users.  I have seen several questions by users with &gt; 10k reputation down-voted and closed because it was a bad question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now on the comments thing I completely agree.  Comments should be for clarification only, and any comment that could be perceived to have any snark or disrespect should be removed.  The people come here because they are having problems and having a few people insult them and their question with out offering any real help is not just off putting for them it is for me as well.  I flag it when I see it but we have at least one user who comments on almost ever post and most of the comments seem rude or unhelpful... but for some reason that is tolarated.  Flag it when you see it and dont worry if your flag gets declined or if you think someone else must have already flagged it.  The more flags a comment gets the more likely action will be taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T06:35:52.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3028" CreationDate="2015-01-19T06:40:56.597" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the question being deleted.  However I think that any answer that advocates dangerous behavior should be removed immediately.  The question could have remained and the answer removed which would handle the accepted answer problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T06:40:56.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3052" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-03T12:21:13.050" Score="14" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may sound a bit frivolous (ok, it is) and it may be more suited to the UX folks, but with those bright red and blue buttons on the watercooler, my eye and my mouse are attracted there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/640mw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I really want to see water pouring when I press them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They look functional - can they be at least partly functional? Water, bubbles...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a thought :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T12:21:13.050" Title="That watercooler down the bottom left - I want it to do something" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3054" CreationDate="2015-02-05T17:49:09.820" Score="7" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;On this question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/41129/3192&quot;&gt;Does HR asking for salary slips and earliest joining date mean I have got the job?&lt;/a&gt;, I had a rather late realization that the OP is likely to be from India. I hadn't noticed his name card at first, and by then I already had an edit to the question approved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it would be appropriate to include &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/india&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;india&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;india&lt;/a&gt; on the question, but I didn't want to appear to be a rep-whore, so I requested the OP to add that tag himself. I made another comment there where I was responding to another user. I see both my comments have been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can totally understand why the second comment was deleted, and I agree completely. However, the first comment was clearly an attempt to improve the question (and I explained why I didn't want to do it myself), so I cannot quite figure out why that had to be deleted too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly enough, there are still some other comments there which are responding to the question, which have not been deleted. Could one of the moderators please explain to me what is the policy on comments, and why it seems to be applied somewhat inconsistently? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T18:25:29.177" Title="Why was my comment deleted?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3053" CreationDate="2015-02-05T19:41:53.623" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for asking the OP for clarification.  You used comments exactly the way we want people to: to request clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I saw the comment the question had been edited to add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/india&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;india&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;india&lt;/a&gt; tag, so your comment (and the OP's response with the information) were obsolete and I removed them.  That wasn't a judgement about the comments; they'd done their job and weren't needed any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the second, I'd meant to delete both the one you replied to and yours, to fend off a discussion in the comments about whether the question belongs.  Better ways to register such feelings are close votes, meta, and chat.  I goofed, and have now remedied that.  Thanks for catching this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T19:41:53.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3055" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-06T12:01:09.930" Score="4" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am uncertain of the place of &quot;ethics&quot; in the workplace, both the site and, you know, the actual workplace. I hasten to add, &lt;em&gt;this is because ethics are incredibly subjective&lt;/em&gt;, and a cursory glance of ethical philosophy will show this. This is not because I'm all for looting the office supply cabinet&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having an &quot;ethics&quot; tag tacitly encourages questions with &quot;ethics&quot; related issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/453/8146&quot;&gt;This has been raised before&lt;/a&gt;, where the consensus was that &quot;ethics&quot; related questions were better answered with a &quot;logistical and strategic perspective&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the  general consensus is that ethics isn't part of the scope of this site, can we remove the tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1: I prefer the term &quot;aspecific repurposing for an unknown duration&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:52:02.387" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:52:02.387" Title="Can we remove the ethics tag?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|tags|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3055" CreationDate="2015-02-06T18:17:31.707" Score="-5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given that the general consensus is that ethics isn't part of the scope of this site...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/454/437&quot;&gt;There's a past discussion where the consensus differed.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As long as the questions have enough detail to where they can be answered from a strategic view or focusing on consequences, then I don't personally see a problem with the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T13:43:03.087" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3053" CreationDate="2015-02-06T18:25:29.177" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, moderating comments is often very time consuming. We often get long trains of comments which are either inflammatory, obsolete, or off-topic and sorting out which to keep/delete gets complicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, good comments will get deleted in the crossfire... this is unfortunate but a problem of human moderators without unlimited time :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T18:25:29.177" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3055" CreationDate="2015-02-07T18:02:19.820" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would vote for not removing ethics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although we can't answer a full-blown, should I do X or Y question, questions falling under the ethics tag often seem to lead to a general consensus from answerers. Most of the time, people are concerned about &lt;em&gt;fairness&lt;/em&gt; in the workplace, or whether there is a consequence to their or a colleague's actions that they may not have considered. I think these are fair questions to be concerned about and usually reasonable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the answer people linked to said, answerers then tend to approach it from a logical point of view, but I think &quot;ethics&quot; is still a reasonable tag because it tends to mean &quot;is this action appropriate for the workplace?&quot;, which I think &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; answerable on this site and not just opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, some ethical questions will not be in scope on this site, and will then be subject to the various close reasons (company specific or opinion based). I don't think this is a reason for deleting the tag though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3055/can-we-remove-the-ethics-tag#comment6896_3055&quot;&gt;enderland's suggestion of a pop-up to address these caveats&lt;/a&gt; would, in my opinion, be a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user29632" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2015-02-07T21:27:04.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3060" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-12T09:26:53.643" Score="-1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question had been put on hold: closed as too broad by ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/41074/what-is-the-best-way-to-coach-a-junior-in-software-development&quot;&gt;what-is-the-best-way-to-coach-a-junior-in-software-development&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've edited the question and then add a comment for the people who closed the question to help me re activate the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No reaction so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can somebody explain me what I should do please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32059" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T13:41:54.573" Title="How can I re active my question?" Tags="|discussion|support|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3060" CreationDate="2015-02-12T13:41:54.573" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edited your post to focus on the problem you're facing.  In its current form, it's asking a very open-ended question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case I'd recommend adding more details to narrow down the problem.  Perhaps you can describe in a paragraph or two why you felt unprepared in the first coaching session.  Tell us what worked and what didn't work. At the end, just make sure you're asking a specific question and avoid being too open ended.  Let us know if you need any more editing help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T13:41:54.573" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3062" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-14T20:59:37.207" Score="4" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm reasonably sure that I typically see an option to flag a question as deserving closure for the usual reasons (since I don't have enough reputation to vote to close). Yet, upon encountering &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/41484/acute-hostile-work-environment-what-should-i-do&quot;&gt;Managing conflict with coworkers to relieve a hostile work environment&lt;/a&gt;, I found no such option in the flag menu. I left a custom flag with my suggestion that this was a closure candidate, but, am I imagining things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user13659" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T15:13:28.950" Title="Where did 'flag to close' just vanish to?" Tags="|support|status-bydesign|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3062" CreationDate="2015-02-14T23:38:24.643" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like gnat said, it was closed so you couldn't flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, thanks for flagging things! While flags often create work for us moderators it all helps contribute to a better site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-02-14T23:38:24.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3064" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3072" CreationDate="2015-02-18T15:54:42.240" Score="6" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something or other brought &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/21292/3188&quot;&gt;this old thread to my attention recently,&lt;/a&gt; which made me notice that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/21292/3188&quot;&gt;it had been algorithmically converted to community wiki less than a month before that functionality was disabled&lt;/a&gt;.  Anyway, I flagged it for moderator attention, as it doesn't strike me as a particularly collaborative effort (only one of the question's edits is really substantiall) and I generally dislike community wiki after having put up with its being triggered by a very imperfect algorithm over at my &quot;home&quot; Stack Exchange site for a few years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, one of the friendly neighborhood moderators responded to my flag by requesting that I pose the question on meta to see what the community thinks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/21292/3188&quot;&gt;Yes or no to removing the community wiki status on the question in question&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3188" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T22:13:45.557" Title="Should the community wiki status be removed from this question?" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3065" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-19T19:12:52.577" Score="19" ViewCount="408" Body="&lt;p&gt;Friday (February 20) marks The Workplace's first anniversary. Congratulations to all on a fantastic first year after &lt;strike&gt;IPO&lt;/strike&gt; graduation!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with many workplaces, another year behind us means it's time for our performance review.  First some stats, then some commentary, and then a request for input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace's first year, by the numbers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions: 4,435&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers: 11,451&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edits (to body): 9,526&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments: 47,750, of which 11,520 were deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvotes: 106,677&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvotes: 16,968&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total reputation gained: 1,310,840&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators promoted to management: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/7945/jmac&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's right -- over the past year we've asked more than 4000 questions, provided more than 11,000 answers, and handed out a whopping &lt;strong&gt;1.3 million&lt;/strong&gt; reputation points.  We have a strong, active community -- kudos!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've also posted quite a few comments -- sometimes to seek clarification, which is what comments are for, and sometimes because we sure are a chatty bunch sometimes.  Almost a quarter of those comments were deleted -- some because they had served their purpose and were obsolete, but mostly for other reasons.  Over the past year we've tried to emphasize chat for discussions; while we're having some success there, this will be an area for further growth in the coming year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've had nearly 10k edits (not counting tag-only edits), which is healthy. We didn't ask how many of those were by the posts' authors versus by others. Please keep up the good work of helping to clarify posts -- incorporating information in comments, fixing up grammar and formatting, responding to questions, and so on.  We particularly want to commend people who spend time helpfully editing &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; people's posts; you are helping to make our community stronger.  Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now the &lt;strong&gt;request for input&lt;/strong&gt;: what have &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; found most gratifying, pleasantly surprising, or helpful on The Workplace in this past year? Please post an answer and tell us about it.  Maybe you got a really outstanding answer to your question that helped you make an important decision? Maybe you were able to help somebody else solve a sticky problem?  Maybe you came across a question you didn't even know you had and the answers there helped you avert a problem?  Maybe you learned something new about a different country, industry, or type of job?  Please share The Workplace's successes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for a great year, and let's make the next one even better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks also to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/11118/ana&quot;&gt;Ana ♦&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/7945/jmac&quot;&gt;Jmac ♦&lt;/a&gt; for data-wrangling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/325/monica-cellio&quot;&gt;Monica Cellio ♦&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/2322/enderland&quot;&gt;enderland ♦&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/98/jmort253&quot;&gt;jmort253 ♦&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T21:10:59.013" Title="Time for the annual performance review!" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3065" CreationDate="2015-02-20T01:27:23.450" Score="18" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;what have you found most gratifying, pleasantly surprising, or helpful on The Workplace in this past year? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think what I enjoy the most is when people post something along the lines of &quot;this worked great!&quot; or &quot;totally got the job!&quot; or &quot;got the raise!&quot; either on posts or in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since joining The Workplace I have seen this many times and I love it. EVERY TIME. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is making an actual difference in real people's lives. Sometimes I think I forget that all this interwebs and fake points and voting and editing and other stuff can actually impact this mystical &quot;real life&quot; I read about once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T01:27:23.450" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3065" CreationDate="2015-02-22T22:33:11.557" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Around the time of our graduation I got &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/24503/325&quot;&gt;laid off&lt;/a&gt; and so was in need of a new gig.  For the first time I was facing a Skype interview early in the process and found &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/7251/325&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; very helpful.  Successful Skype and local interviews led to the need to go to the main office to interview, and at that point I had a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I liked this company and didn't want to blow it over something stupid, but I was not at all clued in about the expense conventions for local cabs.  I figured that most people would just drive but I have some vision problems that were enough to lead to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/16945/325&quot;&gt;some uncomfortable moments&lt;/a&gt; at my previous employer, and I sure didn't want that to be a problem at this stage.  (We could talk about minor accommodations later, after I was hired.)  I considered just swallowing the expense, but I &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/21197/325&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt; about whether it was generally kosher to take a cab to my own airport and, reassured by the answers there, did so and submitted that expense (and nobody blinked).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, not only did I get the job, but I was sitting in the airport waiting to come home when The Workplace's first moderator election finished, watching the results on my tablet.  I'll call that a good day. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-02-22T22:33:11.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3065" CreationDate="2015-02-23T16:39:26.073" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And now the request for input: what have you found most gratifying,&#xA;  pleasantly surprising, or helpful on The Workplace in this past year?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm always gratified (and sometimes pleasantly surprised) when an answer I provided actually gives the questioner what she/he needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm only here to help. When I get feedback that I &lt;em&gt;have helped&lt;/em&gt;, that makes me happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pleased that we have such a great community here providing opportunities to learn from, and to help, others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T16:39:26.073" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3069" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3071" CreationDate="2015-02-23T21:05:48.180" Score="4" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/41639/inability-to-get-to-work-because-public-transportation-failure&quot;&gt;Inability to get to work because public transportation failure&lt;/a&gt; was closed with the reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements,&#xA;  or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department.&#xA;  Questions that address only a specific company or position are of&#xA;  limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should&#xA;  be directed to legal professionals&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but it should be absolutely obvious for everyone who have actually &lt;strong&gt;read&lt;/strong&gt; it that it's the question for the &lt;strong&gt;general rule&lt;/strong&gt;, which is neither company-specific nor refers to particular case (if it's not the case, I'll gladly reword it). I've tried to make that question as broad as possible, to refer to the general category of potential cases, caused by public transport failure in general, and not by specific issue, which was only an example. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything off topic in that question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1023" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1023" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T11:38:26.397" Title="Where is company specific policy or asking for advice in my question?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|offtopic|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3065" CreationDate="2015-02-23T21:10:59.013" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And now the request for input: what have you found most gratifying, pleasantly surprising, or helpful on The Workplace in this past year? (...) Maybe you came across a question you didn't even know you had and the answers there helped you avert a problem? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I discovered the workplace (and really all the stackexchange communities) last year and in most communities, I've mostly been reading and upvoting and occasionally commenting. I like the workplace because I've found answers to lots of questions I didn't even know I had. Being from Europe, I've learned quite a bit about the differences between working in Europe vs in the U.S.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I want to thank all the answer-authors here. You guys are so great that I haven't had a chance to write an answer, yet, because everytime I think &quot;oh, I know an answer to this&quot; when I read the existing answers you have already written a great answer that I can agree with and upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm definitely going to continue to follow the workplace this year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17366" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T21:10:59.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3069" CreationDate="2015-02-23T21:58:49.113" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I reopened this, it had two reopen votes and both &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/20216838#20216838&quot;&gt;Monica and I&lt;/a&gt; agreed it should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T21:58:49.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3064" CreationDate="2015-02-23T22:13:45.557" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any reason to leave that as Community Wiki so I've removed that from the question and all the answers.  (I had to do that one post at a time, so if I managed to miss any, please flag pointing it out and we'll get it fixed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T22:13:45.557" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3069" CreationDate="2015-02-23T22:14:02.627" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the question is off topic, but it is easy to misunderstand this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone from a country where this sort of thing is regulated by company policies and not by labor law will vote to close because they think it's about company policies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This part &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;and the absence of work for long distance commuters will be justified and be considered as working hours?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;could easily be misunderstood as seeking legal advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17366" LastEditorUserId="127" LastEditDate="2015-02-24T11:38:26.397" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T11:38:26.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3069" CreationDate="2015-02-24T11:37:49.743" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is the perfect example of off topic. Just look at the last two paragraphs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What does this mean for German employee? Is it necessary to use own&#xA;  vacation days (which may be out after a few such strikes)? Or are such&#xA;  strikes considered an extraordinary condition, such as a tornado or&#xA;  flood, and the absence of work for long-distance commuters will be&#xA;  justified and be considered as working hours?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm asking about how labour law regulates it, and not what&#xA;  alternatives people have (for example sick leave).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 2nd to last paragraph: &quot;Is it necessary to use own vacation days?&quot; but then &quot;I'm asking about how labour law regulates it, and not what alternatives people have (for example sick leave).&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last paragraph invalidates the previous paragraph leaving only the legal question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the law says it is a valid excuse you are protected; if it doesn't protect you then you have to do everything in your power to get to work or take paid time off. The OP doesn't want to to know alternatives: stay at a friends house, pay for a hotel, sleep in your office...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is 100% a legal question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T11:37:49.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3075" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-26T04:48:49.713" Score="11" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I log into Workplace Stack Exchange, I see the following (before scrolling down):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nPpb2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Workplace SE showing 2.5 questions&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, there are 2.5 questions visible thanks to a healthy amount of visual padding, making the total vertical height per question 120px. This is with 1280x800 resolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However on Stack Overflow, I see the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RL5yS.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Overflow showing about 6 questions&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, there are nearly 6 questions visible without any need to scroll. Each question has a vertical height of 75px, which is almost 40% smaller than those on Workplace Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I much prefer being able to see more questions without needing to scroll. Is it possible to reduce the vertical height of each question in the list? We may not need to reduce them all the way to 75px like Stack Overflow, but even a change to say 90px would mean more questions visible per page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to reduce the vertical height of each question in a list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update March 22:&lt;/strong&gt; The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3096/updates-to-the-site&quot;&gt;CSS updates&lt;/a&gt; from a few days ago help, but I still only see 3.25 questions when I would prefer to see 5 or 6:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hwFbk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8233" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T19:18:42.337" Title="Can we decrease the vertical height for each question in a list?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3082" CreationDate="2015-02-26T11:00:43.973" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm very new at SE and I've asked few questions so far.&#xA;I'm a bit frustrated by the lack of reactivity to re open my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Story so far:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;It had been put on hold very quickly (that's ok for me so far) but then, I've tried to comply to the quality standard but I'm still waiting for feedback or to have my question re activated!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/41074/what-is-the-best-way-to-prepare-to-coach-a-junior-in-software-development&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3060/how-can-i-re-active-my-question&quot;&gt;My demand of feedback&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;That's for the particular issue that brings me here.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now the wider problem:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All new questions are shiny and get all the attention. Since I asked my question 22 days ago, I suppose nobody care for re opening it. Same thing for my demand of feeback; there is no follow up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ratio &lt;em&gt;time to close&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;/&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;time to reopen&lt;/em&gt; is too low.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should be done?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;NB: I don't think it's duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2038/high-volume-of-questions-being-put-on-hold-or-closed-is-that-a-problem&quot;&gt;High volume of questions being put On Hold or Closed - is that a problem?&lt;/a&gt; as I'm ok with my question being on hold, I just want to find a way to reopen question&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32059" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T01:56:25.090" Title="Quick to close, slow to re-open" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3076" CreationDate="2015-02-26T11:47:05.863" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the question just isn't the right type for the site. I read your question when it was first asked, when you asked why, and now again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem I see is that you tried to train somebody before and you weren't happy with the experience. The only answer I can give you is: take what you learned last time, think about options to try, and try them. After you have been a mentor several times you will get better at it, or you won't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are expecting a long answer you even lay out the three parts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The answer I would have expected would have been something like that:&#xA;  There should be 3 axis of improvement for a Junior. 1 - The Technical&#xA;  part 2 - The understanding of the (software) shipping flow 3 - Work&#xA;  behaviour&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As for the first one, the Junior will be asked to follow the project&#xA;  at hand with precise set of goals to achieve linked with some bonus&#xA;  goals. (Ex. in software engineering, we are making web services so we&#xA;  are expecting basic understanding of the messages flow, actual use of&#xA;  the architecture, etc. Bonus goals would be: challenge of the&#xA;  architecture, recognition of room for improvement part of the code,&#xA;  and implementation of new architecture for a 'in scoped' project)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As for the development in the team, the understanding of the shipping&#xA;  flow is very important (more over if the Junior does not see himself&#xA;  as a long term developer). The understanding of the business, tests,&#xA;  deployment, etc. All of these things have to be integrated full in the&#xA;  first 4 months. Bonus point for pointing out problem in the flow and&#xA;  ways to improve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Finally, the work ethic. For a Junior to enter a new company will&#xA;  define his behaviour for the rest of his carrer. It's important to&#xA;  spot short coming in communication (verbal, writing etc.) and&#xA;  encourage certain kind of behaviour (sending a mail to re confirm an&#xA;  oral decision for instance). It's also interesting to develop his&#xA;  curiosity toward all of those soft skills as it would greatly help him&#xA;  later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately for me your question as constructed makes it even harder to answer. You have no specifics in the question but want a long answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best advice may be to ask the company for help; ask your boss for guidance (the boss can mentor you), or find a book. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T11:47:05.863" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3075" CreationDate="2015-02-26T21:10:30.477" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe what you were noticing is Stack Overflow had a redesign recently while the other sites seem to have not caught up with the main site redesign. I’m only speaking for myself and what I’m seeing and what I've noticed. But I think that is the issue that's at play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone with more details on the behind-the-scenes machinations of how these changes happen and evolve throughout the Stack Exchange sites could probably chime in and give better information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14273" LastEditorUserId="14273" LastEditDate="2015-02-26T22:40:26.977" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T22:40:26.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3079" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-27T21:04:33.873" Score="3" ViewCount="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;When asking a question and entering the tags, it can happen that the content appears cropped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fwzbs.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot: Tag layout broken&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is Windows 7 SP1, Firefox 36.0, 100% zoom and AdBlock disabled. 1280x1024 screen size, maximized window. Similar in IE 11.0.9600.17633.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17036" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2015-02-27T21:40:24.010" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T21:40:24.010" Title="Tag layout broken when asking question" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-03-04T08:00:15.197" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3080" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-01T04:35:01.727" Score="6" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would anyone be interested in helping create a structure for gathering and organizing the collective knowledge of this community into a reference source that's more like a bunch of how-tos or tips/tricks, rather than just questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For many of the common questions, a wiki that answers them would be useful. I'm thinking of extending that to include things like stuff you should know when starting a new job, writing a resume, doing a performance review, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions/ideas or pointers to similar efforts would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32953" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T04:35:01.727" Title="Collective knowledge from Workplace?" Tags="|discussion|meta|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2938" CreationDate="2015-03-01T21:10:20.873" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag menu cutoff happens because the style sheet here on workplace.SE styles the &lt;code&gt;#content&lt;/code&gt; element as &lt;code&gt;overflow: hidden&lt;/code&gt;.  Simply overriding that style with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#content { overflow: visible }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is enough to fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(However, I'm a bit worried that the &lt;code&gt;overflow: hidden&lt;/code&gt; style may have been added for a reason, possibly to fix some other unrelated problem somewhere else.  This needs a bit more testing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; OK, so there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a pretty obvious reason for the &lt;code&gt;overflow: hidden&lt;/code&gt;; without it, the content area will not expand to contain all floated elements (like, say, the mainbar and the sidebar) inside it, causing the white background to cut off halfway through the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, there's a simple fix: we just need to add a &lt;em&gt;non-floating&lt;/em&gt; element at the end of the &lt;code&gt;#content&lt;/code&gt; div, styled with &lt;code&gt;clear: both&lt;/code&gt;.  And even more conveniently, we can do this with pure CSS:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#content:after { content: ' '; display: block; height: 0; clear: both }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the sidebar extending into the footer, that's not really specific to this site; it happens on every SE site, but it just looks uglier here, because the sidebar here has a transparent background.  Giving it a white background with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#scroller { background: white; border-radius: 5px }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;makes it slightly less ugly.  (The &lt;code&gt;border-radius&lt;/code&gt; is just a finishing touch, to make it fit better with the general rounded design here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've added these styles to the devel branch of &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/4486/stack-overflow-unofficial-patch&quot;&gt;SOUP&lt;/a&gt;; unless further breakage shows up, or unless these bugs get properly fixed in the mean time, they'll be part of the next stable SOUP version, v1.30.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what asking a question looks like to me with these fixes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xBOEm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xBOEm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2139" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:43.347" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T21:49:46.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3076" CreationDate="2015-03-03T01:56:25.090" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;One question does not a syndrome make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site receives &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of off-topic questions, generally in the category of 'too broad' and 'asking for advice'. If all goes well, these questions will be closed, and never reopened. So, to make your case, you'd need to add links to at least a handful of questions that were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;actually improved to be appropriate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;languished&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a review queue for high-rep users that highlights questions that have the potential for a reopen, they don't just languish on the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user13659" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T01:56:25.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3023" CreationDate="2015-03-06T01:10:49.073" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://stack-exchange-dynamic-ads.herokuapp.com/workplace.stackexchange.com/bounty.png&quot; alt=&quot;See all questions with active bounties&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1578" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2020-12-30T03:22:56.323" LastActivityDate="2020-12-30T03:22:56.323" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-03-06T01:10:49.073" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3075" CreationDate="2015-03-09T16:05:18.280" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree that there could be some savings in WP.SE question height, I would say that it shouldn't be just as high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main reason is because SO and WP.SE are aimed at different audiences. SO is a purely developer-related SE site which has been around for a few years now. The target audience is tech-savvy IT-employees who are primarily looking for solutions to a problem. Due to the age and popularity of S0, a LOT of problems have already been answered, so users are encouraged to first look for existing answers before asking a question. Because of this, the question lists and overall layout are altered to show more questions on the same space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WP.SE, on the other hand, is a site aimed at general employees looking for advice on problems they have with the workplace. This site doesn't yet have the userbase or snowball effect that SO has, so there's a good chance your question hasn't been asked (or answered) yet, or that similar issues are too different from yours. YOu are still encouraged to search first and ask questions afterwards, but due to the variations in workplaces, your question is likely to sufficiently different from existing ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, your comparison image isn't quite accurate. It's not just the vertical height, but also the width AND the rest of the page. WP.SE has a lot more open room before the questions even start, with the questions starting about halfway down your image. The questions box is also narrower than on SO, because of the sidebar. This means that it's easier for questions to be long enough to not fit on 1 line, leading to less questions visible. The SO image is also 50 pixels higher, making the size comparison misleading in favor of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case of the frontpage, SO also has a larger focus on helping others. having more questions on the frontpage visible at once allows users to see more questions with their preferred tags without searching. WP.SE is more of a site that's visited on a daily basis, while SO is often visited on a hourly basis by programmers looking for answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16277" LastEditorUserId="16277" LastEditDate="2015-03-09T16:16:38.263" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T16:16:38.263" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3086" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-11T01:26:40.710" Score="1" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider this answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/42592/&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/42592/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, I see the following, which looks fine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E5BhL.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if I refresh the page enough, I find that about 1/5 of the time, it looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/51Zfo.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; that answer; some of the other answers get borked in a similar way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/42597/10298&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zLC2z.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that it's intermittent suggests that this is probably something to do with hot network questions (it's probably not the sidebar ads; I've seen the issue both happen and not happen when &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3026/10298&quot;&gt;this ad&lt;/a&gt; is shown).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is happening on Chrome 43.0.2327.5 dev-m on Windows 8. I recognize that this isn't a supported browser, but I thought it might be worth noting in case this happens in Chrome stable too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lo and behold, it happens to me on meta, too! From this very post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yHcOU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10298" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T18:19:59.813" Title="Some kind of bizarre font overlap issue" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3087" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3089" CreationDate="2015-03-11T16:38:37.083" Score="20" ViewCount="1975" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/42537/325&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt;  is currently titled &amp;quot;How to prevent a psychologically fragile person from harming a team?&amp;quot;, and the OP rolled back an edit that changed it.  The question begins:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm currently advising a team of six developers working in a company which relies on this team to handle all in-house projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The team has a female developer with a physical disability (she uses a wheelchair) who was hired... “by mistake”: the interviewer thought the candidate has enough skills for the job, but it appears now that she doesn't. There are actually several problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, it seems to be a question about an employee with legally special status (disabled, woman) who doesn't have the job qualifications.  The question proceeds with several more paragraphs explaining specifically what skills are lacking.  In the fifth of these bullet points it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She barely speaks with her coworkers, making team communication difficult and awkward. Being depressive, she also takes a lot of things personally, which means that even a question such as “Have you finished implementing this interface?” can (and often would) be taken personally, and will be answered in a very defensive way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Communication problems and taking things personally are problems on a team.  The OP ascribes psychological problems as a cause, but we have no reason to believe there's an actual diagnosis involved.  In some jurisdictions a diagnosed mental-health problem would have legal or policy implications, but it doesn't sound like that's what's going on here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following appears near the bottom of this lengthy question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More generally, &lt;strong&gt;how would you manage a psychologically fragile employee who actively (but unintentionally) harms the team, but cannot be moved somewhere else, nor fired?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am uncomfortable with this question focusing so heavily -- in the title and in the only bold block in the question -- on an assumption of psychological fragility.  It seems to me to be unnecessarily contentious and I think it also derails the core problem, which is: &amp;quot;this person isn't qualified, it's damaging the team (and others are getting ready to walk), there are legal and PR problems with firing her -- how do we solve this?&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would prefer to see the question focused on &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;.  The OP rolled back an edit to remove the psychology language from the title (that edit didn't touch the body).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this question ok as-is, or should it be edited in some way?&lt;/strong&gt;  If the latter, how?  It's generated a lot of discussion and several flags.  What sayeth the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T13:22:59.303" Title="What should we do with the &quot;psychologically fragile&quot; question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3087" CreationDate="2015-03-11T17:02:39.893" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;At a bare minimum the title needs to be changed.  There is no real evidence in the question that there is any risk of this person damaging the team.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that the question is a fake.  The op said he is not the manager and just friends with the CEO.  Lets just blast this question or at least close it until the question is cleared up.  Right now its hitting sympathy strings because we have all dealt with people who are less stable.  But the problem really appears to be that the OP has an ax to grind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T17:02:39.893" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3087" CreationDate="2015-03-11T19:06:16.023" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;So since clarification is required, let me clarify some points. As explained in the comments, the question &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; specifically about a person who is psychologically fragile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;“she already consults psychologists for several years”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Being depressive, she also takes a lot of things personally”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;“During the meetings, she practically doesn't participate, and also takes everything personally.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;“she barely speaks to her coworkers or her manager”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, this is not just “an assumption of psychological fragility”. There are further elements which show that this person &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; fragile, but I'm not happy discussing them openly, and the elements which are already in the question are largely enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that she is a woman and has a disability is just a piece of context. Without this piece of context, the obvious answer would be to fire the person; it was obviously necessary to explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the person cannot be fired (that is because of a lawsuit in the past and because of the disability of the person). While this information is important, it remains just a contextual info, and nothing more. By putting it into the title, you indeed denatured the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/42537/how-to-prevent-a-psychologically-fragile-person-from-harming-a-team#comment104897_42537&quot;&gt;As stated by Hugo Rocha:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sex is irrelevant. The disability is irrelevant. She should be treated as any developer with poor performance results. If I was in your place, I would not even state the sex of the developer in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, she could be a &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt; and a brother of the investor, making &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt; a person nobody can fire. This wouldn't affect the question, nor the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, remove the “psychologically fragile” element, and the question changes radically and the answers become mostly invalid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;About job qualifications&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it seems to be a question about an employee with legally special status (disabled, woman) who doesn't have the job qualifications. The question proceeds with several more paragraphs explaining specifically what skills are lacking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, not really. The question is about an employee who has job qualifications (otherwise, she wouldn't be hired in the first place), but is currently unable to use her skills to their full extent. The difference is crucial. It's like asking what to do with a coder who don't know how to program versus what to do with a skillful developer who, because of some temporary problems, is unable to work as one would expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen her resume. She was perfectly able to perform her job five years ago. It's just that personal reasons put her in a position where she has difficulties she hadn't five years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should the question be edited?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've received four great answers which are very helpful. Those four people understood the problem, and answered the question itself, not the denatured &amp;quot;What to do with a disabled employee&amp;quot;-style question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, there are at least four other persons who did not understand the question, proving that it is not perfectly clear. This is annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some found it too long. I don't see how can I shorten the question without loss of useful illustrations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But more importantly, I don't see the reason to waste my time for that: if those persons don't want to read something because of the length, they can skip the question and read other, shorter ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some misunderstood it. This is a more important concern, because it means that the question may attract wrong answers (given that the question is protected, which reduces such risk).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe my bad English is the reason. Maybe it's the way I formulated the question. After thinking a bit about it, here's an edit I can suggest. What do you think about it? Any suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The modified paragraphs are in italic. I also replaced &amp;quot;she&amp;quot; by &amp;quot;he&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Suggested edit&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to prevent a psychologically fragile person from harming a team?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm currently advising a team of six developers working in a company which relies on this team to handle all in-house projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The team has a developer who—for some legal reasons I would prefer to keep undisclosed—cannot be fired. The problem is that this person doesn't perform as well as expected, due to personal problems. While the person has the required skills, an personal event made this person psychologically fragile, and his integration within the team is very difficult. Here are some of the problems encountered:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He is unable to perform some of the tasks and spends a huge amount of time performing others. For instance, two weeks ago, he took a task of implementing a rather basic feature¹ of the project. One week later, it appeared that he is unable to implement it, so another colleague took over and did the feature from scratch in two hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite all his efforts, he creates a lot of bugs in his code. I worked with him personally to explain how to unit test the code, what tests are relevant and which ones are not, but I failed. For instance, he is still not testing more than a half of the edge cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He is reluctant to perform some basic tasks expected from any developer. Two are especially annoying: he doesn't commit his code often enough (usually he stays from one day to seven days without doing a commit, while his colleagues are committing at least twice per day and often up to ten times per day), or he never writes comments in her code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He creates regressions when modifying others' code, and often can't figure out how the code should be fixed. Frequently, he ends up being helped by the original author of the code, wasting a lot of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He barely speaks with her coworkers, making team communication difficult and awkward. Being depressive, he also takes a lot of things personally, which means that even a question such as “Have you finished implementing this interface?” can (and often would) be taken personally, and will be answered in a very defensive way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the meetings,she practically doesn't participate, and also takes everything personally. For instance, during the last weekly meeting, the manager was asking why a given feature was late. While the feature was completely independent of his work,² he still perceived it as a personal blame (note that this manager never &lt;em&gt;blames&lt;/em&gt; anyone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Code reviews are absolutely out of question. The team tried pair programming with him, but failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, he not only harms herself, but also the team morale both during the meetings and the daily work. A week ago, his colleague (who also appears to be the most valuable developer in this company) talked informally with the CEO, telling that he can't work in this environment any longer and will leave soon if the management doesn't take a firm decision. I'm afraid other developers will soon start searching for another job too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Sentence explaining why the person can't be fired removed]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We (the project manager, the CEO and I) also thought about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another job within the company for this person. Since the company deals with manufacturing requiring special skills and other jobs (accounting, legal affairs, etc.) also require specific skills, this is not a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Get help from a psychologist. It appears that he already consults psychologists for several years, so I hardly doubt her lack of self-esteem and her communication skills will improve this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A development-related job which is technically simple and requires no communication skills. The problem is that it's difficult to come with such job and will affect negatively his self-esteem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I recently suggested another alternative: let the person work remotely (from home) on low-priority tasks assigned to him directly by a manager. This would prevent him from affecting the team, without lowering his self-esteem. The CEO is currently discussing this alternative with the lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there other alternatives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More generally, &lt;strong&gt;how would you manage a psychologically fragile employee who actively (but unintentionally) harms the team, but cannot be moved somewhere else, nor fired?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; if it matters, it seems that I have a privileged relation with this developer: while he barely speaks to his coworkers or his manager, he seems to trust me and talks to me. The fact that I don't work in this company and intervene in an informal way, as a friend of the CEO, may be the reason for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;¹ The feature consisted of implementing LESS minification in an intranet website. Not straightforward in the context of an actual project, but still not particularly difficult; I would estimate the task at one to four hours.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;² The feature was purely on client-side, that is JavaScript with no reliance on server-side components. The developer works exclusively on server-side part of the project.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2901" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T20:00:45.943" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3090" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-12T19:11:33.397" Score="-1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few users who have reputation points in the 10,000+ range.  I feel for the most part, they are derserving of those points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I feel often users will tend to accept/vote up their answers because of the status rather than the content.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen several cases where the answer was given by someone in this elite group and their answer accepted, even though I don't think it was the best answer.  I fear that this is demotivating other's to answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If feels that many if not most answers are awarded to people in this group.  I question if it is solely because of the content or their perceived intelligence.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is this: Why display the points of the user?  Shouldn't the content be what we judge and not the author?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29342" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T17:19:13.490" Title="Why display the user's points who answered the question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3090" CreationDate="2015-03-13T14:38:47.267" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is just how the Stack Exchange network works. We don't really have a choice in this matter at Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing to be aware of too is that answers posted first often end up voted higher. It is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/9731/193412&quot;&gt;well known&lt;/a&gt; to be an issue with Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oftentimes, the more active users have higher rep and are able to post answers first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility is high rep users normally have a lot more experience in knowing a site audience. Each site is slightly different in terms of &quot;what gives upvotes&quot; and the more answers you post you start to know what sorts of things people on the site vote for, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T14:38:47.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3093" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3095" CreationDate="2015-03-18T11:40:50.247" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are questions like these on topic here ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My current work experience in this digital Marketing is 2 years, I am looking&#xA;  for a career in programming. The digital Marketing is not related to programming&#xA;  at all.  Will these 2 years negatively affect my new job opportunities for&#xA;  programming ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33406" LastEditorUserId="33406" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T14:14:17.390" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T14:14:17.390" Title="Question related to career change" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3087" CreationDate="2015-03-18T13:22:59.303" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While one could nitpick details, I do not see any fundamental problems with the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;You have not demonstrated that she is fragile.&quot; Umm, how is the poster supposed to &quot;demonstrate&quot; that? I'm sure that for a very large number of questions on this site you could say that the poster has not &quot;demonstrated&quot; the facts that he cites. He has not provided documentation proving that his employer really did fail to live up to a contractual agreement, he has not provided corroborating testimony that the boss is unfair, etc. I'm sure that in at least some cases, it is fair to reply, &quot;Are you sure that you are not misunderstanding the circumstances?&quot;, &quot;Maybe you should consider the possibility that the problem is you and not him&quot;, or the like. In this case, I suppose a fair response might include the question, &quot;Are you sure that this person is as 'fragile' as you say?&quot; But such thoughts are hardly grounds for closing a question. In general I think we assume that facts stated by a poster are accurate. If someone is going to lie in a question, he's only reducing the possibility that he'll get a useful answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'm not sure if this is what some posters here were driving at, but: Phrases like &quot;psychologically fragile&quot; are not necessarily intended as a professional diagnosis. People often use the word &quot;psychologically&quot; to distinguish from &quot;physically&quot;. I don't read &quot;psychologically fragile&quot; as necessarily indicating a diagnosable mental illness, but simply as a description of the person's personality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Not his problem to deal with.&quot; He says he's trying to help a friend, and apparently he's on friendly terms with the problem employee. Is it really a rule on this site that you can only ask questions if you have a personal financial stake in solving the problem? You're not allowed to ask for advice that you can pass on to a friend because you care about other human beings?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The sex is irrelevant.&quot; No, it's not. In real life and not EEO fantasy land, there are many, many ways in which we treat women differently than men. And people who insist that they be treated the same today very often turn around tomorrow and demand different treatment. I don't want to get into a socio-political argument, but just to take a simple example: If a man tells a vulgar sexual joke to a female co-worker, he can get in serious trouble for sexual harassment. If he tells the same joke to a male co-worker, it is very, very unlikely that there would be any negative consequences, no matter how offended the man is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14073" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T13:22:59.303" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3093" CreationDate="2015-03-18T14:07:59.040" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what you're asking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd think pretty obviously, if an employer wants to hire a programmer and they have a choice between someone with 2 years of programming experience and someone with 2 years experience as, say, an auto mechanic, the person with programming experience will have an advantage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would an employer looking to hire a programmer view someone who had worked 2 years as an auto mechanic less favorably than someone who had zero experience? I doubt it. If you did a good job as an auto mechanic, that at least proves something about your work habits. Did you show up on time, work well with others, play by the rules, etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Experience in an unrelated field is surely worth LESS than experience in the relevant field, but it's worth more than zero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you're experience is in a field that's very disreputable -- you were a drug dealer or a pornographer or a politician or something -- I can't imagine that an employer would view it as a minus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14073" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T14:07:59.040" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3096" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-20T14:15:31.547" Score="7" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;My name is Stéphane and I'm the designer at Stack Exchange who &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2331/168&quot;&gt;made the design of this site&lt;/a&gt;. You may have noticed some updates to the design lately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The updates are part of a SE network-wide update to a new base css framework (the code which display the design).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The updates allow us to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have sharper / more beautiful design on retina displays&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fix layout bugs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More easily add new features to all of our sites in the future&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see any bugs please let us know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13131" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T19:17:42.920" Title="Updates to the site" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3097" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-22T12:33:18.827" Score="-1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should this question be converted to Community Wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/42943/437&quot;&gt;Boss is sending me out of state for an 8-day class. Would it look bad if I asked for an extra day to do something fun?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of the answers and comments are of the &lt;code&gt;This is what my company did...&lt;/code&gt; variety. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T13:47:39.760" Title="Should this question be converted to Community Wiki?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3075" CreationDate="2015-03-22T17:58:41.767" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3096/325&quot;&gt;latest SE-wide CSS update&lt;/a&gt; has fixed the spacing issue on the questions pages.  Yay!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sure hope that was intentional. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;em&gt;header&lt;/em&gt; is way bigger than theirs, but once you get down into the questions they look pretty close to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/76o3W.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Overflow&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/swQAF.png&quot; alt=&quot;Workplace&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T19:07:24.537" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3096" CreationDate="2015-03-22T19:04:36.650" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I like the improvements, there is still one issue that I think should be addressed: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3075/8233&quot;&gt;Can we decrease the vertical height for each question in a list?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a highly upvoted meta issue that has been open for over a month. The issue is that only 2-3 questions are visible on the main page &quot;above the fold&quot; whereas on Stack Overflow there are closer to 6 questions visible without any scrolling. Myself and all of the users who upvoted the issue would really appreciate you adjusting the CSS to accomodate this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Other ways to solve the issue might include decreasing the size of the header and/or the amount of white space between the header and the top of the first quesiton).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8233" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T19:17:42.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3100" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-24T12:14:47.723" Score="3" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the past few weeks, we receive the following question, or one of its variants, about 3 times per week. Each asker's circumstances vary slightly, but the question is essentially the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I had a good interview 3 days ago. I have not heard from the hiring manager. Should I call them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the following two things happen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone replies asking OP to wait longer, and keep looking for other jobs in the meantime. (I have myself been &quot;guilty&quot; of doing this once.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question gets closed as duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/6018/3192&quot;&gt;How do I properly follow-up with a hiring manager, to check on the status of a position?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something we can do to help new users get to the &quot;solution&quot; faster and reduce the unnecessary effort for the other community members? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, note that when I try to ask the above question (in blockquote), the &lt;em&gt;Questions that may already have your answer&lt;/em&gt; list has the above &quot;canonical&quot; question far below (currently at no. 15 for me), after a bunch of irrelevant questions. If there's some way to bump it up closer to the top, that might help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-03-28T17:42:18.150" Title="What can we do to reduce/eliminate the &quot;follow up with hiring manager&quot; questions?" Tags="|discussion|exact-duplicates|canonical-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3097" CreationDate="2015-03-24T13:47:39.760" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would be the benefit of CWing this post?  CW is not meant to be a penalty but rather to give the community the ability to fix something broken, to make updates to something where the answers will frequently change, or where the comminity is needed to provide a complete answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not see this question as meeting those criteria.  This question is good just hard to answer well.  That is not the same as too hard for one person to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T13:47:39.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3103" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-25T07:47:51.380" Score="-7" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is a feature request. A proper answer should be provided by the webmasters or so. Any opinion in regards with this feature request is just an opinion, be it pro or against, but not an answer. Also, maybe the answers from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2496/are-the-downvoting-police-too-active&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; may reflect the webmaster's vision, but the questions are different, so this feature-request is not a duplicate question. Thank you.&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen someone who answered a question down-voting my answer and the next answer of another member was also immediately down-voted and I suspected that someone is trying to influence the OP's &quot;Best answer&quot; mark by down-voting everybody's else answers.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Since the down-voter didn't provide any explanation I demanded one and the response was pure subjective and personal.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I think it will be a good idea that the people who answered a question shouldn't be able to down-vote other answers. Also, if they down-vote someone and then post an answer that their down-votes should be ignored (with a notice, eventually).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In this way abuses would be avoided and the general idea behind the site will not be affected because there are enough readers to express their disagreement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33517" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T14:37:42.720" Title="Restrict down-voting from people who answered" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3103" CreationDate="2015-03-25T13:00:23.167" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As one of the downvoters (and, admittedly, the first) I'd like to weigh in on this, as I get the feeling that this question comes from a general frustration as to how your answer was received. First of all, I'd like to say that I'm not completely heartless and I do understand your frustration. I've been downvoted before and I know it can &lt;em&gt;sting&lt;/em&gt;. However, sometimes it's good to take a step back and think about whether or not you can do something to stop it happening again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned in my comment, I actually feel like your answer was on the right track and I didn't actually disagree with it. I just felt that you could have elaborated on your points more rather than listing them off. As it stood, your answer read more as a &quot;Have you tried this?&quot; than an authoritative answer to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These points are, as you've highlighted, entirely subjective - this is why we vote as a community (and why, I suspect, the rep gain of an upvote outweighs a downvote 5:1). In theory, the community consensus will overrule those who vote for incorrect reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your specific question about people downvoting competing answers, this has been discussed quite extensively on the main SE meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/22771/the-answer-to-tactical-downvoting-problem&quot;&gt;The answer to tactical downvoting problem?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/129304/is-it-good-practice-to-refrain-from-downvoting-competing-answers&quot;&gt;Is it good practice to refrain from downvoting competing answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with putting systems in place to prevent tactical voting is that it undermines a vital aspect of SO - that finding the best answer is king. Graeme Perrow sums it up perfectly in his answer in the first link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I see an answer to a question that is just plain wrong, I should be able to both downvote it and post my own answer. This is such a fundamental part of SO that it's too heavy-handed to prevent it just to avoid a relatively minor problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system already has measures in place to discourage it (badges for upvoting competing answers, rep loss for downvotes), but anything further would simply get in the way of the ultimate goal: finding the best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I noticed that you took the time to go back to your post and make a big edit to it. This is really commendable behaviour and I'm happy to say that I've removed my downvote!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16751" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2015-03-25T15:42:47.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3105" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3107" CreationDate="2015-03-27T16:32:06.103" Score="12" ViewCount="472" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I have seen more questions that, while on-topic for the workplace, just don't seem particularly useful. Questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/43338/would-it-be-rude-to-add-this-email-disclaimer&quot;&gt;Would it be rude to add this email disclaimer?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/43247/what-can-i-say-in-place-of-thanks-at-the-bottom-of-an-email-when-it-doesnt-ma&quot;&gt;What can I say in place of “Thanks” at the bottom of an email when it doesn't make sense?&lt;/a&gt; are clearly about the workplace and are well written, but seem like trivial or common sense situations. The poster is obviously concerned or worried, but most people would probably say that they are overthinking things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do we do with these sorts of questions? Is down-voting appropriate? The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-down&quot;&gt;guidelines for down-voting&lt;/a&gt; suggest that you should &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use your downvotes whenever you encounter an egregiously sloppy,&#xA;  no-effort-expended post, or an answer that is clearly and perhaps&#xA;  dangerously incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions have some effort and thought put into them, and questions can't inherently be incorrect (can they?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;Voting to close&lt;/a&gt; doesn't specifically apply to these types of questions either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions should be closed by casting close votes if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;they are sufficiently similar to existing questions and would be&#xA;  answered identically to them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;they are unclear, too broad, or otherwise problematic to identifying the problem in a way that can be properly addressed by answerers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;they are sufficiently off-topic, as outlined in the help center.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions haven't been asked before, and they are certainly about the workplace. Maybe they could be considered unclear, but in most cases the question is easy to understand; it's just not always obvious that the problem is realy a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how should we handle these? Should they be down-voted or closed for being off-topic, or are these types of questions actually appropriate for the Workplace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-04-06T10:34:21.093" Title="No such thing as a stupid question" Tags="|discussion|questions|offtopic|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3105" CreationDate="2015-03-27T23:01:05.803" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of those (eg &quot;thanks&quot;) can/should be referred elsewhere (one of the English language areas)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T23:01:05.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3105" CreationDate="2015-03-28T17:39:49.930" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind what is common sense to you might not be to other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of situations on here that a lot of people look at and think, &quot;duh, do X&quot; but if it was that obvious to everyone, the person asking wouldn't have had to ask it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-03-28T17:39:49.930" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3100" CreationDate="2015-03-28T17:42:18.150" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think what Chad wrote in his comment is the best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a duplicate, close it as a duplicate. No harm in this - if it's a good duplicate then the asker gets the answers they are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-03-28T17:42:18.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3109" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-31T18:53:20.117" Score="4" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/37053/2322&quot;&gt;How does the process for applying for jobs look for a PhD?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made a fairly meaningful edit to this question, as I feel it is on-topic here as well as  good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's a question which is meaningful now and answerable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hoping to get some reopen votes or discussion!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T17:19:48.933" Title="Reopen PhD career question?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3110" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-01T00:48:50.640" Score="-1" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked a question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/43533/what-are-my-options-for-not-using-my-personal-cards-when-not-provided-with-a-com&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and told it was not relating company policies and thus is not appropriate for the forum. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you were asking how to convince your employer to change their policies, that would be more of a Workplace question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What Questions can I ask Here&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, company policies and procedures are not specifically listed though either. There are also several question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/37153/what-can-i-do-to-prepare-for-working-remotely&quot;&gt;working remotely&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11681/how-to-inquire-and-ask-for-traveling-allowance-and-benefits-for-going-out-of-the&quot;&gt;traveling for work&lt;/a&gt;, and other such topics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list does specifically cover working conditions though which is what my question is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vaguely related, I also attempted to seed a &quot;Remote Employees&quot; community in Area 51, and was told it was a duplicate of this one and was in the scope of this one which based on some of the voting activity is not clear that is the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the questions here seem to be about obtaining (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/48/job-marketplace-vs-workplace&quot;&gt;job market&lt;/a&gt;) or exiting employment and anything beyond that seems to at first glance seems to get down voted.  Also being my question is being voted as 'off-topic' but this regarding &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/43526/too-much-verbosity-in-text-messages&quot;&gt;overly verbose text messages from a student&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(not even an employee)&lt;/em&gt; one is considered 'on-topic' per the description in the link above makes no sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the actual scope of this community if the Help says one thing, questions say another, and close / down vote activity implies another?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27655" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T08:15:36.157" Title="Job Search/Transition and Workplace Policy and Procedure Only? Confusing Scope" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3110" CreationDate="2015-04-01T17:50:23.163" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So what is the actual scope of this community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &quot;on-topic&quot; link in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt; is a Q&amp;amp;A site about the workplace and other career-related topics. With your help we're working to build&#xA;  a library to every question about the workplace related to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Finding employment (resumes/cv/cover letters, recruiters, hiring-managers, interviews, negotiations, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Maintaining employment (promotions, pay increases, harassment, bullying, poor working conditions, communication problems, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Leadership in the workplace (motivating people, encouraging people, making decisions, holding hard conversations, intervening in&#xA;  unproductive situations,  asking for and giving help, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Terminating employment (notice period, breaking the news, handing over work, reference letters, relieving letters, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not clear to me how your question falls into any of those four categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question basically boils down to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I spend money abroad using a credit card (or alternate form of payment)  which minimizes risk of the payment method being compromised?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has nothing to do with the scope above and is far more relevant to sites directly addressing payment and travel (such as either Travel or Personal Finance). It is solely about the technology used for payment. Perhaps this was not your intent, but it is how the question is written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question was more like any of the following, it would be a Workplace issue rather than career/travel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I approach my boss regarding inconveniences of absorbing personal liability for all travel expenses when travelling for work?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What options do I have for business expenses on international travel when my boss refuses to allow corporate credit cards?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I convince my company/boss/manager/HR to allow corporate credit cards for international travel?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These all focus on the actionable Workplace related aspects to your situation and what is actionable in that context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T17:50:23.163" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3105" CreationDate="2015-04-06T10:34:21.093" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just telling them that they are overthinking it - that doesn't seem to be a waste of time to me. It is an annoyance to be subjected to having to read this kind of post but we're here to help, and the way to help is to tell the OP that they are overdoing it. For us, it's probably a cost of doing business and for being in business. Who else is going to tell them? Certainly, no one they knew before they bombed us with their post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16993" LastActivityDate="2015-04-06T10:34:21.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3023" CreationDate="2015-04-12T02:54:01.170" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://communitybuilding.stackexchange.com/q/896&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fGFvA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Workplace expertise wanted: how do you deal with a know-it-all?&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:51:23.277" LastActivityDate="2015-04-12T02:54:01.170" CommentCount="8" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-04-12T02:54:01.170" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3117" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-13T16:30:06.960" Score="9" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/44039/how-much-should-i-charge-my-boss-for-a-painting&quot;&gt;How do I decide how much to charge my boss for a painting?&lt;/a&gt; has been put on hold as off-topic.  Some of the comments object that it's about pricing art, which isn't a workplace issue.  I disagreed in the following comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; related to who you sell it to -- the guy who has a lot of control over your evaluations, work assignments, and general career trajectory while at that company may well warrant special considerations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That comment has 9 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the question includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I give a &quot;boss's discount,&quot; does it come off as slimy to mention what I would normally charge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this not a workplace issue?  How is it any less of a workplace issue than the many &quot;how do I deal with the annoying behavior from a coworker&quot; questions that could just as easily be about friends or family members or neighbors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T03:39:27.063" Title="Why is this question on hold?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3117" CreationDate="2015-04-13T18:14:08.663" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand SE's preference for &quot;answerable&quot; questions, especially in the flagship forum (StackOverflow). But the policy on The Workplace seems to be unevenly applied, as there are many questions of the &quot;How should I proceed&quot; type that often get answered by some of the same members that are voting to close others. I respect the super-high amounts of rep that the members have, and they generally do a good job of keeping the site a respectable source of answers to many types of questions. It's why I keep participating here. And I recognize they can't get to everything that gets posted here. It would be nice if there were a way to apply the &quot;filters&quot; more evenly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular question could easily be applied to non-work settings, and the current top-voted answer (full disclosure: mine) could easily be applied to non-work settings. However, the question deals with a very common occurrence: co-workers doing business with each other outside of the workplace relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Visitors to the site looking for guidance in this area would surely benefit from this question, and seeing the [on hold] banner in the title might chase them away from an otherwise good source of wisdom for them. There is value in the comments and other answers in this case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think policing the &quot;Don't ask for advice&quot; too harshly will end up driving users away from the site, minimizing its future value to the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My $0.02. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33312" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T18:14:08.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3120" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3121" CreationDate="2015-04-14T04:01:28.697" Score="9" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/44081/2289&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; and found that though the answer is quite good it will be even better if some grammatical and spelling mistakes can be removed. So I tried editing it and in all the places converted 'you' to 'your' because 'you father' doesn't make sense to me. Other than that their were 1-2 places where I corrected grammatical mistakes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I tried posting it, I got error like &quot;edits must be atleast 10 chars long&quot;, Don't you think that some important edits even if they are small should be allowed ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2289" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T06:33:02.130" Title="Minor but important changes should be allowed" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3120" CreationDate="2015-04-14T06:33:02.130" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they should. That's why people with over 2,000 reputation can make those corrections even if they are only a single character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason that privilege is restricted is because suggested edits need to be approved by other people, increasing the amount of community time it takes to make each one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually if there are enough errors to merit a suggested edit, you can find something else small to improve as well (perhaps the title, or a misspelling somewhere), and then there is no problem, but in the meantime I understand it can be frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edits are really appreciated, and thank you for making them. Soon enough you'll be at 2k reputation and be able to make those minor edits without review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T06:33:02.130" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3122" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3124" CreationDate="2015-04-16T10:00:46.447" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read through the meta and the (tiny) &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;faq page for on-topic questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But nothing specifically states &quot;You can('t) ask about what to do/how to act with a client&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking about asking a question (with a bit of humor), but it is really focused on how to act with a client.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't want my question closed in 2m with 5 downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to waste everybody's time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Said this, is it on topic to ask how to act with clients?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31957" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T23:10:15.153" Title="Is it on topic to ask how to act with clients?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3123" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-18T21:02:43.100" Score="4" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/44198/how-can-i-avoid-the-risk-of-mistakenly-deleting-data-from-a-production-environme&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; looks like it is about to be closed (currently 4 close votes).  As written the question has received a bunch of IT centric (and scenario specific)  answers.  But it seems to have a more general question inside it: how to convey that you fear you may fail to sucessful complete a task, without appearing either incompetent or unwilling to do hard work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I editted the question to be more generic, all of the existing answers would suddenly become irrelevant.  Should I just let it go, and let the question be closed?  Or rewrite it and let the answers be irrelevant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T20:02:47.813" Title="Heavily edit question that is about to be closed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3122" CreationDate="2015-04-19T23:10:15.153" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/clients&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;clients&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;clients&lt;/a&gt; tag with over 200 questions, and also a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/communication&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;communication&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;communication&lt;/a&gt; tag, so I'd say those questions are in-scope.  We can't help with the &lt;em&gt;technical details of your clients' work&lt;/em&gt; (e.g. how do I build this web site that he wants?), but questions about negotiating work/payment/schedule, setting expectations, dealing with problems (like schedule slippages), and behavior norms (the valuable client has these problem behaviors) are all in-scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes questions get put on hold, but it's not because anybody wants to be mean.  Sometimes they just need a little editing or additional information -- what was clear to the asker didn't come through for the rest of us.  So don't take it personally if a question is put on hold; we would all prefer that questions be open and answered.  Sometimes we just need a little time-out to make sure the question is clear in in-scope, is all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T23:10:15.153" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3126" CreationDate="2015-04-20T08:20:23.183" Score="2" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/44369/should-i-quit-a-maternity-leave-contract-before-ends-b-c-im-being-treated-in-an&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and found that it was put on hold as off topic. But, to me question looks genuine and OP is really asking for help. Question is surely related to workplace and OP is not the only person on earth who has faced this issue and certainly (unfortunately :( ) many more people will face similar situations in future so in that sense question will be useful for future visitors also. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Won't you think community should be allowed to answer this question and help the OP ? I am sure many good answers will eventually come for this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2289" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T10:10:31.460" Title="How can this question be Off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3125" CreationDate="2015-04-20T10:10:31.460" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is off topic because the question of &quot;should I quit&quot; is very specific to the person, and we have no idea who that person is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While &quot;should I quit?&quot; questions can be interesting to read, and can lead to interesting responses, they generally don't translate into being useable to other people who are also asking &quot;should I quit?&quot;. Everybodys situation is different and their ability to find another job is also different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of the specific question it isn't even a very difficult question to answer: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in x months the original replacement will be back, and they will need to find a job anyway. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Since they have no desire to try and remain an employee with the company they should start looking now. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If they find a new job, and they understand what penalties they face regarding leaving early, then they either leave early or give a starting date after the end of the temp contract.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T10:10:31.460" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3123" CreationDate="2015-04-20T23:32:32.253" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few situations here where this can be the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some questions, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/44449/revisions&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; a meaningful edit early is a great idea - if you look at the first and second iteration of that post, you will see exactly where that question was headed. In cases like this it's obvious a question will be closed. A significant edit can be great in these situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions which are closed later, or have considerable numbers of answers already, it's less obvious. In the past when this has happened we (often moderators...) have gone through and left comments on all answers indicating the question was changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is trickier and a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; more labor intensive, not just on the part of the community but also answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a question which is good but &quot;lost&quot; in the noise I'd suggest asking it yourself. A good question is a good question, even if you borrow themes from a question which was closed as off topic. A lot of the questions I've posted have been similarly inspired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T20:02:47.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3128" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3129" CreationDate="2015-04-23T14:23:31.160" Score="4" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;At Workplace, and any SE site for that matter, you can choose to sort questions in a number of ways. There's active, featured, hot, top questions this week, and top questions this month. Why isn't there a list of top questions of all time? I think it would be useful, particularly for someone new who just wants to browse. It also would make some of the often-duplicated questions easier to find without keeping them in favorites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to create this feature (maybe for all of SE)? Or maybe there's already a way to view this that I don't know about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar list could maybe be created for all-time best answers, though I'm sure there would be a lot of overlap between the two lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2021-04-08T19:26:55.897" Title="All-time top questions" Tags="|feature-request|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3128" CreationDate="2015-04-23T14:37:52.230" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you mean this? &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;Questions sorted by vote count&lt;/a&gt;. If you click on &quot;Questions&quot; you see some other sort options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those sort options don't exist if you hit the main homepage &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also search &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=is%3aanswer&quot;&gt;all answers based on vote count&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not sure you can more easily find that, though I use the &quot;is:question&quot; and &quot;is:answer&quot; search criteria pretty often. That pulls up a few other sort criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T14:37:52.230" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3128" CreationDate="2015-04-23T15:38:28.543" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/greatest-hits&quot;&gt;Greatest Hits&lt;/a&gt; list.  I don't know where it's linked (if anywhere!), but somebody tipped me off about it a while back and I just construct the URL myself (sitname/questions/greatest-hits). There's more information about it in &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2012/02/24/stack-exchanges-greatest-hits/&quot;&gt;an old post on The Overflow blog&lt;/a&gt; which states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For better or worse, these questions are what the world will see and remember your site for...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes a question a Greatest Hit?  This is a little vague, but the page there says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that got a large amount of views or a large amount of feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current algorithm divides the number of page views with the total amount of question and answer feedback received (adding a bonus for high view counts), excluding questions with less views than the median :- X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The median of the number of views 'X' is dynamically calculated.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the &amp;quot;feedback&amp;quot; it's talking about is the anonymous feedback that is generated if somebody who's not logged in clicks on a voting button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="26699" LastEditDate="2021-04-08T19:26:55.897" LastActivityDate="2021-04-08T19:26:55.897" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3131" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-23T16:44:50.550" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was peeking at the first post review queue while eating lunch and noticed this answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/44518/what-are-the-advantages-of-walk-in-or-in-person-interviews-over-online-video-int/44598#44598&quot;&gt;What are the advantages of walk-in or in person interviews over online video interviews?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like the company made an account just to draw attention to their product, however they never actually promote their product in the post... It leaves a little bit of a bad taste in my mouth but it does provide &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; information. If any random user had posted it (with no references to the company) I would pass it off as a mediocre answer and if they said &quot;we do that, you should use us&quot; it would be spam, but as it is, I'm just not sure...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T03:56:27.863" Title="What constitutes spam?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3132" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-24T14:29:04.803" Score="-2" ViewCount="597" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/44592/16&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/44592/16&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer lack references and appears to be wholly the personal opinion of the poster despite the statement as though it was all fact.  A multitude of people have tried to challenge these claims in comments only to have the comments removed but nothing done about this highly voted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is the right of every person to get to hang out with who they want&#xA;  after work.If they choose to do an all guys group that is their deal.&#xA;  All Asian guys, still their deal. Whatever sexist, racist, whatever&#xA;  group someone has out of work has nothing to do with work&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This statement needs a reference.  Where does that right come from? Who says its a right? How far does that right extend?  None of that is addressed in the question.  Someone reading this answer based on this statement could choose to make a very dangerous decision that could end up with them in legal trouble if it is, as many I and many other commentators believe, incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since comments are being suppressed (understandably it just sets off more discussion in the comments) I think this answer needs a banner pointing out the need for references for this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-12-26T16:13:28.977" Title="How can we address a poor but highly voted answer with potential legal implications" Tags="|discussion|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3132" CreationDate="2015-04-24T15:57:53.880" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the US we have something called the Constitution.  The first amendment is how far you need to read.   If an employer tries to infringe on an employee's 1st amendment rights outside of work that leaves them open to substantial litigation.  It is only when those actions effect the workplace does the employer have a right to act on them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also an employee and an employer especially would find themselves in very sticky territory claiming that a group of men that worked for them were sexist or engaging in a sexist act.  Not that I agree with the guy's night out because I don't - but if I wanted to put one together for coworkers, I would without a worry.  If my company called me a sexist or said I put together a sexist group/activity it would be defamation and harassment if I wanted to pursue that avenue.  This is after my company (and almost all companies) allow women's groups, groups for minorities (I don't even know what this means anymore with global companies), and age based groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the answer is the 1st amendment.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16609" LastActivityDate="2015-04-24T15:57:53.880" CommentCount="30" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3132" CreationDate="2015-04-24T15:58:21.150" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The following applies to Revision 3 of the linked answer, the one that was current at the time of this post.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer uses the fuzzy term &quot;right&quot;.  Sometimes when people say something is &quot;your right&quot; they're speaking morally or about &quot;human rights&quot; -- the US declaration of independence, for example, asserts rights that were clearly &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; legal rights at the time, hence the ensuing war.  Other times when people say &quot;right&quot; they mean &quot;legal right&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assertions of moral rights can be problematic because they're opinions and we're looking for answers that are more than just opinions of random people on the Internet.  Assertions of legal rights can be problematic because they imply authority that isn't present.  We are not the only SE site where following bad advice can be dangerous, though, so &quot;delete wrong answers&quot; isn't automatically the preferred response, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see this answer as dispensing legal advice.  It could be made even more clear by changing &quot;It is the right of every person...&quot; to &quot;It is the &lt;em&gt;moral&lt;/em&gt; right of every person...&quot; or something like that.  It's ok to edit other people's posts so long as you don't change the meaning; why not try it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer instead said something like &quot;Under US law it is the right...&quot;, then it would be quite reasonable to ask in a comment for a citation.  If it got flagged the mods would most likely drop a &quot;citation needed&quot; annotation on it in the meantime.  You complained about comments being deleted, but it hasn't been wholesale.  We've deleted an awful lot of back-and-forth &lt;em&gt;argument&lt;/em&gt;, but a comment asking for a source (or for any other clarification in a post) isn't something we intentionally delete (until it becomes obsolete, anyway).  But don't start an &lt;em&gt;argument&lt;/em&gt; in the comments; instead of &quot;you're wrong because of X, Y, Z&quot; one can say &quot;how do you account for X, Y, and Z?&quot;.  You can &lt;em&gt;challenge&lt;/em&gt; without &lt;em&gt;starting a discussion thread&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(All &quot;you&quot;s in the previous paragraph are generic; I'm not talking specifically about the OP here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've talked before about the subjective nature of answers here.  We don't require sources &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; an answer can be supported by (stated) experience or by reasoning.  This answer demonstrates reasoning, in my opinion -- it may or may not be reasoning either of us agrees with, but it's not a non-answer and to my eye it's not even a legal claim, let alone a dangerous one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On all SE sites, following some answers could be dangerous and it is up to the reader to do due diligence.  The best answers will provide readers with the means to check them.  But not every answer does, and people should vote based on their perception of a post's value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2015-04-24T18:10:03.430" LastActivityDate="2015-04-24T18:10:03.430" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3132" CreationDate="2015-04-24T21:39:37.513" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This probably won't make me friends over here, but I believe that at this point, question should be closed and deleted, so that whatever is there in the answer(s) won't matter at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, it falls squarely into &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2696&quot;&gt;&quot;Questions that focus on ranting about problems rather than trying to solve them&quot;&lt;/a&gt; off-topic category listed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt;. It was right there &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/44587/1&quot;&gt;from the very beginning&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm not looking to take any action on this. I just want to validate my feelings more than anything. It hurts...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and with further edits it was getting there more and more, along with &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/10/podcast-53-lets-go-rio/&quot;&gt;&quot;commiserating&quot;&lt;/a&gt; upvotes that encouraged this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;...pretend hair dye doesn't exist. and pretend you can't shave your head. let's say your manager has blonde hair, and this other manager has blonde hair, and the manager above them even has blonde hair. and your manager decided to start drinking with a group of co-workers after work, not everyone, just people they're friends with... but one rule: only people with blonde hair. but you have brown hair; you were born this way and cannot change it except with a full hair transplant and you kinda like your brown hair. annnd to add to that, most of the people you work with in your whole area, maybe 85-90%, all have blonde hair. you've never worked too closely with another brown haired person just because it hasn't worked out that way but that's really okay, you're fine with it. so... hair color doesn't truly matter anyway, right? so you ask to go to the blonde hair only drinking group bc why not, right? and you sort of feel left out and it is with the managers (who just happen to be friends, there's no conspiracy going on here or anything) so.... it'd be nice to be friends with them on the same level other people are bc they kind of control your career to a certain degree. but nope. no blonde haired people allowed. sorries. would you get butt-hurt over that? i mean... i guess it is true blonde people have more fun and you having brown hair would just be a complete buzz kill to be there, right? totally understandable.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;just trust that they make no work decisions there. trust they make no decisions based on friendships cultivated there. trust that they don't carry over these feelings of &quot;blonde people only&quot; to the workplace in terms of project assignment, career advancement, and opportunities. trust that the inside jokes and references don't make any difference. trust that if your manager had to choose between you and a blonde co-worker for a position, with the same qualifications, that he wouldn't pick the other person because of an on-going relationship developed outside of work that you were explicitly excluded from due to something unchangeable and biological. trust that you're still valued. trust that they still respect you. trust that they don't actually view you differently because of your hair color. trust that you are equal. trust them when they say hair color does not matter...&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, first revision of the question suggests that it had a chance to be cleaned up and reworked, if only &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/98026/165773&quot;&gt;timely closure&lt;/a&gt; protected it from getting answers. But it's too late now - there's just no way to do this without invalidating existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-04-24T21:39:37.513" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3132" CreationDate="2015-04-25T03:57:51.917" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've addressed this in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/44620/383&quot;&gt;my answer to the question&lt;/a&gt;, but to recap: I think what's wrong with the question is it really is three different questions in one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are these gatherings work gatherings or private social gatherings?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If these gatherings are work gatherings, does she have the right to attend?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If (2) is true, what can she do about it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think these are serious questions that should be answered, but the way the question was written was somewhat emotional and didn't make the distinction between those three questions. I think that's why there were emotional (and not very factual) answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think that, because the internet is (in general) unwelcoming to women, the fact that there was alleged sexism made this question even more controversial. However, the sexism isn't very relevant to the question in this case -- a similar issue would exist if a male worker was told that he couldn't attend a gathering with his boss and selected co-workers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, there are too many things going on in this question, and it needs to be simplified to receive better answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My recommendation would be to create a new question, but just focus on what boundaries a boss has when including his workers into his &quot;social life.&quot; An example title could be &quot;What boundaries do I [as a boss] have when including employees in my social life?&quot; That title could and should be improved on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've spend a lot of time on this question -- I finally understand this &lt;a href=&quot;https://xkcd.com/386/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;xkdc comic&lt;/a&gt;. This question is important to answer, and I hope we can do so in a accurate and productive way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2015-04-25T03:57:51.917" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3131" CreationDate="2015-04-26T20:17:46.557" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are companies permitted to register, and provide answers (rather than individuals)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, I guess I'm surprised. I wouldn't have thought that would be allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2015-04-26T20:17:46.557" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3138" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-28T19:31:57.937" Score="10" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having been a member of this site for a while, I understand and appreciate the difficulty involved in determining whether a question is on-topic.  That being said, this question appears to have been closed for a reason that's not valid:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/44722/an-appropriate-letter-reminding-coworkers-to-be-respectful&quot;&gt;How can I stop my colleagues being disrespectful about my personal life choices?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;real questions have answers&quot; close reason instructs posters to explain what they would do to make a situation better. While the question comes off as a rant, it seems inarguable that the poster did explain what she would like to do to improve the situation - for her, at least.   I suspect that the question was closed because people disagreed with what she wanted to do, not with the fact that she didn't provide it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that questions like this are valuable.  To me it seems a bad idea to close questions because the poster proposes the wrong solution - we fail to educate people on the topic, but also lose the ability to change their way of thinking about professionalism and workplace relationships at a more fundamental level.   For these reasons I'm voting to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My two cents. I would appreciate other opinions as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14047" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T01:21:40.313" Title="Comment re the &quot;real questions have answers&quot; close reason" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|specific-question|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3138" CreationDate="2015-04-28T22:25:55.750" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question has answers, is it &quot;real&quot;? This question has several real answers including mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why this was closed. The question (although seemingly edited into several different forms) seemed real, if the solution posited by the questioner seemed misguided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll join you in voting to re-open, although I'd like to hear counter-opinions on why it should stay closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T22:25:55.750" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3138" CreationDate="2015-04-28T23:30:51.263" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The proposed edit &quot;how should I word the letter&quot; makes all the existing answers invalid. The majority opinion is don't send the letter, which is an answer to the original question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that the series of questions asked by the writer are nothing more than a series of rants. I did not vote to close the original question, but I almost did several times. My overall feeling about the series of questions was that the writer is not happy at work, and is lashing out at everything associated with the employer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just don't think that this is question that many people will find useful. Thus I voted to keep it closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T23:30:51.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3141" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-29T22:56:08.683" Score="5" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/untagged&quot;&gt;There are a number of untagged questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These should probably be either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tagged&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edited/reopened&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite a few of you have more than 10k reputation (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;required for deleting questions&lt;/a&gt;) and can vote to delete these, if needed. Everyone can edit them and anyone with 3k rep can vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'd love for the community to decide the fate of these - rather than simply deleting them all ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discuss/vote/edit away!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/40831/how-should-i-calculate-task-value-in-hours&quot;&gt;How should I calculate task value in hours?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/36553/how-can-i-create-a-disclaimer&quot;&gt;How can I create a disclaimer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/34310/need-an-advice-for-my-future&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/34310/need-an-advice-for-my-future&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/21269/is-my-boss-trying-to-take-my-skills&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/21269/is-my-boss-trying-to-take-my-skills&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18869/senior-colleagues-chase-me&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18869/senior-colleagues-chase-me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17863/is-the-pomodoro-technique-useful-in-an-open-plan-office-without-headphones&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17863/is-the-pomodoro-technique-useful-in-an-open-plan-office-without-headphones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16601/what-does-this-reply-mean-or-imply&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16601/what-does-this-reply-mean-or-imply&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/37001/what-is-a-polite-way-to-avoid-endorsing-a-letter-email-submitted-to-you-by-a-sub&quot;&gt;What is a polite way to avoid endorsing a letter/email submitted to you by a subordinate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18544/liability-for-company-development-equipment&quot;&gt;Liability for company development equipment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14535/how-to-prepare-for-a-project-manager-role-technical-interview&quot;&gt;How To Prepare for a Project Manager Role Technical Interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/33863/how-much-power-does-a-project-manager-have&quot;&gt;How much power does a &amp;#39;project manager&amp;#39; have?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T20:12:05.437" Title="Community cleanup of tagless questions" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3141" CreationDate="2015-04-30T13:27:12.317" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My thoughts on the questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should I calculate task value in hours?&#xA;- too localized, &lt;strong&gt;recommend deletion&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I create a disclaimer? &#xA;- Has a good answer, &lt;strong&gt;retag&lt;/strong&gt; and leave closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Need an advice for my future&#xA;- Title says it all, &lt;strong&gt;recommend deletion&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is my boss trying to take my skills&#xA;- Duplicate, I editied the tag, we should &lt;strong&gt;leave it closed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;senior colleagues chase me&#xA;- Currently very much a 'my situation sucks fix it', I already retagged it, &lt;strong&gt;could be reopened with a hero edit, otherwise delete it&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the Pomodoro Technique useful in an open plan office? (without headphones)&#xA;- Migrated question, I already retagged it, if it got an &lt;strong&gt;edit to focus the aim of the question&lt;/strong&gt; it might be able to be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this reply mean (or imply)?&#xA;- Too localized, &lt;strong&gt;recommend deletion&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is a polite way to avoid endorsing a letter/email submitted to you by a subordinate?&#xA;- &lt;strong&gt;already dealt with&lt;/strong&gt;! Thanks Roger!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Liability for company development equipment&#xA;- Already retagged by Roger! &lt;strong&gt;Recommend &lt;em&gt;against&lt;/em&gt; deletion&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How To Prepare for a Project Manager Role Technical Interview&#xA;- Too broad, tags already cleaned up by Roger, &lt;strong&gt;Recommend deletion&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much power does a 'project manager' have?&#xA;- Too localized, already retagged by Roger, &lt;strong&gt;recommend deletion&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T13:27:12.317" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-04-30T13:27:12.317" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3141" CreationDate="2015-04-30T20:12:05.437" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18869/how-do-i-ask-why-my-senior-colleagues-are-following-me-around&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; has been heavily edited in an attempt to bring it back on topic. May be worth a look. I don't have the rep to vote to re-open and flagging it didn't seem to be the right way to go either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T20:12:05.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3138" CreationDate="2015-05-01T00:34:02.567" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Coming from a programming background, I think this question falls into the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem&quot;&gt;XY Problem&lt;/a&gt; category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An XY problem is when someone asks, &quot;How do I do Y?&quot; But often times, Y is considered a bad idea. So the question naturally arises from others: &quot;Why do you want to do Y?&quot; The asker might respond, &quot;I'm trying to do X.&quot; The other people very quickly realize the solution: &quot;Y is not a good approach to solve X. Do Z instead.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is something we encounter in software regularly, and I think this perfectly describes the situation with this question. The OP asked how to write this letter (the Y) and was thorough enough to provide the underlying problem of treatment by coworkers (the X) they are trying to solve. So answers advising against writing the letter and instead proposing alternatives were posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue that these kinds of questions can be useful when they include the original underlying problem. Imagine the perspective of someone who is in a similar situation considering similar action. They seek advice on how to accomplish it, and they find this question advising against it completely. This gives them an opportunity to stop and reconsider their actions before they do something ultimately harmful to themselves. (I am not suggesting this is &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; the case, merely that it can be. Case by case determination of that is probably warranted.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it seems there is agreement that the question comes off as a rant or is otherwise not of high quality. That doesn't, however, negate the usefulness of the basic, underlying question. If the quality of the presentation is the problem, the best response is to &lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt; and salvage the real question, not close it. If an edit war ensues, flag for moderator attention to lock the post or take other appropriate action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be completely appropriate to close as a duplicate if a question asking about this kind of treatment from coworkers exists, but this is the kind of &quot;good duplicate&quot; that StackExchange wants to keep around. It funnels users looking for information a different way into the information that would be most helpful to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16724" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T06:38:34.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3145" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-02T17:14:15.270" Score="2" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand all of the close votes on my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/45018/what-are-the-common-practices-for-resigning-when-under-an-australian-employment&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion my question is clear and is not&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A legal question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Too specific (unless the community considers the entire country of Australia to be &quot;too specific.&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please justify these close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people are confused or didn't read the key question, &lt;em&gt;in bold,&lt;/em&gt; or voted to close after briefly skimming the question, then they shouldn't be voting to close!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I implore people to vote to reopen, since it meets &lt;em&gt;none&lt;/em&gt; of the vote to close reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5769" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T02:38:24.603" Title="What is wrong with my Australian Employment Contract question" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3145" CreationDate="2015-05-02T20:17:43.310" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please justify these close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know why folks voted to close. Here at stackexchange it's not required that anyone justify any of their votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I had to guess, I'd say that the phrase &quot;can I even resign or am I bound by the contract?&quot; comes across as requiring legal counsel for a proper answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Bound by the contract&quot; pretty much demands a legal interpretation, don't you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you could revise the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If people are confused or didn't read the key question, in bold, or&#xA;  voted to close after briefly skimming the question, then they&#xA;  shouldn't be voting to close!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand your opinion. But people can and do vote however they choose, even if some think they shouldn't be allowed to vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T20:17:43.310" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3145" CreationDate="2015-05-04T01:58:53.530" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Caveat:&lt;/b&gt; I didn't vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an Australian who has worked in a couple of industries over the past 25 years, the question can't reasonably answered as a generic case.  Within an industry I have had different sets of employment and termination conditions.  Within an &lt;em&gt;organisation&lt;/em&gt; I have seen different conditions, depending on what Enterprise Bargaining Agreement was entered into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to give a generic, sweeping answer IS to broad too cover &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; cases within Australia.  There are far too many variations to possibly be answered in the Stack Exchange Q&amp;amp;A format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastEditorUserId="33698" LastEditDate="2015-05-04T02:38:24.603" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T02:38:24.603" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3148" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3149" CreationDate="2015-05-04T16:51:27.590" Score="5" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/45037/2322&quot;&gt;Who is responsible for slow equipment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is closed as a duplicate, but I do not believe it is a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is asking more or less how to work &lt;em&gt;around&lt;/em&gt; the inability to request new equipment. The duplicate specifically addresses this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closed question reason is amusing in light of the first line of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dIARl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hoping to get some community votes to reopen it, those of us who work in large bureaucracies (with miles of red tape for requesting new hardware) can relate to this being very different...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T18:48:34.193" Title="Reopen slow equipment question?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3148" CreationDate="2015-05-04T18:48:34.193" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been reopened by community vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T18:48:34.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3150" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-05T16:39:26.490" Score="3" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;When scrolling down the page to make a post on, it seems that the container holding &quot;HOW TO FORMAT&quot; has an incorrect z-index, or just looks invalid. It scrolls down and appears &lt;em&gt;below&lt;/em&gt; the bottom image for the site &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; below the footer text, whereas on most sites it appears on top of all that stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vvtTgm.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot-of-how-to-format&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is on the latest version of Google Chrome for the desktop!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26825" OwnerDisplayName="JonH" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T17:27:12.353" Title="Z-Index on sidebar help is incorrect" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3151" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-07T12:38:07.067" Score="11" ViewCount="303" Body="&lt;p&gt;In looking at the recent question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/46324/transport-accommodation-for-new-location&quot;&gt;Transport &amp;amp; Accommodation for new location&lt;/a&gt;, the question is clearly off-topic. There's no way we can answer the question, because it is about company-specific policy, and the question is very likely to be closed soon. However, inevitably you get someone who will post as an answer &quot;Talk to your boss/HR. We can't answer this for you.&quot; This also tends to happen with the &quot;Which job should I take&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is simply stating &quot;We can't answer this&quot; a valid answer? Is it worth keeping around, or should it be deleted? Usually those with enough rep will instead make a comment and then flag or vote to close the question. Does it even matter, since the question is going to be closed anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T01:22:42.370" Title="Is &quot;We can't answer this&quot; a valid answer?" Tags="|discussion|questions|answers|offtopic|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3151" CreationDate="2015-05-07T15:47:37.437" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I post that. I usually do so as a comment while flagging/voting for closure. But sometimes &quot;mu&quot; really is the only answer we can give.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T15:47:37.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3151" CreationDate="2015-05-07T23:15:35.400" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I'm voting / flagging a question to close, I don't answer it - in my opinion, doing so can give the impression that the the question is legitimate, which then encourages other people to ask similar off-topic questions. This can be more of a problem on smaller sites (sports.stackexchange.com is where I personally see this, but that's just because it's the smallest site on which I have close vote privileges) where questions can take a couple of days to get closed, but I think it applies to some degree on larger sites as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14388" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T23:15:35.400" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3151" CreationDate="2015-05-08T01:22:42.370" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my personal opinion, that is not a valid answer.  But unless we have clear community consensus on this, don't expect mods to actively delete them.  But here are some tools you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Close votes.  If the question should be closed, then &lt;em&gt;close it&lt;/em&gt;, the sooner the better.  That at least stops more answers that may make it harder to reopen the question.  Closing isn't bad and it isn't forever; it's a time-out while we address an issue.  We &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; questions that can fit here to be fixed and reopened; we're not trying to pound them with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/no-red-stamp-text-white-42268581.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;big red &quot;no&quot; stamp&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not An Answer (NAA) flags.  Not for the mods to handle (see above), but enough reviewers in the low-quality review queue can remove a post.  Note: this only works if the community also visits the review queues on a regular basis.  Go ahead; click that &quot;review&quot; link at the top of the page.  Help curate the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes.  Closed questions with no upvoted answers are automatically deleted after a while.  But if you upvote those &quot;go see a lawyer&quot; or &quot;ask HR&quot; answers, you're (a) preventing the Roomba from acting and (b) &lt;em&gt;rewarding that behavior&lt;/em&gt;.  Most people will continue to do what gets rewarded.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Delete votes (20k for answers, 10k for closed questions).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edits.  Can you fix the question so that we &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; answer it?  While in general the SE rule is to not edit questions in ways that invalidate existing answers, I personally think we should make exceptions in cases like that.  That's not a mod pronouncement, but it doesn't need to be: the community can use votes and flags to address issues.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that we clearly cannot answer help neither the site nor the asker.  By all means, leave comments suggesting other places where the asker might get help; we want to help, within reason.  But we shouldn't do that with answers like these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a while we were systematically &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2891/325&quot;&gt;reviewing our broken windows&lt;/a&gt;, with the goal of fixing what could be fixed and deleting questions that were helping nobody.  The main organizer got busy with other things, but maybe we can revive this.  It doesn't have to be run by a moderator, after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T01:22:42.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3155" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-09T14:41:01.850" Score="4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have often wondered how one joins a profession with a non-traditional career path.  Some examples are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does one become a ship captain for an international freight line?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is a typical career path for becoming an astronaut?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the career track for an overseas commercial pilot?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would questions such as these be on-topic?  If not, is there another stack at which they might be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26843" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T02:12:19.207" Title="Are 'how does one become an X' questions on topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3156" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-09T21:43:21.933" Score="3" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/46416/employee-agreement-wording-regarding-ownership-of-programs-developed-while-emplo&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; here, I am unable to edit the question as the edit button is disabled for some reason. My reputation, @ 568 allows me to edit questions. I was going to improve the format by converting the OP quotation into a block quote format so it stands out from the rest of the text in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T03:22:00.577" Title="Unable to edit question although reputation (568) allows doing so" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2015-05-10T20:20:07.913" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3156" CreationDate="2015-05-09T21:49:01.760" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions with suggested edits show up that way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v4ulf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I approved the edit so you should also be able to edit now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-05-09T21:49:01.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3023" CreationDate="2015-05-12T19:27:03.257" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/business-writing&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K4CFF.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ad for Writers site&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7560" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:22.977" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T19:27:03.257" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-05-12T19:27:03.257" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3155" CreationDate="2015-05-12T20:42:53.777" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a close reason that specifically declares this off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for advice on what to do are not practical answerable&#xA;  questions (e.g. &quot;what job should I take?&quot;, or &quot;what skills should I&#xA;  learn?&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This type of question is basically asking what skills should I learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T20:42:53.777" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3160" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-15T17:03:07.310" Score="-9" ViewCount="960" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my answer on question - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/46611/how-to-politely-decline-a-handshake-due-to-religious-reasons/46616#46616&quot;&gt;How does one politely decline a handshake due to religious reasons?&lt;/a&gt; - I have an answer that had an entire paragraph chopped out of it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only that but the mods keep deleting my comments in response to other comments BUT KEEP THE ORIGINAL COMMENTS.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the deleted section of my answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Addendum:&lt;/strong&gt;  We must talk about the elephant in the room.  There is a massive perception in the US and parts of Europe that Muslim men&#xA;  believe that women are inferior.  I am not arguing one way or another&#xA;  on this perception.  You can say it isn't true but there will be&#xA;  countless people who will believe it to be true and it only takes one&#xA;  of them to get the author fired from his job.  People in the comments&#xA;  say it is his religious obligation not to shake hands.  Before&#xA;  commenting &lt;strong&gt;please please tell me where the line of religious&#xA;  obligation is drawn and where do you think an employer should draw it?&#xA;  Should an employer allow a white person to have a religious obligation&#xA;  not to shake a black person's hands?&lt;/strong&gt;  Just because it is in a&#xA;  religion doesn't make it right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Addendum II:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/foia/letters/2009/religionhandshakeletter.redacted%20for%20posting.final.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;  This link says absolutely NOTHING.  It says that if he refuses to&#xA;  shake hands and if people feel he is discriminate against women it is&#xA;  sexual harassment.  If people feel like it he is &quot;good&quot; then it is&#xA;  fine.  This is a document you could give to HR - because it says&#xA;  nothing.  But this document will not help keep the author from getting&#xA;  fired.  Based on this document anyone could perceive the author's&#xA;  intent is discriminatory and fire him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fail to see how these are not directly correlated with the author's question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also to go along with this please see this comment by Monica below in my answer &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Relevant: i.stack.imgur.com/lMnCX.png –  Monica Cellio♦ 3 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She is telling me to not put comments on my answer that should be in the post.  Then deletes those exact things once I put them in the post.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify this question:  I do not have an issue with the mods deleting comments.  I understand that comments get overwhelming on some questions/answers and need to be deleted.  I do have an issue with a mod deleting a comment and then using it as an answer.  I do have an issue with the mods picking and choosing which comments to delete.  I do have an issue with the mods treating answers from other mods differently than non-mods.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I was never given a reason why the sections above were deleted.  They were in direct context to the question and other answers.  I feel that if the mods are going to make a widespread delete there should be an OBVIOUS reason or they should work with the author on wording.  The mods then took this one step further and LOCKED IT DOWN.  If you have an upvote on Monica's answer below you did not understand all of the facts.  Also I asked Monica to help get comments to prove my issues and she has only went back and retrieved one to help her side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16609" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-05-17T15:04:11.133" Title="What right do mods have in reconstructing my answers and comments?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3160" CreationDate="2015-05-15T17:15:27.450" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I explained in the edit summary, your latest edit just added your strongly-held personal opinions about religion.  This is not a constructive change; rather, it degrades the quality of the site.  The OP asked a sincere question reflecting a problem that lots of people in the world actually have.  Your participation on this question has largely amounted to &quot;that's not a real problem because religion is stupid&quot;.  That is not acceptable.  Your edit wasn't appropriate the first time you made it and it wasn't appropriate the second time, when you rolled back my removal of it.  (That is why your answer is now locked.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for comments, so far there are approximately &lt;em&gt;160&lt;/em&gt; deleted comments on the question and its answers.  Most of those comments are arguments about religion, discrimination, bigotry, and other participants.  &lt;strong&gt;None of that has anything to do with answering the OP's question.&lt;/strong&gt;  We will continue to delete stuff like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's look at the two comments that remain on your answer after the &quot;comments removed&quot; notice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You may feel that it is your religious right to not shake a woman's hand&quot;. As I read it, OP states that it is his religious obligation - not &quot;right&quot; - not to touch women other than his wife or close family members.  – Mawg 7 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a correction of an assertion in your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is no such thing as a &quot;business environments that requires you to shake hands&quot;.  – David Richerby 6 hours ago &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a valid criticism of your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both cases, you can address the issue by &lt;em&gt;editing the answer&lt;/em&gt; appropriately and then flagging the comments as obsolete.  Arguing with a comment in another comment is not the way to go here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GSd0z.png&quot; alt=&quot;warning about comments&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question and everything attached to it has generated 32 flags so far.  That is &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; out of line for this site.  We strive to take the smallest action that addresses a problem.  The question and many of the answers are valuable and it's not fair to the other participants to let this kind of stuff get out of hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Addendum&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was asked in a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@MonicaCellio I am really confused by your summary of blankip's addendum. It basically said &quot;Unfortunately I would be remiss not to mention the fact that there is a negative stereotype in the US against Muslims which is blah. Be aware that doing blah may lead people to believe blah about you.&quot; S/he wasn't promoting or approving the stereotype, just presenting it as a sad fact of life. There are other parts of the answer that sound distinctly dodgier to me, so I'm not sure why you singled out that part. Can you be more specific about how you feel that the addedum violated site policy? –  starsplusplus&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the stuff that came next.  This is what I removed in my first rollback:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Addendum: I think we need to talk about the elephant in the room. There is a massive perception that Muslim men feel that women are inferior. I don't want to get into this argument. You can say that this isn't true, but I can find countless others that will counter that - and if one of them has a problem with the author, he could be fired. So this begs the question - &lt;strong&gt;as a society that was brought together for equality where do we draw the line? I have had people comment that Muslims should be able to express their religion. Please please please tell me where the line will be drawn. Can a white person not shake a black person's hand because of religion? Is that OK?&lt;/strong&gt; I personally think most of the comments on this question are useless unless the commenter can speak as to where that line gets drawn. Just because something is part of a religion doesn't make it right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I don't want to get into this argument&quot; -- then why proceed to do so?  That's not a &quot;be nice&quot; violation yet, just a signal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I personally think most of the comments...&quot; -- not constructive; also not &quot;not nice&quot;, just pointless. This is not a discussion forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The part in bold -- &lt;strong&gt;big problem&lt;/strong&gt;. Judging the OP's religious motivations is problematic enough; playing the racism card is over the line.  The &quot;where do we draw the line?&quot; theme is soap-boxing, not an answer.  The &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; part of that paragraph that contributes to an answer to the question is advice about taking prejudice against one's religion into account when deciding what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the author reverted my edit I didn't happen to notice the minor variations he made in this paragraph, but they wouldn't have changed my analysis.  I did notice the second added paragraph, and had the author given &lt;em&gt;any signal at all&lt;/em&gt; that he wanted to work with us to address the problems in this answer instead of just arguing about it, I would have edited to keep some of that and to try to help/teach him.  By then, though, the author had already complained here on meta about edits, so I didn't see any benefit in my putting in that extra work to improve his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been complaints from the author that I edited this post because I don't like it.  &lt;strong&gt;That is false.&lt;/strong&gt;  There are lots of posts on this site I don't like; I downvote them.  (I downvoted this one.)  People are allowed to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/386/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wrong on the Internet&lt;/a&gt;.  But on this particular corner of the Internet, they are not allowed to be rude, to incite conflict, or to conduct irrelevant arguments, and I &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; edit for that (or delete if that's all it is).  That we provide a textbox does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; give anybody the &lt;a href=&quot;https://xkcd.com/1357/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;right&lt;/a&gt; to fill it with stuff that doesn't belong, whether questions, answers, or comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The author has two choices as far as I'm concerned: (1) accept that this content is not permitted and we can unlock (feel free to edit further &lt;em&gt;constructively&lt;/em&gt;), or (2) delete the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguably this answer skirts the &quot;not an answer&quot; line in its current form, and if we unlock you might want to do something about that.  Otherwise it's possible the community will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2015-05-17T03:53:09.460" LastActivityDate="2015-05-17T03:53:09.460" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3160" CreationDate="2015-05-15T17:34:08.763" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Monica defends the use of the mods deleting comments.  I am going to post this to the main Meta site but would like it discussed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#1&lt;/strong&gt; Enderland's original answer comes directly from a comment that was deleted by the mods.  I know that some people turn comments into answers.  I know it happens everywhere.  But I find it a gross misuse of power that I can delete something on a site and reuse it as mine.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#2&lt;/strong&gt; Monica's thought in her answer to my question may be correct.  &lt;strong&gt;However let's compare them to the comments that I made under Enderland's question a few hours ago about the validity of the link that was provided in their answer.&lt;/strong&gt;  Note that Monica kept comments under my question and deleted things that Enderland should be addressing.  It would seem to me as being a simple peasant on the site that there is a hierarchy that is looking out for itself - different rules for different people.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16609" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T17:34:08.763" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3160" CreationDate="2015-05-15T18:45:44.097" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In case of editing conflicts, the one originally posting the answer should have the final say. Their name is connected to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't want the kind of editing wars that made Wikipedia untrustworthy. In case of a conflict, both sides make their point, and the person whose name is connected to the answer has the final say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34797" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T18:45:44.097" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3160" CreationDate="2015-05-15T18:51:15.727" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;In response to your question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only that but the mods keep deleting my comments in response to other comments BUT KEEP THE ORIGINAL COMMENTS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answer has 62 deleted comments, 14 of which were added by you. The overwhelming majority of discussion on your answer was deleted by moderators (not myself, either).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Implying that the moderators are deleting your comments but leaving all the original comments is disingenuous at best, when of the 96% of the comments from others on your post were deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have an answer that had an entire paragraph chopped out of it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/46616/revisions&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt; on your post, you will find that the part Monica removed initially is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; what you have quoted here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The removed paragraph effectively says, &amp;quot;your religion not wanting you to shake hands with women is basically the same as racism so you should get fired. And your religion is wrong.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to read Stack Exchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;be nice&lt;/a&gt; policy, specifically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Name-calling. &lt;strong&gt;Focus on the post, not the person&lt;/strong&gt;. That includes terms that feel personal even when they're applied to posts (like &amp;quot;lazy&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;ignorant&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;whiny&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bigotry of any kind. &lt;strong&gt;Language likely to offend or alienate individuals&lt;/strong&gt; or groups based on race, gender, sexual orientation, &lt;strong&gt;religion, etc. will not be tolerated. At all.&lt;/strong&gt; (Those are just a few examples; when in doubt, just don't.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Content like that paragraph is not appropriate on Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Addressing your concerns &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3160/what-right-do-mods-have-in-reconstructing-my-answers-and-comments/3162#3162&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt;1 Enderland's original answer comes directly from a comment that was deleted by the mods. I know that some people turn comments into answers. I know it happens everywhere. But I find it a gross misuse of power that I can delete something on a site and reuse it as mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I double checked all deleted comments posted before my answer on the question, your answer, and HGLEM's answer - no comment addressed the content of my answer (shake hands with neither gender) prior to me posting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result, I am unsure what you mean by this, can you please clarify?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only even tangentially related comment posted when I posted was from you on your answer about 60 seconds before my answer was posted (it was you saying  &amp;quot;I just know I treat everyone the same based on their sex/appearance/religion... those things. If my religion asked me to treat someone different I would just skip over that or I would put myself in situations where I didn't need to make these types of decisions&amp;quot;).&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I stand corrected, an inappropriate comment (which was deleted by a Stack Exchange Community Manager - not a moderator here - a little over 9 minutes before I posted my answer) did have language about that buried in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt;2 Monica's thought in her answer to my question may be correct. However let's compare them to the comments that I made under Enderland's question a few hours ago about the validity of the link that was provided in their answer. Note that Monica kept comments under my question and deleted things that Enderland should be addressing. It would seem to me as being a simple peasant on the site that there is a hierarchy that is looking out for itself - different rules for different people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find all these discussion points in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/23805/discussion-on-answer-by-enderland-how-to-politely-decline-a-handshake-due-to-rel&quot;&gt;this chat room&lt;/a&gt; which is linked on my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please take some time to read through &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;what comments are&lt;/a&gt;. The sections &amp;quot;When should I comment?&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;When shouldn't I comment?&amp;quot; specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T19:05:40.193" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3160" CreationDate="2015-05-15T20:31:27.183" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, first off, it's clear that you feel strongly, but your post makes it seem like you may be letting perceived offenses get the better of you. If you want folks to give you the benefit of the doubt in this situation, you'll do far better by waiting until you can make a calm, rational argument for why things should've been handled differently... Right now, you're coming off as someone who is upset that they weren't allowed to freely rant about something that bothered them, and taking every opportunity to lash out at the people who restrained him - a poor way of handling yourself, here or anywhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a walk. Drink a cup of tea. Come back when you've had time to think through this a bit - trust me, &lt;strong&gt;it will help&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, to address the rest of your concerns...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What right do moderators have to edit or remove what you've written?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They have the right granted to them by the system and by the folks here &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;who elected them&lt;/a&gt; to do exactly that. Indeed, they have not just the &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; to do so, but &lt;strong&gt;the responsibility&lt;/strong&gt; to do so - they are charged by the community here to maintain a civil forum conducive to the creation of useful answers. Upon being made aware of a post or comment that threatens this order, &lt;strong&gt;they &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; edit or remove it&lt;/strong&gt; - anything else would be to abdicate the responsibility they were given, to betray those who trusted them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, you can argue that the specific edit wasn't necessary, and if you believe that then perhaps you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; lay out your rationale for why the text that was removed was helpful in answering the asker's question (or at very least, not detrimental to this end). But the argument that moderators shouldn't undertake such work is utterly invalid; such work is the very reason why moderators &lt;em&gt;exist&lt;/em&gt;, and indeed why &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; privileged members of the community&lt;/a&gt; are trusted with the right to edit, to improve on the work of others such that future readers may learn from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't understand why a particular edit was made, why certain comments were removed, why warnings were left or have &lt;em&gt;any other question&lt;/em&gt; about moderation here, you're more than free to ask. If you &lt;em&gt;disagree&lt;/em&gt; with the rationale, you can bring the matter before the community here. Be honest; be willing to learn. And &lt;strong&gt;be willing to accept the decision of the community here&lt;/strong&gt;, in cases where they disagree with you and side with the moderators they elected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of all, &lt;strong&gt;try not to lose sight of the bigger picture&lt;/strong&gt;: the situation on that question, and on your answer in particular, was quickly degenerating into an inflammatory discussion that did nothing to address the asker's question. Moderators took considerable effort to correct this, while facing a considerable lack of cooperation from some of the people involved. Debating the consistency of specific actions taken is naive; this is a live question and the moderation is ongoing, with actions taken as time and circumstances permit. If you see a problem that hasn't yet been addressed, the most productive thing you can do is to flag it and thus ensure that the moderator team is aware of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reposting a comment as an answer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You brought this up in your answer here; I think you're confused as to what actually happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I stopped by briefly yesterday in response to something else, and happened upon a flag in the comments &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/46611/how-to-politely-decline-a-handshake-due-to-religious-reasons/&quot;&gt;under the question here&lt;/a&gt;. Seeing that the comments were largely irrelevant and somewhat inflammatory, I summarily deleted all of them. One of them, which I assume is the one you're referencing, read as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm with @Bregalad - Give her a big hug and tell her that you can't shake hands because of your religious beliefs. Haha, but in all seriousness, you can decline but there's not a &amp;quot;polite&amp;quot; way to do it in the US. The constitution that the country was founded on states that all citizens are equal(give or take, this isn't a history lesson) I would suggest if you're going to make that distinction don't shake anyone's hand. People will be more willing to accept that you can't shake anyone's hand as opposed to only women, but even so, that's a slippery slope. – zfrisch&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This... Vaguely resembles &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/46619/revisions&quot;&gt;enderland's initial answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An easy way to do this is to not shake hands with anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This avoids the problems related to sexism entirely. You can say something, &amp;quot;I prefer not to shake hands due to my religion&amp;quot; if someone tries to shake your hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...insofar as both recommend not shaking hands with anyone. Of course, several other people make the same recommendation in various forms across the other answers and comments; it would appear to be a rather obvious solution to the problem. Given enderland neither borrowed any of the wording nor was involved in the removal of that comment, I don't see any indication of impropriety there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T21:12:23.873" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3166" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3167" CreationDate="2015-05-16T05:30:19.287" Score="4" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/46611/how-to-politely-decline-a-handshake-due-to-religious-reasons&quot;&gt;How does one politely decline a handshake due to religious reasons?&lt;/a&gt; , I wrote the comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question should be migrated to Islam.SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was this deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2472" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-05-17T18:31:06.253" Title="Why was this comment on the handshake question deleted?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3166" CreationDate="2015-05-16T05:44:45.077" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing inherently wrong with your comment. It's just that, there were a lot of them, and some of them were quite nasty and not keeping with the spirit of Stack Exchange's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;be nice&lt;/a&gt; policy. Other comments simply intended to &lt;em&gt;discuss&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;debate&lt;/em&gt; the issue, which again is not the goal of our site.  Since the purpose of our site is to answer questions, not convey our opinions, a moderator deleted most of the comments in order to keep the focus on the Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, there's nothing wrong with your comment, but sometimes innocuous comments get caught up in the deletion task. We try to look at each one, but sometimes that isn't possible or we make mistakes.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/72/98&quot;&gt;Comments aren't designed to be a place to store valuable information&lt;/a&gt;, so when it comes to comments, if in doubt, we'll delete. Don't take this the wrong way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the migration request, I'd say this could likely fit Islam SE, but it also seems on topic here on Workplace SE, since it's a question about how to handle colleagues in the workplace where personal religious beliefs play a part. As a general rule, if a question is on topic on this site, our first loyalty as Workplace SE members is to this site, we don't migrate questions just because they &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be on topic on another site. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/03/respect-the-community-your-own-and-others/&quot;&gt;Respect the community -- your own, and others'&lt;/a&gt; for details:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Respecting your own community&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As members of a community, your first loyalty should be to &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; community. When evaluating a question, you shouldn’t be looking to push it off on some other site; instead, ask if it could be appropriate and on-topic for you, the experts who the author decided to ask. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be a bit jealous of your site&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; – don’t blithely turn askers away simply because their question could be asked somewhere else. Don’t hit them over the head with your scope, help them tailor their question to fit into it – and if that means your site’s scope overlaps a bit with another site’s, so be it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T05:44:45.077" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3168" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-17T01:38:49.177" Score="3" ViewCount="672" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer, which has 43 upvotes, has been locked since yesterday: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/46616/12321&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/46616/12321&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure it's worthy of my personal upvote, but as I cannot vote on it (since it is locked) and since it had a rather strong momentum in earning upvotes from other people, &quot;locking&quot; it seems rather unfair. It's as if the site moderators have determined to block an answer they dislike from being voted on.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have put a lot of time into the StackExchange sites. One of the reasons I have done so is because I believe they are the fairest way that I've seen online to put forth reasonable solutions and have the group decide on the most optimal ones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm calling for the end to this answer's &quot;locked&quot; status, so that people may vote on it, and for this not to happen again. I'm expecting reasonable conversation around it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have since discovered that the mod who locked it was participating in the &quot;discussion.&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/23748/discussion-on-answer-by-blankip-how-to-politely-decline-a-handshake-due-to-relig&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/23748/discussion-on-answer-by-blankip-how-to-politely-decline-a-handshake-due-to-relig&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a direct conflict of interest. A mod is a judge. In societies where such things are taken seriously, judges recuse themselves to avoid the appearance of impropriety. This sort of thing is a problem, and StackExchange needs to get out in front of it and address the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why this question is not a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3160/what-right-do-mods-have-in-reconstructing-my-answers-and-comments&quot;&gt;What right do mods have in reconstructing my answers and comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question asks about the locked status of an answer. It does not ask about the rights of mods to alter answers or comments. Therefore it is not a duplicate of the question that does ask that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question I raise is about process, and giving an answer and its author fair treatment under rules I have agreed to that allow me to continue contributing to this and other StackExchange sites. I'll probably be talking in front of several groups (students and meetup group members) about my experience with StackExchange, and this sort of thing certainly colors my viewpoint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12321" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T22:24:38.973" Title="Why is this answer with 43 upvotes locked?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|moderation|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3168" CreationDate="2015-05-17T02:29:27.343" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;That one question already has resulted in 150+ deleted comments between the question and several answers, many of which are quite offensive. The majority of the rest of the deleted ones are not constructive and/or off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are have been multiple different discussions ongoing on various posts there which belong in either chat or on this meta site, not on the posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the large number of off-topic comments, there are nearly forty flags on various components of that question of all manner -- nearly all valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also multiple answers there which do not try to provide a constructive solution to the OP's problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything there is now locked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Response to comments/updates&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should it be unlocked? There are currently three meta posts which relate to that post - two of which are unresolved, one of which has been investigated by multiple SE employees (I don't know if any have read this one). At this point, given the prolific rate of flags generated by that post, the blatantly offensive comments completely violating the SE &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;be nice policy&lt;/a&gt; (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3171/2322&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; for a full list of the deleted comments), and minimal value in unlocking the post I am unsure it will &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; be unlocked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users - a plethora of users - continued to post offensive, off topic, and meta discussions after multiple moderator comments and explanations. This is why most of the posts there are locked as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post has been locked due to the high amount of off-topic comments generated. For extended discussions, please use chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is it wrong to delete comments?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange isn't a discussion board. It's a question/answer site. See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;section on comments&lt;/a&gt; for the role of comments. This is the policy we as moderators are following when deleting comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do not believe this is how comments should be used, I encourage you to ask a question &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;on the main Stack Exchange meta site&lt;/a&gt; to generate support for SE changing their policy on how comments work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Was treatment of the answer biased?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question I raise is about process, and giving an answer and its author fair treatment under rules I have agreed to that allow me to continue contributing to this and other StackExchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am going to write &lt;em&gt;at length&lt;/em&gt; about the actions taken on this specific answer, so you can better understand the actions taken and why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer in question here, while overall somewhat popular (controversial - its received the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/315257/top-100-most-downvoted-posts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fourth most downvotes of any answer remaining on The Workplace&lt;/a&gt;), does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; actually answer the question. The asker asks, &amp;quot;how can I not shake hands with people in the workplace, because of my religious beliefs?&amp;quot; and this answer says, &amp;quot;you have to either shake hands or quit your job.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not helpful to anyone looking at this question and is among other reasons why that post is controversial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;how to answer&lt;/a&gt;, specifically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read the question carefully. What, specifically, is the question asking for? Make sure your answer provides that – or a viable alternative. &lt;strong&gt;The answer can be “don’t do that”, but it should also include “try this instead”.&lt;/strong&gt; Any answer that gets the asker going in the right direction is helpful, but do try to mention any limitations, assumptions or simplifications in your answer. Brevity is acceptable, but fuller explanations are better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After considerable comments and discussion, (including input from Monica via comments) that answer finally got an actual &amp;quot;answer&amp;quot; on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/46616/revisions&quot;&gt;fifth revision&lt;/a&gt;. I use the phrase &amp;quot;answer&amp;quot; generously here, because rather than attempt to help the asker, the poster gives two possibilities and then explains how people will find it discriminatory - without trying to even provide &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; advice to the asker in how to address these issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, this is also interesting to me in that it effectively takes information directly from the other two answers at the time. In other contexts it's quite clear the author does not believe you should use any content first posted by others - however their answer blatantly copies content from two other answers there as their &amp;quot;alternative&amp;quot; - from posts which were in fact present and viewed by the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presenting possibilities as &amp;quot;answers&amp;quot; and then proceeding to &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; explain reasons they are going to fail - with literally no attempt made to help the asker avoid these pitfalls - is not helpful. A constructive answer would help the asker overcome the pitfalls and be incredibly valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, after all this, there were revisions made that expanded upon the already present theme in the answer that &amp;quot;to work you need to give up your religious beliefs - or quit.&amp;quot; This was articulated in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/46616/revisions&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; to remove it. Note that the answer picked up flags &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the edits were rolled back, which means the language there is still offensive to others reading the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is &amp;quot;how can I politely decline a handshake [due to religious reasons]?&amp;quot; It is not, &amp;quot;please provide commentary on whether or not I should follow my religion and what do you think about this?&amp;quot; Monica locked the answer when the author persisted in editing this commentary into their answer for the reason: &amp;quot;This post has been locked while disputes about its content are being resolved.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some good reading would be from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;be nice&lt;/a&gt; section of the help center:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bigotry of any kind. &lt;strong&gt;Language likely to offend or alienate individuals&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;or groups based&lt;/strong&gt; on race, gender, sexual orientation, &lt;strong&gt;religion&lt;/strong&gt;, etc. &lt;strong&gt;will not be tolerated. At all.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I'm surprised someone from the SE staff has not come by and deleted that answer outright given how strongly and intentionally it violates the above policy. The site moderators have been exceedingly generous in allowing the language in that answer to stand in spite of the clear policy on &amp;quot;Be Nice&amp;quot; as applies to bigotry based on religion. If anything our attempts (primarily from the other moderators, since I removed myself nearly entirely from moderation on that question given I had an answer there) to remain impartial have made us allow inappropriate content longer than otherwise would be fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions are hard to answer. That's fine. But the proper response to hard questions isn't an inflammatory post which basically says &amp;quot;... then find work elsewhere. This is how we like doing things in the US of A.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully this helps you better understand the &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; actions were taken on this  answer the way they were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T02:04:45.130" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3168" CreationDate="2015-05-17T02:55:59.147" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I put a temporary &quot;content dispute&quot; lock on that answer after the author rolled back a moderator edit and because things were exploding in comments and on meta.  I wanted to prevent edit wars while the meta discussion happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to lock it for two days but that wasn't an option in the interface, so I locked it for a week.  Locks can be removed early of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other answers were not causing problems (other than inappropriate comments, which mods were deleting), so I only locked the answer that was an active source of trouble.  I saw no reason to prevent activity on the question or on other answers.  (I have not reviewed occurrences in the last ~28 hours yet, so this answer does not take into account more-recent developments.  I'm just explaining why the lock was added.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2015-05-17T02:58:11.800" LastActivityDate="2015-05-17T02:58:11.800" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3160" CreationDate="2015-05-17T15:04:11.133" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm posting this separately to avoid mingling my explanation with the raw data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/46616/revisions&quot;&gt;Revision history of blankip's answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All comments on the &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xiwp2.png&quot; alt=&quot;part 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VrBMm.png&quot; alt=&quot;part 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q8gqn.png&quot; alt=&quot;part 3&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VAODe.png&quot; alt=&quot;part 4&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All comments on &lt;strong&gt;HLGEM's answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o5u5y.png&quot; alt=&quot;part 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9pGAu.png&quot; alt=&quot;part 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All comments on &lt;strong&gt;enderland's answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QLMx7.png&quot; alt=&quot;part 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AgbzY.png&quot; alt=&quot;part 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All comments on &lt;strong&gt;user568458's answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0q712.png&quot; alt=&quot;all&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All comments on &lt;strong&gt;blankip's answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iD4eZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;part 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SeSa5.png&quot; alt=&quot;part 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rPAiQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;part 3&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hgUQQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;part 4&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1E5K4.png&quot; alt=&quot;part 5&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All comments on &lt;strong&gt;Adel's answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OkGkW.png&quot; alt=&quot;all&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No comments on &lt;strong&gt;Zibbobz's answer&lt;/strong&gt; have been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No comments on &lt;strong&gt;Sjoerd's answer&lt;/strong&gt; have been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-05-17T15:04:11.133" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3155" CreationDate="2015-05-19T02:12:19.207" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would questions such as these be on-topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like this are very hard to answer in a Q/A format and not a discussion, for a few reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are normally very specific to the asker's circumstances, life priorities, and background&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are impossible to conclusively answer except in rare cases &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most careers have people who come into them in all manner of backgrounds. Nearly no job title/type has a one size fits all background and path to it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each combination of interests and backgrounds will result in a customized answer to &quot;how do I become an X?&quot; which is very difficult to make useable for others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These sorts of questions are much better for chat/forums where there will be large amounts of clarifying questions and responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chatroom&lt;/a&gt; is a good place on the SE network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T02:12:19.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3173" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3189" CreationDate="2015-05-19T09:02:28.117" Score="6" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/46587/where-to-find-information-about-market-situation-for-a-particular-job-sector-in&quot;&gt;My question&lt;/a&gt; is on hold for being too broad. I am an absolute novice in Workpace SE, so I do not know much other than all the questions and answers from others I have seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was afraid of the question being off-topic since it is half-way through job-search and statistics, but apparently that was not the case, instead, the question has been flagged as &lt;em&gt;too broad&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is however detailed enough, I believe I explain all that has to be explained to be answerable, and the problem to solve is clear. I do not believe making it even longer (i.e. &lt;em&gt;add details to narrow the answer set&lt;/em&gt;) could possibly improve it. I honestly do not see why it was flagged as too broad, and no comments was made by anyone in order to say &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt;, so I am lost here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone help me to refactor the question so that it fits the rules of Workplace SE? Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36035" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T05:34:53.153" Title="How to improve my &quot;too broad&quot; question?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|asking-questions|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3173" CreationDate="2015-05-20T11:39:48.980" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was one of those who voted to close.  My reasoning was that, while your question was detailed, it asked a question that cannot possibly be answered here.  You could get five different sources and end up with five different answers. &quot;Definitive source&quot; is dependent on many factors, not just sector.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By definition it can't be answered because it's too broad, opinion based (which was my close reason) and you can't give a deterministic answer that is true in all cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T11:39:48.980" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3175" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-20T15:08:56.137" Score="0" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/46819/2322&quot;&gt;Why hasn&amp;#39;t the hiring manager gotten back to me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made an edit here to remove the &quot;tell me what to do&quot; stuff. I think in this case this question is pretty answerable, given the context of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While perhaps simple, I think the edited question is on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hoping to get some community reopen votes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-06-03T17:54:31.480" Title="Reopen &quot;why hasn't the hiring manager gotten back to me?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3173" CreationDate="2015-05-20T15:18:34.780" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvoted this question and don't think it's too broad.  It's not asking &quot;what can I make as an X?&quot;, which isn't a good fit here; it's asking how to do the research.  That seems perfectly reasonable to me, and I'd like to see the community reopen it or say more clearly what's wrong with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T15:18:34.780" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3177" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3178" CreationDate="2015-05-21T09:12:50.620" Score="3" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/46956/resources-for-communicating-dealing-with-hot-buttons-as-a-software-developer&quot;&gt;Resources for communicating &amp;amp; dealing with &amp;quot;hot buttons&amp;quot; as a software developer?&lt;/a&gt; I suggest the OP follows some trainings to help him distinguish his own 'red buttons'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know of one training course (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.landmarkworldwide.com/the-landmark-forum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Landmark Forum&lt;/a&gt;) that specifically addresses that, and since pariticipating in it, that helps me quickly distinguish them with myself. Should I add that specific recommendation to my answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8036" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T15:45:54.757" Title="Do I recommend specific training?" Tags="|discussion|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3177" CreationDate="2015-05-21T15:45:54.757" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the specific course helped you and is something that is broadly available (i.e. something that readers might be able to follow up on), then it sounds like adding it would enhance your answer.  When making a specific recommendation it's a good idea to say something about how it helped you (not just &quot;here's a link&quot;) so people can tell you're not spamming.  And, of course, if it's something you're affiliated with you must disclose that.  (I don't think that's the case for you here, but I'm writing this answer more broadly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T15:45:54.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3168" CreationDate="2015-05-22T09:00:14.893" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Summary&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I unlocked the thread, and I deleted the two posts on the question that did not answer the question.   Regardless of voting, Stack Exchange sites require that answers actually answer the question; they are subject to deletion if they don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Goals of Stack Exchange - The Mission&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is a great platform when it comes to finding &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; to real, actual problems we face in our daily work lives. What makes this platform so amazing is how it works to reduce and eliminate noise, which thereby raises the signal and makes it easier for a person landing on this site from search engines to answer the following questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this question similar to the problem that I am currently facing?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If so, is there an answer to my question on this page?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Stack Overflow, I've found that, within seconds or minutes, I either find my answer, or I immediately go back to Google and modify my search query.  If it weren't for the reduction in noise, many of us would have the misfortune of searching through forum pages of non-answers, hoping that somewhere in the noise is that gem, that answer, that solves our problems.  Such was life in the forums before Stack Exchange came around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Community Moderation and Voting&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voting on Stack Exchange, and the community moderation, are two tools that help us answer the above two questions quickly.  Questions that don't fit the site scope are oftentimes closed by the community, and answers on questions that do fit the scope are ordered and ranked by community votes to help us quickly find the best answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases, when action is necessary on a specific post, the community can take action. In those cases, I try not to get involved unless the answer as to which action should be taken is extremely obvious.  But answer moderation is tougher.  The community has less tools to work with to take care of content that doesn't fit the scope.  Down voting works for content that is &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; or content that is &lt;em&gt;incorrect&lt;/em&gt;, but &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;voting is not for content that doesn't answer the question.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; This is where elected community moderators come in and where &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3165/98&quot;&gt;it becomes our responsibility to act.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the two posts in question fundamentally do not answer the question, something that is paramount to Stack Exchange and a requirement of content posted in the answers section.  Although one of those posts is indeed highly up voted, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;votes alone do not excuse content that does not meet Stack Exchange guidelines of answering the question objectively, factually, and honestly.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Popularity alone does not excuse us from our responsibility to uphold Stack Exchange's mission to make the Internet a better place through high quality Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;How to Restore the Deleted Content&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The authors of the posts, and any users with at least 10k reputation on this site, can read and continue to edit the deleted content to bring it within site guidelines; specifically, it must answer the question, and the tone must be objective, be free of the emotional undertones and shock value, and be &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/255/98&quot;&gt;backed up with facts, references, or experiences that happened to you personally that demonstrate you know what you are talking about&lt;/a&gt;. If this happens, we can review the content and possibly restore it, if the revised content fits the Stack Exchange guidelines and mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information on what makes a good Stack Exchange answer, please read &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;How to Answer&lt;/a&gt;, and for more information on why content that doesn't answer the question is not welcome on Stack Exchange, please see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real Questions Have Answers&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://scobleizer.com/?p=5980&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Forum Problem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T09:00:14.893" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3180" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-27T02:42:10.220" Score="0" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/47178/is-it-best-to-move-on-after-being-harassed-at-work&quot;&gt;Is it best to move on after being harassed at work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly the OP is an emotionally frazzled state, but I think The Workplace as a culture doesn't appreciate that this is actually a normal course of events for working in an office environments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are going to have inter-personal and intra-personal problems. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like people are seeing this saga play out, and are downvoting it because they don't like the OPs emotional response. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the question itself is pretty objective, and IMO to which the answer is pretty clear - &quot;Yes, sometimes it is best to move on&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32078" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T13:59:31.107" Title="Why is this question asking about dealing with the after math of office harrasment being downvoted?" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3181" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-27T04:00:02.967" Score="6" ViewCount="261" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I've found myself looking at questions that have a few close votes for &quot;off-topic: advice on what to do&quot;, and I find myself wondering if that close reason is really helping.  The text is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for advice on what to do are not practical answerable questions (e.g. &quot;what job should I take?&quot;, or &quot;what skills should I learn?&quot;). Questions should get answers explaining why and how to make a decision, not advice on what to do. For more information, click here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't that pretty much what &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot; means?  Tonight I was ready to close a question as POB, but the three close-voters who'd already weighed in voted for this off-topic reason and I found myself reluctant to overrule them.  (So I set it aside to see what the community does on its own.)  This is not the first time this has happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that are primarily opinion-based aren't inherently off-topic; they're just bad fits for SE.  The message we should be sending with those is that the &lt;em&gt;topic&lt;/em&gt; is ok while the &lt;em&gt;specific question&lt;/em&gt; isn't; off-topic questions, on the other hand, are, well, &lt;em&gt;off-&lt;strong&gt;topic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and that's harder to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the difference in intent between this custom close reason and POB?  If we can't describe it, maybe we should stop using this reason in favor of the built-in POB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T01:18:05.170" Title="Is &quot;advice on what to do&quot; the same as &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3180" CreationDate="2015-05-27T13:59:31.107" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvoting is by default anonymous. People can downvote for whatever reason they want, whether it's because they are annoyed, misclick the down arrow (I've done this a few times...), or just because.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But here are a few possibilities I could see as reasons it's been downvoted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3180/why-is-this-question-asking-about-dealing-with-the-after-math-of-office-harrasme#comment7251_3180&quot;&gt;Philip Kendall said&lt;/a&gt;, there have been a lot of similar questions from this user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are at least two, very different questions being asked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;what should I do?&quot; is not a practically answerable question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It reads not like a practical question but more like, &quot;woe is me, my life is miserable&quot; and an &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1828/2322&quot;&gt;Agony Aunt&lt;/a&gt; type question &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T13:59:31.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3183" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-27T20:25:33.793" Score="4" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a lot of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=wiki%3A1+is%3Aanswer&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=wiki%3A1+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; which for various reasons became community wiki over the years (variety of reasons).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/257253/193412&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Guidelines for un-Wikiing&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's still the case: generally-speaking, moderators will&#xA;cheerfully remove CW status on posts as long as...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; appear to be actual community projects (lots of substantive edits from multiple editors maintaining the post over&#xA;time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They're &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; part of some old discussion / poll / GTKY question that was only allowed under the old rules for squishy-subjective&#xA;posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;weren't&lt;/em&gt; clearly abusing the system by making dozens of worthless edits merely to bump the thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...In other words, those cases where the system clearly &lt;em&gt;got it wrong&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;and converted the post to CW unnecessarily. Which... Is a lot of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there questions/answers from there people feel should be unwikied or are unfairly wiki'ied?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: it's probably easiest and best to use answers for this to vote on/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T16:18:10.153" Title="How does the community feel about removing some community wikis?" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3181" CreationDate="2015-05-28T05:07:36.040" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is a distinction, albeit subtle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Advice on what to do&quot; implies something that would be a logical solution that would be commonly accepted.  Given we can't answer them as we simply don't have enough information to be able to answer a question like that intelligently in the Q &amp;amp; A format, it's off topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Primarily opinion based&quot; to me implies that there are many equally possible solutions, such as &quot;what colour do you prefer for the curtains in your office?&quot;.  You could be giving advice, but the number of potential answers is unbounded (or greatly less restricted).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do use both of these close reasons in different ways based on my above interpretation :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T05:07:36.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3185" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-28T11:15:13.733" Score="3" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/47276/how-can-we-draft-better-profile-for-cv&quot;&gt;How can we draft better profile for CV?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this sort of question permissible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T18:32:52.950" Title="Are requests to help &quot;fix up&quot; a resume/CV permitted?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3185" CreationDate="2015-05-28T18:13:24.393" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is to ask for a rewrite of the resume it has to be off topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would only be applicable to one person; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it would be impossible to know which answer was better. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we don't have enough information about their job history to be able to do more than grammar and punctuation changes, unless we asked them a lot more questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T18:13:24.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3185" CreationDate="2015-05-28T18:32:52.950" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Workplace SE is not a resumé review site; therefore, this question is off topic. It is also too broad for Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;list of topics for Workplace SE&lt;/a&gt; does say that questions about resumés and CV's are on topic, but the questions would have to be well scoped and more specific than an overall review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I put the post on hold and left a comment on the question-asker's post with suggestions to focus on something more specific.  I also suggested using our chat, as folks may be able to better help in a real time format, considering the language barriers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T18:32:52.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3183" CreationDate="2015-05-29T19:19:52.750" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a general note - per my reading, unwikiing as described in quoted guidance suggests rather strong moderator effort and scrutiny of the questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of this, it looks reasonable to complement unwiki review with &quot;Atwood's cleanup&quot;, following &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/103069/165773&quot; title=&quot;How aggressively should we maintain and improve very popular questions?&quot;&gt;guidance provided in related discussion at MSE&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...answers that are strong candidates for deletion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;belong to low rep or anon users with no real commitment to the community&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;are &lt;em&gt;provably&lt;/em&gt; duplicate, that is, were added well after (30+ mins later) other answers that contained the same exact information&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;are short in length&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;do not explain much of anything&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, few observations related to some specific wiki posts...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question looks... inconsistent regarding wiki status:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9128/how-can-i-prepare-for-getting-hit-by-a-bus&quot;&gt;How can I prepare for getting hit by a bus?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wiki is removed from above question, but kept for its answers. We had meta discussion on it, but it appears to be hanging without understandable resolution: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2278/un-community-wiki-this-question&quot;&gt;Un-community wiki this question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below two questions look like &quot;wrong kind of wiki&quot; - as far as I can tell, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/182572/165773&quot;&gt;collaborative effort&lt;/a&gt; lock is more appropriate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/20323/what-should-i-know-when-applying-for-my-first-job&quot;&gt;What should I know when applying for my first job?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12527/should-an-employee-tell-their-supervisor-about-their-depression&quot;&gt;Should an employee tell their supervisor about their depression?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Checking revisions history of below question, I can't make up my mind whether it qualifies for &quot;worthless edits merely to bump&quot; or not. If edits are indeed reasonable, then I think it would be better to un-wiki it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12742/what-to-do-with-the-new-boss-middle-manager-added-to-hierarchy&quot;&gt;What to do with the new boss -- middle manager added to hierarchy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per my reading, following questions look worthy of close and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/historical-lock/info&quot;&gt;historical lock&lt;/a&gt; instead of unwikiing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7617/how-should-i-deal-with-an-employee-who-has-slept-with-my-wife&quot;&gt;How should I deal with an employee who has slept with my wife?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Appears to fall under &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695/168&quot;&gt;&quot;asking for advice on what to do&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18119/what-is-a-friendly-way-to-let-managers-know-that-having-good-developers-is-a-p&quot;&gt;What is a &amp;#39;friendly&amp;#39; way to let managers know that having good developers is a privilege?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Appears to fall under &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2696/168&quot;&gt;&quot;focus on how terrible a situation is&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historical lock suggested because these questions have over 50K views each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also briefly checked other &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=wiki%3A1+is%3Aquestion+closed%3Ano+locked%3Ano&quot;&gt;open wiki questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per cursory glance, all of them look worth considering for unwikiing. Just please keep in mind that I did not check their revisions history for either &quot;substantive edits from multiple editors&quot; or &quot;worthless edits&quot; that could probably qualify for keeping them CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T16:18:10.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3173" CreationDate="2015-05-31T05:34:53.153" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have had a similar problem with my very first question that I posted on another SE. No matter how emphatically one states the actual question, there are those who will project their own interpretation onto the question and obtusely ignore the asker's intent.&#xA;If you want an answer in a reasonable amount of time, it may be best to delete the original question and post a new question as the process for resolving it seems to take an indefinite amount of time. Some people get their rocks off on being able to hinder others with a little red tape. Rather than get angry at them, which would only give them more pleasure, it is best to go around them. At least that is my experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question can be improved by completely eliminating your personal situation and ask a flat bland question asking for the procedure to obtain the data. I don't actually think of it as an improvement, but it should prevent those that would be trolls from choosing to interpret your explanation as the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These people who do this are a cancer on SE. Unfortunately it is difficult to eradicate cancer without also harming good cells, thus the cancer is allowed to grow. It's no different from any other position of power. People in such a position derive pleasure from making the 'little people' bend over backwards to pass under the red tape. They are of course 'just doing their job'.&#xA;That's the excuse so many give.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my own experience, in NJ, USA, there is a department of labor and workforce development which gathers the information you would be interested in. Of course, each state may have such statistics gathered by a different department or a department that does the same stuff but is named differently. You might find equivalent statistics kept by a trade commission or a commerce department. The process to find the statistics is to contact any department of commerce and ask if they can help you locate those statistics. Government is always keeping track of local business so that they can better tax them. Bureaucracy being slow and inefficient as it is, the statistics may be years out of date. It will still give you a general indication of whether an area is worth looking at more closely.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36534" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T05:34:53.153" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3181" CreationDate="2015-05-31T19:39:55.303" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for advice on what to do are not practical answerable question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This reason seems unhelpfully written. Consistently applied as written, this would rule out the vast majority questions I've seen in this community apart from occasional &quot;What is the standard in X&quot;, many of which risk falling foul of the rules asking about procedures, legislation, etc. I don't think it will help people write better questions in future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real problem I see with questions like &quot;what skills should I learn?&quot; is that the answer depends primarily on so many unknowable or unquantifiable factors such as what training is available, demand in the OP's region, and how the OP themselves feels about using the skills, the investment required, their financial situation, etc. Answering it requires an extended discussion, and trying to do that with Stack Exchange is awkward. Answers given therefore tend to be speculative. On the other hand &quot;Do I need to know X to apply for a job as a Y?&quot; might be perfectly answerable (here's a survey showing only 23% of Ys know X).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also another somewhat related problem of &quot;what do I do&quot; questions that describe a difficult decision but don't really indicate what the OP intends or wants to know and are extremely open. So again, people guess at intention, etc. Over at Stack Overflow there's a close reason that in essence says &quot;don't ask us to write code from scratch, show us what you've tried&quot;, which is similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though there is some overlap, both of these are distinct from genuinely subjective questions like &quot;which job is more enjoyable&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="610" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T19:39:55.303" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3168" CreationDate="2015-06-01T18:54:39.800" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was locked initially because it &quot;did not meet community guidelines&quot;.  And this was in no way directed at my answer not answering the question - jmort's really poor excuse to just do whatever he wants because he works at SE.  And I understand that SE owns this so they can say whatever they want, delete whatever they want, and treat people on here however they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mods said that my answer was offensive.  I was simply bringing up that many people would believe their action (of not shaking hands) as sexist.  It is really easy to see how SE/mods feel about the sociological ladder.  It is OK to bring up the rights of Muslims, but it is &quot;not meeting community guidelines&quot; to defend women over Muslims.  This is what it comes down to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a very very long time user of SE and have never been involved in anything like this.  I have over the years seen the mods and some of the employees of SE step over the line of fairness.  But then when I called them out with a complete set of &lt;strong&gt;FACTS&lt;/strong&gt; both groups started to personally attack me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is funny is that I have been away for the past two weeks at our company's global tech conference (so sorry for the late answer).  SE came up more than once and people were blown away that I didn't speak more as I have been a huge proponent of SE.  But I have been burnt many times dealing with vendors with big attitudes and egos and I think that maybe that is where the internal culture at SE is going.  I also feel like jmort and the mods (as well as other employees) have basically picked Muslims over women.  I for one can't back a company that feels like women are second class citizens.  And I will recant this statement if someone at SE can logically explain to me why it is OK for people to have pro-Muslim answers but you delete the one that was actually about treating everyone equally (pro-women if you will).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why did my answer get locked?   Because you have mods that got caught doing things they shouldn't have, you have a long time user that called them out, the mods then have a SE employee verbally harass the user, lock the question and then think of a broad excuse to why it is locked.  By jmort's logic we should probably lock about 20% of the answers across all of the SE sites.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please also note that I had added two additions to my original answer that supplied research to the answer and refutation of another answer (of course a mod's answer).  These additions in no way shape or form were anti-SE guidelines but kept getting deleted by the mods.  No one has given me a specific straight answer for why these were deleted or my question was locked.  According to jmort's own answer here my answer would be valid had they not deleted info from it before locking it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note - that 90% of the votes on meta is mods/SE employees so here come my downvotes.  And also the question only points to a small % of the comments between the mods and I.  If you read their comments and then jmort's answer on why he deleted my answer you would think we were part of some Abbott and Costello skit.  The mods keep arguing that my answer was offensive, the original SE employees also pretty much called me a bigot, and now jmort is claiming my answer doesn't answer the question.  It is funny that the mods can't give me an answer to what is offensive but even funnier that SE draws up the illusion that I didn't meet another guideline - therefore answer deleted without answering why defending women's equality is offensive.   What I would like to know is this a stance of SE or is this just some rogue people saying things in the use of the SE name?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And also the answer was DELETED not locked.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16609" LastEditorUserId="16609" LastEditDate="2015-06-01T22:24:38.973" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T22:24:38.973" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3175" CreationDate="2015-06-03T17:54:31.480" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's still closed because, after the edits, the question boils down to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why hasn't the hiring manager gotten back to me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can't know that. Therefore the question isn't answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="886" LastActivityDate="2015-06-03T17:54:31.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3181" CreationDate="2015-06-04T01:18:05.170" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two things I pushed to create that close reason for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People were answering (and not closing) these types of questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whenever I closed a question as &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot; people would get up in arms&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are people who have the opinion primarily opinion-based can't apply to our site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2675/7945&quot;&gt;You should really abandon the pretense at knowing what is &quot;primarily opinion based&quot;. Almost everything in The Workplace is about opinions! Unless the question is about some regulation, procedure or technical issue, it will invoke opinions. Ironically, i once had a question that had a strong technical component and you and others closed it for being &quot;primarily opinion based&quot;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past 90 days there have been 37 questions closed as 'primarily opinion-based', and 115 as the custom reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The community is more willing to close these sorts of questions as 'primarily opinion-based'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You think that the 'primarily opinion-based' message is clear to people who have their message closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then yeah, it's probably safe to retire the message. I haven't been reading the front page enough to see how the community has evolved in the past year, so I'll leave that up to you guys. My guess is that even if the community is now more comfortable closing things, giving the standard primarily-opinion based message to new users/askers will be met with a bit of opposition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T01:18:05.170" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3194" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-10T23:34:28.327" Score="-5" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reopen the question for new answers and input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's obviously not a specific legal advice question.  It relates to a wide diversity of workplace situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in no way is the question specific to &quot;company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies... Questions that address only a specific company or position&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/46983/americans-with-disabilities-act-ada-and-subcontracting/46996#469&quot;&gt;How can a subcontractor or temporary agency comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?&lt;/a&gt;, closed as off-topic Reason #1, 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/46983/americans-with-disabilities-act-ada-and-subcontracting/46996#46996&quot;&gt;How can a subcontractor or temporary agency comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36280" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T20:27:08.437" Title="ADA Subcontracting" Tags="|support|status-completed|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3194" CreationDate="2015-06-12T01:52:20.167" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my reading, even if it isn't company-specific, it is still too broad (there are many types of disabilities and many types of work that subcontractors may do at home). As we explain in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;the help center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&quot;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're going to have to be more specific if you want a chance to have the question reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T01:52:20.167" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3196" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-13T05:10:00.947" Score="16" ViewCount="394" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anytime a question or answer seems to have more than 5 comments, they get axed by the &quot;comment&quot; police.  I notice one moderator seems to do this a lot more than they others.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is this: &lt;strong&gt;What is wrong with the comments?  Why are we in a hurry to delete them?&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More info:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel comments can be a great to reference to later.  I can understand if it is primarily arguing.  But sometimes I like to seek clarification or clarify something as well.  I asked a question once where one of the answers was very rude and I could not comment on it because they kept getting blown away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll be honest in my opinion is that they are getting deleted with way too much frequency.  The other aspect of this is I just don't find the chat room helpful or interesting.  Several times I checked it, it's pretty much empty.  Workplace needs some improvements.  I know that this is one of the things that I feel could be improved.  With it being too controlled by the moderators, it gives a lot less motivation for other users to participate without knowing if their contributions will be deleted.  Long story short: Aren't we deleting comments too much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29342" LastEditorUserId="29342" LastEditDate="2015-06-15T15:44:45.557" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T18:30:59.780" Title="What is wrong with comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3196" CreationDate="2015-06-13T12:56:00.500" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an answer is rude, flag it. Moderators will see it and address it. Also vote the answer down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a comment is rude flag it. A moderator will address it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T12:56:00.500" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3196" CreationDate="2015-06-13T16:28:15.043" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding chat, I am in there nearly every day and interact with people who stop by - I do not recall ever seeing you there. Feel free to stop by and ping me! A few years ago Workplace had a pretty thriving and active chat. That's something I would love to see again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is a question/answer site -- not a discussion board. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might be interested in reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2748/2322&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt; and specifically &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2753/2322&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; from JonEricson and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2780/2322&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; by jmac. When a Q/A turns into a discussion board it is operating fairly fundamentally different than how SE is designed to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2979/2322&quot;&gt;a lot of comments&lt;/a&gt; get deleted because they are inappropriate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a lot of work oftentimes for moderators to sort through 10+ comment threads, most of which do not satisfy what comments are supposed to be used for. It is inevitable some will get caught in the crossfire, but most are not fulfilling the purpose of comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you go to post a comment on a question you see the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rOfqX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/19757/193412&quot;&gt;lengthy FAQ about comments here&lt;/a&gt;. I would encourage you to read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;information page&lt;/a&gt; on comments, too, specifically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When shouldn't I comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comments are not recommended for any of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggesting corrections that don't fundamentally change the meaning of&#xA;  the post; instead, make or suggest an edit;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answering a question or providing an alternate solution to an existing&#xA;  answer; instead, post an actual answer (or edit to expand an existing&#xA;  one);&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Compliments which do not add new information (&quot;+1, great answer!&quot;);&#xA;  instead, up-vote it and pay it forward;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Criticisms which do not add anything constructive (&quot;-1, see previous&#xA;  comments you scallywag!&quot;); instead, down-vote (and provide or up-vote&#xA;  a better answer if appropriate);&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Secondary discussion or debating a controversial point; please use&#xA;  chat instead;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Discussion of community behavior or site policies; please use meta&#xA;  instead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I bolded the areas where we moderators frequently get comment flags to deal with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many cases too, comments are obsolete - a question/clarification is addressed and so some comments are no longer needed. This is a fairly frequent occurance&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(some of this I modified from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2972/2322&quot;&gt;a post of mine&lt;/a&gt; on a related meta question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T16:28:15.043" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3200" CreationDate="2015-06-16T10:50:15.783" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was checking the edit queue when I saw a post with a suggested edit.  In the corner it said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;proposed 8 mins ago by an anonymous user&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this just mean a non-logged in user has made an edit...?  Is this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T11:58:20.673" Title="Suggested edit by an anonymous user?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3199" CreationDate="2015-06-16T11:58:20.673" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, that's from a non logged in user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For tons more reading and everything you'd ever want to know about suggested edits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/76284/193412&quot;&gt;Anonymous users can suggest edits to any post more than 10 minutes old. These edits are attributed to the Community user upon approval.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T11:58:20.673" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3194" CreationDate="2015-06-17T20:31:47.347" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;How this question, of obvious interest to 'navigating the workplace', as the charter intends, and clearly not relating to &quot;company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies... Questions that address only a specific company or position&quot; and not: a narrow, individual request for legal advice, can be closed - is beyond me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really the only explanation is that I pissed someone off, someone who didn't KNOW the answer, and posted some random musings about contracts and stipulations and whom then got pissed, wanted to sooth his/her image and decide to close the question, irregardless of it's applicability.  This is a problem I see here on stack, over and over: if those in the position(s) don't KNOW the answer, then the question is closed.  That is exactly the kind of question that you want to answer here on stack. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36280" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2015-06-19T18:50:02.957" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T18:50:02.957" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3202" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-19T14:58:06.147" Score="-1" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;Too often in this board, there are good answers given with tons of upvotes, but the questioner &lt;strong&gt;rarely&lt;/strong&gt; accepts the answer as the accepted answer, resulting in the person answering losing lots of potential reputation and resulting in people not wanting to give answers if they will never be accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that there are no real right or wrong answers regarding many of the workplace questions because they are so subjective to each person, but can we have a system where if a certain answer gets enough upvotes within a certain time period that it becomes automatically accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/48467/is-it-rude-to-eat-drink-in-front-of-a-colleague-who-is-fasting-during-ramadan/48469#48469&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is a great example. I get tons of people agreeing, lots of upvotes, but &lt;strong&gt;no accepting&lt;/strong&gt; and this has happened multiple times to me now. I have to admit it is a little frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29077" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2019-10-22T19:54:10.307" Title="Can we do something to inform users on &quot;accepting&quot; answers?" Tags="|discussion|support|answers|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3203" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-23T15:53:11.460" Score="0" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few months ago I asked this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/42034/is-it-normal-for-agency-warehouse-workers-to-have-such-high-turnover-uk&quot;&gt;Is it normal for agency warehouse workers to have such high turnover (UK)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was downvoted, and then closed without any explanation, despite generating some useful answers. I commented to ask for an explanation, but I never received one. I still do not understand fully why it was closed. The only things I can think of are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Too much background.&lt;/strong&gt; I thought adding more context to the issue might be helpful, but perhaps in doing so I made it look &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; personal, diverting away from the core question in the title, and made it look more like an &quot;agony aunt&quot; issue. The top answer did deduce that I had an underlying concern that &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; personal, and I do admit they were right, but obviously I couldn't ask such a question directly on the Workplace SE. Perhaps I should have avoided the context and just pretty much repeated the question in the title.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Too specific.&lt;/strong&gt; Maybe such a question isn't very helpful to others. I am inclined to personally believe that the core question would be helpful, but perhaps I am mistaken.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm being a nosy git and shouldn't be prying into the working life of my lodger.&lt;/strong&gt; A viewpoint I can appreciate and understand, perhaps it is something I should not have asked in the first place. It isn't about me, after all, it is about someone else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is pretty stale now, so there's probably no point in editing it to get it re-opened, but any answers here will help me to ask better questions, should I need to, in the future. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user32931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T16:55:11.960" Title="Could someone please explain why this question was downvoted and closed?" Tags="|support|closed-questions|close-reasons|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3203" CreationDate="2015-06-23T16:55:11.960" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't one of the ones who voted to close, but I can see their reasoning. The question closed because &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2693/custom-off-topic-close-reasons-change/2696#2696&quot;&gt;&quot;Real questions have answers&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. In other words, your post does a lot of rambling and ranting, and the actual question you are asking is not very clear. Yes, context is important, but in your case the question gets lost amidst all of the background. You don't need to remove information, but your post could benefit a lot from some reorganization and focusing of your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do suspect that an additional reason for the close votes was that it is too specific. Answerers would need to have knowledge about warehouse layoff rates in your region of the UK, which is not particularly common knowledge around here. For me that's not enough cause for a close vote (though others may disagree), but add that to a poorly written question and I completely understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T16:55:11.960" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2938" CreationDate="2015-06-24T02:38:07.187" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh the irony; I see the overlap problem on &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; post, in Firefox but not in Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firefox:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OVPPx.png&quot; alt=&quot;screen shot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chrome:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qxe2Z.png&quot; alt=&quot;screen shot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T02:38:07.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3196" CreationDate="2015-06-25T18:30:59.780" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing &quot;wrong&quot; with comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As useful as the stackexchange sites are, many of them suffer from really aggressive comment deletion. This is especially true for sites which feature intrinsically subjective topics where there are multiple ways to approach any particular question and its answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not unusual for the comments to become the most interesting part of a question. People are clearly spending time on writing and reading them, so they do have value. The problem is that some moderators have very very rigid ideas about what constitutes deviation from &quot;the rules&quot;. When comments get clipped in the middle of an ongoing discussion (rather than months after they've stopped growing), it is somewhat insulting-- akin to being told to &quot;shut up&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are told to use &quot;chat&quot; as an appropriate alternative to comment streams. I think that is a really nice effort, but the implementation of chat is kind of a mess. It looks like a vat of unrelated blurbs of text. Maybe there's a way to make chat threaded and attach a chat discussion to a particular question? If there is I haven't found it perhaps because I don't stick around in chat long enough to find out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as any &quot;solution&quot; to comments goes, I don't think I will agree with whatever stackexchange folks come up with, but whatever they come up with, I just hope they're CONSISTENT in its application. IMO, it would be better to give comments some fixed lifetime after which the comments are deleted. This gives folks a chance to hash things out while the question is still hot and an opportunity to amend the answer or question involved using the comments. Eventually, however, the comments would get deleted satisfying the &quot;rules-oriented&quot; folks while still giving chatters an opportunity to chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7572" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T18:30:59.780" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3207" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3208" CreationDate="2015-06-30T08:42:08.237" Score="7" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have found several times in a question that the user assumes as known some acronyms (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/46420/19366&quot;&gt;LLC&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/46608/19366&quot;&gt;HIPAA&lt;/a&gt;, ...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should these acronyms be edited with a link or a clarification about what do they mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these might be world-wide known, like company positions (CEO, CTO...) or not, others might be local. Should we do something with acronyms? Which is the guide-lines when we found an acronym not described previously on the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T23:10:13.670" Title="Acronyms: best-practice?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3207" CreationDate="2015-06-30T13:35:08.277" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always edit questions/answers to clarify or add links. This is great that you are thinking about this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you have enough reputation (2000) those edits will be automatically approved. Until that point they go into the suggested edit review queue, where anyone with over 2000 reputation can approve them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T13:35:08.277" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3209" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-02T16:57:47.947" Score="6" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to pose a question, which goes something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'What are some signs that one is ready for a technical leadership role'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'How does one know that they're ready for a technical leadership role'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this sound like it'd be a fit here? If not, is there a way to phrase the question so it'd work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32695" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T19:49:01.690" Title="Phrasing a question about technical leadership readiness" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3210" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3212" CreationDate="2015-07-03T15:31:32.803" Score="0" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question I'm about to ask is how to gently tell a person in a discuss group that they overtalks and try to take the leader position but fails to make a good, agreed by others argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange is a Q&amp;amp;A site about the workplace and&#xA;  other career-related topics. With your help we're working to build a&#xA;  library to every question about the workplace related to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Finding employment (resumes/cv/cover letters, recruiters, hiring-managers, interviews, negotiations, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Maintaining employment (promotions, pay increases, harassment, bullying, poor working conditions, communication problems, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Leadership in the workplace (motivating people, encouraging people, making decisions, holding hard conversations, intervening in unproductive situations, asking for and giving help, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Terminating employment (notice period, breaking the news, handing over work, reference letters, relieving letters, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's not, I think this kind of question may be on topic on Community Building SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; This question was first asked in Academia. I was suggested that &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1822/are-questions-about-academic-club-on-toptic/1823?noredirect=1#comment7681_1823&quot;&gt;Workplace was more suitable&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are questions about academic club on to topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26826" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:17.640" LastActivityDate="2015-07-04T12:15:24.970" Title="Are questions about academic club on to topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3209" CreationDate="2015-07-03T19:17:38.287" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if it focuses more on the &lt;em&gt;leadership&lt;/em&gt; part and less on the &lt;em&gt;technical&lt;/em&gt; part, that kind of question will work here.  You should specify the role more -- does it entail becoming a supervisor?  Interacting with new parts of the organization or customers?  Responsibility for a budget?  I know what &quot;technical lead&quot; means in &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; company but it might not be the same in yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of your question is presumably about evaluating technical proficiency.  We can't answer questions like &quot;how do I know if I'm a good-enough programmer?&quot; or &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695&quot;&gt;what skills should I learn?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, but we can handle questions about evaluating technical skill more broadly.  In fact, we've had those as interview-related questions, so look around there for inspiration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, you should specify in the question whether you're talking about yourself or one of your employees (e.g. if you're a manager considering promoting someone).  The perspectives, and tools available, are likely to be different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T19:49:01.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3210" CreationDate="2015-07-04T12:15:24.970" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is asked in the context of the workplace, such as an office environment or other place of employment, then yes, it would be on-topic. If it's in an academic setting, then that could possibly be on topic depending on whether or not the problem still fits a workplace setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bigger challenge to overcome is to write your question in a way to where you stick to facts. Avoid complicated or extended explanations or too many examples of a person's behavior. Such questions can easily appear to be rants instead of constructive posts seeking a resolution to the problem.  The best way to ensure your post is accepted by the community is to be as organized in your writing and coherent as possible.  Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2015-07-04T12:15:24.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3214" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-07T02:32:38.507" Score="0" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/49236/how-can-i-convince-an-employer-not-to-go-out-of-business/49237#49237&quot;&gt;How can I convince an employer not to go out of business?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You won't let me edit it, you won't let me comment on the existing answer to correct someone who is leading people to believe the employer will only be able to pay their bills on a good year when I meant I will only be able to pay my bills on a good year, and you won't let me use meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been wholly unproductive. You've completely removed my ability to use the site do get other peoples suggestions on the issue. Absolutely nothing I can do to use the site at all, just silenced to completeness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user37816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T03:21:40.543" Title="Please delete my question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3214" CreationDate="2015-07-07T03:21:40.543" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry you're having some frustrations with the site.  Nobody intended to silence you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that you have two different accounts, which is causing you problems.  The first one is unregistered, which means you only have access to it via a cookie set in the browser you used to create it.  Registered accounts don't have that limitation.  It looks like you've registered this one, which is good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can always edit your own posts (meaning from the same account), and while it requires 50 reputation to comment anywhere, you can always comment on your own posts.  If you keep using this new account you shouldn't run into the problems you had on that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've lost access to the other account and want to regain control of the question, you can use the &quot;contact us&quot; link at the bottom of every page on the site to ask that the accounts be merged.  The question was put on hold as too broad, not off-topic, so if you edit it it can probably be reopened.  Putting questions on hold is not meant to be permanent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can still propose an edit to the question; since the system doesn't recognize it as yours (because of the two accounts) that edit will need to be approved by reviewers, but if you make an effort to improve the question (addressing the feedback you got in comments) it should get approved.  You might want to identify yourself as the OP in the edit summary, which reviewers can see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T03:21:40.543" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3216" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-10T14:44:51.263" Score="49" ViewCount="666" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please remember: The Workplace is a worldwide site, and this means there are going to be some differences in context that we all need to be careful about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Language:&lt;/strong&gt; The language of the site is English.  Not everybody speaks English at a native level.  Some posts will not be up to the level that fluent speakers are used to.  If you can help to clarify the post, please &lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt;.  If you can't understand the post, please leave a &lt;strong&gt;polite, clear&lt;/strong&gt; comment asking for clarification.  We've seen some comments that are snarky, outright rude, or so &quot;clever&quot; that the OP is unlikely to understand.  Those kinds of comments are not only not helping, but they're doing harm.  And on the receiving side, please understand that people are trying to help, that downvotes reflect the &lt;em&gt;current&lt;/em&gt; state of a post but can be reversed if you clarify, and that we're all trying to do the same thing here: get good answers to clear questions about the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural context:&lt;/strong&gt; You work in a particular location and field.  You know that interviewing works this way, giving notice works that way, management should be doing that other thing... and that might all be exactly &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; for the OP's situation.  American-context assumptions about employment at will might be totally off-base for the Indian who needs to secure a relieving letter after a months-long notice.  Japanese-context assumptions about showing deference to superiors might be totally off-base for a German trying to deal with an oblivious manager.  When asking, tell us where you are and something about the type of job/sector (check the location tags).  When answering, describe the context you're coming from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Behavioral norms vary.&lt;/strong&gt; Different cultures have different norms of discourse.  Your &quot;joke&quot; might be somebody else's &quot;insult&quot;, or vice versa.  Try to give the benefit of the doubt when reading what others write, and try to evaluate your own contributions in a broader context.  Be generous in what you accept and conservative in what you emit.  I don't mean that we need to be hyper-sensitive to imagined slights, but if you're getting push-back, if people seem to be arguing with you or getting upset, if you're getting the sense that other people are Wrong... maybe that's a good time to pause before clicking &quot;post&quot; and ask what you can do to de-escalate the situation.  And remember to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2979/325&quot;&gt;keep The Workplace professional&lt;/a&gt; at all times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Come prepared to learn.&lt;/strong&gt; This is a great site.  I've learned a lot about workplace issues in other places, in other fields, and in situations that just don't come up in my job.  That's really neat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please help keep The Workplace welcoming for all, no matter where they live and what kind of job they work in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2017-10-26T12:49:41.640" LastActivityDate="2017-10-26T12:49:41.640" Title="The Workplace is a worldwide site" Tags="|discussion|faq|quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3216" CreationDate="2015-07-10T18:29:03.987" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would help if there was some way to encourage folks -- both querants and answerers -- to tag their posts with country context. As you point out, that's often the first thing we need to ask , and doing so manually every time becomes wearying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And I wish the Android app permitted filtering by tags. Realistically, anything tagged India I should probably not even see; I don't understand that work culture as it has been described here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T18:29:03.987" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3218" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3219" CreationDate="2015-07-12T15:48:11.387" Score="3" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;For this question here, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/49493/how-can-international-students-with-weak-work-experience-overcome-logistical-dif&quot;&gt;How can international students with weak work experience overcome logistical difficulties in seeking work in the United States?&lt;/a&gt; , I am unable to tag users as I want to reply to the user who posted the second answer with a clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typing the @ symbol and the first few letters of his name, does not trigger the autocompletion request. Manually typing his name after the @ symbol does not work either as after I hit save, the @symbol followed by the user name disappears. Could this be a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T21:44:11.417" Title="Unable to tag users in reply to comments" Tags="|support|comments|notifications|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3218" CreationDate="2015-07-12T16:44:18.120" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The owner of the post is automatically notified of all comments on it, so the system &quot;helpfully&quot; removes your &quot;@author-name&quot; text as redundant.  This trips up lots of people; you are not alone.  The author will get your message, so go ahead and comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/43019/how-do-comment-replies-work&quot;&gt;How do comment @replies work?&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2015-07-12T16:44:18.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3220" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-07-13T05:54:08.143" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;quality of the site content - questions, answers, comments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2015-08-19T19:48:24.217" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T19:48:24.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3221" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-07-13T05:54:08.143" Score="0" Body="quality of the site content" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2015-08-19T19:48:19.143" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T19:48:19.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3222" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3224" CreationDate="2015-07-15T02:09:32.623" Score="6" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's already a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt; tag, which has a tag wiki entry. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software&lt;/a&gt; tag has no tag wiki entry, but seems to be used synonymously with software-industry, or used incorrectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this tag still necessary, and if so, how is it to be used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2015-07-15T04:46:15.020" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T15:27:46.593" Title="What is the use of 'software' tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3222" CreationDate="2015-07-15T10:08:15.997" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;as gnat said:&#xA;these should probably be tag-synonyms. I would also suggest to synonymize software-development because even if we delete it (which would in theory be right thing to do), there will be a high risk of it being resurrected &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T10:08:15.997" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3222" CreationDate="2015-07-15T15:27:46.593" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the intent was that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software&lt;/a&gt; is for questions about &lt;em&gt;software itself&lt;/em&gt;, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/19199/justifying-the-installation-of-utility-applications-on-company-laptop&quot;&gt;Justifying the installation of utility applications on company laptop&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt;, on the other hand, is about an industry.  It looks like the former has not always been correctly applied -- not having a tag wiki probably contributes to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T15:27:46.593" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3225" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-16T16:23:49.143" Score="3" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/49755/suggestions-for-improving-an-office-environment&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/49755/suggestions-for-improving-an-office-environment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is closed too quickly and it is down-voted after two very good answers. It can be interpreted as too broad but I tried to ask a good subjective question with right amount of information. It attracted two detailed and good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, this question is too broad also to me but it is a good subjective question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1397/how-to-improve-non-verbal-communication-in-the-workplace&quot;&gt;How to improve non-verbal communication in the workplace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or maybe this one:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9590/suggestions-for-building-relationships-as-a-remote-office-worker&quot;&gt;Suggestions for building relationships as a remote office worker?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the limit of &quot;too-broad&quot; in this platform and how can I improve my question for a possible re-open?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I also read help section but being too specific about your company is off-topic as well. Additionally, I wanted to hear examples from people and I wanted them to share their experiences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16354" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T18:59:41.653" Title="How can I improve the question about improving an office environment and can it be re-opened?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3225" CreationDate="2015-07-16T18:59:41.653" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's too broad because it doesn't give any parameters.  What a 10-person company with a capital budget of $5000 can do is very different from what, say, Facebook can do.  Knowing &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; about the parameters -- how much space you have to work with, how many people, what size budget, what behaviors you're trying to facilitate, other design considerations (like &quot;some people are noise-averse&quot;) -- will move it from a broad theoretical &lt;em&gt;discussion&lt;/em&gt; a question about &lt;em&gt;your problem&lt;/em&gt;.  We're best-suited to solving problems, not having philosophical discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T18:59:41.653" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3207" CreationDate="2015-07-17T23:10:13.670" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Acronyms which are specific to a company, country, trade or industry should be glossed (= accompanied by a brief explanation like this one) or linked. I wouldn't like to get on the wrong side any of these &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada#Politics_and_government&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ADA&lt;/a&gt;s, but we might have more sensible advice about disability discrimination than handling drug cartels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, there is no need to be zealous about this: if you don't know the term but you know this rule, it probably needs glossing. If you do know the term and are unsure, someone who doesn't know might ask and you then have your answer on whether it needs glossing. One or two unclear acronyms are never going to be a reason for closing a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A comment should suffice to clarify unless the question/answer is especially long and the comment would appear far from the usage. If it's unclear what it refers to, just ask! Where an answer contains lots of acronyms, it's probably best to edit, as many comments would be confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="610" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T23:10:13.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-20T20:03:02.757" Score="8" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, as we had done last year, we will be holding a Q&amp;amp;A with the candidates.  This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3249/2015-moderator-election-qa-questionnaire&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how it'll work, for those who weren't around for the last one and as a refresher for those who were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the nomination phase, (so, until Monday, July 27th at 20:00:00Z UTC, or 4:00 pm EDT on the same day, give or take time to arrive for closure), this question will be open to collect potential questions from the users of the site. Post answers to this question containing any questions you would like to ask the candidates. Please only post &lt;em&gt;one question per answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We, the Community Team, will be providing a small selection of generic questions. The first two will be guaranteed to be included, the latter ones are if the community doesn't supply enough questions. This will be done in a single post, unlike the prior instruction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a perfect opportunity to voice questions that are specific to your community and issues that you are running into at current.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the phase, the Community Team will select &lt;strong&gt;up to 8 of the top voted questions submitted by the community&lt;/strong&gt; provided in this thread, to use in addition to the aforementioned 2 guaranteed questions. We reserve some editorial control in the selection of the questions and may opt not to select a question that is tangential or irrelevant to moderation or the election. That said, if I have concerns about any questions in this fashion, I will be sure to point this out in comments before the decision making time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once questions have been selected, a new question will be opened to host the actual questionnaire for the candidates, containing 10 questions in total.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not the only option that users have for gathering information on candidates. As a community, you are still free to, for example, hold a live chat session with your candidates to ask further questions, or perhaps clarifications from what is provided in the Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions or feedback about this new process, feel free to post as a comment here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2015-07-28T07:42:38.913" Title="2015 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Question Collection" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-07-28T17:21:10.967" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3229" CreationDate="2015-07-20T20:03:02.757" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a set of general questions, gathered as very common questions asked every election. As mentioned in the instructions, the first two questions are guaranteed to show up in the Q&amp;amp;A, while the others are if there aren't enough questions (or, if you like one enough, you may split it off as a separate answer for review within the community's 8). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T20:03:02.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3231" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-20T20:07:59.927" Score="8" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2015 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T20:07:59.927" Title="2015 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|moderators|election|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-07-20T20:07:59.927" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3229" CreationDate="2015-07-20T22:05:00.890" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments:&lt;/strong&gt; bane of any site that wants to maintain a good signal:noise ratio, harmless, something in between?  What do you think about comments and the moderation thereof on The Workplace, and what would you like to change about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T22:05:00.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3229" CreationDate="2015-07-21T17:03:01.830" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we need to stronger enforce &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/255/168&quot;&gt;Back It Up and Don't Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt; norms over here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes, how? If not, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2015-07-21T17:03:01.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3229" CreationDate="2015-07-21T18:33:02.470" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about this site do you best enjoy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-07-21T18:33:02.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3235" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-22T02:57:04.980" Score="1" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged a question tonight (Wife interruption question with -2 dv). I noticed that in the &quot;Should be closed because option&quot; radio button when clicked does not give the reason of closure due to &quot;Real question having real answers, aka a rant in disguise is explicitly off topic per SE community guidelines. I had to manually chose the &quot;Needs a moderator's attention radio button option. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that closure due to question being a rant be added as a default choice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T02:57:04.980" Title="&quot;Should be Closed because option...&quot; in flagging menu does not offer real questions have real answers choice" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3236" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3241" CreationDate="2015-07-22T13:28:07.253" Score="4" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/31335&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; in my &lt;em&gt;Late answers&lt;/em&gt; review queue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zOlcK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zOlcK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question itself is from 2012 and it has answers from 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm very curious why this would end up in the review queue now, in july 2015...  It was not a test.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8036" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T20:11:33.213" Title="&quot;This is a new users answer to an old question&quot; but answer is dated January 2013?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3229" CreationDate="2015-07-22T16:12:34.157" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;What excites you about being a moderator on The Workplace?  What makes you nervous?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T16:12:34.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3229" CreationDate="2015-07-22T17:19:17.637" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you have some questions or answers of which you are particularly proud? Have you posted a particular question or answer that you think reflects the kinds of approach toward this site which you'll bring to your role as a Moderator? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, which one(s)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T17:19:17.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3229" CreationDate="2015-07-22T17:21:04.027" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you think Moderators could do (which they aren't doing yet), that would make The Workplace a better place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T17:21:04.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3236" CreationDate="2015-07-22T20:11:33.213" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;At first glance, it looked like a bug, but upon further inspection it appears this is indeed a normal system function.  In this case, the user did indeed post the answer back in 2013, but at the time the user's reputation was greater than 10, high enough to where this review queue filter wouldn't catch it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, recently, this post received two downvotes, putting the user's reputation below 10. When the job ran that checks the answers, the conditions to mark it as a late answer by a new user were true, and it was then added to the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/222413/155826&quot;&gt;Late Late Answer on Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T20:11:33.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3242" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-23T14:35:22.800" Score="11" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users sometimes post questions about issues that can be very emotional. This sometimes causes them to add lines about feeling angry, sad or powerless or otherwise describing their emotional state. I hesitate to call them &quot;cries for help&quot; but this sometimes comes close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that the question itself is valuable and not an unsalvageable rant, should these post be cleaned up to remove these lines? Given the site's subject matter it's only normal that posters feel very strongly about certain questions but should we make an effort to keep the posts themselves professional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was prompted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/50015/should-i-list-an-employer-that-fired-me-after-two-weeks&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; by a new user. It's a great question but while I was cleaning up some of the grammar I was torn between leaving his final line in or taking it out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I just don't know what to do any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't really add any useful context to the question. After all, most people post here because they're faced with a difficult situation in the workplace and they're not sure how to handle it. I feel it also detracts from the quality of the post and sort of contradicts the site's aim to keep things professional. Whether editing it out changes the author's intent or not is probably debatable. Users might also react negatively to having some of the emotion filtered out of their post, though that might only come up in posts that are closer to rants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2015-07-30T17:26:26.133" Title="Editing emotions out of questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3243" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3251" CreationDate="2015-07-24T00:27:45.420" Score="5" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, this is probably a &quot;I'm a dumb new 10k user&quot; type question (yes, she &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; nominate as a mod ;) ), but I keep getting notifications for there being items in the queue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7vH4V.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7vH4V.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Nine items in the queue&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when I check the queues, there is nothing there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/INbn1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/INbn1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Empty queues!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked over at the Tools section but nothing jumped out at me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I poked around meta.Workplace.SE for an answer, but I couldn't find a reason.  Is this a blonde moment, or is there something going on here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T22:16:35.783" Title="Review counts not matching review queue?" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3246" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-26T15:43:10.847" Score="3" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was browsing through the questions this morning, and on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/50162/is-it-unprofessional-to-print-screen-a-presenters-notes-or-presentation&quot;&gt;this question here &lt;/a&gt;, the original poster (OP) seemed to have answered their own question from a &lt;strong&gt;different account&lt;/strong&gt; This might lead to confusion for other readers. Is there a way for the community to discourage this behavior? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/amykg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/amykg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T01:08:50.177" Title="Encouraging users not to use multiple accounts for one question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3246" CreationDate="2015-07-27T01:08:50.177" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the specific case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that the author of the question was confused by the user interface -- saw a textbox and, like on many discussion forums, typed into it to continue the conversation.  I suspect that she also was logged out (or using a different browser) and created a new account instead of signing back into the existing one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've left comments and deleted both answers, suggesting that she edit the information into the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community helpfully flagged the non-answers, but the main question you're asking is about the duplicate accounts.  If you notice what seems to be a confused user with multiple accounts, go ahead and leave a comment along these lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It looks like you might have created more than one account by accident.  If that's the case, please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/merging-accounts&quot;&gt;this help page about merging accounts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange allows you to create more than one account &lt;em&gt;so long as the accounts don't interact&lt;/em&gt; -- they don't vote for each other, they don't double-vote on something (voting on the same post from two accounts), accept each other's answers, or, broadly, to do anything on the site that a person couldn't do with only one account.  So just because someone's using two accounts, that doesn't automatically mean they need to be merged.  If you notice multiple-account shenanigans, though, then feel free to flag and explain what's going on.  If you do, please include the profile URL of the other account (not just the name).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T01:08:50.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3242" CreationDate="2015-07-27T15:36:06.697" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Exactly so: &lt;strong&gt;This doesn't really add any useful context to the question&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could even argue the opposite: it &lt;strong&gt;adds clutter&lt;/strong&gt;. When writing an answer I want to address the factual question; I do not want to have to address the emotions of the OP too (when they are not part of the core question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So IMO, remove them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8036" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T15:36:06.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3249" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-27T20:00:21.007" Score="9" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&amp;amp;A thread for the candidates. Questions collected &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3229/2015-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;from an earlier thread&lt;/a&gt; have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers. Due to the lack of submission count, we have selected all provided questions as well as 2 of our back up questions for a total of 10 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a candidate, your job is simple - post an answer to this question, citing each of the questions and then post your answer to each question given in that same answer. For your convenience, I will include all of the questions in quote format with a break in between each, suitable for you to insert your answers. Just &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/5760c1f1-4e66-4512-a409-d0aee307193a/view-source&quot;&gt;copy the whole thing after the first set of three dashes&lt;/a&gt;. Oh, and please consider putting your name at the top of your post so that readers will know who you are before they finish reading everything you have written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once all the answers have been compiled, this will serve as a transcript for voters to view the thoughts of their candidates, and will be appropriately linked in the Election page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck to all of the candidates!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments:&lt;/strong&gt; bane of any site that wants to maintain a good signal:noise ratio, harmless, something in between? What do you think about comments and the moderation thereof on The Workplace, and what would you like to change about it?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you have some questions or answers of which you are particularly proud? Have you posted a particular question or answer that you think reflects the kinds of approach toward this site which you'll bring to your role as a Moderator? If so, which one(s)?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What about this site do you best enjoy?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do you think Moderators could do (which they aren't doing yet), that would make The Workplace a better place?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What excites you about being a moderator on The Workplace? What makes you nervous?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do we need to stronger enforce &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/255/168&quot;&gt;Back It Up and Don't Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt; norms over here? If yes, how? If not, why?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2015-08-04T21:16:25.873" Title="2015 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Questionnaire" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3249" CreationDate="2015-07-27T21:28:17.853" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers: yochannah&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments:&lt;/strong&gt; bane of any site that wants to maintain a good signal:noise ratio, harmless, something in between? What do you think about comments and the moderation thereof on The Workplace, and what would you like to change about it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are a great way to clarify questions and dispute/discuss finer points of an answer. If there's one or two, I usually feel like it's fine for even irrelevant ones to stay there indefinitely, but otherwise longer discussions should be edited into the question or removed entirely. Rudely reactive comments should be flagged as soon as they appear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For most part: remove the comments if it seemed necessary with a polite reminder to keep things cool, and hope they'd get the idea. If they didn't, then discussing it with the co-mods would be my next action to agree upon an appropriate action to take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It depends upon the severity. If I didn't feel strongly, I'd leave it - but if I did think it was a really bad choice, perhaps putting it to the community would be the best way, either by posting a meta discussion, or nominating it for re-opening and letting others decide. Simply opening it again would be silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do you have some questions or answers of which you are particularly proud? Have you posted a particular question or answer that you think reflects the kinds of approach toward this site which you'll bring to your role as a Moderator? If so, which one(s)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm particularly proud of the positive response I got in meta.stackoverflow for my question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/296908/how-should-we-handle-google-code-answers&quot;&gt;handling all the thousands of Google Code answers that may break when Google Code goes poof&lt;/a&gt;. On a more Workplace-ey note, though, I think it's important to answer the question the OP is asking, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/36664/acceptable-interview-answer-to-be-honest-i-just-need-to-earn-some-money/36683#36683&quot;&gt;but also to infer what else they are not asking, but maybe should&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What about this site do you best enjoy?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Helping people. It might sound naive, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/34923/how-to-handle-quitting-work-directly-after-bereavement-leave/34931#34931&quot;&gt;I get that warm fuzzy feeling when people update the question saying they took my advice&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What do you think Moderators could do (which they aren't doing yet), that would make The Workplace a better place?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I honestly think The Workplace is a pretty great place already, and I think the mods are thoughtful and use their powers wisely. That's why I spend time here :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What excites you about being a moderator on The Workplace? What makes you nervous?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Exciting:&lt;/strong&gt; being able to help out by assuming more responsibility. I'd be really privileged to be selected. &#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Nervous:&lt;/strong&gt; the possibility that handling conflict as a mod might become personal. I'll have to remember the old &quot;sticks and stones will break my bones&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do we need to stronger enforce &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/255/168&quot;&gt;Back It Up and Don't Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt; norms over here? If yes, how? If not, why?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We definitely do. I've &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18413/how-do-you-handle-an-interview-for-a-candidate-who-is-performing-poorly&quot;&gt;asked questions that have spawned tens of similar responses&lt;/a&gt; in the past, resulting in it becoming a community wiki question (when that was still a thing that happened to popular posts). The worst thing is, when I suggested it be de-wikified, it spawned &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; new answer months later, when it was already badly in need of maintenance. Oops. A prune of some of the older questions would be beneficial, as would swift locking of me-too type questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For most part, let the community manage things, but respond to the non-standard queries and quandaries, be they firefights or proactive actions to improve the quality of the site. I'd favour involving the community over authoritarianism. The Workplace generally has a great vibe and I think we should keep it that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty cool. I figure if it's on the internet, it can be viewed by anyone, so I should probably do my best to be nice. I don't think I've said anything on SE I'd regret. (Now I've said this, please don't go finding things to make me regret these words ;))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12655" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T21:34:49.743" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3243" CreationDate="2015-07-27T22:16:35.783" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will point to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/191638/213963&quot;&gt;Notify users of possible reviews on toolbar&lt;/a&gt; on MSE which is the feature that was requested and implemented (with some changes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number in the header reflects the total number of pending review tasks available.  Not all of them may be available to you - you may have already voted on some outside of the review queue.  You may have cast votes on the tasks before (and had the question been reopened) in which case you are ineligible for doing another review on the question. &lt;a href=&quot;http://shouldiblamecaching.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Caching&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5762/the-change-to-the-taskbar-is-massively-annoying/5763#5763&quot;&gt;The change to the taskbar is massively annoying&lt;/a&gt; explains a bit more about the number and how they are generated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, unlike the numbers shown to you and everyone else in /review, this number counts everything - including tasks you aren't personally eligible to review. This includes tasks you've already done, tasks you've skipped, and tasks that the system expects you might not be sufficiently impartial to review (e.g., things you've already flagged or posted). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10042" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T22:16:35.783" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3249" CreationDate="2015-07-27T23:15:24.963" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rory&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments:&lt;/strong&gt; bane of any site that wants to maintain a good signal:noise ratio, harmless, something in between? What do you think about comments and the moderation thereof on The Workplace, and what would you like to change about it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depends on the comment. Comments asking for clarification, or steering the topic serve a purpose and then once that purpose is complete can be deleted. I consider &quot;Me too&quot; comments not very constructive so I delete them. My response on other sites I mod is dependent on the OP. Brand new visitors get left a comment and a link to the tour and answer pages. Old hands get the brief comment. 20k+ folks... a prod in chat to ask why :-) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have had to handle this a few times - initially ask them in comments to change behaviours, but if that doesn't work, mod message and short suspensions, followed by longer suspensions... The ideal end result is a member of the community who provides valuable content without the drama. Another outcome is, of course, that they decide not to remain...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially discuss it in chat. If no resolution is found, then ask the community. This is the way I tend to work on other sites I mod - and it seems to get the best buy in. Mods go with the community view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do you have some questions or answers of which you are particularly proud? Have you posted a particular question or answer that you think reflects the kinds of approach toward this site which you'll bring to your role as a Moderator? If so, which one(s)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think my top two answers here are fairly indicative of my approach to life - communicate, and be open:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/20879/647&quot;&gt;Recruiter contacts me&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/47281/647&quot;&gt;Answer to an email.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What about this site do you best enjoy?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Workplace is a very practical site in the Stack Exchange family - questions and answers here are very relevant to my work life. And both on Stack Exchange and in real life I get a lot of pleasure from coaching, mentoring and helping others develop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What do you think Moderators could do (which they aren't doing yet), that would make The Workplace a better place?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know, actually. Problem posts don't last long here, many sorted by the community, and the rest by the mods, and as a lurker I have not seen that much drama, compared with some sites, so my aim would be to keep on doing the same - being a fair and moderate moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What excites you about being a moderator on The Workplace? What makes you nervous?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The opportunity to bring my moderation experience here is probably the most exciting and interesting piece. I'm not nervous about it at all - and while that is mostly because I am very happy working as a mod in the environment Stack Exchange has created, there is a wee bit that stems from knowing my two rivals in this election are much more likely to win than I :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do we need to stronger enforce &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/255/168&quot;&gt;Back It Up and Don't Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt; norms over here? If yes, how? If not, why?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely! I am a strong supporter of closing as dupe, and this needs to be steered by the moderator team. It is something that the community must support, though, identifying duplicates, flagging and so on, but mods need to close/merge these quickly and cleanly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a graduated, mature site - mods are the exception handlers and janitors, helping the community handle things, but not standing in the way of the community. There is also a role in publicising and running initiatives or competitions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of my SE interactions to date have had a diamond attached. I like the fact I am held accountable. The only downside to holding a mod role is that you have to be able to distance yourself from personal attacks - as they are aimed at mods a lot more than at other members of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T23:15:24.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3249" CreationDate="2015-07-28T02:53:32.440" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Candidate:&lt;/b&gt; Jane S&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Comments: bane of any site that wants to maintain a good signal:noise ratio, harmless, something in between? What do you think about comments and the moderation thereof on The Workplace, and what would you like to change about it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that comments play an important role on this site.  That's not to say every comment is useful or adds value as sometimes a comment loses relevance over time if the question or answer has been modified.  It's important to remember that the workplace is very much about the human experience; how we deal with people.  There are times when a comment can not only enhance the question or answer, but an amusing or insightful comment can add a &quot;human&quot; side to the site.  I'm a strong believer that humour is an effective tool for helping people to drop their guard ever so slightly.  But we also need to remember that this is a professional site, and there comes a time when we need to rationalise which comments truly add value and discard that that do not.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel the way comments are currently moderated on the site is generally good, even though sometimes I don't always agree with a comment being deleted or &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; deleted.  Often it's a judgement call (back to that word &quot;human&quot; :) ), but I would say that the signal:noise ratio is pretty good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect this one isn't a rhetorical question :)  There are some highly valuable posters here who have an inherently abrasive manner.  But when it comes to the &quot;be nice&quot; policy we have in place here, how much rep or how many good answers a person gives has no effect on if a confrontational response needs addressing.  I would treat each incident on its merits, regardless of whoever the responsible person is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what meta.workplace.SE is for :)  I wouldn't just reopen or undelete it; I would raise it so that it can be discussed openly, as I would hope that another mod would do if &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; did it.  Moderators don't necessarily have all the answers; a mod's role is to guide, not to dictate.  Getting input on meta keeps a transparency and allows others to give their input and perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do you have some questions or answers of which you are particularly proud? Have you posted a particular question or answer that you think reflects the kinds of approach toward this site which you'll bring to your role as a Moderator? If so, which one(s)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am particularly proud of this answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/44945/how-can-i-stop-being-badgered-for-leaving-early-without-hurting-my-co-worker-r/44954#44954&quot;&gt;How can I stop being badgered for &amp;quot;leaving early&amp;quot; without hurting my co-worker relationships?&lt;/a&gt; What I like is that it's an issue that is not just resolving the asker's issue, but can be of use to others in future.  And that is the intent behind the Q&amp;amp;A format of the Stack Exchange sites, otherwise we wouldn't care about duplicates, wouldn't worry about the quality of questions or answers as long as it solved the OP's problem.  We are trying to provide a knowledge base, that can help &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; people, not just one :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What about this site do you best enjoy?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I love most is helping others.  I keep saying this, but the workplace is a human experience, and it's important for us to recognise that when people ask questions here, it is because they need help to deal with a human issue.  I get a great sense of satisfaction if I can successfully help someone make their workplace a less stressful and as far as possible and &lt;em&gt;enjoyable&lt;/em&gt; place to spend so much of our lives :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What do you think Moderators could do (which they aren't doing yet), that would make The Workplace a better place?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they could make me a coffee in the morning, that would be great :)  Failing that, I honestly believe that the moderators are doing exactly what they should be doing - guiding the tone of the community and maintaining the intent behind it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What excites you about being a moderator on The Workplace? What makes you nervous?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I applied to be a moderator is because I feel that as a mod, I can help to maintain the fabulous community that The Workplace is.  However, if I am unsuccessful in the election, I will continue to do exactly as I was doing, to try to help others and use my voting/flagging authority to keep the community at the highest standard we can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now what makes me &lt;em&gt;nervous&lt;/em&gt; is that being a moderator is a very great responsibility.  You are in effect an ambassador for the community, and your actions are no longer just your own, but reflect on the community itself.  I want to make sure that I can be a good ambassador, and not slip up &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; often :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do we need to stronger enforce Back It Up and Don't Repeat Others norms over here? If yes, how? If not, why?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think in general we do a pretty good job here of enforcing &quot;Back It Up&quot; and &quot;Don't repeat&quot;, simply by voting for questions or answers, or flagging duplicates.  The community, particularly those who are very active, catch these well.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators are ambassadors for the community.  They help &lt;em&gt;guide&lt;/em&gt; the direction of the community and have the tools to keep it clean and in line with the key values.  A gentle touch is how I have found to work best for me to achieve this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's very important to remember that moderators are first and foremost &lt;em&gt;members of the community&lt;/em&gt;, and can be wrong just like anyone else :)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am confident with how I have behaved within the community, and have always tried to stay professional and above reproach.  I'm also far from perfect, so like anyone I've no doubt made the odd stupid mistake and I hope that I've managed to admit and address most of them :)  But mostly, I am comfortable with adding a diamond to what I have contributed and hope that it is indicative of how a mod, or indeed &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; should behave within the community :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2015-07-28T02:53:32.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3229" CreationDate="2015-07-28T07:42:38.913" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you feel about the current environment of the workplace? What do you want to change about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13302" LastActivityDate="2015-07-28T07:42:38.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3255" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3256" CreationDate="2015-07-29T09:51:49.050" Score="15" ViewCount="276" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked for advice a while back &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/49692/how-to-handle-people-confiding-in-you-as-youre-leaving&quot;&gt;in a question here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I ended up acting on said advice, in a way that actually had a positive outcome.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I'd like to put this somewhere, to show the people who answered that their advice mattered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would I go about this? Commenting on each answer seems excessive, updating my question doesn't really add to the question. Adding another answer seems self-indulgent. And might come off as a grab for attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32778" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T02:46:55.470" Title="Adding an after-the-facts" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3255" CreationDate="2015-07-29T10:50:09.160" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Add it to your question but flag it clearly as an update, e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE - took the following actions, based on the answers below from x, y and z, and achieved the following outcomes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are interested in hearing how things worked out, especially if it worked out, and this way you're referencing the answers that assisted, giving credit where it's due and reinforcing the effect of those answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13947" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T10:50:09.160" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3255" CreationDate="2015-07-29T11:17:20.900" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why you think adding a new answer is &quot;self-indulgent&quot;. Stack Exchange explicitly encourages self-answered questions. Try and work your experiences into an answer - how did you decide to go with one approach rather than another etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think an answer is better than an update to the question as it clearly separates the original problem from the solution - if you update a question with &quot;here's my answer&quot;, it's going to discourage anyone in future from posting an answer to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14388" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T11:17:20.900" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3242" CreationDate="2015-07-30T12:48:06.483" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Emotions are part of the deal. The OP may feel anger, and I can add to my answer that the OP's emotion is misplaced if I believe it is misplaced. Someimes, people leave comments that on their face might be irritating but that I recignize as an attempt at humor through their emoticon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I  am willing to let live as long as their communication comes through clearly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16993" LastActivityDate="2015-07-30T12:48:06.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3242" CreationDate="2015-07-30T17:26:26.133" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the emotional context of the OP can be an important context to the question and important information for those trying to answer it. Furthermore, sanitizing everyone's questions too much can put people off asking: e.g. the OP doesn't care about answers to this question because it's not what he/she asked and won't be asking again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a little is okay and best left, but if they are labouring the point of their emotions then removing that clutter is doing everyone a favour. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37322" LastActivityDate="2015-07-30T17:26:26.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3260" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-01T03:34:17.693" Score="5" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;I myself am an native Mandarin Chinese speaker, which is what the language of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/50472/%E5%8A%9E%E5%AD%A6%E5%8E%86%E8%AF%81%E4%B9%A6q-%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1252136717%E5%8A%9E%E7%90%86%E6%BE%B3%E6%B4%B2%E5%A2%A8%E5%B0%94%E6%9C%AC%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6melbourne%E6%AF%95%E4%B8%9A%E8%AF%81%E6%88%90%E7%BB%A9%E5%8D%95%E5%AD%A6%E5%8E%86%E8%AE%A4%E8%AF%81-the-university-of-melbourne&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; is written in. However, for the sake of the international community here on the WorkPlace SE, I strongly feel English should be the standard language of the site. The question below is poor, both as to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unclear as to what OP is asking&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions on what to do are explicitly off topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does the community feel about questions such as these - we don't want to turn away valuable questions simply because they are not in English but at the same time the community must clearly understand the question in order to meaningfully answer such a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0io8C.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0io8C.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T16:59:35.430" Title="Questions presented in languages other than English" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3260" CreationDate="2015-08-01T03:45:54.073" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both questions are spam. Please flag them as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a native Chinese speaker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1193" LastActivityDate="2015-08-01T03:45:54.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3260" CreationDate="2015-08-01T04:22:06.073" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While @scaaahu is absolutely correct about the above question(s), I think you are asking an interesting &lt;em&gt;general&lt;/em&gt; question about questions being posed in a language other than English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, unless one of our bilingual members can translate the question, the range of possible answerers is very limited.  And of course, then the asker will unlikely be able to understand the responses, unless someone kindly translates it &lt;em&gt;back&lt;/em&gt; for them, or the Google translation isn't total gibberish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would say it would be &lt;em&gt;nice&lt;/em&gt; to be able to have people ask questions in languages other than English, it's not really practical here.  Perhaps if there is enough demand, an [insertlanguagehere].workplace.SE could be spawned :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2015-08-01T04:22:06.073" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2570" CreationDate="2015-08-03T12:16:39.587" Score="3" Body="&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;August 2015&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-08-03: &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/23180700#23180700&quot;&gt;Chinese characters are now blocked&lt;/a&gt; in posts on The Workplace, both titles and bodies of posts. This was done to prevent &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DnkMk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;spammers attacks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2015-08-03T12:16:39.587" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-08-03T12:16:39.587" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3266" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-04T21:12:30.203" Score="17" ViewCount="394" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/3&quot;&gt;third moderator election&lt;/a&gt; has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/33698&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/33698.png&quot; alt=&quot;Jane S&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She'll be joining &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the existing crew&lt;/a&gt; shortly — please thank her for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with her as she learns the ropes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/3&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opavote.org/results/6528209101258752/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;view a summary report online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9899" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-08-07T14:24:00.810" Title="2015 Community Moderator Election Results" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3266" CreationDate="2015-08-04T22:12:24.613" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations, Jane S! Thanks so much for volunteering. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And thanks to the other moderators for doing such a terrific job!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2015-08-04T22:12:24.613" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3266" CreationDate="2015-08-05T00:09:02.197" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you very much everyone for putting your faith in me to help moderate this fantastic community!  I am overwhelmed that so many of you voted for me, especially when there were two other very good candidates in Rory and Yochannah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm currently going through the moderator toolset, just observing and trying to get a feel for everything.  There's a lot :)  I'm very aware of the additional authority that has been given to me and I'm being cautious to not accidentally overstep my bounds (hello, single-vote closing of questions!) :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a very high standard to strive for set by the current moderators for this community.  I will do my very best to live up to the expectations that you have for those of us who are not here to dictate to, but to &lt;em&gt;guide&lt;/em&gt; this wonderful community.  Because a community is made of people, and in particular we are here to &lt;em&gt;help&lt;/em&gt; people deal with difficult situations that are impacting on their real lives.  To be able to provide some small assistance, well that in itself its own reward. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2015-08-05T00:09:02.197" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3266" CreationDate="2015-08-07T14:24:00.810" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations, @JANE.....congratulation again. I want to share my experience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was my first day in Workplace site and I Show the moderator election. I read entire information of election 2015 as well as I know there was another person who compete too. As this was the moderator election, I was read both candidate's activity and after so much thinking, finally I was given vote to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its really think good that I was given vote to right candidate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38328" LastActivityDate="2015-08-07T14:24:00.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3260" CreationDate="2015-08-09T16:59:35.430" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackexchange.com/2009/07/non-english-question-policy/&quot;&gt;The SE policy on non-English questions is already quite clear&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is not our goal to teach English&lt;/strong&gt;. It is our goal to teach&#xA;  programming. If the post has salvageable English and makes some&#xA;  modicum of sense, it should be edited and improved just like any other&#xA;  post. &lt;strong&gt;If it does not, it should be closed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While harsh, this is the reality of SE. If people are putting non-English questions, answers, and comments, it becomes far more difficult to handle administration duties, conflicts, abuse, foul language, spam, scammers, etc. I myself brought up a meta thread some time back on a polite &quot;Engrish&quot; type tag (though with a less offensive name, of course), that could be used to flag/alert other members of the SE community to help translate a question into comprehensible English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after reviewing comments by other members, the reality of the matter was made clear: it is an administrative nightmare with minimal benefit to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19259" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T16:59:35.430" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3271" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-10T14:12:08.440" Score="-2" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been on Stack Exchange sites for years, and just in the last week or so I've gotten four comments on answers I've posted that basically say &quot;this answer doesn't add any value&quot; or &quot;this doesn't answer the question&quot;. I don't think I've ever gotten such comments on my answers before. I don't know if this is a new trend to make such comments, or if I just happened to have a run of bad posts. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point here isn't to defend my answers. Rather, my point is to ask, Is there any point in making such comments? (If they're down-voting me, I've accumulated plenty of rep, and in any case my paychecks are not tied to my Stack Exchange rep. And I'm way too arrogant for my feelings to be hurt. Originally I was intending to reference the relevant posts, but I'm not looking for re-assurance that my answers were good. I concede that at least one of them was of minimal value. Let's assume for the sake of argument that they weren't very good.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, if someone down-votes me, I like to see a comment explaining the down-vote. If something I said is incorrect, I'd like to know what the correct facts are. If something I said is poorly worded, ambiguous, or misleading, than it would be helpful to anyone reading to have the point made more clearly. Etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a comment that simply says, &quot;this doesn't add value&quot; or &quot;this doesn't answer the question&quot; or &quot;this is more of a comment than an answer&quot; ... One of the comments of this sort that I got recently had a rather lengthy paragraph about how answers shouldn't repeat information found in other answers, how the system asks you if you've read other answers before posting, and how answers that are similar to other answers or that don't address the question just waste the time of people visiting the site. All of which is true, and even assuming that my answer was worthless: Ok, so my answer is just a waste of space. But it seems to me that a long discussion about why that answer is a waste of space that does nothing to help readers understand the original subject, is itself a waste of space that does nothing to help readers understand the original subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I guess one could see value in such a post in that it might inform or remind the poster, and anyone else who is considering posting, that such answers are unwelcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other other hand though, I'm reluctant to say that any answer that gives accurate and at least arguably relevant information is worthless. I've had a few times where I've felt that someone else's answer made all the important points, but that it was unclear in some way, and so I've posted my own answer in which I say the same thing differently. In one of the cases where I got a &quot;doesn't add anything&quot;, I had one small point that I wanted to add to other answers, and in order to introduce it coherently I had to repeat a point that others had made. Arguably my additional point wasn't worth it. Is it more of a waste of space to make a point that isn't important, or to point out that someone else has made a point that you think isn't important?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My feeling is: If you think a post repeats what others have said, so what? Maybe the second person said it in a different way, and this will help some to understand. If you think a post doesn't really answer the question, then unless it's totally irrelevant, like, say, someone asks about putting his grades from college on his resume and someone writes an &quot;answer&quot; about how to bake pudding, if the answer has anything to do with the question at all, I'd think it might be helpful to someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only down-vote when I think an answer is wrong or misleading, and I add a comment saying why I think so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14073" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T15:44:17.273" Title="Do comments that say &quot;this doesn't add value&quot;, add value?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="255" CreationDate="2015-08-10T14:38:17.510" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, seems to me you contradict yourself here. You say that every answer should be complete and stand-alone, and also that answers should not repeat information found in other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what if I believe the correct answer to a question is three key points: A, B, and C. Someone else gives an answer with two of those key points: A and B. Do I give my own answer, repeating A and B and also including C? Or do I say, &quot;Bob brought up two good points here, let me add a third&quot; and then discuss C?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the second option is better. Why repeat what someone else has said? Just acknowledge that they gave a partial answer and then add the additional material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14073" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T14:38:17.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="172" CreationDate="2015-08-10T14:45:21.937" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that we don't want two answers that say the same thing. But in real life this can often get into very hazy cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if an answer says basically the same thing as an earlier answer, but says it more clearly? I've had a few times on other SE sites where I've seen answers that I believed were accurate, but poorly worded, and where making it clear would take more than a brief comment. Maybe you'd say I shouldn't have made such posts, that if the answer was already there, I should just leave it at that. But if someone reading it is unlikely to be able to understand it, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often see answers that repeat part of what's in other answers, but add additional information. You could, of course, debate whether this additional information is of value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14073" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T14:45:21.937" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3271" CreationDate="2015-08-10T15:21:13.970" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind both your answers were pretty basic and to questions which were very old and not new (both were over 1 year old, and one was nearly 2 years old). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that point I would consider, &quot;is there any point in adding a answer to an existing question with established answers that has not had activity for over 1 year?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T15:21:13.970" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3271" CreationDate="2015-08-10T15:35:46.463" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there any point in making such comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there can be good reasons to leave such a comment, including (but not limited to):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're flagging a post as &quot;not an answer&quot; and want to explicitly indicate your reasoning for those users who have the ability to follow-up on the flag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're participating in the Low Quality Posts &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/161390/254929&quot;&gt;review queue&lt;/a&gt; and want to leave a comment for other reviewers to see, explaining why you've chosen the &lt;strong&gt;Delete&lt;/strong&gt; (or &lt;strong&gt;Recommend Deletion&lt;/strong&gt;) action. Other reviewers who agree and take similar action can upvote that comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You think the post has no value but for some reason you're reluctant to flag or vote to delete it and you hope that leaving such a comment will inspire the author to revise or remove it of their own accord.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ok, so my answer is just a waste of space. But it seems to me that a&#xA;  long discussion about why that answer is a waste of space that does&#xA;  nothing to help readers understand the original subject, is itself a&#xA;  waste of space that does nothing to help readers understand the&#xA;  original subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the long run and from the perspective of readers, yes; it's all a big waste of space. Fortunately, if you find yourself in this situation, a solution is available to you. As the owner of an unaccepted answer, you have the ability to delete all of the comments associated with that answer by deleting the answer itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the short term and from the perspective of a contributing user, comment discussions such as these can be valuable as a means for community self-governance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think your answer has value nonetheless, just respond briefly and politely to the comment, explaining what value you see in your answer. This will be helpful for future voters, reviewers, moderators, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think such a comment is completely &lt;em&gt;frivolous&lt;/em&gt;, you can flag it as not constructive—but beware that the moderator who responds to your flag may share the perspective of the comment and choose to handle things differently than you would like. A better option may be to simply ignore it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've had a few times where I've felt that someone else's answer made&#xA;  all the important points, but that it was unclear in some way, and so&#xA;  I've posted my own answer in which I say the same thing differently.&#xA;  In one of the cases where I got a &quot;doesn't add anything&quot;, I had one&#xA;  small point that I wanted to add to other answers, and in order to&#xA;  introduce it coherently I had to repeat a point that others had made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That seems perfectly reasonable to me. I hope that if the ambiguity in another answer is minor, you consider revising a phrase in the existing answer or leaving a comment to suggest the clearer phrasing before writing up an entirely new answer. But if you think you can write an objectively better answer, even while making the same points and advising the same course of action, that's your call. You may have an uphill battle to argue your point, especially if yours is a late answer and/or the other already has a lot of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I only down-vote when I think an answer is wrong or misleading, and I&#xA;  add a comment saying why I think so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay. Your votes are your own to use how you like (short of abuse). You can have absolutely no expectation that other users will necessarily use their votes similarly, or even in a way that makes sense to you. Them's the breaks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I rarely comment on my downvotes unless I think there is something the author can and will fix, or that readers need to know. Downvotes, as applied to content rather than content-producers, are one of our most valuable tools for influencing the quality of the site. Don't think of them as punishment, revenge or attacks—think of them as feedback from your readers and one of several metrics by which questions and answers can be sorted. Everything else is a side effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17949" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T15:44:17.273" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3255" CreationDate="2015-08-11T13:31:39.503" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you rephrase the information already posted in a way you feel is useful, or you add a non-trivial amount of additional tips or suggestions, post another answer, as Philip suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answers already cover everything and you just want to say how your scenario turned out, I'm going to go ahead and say don't do anything (beyond upvoting and accepting the relevant answers), because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What worked for you might not work for someone else with the same or a similar problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A non-trivial number of upvotes should imply that it will at least work in some cases, so it having worked for you doesn't add much information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want, you could probably add a comment on the accepted answer stating how it turned out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T13:31:39.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2015-08-15T04:40:04.297" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Short answer:&lt;/b&gt; Yes, comments are continuing to climb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've grouped these by month, but you can see a steady trend since December last year that comments are becoming more frequent with the only drop in comment count being last month (and it's minor).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z4CPC.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z4CPC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Comments per month since January 2014&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, after a bit of a ragged decline from March 2014 to December 2014, comments are still an ongoing problem and we need to try to keep a lid on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's do some other quick analyses.  Firstly, let's look at the total number of questions and answers (# answers is on the secondary axis):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CdNPX.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CdNPX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Questions and Answers&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a corresponding increase in the number of questions being asked each month to go with the increase in comments.  However, let's trend comments against comments per question (# comments per question is on the secondary axis):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zxxU0.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zxxU0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Comments per Question&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, there has been very &lt;em&gt;general&lt;/em&gt; trend towards the number of comments per question increasing, albeit erratically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last one!  Let's see how we're going with number of answers per question (on secondary axis):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DANwP.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DANwP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Answers per question&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This figure, while a little erratic, is not increasing.  So we're getting a fairly flat number of answers per question.  Note that we protect questions, so this figure can be capped from &quot;fly ins&quot; who offer an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while there &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; been an increase in the number of questions being asked, there is also a trend towards the number of &lt;em&gt;comments per question&lt;/em&gt; increasing.  It's &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; figure we need to try to manage :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastEditorUserId="33698" LastEditDate="2015-08-15T06:30:38.887" LastActivityDate="2015-08-15T06:30:38.887" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3279" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-17T06:14:00.050" Score="3" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many questions here belong there but there is no way as yet for flagging them for migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16960" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T14:48:46.737" Title="Can we get an off-topic link to law.stackexchange.com" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3279" CreationDate="2015-08-17T14:48:46.737" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Law.SE is a beta site, and as such &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178444/should-beta-sites-be-listed-for-migration-suggestions&quot;&gt;isn't available as a target for migration&lt;/a&gt;.  Moderators can migrate, of course, but it can't be a target in the Off Topic close reasons until/unless Law graduates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's quite unclear how close Law would be to graduating, even if they do approve the new half-graduation (where they graduate 'ready' sites without waiting for a design, which would include permitting them to be a migration target); they've not even been in beta 90 days, and most graduated sites are in beta for &lt;em&gt;years&lt;/em&gt;.  Their statistics aren't bad, but they're not stellar enough to suggest they'd graduate substantially ahead of the norm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What that does mean, though, is you can begin compiling statistics now as to how many questions would be migrate-worthy (ie, how many you'd vote to migrate if it were in the offtopic list), and how many migrated (by moderators) questions are both a) approved by the Law.SE community (ie, not rejected) and b) become good Law questions (ie, get upvotes and good answers).  That way, when Law does graduate, you've got the statistics ready to make the argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3227" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T14:48:46.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3282" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-17T19:58:10.713" Score="3" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I mostly participate on the StackExchange site Superuser.com.  Answers there, for the most part, have one solution.  Sometimes, there are more than one answer, but all have a logical path to a solution.  For example, &quot;How do I delete a file?&quot;  There are multiple answers, each with a logical path to complete the action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when I look at question and answers on the Workplace StackExchange site, I find my self shaking my head.  So many of the questions revolve around common sense, ethics, opinion, and legality.  Take the question, &quot;Is it ok if I work shirtless&quot; has no definite answer.  Sure, common sense dictates that we shouldnt go shirtless in office environment.  However, there may very well be an office that is OK with that.  It may be perfectly legal in your particular legal jurisdiction.  Ethics/opinion change based on your sex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I bring this up, as I just &quot;answered&quot; this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/52231/might-suggesting-an-offer-to-be-paid-at-a-low-specific-rate-in-my-resume-help-me&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, which has no answer, as there are pros and cons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I am curious, as I am more of a logical person, how do you go about answering questions that have no clearly defined answer?  And how do you give an answer that clearly revolves around law, when I am sure most of us have no law background?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9490" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T07:11:13.617" Title="What goes through your mind when answering these questions?" Tags="|discussion|questions|moderation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3282" CreationDate="2015-08-17T21:41:30.220" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;So many of the questions revolve around common sense&lt;/code&gt;  It is my experience that common sense is not so common :)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you just have to spell out what may be obvious to everyone else.  We all have blind spots, and it's difficult to be objective when you're in the middle of something.  Often I feel our answers are simply validation of what the OP &lt;em&gt;knows&lt;/em&gt; but just is looking for verification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question clearly revolves around law, and the law is something that you aren't giving &lt;em&gt;advice&lt;/em&gt; about, but rather pointing the OP to the appropriate piece of legislation.  Asking for legal advice is off-topic with a specific reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should be directed to legal professionals. For more information, click here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2015-08-17T22:25:12.280" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T22:25:12.280" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3284" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3285" CreationDate="2015-08-18T19:43:03.647" Score="8" ViewCount="323" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/52271/is-it-legal-for-a-company-to-demand-you-show-up-15-minutes-before-a-shift-to-pr&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; should be reopened as it is both useful and on-topic. I've suggested an edit which should push it in the reopen queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions asking for general advice within a legal context have been judged as being on-topic. The crucial criteria seems to be that:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this site's audience and/or HR managers could be expected to know the answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's asking about a general guideline rather than an interpretation of case law (the answer to the latter should always be &quot;consult a lawyer&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This question has a broadly applicable answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions like this are likely to come up again in future (it's one of the more popular question varieties to pop up on workplace-related Q&amp;amp;A sites)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/48017/do-i-have-to-get-to-the-office-any-earlier-than-my-start-time&quot;&gt;A very similar question&lt;/a&gt; is one of the more popular on this site and has remained open, presumably because it doesn't explicitly mention a legal angle (not a duplicate as it concerns the UK)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2015-08-24T06:46:53.890" Title="Reopen - Is it legal for a company to demand you show up 15 minutes before a shift to “prepare” but not pay you for this time?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3284" CreationDate="2015-08-18T22:40:58.217" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've voted to re-open. The edit improved the post significantly, and I agree that it looks pretty good now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12655" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T22:40:58.217" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3286" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3290" CreationDate="2015-08-19T16:53:20.153" Score="37" ViewCount="926" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; We asked this question almost two years ago, and it took a while for voting to produce a clear winner.  We'd like to implement &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3290/325&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As described &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3181/325&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, I feel the current wording of one of our close reasons is misleading:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for advice on what to do are not practical answerable questions (e.g. &quot;what job should I take?&quot;, or &quot;what skills should I learn?&quot;). Questions should get answers explaining why and how to make a decision, not advice on what to do. For more information, click here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;All&lt;/em&gt; questions, fundamentally, are asking for &quot;advice on what to do&quot;.  The trick is in how you refine them.  &quot;Here's my tale of woe; help!&quot; doesn't work, and broad &quot;what would you do?&quot; opinion surveys don't work.  The key info in this close reason is in the examples -- what job to take, what skills to learn, etc -- rather than in the first phrase that people see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just came across a wording we used to use (found in an old, closed question):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on what job to take, what skills to learn, etc. are off-topic as the answers are rarely useful to anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's much better.  Apparently we found it too restrictive and broadened it, but I think we went too far.  Can we find something in the middle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What wording should this close reason have that is sufficiently inclusive but not too broad?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, bear in mind that &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot; is baked into SE; that option already exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-08-11T19:11:09.837" LastActivityDate="2017-08-11T19:11:09.837" Title="&quot;Advice on what to do&quot; close reason is over-broad" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3286" CreationDate="2015-08-19T16:53:20.153" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My proposal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on what job to take, what skills to learn, etc. are off-topic as the answers are rarely useful to anyone else. Instead of asking what decision to make, try asking how to make a decision.  For more information click here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;here&quot; link would point to something very similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695/325&quot;&gt;the current one&lt;/a&gt;, maybe even an edit to that.  The &lt;em&gt;reasoning&lt;/em&gt; is the same; it's just the presentation that I think is a problem.  That post should probably also link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;this help&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T16:53:20.153" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3289" CreationDate="2015-08-19T22:09:04.503" Score="5" ViewCount="382" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/16993/vietnhi-phuvan&quot;&gt;this user&lt;/a&gt; had 1 rep yet there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/21562/583&quot;&gt;plenty of upvotes&lt;/a&gt; on this answer. After going through his profile, apparently he has been sent to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackexchange.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;penalty box&lt;/a&gt; for a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've going through his answers and they are all high quality, and the answers he's supplied before the penalty was enacted have multiple upvotes. This user seems to be a great contributor to The Workplace, the antithesis of &quot;troll account&quot;. I'm going to guess that whatever his transgression, it was removed for moderation reasons - especially if it was egregious enough for a &lt;em&gt;one year suspension&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what did this user do, or, more generally, what type of behavior warrants a one-year suspension? (Specifics need not be mentioned if it infringes upon the privacy of those involved in the transgression.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="583" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2015-08-20T13:01:55.070" Title="What did this user do to warrant a 1 year suspension?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3288" CreationDate="2015-08-19T22:27:56.087" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;For privacy reasons, moderators and Stack Exchange employees do not reveal reasons for suspensions.  If the &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt; brings it up (elsewhere or after) that's different, but it's not for us to say.  We don't like suspending people; we aren't going to then pour salt in the wound by telling the world more than necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, it would be pretty rude of us to talk about a suspended user when he couldn't respond, don't you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two &lt;em&gt;general&lt;/em&gt; things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You probably aren't seeing everything.  If there was a problem with somebody's posts or comments, those were removed as part of dealing with the problem.  If there was a problem involving voting, you wouldn't be in a position to know (even mods don't know &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt;; investigating voting irregularities requires a CM).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suspension periods escalate with repetition; it is very very rare for a &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; suspension to be for a year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It always makes me sad when a user with many good contributions gets suspended.  Suspension is not something we do lightly, but when we do it the same rules apply to everybody, whether they have 100 rep or 100k rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2015-08-20T13:01:55.070" LastActivityDate="2015-08-20T13:01:55.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3286" CreationDate="2015-08-20T15:21:06.353" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for advice on a specific choice, such as what job to take or what skills to learn, are off-topic as the answers are unlikely to be useful for anyone else, and are often primarily opinion-based.  Instead of asking which decision to make, try asking how to make the decision, or more specific details about one element of the decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keeping a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; bit of the breadth I think is helpful, as otherwise people will think it only applies to the listed points (yes, 'etc.' is there, but giving some clarification on what 'etc.' means is useful).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think that the 'rarely useful to anyone else' is less important than the 'opinion based' side: we answer all sorts of questions that wouldn't necessarily be very useful for other people on StackExchange sites, but in these cases it's really that there is not a good answer possible: it comes down to opinion and preference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moderator note:&lt;/strong&gt; At this writing this answer is +30/-1, so we're going with it.  I did some minor wordsmithing to prioritize &quot;too subjective&quot; over &quot;not useful to others&quot; and to make room for a meta link.  Here's the final version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for &lt;strong&gt;advice on a specific career choice&lt;/strong&gt;, such as what job to take or what skills to learn, are difficult to answer objectively and are rarely useful for anyone else. Instead of asking which decision to make, try asking how to make the decision, or more specific details about one element of the decision. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695/325&quot;&gt;More information&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;This close reason has been modified again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for advice on a specific choice, such as what job to&#xA;  take or what skills to learn, are difficult to answer objectively and&#xA;  are rarely useful for anyone else. Instead of asking which decision to&#xA;  make, try asking how to make the decision, or more specific details&#xA;  about one element of the decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4711/16&quot;&gt;More Information&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3227" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2017-08-11T16:40:30.987" LastActivityDate="2017-08-11T16:40:30.987" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3291" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3298" CreationDate="2015-08-27T11:31:58.740" Score="9" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/workload&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;workload&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;workload&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/workload-distribution&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;workload-distribution&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;workload-distribution&lt;/a&gt; tags each have only a handful of questions. The latter seems like an unnecessary specification. Even if we were to define them differently, I expect most users would still pick one at random.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that all questions under &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/workload-distribution&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;workload-distribution&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;workload-distribution&lt;/a&gt; be merged into &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/workload&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;workload&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;workload&lt;/a&gt; and that the distribution tag be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:51:04.457" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:51:04.457" Title="Merge Tags: workload and workload-distribution" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|retag-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3286" CreationDate="2015-09-01T14:13:11.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I Suggest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for advice on what decision(s) to make, are not&#xA;  practical answerable questions (e.g. &quot;what job should I take?&quot;, or&#xA;  &quot;what skills should I learn?&quot;). Questions should get answers&#xA;  explaining why and how to make a decision, not advice on what&#xA;  decisions to make or course to take. For more information click here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2015-09-02T12:58:42.300" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T12:58:42.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3286" CreationDate="2015-09-06T18:04:15.927" Score="11" Body="&lt;h3&gt;My proposal:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is not practical for us to answer a question that depends so heavily on your own abilities, preferences or circumstances. Instead, consider asking a factual question that will help you make your own choices, and that can be answered without detailed knowledge of your personal situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Rationale:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A good close reason focusses on why the question is unsuitable for this site, and suggests an alternative (where one exists).&lt;/strong&gt; If it focusses on the wrong thing, it can be both too restrictive and too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Putting topics or forms of words in the close reason&lt;/strong&gt; (as opposed to the comments or guidance page where they can be contextualised) &lt;strong&gt;risks misleading close-voters&lt;/strong&gt; (into closing things they shouldn't, and possibly ignoring other questions which have the same problem but don't fit the mould) &lt;strong&gt;and question authors&lt;/strong&gt; (it doesn't help them fix the question or ask better questions in the future), &lt;strong&gt;unless those topics/phrases are outright prohibited on their own account&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g. belongs on another SE site, we are not lawyers, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible to have good questions which - implicitly or explicitly - ask what to do, what skills to learn, what job to take, but which are sufficiently focussed and convey enough information that the question answerable and the answer is applicable to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real problem questions are generally asking for &lt;strong&gt;personalised career advice&lt;/strong&gt;, which results in some combination of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;asking the OP loads of detailed questions about what they actually want (which of these incentives is more important to you?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;finding out what the OP's tolerance of a range of different risks is (how happy are you trading away all job security?), which may depend on the financial position of the OP (household savings, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;assessing the OP's abilities (which skill are you better at, and by how much?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;determining if certain factors exist which the OP has ommitted (is your company currently short-staffed or looking to reduce its headcount?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For every Question proper, we end up firing two or three questions back (or writing flowchart answers in which we try to give all possible answers and the circumstances in which they're appropriate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite often the OP doesn't rightly know themselves, and even if we give them a satisfactory answer, we only get it 'right' for that one person's situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good-fit question will elicit answers which are useful to someone else, which means someone else needs to read the question and be able to confidently say either &quot;I am in the same boat&quot; - or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="610" LastEditorUserId="610" LastEditDate="2015-09-16T16:44:47.060" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T16:44:47.060" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3295" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3315" CreationDate="2015-09-07T15:53:31.167" Score="30" ViewCount="356" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderating can be a thankless task, so I thought I'd drop a quick note of thanks for doing a good job of it here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen a lot of questions on Workplace.SE that touch on sensitive and controversial subjects, which some moderators would just freak out at and close, lock and/or delete. The Workplace mods and regulars have, however, for the most part, done a very good job of making sure difficult topics are addressed with high quality content (while firefighting the inevitable arguments and dross).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/54020/how-to-politely-say-i-dont-want-to-work-for-someone-from-xy-country&quot;&gt;You can probably guess which question prompted me to post this&lt;/a&gt;  - but there have been plenty like that. I must admit I was a little skeptical when the Workplace was launched that it could work - and I'm very happy you've done a good job proving me wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to close this since it isn't exactly a question... &lt;code&gt;:-)&lt;/code&gt; tagging &quot;discussion&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4559" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T16:54:30.230" Title="A note of appreciation to the moderators for making challenging, controversial questions work" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3296" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3301" CreationDate="2015-09-08T14:11:38.863" Score="6" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, there is a question posed recently concerning &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/54075/worried-that-drug-test-didnt-go-well&quot;&gt;how an applicant may have messed up faking a drug test&lt;/a&gt;. The only other question under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/drugtest&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;drugtest&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;drugtest&lt;/a&gt; tag is closed as off topic. Since there is very little advise we can give for positive drug test results, and the question will probably be very subjective &quot;Do you think I'll get hired if my employer requires a drug test and I have THC in my system&quot;, I'm wondering if maybe this tag should be killed. I'm not sure how it would have got in the tag pool, since neither of the two questioners have more than 20 rep's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12336" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:50:36.227" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:50:36.227" Title="Should the drugtest tag be killed?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3295" CreationDate="2015-09-08T14:24:49.963" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree.  This site tends to get personal for a lot of us and we know that we abuse you and make you feel unloved at times.  Know that you are loved even when we are disagreeing with your position. I can not understate how impressed I am with our mods willingness to step in and just purge comments, delete trouble answers, and generally do your best to herd us like cats into areas where we are providing help instead of arguing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T14:24:49.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3291" CreationDate="2015-09-08T14:49:25.737" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went ahead and merged this, like Stephan was saying no one was really disagreeing and it seems a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T14:49:25.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3299" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-08T14:52:44.353" Score="5" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/40274/jack-d-ripper&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/40274/jack-d-ripper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This user was not attempting to ask bad questions or question on how to exploit or get around the system.  He was asking questions about understanding how to negotiate some difficult situations.  I see no reason for the excessive down voting of the duplicates.  That they are duplicates not bad questions.  It is a testimony to the way the system works that we already have answers to many of this users questions.  But I do not see anywhere that was a serious attempt to explain to the user how to use the system to find the answers, or to explain to the user why their other questions were being closed or how to ask better questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has resulted in a user that appears to have abandoned SE all together.  One thing that stands out to me is that most of the comments, lacking any ability for use to read actual emotions, could easily be taken as dismissive, uncaring, and snobby.  We missed the mark on the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2979/public-service-announcement-keeping-the-workplace-professional&quot;&gt;Be Nice Policy&lt;/a&gt;&quot; with this user at every turn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what can we do to improve here?  Is there some way we can make the site more friendly to new users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T16:16:05.870" Title="Shame on us! We must treat new users better!" Tags="|discussion|comments|site-policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3299" CreationDate="2015-09-08T15:52:41.163" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I see no reason for the excessive down voting of the duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never understood the motivation for downvoting in many cases. But I don't see this series of questions as any more excessive than others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the OP's attitude came across as negative to some folks. Or perhaps the OP's use of the term &quot;rude assholes&quot; in his profile angered some. No way to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This has resulted in a user that appears to have abandoned SE all&#xA;  together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the &quot;Done&quot; quote was posted in the profile &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; some of the questions were asked, so I'm not sure &quot;abandoned&quot; is the correct term here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So what can we do to improve here? Is there some way we can make the&#xA;  site more friendly to new users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish I had an easy answer here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought things got pretty bad a while back (last year?). It seemed that folks were competing with each other to be the first to declare a question a &quot;duplicate&quot; or &quot;off-topic&quot;. Then it seemed to ease up. The snark factor seemed to decrease at least for a while. Perhaps that was just my perception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect these things go in waves. Perhaps we are in a wave where newbies are asking lots of duplicate and off-topic questions and folks that were flagged before are deciding to do the same to others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know for sure - perhaps there are trends that could be spotted in the data...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a general reminder from the Moderators to &quot;be nice&quot; is in order yet again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, the questions about how to treat new users, and how often downvotes should occur have been asked and answered many, many times. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2503/can-we-make-the-workplace-exchange-less-hostile-to-new-users&quot;&gt;Can we make the Workplace exchange less hostile to new users?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1627/we-need-to-downvote-answers-more-even-mediocre-ones&quot;&gt;We need to downvote answers more (even mediocre ones)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few searches here in Meta will turn up many more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:40:25.820" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T16:16:05.870" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3296" CreationDate="2015-09-08T16:54:52.197" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags with no questions are already &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/19754/260382&quot;&gt;automatically deleted&lt;/a&gt;. This tag has two questions which are currently closed. While I can imagine questions that would be on-topic here that could use it, such a tag can just be recreated then if there is a need for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be worth launching another &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2783/another-tag-discussion&quot;&gt;tag cleanup&lt;/a&gt; round to avoid creating new discussions for each tag but I'll agree that this one can go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T16:54:52.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3302" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3303" CreationDate="2015-09-09T10:30:45.273" Score="-3" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users have the ability to upvote comments, as well as answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvotes for answers give an increase to reputation. Upvotes for comments give you nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we give rep changes for comment votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27483" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T13:29:13.897" Title="Can we reward upvotes for comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|reputation|up-votes|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3302" CreationDate="2015-09-09T10:38:02.883" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Short answer: &lt;/b&gt; No :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this is that we want to encourage people to actually answer the questions as answers rather than in comments.  We also want to &lt;em&gt;discourage&lt;/em&gt; people from having extended chats in comments, as that is not their purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there was rep earned for comment upvotes, then there would be less incentive for people to give answers.  Also, to be fair it would require the ability to &lt;em&gt;downvote&lt;/em&gt; a comment that someone disagreed with and take a corresponding hit to rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, remember that answers are incorporated into the knowledge base, are searchable and are able to give suggested answers to similar questions.  Comments are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T10:38:02.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3302" CreationDate="2015-09-09T10:52:03.030" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Jane S.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one other consideration. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On some questions/answers that stirred up controversy there were also complaints that moderators unfairly removed comments. They felt that comments from one side of the flame war were unfairly targeted by the moderators. They felt that their comments weren't chatty, but everybody else's were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now imagine the angst if points were attached to those comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T10:52:03.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3302" CreationDate="2015-09-09T13:29:13.897" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another perspective too is that comments are designed to be temporary by Stack Exchange. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/19757/193412&quot;&gt;This link&lt;/a&gt; has a lot of detail about the purpose of comments (whether you like that purpose or not, this is a debated subject...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;help center page on comments&lt;/a&gt; states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are temporary &amp;quot;Post-It&amp;quot; notes left on a question or answer. They can be up-voted (but not down-voted) and flagged, but do not generate reputation. There's no revision history, and when they are deleted they're gone for good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that you can always comment on your own posts, and any part of your questions. However, commenting on other people's posts is a privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When should I comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should submit a comment if you want to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Request clarification from the author;&#xA;Leave constructive criticism that guides the author in improving the post;&#xA;Add relevant but minor or transient information to a post (e.g. a link to a related question, or an alert to the author that the question has been updated).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These reasons suggest that comments aren't really intended to provide lasting value to the site other than helping clarify/improve posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T13:29:13.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3306" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3307" CreationDate="2015-09-10T01:52:39.827" Score="5" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If I were to ask a question on what I would do with my biology major, would that be considered opinion based, and if so would there be anyway to hone that question down to allow it to be answered?&lt;/strong&gt; I could not think of an objective way to state it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As some background, I am a B.S in biology from a lower tier state school. I flunked out of computer science, and switched over to biology. I enjoyed a genomics course I took at my school and was considering grad school. But after consulting with my new professor, who recently just got her PHD, she told me that I shouldn't go to grad school if I was just worried about a job. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, if I was considering entering the workforce with a biology major, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;what kinds of jobs could I expect(if any)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;? My professor who I spoke about before was a chemistry PHD student and had friends who obtained jobs as &quot;technicians&quot; as biology majors, so I assume something along those lines. And affording schooling for any other job is a bit out of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41862" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T02:07:37.533" Title="Is a question about what to do with my biology major inappropriate or offtopic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3306" CreationDate="2015-09-10T02:07:37.533" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's highly likely that asking what to do with your biology major will be closed.  It fails these two tests:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primarily opinion based&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Advice on what to do&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these are off-topic and the question is more a case of which close reason people will offer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without trying to answer an off-topic question on meta (where the posed question you are asking about would &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; be off topic), what you are better off doing is to talk to the careers guidance people at your university or faculty who can give you a better idea of the kinds of careers graduates in your field can expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how to reframe your question, I can suggest rephrasing it as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I make an informed decision on the kinds of careers available with the qualifications I have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frame it in a generic way such that it's answering not just &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; question but be of value for others in future. Doing so &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be on topic and (might) get you an answer without getting your question closed :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T02:07:37.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3295" CreationDate="2015-09-10T14:40:21.320" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, as moderators we've all pondered what to respond to this and aren't really sure how... I guess I'll just say, thank you - we all enjoy the work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's fun to be part of a site which can literally impact people's lives. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, we have a really great community here. Thank you (and everyone else) who help make Workplace such a great place. I think this site has definitely surprised a lot of people overall and not being what they expected it'd be (expectations were.. low for the Workplace working out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T14:40:21.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3309" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3311" CreationDate="2015-09-10T16:14:08.187" Score="2" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just moments ago, a user asked a question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/54198/2322&quot;&gt;Freelancer vs contractor&lt;/a&gt; - 10k link) that was voluntarily removed by the OP because apparently he perceived the comments as being rude. Specifically, the OP tagged me in a response about my response to his question &quot;Is this legal&quot; This would seem to fall fairly within the closure / DV reason of &quot;Legal questions are explicitly off topic. When I mentioned to the OP that legal questions are EXPLICITLY off topic , the OP felt this was off - putting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This discussion is related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3299/shame-on-us-we-must-treat-new-users-better&quot;&gt;Shame on us! We must treat new users better!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can a established users guide new users about the community standards without putting off new users?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T00:29:03.047" Title="Enforcing SE Workplace standards for new users" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3309" CreationDate="2015-09-10T16:30:08.113" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can a established users guide new users about the community&#xA;  standards without putting off new users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before new users can post a question, have the system display a page (a &quot;New User's Guide&quot;) laying out what is acceptable and what is not. Have an &quot;I agree&quot; checkbox check be required before the guide goes away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It probably won't solve the problem, since some will agree without bothering to read it, but I think that's the best you can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When I mentioned to the OP that legal questions are EXPLICITLY off&#xA;  topic , the OP felt this was off - putting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter what you say, nor how you say it - someone will always feel everything is &quot;off-putting&quot;. As they say - you can't please everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update: I just realized the OP thought my comments were rude! That wasn't my intent. Unfortunately, since the question was deleted, I can't go back and clarify the questions contained within my comments. That's unfortunate...&#xA;It there a way I can send him a message privately?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2015-09-10T16:36:41.667" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T16:36:41.667" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3309" CreationDate="2015-09-10T16:45:38.540" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's worth keeping two semi-contradictory ideas in mind when interacting with new users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Different people, and people from different backgrounds, will read things in different ways; a comment meant to be succinct might come across as dismissive, or emphasis might be interpreted as shouting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some people are very sensitive and there's not much you can do.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a new user you don't know which of these applies (if either).  I try to do the following to (I hope) improve the chances of a good experience:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I try to start off my first comment to a new user with some sort of greeting; while some find it superfluous or even noisy, others see it as welcoming.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I try to acknowledge that expectations might be off -- &quot;we're a little different from other sites&quot; and similar language can make the user less likely to feel blamed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I try to avoid all-upper-case for emphasis because it can be seen as shouting even though that's not what I intended.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I try to link to relevant resources (like the on-topic list in the help center).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I try to &lt;em&gt;suggest improvements&lt;/em&gt; rather than &lt;em&gt;using critical language&lt;/em&gt; -- &quot;you could improve this by X&quot; or &quot;could you [edit] to add...?&quot; instead of &quot;this is off-topic&quot; or &quot;you need to X&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, no matter what you do the user gets upset.  We can't make everybody like us; we can only do our best to provide an environment where someone who wants to be part of a site like ours can do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related (broader than just comments): &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/167452/162102&quot;&gt;What are the most effective ways to guide new users?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T16:52:30.990" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3309" CreationDate="2015-09-11T00:01:00.633" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been thinking a lot about this subject, especially since another question was posted here about it few days ago: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3299/2322&quot;&gt;Shame on us! We must treat new users better!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both cases, I don't think we did &lt;em&gt;terribly&lt;/em&gt; as a community. All of those questions had a fair bit of interaction with suggestions for what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could have been better overall. But one user had the &quot;screw you SE&quot; message shortly after (if not before) posting their second to last question.   At that point, it's not surprising they picked up flak. The other seems to have just... overreacted as nothing about that reaction makes sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A big problem Workplace has is people wanting to validate their preexisting notions. &quot;I think my boss was an idiot and I'm perfect, please tell me so&quot; and then anyone who has a different perspective immediately places them on the defensive. As a community we can't really do anything about that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, debating minutia about &quot;was this poorly received?&quot; or &quot;we did great!&quot; isn't really helpful. What is helpful is figuring out what things we can do regardless to make our site better and more welcoming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some thoughts to be proactive on (loosely inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Significantly editing questions to bring them on topic&lt;/strong&gt;. If there's anything we as a community can do to make people feel more welcome, it's this.  A lot of times the required improvements to a question are obvious. Whether &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/54191/revisions&quot;&gt;only formatting&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/52963/revisions&quot;&gt;basically rewriting&lt;/a&gt; this is probably the best way to help people fit here. From my experience in having more or less completely rewritten quite a few questions here (with a comment &lt;em&gt;gently&lt;/em&gt; explaining what and why) it's &lt;strong&gt;almost always&lt;/strong&gt; well received.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Often it's not that much more work to do this than post a comment, either.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I only do this with questions which for me meet the criteria that 1) the core question is good/valid and 2) the asker appears to be asking in good faith. (1) is pretty straightforward but (2) is somewhat just a feeling I get when reading posts (not sure if that helps ha)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maybe we should have some sort of site contest or something for this? I'm not really sure.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FYI to everyone, if you post &lt;code&gt;[edit]&lt;/code&gt; in a comment, like &quot;can you &lt;code&gt;[edit]&lt;/code&gt; to add this information?&quot; it will smart link to the edit button&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your tone should match the way you'd talk in person with someone you respect and whom you want to respect you&lt;/strong&gt;. This is something everyone agrees with (well likely... ?). The trick is to realize that when you say one thing, people occasionally hear another thing. I suspect most issues we have hear are the result of this mismatch.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many users of Stack Exchange are very direct in their communication, whether culturally or just personality wise. Most people worldwide are not. Unfortunately, many direct people just... don't recognize that when you just say &quot;voting to close, this is off topic&quot; without any better explanation or empathy for a new and confused user, this can be problematic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be welcoming, be patient, and assume good intentions&lt;/strong&gt;. For me, this is hardest.  There are definitely questions which get posted that set off a &quot;this is a drive by post, will never get followup edits/comments&quot; meter and those I honestly just downvote. But a lot of questions here are &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; questions at core, but needing some help/guidance. I don't think it's realistic for us to &lt;em&gt;expect&lt;/em&gt; that every single question posted here will be workable or have an original poster who will put effort into it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flag comments that are not helpful/constructive&lt;/strong&gt;.  It's not a burden for moderators and it's easy for everyone. Comments are temporary/post-its anyways. Please feel free to flag things that you feel are too abrasive or confrontational. If you flag borderline comments, it would be very helpful if you use a custom message explaining something like &quot;abrasive to new poster&quot; or otherwise explain why as it can be difficult to identify why otherwise ok comments are flagged.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T00:29:03.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3296" CreationDate="2015-09-11T00:28:23.787" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just edited it out of the one remaining question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will shortly be deleted automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T00:28:23.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3295" CreationDate="2015-09-11T04:26:00.170" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I'm only a newly minted moderator (where did that first month go? :) ), I feel like I'm taking credit for the more experienced people who have been looking after the community for far longer than I have been here.  But on behalf of the mod team, thank you :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel it is truly an honour to be an ambassador for the community, but much of the moderation is done by you all, the members &lt;em&gt;of&lt;/em&gt; the community.  I believe we as moderators are doing our job well if most of the time you don't really notice us at all :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T04:26:00.170" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3295" CreationDate="2015-09-11T16:54:30.230" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you.  We humans tend to mostly speak up when we're &lt;em&gt;un&lt;/em&gt;happy, so it's great to hear positive feedback too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the moderation on this site comes from the community, as it should.  You're the ones who decide on scope, close and reopen questions, edit posts, leave helpful comments, use our chat room, and bring issues to meta constructively.  This site wouldn't work without y'all doing all that, so thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T16:54:30.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3316" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-14T14:50:51.923" Score="8" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/54357/2322&quot;&gt;Is my future mentor &amp;quot;harassing&amp;quot; me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is in my opinion fairly off topic currently - the asker is a student and is seeking a mentor about workplace questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be one thing if this was a professional mentorship relationship within the workplace, but to me it reads a bit more like a &quot;help me with interpersonal issues which tangentially are related to work.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T09:19:50.520" Title="Should questions related to, but not about, the workplace be on topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3316" CreationDate="2015-09-14T20:49:26.470" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be fair, when I first answered the question the student part hadn't been mentioned.  It looked like a new intern who had been allocated a mentor and she was being creeped out by him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when I shaped my answer, that was the path I took with it.  However, shortly afterwards she indicated that she was a student and that he was a mentor that I had assumed was allocated by the university and who had been recommended by a friend.  I added that to my answer, but my advice remained essentially unchanged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It since fell out that there didn't seem to be any relation to the university or a professional workplace environment.  This changed everything with regards to the contextual relevance of the question, but not the advice I gave which still applies to the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question were to be reshaped as a generic &quot;workplace mentor creeping me out&quot; type of question, then yes it would be on topic.  As it reads now (and even though I'm the most upvoted answer), I would say that it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; on topic for the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T20:49:26.470" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3326" CreationDate="2015-09-15T14:06:37.510" Score="1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;We routinely get questions asking for help in writing letters, applications or resumes &lt;strong&gt;from scratch&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;without a specific answerable question&lt;/strong&gt;. While there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2596/25739&quot;&gt;custom off-topic reason related to reviewing resumes&lt;/a&gt;, this is not reflected in the available options in the close menu. I'm assuming that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2593/what-questions-are-off-topic-here/2596#comment4619_2597&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt; explaining that SE only allows 3 custom close-reasons still holds true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that, what reason should I give for voting to close such a question? Is adding a custom reason, as I did on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/54460/i-need-to-write-a-letter-to-a-previous-employer-requesting-a-new-position&quot;&gt;the question that prompted this meta post&lt;/a&gt;, the best practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify, I'm only talking about questions such as &quot;I need to write a letter to apply for a position&quot;. These will only be useful to the OP and presumably constitute a variation of an advice question. Questions about a specific problem encountered during writing (&quot;How do I best list jobs like X?&quot;, &quot;Can I leave position X off my application?&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1/should-i-include-a-career-objective-on-my-resume&quot;&gt;Should I include an Objectives section on my resume&lt;/a&gt;&quot;) are perfectly on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T15:07:20.203" Title="Close reason for personalised writing help" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|offtopic|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3318" CreationDate="2015-09-15T14:32:21.273" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would these be off topic? They are part of navigating the work place.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best practice is to explain how to do it, perhaps with generic examples, so that it is applicable to more than the specific user and their specific need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T14:32:21.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3316" CreationDate="2015-09-15T14:45:41.577" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is basically the same as asking &quot;When I am at work I need to adjust my make up during the day.  What are the best business appropriate colors to match my skin tone?&quot;  It is tangential to the workplace but it is not about the workplace or navigating it.  Sure people need to put on make up at work.  And if it was about the appropriate time or place to do this it would certainly be on topic.  But it is not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can remove the context of the workplace with out significantly changing the basic question it probably does not belong here.  This quesiton could (and probably should be) reworded as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My friend referred me to someone that she says can give me advice on&#xA;  being an adult.  He creeps me out.  Should I continue meeting him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we can agree that question is off topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T14:45:41.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3321" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3322" CreationDate="2015-09-15T15:38:48.423" Score="5" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/54357/3192&quot;&gt;Is my future mentor &amp;quot;harassing&amp;quot; me?&lt;/a&gt;) led to a lot of discussion in comments, chat and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3316/3192&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; about whether it is on-topic. Its status also changed between on-topic, off-topic and undecided with every additional information provided by asker, until it was (eventually?) closed as off-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seemed to be a general consensus among users on two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is off-topic because the asker is a student and hence, the solutions that would apply in a workplace (such as raising a harassment complaint with HR) may not work in academia. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The issue described in the question is relevant to the workplace, and the question would be on-topic if it had occurred in the workplace.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We encourage askers to edit their questions to make them on-topic by pointing out why it is currently off-topic, and quite often some of us who have too much time on our hands ;-) do the editing ourselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions such as these, is it appropriate to edit it so much that the question is no longer relevant to the asker, but is nonetheless useful to the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T21:30:00.000" Title="Should we edit an off-topic question so much that it is no longer relevant to the asker?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3321" CreationDate="2015-09-15T21:30:00.000" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My belief is that it's okay to make a question more generic so that it may be more applicable to other people, however we should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; edit it so that it's no longer useful to the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how I would suggest handling it:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it is specific but on topic, answer it.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's off topic (and cannot be salvaged to make it on topic), close it.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it can be made more generic &lt;em&gt;but still retain the original author's intent&lt;/em&gt;, then I would say this is okay to edit it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel it undermines the integrity of the site to change the intent of the original poster.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T21:30:00.000" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3318" CreationDate="2015-09-16T02:41:55.570" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not so sure such questions are off-topic.  Some are (&quot;please proofread my resignation letter&quot;) and some aren't (&quot;what salutation do I use in a cover letter when the sex of the recipient is ambiguous&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, as you noted, we get three custom close reasons, so if we use one for this we need to bump another.  (What you linked to was a &lt;em&gt;proposed&lt;/em&gt; custom reason, not one that actually made it into use.)  Such discussions are best informed by data -- how many questions have we closed, or would we close, for this reason?  If you can add that analysis to your question it'll be a stronger proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If none of the available off-topic reasons are appropriate, the best thing to do is to choose &quot;other&quot; and write your own reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T02:41:55.570" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3316" CreationDate="2015-09-16T09:19:50.520" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is bit off-topic, however it does have it's merit in any relationship, with heavy emphasis on workplace ones. The author in under great stress from harassment (or just suspicion of it) and IMHO got 2 things mixed up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whenever the behavior of a superior is OK or not&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can the junior make a choice to avoid or terminate the relationship&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I interpret this question that OP got so preoccupied with question whenever situation described constitutes harassment or not, that she forgot that she can do something (change mentors in this case) just because &quot;I feel we don't get along well&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is very important IMHO to make juniors sure that &lt;strong&gt;they can do with their work life whatever they feel like and they don't need to make any excuses for that&lt;/strong&gt;. Acting on a hunch is perfectly fine. One does not have to accuse others of wrongdoing in order to change their lives to avoid those persons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO the root of this question is about very core of workplace relationships.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6120" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T09:19:50.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3325" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-16T11:35:05.520" Score="4" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/54491/is-there-a-diplomatic-way-to-explain-to-a-manager-that-theyre-pushing-without-a&quot;&gt;Is there a diplomatic way to explain to a manager that they&amp;#39;re pushing without any leverage?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I struggled with deciding if this is a serious question, or was just trolling. I don't like to feed the trolls, and I try to assume positive intent on most questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end I answered it, but I'm having a hard time believing the OP actually feels this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I alone in feeling conflicted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-03-30T12:53:25.537" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T12:53:25.537" Title="Is this a serious question, or trolling?" Tags="|discussion|trolling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3318" CreationDate="2015-09-16T15:07:20.203" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would the wording &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3294/2322&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; fix that?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that suggested wording is great and would address what you are asking for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is not practical for us to answer a question that depends so heavily on your own abilities, preferences or circumstances. Consider instead asking a factual question that will help you make your own choices, and that can be answered without detailed knowledge of your personal situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If questions are the &quot;close me&quot; type they definitely will fall under the scope of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T15:07:20.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3282" CreationDate="2015-09-20T07:11:13.617" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't been here very long, but I'm an old man who worked his way up through the ranks in 3 countries, before eventually owning my own business. As stated before common sense isn't as common as you would expect. And as with anything in life experience makes a big difference. So when someone has a problem with their manager, I can see their problem from many angles, theirs, the managers, the colleagues etc,. and hopefully give some helpful advice.... or a swift wakeup call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite possibly the OP already knows what answer they want, they just want someone else to say it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, quite a few things go through my mind, to me it's a logical progression to the best answer/option I can think of based on my own experience and my understanding of the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T07:11:13.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3330" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-26T18:45:02.480" Score="-1" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am suggesting that one of the moderators of this site (Jane, Enderland...) or another user with the necessary privilege merge these 2 tag under the existing &lt;strong&gt;Unprofessional Behavior&lt;/strong&gt; tag: Harassment and sexual harassment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just provided usage guidance for the unprofessional behavior tag as any behavior unbecoming or inappropriate in a professional work place, and cited examples including harassment, the nature of which is immaterial. Sexual harassment and general harassment are specific instances of the parent class &quot;unprofessional behavior&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:50:17.753" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:50:17.753" Title="Request to merge 3 tags: Unprofessional behavior , harassment, and sexual harassment" Tags="|discussion|retag-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3330" CreationDate="2015-09-27T03:31:54.423" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harassment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harassment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harassment&lt;/a&gt; currently has 13 questions, not all of which are about sexual harassment.  (Bullying and alcohol-related issues are also covered.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sexual-harassment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sexual-harassment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sexual-harassment&lt;/a&gt; currently has 11 questions.  Possibly it makes sense to move these into a general harassment tag, though we'd lose the tag wiki that covers sexual harassment specifically.  (The general tag has no wiki.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not understand why &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unprofessional-behavior&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unprofessional-behavior&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unprofessional-behavior&lt;/a&gt; exists, and had not previously noticed it.  The 58 questions with this tag cover a wide range of behaviors, many not involving harassment.  Many of them are &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/professionalism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;professionalism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;professionalism&lt;/a&gt;.  The unprofessional-behavior tag should be merged into professionalism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-09-27T03:31:54.423" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3330" CreationDate="2015-09-28T09:01:07.600" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think they should be merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unprofessional behavior&lt;/strong&gt; is everything which can be &lt;em&gt;unintentional&lt;/em&gt; for incompetence, bad manners, laziness, acting too emotional, bad circumstances whatever. You cannot say if the behavior is directed against you personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not calling back despite promising it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not cleaning up the workplace despite called on it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Coming too late&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Working not enough or trying to pester other members with own tasks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Screaming generally at employees as boss&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Professional behavior&lt;/strong&gt; in contrast tries often to handle an unpleasant situation for both parties where both parties are fully aware of the situation. They are not really opposites, so I would not try to merge them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harassment&lt;/strong&gt; in general means behavior which &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; directed against someone. It is not simply only awkward or repelling, but it actively violates your personal bounds. I am neutral if harassment should be merged with sexual harassment, I can see arguments for and against it. But harassment should IMO remain as a category because we have very likely a total different background situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34330" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T09:01:07.600" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3333" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3337" CreationDate="2015-09-28T09:18:49.507" Score="33" ViewCount="2643" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prompted by this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/55090/how-to-prevent-female-being-hired&quot;&gt;How to prevent female being hired&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Kilisi summarised most users' stance on the subject raised by the OP &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/55095/25739&quot;&gt;in his answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your undoubtably admirable and steadfast religious convictions are unfortunately totally at odds with Western mores and social systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The kind of gender discrimination suggested by the OP is illegal in most Western countries and generally villified in those cultures, as evidenced by the reactions this post elicited. After less than a hundred views the question has already been downvoted into oblivion and is on its fourth close vote. However, as much as I may dislike it, &lt;strong&gt;the opinion brought forth by the OP is still a majority opinion in certain parts of the world and the Workplace is still an international site&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;With that in mind, how should we deal with questions like these in the future?&lt;/strong&gt; These questions are liable to turn into a pile-on, as happened with a previous question on religious restrictions on male-female interactions: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/46611/how-to-politely-decline-a-handshake-due-to-religious-reasons?lq=1&quot;&gt;How to politely decline a handshake due to religious reasons?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cultural differences lie at the base of this particular question, but I'm not sure if this discussion should be restricted to just those instances so I've kept a generic title.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Updates&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this question was originally &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3333/how-should-we-handle-potentially-offensive-questions?noredirect=1#comment7691_3334&quot;&gt;deleted by a moderator after being closed (as &quot;real questions have answers&quot;) and downvoted&lt;/a&gt; to put a stop to the perceived &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3333/how-should-we-handle-potentially-offensive-questions?noredirect=1#comment7718_3340&quot;&gt;abuse of the OP in the question's comments&lt;/a&gt;. It has since &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/55090/how-to-prevent-female-being-hired#comment141564_55090&quot;&gt;been undeleted&lt;/a&gt; and the comment thread erased. After some edits the question was reopened. The OP later &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/55181/revisions&quot;&gt;added and accepted his own answer as a controversial update to a controversial question&lt;/a&gt;. That answer has since been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T12:02:21.130" Title="How should we handle potentially offensive questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3333" CreationDate="2015-09-28T11:31:12.723" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way to handle these is to simply downvote them, vote to close if you have the rep, and flag as offensive.  It will get cleaned up in the wash by the roomba.  The community actually tend to moderate these types of questions pretty well.  But the faster it gets closed, the sooner there won't be lots of enraged answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there is a distinct difference between this question and the handshake one.  The handshake question is asking &quot;How can I respectfully decline to shake the hand of a woman&quot;, as opposed to this which is, &quot;I want to stop getting a woman hired because [reasons].&quot;  One is legal, the other is in most countries illegal and (in my female viewpoint) shows callous disregard for anyone else but themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and we should all remember our &lt;em&gt;be nice&lt;/em&gt; policy.  It does no good to stoop to name calling or abusive behaviour.  If you comment, be professional and polite, regardless of how outraged the question makes you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T11:31:12.723" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3333" CreationDate="2015-09-28T13:00:12.297" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with how this question was handled, but it leaves me wondering about the &lt;strong&gt;down-votes&lt;/strong&gt; it received. My understanding is that the down-vote on this site should be used to indicate you feel the question or answer is poorly written or poorly crafted, but not to pass judgment on the ideas presented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question (now deleted, so we can't look at it more specifically) wasn't worded poorly or unclearly (in my opinion). Its idea was completely out of line, and I assume the 11 (and counting quickly) down-votes were a judgment on the idea itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should there have been a reminder about the purpose of down-votes in this case? Or was the question so offensive as to merit setting aside the intended protocols of the site in order to convey our strong disapproval to the OP?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33312" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T13:00:12.297" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3333" CreationDate="2015-09-28T13:49:26.553" Score="25" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How should we handle potentially offensive questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every question is &lt;em&gt;potentially&lt;/em&gt; offensive to someone. Everyone has a right to their opinion and beliefs, even if they aren't shared by many in the US. We need to decide if folks are free to express that right here or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion - If I had seen the question earlier, I would have let the voting and answers take care of the issue at hand and provided what I would hope to be a useful answer. If I were a moderator, I'd probably have to aggressively remove many of the comments (&lt;em&gt;let's be nice&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though the thought of hiring practices based on gender is indeed offensive to me, I wouldn't have flagged the question itself as offensive. some hiring practices are offensive to me, a question about them isn't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question were still open, I think it might have been a good educational opportunity for those working in the US with a different set of beliefs. I think we missed our chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T22:14:04.807" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T22:14:04.807" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3333" CreationDate="2015-09-28T16:32:59.120" Score="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a really unfortunate situation. Someone with a legitimate question (to them, at least) comes to The Workplace and is more or less chased off the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, I have somewhat just accepted that this site is not a place where anyone with a... differing opinion/cultural perspective/religion than what fits &quot;Western culture&quot; to be welcomed. Many questions here result in the OP effectively being trolled off the site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When encountered with a viewpoint like from the question you reference, which seems entirely wrong and incompatible with the culture it's asked about (seems to be USA), there are a few reactions people can have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seek to understand why they have their viewpoint.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Immediately assume motives, judge them, and react accordingly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of why the OP wanted to ask that question, it's clear that nearly everyone that interacted with that question was &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; interested in (2). However (2) almost universally results in content violating the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt; policy of Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People here seem to overwhelmingly vote based on &quot;I like the post&quot; and &quot;I dislike the post (or poster).&quot; There are &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; questions which are relatively good questions for the site, but written by people with an attitude, controversial belief, whatever. These questions frequently get downvoted because people find them objectionable. We clean up all sorts of comments on these questions that are completely unacceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site community as a whole seems ok upvoting answers saying, &quot;you are a [jerk, loser, tool, etc]&quot; that don't answer the actual question. These answers are normally the &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; popular ones of all on more controversial questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are free to vote as they wish. It's by design anonymous and that will not change (obviously).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wish more people were interested in teaching, coaching, mentoring, and guiding people rather than blatantly condemning. If people who have [wrong, bigoted, sexist, etc] viewpoints never have someone constructively explain how and why those viewpoints are problematic then how will they ever learn anything different? If all they ever receive is hostility and negativity... that is not the way you change someone's perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plenty of people grow up in cultures where expectations of behavior are different. Without someone providing constructive guidance, those will never change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt; section is still applicable -  even if you think someone is a [bigot, jerk, idiot, etc].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T16:32:59.120" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3338" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-28T16:48:49.030" Score="2" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question about which type of work experience is more valuable.  A lot of similar questions are asked on the Programmers stack exchange, but all of them are closed and the faq there directs you to post those questions here.  I posted the question here and it was closed almost immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is &quot;I'm considering job A doing A' type work and job B doing B' type work; which work experience is more valuable in terms of salary growth?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I can't ask that on the Programmers stack or here (where the programmers stack directed me); where should I ask it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would ask this on the meta, but since I'm new to the site, it won't let me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42446" OwnerDisplayName="Damien" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T17:37:13.040" Title="Where should I ask career transition questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3333" CreationDate="2015-09-29T03:07:20.050" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's mildly ironic that this all happened while I was away for a religious holiday (for which I have to spend PTO because only Christian and secular holidays are privileged where I live).  But I digress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am disappointed by how the community handled this question.  The OP wants to do something that is completely unreasonable in a western workplace (I'm assuming from the legislation he cited that he's in the US), but he came here with &lt;em&gt;a real workplace problem&lt;/em&gt; and people chased him off.  This was a lost opportunity to educate.  Presumably this sort of thing is done where he comes from (he mentioned a visa issue, so he's not native).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our community seems to be especially ready to go on the attack when somebody mentions religion.  &lt;em&gt;Please stop that.&lt;/em&gt;  Address the &lt;em&gt;issue&lt;/em&gt; and save your opinions about the reasonablness of religion for another venue.  In the case of this question the OP needs to be taught that no, he can't force his religious perspective on his coworkers and the adjustment will have to come from him.  In the case of the handshake question, the OP was careful to express that it was his problem and he asked how he could deal with it, not how to get others to change, and people &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; attacked him and ran him off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all are, or aspire to be, workplace professionals.  Let's try harder to do that even when it's hard, even when somebody has views we find repugnant.  If a question can be made to fit our site, even if it involves a controversial topic, we should help fix it.  The handshake question was fine; the present question could have been recast to ask how the OP can deal with the conflict between his religious needs and an impending coworker he can't abide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T03:07:20.050" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3338" CreationDate="2015-09-29T08:38:09.893" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Such questions are often problematic for several reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your experience can be valued very differently by different employers. One might pay you more for experience in A while the other values you more for experience B.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's often hard to compare. In many businesses the experience value of &quot;A type experience&quot; doesn't just depend on what job title you held and for how long, but also on what specializations you had, how successful you were and the reputation of who you worked for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The difference becomes even greater when looking at your personal qualifications. It might be better to take a less-paying job you are qualified for so you can impress your superiors with your success than a higher-paying job you are unqualified for and which will set you up for failure.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even when the previous points do not apply: The work market is constantly changing. A skill which is in high demand now might be in low demand in a few years. So any advise you get now might turn out to be bad advise in the future.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Work experience is often only a minor factor when it comes to salary expectations. There are a lot of other things which decide how much salary you are worth, like how you can sell yourself to potential employees.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's often a very localized question which only applies to one person. That makes it not very helpful for future visitors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9959" LastEditorUserId="9959" LastEditDate="2015-09-30T17:37:13.040" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T17:37:13.040" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3333" CreationDate="2015-09-30T16:25:59.863" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What particularly disappoints me is the fact that, after the question was anonymized, some folks made a point of reintroducing the OP's name in the comments. Vindictive and unnecessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have to admit I wasn't especially kind to the guy either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did upvote the responses saying &quot;This is something you, rather than she, need to deal with; talk to your manager about work-from-home alternatives, other offices, or other ways you can buffer yourself; you can change jobs but that will probably only be a temporary measure&quot;, which were the best advice available. It may have been worth closing the question early as unanswerable for reasons of illegality, until/unless it was rephrased as &quot;how can I make this work for me&quot; rather than &quot;how can I keep it from happening.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end he will either learn to adapt or lose his job and/or visa, so this is largely  self-correcting. We really should have tried harder to just leave it at that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastEditorUserId="12989" LastEditDate="2015-09-30T17:37:09.773" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T17:37:09.773" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3333" CreationDate="2015-10-02T08:13:06.933" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually questions are of the form: &quot;I have this undeserved problem in the workplace, or I have this fully deserved problem in the workplace, how can I fix it&quot;. Sometimes we get questions &quot;I want to shoot myself in the foot in the workplace, what's the best way to do this&quot;. And rarely the question is &quot;I want to shoot someone else in the foot in the workplace, how can I do this&quot;. This was (almost) one of those questions, except the question was &quot;how can I communicate what I want&quot;, not &quot;how can I get what I want&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions and answers are not read only by those who ask the question, they are read by anyone. So if the reading the question and answers are helpful to someone, I'm happy with that. Even if it isn't helpful to the original poster. If you read the thread you wouldn't have found an answer to the original question, but you would have learned that some things are illegal, you would have learned that doing things that &lt;em&gt;look&lt;/em&gt; illegal can get you into legal trouble, and you would have learned that having certain opinions will make you generally disliked. All good things to know, if you didn't know them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16101" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T08:13:06.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3344" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3345" CreationDate="2015-10-02T14:46:42.190" Score="9" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier this year &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3131/what-constitutes-spam&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was asked about whether a company account is considered spam if they aren't explicitly advertising in their posts. That question was status completed as it was about a specific answer and not a broader question. Joe Strazzere asked if companies are permitted to register and provide answers, but I didn't see any real discussion besides mention of &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/784672/doxygen&quot;&gt;the Doxygen account&lt;/a&gt; on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently came across the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/42510/careerasaurus-com&quot;&gt;user Careerasaurus.com&lt;/a&gt; whose profile is very clearly advertising their website. However, the answers they have given so far have been generally good, one accepted with +5, and none of them have linked or advertised their site. They aren't doing anything obviously bad, but I still feel that they are using The Workplace to promote their own site, which doesn't sit well with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is registration of a company account allowed? Does it fall under spam, even if they aren't doing anything overtly spammy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:37:04.473" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T15:00:05.770" Title="Are company accounts allowed?" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3344" CreationDate="2015-10-02T15:00:05.770" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reminds me of this - &lt;a href=&quot;https://xkcd.com/810/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://xkcd.com/810/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But more seriously, the main thing is that there is a clear company affiliation disclosed. Promoting a product without disclosing the affiliation is the main problem (assuming the answer is meaningful/good to begin with - low quality answers should be dealt with).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, a bad answer might be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;check out this website - it can help Careerasaurus.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or even a longer answer which basically is promoting that site without disclosing the relationship between the poster and the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the user is clearly affiliated with the site, I think it's actually a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; thing to have them named what they are - it makes that affiliation more clear, for every post they make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Realistically I think it probably would be great for Workplace if other career related sites had users contributing high quality content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T15:00:05.770" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3346" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-05T00:40:03.707" Score="4" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;In particular  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/55275/how-to-ask-for-a-job-referral-from-a-person-you-dont-know&quot;&gt;How to ask for a job referral from a person you don't know?&lt;/a&gt; where the top answer was changed after criticism and surprise that it was the accepted answer. (Albeit the question title was reworded as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The initial answer which was accepted was summarised in the line &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Don't waste your time, or theirs.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After being accepted the answer was revised. With the &quot;edited&quot; answer coming to a different conclusion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;If you're really asking about referral, go for it;&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(NOTE: title edit was from &quot;reference&quot; to &quot;referral&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the fact I agree with the new answer over the old answer, the answer has now completely changed from the initial accepted answer. I understand the merits of improving an answer even (or especially) after being accepted to benefit the community. However this answer has not been improved but actually the intent changed. This is misleading to future people with the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should we respond to the changing of the answer?&#xA;Or is the onus purely on the question asker to review the approved answer now it has been edited?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41910" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T09:06:06.940" Title="How to handle answers which have been changed AFTER being accepted as the correct answer?" Tags="|discussion|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3346" CreationDate="2015-10-05T09:06:06.940" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64692/notify-question-op-and-those-who-marked-it-a-favourite-if-an-answer-has-been-m&quot;&gt;requested feature on Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, notifying question owners that an answer has been edited is not automatic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, anyone with the 50 reputation commenting privilege can leave a comment on the question to notify the op that the answer has been changed. One suggested comment may be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hello, I wanted to notify you the top answer has been edited. Can you please review and see if you still think it is the accepted answer or if you would like to vote on it or otherwise change your vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases, an edit wouldn't be so drastic as to change the core message of an answer, so it may create a lot of noise to notify question owners automatically. Hence, we should use our judgement as to when would be an appropriate time to notify versus when we should pass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T09:06:06.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3333" CreationDate="2015-10-07T16:20:36.043" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lots of answers, so I might as well throw my hat in the ring. It's going to be short anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Offence is never given. Offence is always taken. As such, I find it hard to accept the concept of an &lt;em&gt;offensive question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a particular attitude is at odds with Western values, point it out as politely as if you were talking to the OP in person. I don't appreciate religious regulations of any kind, but that doesn't give me license to be rude to people who adhere to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastEditorUserId="761" LastEditDate="2015-10-08T02:39:29.810" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T02:39:29.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3350" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-08T01:38:41.870" Score="100" ViewCount="1621" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joe is one of our most consistent and prolific contributors here in the community.  He is always polite, thoughtful and helpful.  In my brief time here in this wonderful community, I can always be assured that if Joe has given an answer, then it is worth taking the time to read.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it was no surprise to me to see he has earned the recognition by the community for his efforts and has achieved the milestone of 100k reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/7777&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/7777.png&quot; alt=&quot;Joe Strazzere&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please join me in congratulating Joe for his impressive contribution to the community!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-03-23T14:38:47.590" Title="Congratulations to Joe Strazzere for 100k rep!" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3350" CreationDate="2015-10-08T01:47:09.573" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often find myself wanting to answer a question, only to see an answer from Joe that says what I wanted to say. So I just cast my upvote and wait for the next chance...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are also the only person with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/badges/43/legendary?userid=7777&quot;&gt;Legendary Badge&lt;/a&gt; - this means you have hit the 200 reputation cap 150 times (at least, that was awarded almost a year ago).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for helping make this place great!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T01:47:09.573" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3350" CreationDate="2015-10-08T02:42:03.103" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow! Nice work Joe!  I also and happy to see him here, and always find his answers really excellent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="761" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T02:42:03.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3350" CreationDate="2015-10-08T05:39:07.950" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations Joe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a newbie in this community, I can say that you are an inspiration for people contributing here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers are a proof that high-scoring and the best answers can indeed be the shortest ones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep going!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40657" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T05:39:07.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3350" CreationDate="2015-10-13T04:15:45.250" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joe's answers are always inspiring and sure reflects his ultimate professionalism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations for being the first to achieve 100k rep and thanks for your contributions! And may the rest of us follow your example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36643" LastEditorUserId="36643" LastEditDate="2015-10-14T22:09:21.857" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T22:09:21.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3355" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-13T17:50:21.453" Score="1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/55888/is-it-really-a-bad-idea-to-work-at-a-company-that-misses-the-mark-for-perfection&quot;&gt;Is it really a bad idea to work at a company that misses the mark for perfection once or twice?&lt;/a&gt; was recently posted, and is asking about whether it's good to completely dismiss a company based on one or two bad practices. I really think this is a great question and could lead to some good discussion, but I'm not sure it fits our Q&amp;amp;A format. It seems like it could be closed as too broad or opinion-based (though there are not yet any close-votes at this time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would really like to see this question stay open. Are there ways we can improve it to make it more on-topic, or do you think it's okay as is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-10-16T13:10:43.973" Title="Is it really a bad idea to work at a company that misses the mark for perfection once or twice - on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3355" CreationDate="2015-10-13T21:08:31.750" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually think this is a good question. It's a bit long, but the context is clear and it's a good subjective question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your problem is slightly less clear but I still think it's a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; question about navigating interviews. It will also be a useful reference as this sort of thing comes up somewhat often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T21:08:31.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3350" CreationDate="2015-10-13T21:38:03.493" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congrats Joe. That is some accomplishment. I have been on Stack overflow for 7 years and am nowhere near that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T21:38:03.493" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3358" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-14T14:33:40.123" Score="12" ViewCount="543" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/55945/2322&quot;&gt;When should I disclose an ongoing relationship with someone who is in a legal battle with my employer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just put this question on hold, after it had received several close votes (in addition to several people suggesting it is off topic but not voting..). I believe this is off topic for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, it is &quot;tell me what to do&quot; and it's impossible to really evaluate or understand all the factors in that person's situation to answer well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, the core of the question is (as I said in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/55945/should-i-disclose-an-ongoing-relationship-with-a-former-colleague-who-is-disputi#comment144177_55945&quot;&gt;my comment there&lt;/a&gt; comment), &quot;in order to best protect my job, when my girlfriend is in a lawsuit against my employer, should I talk with my boss and disclose the relationship?&quot; This is a question that  requires a lawyer familiar with the asker's situation to answer. Information in a comment suggests they are living in a foreign country as an expat and cannot easily just quit their job, too, which makes it even more complicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it's somewhat popular and had 5 answers and so I want to open a meta discussion to discuss it in more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T13:23:01.260" Title="Is this question on topic? -- &quot;Should I disclose an ongoing relationship with a former colleague who is disputing her termination?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|legal-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3350" CreationDate="2015-10-15T05:14:13.323" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well done Joe, I've browsed a lot of the older (before I arrived) questions, and I think your answers are well thought out and helpful ones. You definitely earned your laurels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T05:14:13.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3360" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3361" CreationDate="2015-10-15T14:50:53.647" Score="2" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to remember commenting on a question a day or two ago, but didn't see that comment when I visited it again today. I remember atleast one other time this happened in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given what I remember of what I said, it may be that it was too chatty or joking, or maybe offensive or sarcastic, I'm not sure - is there a way I can see any comments of mine that have been removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be sure I've not broken any particular rules, and be sure that what I &lt;em&gt;am&lt;/em&gt; writing in comments in the future doesn't go against what is acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please note I'm not asking for a reason, I'm sure the mods have enough to do without giving reasons for individual comment removal each time.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18793" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T14:59:54.473" Title="I think some of my comments were removed - can I find out?" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3360" CreationDate="2015-10-15T14:59:54.473" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your comments are ok. For reference, between the two posts you had commented on, there are 27 deleted comments and about 5-10 more still there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one case, a bunch of them were &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/30252/discussion-on-question-by-byod-anon-should-i-be-concerned-about-the-byod-policy&quot;&gt;move to chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As moderators, we delete a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of comments fitting the &amp;quot;when shouldn't I comment?&amp;quot; section below. Anything that hits the &amp;quot;Hot Network Questions&amp;quot; list pretty much gets 50+ deleted comments (many of which ARE in fact offensive/rude/completely inappropriate), nearly all of which are not fulfilling the intended use of comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related references on this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/19757/193412&quot;&gt;How do comments work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments exist so that users can talk about questions and answers without posting new answers that do not actually answer their parent questions. Comments are often used to ask for clarification on, suggest corrections to and provide meta-information about posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are intentionally short, having maximum length of 600 characters, and allow only limited markup. URLs in comments automatically become hyperlinks. Each user may post only one comment every 15 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are disposable: unlike posts, there's no revision history, and they can be deleted without warning by their authors, by moderators, and in response to flags.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, from the Help Center &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;about comments&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When should I comment&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should submit a comment if you want to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Request clarification from the author;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave constructive criticism that guides the author in improving the post;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add relevant but minor or transient information to a post (e.g. a link to a related question, or an alert to the author that the question has been updated).&#xA;When shouldn't I comment?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are not recommended for any of the following&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suggesting corrections that don't fundamentally change the meaning of the post; instead, make or suggest an edit;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answering a question or providing an alternate solution to an existing answer; instead, post an actual answer (or edit to expand an existing one);&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Compliments which do not add new information (&amp;quot;+1, great answer!&amp;quot;); instead, up-vote it and pay it forward;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Criticisms which do not add anything constructive (&amp;quot;-1, see previous comments you scallywag!&amp;quot;); instead, down-vote (and provide or up-vote a better answer if appropriate);&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Secondary discussion or debating a controversial point; please use chat instead;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Discussion of community behavior or site policies; please use meta instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T14:59:54.473" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3358" CreationDate="2015-10-15T15:34:05.460" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is an on-topic &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/professionalism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;professionalism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;professionalism&lt;/a&gt; question in here.  The problem is that it's intertwined with legal issues and seems to stray too far in the wrong direction on the personal-advice front.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question quality -- well-written and not ranty like many &quot;what should I do?&quot; questions are -- makes me want to work harder to bring the question into line with our scope so it can be reopened.  I haven't quite figured out what edit would do that, but if others have ideas, I hope you'll make (or propose) edits.  Conflict of interest (and the appearance of same) is a tricky problem in many workplaces; &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; is solidly within our scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T15:34:05.460" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3358" CreationDate="2015-10-15T16:04:19.633" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close because it is a fairly classic &quot;what should I do?&quot; question. What &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; would do is dump my crazy girlfriend. Others have different approaches to the problem, and the &quot;right&quot; answer, even for experts, will vary significantly on the particulars of the person asking the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2196" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T16:04:19.633" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3358" CreationDate="2015-10-16T15:30:48.037" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is: Does OP disclose his relation to the plaintiff to his employer (the defendant)? Only someone familiar with employment and contract law in northern Europe can provide a helpful answer about whether there can/will be repercussions of such a relationship and disclosure. But that answer would be off-topic as legal advice. Everyone else will just have to guess, which leads to unhelpful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see a way to remove the legal aspect of the question since it bears so heavily on the answers that will be considered helpful. As such, I don't think the question should be reopened. The only safe answer is to consult an attorney in OP's locality for advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33312" LastActivityDate="2015-10-16T15:30:48.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3350" CreationDate="2015-10-19T15:22:23.650" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always enjoy Joe's answers. Concise, helpful, informative and I always give myself a pat on the back if I have a &quot;I was going to say that&quot; moment! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is one of the very best of an exceptionally good community here on The Workplace where the lack of trolls and absence people just wanting to pick fights must be mentioned to. It is a place that fulfills it's brief of being a place people share problems and receive advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please carry on Joe. You would leave a hole bigger than you could imagine if you stopped contributing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And everyone else. Please keep on being a great community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13234" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T15:22:23.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3366" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-21T18:11:08.767" Score="-18" ViewCount="503" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm ranking 8th place for the year on another StackExchange forum and I like to help people.  I don't consider myself a troll.  But it looks like &quot;THE WORKPLACE&quot; here is inhabited by people who are basically bullies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I gave heart-felt advice to someone originally and then all of the sudden everybody refuses to see the wisdom behind such a simple idea as: &quot;there becomes a point when you're so fed up with corporate dysfunction that you decide to start your own company&quot;.  They down-vote because they're so locked into the system that they can't break out of the sheep mentality.  That said, we're down to censorship when someone anonymously can step in and edit a clarification like this.  StackExchange lacks oversight in the area of moderation abuse, so much so that it's no longer a useful site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I'm probably the only person who systematically answers questions on the [MaaS] and [Juju] forum areas of Ask Ubuntu here.  If I step back from the entire problem of bullies on THE WORKPLACE then I have to ask myself why I would associate with StackExchange in the first place, giving away free support when nobody is compensating me for it.  I'm done trying to help on StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/36004&quot;&gt;Example of censorship&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42690" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-11-01T12:26:15.517" Title="Bad behavior on StackExchange - the Workplace" Tags="|discussion|support|moderation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3366" CreationDate="2015-10-21T18:44:52.147" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, Stack Exchange is &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; a forum. It's a question/answer site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not a &quot;here's my thoughts!!!&quot; site. Not a &quot;try X, might work!&quot; site. A question/answer site. Questions receive answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I gave heart-felt advice to someone originally and then all of the sudden everybody refuses to see the wisdom behind such a simple idea as: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace has different standards for answer quality than you may be used to in other online forums. An &quot;answer&quot; that does not address the core questions of the question is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a good answer here and will be likely downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1692/2322&quot;&gt;is Just Quit an acceptable answer?&lt;/a&gt; question has been discussed here before. Note that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1697/2322&quot;&gt;jmorts answer&lt;/a&gt; has +25/-0 at this current time and could be considered good guidance on this subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As written, your answer misses all three of the bullet points. It doesn't give any explanation as to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; that's the only way to address the question the OP has, it doesn't give any indication (even pre-edit) as to why your experience is a solution to the OP's problem, and it more or less a oneliner saying &quot;just quit and start your own business and people will follow you!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that, your edit does come across as &quot;it worked for me it'll work for you! downvoters are haters, lol n00bs&quot; (similar to your meta post here). It's not surprising that it was community approved for this section to be removed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it's not censorship to remove blatantly self-congratulatory and confrontational/accusational text from an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T18:44:52.147" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3366" CreationDate="2015-10-21T21:04:15.413" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually the &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; generally moderates the value of questions and answers, by upvoting or downvoting.  Of course you know this, given you're #8 on another StackExchange community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just reading your complaint here comes across as &quot;I'm right, and the community who downvoted me or at the very least didn't &lt;em&gt;upvote&lt;/em&gt; me is wrong!  See?  Right I tell you!  You just don't understand why I'm right!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well.  If you feel you are right and people obviously aren't getting it and you are being downvoted by the community, then you need to explain it better.  Justify your reason for giving the answer, either anecdotely or sourcing credible evidence.  Failing to do that will almost certainly get your answer downvoted or flagged as either not an answer or very low quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace isn't like many of the other technical communities here.  The answer is often not a &quot;insert algorithm here&quot; that helps the person.  So given that it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; more subjective, you need to qualify the reasons why your answer is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastEditorUserId="33698" LastEditDate="2015-10-21T21:25:20.213" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T21:25:20.213" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3369" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3370" CreationDate="2015-10-24T16:30:18.870" Score="4" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am being careful here not to accuse anyone of anything in advance, maybe I am overlooking something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I offered an answer to the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/56478/avoiding-a-colleague-from-my-past/&quot;&gt;Avoiding a colleague from my past&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few minutes ago, I was informed that my answer has been edited. I was curious what exactly needed to be edited so I checked the edit info page. It claims that the editor &quot;added 697 characters in body&quot;, and when I choose &quot;side-by-side mark-down&quot; it looks like that: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CoMMJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CoMMJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Side-By-Side Mark-Down&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did a diff check on my old version and the edited version and there just don't seem to be any changes, not even punctuation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened here, what am I missing? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43044" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2015-10-24T17:00:43.110" Title="My post was edited but there are no changes" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3369" CreationDate="2015-10-24T17:00:43.110" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that the editing user also edited the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/56478/revisions&quot;&gt;main question with a quote from a now deleted response&lt;/a&gt; by the original poster, I'd guess that the edit was a case of mistaken identity. They had wanted to copy the text from the answer (now deleted) to edit in, did so, but accidentally first edited your post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that process there was an extra line break added at the end too (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/56479/edit/af23ed87-1c2f-4414-8f4c-9f8ce8035f48&quot;&gt;original&lt;/a&gt; vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/56479/edit/f423382f-876d-4908-a77f-0de4e1d45b79&quot;&gt;revision&lt;/a&gt; ) that apparently super confused Stack Exchange into thinking the entire block was added. Or perhaps the first revision edited that paragraph out initially and then added back after they realized what they had accidentally done (and SE combined the edits).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2015-10-24T17:00:43.110" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-25T14:01:20.113" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked 2 questions which in hindsight probbaly should be community wikis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when I select edit, I dont get the option to convert to community wiki. Any idea why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/26007/dealing-with-women-or-opposite-gender-when-they-quote-medical-issues&quot;&gt;Dealing with women (or opposite gender?) when they quote &amp;quot;Medical issues&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/24407/how-do-you-avoid-interviewing-for-the-company-you-work-for&quot;&gt;How do you avoid interviewing for the company you work for?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should they be CW? if so, how do I go and make the change? (I seem to remember being able to do it a while ago on another SE site, but I might be wrong) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12685" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-10-25T19:33:16.437" Title="How do I convert a question to a community wiki?" Tags="|support|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3371" CreationDate="2015-10-25T19:33:16.437" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this is the reason you can't, but note that both of those questions have answers.  Community Wiki on a question affects all answers too (from that point forward), so it makes sense to me that the asker of a question shouldn't be able to force that change on answerers unilaterally.  Making this change shifts the functional &quot;ownership&quot; of a post away from its author and also denies further reputation changes, which really only makes sense if a bunch of people are going to be sharing in the writing/editing of a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community wiki is best used from the start, to allow the community to assemble a single canonical answer to a question.  Its benefit is less clear to me when a question already has a bunch of answers.  Community wiki is pretty rare, and Stack Exchange has been discouraging it for the last few years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, moderators can convert a question (and thus its answers) to community wiki.  We would want to see clear consensus from the community on any specific proposal first.  For these two, I suggest you add one answer for each explaining why that question should be CW, so the community can vote on your proposal.  For future cases, just ask a new question, like people do when proposing that something be closed or reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-10-25T19:33:16.437" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3358" CreationDate="2015-10-26T00:49:04.443" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any reason to close the &quot;what should I do&quot; questions as off-topic. Why? People asking the question knows very well, that you can't see all of their current situation. Only a... short-sighting people would ask here for oracles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP asking &quot;what to do&quot; doesn't ask for literal &lt;em&gt;commands&lt;/em&gt;, he/she asks for your &lt;em&gt;viewpoints&lt;/em&gt;. He wants to see, how do &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; see his situation. You don't need to close his question, only answer him, what do &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; think and &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will be his(her) responsibility to decide, what he does with the answer. If (s)he doesn't calculates into his deeds that you surely see only a small part of the described case, it is his(her) own responsibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there is another important argument: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking about complex workplace situations isn't like asking &lt;em&gt;&quot;why this software code snippet doesn't do what it should&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. There are no exact answers here - if you prescribe every question doesn't have an exact answer, you essentially filter out &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; question from this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is the voting system and the pipe icon for. The OP asks the question, everybody answer his version, and then the votes and the pipes will show the results. This system is very compatible even with not exact questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32611" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T00:49:04.443" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3366" CreationDate="2015-11-01T12:20:08.633" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had one of my questions edited so drastically with no reason given (not in Workplace) that the whole question became meaningless in as far as being useful to me. But like anything else in life it's more productive to be philosophical about these things if you can't do anything about them. Getting confrontational and antagonising a whole bunch of people (hence the -9 downvotes on your question, not mine by the way) achieves nothing positive, except perhaps making you feel better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it does make you feel a bit better, then great (Y) If not then at least we all wasted a few seconds of our life that we'll never get back taking you seriously. Personally (pre-edit) I don't think your answer was very good, although it had potential, but I wouldn't have downvoted or closed it. But I'm not trigger happy on the downvotes in any case. However I can see why others did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if you're ranked #8 on another part of Stack Exchange then that's an absolutely awesome effort, so I wish you all the best in your future endeavours and would like to thank you for the efforts you have made thus far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2015-11-01T12:26:15.517" LastActivityDate="2015-11-01T12:26:15.517" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3375" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-01T22:48:46.093" Score="10" ViewCount="318" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed lately that there have been a number of answers from mid to high level rep users that have, while answering the question with common sense, been just more or less one liners.  I don't want to link to examples in case the answerers think I am targetting them, which I am not.  This is a more general concern about maintaining site quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we have our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5/does-this-site-need-a-back-it-up-rule?s=2|1.5489&quot;&gt;Back it Up&lt;/a&gt; &quot;guideline&quot; which has been discussed a number of times on meta.  There &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; as far as I can see anything that specifically mentions this as policy in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;How to Answer FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we need to more proactively police brief answers, and look at them within the context of the quality of the asked question.  A poor question doesn't mean it should have a poor answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, does the community feel that these short one-liner answers are sufficient?  Or is the question not worthy of a more detailed response and instead should be closed?  Should these answers be flagged as &quot;Not an answer&quot;?  Or is it fine as it is?  I'm not asking if we think this should be included into the FAQ, rather if we feel that one-liner responses that do answer the question are appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T03:54:45.937" Title="Should our &quot;Back it up&quot; guideline be adhered to more strictly?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3376" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-02T03:46:26.850" Score="31" ViewCount="862" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/56847/325&quot;&gt;This question about wearing a religious necklace in the workplace&lt;/a&gt; is getting close votes as off-topic -- legal/company policy.  I don't get it.  We have bunches of dress-code questions (and a tag for them).  We have questions about guys with long hair, guys with earrings, and dressing more (or less) formally than one's colleagues.  These questions don't ask about company policies (which we can't answer) or the law; they ask about &lt;em&gt;workplace norms and conventions&lt;/em&gt;.  That's on-topic, demonstrably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The present question, too, asks about the appropriateness of wearing a certain item.  The OP isn't asking for a ruling but about how to navigate international clients (i.e. people who might not share the OP's cultural norms) and unfamiliar colleagues (interviews).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is that off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2023-05-03T21:15:11.050" Title="Why isn't the &quot;star of David&quot; question on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|specific-question|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3376" CreationDate="2015-11-02T09:02:21.120" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is too broad and the OP is requesting an answer to a company-specific question that we can't answer while the broader question has no useful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bottom line, could wearing the star be offensive to others or slow my growth internally?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/56847/could-wearing-my-star-of-david-be-bad-for-career#comment147155_56847&quot;&gt;Joe comments&lt;/a&gt;, it's possible that wearing a religious symbol is a career-limiting move in certain companies and in certain roles. But we can't possibly begin to list those situations and it's difficult, if not impossible, to identify a pattern that might help in determining when religious symbols would be detrimental. &lt;strong&gt;There are simply too many variables at play.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/56847/could-wearing-my-star-of-david-be-bad-for-career#comment147096_56847&quot;&gt;I commented&lt;/a&gt;, in the Western world the answer to whether religious symbols will hurt your career is almost certainly going to be &quot;it shouldn't but it could&quot;. Identifying yourself as religious is not going to have any positive effect and in the wrong situation it might have detrimental effects. However, &lt;strong&gt;all of that means that there is no useful answer to this question. It's up to each individual to determine if his environment will react poorly to a religious item.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ended up voting to close as company-specific because of the specific wording the OP used: &quot;will this slow my growth in company X?&quot; which we can't answer as it's company-specific. &lt;strong&gt;The broader question &quot;Will a religious symbol have negative effects for me in the workplace?&quot; is &lt;em&gt;too broad&lt;/em&gt; and equally unanswerable.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The fact that the OP limited the question to a Star of David rather than a generic religious symbol is also unfortunate, but not the real issue.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2015-11-02T09:02:21.120" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3378" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3379" CreationDate="2015-11-02T09:31:38.313" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just created an account here because I wanted to write an answer. Since I'm an experienced long-time user of the stack exchange network, I got the +100 rep association bonus (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/43555/simbabque?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;see profile&lt;/a&gt;). However, that still prevents me from answering &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/56912/43555&quot;&gt;How to deal with an untrainable junior dev?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could argue that I don't have the minimum 10 rep on &lt;em&gt;this site&lt;/em&gt; specifically, because I have not contributed anything that yields rep here. But the association bonus is supposed to go past basic restrictions. Here's what &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;the reputation help page&lt;/a&gt; says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you are an experienced Stack Exchange network user with 200 or more reputation on at least one site, you will receive a starting +100 reputation bonus to get you past basic new user restrictions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have tried reloading the question, moving around the site and voting a bit, and going back to the question. I have not logged out and in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I come here often through the hot network questions, and those sometimes get protected, which is useful. But for experienced users that decide to actively participate on one of the newer SE sites being unable to answer those kind of beats the purpose of attracting new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably in order to answer that specific question I just need to go write an answer that gets an upvote, or do a few edits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still this smells like a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43555" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2015-11-02T15:18:03.707" Title="Why can I not answer a protected question when signing up with association bonus?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|answers|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3378" CreationDate="2015-11-02T10:01:48.330" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a core feature of the StackExchange network and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/116667/260382&quot;&gt;this behaviour is intentional&lt;/a&gt;. In short, it's to eliminate &amp;quot;drive-by users&amp;quot; who might answer questions that have been protected for a good reason. These users will have an association bonus but no actual experience with the site where they're trying to bypass a question's protection. The assumption is that questions aren't protected without reason and only users with some experience on a particular site should be allowed to answer such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A detailed description can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/129223/260382&quot;&gt;in this answer by Shog9&lt;/a&gt;. To quote two key points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it has the unfortunate side-effect of blocking answers on those rare occasions where someone with plenty of experience on one site jumps onto another one with a great answer to an already-popular question - but this is always the down-side of Protect; I got an email just yesterday from someone new to our network who wanted to post an answer to a Protected question, with every indication that he was an experienced expert in the subject matter and did not plan on posting a non-answer. Blocking him served no more of a purpose than blocking you would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise... Post an answer somewhere else, and one up-vote will&#xA;remove the restriction. Frankly, if you can't do that, it's hard to&#xA;make the argument that you should be posting on a Protected question&#xA;anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2015-11-02T10:01:48.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3376" CreationDate="2015-11-02T13:12:07.233" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some thoughts in an unorganized and likely mess in the short time I have now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Could Wearing My Star of David Be Bad for Career?&quot;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;yes/no questions aren't generally good SE fits&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Bottom line, could wearing the star be offensive to others or slow my growth internally?&quot; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;again, another yes/no question. But this is even worse since it's entirely speculation and entirely dependent on the people you are around. It's not at all answerable without a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; more context for the OP than is currently present.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither of these questions are really answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answer actually was an answer to a different question, that of &quot;how can I mitigate any potential negative impression that wearing obviously Jewish attire causes?&quot; which is far more on topic. But that's not what the question is asking nor is it what the other answers are really addressing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point that makes it a mess to try to leave open, it should have been edited into the &quot;how to mitigate?&quot; question probably earlier before picking up now a total of 8 answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-11-02T13:12:07.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3381" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-04T01:40:33.453" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each day there always seems to be two or three questions where the poster should be talking to a lawyer, not an online community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is always going to be a problem in this kind of format but to help prevent this could we put something in the question box along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The workplace is a community for career and workplace related questions. Legal questions are unable to be answered here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would envision this feature working something like the below so as to be noticeable by the user:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cdoR9.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cdoR9.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2251" LastActivityDate="2015-11-04T01:40:33.453" Title="Could we add a legal clause in the description box?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3375" CreationDate="2015-11-04T17:38:47.107" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as we're clear that &quot;Back It Up&quot; doesn't mean &quot;quote studies and books&quot; I see no problem with enforcing the policy we have. The first level of enforcement would just be to comment saying &quot;this would be a better answer if you explained why it works&quot; - which is the exact comment I use for code-only answers on StackOverflow. This is likely to prompt the result you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a day or so goes by and the answer is unchanged, another comment (perhaps from a mod this time) that explicitly links to a place in the help centre that properly defines BIU might be called for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think mods should delete answers for not being backed up. But it would be nice if the community downvoted answers for being long on what to do and short on why to do it. We've certainly shown we can do that for &quot;just quit&quot; answers and I'm confident we can do it for a larger pool of answers too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102" LastActivityDate="2015-11-04T17:38:47.107" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3383" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-04T22:58:22.573" Score="2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to delete comments after a few days, so that I don't contribute to our &#xA;&quot;Comments Problem&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I can't delete any comment when the associated question is On Hold or locked. Thus, I end up with a batch of un-deletable comments like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/56847/could-wearing-my-star-of-david-be-bad-for-career#comment147155_56847&quot;&gt;Could Wearing My Star of David Be Bad for Career?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering why the delete feature works this way? A bug? A feature? Can it be changed? Seems odd to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2015-11-05T02:56:40.970" Title="Why can't I delete a comment on a Question which is on hold?" Tags="|support|specific-question|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3383" CreationDate="2015-11-04T23:15:02.663" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions which are migrated &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt; here but get closed end up locked (feature? bug?). It is considered a rejected migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of our locked questions are locked as a result of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Locked questions prevent everything. Edits, comments, deleting, flagging, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an FYI, too, regarding locked questions, they are hard to really do anything with because of this. If there are questions you feel could be edited into on-topic feel free to post them either on meta or in chat. As moderators we can unlock them (even rejected migrations).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-11-04T23:15:02.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3375" CreationDate="2015-11-05T13:24:48.623" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers should explain why they are correct. &amp;quot;Back it up&amp;quot; is a vague concept, but in my mind it means an answer has to have an explanation of why it's correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You cannot &amp;quot;copy/paste&amp;quot; the answer here, hit compile, and see what happens, and if it doesn't work try something else. Nearly every question asked here has answers which you get to try - once. Many of the questions have significant impact on the life of the person asking.  And the reality is that nearly every question here has details we do not know from the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this reason, I think it is critical that answers have an explanation for &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they are correct. Without this explanation the asker cannot take answers, understand the motivations/reasoning, and then apply it to their situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, we can say &amp;quot;reader beware&amp;quot; and not care as a site about whether or not people get meaningful answers to questions here. But I don't feel this is a good idea at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People come here for solutions to their problems. The problem with answers not explaining why they are correct is they only give an answer, not a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the primary audience of Stack Exchange really isn't the asker of the question. It's providing an online resource that is superior to forums, discussion boards, and other online resources. If The Workplace just becomes a discussion board where everyone places their opinions, it will become noise and much less useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; wish everyone would take this more seriously. It doesn't mean having long answers (though &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/511/2322&quot;&gt;longer answers can have more context than shorter ones&lt;/a&gt;) is a requirement. If you've been around here much, you'll know that I am very selective about the types of questions I answer and generally write &amp;quot;long&amp;quot; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/57208/2322&quot;&gt;good example&lt;/a&gt; I just saw on a recent question :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can get anyone to write you a recommendation letter, but I can't see an employer taking one from another student seriously. &lt;strong&gt;It is irrelevant to their needs and a student would not be thought a reliable, informed, and mature reference&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The very fact that you thought it appropriate would work against you with all interviewers I am familiar with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bolded is the &amp;quot;why&amp;quot; for the first part. It could probably benefit from a longer &amp;quot;why won't they take that reference seriously?&amp;quot; explanation but still gives &amp;quot;why.&amp;quot; The second paragraph is a personal anecdote, but that personal anecdote is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the primary justification for &amp;quot;why is this answer correct?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I won't call out an answer that fails this, but there definitely are many here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2015-11-05T13:24:48.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3375" CreationDate="2015-11-09T03:54:45.937" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have tried to type a long answer in the past only to have 2 or 3 people post the same answer right in the middle of typing it. So having to go research works/books, citing, or maybe even web addresses (something many times the OP should have done to begin with) then pasting those links, is too much effort for the casual answerer. I'm not that interested in badges, so to speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do believe though, answers must be useful. I don't like to see people answer with &quot;go read the manual on page 50 of http blah blah for your answer&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36560" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T03:54:45.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3391" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3392" CreationDate="2015-11-09T20:23:16.230" Score="9" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do/should we have a standard way of responding to major life issues surrounding health, specifically stress and depression?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking specifically of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/57420/stress-and-depression-in-the-workplace&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/57420/stress-and-depression-in-the-workplace&lt;/a&gt; -- this question is rightly closed and labeled as too broad, but the response does little for the OP, who may be struggling to even ask a clear question at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize this is not a self-help forum, but is there a canonical response here or elsewhere that might point a person in the right direction (which is likely not here)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to see this from a depressed person's point-of-view, where that person's concern is immediately put on hold, and could serve to reinforce a negative state of mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4781" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T23:49:29.917" Title="Response to questions regarding major health/life issues?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3391" CreationDate="2015-11-09T21:45:57.110" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Small aside: the &quot;question&quot; is on hold due to not actually being a question - nothing's actually being asked, it's just a statement of facts - rather than being too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think the correct response is pretty much what you and Hazel posted in comments: get some professional help, whether that be from company resources, a medical professional or somewhere else. As you say, these are major life issues and not something that the SE community is going to be able to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14388" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T21:45:57.110" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3391" CreationDate="2015-11-09T23:49:29.917" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do/should we have a standard way of responding to major life issues surrounding health, specifically stress and depression?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe we do. If such a question doesn't meet the criteria for the standard off-topic close vote reasons (company-specific / legal, rant / not a question, advice), flag or vote with a custom reason instead. You'll be forced to argue your close vote where you can just explain what you mentioned in the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider a variation on this template:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to the site [Username]. Unfortunately this site only aims to address issues specific to navigating a workplace environment. While [medical problem] can obviously have a significant impact on your work, this site's users don't have the experience or training to help you handle this [situation/problem/scenario]. [Such questions are / this is] best left to medical professionals. Consider asking your treating physician for advice or resources that will help you at work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drop the first sentence if the user has posted before. Drop the last sentence if you get the feeling that the OP isn't receiving treatment for whatever problem he might face. In that case, use your best judgement for whether you should recommend that the OP seek treatment. In most cases it's not our place to do so and such advice can backfire so use it with caution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T23:49:29.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3394" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3395" CreationDate="2015-11-11T00:50:21.850" Score="1" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I proposed an edit to a title on a question which upon further review I then decided would not improve anything and decided I should withdraw my proposed edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to do this... is it possible? I considered editing the body to allow me to change the title back (as it would be a new edit) but thought that would look like I was gaming the system for reputation. What's  the correct approach?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2251" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T01:11:06.530" Title="How can I withdraw an edit I proposed?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3394" CreationDate="2015-11-11T01:11:06.530" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no way within the SE software for you to withdraw an edit.  In addition, further edits are blocked while one is pending.  The best bet is to ask somebody with edit-review privileges or a moderator to reject your edit.  The request should be accompanied by a link.  (You can usually find people in chat who can do this, or for this specific case, add a link to your question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T01:11:06.530" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3376" CreationDate="2015-11-11T05:20:47.763" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that almost any question about human behavior starting with &amp;quot;could&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;might&amp;quot; can only be answered &amp;quot;Yes&amp;quot;, which makes it a bad fit for SE (typo fixed). Even &amp;quot;is it likely&amp;quot; is a problem because it is so specific to contexts and individuals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;How can I minimize the risk&amp;quot; would be more answerable, though in this case that too winds up reducing to a trivial answer -- don't provoke the wildlife more than you must, and if you feel you must then you've already decided that you're accepting the risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, I don't see a way we can really help this person other than to tell them what they already know: that humans are irrational at times and a personal decision must be made about how important displaying this affiliation is to them. Same answer applies to other religious symbols, fraternity keys, or realistically just about anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pick your positions, pick your battles, see what happens, adjust if you should (another judgement call)... in other words, this is unavoidably too personal to be a good SE question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastEditorUserId="12989" LastEditDate="2023-05-03T21:15:11.050" LastActivityDate="2023-05-03T21:15:11.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3397" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-12T23:54:29.503" Score="3" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I find a that takes a while to understand or has a poor title I'll edit it after I post my answer. I find myself doing this quite a lot so out of interest I started tracking the illuminator badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I've noticed is that if I've edited and answered a post and then somebody re-edits the answer that my original edit will no longer count towards illuminator. &lt;strong&gt;It seems the only way to get the badge is if you have the last accepted edit on a question, as well as an answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this by design?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2251" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2015-11-13T02:51:28.920" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T03:25:36.103" Title="Is the illuminator badge bugged, or is this by design?" Tags="|support|bug|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3398" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-13T00:59:20.597" Score="2" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier today we were having a conversation in the Watercooler around creating a &quot;How and when do I follow up?&quot; question to address the points that often come up in these scenarios (&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/25351757#25351757&quot;&gt;link to conversation&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm very happy to do the work to create this but I was wondering what the general process would be (new guy on the block)? Do I just create a wiki like entry in a question? If this were to be done what would everyone expect to be included?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are a few examples where I feel this would be used:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/57496/sent-my-resume-to-a-recruiter-but-not-heard-back-should-i-follow-up/57504#57504&quot;&gt;Sent my resume to a recruiter but not heard back. Should I follow&#xA;up?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/6018/how-do-i-properly-follow-up-with-a-hiring-manager-to-check-on-the-status-of-a-p?lq=1&quot;&gt;How do I properly follow-up with a hiring manager, to check&#xA;on the status of a position?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10829/what-should-i-do-when-ive-been-verbally-told-i-would-get-an-offer-letter-but-s&quot;&gt;What should I do when I've been&#xA;verbally told I would get an offer letter, but still haven't gotten&#xA;one after 4 weeks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2251" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T20:17:10.263" Title="Do we want a canonical &quot;How and when do I follow up&quot; question?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3397" CreationDate="2015-11-13T01:04:13.543" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without having inside knowledge of the mechanics behind it, this behaviour seems reasonable.  The system isn't smart enough to know if someone else has edited your question to correct grammar or to fix an inconsistency.  So if your question has been edited by someone else, then there was &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; who felt that your answer needed modifying and the system has take worst case scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the quality of most of your answers, I would suggest that this badge will fall soon enough for you.  Patience! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T01:04:13.543" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3398" CreationDate="2015-11-13T03:02:16.120" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A one-size-fits-all answer to this question would be boring and bland. Future visitors wouldn't appreciate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're troubled by the seeming recurrence of these types of questions, then I'd say &quot;Welcome to TWP!&quot; Please vote to close duplicates wherever necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T03:02:16.120" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3397" CreationDate="2015-11-13T03:25:36.103" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/badges/122/illuminator&quot;&gt;badge page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Illuminator&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score &gt; 0).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that you have to edit the question (ostensibly with improvements) within 12 hours of answering. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/229333/badge-qualifying-answersedits?threshold=50&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;query&lt;/a&gt;, which is supposed to be the rough approximation of the actual query, you're not even on the map yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck getting it, though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12321" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T03:25:36.103" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3398" CreationDate="2015-11-13T19:49:41.507" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are already questions that are duplicates of those questions.  So rather than create a new dupicate that is intended to encompass all of those questions, instead see if you can find existing questions and close these as duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T19:49:41.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3403" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-15T07:36:16.147" Score="5" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/57500/told-ive-been-asking-too-many-questions-and-put-on-review&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and then realized they had used their real name and wanted to change that. They were instructed how to change their user name here but several of the comments seem to still have &lt;strong&gt;@User'sRealName&lt;/strong&gt; in the text so the privacy issue still stands. Can this be fixed by a Moderator or is that outside of their abilities? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38636" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T07:51:16.970" Title="Is it possible for a Moderator to edit multiple user comments for privacy reasons?" Tags="|support|comments|moderators|moderator-tools|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3403" CreationDate="2015-11-15T07:51:16.970" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Short answer: &lt;/b&gt;Yes, we can!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is something like this, then just a mod flag is enough to notify us and we can action it.  It is a manual process for us to change each one, or we can simply purge comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll troll through the comments on that thread, and depending on how many instances I find I will either edit them out or just get rid of them :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Edit]  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Done.  If I've missed any, just flag them and we'll fix them :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T07:51:16.970" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3405" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3406" CreationDate="2015-11-16T00:33:47.553" Score="1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few years ago JMac posted an answer that helped me a lot in (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12187/how-do-i-resign-when-i-know-my-employer-will-lose-a-big-client-when-i-leave&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;) post. Now  that I'm active around here and have something to give back I thought I would pass him some reputation to him via a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I've started the bounty I selected &quot;Reward Existing Answer&quot; however I can't award it until I wait for 24 hours. Since the answer is already there and the post is a few years old, is this really necessary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2251" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T08:48:36.317" Title="Why must I wait to reward an existing answer when giving out a bounty?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3405" CreationDate="2015-11-16T08:48:36.317" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed on various metas before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/268362/waiting-24-hours-to-reward-an-existing-answer-is-completely-illogical&quot;&gt;Waiting 24 hours to reward an existing answer is completely illogical&lt;/a&gt; (Global Meta): No consensus&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5248/42419&quot;&gt;Answer on Sci-Fi explaining some of the reasons behind it&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10105&quot;&gt;Answer on Math describing the potential for abuse by high-rep users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2633&quot;&gt;Cross-Validated answer describing that it's to promote visibility of both the question and answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summary of potential reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;promote the visibility&lt;/strong&gt; of the question and its answers by making it a featured question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;limit the ability to transfer reputation&lt;/strong&gt; between users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;respect the transparency of the bounty system&lt;/strong&gt;: anyone should be able to earn it by writing a great answer, potentially writing an even better answer than the one you initially wanted to reward&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T08:48:36.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3407" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-24T03:32:19.027" Score="-3" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I am not able to either add a comment or propose changes (which apparently would be required to re-open the question) to the question “Requiring salary information and medical history before first job interview [on hold]” below, I will post my comments here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual question, “Is it common – or legal – in Japan to require itemized salary information from your current or previous position and medical history as a precondition for continuing the selection process?” is both answerable and clearly not ”seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies”. The question is “seeking advice” on what is common or legal in Japan, not Rakuten. Without the specific example of Rakuten it would be significantly more difficult for users and guests to assess some of the potentially relevant points in respect of which the question is “seeking advice” on what is common or legal in Japan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking what is common or legal in a specific jurisdiction hardly qualifies as “seeking legal advice”. If the users wish to apply this approach consistently, they will have to remove a significant number of other posts from stackexchange.com as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the other version of the question which is also put on hold the question related to Rakuten’s policies (“Is this just one of the remaining excesses deriving from Rakuten’s Japanese origins that will change somewhere along its way into a truly global company or something that represents the entire corporate culture?”) is a part of the review submitted to Glassdoor rather than a question addressed to users and guests of stackexchange.com. Without including this sentence in the question it would not be possible to comprehensively answer the question addressed to stackexchange.com users and guests. The quote that some users have referred to as the basis for their decision to vote for closing the question (&quot;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors.&quot;) would seem to refer to a company you are working for (&quot;your manager or HR department&quot;) rather than a company like Glassdoor, which many job seekers are likely to use. I would thus argue that Glassdoor's &quot;company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies&quot; are not &quot;of limited use to future visitors.&quot; As workplace.stackexchange.com even has a tag for Glassdoor, Glassdoor clearly is a legitimate topic in the forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lars Friedrich’s answer neglects the fact that Rakuten appears to be merely making the forms publicly available through their website, which is quite different from informing every potential candidate of the request – let alone requirement – to fill them out. It is not obvious from the question that Rakuten is actually informing potential applicants of a “request” to fill out the forms, in which case providing forms at specific web addresses without appropriate links to them in the application and recruitment sites and explanation of their significance in the selection process can hardly be regarded as “making the process public”. It is quite possible that candidates do indeed hear about the “request” or requirement to provide such information from a “shady interviewer” rather than through a public process. Furthermore, the fact that the “requested” information is in fact “necessary in the selection process” may not be public. It is quite possible that asking for itemized salary information and medical history is legal in Japan, while requiring them is not, and this is why Rakuten is not stating the requirement in the forms or elsewhere publicly. Once again, the actual question here refers to what is common or legal in Japan, not Rakuten. However, without the ability to discuss the specific case of Rakuten as an example on the stackexchange.com forum, few users and guests might be able to get a broad enough understanding of some of the issues involved in the question and their potential implications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be more constructive to publish feedback and modification proposals (including this text) on stackexchange.com rather than giving the same users who have already decided to put the question on hold on potentially dubious grounds exclusive access to such comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44328" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T08:10:11.123" Title="Comments to a question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2015-11-24T14:21:30.020" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3407" CreationDate="2015-11-24T07:52:31.867" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Asking what is common or legal in a specific jurisdiction hardly qualifies as “seeking legal advice”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well yes it does, if someone asks &quot;is it legal&quot; and someone answers (yes or no), that could be (wrongly) construed as legal advice.  The question of &quot;is it common&quot; is probably more answerable, but again is more region specific, and the answers here are aimed to be as relevant as possible to someone in the US, UK, India, or wherever, so again could be seen as off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4937" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T07:52:31.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3407" CreationDate="2015-11-24T08:10:11.123" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll answer about your two versions of the question separately:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For the first one&lt;/strong&gt;: any answer to it, and the way it is worded, could be construed as legal advice. You asked if something is legal, so any answer is legal advice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For the second one&lt;/strong&gt;: you have asked about why Glassdoor have refused a review for publication and there are at least two very good reasons why this post has been closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's totally up to Glassdoor what they accept and refuse. Perhaps try asking them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your review doesn't read as a review; it reads as a rant, especially &#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Apparently sense of privacy is not among the dimensions along which Rakuten aims at diversifying the people they employ. Is this just one of the remaining excesses deriving from Rakuten’s Japanese origins that will change somewhere along its way into a truly global company or something that represents the entire corporate culture?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;General advice and thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you register here, you can always edit your posts, so you could start with doing that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Companies requiring you to fill in information, including personal information, before you have an interview is pretty normal, and as long as they protect that data correctly wouldn't worry me at all. I'd see it as correct due diligence in the hiring process.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Glassdoor tag does not mean that all questions on Glassdoor are appropriate here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close reasons are often titled with a simple boilerplate rather than going in to depth as to the specifics. This is just the way the process works.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T08:10:11.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3410" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-24T17:17:45.260" Score="2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/58233/how-to-deal-with-a-manager-who-does-not-respect-me&quot;&gt;How to deal with a manager who does not respect me?&lt;/a&gt; was recently closed. After some discussion, it looked like it was on track to being reopened (3 votes last I saw). Unfortunately, another user hijacked the comments thread for their own purposes, resulting in the question becoming locked. Now I no longer can see the reopen count, which I'm guessing is a result of the question being locked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a good question that is not a duplicate of the one linked in comments. It is a disservice to the OP that the question became locked before being reopened because of the actions of another user. Is there a way that we can allow the question to get some reopen votes while still closing the comments section?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as a somewhat side note, the question was locked and encouraged discussion to move to chat, but there was never a room-specific chat room opened or linked. I think this should have been the first step before shutting down the question entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T18:46:16.673" Title="Reopen &quot;How to deal with a manager who does not respect me?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3410" CreationDate="2015-11-24T18:46:16.673" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for bringing this up on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As noted by enderland in a comment, the question was locked for an hour due to an extremely high velocity of comments that weren't about improving the post.  Basically, we needed a &quot;time-out&quot; to try to move things in a more constructive direction after milder interventions had failed.  The lock has now expired and the (edited) question has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's unfortunate that we don't have a &quot;lock comments&quot; option; the only way to prevent more argumentative comments (which were coming in at several per minute) was to lock the whole post, which also locks votes of all types.  Locks like this are meant to be temporary, to stop the immediate problem and give people time to chill.  Now we'll see if that worked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question accumulated more than 50 comments.  I handled the first flag (about 17 hours ago) and considered moving comments to chat then, but many of the ones I deleted were not very constructive (and some borderline rude).  My judgement was that moving the thread to chat was unlikely to help the OP, a first-time poster, and there was no point in doing so otherwise.  Every participant in the discussion has enough reputation to use chat and could have used the site's main chat room to continue the discussion.  There was a second round of deletions a few hours ago (by more than one moderator) -- complaints from one user about prior deletions and responses to those complaints, and some obsolete comments about edits to the question, that ended in what you described as the &quot;hijacking&quot; and then the lock.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP wants access to those comments for the purpose of further improving the question, I can provide that.  I think everything that could be gleaned has already been gleaned, but let me know if you'd like access, @Dom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T18:46:16.673" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3412" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-24T18:51:44.127" Score="2" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've made a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/58190/should-i-notify-my-employer-that-i-intend-to-work-on-an-open-source-or-personal&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that was put &lt;code&gt;on hold&lt;/code&gt; as &lt;code&gt;off-topic&lt;/code&gt;. Since then I've made some edits following the automated feedback, and I believe that the reasons for putting it on hold are not valid anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the question is still on hold, I have no feedback from the close voters, so I can't know if my edits are sufficient to get it re-opened, or if there is something more I could do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that my question might get closed for the wrong reasons, and in the meantime I can't receive any more answers. What am I supposed to do? For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I just wait to see whether or not it gets closed after 5 days?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I start asking in the comments section if the edits are OK and start a discussion with the close-voters ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I take the lack of responses as a sign that it will probably get closed anyway?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have any experience with the hold/edit/reopen workflow, so I'm not asking for this particular question only. I've linked it as a reference, but I'd like to have an advice that could be applied to any kind of closed questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44093" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T18:51:44.127" Title="Is there any feedback or interaction while my question is into the re-opening queue?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3413" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-26T13:18:15.747" Score="8" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;Happy Thanksgiving to all US folks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question: How do you spend your Thanksgiving day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My wife and I host Thanksgiving for our extended family each year. Everyone comes over to eat, drink, talk, and sometimes watch football.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This year, we have 25 people coming. My wife and I spent yesterday getting everything ready to go. This morning, the turkeys are in the oven and we are off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2015-11-26T15:03:03.857" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T09:26:06.953" Title="Happy Thanksgiving!" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2015-12-03T01:55:59.217" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3413" CreationDate="2015-11-26T14:43:12.620" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Greeting to you and your family, Joe!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Happy Thanksgiving, folks! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We Indians, have no idea what Thanksgiving is.  Well, maybe the folks in the US, are getting ready for Christmas. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¯_(ツ)_/¯&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40657" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T14:43:12.620" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3413" CreationDate="2015-11-27T10:17:41.533" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you spend your Thanksgiving day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Working and once again lamenting that, as a European, the only way Thanksgiving affects me is by interrupting the US' television broadcast schedule, forcing me to go without my weekly episode(s). :|&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours I guess. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T10:17:41.533" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3416" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-28T00:38:46.550" Score="1" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/58190/should-i-notify-my-employer-that-i-intend-to-work-on-an-open-source-or-personal&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; was put on hold as off-topic because:   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements,&#xA;  or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department.&#xA;  Questions that address only a specific company or position are of&#xA;  limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should&#xA;  be directed to legal professionals&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have reworded my question to meet the rules. The question's scoped has changed a little bit, but I still think its a good question  that would be helpful for other people (it has 12 upvotes so far), it already has two good answers, and I really think it should not be closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, I am sure that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is not limited on company-specific regulations. It applies for lots of companies, as it's a very common limitation in lots of contracts. I didn't even have to copy the referenced part from my own contract: I've just picked it out from a huge list of similar contracts I've found after some googling.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm definitively not looking for a legal advice. I'm looking for an advice on how I should handle this situation. I think it's very clear in the title.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, please reconsider re-opening it. If you think it still needs more editing or rewording, please tell me how I could improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44093" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T09:13:53.700" Title="Reopen &quot;Should I notify my employer that I intend to work on an open-source or personal project in my free time&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3417" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3418" CreationDate="2015-11-30T06:57:00.653" Score="-3" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is just a proposal, which &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; consider is a good practise, especially on WorkPlace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the answers here are mostly opinions, advises and suggestions, which (in most cases) are sincere efforts to help the OP with his/her situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in case someone disagrees with an answer, it would be really nice if they explain why, as a short comment under the answer before downvoting. This would, both help the OP and the person giving the answer too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are cases, where this need not be applied to, like in the case of low quality posts, but I think this would be applicable in most of the posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: Consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/58461/informing-connections-on-linkedin-about-looking-for-new-opportunities/58463#58463&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; post, I really appreciate Frisbee explaining why he thought the answer is wrong or why he disagreed. (I am not sure whether he downvoted, but I really appreciate him leaving a comment about why he thinks it is wrong).  This would help both me(to re-consider the advice, or make myself clear) and the OP who is seeking the advice too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions and views on this are welcome!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[This is just a proposal or a suggestion, which I thought would be a nice practise in WorkPlace, where people give and take important professional advice, and would be useful for both the OP and the answerer.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40657" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T19:41:55.833" Title="Explain and downvote - Good Practice?" Tags="|discussion|best-practice|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3417" CreationDate="2015-11-30T19:41:55.833" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;First and foremost, I completely agree &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-downvotes/2373#comment313_135&quot;&gt;with the quote from Shog9&lt;/a&gt; (which Lilienthal posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I enjoy being able to down-vote posts I don't care for without worrying about retaliation. And I really enjoy being able to leave honest comments without worrying that they'll be justifiably interpreted as evidence that I've down-voted. I would not like to see the two systems linked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following ramble is basically why I agree with that comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general I see two categories of downvoters: people who think your post is bad/in need of improvement and people who downvote for malicious reasons (strategic downvoting, serial downvoting or just because it's the internet and they don't like people). Since we're not going to get anything helpful out of the second group even if we forced them to comment (which I think was agreed to be a bad plan long ago) let’s just ignore them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, so we have a group of people who have downvoted your post for some legitimate reason, while it's true that a comment from these people could help improve the post, &lt;strong&gt;quite a few people react negatively to criticism&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point I think we need to stand back and look what a downvote means. In general, a vote is your indication to the rest of the public that the post is either good or bad. If I see a question with a tonne of upvotes, I’ll go read it. If I see a downvoted post I’ll either pass or read though it to see if it needs a flag. Additionally, votes reward or penalize good and bad posts respectively. In other words, &lt;strong&gt;votes help improve our site by guiding visitors using past experience and encourage posters to produce high quality content&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we have (hopefully) come to an agreement that voting is good and we want to see more of it. As such, &lt;strong&gt;we should not be putting the voters in a position which discourages voting&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;em&gt;If people want to comment on downvotes, great, if they don't want to, that's totally ok&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m also going to add that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Voters&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;top 3 voters on the workplace&lt;/a&gt; all have more downvotes than upvotes. They are the people on the front lines battling low quality content and if they even received 5% or people getting angry at them over a downvote, the would have hundreds of people yelling at them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, downvotes carry next to no penalty so it’s really just a gentle slap on the wrist and a reminder to really think about ways to improve your post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ps. This is just my opinion, not a canon answer or anything. &lt;em&gt;I have no idea what I’m talking about&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;TM&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19839" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T19:41:55.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3419" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-01T03:34:57.433" Score="5" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like the SE community to vote on reopening this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/58504/how-to-deal-with-a-coworker-who-makes-hateful-comments-about-my-religion&quot;&gt;How to deal with a coworker who makes hateful comments about my religion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I felt this original reason for being put on hold was the focus on the comments made on social media which is indeed off - topic for The Workplace. My edit a few minutes ago re-focused the question on the work-place and the OP's desired outcome: To have the offensive behavior immediately cease. I also addressed why the OP would like to speak up: Because he finds the behavior offensive, unprofessional and wholly unbecoming of a coworker in a professional workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not able to add an additional answer due to the question being on hold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T20:29:16.570" Title="Reopen &quot;How to deal with a coworker who hates your religion&quot;" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3419" CreationDate="2015-12-01T03:39:38.967" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Voted to re-open)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am an Indian, and have faced this problem of hatred towards my faith.  Having been there, I would like to add an answer. (Discussed with @Enderland on chat, but seems like the answers there are from a non-Indian point of view.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40657" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T03:39:38.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3416" CreationDate="2015-12-02T09:13:53.700" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a very common issue, but different companies draw the lines in very different places. I've lost track of how many times my own employer has changed their rules, and that's &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; company. There really is no general answer beyond &quot;ask your employer what their current policy is.&quot; And that's grounds for closing the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure the question could be rewritten to avoid that without becoming a poll question, which is also considered inappropriate here, or a &quot;can they do that&quot; which is a legal question and again out of scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone can come up with a formulation which &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; pass muster, great. Until then...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T09:13:53.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3413" CreationDate="2015-12-02T09:26:06.953" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most years I have a choice between a quiet family thanksgiving -- not always with my own family -- or a huge gathering of APO alumni, mostly from my school and mostly from my time period (though others also attend and some of the kids are now old enough that they're attending on their own behalf.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the tricks we've developed for the alumni mob is that dinner is pot-luck with each family assigned a &lt;em&gt;color&lt;/em&gt; of food for their contribution. That can be interpreted creatively -- when I got purple I made a proper Red Velvet cake, which uses beets -- but it's sufficient to ensure against duplication of dishes, and to encourage folks to try new recipies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T09:26:06.953" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3423" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3424" CreationDate="2015-12-03T20:37:23.017" Score="20" ViewCount="663" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To hat, or not to hat, that is the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to carry&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Badges and Perks of outrageous Actions,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or to take Arms against a Sea of hat-tings,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And by opposing end them: to null, to voids&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No more; and by a null, to say we end&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Head-ache, and the thousand Natural hats&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Avatars are heir to? 'Tis a consummation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Devoutly to be wished. To voids, to null,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To null, perchance to seg fault; aye, there's the rub,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For in that sleep of [NULL], what dreams may come,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Must give us pause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok I'm not a poet. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_be,_or_not_to_be&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This is actual monologue&lt;/a&gt;. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though, Stack Exchange is doing &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/promos/15/winter-bash-2014&quot;&gt;Winterbash&lt;/a&gt; and wondering if we want to have hats or not!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Winterbash gives people the opportunity to gain hats (kind of like badges) but then those go onto avatars from December 14, 2015 through January 3rd, 2016. You can see a &lt;a href=&quot;http://winterbash2015.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;countdown&lt;/a&gt; if you are interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a logistical note, only upvotes will 'count' for voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to hat, or not to hat, that is the question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T01:05:37.657" Title="To hat, or not to hat, that is the question" Tags="|discussion|hats|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2016-02-09T03:37:38.573" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3423" CreationDate="2015-12-03T20:37:36.947" Score="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;! Workplace &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; participate in Winterbash 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-12-03T20:37:36.947" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3423" CreationDate="2015-12-03T20:39:00.773" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;! Workplace &lt;strong&gt;should NOT&lt;/strong&gt; participate in Winterbash 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-12-03T20:39:00.773" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3427" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-04T15:18:50.933" Score="0" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a place on the Workplace.SE where we can get book suggestions? I am thinking of an example question at StackOverflow &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-book-guide-and-list&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; in the C++ tag, which has a nice long list of good introductory/medium/advanced books; the &quot;question&quot; is locked (to indicate that this isn't a good question on the site normally; but does serve a purpose) and pinned to the top of the frequent tab so that newcomers can easily be directed to the appropriate place if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be beneficial to do something similar on some of the Workplace.SE tags? E.g., have a locked question that contains a list of good books on workplace politics pinned to the frequent questions list on the [politics] tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:37:04.473" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T17:11:10.143" Title="Book suggestions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3428" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-04T15:41:22.020" Score="-1" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of items tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resume&lt;/a&gt;, however the proper spelling is &quot;résumé&quot;. Is it possible to make the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resume&lt;/a&gt; tag be an alias of a &quot;résumé&quot; tag? I know that the accented E is supported in taxonomy (as well as other diacritics) because I can see those characters in &lt;a href=&quot;https://french.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://french.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should be noted:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While the &lt;code&gt;resume&lt;/code&gt; spelling is in common usage, it is less formal and less common in more academic scholarship.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This seems to be a question of &quot;formal&quot; as opposed to &quot;informal&quot;, for while dictionaries do say that &quot;resume&quot; is a common spelling they unilaterally use résumé for the name of the entry. Historically, résumé is more correct.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Diacritics do not break taxonomy at all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18610" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:49:35.760" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:49:35.760" Title="Can the tag &quot;resume&quot; be changed to &quot;résumé&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|tags|synonym-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3428" CreationDate="2015-12-04T16:05:49.420" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As in: &lt;strong&gt;we can, but we shouldn't&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In modern English resume and résumé &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2007/06/resume.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;are pretty much interchangeable&lt;/a&gt;. Over time, loan words in American English seem to lose their diacritic marks as they lose their link to the original language. British English generally prefers CV over either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Since both are fine and the accented version is likely to wane in popularity in the coming years I don't see the point in changing it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Update&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag syntax &amp;quot;[ tag:tagname ]&amp;quot; for questions &lt;strong&gt;does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; work with accents&lt;/strong&gt;! This alone is sufficient reason not to proceed with the rename. I prefer &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resume&lt;/a&gt; over &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resume&quot;&gt;résumé&lt;/a&gt; as  [tag:résumé] just doesn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T16:31:39.490" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3427" CreationDate="2015-12-04T16:13:19.717" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Lilienthal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag wikis are a good way to include resources about the particular tag. Asking about books and resources in the main site defeats the purpose of SE, and would result in an epic fail of the &lt;strong&gt;primarily opinion based&lt;/strong&gt; reason of closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the questions are locked, it doesn't cover up the fact that the answers are opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the question is framed like one of these, it is still off-topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Books on _______?  &amp;lt;--  Reason for closure: &lt;strong&gt;Too broad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Good books on _______?   &amp;lt;-- Reason for closure:  &lt;strong&gt;Opinion based&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40657" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T16:13:19.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3428" CreationDate="2015-12-04T16:55:23.390" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;My thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a non-French speaker, I do not have an easy way to make the &lt;code&gt;é&lt;/code&gt; character on my Windows keyboard I use at work (at home I have a mac and mac users can fairly easily if they are savvy, but most probably don't realize this?). I will still type &quot;resume&quot; 100% of the time, both for the tag and for text of questions/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really think this matters, either since as you say the documentation suggests either spelling is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't really want to start a edit war over British vs American English spelling. My recommendation would be to just let users spell it however they want. If context here was less clear, and it wasn't clear whether users wanted to use it as a verb or the noun, then maybe it would matter more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T16:55:23.390" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3423" CreationDate="2015-12-04T17:44:08.843" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes!&lt;/strong&gt; Workplace &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; participate in Winter Bash 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2322/enderland&quot;&gt;enderland&lt;/a&gt; should be barred from participation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7260" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T17:44:08.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3433" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-09T17:09:42.527" Score="11" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest merging this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31296/new-job-casual-attire-first-impression&quot;&gt;New Job, Casual Attire, First Impression&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have accepted a new job at a particular company. The company has casual&#xA;  attire (Jeans, T-Shirt). I have even seen some people wearing shorts&#xA;  (I would pass on that!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since, I will be joining as a new employee how I should be dressed for&#xA;  2-3 months. Should I still wear formal attire (full sleeves with dress&#xA;  pants).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, how can I make a good impression as a new employee? I will be in&#xA;  a senior level position and I will be responsible for training other&#xA;  employees on certain technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Into the older:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/10733/should-i-err-on-the-side-of-overdressing-for-my-first-day-of-work&quot;&gt;Should I err on the side of overdressing for my first day of work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have accepte d a job offer as a software developer after two phone interviews, and&#xA;  they told me that they have a relaxed dress code. Specifically, they&#xA;  mentioned wearing jeans. However, I'm not sure whether that's jeans&#xA;  with a polo, or a button-down shirt, or a T-shirt; and I want to&#xA;  communicate on my first day that I take the job seriously. Is it&#xA;  acceptable for me to show up on my first day in (nice) jeans&#xA;  (particularly if I wear a nice shirt)? Is it a bigger risk for them to&#xA;  wonder why I'm in jeans on my first day, or for them to feel like I'm&#xA;  overdressed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions seem to ask basically the same thing and have 6 answers each. Both refer to a workplace with full casual dress (jeans). I'm not entirely clear on the protocol for what the merged question's text should be but both can benefit from some rewording, presumably the post should be partially rewritten but that can be discussed if the merge has support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no consensus is reached in favour of a merge, at the very least the newest question should be closed as a duplicate and all future questions like this one redirected to the oldest question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59088/is-it-good-to-overdress-more-than-the-first-day-of-work&quot;&gt;Is it good to overdress more than the first day of work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:48:09.413" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:48:09.413" Title="Merge Proposal: Overdressing on the first day of work" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3434" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-09T21:48:32.997" Score="26" ViewCount="1578" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a little disturbed by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/59095/revisions&quot;&gt;edit history&lt;/a&gt; of and comments on the question originally titled &#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Male seinor &lt;em&gt;[sic]&lt;/em&gt; architect bullying junior female developer. What to do?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit #4 has the comment &quot;Took out gender from the question. Based on quotes given, no basis for the assumption that it is a sexism problem.&quot; However, the questioner clearly felt strongly enough that this is a gender issue to &lt;em&gt;put that in the title&lt;/em&gt;, and which is absolutely basis for assuming that it is a gender issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it bluntly, it looks to me like: a junior female developer came here for help addressing a workplace problem she perceives to have a component  sexism as described, and then people showed up and said &quot;that doesn't look like a valid description of your problem from here, so we're making it into a different question and answering that instead&quot;. And, while I'm not saying that the people making the edits and comments to the same effect are doing so from intentional sexism — it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; seem relevant that they have male names and avatars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How disheartening for the questioner! Not only is she experiencing a problem in the workplace, but when she asks for help, her concern is dismissed like that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5385" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T09:32:08.237" Title="Washing away apparent gender bias conveyed in an original poster’s question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|editing|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3434" CreationDate="2015-12-09T23:09:48.423" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made the edit to the question.  Here's my viewpoint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a sexism thing, show evidence.  As a result, the question will be closed because it's an HR concern, which is out of scope of The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's not a sexism thing, take gender out of the question, since it will only muddy the results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a simple change, I specifically mentioned it in my edit to the question.  It's definitely worth discussing, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18054" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T23:09:48.423" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3434" CreationDate="2015-12-09T23:42:54.813" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/59099/14273&quot;&gt;answer to that question&lt;/a&gt; unequivocally states that I did not—and do not—see any gender bias in the meat of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I do not believe it is anyone’s role but the original poster to address that issue/discrepancy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The reason being that there might be some gender bias but in the desire to post the original poster forgot to add those details. So comments encouraging clarification are worth making.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the idea that someone else—and let’s face it, mostly men—would take it on their own to wash away the gender aspect without true consent from the original poster is past face-palm-worthy. To attempt to bring “balance to the force” so-to-say, I &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/59095/7&quot;&gt;re-edited the question to bring gender back into the mix&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the title as it stands now works to focus the issue on the conflict with the added “icing” of the potential gender bias mixed into the whole thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in general I believe that when it comes to claims of gender bias—or any race bias—we all need to assume good faith and trust the original poster might have a good reason to mention such a detail unless they prove otherwise in comments or replies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And again, I do not believe that the issue is gender biased based on current evidence prevented, but just jumping in and wiping away gender from the question is a slippery slope that none of us should be on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Always assume good faith and always be faithful to the original poster’s intent; washing gender away conflicts with the original poster’s intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14273" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T23:42:54.813" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3434" CreationDate="2015-12-09T23:43:22.903" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see where Garrison is coming from. I don't believe that her question adequately explained why she believed it to be a case of sexism. Everything in the body just indicated that it was a condescending senior developer. She never said anything about him making sexist remarks or him acting differently toward her compared to her male coworkers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I disagree with the edit on the grounds that it removed something from the question that OP felt was important enough to include. Comments and/or answers should have been used to address the issue, not an edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13865" LastEditorUserId="13865" LastEditDate="2015-12-09T23:47:42.743" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T23:47:42.743" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3434" CreationDate="2015-12-10T00:27:10.277" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't jump to conclusions please. Sexism in the workplace is an insidious and pervasive problem. But suggesting that the Patriarchy is trying to hide the problem by &quot;washing away gender bias&quot; is ludicrous. &lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange has a policy of editing questions, sometimes drastically, to focus them on a core question, clean up the language and cut out fluff&lt;/strong&gt;. The OP identifying the gender of the people involved and even her mention of his comment on wishing &quot;there were more women in this industry&quot; is not at all an indicator that there's a gender issue at play. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is no reason to believe that the gender of the individuals involved contributed to the problem or is in any way relevant for potential answers.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3434/washing-away-gender-bias#comment8079_3434&quot;&gt;BlueRaja says&lt;/a&gt;, including gender, especially so prominently in the title (which I've since edited again), risks making it a red herring. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If sexism is truly relevant, then that should be clarified in the comments.&lt;/strong&gt; The OP can provide more detail and that can then be worked into the post. In the absence of evidence that gender was really important for the question, these edits are perfectly fine because they make the post easier to read and cut out elements of the story that aren't truly relevant to the situation. These edits &lt;strong&gt;should be made quickly and drastically&lt;/strong&gt; to ensure that we don't leave poorly formatted or ill-defined posts on the site. As expected this ended up on HNQ and &lt;strong&gt;I would much rather see a polished question with a clear scope there instead of yet another poorly written, unedited mess that every answerer interprets differently.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this in mind, I've &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/59095/8&quot;&gt;reverted&lt;/a&gt; JakeGould's edit. And please remember that the OP is a woman or female but she's not &quot;a female&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit (2015-12-11)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP has been active on the site but has so far not truly commented on whether sexism is at play here. The fact that she actually uses &quot;lol&quot; in her comments alone is enough to assume that her word choices in the original version of the question are not well thought out and should not be taken as gospel that she feels discriminated against. Besides that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59095/a-senior-developer-reacts-badly-to-questions-but-i-need-his-input-how-do-i-hand#comment154607_59095&quot;&gt;the only gender-related comment I've found by the OP is here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When a man is rude to a woman of course she will think it has to do&#xA;  with gender especially if it's an irrational reason to be rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are rude. Sometimes irationally so. To ascribe sexism to a person just because he has a short fuse or is growing annoyed by a junior hire's constant questions interrupting him is downright foolish. Given that the OP has no actual sexist remarks to reproduce and has, in fact, not made any allegations of sexism in her post, I'm going to assume that sexism &lt;strong&gt;is not a factor here.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit (2015-12-12)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/59095/14&quot;&gt;has just updated the question herself&lt;/a&gt; to remove all references to male/female from the title and added an edit to explain that gender bias was not part of the issue. Given that she accepted an answer and took the time to return to the question with an edit I'm assuming that she didn't feel &quot;disheartened&quot; by our supposedly callous removal of gender from the question, but I can only imagine what she must think of the resulting edit war and bickering on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T15:08:05.633" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3434" CreationDate="2015-12-10T12:48:32.550" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a person perceives behaviour as sexist, this perception is relevant regardless of any evidence of sexism.  Sexism is not a black and white issue.  The OP is not required to provide statistical evidence that her colleague is statistically significantly more condescending toward young females than toward young males.  Her perception of sexism does not mean the colleague is guilty of sexism.  Even if she perceives sexism where there isn't any, her perception affects the workplace.  Therefore, her perception alone is enough to make it sufficiently relevant for inclusion in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace SE is not a tribunal.  If the OP believes sexism is relevant for the situation then it is relevant for the question.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xe#Pronoun&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Xe&lt;/a&gt; is not obliged to provide evidence at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same applies to discrimination based on race, disability, age, religion, sexual orientation, neurological configuration, etc.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1898" LastEditorUserId="1898" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T12:59:27.947" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T12:59:27.947" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3434" CreationDate="2015-12-10T16:41:53.470" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The OP has now edited the question, so this answer no longer applies.  The OP gets to make these decisions; I just don't think the &lt;em&gt;rest&lt;/em&gt; of us do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I am speaking as a user with editing privileges, not speaking for the mod team.  I haven't consulted them.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This edit made too big a change and we have no evidence that the OP approves of the change, so I have restored the original title and the sentence about possible gender motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether we think there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; gender bias does not matter.  The OP &lt;em&gt;perceives&lt;/em&gt; possible bias and made that part of her question.  It's fine to challenge the premise of a question &lt;em&gt;in an answer&lt;/em&gt;, explaining that that doesn't look like bias because (reasons) and maybe instead it's (alternative interpretation).  And of course it's appropriate to &lt;em&gt;ask clarifying questions in comments&lt;/em&gt; (e.g. asking if he does this to everybody or just her).  But deciding that we know what the OP &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have asked and rewriting the question to ask that instead goes too far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;I have not reviewed all the answers to see if my edit invalidated any of them.  Since the edit should not have been made in the first place, I'm willing to live with that.&lt;/s&gt; As it turns out, nothing was invalidated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2015-12-11T15:25:46.310" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T15:25:46.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3434" CreationDate="2015-12-10T22:30:20.070" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All our work relationships are modified by social context&lt;/strong&gt;. Gender is not an arbitrary piece of irrelevant information: in many human contexts, it has real effects on how we interact even if we'd like it not to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question could equally have been edited to remove the reference to the technology industry and make it a question purely about seniority. &lt;strong&gt;But it wasn't&lt;/strong&gt;, and the job titles etc were rightly left in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was about how to deal with condescending behaviour - which could plausibly be attributed in part or in full to a sexist attitude on the part of the senior developer; in practice, most of the answers attributed the behaviour in part or in full to the inclinations of senior developers (although the interaction between male socialisation and developer culture might be worth pondering, it's perhaps beyond the scope of a useful answer here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We should welcome OPs providing potentially relevant contextual information&lt;/strong&gt;, and leave it open to answers to identify the crucial pieces. We certainly should not be removing information the OP thinks is relevant without very good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="610" LastEditorUserId="610" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T22:52:46.553" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T22:52:46.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3442" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3443" CreationDate="2015-12-12T08:53:46.790" Score="16" ViewCount="511" Body="&lt;p&gt;I responded to this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59202/how-to-take-vacation-days-within-first-year-without-looking-like-a-slacker/59231#59231&quot;&gt;How to take vacation days within first year without looking like a slacker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and after reflecting on my own response, and others that were much more popular, I think the responses given present a significant risk to the OP. After re-reading my own response, I think I responded with a different tone and perspective because of the popularity of existing answers. The popular answers sound great, but I think fail to actually address the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How to take vacation days within first year without looking like a&#xA;  slacker?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The core issue is appearance and how to handle the possibility that taking vacation will hinder, damage or impair the career of the OP. I agree that it &lt;em&gt;should not&lt;/em&gt; but given the circumstances, the concern expressed by the OP that mishandling the situation will result in one or more of those outcomes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the question information is given about the OP's boss that indicates the boss may not take well to vacation requests, and emphasizes that the boss takes pride in taking little vacation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of the popular answers immediately focus on the long term effects of excessive work and mock/minimize the perspective of the OP's boss (the most popular describes his actions as &quot;idiotic&quot;). Regardless of the intelligence of the boss or inherently idiotic decisions, the OP will still have to deal with the judgement and evaluation of &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; boss. The emphasis of the answers (and votes) seems to be on how the world &quot;should&quot; be for the OP, and not on the reality that the boss may not take well to the requests for vacation days. In the popular responses, that seems to be a secondary concern, at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, the OP has not voted for a correct answer and it seems to me to be because the answers provided are generally biased toward what readers &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; the answer to be. The answers address the long-term consequences of excessive work instead of addressing the real problem that the OP faces - which the question directly asks: concern about appearance and his immediate desire to take vacation, but not an emphatic need to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers, while popular, present a significant risk to the long-term career of the OP. In some cases, short-term sacrifice may benefit the long-term. In addition, long-term planning is sometimes made obsolete by short-term disruptions. It seems that the advice provided emphasize long-term goals at the cost of short-term risks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I reviewed other meta questions, but I could not find one that addresses a situation where both the answers and the voting appear to avoid the actual question (which is valid), in favor of addressing a question that both responders and readers desire to discuss. The result being high risk, popular answers that may not be in the best interest of the OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, perhaps my interpretation of the question and/or responses missed the mark, and someone can clarify the distinction. Regardless, this seems important in providing quality workplace questions and answers. Also, I don't usually ask meta questions, so this may be a question better posed elsewhere. I appreciate any help in understanding this situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42908" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T08:01:27.070" Title="How to handle answers that are high risk to the OP?" Tags="|discussion|voting|offtopic|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3442" CreationDate="2015-12-12T12:47:26.457" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Ah the good old Hot Network Questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the populist swamp that The Workplace becomes when it ends up on the Hot Network Questions. You'll find that in many cases, answers on HNQs tend to get upvotes when they support &amp;quot;what feels right&amp;quot;, even if that doesn't match reality, which is altogether less fair. Answers that point out those issues typically attract downvotes despite raising very valid concerns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically for this question, every answer I've skimmed over fails to address the reality that in some companies, people are discouraged from actually taking their vacation days. This is undoubtedly a really, really shitty policy that will kill morale and drive away all high-performers, but companies that do this still exist. A good answer should say something along the lines of &amp;quot;vacation is part of your compensation so take it, or find another job&amp;quot; but mention a huge caveat: if you have little job security or are unlikely to find alternative employment quickly, you may have to accept this as a condition of the job, &lt;em&gt;for now&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How should you handle such answers?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally you'd comment with your concerns and downvote, but in the case of HNQs, downvotes rapidly become meaningless as users unfamiliar with the site flood in and blindly upvote. This is a known problem of the HNQ list and there's frankly little to be done at the level of an individual site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SOP should still be to comment with your concerns. Make it short, well-written and to-the-point and abuse the bold tag (** **) to make it stand out, all in an effort to attract upvotes to the comment to make it stand out if the poster won't update his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post the question and your comments in chat to check if users there share your opinion and can help upvote/downvote or try to improve the thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answers are really that misguided or dangerous (see below), post on meta instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Caveat: Flag Dangerous Answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This only applies to answers that are high-risk when it comes to people's career or reputation: advice that is wrong or not broadly applicable but not truly dangerous. Answers that &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; dangerous because of serious safety, legal, criminal or ethical concerns s̶h̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶f̶l̶a̶g̶g̶e̶d̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶m̶o̶d̶e̶r̶a̶t̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶t̶t̶e̶n̶t̶i̶o̶n̶!̶.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3442/how-to-handle-answers-that-are-high-risk-to-the-op/3443?noredirect=1#comment8138_3443&quot;&gt;Monica Cellio pointed out&lt;/a&gt; that it's not the moderators' job to remove answers made in good faith, even those that offer dangerous advice. Handle these answers the same as you would others but make it painfully clear in your comment how and why the advice given is dangerous. In the end, it's the responsibility of the reader to interpret answers and by extension the site user's responsibility to downvote and delete (10/20K rep), as pointed out &lt;a href=&quot;https://diy.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/70/dangerous-answers&quot;&gt;in this similar thread&lt;/a&gt; on the Home Improvement Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Full disclosure: my answers have ended up on the HNQ list a few dozen times so far and many have become the top-voted answer. Many more were rightly &amp;quot;beaten&amp;quot; by answers that were even more comprehensive or spoke from experience that I don't have. From what I've seen, a well-written, complete and well-reasoned answer will always beat out answers that are &amp;quot;just preaching to the choir&amp;quot;. The issue is that those answers don't always get written before the influx of upvotes from HNQ which keeps inferior answers at the top. But this starting to sound more like a rant against HNQ and I'm probably taking this way off-topic.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T08:01:27.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3442" CreationDate="2015-12-12T15:40:35.290" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with your chatacterization of the answers as being high risk.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is true that some organizations have a culture of no time off, violating that cultural expectation is unlikely to result in a significant negative outcome -- a realistic worst case scenario is that he doesn't get a bonuses/promotion. For the bonus, if his co-workers don't get time off and he does, he is already &lt;strong&gt;getting&lt;/strong&gt; a bonus that they aren't.  His job is almost certainly not at risk, unless they are laying people off for other reasons and choose him because others are effectively cheaper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as he is not actually slacking off, any negative view of his taking time off that he is owed, is going to be minor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="271" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T15:40:35.290" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3442" CreationDate="2015-12-14T21:50:00.863" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote the answer you are probably referring to Jim. I think as others will attest I am not very politically correct, nor am I conformist, nor do I write any answers that are trying to gain votes - I am the big mouth tech without any sort of filter.  My answers are quite the opposite to what others have propose as HNQ vote getters.  My answers are real and edgy and more often than not I am writing them how I would handle the situation for &lt;strong&gt;long-term&lt;/strong&gt; benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with you that in some circumstances that taking my advice could turn out bad for this particular question - IN THE SHORT-TERM.  I did not dance around this.  If it does you don't want to work for that company and in my opinion they have no idea how to assess talent (using vacation taking vs. true ability/output) and have no idea how to treat employees.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think in the short-term some companies (5% or less) might give this sort of person more regard but long-term you might get your self pigeon-holed into a position or working for a company that you... really don't want to work for.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Learn the most, be the best, take your vacation... If they don't like this you can easily move to another company.  Being disgruntled or unhappy because you can't use benefits is not a good solution as you won't be as productive for a company you don't like.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that taking your advise really sets the person up for being unhappy.  Who cares if your boss thinks you are a work horse - you are his/her work horse?   If you went out to eat dinner with me would you give me half your lobster because I would appreciate you more?  (If so let's go out sometime)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16609" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T21:50:00.863" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3446" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-16T12:54:08.333" Score="1" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59398/company-buy-out-has-moved-my-salary-review-back&quot;&gt;Company buy-out has moved my Salary Review back&lt;/a&gt; was closed yesterday (I believe for being unclear), and after a couple edits, it was reopened. Now the question has gotten two new close votes for being unclear again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what's so unclear about it. The OP had a salary review scheduled, which should have happened before the company was bought out. Now that the buy-out is happening, the OP is worried they won't get their salary review for another year. The question is pretty clearly stated after Myles's edit: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I make sure that I get an opportunity to address this without&#xA;  being locked into my starting wage for an unreasonable period?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can we do to help this question? I really don't know why people are still voting to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T13:13:38.160" Title="Company buy-out has moved my Salary Review back" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3446" CreationDate="2015-12-16T12:57:41.937" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made an edit to the title/question body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first glance, it's pretty long and the core question was buried in a middle paragraph (the title wasn't super helpful, either).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully that helps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T12:57:41.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3446" CreationDate="2015-12-16T13:13:38.160" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a question mark in there, but the post doesn't make sense without further information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two users posted comments requesting additional information but while the OP is active, he hasn't replied or edited the post since the original off-topic close. Since scanning didn't show a question, the OP didn't respond and the title also didn't have a question I voted to close as unclear. There's nothing to answer until we work out what the OP's goals and restrictions are, for instance: why he can't just ask for a raise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T13:13:38.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3449" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-16T19:57:14.717" Score="0" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;We think of the archetypal workplace.SE questions as involving working with a manager, a recruiter, asking for a raise, trying not to be fired, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two were closed to date that are point-on on topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/56560/42272&quot;&gt;Is there a rule of thumb regarding a search radius for job alerts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59475/should-one-leave-computers-on-at-the-end-of-the-day&quot;&gt;Should one leave computers on at the end of the day?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither of these are &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; questions. They could stand to have more detail, either to what the perceived problem is, or what type of solution is being solicited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;search radius&quot; one was closed as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should be directed to legal professionals. For more information, click here.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Um. What?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to work on answers to both of these. To the &quot;job radius&quot; problem it's actually similar to what apartment-searchers like StreetEasy deal with and can be dealt with with technology. To the &quot;computers&quot; problem one can reasonably infer that the OP is probably concerned with being green and mention the obvious areas of concern: how much energy is saved, does it impact the company's bottom line, is it worth the hassle, etc. This is a perfectly reasonable question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we please have a defined policy of non-interpersonal workplace questions?&lt;/strong&gt; If they are off-topic there should be a clear close-reason on the topic. If on-topic they should stop being closed and we should be clearer about it in the site's help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user42272" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T07:13:36.997" Title="We tend to close questions about problems that are not interpersonal in nature" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3449" CreationDate="2015-12-17T01:27:33.267" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if our standard close reasons were more nuanced, and/or if we made the &quot;explain your the close reasons&quot; option more prominent and/or easier to tack on as a clarification of the standard choices. As 'tis, a quick shot risks not being clear. I've also run into cases where the reason seemed to be a stray click...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just ran into that last. Wanted to change the reason for my close vote. But the only options offered are to retract the vote entirely and not be able to submit the corrected one, or to leave it wrong. If you want meaningful close reasons, fix the site so it doesn't fight us when we try to improve them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastEditorUserId="12989" LastEditDate="2015-12-25T07:13:36.997" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T07:13:36.997" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3449" CreationDate="2015-12-17T08:26:22.127" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would argue that until the rise of our Benevolent Machine-lords, almost all workplace-related questions boil down to interpersonal relationships. Questions that aren't about that are vastly more likely to be off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, you've chosen poor examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/56560/is-there-a-rule-of-thumb-regarding-a-search-radius-for-job-alerts&quot;&gt;Is there a rule of thumb regarding a search radius for job alerts?&lt;/a&gt;: how is this workplace-specific? I could ask this on Expats, Travel or GIS. It's a simple math question and our core audience and user base isn't here for that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59475/should-one-leave-computers-on-at-the-end-of-the-day&quot;&gt;Should one leave computers on at the end of the day?:&lt;/a&gt; As keshlam said, this is just blatantly company-specific. The only answers that should be upvoted boil down to &quot;ask your IT department&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Close reasons have been discussed before. The major problem is that each site only has a set number of custom reasons so some have to be necessarily broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T08:26:22.127" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3434" CreationDate="2015-12-18T09:10:05.417" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens all the time on every SE site. Someone comes in and asks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I want to clean my toilet with my toothbrush. Should I use cleaning powder or gel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And he will get answers revolving around cleaning options out there, but none of the answers will really tackle the original question, because it makes no sense: it's unhygienic and impractical. Eventually the original question may get edited to reflect the actual problem the OP is facing, not the one he asked about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's up to the OP to argue and prove that his original question makes sense, if he wants that exact question answered. For example, he may state that he's trapped on an isolated island with a toothbrush plant and a limited stock of cleaning products, so answers about cleaning companies in NY are not helping him. But unless a reasonable explanation is given, none of the questions' statements should be considered set in stone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we decide that questions are sacred and should only be answered as is, the whole SE network will soon be busy figuring out how to install Windows 10 on EXT4 partition, power up a laptop using hamsters, or where to download a compiler which can solve the halting problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepting without proof that the OP suffered from gender discrimination would lead to terrible advice, like filing a complaint to HR or starting a lawsuit. It's just like suggesting that someone should soak their toothbrush in Domestos and rub his toiled with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37016" LastEditorUserId="37016" LastEditDate="2015-12-18T09:32:08.237" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T09:32:08.237" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3453" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-22T00:53:52.070" Score="2" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am asking for this question to be re - opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59702/everyone-behave-rude-and-dont-listen-to-me-because-im-working-as-qa&quot;&gt;Addressing dev team&amp;#39;s resistance to solutions suggested by QA engineer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP is frustrated due not to not being taken seriously and his / her ideas ignored. I work in a very similar field - IT Audit / compliance and have several instances similar to the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T03:13:27.947" Title="Please reopen question: Everyone Behave Rude and Don't Listen to Me" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3453" CreationDate="2015-12-22T02:54:39.843" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the OP hasn't really asked an answerable question.  It's compounded by this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sorry that I don't have exact question to ask...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an edit waiting in the approval queue, but the edit seems to be inviting discussion about &lt;em&gt;multiple&lt;/em&gt; questions rather than trying to distil down the OP's issue to one single question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes I know that the OP is frustrated, but unless there is a clearly answerable question, then I very much doubt it will be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T02:54:39.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3456" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-06T10:27:56.073" Score="9" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;Riddle: &quot;Detect the visited link&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pUDSk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pUDSk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this partially depends on monitor settings and quality, but a better contrast between the colors of ordinary text and visited links would be appreciated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8036" LastEditorUserId="64476" LastEditDate="2017-02-13T18:06:28.940" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T21:50:21.853" Title="Please change the visited link color" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|hyperlinks|user-interface|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3457" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3495" CreationDate="2016-01-07T16:15:41.420" Score="9" ViewCount="450" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome to a restart of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-value-of-downvoting-or-how-hacker-news-gets-it-wrong/&quot;&gt;Broken Windows&lt;/a&gt; Review project. These posts are intended to simplify the cleanup of closed questions. By listing a number of such questions in a single meta thread, users can quickly find questions that are in need of improvement, reopening or deletion. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2891&quot;&gt;this post for details on the original Broken Windows project.&lt;/a&gt; For a list of previous entries in the series, check the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/broken-windows-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;broken-windows-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;broken-windows-review&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This review will end on January 15&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What's the goal?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Improving the site by &lt;strong&gt;reducing the number of closed questions.&lt;/strong&gt; During the review users are encouraged to use the tools available to them (edit, flag, vote to reopen, vote to delete) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The outcome of the review for a closed question can be one of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;improved&lt;/strong&gt;: this should always be the first goal, unless the question deserves deletion and edits would be wasted effort&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;reopened&lt;/strong&gt;: the question was closed unjustly or has been improved enough to be reopened&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;deleted&lt;/strong&gt;: the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/58842/when-should-i-vote-to-delete-a-question/59054#59054&quot;&gt;no longer adds &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; to the site&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;kept&lt;/strong&gt;: this should be a rare outcome but some questions should be kept closed and not deleted, such as:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;exact duplicates that are highly searchable and provide useful redirects to the parent question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions that are borderline off-topic but have high-quality anwers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Discussion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wish to start a meta discussion about one of the posts in this review, please &lt;strong&gt;use one answer below per question&lt;/strong&gt;. All further discussion of that question can be done in the comments on that answer. Please don't discuss multiple questions in a single post. This helps keep each question's discussion in one spot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Submitting a question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've found a closed question that you want to discuss during this review, please submit a link in the comments on this post. Submissions are only considered during the first days of the review. Note that questions should have been closed for at least 2 days so deletion votes can be cast and to ensure that the review process doesn't interfere with questions that are still actively being improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Submissions will no longer be accepted after January 9&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Questions for Review&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Off-topic - Company-specific / Legal&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59752/does-overtime-from-multiple-sources-stack&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59752/does-overtime-from-multiple-sources-stack&lt;/a&gt; - Deleted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59976/should-it-be-necessary-to-wear-professional-in-it-company&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59976/should-it-be-necessary-to-wear-professional-in-it-company&lt;/a&gt; - Automatically Deleted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59709/resignation-tendered&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59709/resignation-tendered&lt;/a&gt; - Deleted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Off-topic - Real questions have answers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59975/why-were-bad-at-assessing-risk&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59975/why-were-bad-at-assessing-risk&lt;/a&gt; - Automatically Deleted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Unclear&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59739/bringing-mooc-courses-coursera-udacity-etc-to-the-attention-of-managers&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59739/bringing-mooc-courses-coursera-udacity-etc-to-the-attention-of-managers&lt;/a&gt; - Deleted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;8. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/55022/advice-on-mixing-union-and-non-union-workers&quot;&gt;Advice on mixing union and non-union workers&lt;/a&gt; - Re-opened (+9)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Too broad&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;6. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59822/how-should-i-update-my-status-of-work-in-scrum&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59822/how-should-i-update-my-status-of-work-in-scrum&lt;/a&gt; - Deleted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Duplicates&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;7. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59935/how-to-ask-for-a-raise&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59935/how-to-ask-for-a-raise&lt;/a&gt; - Deleted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T16:40:20.423" Title="Broken Windows Review #5" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|broken-windows-review|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2321" CreationDate="2016-01-08T15:41:34.780" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be a little more general than the question (which I guess may immediately get me attacked as being non-responsive to the exact question): When should we question the premise of a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the premise has some minor technical flaw, one could of course just correct the flaw and move on to an answer. Like if someone asked, &quot;Since unemployment rose to 8% in April, how should my company ...&quot; If unemployment really hit 8% in March, you might say, &quot;Actually it reached that level in March but ...&quot; and then go on to answer the question. A response like, &quot;Your question is unanswerable because unemployment did not 'rise to 8%' in April&quot; is unhelpful and unnecessary. (Assuming there is not some reason why the date is critical.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One can easily imagine a question based on a flawed premise that makes a direct answer worthless. Like, &quot;Now that Congress has abolished H1B visas, am I still required to provide English lessons for foreign-born workers?&quot; As Congress has not abolished H1B visas and employers never were required to provide English lessons, it's difficult to see how one could give a direct answer to the question that would have any meaning at all. The only meaningful or useful answer would be to point out the flawed premise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then you get questions like this one. &quot;How do I do foo the bar?&quot;, when fooing is (in the opinion of the person answering) a bad idea. I think opinions on this are likely to be tainted by one's own opinion of whether it is a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose someone asked, &quot;My co-worker is rude to me and I hate him. How can I get him fired?&quot; Would you really insist that the only valid, acceptable answers are those that discuss how to spread vicious rumors, make false accusations, sabotage his work, etc? Or would a good answer be one that explains why this is a bad idea, perhaps offers suggestions for getting along with co-workers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14073" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T15:41:34.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3457" CreationDate="2016-01-08T17:51:44.080" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59752/does-overtime-from-multiple-sources-stack&quot;&gt;Does overtime from multiple sources stack?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems like a legit close to me.  This seems to be a clear request for interpretation of a specific labor law.  I beleive that is definitely within the scope of an off topic legal question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T21:03:23.007" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3457" CreationDate="2016-01-09T19:32:11.540" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. Bringing &quot;MOOC&quot; courses (Coursera, Udacity etc) to the attention of managers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one seems pretty clear to me, and has two viable answers despite being &quot;closed as unclear&quot; after waiting less than a day. Rather impatient, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps others were confused, but if I were king of the world, I'd open it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T19:32:11.540" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3457" CreationDate="2016-01-09T19:33:46.393" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8. Advice on mixing union and non-union workers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one isn't closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T19:33:46.393" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3457" CreationDate="2016-01-09T19:38:19.740" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. How should I update my status of work in scrum?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was closed in about 9 hours. Perhaps there should be a cooling off period before questions can be closed? (shrug)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one has several answers, too. All four answers essentially focused on the same thought. So at least for that short period the question seemingly wasn't too broad at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T19:38:19.740" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3457" CreationDate="2016-01-09T19:42:52.630" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7. How to ask for a raise?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question seems to have been asked and answered many times. Since this particular instance has absolutely no answers (and thus there can be no value keeping it around), it should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T19:42:52.630" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3464" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-10T19:52:11.297" Score="-1" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just don't see how the close reason presented applies to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/60369/42272&quot;&gt;Arguing the use of a program that&amp;#39;s not the company standard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question quoted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently joined a new company, and in my previous company, I've been working with my Vim/Tmux workflow. But in new company, they say that I need to follow company standards, and one of the company standards is to use Sublime Text Editor with a few configurations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I'd really like to continue with my Vim/Tmux workflow, as I'm quite fast at it. So how should I communicate with them to resolve this thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: Vim can surely be configured like Sublime would have been configured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Real questions have answers. Rather than explaining why your situation is terrible, or why your boss/coworker makes you unhappy, explain what you want to do to make it better. For more information, click here.&amp;quot; – gnat, The Wandering Dev Manager, Lego Stormtroopr&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reaction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;?????&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;How should I communicate with them to resolve this thing?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This couldn't be further from the actual content of the question. What's going on here? Is the question bad and our close reasons are just sorely out of sync with our site's standards? Or was this foolishly closed (see: the number of real answers - although high pretty proportional to the question's attention - and the number of upvotes on the question as well as on many of the answers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user42272" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T12:23:00.687" Title="Explanation of how the close reason relates to the question" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3464" CreationDate="2016-01-12T12:06:07.670" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So how should I communicate with them to resolve this thing? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As one of the voters, the issue to me is this.   The idea is not to ask advice (we're not agony aunts),  but as gnat says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;explain what you want to do to make it better&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The poster should write up their intentions,  and any advice should be on improving that (or saying why that's a bad idea),  which can then be up/down voted by the membership to get a consensus .   By just saying &quot;what do I do?&quot; you can end up with multiple answers,  none more valid than any other and no help to the poster. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important to get the poster involved there will always be subtleties that haven't been included,  and the idea is to help the poster reach their own conclusion while providing help to others who may come later in the same position.   A blanket &quot;do this&quot; is likely wrong in most people's situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another part of this was that the question was posted as &quot;I want to do things my way,  how do I make them see what I want&quot;.   Like it or loathe it company standards exist for a reason (in a case like this usually for licencing,  but also consistency in config management/support etc),  and the poster only makes a case of &quot;because I prefer it&quot;.   For all we know there is good reason why the company uses one tool (setup/working with other tools),  and it may be this was reached via a company consensus,  in which case it's better for the poster to become proficient in that than continue with what they are used to. Again these facts may come out as part of the poster suggesting an answer,  but will become a commentfest otherwise,  which is suboptimal.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands the answer would be &quot;tell them why it's worthwhile adding/changing to this tool,  what the company/team benefits by doing this and how the poster will mitigate the risks of doing it&quot;,  all pretty generic,  anything about the specific tools would move it back to off topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4937" LastEditorUserId="4937" LastEditDate="2016-01-12T12:23:00.687" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T12:23:00.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3466" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-13T17:19:16.903" Score="1" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/60570/it-companies-asking-documents-of-employee-when-they-join&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; about an employer keeping the documentation given to them by a successful candidate has been put on hold.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What the op is asking seems very clear to me , although his English is a bit broken : can he asks his employer to get his diploma and other documentation back during the time of his employment (vs getting it only at the end of the contract). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simple grammar editing would have been sufficient. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the rationale for putting on hold and not simply edit it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8953" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T16:45:46.687" Title="Why is this question about an employer keeping an employee documentation put on hold?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3466" CreationDate="2016-01-13T17:36:22.850" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me the rationale was that I had no clue if there was a question embedded in there or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The phrase &quot;can i claim them to give them to me during my tenure?&quot; was added after I voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you can do some simple grammar editing, and we could vote to reopen the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T17:36:22.850" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3466" CreationDate="2016-01-14T09:13:00.557" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thing is,  I saw it before it was closed,  and had considered giving a hand to the wording,  but to be honest I think the outcome would be off topic as company specific. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is likely to be that the poster can ask,  however it depends on the company (although I'd assume if this is common the answer would likely be no), which although answers the question doesn't really promote the discussion that is the basis of the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4937" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T09:13:00.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3466" CreationDate="2016-01-14T16:45:46.687" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What's the rationale for putting on hold and not simply edit it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't like to waste my time.&lt;/strong&gt; We &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; guess at the OP's intent and try to salvage a question out of the mess that was posted. &lt;strong&gt;But why should we?&lt;/strong&gt; The majority of really low-quality questions are fire-and-forgot: the OP is never seen again. Questions that are both poor in content and poorly written are confusing, often duplicates, very often off-topic and almost always add no value to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The unclear close vote is a sign to the OP that he should improve his question or comment with additional details so we can establish:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what his question is&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;whether it's on-topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Only then should we actually proceed to improving the question and voting to re-open.&lt;/strong&gt; The reason the question closes in the meantime is to prevent answers that aren't answers which end up restricting our ability to redefine the question. This is how the close system is supposed to work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252677/when-is-it-justifiable-to-downvote-a-question&quot;&gt;the words of Denis de Bernardy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please stop being a care bear, and proceed to be harsher at once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that Stackexchange is not a help forum, it's supposed to be a repository of useful Q&amp;amp;A. Anything that isn't of use to future readers and can't be salvaged should summarily closed and downvoted. Workplace has a huge problem with user being too welcoming or defensive of bad posts. The subject matter has a lot to do with that: in most questions we're discussing people's livelihood after all. &lt;strong&gt;But you can be kind and welcoming to new users while still respecting the Q&amp;amp;A framework and without encouraging bad posts.&lt;/strong&gt; Comment on the question to explain to the OP why his post is a bad fit or unclear but vote to close it at the same time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252677/when-is-it-justifiable-to-downvote-a-question&quot;&gt;As inspired by Denis de Bernardy&lt;/a&gt;, this is what you should be doing for poor questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unintelligible question? &lt;strong&gt;Close as unclear.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can't find a question? &lt;strong&gt;Close as unclear.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can't tell what the core question is? &lt;strong&gt;Close as unclear.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Too many questions? &lt;strong&gt;Close as too broad.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just a rant? &lt;strong&gt;Close as off-topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A close vote is not a super down vote, but must close votes should be accompanied by a downvote!&lt;/strong&gt; This allows the system to automatically clean up closed questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:33:56.937" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T16:45:46.687" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3470" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-15T03:32:27.040" Score="6" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's 2016 now, and we've &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272563/were-standardizing-the-sidebar-width-at-300px-on-all-sites&quot;&gt;made some changes to the sidebar size&lt;/a&gt;. As such, we can now restart the Community Promotion Ads for 2016!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind, we have updated some of the guidelines compared to previously - the changes are marked in bold in the Image Requirements section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;at-the-office story blogs &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;300 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of &lt;strong&gt;150 KB&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/3470&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T14:43:53.230" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2016" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3470" CreationDate="2016-01-15T03:32:27.040" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/StackWorkplace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DGvra.png&quot; alt=&quot;Help this community grow -- follow us on twitter!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T03:32:27.040" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3472" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-22T16:40:56.760" Score="2" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;We seem to get questions like this fairly regularly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/60905&quot;&gt;How to reach people from R&amp;amp;D industry departments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm currently looking for a job in pharma-biotech industry. What is the normal path to contact them? I've noticed people is normally not listed in their company webpages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The theme is usually the same: people want to apply at Company X and are trying to find contact details for department managers or HR to send in a resume, bypass an application process, find ways for their application to stand out (as if it's a good thing) and so on. I expect we'll have a question on where to send a Singing Telegram or carrier pigeon before long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers on these questions always tend to boil down to the same thing: apply for open positions by following the company's hiring process, don't go through back-channels (unless you have a close contact in the company who can vouch for you), send blind resume submissions through established channels or to HR, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It seems like it would be useful to have a general reference question with comprehensive answers so these kinds of questions can be closed as duplicates and answers combined in one location.&lt;/strong&gt; Your thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related Meta: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/63762/do-reference-questions-make-sense&quot;&gt;Do &amp;quot;reference questions&amp;quot; make sense?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T18:28:10.473" Title="Should we have a generic &quot;How do I job search / apply for a job?&quot; question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3472" CreationDate="2016-01-22T22:41:29.813" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;No thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generic questions don't work well on this site. After all, we're not Wikipedia. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So just sit back, relax, let these questions come in and, if necessary, we'll close them as duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy your weekend!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T22:41:29.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3472" CreationDate="2016-01-25T18:28:10.473" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those questions are too broad to be of use to many people.  Job searches vary greatly depending on your field of expertise, and how to apply depends on the company, region, and industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what you are trying to do is create a question that will help answer everyone's question well, but what results is a Question/Answers that are marginally useful in many situations, but completely useless and off base in others.  Then a good portion of the community wants to rubber stamp closing as duplicate any question that might have the slightest bit of overlap.  This results in the outliers not getting answers at all and being turned off by the whole process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The better option is to wait until the questions come in that are not duplicates, then edit them to be more useful to a wider audience as necessary and appropriate.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T18:28:10.473" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3476" CreationDate="2016-01-27T11:58:15.587" Score="4" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12173/how-do-you-explain-to-your-boss-theyre-wrong-without-making-them-feel-threatene&quot;&gt;How do you explain to your boss they&amp;#39;re wrong without making them feel threatened?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a pretty old question, dating back to June 2013. It got a lot of traction and is now up to 15 answers. But the weird thing I'm seeing is that it was converted into a Community Wiki question two days after being posted, as seen in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/12173/revisions&quot;&gt;Revision history&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This conversion was presumably automatic because it says it was done by a new user who posted an answer on the question at the same time (18:48).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm wondering why this conversion triggered. As I understand it, none of the conditions for automatic wiki were met (30 answers, 10+ edits on a single post)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; it may be due to a lower CW limit for smaller sites. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/the-future-of-community-wiki/#comment_19&quot;&gt;This comment&lt;/a&gt; on a blog post mention a 15 answer trigger for SuperUser, but I can't find any sources to back this up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T19:59:28.530" Title="Why was this question automatically made into a community wiki?" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3475" CreationDate="2016-01-27T19:59:28.530" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back when automatic conversion to community wiki was a thing, the threshold on The Workplace was &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1659/325&quot;&gt;set to 15&lt;/a&gt; rather than the 30 seen on much of the rest of the network.  See the discussion there for the background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T19:59:28.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3477" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-28T09:54:33.513" Score="8" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposal: merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unprofessional-behavior&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unprofessional-behavior&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unprofessional-behavior&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/professionalism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;professionalism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;professionalism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former currently has 81 questions while the latter is up to 1360.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was originally brought up by Monica in her answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3331/25739&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I do not understand why &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unprofessional-behavior&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unprofessional-behavior&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unprofessional-behavior&lt;/a&gt; exists, and had not previously noticed it. The 58 questions with this tag cover a wide range of behaviors, many not involving harassment. Many of them are also tagged professionalism. The unprofessional-behavior tag should be merged into professionalism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3330/request-to-merge-3-tags-unprofessional-behavior-harassment-and-sexual-harass#comment7689_3331&quot;&gt;originally disagreed&lt;/a&gt; with her assesment in the comments, but now find that I actually agree with the suggested merge, ironically after posting &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/61175/is-whispering-at-work-unprofessional&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; with both tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3330/request-to-merge-3-tags-unprofessional-behavior-harassment-and-sexual-harass#comment7720_3331&quot;&gt;follow-up comment&lt;/a&gt; was probably the result of a mismatch between my idea about how tags should be used versus how they are actually used. While in an ideal world, both tags should have different questions and be useful on their own, &lt;strong&gt;in the interest of clarity I suggest that these tags should be merged.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:45:38.337" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:45:38.337" Title="Merge Tags: professionalism and unprofessional-behavior" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3477" CreationDate="2016-01-28T17:12:21.973" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sort of behind this. However quite a few of the questions with the Unprofessional-Behavior tag should just have that tag removed.  They are not about professionalism at all.  So before the tag is merge someone should probably go through and remove the tag from those questions where it does not belong in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit It appears most of the ones I had problems with have been cleaned up and I am in support of the merge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T19:04:17.837" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T19:04:17.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3479" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-29T14:15:04.353" Score="3" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;The past couple of days I've been experiencing bugs in how the workplace displays.  These have been especially bad when trying to edit or vote for closure.  I've tried to attach a screen shot but am also unable to get that feature to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the process for reporting a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26235" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T14:38:13.947" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T14:45:36.153" Title="Process for reporting text display bug" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3479" CreationDate="2016-01-29T14:40:14.927" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You create a new question on meta and tag it with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accordingly I've changed the tag on this question as it &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; a bug report. Please resubmit your bug with the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt; tag and include steps on how to reproduce etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the bug is not specific to this site or its meta, it should be reported on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;main StackExchange meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Very few, if any, actual bugs should be specific to a single site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further reading:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/188266/how-do-i-report-a-bug-related-to-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;How do I report a bug related to Stack Exchange?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/111070/how-does-one-report-a-bug-in-stack-overflow-html&quot;&gt;How does one report a bug in Stack Overflow HTML?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/285740/how-can-i-report-a-bug-in-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How can I report a bug in Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Security issues&lt;/strong&gt; should not be posted publicly but reported to the network administrators directly from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;contact page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T14:45:36.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3477" CreationDate="2016-01-30T13:34:05.380" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It makes sense. &quot;unprofessional behavior&quot; is basically the anti-tag to &quot;professionalism&quot;. There's no need to have both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, fewer tags is better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T13:34:05.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3482" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-01T10:25:59.887" Score="12" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposal: merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quitting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quitting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quitting&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resignation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resignation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resignation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quitting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quitting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quitting&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions&lt;/strong&gt;: 160&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tag Info&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Questions about leaving one's job&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resignation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resignation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resignation&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions&lt;/strong&gt;: 301&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tag Info&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;For questions dealing with the voluntary parting of ways with a company. Questions can pertain to proper procedures to follow, etiquette for giving notice, or any other concerns relating to resignation. Note: questions in the style of &quot;Should I resign...&quot; are out of scope for Workplace.SE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quitting+resignation&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions tagged with both&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: 19&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quitting seems like an obvious synonym to resigning. I can't imagine substantially different interpretations. Users most likely tag their question with whichever of the two comes to mind first. Quite a few of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quitting?sort=votes&amp;amp;pageSize=30&quot;&gt;top-voted questions for the quitting tag&lt;/a&gt; are dual-tagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In my opinion, the quitting tag serves no useful purpose and it should be merged into the resignation tag and set as a synonym.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:45:14.257" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:45:14.257" Title="Tag Merge: quitting and resignation" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3483" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-02T10:13:01.100" Score="-11" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mean, come on. How do I ask my manager for time off? How long should I wait before decorating my desk? How do I follow up an email that just says &quot;thank you&quot;? My colleagues have too much fun! What should I do? How can I ask my boss to leave two minutes early?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there's a really thick line between genuine workplace related scenarios and just basic common sense. Not even that - Basic human interaction. Some questions leave me laughing at just how childish they are, and some of the thoughtfully typed out replies that accompany them. Surely a prerequisite for many jobs is to be able to type out an email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope I'm not the only one that feels this cuddlecakes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37082" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T11:48:35.923" Title="Some questions surely must be a joke" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3483" CreationDate="2016-02-02T12:30:39.050" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would have thought it was basic common sense to not assume everyone else in the world has had the same life experiences you have. And that it was common sense not to judge or mock people for having experienced a different life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a friend who for his entire childhood had parents who didn't work consistently, lived on government benefits, and did not really parent him at all. He has no idea how to apply for jobs, what normal work conduct is, or all the basics about the job process. Let alone how to interact with managers. How do you expect a person like that to learn your &quot;common sense&quot; about the working world - a world that is as alien to him as a completely different culture, with a language you did not know. It is &quot;common sense&quot; for everyone there to be able to navigate the cultural questions - would you mock someone for not being able to do that effective? It sure would be &quot;common sense&quot; for those living there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things are &quot;common sense&quot; to you because of your life experience(s). Consider that others may not share your life experiences (shocking, I know, but this is one of the most common misunderstandings when people mock/demean/judge others, such as your post here). Many people have no workplace experience or role models in their entire life, had uninvolved parents, or are just super nervous given the importance of their job. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, considering how many people see employee/manager relationships as a clear power hierarchy, where the manager/employer has all the power, it only makes sense people would have uncertainty navigating those relationships. Especially for early career people or those in countries without much or any employee protection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't this all common sense? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T12:30:39.050" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3483" CreationDate="2016-02-02T21:22:15.357" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I do laugh to myself after reading some of the questions here, I don't see much value in derision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One motto I learned at my workplace many years ago, and which I try to apply here is &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Assume positive intent&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, I either try to either answer the question in a helpful manner, without regard to my feelings about the question, or I don't answer it at all and use the other mechanisms (like downvoting or voting to delete) we have at our disposal here at The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T21:22:15.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3477" CreationDate="2016-02-03T06:33:03.680" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think they should be merged. They overlap, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unprofessional-behavior&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unprofessional-behavior&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unprofessional-behavior&lt;/a&gt; is mostly about dealing with unprofessional behavior. Implicitly, presumably the OP would like to deal with the unprofessional behavior in a professional way, but that's vacuous as any poster wants to handle any problem in the workplace in a professional way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Professionalism is a good tag but &lt;em&gt;barely&lt;/em&gt;, for exactly the above reason: it's an implicit issue in so many questions. I would definitely not expunge a &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; tag in favor of a general one that may even get too big.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unprofessional-behavior&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unprofessional-behavior&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unprofessional-behavior&lt;/a&gt; seems to be used correctly (at least by way of my understanding) for most questions. Some questions of varying quality to which the tag is applied:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/60888/inappropriate-comments-by-coworkers-about-new-hire&quot;&gt;Inappropriate comments by coworkers about new hire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/60874/under-what-circumstances-is-it-permissable-to-stay-overnight-in-the-office&quot;&gt;Under what circumstances is it permissable to stay overnight in the office?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59983/dealing-with-a-co-worker-with-a-farting-problem&quot;&gt;Dealing with a co-worker with a farting problem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first and third are about behavior that is definitely unprofessional and has occurred. This is a good use of the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second was closed because it's actually a legal question, but let's go with it for now. The question is about behavior that the OP feels is probably unprofessional but they have questions about it anyway. If the tag were replaced with a hypothetical &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/transporation-issues&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transporation-issues&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transporation-issues&lt;/a&gt; the question, based on title and tags, would actually be different: perhaps the OP feels sleeping in the office is perfectly professional but wonders if other logistical issues will arise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag adds meaning and value. The title itself could use some work, but that only makes good tagging for novice title-writers all the more valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the tag makes sense and is adding value. It is used correctly often enough, IMO not too differently from other tags or for the relative question quality within the tag. The tag is more specific than the rather large &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/professionalism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;professionalism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;professionalism&lt;/a&gt; tag. I think this is a strong case for keeping it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user42272" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T06:33:03.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3487" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-03T18:41:12.920" Score="1" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/61431/16&quot;&gt;How can I tell when I&amp;#39;m working on a Sinking Ship?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is a broken window.  I know it is very popular but it is a bad question by SE Standards and the answers, while not bad are not backed up they are just a list of potential problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we please have this question deleted before it creates more problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T02:58:44.650" Title="Recent Broken window" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3487" CreationDate="2016-02-03T21:10:43.960" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the exposure and the good reception of the question, &lt;strong&gt;this should instead receive a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126587/what-is-a-historical-lock-and-what-is-it-used-for&quot;&gt;historical lock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, not a deletion. While the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/questions?tab=hot&quot;&gt;HNQ&lt;/a&gt; is largely at fault here, we can't deny that the question is popular and has some good, nearly comprehensive questions despite it being a typical list question / popularity poll. &lt;strong&gt;Locking would make it clear that this type of question is unsuitable for the site while preserving useful content.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also make sure that users don't waste effort on answering as &quot;better&quot; answers are unlikely to overcome the current votes. But that is arguably a problem of the HNQ and probably not what historical locks are intended for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one criterion for a historical lock that it perhaps doesn't meet is that the question is being actively maintained, but it's unlikely to be edited into a form that better suits our format as that would probably invalidate existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T21:10:43.960" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3487" CreationDate="2016-02-04T04:53:00.050" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree that it is a bad question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is something that I wish someone had shown me 20 years ago.  I would have really appreciated knowing what to look for on a couple of occasions when I was younger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that there is a tendency to believe this is a &quot;grocery list&quot; question, but it is not asking for &quot;What is the best tool to ...&quot; or &quot;What is the best thing to buy.&quot;  It is asking what an employee could notice to indicate there is a problem with their company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it should be &quot;locked&quot; to keep others from dog-piling on with their individual situations, but it is a VERY valid topic of discussion for Workplace, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, your (Chad's) criticism of my answer indicates that you have not grocked the context of the question.  This answer is from MY EXPERIENCE of indicators that things at a company are going bad, and I said so (although pithily) in my intro.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9264" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T04:53:00.050" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3491" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-04T21:22:33.447" Score="6" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;By chance I noticed this rather odd tag: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/workplace-rhythm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;workplace-rhythm&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;workplace-rhythm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this a useful tag; its certainly not a term I have ever heard used in the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19290" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:44:48.923" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:44:48.923" Title="Remove low quality tag &quot;Workplace Rythm&quot;" Tags="|discussion|tags|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3491" CreationDate="2016-02-05T03:01:15.180" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow, never noticed that one before.  I don't know what that means either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently 25 questions with this tag.  They'll need to be reviewed to answer these questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there some other tag that all of these questions should have instead of this one?  If so, we can merge the tag into that other one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does this tag add &lt;em&gt;zero value&lt;/em&gt; and does every question also have at least one other tag?  If so, we can request that it be nuked, though at only 25 questions they might tell us to just delete it from the questions instead.  (If so, do that in a few batches, not all at once.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is the answer different for different questions?  If so, those questions will need to be edited individually to adjust tags.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T03:01:15.180" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3482" CreationDate="2016-02-07T20:18:36.727" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope these will be merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are, as Chad points out, shades of difference between quitting and resigning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't think our userbase makes that distinction when they're applying tags. Eyeballing them, I see answers&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;with both tags, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tagged resignation (not quitting) using the word quit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tagged quitting (not resignation) using the word resign&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the point of tags is to be useful for finding related questions and in almost all conceivable cases, the OP is considering both handing in their resignation and quitting the job, rather than doing one and not the other.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot see a use case for keeping them separate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="610" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T20:18:36.727" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3487" CreationDate="2016-02-09T02:58:44.650" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, a lot of people have a ton of perspectives on this - I think one way everyone can win is making edits as necessary to improve questions. Especially for marginal questions, relatively small edits can make a huge difference. A marginal or even poorly received question can have a significant difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2173/2322&quot;&gt;jmac made a great post about this&lt;/a&gt; and I think it's a good perspective still. Ultimately people here want answers to their questions. In many cases, us regular users can make small edits to make that more clear. Or sometimes more significant edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also voting can help, right now the question is closed with 0 reopen and 0 delete votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been thinking about this a fair bit. This is a good example of a question which fits the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quite useful to the Internet as a whole&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is quite simple&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Somewhat broad and &quot;give me a list&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think that it is an ok question because it is asking for information to be &lt;em&gt;used&lt;/em&gt; to make a decision. It isn't asking for &quot;is my company failing?&quot; or &quot;can you tell me if I'm going to lose my job&quot; -- these would require a crystal ball. I do think that there are many characteristics of companies which can be described in a useful fashion, such as done by the answers there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, it is helpful to have a good post to point to for &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; related questions - we seem to get a lot of questions here actually asking for the crystal ball to answer &quot;are we going to run out of money?&quot; and those are not really answerable. Having a good duplicate target is better than closing in those cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is somewhat list based, but I think in this case it is an entirely reasonable list type of question - it's asking for information regarding what factors to evaluate to determine workplace financial viability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately though, the main reason I think it is a decent question is because I can easily imagine a different and more lengthy question which would essentially boil down to the same core question. Such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My company is having some problems getting my paycheck to me on time&#xA;  and I'm beginning to question whether they are actually financially&#xA;  solvent. It seems weird that they would have this problem because for&#xA;  the first several years I have worked here, we have had no problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know there are legitimate reasons this could be the case, but I am&#xA;  concerned my company is actually close to financial collapse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What other things I should be looking for in order to understand&#xA;  whether they are in a position financially to remain? Perhaps other&#xA;  warning signs or characteristics which would suggest I will be out of&#xA;  an employer soon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this question still somewhat suffers from the &quot;list&quot; problem, it is a viable question in my opinion - but the core question is still the same. It's just wordier and prettier, but ultimately the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T02:58:44.650" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3457" CreationDate="2016-02-09T16:40:20.423" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This review has now ended.&lt;/strong&gt; All &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/55022/advice-on-mixing-union-and-non-union-workers&quot;&gt;but one&lt;/a&gt; of the questions involved was deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T16:40:20.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3496" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-09T22:09:35.003" Score="9" ViewCount="381" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/61765/how-to-deal-with-co-workers-expressing-opinions-that-i-find-offensive&quot;&gt;How to deal with co-workers expressing opinions that I find offensive?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is question likely about to close.  I get that people find the OPs stance unpleasant however the root of the question seems to be solidly on topic for this site IMO.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Coworkers say thing that I find offensive.  How do can handle it?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it okay to strip out all of the objectionable content to try and pre-empt a hate close?  It seems that most of the answers would be invalidated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question on this theme has been asked before but the only answer was inconclusive.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3123/heavily-edit-question-that-is-about-to-be-closed&quot;&gt;Heavily edit question that is about to be closed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T04:54:47.197" Title="Seemingly valid question closing due to unpopular view expressed by the OP. How far can an edit go?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3496" CreationDate="2016-02-09T22:34:42.863" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it all started going downhill when the OP&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mentioned calling Child Services&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Brought religious beliefs into it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the original post was pretty rant-ish didn't do the OP any favors either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, for one, tried to stay on message and answer the question objectively, however the OP's comments definitely seemed to me like the OP was not really looking for an answer so much as validation for his/her views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;is it okay to strip out all of the objectionable content&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say yes, except that the OP didn't seem inclined to want to allow the issue to regress to a more neutral position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that point it's unrealistic to expect that people's answers are not going to be influenced by the comment conversation taking place. I personally think that that particular question is better off closed simply due to the fact that the OP did not allow the issue to be generalized. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;can't fight&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; the OP on this sort of thing and end up in an edit war. Either the OP accepts that their claims are contentious and have to be toned down, or you simply close the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43772" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T22:34:42.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3496" CreationDate="2016-02-09T23:56:05.137" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to note that this particular OP has a history of questions about controversial topics and either has an extremely erratic workplace or is making it all up. If it wasn't such an old account I'd have thought her a troll by now. If we consider the incredibly entitled attitude, the extraordinarily offended tone she brings to her posts and the story-like way in which she reproduces entire conversations (very evident &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/61360/is-this-response-from-management-to-a-casual-harassment-claim-appropriate&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), I grow more and more convinced that these questions are made up or that she's blowing things way out of proportion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, SE's model is not about judging users but their posts. The problems with this latest post are many: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's asking for generic advice and OP doesn't specify what she wants to accomplish: a moratorium on freedom of expression? shutting down inappropriate jokes? outlawing workplace chatter?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;very poor choice of tone and language&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;dragging religion into the question &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bordering on asking for legal advice with the mention of a hostile work environment and child protective services &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;potentially a duplicate of any number of older questions like  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/6750/how-to-deal-with-insensitive-humor-in-the-office?lq=1&quot;&gt;How to deal with insensitive humor in the office?&lt;/a&gt; and it's linked questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By now this question is too controversial and fragmented to be of use as a generic &quot;How do I deal with offensive remarks?&quot; question. All 5 of the currently posted answers are basically attacks on the OP and most should probably have been comments. Given the OP's past and present behaviour and the remarks AndreiROM raised I agree with his conclusion that this question is likely impossible to salvage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your broader question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it okay to strip out all of the objectionable content to try and pre-empt a hate close? It seems that most of the answers would be invalidated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fluff can always be cut, but it's tricky when an objectionable attitude or opinion lies at the root of a question. Stripping a question completely to boil it down to a general question is almost always going to lead to edit wars. Those edits always change the author's intent which makes them automatic candidates for a roll-back leading to a whole lot of drama. Once a question is submitted the author opens it up for edits. Strictly speaking our Q&amp;amp;A format favours the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeathOfTheAuthor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;death of the author&lt;/a&gt;&quot; but in practice this site in particular prefers to make sure that the question remains useful to the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SOP in this cases like this should be to &lt;strong&gt;downvote&lt;/strong&gt; if the question isn't useful, &lt;strong&gt;close vote&lt;/strong&gt; if it matches the criteria for a close, &lt;strong&gt;attempt to improve&lt;/strong&gt; the question alongside the OP and finally &lt;strong&gt;decide to reopen or leave it closed&lt;/strong&gt;. If you think of a useful generic question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3127/25739&quot;&gt;post it yourself&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, I rarely see &quot;hate close votes&quot; on this site. Keep in mind that questions that hit the 5 close votes aren't immediately closed but put &lt;em&gt;on hold&lt;/em&gt; and this should not be considered a punishment but a signal that the question needs to be improved. Once it's improved and a scope and core question is established it can be reopened so that useful answers can be submitted. If anything, our community is too reluctant to close vote at times when both the OP and people looking to answer would be better served by first defining a clear scope for the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T23:56:05.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3496" CreationDate="2016-02-10T01:11:05.523" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;General answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible to constructively ask questions that demonstrate an unpopular view.  We've had them before.  We usually struggle with them first, as people focus on &lt;em&gt;the unpopular view&lt;/em&gt; (e.g. opposite-gender handshakes) instead of &lt;em&gt;the workplace question&lt;/em&gt; (how to adjust one's work practices to dodge the issue).  So, in a case where there's a reasonable question hiding inside of a post with distractions, it's ok to edit to focus the question.  In the best case we get an answerable question (without the argument) and the OP gets an answer.  When a question has already been put on hold, we should &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2173/325&quot;&gt;edit to allow reopening even if the edits are aggressive&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP might object to the edits, of course.  If the question should be closed without the edit and the OP rolls back the edit, then we should reclose.  With luck, the edit was accompanied by a polite explanatory comment and the OP wants an answer more than the distractions, but it doesn't always work out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The constructive parts of this question are very similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/1595/325&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (h/t Joe Strazzere for finding it).  They're not identical; the OP here just doesn't like what her coworkers are saying, while on the other question a group is being targeted.  The answers are going to be similar, but we should evaluate duplicates on the questions, not the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The existing answers on the current question (on hold at this writing) would, in my estimation, survive an edit to remove the reasons for the objection.  At its core this question is: my coworkers are expressing opinions with which I strongly disagree; I have to work with these people; how can I make it better?  An edit to reduce it to that, and cross-referencing the question found by Joe, could reasonably be considered for reopening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T01:11:05.523" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3501" CreationDate="2016-02-10T20:43:30.030" Score="2" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier today I answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/61814/someone-keeps-moving-the-stuff-on-my-desk/61816#61816&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/61816/revisions&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; removed my final paragraph, with the comment that I'm giving advice on how to get away with an illegal activity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I don't think my advice is out of line, and I also feel that the edit is removing an important piece of my answer. Perhaps not the &quot;meat&quot; of it, but still something that I wrote and stand by. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that if the community takes issue with my opinion the answer should be down-voted, or commented on, not edited by someone who does not agree and has the reputation to impose his opinion on my post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I in the wrong to think that this edit was out of line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43772" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T23:16:17.997" Title="An Edit That I Don't Agree With" Tags="|discussion|aggressive-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3500" CreationDate="2016-02-10T21:31:21.633" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If somebody edits your work in a way that changes its meaning or removes content you feel is important to your answer, then you as the author get the final say.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;  If you think the edit was well-intentioned but missed the mark, and if the editor left clues (comment or revision summary), see if you can address whatever it was that made that person edit in the first place.  But if it's a case where you just disagree (looks like that's the case here), you're free to roll back.  Objections to an answer can be lodged through votes, constructive comments, meta discussions, or in extreme cases deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's for &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;em&gt;Questions&lt;/em&gt; affect more people, so the community is generally allowed to exert more pressure there, e.g. to edit out rants that overwhelm the actual question.  I can't really be more precise there (I think we all play that somewhat by ear); I'm just pointing out that the cases are a little different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; The one exception to this, which doesn't apply here, is if somebody edited out content that a reasonable person would find offensive, abusive, or otherwise inappropriate -- content that would otherwise lead to the post's deletion. Since editing is a smaller change than deletion, people might try that if the rest of the post seems worth keeping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T21:31:21.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3483" CreationDate="2016-02-11T11:42:26.237" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think about whether the question lacks common sense very much. Most of the people around me seem to lack common sense in way way or another, and probably think the same of me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do try not to do the long winded explanations, but sometimes my typing gets out of control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty new here though, still feeling my way around, I promise to read all the guidelines one day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T11:48:35.923" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T11:48:35.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3503" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-12T22:19:53.567" Score="-1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw incendiary reviews of Hired! at &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.openviewpartners.com/hired-com-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.openviewpartners.com/hired-com-review/&lt;/a&gt; , and suspect that there others, but would love to see some SE types give the good, the bad, and the ugly of seeking employment via Hired! The obvious problem is that the obvious ways I see of asking would be begging to be closed as subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The obvious response I see is an LMGTFY link, but is there any way I can post a question on the non-meta site to identify how good, bad, or ugly Hired! is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8198" LastActivityDate="2016-02-13T13:53:59.827" Title="Is there a legitimate way to ask how good / bad Hired! is without being subjective?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3503" CreationDate="2016-02-13T13:53:59.827" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are asking for opinions (about Hired!). By the rules of this community, that is off-topic by definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-02-13T13:53:59.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3496" CreationDate="2016-02-14T13:34:43.107" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also focusing on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it okay to strip out all of the objectionable content to try and&#xA;  pre-empt a hate close? It seems that most of the answers would be&#xA;  invalidated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking as an answerer: While it's annoying to spend time crafting an answer and have it become obsolete, keeping obsolete answer doesn't serve the site's longterm goals well. I'd like to see a mechanism that informed answerers when questions change substantially and encouraged us to reconsider our responses for possible editing or removal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might also be appropriate for SE to visually flag answers that predate a substantial edit, so readers are aware that the answer may be a less than perfect fit for the question as it now appears and should be considered in that light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other approach that occurs to me would be for substantial edits to automatically hide existing answers and ask authors to check for applicability and before making them visible again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course these require changes to SE itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastEditorUserId="12989" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T04:54:47.197" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T04:54:47.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3506" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-15T15:01:32.080" Score="12" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/62104/can-i-write-a-linkedin-recommendation-for-a-mentor&quot;&gt;Can I write a LinkedIn recommendation for a mentor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are questions about how to use LinkedIn on-topic here?&#xA;If so, are questions about how to use other websites (say, Facebook or Twitter) also on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it matter that the individuals potentially being connected via LinkedIn don't work together (and at least one may not even be in the workplace at all, and may be a student)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the product in question weren't a website, but rather was a product like Word or Excel, would it matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just trying to understand how far The Workplace should go to help people use websites/products/etc ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now this one about using LinkedIn is off-topic?&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/63160/linkedin-privacy-who-viewed-my-profile&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/63160/linkedin-privacy-who-viewed-my-profile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-03-09T02:03:01.840" Title="Are questions about how to use LinkedIn on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3506" CreationDate="2016-02-15T15:31:05.330" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is trickier than it might seem. My thoughts, which are totally undecided at this point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about the &lt;em&gt;mechanics&lt;/em&gt; of LinkedIn would be off topic&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I update my profile?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I get LinkedIn to stop stalking everyone I know?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about how to use LinkedIn when interacting with coworkers/colleagues seems like it would be on topic&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to ask for recommendations?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Etiquette of when to connect with people, etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That seems reasonable, though I will admit I'm not sure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The line between &quot;how do these sites work&quot; and &quot;how do I use them when navigating the workplace&quot; is quite blurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T15:51:41.490" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T15:51:41.490" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3508" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3509" CreationDate="2016-02-17T20:42:44.763" Score="5" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question about my resume saying that I'm over-qualified but that due to illness, I'm not able to meet the requirements of jobs I've held in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It didn't fit into the &quot;how do you handle overqualified&quot; or into the questions about illness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read them beforehand and edited my post to make it more clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/62205/how-do-i-address-both-being-overqualified-and-unable-to-perform-at-past-levels&quot;&gt;How do I address both being overqualified, and unable to perform at past levels?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to dispute this?  I would like more answers, but it's flagged as duplicate&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T21:21:39.037" Title="Is there a process in place to dispute a &quot;duplicate&quot; flag?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3508" CreationDate="2016-02-17T21:21:39.037" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To convert my comment to an answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that your question has been incorrectly marked as a duplicate, then the steps you should take are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the question such that it's clearer what you're asking.  Be specific.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Raise a question here in meta, explaining to the community &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you feel that it's not a duplicate and why it should be reopened.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community then can either vote to reopen it, or not.  Note that reopening a question is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a moderator function; Stack Exchange is very much based in community moderation, and as such it's the &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; that needs to decide whether a question should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T21:21:39.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3510" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-17T21:38:43.583" Score="4" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question about my resume saying that I'm over-qualified but that due to illness, I'm not able to meet the requirements of jobs I've held in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It didn't fit into the &quot;how do you handle overqualified&quot; or into the questions about illness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read them beforehand and edited my post to make it more clear.&#xA;Also, you will note in the comments that another poster asked why it was marked as a duplicate.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this has been flagged, let me explain how this is different. I do not merely have to account for being overqualified but deal with the reason being that I suffered a stroke, and the stress from continuing on the level I was on would likely trigger another one. While it is illegal to ask about medical issues, it is NOT illegal to ask about being overqualified. So this question is BOTH about being overqualified AND about having medical issues which require me to take a step back in job level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a supporting comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't think this is a duplicate of the &quot;overqualified&quot; question. I'd be interested in answers, too, as I'm in a somewhat similar situation, where I simply can't work at my previous (very high) level any longer. – jamesqf 2 hours ago &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/62205/how-do-i-address-both-being-overqualified-and-unable-to-perform-at-past-levels&quot;&gt;How do I address both being overqualified, and unable to perform at past levels?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T00:55:46.307" Title="I would like to dispute my post being marked as a duplicate" Tags="|support|status-completed|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3506" CreationDate="2016-02-18T08:38:02.443" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would argue that questions about LinkedIn are 100% on-topic. It is a social website that is designed for professional usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; questions about Twitter or Facebook &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be on-topic, LinkedIn markets itself as a professional network and in some circles is a requirement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll preface this with, these are &lt;em&gt;my opinions&lt;/em&gt;, and am glad to see discussion around it, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So would discussions about how to use Monster.com more efficiently also be on topic?&lt;/strong&gt; - Yes its probably on-topic, because Monster.com is a job network and employment site, so its about getting employment or finding employees.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How about help with a formula for Excel - would that be on topic as well?&lt;/strong&gt; - No, Excel is a tool for analysis and recording (often used by professionals), but isn't about &lt;em&gt;being&lt;/em&gt; a professional.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In general, as long as the website or software tool is for professionals, that makes questions specifically about it on-topic?&lt;/strong&gt; - No, if the tool is about being a better well connected professional, then yes it should be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, on-topic/off-topic isn't a binary yes/no, but a spectrum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9158" LastEditorDisplayName="user9158" LastEditDate="2016-02-18T20:37:41.747" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T20:37:41.747" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3513" CreationDate="2016-02-23T15:12:12.337" Score="0" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/62350&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, the first &quot;close vote&quot; needed 4 more for it to take effect. Now, though, that close vote needs 24 buddies to get anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? What is it that determines the necessary number of votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: I'm just curious. I'm &lt;em&gt;explicitly not griping&lt;/em&gt; about the fact that I did receive a close vote.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32713" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T15:27:45.710" Title="How many votes to close?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3512" CreationDate="2016-02-23T15:27:45.710" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;that close vote needs 24 buddies to get anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you mean by this?  Questions always need 5 (non-moderator) close votes to close. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you seeing the &quot;X votes remaining&quot; option - this refers to &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; votes remaining. So you could vote to close up to 24 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T15:27:45.710" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3514" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3516" CreationDate="2016-02-25T10:11:27.080" Score="4" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question, and was told it's not on-topic for this stack. That's all right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since then I've been using that response to find the link to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;&quot; to get to the list of what actually &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely, there must be a link available from the front page that I'm just not seeing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32713" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T12:04:33.103" Title="Is there a link to &quot;What topics can I ask about here&quot;?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3515" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3517" CreationDate="2016-02-25T10:27:13.630" Score="0" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;The company I work for recently moved to a new, much bigger office. This means we now have a rather big room where most of us sit and work in one half (there's also a kitchenette with a few coffee tables), but on the other side there is a 4x10m area with no furniture &quot;yet&quot; (except a couch), and nobody ever really goes there because there's no reason to. It's just a void.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's a good use for such an area? What's a &lt;em&gt;fun&lt;/em&gt; use for such an area? Ideally, it should be something that invites fun and positivity, but not something that distracts us when we're working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't asked about a &quot;fun budget&quot; so I guess low-cost ideas are preferable, or ones that can be &quot;undone&quot; relatively easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32713" LastEditorUserId="32713" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T13:59:43.623" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T13:59:43.623" Title="What's a good stack to post about office decoration" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3514" CreationDate="2016-02-25T10:56:16.573" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you ask a question, you are presented with a link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;asking help&lt;/a&gt; on the right. That page contains link to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on topic&lt;/a&gt; page in the proper context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NAfp0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NAfp0.png&quot; alt=&quot;Link to &amp;quot;Asking Help&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T12:04:33.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3515" CreationDate="2016-02-25T11:40:17.243" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't think of any Stack Exchange site that this will fit into.  Not because there isn't necessarily a site for the topic, but because your question is primarily opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T11:40:17.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3514" CreationDate="2016-02-25T11:44:01.433" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from clicking through from the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;Ask a Question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; page, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; is also available from the &quot;help&quot; button located on every page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zj5n2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zj5n2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T11:44:01.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3519" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-28T01:00:38.023" Score="-1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many questions on this exchange address situations in the workplace.  Workplace experience successfully handling tough situations at work qualifies a person as expert. This form of expertise seems constantly at odds with the form of expertise derived from the theorectical constructs taught by consultants and buisness schools who teach formal theory. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though waving managerial theory around in a workplace is not very smart because it may offend seasoned workers,  using theory as a means to rationalize how to handle many workplace issues has merit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this exchange, many answers getting up-voted often fit sound managerial theory. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When theory is pointed out, or if a question is asked regarding the managerial theory of tough workplace situations is asked on this exchange, it seems not to go over well and in some cases even offend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Managerial theory's biggest issue is it dehumanizes people.  Dehumanizing anyone is never a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dehumanizing is already common by necessity on this site. I felt dehumanized when a question I asked regarding theory was closed.  To the person seeking acceptance as an expert, the dehumanizing act may have seemed to come from me when I brought up theory.  Theory, in my mind, complements expertise. It does not replace or subordinate it.  Not everyone feels as I do so hopefully someone may have a fresh, much different perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If exchange answers were truly one question to one answer then leaving out theory would be an obvious choice. This is not exactly the case on this exchange. People with a similar, but not the exact same, question have much more to gain by understanding a theoretical framework on which the original answer to the question was based.  From this framework, this person could derive their own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question remains. On this exchange are theoretical frameworks for handling workplace situations best avoided -- as is common in the actual workplace because of its dehumanizing affect -- or are questions and comments involving the theory of handling workplace situations appropriate?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43413" LastEditorUserId="26235" LastEditDate="2016-03-02T18:42:15.300" LastActivityDate="2016-03-04T05:21:12.890" Title="Are questions and comments involving management theory appropriate?" Tags="|support|comments|answers|questions|offtopic|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3519" CreationDate="2016-02-28T18:04:50.967" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;After reading through several of the other posts I may have come across the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Theory, while very useful confronting &quot;agony aunt&quot; questions and possibly individuals who have built their reputation on this type of question, it has one issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the don't ask page (which I came across after considerable digging) &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&lt;/a&gt;, This comment was made regarding bad questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are asking an open-ended, hypothetical question: “What if ______ happened?” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Theory by nature is open ended and hypothetical. Managerial theory is very faddish in nature so if the question is several years old, the theory may be out-of-date. If using theory in asking, commenting, or answering questions it may be a best practice to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the discussion short.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link to a website describing the theory. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Point out a discussion criticizing the theory is unwanted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43413" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T18:04:50.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3506" CreationDate="2016-02-28T19:34:53.500" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our definition of LinkedIn as a social network may be misleading. For a lot of people LinkedIn is the place to hire talent, to find a job and generate Sales leads. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of LinkedIn's revenues comes from talent services and premium subscriptions.&#xA;For many people LinkedIn is part of the workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used LinkedIn for Sales activities. I also viewed profiles of people I wanted to hire and gave recommendations to people whom I worked with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was recommended as a mentor, too. I used my LinkedIn profile when applying for a job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you do all this, you usually face the same questions that you face in real-life relationship. Is it appropriate to ask my boss for a recommendation letter on paper? And LinkedIn? Shall I make a cold call to the same client three times a week? Shall I send an inMail to the same client three times a week?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LinkedIn is making a huge effort to become part of the Workplace, just look at all the mobile apps they release for contacts, sales and talent screening. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to LinkedIns efforts, pushing LinkedIn off-topic looks short term to me. They will most probably get there in the long run. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that technical questions regarding LinkedIn are off-topic here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Can I write a LinkedIn recommendation for a mentor?&quot; question for example looks pretty workplace related to me. I have the experience and would be glad to share it in an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33639" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T19:34:53.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3522" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-03T16:15:03.150" Score="2" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I shouldn't have included the caveat about legal advice in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/62881/2317&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; to the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/62879/provider-is-cheating-but-i-dont-want-to-disclose-how-i-found-out/&quot;&gt;'Provider is “cheating”, but I don't want to disclose how I found out'&lt;/a&gt;.  Here's the paragaph in question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We don't normally provide legal advice here, and you should definitely know that I am not a lawyer and this shouldn't be construed as legal advice. That said, if a law suit were to develop over this, you might need that junior programmer as a witness. However, as an employee of the provider, the programmer may not repeat in court what they told you. You might investigate hiring him or her yourself, or having your client hire them; of course, if that were to happen, the other side would try to impugn the testimony of someone who is now your (or your client's) employee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, my last paragraph isn't really the kind of legal advice one would get from an attorney, just some &quot;street smarts&quot; for going to trial, as well as an idea about protecting the source. However, it is attracting comments complaining that it's legal advice and thus off topic.  If the consensus of the community is that this goes outside the scope of the site, I'll delete the paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: That paragraph was modified to read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you really want to protect the junior programmer and have a slot he could fill, you could hire him yourself, or your client could hire him. This way he's sure to avoid being fired by the service provider. Also, in case the service provider tries to sue your client for breach of contract, you're sure to have him around as a witness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2317" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2016-03-08T14:49:24.537" Title="Is this (part of an) answer really seen as legal advice?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|legal-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3522" CreationDate="2016-03-03T16:43:48.057" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt; You're setting up a hypothetical courtroom scenario complete with advice on protecting/persuading a witness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While well-intended, there's really no need to provide this kind of advice on this site. Legal advice, by its very nature, is dangerously incomplete and liable to do more harm than good in complex situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to mention it at all, I'd just state &quot;&lt;em&gt;If lawyers get involved you may need to disclose your source's identity and he may or may not confirm what he told you.&lt;/em&gt;&quot; That should get your point across.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2016-03-03T16:43:48.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3522" CreationDate="2016-03-03T17:44:16.110" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that's legal advice.  And even if it were, I don't think it's a problem if &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; veer into legal advice.  We don't accept &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; that &lt;em&gt;ask&lt;/em&gt; for legal advice, but we're talking about an answer here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our community is sometimes too quick to jump on anything that contains the word &quot;law&quot; or &quot;legal&quot;.  Everybody knows, or reasonably ought to know, that you are still responsible for applying your own due diligence before acting on anything you read here.  Stop treating any reference to a legal situation as if it's evil that must be eradicated, please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, if it were my answer I'd probably trim that down some and just point out that if you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; end up in a lawsuit, a witness still working for your ex-employer might be constrained in what he can testify to. The important thing is to point out the issue; if he's going to court I hope he has a lawyer and so he can discuss the matter with that lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-03-03T17:44:16.110" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3519" CreationDate="2016-03-04T05:21:12.890" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Discussion of managerial theory strikes me as a bit tangential for Workplace unless it is being applied to specifics, as @dragoon1228 said. It bears the same relationship to our topic as math does to physics or physics to electronics... and note that those are separate discussions on SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can use theory to help elucidate why an answer is especially limited or especially general, great. But discussion of this set of theories in abstract feels awfully like debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. (In theory as many as want to; in practice as many as will fit.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And one of the questions was shot down because it had a basic conflict with normal use of the same word, and the question was nearly incomprehensible if you hadn't already &quot;drunk the koolaid&quot; and accepted that very specific bit of jargon from a very specific set of theory. Most postings here are going to be in English, not managerese; you can assume that all words have their colloquial rather than theoretical/jargon meanings unless explicitly stated otherwise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-03-04T05:21:12.890" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3506" CreationDate="2016-03-04T05:38:34.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is appropriate, it will make sense with the mention of LinkedIn deleted. Mark's example can be edited to &quot;can I write a recommendation for a mentor&quot;, for example, and that's actually a better question. From what I've seen, that is true in most cases; the principles are the same whatever the platform online or on paper or in person or as smoke signals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless the question is completely specific to LinkedIn, I suggest rewriting to generalize. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Claimer: I admit to a personal bias against LinkedIn in particular, after they started trying to get people to endorse my competence in skills I never claimed. As far as I'm concerned, once they started doing that they poisoned their database beyond redemption. But my concerns would apply equally well to competing systems, including Stack Exchange's own job hunting tools.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-03-04T05:38:34.670" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3527" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-04T13:42:35.813" Score="-4" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Below is the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/62824/how-can-i-talk-myself-into-a-career-change/62832#62832&quot;&gt;How Can I Talk Myself Into A Career Change?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've run into crossroads in my career life. After working hard, pulling myself up by my bootstraps and finding something that worked career-wise for me in software development, I still get pulled back into my passion of teaching music professionally. I think that's because the major reason why I pursued where I am now is because I needed purpose and I needed to make money. I had a new family and the most important thing at that time was to help provide for my family; and have more time with them. Now that my spouse and I are in a much better position, I'm finding myself wanting more for myself and can't stop thinking about completely changing my career path once again&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is anything that Should be on topic, it should be this question.  There are books on the subject, including &quot;What color is your parachute&quot; (which is the most famous) as well as a plethora of others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers to this are not opinion based, as there are clear steps that can be taken, some of which I outlined in my answer.  IMO, this question should not be put on hold. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2016-03-04T17:51:22.707" Title="Why is this post off topic when there is an entire book on the subject?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3527" CreationDate="2016-03-04T14:02:24.387" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The answers to this are not opinion based, as there are clear steps&#xA;  that can be taken, some of which I outlined in my answer. IMO, this&#xA;  question should not be put on hold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about career change have no real definitive answer, where one answer is better than another. That's the reason that Atwood and Spolsky decided from the beginning that these kinds of questions are off-topic on StackOverflow and that we have applied the same principle across the Stack Exchange sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We put questions on hold to give them a chance to get on-topic while stopping people from spending more time on an off-topic subject. If you can edit such a question to get it on-topic, we'll be happy to reopen it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, we'll likely delete it from the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the question as finally stated on the post: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For those out there who have completely switched from one unrelated&#xA;  career path to another, how did you handle the deciding factors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; too broad - there are far too many possible good answers for this, and all of them are quite subjective. This is a good question for quora, but not for a Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12321" LastEditorUserId="12321" LastEditDate="2016-03-04T17:51:22.707" LastActivityDate="2016-03-04T17:51:22.707" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3527" CreationDate="2016-03-04T15:28:46.070" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This wasn't the official close reason, but I think this is also worth pointing out. The fact that there are multiple books written on this topic tells you that it is too broad for the Stack Exchange format. To quote our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;too broad&lt;/strong&gt; - if your question could be answered by an entire book, or has many valid answers, it's probably too broad for our format&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow down the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are simply far too many possible answers to this question that will each by highly dependent on the person looking to switch careers. You say that there were clear steps you took, and while that worked for you, something entirely different could be the best answer for someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2016-03-04T15:28:46.070" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3522" CreationDate="2016-03-08T09:34:58.677" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is one of those cases where intent is a bit jumbled. So there's a comment that says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/62879/provider-is-cheating-but-i-dont-want-to-disclose-how-i-found-out/#comment169383_62881&quot;&gt;I recommend ditching that last paragraph. Despite the disclaimer, it certainly comes off as legal advice, and it doesn't seem practical based on the info OP gave. I think your answer is just fine without it.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has 11 upvotes. You assume this means people are agreeing with &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;it certainly comes off as legal advice&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; when I'd wager that most people are actually agreeing with &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I recommend ditching that last paragraph.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; You only have two downvotes, and the rest of the answer is good, the paragraph in question just doesn't really relate to the question (and reads really awkwardly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Talking about court is irrelevant to the question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question clearly states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it matters, &lt;strong&gt;my client would not file a lawsuit&lt;/strong&gt;, but certainly would dump that provider, and my client is one of their most important customers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when you start talking about what happens in court, it seems to be totally irrelevant to the concerns in the question (specifically, how to balance the job of a helpful employee vs. their clients needs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason that the &amp;quot;legal advice&amp;quot; flag went off in my head was because you kind of suggested that it should (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don't normally provide legal advice here&lt;/strong&gt;, and you should definitely know that I am not a lawyer and this shouldn't be construed as legal advice. That said...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I don't think this is really legal advice, but I do think it is really awkward given the context of the question and the disclaimer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if it were my answer, I'd delete that paragraph for the sole reason that it makes the entire answer less awesome than it could otherwise be, and not worry so much about the legal advice angle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2016-03-08T09:34:58.677" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3506" CreationDate="2016-03-09T02:03:01.840" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to propose a tangible way to determine if a question is off topic for being too product specific:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Would this question fit better in the FAQ or tutorials of the product's manual?&lt;/strong&gt; If so, the question is off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/62104/can-i-write-a-linkedin-recommendation-for-a-mentor&quot;&gt;Can I write a LinkedIn recommendation for a mentor?&lt;/a&gt; is discussing social norms of the professional workplace:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But on LinkedIn there's no such option available when specifying my&#xA;  relationship to this person so &lt;strong&gt;I thought it might not be appropriate&#xA;  to write a recommendation for a mentor.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd argue this question is on-topic and should be reopened as it relates to workplace relationships. LinkedIn will likely not take a stance on this in their documentation because the topic of &quot;appropriateness&quot; is fairly subjective. That makes it a useful question for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/63160/linkedin-privacy-who-viewed-my-profile&quot;&gt;Linkedin Privacy (Who Viewed My Profile)&lt;/a&gt; is discussing a specific feature of LinkedIn and should be considered off topic. &lt;a href=&quot;https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/47082/~/private-mode-viewers-of-profiles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LinkedIn has an article about their privacy feature&lt;/a&gt;, and the information the asker is looking for should be added  to that article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3506/are-questions-about-how-to-use-linkedin-on-topic#comment8384_3507&quot;&gt;From the comments on other answers:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;how [do] I use Word to print thank-you letters for the interview&#xA;  contacts I have listed in my Excel spreadsheet?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an interesting question because it might plausibly fit on &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; Stack Exchange site. But not here. We shouldn't be writing how-to guides of this nature and I'd much prefer Microsoft addresses technical stuff in their own documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47632" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-03-09T02:03:01.840" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3532" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3534" CreationDate="2016-03-09T14:08:17.797" Score="4" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would make browsing easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm mildly dyslexic so I sometimes miss those statuses at the end of the questions..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2016-03-11T19:11:44.940" LastActivityDate="2016-03-13T02:10:02.060" Title="Could &quot;On Hold&quot; or &quot;closed&quot; questions be given a different font color?" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3532" CreationDate="2016-03-10T03:28:50.797" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. And we should also add a lock icon next to closed questions which have less than a -4 score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T03:28:50.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3532" CreationDate="2016-03-10T06:30:12.167" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Theoretically, yes, this is possible. Practically speaking, it isn't something that we are likely to do because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It will make as many people upset as it will make happy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is pretty easy to do with a user script if you're motivated&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;十人十色&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There tends to at least be a vocal minority whenever we change anything on the site who complain. That's why doing awesome things like &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/251095/let-s-improve-our-site-navigation&quot;&gt;making question navigation easier&lt;/a&gt; take a whole bunch of iterations and still get downvotes despite us trying to minimize the impact on people who hate us moving the cheese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while you personally may love the idea of having closed/on hold questions change color on the front page, other people won't like it so much. When we started greying out low scoring questions, there was a non-insignificant amount of people who had trouble reading the lighter color to the point that we made the color change back on mouseover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;This can be done automagically&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you write a simple browser script, you can make closed/on-hold questions look any way you'd like. Anything that has the words [on hold] or [closed] that isn't on a child meta site (where people sometimes use those in titles) could be colored mauve if that's your thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way rather than expecting everyone to deal with the preference of one user, users who are bothered can fix it for themselves in 95% of cases (we realize that people browse on multiple devices, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if enough people start using the userscript, we may just implement it because we can see that it may not just be a matter of taste but usability for a large segment of our users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a long way of saying &amp;quot;sorry, not this time&amp;quot;, but hopefully helps explain how we tend to go about things like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T06:30:12.167" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3532" CreationDate="2016-03-10T07:50:46.393" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Building on what jmac said, there are also many user scripts in Stack Apps which could be easily modified by someone so they don't have to write from scratch.  I have one that makes the badges in the navigation clickable to take you right to the badges page in the user profile, so that could be easily modified to instead loop through question titles, read [closed]|[on hold] and apply new CSS styles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood once said the team doesn't like to implement user preferences and instead use &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/72441/155826&quot;&gt;&quot;sane defaults&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, which keeps the Stack Exchange codebase and UI much simpler, so in addition to jmac's points, relying on a user script helps keep core Stack Exchange more stable and usable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're looking at getting started writing user scripts, this could be a good exercise to get started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T07:50:46.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3456" CreationDate="2016-03-12T06:48:49.307" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with this. From earlier today:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CJXqP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CJXqP.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason I could tell there was a link here was it looked like a question title. I read through the whole thing, then realised it looked kinda like a title of a question I'd read before, and did a double take: &quot;wait, hold on, is that a link?&quot;. If it was just regular words I would flat out not have noticed the link at all, even having read through the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or from just now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k1eIP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k1eIP.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which words here are links? How many links are there in Cypher's post? Where do each of those links begin and end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'd already actually visited a couple of the pages linked to, so I had an issue identifying some of them.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be obvious when there's links. Really obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16807" LastEditorUserId="16807" LastEditDate="2017-02-10T18:44:37.207" LastActivityDate="2017-02-10T18:44:37.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3532" CreationDate="2016-03-13T02:10:02.060" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users are used to seeing two different link colors on a site: unvisited and visited links.  We all know what those mean, so once we learn what the styling of any given site has done with those colors, we can use that signal and browse normally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This change would introduce two &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; link colors, which would be pretty confusing.  (I realize you only asked for one color, but you can't break the visited/unvisited distinction in the process of doing this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might do better to ask that the &quot;on hold&quot; (or &quot;closed&quot;) notification be moved to the beginning of the title for easier scanning, though I don't know if that would fly either.  We don't &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; people to systematically ignore these questions, after all; some might have been edited and have pending reopen votes, and some might have been closed in error and should be given a glance.  And in some cases you yourself might be able to contribute the edit that fixes the problem and gets the question back on track.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-03-13T02:10:02.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3538" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3539" CreationDate="2016-03-15T20:12:37.120" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/63581/giving-a-recommendation-for-someone-i-only-know-by-association&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; is marked as a duplicate, but the linked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/63422/how-well-do-you-have-to-know-someone-to-refer-them-to-your-company&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; is on-hold.  If the original question is closed, it doesn't make much sense to then link another question to it.  Either the question is good and can stand on its own, or the original should be reopened.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least in this case, the answers on the original look better to me, although the second question may be better.  Is it possible to do some edits so we have one good question and answer?  Or do we leave it as a duplicate linked to an on-hold question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="249" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2016-03-16T13:21:07.090" Title="Marking a question a duplicate when the original is on-hold" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2016-03-17T16:02:47.823" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3538" CreationDate="2016-03-16T01:23:14.413" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Duplication is orthogonal to the current status of the target question.  If a question is off-topic or too broad or something else close-worthy, then asking it again doesn't make it &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; off-topic or too broad or whatever.  If they're duplicates, they should be marked as duplicates -- ideally before the newer question accumulates answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that are on hold or closed can potentially be fixed and reopened.  But if they're not they can still provide value as signposts; that's why we don't automatically delete all closed questions and duplicates.  If somebody starts to ask a question that would be closed, we &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; a match to pop up so he'll go look at that and see that it was closed.  It stinks to put in a lot of effort asking a question only to find out it couldn't have worked; if he finds it via search before writing it up, that's a win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the current pair of questions, I haven't reviewed the answers, but in special cases moderators can merge questions to bring good answers together on one question.  It's all-or-nothing; we can't just migrate &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; answers.  I see several zero-score answers and a couple upvoted ones; I don't know if that's worth a merge.  If somebody wants to make a pitch for it, we'll consider it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, I'm not convinced they're duplicates.  One asks about the ramifications of making this kind of recommendation; the other asks how to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2016-03-16T13:21:07.090" LastActivityDate="2016-03-16T13:21:07.090" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3538" CreationDate="2016-03-16T07:42:58.720" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I knew before checking which question this would be. I originally marked this as a duplicate. I disagreed with the close votes on the original question and marked it for reopening at the same time that I marked the second question as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monica explained your misconception about duplicate links to closed questions quite well. In my experience, it's much easier and faster for questions to get closed as duplicates instead of for other reasons and we want to prevent people from answering the duplicate so closing faster is better. Additionally, it prevents people from creating slightly-different duplicates over and over because it increases the odds of them stumbling on a variation that's been asked before when searching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for merging, that should be reserved for clear duplicates that were caught too late and where valuable answers exist on the closed question where the authors can't repost themselves. Since Marv is regular user here, you can just comment on his answer to ask him to repost it on the original question. That also allows the posters to rework their answer if necessary to fit the context of the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2016-03-16T07:42:58.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3541" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-17T14:00:57.397" Score="-2" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the benefits of being outspoken? [on hold]&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/63781/what-are-the-benefits-of-being-outspoken&quot;&gt;What are the benefits of being outspoken?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a discussion of navigating the workplace and using the soft-skill of ensuring that one is recognized for their work and how to defend against those who might steal work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, THIS question was not voted as off topic.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/63777/how-do-i-positively-acknowledge-an-mistake-i-made-to-my-manager&quot;&gt;How do I positively acknowledge a mistake I made to my manager?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both are asking for how to deal with specific work-place difficulties.  The only real difference I see between the two is that the former was perhaps worded a bit more gruffly, but no less relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2016-03-18T14:11:17.840" Title="Question ruled as off topic, should not be so" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3542" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3548" CreationDate="2016-03-17T14:09:00.617" Score="1" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unlike Stack Overflow, the answers here are not going to be as cut and dry, neither are the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to me to be no rhyme or reason as to why some posts are left on-topic and others are just shut down and put on hold as duplicate or off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicate IMO seems to be abused the most as the definition of &quot;duplicate&quot; is being interpreted very broadly to include everything from an actual duplicate to &quot;vaguely similar&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good questions, and good advice are getting kicked to the curb for what seems to me, at least, to be very arbitrary and in some case, petty reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the cause of this is a lack of guidelines for what is, and what is not on-topic, and how similar something should be to be judged a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2016-03-18T12:07:54.000" LastActivityDate="2016-03-21T07:37:25.810" Title="Could we have more clear guidelines on what is and is not on topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3541" CreationDate="2016-03-17T16:58:42.837" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are the benefits of being outspoken? [on hold] What are the&#xA;  benefits of being outspoken?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is a discussion of navigating the workplace and using the&#xA;  soft-skill of ensuring that one is recognized for their work and how&#xA;  to defend against those who might steal work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I didn't vote to close the question, in my answer I provided my reason as to why the question isn't really answerable from my point of view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;It depends on the local culture, the specific job, and the specific organization. And it depends on the specifics of what being a &quot;big mouth&quot; means in each case.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-03-17T16:58:42.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3542" CreationDate="2016-03-17T21:28:44.213" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't run through the statistics, but the three most commonly closed questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Duplicates&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of questions are almost identical to previously asked questions, or at least the context similar enough such that the previous answers would apply.  I'd hazard a guess that questions about relieving letters would be the most common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Legal questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions clearly are asking for legal advice, which is obviously beyond the scope of this site for risk mitigation reasons (and is enshrined by Stack Exchange).  While some ask for help on a particular regulation (which can be found easily enough with a quick Google search and are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; off topic), most should be talking to a legal professional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Advice on what to do&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people have a choice of two paths.  They can't decide, so they ask the Internet.  How can we possibly know their situation, their aspirations, their goals in a few lines?  They would be far better off talking to friends or family who know them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The others&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other two close reasons are not so commonly used.  Compared to the top three, they comprise only a minimal amount of closed questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;What this all means!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicates are almost always immediately obvious so.  When the questioner is formulating their question, the suggested list of questions almost always would clearly indicate that the question has been asked before.  Obviously, they are not paying attention to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For legal advice and advice on what to do, it's already clearly stated in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Centre&lt;/a&gt; that these are off topic.  Without adding flashing red lights, I can't see how it can be any &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that the guidelines are clear enough, however people simply don't read them.  The reason so many questions &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; closed is because people are either not reading or ignoring the clear guidelines that are already there.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2016-03-17T21:28:44.213" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3542" CreationDate="2016-03-17T23:07:38.810" Score="-5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Advice on what to do&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people have a choice of two paths. They can't decide, so they ask the Internet. How can we possibly know their situation, their aspirations, their goals in a few lines? They would be far better off talking to friends or family who know them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vehemently disagree in principle with this close reason for the reasons @Jane S. describes. I'd certainly back a proposal to remove this close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2016-03-17T23:07:38.810" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3542" CreationDate="2016-03-18T13:59:25.540" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To comment on duplicate questions specifically, I have often voted to close a question when the author has disagreed that their question is a duplicate. Often they are similar, but have some non-minor differences. You'll hear complaints that one is in India, the other in the US. One is a salaried job, the other part-time hourly. One has been at the company for 10 years, the other for 6 months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While differences like these may change the questions somewhat, what matters is whether the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; change. If you can take the majority of the answers for one question and move them over to the other with only minor changes, then that question is a duplicate. So while two questions may seem vastly different to you, often the core issues at play are really the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2016-03-20T14:30:36.370" LastActivityDate="2016-03-20T14:30:36.370" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3541" CreationDate="2016-03-18T14:11:17.840" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/63781/what-are-the-benefits-of-being-outspoken&quot;&gt;What are the benefits of being outspoken?&lt;/a&gt; question is a rant in disguise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is basically, &quot;I think my coworker is a jerk, please let me know if he's a jerk or not, it's so unfair.&quot; There is no problem to be solved, just opinions looking to be validated. That is not a good fit for a Q/A but more a discussion board/chat environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, there is no &quot;here's the situation, how do I do X to cause Y?&quot; question instead it is &quot;situation X sucks, right!?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast that to the duplicate link which has a much more constructive problem and looking for specific actionable answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think that someone could &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/63781/edit&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; the question and make it more on topic by removing the rantiness and focusing on what might be a core question, but right now it is a rant. Joe's response applies too. Some companies/cultures/bosses will &quot;reward&quot; this more than others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2016-03-18T14:11:17.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3542" CreationDate="2016-03-19T14:58:40.577" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There seems to me to be no rhyme or reason as to why some posts are left on-topic and others are just shut down and put on hold as duplicate or off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, questions here that &lt;em&gt;look&lt;/em&gt; on topic but are really not primarily fall into a few categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rants&lt;/strong&gt;. Asking for validation is not something a Q/A site can do. Those questions are not really constructive at all. The key is finding something to do that &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; constructive. This generally requires an attitude that is different, though, and one of the reasons those types of questions are hard to really keep on topic. Some examples of this sort of question that are the root question:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is my coworker really as horrible as I think they are?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I tell my coworker they are an idiot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why is everyone I work with horrible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Company specific.&lt;/strong&gt; A fair number of questions are only answerable within the context of a current company.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Personal advice.&lt;/strong&gt; This is probably the most controversial of the &quot;why is this off topic?&quot; types of questions. A lot of them look like &quot;which job should I take?&quot; or variants on &quot;make a decision for me please.&quot; This seems on topic initially, but the fundamental problem is that &lt;em&gt;no one can know all the priorities of the asker.&lt;/em&gt; We can only answer, &quot;well this is what I would do&quot; which is by definition an opinion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange by design does not handle opinions well. The model supports answerable questions - not discussion or &quot;here are my thoughts!&quot; types of questions. If you look, one of the standard reasons is &quot;primarily opinion based.&quot; This reason is universal across all of Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding duplicates, there will always be somewhat imprecise. Looking through the recent duplicates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/63873/2322&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/63873/2322&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asker acknowledged it was a duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/63777/2322&quot;&gt;How do I positively acknowledge a mistake I made to my manager?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While the situations are slightly different, the answers to the other question perfectly answer this one as well&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/63721/2322&quot;&gt;Not being asked to interview a new hire&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Exact same question, slightly different wording&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/63648/2322&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/63648/2322&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is a copy/paste repost..&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/63641/2322&quot;&gt;How do you break it to a new employer that you don&amp;#39;t drink?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is also the exact same question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/63581/2322&quot;&gt;Giving a recommendation for someone I only know by association&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is also the exact same core question, a little more wordy &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/63568/2322&quot;&gt;HR said they&amp;#39;d get back to me in 2 days but it&amp;#39;s been a week. Should I email them?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This one I'm a little less sure on as the linked duplicate is a bit weak.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/63549/2322&quot;&gt;Can I get job in MNC without 9 months exp. certificate of last company and with 6 years exp. certificates of previous companies?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another exact duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/63476/2322&quot;&gt;Relieving letter - what happens when the company goes bust?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And another exact duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So of the last 9 duplicates (all that fit on the first &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&amp;amp;q=closed%3ayes&quot;&gt;page of results from this search&lt;/a&gt; only one of them seems to be too poor a duplicate close and that is primarily because the linked question isn't that great. That seems pretty good to me overall?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T14:58:40.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3549" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3551" CreationDate="2016-03-20T00:20:18.873" Score="24" ViewCount="886" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've used different sites in the network and have found their communities to feel quite different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow can feel overwhelmed with the number of questions (especially bad ones) being asked but does seem to be willing to help.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Code Review I have always felt to be very welcoming and friendly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at times I have found The Workplace to be quite unhelpful and unsympathetic, e.g. answers alone the lines of &lt;em&gt;&quot;Do exactly as you are told&quot;&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;&quot;That's none of your concern&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I do appreciate that there are a lot of questions that are poorly written or off topic &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; that the people who ask them &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; read the help, all the sites on the network have the same problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is your impression of The Workplace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/63904/41999&quot;&gt;How to properly respond to boss asking for a recommendation / opinion on hardware to purchase&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41999" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2018-09-16T19:59:04.667" Title="Is The Workplace unwelcoming?" Tags="|discussion|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3542" CreationDate="2016-03-21T07:37:25.810" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like we've only just had this discussion but I can't seem to find a meta thread. In short, guidelines are just that and especially on this site there is a lot of leeway. In the end it comes down to this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is the question &lt;strong&gt;of interest to this community&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is it &lt;strong&gt;not obviously and clearly off-topic&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is it &lt;strong&gt;answerable&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is it well-written?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If at least the first 3 of these are true, then the question is highly likely to remain open or be reopened, even if arguments can be made for it being off-topic. If the last point is not true, indicating a lack of effort from the original poster or the need for copy-editing, then it's highly likely to be closed quickly, even if arguments can be made for it being on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from that, I agree with Jane that the issue with new posters being unclear about the guidelines is that they either don't read them or don't care. Making them clearer is not going to have a net effect on off-topic posting stats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2016-03-21T07:37:25.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3549" CreationDate="2016-03-21T08:02:06.573" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My experience is that the user experience on this site, more than on others, depends on how a user approaches it. Overwhelmingly, users that actively participate in the site, at least while their question is active, are treated kindly and with respect, provided they do the same. Indignant responses or refusal to work with the Q&amp;amp;A framework are good ways to have a question closed and downvoted and to be treated curtly in return. Many first-timers post their question and never return to the site and those questions are handled quickly and curtly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By contrast, many users here are welcoming of first-time posters with legitimate questions, even if those questions are off-topic. When a question is unclear or not appropriate for our site, the OP usually has those guidelines explained in comments. We look into ways of recovering the core question if possible or point him to other resources (chat, the web, colleagues or managers) if that's not an option. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally try to make an effort to assume good faith and help people out when I can. There is nothing more rewarding than being able to relieve someone's anxiety or uncertainty and legitimately help someone's professional growth. In the 20 months that I've been here I've reached the Top 20 reputation list but all those internet points are meaningless compared to the rewarding feeling of having someone commenting with a heart-felt thank you and the knowledge that you made a difference. There aren't many sites where that is possible (the Parenting SE is probably similar). I'd wager that most of our active users take the same stance and while some can be direct or concise, I haven't seen any evidence of a trend of hostile behaviour towards new users. We have had a few instances of questions being mistreated in the past, but those are typically discussed on meta and resolved quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in short, &lt;strong&gt;The Workplace is perfectly kind and welcoming to users that approach the site in good faith.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's interesting that I knew which post prompted you to ask this question when I read the title. With regards to that specific example, the user in question has provided valuable answers here in the past, as shown by his reputation history. He often answers very directly and concisely and sometimes speaks to hard truths. While that can come across as unwelcoming or unfriendly and while I disagree with his advice and tone on that particular answer, it doesn't indicate a trend or problem to me. You are free to downvote answers that you don't find useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2016-03-21T08:02:06.573" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3549" CreationDate="2016-03-21T12:52:41.790" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It tends to vary.  I think that the powers that be close questions that should not be closed, that the term &quot;duplicate&quot; has been loosened to mean &quot;Vaguely reminiscent of&quot; and various questions being labeled as company specific being done so due to the fact that the poster is foreign and does not phrase things in the best of English.  Anyone who posts in a vaguely frustrated tone gets dismissed as ranting, et cetera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it's not very welcoming, and any difficulties are dismissed as users not reading the guidelines or simply ignoring them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a confusing format until you get the hang of it.  While many folks are welcoming, the experience for many is akin to being greeted with all the geniality of Motor Vehicles, the compassion of the IRS, and the clarity of US banking regulations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another one marked as &quot;duplicate&quot; because &quot;even though the question is different, the answer is the same&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/64042/what-is-the-keep-in-touch-mean-at-the-end-of-interview&quot;&gt;what is the &amp;quot; keep in touch&amp;quot; mean at the end of interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-03-23T16:51:46.233" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3549" CreationDate="2016-03-22T08:25:17.353" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, I just realised it was me... well, I tend to just speak my mind, whether it's a newbie or not actually. I don't really pay much attention to peoples reputation scores. I also tend to get a lot of downvotes, in this case I got 8 downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my motivation is to help, if I judge that this means someone needs a quick kick in the pants, then I take aim. I wish I'd received some straight advice and a gentle nudge back in my youth more than once. And my style provides a contrast to others which often gives a different viewpoint that may (or may not) be useful to some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry if I don't come across as welcoming, and I appreciate the heads up, I'll take it into account before answering future questions (no promises though, I'd still give the same answer to this question if it came in again) :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T08:25:17.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3554" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-30T18:52:26.780" Score="1" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm&lt;/a&gt; but it wasn't helpful for this particular position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/320/faq-what-questions-can-i-ask-here&quot;&gt;FAQ - What questions can I ask here&lt;/a&gt; but didn't find the guidance I needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48606" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-03-31T11:39:41.743" Title="May I ask what the going rate is for a particular position?" Tags="|support|on-topic-definition|close-reasons|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3555" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-30T19:05:43.290" Score="0" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/64480/how-much-does-salary-go-up-after-probation-period&quot;&gt;How much does salary go up after probation period?&lt;/a&gt; was closed.  Is there some documentation I missed that would show me how my question was not appropriate for the site, and even better, how to rework it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48606" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2016-03-30T20:52:13.960" Title="Documentation on question closure, please?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2016-04-22T17:08:26.493" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3555" CreationDate="2016-03-30T20:52:13.960" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're asking people to answer a company specific question.  We can't do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-03-30T20:52:13.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3554" CreationDate="2016-03-31T06:13:22.870" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no &quot;going rate&quot; for a position. Despite popular belief, it's almost entirely dependent on the company and how well your skill set matches their needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be exceptions for legally regulated wages (tea pickers in India) or where there is an effective monopoly supplier with a collective agreement (the NHS in the UK), but in general I'd say this is too company specific for us to give an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14388" LastActivityDate="2016-03-31T06:13:22.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3558" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3564" CreationDate="2016-03-31T09:42:51.220" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a substantial amount of questions that are left open/hanging. Can we use the site layout or stickied topics or other means to encourage users to accept an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46931" LastActivityDate="2016-03-31T22:34:14.343" Title="How can we encourage askers to accept answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3554" CreationDate="2016-03-31T10:28:35.050" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From one of the places you linked: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What questions are off topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions asking for advice on what to do (including reviewing resumes, CVs, cover letters, e-mails, asking for legal advice, as well&#xA;  as &lt;strong&gt;specific salaries&lt;/strong&gt;, billing rates, market worth, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions that focus on ranting about problems rather than trying to solve them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions that aren't a good fit for the Stack Exchange format (see also Good Subjective, Bad Subjective for information on how to&#xA;  ask a subjective question suitable for the Stack Exchange format)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the salary depends on exact job description, years of experience, location, how hard it is to fill. And it will change next year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-03-31T10:28:35.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3549" CreationDate="2016-03-31T15:11:12.380" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some users who seem to have a chip on their shoulders and use this site to make themselves feel superior by belittling people asking questions.  It happens, we flag, then get told that yes the answer is not good but it is not something a moderator can take action on.  That is total BS but whatever.  Sadly other people reward these jerks with up-votes, which just encourages them to continue their actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing to realize is that the OP did get a several good answers.  To combat this flag it.  Do not worry about the mods saying no to your flags if they get a avalanche of flags about a post they are more likely take action that in just one or two of the most flag happy(I suspect I am #1 there) people flag it.    If you want to give the mods an incentive to take the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2979/16&quot;&gt;&quot;Play Nice Policy&quot;&lt;/a&gt; seriously we need to show them we want them to take it seriously.  So flag early flag often.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:40:25.820" LastActivityDate="2016-03-31T15:11:12.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3561" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-31T21:44:12.133" Score="-10" ViewCount="357" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about my The Workplace Stack Exchange post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/64540/am-i-wrong-to-tell-my-coworkers-my-favorite-presidential-candidate&quot;&gt;Am I wrong to tell my coworkers my favorite presidential candidate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;So originally I was asking about Trump as my political candidate, and I know a lot of people get upset by him.  No one really seemed to care what I was actually asking and just got upset over the fact that I was talking about Trump.  I followed up with more of a parody, and the result was the same.  Now my actual question has been censored, all because I had a serious question about my political views.  Is this allowed just because I was talking about Trump?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user48661" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T15:55:51.813" Title="Are edits to remove political view allowed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ClosedDate="2016-04-02T22:03:43.580" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3561" CreationDate="2016-03-31T21:53:28.967" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your goal is for the question to be reopened and/or received well I suggest reading the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;what types of questions to avoid asking&lt;/a&gt; section of the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That entire page of the help center is relevant here. I was going to quote relevant excerpts but your question pretty much fails every &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; criteria listed in the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course your comment (which I deleted, among others) about another president probably did not do much to convince me that you are asking a serious question. Additionally, there is absolutely &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; reason why your post required the commentary it did. Any answer about Trump would be the same about any other candidate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2016-03-31T21:53:28.967" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3558" CreationDate="2016-03-31T22:34:14.343" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's really no way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Stack Exchange prompts you if you log in again, but if you forget you might never even notice you don't have an accepted answer. I know a few times this prompt has caused me to go through my older questions and accept answers. Every once in a while I get acceptances from answers I posted many months in the past too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes (oftentimes?) people post a question and never return. Those people just will never accept answers since they never log in again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-03-31T22:34:14.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3549" CreationDate="2016-04-01T14:05:18.320" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the workplace unwelcoming? I would say &lt;strong&gt;yes&lt;/strong&gt;, it is unwelcoming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do I think that? Partly because of the nature of some of the answers. Alongside the ones highlighted by the OP, there are the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1692/is-quit-your-job-an-acceptable-answer&quot;&gt;quit your job&lt;/a&gt;&quot; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of questions being closed, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/34511/how-do-i-build-a-better-working-relationship-with-a-database-administrator&quot;&gt;my first question&lt;/a&gt; was closed as off-topic, despite having up votes and a discussion in the comments about whether it was on topic or not. I was tempted to leave the site after that point. The &quot;real questions have answers&quot; auto message was particularly off putting, seeing as the question has 9 answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and I also love downvotes without comments. Very welcoming ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27483" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-04-01T20:28:43.323" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3561" CreationDate="2016-04-01T23:50:20.497" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are bias edits due to political view allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.  Particularly when it results in a question and answers that are more generally applicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="660" LastActivityDate="2016-04-01T23:50:20.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3549" CreationDate="2016-04-02T15:23:42.603" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The workplace is a little unusual in that people can come here for vindication and to be proven right, even when they are wrong. We get a lot of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can a genius like me deal with the utter morons that surround me? How do I tell my boss he's utterly wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the answer is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You're not that right&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or even&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This isn't a question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is seen as unwelcoming. I suppose it even is. But I don't want to welcome that sort of &quot;please clap&quot; material anyway, so I don't consider the current situation broken. That doesn't mean it's ok to be rude while telling something they are &quot;not that right&quot;, but it doesn't mean we have to find a place for every &quot;question&quot; everybody composes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T15:23:42.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3575" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-02T21:06:09.700" Score="5" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that we can agree that the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/64573/41999&quot;&gt;I'm returning to the workforce after a long-standing medical concern. Do I share this with a potential employer?&lt;/a&gt;  is &lt;em&gt;primarily opinion based&lt;/em&gt;, but this is a question that is probably going to come up time and again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that this is a question that disabled people will have to deal with every time they interview for a job is there any leeway in keeping a select set of questions of this type open, or locking them like &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/q/1995113/3935089&quot;&gt;this Stack Overflow question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41999" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:37:04.473" LastActivityDate="2016-04-04T12:53:32.250" Title="How much leeway is there for opinion based questions when the questions is likely to come up repeatedly?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|specific-question|offtopic|opinion-based|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3575" CreationDate="2016-04-03T14:44:40.730" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the answer makes the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like the seemingly dogmatic approach I see sometimes taken by the community (sorry, no example) on the subject. I often come across reasonably well-received questions, with thoughtful answers, and 3-4 close votes, citing that &lt;em&gt;real questions have answers&lt;/em&gt; or words to that effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well guess what: the question you just voted to close &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; have a bunch of good answers, and your pedantic inflexibility is not appreciated, thank you very much .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When in doubt, give it a few days: People will upvote, answer and comment, and suddenly there's going to be an excellent answer so insightful and to-the-point that'll make you ashamed that you once thought this was a useless question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The discriminator I use is &lt;em&gt;problem&lt;/em&gt; vs &lt;em&gt;rant&lt;/em&gt;. If the OP describes a genuine problem, leave some comments or try to edit if possible, and the question might come into acceptable shape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastActivityDate="2016-04-03T14:44:40.730" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3579" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-04T12:22:52.270" Score="-9" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/64710/what-are-some-good-it-cities-to-move-to&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/64710/what-are-some-good-it-cities-to-move-to&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea why which cities are best to relocate for should be off topic  IT, as there are specific answers to that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and yet a question about how to CONVINCE people to join a union is NOT off topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/64492/how-can-i-convince-my-co-workers-to-join-the-union&quot;&gt;How can I convince my co-workers to join the union?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former is a common problem that people have addressed with a clear path to take.  It's NOT opinion based at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second should so clearly be off topic as it is about convincing others to do something, that it should have been shut down long ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2016-04-06T14:00:51.353" Title="This question should be reopened" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3575" CreationDate="2016-04-04T12:53:32.250" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, especially when the reason for closing the question is &quot;Real questions have real answers&quot;, and there are real answers below it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes bad questions can have good answers and IMO, the question should be given a chance to be edited when the answers below it have real-life, pragmatic applications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Career changes, for example, have clear steps that can be taken, such as sitting down with someone who is in your new career and reviewing your history with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dealing with disabilities, workplace politics, the nephew being put in a position of power over more competent employees, et cetera, all have answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-04-04T12:53:32.250" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3582" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-04T22:45:22.600" Score="5" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I am &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; confused as to what is a proper question on workplace.  As far as I can tell, every question I've seen, closed or open, is either opinion based, seeking advice, or (somehow) considered company specific, can anyone give me a good example of an appropriate question for this stackexchange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user45641" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T12:58:20.673" Title="What is a proper question for workplace?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3582" CreationDate="2016-04-06T09:03:07.503" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are some of the criteria I use for determining whether a question is suited to this site. Most of this is based on the help center guidelines and the close reasons specified on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this should go without saying, this is my interpretation of the guidelines. Whether a question is &amp;quot;proper&amp;quot; is decided by the community as a whole so you may not agree with all or even any of my criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Useful&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackExchange is meant to be a Q&amp;amp;A repository for future use. Anything that is &lt;em&gt;too specific&lt;/em&gt; to a particular situation or set of circumstances risks being useless to others facing a similar situation or problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But every question is specific to a personal situation, isn't it? Of course it is, but the point is that the question should be answerable when the particulars vary. We should be able to generalise the question so that the minute details don't matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this vein, anything related to company policies or use of a company tool, procedure or resource is almost certainly not useful. Those are things to ask of your colleagues or support staff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answerable&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Complaints and rants aren't questions so by definitions can have no answers which means that they don't fit our format. There should be a core question or goal in the post that can have practical answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't ask: &amp;quot;My boss constantly berates me and is making my life miserable.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask: &amp;quot;How can I get my boss to treat me with respect when we have no HR department?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that in the first example the lack of a question mark is a typical give-away for rant questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Not Personal Advice&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is sort of a combination of the first two criteria. When you ask us to make up your mind for you, that's not something that will be useful to others and we can't really answer it with any authority: we don't know all the details. Unless you write us a ten thousand word essay chronicling your entire life there will be important details missing that only &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; can know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we can do, is guide people towards making their own decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't ask: Should I get a doctorate if I want to go into videogame development?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do ask: Is a doctorate useful for a career in videogame development?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Better ask: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13191/can-a-ph-d-have-a-negative-impact-on-your-career-in-the-software-industry/13198#13198&quot;&gt;Can a Ph.D. have a negative impact on your career in the software industry?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the second example is borderline and can likely be generalised to the third example. It's a potential duplicate of that real question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Not a duplicate&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Variations on a theme are not allowed and closed as duplicates. For a question to stand on its own, there should be critical differences that would invalidate good answers on potential originals. A lack of good answers is not an excuse for recreating a question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Not Opinion-based&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a tricky one and the one that's most up for interpretation. Variations on &amp;quot;Will this improve my chances?&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;What do X think about Y?&amp;quot; are likely all opinion-based. The main criteria is whether there's a &amp;quot;standard opinion&amp;quot; for a particular culture/industry/area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance &amp;quot;Will coming in late affect my career?&amp;quot; could be seen as being opinion-based as some managers will care and some won't. However, in the US and many European countries being late to work (without flexible hours) will negatively affect your reputation in virtually every company. In other countries that's much less of a problem. When properly defined a question like this can be answerable and useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Of interest to the site&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question should relate directly to the concept of &amp;quot;navigating the workplace&amp;quot; to use the wording of the help center. Our site's userbase cannot be expected to answer legal questions where interpretation of the law is required. The intricacies of Kanban and Scrum are better suited to the Project Management site. User access control is something for the Security site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We may wear many hats across the StackExchange network but you should imagine that everyone answering questions here is an HR manager and restrict yourself to topics they would be able to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T12:58:20.673" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3579" CreationDate="2016-04-06T14:00:51.353" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted in the comments, a question like &quot;What are some good IT cities to move to?&quot; is difficult to address on (at least) two points :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, the best choice for the poster is going to be very dependent on things about him that we don't know enough about. In the question posted, the guy only suggests southern U.S. cities. So, should I suggest Boston? Or is it too cold or too far away? Silicon Valley? But maybe the guy won't like its political and cultural attitudes. Hamburg? Maybe the guy doesn't speak German. London? Maybe the guy doesn't want to leave the U.S. This could go on forever ... The point is that making a decision such as this is very personal and the answer for one person isn't going to help someone else; and creating a database for people facing problems is what the site is about.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, it is a &quot;list&quot; question - i.e. it could be re-stated as &quot;List good cities for someone pursuing a career in IT.&quot; These types of questions have always been frowned upon in the StackExchange communities because they rarely provide insight that a search engine couldn't provide and there usually isn't clear criteria by which someone can judge one particular answer to be better than another.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2317" LastActivityDate="2016-04-06T14:00:51.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3585" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-07T11:41:59.393" Score="6" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't it appear that the person who posted this question&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/61355/is-my-managers-attitude-discriminatory&quot;&gt;Is my manager&amp;#39;s attitude discriminatory?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;also posted this question?&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/64855/what-exactly-is-harassmen&quot;&gt;How can I determine if my manager is harassing me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if the former was considered off-topic, shouldn't the latter be off-topic as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Just trying to understand. I personally don't care either way.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T13:00:35.053" Title="Is this a case of the same person registering with a different name?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3586" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-07T12:48:51.690" Score="-6" ViewCount="384" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question has been closed and I'm working on revising it to get it re-opened and would like your help. Here is the question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/64766/what-happens-if-i-poison-a-co-worker-who-has-been-stealing-my-food&quot;&gt;What happens if I poison a co-worker who has been stealing my food?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since getting closed for being off-topic I've performed a considerable sized edit to try make sure it is on-topic and a good fit for the site whilst still keeping the core question the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After making the edit it sadly still wasn't reopened so I've now turned to Meta to try and get it up to scratch. If you have the time then help to address the question's issue (either by identifying them or giving advice on how to resolve those already identified in the comments/answers below) would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please do not think that if I disagree with your advice that it means I don't appreciate it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a track record of some of the reasons for closing (some given in the initial close, others given as on-going feedback):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the reason for close it is off-topic. I've read through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;on-topic page&lt;/a&gt; and here is why I think they don't apply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is not a &quot;question seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; - I've mentioned my company has no specific policy on the matter and I also think it is unlikely that other companies will have any either (I welcome correction in answers).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If we follow through to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2693/custom-off-topic-close-reasons-change/2694#2694&quot;&gt;the community answer on the company-specific issue&lt;/a&gt; we can see it doesn't apply either. It could &quot;&lt;em&gt;help out people in the future who are facing the same problem&lt;/em&gt;&quot; as a cursory search shows that accidental poisonings happen fairly often (&lt;a href=&quot;http://abcnews.go.com/Health/FirstAid/story?id=7292295&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;link to 5 such examples&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;amp;ion=1&amp;amp;espv=2&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8#q=can%20I%20poison%20a%20someone%20stealing%20my%20food&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a search for 'can I poison a someone stealing my food' turns up 45 million results&lt;/a&gt;, so whether it is accidental or intentional I think there are people out there it could help.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You may feel it would be better to ask &quot;How can I prevent accidentally poisoning someone?&quot; or &quot;How can I stop someone stealing my food?&quot; but these are different questions and I'm not looking to find out the answer to either of them. I &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; how I can prevent accidentally poisoning someone, I &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; how I can stop stealing someone stealing my food (plus that's already been asked twice as mentioned in my question), what I'm looking for is the answer to the question I have asked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is not an example of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem&quot;&gt;the XY Problem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; - I am not &quot;asking about [my] attempted solution rather than [my] actual problem.&quot; I am asking about probable outcomes based on people's expert knowledge or prior experience. If anything the question has became an example of the YX Problem as Code Bling so eloquently put it (quoted here as linking to comments isn't possible):&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You post looking for a specific answer. World decides that since they don't know the answer to your question, it must be the wrong question. A herd of 'why are you doing this?' comments are birthed. World subsequently decides to instead help you fix your broken brain-logic and your clearly fragile emotional state. - Code Bling&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is not a &quot;questions asking for advice on what to do (or legal advice)&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. Initially, yes, I mentioned I was &lt;em&gt;interested&lt;/em&gt; in 'legal and HR' styled advice. I have since been informed The Workplace is not a place for legal advice and hence there was no need for me to specify this. I believe it is possible to answer this question without relying on legal advice and there is already &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/64766/what-happens-if-i-poison-a-co-worker-who-has-been-stealing-my-food/64772#64772&quot;&gt;an answer on it&lt;/a&gt; that is a good example of how this can be answered in a non-opinion based, non-law based manner.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is not a &quot;questions that focus on ranting about problems rather than trying to solve them.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; - It is long but it isn't a rant. Even in its length every sentence adds more details that some may find relevant and will help people to provide better answers. If the length is a problem I could probably strip it down.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is a &quot;question that is a good fit for the Stack Exchange format&quot; and it meets &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;the 6 criteria set out by Good Subjective guidelines&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; - I'll explain why in a subsequent edit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37323" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-05-07T01:15:29.900" Title="What do I need to do to get the 'poison a co-worker' question re-opened?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3585" CreationDate="2016-04-07T13:00:35.053" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made a pretty sweeping edit to hopefully:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make the question on topic (and not a rant)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avoid it being duplicated of the previous question, which basically was a rant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T13:00:35.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3586" CreationDate="2016-04-07T13:05:08.963" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The key question, as defined in your actual question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What I want to know is: what is the possible / likely fallout if someone eats my sandwich without my knowledge or consent and becomes ill (or cured depending on your perspective) as a result?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is off-topic because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No-one can foresee the future and so speculation on the likely fallout is just a matter of opinion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any foreseeable fallout will be based on company-specific circumstances and rules&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any foreseeable fallout not based on the company-specific environment is likely to be legal-based, which is off-topic for this site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, it is just not possible for the internet at large to give a real answer to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34627" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T13:05:08.963" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3586" CreationDate="2016-04-07T13:44:43.477" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the biggest difficulty is related to two points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, you are suggesting to &lt;em&gt;actively poison another teammate&lt;/em&gt; and then asking &quot;what happens if I do this?&quot; -- this is really not a good question. It is a perfect example of an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/66377/193412&quot;&gt;XY problem&lt;/a&gt;. Your question is really &quot;please justify my proposed solution&quot; and not &quot;here is my problem, how can I resolve it?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, it is still either a legal question OR a &quot;how would your team handle this?&quot; question. Honestly, on my team (USA, but probably similar to the UK), what would happen is that you would first get fired and then management would call the police. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actions such as this (intentionally giving others medicine) is not something which frankly is a solution to your problem. It's childish at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking this site, &quot;how should I solve a problem where my coworkers are eating my food?&quot; is a fine question, though it's already here (probably multiples of it too). You could probably even ask, &quot;how can I make sure my coworkers do not accidentally eat my food, containing medicine?&quot; and that'd be a marginal question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it seems you really, &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want to ask &quot;what happens if I poison my coworker?&quot; and not &quot;how can I prevent coworkers from eating my sandwich?&quot; or some variant on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T13:44:43.477" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3586" CreationDate="2016-04-07T14:23:21.713" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my view this is still a good close in spite of the edit.  The fallout is going to be disciplinary, legal, or both.  Disciplinary action is going to be company specific, none of us know the disciplinary processes for your company, so that is out of bounds as is legal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question like &quot;One of my employees poisoned another.  We don't have procedures for crime in the workplace.  Who would typically be responsible for calling the police, the employer or the victim?&quot;  would be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26235" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T14:23:21.713" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3586" CreationDate="2016-04-07T16:20:08.603" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is explicitly designed as a mechanism for building up a set of useful answers to Frequently Asked Questions. If it is unlikely that anyone sane would websearch the question, it is not a good SE question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether that calls for deletion or just massive down-voting and blunt &quot;you get fired, you get your pants sued off, and nobody ever wants to hire you again until you have been through years of psychological treatment, of course -- and that's if you're lucky; you will probably also face criminal charges&quot; is debatable . But the question doesn't belong on Workplace for the same reasons that &quot;what happens if I shoot my annoying boss &quot; doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this one belongs on SE at all, it probably belongs in Legal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastEditorUserId="12989" LastEditDate="2016-05-07T01:15:29.900" LastActivityDate="2016-05-07T01:15:29.900" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3586" CreationDate="2016-04-07T16:25:24.390" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question leaves a bad taste in my mouth, if you'll pardon the expression, because it seems like you're trying too hard to say &quot;no I wouldn't do this &lt;em&gt;intentionally&lt;/em&gt;, nudge nudge wink wink&quot;.  I'm not saying that's your intention; I'm saying that's how it comes across to me.  It makes me think that you're looking for validation but not coming out and saying so.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have clearly considered the possible consequences for the thief of putting your medicine in your food, so the &quot;honest, that was an accident!&quot; ship has already sailed.  To me, the question would come across as a lot more honest and straightforward if you just outright &lt;em&gt;asked&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm considering lacing my food, maybe with laxatives or maybe with habanero peppers.  We don't have any relevant policies and I think the worst outcome would be &lt;em&gt;discomfort&lt;/em&gt;, not outright &lt;em&gt;harm&lt;/em&gt;.  (Information about your type of workplace, locale, etc.)  If I did this and got caught, what would be likely outcomes?  Maybe my (other) coworkers would laugh along with me, maybe my manager would give me a warning, or maybe I'd be out on the sidewalk before I could reclaim my Tupperware container -- how do I tell which before I do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would still be at risk of being &lt;strong&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/strong&gt;; we need questions to be answerable in a way that's backed up somehow.  But that would be a more productive direction to take the question than what you have now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(An edit like that would invalidate some of the answers.  I'm not sure what we should do about that; if you want to go in this direction let us know and we'll figure something out.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T16:25:24.390" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3586" CreationDate="2016-04-07T17:35:53.687" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes there are set rules but people will vote to close because they think it is silly and inconsistent.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You want an answer to what will happen if I do something (wrong).  And the answer is don't do something wrong.  Pretending to add laxative as a convenience does not make it right and you know it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You want an answer to the outcome but say it is not something you would really do then you kind of circle around to well maybe I would really do it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two wrongs don't make a right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have several answers.  What would you hope to achieve by getting it re-opened anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer addressed possible outcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On StackOverflow and other technical sites questions are often closed on XY basis even though there is no XY box.   How can I make this code work when the answer is that code is the wrong approach?  What is the problem you are trying to solve is is a common and proper theme.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26028" LastEditorUserId="26028" LastEditDate="2016-04-07T18:07:00.803" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T18:07:00.803" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3594" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-09T22:02:01.487" Score="-1" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/64265/how-should-i-teach-people-how-to-treat-me-in-a-job-setting-when-im-just-a-new-c?noredirect=1#comment175627_64265&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/64265/how-should-i-teach-people-how-to-treat-me-in-a-job-setting-when-im-just-a-new-c?noredirect=1#comment175627_64265&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have made some changes in it. Hope this is eligible to stay open on this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38572" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-04-13T19:46:45.753" Title="Request to reopen this question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3594" CreationDate="2016-04-12T12:45:38.283" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I think the only answer is &quot;take the chip off your shoulder, focus on simply &lt;em&gt;demonstrating&lt;/em&gt; that you're a competent member of the team, accept that until someone else joins you're going to be 'the kid' and that there is nothing malicious about that nor anything to be embarrassed about, and recognise that &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; does a few minor tasks like helping with a trivial piece of equipment simply because friends do that for each other.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure whether that makes this a usefully answerable question or not. I think so, but I don't think it's an answer the OP will appreciate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastEditorUserId="12989" LastEditDate="2016-04-12T23:42:44.897" LastActivityDate="2016-04-12T23:42:44.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3596" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-13T15:56:37.610" Score="-2" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked several questions lately, backtracking each time towards something that I feel is more and more well-known trying to find some common ground on which to build. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The topics I am asking about are known and established, but apparently no one here knows about them. (In many cases I cannot even choose an appropriate Tag to put on the question, it is that far from what has been posted in the past.) If these ideas are potentially very valuable to workplace improvement, how can I get a foot in the door without all my questions being declared off-topic? Can't we discuss a new idea here? Especially if someone thinks it is valuable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is like the idea of requiring a &quot;second&quot; to make a motion: if at least two people do not think something is worth discussing, it gets no attention. But &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; has to be first with a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user37746" LastActivityDate="2016-04-17T18:22:24.037" Title="How to introduce a useful topic that is not already here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3596" CreationDate="2016-04-13T16:45:25.370" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can't we discuss a new idea here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you've missed a key purpose of Stack Exchange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a discussion board type of site. It is not intended (and never was) to be a place where people put forth an idea/thought and get opinions on their ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's intended to be an explicit question --&gt; answer site. A defined question gets a defined answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discussions are by definition not a good fit for this. Looking through &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/37746/no-comprende?tab=questions&quot;&gt;your questions here&lt;/a&gt; it seems you would prefer a discussion board type of environment as a lot of your questions are along the lines of, &quot;what are your experiences using technique X?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-04-13T16:45:25.370" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3594" CreationDate="2016-04-13T19:46:45.753" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you really want this reopened, I'd suggest following &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3594/request-to-reopen-this-question#comment8743_3594&quot;&gt;Kilisi's advice&lt;/a&gt;. You could summarise your entire question into a variation of your last sentence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How should a newcomer to the workplace act to build a reputation as a dependable coworker and lose the &quot;newbie&quot; tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The wall of text you give describing your situation confuses your post and detracts from your argument&lt;/strong&gt; because you're seeing belittlement and condescension when they probably aren't there. You &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; the new kid on the block. People are used to newcomers feeling overconfident or pretending to know the ins-and-outs of expensive equipment when they haven't even mastered the basics. 'Harmless' comments or jokes about age, appearance and body image are incredibly problematic and while society is becoming more aware of that they are still common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2016-04-13T19:46:45.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3599" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-14T16:58:15.967" Score="-4" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do companies prefer to employ younger people [on hold]&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65226/why-do-companies-prefer-to-employ-younger-people/65228?noredirect=1#comment177379_65228&quot;&gt;Why do companies prefer to employ younger people&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agism is something very common over 30, and certainly over 40.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-04-15T06:58:14.910" Title="Request to open this question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3599" CreationDate="2016-04-14T18:45:20.427" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Too broad. There are many possible reasons, including that this is only true of some companies and some positions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also isn't actionable,which is a ding against it on Workplace.A better fit would be &quot;How can older employees/candidates overcome a company's assumptions that younger employees are preferable&quot;, though there too I think it's fuzzy if we don't know which preconceptions they are laboring under &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-04-14T18:45:20.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3599" CreationDate="2016-04-15T06:52:11.083" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why do X do Y?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like this are incredibly problematic for two main reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they rely on their premise being correct: X do in fact do Y the majority of the time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they can only be answered by X or someone with extensive experience with X &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Y&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP's statement that &quot;&lt;em&gt;racism and sexism have largely been removed&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is also a dangerous assumption to make and it further baits poor reactions and debate on this issue and detracts from the main question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While all our questions are opinion-based to some extent, this one is almost certainly too broad to be answered from a personal perspective. While it could remain open if people would answer these properly (i.e. with sources), that's incredibly rare here and the question should specify that it requires sourced answers to avoid polluting the answer pool with demagoguery. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/65228/25739&quot;&gt;Your answer&lt;/a&gt; on this question is an example of why questions like this are problematic. You seemingly answer with authority and make bold statements but those are merely your opinion and will be heavily coloured by your perception of and experience with the worplace. You don't back them up with research, quotes, blogs, articles or demonstrate your experience. Without that yours is just one opinion in a sea of many. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65226/why-do-companies-prefer-to-employ-younger-people/65228?noredirect=1#comment177408_65228&quot;&gt;DavidK brought up an important point&lt;/a&gt; in that regard:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And because you haven't seen it it must be universally false? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result you're forced to defend yourself in the comments on that answer which is  rapidly turning into a debate where everyone involved is losing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-04-15T06:58:14.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3596" CreationDate="2016-04-17T18:22:24.037" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have an &lt;em&gt;answerable&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; about a topic that isn't yet discussed here, and the question is within the intended scope of Stack Exchange and the Workplace discussion, just ask the question. This happens all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want a discussion rather than an answer, that isn't what SE is set up for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question isn't about the workplace as we've been defining it, it will probably be ruled out of scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you make &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; question more specific, we could give you an opinion on whether your question is likely to be considered in scope or not, and if not we may be able to suggest other venues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-04-17T18:22:24.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3603" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-21T17:22:42.003" Score="15" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the question says, are questions on topic if they come from volunteer activities, rather than from a paid workplace? To be clear, I am asking about situations that might also arise in a workplace (such as interpersonal disputes), but happened in a volunteer capacity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2317" LastActivityDate="2020-05-16T13:26:11.460" Title="Are questions from volunteering on topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3603" CreationDate="2016-04-21T18:52:42.617" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are not explicitly off topic.  But it would still have to meet the same standard as any question about a paid job would. Questions about where to volunteer, how to volunteer at a specific organization, or the like are still off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T18:52:42.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3603" CreationDate="2016-04-21T19:14:32.083" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Chad's answer, that as long as they meet the same standard as other questions, they should be fine. The situations that arise in a volunteer organization are often very similar to those at a paid job. We've certainly had some highly voted questions that are about volunteering and not paid jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1705/peaceful-and-professional-way-to-drop-out-of-a-volunteer-project-thats-gone-bad&quot;&gt;Peaceful and professional way to drop out of a volunteer project that's gone bad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27484/administrator-thinks-i-an-it-volunteer-student-am-hacking-the-school-network&quot;&gt;Administrator thinks I, an IT volunteer student, am hacking the school network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T19:14:32.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3606" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-22T00:52:45.297" Score="-3" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;??? Ironic that the tag I can use here is [Discussion] when my questions are wrong because they solicit discussion. I have said I would stop using SE several times, but I keep coming back because I don't know of anything better and I get bored and lonely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user37746" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T03:58:27.857" Title="How do I learn how to ask a properly formed question on SE when I have failed so many times?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2016-05-10T14:52:54.240" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3606" CreationDate="2016-04-22T03:52:46.263" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's the problem: you are asking because you are bored and lonely. That isn't what Stack Exchange is for; there are many other sites which would be a better fit if that's your motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To ask a good question, ask one that can be answered directly, not one which requires discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we are in the Workplace area, it should be a question specific to the workplace environment. Interpersonal issues, for example, are out of bounds unless the answer would be different in the workplace than elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best SE questions are ones which quickly draw useful, applicable answers, which are general enough that they are likely to be websearched for, and which elicit answers that will be useful to that person doing the search without requiring further discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the perfect SE question would immediately draw the perfect SE answer, with no discussiion. This is very incompatible with your desire to socialize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't have answerable questions, and aren't sufficiently entertained by trying to craft good answers (which is what most of us spend most of our time here doing), this really isn't going to be a comfortable place for you. No site can be all things to all people, and it sounds like what you most want just isn't what we offer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May I suggest trying someplace like BoingBoing? They're all about discussion and debate for its own sake, and last I checked they were an interestingly informed and opinionated bunch. I left partly because they changed the UI in a way that made reaching conclusions harder; that might actually be better from your point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastEditorUserId="12989" LastEditDate="2016-04-22T03:58:27.857" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T03:58:27.857" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3603" CreationDate="2016-04-22T06:33:50.100" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. Whether people are paid in money, experience or personal satisfaction, volunteers are still largely held to the same standards as regular employees and encounter the same problems. Volunteers are expected to show up they commit to a schedule, work amicably with colleagues and customers, are held accountable for their work and have certain goals to meet. Some volunteering projects are run more strictly and seriously than paid departments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The abomination that is the unpaid internship is also on-topic here and while that is just a shade closer to a &quot;real job&quot; than volunteering, in practice (and in my opinion) they boil down to the same thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T06:33:50.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3603" CreationDate="2016-04-22T14:43:19.293" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they are treated just as fairly as other questions on this site.  The same exacting standards and attention to relevance are applied as many of the situations may apply, with obvious exceptions such as pay, et cetera.  However, many other situations are the same such as coworkers who are obnoxious and noisy, what to do with lunchroom thieves, how to change careers, et cetera ad nauseum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll mark them as off topic and close them just as quickly as other posts about paid positions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T14:43:19.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-22T16:44:16.990" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65407/coffee-maker-custody&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; was closed under the reasoning that: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should be directed to legal professionals&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry but I really disagree with this close reason, I don't see how it can be related to company policy. Some enlightenment from more experienced users or the ones who VTC would be greatly appreciated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question remains closed it's fine, since I already got my answer; but I would still like to understand the reasoning and perspective for closing it under this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46494" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T18:50:52.770" Title="Why was this question closed under company-specific regulations?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3610" CreationDate="2016-04-22T18:50:52.770" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reason for Closure:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking &lt;strong&gt;advice on company-specific&lt;/strong&gt; regulations, &lt;strong&gt;agreements&lt;/strong&gt;, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where the reason applies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We agreed as departments to pitch in for the supplies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the reason &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it should be closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could also be closed under &quot;&lt;em&gt;Primarily opinion based&lt;/em&gt;&quot;  as well as &quot;&lt;em&gt;Questions asking for advice on what to do are not practical answerable questions&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T18:50:52.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3612" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-22T21:07:54.510" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original Back it up policy had a standard evaluation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does the answer completely answer the question and explain why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This standard seems to have gone to the wayside.  I would like to see this standard revived and applied to answers that do not address the question asked and especially those short answers that basically just express the opinion of the poster.  Many times these short answers are popular with the drive by  hot question visitors and end up highly voted.  This, in my opinion, harms the site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we increase the current minimum standard to every answer must be complete and address the question asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2016-04-23T03:54:41.600" LastActivityDate="2016-04-23T12:36:21.467" Title="Are complete answers still required?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3613" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-22T22:23:38.860" Score="-1" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question in mind is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65671/measuring-employee-moods-via-an-app-to-better-engage-with-them-how-viable#comment179578_65671&quot;&gt;Measuring employee moods via an app to better engage with them, how viable?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please tell me why the comments have been removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27019" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-04-27T16:32:05.873" Title="Why has this questions comments been removed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3613" CreationDate="2016-04-22T22:34:52.213" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because comments are not for extended discussion.  They are for clarification and always intended to be ephemeral.  If they can stand on their own, then they should instead be posted as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T22:34:52.213" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3615" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-23T12:18:33.800" Score="4" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't recall carrying out any review tasks on The Workplace. Why is this occurring?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48356" LastActivityDate="2016-04-24T17:49:22.900" Title="Why do I have the Custodian badge?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3612" CreationDate="2016-04-23T12:36:21.467" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have a choice here. You can insist that all answers be fully documented ... Or you can accept that life experience is a valid source of data and insight. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter produces many more good answers at the cost of some mediocre or bad answers -- but the SE process means good answers get voted up, bad answers get voted down and a community consensus emerges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I submit that being overly strict produces inferior results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-04-23T12:36:21.467" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3617" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-24T13:56:50.663" Score="6" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not long ago, I asked the following question and got a few responses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/65684/25611&quot;&gt;How / when should a person notify in their job that they&amp;#39;re transitioning gender?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it was then put on hold as being primarily opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since then, I had changed the wording of the question to make it more fact-based, while hopefully still making it useful to more than the particular scenario I describe. Now I'd like to resubmit the question for review and hopefully it could be re-opened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, I'd like to know what can I do to improve it so that it fits the standards of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry if this is not the right place, I don't exactly know how this process works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks a lot!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25611" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T14:19:20.873" Title="Can we re-review this question?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|reopen-request|opinion-based|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3617" CreationDate="2016-04-24T14:31:32.920" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking as an outsider but one who has friends who have crossed the gender divide both ways, I'm not sure there is a general answer other than trying to understand the probable reactions of &lt;em&gt;individuals&lt;/em&gt; in your company and deal with them on a case by case basis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing what protections you have under the law is also advisable, but alas is also a local matter right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing local cultural tolerance also matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the latter two, I think a nearby support group will give better answers than we possibly could. For the first, I think one really needs to deal with specific cases and a good answer would be too specific/extensive for us to handle here, so again I would suggest asking within the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a good question... but I don't think SE can give you the best answers. This is one to take to specialists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my perceptions; I may be completely wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-04-24T14:31:32.920" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2016-04-24T17:49:22.900" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;When somebody proposes an edit to your post, you receive a notification.  If you click through and approve that edit, that counts as reviewing a suggested edit.  So even if you don't have enough reputation to access the review queue, you can end up doing a review under specialized circumstances.  The first time you do that, you get the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that Suggested Edits is the only review queue where this sort of thing can currently happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-04-24T17:49:22.900" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3617" CreationDate="2016-04-24T17:55:08.553" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta is the right place to ask about specific questions, closures, reopenings, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read the current version of your question and it looks fine to me.  As you note, it's similar to many other &quot;how do I communicate this unusual thing?&quot; questions that we have.  It had three reopen votes already, so I've reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-04-24T17:55:08.553" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3621" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-25T15:43:07.653" Score="0" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65794/threatened-to-resign-accused-of-being-a-bully&quot;&gt;This recent post&lt;/a&gt; I made was found to be off-topic.  In my mind, the meaning of many terms is intimately connected to the context in which they are expressed.  I asked for help validating my intuition that workplace bullying is not equivalent to making demands or giving an ultimatum.  It is important to know what workplace bullying is vs. the normal processes organizations go through to hold employees accountable.  I think this would be an entirely relevant topic for discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user29416" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-04-26T00:18:05.710" Title="Is discussing the meaning of terms as it applies to the workplace off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3621" CreationDate="2016-04-25T17:30:47.523" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You wrote &quot;The main thing I really want to know is if anyone finds this a little humorous.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So perhaps asking &quot;Am I funny?&quot; is not considered appropriate at The Workplace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48543" LastActivityDate="2016-04-25T17:30:47.523" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3621" CreationDate="2016-04-25T18:35:28.580" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question was not closed because it asked about the meaning of a term. Your question was closed because it was just story about your situation and didn't really ask much of a question. Your post basically amounted to &quot;Look at this thing my boss did! Isn't that weird?&quot; You want us to validate that you are right and your boss is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the close reason cited, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2693/custom-off-topic-close-reasons-change/2696#2696&quot;&gt;Real questions have answers&lt;/a&gt;. Instead of asking a question which invites answers like &quot;Yeah man, that's weird,&quot; it's better to ask a question that has a specific goal in mind. You could have asked, &quot;I know my email was unprofessional. How should I have better handled it?&quot; Or &quot;I'm being accused of bullying behavior. How should I respond?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, your question about the definition of bullying and whether a bully always needs to be in a place of power is not specific to the workplace. It is really a question about the meaning of a word and whether your boss used it correctly or not. That is a question better suited for sites like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;English SE&lt;/a&gt;, though you would need to cut out a lot of the backstory before it would be appropriate for that site as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:38:12.063" LastActivityDate="2016-04-25T18:48:30.510" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3624" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-25T19:47:58.697" Score="0" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/65771/9549&quot;&gt;How should I maintain a professional relationship with female coworkers?&lt;/a&gt; has been put on hold because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/65792/9549&quot;&gt;most upvoted answer&lt;/a&gt;, which is far from being the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; highly-upvoted answer, is a neat three-paragraphs long (two if you don't count stand-alone sentences as paragraphs).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/65774/9549&quot;&gt;second most upvoted answer&lt;/a&gt; is even more concise than that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The rest of them follow in the same vein. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/65793/9549&quot;&gt;most wordy one of all&lt;/a&gt; is nowhere near the longest I've seen on this SE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All questions seem to revolve around two ideas (at least those who aren't overly politically charged, which makes them irrelevant). &lt;em&gt;Too many possible answers&lt;/em&gt;? Not really.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;On Hold&lt;/em&gt; reason does not apply. It did not apply after the latest edit (which just changes phraseology and &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; substance - because there's nothing of substance that needs changing) and it didn't apply before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is good question about a valid problem. The votes cast in its favor, and the quality, quantity and reception of its answers attest to this fact. I believe I've made my case, so &lt;strong&gt;can we release this question from limbo?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2016-04-28T06:49:34.567" Title="Why is this question about interacting with the opposite gender on hold?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|specific-question|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3624" CreationDate="2016-04-25T21:22:03.940" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is too broad. There are literally books written on this very subject, and a whole discipline of the topic taught in college.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a specific thing that the OP is having difficulty with we &lt;strong&gt;MAY&lt;/strong&gt; be able to help that.  But that could still be too broad.  That's right it is very likely that the sharply refined question is still to broad to deal with in the relatively short answers we can provide here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no way to provide a complete answer here.  So we have a few good opinions on the problem but they are in no way complete answers on how the OP should deal with his issues.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2016-04-26T15:31:06.200" LastActivityDate="2016-04-26T15:31:06.200" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3621" CreationDate="2016-04-26T00:18:05.710" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason your question was closed is actually revealed by the way you started this one. You said &quot;The recent post...&quot; It was wasn't supposed to be a post, it was supposed to be a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that wasn't enough of a clue you ended this question with the phrase &quot;I think this would be an entirely relevant topic for discussion.&quot; again the purpose of the site is to ask questions, not to have discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2016-04-26T00:18:05.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3624" CreationDate="2016-04-27T13:09:49.910" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I reckon it is a perfectly valid question which is not that difficult to answer, and it encompasses a large range of people from many cultures who are not used to interacting professionally with ladies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a very real problem for an unsophisticated man with no experience to have in the workplace. I had it myself having 5 brothers and no sisters and going to boys schools. I was very nervous and self-conscious around women because I was always worried I was doing something wrong. So while I agree it IS a broad question, in essence it's a simple one, and it has an equally broad and simple answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The seeming polarisation of the top two answers (one of which is mine) give a great overview of two differing ideas, but in fact they are actually very similar at their core with one being a subset of the other rather than 'wrong' although personally I believe it wrong in this context. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One gives a viewpoint from what is 'normal' in some Western cultures (nowhere else is this normal as far as I know). The other (mine) tells the OP to find out what is 'normal' in HIS particular context and then do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's normal in one culture to treat women as exact equals, then that is perfectly fine in that context. I don't believe that to be the case in India. Projecting Western ideas on non Western societies is bad advice and possibly dangerous. But that's beside the point. I'm happy to reopen this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2016-04-28T06:49:34.567" LastActivityDate="2016-04-28T06:49:34.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3613" CreationDate="2016-04-27T14:19:32.967" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some observations from that question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JyvLn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JyvLn.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of noise. Keep in mind the purpose of comments is requesting clarification and improving the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What percentage of these comments do that (which are not obselete)? Nearly all are either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Commentary on the subject material&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quite a few are discussion related to the commentary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers (post as answers... not comments!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some which are geared towards improving the post. These are/were deleted when that was no longer relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your comment specifically &quot;what a novel way of pissing off employees&quot; is completely unhelpful. If you are interested in a site where you can try to make witty comments to try to get upvotes, go to Reddit or imgur. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments like that will continue to be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will always be comments that get deleted by mistake, especially in the long comment threads like on this post. It is somewhat unavoidable until Stack Exchange programs replacements for us human moderators... However, yours was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; one of those. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;this link for guidance about comments&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When should I comment? You should submit a comment if you want to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Request clarification from the author&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Leave constructive criticism that guides the author in improving the post; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Add relevant but minor or transient information to a post (e.g. a link to a related question or an alert to the author that the question has been updated).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you disagree with this and desire Stack Exchange to allow more &quot;discussion board&quot; comments, I encourage you to open a suggestion on the main Stack Exchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;Meta site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are all the comments, for reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/80M2t.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/80M2t.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qr8Cw.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qr8Cw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r5t2O.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r5t2O.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Iqgj.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Iqgj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-04-27T16:32:05.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3629" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-29T14:21:24.463" Score="-5" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well as the title says, how come there isn't a tag for questions regarding investors or VCs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user49733" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T18:09:37.387" Title="How come there isn't a tag for questions regarding investors or VCs?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3629" CreationDate="2016-04-29T14:38:58.250" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because we have no questions justifying their creation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22venture%20capital%22%20is%3Aq&quot;&gt;Venture Capital&lt;/a&gt;: 2 closed questions, none open&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22venture+capitalists%22+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;Venture Capitalists&lt;/a&gt;: 1 question created by OP today, potentially off-topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22VC%22%20is%3Aq%20closed%3Ano&quot;&gt;VC&lt;/a&gt;: no open questions (one unrelated)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22investor%22%20is%3Aq%20closed%3Ano&quot;&gt;Investor&lt;/a&gt;: 1open question, feels off-topic to me&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag should never be created in advance. Only create them when they are useful. Generally that requires the expectation that multiple questions will be asked about that topic in future. Existing questions that can have the tag added aren't strictly required but a good indicator that a tag would be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T18:09:37.387" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3631" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-02T10:34:53.903" Score="28" ViewCount="428" Body="&lt;p&gt;Country tags have a bit of a history on this site but the general consensus seems to be that they serve a useful purpose. Unfortunately, even when they are added to a question, they often end up ignored because many people don't check the tags before answering or commenting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought that experienced users wouldn't fall for that but I just noticed that I've personally failed to notice a tag on a question I recently answered. I even guessed at the location based on the OP's name but never thought to check the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So my suggestion is that these tags should receive some &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CSS&lt;/a&gt; love to make them visually distinct from the other tags&lt;/strong&gt;. Our current site style is very clean and subtly emphasised tags shouldn't clutter it too much and would be a valuable visual aid. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: I've created this topic to see if there's enough interest in the general idea to explore this in further detail. Whether we &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; and how the tags should look is not relevant unless we've establish a consensus that's in favour of this change. Based on previous discussions on this topic, it should be possible. Monica mentions tag flags &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2611/25739&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; and this meta already uses visually different tag types which means that it's technically possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous discussions on the topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2607/is-there-anything-we-can-do-to-highlight-the-country-culture-specific-tags&quot;&gt;Is there anything we can do to highlight the country/culture specific tags?&lt;/a&gt; - No suggestions, only point raised is to include the location in the actual question (which is a good remark but skirts around the problem)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25/should-we-have-country-specific-tags?lq=1&quot;&gt;Should we have country specific tags?&lt;/a&gt; - Consensus: yes, but only when they are actually relevant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1 - Monica expanded on this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3639/25739&quot;&gt;in her answer&lt;/a&gt; below. She was referring to using country flags as tag icons. Icons are in use as a form of sponsorship on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;StackOverflow tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:37:04.473" LastActivityDate="2016-05-25T10:16:12.730" Title="Should we make country tags visually distinct?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3631" CreationDate="2016-05-02T11:38:58.213" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would personally very much like to see distinct and prominent country tags on the site, as I think it would help people to see differences between different countries' employment practices and might be useful for anyone interested in the manner in which different geographic locations conduct themselves with regard to employment, probably largely driven by governmental and cultural factors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would even go to far as to suggest a search function for different tags and title/body keywords in concert with different country tags, and even an option to perform analytics on them, though this might be more something of interest to people using the Stack Exchange API than general users? Still, just being able to access tables of stats broken down by country definitely might prove interesting, particularly to people thinking of moving to different parts of the world to work...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48356" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T11:38:58.213" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3631" CreationDate="2016-05-02T11:53:27.850" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this would be extremely useful. As the question you've linked points out, it would be great if we could even require users to tag a country before they can post a question, as that piece of information is sometimes critical to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A while back I asked about this feature in Meta SE, but unfortunately it didn't garner much attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/260738/custom-recommended-tags-list-for-individual-se-sites&quot;&gt;Custom recommended tags list for individual SE sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T11:53:27.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3634" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-02T12:08:29.643" Score="12" ViewCount="439" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/66272/how-to-get-donations-anonymously-in-a-room&quot;&gt;&quot;How to get donations anonymously in a room&quot;&lt;/a&gt; pop up, and I really have no idea if it's on topic or not. On the one hand, I don't really understand what this question has to do with the workplace. On the other, we could probably answer the question and I don't know that there's another SE that is a better fit than us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T22:51:58.240" Title="Is &quot;How to get donations anonymously in a room&quot; on topic?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3634" CreationDate="2016-05-02T12:17:17.213" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a thought experiment: imagine the OP had asked about how to set up a donation box at his workplace for some &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; worthy cause than his own expenses in giving a free course, and how to do so without guilt-shaming anyone into contributing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reaction would be that this scenario would definitely be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By extension, since the difference to the actual question is not really germane, I'd say the original question is on-topic, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(BTW: &quot;there is no better SE site for this question&quot; does not make an off-topic question on-topic.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17125" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T12:17:17.213" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3634" CreationDate="2016-05-02T12:20:09.607" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like the question might be too broad rather than off-topic. He's asking for business ideas. &quot;How can I collect money from people anonymously to fit my business strategy&quot;. There are so many ways to approach this question that I wouldn't know where to begin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;anonymous letters?&#xA;Donation box?&#xA;online donation paypal account?&#xA;tip jar?&#xA;etc etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like all of these answers could work, which is why I don't think an answer is really easy to get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47397" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T12:20:09.607" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3631" CreationDate="2016-05-02T13:04:24.527" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the huge legal, social and cultural differences from country to country, I think it's an excellent idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simple question such as &quot;Is it appropriate to ask about a coworker's sick family member&quot; can have Widely different answers based on the culture and country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In The USA, it can get you in trouble.  In India, it's expected, and in other nations it varies between the extremes.  Clear, distinct country tags would help greatly to disambiguate questions like this and others&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The country is a tag that could change what a relevant answer is entirely, as in the example above.  Since no other tag I can think of would effect what a correct or incorrect answer would be, I am of the position that the country tag should stand out much more than it does now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2016-05-02T20:36:59.980" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T20:36:59.980" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3634" CreationDate="2016-05-02T13:14:57.813" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What bugs me in this question is that the context is not a workplace per se. Sure, this question could be at least partially transposed to a more &quot;fitting&quot; context for this SE, but that doesn't make it on-topic. However, trying to adapt the question might make it too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, transposing the question would probably cause it to make little sense. A donation box in an office would most likely have another goal than in a room where a free course is dispensed, as, well, a lot of things are different, starting with the relationship between OP and the potential donators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is interesting, but ultimately, it still feels off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49840" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T13:14:57.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3631" CreationDate="2016-05-02T18:59:48.567" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Making the country tags visually distinct in some way would be helpful.  I, too, often miss these, and it matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we should just make them a different color/shade like for the four mandatory tags on meta sites, because that kind of color encoding already means &quot;mandatory tag set&quot; and that's not what we're doing with countries.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;  (We should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; require a country tag on every question; we should use it only where it is relevant.)  Instead, I'd like to explore the flag-icon idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow, alone among SE sites (as far as I know), has &lt;em&gt;sponsored tags&lt;/em&gt;, where somebody pays to add an icon to a tag (usually a company or product logo).  The wiring for that exists everywhere, but it's not worthwhile for SE to sell advertising on sites other than SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could ask to use the same machinery to display icons on country tags only.  While arbitrary icons would cause confusion for people who've seen this on SO, thinking our icons are corporate sponsors too, I think a single, unambiguous icon -- such as a globe -- that's used on &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the location tags would avoid that problem.  An earlier version of this answer proposed using flags (so the tags would have different icons), but, on reflection, a single icon that signals &quot;hey, there's a location tag here (so pay attention to it)&quot; would be sufficient.  I hope it would also be easier to manage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I've rethought this since writing this answer; see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3704/325&quot;&gt;this other answer&lt;/a&gt; for a way that colors could work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T21:41:38.607" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3634" CreationDate="2016-05-02T19:45:26.883" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think its on-topic.  Because OP is working there, while instead the students are &quot;attending&quot;  Therefore it is OP's workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I spent 8 years working as IT-everything in a high school with 200 staff and 1800 students, and schools/educational sites are most definitely workplaces as far as the staff are concerned.  There are all the petty politics, he-said-she-said, cliques, social events and very occasional romantic interludes of any other workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore a school/classroom is a workplace and this is on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37625" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T19:45:26.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3634" CreationDate="2016-05-02T21:26:20.453" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, it's not on-topic.&lt;/strong&gt; The dynamics in a workplace environment versus those in a volunteer course are too different. There are no employees. There is no management. There is no real accountability. You could call the students clients but they don't (shouldn't) have any expectation of service. People aren't forced to work together and interact amicably or risk their livelihood. This is more of a social question than a workplace one and general social question are simply not on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that it's an interesting question but it's a step too far from the workplace for it to find a home here. Where would we draw the line? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T21:26:20.453" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3634" CreationDate="2016-05-02T22:51:58.240" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It all boils down to two related questions, one following on from the other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is begging a profession or not?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is the place where the mendicant does his begging a workplace?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we can decide on that, then we have our answer to this post. We can always say those kids running around at Halloween are temporarily self employed, Salvation army people are actually workers and the punters at the pub getting a tin shaken under their noses are potential clients? Stuff like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T22:51:58.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3631" CreationDate="2016-05-03T03:44:13.333" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am of the opinion that tags are meta-information. They exist to &lt;em&gt;categorize&lt;/em&gt; the question; they are not &lt;em&gt;part&lt;/em&gt; of the question. The question should stand alone, with just title and body. As such, anything pertinent should be mentioned &lt;em&gt;in the question body itself&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags should be ignorable. Decorating them further, and drawing more attention to them, is potentially counterproductive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="362" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T03:44:13.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3644" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-03T08:23:34.757" Score="12" ViewCount="691" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand Meta is the place to ask about specific questions, so here we go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is about the question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/66352/how-can-i-engineer-my-own-firing&quot;&gt;How can I engineer my own firing&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. This question seems to be well-written, on-topic, and the question asked is quite clear. However, OP is asking something unusual, without giving much context, and the question is getting downvoted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that the context provided by the question is a little bit unsettling and seems fishy, and maybe that's triggering the downvotes and some of the negative feedback in the comments. But it made me wonder : is the question bad just because the motives of the question (getting fired on purpose to get another job) are somewhat questionable ? Is this kind of question OK to ask on The Workplace ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was submitted on 2016-05-03 07:52:53Z, closed as &quot;too broad&quot; on 2016-05-03 14:04:54Z and deleted on 2016-05-04 19:52:08Z.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49840" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-05-05T09:30:03.077" Title="Is this question OK ? Why, why not?" Tags="|discussion|questions|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3644" CreationDate="2016-05-03T08:53:09.617" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reasons why this question is not ok:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This question is too specific. It will help just one person. I feel like no one else will learn how to get fired from this question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User posting on the question is sticking on general rules when he feels to, but then makes up the rules when he feels to&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks @MarioTrucco but you are wrong. All StackExchange sites have specific rules they ask their community members to abide by when casting downvotes. If you read that link, nowhere does it say &quot;Hey, feel free to downvote any question you want, just because you don't like it.&quot; Of course users are legally allowed to do whatever they want, but they would be doing so outside the scope of the community rules&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he got explained why people downvote on the question. Then I posted this snarky (I admit) comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@smeeb your last comment gave me idea: Keep behaving in the job exactly as you behave in these comments and it will get you fired easily&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which got this response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm sorry you are annoyed and/or frustrated by my comments @PavelJanicek however I am just staying within the bounds of community rules. I am not being offensive to anyone at all. I am even upvoting other users every single time they solicit a possible solution. I corrected one user because he/she seemed to be uncertain about the community downvoting rules. And I flagged your initial comment for removal because I considered it to be &quot;life coaching&quot; and not relevant to the given problem at hand. I am also flagging your latest comment because, yet again, it is unconstructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I admit I did lose my temper there, but strictly speaking: Life coaching is not reason to flag a comment, which someone intending on the community rules should know&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Acceptance criteria are not known and depend on good will of the OP: We do not know all the details. OP refuses to tell all the details, but it seems that he keeps adding details on the go&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit: It might be totally not workplace related question at all&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, for anyone whose really interested, replace all my uses of the phrase &quot;future employer&quot; or &quot;future prospective employer&quot; with &quot;wife&quot;, and suddenly, this whole question should make complete sense :-) well, to anyone whose married that is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you can also read: &quot;I am interested in another girl, but it would be better if my current wife leaves me. How to do that?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the above is speculation. But I am very convinced that the question is actually not about a job at all&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27375" LastEditorUserId="27375" LastEditDate="2016-05-03T09:33:44.793" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T09:33:44.793" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3644" CreationDate="2016-05-03T10:40:10.627" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the question is fine. Is it unethical? absolutely! who in their right mind would want to help someone who's trying to get fired by intentionally doing things that his employer does not like?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers were also quite unsettling. However despite that I think that @magisch still made some &amp;quot;ethical&amp;quot; suggestions :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;•Be honest with your boss. A good boss does not want to have someone working for them that doesn't want to. He may even sympathize with the reason why you want to get fired and &amp;quot;play along&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;•Train someone else (an intern or junior employee) to do your job. This may very well result in you being laid off because the other person is cheaper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;•Automate your work away. Making yourself redundant can even come with a nice bonus check for the effort in addition to being laid off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything beyond this simply felt unethical and wrong to me. However if we come to the core. Is it a bad question that does not belong in the workplace? I'm leaning towards no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the answers be re-used by other people? I believe so. If you want to get fired without blatantly being unethical/illegal. This is the question you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it off-topic? I don't think it is. The question itself is about the working environment. Whether the answers will be used for different goals and ends is unrelated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, I'm not happy to have this question being asked. It leaves a weird after-taste. But I believe we should have the workplace with both the good &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; the bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47397" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T10:40:10.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3644" CreationDate="2016-05-03T11:02:04.773" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, for anyone whose really interested, replace all my uses of the&#xA;  phrase &quot;future employer&quot; or &quot;future prospective employer&quot; with &quot;wife&quot;,&#xA;  and suddenly, this whole question should make complete sense :-) well,&#xA;  to anyone whose married that is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My interpretation - the OP doesn't want to work there (or perhaps doesn't want to work at all), but his wife won't let him quit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, rather than being honest with his wife, he is trying to come up with a ruse whereby he is fired. That will get him wherever he wants to be, without having to admit to his wife that he &quot;left&quot; on his own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is more suited to a marriage-counselling or relationship forum, rather than here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's completely off-topic, and I'd rather not encourage other wacky questions that use the words workplace, but are not relevant to anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T11:02:04.773" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3649" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-03T12:48:12.893" Score="-4" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am constantly thinking about cultural influences here. In my opinion every question and every answer (almost) would be greatly improved by prominently displaying the cultural perspective of the person asking/answering/commenting. Most of what is discussed here in WorkPlace is about what is the appropriate thing to do in the situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've worked for many years in the USA and a number of years in a south-east Asian country. Everyone, whether they know it or not, is influenced by their culture. Many times people are not even aware of their own bias toward their own culture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all get our opinions about what is best from our training, observation and experience. All of this input has a cultural perspective. This perspective then informs the advice we give. This is a wonderful thing really; not at all negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my experience, the best answer to most questions is rooted in that culture. When the question comes from another culture, it's very likely that the advice I give will be wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion the only reason this works at all is that every participant uses English. It seems that the majority of the questions and answers are from US/Canada/Europe. Although the cultures are quite different, they are less different than compared to (for example) Asian cultures. Most of the time an Asian won't get relevant advice here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be a field in the profile to choose a country as my cultural perspective. This is different than location. I don't live in the US but that is my home country and informs my advice. So I would choose the US. Then in every question and answer the US flag would display next to my name to show my home culture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ehPUM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ehPUM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This clarity would greatly improve WorkPlace. Answers would be welcome from any culture. So if I'm in India I would give more weight to answers from India etc. So the answers wouldn't always agree; different answers would be relevant to different places. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9/18554&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; for how Judaism.SE appreciates differing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This Q&amp;amp;A is helpful but doesn't break us out of the box &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1710/assumed-cultural-context-and-the-workplace&quot;&gt;Assumed Cultural Context and The Workplace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18554" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:40:25.820" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T21:52:33.963" Title="We need flags to show our biases" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3649" CreationDate="2016-05-03T13:21:12.403" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about people who've worked extensively in more than one culture?  Are we going to see stacks of flags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More importantly, though, if it's relevant this information should be &lt;em&gt;in the post&lt;/em&gt;, where it's durable and prominent.  Accounts and thus their user cards can get deleted.  People can fail to fill it out, or -- because they find it intrusive -- fill in a bogus value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, cultural perspective is but one axis along which answers will differ.  Another is company size.  Another is field.  Another is the amount of experience an employee has.  &lt;em&gt;All&lt;/em&gt; pertinent information should thus be in the answer, and if it turns out something was omitted that matters, it should be edited in once the issue is raised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T13:21:12.403" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3644" CreationDate="2016-05-03T14:02:53.247" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we have a very skilled troll on our hands, at least I HOPE this person is trolling as the alternative is far too disturbing to contemplate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He asked another bizarre one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/66385/being-progressive-in-the-work-zone-without-alienating-yourself&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/66385/being-progressive-in-the-work-zone-without-alienating-yourself&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T14:02:53.247" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3649" CreationDate="2016-05-03T14:06:45.277" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvote, downvote, downvote!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I almost always downvote answers which clearly ignore the culture/location of the question. I wish more people did this to be honest, because I agree 100% with the problem you are suggesting here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T14:06:45.277" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3644" CreationDate="2016-05-03T14:54:15.600" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this type of question is fine. Generally speaking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking a question like this is fine, but the &lt;em&gt;way in which it is asked&lt;/em&gt; is really important. In fact, I think had this been asked in a less cryptic way it would have been a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the way it was asked failed a lot of &quot;sanity&quot; checks for me (and others):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP won't answer most clarification questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP keeps making references to it being a divorce/breakup&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP only focuses on the solution (what's the problem causing this?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more reasonable question in the same general topic would be fine. Playing guess and check and &quot;heheh this is a funny idea!&quot; with the asker though? Meh. That sort of stuff belongs on reddit, not Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason this is a problem is that the attitude of the asker translates to a lot of.... banter and discussion on a question. There is a reason the question has nearly 40 deleted comments and well into the double digits in flags. It's not because of the general content, but because of the attitude of the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T14:54:15.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3649" CreationDate="2016-05-03T17:12:08.437" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I aknowledge your concerns, however I would like to point out some concerns with this approach:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Experience With Multiple Cultures&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though I may have experience in working and dealing with several cultures my answer may be disregarded because my current location is Canada, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't want to build a culture where if your're not from a certain country your answers are not appreciated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keep Future Visitors In Mind&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these &quot;off-culture&quot; answers may not help the OP, but they may help future users, or at least provide some ideas to the OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One question a while ago addressed a woman being bullied at work in India (or a similar country - although the title did not specify this, so a user Googling something along those lines would not be aware that the answers are specific to India).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was getting a lot of attention, and most answers were to go to management, or involve HR, which she had actually done, and not helped. The most salient advice was from a comment to have some male relatives &quot;talk&quot; to the bully - something completely inappropriate in Western culture, and which wouldn't help too many users in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP should tag the question appropriately, or specify his/her culture in the question. When the answers start rolling in they can also select the appropriate one, or choose to award a bounty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are mechanisms in place for what you're trying to accomplish. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43772" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T17:12:08.437" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3649" CreationDate="2016-05-03T21:52:33.963" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's really up to the answerer, I agree with your basic premise, but I have worked in First and Third worlds and still do, in several languages and cultures. When I answer a question I answer it from what I judge to be the relevant cultural perspective. And I point out the cultural perspective in answers precisely because it is relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have a location tag which works well, so I don't think it's really necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I HAVE noticed happening is that quite often mainstream Western ideas, norms and morals are projected onto questions and highly upvoted, when in fact they are inappropriate in that context. And following that advice could get the OP into serious trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, this site is for general use, those answers may be useful in the future to someone from the West which is probably most of us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's my two cents, and don't try and put a flag next to my name, because I'm from a small country and it would be easy to work out who I am, so I wouldn't give it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T21:52:33.963" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2607" CreationDate="2016-05-04T01:38:45.387" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, when I'm on a browser (the app doesn't support it), I deliberately filter out questions tagged as coming from countries where I know the work culture is so different that there is nothing meaningful I can offer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That policy is harder to implement when not automated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-05-04T01:38:45.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3631" CreationDate="2016-05-04T06:18:51.153" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No need to add bells and whistles, just read the tags like I do. You got no business answering a question without actually reading it, and the tags are part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-05-04T06:18:51.153" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3658" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3661" CreationDate="2016-05-04T08:34:21.147" Score="7" ViewCount="361" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, dammit, it feels bad to ask such a &quot;similar&quot; question, but while I got some interesting answers, I feel like we could take this to a higher scale, the example I used was most likely flawed as people found excuses in the OP's behavior to file his question as &quot;not OK&quot;. I'm really interested in this issue, and I don't think editing my previous question would cut it, so here we go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Hypotheses&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say someone asks a question on The Workplace (nothing too hard to imagine).&#xA;I'm going to try to give some hypotheses about what kind of question I am talking about :  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is perfectly on-topic, is correctly worded and its perimeter is not too broad. To sum it up, the question respects the rules of The Workplace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user asking the question behaves correctly and provides the details needed to answer the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user might have unethical motives that are reflected in the question. Nothing illegal though, since it would go against 1.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You get it, it is only about the questionable ethicality of the question asked. Since the question is not against the rules, does it belong here ? &lt;strong&gt;Do you think unsavory/unethical questions can be asked on The Workplace ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is important to understand that I am &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; asking if you would answer such a question, or what you (personally) would do when seeing such a question. What I am asking is &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Is it OK to ask such a question here ?&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49840" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T08:57:56.530" Title="Is there a place for &quot;unethical&quot; yet correct questions on The Workplace?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3658" CreationDate="2016-05-04T09:43:52.013" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Realistically, such questions are going to draw more ire than answers, and will be a disaster for the admins to police.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And they don't really meet the SE goal of being useful additions to a crowd sourced list of Good Answers to Frequently Asked Questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, on a purely practical basis, I think they will always be viewed out of bounds. No matter what we decide here, that just ain't what the SE community's here for, and more people will be annoyed enough to shut them down than will want to keep them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take it to another site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-05-04T09:43:52.013" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3660" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-04T09:52:33.010" Score="4" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/42296&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/42296&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This edit just got rejected. The 'Community' user cited a strange reason, which I think doesn't apply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This edit did not correct critical issues with the post - view the revision history to see what should have been changed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user who rejected and edited just changed all 'Time Sheet's to 'timesheet's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand what's happening here. My edit was more substantial than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43309" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2016-05-04T10:11:58.023" Title="Edit did not correct critical issues with the post - I disagree" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3658" CreationDate="2016-05-04T11:53:48.810" Score="13" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you think unsavory/unethical questions can be asked on The&#xA;  Workplace ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is important to understand that I am NOT asking if you would answer&#xA;  such a question, or what you (personally) would do when seeing such a&#xA;  question. What I am asking is &quot;Is it OK to ask such a question here ?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions can &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; be asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think you are really asking if such questions will be tolerated, rather than being downvoted/put on hold/deleted? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I think the real answer is that the community will do what it chooses on a question by question basis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;History tells us that some questions will be tolerated and will even get a lot of attention (often as Hot Network Questions). It also tells us that some questions will be deemed offensive and draw downvotes/hold/deletion in response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And personal ethics vary - by person, by locale, by culture, by corporation, by time. I've seen some things tolerated that I find reprehensible. And I've seen other things shut down that I thought were worthy of public discussion. If I were king of the world, it would be easy - I'd make my choice and everyone would be forced to go along with it. But that's not likely to happen, so everyone gets a say in what they think is &quot;ethical&quot; and what they think is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For many such questions I wonder about motive. Trolls can be entertaining, but I'd hate to see The Workplace devolve into a troll-filled forum - plenty of those exist elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's just me. Clearly there are other opinions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to think The Workplace has done a pretty good job of seeking balance on this sort of issue. Not perfect (things can always be improved), but good enough that a lot of people can get a lot of benefit. And that's not half bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2016-05-04T17:06:50.403" LastActivityDate="2016-05-04T17:06:50.403" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3658" CreationDate="2016-05-04T12:14:07.137" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Im hesitant to paint with a broad brush that these &quot;aren't welcome here&quot; because there is always a shifting line of whats still acceptable and whats currently not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general though, I agree entirely with Keshlam's sentiment that questions blatantly about unethical conduct are probably going to draw more ire then good and as such should be removed from the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastActivityDate="2016-05-04T12:14:07.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3663" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3665" CreationDate="2016-05-05T08:36:24.147" Score="3" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;When doing reviews for new users' questions, I come across scenarios where the user has some basic question in the title and a 'description' in the question body, but no actual question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm of the opinion that regardless of the title, the body should have a complete question, then the title should be effectively summarizing the body in a single sentence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came across such a question, and edited:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/42319&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/42319&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it recommended/allowed that a reviewer do this? If so, are there any things to keep in mind? Personally, I don't think I'm altering the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43309" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T09:37:30.557" Title="Editing incomplete questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3644" CreationDate="2016-05-05T09:23:28.857" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You guys &lt;strong&gt;DO&lt;/strong&gt; realise that there &lt;strong&gt;ARE&lt;/strong&gt; perfectly legitimate reasons for wanting to get fired in a situation where you can't quit or sabotage your work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a scenario (hypothetical), my mum got me a job with one of her buddies. After some excellent work there I landed myself an offer elsewhere. I can't quit because it's mums friend, I can't sabotage my work, because my work is fairly critical stuff and I have no reason to be malicious, I just want out because it's not just work it's taking over my personal life as well and Aunty is trying to play matchmaker and stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I try and explain to Aunty XYX, she might cry and would definitely go to mum with it and I might even get smacked around a bit which isn't a good look at my advanced age, and the Church would hear about it (small community) Mum and Aunty Whatsit might have a rift in their longstanding friendship and there would be unpleasantness all around. Both ladies being elderly and emotional this could easily have medical consequences because everyone would blame everyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;IF&lt;/strong&gt; I could get myself fired, most of the blame would fall on me (who despite being quite old myself is just kid to them), I could apologise profusely to Aunty Thingy, and my mum would smooth things over so I still got a good reference, and after tears and self recriminations and wailing and all that drama that the oldies absolutely love. Everything would be serene, and I'd be in my new job focusing on my career.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.... just saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2016-05-05T09:30:03.077" LastActivityDate="2016-05-05T09:30:03.077" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3663" CreationDate="2016-05-05T10:37:42.987" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Short Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as you are retaining the intent of the question, then it's fine to bring the question from the title into the body and to then rephrase the title to be a summary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However.&lt;/em&gt;  The danger is that there is not enough information to properly understand the original intent.  Often if I substantively modify a question like that, I'll leave a note to the author as a comment, asking them to confirm that I have not altered the question from what they are trying to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wherever possible, we should strive to improve the quality of this site.  Making good edits that make questions easier to read and subsequently to answer (and therefore to attract &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; answers) is a great way of doing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2016-05-05T10:37:42.987" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3666" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-05T12:52:38.780" Score="-6" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a follow-up to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3649/we-need-flags-to-show-our-biases&quot;&gt;We need flags to show our biases&lt;/a&gt; Some of the conversation says to me that my sense of the problem is right on target. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like the norm in this site is to ask localized questions and expect localized answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm proposing a different paradigm. Questions should be general or local based on the OP's preference. We do want to help the OP. If the OP expects an Indian answer then I hope someone with that culture can give a good answer. But answers from many different perspectives should be encouraged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We would encourage answers from any culture. So a question about bullying should get multiple answers each relevant to a specific culture such as Canada or India. So we would expect to see multiple culturally diverse answers. To the OP they might seem irrelevant or wrong but hopefully would help someone from that culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make this work each answer would have a box at the top stating the cultural perspective of that answer. You can be as specific or broad as you like. If you're afraid someone might disrespect your small country or just want to stay anonymous, use a very broad culture title such as Asia or Europe. Conversely if you want to highlight the narrow culture of your answer, you can be very specific e.g. hippie culture of California or Mennonite culture of Pennsylvania. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key concept here is that questions should unapologetically attract culturally specific answers from various cultures. Each answer should be labeled at the top with the cultural perspective. Kind of like a subtitle. Then the question would be useful to many people from around the world. This could break us out of the cultural slant of the entire site. It would also greatly enhance the value of the site because readers can quickly zoom into the perspective that matters to them. At the very least it would greatly enhance the usefulness of the site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18554" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T10:06:01.370" Title="Use Culture Indication Per Answer" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3666" CreationDate="2016-05-05T13:17:20.007" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To use a different example, let's say you are asking a really basic programming question such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I write a basic for loop in Python?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would answers written in Java or C++ or JavaScript help you? It might help other people who come to the site. But would it answer &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel pretty strongly about this personally. Ultimately it's up to the community as a whole to decide, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-05-05T13:17:20.007" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3666" CreationDate="2016-05-05T18:27:57.730" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be overly complex and confusing, only one answer is going to be accepted. It's ok for those of us who read all the answers, but not everyone does that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why fix something that ain't broke?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To extrapolate on this, why not allow people to use their native language as well? How messy would that get? Or have a separate workplace for different cultures and languages where all questions pertain specifically to that location?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2016-05-05T19:08:19.420" LastActivityDate="2016-05-05T19:08:19.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3663" CreationDate="2016-05-06T09:19:22.390" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't think I'm altering the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the metric to use. As long as you aren't altering the intent of the question then it's fine to make an edit that improves the post and its readability. That's not to say that more substantial edits that introduce questions or guess at intent are always wrong, I only mean that the type of edit you describe is always fine. I call these minor edits but that term is very loosely defined and some consider only spelling and grammar edits to be minor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in short, &lt;strong&gt;yes, it's encouraged to make these kinds of edits.&lt;/strong&gt; Highlighting the core question(s), clarifying the post and improving readability are all within the scope of an edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP described problematic behaviour and simply left out the question (&quot;&lt;em&gt;How do I get X to stop happening&lt;/em&gt;&quot;), it's fine to add that in, since it's reasonable to assume that that's his goal. Sometimes people get hung up on the lack of a question in a post and Vote To Close when they could just add it in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can't clearly determine what the question is, you &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; shouldn't guess at it because the OP might revert it, invaliding existing answers. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3665/25739&quot;&gt;Jane's answer&lt;/a&gt; mentions this but I wanted to point out that this type of major edit should only rarely be done. Most of the time you should leave a comment asking the OP to clarify and &lt;strong&gt;vote to close it as unclear&lt;/strong&gt; to prevent answers from users who interpreted the question incorrectly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do sometimes make such a major edit when I'm reasonably confident that I got what the OP is asking, but for most such questions a comment and close vote is more appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T09:37:30.557" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3666" CreationDate="2016-05-06T10:06:01.370" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To make this work each answer would have a box at the top stating the cultural perspective of that answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Setting aside the intended goal of your suggestion, this will never happen. The Stack Exchange framework is shared across many sites and this would require such a comprehensive change to the data model that we'd never get it passed, even if the entire site supported this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if a solution could be hacked into the database to store this metadata, it would require redesigning the question and answer submission forms. Your suggestion can also be seen as a variation on meta tags, &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;which have been excised from the network&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T10:06:01.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3671" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3675" CreationDate="2016-05-06T22:23:12.767" Score="3" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3508/is-there-a-process-in-place-to-dispute-a-duplicate-flag&quot;&gt;Is there a process in place to dispute a &amp;quot;duplicate&amp;quot; flag?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer on the question above indicates that I should take the following steps to appeal a duplicate flag on a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the question such that it's clearer what you're asking. Be&#xA;specific. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Raise a question here in meta, explaining to the community    why you&#xA;feel that it's not a duplicate and why it should be reopened.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier today I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/66624/how-can-i-pass-gas-with-professionalism&quot;&gt;How can I pass gas with professionalism on days when it is a constant occurrence?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly thereafter, the post was flagged a duplicate to this question.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65216/how-can-i-manage-my-need-to-take-short-bathroom-breaks-in-a-professional-setting&quot;&gt;How can I manage my need to take short bathroom breaks in a professional setting?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the questions are truly a duplicate as presently voted, I should logically conclude that the only way to professionally pass gas in the office is to do so in the restroom.  Furthermore, no number of trips to the bathroom to pass gas is too many.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that turns out to be the answer, I will be glad to have gained the insight.  However, I would greatly appreciate the opportunity for the community to weigh in with votes on well worded answers to my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched for other questions related to the topic of flatulence in the workplace, and everything to date has discussed the problem from the observer's perspective.  To date there has been no meaningful discussion on the topic from the perspective of the flatulent professional. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could make a number of arguments for particular reasons why the two questions are not duplicates, but I honestly feel a little silly doing so.  I feel like adding these &quot;clarifications&quot; to my question as requested would make my question worse, not better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone might counsel me to go outside to pass gas, but the asker of the other question is not likely to be told to go outside to urinate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone might opine that there is nothing wrong with passing gas in my office if the door is closed and the window is open (currently the only answer,) but no one is likely to suggest that the other asker urinate in her office with the door closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand in reading the meta question referenced above, that duplicate flags are largely a function of community vote.  I would like to kindly request that the community reconsider its vote and reopen my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-01-01T15:42:53.293" Title="Is my question really a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3672" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-07T12:49:27.833" Score="-1" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I have asked the moderators to close this question (by flagging it.)   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We shouldn't ban a user because of his/her hair color. A meta post on this topic would be pointless because no one is banning users based on the color of their hair. If I want to discuss the practice of banning users for being blonde or redheaded, first I must prove that it is happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have provided no evidence to prove that rules ARE being selectively applied. No one who has joined the discussion has shared any anecdotal evidence that it is happening. In my own recent question the some answer-like comments were deleted because of user flags. They were not removed through any sort of moderator bias.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A philosophical discussion about how to conduct yourself is only useful when it addresses areas of actual concern. It seems that this is not a helpful question, as the community does not seem concerned about this particular (non-)issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original question follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;What &amp;quot;comments&amp;quot; are not . . .&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reading the post above, I feel like I have a pretty good handle on what comments are not.  I'm not sure I agree with all of the points there, but judging by the votes, it seems like the community has some consensus about how comments should and should not be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The greatest area of debate hinges on whether brief answer type comments are OK.  Some people feel that short &quot;helpful&quot; comments that aren't fully fleshed out answers are OK, but judging by the votes they seem to be in the minority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;When Shouldn't I Comment?&quot; section of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;Workplace help page for comments&lt;/a&gt; leaves very little to debate on the subject when it states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Comments are not recommended for any of the following.... Answering a&#xA;  question or providing an alternate solution to an existing answer;&#xA;  instead, post an actual answer (or edit to expand an existing one.)&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For the purpose of this discussion, let us then take as a given that &quot;answer-like&quot; comments are frowned upon when applied to the original question, and may be subject to deletion.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question I would like to ask you all today is: should we apply the rules selectively to delete answer-like comments we don't like or disagree with?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T15:32:52.217" Title="Should we selectively apply the rules to defend our own bias?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" ClosedDate="2016-05-09T17:02:10.350" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3672" CreationDate="2016-05-07T13:09:41.260" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, we should not.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should strive to enforce the rules uniformly.  While we recognize that as humans we will have a bias, we should do everything we can to objectively apply the rules, regardless of our feelings and opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We shouldn't ban a user because of his/her hair color. A meta post on this topic would be pointless because no one is banning users based on the color of their hair. If I want to discuss the practice of banning users for being blonde or redheaded, first I must prove that it is happening.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have provided no evidence to prove that rules ARE being selectively applied.  No one who has joined the discussion has shared any anecdotal evidence that it is happening.  In my own recent question the some answer-like comments were deleted because of user flags.  They were not removed through any sort of moderator bias.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A philosophical discussion about how to conduct yourself is only useful when it addresses areas of actual concern.  It seems that this is not a helpful question, as the community does not seem concerned about this particular (non-)issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastEditorUserId="49815" LastEditDate="2016-05-09T10:50:26.307" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T10:50:26.307" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3672" CreationDate="2016-05-07T13:24:14.733" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sort of feels like a loaded question (presumably addressing your specific situation?), rather than an attempt at a generalized discussion about whether comment answers should be deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that on your question (which is where I assume this post originated from), all comments deleted by moderators were flagged, except one I just deleted after looking more closely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-05-07T13:24:14.733" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3671" CreationDate="2016-05-07T13:26:10.810" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, NO, your question is not a duplicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rampant closing of questions because they're supposedly dupes is an issue on all the stackexchange sites and it is especially acute for subject matter that is subjective or edgy. That is not to say that stackexchange sites such as Workplace aren't incredibly valuable resources, it is just a defect and there's no workaround without changing the way things work in these communities (for the record I do accept things the way they are now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that you have a small number of people that honestly feel they're providing a service by shutting down questions that don't meet their highly personal and rigid interpretation of the rules. For some, the very idea that there's &quot;rules&quot; means it goes without saying that any interpretation is necessarily rigid. Yes, even to the point of absurdity. In this case, some folks saw a parallel between yours and another question and it triggered a &quot;mark-as-dupe&quot; response. I've seen far worse examples which cross the line into comical rather than merely wrong as this closing was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a gameified environment, such rules-oriented folks are going to exert a greater influence than people who don't care so much about scores and rules. Valid questions will be closed far faster than they will be re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution is to not get bent out of shape because of it. Don't take it personally. Yes, your question was closed, but now there are already 2 re-open votes. In the meantime, people will still comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7572" LastActivityDate="2016-05-07T13:26:10.810" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3672" CreationDate="2016-05-07T13:27:23.380" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You forget: &lt;strong&gt;all comments are subject to deletion.&lt;/strong&gt; They may be deleted at any time and for any reason as they were never intended to be permanent. The only people who can actually delete comments are the moderators and they have yet to give me any reason to not trust them with that power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I've seen, deletions are typically reserved for comments that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;only add noise (&quot;&lt;em&gt;+1, I agree&lt;/em&gt;&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are disruptive or insulting (&quot;&lt;em&gt;What do you know you %#$@&amp;amp;&lt;/em&gt;&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are part of a comment thread that spiralled out of control and are not worth moving to chat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know the mods don't make a habit of deleting &quot;answers as comments&quot; on that criterion alone. They are far more likely to reply to that user and ask him to convert his comment to an answer instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your premise is confusing (&quot;we&quot; don't get to delete comments, only moderators) and I don't see a problem that needs solving here. We comment too much on this site (and every other site in the network) but the quality and monitoring of the comments is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2016-05-07T21:23:59.620" LastActivityDate="2016-05-07T21:23:59.620" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3672" CreationDate="2016-05-07T16:12:44.083" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;should we apply the rules selectively to delete answer-like comments&#xA;  we don't like or disagree with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally don't care about answer-like comments, and I don't think we should delete comments with which we disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone would rather write a comment containing an answer, rather than write an answer, that's okay by me. Certainly comments could get deleted any time, and thus one of these answer-hybrids might disappear at any time. But, if the writer doesn't care, I certainly don't care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be rather foolish to attempt to delete comments where we disagree. This is a pretty wide community, with quite a number of differing opinions. Thus, attempting to delete such comments would mean &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; comment gets deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would prefer to see all comments disappear after a certain age - perhaps 3 months or so. Since presumably comments are intended to be fleeting and of short duration, this would make it so across the board. I currently go back and delete all of my comments that are more than a few days old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to answer the title question - I'm all for selectively applying rules as long as I agree with the selection! ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-05-07T16:12:44.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3678" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3680" CreationDate="2016-05-09T22:25:40.600" Score="10" ViewCount="2153" Body="&lt;p&gt;Due to the nature of Workplace questions, discussion and comments are inevitable. Because of this, we seem to be more tolerant of discussion here, more-so than other network sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, some questions have had entire in-depth, very relevant discussions totally removed, without a moderator's note, nor a link to the Chat room these discussions were presumably moved to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I view this as an overreach by a moderator or moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kind of moderation is supposed to be public, when performed, and certainly not kept silent; made to look as-if nothing ever happened. If there are particular offending comments, those should be dealt with on a per-case basis - not nuke the entire thread wholesale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is the most recent example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/66767/how-to-answer-professionally-to-coworkers-who-tease-me-because-i-am-vegan&quot;&gt;How to answer professionally to coworkers who tease me because I am vegan?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main thread had numerous comments, majority of which were high quality and relevant. Now, they are gone (either moved to a Chat room I cannot locate, or deleted for good).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then noticed this particular question was Tweeted: &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/StackWorkplace/status/729746121996800000&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/StackWorkplace/status/729746121996800000&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's starting to look like a deliberate cover-up of relevant discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this happening? Who's the rogue moderator? How do we stop this behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The linked-to &quot;duplicate&quot; is not a duplicate, as it does not explain silent moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12681" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T04:41:31.130" Title="Silent Moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3678" CreationDate="2016-05-09T22:33:29.050" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comments on that question were &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; relevant. Most of them were just name-calling the OP. There was even a comment about vegan pastries not tasting as good as non-vegan ones. These &quot;high quality&quot; comments deserved to be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50312" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T22:33:29.050" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3678" CreationDate="2016-05-09T23:02:51.380" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;At times, the moderators personal opinion overrides anything else and therefore things get deleted. It's happened to me, but que sera sera.... nothing to be upset about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can always come to meta and argue your case if you feel strongly enough about it. That's what meta is for I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T23:02:51.380" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3678" CreationDate="2016-05-09T23:23:14.623" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mods are highly trusted users selected by the Stack Overflow staff and/or the community. Often, their selection has something to do with their ability to contribute high quality content (and therefore to distinguish high from low quality). Furthermore, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;there aren't that many of them&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of a moderator's job is to help remove content that interferes with the quality of a post. Long discussions and comments that violate the Be Nice policy do not contribute to the quality of the question. As mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/72/16724&quot;&gt;other&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2988/16724&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt;, Workplace is known to have a somewhat bigger problem with these sorts of out of line comments than some other Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A moderator doesn't need to explain &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; they do, nor do they have any responsibility to preserve comments that do not contribute to the quality of the post by moving them to chat. The questions and the answers are prime, not all the stuff that goes on around them. Long comment chains actively detract from the post (or maybe I should say &quot;distract&quot;), and rude comments are rude. Evaluating every comment individually when there are 20+ comments is not a worth-while use of the moderator's time; the loss of a couple good comments is a small price to pay for removing a slew of comments that violate the Be Nice policy or stray too far from addressing the question directly. Another motivation for removing everything is that any comments that may have triggered rudeness or off-topic discussion are removed, minimizing further flare up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; an over-reach. It is normal execution of moderator duties. This is how Stack Exchange works, and even though it isn't perfect, I have to hand it to the people who make these decisions for doing a pretty darn good job. If you don't appreciate a model that centers so strongly around the actual question and answers, that's fine; it's not for everyone. But regardless, accusing the moderators of over-reach for executing their routine duties isn't a valuable use of anyone's time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why we so strongly encourage editing important details found in comments directly into the post. Comment chains can descend into these kind of low quality threads very easily, so it's much better to avoid taking the chance it will get deleted later. But if it doesn't result in something that can be edited into the post (question or answer), then it doesn't belong in comments, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16724" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T04:41:31.130" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3678" CreationDate="2016-05-10T00:39:08.703" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments on StackExchange sites are like drawings in the sand - and subject to deletion or moving to chat at the whim of any mod. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments should help clarify, then get out of the way of the answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the mods: I'd appreciate seeing more comment deletion on StackExchange sites, not less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12321" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T00:39:08.703" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3678" CreationDate="2016-05-10T12:29:30.720" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is possible to answer a question about how to handle something you disagree with without attacking the OP or questioning their beliefs. Possible, yes. Easy? no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is this happening? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a note, nearly all comments/comment threads we moderators delete are the result of flags from the community. We are not going out and looking for the massive discussions to delete. Almost always any involvement is directly the result of flags. Sometimes, lots of flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When comments begin focusing on the &lt;em&gt;person&lt;/em&gt; and not the post, it normally gets moderators involved because the community dutifully flags this sort of content (rightly so - and thank you to those of you who patiently flag stuff like this). Just for reference from that post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/F0gNS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/F0gNS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment chain on that particular question almost immediately devolved into an attack against the OP and their beliefs. There was a good mix of totally inappropriate comments directed towards the OP too. Plus a lengthy &quot;is veganism true&quot; argument. This is Workplace.StackExchange.com - not Argue.Veganism.StackExchange.com. There's a reason why comments there picked up 22 flags - and it's not because people misused comment flags. The overwhelming majority of those 32 deleted comments either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discussed why the OP was/wasn't preachy (all ignoring that presumably their native language is not English with potential issues there)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discussed whether being Vegan was a the 1 true way or not&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Were straight up offensive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of those are useful towards furthering the goal of helping the OP improve their post, requesting clarification, etc. Additionally whether veganism is 100% the &quot;best thing ever&quot; or 0% has &lt;em&gt;no bearing on how to answer their question&lt;/em&gt;. Just read through the actual answers there. Many are applicable regardless of whether veganism is the best  lifestyle ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Calling the OP ignorant (such as one of your deleted comments which seems to have inspired this meta post) is a quick way to attract comment flags &lt;em&gt;because it's not appropriate&lt;/em&gt; and frankly will nearly always be deleted by a moderator. Particularly when it is part of a long debate unrelated to the actual content of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know why this comment was written?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/66767/how-to-answer-professionally-to-coworkers-who-tease-me-because-i-am-vegan#comment183406_66767&quot;&gt;I would like to remind everyone here to keep our Be Nice policy in mind as they answer or comment. It's fine to encourage the OP to critically reflect on his own behaviour but belittling comments, arguments or debates on the merits of veganism are not what this site is for&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because comments had devolved into belittling the OP, arguing and debating the merits of veganism.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When there is a wall of comments where the majority are straight up non-value add? There's no point in &quot;saving&quot; them. Copying a long list of personal attacks to chat? That's not useful or helpful. If you want to &quot;be right&quot; and have a place to tell vegans how wrong they are -- go to a place on the Internet which is more willing to accept personal attacks, ad hominem &quot;arguments,&quot; and a total free reign of off-topic discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will always be comments that get unfortunately deleted in the crossfire that happens when there's a wall of comments. I wish this wasn't the case, but when there are 25+ comments that are overwhelmingly derailed there will always be comments which could have stood alone. I should make a point to clarify your comments there were part of the problem. They were not innocent bystanders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If there are particular offending comments, those should be dealt with on a per-case basis - not nuke the entire thread wholesale&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nearly that entire thread of comments was not appropriate. I suppose they &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; have been moved to chat and then a good percentage of them deleted again. But that seems fairly counter productive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I then noticed this particular question was Tweeted: &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/StackWorkplace/status/729746121996800000&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/StackWorkplace/status/729746121996800000&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The twitter account tweeting happens due to  and my understanding is it is completely automated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The main thread had numerous comments, majority of which were high quality and relevant. Now, they are gone (either moved to a Chat room I cannot locate, or deleted for good).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguing with the OP about their beliefs is not relevant. Attacking the OP is not relevant. Telling the OP their beliefs are not correct is not relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess my definitions of relevant seem to differ from yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Due to the nature of Workplace questions, discussion and comments are inevitable. Because of this, we seem to be more tolerant of discussion here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind the primary purpose of Stack Exchange is Questions and Answers. Not discussion. Not arguing. Not telling an OP their beliefs are wrong. If/when discussions/arguing get in the way of questions/answers or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;content violates the Be Nice policy&lt;/a&gt; expect it to be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't super popular sometimes (most of the time?). Particularly because &lt;a href=&quot;https://xkcd.com/386/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;people are wrong on the Internet&lt;/a&gt; and people &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to tell them how wrong they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do we stop this behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Raising the issue on meta is a good step. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind too there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;contact us&lt;/a&gt; link at the bottom of every page, which sends an email directly to Stack Exchange (bypassing moderators entirely). If you wish to raise a grievance with SE directly about moderator behavior this is the best way to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T12:29:30.720" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3631" CreationDate="2016-05-10T13:44:51.263" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this looks quite all right:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BJTPX.png&quot; alt=&quot;image description&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only limited number of countries is included. I don't know how to automatically populate list of countries. I used google search to get tag names for commonly used countries here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name        Country tags&#xA;// @namespace   util&#xA;// @description Adds CSS love to country flags on Workplace.SE&#xA;// @include     http://workplace.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @version     1&#xA;// @grant       none&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;var country = {&#xA;  &quot;italy&quot;: &quot;it&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;netherlands&quot;: &quot;nl&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;egypt&quot;: &quot;eg&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;india&quot;: &quot;in&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;ireland&quot;: &quot;ie&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;canada&quot;: &quot;ca&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;switzerland&quot;: &quot;ch&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;france&quot;: &quot;fr&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;united-states&quot;: &quot;us&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;united-kingdom&quot;: &quot;uk&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;germany&quot;: &quot;de&quot;&#xA;};&#xA;var countryNames = Object.keys(country);&#xA;&#xA;var style = document.createElement('style');&#xA;style.type = 'text/css';&#xA;style.innerHTML = &quot;.country-tag {&quot;+&#xA;&quot;  background-size: 2em auto;  &quot;+&#xA;&quot;  background-position: 0.5em center;&quot;+&#xA;&quot;  padding-left: 3em;&quot;+&#xA;&quot;  background-repeat: no-repeat;&quot;+&#xA;&quot;  background-repeat: no-repeat;&quot;+&#xA;&quot;}&quot;;&#xA;document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(style);&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;$(&quot;a.post-tag&quot;).each(function() {&#xA;  if(countryNames.indexOf(this.innerHTML)!=-1) {&#xA;    this.style.backgroundImage = &quot;url('//www.geonames.org/flags/m/&quot;+country[this.innerHTML]+&quot;.png')&quot;;&#xA;    this.className +=&quot; country-tag&quot;;&#xA;  }&#xA;});&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45619" LastEditorUserId="45619" LastEditDate="2016-05-25T10:16:12.730" LastActivityDate="2016-05-25T10:16:12.730" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3685" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-10T14:04:25.297" Score="2" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3512/how-many-votes-to-close&quot;&gt;How many votes to close?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the accepted answer to the question above, it takes 5 non-moderator close votes to close a question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this time the most recent example is this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/66837/should-i-share-my-forked-version-of-a-coworkers-software-utility-with-him&quot;&gt;I forked a coworkers code without asking and made it my own. Should I have asked first?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of this meta post, the &quot;should I share&quot; question has 2k views, 11 answers, and 15 upvotes, and the most popular answer has 22 upvotes.  However, 5 people have chosen to close the question, and as such it is now [On Hold] as primarily opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My intent is not to debate whether or not the post is in fact opinion based, but rather to discuss the weight of those 5 votes.  It seems to me that we have given too much weight to the 5 people who have voted to close the question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion it would be better if we could devise a system whereby SE looks at the upvotes for a question and uses that as a counterweight to adjust the number of close votes required on a sliding scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, I think we need to agree that there is a problem before we can have any meaningful discussion about potential solutions, so my question for you then is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do we have a problem with close votes?  Should we make it more difficult for a small group of users to close a controversial question?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T00:34:19.167" Title="Do we have a problem with close votes?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3685" CreationDate="2016-05-10T14:27:20.353" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We do get a lot of questions put on hold pretty quickly. If you read who did it though, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2269/437&quot;&gt;they tend to be experienced and valuable members&lt;/a&gt; most of the time. And the nature of SE is that only people with a decent amount of reputation can vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't think it's arbitrary, nor do I think we give these people too much weight. Their vote is quite rightfully worth more than a random Joe Bloggs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also seen a few questions reopened, if someone states their case well enough and /or edits their question they can get it reopened which is a good enough solution for my tastes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More than five votes for instance would leave bad fit questions open for longer, which gives them a chance to get a whole bunch of votes which may put them in a position where they don't really belong precisely because they are a bad fit and therefore not as useful to future surfers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T00:34:19.167" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3689" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3690" CreationDate="2016-05-10T18:02:44.473" Score="8" ViewCount="828" Body="&lt;p&gt;Been binge reading on The Workplace questions and some people comment the word IANAL and then append their comment. What does that mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44371" LastEditorUserId="12321" LastEditDate="2017-02-21T19:30:24.520" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T19:30:24.520" Title="What does IANAL mean?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3689" CreationDate="2016-05-10T18:08:14.247" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's Internet slang for &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IANAL&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I am not a lawyer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Well, actually, it was Usenet and ARPANet slang before it was Internet slang.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To those who know it's a succinct term, but many people do not know, so I encourage people not to rely on slang and acronyms like this.  It's better to spell it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T18:08:14.247" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3689" CreationDate="2016-05-10T20:56:14.603" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It means:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am about to dispense legal advice, although I should know better,&#xA;  and you should not rely on what I am about to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am not a lawyer, but I play one on TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am not a lawyer, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4781" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T20:56:14.603" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3692" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-10T21:11:18.920" Score="-6" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/66641/how-to-respond-to-caste-based-discrimination-in-the-workplace/66895#66895&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; was deleted surprisingly fast which I see at most partially justifable. My question were, is there any chance to repair the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The essential parts of the answer are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Admitting that the OP doesn't have any chance in his current, personal life.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Suggesting him to try to change the world around him into a better one (although it is also probably hopeless in his life)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Doing this partially with a conversion from the Hinduism to the Christianity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect, the main problem of the answer was the #3 or the general attitude. The second I would happily fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essential change I can't do, because it won't be my answer any more. But a significant re-work in the general attitude, I would do happily. Is it possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32611" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2016-05-11T14:37:59.383" Title="Is there any hope to repair this answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3692" CreationDate="2016-05-10T21:28:52.823" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Starting an answer with &quot;You have no hope. Revolve&quot; in all bold is not really an indication you are trying to make an earnest attempt to help the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You then play on the cultural elitism angle praising yourself for being European while simultaneously telling the OP that their society will collapse and telling them they are oppressed by their society sucks to be them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key point of your answer was telling the OP to convert to a religion so they can be a martyr. I'm going to assume that really isn't helpful (or appropriate) either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To top it off you don't make a single attempt to address the OP's situation and constraints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, I really don't think it is salvageable, since the entire focus of your answer is attacking the OP's culture/country, telling them they have no future and are hopeless, and suggesting they change religions and that martyring themselves might be their best bet in life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to go talk and write about how horrible you think India is, this site is not the place for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll put some effort into talking through the specifics of your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You have no hope. Revolve.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off to a bad start for being respectful to the asker. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Convert to Christianity, there are no castes. There isn't even&#xA;  difference between the Christians and the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think, you will also get a permanent social stigma with that. But,&#xA;  from the other side, you will be able to collect people similar like&#xA;  you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This part is the only real &quot;answer&quot; part here, but is not at all helpful to the OP because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It doesn't talk about how this helps their work situation&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;should they be quitting their job? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how do they actually use this information to address their specific questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Brings up significant downsides (social stigma) and doesn't explain how to mitigate them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even assuming good intent, it is written from the perspective of someone completely unfamiliar with India as a country/culture&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Christianity doesn't offer a lot of help for your situation in your&#xA;  life. It doesn't offer anything, except some chance for martyrdom. You&#xA;  can do it only if you accept, that God won't ever reward you in this&#xA;  world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... this basically says, &quot;actually converting to Christianity won't help. But it will let you have martyrdom. Since your life is going to suck no matter what.&quot; Now you've invalidated what you just said since you don't believe it's helpful to the OP unless they want to martyr themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But: you are right, you are suppressed on injustified, dishonoric&#xA;  ways, and you don't have any hope because the injustice of your&#xA;  society. Christianity was always the religion of the injustufically&#xA;  supressed people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a direct insult of the OP's country/culture?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you don't like the caste system of the Hinduism, liquidate it first&#xA;  in yourself! Leave Hinduism!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't think that anything will be better in your life. First, your&#xA;  society will soon collapse because your people can't stop the&#xA;  overpopulation of his area of living.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a direct insult of the OP's country/culture?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am happy that I am an European, but don't forget: the price is that&#xA;  my people has at most some centuries back, after that it will dissolve&#xA;  in the so-named &quot;multiculturalism&quot;. It essentially means that the&#xA;  future is for the people like yours and not like mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is cultural elitism, again fairly directly insulting country/culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But Christianity can survive, and the justice of the suppressed will&#xA;  also survive until the ethernity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you remove everything that is offensive/unneeded your answer essentially has nothing remaining. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2016-05-11T12:01:11.433" LastActivityDate="2016-05-11T12:01:11.433" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3692" CreationDate="2016-05-11T14:37:59.383" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the overall message you are trying to convey, your answer is going to be unpopular, even under the best of circumstances.  To mitigate the fallout, you'll want to work carefully to convey your answer in a respectful and thoughtful way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may want to give some consideration to the guidelines listed in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;Help Center.&lt;/a&gt;  In particular the section titled &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;&quot;How do I write a good answer?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; contains some helpful tips.  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer the question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Read the question carefully. What, specifically, is the question&#xA;  asking for? Make sure your answer provides that – or a viable&#xA;  alternative. The answer can be “don’t do that”, but it should also&#xA;  include “try this instead”. Any answer that gets the asker going in&#xA;  the right direction is helpful, but do try to mention any limitations,&#xA;  assumptions or simplifications in your answer. Brevity is acceptable,&#xA;  but fuller explanations are better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the Help page entitled &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;&quot;Be Nice - Principles and Practice&quot;&lt;/a&gt; will be of help to you.  In particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rudeness and belittling language are not okay.&lt;/strong&gt; Your tone should match&#xA;  the way you'd talk in person with someone you respect and whom you&#xA;  want to respect you. If you don't have time to say something politely,&#xA;  just leave it for someone who does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be welcoming, be patient, and assume good intentions.&lt;/strong&gt; Don't expect new&#xA;  users to know all the rules — they don't. And be patient while they&#xA;  learn. If you're here for help, make it as easy as possible for others&#xA;  to help you. Everyone here is volunteering, and no one responds well&#xA;  to demands for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't be a jerk.&lt;/strong&gt; These are just a few examples. If you see them, flag&#xA;  them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Name-calling.&lt;/strong&gt; Focus on the post, not the person. That includes terms&#xA;  that feel personal even when they're applied to posts (like &quot;lazy&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;ignorant&quot;, or &quot;whiny&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bigotry of any kind.&lt;/strong&gt; Language likely to&#xA;  offend or alienate individuals or groups based on race, gender, sexual&#xA;  orientation, religion, etc. will not be tolerated. At all. (Those are&#xA;  just a few examples; when in doubt, just don't.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inappropriate&#xA;  language or attention.&lt;/strong&gt; Avoid vulgar terms and anything sexually&#xA;  suggestive. Also, this is not a dating site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harassment and bullying.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  If you see a hostile interaction, flag it. If it keeps up, disengage —&#xA;  we'll handle it. If something needs staff attention, you can use the&#xA;  contact us link at the bottom of every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2016-05-11T14:37:59.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3678" CreationDate="2016-05-11T15:45:34.760" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3683/325&quot;&gt;Enderland&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3681/325&quot;&gt;jpmc26&lt;/a&gt; have already given good, thorough answers.  I'm here to address &quot;silent&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I left the following &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/66767/how-to-answer-professionally-to-coworkers-who-tease-me-because-i-am-vegan#comment183971_66767&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; on the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;People who want to discuss the pros and cons and facts and rumors and media references and whatnot of veganism should &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2691/325&quot;&gt;get a room&lt;/a&gt;.  That way you can have your discussion -- which does not belong in comments -- without it being deleted over and over.  – Monica Cellio♦ 17 hours ago &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been upvoted; it's visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since that time, another 13 comments were posted on the question, and many more have been posted on various answers -- some of which &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; have chat links, including a conversation that was &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/66767/how-to-answer-professionally-to-coworkers-who-tease-me-because-i-am-vegan#comment183832_66789&quot;&gt;moved to chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few of the &lt;strong&gt;198 deleted comments on the question and its answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; are constructive &lt;em&gt;discussion&lt;/em&gt;, but comments are not for discussion.  The vast majority of the comments that have been deleted are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; constructive in any way.  Enderland has already addressed this, and yet it has continued since then.  There have been, as of the time I started writing this post, &lt;strong&gt;62 flags&lt;/strong&gt; on this page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bunch of those comments are from the OP, responding to comments &lt;em&gt;instead of editing the question&lt;/em&gt;, which is also problematic.  Clearly a bunch of people want to &lt;em&gt;discuss&lt;/em&gt; veganism and what counts as preachiness and other stuff.  Fortunately, we have a great place on the site for doing just that.  I suggest you use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Which, by the way, have been deleted by several different moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-05-11T15:45:34.760" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3696" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-11T21:37:55.587" Score="6" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question in workplace.stackexchange.com: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/66745/how-to-increase-employees-engagement-during-work-in-a-software-company&quot;&gt;As a scrum master, how do I get everyone to take deadlines seriously?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But unfortunately because of lack of information in the original version of the question I got many downvotes and also community putted my question on-hold situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited my question tens of times and I think its now a completely reasonable question and deserve a second chance to get more answers or at least re-open my question. Just wanted to know if there is any hope ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flaged the question for review and got the following answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Declined. The moderators didn't put your question on hold; the&#xA;  community did. Because you've edited, it should now be in the reopen&#xA;  queue for review. You can also ask on meta or in chat about reopening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50272" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T14:38:20.447" Title="Reopen a question which is on-hold" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|closed-questions|close-reasons|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3697" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-11T23:20:27.150" Score="11" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;Update: OP has since asked the question, with an overwhelmingly positive reception:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/67112/how-can-i-help-my-direct-report-to-understand-he-is-not-being-micromanaged&quot;&gt;How can I help my direct report to understand he is not being micromanaged?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a professional problem, and I'd like to ask for your help.  Do you think The Workplace is the right place for this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Working Title:&lt;/strong&gt; How can I help my direct report to understand he is not being micromanaged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of weeks ago one of my direct reports, (we'll call him &lt;em&gt;Brent&lt;/em&gt;,) went to my boss to complain that I am micromanaging him.  When I heard the accusation, I was flabbergasted, since I don't see myself as a micromanager at all.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After talking with my boss I sat down and talked with each of my direct reports to solicit their feedback.  I asked in no uncertain terms, am I doing anything to hamper your success or the success of the team?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people had some really good constructive criticisms for me, but nobody thought I was a micromanager.  When I brought up the topic specifically, each time the answer was the same: a categorical no.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the heels of that, I sat down with a senior colleague who has been a mentor to me while I have worked for this company.  He shares a workspace with us, so he has a decent amount of information upon which to base his opinion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;I asked him bluntly if I was micro-managing the team and he laughed.  He expressed his opinion that I am too relaxed in how I manage the team.  He speculated that perhaps I had given &lt;em&gt;Brent&lt;/em&gt; too much leeway, and that is part of why he is now feeling micromanaged.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I left those meetings with the reassurance that I am not a micromanager.  While it helped to buoy my spirits, it really did nothing to change &lt;em&gt;Brent's&lt;/em&gt; perspective on things, so I went and did some research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;I spent a lot of time reading some really good articles on what micro-managing is, and ways to avoid being a micromanager like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/6705-ways-to-stop-micromanaging.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;5 ways to stop micromanaging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gettingsmart.com/2015/05/8-tips-to-stop-micromanaging-start-leading/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;8 tips to stop micromanaging and start leading.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;And&lt;/s&gt; I read a lot of great questions and answers here.  Some of them helped me to understand the problem from the perspective of the victim: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/21665/how-to-work-with-a-micro-manager&quot;&gt;How to work with a micro-manager?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/43307/how-to-deal-with-a-bossy-micro-managing-co-worker&quot;&gt;How to deal with a bossy, micro-managing co-worker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;But I haven't been able to find any good questions or answers from the perspective of the &lt;strong&gt;perpetrator.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/s&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Nonetheless,&lt;/s&gt; I tried to look at my behaviors to see where I could improve on my relations with &lt;em&gt;Brent.&lt;/em&gt;  I started using some of the phrasing suggested in the articles &lt;s&gt;linked above&lt;/s&gt; I had read, and I tried to make &lt;em&gt;Brent&lt;/em&gt; understand that I only wanted to support his success.  I've been working at it for two weeks now, and I thought we were making headway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My boss called today to let me know that &lt;em&gt;Brent&lt;/em&gt; has applied for a position at another company.  It just so happens that the owner of the other company is friends with the owner of our company.  So, he called our owner to make sure it would be OK before calling &lt;em&gt;Brent&lt;/em&gt; back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My boss called &lt;em&gt;Brent&lt;/em&gt; and the two talked.  Among other things they discussed why &lt;em&gt;Brent&lt;/em&gt; is seeking employment elsewhere.  According to &lt;em&gt;Brent,&lt;/em&gt; nothing has changed.  My micromanaging ways have persisted, and he can't stand to work under me any longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I help my direct report to understand he is not being micromanaged?  Is there anything that can be done to salvage the working relationship with &lt;em&gt;Brent?&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?  Is this question appropriate for The Workplace?  Is there any hope of finding a helpful answer to this question?  Or is there perhaps a better way it could be asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;**Thanks very much for your helpful suggestions.  I have edited the question in an attempt to be more brief and to the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-05-16T18:30:47.810" Title="Is this question appropriate for The Workplace?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3697" CreationDate="2016-05-12T00:29:00.187" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's very appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I'd expect to see some great answers too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T00:29:00.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3696" CreationDate="2016-05-12T09:21:10.073" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your post has several problems that have not been resolved so I stand by my close vote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's too long: long questions aren't by definition bad, but you're burying the lead, your title is meaningless and most of that information is unnecessary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you don't have a single question: &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's partly a popularity poll: &quot;&lt;em&gt;Also please share any resources you think can be useful.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;em&gt;I want to know what is your way/suggestion for me to increase employees engagement during work in such situtation.&lt;/em&gt;&quot; A question by definition asks for suggestions, but &quot;What are some ways to X?&quot; cannot be answered exhaustively.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's too broad: you can boil your question down to one or all of:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;how do I manage people?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;how do I increase productivity?&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;how do I inrease employee engagement?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first 3 points can be resolved. The last one may make this unsuitable for the site. Those topics are incredibly broad and entire books have been written on the subject. We can answer questions with &lt;em&gt;practical answers&lt;/em&gt;. That means a specific problem that has a solution that can be implemented. General advice or best practices can make great questions but require a clearly defined scope that is small enough to have reasonably comprehensive answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T09:21:10.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3697" CreationDate="2016-05-12T09:26:24.160" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your working title is a bit unwieldy but covers your topic well so that's fine. I think you should try to shorten this a bit and at the very least put in a TL;DR at the top, but this seems like a clearly scoped question with the possibility of practical answers so a good fit for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In its current form it's already good enough to post on the site, though I think it can be improved further with edits by you or the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T09:26:24.160" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3696" CreationDate="2016-05-12T10:32:20.380" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From your original question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The problem begin when I first came into the team (its almost 10 days)&#xA;  and from the first day I realized some of our employee's velocity is&#xA;  lower than expected, work output is not on time and in overall some&#xA;  times we are missing deadlines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My biggest problem with the question is that in less than one sprint (10 days) you have decided that their velocity is not what you expect. And you are ready to implement a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now unless you were brought in because the management realized that the previous leadership wasn't able to get adequate performance out of the team,  and management knew exactly what the fix need to be; you haven't spent enough time with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T10:32:20.380" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3702" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-12T18:28:21.660" Score="5" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/67055/reporting-cheating-within-a-workplace-environment?noredirect=1#comment184560_67055&quot;&gt;Reporting cheating within a workplace environment&lt;/a&gt; was recently posted, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/68567/reporting-cheating-within-a-workplace-environment&quot;&gt;cross-posted in Academia&lt;/a&gt; as well. There has been considerable debate in the comments about whether this is an acceptable cross-post or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP believes that the two questions are distinct enough that they can be an exception to the cross-posting rule (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/is-cross-posting-a-question-on-multiple-stack-exchange-sites-permitted-if-the-qu/75012#75012&quot;&gt;see this Meta post&lt;/a&gt;). Initially the two questions were practically identical, but the OP has made edits which I believe help immensely make it much more focused towards the Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I am still not convinced that the two questions are distinct enough to warrant cross-posting. Primarily, I believe that the questions are not materially different. The answers that would be received on the two sites will be extremely similar, because the academic and workplace issues are so intertwined that one cannot address one without also addressing the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts? Should this question stay closed, or possibly be deleted? Or do the edits make it good enough as is? Or are there other edits that could be made to make it worth keeping?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:49:56.923" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T20:14:16.233" Title="Are these cross-posted questions distinct enough?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3702" CreationDate="2016-05-12T19:52:18.307" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cast the final close vote and a deletion vote (which was reversed after the question was upvoted from -3).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the crosspost alone is sufficient reason for deletion and the edits so far haven't erased that aspect. Aside from that, it has plenty of other problems that make this off-topic, voiding the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/is-cross-posting-a-question-on-multiple-stack-exchange-sites-permitted-if-the-qu/75012#75012&quot;&gt;exception to the rule&lt;/a&gt;&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the OP is asking for advice without specifying a real question: &quot;&lt;em&gt;How would you recommend he handle this matter&lt;/em&gt;&quot; OP updates this to ask &quot;&lt;em&gt;How can the risk of any such repercussions be minimised?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; instead but I'd argue that that has a significant legal aspect and answers depend on the teacher's priorities and how much risk he would like to take, which ties in with:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he's asking for a friend so won't be able to update the question with what he actually intends to do&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if we focus the question on the teacher's ethical responsibility, which is answerable, there's no point to having two questions and it should remain on Academia.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the teacher in question &lt;em&gt;is not employed&lt;/em&gt;. We have some leeway with that as an academic context alone is typically not sufficient reason to close a question, but that's far from the only problem here&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally I think you've made an excellent point in your question and fully agree with this interpretation (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I believe that &lt;strong&gt;the questions are not materially different&lt;/strong&gt;. The answers that would be received on the two sites will be extremely similar, because the academic and workplace issues are so intertwined that one cannot address one without also addressing the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1 - I suspect they may close it for being off-topic but that's not relevant to the question at hand.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T20:14:16.233" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3631" CreationDate="2016-05-12T21:39:54.190" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3639/325&quot;&gt;another answer&lt;/a&gt; I argued against tag coloring and suggested a (single) icon.  But now I have what I think is a better proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should support a request for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/278889/162102&quot;&gt;more-general mechanism for distinguishing tags in an important set&lt;/a&gt;.  I originally opposed using a different color because the gray tags on meta say &quot;required tag&quot; and country tags aren't required (and shouldn't be).  However, the MSE post pointed out that the moderator-only red tags (&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;, for example) are &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; distinguished by color and &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; part of a mandatory set.  So I agree that color could work, so long as it's not a color already in use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, as I said in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/279281/162102&quot;&gt;my answer there&lt;/a&gt;, the styling could be color or a bold outline or bold text or anything else the design team comes up with.  One styling change would apply to all tags in a set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This proposal could benefit other sites, making it more likely to gain traction -- country tags for us (and Travel and maybe Expats), OS tags for Unix &amp;amp; Linux, denomination tags for Christianity, movie tags on Movies &amp;amp; TV, and others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T21:39:54.190" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3631" CreationDate="2016-05-15T18:46:11.303" Score="-1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Country tags have a bit of a history on this site but the general&#xA;  consensus seems to be that they serve a useful purpose. Unfortunately,&#xA;  even when they are added to a question, they often end up ignored&#xA;  because many people don't check the tags before answering or&#xA;  commenting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I thought that experienced users wouldn't fall for that but I just&#xA;  noticed that I've personally failed to notice a tag on a question I&#xA;  recently answered. I even guessed at the location based on the OP's&#xA;  name but never thought to check the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So my suggestion is that these tags should receive some CSS love to&#xA;  make them visually distinct from the other tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that country tags are very important for properly answering some questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't believe making such tags visually distinct is going to matter - particularly for experienced users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once our eyes become accustomed to the new CSS, we'll ignore it to the same extent that we ignore it now. The familiar becomes ignored, even if the familiar is distinct from other tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want country tags to have special meaning, don't mingle them in with other tags. Instead, put them on a line of their own, perhaps with a distinct label. Even then, only folks who care will find them and take them into account in their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T18:46:11.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3706" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-16T01:13:00.500" Score="9" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is one user who appeared to login yesterday despite having his account locked out due to SE term violations. The lock out period is still in effect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How is it possible to have activity then in this case?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2016-05-16T15:34:27.653" LastActivityDate="2016-05-16T15:34:27.653" Title="Activity from a suspended user account" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3706" CreationDate="2016-05-16T01:59:09.470" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suspended users can still log in and visit the site, same as a non-user or logged-out user can.  They just can't &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; anything here -- posting, commenting, voting, editing, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suspensions aren't meant to be punitive; they're intended to correct a problem.  If reading the site during the suspension period helps someone to come back as a productive contributor when it ends, I'm all for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-05-16T01:59:09.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2494" CreationDate="2016-05-19T15:51:23.567" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the questions are duplicates, it shouldn't matter if the target is closed.  The alternative would be to close the new question for the same reason, which is less friendly than linking them together.  If the new question &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; off-topic or too broad or whatever led to the other being closed, then it's not a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that being put on hold or closed -- including being marked as a duplicate -- needn't be permanent.  The status of the question should reflect the current content.  If you can edit a closed or on-hold question to address the issue, please do so and vote to reopen.  We want good, open questions and their answers; what we don't want is to artificially keep a question open that should have been put on hold.  That just leads to a jumble of answers to, possibly, the wrong question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-05-19T15:51:23.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3711" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3732" CreationDate="2016-05-21T22:29:34.647" Score="50" ViewCount="1170" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Or is it just me?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kDcFr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kDcFr.png&quot; alt=&quot;Icon comparison&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly it doesn't seem to be just me as, it was &lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/32908/lock-your-computer-when-you-walk-away#comment98691_32908&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt;, currently on 34 upvotes that prompted me to raise this on meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With the new site icon and the introduction to the post, I thought I'm on Workplace. – &lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/32908/lock-your-computer-when-you-walk-away#comment98691_32908&quot;&gt;Tomáš Zato&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's nice to see that puzzling graduated and got its site design, but the favicon seems awfully similar and potentially confusing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should anything be done about this? Can anything still be done about this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This issue is also being discussed on the Puzzling Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4748/6200&quot;&gt;Puzzling's new favicon is too similar to Workplace's favicon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Jon Ericson, community manager for SE, &lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4748/puzzlings-new-favicon-is-too-similar-to-workplaces-favicon/4911#4911&quot;&gt;has responded on that discussion&lt;/a&gt; and also replied &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3711/is-the-puzzling-icon-too-similar-to-ours/3732#3732&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Workplace Design Reveal: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2331/site-design-for-workplace-se&quot;&gt;Site design for Workplace.se&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Color scheme&lt;/h3&gt; &#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ouhVj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Color scheme&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I went with mostly blue shades for the site, with orange for an accent&#xA;  color. Blue symbolizes peace, calm and serenity, but also sensitivity&#xA;  and wisdom. On the other hand, orange warms up the overall tone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Logo&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For the logo, I’m using an origami icon for the “O” letter. As a logo&#xA;  mark, it stands out on its own and can be easily translated to other&#xA;  sizes, or for promotional materials for the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;click on the image below to see the full resolution version&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9gi4p.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9gi4p.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Logo&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Puzzling Site Design reveal: &lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4630/puzzling-design-pitch-congratulations-youre-graduating&quot;&gt;Puzzling Design Pitch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After going through the top questions of this site, it was time to&#xA;  find a strong icon which could stand on its own. To do so, I had to&#xA;  dig into the meaning of &quot;Puzzling&quot; and think about how we'd represent&#xA;  it with a shape. Two categories and ideas came out of this exercise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ccco8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ccco8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Logo&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I believe those 2 paths capture the overall themes of our &quot;Puzzling&quot;&#xA;  community, but it was hard to keep only one, so I decided to give it a&#xA;  try and create a unique shape using both:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bvvWn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bvvWn.png&quot; alt=&quot;Logo explanation&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Final logo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dmw3a.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dmw3a.png&quot; alt=&quot;Logo&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Regarding the logo environment, I kept some of the same themes&#xA;  (discover and mystery) and came up with a pattern which conveys &quot;a few&#xA;  clues within a thousand pieces of evidence&quot; (the light pieces&#xA;  represent the clues).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:50:55.143" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T15:44:07.877" Title="Is the puzzling icon too similar to ours?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3712" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-22T14:00:59.243" Score="1" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it in bad taste to substantially edit the wording of a question when the OP speaks English as a second language?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/67519/how-to-deal-with-different-daily-working-hours-in-a-software-company&quot;&gt;How to deal with different daily working hours in a software company?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my humble opinion this question has the potential to create some very insightful answers.  I personally find the topic fascinating, and I'm really eager to see some of the solutions that our community comes up with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only problem I can see with the question is the wording.  The OP clearly speaks English as a second language, and the wording of the question could be substantially improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I clicked Edit and started in before my conscience gave me pause.  I wondered to myself, and so now I pose the question to you all: &lt;strong&gt;Is it in bad taste to substantially edit the wording of a question when the OP speaks English as a second language?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:45.977" LastActivityDate="2016-05-25T19:58:30.590" Title="Is it in bad taste to substantially edit the wording of a question when the OP speaks english as a second language?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3712" CreationDate="2016-05-22T14:40:13.883" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's not bad taste. One huge advantage of Stack Exchange is the community as a whole can edit posts in order to make them more clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens in a few ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fixing grammar/spelling mistakes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Organizing better (ie adding paragraphs)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fixing markdown syntax to fix (bullet points and numbered lists)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing information responded in comments into the question &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding relevant tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Making post better&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say go for it. I occasionally will do this in exactly the situation you describe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will add that when I make a significant edit I almost always make a comment along the lines of, &quot;Hi, I made an edit to your post to help clarify what you were asking and make it more on topic - feel free to [edit] if that changed your intent too much!&quot; or something like that. I often get thanks and to the best of my knowledge have never received a &quot;screw you man why you change my post!&quot; response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-05-22T14:40:13.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3712" CreationDate="2016-05-23T14:28:54.367" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No I don't think it is so long as you keep the question and are just making it clearer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume many people here don't have English as a first language including myself, and different localities have different idiosyncrasies with English, but most would have learnt formally. So correcting the post would be helpful for others who don't have English as a first language as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T14:28:54.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3716" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-23T14:59:31.243" Score="-10" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question about The Six Sigma Illuminati and it's been deleted without trace, and I didn't even get a notification it was being removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48356" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2016-05-23T15:15:58.547" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T15:18:23.190" Title="Where's my question gone?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3716" CreationDate="2016-05-23T15:18:23.190" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question was not a real question but an attempt to use meta for personal amusement.  It was deleted as offensive by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T15:18:23.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3711" CreationDate="2016-05-23T15:46:53.020" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I stand by the opinion that we were here first, so we are not the ones who need to change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As enderland pointed out in the comments, there is already a discussion started at the Puzzling Meta, and I very much like the proposed solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4748/puzzlings-new-favicon-is-too-similar-to-workplaces-favicon&quot;&gt;Puzzling's new favicon is too similar to Workplace's favicon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like our logo and design, and I don't see any reason for us to take the time and effort to change it. The Puzzling Site Design was just released, so I imagine they are still in the process of making changes and updates. We would have to start an entirely new re-design process. The only thing I could see the Workplace doing to resolve this issue is to have our mods talk to the Puzzling mods and encourage them to pick a new favicon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:42:07.040" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T15:46:53.020" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3711" CreationDate="2016-05-23T20:44:06.310" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;They only look superficially similar to me. I see no need to change ours anyway, but it wouldn't bother me if you guys decided to, it's just an icon. But I reckon let Puzzling deal with it, they're already discussing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T20:44:06.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3712" CreationDate="2016-05-24T12:49:10.827" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I do it myself as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've dealt with many people where English was their second language, including many family friends and my own mother, so I have a knack for getting the gist of unclear translations.  (let's not forget that sometimes people use google translate, et cetera)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, it is fine to change anything but intent.  A good deal many words don't translate well from one language to another, so the intent is more important than words.  It's the thoughts and concepts you want to preserve in the translation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-05-24T12:49:10.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3712" CreationDate="2016-05-25T19:58:30.590" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Do not be afraid to edit a question to make it more readable.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP has a problem with the way it was done they can modify it or roll back.  But often times the wording of a question is the difference between it being ignored and becoming a great question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2016-05-25T19:58:30.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-25T22:24:41.210" Score="1" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/67696/is-head-hunters-frequently-asked-questions-list-good-idea/67709?noredirect=1#comment187735_67709&quot;&gt;Is &amp;quot;head hunter&amp;#39;s frequently asked questions list&amp;quot; good idea?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty well convinced that this new user is trolling.  The question was ok to begin with but has devolved significantly between the edit and the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do others see this as a legit question?  If not what is SOP for troll-ish questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26235" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-03-30T12:52:05.137" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T12:52:05.137" Title="Is this user trolling?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|trolling|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3711" CreationDate="2016-05-25T23:45:22.870" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I don't think the issue should annoy us. I am the worst-sighted person in the office (biologically) and have no issue by confounding the icons. Also I perceive the difference between both icons (I don't understand the WP one but the other one seems like those impossible optical illusions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, before having these icons most sites have default icons with white letters over blue backgrounds, and that didn't kill anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I think is that we should not take this matter so seriously... &lt;em&gt;in this case&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36499" LastActivityDate="2016-05-25T23:45:22.870" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3723" CreationDate="2016-05-26T02:25:02.423" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure about trolling, but the question is very specific to the poster which makes it a bad fit.  I think there could be a question about the idea of presenting the recruiter with an FAQ (and why it's probably a bad idea), but the detail will drive others away from identifying with this person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly it's also rhetorical, &quot;why don't recruiters respond when I attach my FAQ?&quot; - they don't respond BECAUSE you attach your FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4937" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T02:25:02.423" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3723" CreationDate="2016-05-26T06:37:13.247" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see trolling, in that I don't believe the poster is posting here just to get a rise out of us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do see a person who thinks their way is better than everybody else's, and isn't prepared to listen to advice. That's not particularly uncommon, and isn't a good way to get a job. As the post is more a rant than an honest attempt to get information, I'd be tempted to close as &quot;real questions have answers&quot;. If nothing else, we should probably &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; so the ongoing debate in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14388" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T06:37:13.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3727" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3728" CreationDate="2016-05-25T23:31:49.990" Score="37" ViewCount="552" Body="&lt;p&gt;I work at a software company. Everyone here uses the Stack Exchange network, all the time. &lt;em&gt;This may include this site as well&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose I have a programming related question, and I ask my workmates. After not getting an answer - which very frequently happens - I post it in Stack Overflow. My coworkers see my questions, and I see theirs.  It wouldn't be hard to figure out who uses what account.  In my case, I have even my real name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose I ask about an awkward situation regarding one workmate or boss. My workmate or boss could easily check my profile, see my network activity, and find that awkward question.  This could involve several possible outcomes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perhaps my boss or coworker sees that question and disagrees with me or otherwise dislikes the question. This may reflect poorly upon me - at least in his eyes. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The subject of the question could find it, and feels uncomfortable with me telling &lt;em&gt;everybody&lt;/em&gt; (this community) about the... issue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A coworker could discover something I post I ask that does not reflect the values of my workplace. For example, if I say, as an answer: &lt;em&gt;you should not work for a boss who treats you like the situation you described; carefully look for another job and end your current one in the best terms you can, ASAP&lt;/em&gt;. My current boss reads the answer and finds it inappropriate, and it relects badly upon me, in his eyes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should someone concerned with their coworkers discovering their potentially relationship-damaging questions on Stack Exchange? What should they do is such a situation arises?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36499" OwnerDisplayName="Luis Masuelli" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T17:08:43.603" Title="How to ask questions regarding my current job when coworkers use this site too?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3727" CreationDate="2016-05-26T02:12:59.063" Score="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are three factors that bear on this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deciding &lt;em&gt;whether&lt;/em&gt; to post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Separation of accounts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;How&lt;/em&gt; you post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deciding whether to post:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question might already be answered, so be sure to search.  If you don't find it, you need to decide how important it is to ask it.  Could it reveal any private information?  Do you risk looking deficient in some way in front of your coworkers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use my real name online and I've asked questions arising from current employment.  However, they're general questions and I like to think I put some thought into them before asking.  If my manager were to come across one of my questions, I hope the reaction would be &quot;good question&quot; or perhaps just &quot;oh hey, Monica's there&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But sometimes you really do want to ask a question that you'd rather your manager and coworkers not know about -- you're having trouble dealing with that obnoxious coworker, that clueless team lead is messing up your deliverables, that dictatorial boss is demanding 80 hours a week for months on end... In those cases, read on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Separation of accounts:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're allowed to have more than one account on Stack Exchange &lt;em&gt;so long as&lt;/em&gt; you don't use them to do anything you couldn't do with a single account (like vote for yourself, or double-vote on others' posts).  The usual way to do this is to create a separate email address and OpenID credential and use the second account from a different browser or an incognito browser window.  Basically, don't let the two accounts &quot;meet&quot; each other in the same browser session.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that two accounts means two separate inboxes; when you're logged in to your main account you won't see pings from comments on posts from the secondary account.  It's more work to manage two accounts because you have to remember to check in.  And you also need to keep track of what you did where; the first time you post from one account referring to &quot;my previous question about X&quot; that was actually from the other account, you've blown it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you do all that, though, you can still give yourself away by...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How you post:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People have individual quirks.  The more-unusual ones, like idioms or turns of phrase that very few people use, might stand out to people who know you and recognize them.  So might that word that you always misspell.  It doesn't take a Big Data Extravaganza to find correlations in longer text samples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are probably a poor judge of how other people read what you write -- not because there's anything wrong with you, but because we all have blinders.  You can reduce the impact by being aware of what you say and how you say it, but never, ever assume that you are truly anonymous on the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing that, you can still ask your question -- and still add a layer of insulation by asking it from a second account.  But don't ask about that jerk boss or that pompous coworker; ask your question neutrally and focus on &lt;em&gt;yourself&lt;/em&gt;, the problems &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; are having.  You and your boss disagree about priorities; your team lead is focusing on short-term deadlines and you worry about the long-term implications; you really really need to find a way to get a nap in the middle of the afternoon without people thinking you're a slacker; whatever.  If you focus on &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;, then even if your coworkers do figure out it's you, they're more likely to treat it professionally and not take it personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" OwnerDisplayName="Monica Cellio" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T02:45:11.990" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3729" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-26T12:56:15.350" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3727/how-to-ask-questions-regarding-my-current-job-when-coworkers-use-this-site-too&quot;&gt;How to ask questions regarding my current job when coworkers use this site too?&lt;/a&gt; was asked on main and migrated to meta, in my opinion incorrectly.  If somebody had asked a question about using Reddit or Glassdoor or LinkedIn or some other site to say things he might not want his coworkers to see, would we have migrated it?  No, because it's a question about &lt;em&gt;navigating the workplace&lt;/em&gt; -- specifically, about how to stay out of coworkers' view on employment-related corners of the Internet.  That the site in question is &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; site does not make it a meta question, any more than a programming question on SO is meta just because an SE developer asked it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see this question back on main, where it will come up in search results and be offered as a related question when people start to ask similar questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T13:50:14.183" Title="The &quot;using this site&quot; question shouldn't have been migrated" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3729" CreationDate="2016-05-26T13:30:33.740" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3727/how-to-ask-questions-regarding-my-current-job-when-coworkers-use-this-site-too#comment9306_3727&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I disagree.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I can see a version of the question being appropriate for the main site, but &lt;strong&gt;as written the question is specifically about how to use the Workplace site&lt;/strong&gt; in the context of the broader network of StackExchange sites. You are &lt;em&gt;guaranteed&lt;/em&gt; to get answers that depend on the way SE accounts work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be some confusion because the OP actually has two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how do I ask question on Workplace if I'm worried about my identity being discovered/linked to SO?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what do I do when my colleagues find out I asked an embarrassing/unprofessional question on a forum?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former belongs on meta. The second doesn't. Since the second is entirely theoretical the post should be edited down to refocus the question on the meta question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To illustrate the point: we can replace Workplace with any other potentially embarrassing site like Parenting or some of the hobby sites (Gaming, SciFi, Anime) and not get a substantially different question, because the OP's key question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How should someone concerned with their coworkers discovering &lt;strong&gt;their potentially relationship-damaging questions on Stack Exchange?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't have a monopoly on questions that could damage someone's relationship if a friend/colleague found it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could even be moved to SE's meta, but strategies for asking anonymous questions are likely to be substantially different for Workplace issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T13:50:14.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3723" CreationDate="2016-05-26T15:56:54.513" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read the question and see it as a covered way of ranting. Not ranting against specific subjects but against how weird is the world who doesn't understand him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO he doesn't sound as a troll. Just geninely ridiculous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36499" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T15:56:54.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3711" CreationDate="2016-05-26T20:36:24.247" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that you included the design pitches. They show the process focused on making the logo work for the individual sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace logo starts with the idea of &quot;O&quot; (for Office I assume) represented as origami. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Puzzling logo starts with the idea of a keyhole represented as impossible geometry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At full size the two designs are clearly different. They share design sensibilities, which I think can be attributed to two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite many differences between Stack Exchange communities, all our sites share many common values and customs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Both designs were created by Stéphane.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I talked to Stéphane yesterday to gather information to write &lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4911/15&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; to a related question on Meta Puzzling. He's comfortable with both designs as is. However, I think the smallest logos are a bit too similar as favicons and on the Hot Network Question sidebar. The problem is not unique to this pair of logos, so I proposed a general solution for the sidebar: append the name of each site to the logo. From the feedback I've received so far, it sounds like that suggestion does not cover most (if any) of the concerns of The Workplace community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Community Identity&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange has always valued community input when it comes to site design. In fact, the original logos for &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/04/logo-design-contest-winner/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/logo-contest-winner-for-serverfaultcom/&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/logo-contest-winner-for-superusercom/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; were designed by users. Even today, our professional designers solicit community feedback. As recently as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://emacs.meta.stackexchange.com/q/402/2&quot;&gt;Emacs design&lt;/a&gt; you can see that they sometimes change the entire concept of the logo in response to community concerns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The deeper issue seems to be that The Workplace community didn't follow the design process on Puzzling and only noticed the problem when the design had been finalized. Unfortunately, the way most people initially encounter new site logos is on the Hot Network Question list, which is a feature already &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hot-questions?sort=votes&amp;amp;pageSize=50&quot;&gt;disliked by many&lt;/a&gt;. So I definitely understand the frustration this community has had with the situation. It's not a pleasant surprise to click on a link that you thought might be some hot new question on your favorite site and land on a question &lt;em&gt;intentionally designed&lt;/em&gt; to be cryptic. I would go so far as to call it clickbaity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, fixing the sidebar to remove surprise solves only part of the problem. It does not address the &lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4748/puzzlings-new-favicon-is-too-similar-to-workplaces-favicon/4911?noredirect=1#comment10444_4911&quot;&gt;deeper concern&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think what bothers me (and probably others) most is that this design decision affects us at the Workplace, but we had no say in the matter. In the real world you obviously can't expect this, but we are a closed community with common oversight. We shouldn't all be involved in site-specific decisions, but I would expect those who approve such changes to consider how it may affect others in the greater SE community. I don't feel like that happened here. – &lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/users/12237/david-k&quot;&gt;David K&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a matter of fact, the similarity &lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4635/15&quot;&gt;was noticed&lt;/a&gt; back when the logo was first revealed. If I had to characterize the feedback for the logo in particular, I'd call it &quot;mixed&quot;. So the logo should have been changed, right? Not so fast. Every design pitch meets resistance because people have a picture in mind that is very likely different than the designer's. (From my experience as a user: I didn't much like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://christianity.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1706/914&quot;&gt;Christianity deisgn&lt;/a&gt; when I saw it. It's grown on me.) Part of the designer's job to have the courage of conviction to stick to their guns sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thoughts can be summed up by this &lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4630/puzzling-design-pitch-congratulations-youre-graduating?lq=1#comment9884_4630&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The case of the perfect Puzzling SE logo might be unsolvable. Many SE logos are already enigmatic and all of SE is built on the question mark. At sizes usually displayed, SE logos pretty much amount to shapes and shades -- check out the color-bordered diamond of workplace.stackexchange.com – &lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/users/18129/humn&quot;&gt;humn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see an argument for building a &quot;logo conflict&quot; check into our process. That might even result in better, more distinct logos. But in this case, that hypothetical process would not have changed the end result. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9899" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T15:44:07.877" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3711" CreationDate="2016-05-26T21:58:49.237" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The logos don't bother me; even at HNQ size they seem clearly different to me.  Granted, at that size I'm only getting coarse shape and color; &quot;diamondy smudge with blue and red&quot; is different from &quot;diamondy smudge with orange and green&quot;.  For me, that's enough.  I hope somebody can verify that they remain sufficiently different for the color-blind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But some people are concerned about this, so maybe a simple change can add more difference without making anybody change logos: include the background color in Puzzling's mini-logo.  Instead of just the diamondy smudge with orange and green, how about a diamondy smudge with orange and green and ligher-green background, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ilqew.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ilqew.png&quot; alt=&quot;icon&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that solve the problem?  Is that in keeping with Puzzling's design?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You might want to put a darker outline around that. Or not, I don't know -- you don't want &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt; making decisions like that.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be brought up over on Puzzling before proceeding, but since (a) the concern is coming from Workplace and (b) I'm not active on Puzzling, I'm mentioning it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T21:58:49.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3734" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-26T23:25:07.767" Score="-13" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/11267/437&quot;&gt;How important is a LinkedIn profile?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is entirely opinion-based. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T13:14:00.953" Title="Could a moderator please close this question? Now?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3734" CreationDate="2016-05-27T08:09:08.310" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not seeing what is so bad about this question that it needs anything more than the regular close vote. It's not actively causing harm to the site, so let's just let the normal process take effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14388" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T08:09:08.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3734" CreationDate="2016-05-27T08:20:11.787" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is over 3 years old. Your concept of urgency seems a little off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if there was a critical issue that needed to be resolved quickly, this isn't the way to do it. You have plenty of other options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have close votes to start the closing process. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can comment why the question should be closed or how it should be improved to avoid closing. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can link it on chat if you want to solicit input on the question from other users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can flag it for moderator attention. If mods need to act quickly, this is the fastest way of bringing something to their attention.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voting process is designed to ensure that the community as a whole determines whether a question fits this site and your personal opinion only counts for one of those votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T08:20:11.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3711" CreationDate="2016-05-27T10:44:35.643" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I don't have anny issue with them being similar, but I am colorblind and I think any blue-red Colorblind would agree that there is no difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this new favicon has gone live, I must have attempted to flag qeustions off Topic a couple of hundred times thinking I was on workplace, while I was actually on puzzling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So about 5%~ of the world population has a form of colorblind (on the record 3).&#xA;About 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not really asking for Change since I can live with it, but if possible add this point to the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://colourblindawareness.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49065" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T10:44:35.643" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3727" CreationDate="2016-05-28T17:08:43.603" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is possible to use different name for the account, different account description and hide some communities from the public view. This is configurable through the user preferences settings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do so, logout and check if everything you wanted to hide is really no longer visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13306" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T17:08:43.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3734" CreationDate="2016-05-31T13:14:00.953" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That looks like a good question to me.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question of which subjective questions are inappropriate is itself subjective.  However, I see nothing that contravenes &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;the site guidelines for bad questions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;avoid asking subjective questions where …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;every answer is equally valid: “What’s your favorite ______?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;your&#xA;answer is provided along with the question, and you expect more&#xA;answers: “I use ______ for ______, what do you use?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is no&#xA;actual problem to be solved: “I’m curious if other people feel like I&#xA;do.”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you are asking an open-ended, hypothetical question: “What if&#xA;______ happened?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;your question is just a rant in disguise: “______ sucks, am I right?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the question has inspired good, useful answers.  Hopefully it won't get closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user45590" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T13:14:00.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3740" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-01T16:09:35.807" Score="5" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's what it looks like on The Workplace (tested and buggy in IE and Firefox):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lHjsV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lHjsV.png&quot; alt=&quot;buggy workplace behavior&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what it looks like on ELL (non-buggy):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VGSa1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VGSa1.png&quot; alt=&quot;non-buggy ell behavior&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Steps to reproduce: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Navigate to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scroll down all the way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine there's just a &lt;code&gt;z-index&lt;/code&gt; or something that needs to be changed on the Workplace CSS file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17292" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T08:23:04.590" Title="&quot;How To Format&quot; bar on Ask Question page is behind some content" Tags="|bug|design|css|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2016-06-16T07:27:54.317" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3741" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-01T16:33:51.150" Score="5" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;re: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/68094/how-to-get-hired-as-a-web-designer&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/68094/how-to-get-hired-as-a-web-designer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is providing links to your personal website/portfolio/resume within a question permitted? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like a way to get free advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T17:46:41.883" Title="Are people allowed to link to their portfolio and/or resume?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3741" CreationDate="2016-06-01T17:46:41.883" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, as long as the contents of their portfolio/resume are relevant&lt;/strong&gt; to the question. Which will be almost never. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The workplace isn't a resume reviewing service and we shy away from providing situation-specific advice that's only useful for the OP and no one else. As a result, most question where the details of someone's resume would be important will not be on-topic. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/68094/how-to-get-hired-as-a-web-designer?noredirect=1&quot;&gt;question that prompted this&lt;/a&gt; is a good example. Off the top of my head the only time I'd expect a link to either is when they're used as an example for a generic question. Something like &quot;&lt;em&gt;should I include an [X] section in my resume?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; or &quot;&lt;em&gt;Is a personal branding website like [this] useful?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackExchange has a fairly high tolerance when it comes to linking resources that could be considered advertising and the only criteria that need to be met are relevance and disclosure (to avoid spam flags). As an example, a well-known Personal Finance user routinely answers question with links to his personal site where he goes into further detail on a particular subject. He discloses his affiliation and provides a useful resource as an addition to his answer which makes this kind of &quot;advertising&quot; beneficial for all parties involved. This mainly applies to Answers but we can draw a parallel to Questions as well: &lt;strong&gt;as long as the link adds to the question the minor link/advertising boost should be considered a worthwhile trade.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T17:46:41.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3743" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-02T21:49:21.237" Score="-2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;We often close questions with the reason&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should be directed to legal professionals. For more information, click here.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is problem with this -- since the heart of the employer-employee relationship is a legal contract, and every company is different, this close reason can be applied to all questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/68151/can-i-be-sued-for-leaving-with-proper-notice-in-the-uk&quot;&gt;Can I be sued for leaving with proper notice in the UK?&lt;/a&gt;, the OP is asking a fairly general legal question, with wide applicability to readers of Workplace. The answer is something that all responsible employees would want to know. &quot;If I comply with the notice requirements of my jurisdiction [country, province, etc.], can I have any additional liability?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reading the Workplace for a couple of years, I still don't understand why some questions get closed with this reason. Furthermore, by combining two reasons into an omnibus close, it makes it even more confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we improve question closing by splitting up this &quot;reason&quot; into its two unrelated reasons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we separate general legal questions from the more specific ones that are not useful to readers in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Added later:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reflecting on my question, I suspect that there is a difference in perspective between those who work in at-will jurisdictions and those who don't. When reviewing related meta-questions, I can see a pattern. If a person seems to work in a at-will jurisdiction, they are much more likely to favour a strict interpretation of this rule. Legally, it is simpler there - all one has to say is &quot;You're fired&quot; or &quot;I quit&quot;. Where I work, if I quit with no notice, I can be sued, even without a contract document. When I quit my job at McDonalds at age 19, I didn't have to hire a lawyer to determine how much notice to provide - I just relied on the &quot;common knowledge&quot; about the provincial labour code on required notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All workplaces are governed by labour regulations and the contractual obligations of its participants, which make all Workplace questions legal questions, ultimately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T16:49:12.577" Title="Company-specific legal question closing" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2016-06-06T17:17:56.777" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3743" CreationDate="2016-06-03T09:06:39.830" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most questions on The Workplace don't ask direct legal questions but instead seek answers to problems in the workplace that don't necessarily involve expertise from a lawyer.  A good litmus test is if a question can be answered by someone with experience in the workplace, then it is more likely to be a good fit than a question where a person asks a direct legal question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking whether or not an employer has legal ground to sue involves examining the contract, which is outside the job description and skillset of a workplace employee.  This type of question requires a lawyer to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original question could possibly be edited to focus on something slightly different, like what steps to take to decline an already-accepted job or to delay beginning the work.  None of this involves direct questions of legality and also should attract answers that involve working with the new employer to come to an agreement that works for everyone and which won't involve anyone wanting to sue anyone else.  In short, avoid asking for direct legal advice and instead focus the question on solving the problem.  Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T09:06:39.830" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3745" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-03T16:11:33.710" Score="-8" ViewCount="270" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following question got nine downvotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/68209/how-best-to-demonstrate-that-as-a-software-developer-you-make-the-company-money&quot;&gt;How best to demonstrate that as a software developer you make the company money&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this the kind of question we want to avoid? If, so why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comments they protest that they are in this situation because they are a good person. Is that bad here? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything wrong with the question itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T19:44:50.383" Title="What was wrong with this question?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2016-06-04T18:48:50.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3745" CreationDate="2016-06-03T16:42:42.327" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is down voted as it is just plain not realistic and not clear.  Request for clarification is series of unclear, unrealistic, and inconsistent comments from you.  I would vote to delete if I had the authority.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26028" LastEditorUserId="26028" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T16:51:09.030" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T16:51:09.030" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3745" CreationDate="2016-06-03T17:36:33.870" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a second I thought you might be a troll, but now I think you're simply desperate for attention. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You describe a situation which is borderline fantasy, reply to our requests for clarification in ways which you must think make you sound deep, and philosophical, but ultimately end up being annoying and uninformative, and fire back with vague BS when people start to call you out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At best, cherry picking the coherent parts of your posts, you seem to have a serious attitude problem which is leading to you basically being unemployable. (aka you're in a bad situation because you've done it to yourself) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately this is why people are down-voting: because they're getting confused and frustrated with you. And this very much includes myself at this point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43772" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T17:36:33.870" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3748" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3749" CreationDate="2016-06-03T17:56:24.243" Score="19" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt; page does not explicitly include or exclude discussion of online 'workplaces'. Some people find, hire, interact, and fire all online. Are questions about interactions with people whom you do not interact with in person on topic for this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19098" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.063" LastActivityDate="2016-06-11T22:00:40.850" Title="Are questions about purely remote employment on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3748" CreationDate="2016-06-03T18:10:13.983" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure!  Remote employment is still employment, and &quot;the workplace&quot; doesn't only mean the building.  We've had several questions related to remote employees already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T18:10:13.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3745" CreationDate="2016-06-03T19:43:10.107" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I down-voted your question for the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your question is unclear. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The details you included are contradictory. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When you were given feedback from the community, you made no effort&#xA;to improve or edit your question.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You have demonstrated an complete inability to answer a direct&#xA;question which makes me question your integrity/honesty.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In answer to your questions here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is the kind of question we want to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, defending your character in the comments is not BAD, although you can expect the comment to eventually be deleted as comments are temporary in nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there are a number of things wrong with the question as I detailed above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like your question could potentially be cleaned up such that you could receive some helpful and insightful advice from the community here.  If the question were worded properly, the answer might even be useful to other people.  As things stand at present, neither of those outcomes is likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T19:43:10.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3745" CreationDate="2016-06-03T19:44:50.383" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do I demonstrate that it will take about a year for me to categorically, and beyond doubt, show that my skills are valuable? Or is this not possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Categorically? Beyond a doubt? In about a year?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is impossible. And it's especially impossible for strangers on the Internet to help you make your case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T19:44:50.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3748" CreationDate="2016-06-11T22:00:40.850" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they're increasingly relevant and interesting. I have both local and remote workers and use different strategies with them, and have very different attitudes towards them. So they would elicit quite different answers (from me at any rate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-06-11T22:00:40.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3753" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-13T15:26:34.737" Score="9" ViewCount="302" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/69701/2322&quot;&gt;Struggling in my first software development job, how to decide if I should move on?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was just closed. I think it's a valid question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is now asking for how to process through the decision (not what to do)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is a situation that a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of people face&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Getting insight into the  &quot;how should I think about whether to leave or not&quot; question is very different than &quot;should I leave this job&quot; question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, what needs to change to the wording to make it on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: The question was reopened on 2016-06-14 14:10:15Z.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T19:39:01.287" Title="Reopen: Struggling in my first software development job, how to decide if I should move on?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3753" CreationDate="2016-06-13T15:41:07.440" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm for reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a situation nearly everyone in IT faces at one point or another, and was closed mostly by non-IT people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add to that, the plethora of good advice in the answers, this deserves to be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T15:41:07.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3753" CreationDate="2016-06-13T16:47:47.200" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was one of the close-voters, and since some people consider the close-voters to be jerks, I will post an answer here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My close vote was for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/69701/1&quot;&gt;original version of the question&lt;/a&gt;, and I still stand by my close vote. While &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/69701/struggling-in-my-first-software-development-job-how-to-decide-if-i-should-move#comment192330_69701&quot;&gt;I have empathy for the OP&lt;/a&gt;, the question was off-topic as far as this site is concerned since it asked for advice on whether OP should move on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has since been edited to &quot;how should I decide whether to move on?&quot;, but that is just shoehorning an on-topic question. It is easy enough to apply the same shoehorning to make &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; &quot;seeking advice on what to do&quot; question on-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, perhaps the most common theme of questions closed as off-topic for this reason involve &quot;which job should I take?&quot;. Just edit the question to &quot;how should I decide which job to take?&quot;, and it becomes on-topic. This sets a bad precedent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next up is the argument about the situation being very common in IT. With all due respect, choosing between multiple job offers or deciding whether to take a job or not is &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; common (and not just in IT). It is only fair that such questions be allowed too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't concern me much if the question is reopened, but unless the &quot;amnesty&quot; is extended to all &quot;seeking advice&quot; questions, be prepared for some troublesome discussions in future, of the type, &quot;how come &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; question was closed, but &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; question is allowed?&quot; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T16:47:47.200" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3753" CreationDate="2016-06-14T11:10:36.863" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel the wording should Change as I feel this question, after looking into the reversions.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Has been closed for a valid reason, It is simply off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that the following is to vage in this case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions should get answers explaining why and how to make a decision, not advice on what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While regardless how we Change the qeustion, we would still give advice on what to do, but because we look at it from the why how Point it is suddenly on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If not, what needs to change to the wording to make it on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would Change it into the Options the op is willing to take instead of asking for advice.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;That are questions which we can answer why or how you should take them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I thought about this I didn't close vote this myself, because I felt it to be an gray Zone in our on-topic specifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49065" LastActivityDate="2016-06-14T11:10:36.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3757" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3760" CreationDate="2016-06-15T14:47:01.070" Score="6" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/69471/47632&quot;&gt;The question&lt;/a&gt; seems to be soliciting legal advice as it only included &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/legal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;legal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;legal&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/69471/1&quot;&gt;when it was originally asked&lt;/a&gt; and a few of the answers agree that consequences are company specific:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/69476/47632&quot;&gt;Justin Cave (+176)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But even within a particular industry, there are going to be more&#xA;  straight-laced companies and more free-wheeling companies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/69635/47632&quot;&gt;Eric Lippert (+4)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you work at Microsoft, you will be fired once this is discovered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also not clear how it fits in any of the other categories defined as on topic in the help center:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Finding employment (resumes/cv/cover letters, recruiters, hiring-managers, interviews, negotiations, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Maintaining employment (promotions, pay increases, harassment, bullying, poor working conditions, communication problems, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Leadership in the workplace (motivating people, encouraging people, making decisions, holding hard conversations, intervening in&#xA;  unproductive situations, asking for and giving help, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Terminating employment (notice period, breaking the news, handing over work, reference letters, relieving letters, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm completely honest, it feels like this question was only left open because it's a problem specific programmers and software developers which make up a significant portion of the users here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm worried that by leaving it open and due to the very high score it received, it's serving as a model question that other users are basing their questions off of. This - now on hold - question seems &lt;em&gt;highly&lt;/em&gt; inspired by it: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/69705/47632&quot;&gt;Consequences for contractor of bypassing recruitment agency&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47632" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T08:20:35.443" Title="Why is 'Consequences for leaving an easter egg in code?' considered on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3758" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3759" CreationDate="2016-06-16T06:50:20.420" Score="0" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/67841/does-it-make-sense-to-apply-to-second-time-for-another-position&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; has been closed as off topic. I do not think it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question about the job search should be on topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is unlikely that it is not clear what is being asked (should I re-apply or not)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The expected answer would be yes or no, maybe with some comments. It is not too broad.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even if the answer is &quot;depends&quot;, with only two alternatives would be possible to give some hints, when and which alternative applies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have posted the comment saying the reason of closing is not clear to me. The explanation is somewhat along the lines &quot;poorly worded&quot;, but I think it is sufficiently clear and way of wording should not make the question off topic anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not actually think the question should have been closed. Please comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13306" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T07:39:54.447" Title="Why &quot;Does it make sense to apply to second time for another position?&quot; has been closed?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3758" CreationDate="2016-06-16T07:39:54.447" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the link in the close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for &lt;strong&gt;advice on what to do are not &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;practical answerable&#xA;    questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g.&#xA;    &lt;em&gt;&quot;what job should I take?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;&quot;what skills should I learn?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;). Questions should get answers explaining &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to make a&#xA;    decision, not advice on what to do. For more information, click&#xA;    &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Our goal here at The Workplace is to help out people in the future who&#xA;  are facing the same problem. When people ask us for personalized&#xA;  advice, a lot of the specific details will not apply to other people&#xA;  who come across the question since their details may be slightly&#xA;  different and they can't determine whether or not the answer is&#xA;  appropriate for their situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about what decision to make are best asked to your friends&#xA;  and family, or maybe Facebook. You can always try asking in our&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  where the rules are quite a bit more relaxed. Sometimes talking&#xA;  through a decision can help, so it's best to pick a format designed&#xA;  for that sort of back-and-forth discussion. The Workplace is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;not that&#xA;  place though&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another alternative is to&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; your post to&#xA;  ask about &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; you should make the decision, rather than&#xA;  just &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; decision to make. For instance, instead of asking &lt;em&gt;&quot;Should&#xA;  I take the job in the big multi-national company or the up-and-coming&#xA;  startup?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; you could ask a question that will help you make that&#xA;  decision, like &lt;em&gt;&quot;How can I figure out the financial health of a&#xA;  startup I am applying to by asking questions in an interview?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question is, &quot;Should I apply for a second job in a company that has already passed me over for another position?&quot; -- none of us can help you make the decision on whether or not you should do that (that's your choice).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you should do instead is explain what your goal is (do you want to improve your chance of getting this job? do you want to make sure you keep a good relationship with the company in the future? etc.), and then explain what circumstances are making it difficult for you to accomplish that goal. For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I recently applied to a job with a large company (500 employees) and made it past the final round of the interview as the second choice candidate. The person selected over me accepted the job and so I did not get an offer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The same company has now listed another job in another department that requires similar skills. I don't have any experience applying for two positions at the same company, and want to leverage my successful interviews for the previous positions. I'm not sure if I'm expected to apply normally and trust that they will share information about my previous application, or whether I should contact the HR person who handled the last interview, or something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I use the previous interview process as an asset while applying for this new position? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This specifically states what you're trying to do (improve your chances of getting a job you had a successful interview with), and it explains why you're not sure how to proceed (you don't know whether or not HR will be sharing information amongst themselves in cases like this). The question is clear and will be helpful to other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the difference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T07:39:54.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3757" CreationDate="2016-06-16T08:20:35.443" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's on-topic because it's asking about workplace consequences, not legal ones. The original post made no mention of legal consequences and while that may be a part of the OP's initial concerns, none of the answers considered it a legal question. I've gone ahead and dropped the legal tag as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second question you linked is off-topic because the OP is specifically requesting an assessment of the legal risks of doing something:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Am I likely to find myself in legal trouble for simply accepting the role?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not something we can answer, while we &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; answer the potential consequences on someone's employment or reputation with a company if they add hidden features to something they've created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the question doesn't have a single close vote is good indicator that the majority of the community has deemed it on-topic and answerable. Borderline questions will typically (but not always) attract a fair share of close votes from some of our more steadfast users (like me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T08:20:35.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3761" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3762" CreationDate="2016-06-20T14:02:06.637" Score="8" ViewCount="249" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question a couple of days ago, and thankfully I got great positive feedback for the situation I'm currently in. The issue or more like the dilemma is that I really can't accept just one answer. I like several of them and I haven't had enough feedback (on my end) to determine which one was the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Must questions on &lt;strong&gt;The Workplace&lt;/strong&gt; have an accepted answer? What do I do if a combination of 2 or more answers solved my problem? How will I know then which one should be accepted? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46494" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2016-06-20T18:11:43.263" LastActivityDate="2016-06-29T12:44:29.943" Title="Should I always accept an answer on The Workplace?" Tags="|discussion|support|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3761" CreationDate="2016-06-20T14:32:51.073" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll start by referring you to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5235/260884&quot;&gt;SE FAQ on accepting answers&lt;/a&gt;. This should help explain how things work across all Stack Exchange sites, but I'll answer your questions specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepting an answer is never required, but we do usually encourage it. An accepted answer indicates to everyone that the given advice was useful and helped you in your situation. Because the Workplace focuses mainly on more subjective questions that don't have clearly correct or incorrect answers, there are often multiple answers with different approaches which could all be useful. And sometimes the best answer for you is a combination of tactics from multiple answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately there is no way to mark multiple answers as correct on any SE site. This does make sense, as having multiple conflicting answers marked as correct would add a lot of confusion and be not at all useful to future readers. We do still encourage you to pick the answer that was the most useful to you and accept it. Definitely still use your votes to promote the other answers you liked, and maybe even edit your question to specifically say &quot;I accepted Jack's answer, but make sure to read Jill's answer which was also very useful!&quot; If you want to wait a little longer to get more feedback on your end, that's perfectly fine. We always like to see edits updating us on the situation and explaining which advice ultimately turned out to be be useful or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-06-20T14:32:51.073" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3763" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-21T17:38:55.227" Score="13" ViewCount="391" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/70101/how-to-force-someone-to-quit&quot;&gt;How to force someone to quit&lt;/a&gt;&quot; recently showed up with possibly the largest number of down-votes for a question I've seen. Now it has been voted closed as off-topic because &quot;Real questions have answers&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, is it really off-topic?  There is a clear question being asked, it is about the workplace, and it is does not have any legal or contractual connotations. There is more here than just a rant about why a situation is bad - there is a stated problem (perceived workplace stress), a proposed solution (quit for said person), and a question of how to achieve that. The only negative part is that the proposed solution is absolutely the wrong thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is precedent for good answers instructing the OP not to do what they are asking (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2321/when-asked-how-can-i-foo-the-bar-is-dont-foo-the-bar-an-appropriate-answer&quot;&gt;Is &quot;don't foo the bar&quot; an appropriate answer?&lt;/a&gt;). It seems the main reason it was put on hold was because of the bad idea being asked, and all of the down-votes. Personally, I partially regret being the first down-vote, as I fear I may have set off the stream that followed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, for discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this question actually off-topic? Should it be reopened?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T14:25:04.213" Title="Is &quot;How to force someone to quit&quot; really off topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|specific-question|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3763" CreationDate="2016-06-22T06:32:11.397" Score="13" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this question actually off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, but it should have had a custom close reason. None of the standard close reasons fit why the question doesn't belong on this site, but as you've commented yourself, there are plenty of problems with the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main ones are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's about intentionally sabotaging someone's employment: while perhaps not illegal, it's grounds for lawsuits in most countries. It's also vastly unethical&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;even if the question wasn't that unethical, it's asking for strategies to act on a family member's behalf in a workplace, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/60138/is-it-okay-for-my-family-to-intervene-when-my-boss-treats-me-unfairly-in-the-fir/60142#60142&quot;&gt;which is completely unprofessional&lt;/a&gt; and counter to all workplace norms&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's an XY problem: A is depressed so B thinks A should lose his job to fix that. Yeah. No.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's badly written&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alongside downvotes, close votes enable us to decide as a community what type of questions we want to see on this site. For the most part they're used to distinguish questions that can be answered from those that belong on a forum or angry blog. In this case they have correctly been used to identify a question that does not belong on this site and probably should not be answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should it be reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. It should be deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T06:32:11.397" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3763" CreationDate="2016-06-22T07:49:46.497" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer:&lt;/strong&gt; This is from my experience as a mod here and does not reflect my role as an employee&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title of the question is deceptive. If someone were to ask this question as a manager in Japan (where it is notoriously difficult to fire a salaried employee), I think it would be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I think this is off-topic is because of what I think the appropriate answer to the question would be. Any appropriate answer, I think, would discuss alternatives to getting the person fired from finding them ways to get counseling, to looking at things like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_and_Medical_Leave_Act_of_1993&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Family Medical Leave Act&lt;/a&gt; which may allow them to retain employment while taking time off to sort this stuff out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with Lilienthal that the following has any relevance to the on-topicness of a question here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whether it's ethical (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1903/&quot;&gt;don't judge a question by its potential use&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whether it's professional behavior (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/12187/how-do-i-resign-when-i-know-my-employer-will-lose-a-big-client-when-i-leave/12193#12193&quot;&gt;if it isn't professional, explain how to be professional in your answer&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whether it's badly written (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2168/&quot;&gt;that's what edits are for&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T07:49:46.497" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3766" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3767" CreationDate="2016-06-22T17:28:07.997" Score="7" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/69832/are-revenue-or-profit-sharing-considered-nondiscretionary-bonuses-when-determini&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; that to me appears to be appears to be clearly off-topic in that it deals with regulations and legal matters. The name alone tells one that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are revenue or profit sharing considered nondiscretionary bonuses when determining the salary base in the FLSA “Final Rule” overtime exemption rules?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I attempted to nominate for closure but am prevented from doing so because it has a bounty for the next 3 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does putting a bounty on a question prevent the topicality guidelines from being enforced?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T18:51:23.630" Title="Why does a bounty suspend topicality?" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3766" CreationDate="2016-06-22T18:51:23.630" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like this question has already asked over at Meta.SO: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/284941/why-cant-i-vote-to-close-a-question-that-has-a-bounty-on-it&quot;&gt;Why can't I vote to close a question that has a bounty on it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a related question at Meta SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14591/how-can-we-close-questions-with-bounties&quot;&gt;How can we close questions with bounties?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarize, closing a question prevents further answers, so any bounty would then be unfairly applied to only the first answers, which aren't always as thought out. However, a question can still be closed, but it needs to be done by a moderator. Flag the question, and the moderator has the ability to refund the bounty and close the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T18:51:23.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3768" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3769" CreationDate="2016-06-22T21:00:02.810" Score="2" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/57480/should-i-tell-my-employer-that-i-need-to-appear-in-court&quot;&gt;Should I tell my employer that I need to appear in court&lt;/a&gt;. It was useful for me and probably will be for others, but I probably shouldn't have that attached to the account I use for work. Is there a way I can be disassociated with it without deleting it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/139/how-should-we-handle-work-sensitive-questions&quot;&gt;How should we handle work sensitive questions?&lt;/a&gt; because my focus is on past questions after the mistake has been made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43877" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-06-29T19:00:24.613" Title="Can I have a question removed from my account" Tags="|discussion|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3768" CreationDate="2016-06-23T02:11:53.193" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators cannot disassociate posts, but employees can.  The most efficient way to make this happen, therefore, is to use the &quot;contact us&quot; link at the bottom of the page.  Include the URL of the post you want to disassociate and ask them to do it.  The post, and any rep changes that came from it, will be disconnected from your account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you use a flag to request this, mods will just turn around and forward it to the community managers once we see it.  So you might as well cut out the middleman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T02:11:53.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3763" CreationDate="2016-06-23T14:25:04.213" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I see this question fails the most basic premise of this SE.  It is not about navigating the workplace.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This person is looking for advice on how to get an employee removed when they are not a part of the company.  They are not looking to interact with co-workers, managers, subordinates, clients, or contractors.  They are not an member of the organization they are looking to affect so this is not a workplace problem.  In my mind interactions with clients, contractors, or volunteers are a kind of grey zone in this regard but her only connection is that she is married to someone who works there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26235" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T14:25:04.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3771" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-23T15:25:35.407" Score="17" ViewCount="503" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read alot of great questions and answers on workplace, and usually learn something worthwhile. Out of all the SE sites I find myself coming back here most often, due to the high quality of questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, like any Q&amp;amp;A site, there are occasional unhelpful posts. Sometimes even counterproductive - for example &quot;just quit&quot; pops up alot. Although sometimes it's the right thing to do, we usually have nowhere near enough information to responsibly recommend that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also see &quot;that's not your job&quot; or &quot;your job is X not Y&quot;, sometimes without enough information from the OP to support the assertion (and on occasion, flying in the face of the OP who has said &quot;this is my job&quot;), sometimes based on the job title alone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be most common around questions involving software jobs - I think alot of us may be pre-loaded with opinions on those (myself included).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that in many cases, this is unhelpful white noise. &#xA;You wouldn't tell your boss &quot;I don't need to solve this problem because it's not my job, some person on the internet said so&quot;. Not unless things were really bad!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time we won't have enough info to know what the OP's duties actually are. While there are definitely times (like when discussing coworkers that the OP isn't responsible for) where &quot;that's not your job&quot; is probably &gt; 90% truth, this often can be translated into a more direct &quot;mind your own business&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we think &quot;that's not your job&quot; is helpful? Or is it one of those things we should only say in the proper context with enough information to back it up? Or maybe it's no big deal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18793" LastActivityDate="2017-10-21T01:39:10.370" Title="is &quot;that's not your job&quot; helpful?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3771" CreationDate="2016-06-23T17:49:46.960" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Really, nothing should be said without a bit of context.  A previous boss of mine used to like to say &quot;If you do it once, it becomes your job&quot; as a caution against being too helpful because the end users would get used to it and expect it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A saying like that can appear snarky and unhelpful without context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same thing with &quot;not your job&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many cases it is the appropriate response such as when an intern is asking if he should change everything, or if a coworker is complaining about another coworker and wants to deal with them when it really should be management.  We've all seen those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The particular user you are mentioning is blunt by nature, and I've told him that I think he is the &quot;Simon Cowell&quot; of SE.  Blunt, and brutally honest, and prone to answering in terse fashion.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However the terseness of a response does not negate it's value.  Sometimes a terse response is what is required.  Sometimes a more gentle approach must be taken.  Again, as one size fits none, a case by case approach must be taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For someone like me, yes it is indeed helpful, for others perhaps not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is &quot;not your job&quot; helpful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the person and the context, I think it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2016-06-24T20:59:25.960" LastActivityDate="2016-06-24T20:59:25.960" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3761" CreationDate="2016-06-23T18:14:58.583" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, I think it's good to mark an answer as accepted. However, there have been times when I wasn't satisfied with any answers and didn't accept an answer. Also there have been questions which turn out to be controversial and two (or more) strongly defended, but opposing positions are advocated in the answers; in such cases, I have left all answers as &quot;unaccepted&quot; out of respect for people with other opinions, although I do upvote answers that share my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2317" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T18:14:58.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3771" CreationDate="2016-06-24T03:54:03.873" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think an answer isn't helpful, you are free to downvote it... though I tend not to do so unless the answer is actively mistaken/harmful/off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's pretty much standard SE practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what you think needs to be done differently in this case, or why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-06-24T03:54:03.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3771" CreationDate="2016-06-24T10:50:08.243" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since (in my opinion) a huge amount of potential inter-person issues can be solved by the simple expedient of 'minding your own business', and in the workplace stepping outside your role and pre-empting someone else's is quite often a bad idea (unless it's absolutely necessary).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's a valid part of an answer, probably not that great for a standalone response, but I can think of a few situations where it would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why upset someone if you don't have to? Why make more trouble for someone who is already in trouble? Why make it your problem if it doesn't have to be? etc,.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a comment, it's perfectly OK as far as I'm concerned, I've seen much worse comments than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both the example answers in the top comments seem reasonable to me as they both provide a short explanation of why and could have been clarified if queried.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2016-06-24T10:59:45.213" LastActivityDate="2016-06-24T10:59:45.213" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3771" CreationDate="2016-06-25T01:42:36.290" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the 'Just Quit' answers and comments are sometimes not very good advice. Great in theory, but in the real World, quitting can cause more issues than it solves because it affects not just an individual but his/her dependents and maybe even a whole bunch of other people. And better jobs just aren't that easy to get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've known people who've thrown a hissy fit and quit and then ended up being a burden to their families for a couple of years before finding another position, or destroyed their marriage and kids education over it etc,. Lost self confidence and taken up drinking or worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better answer or comment is something like 'Soldier on until you can secure other employment.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-06-25T01:42:36.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3777" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-28T11:59:33.977" Score="2" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/70484/how-to-approach-a-boss-who-doesnt-take-full-responsibility-for-his-mistake&quot;&gt;How to approach a boss who doesn't take full responsibility for his mistake?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was recently closed because &quot;advice on what to do are not practical answerable questions&quot;. How does this fit that criteria? The OP is not asking whether they should keep the job or nor, they are asking how to approach their boss about a miscommunication relating to a job acceptance deadline. I think that's perfectly on topic, and I've voted to reopen. Is there something I'm missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="33698" LastEditDate="2016-07-03T05:38:44.913" LastActivityDate="2016-11-07T10:28:21.007" Title="Why was &quot;How to approach a boss...&quot; closed?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|on-topic-definition|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3777" CreationDate="2016-06-28T15:48:24.207" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You saw a question that I didn't.  It just seemed like a rant, with a &quot;what should I do&quot;  Any question that includes in it's title something about getting someone else to do something is likely to be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-06-28T15:48:24.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3761" CreationDate="2016-06-29T12:44:29.943" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you do not have to, since answers may collude to give your case a perfect solution or other approaches may still be useful, but you just decided not to use them. But what is of benefit to other users is for you to explain in detail the approach you took and why, and possibly what results where gotten. For deeper questions, this can take up to a week or even more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Additionally&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think for that particular issue, the Stack team must try to consider adding a resolution field (much like a dedicated field below question) where the approach taken is well documented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53292" LastActivityDate="2016-06-29T12:44:29.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3771" CreationDate="2016-06-29T14:08:46.220" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that often this answer could be used provided it is not just that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However in the case of multiple answers downvote it since we are looking at this might be a good answer, but we aim to have the best answer on top and 9/10 a short answer such as this just lacks context and Information that can be used for both the current op and for future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Takeing HNQ as example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An early short answer gets skyrocket beyond control, why?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It is a fast answer on a popular question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer per definition might not be bad and actually helpful, but answers with good context, sources and examples will be scrolled down which might have been better to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers with thats not your Job, You are the Problem not x, Seek a expert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/69357/requirement-for-drinking-water-in-office/69358#69358&quot;&gt;Requirement for drinking water&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Ignore the fact that the qeustion is off Topic as I dont like to put someone elses answer as an example, as I find that rude and offensive.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer is per definition NOT good, but since nobody answered I put it up anyways.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If someone posted a better answer I would personally press the delete button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending how you look at this yes, this is an acceptable/good answer, but we have an QA saying this is generally not an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thumb rule would be make it an answer if there are none otherwise comment.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;VTC as low Quality when there are better answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49065" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-06-29T14:08:46.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3781" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-03T05:29:53.647" Score="-3" ViewCount="826" Body="&lt;p&gt;So we have this question - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/70670/should-i-talk-to-my-team-lead-about-unintentional-sexism-within-the-team/70685?noredirect=1#comment196549_70685&quot;&gt;Should I talk to my team lead about unintentional sexism within the team?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of heated discussions.  Lots of very sexist comments by a lot of women posters.  One of them wrote an answer HLGEM.  I found her answer very biased, very sexist, and with no research/documentation other than her personal sexist attitude.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I care that the answer was not deleted?  Personally no.  I believe in freedom of speech and I believe overall HLGEM has some good insight - although I don't personally agree with everything she says I respect her opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However...  Let's step into the way back machine and look at this meta question about an answer of mine (from another user wondering why it would be deleted)...  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3168/why-is-this-answer-with-43-upvotes-locked/&quot;&gt;Why is this answer with 43 upvotes locked?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I had an answer with a ton of votes, in a nut shell it said that sexist behavior wouldn't be excused by most based on the excuse of religious beliefs.  The mods (local mods who had competing answers teamed up and started the &quot;tattling&quot;) and SE shut down the answer and still haven't given me a clear answer on what they didn't like - other than it didn't meet their guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the link above the person who personally attacked me and deleted my answer - the great jmort253 (SE employee so obviously just and right) - left an answer that supposedly answered why my answer was deleted.   Please please read his unanswer that looks like it was written by the Hillary Clinton PR disaster team.  But also really read his bolded sentence, &lt;strong&gt;votes alone do not excuse content that does not meet Stack Exchange guidelines of answering the question objectively, factually, and honestly.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we have a baseline of what gets deleted.  My answer also had sourced information of why someone who did something sexist based on religious beliefs would be frowned on if their religion was not the predominant one in that region.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So whatever the mods let religion - mainly Muslim religion - trump the sexism that women face.  (Note I was personally contacted by a SE employee.  He was nice but I was not happy no action was taken.  I was in serious discussions with my upper management of buying the corporate version of SE - which is $$$$ - for our company.  There is no way that I could do this with this kind of cultural and employee risk.  Just background on why I pushed this at the time.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now go to HLGEM's answer.  I read it and was a little flabbergasted.  It was basically just bashing men in general without any research or anything cited.  I liked that she was being honest but the answer just really didn't fit the question.  Several people left comments.  I was actually surprised that most of the reaction was either bashing men more or pretty tame in the opposite direction.  I actually left two comments - and believe it or not they weren't offensive!  (yes I can be offensive as I joke and tease)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my surprise Monica Cellio not only deleted many of the comments (but did leave two, of course by a mod and someone who has left a laundry list of anti-men comments on the question on different answers. I mean seriously this site's mods need mods.  Either you delete all or the offensive one or you leave it alone.  Got to be kidding me.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the kicker here is Monica deletes the comments, leaves two sexist comments, and THEN leaves the answer.  This answer is clearly sexist, portraying that it is normal for men to react in a horrible way, a jerk if they want to ask others for advice after a woman gives them advice.  I mean can you imagine if I had an answer that said, &quot;Most women don't get technology so don't bother talking about it with them (and using sources about women's vs men's tech ability)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we have here is clear sexism - OK'ed and even encouraged by a mod.  The same mods that ganged up on me and other users for similar things.  It is ironic that this would happen on a question about women facing sexism at the workplace, when my answer was defending women from sexist behavior encouraged by certain cultures and religions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please tell me why a user wouldn't think that the SE community mods are biased/sexist/racist?  They obviously have different rules for different segments of the population.  Also tell me how I can't equate this behavioral bias to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Muslim &gt; Women &gt; Men&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For transparency of the discussion (I know I put aluminum foil over windows - yes I am a nut) why don't the real voters of the answers simply leave a +1 or -1 comment on the answer.  Let's agree that the votes don't count without a comment.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16609" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-07-06T14:55:24.227" Title="Here we go again... certain biases are OK... others not?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="28" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3781" CreationDate="2016-07-04T00:22:36.040" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't originally going to answer this because of the fact that I'm a moderator &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; a woman, my answer will probably be automatically assumed to be invalid.  However, there are some points that I think can be addressed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;First things first&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary goal that we as moderators try to achieve here is an environment that is tolerant of diversity.  People are people, and people are different.  Nobody is trying to put anyone &lt;em&gt;above&lt;/em&gt; any other demographic.  What we want is to allow &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; to be able to be afforded the same respect, irrespective of our physical attributes or belief systems.  If I were sight impaired, of course I wouldn't be expecting to be offered a job as a pilot, but if I were fully qualified and  capable of fulfilling the duties of a role, then I would want to know that I would have an equal chance of being offered the role regardless of my gender, religion or any other attribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point is to understand that we &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; all different, and what we need to ensure is that evaluation and capacity is measured the same for everyone, not that we all become clones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have said that you feel there is bias of &lt;code&gt;Muslim &amp;gt; Women &amp;gt; Men&lt;/code&gt;.  What we believe is &lt;code&gt;People == tolerance&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What do I mean by &quot;tolerance&quot;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please understand that this is &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; understanding (or at least a part of it) of tolerance.  Others may having varied views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tolerance is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not automatically assuming that everyone that is or may appear Muslim is a terrorist.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Understanding people who move to different cultures shouldn't have to give up all of their own cultural heritage.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Realising that LGBTI people are just trying to get on with their lives, just like everyone else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accepting that sexism and sexual discrimination &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; occur.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Understanding that you have the right to be who you are.  And so does everybody else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accepting that sometimes to accept diversity, we have to bend a little.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tolerance is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Condoning the actions of terrorists or terrorist organisations, because they are the embodiment of intolerance.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Abandoning your own ideals if they are in conflict with the actions of others.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Automatically assuming that any discussion of sexist behaviour by &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; person in any way reflects on you.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My grandmother used to say &quot;Everything will be so much better when we're all beige!&quot;  She was in most ways a highly insightful, well educated and intelligent woman, but this was one of the few times I actually disagreed with her.  Instead of everybody conforming to one stereotype, we should &lt;em&gt;embrace&lt;/em&gt; the differences between us.  Differing viewpoints and experiences give us so much more capacity to learn and grow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Conspiracy theories&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is some conspiracy between mods and SE employees going on, then apparently I didn't get the memo.  I've been a moderator for almost a year and I'm yet to have been told the secret handshake.  We don't go synchronising voting patterns with SE employees.  In fact, during my tenure here I can recall only two times I've interacted with SE employees; the first time was around a long term ban of one of our high profile community members, the second was about the community logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Side note: jmort253 is not a Stack Exchange employee.  He's an elected community moderator, just the same as me.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Freedom of speech&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/67475/offensive-bumper-sticker-on-car/67477#67477&quot;&gt;Lillienthal's &lt;em&gt;awesome&lt;/em&gt; answer here&lt;/a&gt; describes far better than I about the meaning of freedom of speech.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something to note about bias is that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/70670/should-i-talk-to-my-team-lead-about-unintentional-sexism-within-the-team#comment196164_70670&quot;&gt;highest voted comment&lt;/a&gt; on the thread, which (correctly) raises that you cannot necessarily attribute the behaviour to sexism has been left &lt;em&gt;in situ&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Final thoughts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the accusations, the moderators here aren't man-hating, feminist, radical-Muslim sympathisers who wake up each morning wondering how to oppress the oppressors. I have kids, I didn't exactly make them on my own! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we want to to is to try to maintain a &lt;em&gt;tolerant&lt;/em&gt; community.  Sometimes that goes against you, sometimes in your favour.  It isn't a systemic attack on you or anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think what many find confronting is that while not &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; cases or perceived sexism against women are indeed sexism - or perhaps not even &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; cases.  But the story that many of us tell are so consistently similar that there are cases when it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; sexism.  We can't &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; be imagining it now, can we?  That isn't saying that &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; behaved in a sexist manner, it's saying that someone &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt;.  It's not an attack on you or males in general.  It's calling out that &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; men &lt;em&gt;sometimes&lt;/em&gt; act in a sexist way, just as some &lt;em&gt;women&lt;/em&gt; do too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And because you can't post something this long without a reference to xkcd, &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/386/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here is one&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mUK2x.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mUK2x.png&quot; alt=&quot;xkcd&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-07-04T09:30:24.207" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3781" CreationDate="2016-07-04T06:34:44.733" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to contribute the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For about the last year (maybe longer), &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3295/437&quot;&gt;the moderation on this site has been outstanding&lt;/a&gt;. I haven't always felt this way, and I don't feel this way about all StackExchange sites, but I feel this way about this site today.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;However...&lt;/em&gt; @blankip is 100% correct about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3781/here-we-go-again-certain-biases-are-ok-others-not/3783#comment9464_3782&quot;&gt;the following&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Then instead of talking about it rationally other mods and employees jump in and defent [sic] the mod's incorrect point and belittle users...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; detected a certain &quot;circle the wagons&quot; mentality from the mods on this board, and I'm not sure why. The next time that Workplace.SE mods disagree will be the first time that Workplace.SE mods disagree. You don't need an M.B.A. to appreciate that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.healthaim.com/7-facts-about-groupthink-why-its-bad/9060&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;groupthink is bad&lt;/a&gt; and that mods should consider minority opinions &lt;em&gt;on Meta too&lt;/em&gt;. It's extremely unnatural for four people to agree on everything all the time; so don't do it! Keep your thinking caps on at all times! Keep Workplace.SE evolving in good ways, and always consider outsider opinions &lt;em&gt;even if&lt;/em&gt; they include constructive criticism or call for change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2016-07-04T07:05:55.537" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3784" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-04T22:51:13.133" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/70670/should-i-talk-to-my-team-lead-about-unintentional-sexism-within-the-team&quot;&gt;Should I talk to my team lead about unintentional sexism within the team?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is just &quot;How to deal with unintentional sexism within my team?&quot; with one possible solution fronted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is no more opinion based than &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/27899/how-to-deal-with-a-difficult-team-consisting-mostly-of-senior-members?rq=1&quot;&gt;How to deal with a difficult team consisting mostly of senior members?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/42357/how-to-help-a-junior-developer-that-refuses-help?rq=1&quot;&gt;How to help a junior developer that refuses help?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1883/how-to-deal-with-meddling-coworkers&quot;&gt;How to deal with meddling coworkers?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/44113/how-to-interview-a-former-superior&quot;&gt;How to interview a former superior?&lt;/a&gt;, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, much &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; research has been done about sexism in the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP does include the word &quot;should,&quot; but that's the missing verb in the favored &quot;how to&quot; questions. Hiding it doesn't make them less opinion based. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a common workplace issue and other people are likely to have similar questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50336" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T05:47:30.890" Title="Reopen: Should I talk to my team lead about unintentional sexism within the team?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|closed-questions|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3784" CreationDate="2016-07-05T02:03:42.863" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question was reopened by the community.  Thank you for raising the issue here on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T02:03:42.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3781" CreationDate="2016-07-05T18:39:56.380" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually refrain from participating in sexism questions on Workplace for exactly this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the more concerned that some folks are with systematic injustice and promoting tolerance, the less likely they are to reflect on their own biases and how they might be contributing to a different sort of intolerance. You shouldn't assume because your intentions are noble that your unexamined biases aren't affecting your judgment. Just because you're convinced you're on the right side doesn't mean you are automatically right in all situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a woman was told that she couldn't complain about her perception that she was being discriminated against because she didn't phrase it in a constructive way, would that be OK with you? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand how so many promoters of tolerance can refuse to acknowledge that there is a growing sense that misandry is cool. Men can actually be the target of sexism, and be unable to defend themselves from it. If you think otherwise, you should check your own gender bias.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I've seen, the guys have a legitimate beef with the way that they're being represented in media lately and treated when they try to participate in the dialogue about gender. If we can't entertain the possibility that some people use accusations of discrimination as a defense mechanism or to deflect attention from their own shortcomings, we're lost. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, answers should never be deleted because they have an unpleasant viewpoint or tone. Deletion is for spam, extreme vulgarity, threats and the like, not for unpopular view points stated rudely. Even if they are factually incorrect, that should be corrected with down votes, comments and competing answers. Suppressing a view just makes it fester. Let it out in the open where people can look at it and see it for what it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26699" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T18:39:56.380" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3781" CreationDate="2016-07-06T00:57:42.450" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If folks really want to run a census:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;In writing/upvoting this answer, I am asserting that I have no business relationship with Stack Exchange, am not a Moderator,  am not recompensed in any way for time I spend here -- gods, if only I was! -- and despite this spend an excessively large number of hours participating in Stack Exchange's cloudsourced community editing mechanisms, from Answers to Flags to Voting to Editing to (when I remember) reviewing proposed changes and votes.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-07-06T00:57:42.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3791" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-06T13:30:53.747" Score="11" ViewCount="302" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it might help some participants inexperienced with the SE model to have an overview of how real-life management of a (synthetic)  discussion problem is generally handled -- flagging, digressive comment chain, the usual suspects -- via community consensus mechanisms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might help folks understand how SE differs from other systems, and why --if they are feeling ganged up on -- they should first consider whether the objections might be valid, why comments should be assumed to be volatile (and rewritten/quoted as answers if they should be retained), why peer &lt;em&gt;editing&lt;/em&gt; is supported and should be accepted as an attempt to help improve the question, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A step by step example to refer people to, which goes through this all as a system, rather than as isolated subunits and as practical operations rather than architecture, just might help people see how the SE process works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may already exist, eg up in the SE-Meta layer. If so, having and using pointers to it (and making sure things like close-reason explanations point to it so folks can better understand their issue in context) might avoid some conflicts and help people decide whether to stay with the SE model or better understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is anything actually actionable here or better yet already written so we could point to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2016-07-06T15:35:01.617" LastActivityDate="2017-01-05T15:06:03.910" Title="How can we promote the model of how peer reviewing/moderation is designed to work in SE?" Tags="|discussion|support|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3781" CreationDate="2016-07-06T14:55:24.227" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I have noticed is that when certain subjects come up, people don't vote on the quality of the answer, but instead vote their bias.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, IMO there is nothing wrong with putting a counter opinion up on a controversial subject, but to down-vote an opinion because you have a differing one is abusing the vote system here, and YES, certain opinions are favored over others.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also seen the circling of the wagons and a bit of blindness to issues raised.  The stock answer I've seen to any criticism has been &quot;We're doing a great job&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but there is always room for improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-07-06T14:55:24.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3791" CreationDate="2016-07-07T21:00:13.437" Score="-2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Case studies of past incidents where the system has successfully mitigated a common problem.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Show the potentially disaffected user how the system operates by transparently discussing past problems and exactly how they were handled.  Be detailed about exactly what happened.  Show the process in action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did the community establish a consensus? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastActivityDate="2016-07-07T21:00:13.437" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3795" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-13T00:16:07.460" Score="2" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/71162/how-can-i-explain-technical-concepts-related-to-business-management-who-lack-bac&quot;&gt;How can I explain technical concepts related to business management who lack background to understand?&lt;/a&gt; was put on hold as too broad.  There are no comments explaining this, though there's one arguing that it's off-topic.  (I disagree with that too.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this question too broad?  It's asking how somebody in a specific job function can communicate with a specific category of coworker about topics the other is not expert in.  That's a &lt;em&gt;common&lt;/em&gt; workplace problem and seems pretty well scoped to me.  It's also not asking what to say about said technical topic; this isn't a misplaced InfoSec question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's wrong with this question, and what needs to change for it to be reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-07-14T18:24:20.290" Title="How is this communication question too broad?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3795" CreationDate="2016-07-13T00:24:10.063" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing. It was erroneously closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just voted to reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditDate="2016-07-14T18:24:20.290" LastActivityDate="2016-07-14T18:24:20.290" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3795" CreationDate="2016-07-13T12:07:31.943" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to reopen.  That was the most nonsensical closure I've seen to date.  I agree with you.  When the first comment to close was put in, I pretty much echoed what you're saying now.  It's not about security, it's about &lt;strong&gt;explaining&lt;/strong&gt; security.  Every last IT person I know has had to do this in one form or another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-07-13T12:07:31.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3795" CreationDate="2016-07-13T13:45:58.173" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My problem is that it is asking how to explain specific technical details of an issue to management.  This is not a general workplace navigation but instead about performing a job function which is off topic per site definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2016-07-13T13:45:58.173" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3799" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-14T20:18:53.540" Score="2" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/71369/16&quot;&gt;How to handle it when you didn&amp;#39;t do ANYTHING&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that in its current form it does not meet our standards but the core of the question here should be on topic and we should be able to edit the question into a form that we can help.  I also think it calls for a more politic hand than mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-07-15T02:27:35.187" Title="Can we edit this question into shape?`" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3799" CreationDate="2016-07-14T21:18:36.853" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is very broad and includes a fair amount of whining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm even entirely sure what the OP is asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2016-07-14T21:18:36.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3799" CreationDate="2016-07-15T02:27:35.187" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal thoughts: I looked this over a fair bit and am not really sure that it can be. The core question is, basically, either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I handle feeling upset when I am not able to do my academic/work obligations together as well as I feel like I should?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or, perhaps the real core question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What should I be doing in order to finish my masters thesis while working fulltime and finding it hard to get &quot;into&quot; it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be edited but it would still be borderline, I think. The second could be something like &quot;how can I balance fulltime work and pursuing a masters?&quot; but I'm not sure that would really be the core question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; there is a strong theme of dealing with depression in this, too, which I'm not sure what to make of but I do know it'd make it harder to really get the question the OP is wanting to answer to actually get meaningful, actionable actions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-07-15T02:27:35.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3802" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-20T16:02:59.117" Score="23" ViewCount="410" Body="&lt;p&gt;Popular questions tend to attract a ton of comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/42718/discussion-on-question-by-ryan-my-employer-wants-me-to-a-sign-an-nda-that-is-bac&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions on this site tend to attract more comments than on other sites because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the topics are circumstance-specific and require lots of clarification from the OP.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many people want to offer subjective opinions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At a certain point, long comment threads get moved to chat. I'm not sure exactly what the criterion is, but it mostly seems related to there being a lot of comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is, if you look at the comments on the example thread, you will see that it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; an extended discussion. Almost all the comments are directly responding to the OP with feedback or requests for clarification, and few are responding to other comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moving these threads to chat makes it difficult to get feedback from the OP about specific circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Move only &lt;em&gt;discussion-like&lt;/em&gt; comments to chat, and leave comments addressed to the OP that have not yet been addressed?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wait a week or so before moving comments to chat, so that the OP has a chance to respond to them?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12445" LastActivityDate="2016-07-20T18:17:02.820" Title="Could we be less aggressive about moving comments to chat?" Tags="|discussion|comments|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3802" CreationDate="2016-07-20T18:17:02.820" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the primary reasons we as moderators move comments to chat is that finding the &lt;em&gt;relevant&lt;/em&gt; comments is impossibly difficult in a long comment thread of mostly off topic ones. Unfortunately a byproduct of humans doing this is good, relevant comments sometimes get deleted. I did just undelete yours here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you have correctly identified, it's difficult to work with comments being used as intended by Stack Exchange (asking for information / suggesting improvements) when there are dozens of them that are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also... hard to effectively do this as moderators. We have conflicting priorities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keeping comments clear/relevant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Impartiality&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not spending 5+ minutes for every comment thread, of which there are many&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nAjVl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nAjVl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HcRzg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HcRzg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Move only discussion-like comments to chat, and leave comments addressed to the OP that have not yet been addressed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way the interface works for SE is &quot;move all comments on question to chat&quot; or not. &lt;em&gt;Generally&lt;/em&gt; as moderators we do this, delete all the comments, and then undelete whatever ones should remain. FYI - this can be quite time consuming to sort the wheat from the chaff for remotely long comment threads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The workflow is quirky and not really customizable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally the way moderators even notice situations like this is either is an automatic system flag when comment threads reach... well into the double digits or based on a manual flag from someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wait a week or so before moving comments to chat, so that the OP has a chance to respond to them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comment threads, especially on questions hitting the &quot;Hot Network Questions&quot; (the sidebar link on the right) end up long. And very not-the-right-purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't disagree the system is difficult now, but I'm not sure letting comment threads go well into the 20s, 30s, or 50+ range would help, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-07-20T18:17:02.820" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3804" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-21T01:09:25.583" Score="0" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/71687/my-manager-wants-regular-one-on-one-meetings-is-this-bad&quot;&gt;My manager wants regular one-on-one meetings: is this bad?&lt;/a&gt; was asked by somebody new to the workplace who was surprised by a notice for regular 1:1 meetings with his manager.  The question identifies the type of work and asks if this is a common practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was put on hold as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;.  I see no comments explaining what is unclear, and several answers that understood it well enough (and do not appear to have conflicting understandings).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is unclear about this question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question has been reopened&lt;/strong&gt; as of 2016-07-21 14:26:28Z.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-07-21T14:52:39.393" Title="How is the &quot;1:1 meetings&quot; question unclear?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3804" CreationDate="2016-07-21T01:28:52.207" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not unclear, it's company-specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please review the reasons which the five close voters chose for closing this question. Five people certainly did not vote to close this question because it's unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2016-07-21T01:28:52.207" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3804" CreationDate="2016-07-21T08:49:02.963" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't feel that &quot;as unclear what you're asking&quot; is the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like this question can be best answered by the Manager.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;We don't know why his Manager wants the meeting. Only his Manager can answer this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer to this question would have been basicly:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;We can only gossip, go ask your Manager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give it more &quot;context&quot; I would add 100 reasons why he mightve and answer if this is a common question or not. But I don't feel that helps anyone. So I didnt answer, comment or vtc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I don't like the answer of justin cave and highly doubt it is the case.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If it was a montly maybe, but weekly man I wouldnt get work done here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49065" LastEditorUserId="49065" LastEditDate="2016-07-21T13:11:48.503" LastActivityDate="2016-07-21T13:11:48.503" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3810" CreationDate="2016-07-21T22:16:39.650" Score="5" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is one question tagged with &quot;perks&quot;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/71237/33064&quot;&gt;Negotiating Offers (Verbal Offers &amp;amp; General)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag seems synonymous with &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/benefits&quot;&gt;benefits&lt;/a&gt;&quot; to me. Although there is only one question tagged with &quot;perks&quot;, it seems like a tag that could easily reappear if we just retag this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To prevent future retagging work, I suggest that the perks --&gt; benefits tag synonym is created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33064" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:44:02.897" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:44:02.897" Title="Tag synonym suggestion: perks -&gt; benefits" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|retag-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3809" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-22T00:46:13.593" Score="-1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question about would it be better to move to California to find a California job because I live in South Korea. I'm originally from California.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/66985/working-in-south-korea-i-want-to-relocate-back-to-california&quot;&gt;Working in South Korea. I want to relocate back to California&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This other question is about should he move to California to find a job in California&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/71791/do-i-have-to-live-in-california-to-find-a-job-there&quot;&gt;Do I have to live in a specific location to find a job there?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the difference between my question and the other question? Why was mine closed?  I want to know so I can work on rewording my question so they don't get closed in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50030" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-07-29T04:20:13.240" Title="What's the difference between my downvoted question and this upvoted question" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3808" CreationDate="2016-07-22T01:12:57.333" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good idea.  I've merged &quot;perks&quot; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/benefits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;benefits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;benefits&lt;/a&gt; and created a synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-07-22T01:12:57.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3811" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-22T05:58:05.307" Score="2" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question, more or less: &quot;With an eye to filling the gaps afterwards, where to go or how to conduct a mid-life skills assessment and identify areas of ignorance?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have a post secondary education, having left high school in grade 11. I'd like to rectify that now; I know there are holes in my learning. However having worked alongside with, directed, and trained a number of graduate students I know the skills I've gained in my 25 years of work experience are sizable and with merit. (Computer and technical fields, specializing in system administration and geographic information systems with a few small forays into programming.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't really be appropriate to start off at ground zero, 1st year computer science for example, but if I tried to launch in at a higher level I'd probably drown in some pothole or other of missing assumed knowledge. I'm wondering if there's a place or service a person could go to and find out what they don't know. Preferably online because I live thousands of kilometres from any major urban centre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have a particular end game in mind, other than some sort of computer degree or high level technical certification because that's where I have the most skills to trade on. I don't give a hoot about letters after my name, but others do, so lets get me some. A bit ago I didn't make the short list on a job I applied for, &quot;high school drop out&quot; being heard louder than the years of experience. Soon after the successful candidate asked me for advice on how to do the work. :-/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, on topic? If not, where might it be on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54196" LastActivityDate="2016-07-22T18:36:55.603" Title="Mid-life skills assessment Q on topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3811" CreationDate="2016-07-22T06:49:41.187" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would Change the question to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How to best fill my educational gaps, and is this worth doing?&quot; or&#xA;&quot;Is it worth my time to fill my educational gaps after 25 years?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then go to the education SE, as I feel like this is a Topic they will definitly know better and might have answered this already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After 25 years, don't get a degree get certificates. That is if you haven't already. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49065" LastActivityDate="2016-07-22T06:49:41.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3811" CreationDate="2016-07-22T18:36:55.603" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace would be the place to go to ask &quot;Would it increase opportunities in my career to get a degree after 25 years&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If answers there made you think that it was something you wanted to do, I might go to academia and ask if anyone has suggestions about programs that will give you credit for life work towards a degree.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42099" LastActivityDate="2016-07-22T18:36:55.603" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3814" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3815" CreationDate="2016-07-23T11:34:58.850" Score="5" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rejection&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rejection&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rejection&lt;/a&gt; tag with 20-odd questions which for the most part seems to cover the typical scenario of a hiring manager rejecting a candidate for a job. But &lt;strong&gt;should this tag also include questions from the other side&lt;/strong&gt;, i.e. a job candidate replying to the hiring manager to reject a job offer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2016-07-24T18:01:03.860" Title="Does the rejection tag cover candidates rejecting a job offer?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3814" CreationDate="2016-07-24T18:01:03.860" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, why not?  Any rejection involves a rejector and a rejectee, so unless the concerns are so different that they demand separate tags, let's just use one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should create a tag when a category of question has its own cohesion (this grouping matters) and when it would be lost in the larger tag that would otherwise be used.  It doesn't sound like we're there yet with this tag; if that changes later, we can retag some questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-07-24T18:01:03.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3816" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-25T06:39:06.223" Score="9" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;Former title: &quot;&lt;em&gt;Recruiter asks for resume, but mine is not ready&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/71937&quot;&gt;How do I ask a recruiter for time to update my resume?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question got close votes for being unclear but the question, while basic, couldn't be clearer. We have plenty of similar questions that ask about ways to communicate something professionally and this is an especially common question. Many people may struggle with how to reply in this scenario and may end up delaying a response instead of replying because of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also disagree with the downvotes on this one as the question is clearly worded and the OP asked an honest question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: OP self-deleted shortly after the close vote came in, presumably due to the bad reception his question got. It has since been undeleted and was reopend shortly thereafter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-08-01T17:36:36.640" Title="(REOPENED) Reopen &quot;How do I ask a recruiter for time to update my resume?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3809" CreationDate="2016-07-25T14:51:41.333" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting is very individual.  There are guidelines on how SE would like you to base your votes, but they are not rules that must be followed.  In the end with the exception of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126829/what-is-serial-voting-and-how-does-it-affect-me&quot;&gt;serial downvoting&lt;/a&gt;, your votes are your votes and the way you vote is your decision.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would guess that the other question was better received because it was more broadly applicable.  Your question is pretty focused on your situation where the other question is applicable to the 7+ billion people who do not live in California.  In addition really the answers to the question can likely apply to anywhere in the US.  That said neither question is particularly well received in that both questions are under 10 votes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-07-29T04:20:13.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3818" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-29T14:10:17.900" Score="6" ViewCount="451" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been seeing this only recently.  There seems to be someone going in and downvoting not just the question, but every last answer to it as well.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this is, or should be a concern, but I thought I'd alert folks to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latest example is here:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/72266/mistake-correction-in-representing&quot;&gt;Mistake correction in representing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this something we should be concerned about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-08-01T14:32:53.223" Title="Downvoting questions and all of it's answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3818" CreationDate="2016-07-29T20:48:15.757" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Up/downvoting is anonymous - there is not much we as moderators can do about such things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;believe&lt;/em&gt; that Stack Exchange employees could access data directly from the database if the situation was problematic and systemic enough but I suspect they would be fairly hesitant to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I should add that people's reading speed varies greatly. I read/skim/assimilate information quite fast, which definitely helps. I am sure others can do this faster than me, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2016-07-31T16:54:04.677" LastActivityDate="2016-07-31T16:54:04.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3820" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3823" CreationDate="2016-07-30T10:34:29.843" Score="2" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/54110/after-finishing-job-how-to-phrase-request-that-any-further-volunteer-work-mus?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/52829/on-last-day-manager-made-changes-to-the-program-that-broke-it-and-wants-me-to-co&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt;, but the latter question was closed as being &quot;off topic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems strange to me. If the first question is on-topic, it shouldn't be the duplicate of an off-topic question. Contrarily, if the first question is off-topic, that should be the close reason, not the duplication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or am I misunderstanding how duplicates and off-topic determinations are intended to work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14134" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-07-31T07:51:39.183" Title="Question closed for duplicating off-topic question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2016-08-01T00:34:44.550" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3818" CreationDate="2016-07-30T14:34:49.477" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this something we should be concerned about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not unless you've identified more of a pattern than is evident from your post. People are free to vote however they choose with only a few limitations. Since voting is anonymous and people hardly ever justify their votes, there's no real way to tell if you've found malicious behaviour. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, I'll do this very often for obviously off-topic questions, and I'm not alone, see: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/194963/should-one-downvote-answers-to-off-topic-questions&quot;&gt;Should one downvote answers to off-topic questions?&lt;/a&gt; If people answer a low-value, off-topic or unclear question with a low-value answer that took less than a minute to write then you can bet that I'll downvote the lot of it. So that's at least one scenario where this kind of voting pattern is legitimate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You mentioned the following in a comment: &quot;&lt;em&gt;I think it's downvoting the answers because they're not liking the questions.&lt;/em&gt;&quot; Keep in mind that even if that were indeed happening, I don't see how that isn't a legitimate use of a person's vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full disclosure: I didn't downvote the question or answer that prompted your question and in fact had already upvoted your answer previously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-07-30T14:34:49.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3818" CreationDate="2016-07-31T03:17:53.460" Score="19" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this something we should be concerned about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/15866/231732&quot;&gt;rep penalty for downvoting answers&lt;/a&gt;, as well as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5213/231732&quot;&gt;daily vote maximum&lt;/a&gt; for each user. As long as a user is contributing enough to sustain their indiscriminate downvoting habits, I for one can live with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-07-31T03:17:53.460" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3820" CreationDate="2016-07-31T03:43:02.337" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;One effect of a duplicate is that it channels people who come across the question to one that (probably) already has answers.  Even if both questions should be closed for other reasons, linking them together seems friendlier to me than closing them independently.  When a duplicate target is available (and is really a duplicate), some people will therefore prefer that close reason over others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, as noted in a comment, sometimes multiple close reasons apply.  I've seen questions that managed to get votes for off-topic &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; primarily opinion-based &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; too broad, for instance.  In the end there can be only one (in the banner).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-07-31T03:43:02.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3820" CreationDate="2016-07-31T07:51:39.183" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;my understanding is there are certain question criteria that have to be met to be considered off topic. that could be the reason it was tagged off topic. but when the question was asked again (maybe while the first was still not closed), it was tagged as duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54659" LastActivityDate="2016-07-31T07:51:39.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3825" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-01T13:59:28.680" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/72427/sexism-is-it-appropriate-to-use-a-zero-0-one-1-or-two-2-to-represent-ones&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; of mine was deleted recently. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without a comment. Without any kind of message. Just &lt;em&gt;poof&lt;/em&gt; gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does an SE post vanish like that? Why am I not even &lt;strong&gt;notified&lt;/strong&gt; of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have the privilege myself, but I was under the impression that delete votes where for post scoring -3 and lower. My answer never did. It did gather 3 downvotes, but it also had three upvotes. So what happened? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be hard to implement a message saying &quot;Your post #X has been deleted by means of #Y because of reason #Z&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-08-01T17:35:58.780" Title="Delete votes, how does it work and why is there no notification?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|moderation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3818" CreationDate="2016-08-01T14:32:53.223" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will sometimes do this if the question is bad enough and none of the answers are up to the quality expectations that I have.  A question that blatantly asks for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;bad subjective&lt;/a&gt; opinion, and then gets bad subjective answers will tend to get lots of down votes from me.  Part of the reason is I personally want to encourage people not to engage with this type of question unless they can provide a high quality answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases i would have downvoted those same answers even if the question was a good one.  A bad answer is always a bad answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the linked question I personally do not think the question is high quality, but also not off topic or bad subjective.  I also that the answer that RichardU provided is not super high quality is reasonable, and I think it could be improved greatly.  But I believe it is largely correct and is explained well enough to be helpful to others in a similar situation.  Though  I could see someone else disagreeing and downvoting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other answer however contains a bad subjective opinion and while probably reaching the bare minimum expectations for an answer explanation it is unlikely to be terribly helpful if someone finds themselves in a similar situation.    So it earns a down vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2016-08-01T14:32:53.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3825" CreationDate="2016-08-01T14:56:50.477" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/46384&quot;&gt;review queue task for this post&lt;/a&gt; it was deleted through the low quality review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, there is no mechanic built into Stack Exchange to notify upon deletion of content - whether question, answer, or comment. It is possible in a review queue to add a comment (which will notify the post owner) but otherwise there is no notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-08-01T14:56:50.477" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3825" CreationDate="2016-08-01T17:35:58.780" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The consensus on meta so far seems to be that &lt;strong&gt;a deletion is not an actionable event&lt;/strong&gt; so a notification makes no sense. When a post is deleted the poster has no way of reacting to that, short of reacting emotionally. The content cannot be recovered. The majority of deleted posts is of such low quality that there's no point in alerting authors that it's gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare it to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_banning&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;stealth ban&lt;/a&gt;: we silently remove something that provided no value and in doing so a lot of potential conflict is avoided. &lt;strong&gt;Deletions are not done lightly&lt;/strong&gt; and incorrect deletions of valuable content will rarely happen. That trade-off seems to be worth making.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See these related meta threads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/209694/when-a-user-has-one-of-his-question-or-answer-deleted-why-dont-you-notify-him&quot;&gt;When a user has one of his question or answer deleted, why don&amp;#39;t you notify him about the deletion, and send the removed content by email?&lt;/a&gt; - Top answer expands on the concept of an &lt;em&gt;actionable notification&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80460/notice-of-deletion&quot;&gt;Notice of deletion&lt;/a&gt; - Feature request for deletion notice (open since 2011)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-08-01T17:35:58.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3829" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3830" CreationDate="2016-08-02T16:21:17.613" Score="8" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/72424/2322&quot;&gt;Employer wants me to learn new language/system - how can I refuse to do this?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand people may dislike the OP's motivation or disagree with them, but this question feels squarely on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hoping to get a reopen votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-08-03T08:19:37.483" Title="Reopen -- Employer wants me to learn new language/system - how can I refuse to do this?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3829" CreationDate="2016-08-02T17:57:10.097" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was one of the ones who voted to close.  Enderland is right, I have voted to reopen.  We need to separate the motivation/attitude/wisdom of the querent from the quality of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that reason, I have voted to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-08-02T17:57:10.097" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3831" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-03T03:40:55.493" Score="0" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;How to do I delete my account and post? Under edit my profile there's nothing there I can't find how to delete it anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54674" OwnerDisplayName="Jeffrey O'Donnell" LastActivityDate="2016-08-03T04:20:03.467" Title="I cant delete my account or post?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3831" CreationDate="2016-08-03T04:20:03.467" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't delete the question because it has upvoted answers on it.  These are still valuable to the greater community, and so it remains as part of the knowledge base of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can request a Stack Exchange employee delete your account from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;Contact Us&lt;/a&gt; link at the bottom of the main page.   You'll see a list of reasons for contacting, and deleting your account is one of the options.  Once deleted, your questions will remain but they will not be associated with any user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; request that the question be &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3768/can-i-have-a-question-removed-from-my-account?rq=1&quot;&gt;disassociated from your account&lt;/a&gt;.  Just use the Contact Us link as for requesting account deletion but ask for disassociation of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-08-03T04:20:03.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3829" CreationDate="2016-08-03T08:19:37.483" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just for the record, I still disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might not be noticeable from a perspective of someone living under the rule of at-will employment, but to me this is a legal question. I know countries where this would constitute something like constructive dismissal when your job description changes and you don't like it. He &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; well have the option to be &quot;laid off&quot; with all that comes with it. I don't know. I don't know the legal system there. That's why I voted to close it as &quot;get legal advice&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2016-08-03T08:19:37.483" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3834" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3839" CreationDate="2016-08-04T22:35:24.307" Score="0" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a moderator takes action to &lt;em&gt;moderate&lt;/em&gt; a question, he or she should not also &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; the question.  To do so can create a perceived conflict of interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/73721/male-colleague-using-female-bathroom-and-not-cleaning-up&quot;&gt;Male colleague using female bathroom and not cleaning up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was recently both moderated and answered by the same person (I believe in good faith.)  And if you read the comments on her answer, you will see that already some members of our community are complaining about a perceived bias.  This is a refrain that is &lt;em&gt;increasingly common&lt;/em&gt; here on meta.  Moderators are accused of bias with regularity, this is especially evident when the question being discussed is controversial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to drag down this discussion by trying to tackle the topics of gender and sexism or anything relating directly to this particular question or answer.  Instead I would like to create consensus around the notion that a moderator should not attempt to answer a question which her/she has or will be moderating.  Nor should a moderator attempt to moderate a question which he/she has already answered or will be answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stated more simply, &lt;strong&gt;either moderate the question, or answer the question: choose one, but not both.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you agree or disagree?  Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-08-10T15:15:20.593" Title="Either moderate the question, or answer the question: Choose one, but not both" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3834" CreationDate="2016-08-04T23:29:25.203" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you agree or disagree? Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, it is our standard practice as moderators to do this - we try to avoid handling any flags on a question that we also have an answer on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2016-08-05T12:30:54.827" LastActivityDate="2016-08-05T12:30:54.827" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3834" CreationDate="2016-08-05T01:10:52.360" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, moderators &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; avoid both answering and moderating.  When I realized I had done this (I'd done about 15 other things between the two events in my morning SE rounds), I explained to my fellow moderators what happened and invited review.  I also said I didn't plan to handle any of the other flags there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, sometimes fast action is necessary.  In the &lt;em&gt;first 30 minutes&lt;/em&gt; the question had already attracted 13 comments.  By the time I saw them at around the 45-minute mark, there were almost 20 and there was an argument brewing about gender identity and you had played the racism card.  That discussion &lt;strong&gt;wasn't about improving the question&lt;/strong&gt;; it was people reacting to the situation.  With some heat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember the train wreck that happened in comments on the Muslim-handshake question, a question that never fully recovered afterward?  That OP never came back, by the way.  While this was milder, I saw the seeds of what could become that here, and acted.  &lt;em&gt;Even if I had remembered that I'd participated on it&lt;/em&gt;, I would have acted.  Because it is far, far easier to avert an explosion than deal with it after the fact, and because I know I can rely on my fellow moderators to audit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying it was already bad.  I &lt;em&gt;relocated&lt;/em&gt; the conversation; I didn't purge it.  Every participant had the ability to continue the discussion there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been accused of trying to change the question to make it line up with my answer.  That's a serious accusation.  It also didn't happen.  In fact, my answer demonstrated a constructive way to respond to mistaken ideas in the question: instead of arguing in comments, challenge the assumption &lt;em&gt;in an answer&lt;/em&gt;.  (You do still have to answer the question, of course.)  I advised the OP to not make it about gender, for reasons given in my answer.  I didn't edit the question, suggest that the OP edit the question, or interfere with any other answers.  By the way, only hours later did I notice that most of the vehement complaints I was getting were coming from &lt;em&gt;another answerer&lt;/em&gt;, not an uninvolved party.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators try hard to avoid even the appearance of conflict of interest.  But this community elected us to act when needed.  We're not going to tie our hands and say &quot;sorry, can't do anything&quot; while things are spinning out of control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-08-05T01:10:52.360" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3834" CreationDate="2016-08-05T06:36:27.313" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Best not to worry about it I reckon, the moderators were voted in and they have a heck of a job, leave them to do it and trust them not to go too far off the rails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-08-05T06:36:27.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3834" CreationDate="2016-08-05T12:17:33.460" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it mildly irritating.  there have been a few times where I have flagged answers where the poster was being abusive in responses to me, only to find MY comments deleted and his standing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a bit of a bias here.  If your politics are left-leaning and the topic is political, you get way more leniency than if your politics are not.  The recent 1 month suspension of a certain high-rep poster is an example of that.  Was he being a jerk?  Yes, were people being jerks towards him, yes.  Only one side of the coin got the axe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While on balance, I do have a great deal of respect for most of the moderators, there is always room for improvement.  I've been a moderator on other sites and it is a thankless job with more headaches than you can imagine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditDate="2016-08-05T22:59:10.373" LastActivityDate="2016-08-05T22:59:10.373" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3834" CreationDate="2016-08-05T18:27:12.313" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stated more simply, either moderate the question, or answer the&#xA;  question: choose one, but not both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you agree or disagree? Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;strong&gt;disagree&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators must do their moderation work. That's their &quot;job&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, I think they can sometimes provide valuable answers to questions. The community gets to vote on how valuable their answers are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think a moderator's (or anyone's) answer is good - you should upvote. If you think a moderator's (or anyone's) answer is poor - you should downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the way the site is designed to work. And I think it's a wise design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-08-05T18:27:12.313" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3834" CreationDate="2016-08-06T16:09:07.210" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to disagree, for a very specific reason: There is no way to retract a moderation vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that there are cases where I initially think a question is unanswerable, but later find a way to reinterpret it that lets me answer... but am stuck either violating this guideline or being unable to post my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only fix the system supports is to vote to re-open if it does get put on hold. Which I'd do, but which doesn't look as nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar problems arise if when voting to close I accidentally hit the wrong reason; I can't fix that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a SE design problem, and isn't something we can address in this sub-meta. It should probably be raised in the main meta... But to be honest I haven't seen enough &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; trouble caused by it that I'm interested in making that effort. If someone cares enough to want it fixed, they can and should take it there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(By the way, reopen appears to be one of the features the Android app is missing; I had to flip over to browser.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastEditorUserId="12989" LastEditDate="2016-08-06T17:13:16.457" LastActivityDate="2016-08-06T17:13:16.457" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3791" CreationDate="2016-08-08T12:58:45.733" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this would be useful.  During my brief, but interesting life I've learned one thing that is axiomatic.  You can knock someone down, but never humiliate them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The model used at SE is a good one, but to the newcomer, it can seem like little more than gangstalking.  Note, I am not saying that SE is gangstalking anyone, merely that to a new user it can appear as such.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing and understanding the process will help this and, IMO, save the mods and employees a significant amount of headaches.  To be honest, when I first came here, I thought that it was run by a bunch of jerks.  That was my perception and it has of course, changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the addition of a &quot;how this all works&quot; faq, while a bit time consuming on the front end would save a good deal of time down the road.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-08-08T12:58:45.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3844" CreationDate="2016-08-08T13:33:13.230" Score="-7" ViewCount="340" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/73842/what-is-the-point-of-studying-so-much&quot;&gt;What is the point of studying so much?&lt;/a&gt; would have been shut down as either &quot;duplicate&quot; or off topic anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, I've seen worse, and it was my understanding that the mods don't step in unless it's obvious spam or abusive.  As this was neither, why was it shut down by a mod?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="52713" LastEditDate="2020-01-10T12:21:26.023" LastActivityDate="2020-01-10T12:21:26.023" Title="Why has the community not voted on this question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3842" CreationDate="2016-08-08T15:46:40.600" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Mods don't step in until the community votes on it&quot; is something that the moderators &lt;em&gt;voluntarily&lt;/em&gt; agreed to follow, it is not a rule. Mods are under no obligation to follow a rule they set for themselves, even if you have come to expect it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the question was blatantly off-topic. The mod did the right thing by closing the question right off the bat, thus saving some precious time of four other members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, a closely related feature request has been pending on meta.SE for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;over 6 years!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/41062/202356&quot;&gt;Add a way for moderators to cast a normal, non binding close/open vote&lt;/a&gt;) In some of the more borderline cases, moderators would find this feature useful. FWIW, if you agree with that feature request, please upvote it, it may nudge SE to implement it sometime soon. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-08-09T15:03:34.777" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3842" CreationDate="2016-08-08T20:16:32.167" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of my perspective here as a moderator for almost two years now (woah, where did that time go). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I normally do not cast unilateral votes on questions here unless they are blatantly off topic. This question fits that category, however, and notice there are no reopen votes there, suggesting a fair bit of agreement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;tend&lt;/em&gt; to avoid doing any moderation action which can be done via the community. As you are probably aware, there are a lot of questions which are &lt;em&gt;sort of but not really but kind of? maybe, hard to tell&lt;/em&gt; on topic here. I do not like to take unilateral action in those cases and as far as I can tell, neither do any of the other moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding closing, I am careful to avoid over moderation in edge cases. Ultimately as moderators we don't set the community scope, but we do play a role in shaping it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I did &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/2#post-31842&quot;&gt;run for moderator listing a &quot;con&quot; of&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I will be hands on and willing to close/edit questions which are off topic and add notices to answers equally falling short&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I rarely get a chance to even do this though because folks here are so vigorous in closing stuff that off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, all of us moderators are here because we love the site - it's important to me to answer, too :-) I like reading stuff here most of the time and sometimes that results in seeing questions that are blatantly off topic. I (and other moderators) occasionally will close in this scenario, as you see here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dangers with moderators unilaterally closing things are twofold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The community comes to depend on moderators for all close voting moderation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators close questions the community feels should be on topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both these are non-issues here, though, as Workplace as a community handles (1) well and as moderators I would like to think we only ever unilaterally close questions in situations like this when they are blatantly off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-08-08T20:16:32.167" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3842" CreationDate="2016-08-08T21:59:40.223" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Forgive the tardiness of my reply, I'm on a completely different timezone from the US and it's early morning for me now and only just now woke up to see this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mods, it's very rare that we act unilaterally.  You could count on one hand the number of times that I've done it in the year or so since I was elected.  We are conscious that we have capacity to do so, so we tend to let other community members set a voting pattern before we act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, please understand that we are still &lt;em&gt;members&lt;/em&gt; of the community.  First and foremost we are a part of this community.  If it were not the case, we would not have the capacity to ask or answer questions, or to upvote or downvote, and yes, to vote to close or delete questions.  It is by no accident that Stack Exchange's moderation model is based on the community electing moderators from its own member base.  Long before any of us were moderators, we were - and are - community members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there are on occasions we we see something that we &lt;em&gt;as community members&lt;/em&gt; see and understand from our own experience as part of this community that we would vote to close because they clearly are off topic and that other members would also vote to close.  We aren't closing them because we are a moderator, but because we are a member of this community and we feel the same desire to maintain a high standard of quality questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enderland's excellent answer is very much in synergy with my approach so I can't really add anything to it beyond what I've said.  I haven't had my morning coffee yet, so  I hope I've managed to clarify my actions a little :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2016-08-08T21:59:40.223" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3834" CreationDate="2016-08-10T15:15:20.593" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely disagree here.  If a moderator sees something that needs action I prefer they take that action regardless of if they have answered the question or intend to answer the question or if it is a question they have asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is especially true for comments where the chatter has gotten out of line.  Comments are post it notes and should not be considered a permanent part of the question.  If a moderator goes beyond the scope of their responsibilities there is a process for handling it.  Any action they take that has any real effect is reversible and visible so that the community(at least with enough rep) will be able to see that the action was taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators should moderate as the need arises.  I find nothing even remotely improper about what happened here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2016-08-10T15:15:20.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3851" CreationDate="2016-08-10T17:08:57.120" Score="13" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of our close reasons currently reads as follows (based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2696/325&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real questions have answers.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Rather than explaining why your situation is terrible, or why your boss/coworker makes you unhappy, explain what you want to do to make it better. For more information, click &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2696&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I admit I was one of the people who upvoted it more than two years ago when it was proposed, and the moderator team implemented it.  But every time I see it on a question, a part of me thinks &quot;gosh, that's not very nice&quot;.  In the very first sentence we malign the question, calling it not real.  Yes the linked blog post says that, but the blog post puts it in context.  Here it's just sitting there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we improve the wording of this close reason?  Especially the initial sentence, &quot;Real questions have answers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3138/comment-re-the-real-questions-have-answers-close-reason&quot;&gt;Comment re the &amp;quot;real questions have answers&amp;quot; close reason&lt;/a&gt;.  That question asks about the scope of the reason, asking whether a particular question should be closed this way.  My question is about how we &lt;em&gt;present&lt;/em&gt; this close reason.  I'm not asking for changes to what we would close under it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2018-02-27T18:32:05.443" Title="Can we improve the text of the &quot;real questions have answers&quot; close reason?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3849" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-10T17:30:25.133" Score="8" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the dawn of this site we have struggled with problems conflict arising from different viewpoints and comment discussions that often digress into little more than &lt;a href=&quot;https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ad hominem&lt;/a&gt; attacks.  Most of these arise from well meaning people wanting to contribute butting heads about the way that should be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are those that would say that calling a spade a spade is in line with the be nice policy but very few times would those people attempt to argue that saying that it was helpful.  The be nice policy would still be in place but in addition we would add the expectation that the poster attempt to be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2018-06-26T16:20:50.237" LastActivityDate="2018-06-26T16:20:50.237" Title="Can we make the policy &quot;Be Nice and Helpful&quot;" Tags="|discussion|site-policy|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3849" CreationDate="2016-08-10T17:43:12.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem arises in the definition of helpful.  Some people need to be gives a swift kick in the bakside to move, others need hand holding while still others need a plan laid out for them and they'll take it and run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is far too subjective to even be considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-08-10T17:43:12.260" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3848" CreationDate="2016-08-10T17:50:44.343" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about a bit of rephrasing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Questions require a goal that we can address.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  Rather than explaining the difficulties of your situation, explain what you want to do to make it better. For more information, click  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2696&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-02-27T18:32:05.443" LastActivityDate="2018-02-27T18:32:05.443" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3848" CreationDate="2016-08-10T19:09:27.697" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Questions must have a constructive goal.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Rather than explaining why your situation is terrible, or why your boss/coworker makes you unhappy, explain what you want to do to make it better. For more information, click &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2696&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could also replace &quot;constructive&quot; with another word, like &quot;definable&quot; or &quot;addressable&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2016-08-10T19:56:59.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3849" CreationDate="2016-08-10T20:26:06.563" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a good idea.  Personally I don't think it should be used to &lt;strong&gt;replace&lt;/strong&gt; the &quot;Be Nice&quot; policy, but a new resource, outlining community expectations around what constitutes a &quot;helpful&quot; answer or comment would be very helpful in itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2979/public-service-announcement-keeping-the-workplace-professional&quot;&gt;Public service announcement: Keeping the Workplace Professional&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A new write-up entitled &quot;Be Helpful&quot; would fit in nicely here right after &quot;Be Nice&quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/behavior&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/behavior&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-08-10T20:26:06.563" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3854" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3855" CreationDate="2016-08-11T02:55:40.170" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked a question here recently (anonymously - due to a sensitive matter), but I now can't do anything with it, since I don't actually have any reputation on the site (I can't edit the question, or comment on it to clarify). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything I can do about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56102" LastEditorUserId="12989" LastEditDate="2016-08-11T21:41:37.763" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T21:41:37.763" Title="Following up on an anonymous question" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-08-11T03:18:56.077" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your other account would need to earn some reputation to gain those privileges.  It's ok to have multiple accounts, but you have to be careful that they don't interact -- they can't vote for each other, give bounties to each other, both vote on the same posts or comments, or anything else that you couldn't do with just one account. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why you can't edit or comment on your own post, though.  You have to be logged in as that user (I recommend an incognito window for this), but users can always edit and comment on their own posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you didn't register the account and have lost access to it, though, there might not be much that can be done.  Sorry about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T03:18:56.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3849" CreationDate="2016-08-11T07:23:45.763" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as we agree that &quot;you are asking the wrong question&quot; and the like are Helpful when phrased politely, I don't have any objection to ruling out off topic responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the change would block &quot;that's an unreasonable request because... Consider this instead&quot; then I think it ties our hands and leaves us with only the option of voting to close questions of that sort. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T07:23:45.763" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-08-11T13:43:05.243" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can suggest anonymous edits even without being a logged in user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do this, you should indicate in the reason something clarifying this is the case - I would strongly encourage you to do this if you choose to edit your question in this fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anonymous edits go into the suggested edit review queue, which is why you should try to clarify in your edit reason why/what you are doing, so that people do not automatically reject it for changing the intent too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T13:43:05.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3858" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-11T14:59:41.750" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/74088/16&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/74088/16&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is incredibly relevant to a large number of people.  How do you properly communicate when you need to take a emergency absence so that your private business does not become the subject of office gossip?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No it is not an easy solution and certainly not all companies will treat it the same way but we should be able to provide a basic answer that will suffice for most situations, and will give a base starting point for those exceptional situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T08:51:40.413" Title="Can we reopen the question about notifying the company in the case of an emergency absence" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3859" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-11T15:38:40.240" Score="4" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3286/advice-on-what-to-do-close-reason-is-over-broad&quot;&gt;“Advice on what to do” close reason is over-broad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for advice on what to do are not practical answerable&#xA;  questions (e.g. &quot;what job should I take?&quot;, or &quot;what skills should I&#xA;  learn?&quot;). Questions should get answers explaining why and how to make&#xA;  a decision, not advice on what to do. For more information, click&#xA;  here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About a year ago a change was proposed to the &quot;Advice on what to do&quot; close reason. It was fairly well received, and the general consensus was that a new wording made sense. The biggest argument is that &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; question is essentially asking &quot;what to do&quot;. Often times I see questions that clearly state the problem and the desired outcome but conclude with &quot;What do I do [to achieve what I have just explained]?&quot; These questions almost always get a few close votes just for having that specific wording at the end, even though they meet our community standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new wording, in my opinion, should focus more on the aspect of making a personal career decision, such as whether to quit, which job to take, which degree to pursue, etc. It's the questions that can only be answered by people who know the asker personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know that we necessarily need to go through the whole process of choosing new wording again, as that was already done in the previous question, but can we confirm that we want/need a new wording and make sure action is taken on it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2016-08-25T19:16:15.757" Title="Can we improve the text of the “Advice on what to do” close reason?" Tags="|feature-request|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3858" CreationDate="2016-08-11T15:49:41.937" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I think there may be a question in there somewhere, I don't think the question is yet in a state for reopening. Some issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why do the poster and their partner(?) need to take sick leave together?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why do holidays need to be taken &quot;immediately&quot;? These are planned events.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question and the title are badly disconnected. The title is about an immediate need for leave, but the question is about privacy. What's the actual question here?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14388" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T15:49:41.937" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3859" CreationDate="2016-08-11T16:16:05.437" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for the community to make a specific choice, such as&#xA;  what job to take or what skills to learn, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2693/custom-off-topic-close-reasons-change/2696#2696&quot;&gt;are off-topic&lt;/a&gt;.  Also &#xA;  questions that present a scenario and then ask the community to choose&#xA;  a course of action to take are off-topic.   For more information see&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I modified the highest voted answer to the original question slightly as the it lacked the explicit prohibition of here is my problem tell me what to do questions.  I think this wording is softer and more clear what questions we are trying to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of the length constraint I removed the suggestions for better question.  Instead I suggest editing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;Dont Ask Help page&lt;/a&gt; to include a section on making a choice where we can help them improve the way they asked the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-08-12T20:51:17.570" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3862" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3863" CreationDate="2016-08-11T16:20:51.120" Score="4" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace has had a lot of discussions/arguments about what is or isn't rude.  This came up most recently &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/3060/2016/8/10&quot;&gt;in chat&lt;/a&gt;, but it's at the core of a bunch of past meta questions too.  It was also partially discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/355/325&quot;&gt;this meta question from 2012&lt;/a&gt;, though that question is broader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In discussions like the ones we've been having recently, it would be helpful to me as a moderator if I could point to some (anonymized) examples of things that are Not OK.  It's kind of tedious to collect such samples by hand, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/327148/922300&quot;&gt;a little birdie told me&lt;/a&gt; that this could be collected from the database.  (I acknowledge that it requires manual intervention too, to make sure private info isn't leaking out.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, SE, may we have some data?  I'm looking for comments that were flagged as rude/abusive where those flags were validated.  No names, please; the goal isn't to beat up on individuals but to look at content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Addendum:&lt;/strong&gt; This question is a request for data, now answered by SE.  If you want to discuss individual cases, or whether our standards are too lenient or too strict, please do it elsewhere.  Let's not ping the SE employee who supplied the data with a bunch of comments about what should or shouldn't have happened in particular cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T08:46:41.363" LastActivityDate="2016-08-12T14:26:56.750" Title="Request for data: What has been removed here as rude/abusive?" Tags="|support|comments|moderation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3862" CreationDate="2016-08-11T16:41:43.523" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ran the exact same query that was run to get the results for the MSO post you point to, and the results for the past 90 days are posted below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't do a code snippet here, like bluefeet did on MSO, so I'll hide them using the spoiler markup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; you need to get out of your basement and get a life.  i hope you embarass this person that probably would love to keep her personal stuff personal and she punches you in your face.  you suck&lt;br&gt;&#xA; The ISO 9000 part is deliberate: it filters for complete idiots. Anyone normal (unsuitable target) already smells scam at &quot;ISO 9000&quot; before the mention of £180.  All scams have some aspect like this.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; I'm tired of being patient with your rubbish, Kids need to change as well.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; I can already sense that you are making progress.  &lt;em&gt;Brent&lt;/em&gt; you made the right decision.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; This is a tough one, especially because it's Texas. Not to paint with too broad a brush, but asking people to do something that's not the &quot;american way&quot; in Dallas often needs to be done.... artfully. Whether or not management might actually consider this is highly dependent on the culture of the company.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; I call shenanigans. This is a troll post!&lt;br&gt;&#xA; Fun and not recommended way of screwing with a telemarketer: Respond &quot;Yes&quot; to everything they say. My dad did it and recently had a telemarketer end the call by saying &quot;F**k you, sir. Do you want to suck my c**k?&quot; &quot;Y--&quot; &lt;em&gt;click&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA; This is how you become a complete shithole.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; Yet one more reason not to give a damn for the whole state of Michigan&lt;br&gt;&#xA; Dealing with the inability to say &quot;no&quot; and endless confusing headwobbles is indeed something to overcome in the tech world..&lt;br&gt;&#xA; I told them up front on the phone, and in person about what I did, and told them I would like to show that I am interested. You logic is flawed. Sorry you weren't given a second chance on whatever job you wanted.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; Downvote because the OP should not be trying to work out for himself whether the water is safe.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; You are hurt a coworker was promoted and you already planned to leave.  PETTY  She updated her title in her email but you would like be fired for discovering this.  DRAMATIC&lt;br&gt;&#xA; I think this person is a troll.   New user with two very strange questions that I consider unbelievable.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; &quot;died unexpectedly&quot; hmmm…&lt;br&gt;&#xA; De gustibus. Feel free to write a better answer if you have something not already said. That's how SE works.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; &amp;lt;&gt; controversial at best complete made up bs at worse. Proved multiple times to be a lie&lt;br&gt;&#xA; But it was your assistant and you said he/she was extremely horrible.  So you are just your own bitch.   And you like to bitch.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; You have been told not to pick you nose mulitple times.  You need to grow up and move off the grid if you don't want your picture taken.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; I do no trust a certain unexperienced colleague, and I double check often with another senior colleague what he does, and he is not the only one new, however the other has already given proofs he knows what he is doing. And he is male like me. The tendency of females to bring sexism to a natural behaviour in the workplace is rather worrisome.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; You'll find sexism where ever you go looking for it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; &quot;There is no such thing as unintentional sexism.&quot; [gif of me futilely bashing the downvote button forever] it's extremely well documented. heck, some people can even resent &lt;em&gt;themselves&lt;/em&gt; based on unconscious biases (internalised), e.g. the many homophobic mouthpieces who turn out to be repressed homosexuals themselves, including one unfortunately very relevant example from recent weeks.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; This is gone insane.  One  more person please vote to close and let Nim continue to be an honary victim.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; I don't eat lunch.  Your theory must be bunk.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; No it is not an answer - it is one of your many excuses.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; I will clearly state that I find this answer offensive and sexist.  I don't think it would be answered the same way if it were a man.  I have had several people at my company lose their hair because of cancer.  Cancer is a serious topic - there is no woman, man, or hair involved.  The hidden tone of your message is to treat women different - NO.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; I'm sorry, but I just can't believe we have people in the workforce that can't figure out how to attach an ID badge or at least figure out how to. Unreal.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; I said &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; about how the OP should approach the situation and &lt;em&gt;upvoted&lt;/em&gt; the #1 answer and yet you are lecturing me about not making assumptions. And the &quot;assumptions&quot; I'm making are not in fact assumptions, they are proven fact, which you are willfully ignoring because you can't fathom the possibility that sexism is widespread. &quot;Willful ignorance&quot; is pretty much the definition of idiocy, good luck with your theocracy.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; if this colleague is male: Males usually &lt;em&gt;don't take hints&lt;/em&gt;. You have to tell them directly. On the other hand, males will not be offended by being told directly. So when he tells you where to put space characters, tell him directly: &quot;I don't want your advice, and I don't need your advice. Don't tell me where to put space characters. &quot; This may seem rude to you, but with some males that is the correct and only way to step them. (If it happens again you say &quot;I told you before ... and I don't want to hear this again&quot;. The next time you say &quot;What don't you understand about ... &quot;)&lt;br&gt;&#xA; It's often not reasonable vs. unreasonable, it's male vs. not male. Males often &lt;em&gt;don't get hints&lt;/em&gt;. You have to &lt;em&gt;tell them as directly as possible&lt;/em&gt;. &quot;Hey, this is what we just talked about. I don't need you to criticise my choice of syntax here and as I said I need you to refrain from doing this in the future. Can you do that?&quot; That's a hint. Doesn't work. &quot;I don't want to hear you criticising my choice of syntax. Don't do this again&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; you're a jerk who can't read&lt;br&gt;&#xA; If this isn't a troll, it ought to be&lt;br&gt;&#xA; He sounds Chinese&lt;br&gt;&#xA; A number of religions frown on the observation of birthdays, and most western cultures ardently bend backwards these days to accommodate believers of any religion (except of course christianity). Islam seems currently to be the most prominent, and conveniently fits the bill. If however you would then like to renounce your newfound faith again (let's say before Ramadan) I do suggest you first find out how Islam views apostasy... An alternative may be Jehovah's Witnesses, which has the additional benefit of being explicitly pacifist. &lt;em&gt;(These remarks are of course facetious.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA; just make sure the big end of the egg is always upmost in the egg cup. easy&lt;br&gt;&#xA; The should just hire a little-ender identified person and everything will even out.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; Can I request to be referred to as grzbntcv?  I will be offended if you mispronounce it, btw&lt;br&gt;&#xA; I call BS: it's not a status - it's made up. Suicide from such a reason is a sign of a mental disorder. The rule of going to the bathroom of your sex is actually enforced in most places in the world. Your answer is full of BS and has nothing to do with professional and equal treatment; quite the opposite you're pushing for special treatment.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; So let's get this straight, you are asking how to keep the respect of someone who is giving shitty answers. You get their respect by firmly requiring that they deliver high quality all the time, not by worrying about how they perceive you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; After thoughtful consideration, it's clear the only fool-proof solution is to drop the nagging witch.  Pay no heed to all the seething feminists who've offered their deceitful advice.  Have they no shame for their unholy proclamations?!  A goodly wife knows her place, and it's certainly not your workplace, let alone any other man's: over the fireplace is more like it, in her most revealing finery and tenderly preparing a hearty meal, ready for the lord's return from the day's labors.  As I like to say, &quot;Mensches before wenches.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA; Well. Thank God that you don't work in the USA where everybody is allowed to carry war weapons during shopping in WalMart.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; wow, so very opinionated in this stack&lt;br&gt;&#xA; &quot;You can always rely on anything posted online.&quot; said Adolf Hitler, as he finished reading online reviews of the Russian winter, and ordered the invasion of Soviet Union.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; But maybe she is able to prove that she is not like others lazy/stupid woman. I have heard that people do not like hire woman because of their wrong logic thinking. In her shoes I would still try to show as best as I can in the interview, then go to other companies interviews and see what is best.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; For fuck sake, I've been alive 31 years now and the world is still debating over whether it's OK for sounds to be made. Nice work, humanity. Nice work.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; So you cannot catch up with your own standards?&lt;br&gt;&#xA; I don't know to what kind of shit colleges you people went to, but I had to use git for nearly all code submitted for my assignments. Unit testing, UML design, agile, scrum, design patterns, all of those topics were covered.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; This is a poorly written, unclear question. It contains no statement as to whether the internship is paid or unpaid. Only at the very end do we get a parenthetical comment that &quot;(Yes, I know unpaid internships are not cool...)&quot; If the internship is unpaid, then the question should say so directly, because it would then be the big, obvious issue. The obvious answer would then be that of course they aren't motivated, because they're unpaid, and of course you can't do anything about it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; daily reminder that UKip won, you no longer have to pretend anymore.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; Lol. Darling believe I'm not getting emotional. This is not what anyone needs to hear, you people are just machines typing your answers based on a book, apply this to real life and then come back to me. So cut the crap and be a normal human being for once, and just put your self in people's shoes before judging on someone you don't even know based on a 5 rows paragraph.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; I am thinking - maybe there is no problem that your gaze moves to other parts of body. Why they make those parts so visible? They could also dress more formal. But they dress that way because they want attention I think. So they get what they want :)&lt;br&gt;&#xA; How did you get off time out early?  You are the most condescending  and obnoxious user I have ever experienced on SE.  And you chose to come back with &quot;have never seen pictures of naked, attractive women in your life&quot;.   I believe you have only seen pictures of naked attractive women.  Mods the site was contaminated with this user and flourished during his ban. He comes back with this. SHUT HIM DOWN.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; The move on.  If you think a better paid job is factor here then only more evidence you are demented.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; pretty, professional women, don't just happen to dress like that, it gives them an edge over some men and they're having exactly their desired affect on you. Once you realise that you'll get over it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because this person is taking you for a ride. She cannot be serious.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a overweight person in a tech role.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; I don't know if how you should act in the interview situation, but you should definitely not rollback to bad grammar. Bit of an ego?&lt;br&gt;&#xA; If you want to ask or answer a separate question, do it without turning my question into your question. High rep users acting like grammar nazis is unbecoming and smacks of desperation.or OCD.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; maybe the transgender could be repped by 0.5 ?&lt;br&gt;&#xA; Poppycock. This isn't a gray area. It's theft. You have a 401k. As a shareholder, and therefore an owner, how would you feel if all employees in a given company tolerated theft, and robbed you of a percentage of your savings that you need for drugs when you're 90 years old? You'd be incensed, that's what you'd be! Bottom Line: Don't ignore ownership concerns because you feel like you're part of the working class. You're actually not. You're an owner too!&lt;br&gt;&#xA; This is odorist.  Just because it's not a PC protected class yet doesn't mean that it isn't true.  Perhaps that's the lifestyle they've chosen.  Perhaps they have a health condition.  Perhaps they were just 'born that way'.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33683" LastEditorUserId="33683" LastEditDate="2016-08-11T16:48:50.183" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T16:48:50.183" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3848" CreationDate="2016-08-11T21:07:12.870" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's consider two things:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Real questions have answers!&quot; Translates into &quot;Your question is not a real one!&quot; and is dismissive.  Change it.  There are excellent suggestions above.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;on topic&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;page&lt;/a&gt; states &quot;What should I do about an arrogant co-worker?&quot; is not answerable, but &quot;What can I say to my arrogant co-worker to ask her advice with my project?&quot; is answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These ARE THE SAME QUESTION!!!  I'll refer you to an extraordinarily successful company and their take on &lt;a href=&quot;https://disneyinstitute.com/blog/2015/06/how-would-you-respond-if-asked-what-time-is-the-3-oclock-parade/355/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;What time is the 3'oclock parade?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A person asking &quot;What should I do about an arrogant co-worker?&quot; with discussion about a project, who is then told that is not a real question, then when they read that &quot;What can I say to my arrogant co-worker to ask her advice with my project?&quot; is answerable, then they are thinking WTF &quot;how is that different?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, consider what the person is trying to ask, not their exact wording.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48652" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T21:07:12.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3848" CreationDate="2016-08-11T21:25:02.550" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions have answers, not items or ideas or opinions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Rather than explaining why your situation is terrible, or why your boss/coworker makes you unhappy, explain what you want to do to make it better. For more information, click &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2693/custom-off-topic-close-reasons-change/2696#2696&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions have answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The removal of the word &quot;real&quot; changes it from a value statement (your question/issue isn't real) to an observation (you're not asking a question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Thanks @gnat for suggesting we use the final sentence of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real Questions Have Answers&lt;/a&gt; blog post that the close reason derives from and references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52776" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T21:52:17.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3862" CreationDate="2016-08-11T21:38:51.827" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Name calling. Unacceptable language. Ad hominem arguments. Stereotyping. All the same things that would be rude if you said them to a stranger who has no reason to believe you might be being ironic -- note that irony is &lt;em&gt;hard&lt;/em&gt; to communicate on the net, and it's usually better avoided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is far from an exhaustive list. There's no point in tying ourselves down by trying to make such a list. The real answer is that if someone can make a reasonable argument that your words are gratuitously hurtful, you should expect that they will do so and that the moderators will agree that those words should be edited or deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Easily solved: think before you hit send. &quot;Real Writers Edit To Avoid The Problem.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T21:38:51.827" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3862" CreationDate="2016-08-12T13:57:30.697" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having given some thought on the entire issue, it's the wrong approach to take, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;BE NICE&quot; principle is far more productive.  Focussing on rudeness is asking for failure and here is why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YOU GET WHAT YOU FOCUS ON&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that list of rude statements did was teach anyone who read it some rather amusing ways to be insulting.  Ban those specifics and people will come up with some rather interesting insults that will slip through your filters and rules.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allow me to demonstrate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Well Richard, I must say that each of your posts is better than the next&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Catch that one with a filter!  Even if someone DOES catch it, and call someone out on the carpet, they can plead that what they said did not fit the definition of rude.  What you will end up doing is creating a troll school.  I know this because I tried it more than a decade ago on another site.  I ended up making very skilled trolls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A NEGATIVE MESSAGE IS TACIT PERMISSION TO THE SUBCONSCIOUS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sub conscious doesn't understand negatives.  On top of that people take it as a challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will wind up with an endless stream of &quot;rules lawyers&quot; who, upon tap-dancing on the line will force you to either move the line, and deal with the protests of the people saying it is unfair, or be forced to tolerate people who will obey the LETTER of the law, but flout it's intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SUGGESTION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put more of a focus on the &quot;BE NICE&quot; principle because when you are forced to confront someone, you then have them on the defensive.  &quot;You have violated the &quot;Be nice&quot; principle of this site&quot; is far simpler than trying to tell someone that what they posted was insulting and then have them demand you explain how it is that their post was a violation while 40 similar posts (and they **will* have links) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you approach from the &lt;strong&gt;BE NICE&lt;/strong&gt; stance, they can complain all day, but the only counter argument you need is &quot;how is this nice?&quot;  It stops the rules lawyering right in it's tracks and goes to the spirit of SE rather than some list of no-nos.  The example I gave above is clearly not nice, now imagine someone trying to defend that vs the &quot;rude rule&quot;.  &quot;Rude?  NO, I never said that Richard's posts were bad, just that each one seems better than what follows, how is that rude?  You're just singling me out for my political opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, moderate that on the &quot;Be Nice&quot; principle and it becomes:&#xA;&quot;How was that post nice or constructive&quot;   &quot;Er, well, um....&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-08-12T13:57:30.697" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3868" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3869" CreationDate="2016-08-12T17:31:24.940" Score="2" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/72409/49564&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; from a while back. I was surprised to see that it was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, OP made (and has acknowledged that it was) a very stupid mistake. But does that have anything to do with the question being closed? I wouldn't assume it, but I'm struggling to think of any other reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question seems firmly on-topic to me. It's about job hunting, learning from mistakes, the application process, interviews, etc. And OP managed to elicit some excellent answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes this question off-topic? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49564" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-08-12T17:47:45.260" Title="Why was this question from guy who stole food off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|reopen-request|offtopic|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3868" CreationDate="2016-08-12T17:46:12.333" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cast first vote to reopen.  You've convinced me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-08-12T17:46:12.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3868" CreationDate="2016-08-12T17:47:45.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure when all of the close votes came in, but if you look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/72409/revisions&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt; of the question, it's clear that the original version of the question was off topic. Monica made some good edits though, and I don't believe it is still off topic for the reason given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think I would still vote this question closed for being a duplicate. We have a few other questions on this site about how to explain getting fired from a previous job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17906/explaining-getting-fired-in-job-interview&quot;&gt;Explaining getting fired in job interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2761/how-do-i-explain-getting-fired-for-a-very-bad-reason-to-potential-employers&quot;&gt;How do I explain getting fired for a very bad reason to potential employers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2016-08-12T17:47:45.260" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3871" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-12T19:11:51.150" Score="-1" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/74136/can-i-keep-my-beard-while-interviewing&quot;&gt;Can I keep my beard while interviewing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was recently closed as &quot;Too Broad.&quot;  Personally I don't feel that it is too broad, and I think that the answer could potentially be helpful to others who may have similar questions in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was closed by a diamond moderators vote, so I'm not sure.  Is it even possible to re-open the question?  If it is possible,  would the community considering re-opening this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-08-18T06:10:49.457" Title="Can we re-open the question about keeping a beard while searching for a job?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3871" CreationDate="2016-08-12T19:19:42.933" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/74136/can-i-keep-my-beard-while-interviewing#comment206049_74136&quot;&gt;Monica's comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What industry? Where are you in the world? Are there cultural conventions&#xA;  about beards (or their absence)? Please edit in more details. I'm&#xA;  putting this on hold temporarily so people don't spend energy on&#xA;  answers based on wrong guesses; once you edit it'll be reviewed for&#xA;  reopening. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically there are a lot of unknowns in the question right now, so she put it on hold before people fill in the gaps incorrectly. The intent is to reopen it once the question has been edited some more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2016-08-12T19:19:42.933" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3849" CreationDate="2016-08-12T22:13:55.867" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Being unhelpful is not nice.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pointing out clearly (&lt;em&gt;even if bluntly&lt;/em&gt;) that &quot;You are asking the wrong question; what you actually need to know is _____&quot; is helpful, but not very nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Withholding the information that the person really needs (in your opinion) because they didn't ask for it explicitly enough is not nice, nor is it helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are those that would say that calling a spade a spade is in line with the be nice policy but very few times would those people attempt to argue that saying that it was helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am one of those people.  Actually, I go further: I say that &quot;calling a spade a spade&quot; is nice only &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; it is helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I have the feeling I am missing the context from which you are really asking this question.  I can't think of any occasion where &lt;em&gt;ad hominem&lt;/em&gt; attacks would be either nice or helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47537" LastActivityDate="2016-08-12T22:13:55.867" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3871" CreationDate="2016-08-13T22:48:24.593" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just keep it closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically the question is 'Should I make a big deal about being a Muslim in interviews'. The beard is really secondary. And there's not enough information to address the question properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-08-13T22:48:24.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3871" CreationDate="2016-08-18T06:10:49.457" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;too broad&quot; close reason doesn't mean a post can't fit on our site; instead, it simply means the post won't fit on our site &lt;em&gt;in its current format.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;&quot;Too Broad&quot; Close Reason&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without details, answerers must make too many assumptions about an askers situation in order to provide an answer.  Many of these assumptions may be incorrect, which means the answers have a greater chance of not being useful to the asker. What's more, because there are more possible &quot;answers&quot;, this increases the chance of more noise on the site, and reducing noise is one of the fundamental goals of Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, the asker should edit the post to add details. If you want to help, you can ask questions in the comments to help clarify and &quot;tease&quot; the details out of the asker. Once done, you or other members of the community may edit the post to add in these details. Once edited, the post bumps to the top of the questions page where it becomes more visible to the community. This increases the likelihood it will receive attention and get reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see potential in this question; we just need to help the asker help us focus on &lt;em&gt;his&lt;/em&gt; specific problem he's facing. Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-08-18T06:10:49.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3877" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3880" CreationDate="2016-08-18T11:37:45.220" Score="7" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/74434/in-a-business-where-staff-churn-is-costly-should-i-let-employees-lead-and-reque&quot;&gt;In a business where staff churn is costly, should I let employees lead and request their salary increase?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a cross-posted question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's interesting, perhaps on-topic, but it is specifically cross-posted. Is that okay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-08-30T17:25:30.173" Title="Is Cross-Posting Allowed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3877" CreationDate="2016-08-18T12:48:25.457" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question like that seems to have one foot in two SE sites, it's both an economics and a workplace question.  The economics are being examined in the economics SE, but it also has workplace ramifications, so it is not merely a theoretical question suited for only economics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually cross posting is frowned on severely, but I think this particular question is a rare exception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-08-18T12:48:25.457" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3877" CreationDate="2016-08-18T14:39:41.733" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If people want to ask good, interesting, researched, quality questions that they posted elsewhere, I have absolutely no problems with it being posted here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like the one you linked are unfortunately an overwhelming minority of &quot;plz help me&quot; cross posted questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-08-18T14:39:41.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3877" CreationDate="2016-08-18T19:27:25.103" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pure cross-posting has been identified as being counter to StackExchange's spirit &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/is-cross-posting-a-question-on-multiple-stack-exchange-sites-permitted-if-the-qu&quot;&gt;in this meta thread&lt;/a&gt;. So the answer to the title question is a flat &lt;strong&gt;no.&lt;/strong&gt; As Lumberjack pointed out, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/243797/260382&quot;&gt;this answer in particular&lt;/a&gt; does a stellar job of describing &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; cross-posting is a problem on SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if a question was about a central topic and OP is asking about the impact on a workplace here and the general value of the practice from a macro-economic perspective, then I'd argue that that's not pure cross-posting but a case of two very different questions about the same topic. &lt;strong&gt;The typical test is whether answers on one site could just as easily have been posted on another site.&lt;/strong&gt; In that case you're dealing with a cross-post and those are not allowed by community consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the question you've linked here arguably isn't that great of an example since I doubt it's on-topic on Economics and the version here is unclear and convoluted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-08-30T17:25:30.173" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3881" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-19T17:44:01.973" Score="-8" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder about the value in preserving Workplace status quo.&#xA;Isn't there harm in it?&#xA;The question is inspired by my experience with the question here,&#xA;&quot;Is being casual unprofessional?&quot;&#xA;My sensible answer was derided and then deleted:&#xA;&quot;Trousers for men are the dumbest taboo there is. Skirts are way more sensible and comfortable. So I suggest wearing a skirt to impress potential clients with your innovativeness.&quot;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/74457/is-being-casual-unprofessional&quot;&gt;Is being casual unprofessional?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer is serious and I think quite worthwhile.&#xA;In West European culture from ancient Rome to the French Revolution&#xA;trousers were unheard of and skirts were normal.&#xA;Pants were introduced as part of violent protests by working class.&#xA;They were useful and ubiquitous as horseback riding became normal.&#xA;Skirts for men are still normal for non-westernized cultures.&#xA;T-shirts and jeans, unheard of for professionals until a few years ago,&#xA;are now normal.&#xA;Clothing designers, retailers, and websites, are seriously promoting skirts for men.&#xA;Why is this website being so drastically conservative as to delete my suggestion?? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56401" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-08-20T04:12:13.023" Title="What value has status quo?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3881" CreationDate="2016-08-19T18:35:39.730" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your answer was deleted from community review queues, designed to allow community moderation - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/47995&quot;&gt;this is the link to the review queue&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; six users voted to delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is not a discussion board. It is a Q/A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some thoughts as to why people unilaterally deleted your answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question has nothing to do with &quot;what should I wear&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your answer makes fairly... non-standard claims without attempting to explain them&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Skirts are way more sensible and comfortable&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Trousers for men are the dumbest taboo there is&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your answer does not attempt to explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it is correct&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This should also explain why the above claims, regarding sensibility of wearing a skirt, apply in England&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignoring the first two bullets, the last is pretty fundamentally a problem with the answer that makes it not fit the Stack Exchange model. gnat's comment on the deleted answer summarizes this well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;without an explanation, this answer may become useless in case if someone else posts an opposite opinion. For example, if someone posts a claim like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Trousers for men are the smartest taboo there is. Skirts are way less sensible and comfortable. So I suggest to avoid wearing a skirt to impress potential clients with your innovativeness.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, how would this answer help reader to pick of two opposing opinions? Consider editing it into a better shape, to meet &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;How To Answer&lt;/a&gt; guidelines&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your answer is serious and edited to address these concerns, I suspect you would find community support in undeleting it. However, given the first - that it doesn't answer the actual question - requires a fair bit of edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-08-20T04:12:13.023" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3881" CreationDate="2016-08-20T02:56:22.953" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a ridiculous answer in terms of the question posed and was quite rightly chucked in the garbage.... I seriously doubt (being kind here) that it was intended to be serious, and you're wasting our time whinging about it on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-08-20T02:56:22.953" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3884" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3886" CreationDate="2016-08-23T14:19:46.833" Score="2" ViewCount="361" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/74625/46894&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/74625/46894&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This user frequently posts blunt, somewhat strongly worded answers and is getting voted down repeatedly for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've posted the most recent above, but a quick search can point out many others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen a pattern in what gets voted down when it is not actually a bad answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An unpopular political opinion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A blunt or harsh answer backed by real-life examples (as opposed to blunt or harsh for it's own sake&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A contrarian opinion....  I.E. one that goes against the grain of popular posts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would hate to see this become an echo chamber where any contrarian opinions are squashed, but I am starting to see the signs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can we do to address this?  Or is this a non-issue and I'm worried about nothing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T21:05:20.980" Title="Penalizing blunt answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3884" CreationDate="2016-08-23T15:20:18.673" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think @kilisi would tell you that since he isn't playing the point game, downvotes are interesting and slightly annoying but not a serious discouragement to posting what he considers his best advice. That's certainly been my own position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But downvoting is parent if SE's design, and reasons for downvoting range from &quot;this is flat-out wrong&quot; to &quot;this is not what I wanted to hear, even though it's probably correct.&quot; The only way to fix that, really, is to redesign SE from scratch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which might not be a bad thing to do, but we ain't gonna do it here. For now, it is what it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-08-23T15:20:18.673" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3884" CreationDate="2016-08-23T23:59:32.400" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something to keep in mind is that blunt doesn't immediately translate to downvotes. An answer can be downvoted for other reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being contrarian is fine, but only if you understand that in many cases, being contrarian results in negative repercussions. Answers that do not acknowledge these and/or discuss how to mitigate them &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; be downvoted!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is important to realize that this site isn't just an intellectual game that we play, but that &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; people come here with problems they are facing in their actual lives. The answers we write here have possibility to have a lot of real life impact. People can get fired or get raises or get jobs -- or not -- because of the guidance and advice here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't get a chance to just &quot;copy/paste hit compile and try!&quot; like you can on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why I am a strong believer of the &quot;back it up&quot; rule, at least the &quot;why is your answer correct&quot; policy. Ultimately The Workplace needs to give people information they can use to guide their own decisions. Why's help with that, particularly contrarian types of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there are multiple independently valid reasons to downvote the answer you referenced other than what you posted in your list, though I've not voted on it and did not see it until this meta post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-08-23T23:59:32.400" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3859" CreationDate="2016-08-25T19:16:15.757" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions should be about helping &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; to come to a decision, to accomplish a certain goal or to identify professional behaviour in generic situations. We can't tell you what you should do in your exact situation because it's unlikely to help anyone else and so much depends on your particular situation and your priorities. Don't ask &quot;&lt;em&gt;What can I do?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; but ask &quot;&lt;em&gt;How can I achieve X in situation Y?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; or &quot;&lt;em&gt;What are my options for doing X?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. Just like this site isn't the place for advice that only covers your specific situation, we can't provide career advice or tell you what skills you should learn. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like this might be too long at 606 characters compared to the company-specific close reason's 341. I can't find any guidelines or hard limits on the length on meta but all the other sites I've checked had close reasons under 400 characters, though those benefit from having much more technical domains. I think this can be distilled further but I think this is a good starting point and encompasses what this close reason is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the problem with the lack of clarity in our close reasons is the subjective nature of the site. I think examples like the ones I used here would help clarify the point more than descriptions can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also consider having something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don't ask &quot;&lt;em&gt;What would you do?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As that's a very common component in the type of questions we close for this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2016-08-25T19:16:15.757" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3888" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-25T21:51:46.557" Score="9" ViewCount="323" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/74885/how-do-i-ensure-fair-performance-ratings-in-the-dreaded-stack-ranking-system&quot;&gt;How do I ensure fair performance ratings in the stack ranking system?&lt;/a&gt; is on hold as primarily opinion-based.  If it were a question about the ranking system itself I might agree, but this question asks how a manager can fairly rank his employees given the requirement to rank them relative to each other.  That's a common problem, and answers would be valuable to have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP speculates about some factors he could use, but I don't read this as an &quot;is that good?&quot; question.  I read it as the OP showing his work, showing the ideas he's already considering.  Answers would be free to address them, dismiss them, or utterly ignore them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any comments suggesting improvements or requesting clarification, hence this meta question.  Why is this closed and how would it need to change to be reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T00:52:42.477" Title="How is the &quot;stack ranking&quot; question opinion-based?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3888" CreationDate="2016-08-25T22:46:09.223" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The core question is, as stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am very curious to know from experienced leaders how they tackled the evil of stack-ranking and managed to keep employee morale from sinking like a stone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is pretty much actively soliciting opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP has no ability to actually influence the situation though. Well, I'm not sure what &lt;code&gt;I'm not the guy deciding their paycheck.&lt;/code&gt; means. I guess the question to me reads like, &quot;what are some ideas to rank employees using?&quot; given the bulk of it talks about that. I think if most of the text was edited out to talk about just &quot;how can I encourage employee morale when forced to evaluate my employees on a stack ranking system?&quot; it'd probably be good, though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now a lot of it als feels more like an open ended &quot;what ideas do you have for ways to rank my employees?&quot; and that really isn't a question which can easily or concisely be answered in this format well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not clear to me which question they want to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2016-08-26T00:52:42.477" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T00:52:42.477" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3888" CreationDate="2016-08-25T23:35:09.233" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's soliciting subjective answers, but answers based on experience (&quot;experienced leaders&quot;). I would classify this as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;&quot;good-subjective&quot;&lt;/a&gt; question, rather than primarily opinion-based. After all, there are very few hard facts to be had in the subject matter of workplace.SE; if anything subjective got closed, there'd be almost nothing else left aside from citing statistics/surveys and saying &quot;draw your own conclusions!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I lack the rep to vote to reopen questions on this site, so I'll simply state my opinion here that I think it should be left open, for the reasons given above. Not only do I agree with the OP's opinion and statements about this question, but I am slightly confused by the reasoning used in enderland♦'s answer here: it seems they are conflating opinions and subjective answers grounded in experience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original question on the main site &lt;em&gt;very clearly&lt;/em&gt; states that they want experience-based answers, and I have yet to encounter a SE site where this sort of question is banned. Is Workplace.SE the first of such a site, or is the opinion of enderland♦ in this answer not representative of the wider Workplace.SE community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps enderland♦ just had a brain fart and will soon rectify the issue? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2490" LastActivityDate="2016-08-25T23:35:09.233" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3891" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-26T06:19:07.323" Score="19" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace gets a fair amount of spam every day. According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;amp;title=&amp;amp;body=&amp;amp;username=&amp;amp;why=&amp;amp;site=156&amp;amp;feedback=true+positive&amp;amp;reason=&amp;amp;user_rep_direction=%3E%3D&amp;amp;user_reputation=0&amp;amp;commit=Search&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; listing there are at least 2-3 spam posts on here every day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, the way to deal with spammers is to flag and destroy their posts as spam - this imposes automatic IP blocks as well as large heuristic biases for the ban algorhitms against them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is spam, its important that it is destroyed, and editing spam links out of clear spam is actively hindering that, causing others to maybe downvote instead of flag as spam, and requires moderators handling the spam flags to dig into the edit history to find out what is going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today we had &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/74915&quot;&gt;an instance&lt;/a&gt; of that happening (&lt;a href=&quot;https://metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/38351&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mirror for &amp;lt;10k users before the edit&lt;/a&gt;). Often times when flagging spam questions here, I also see comments like &quot;I'm voting to close this because its spam&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question now is: Do we need to emphasise more that spam should be flagged instead of closed or edited?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T17:51:04.333" Title="Importance of flagging spam instead of editing it out or voting to close" Tags="|discussion|spam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3891" CreationDate="2016-08-26T06:26:20.850" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's important for users to use their flags to delete spam, as only 6 flags are needed and there's no need for mod intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Removing spam links, can confuse further reviews of a post and mislead users into misunderstanding the original intention of the spammy post. Editing the post also invalidates flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spam posts can be posted as blatant spam, or spam in the guise of a authentic post, these are usually copy and pasted content with a spammy link. Removal of the link in these cases, is confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/110031/310756&quot;&gt;From SE meta:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... most links do not even need to be removed, unless they are linking to porn, viruses, or disturbing content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a post is flagged after being edited, those flags will be invalidated if the post is rolled back; unless your edit actually results in a post that shouldn't be deleted, you're just creating an opportunity for someone to make the post stick around longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44950" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T17:51:04.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3893" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-26T07:00:39.567" Score="4" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I just asked my &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/74882/47212&quot;&gt;first question&lt;/a&gt; here on Workplace, which by the way I specifically mentioned on the question body. It turns out the majority of the people who saw the question resorted to giving or upvoting snarky comments or outright voting to close. Apparently one person decided to downvote the question even.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel it's a pity, since I put quite a bit of time and work into formulating the question. Tried to be very specific with what I am asking, alas the question was put on-hold on the basis of being too broad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am confident that the question is relevant and should be improved to the point where it can be re-opened. More specifically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question isn't about whether or not I am willing to take the risks, but rather how to minimize the risks involved&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question is essentially asking for important parameters that are worth checking. It may sound like it to some, but I wasn't asking &quot;OMG, what should I do?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are two relevant and useful answers, demonstrating that the question is indeed answerable. There might be more people with useful insights out there...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will try to edit the question eventually to attempt to improve, but I figured I'll ask here on Meta if there are any constructive feedback about what should be improved/edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: This question has been re-opened.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47212" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-08-30T16:46:10.823" Title="First question is closed, how can I salvage or improve to get better answers?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3893" CreationDate="2016-08-26T08:34:42.517" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you detailed too much your own history&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think your question should look like :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the risks of being the first employees on a startup ? Eventually considering the following :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my first job outside of academia&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The domain of the companie is &lt;strong&gt;biotech/pharma&lt;/strong&gt; (which is a very competitive field)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add your country by using the relevant tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this you can add some extra information about how do you feel towards them, in case this rings some bells to people here :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general both of the founders have good credentials; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The part that feels fishy is that in the process of negotiating, the senior founder followed a rather pushy approach (IMHO)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So people can first address your general concerns, and use extra information is they can have a more accurate answer along with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T14:33:44.810" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3893" CreationDate="2016-08-26T14:20:10.023" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As one who voted to close, here are my reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was too long, too ranty, and too unfocussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, mentioning that it's your first post is unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit it down to be concise, and focused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remove your disclaimer, it annoys people and is irrelevant.  The next for paragraphs should be reduced to the bare bones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't need to know that you're a researcher.  The fact that you are in Sweden should be a tag, not in the body of your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, avoid words and phrases that are unprofessional.  Words like &amp;quot;screwed&amp;quot; aren't going to get you favorable attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your entire question could have been little more than:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question  is what can I do to ensure to minimize the risk of being in a bad situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically I am concerned about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;•salary/benefits being less than optimal (as first employees, not sure what to expect)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;•being &amp;quot;boxed out&amp;quot; of the future of the company, when/if things start to go well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;•being abruptly put out of a job, if the budget/timeline doesn't go as planned&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;•being legally bound in an unfavorable way&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything else I should be wary about? What are some typical deal-breakers from my point of view?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T16:18:31.327" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3893" CreationDate="2016-08-26T14:52:35.363" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has too many moving parts.  You could literally write a book on the topics you have asked about and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;amp;field-keywords=self%20help%20choosing%20a%20good%20job&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;there are several&lt;/a&gt; already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could choose to focus a question (or several questions) on one of the last 3 bullet points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;salary/benefits being less than optimal (as first employees, not sure what to expect)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are already quite a few questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/salary+negotiation&quot;&gt;this subject&lt;/a&gt; on the site.  Read through these.  If there is still something that you do not understand make sure you can ask that in a way that it is clearly not a duplicate or very similar to existing questions.  If you think that there may be a question that is similar link to that question and explain what is missing from that question that you are wanting to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;being &quot;boxed out&quot; of the future of the company, when/if things start to go well&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could probably focus on this topic and make a good question.  Be sure to include what it is that concerns you and how you perceive being boxed out and why it would be a problem for you.  I honestly am not sure what you mean by this though I could guess, I am not at all confident that what I think you mean here is what you actually mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;being abruptly put out of a job, if the budget/timeline doesn't go as planned&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your concerns here specifically?  Why do you think this is risk that you need to address?  These things are important in helping you find the answer to this problem.  But if you properly ask this question I think it could be a valid and successful question on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;being legally bound in an unfavorable way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unfavorable&lt;/strong&gt; is a very &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; term to use in a question.  Maybe you do not want to be tied to a company for 5 years, but some people might find 5 years of security comforting.  What exactly do you find to be unfavorable terms for your first job.  Then do a search on those things as many of them have been addressed on the site already.  If you still have questions after doing that research then feel free to ask that question.  Again make sure you spell out why your question is different from any existing questions that might be similar.  I am sure there are thousands of aspects of this topic that have not been addressed and could be great questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask several questions and then find that you are having difficulty resolving how to accomplish the results of 2 or more of your questions feel free to ask a new question that links the original questions you asked and explain how you are having difficulty accomplishing both and ask how to resolve the problem.  Having that scope defined will help make sure the focus is enough that is answerable in the SE format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T14:52:35.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3884" CreationDate="2016-08-26T21:53:25.617" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I reckon it's a non issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best to let the people decide what to vote for without hindrance I reckon, it's their site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I promise to delete any answer of mine which reaches 250 downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2016-08-29T04:28:20.713" LastActivityDate="2016-08-29T04:28:20.713" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3898" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3899" CreationDate="2016-08-29T16:06:16.077" Score="-3" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by Magisch's recent post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a post is spam, in addition to flagging it, should we edit the links so that they are not clickable?  I know that the policy is not to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;delete&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; links unless they link to known malware or adult site, but should we take care to disable them by making them no longer clickable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-08-29T22:00:05.670" Title="For spam posts, should we **disable** links?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3898" CreationDate="2016-08-29T22:00:05.670" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't edit spam posts.&lt;/strong&gt; There are almost no exceptions to that rule - even for truly obscene posts, a flag is much more effective, and much less time consuming, than editing, and will destroy the post quicker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, you shouldn't edit spam posts because, as mentioned in the answers to Magisch's post, it makes moderation more difficult - the spam becomes less apparent, people don't flag it as readily, and it ends up taking more work from more users to clean up properly. There's also the chance of invalidating valid flags, if the post is rolled back, which would reset the spam-deletion counter to zero and require even more work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also, as mentioned, messes with spam detection heuristics - while Stack Exchange's native spam blocking system doesn't currently do anything with the bodies of posts (it works with IP addresses), there are a few community run spam detection systems, such as Smoke Detector, which rely almost totally on post bodies. Editing links to be unclickable would result in one post being scanned twice, with different results. Again, that results in more confusion, and more moderation work to clean up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27355" LastActivityDate="2016-08-29T22:00:05.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3900" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3901" CreationDate="2016-09-01T00:04:57.797" Score="0" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edited &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/36041/30062&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; to add clarity, only to find that the author has chosen to rollback to the original version of the answer. Can the community shed some light on this choice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought the improvements I made such as mentioning periodic review of access, least privilege security principle, and SOD were key points for the OP, whose question relies around trust. My edits basically suggested that with proper detective controls (review) and preventative controls (SOD), trust can become less of a factor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate any and all feedback from the SE community!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="52713" LastEditDate="2020-01-10T12:20:40.430" LastActivityDate="2020-01-10T12:20:40.430" Title="Why was my edit rolled back?" Tags="|discussion|editing|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3900" CreationDate="2016-09-01T03:55:34.423" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I rolled it back - The changes that were made changed the &lt;em&gt;intent&lt;/em&gt; of what I was trying to say in many cases. For example I was talking about &lt;em&gt;account logins&lt;/em&gt; and it was &lt;em&gt;changed to refer to file access&lt;/em&gt;. I intentionally went with slightly less technical terms since this wasn't a purely technical, IT environment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, these changes might have been a better fit for its own answer in my opinion. I don't think my answers are beautiful and unique snowflakes, and I'm fine with edits that &lt;em&gt;add&lt;/em&gt; to my answer, but these felt like extensive changes that changed the &lt;em&gt;meaning&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;tone&lt;/em&gt; of my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8408" LastActivityDate="2016-09-01T03:55:34.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3900" CreationDate="2016-09-01T06:48:32.820" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;When it comes to editing &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; you generally have to be much more conservative with your changes. Only copyediting is really allowed there. Even changes that incorporate comments, whether posted by the answerer or others, will change the nature of the answer. Unless it's a community wiki, the author of an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; has final say in its content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Questions&lt;/em&gt; can be edited much more freely. Comprehensive edits are typically to clarify/highlight the core question, cut out meaningless fluff or incorporate comments by the OP. Question submitters rarely do that kind of edit work themselves and very rarely make comprehensive edits instead of tacking on updates. In contrast with answers, in practice there is no assumption of ownership when it comes to &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;. Coupled with the fact that the language level is typically vastly higher in answers than in question, the end result is that answers are rarely edited which means that the collaborative aspect of question editing is largely absent from answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are only a few commonly accepted edits to &lt;strong&gt;answers&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;copyediting&lt;/strong&gt;: typos, grammar, general language cleanup&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;clarifying&lt;/strong&gt; concepts or abbreviations: with short definitions in brackets or, more typically, links to definitions/Wikipedia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;adding &lt;strong&gt;references&lt;/strong&gt;: less common on this site but we still occasionally get things like &quot;I've read an article before that said X&quot; or &quot;this was discussed on another question&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;disclaimers for outdated advice (these edits are usually &lt;em&gt;highly&lt;/em&gt; contested, but sometimes necessary, less so on this site)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This basically matches the description of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;editing privilege&lt;/a&gt;. Note that while the same standards theoretically apply to &lt;strong&gt;questions&lt;/strong&gt; as well, in practice you have much more freedom to drastically edit questions, provided that those edits are beneficial and don't change the core of the question (unless the latter is approved by the OP or the question as-is is unsuitable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:37:04.473" LastActivityDate="2016-09-03T16:19:27.523" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3903" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3904" CreationDate="2016-09-02T22:41:40.927" Score="7" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the etiquette for asking a question you want to answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say one has a piece of advice one thinks would benefit the community. Would it be acceptable to post a question and then immediately answer said question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assume the question would not be a duplicate and would be of sufficient quality to garner additional answers from the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52776" LastActivityDate="2016-09-03T12:59:39.900" Title="Asking a question you want to answer" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3903" CreationDate="2016-09-03T04:03:18.487" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange policy explicitly says it's OK to ask a pedagogical question and answer it yourself. Others can also answer, of course, and your answer gets voted on just like any other answer (and independently from voting on the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take the time to make it a well-written question and a well-written answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastEditorUserId="12989" LastEditDate="2016-09-03T12:59:39.900" LastActivityDate="2016-09-03T12:59:39.900" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3900" CreationDate="2016-09-03T13:15:12.160" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They can roll back just because they feel like it, or their mouse has an issue clicking randomly on the screen. No reason needs be given as far as I know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="52713" LastEditDate="2020-01-10T12:19:44.467" LastActivityDate="2020-01-10T12:19:44.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3906" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-05T08:54:44.343" Score="2" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being a contributor on various forums, I know the importance of posting answers to the questions. According to me, it's important for both the OP and the one who answers. I see people with over 50K reputation here on this forum and felt asking this question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What do people gain by answering? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does answering help professionally? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there any job profile where mentioning the reputation on workplace forum will help?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42517" OwnerDisplayName="Bhush_Techidiot" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2016-09-06T10:39:37.143" LastActivityDate="2016-09-22T23:30:26.997" Title="Use of posting answers to the questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3906" CreationDate="2016-09-06T10:37:10.340" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome to The Workplace SE.  As others have mentioned, we're not a traditional forum. Instead, we're a Questions and Answers site.  The major difference is the focus on answers, not discussion, and the result is a wealth of knowledge, without the noise generated by discussion, which can be searched from major search engines.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To learn more about how this site works, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;take the tour&lt;/a&gt; and check out what we consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic and off-topic on this site&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest benefit you'll get by contributing answers is that you'll learn. Answering questions will force you to think about the problem on a much deeper level and formulate an intelligent, quality answer which will last for years to come, helping future visitors to the site.  Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, there is no site to highlight your contributions to Workplace SE, but I imagine one could experiment with putting this in their CV or resumé, if it's applicable to the job they're applying for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-09-06T10:37:10.340" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3908" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3909" CreationDate="2016-09-06T13:43:24.277" Score="3" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;A new user recently asked a question and included their personal contact information. This isn't something you normally want posted on the internet, so I edited it out. However, the info is still clearly there in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/75477/revisions&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to permanently delete previous edits? I've often seen where someone posts personal information, or details that would make it easy for an employer to identify them. This usually gets edited out quickly, but anyone who is looking, including email harvesters, can still easily find the data. It would be good to be able to permanently remove that information sometimes, though that power should probably be restricted to moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2016-09-06T14:14:11.793" LastActivityDate="2016-09-08T06:14:07.470" Title="Is there a way to delete revision history?" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3908" CreationDate="2016-09-06T16:04:52.593" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/132117/202356&quot;&gt;This Meta.SE post&lt;/a&gt; (h/t Masked Man) has the details, but for your purposes: edit it out and flag for moderator attention, pointing out the problem.  It takes two moderators to redact so there can be a delay (due to time zones), so the sooner you flag the sooner we can get the process started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are most concerned about exposure of (a) credentials (like passwords) and (b) sensitive &lt;em&gt;third-party&lt;/em&gt; information -- somebody shares somebody &lt;em&gt;else's&lt;/em&gt; email address, for example.  A user's own email address isn't as urgent (it's not, for all practical purposes, private information, and he did post it), but we'll generally redact them if asked to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-09-08T06:14:07.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3910" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-09T20:38:44.700" Score="-3" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/75595/4618&quot;&gt;Coworker is easily and often offended and doesn&amp;#39;t want us to mention offensive topics like facial hair&lt;/a&gt; - Is getting a lot of attention. And Kate's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/75608/4618&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;, is rather controversial judging from the voting record and from how many comments have been deleted from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to think Kate is a great contributor, however, here I think she's wildly off-base and I flagged her post as such. My flag was declined and I was told if I wanted more info to bring it to meta, so here I am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the message I sent when flagging:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Want to flag as Not an answer, but give an explanation. This doesn't actually contain any advice for what the OP should do. It also assumes bad faith on the part of the OP based on the writers personal experiences, despite information in the OP that makes it clear the statement in question was in fact harmless. To finish, it also attacks the other answers on this page which is something we generally don't encourage on SE. – ryan 21 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here was the mod response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;declined - Looks like an answer to me, including advice on what to say instead. For broader review, bring up on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I fail to see the evidence for the counter claims when I examine the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First claim: &lt;code&gt;This doesn't actually contain any advice for what the OP should do.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming when the mod says that there is advice on what to say instead in the post they are referring to the line &lt;code&gt;&amp;quot;Wow, new look! How are you liking it?&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;. However, the question wasn't &amp;quot;what should I have said here instead of &lt;code&gt;Jeff, where did you go?&lt;/code&gt;.&amp;quot; The question was &amp;quot;Many innocuous statements, the latest being about a beard, are being taken as offensive by a third uninvolved party and reported to HR, what should we do?&amp;quot; So that line is entirely inadequate to address the whole of the question and problem faced by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for my other two points they were not even addressed by the mod but I want to look at them as they are even more worrying considering the general policies of StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Claim Two: &lt;code&gt;It also assumes bad faith on the part of the OP&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Claim Three: &lt;code&gt;it also attacks the other answers on this page&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not clear whose beard you were discussing.... It's clear you can't see why anyone would be upset or offended ... in a work context. The other answers at the moment support this view, that of course it's terrific to sit around at work chatting about what people look like, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't seem to be aware of this at all. You seem to feel that in order to make software or sell insurance or plan construction projects, it's your right to talk about how everyone around you looks, even when one of the people around you has told you they find that upsetting and hurtful. Without hearing what you said, lots of people are willing to pat you on the back and say that absolutely, you have that right, don't let anyone take it from you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These seem like some awfully negative, harsh, and big assumptions to be making about the OP when it's admitted up front that it's not even clear what's being talked about!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And while other answers on the page read the comments on the OP or his update (actually the update by Joe) and wrote their responses in light of how neutral the comment made actually was. This answer hasn't been updated, and continues to attack them for their support and advice which actually addresses the whole of the problem faced by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how exactly is this an answer that we are OK leaving on this site in it's current form?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4618" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2016-09-16T21:21:33.587" Title="Review of answer that assumes bad faith by the OP" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3884" CreationDate="2016-09-09T21:05:20.980" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we penalise blunt answers per se - as a personal example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/75387/14388&quot;&gt;this answer of mine&lt;/a&gt; is pretty blunt (some would probably go so far as to say &quot;very blunt&quot;), but yet still got a decent number of upvotes and no downvotes. On the other hand, as Lilienthal has mentioned in the comments, it is an answer which pretty much fits with the prevailing view of how Western IT workers would view the situation, which I suspect is a large part of the difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14388" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T21:05:20.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3910" CreationDate="2016-09-10T15:23:00.963" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't downvote even though it's a terrible answer in my opinion. It has 58 upvotes so it must have some merit, and it gives a viewpoint worth thinking about, because I have been wondering what sort of HR would pander to such a complaint, perhaps one with this viewpoint?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Food for thought in any case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-09-10T15:23:00.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3910" CreationDate="2016-09-11T17:56:48.847" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got the top answer to that one, and mine was rather passionate as well.  While I agree that it was a bad answer, it does not deserve deletion and IMO, a counter argument is useful to have around.  I've got ten downvotes and often express unpopular opinions myself, I'd hate to think my next unpopular opinion would be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be left in place, IMO.  While IMO, it is not a good answer, it is still an answer, and has gotten over 30 downvotes at this posting.  We do not want to become an echo chamber.  I've said this when I think people who agree with me have IMO, been treated unfairly, and I think Kate deserves the same deference.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-09-11T17:56:48.847" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3910" CreationDate="2016-09-12T07:50:43.610" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As stated kate in her answer : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I answered to educate the OP and all others who reject any and all limits on appearance discussion. I wanted to show the sort of thoughts their words can evoke in those who hear them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And i'll had another quote from what i heard my communication classes which was stated as the main rule : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's not what you say that is important, but what the others understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By that Kate definitively has a point. However there is a limit, some people just get offended by such trivial matters because they lack self-confidence in themself or/and in the co-workers. So you connect everything that they can say as a lack of confidence in your skills, social behaviour or whatever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can tell you that i got some co-workers which i really didn't had any confidence in them that i wouldn't accept even trivial things like this, which i would accept from pretty much anyone else. However unlike OP's co-workers i'm the kind of the silent ones, i just shut up i play the unsocial geek card &quot;must go back coding&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastEditorUserId="47387" LastEditDate="2016-09-12T09:07:12.893" LastActivityDate="2016-09-12T09:07:12.893" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3915" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-14T14:54:17.443" Score="3" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/31361/16&quot;&gt;When should graduates start applying for jobs?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know its an older question but it was linked to another question as a possible duplicate, as I looked at it, it seems to me that the question was both answerable and on topic.  The question is not asking about a specific job just the timing of applying for a job when graduation is imminent.  Seeing as thousands of people graduate every year this seems like a pretty good question to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-09-15T22:18:23.573" Title="Is this Question still off topic?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|specific-question|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3916" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3917" CreationDate="2016-09-15T03:44:40.830" Score="8" ViewCount="804" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/75964/how-to-handle-a-misbehaviour-from-senior-colleague/75984#75984&quot;&gt;how to handle a Misbehaviour from senior colleague?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently the user @Kilisi posted an answer in the link above stating that the OP should have slapped the aggressor back. &lt;strong&gt;I feel this is inappropriate advice and have DV.&lt;/strong&gt; Retaliation as suggested could easily backfire for the OP, and rather than make the OP's position more defensible as an victim of a battery, could provoke more harm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I also do not understand how the OP has lost face, given he was clearly the victim here of a criminal assault.&lt;/strong&gt; The advisable suggestion is as @Joe Strazzere wrote in a comment to report incident to the police, and let them take care of it, which is their role as enforcers of the rule of law. The OP as a victim should not have no fear in going the official route. This also creates a documented trail which only further helps if necessary in the future, as to what happened that day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this particular user, I have noticed this common theme in many of his answers. A theme of distrust of the established system of law is evident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How should these types of answers be handled by the SE community?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-09-17T20:56:04.677" Title="How should answers that advocate violence be handled" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3916" CreationDate="2016-09-15T05:14:39.827" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Short answer:&lt;/strong&gt; Down vote, flag or vote to delete if particularly offensive and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You treat it just like any other answer you don't agree with.  In general, if there is content in an answer that the community doesn't like, then it will receive down votes.  It indicates to the OP that the answer is not a recommended option.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can additionally:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit it yourself (it will go in the edit queue for users under 2k);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users over 2k can edit directly;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag if there is offensive content requiring the answer to be deleted;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;20k users can vote to delete answers; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave a comment to the answerer as to why you disagree with it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community is pretty good at judging the validity of an answer.  Use the tools at your disposal and if there are unsuitable answers, they will be dealt with.  If it really needs to be removed as soon as possible because it's causing damage, flag it for a moderator to action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;*Note, I am not making comment on the answer linked in the question, I am speaking in general terms here.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastEditorUserId="33698" LastEditDate="2016-09-17T20:56:04.677" LastActivityDate="2016-09-17T20:56:04.677" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3918" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-15T14:37:02.753" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/75859/16&quot;&gt;How to address the issue of a senior coworker pushing the use of undocumented standards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original title was troublesome but the actual question asked was something that the workplace professionals should be able to help address, was focused enough for an answer, and seems to me to be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-09-15T22:17:56.203" Title="Is this question off topic?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3918" CreationDate="2016-09-15T15:40:33.377" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It had 3 reopen votes already - now it's open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-09-15T15:40:33.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3916" CreationDate="2016-09-16T10:25:44.577" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just downvote it is the best thing to do. Saying that your answer is correct doesn't mean much if it hasn't been through the rigorous test of user voting. We all think we're correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-09-16T10:25:44.577" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3910" CreationDate="2016-09-16T21:21:33.587" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not read any assumption of bad faith in this answer.  It is quite common that people who inadvertently offend other people do not understand why someone else would be offended.  And Kate simply reflected how she perceived the OP's attitude based on the question, she did not say that the OP did have this attitude, or attack the OP for having the attitude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2016-09-16T21:21:33.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3922" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-20T13:53:58.140" Score="13" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be immediately concrete with a possible question: I've been wondering what the best thing to do is when you're operating heavy machinery, in say a warehouse, a factory or a construction site, and something collapses, explodes or otherwise turns dangerous. examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're driving a forklift and you snag a large rack causing it to come crashing down.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're working with an industrial robot and a technical malfunction causes it to start swinging around dangerously.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're lifting something in a flatbed-mounted crane and the crane becomes unbalanced and starts to topple.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question doesn't pertain to the office, but it does pertain to &lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt; workplace, naming a warehouse, a factory floor or a construction site. Would these questions be on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16277" LastActivityDate="2016-09-20T22:01:13.883" Title="Are questions about other workplaces than the office/telecommute on topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3922" CreationDate="2016-09-20T15:59:35.090" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While many questions here tend to the office environment (given the audience of Stack Exchange), questions like what you are saying &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; are on topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would add that in my experience the majority of people here have no experience in working in that sort of environment, so I suspect answers you get may be... less than beneficial. Though in my experience having worked for a factory myself, most companies have explicit safety training and policies about such things and most answers will be to know what your safety procedures are in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-09-20T15:59:35.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3922" CreationDate="2016-09-20T17:00:44.207" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3923/16983&quot;&gt;enderland said&lt;/a&gt;, we do answer plenty of questions that aren't about a typical office environment, so your question wouldn't be off-topic for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think your specific question would still be off-topic because it is asking about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2694/16983&quot;&gt;specific company policy&lt;/a&gt;. This safety procedure is something that should be defined by your employer, and all of our answers would tell you to ask your manager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way this could be on topic would be if you were trying to write such a safety procedure. We can't tell you specifically what would go in the document, because most of us are not qualified to do so, but we can tell you how to approach finding the information and professional advice you need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:40:25.820" LastActivityDate="2016-09-20T17:00:44.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3922" CreationDate="2016-09-20T18:09:25.523" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;So long as you keep the questions general, and not company specific, or asking on specific advice unique to your position, you should be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example of a bad questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My boss is letting the forklifts go too long without maintenance, but it's still within the company guidelines, what do I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My boss is making me work without goggles or a hard hat, is that legal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example of better question:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am concerned about the maintenance record of the forklifts.  We are a union shop, I already reported this to my shop steward.  Are there any other actions I could take, as I am concerned about safety?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-09-20T18:09:25.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3922" CreationDate="2016-09-20T22:01:13.883" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I know unless company specific they would be on topic. I would be more than happy to try and answer questions of that sort. I have worked in several industries. The only reason we mostly get office questions, is office workers are our main demographic I would think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I have seen a question from a lady who was working as some sort of forest ranger, and another to do with safety gear by an apprentice mechanic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I'd like to see those sorts of questions, because half my work history is working with my hands jobs, and I possibly emphasize more with their mindset and problem resolution strategies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-09-20T22:01:13.883" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3927" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3929" CreationDate="2016-09-21T14:01:09.890" Score="19" ViewCount="368" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been wanting to post on this for some time, but don't want to post something just to have it shut down as a duplicate because it talks about disabilities and someone else has already posted about disabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Autism Spectrum has some fairly unique problems specific to the workplace that other disabilities do not, because we seem relatively normal, especially on the high end, but our communication skills and behaviors can cause trouble for us.  In short, we can come across as jerks when we don't intend to, and that's something that other disabilities don't have to face.  You don't consider someone who is deaf to be rude for not hearing you for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to pose a question or two asking for advice on how to deal with AS in the workplace, but would like to ensure it's on topic.  What is the best way to do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-09-26T01:31:13.877" Title="How to make questions about dealing with aspergers/autism in the workplace on topic" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3927" CreationDate="2016-09-21T14:26:34.303" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Handling disabilities on workplace is a real matter nowadays, they're laws to enforce that they're provided an adequate environment to work and to not get discriminated. So I can't see why this won't be on-topic as long as it is related to problems that affect the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I guess that in some specific issues you might have an hard time to get an answer, because not a lof of people on the site will know how exactly to deal with,  possibly neither your manager or a RH.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finnaly some people here could ask questions about a coworker being rude when they don't know he's in the AS either because he's didn't check it with a doctor or he won't reveal it. This is probably the hardest part about it. Probably the best answer there would be just for peoples to try to figure out if he meant to be jerk or if he's just like this &quot;naturally&quot;, which can be a problem when this look like unprofessional. Having differents answer for two apparent similar problems, when one is caused by an (possibly not known) AS and one is not is really tricky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastEditorUserId="47387" LastEditDate="2016-09-21T14:31:51.710" LastActivityDate="2016-09-21T14:31:51.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3927" CreationDate="2016-09-21T15:12:03.387" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deal with aspbergers as well so please do not think that I am dismissing your needs or concerns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE is designed around providing answers to questions that will potentially help many people.  So when asking any question it is important to make sure that your question is as broadly applicable as possible.  If your question is only applicable to your specific situation at a specific point in time then it is better to ask in Chat or elsewhere.  But if your situation can be generalized into one that you deal with often or even just a few times chances are that other people deal with that same general situation so your question could be helpful.  But make sure when generalizing the question that you do not go so generic that the solutions provided are not useful because they miss important parts.  Right now you are probably thinking boy that's a tough ask, and it is.  These types of questions can work here but the vast majority of them will either be too broad or too specific.  We can save some of them with edits but the more the OP can do to make it a better question in the first place the more helpful the answers are likely to be to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second you have to make sure you provide a goal that you want to achieve.  &quot;This is my situation, what should I do?&quot; How many hundreds of these have we seen in the last few months.  They get closed usually and just as often as not end up with a lot of useless answers.  Instead make sure you have a &quot;This is my situation, I want to achieve X, how can I do that given these conditions&quot; question.  And make sure that X is in the scope of the workplace.  This is not a Q&amp;amp;A about special needs and situations, it is about the workplace.  Make sure that the context of the question is clearly in the scope of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, try to stay out of comment wars.  I struggle with this as well.  But if an answer is not helpful just down vote it and move on.  Questions that generate lots of comments get more attention in a bad way.   Questions that are borderline are more likely to get closed if they are controversial than if they just get answers but no comment wars.  When the OP of the question gets involved in comment wars I have noticed the questions tend to get closed quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2016-09-21T15:12:03.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3927" CreationDate="2016-09-21T15:12:19.287" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just post the question(s), either we can deal with them or we can't. But there's a host of keen, intelligent and observant people here with a lot of experience in all sorts of things, I reckon someone will be able to answer you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just not me, because I never even heard of it before coming here except some maths wizard guy in a movie. Who I would hire like a shot and treat like he's made of gold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2016-09-26T01:31:13.877" LastActivityDate="2016-09-26T01:31:13.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3906" CreationDate="2016-09-22T23:30:26.997" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to forcing you to think harder and formulate your ideas(as jmort mentioned), I enjoy helping people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I can provide a good answer to an question, I have potentially helped the asker and any future person who finds that answer later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would certainly consider including my workplace.se account on my resume when applying for management type jobs. Similar to how many developers include their stack overflow accounts. I think it would give a potential employer a lot of insight into my management style, writing ability, communication skills, judgement, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52776" LastActivityDate="2016-09-22T23:30:26.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3932" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-27T13:46:34.420" Score="10" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/76709/chose-rationally-between-two-different-jobs-life-changing&quot;&gt;Chose rationally between two different jobs (life changing)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; has been closed for asking &quot;What to do&quot;. I believe that this question is not off-topic and should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final lines from the question ask&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm trying to find a way to decide semi-rationally: at the moment I'm&#xA;  listing all the pro and cons and weighting them on a -5/+5 scale.&#xA;  However I feel like, if I am the one to write down pro and cons it&#xA;  will be an important bias in the final result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What's the most rational way to decide which road to take?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is not asking us to make a decision for the OP. The question is asking how to make a rational choice, which is exactly what we want! The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2693/custom-off-topic-close-reasons-change/2695#2695&quot;&gt;Meta post&lt;/a&gt; specifically says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another alternative is to&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; your post to&#xA;  ask about &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; you should make the decision, rather than&#xA;  just &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; decision to make. For instance, instead of asking &lt;em&gt;&quot;Should&#xA;  I take the job in the big multi-national company or the up-and-coming&#xA;  startup?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; you could ask a question that will help you make that&#xA;  decision, like &lt;em&gt;&quot;How can I figure out the financial health of a&#xA;  startup I am applying to by asking questions in an interview?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to request that this question be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-09-29T13:22:26.760" Title="&quot;Choose rationally between two different jobs&quot; - reopen request" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3934" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-29T12:54:02.833" Score="1" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/76843/employer-asked-me-to-leave-the-job-in-30-days&quot;&gt;Employer asked me to leave the job in 30 days&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the edit history, you'll see that it's been edited by user58078, and the edit was approved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem as I see it is that this information wasn't given by the OP, so where did it come from and why was it approved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-09-29T18:13:08.823" Title="Question Edited by another user, adding info that wasn't there before?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3934" CreationDate="2016-09-29T13:04:04.737" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's fairly common for someone to suggest an edit as an anonymous user to their own question, if they registered an account and lost information/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://android.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2129/31251&quot;&gt;This meta post elsewhere&lt;/a&gt; has a lot of good explanation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So it's basically ok to change the content and meaning of someone else's question/answer, just as long as you do it anonymously and assume that the reviewers will think it's the OP who's forgotten their password?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it's not ok. I don't know why you think it would be ok to blatantly troll another user for... fun, I guess?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you (or others) see what appears to be someone doing this, please flag the post so as moderators we can investigate and correct the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:42.693" LastActivityDate="2016-09-29T13:21:19.890" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3934" CreationDate="2016-09-29T18:13:08.823" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As one of the users who approved this edit, I'll confirm that my thoughts were exactly as enderland suggests: by far the most likely case is that this was from the OP having somehow screwed up their registration - it happens all the time. Let's not worry about the remote possibility that this might have been a &quot;malicious&quot; edit until it can be shown that this actually happens on a regular basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll also note I left a comment for the OP explaining what they &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; do in this situation; they've had plenty of opportunities to shout if there were &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; a problem here. Right now, this meta post seems to be worrying about an imagined problem, with no evidence presented that there is any actual problem at all. Let's move on until that evidence appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, my recollection is that the edit &lt;em&gt;wasn't&lt;/em&gt; from an anonymous account when it was made. You'd need someone who understands that SE process more than I do to explain what happened there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14388" LastActivityDate="2016-09-29T18:13:08.823" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3428" CreationDate="2016-10-01T10:58:37.630" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a non-American, I call it a CV. I am not familiar with the word &lt;em&gt;résumé&lt;/em&gt; in this context. I can certainly understand the word, but I’m not &lt;em&gt;familiar&lt;/em&gt; with it, which means that it’s not the first thing that comes to mind when I see &lt;em&gt;resume&lt;/em&gt;. I will read that as written, as a word which Collins defines as “to begin again or go on with (something adjourned or interrupted)”. Only when that definition makes no sense do I mentally rewrite it in my head and pick the other definition. This means that every single time I see the word, there’s a brief mental hiccough: my train of thought goes down the wrong path and needs to be recalled. Spelling the word correctly, as &lt;em&gt;résumé&lt;/em&gt;, would definitely help that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag should definitely be given the accents, with the non-accented version synonomized. Due to improvements in the tag engine, this is now possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="362" LastActivityDate="2016-10-01T10:58:37.630" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3938" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3939" CreationDate="2016-10-02T01:33:48.267" Score="1" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/2163/3192&quot;&gt;What are the pros and cons of disclosing a spectrum disorder when applying for a job?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as &quot;not constructive&quot; about 4 years ago because it asked for &quot;pros and cons&quot;. However, much water has flown under the bridge, and we have accepted more &quot;subjective&quot; questions since then. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, this closely related question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/27116/3192&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;m not being hired, presumably because I have Asperger&amp;#39;s. Is there anything I can do about it?&lt;/a&gt; seems to have been received more positively. More recently, we also got this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/77004/3192&quot;&gt;Should I mention that I&amp;#39;m autistic in an interview?&lt;/a&gt; which seems to be an exact duplicate of the closed question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't even have the &quot;not constructive&quot; close reason any more. Can the question be considered for reopening? If not, can it be edited to make it reopenable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-10-02T10:03:40.923" Title="Can this question on Autism/Asperger's Syndrome be reopened?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3938" CreationDate="2016-10-02T10:03:40.923" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have significantly edited the question for language and to get rid of the typical &quot;advice question&quot; components (&lt;em&gt;&quot;should I?&quot;, &quot;what's best?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;). The question is fine for our current standards and is answerable. &lt;strong&gt;I've voted to reopen.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also merged the &lt;em&gt;aspergers&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;autism&lt;/em&gt; tags into the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/autism-spectrum&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;autism-spectrum&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;autism-spectrum&lt;/a&gt; tag since that adequately covers both and helps to group these questions together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2016-10-02T10:03:40.923" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3941" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-04T11:09:39.670" Score="15" ViewCount="978" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am in the habit of using backticks in comments for quoting or highlighting parts of them(mainly quoting parts of others' comments). Personally, I feel that a change of font serves better for grabbing a reader's attention than quotes or italics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I was recently told to not use code blocks for this purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining against anyone and I respect keeping consistencies across the SE sites, but I kind of feel there isn't any use for the code formatting on a site such as Workplace.SE, especially in comments, where you can't use the Return key.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there really a better(or should I say, intended) use for the backticks on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43309" LastActivityDate="2016-10-05T15:23:28.630" Title="Do code backticks really have a use on this site?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3941" CreationDate="2016-10-04T11:52:05.620" Score="31" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, I was recently told to not use code blocks for this purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that was me. Here's the full-text I normally use when I comment on this use of the code markup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please do not use backquotes to highlight quoted text in comments.&#xA;  This syntax should be reserved for code or data, not normal text.&#xA;  Abusing code markdown causes problems for parsing tools such as screen&#xA;  readers for the visually impaired and is easily avoided by using&#xA;  italics and quotation marks instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Short form)&lt;/em&gt; Please avoid using code markup to format quotes. You can use italics&#xA;  and quotation marks instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several reasons not to abuse this syntax:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's &lt;strong&gt;unnecessary&lt;/strong&gt;: you have a choice of quotation marks and/or italic syntax (&lt;code&gt;*text*&lt;/code&gt;) at your disposal to identify quotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's &lt;strong&gt;ugly&lt;/strong&gt;: code markup uses a distinct monospaced font that breaks the flow of what is supposed to be regular text&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;it's not what they're for&lt;/strong&gt;: code markup has a distinct meaning and this is contrary to the site's visual identity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it &lt;strong&gt;screws people using screen readers&lt;/strong&gt; and other alternative methods to consume the page (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7437/using-code-ticks-for-technical-term-highlighting-considered-harmful&quot;&gt;the Arqade link&lt;/a&gt; for details)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it &lt;strong&gt;adds unexpected emphasis&lt;/strong&gt;: this is a problem both if it's done deliberately or if it's unintended as it seems to put focus on a quoted section that's, by definition, only a reference and not the author's main statement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this applies across the entire network. Sites that don't have a need for code markup &lt;strong&gt;simply shouldn't use it!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more details why abuse of code markup is problematic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Meta: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/135112/inline-code-spans-should-not-be-used-for-emphasis-right&quot;&gt;Inline Code Spans should not be used for emphasis, right?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Arqade: &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7437&quot;&gt;Using code ticks for technical term highlighting considered harmful&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that actual quote markup for comments &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/120031/add-quote-markup-to-comments&quot;&gt;has been a feature request for nearly 5 years now&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-10-04T16:05:30.233" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3941" CreationDate="2016-10-04T12:35:13.337" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly I like code backticks when I quote something in comments, too. It makes it more obvious to me what is being quoted. Normal quote marks aren't as obvious there at all and there's not really a better tool right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using italics is the only other real option...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-10-04T12:35:13.337" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3941" CreationDate="2016-10-04T18:41:55.790" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have come across what is known as the XY Problem. The real problem is not whether you should be &quot;allowed&quot; to use backquotes in comments. It has been repeatedly emphasised on the SE network that &quot;comments are not for extended discussion &lt;s&gt;this conversation has been moved to chat &lt;/s&gt;&quot; but to improve the post on which you are commenting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are about to comment something which &lt;em&gt;requires&lt;/em&gt; quoting another user, you are, in most cases, not using comments for the intended purpose. Comments should only be addressed to the user whose post you are commenting on. In those cases, quoting the user using quotation marks is sufficient. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting into a discussion with a third person is not at all the intended purpose of the comments. If you and a third person disagree on how the poster should &quot;improve&quot; his post, that should be taken to chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My &lt;s&gt;misadventure &lt;/s&gt;experiments under enderland's answer made me realize that (some) HTML tags are not allowed in the comments because &lt;s&gt;they just didn't care &lt;/s&gt; comments are not meant for meta-humour either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I am not preaching from a moral high ground here, as I &quot;amuse&quot; myself (and others) a fair amount here in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, it is &lt;code&gt;fair enough&lt;/code&gt; if some formatting tags are not useful on some SE sites. For instance,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; spoiler tag is useful to Anime.SE, Puzzling.SE, Movies.SE, etc. but not here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;$ whatever they call this thing is useful to Mathematics.SE, MathOverflow.SE, etc. but not here. $&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2016-10-04T18:47:42.810" LastActivityDate="2016-10-04T18:47:42.810" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3941" CreationDate="2016-10-05T15:23:28.630" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no intended use. However, back-ticks are &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;markdown&lt;/a&gt; feature, so they cannot be easily disabled on sites which don't need them without disabling markdown formatting altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37016" LastActivityDate="2016-10-05T15:23:28.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3946" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-06T12:37:19.390" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/77233/16&quot;&gt;Is it appropriate to bring candidates to your daily stand up?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question as it stands is answerable and ontopic and no more opinion based than any other question.  So IMO it could be reopened as is.  However I think a better question for the site is something like: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How to best handle bringing a candidate into a stand-up meeting and what can&#xA;  they get out of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However due to the fact that there are already 3 decent answers to the original question that would be invalidated by the new question.  I would also hate to see that new question I proposed here closed as a duplicate of the question linked which I feel is likely to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-10-07T12:24:07.340" Title="Should we edit the Candidates at standups question to make it more on topic?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3946" CreationDate="2016-10-06T13:41:09.307" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No I don't think this is opinion based, however these in my opinion are Company regulations/specifics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? What ever you do on an on-site interview will be depending on your Company different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example in my Company there is a Gallery of achievements, free meal(depending on time ofc), painting course ect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49065" LastActivityDate="2016-10-06T13:41:09.307" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3946" CreationDate="2016-10-07T12:24:07.340" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it needs editing as it stands, and really I don't see why it was closed either, but then I rarely do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit you propose would be better as a totally new question, and I also think it would be closed fairly quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-10-07T12:24:07.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-07T15:29:27.487" Score="8" ViewCount="433" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/77253/how-do-i-defend-my-self-against-the-allegation-that-i-made-an-inappropriate-cul&quot;&gt;How do I defend my self against the allegation that I made an inappropriate, culturally offensive statement in class?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a question that we should be able to tackle.  Is there some way we can save this question?  Being a teacher is a job and this is about navigating the workplace if you work at a school. Can we save it?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note there are no answers so if we need to do a significant edit for the question to be saved - at least we have that option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="61983" LastEditDate="2019-12-10T07:19:57.613" LastActivityDate="2019-12-10T07:19:57.613" Title="How do we save the question about an offensive remark by a teacher?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3949" CreationDate="2016-10-07T17:03:47.117" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the wordiness and emotion coming through made it come across as more of a rant.  Here's what I propose as an edit.  Please feel free to alter or suggest changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SUGGESTED EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sub coordinator for the county said the school's report stated that a student had reported that I had reprimanded a few male students in a class and had said something regarding the school's culture being one of behaving with equal respect toward both men and women teachers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This arose from an incident where I politely, quietly admonished three disrespectful students who continued to talk after I had asked them to please listen as I was giving instructions regarding what the class had been assigned to do by their teacher. I  did not &quot;write them up&quot; because I did not want their records to be tarnished because of a relatively minor infraction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not been given the opportunity to respond to the allegations levied against me. There has been no dialogue or opportunity to discuss the problems and make right any misunderstandings that arose out of my comment that day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be a good strategy to address this with my superiors to correct this misunderstanding?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-10-07T17:03:47.117" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3951" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-07T22:25:44.907" Score="0" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, an &quot;answer&quot; that was wrong in several ways was posted and several people commented on how wrong it was.  Currently after twenty downvotes, the person who posted it and someone else are alternately deleting and restoring an edit complaining about the downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But all the comments are gone, and they are not in chat.  Seems to me the reasons for the downvotes should not be deleted.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17729" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2016-10-09T03:04:20.990" LastActivityDate="2016-10-10T00:09:16.823" Title="Deletion of comments on bad answer" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3949" CreationDate="2016-10-07T22:53:13.343" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it can be edited to be a good question without fundamentally changing it. It's too disjointed and comes across as a one-sided rant justifying some underlying hidden reason for a reprimand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better question is 'How can I deal with a reprimand I feel is unjustified where I am unable to defend myself'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-10-07T22:53:13.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3951" CreationDate="2016-10-08T17:56:08.983" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The overwhelming majority of that comment thread was inane and not worth keeping. It also attracted enough &quot;rude/offensive&quot; flags to generate a system auto-generated flag, even before it had enough comments to generate the &quot;more than 20 comments flag.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are not intended to prevent other people on the Internet being wrong. Particularly when there are comments like &quot;it's downright WRONG&quot; - comments like this provide zero value whatsoever that a downvote doesn't provide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you disagree with an answer there are a few things to do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post an alternative answer (I see you have done this)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote (because voting is anoynmous, I don't know whether you have, but I do recommend it if you disagree with the answer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment with suggested improvements or requests for clarification&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Note that &quot;you are an idiot&quot; or &quot;you are wrong&quot; or meta discussions about things that aren't related to the question/answer do NOT fall into this category. I'm slightly generalizing the quality of the comments on that answer, but barely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you must, post factual errors &lt;em&gt;without emotional commentary&lt;/em&gt;. From my perspective this appears to be incredibly difficult given the quantity of emotionally charged &quot;you idiot&quot; comments we see as moderators.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is not intended to be a discussion board where arguments take place about things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the edits, answers are not the place for meta information like they were trying to do. The rollbacks were appropriate. If this continues, flagging the answer for moderator attention is also appropriate (although I believe that answer is close to automatically generating a system flag for rollback wars).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2016-10-10T00:09:16.823" LastActivityDate="2016-10-10T00:09:16.823" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3954" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-10T10:22:55.773" Score="7" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently passed the 10000 rep threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there now things to be more careful of/pay attention to, e.g. because flags and votes have more impact?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8036" LastActivityDate="2016-10-10T15:07:11.387" Title="Things to be careful about after 10000+ rep?" Tags="|support|voting|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3954" CreationDate="2016-10-10T15:07:11.387" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think much changes about the tools you previously had access to.  You should vote, review, close/reopen, edit, comment, and flag the same as you did before.  Your flags don't now carry more weight, for example.  In the low-quality review queue your &quot;recommend deletion&quot; option might be replaced with a &quot;delete&quot; option; I'm not sure if that kicks in at 10k or 20k.  (At 10k you can vote to delete &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; posts, but is the review queue sensitive to that?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can now vote to delete posts under some circumstances.  One thing to know is that, unlike other votes, delete votes can't be retracted and don't time out.  Please &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; vote to delete stuff that really doesn't belong, but if you think it can be improved so it's no longer delete-worthy, try to help make that happen instead.  This is a different pattern from &quot;downvote because bad, and if it's fixed retract or reverse the downvote&quot;, and that's unfortunate.  Don't be afraid of voting, though; when we moderators see flags calling for something to be removed we &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want to see community involvement instead of just mod-hammering it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for helping to maintain the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-10-10T15:07:11.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3956" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-12T17:47:23.343" Score="15" ViewCount="411" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here at The Workplace, we have prohibitions against offering legal opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we have cases where respondents feel free to offer a psychological diagnosis, seemingly based on nothing more than a few written sentences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems odd to me. Anyone agree or otherwise care to comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-10-27T06:00:45.693" Title="We avoid legal opinions. Should we avoid medical/psychological opinions as well?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3956" CreationDate="2016-10-12T18:25:14.463" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Legal issues are a fine point that vary from state to state, country to country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Human bodies do not vary, so if someone is asking about a pain in their chest, shortness of breach and numbness in their left arm, I think we can all identify those a symptoms of a heart attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of us also suffer from neurological and psychological issues and can provide a unique perspective on the issue.  I should hate to see questions about what a good approach is for assistance when you are hearing impaired go by the wayside due to some arbitrary, and IMO, unnecessary ban on asking real questions with real answers that have a &lt;strong&gt;very real affect on the workplace.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, there are &lt;strong&gt;plenty&lt;/strong&gt; of people from HR or who have personal experience dealing with psychological issues.  There are numerous books on the workplace dealing with psychology from Dale Carnegie's &quot;How to win friends and influence people&quot; to &quot;The seven habits of highly effective people&quot; to &quot;Brag, how to toot your own horn without blowing it&quot; to lesser known books such as &quot;Rhinoceros success&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what is sales if not 100% psychology?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, if we ban questions like this, we may as well close down shop and turn out the lights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per Jan Doggen.  This does not mean that we should not employ the down-vote when someone is giving bad advice, especially when it's from armchair diagnosticians.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2016-10-17T14:38:45.450" LastActivityDate="2016-10-17T14:38:45.450" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3956" CreationDate="2016-10-12T21:11:02.883" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the comparison of the medical &quot;diagnosis&quot; to which you refer to legal opinions is a fair one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the Internet. It's largely full of crap and everyone knows it. To paraphrase Gene Spafford:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[The Internet]  is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea&#xA;  -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the distinction between a legal question and a medical diagnosis is where it applies. We don't answer legal questions. We also don't answer medical questions. I suspect that the reason there's not a closure reason specifying medical questions is because nobody actually asks them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're not talking about a question though, we're talking about answers. And that's where my Spafford quote comes in. The Internet is largely full of crap and everyone knows it. But it's generally up to the individual to differentiate the crap from what's valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We aren't supposed to give legal advice as answers, obviously. But the reality is that we often do, to a greater or lesser degree. We phrases like &quot;if it were me&quot; or &quot;in my opinion&quot; or even go so far as to be more blunt and then end it with something &quot;...regardless, you need to see a lawyer&quot; or something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference with medical opinions is that they are talking about a person rather than a situation and we need to be discussing situations because otherwise there's no wide applicability to a Q&amp;amp;A site. But like legal &quot;answers&quot; does anyone really take a diagnosis seriously? Is a questioner going to say &quot;Wow, I didn't know I had that, I'm going to tell my HR department and get some accommodations&quot;?  Highly unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the real question as I see it is &quot;How do we deal with people offering medical diagnoses?&quot; and the good news is that we already have ways and use them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote the answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment about it so anyone reading the answer sees that the so-called diagnosis is challenged.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag the answer as &quot;Not an answer&quot; or with enough rep, vote to delete it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR: If I were going to change anything (assuming the language isn't there already) I'd specify something that clarifies that (like questions) it's not permissible to offer any answer that otherwise requires a license such as legal, medical and psychiatric.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Of course that's just my opinion. I could be wrong&quot; -- Dennis Miller&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastActivityDate="2016-10-12T21:11:02.883" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3956" CreationDate="2016-10-13T10:11:03.273" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/77615/27483&quot;&gt;My answer&lt;/a&gt; sparked this meta post. It was highly up-voted and I don't believe it overstepped a mark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I pointed the OP to an often mentioned psychological syndrome. I didn't offer a medical diagnosis nor suggest treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: for reference I've changed the part where I say that the OP maybe suffering from impostor syndrome, to one saying that many job seekers and new hires feel symptoms similar to those of impostor syndrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27483" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-10-13T14:45:00.440" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3956" CreationDate="2016-10-13T12:54:54.837" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR: I don't think we have a problem.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To start with, we don't allow answers that give legal advice because we don't allow questions seeking legal advice. Legal issues are inherent to the workplace, and so theses types of questions are very common. We don't allow them, because most of us are not lawyers, and we don't want people to act on our advice without seeking professional opinions first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do not receive questions seeking medical advice, as that is not related to the workplace. There are some questions related to psychological issues, like depression, anxiety, and Asperger's, but they are always directly related to dealing with them in the workplace. Our advice here is relevant and does not require a medical degree, particularly since many people here are familiar with these issues either first- or second-hand. We usually aren't giving medical advice, but instead management or coping techniques.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You specifically mention medical &quot;diagnoses&quot;. These almost always occur when someone is explaining their situation and an answerer says &quot;You sound like you have clinical depression/anxiety/back problems. You should really see a therapist/doctor.&quot; I think these are well-intended and not out of line. No one is going to take any action from this advice aside from seeing a professional. I don't think these sorts of diagnoses are inappropriate or dangerous here, if they are relevant to answering the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/77613/the-bad-thing-about-being-too-convincing-in-an-interview/77615#77615&quot;&gt;answer you linked&lt;/a&gt; is in my opinion a little different in that Impostor Syndrome has become a bit of a generic term for lack of confidence in one's own ability. Yes, it is a psychological condition, but most people don't refer to it that way. I think the answer could be improved by focusing on the lack of confidence and making the Impostor Syndrome definition a side note.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, we also see people diagnosing coworkers and bosses from posts. &quot;Wow, your boss sounds bi-polar. I'd get out of there fast!&quot; Yes, it's a diagnosis, but no one is going to take action based on the medical aspect of our advice. Judging someone and labeling them with a disorder might be rude and unfounded, but it is not on the same level as giving unsound legal advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2016-10-13T13:05:04.330" LastActivityDate="2016-10-13T13:05:04.330" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3956" CreationDate="2016-10-13T16:19:41.377" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tl;dr I agree with @Joe but not on Imposter Syndrome.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, before I get into my larger answer, I need to make a side point relevant to the @Joe's comments on his question and the existing answers. I believe there is an important distinction that we are failing to draw here: there is a difference between a psychological &lt;strong&gt;disorder&lt;/strong&gt; and a psychological &lt;strong&gt;reaction&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A psychological &lt;strong&gt;disorder&lt;/strong&gt; is something like depression, being bipolar, etc. where the brain is recognized as functioning outside of a neuronormative state. Another way of thinking about this would be that these disorders are likely happen regardless of the inputs (i.e. people are depressed but not due to a events-based specific cause).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, Imposter Syndrome is a real thing that also needs to be corrected, but it is more of a &lt;strong&gt;reaction&lt;/strong&gt; - its occurrence is more dependent on the situational inputs. Another example of a suboptimal reaction or bias would be how people think about prices - for example, how you can often get people to pay more money than they otherwise would under two pricing options by adding a third option because of assumptions about the quality of the &quot;cheaper&quot; option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that distinction made, I largely agree with @Joe. I feel that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People writing answers should not offer definitive-sounding medical diagnoses (either physical or psychological) for &lt;strong&gt;disorders&lt;/strong&gt;. Instead, if this person feels a disorder may be playing a part in the OP's situation, they can say something like &quot;I was once in a similar situation and found (disorder) to be the cause. You may want to consult with a medical professional to see if this also applies to you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That said, I feel that answers explaining about Imposter Syndrome are completely fine. I feel that the answerer in @Joe's example was probably off-base, but there is nothing wrong with explaining about human psychological &lt;strong&gt;biases&lt;/strong&gt; to try to help a questioner make a more informed, objective decision.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is one good example of many where I feel Imposter Syndrome makes for a great answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/47273/43144&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/47273/43144&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user43144" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-10-13T16:19:41.377" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3956" CreationDate="2016-10-13T19:17:46.927" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My take on this specific case was that imposter syndrome was not being referenced as a diagnosis, but as a label for discussing a common human behavior most of us experience at some point in our careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other I instances I can think of where the comment has been directed to the querant have all been of the form &quot;I'm not a doctor, but what you are describing sounds like it could be ... And you might want to consider that as an approach to managing that.&quot; Or &quot;as someone who has wrestled with ... here's what I've found useful.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where we get into trouble, in my opinion, is when we are tempted to apply labels to the crazies the querant works with, based only on what the querant has told us about them... It's important to remember we don't have all the facts, they aren't here to give us their side of the story, and sometimes the querant 's perceptions are completely mistaken. We need to allow room for that when offering advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But over all, I think we do fairly well on this front and I'm not convinced I see anything that needs changing -- as long as we continue to focus on the workplace rather than treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastEditorUserId="12989" LastEditDate="2016-10-14T15:13:34.937" LastActivityDate="2016-10-14T15:13:34.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3963" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-14T16:31:38.713" Score="8" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/77779/how-and-if-to-ask-to-be-paid-for-overtime-ontario-engineer&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and the comment that caught me off guard was this bit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alright I'll move it away, I figured since there was a &quot;law&quot; tag that it was applicable &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/law&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;law&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;law&lt;/a&gt; tag? I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/479/whats-the-legal-tag-for&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/legal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;legal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;legal&lt;/a&gt; which was to be removed. Should the same be done for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/law&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;law&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;law&lt;/a&gt; tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On another note, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/legal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;legal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;legal&lt;/a&gt; has reappeared, should they both be blacklisted then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52713" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:24:40.130" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:24:40.130" Title="If we avoid legal advice, why do we have a law tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|burninate-request|tag-blacklist-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3963" CreationDate="2016-10-14T21:14:36.393" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because one is able to converse in discussions and topics regarding law without asking for or giving legal advice&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37962" LastActivityDate="2016-10-14T21:14:36.393" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3965" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-18T23:24:13.807" Score="2" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;... so we don't wind up with so many that have to be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have any good suggestions, alas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2016-10-19T13:14:28.820" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T18:28:41.643" Title="Is there any way to better guide question authors" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3966" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3969" CreationDate="2016-10-20T04:58:29.787" Score="6" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is closed with the reason of being company-specific: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/78109/26826&quot;&gt;In group interview, do candidates who are asked more questions than others have higher chance to be admitted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? If there is a post from a country I don't live in discussing about group interview, then I'm pretty sure that this is not a company-specific, or even country-specific, problem. Which information in the question makes it company-specific?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26826" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-10-22T15:49:28.307" Title="Why is the question about group interview company-specific?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3966" CreationDate="2016-10-20T06:48:10.580" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Group interviews are not company specific, but whether the decision to select candidates depends on how long the candidate was interviewed depends on the specific company, the specific interviewer(s), or even the specific interview. A general answer that is useful to a larger audience cannot be given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2016-10-20T06:48:10.580" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3966" CreationDate="2016-10-20T12:32:41.447" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason given for close was bad, but I still would have voted to close it with &quot;Unclear what you're asking&quot; or too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no way of knowing WHY a candidate would get more questions without knowing the specifics, plus it asks us to get into the mind of the interviewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tended to be a tough interviewer, and sometimes I'd try to shake a person up by asking a bunch of questions.  In other cases, if I felt that the interviewee was too nervous and not able to get some things out, I'd ask leading questions to get them to open up a bit.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no way that this question could get good answers, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do, however disagree with the close reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-10-20T12:32:41.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3966" CreationDate="2016-10-20T12:53:40.243" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3967/16983&quot;&gt;MaskedMan's answer&lt;/a&gt;, but want to expand a little. The question is off-topic because it really boils down to asking &quot;Who is most likely to get hired?&quot; without knowing any real information. Any answer would be purely speculating at the motives of your interviewer and the skillsets and personalities of the other candidates. A better question would be to ask&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a group interview, I noticed that some of the candidates are getting more questions about their work or life background than others. Why would an interviewer ask different questions to different candidates? Should I be worried about my chances if I'm not getting asked as many questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is still borderline on-topic, since there's still a good deal of speculation involved, but rather than asking us to guess what your interviewer is thinking, you are asking us, generically, in what situations such questioning would be appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2016-10-20T12:53:40.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3956" CreationDate="2016-10-20T17:10:00.090" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason for not giving legal advice, I presume, is that this is a specialized and highly technical field and people with legal issues should seek help from professional lawyers and not from random people on the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course you could then say the same thing about psychological diagnoses: You should get such advice from a trained psychologist and not some random guy on the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if we follow that reasoning to its natural conclusion, we'd have to rule out almost any sort of advice. Aren't you better to get advice about personal finance from a professional financial consultant? Shouldn't you get advice about job hunting from a professional job placement firm? Etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the practical answer is that it's a matter of degree, and the level of technicality of an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone on this site answered a question by saying, for example, &quot;No, you can't do that, because that would be breaking a contract&quot;, I hope the moderators wouldn't be so pedantic as to say that that's legal advice and thus out of bounds. Or if someone said, &quot;You really should take your vacation time, because we all need some rest to stay healthy and alert&quot;, I hope that wouldn't get flagged as improper medical advice. But if someone said, &quot;Sounds like you have Fowler-Hayes Syndrome. You should take 4 milligrams of oxyribotropin twice daily ...&quot; etc, (I just made those words up, don't bother telling me they're nonsense) well even if the person is a licensed physician it's unlikely he could make a serious diagnosis and treatment plan based on a forum post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't need a licensed psychologist to tell me that screaming obscenities at co-workers will likely make them angry and resentful towards me. But I wouldn't give any credence at all to a diagnosis of a complex psychological condition from a random stranger based on a forum post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14073" LastActivityDate="2016-10-20T17:10:00.090" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3963" CreationDate="2016-10-23T00:18:19.060" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because talking about law doesn't necessarily mean you are seeking legal &quot;advice&quot;. Not to mention if someone is asking a question regarding the legal/law career fields. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59152" LastActivityDate="2016-10-23T00:18:19.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3965" CreationDate="2016-10-23T00:53:40.337" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We could ask the SE people to put some validation in the form to filter spelling and simple grammar issues with a nice message 'Please correct your kindergarten spelling errors and resubmit.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the actual question idea itself would be difficult to validate automatically. Kudo's to us humans beating the machines once again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-10-23T00:53:40.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3973" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-25T11:44:20.590" Score="30" ViewCount="471" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since what &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3351/25739&quot;&gt;goes around&lt;/a&gt; should come around, I'd like to congratulate enderland for being the second person on the site's to obtain the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/badges/43/legendary&quot;&gt;legendary&lt;/a&gt; badge! This significant milestone is awarded for &lt;strike&gt;abusing the HNQ&lt;/strike&gt; hitting the daily reputation cap 150 times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/33105796#33105796&quot;&gt;Legenderland&lt;/a&gt;, in your own words: &lt;em&gt;Thanks for helping make this place great!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-10-25T21:55:49.770" Title="Congratulations to enderland for your Legendary badge!" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2016-12-22T00:08:09.487" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3973" CreationDate="2016-10-25T21:55:49.770" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have always found your answers to be reasonable, well thought-out, and thought-provoking - not to mention &lt;em&gt;legendary&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep up the great work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-10-25T21:55:49.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3975" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-26T10:56:17.917" Score="5" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/67220/is-it-unethical-to-say-my-current-employer-has-financial-problems-when-looking-f?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Is it unethical to say my current employer has financial problems when looking for another job?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was closed as a duplicate of this, admittedly older, question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/55404/can-i-disclose-my-companys-financial-troubles-when-applying-for-new-jobs-uk&quot;&gt;Can I disclose my company&amp;#39;s financial troubles when applying for new jobs (UK)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I believe the newer question is much more suited to being redirected to, covers a more general situation and has enjoyed more input thanks to a stint on the HNQ. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to suggest reopening the the first question and marking the second as a duplicate of the first once that's been done. This can be done by community votes or if there's sufficient consensus here I assume a mod can do so manually. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-10-26T13:14:08.873" Title="Swap Duplicate Redirect" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3975" CreationDate="2016-10-26T13:14:08.873" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would Keep both open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reasoning behind it the older question has answers relevant to the UK.&#xA;Now there might not be a lot of difference with the new questions but alot of the context will be usefull for the UK and might not be for the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example the financial turnover is public knowledge in my home Country as is the threshold**. Referring that in an interview isnt considered a negative or possitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I would have no clue if an American Company has this available or even where I could find this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;** refering the required average weekly incoming&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49065" LastActivityDate="2016-10-26T13:14:08.873" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3977" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-26T15:42:30.327" Score="18" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until recently, comment flag type did not matter very much and as moderators we basically processed them regardless of type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a reminder when flagging there are the following options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CptoB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CptoB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/17365/193412&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;rude or offensive — comments that violate the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq#etiquette&quot;&gt;“be nice”&#xA;  rule&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;not constructive&#xA;  / off-topic — comments that do not contribute to improve the post are&#xA;  ripe for deletion &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;obsolete — for example, criticism of a post that&#xA;  has been satisfactorily addressed by the author&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;chatty — anything&#xA;  that's not really relevant (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15290/are-all-the-1-comments-really-necessary/15292#15292&quot;&gt;“+1”&#xA;  comments&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I am mentioning this is that Stack Exchange now automatically generates a flag for moderators if anyone has a fairly low threshold of rude/offensive and/or &quot;not constructive&quot; comment flags. For example, if someone flags enough of my comments, as moderators we will have to review an automatically generated flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of this, the moderation team would appreciate if comments are flagged based on the above categories. Understandably, the difference between &quot;chatty&quot; and &quot;not constructive&quot; is fairly subjective and generally speaking, it's fine to error on the side of &quot;not constructive&quot; if you aren't sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if comments are primarily &quot;too chatty&quot; please use this flag type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any questions, feel free to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-10-29T02:39:05.747" Title="Comment flagging - please try to use an appropriate flag type" Tags="|discussion|comments|moderation|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3978" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3980" CreationDate="2016-10-26T15:44:57.440" Score="-1" ViewCount="899" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/78511/new-employee-has-offensive-slack-handle-due-to-language-barrier&quot;&gt;New employee has offensive Slack handle due to language barrier&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was met with a rather hostile reaction from a moderator, locking the entire question down so that only they could edit it.  And while this moderator was rather rude, I am completely ignoring that and having an issue with the edit made.  The edit says the name is a &lt;em&gt;translation&lt;/em&gt; but it isn't, if anything it is an abbreviation. Can this be changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user49741" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-10-27T14:24:53.943" Title="My question was edited by a moderator, it was a poor edit, and now edits are locked?" Tags="|bug|editing|moderators|aggressive-edits|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3978" CreationDate="2016-10-26T16:03:39.393" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I clarified further with an additional edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post was locked for one hour because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This post has been locked due to the high amount of off-topic comments generated. For extended discussions, please use chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which I did because there were over two dozen comments that continued to be off topic. I encourage you to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;read through this documentation in the help center&lt;/a&gt; around comments. Pretty much &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; of this section is relevant, so I won't quote them here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, naming and shaming an employee who is a junior to you? You can't possibly not have expected &lt;em&gt;those&lt;/em&gt; comments to not get deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-10-26T21:54:10.300" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3978" CreationDate="2016-10-26T17:38:13.637" Score="-8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see the question was edited again since me posting this question on meta, I am fine with it in its current state.  Why the moderators are so aggressive... who knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user49741" LastActivityDate="2016-10-26T17:38:13.637" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3978" CreationDate="2016-10-27T02:33:09.770" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just reviewed the revision history and the 64 (!) deleted comments (the vast majority of them not constructive or worse), and I don't see anything &quot;hostile&quot; or &quot;rather rude&quot; from moderators.  Actually, given the attitudes expressed in some of the comments, including &lt;em&gt;publishing the coworker's real name&lt;/em&gt;, I think enderland showed great restraint.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Locks&lt;/em&gt; are a standard Stack Exchange feature, used rarely but designed to interrupt something bad that is in progress.  A &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/172592/162102&quot;&gt;comment lock&lt;/a&gt; is appropriate when comments have developed a severe case of &quot;not what comments are for&quot;.  Locks usually expire in an hour (as in this case) or a day.  The lock notice explains the reason for the lock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can edit locked posts.  In this case a moderator edited the post to address an issue that was the source of a lot of the non-constructive comments.  I don't see how that edit could have violated the intentions of an asker who wanted to &lt;em&gt;solve a problem&lt;/em&gt;, but I can see how it might frustrate people who wanted to gawk at the coworker's expense.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're apparently upset over one word, &quot;translation&quot;, and enderland fixed that, within five minutes of your post, to say &quot;slang&quot; instead.  Next time, consider just asking for the edit you want instead of jumping to accusations of moderator abuse; it'll be much more constructive and productive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-10-27T02:33:09.770" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3963" CreationDate="2016-10-27T05:40:48.480" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I clicked the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/law&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;law&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;law&lt;/a&gt; tag and they fall into three categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;90% are closed as off topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One was massively downvoted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another few were only on topic because answers didn't pertain to law.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like the tag should be burninated to me. Ideally with a tooltip &quot;Legal advice is off topic&quot; for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a sidenote I think we need to articulate much, much better when &quot;legal advice&quot; &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; on topic. For instance, advising to seek a lawyer tends to imply you know enough about relevant laws to hint that a lawyer is necessary. Additionally there is such a thing as employment law that many non-lawyers specialize in applying, e.g. HR and union leaders. I've seen stellar answers here that advise on worker rights and those are extremely on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user42272" LastEditorDisplayName="user42272" LastEditDate="2016-10-27T06:03:31.100" LastActivityDate="2016-10-27T06:03:31.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3956" CreationDate="2016-10-27T06:00:45.693" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I surmise Joe's intent here includes establishing some precedent. In this answer I do my best to outline what &quot;medical advice lite&quot; is junk and what a quality answer that may include a suggestion to see a doctor actually looks like. I do feel this answers exist and are important to maintaining quality, so it's important to get it right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But we have cases where respondents feel free to offer a psychological diagnosis, seemingly based on nothing more than a few written sentences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is more specific, generally bad behavior than you are mentioning in your question title. This behavior is usually the wrong thing to do. Feel free to be harsh on these respondents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more difficult philosophical question is whether &quot;I think you have X disorder, go see a doctor&quot; is okay. To be frank, we really freely do this with advising to seek a lawyer. I think this advice is usually just a diagnosis plus an excuse to make one, and this ought to be shut down more often. But, a handful of time someone raises the risk that a serious physical or mental condition is at play, and some fraction of the time this is the right call, and this site would lack quality answers if this is nevr on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good suggestion to seek medical advice meets two criteria: expertise is well-stated, and a case based on more specific evidence than a couple over-psychologized sentences is presented. Of course, said evidence should bind to said expertise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I have X disorder, and OP or coworker has Y behavior that can be caused by X&quot; is, in my opinion, weak, but germane. Make a judgment and vote accordingly. Something more like &quot;you overslept every day this week? You should get screened for depression&quot; is not quite wrong, but in my opinion a junk answer that does little to make workplace.SE higher quality than junk medical advice sites or junk Q&amp;amp;As.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think those two examples illustrate where the line is, and higher quality answers will explain expertise and evidence more thoroughly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user42272" LastActivityDate="2016-10-27T06:00:45.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3984" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-27T06:14:04.963" Score="0" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a recurring topic here but I've not seen a meta post that calls out &quot;seek legal advice&quot; as low quality much of the time. I would suggest the community consider this type of advice more carefully and be aggressive in discouraging the vaguest of these answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Legal advice that we do engage in falls into three main categories that I have seen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Advising to seek a lawyer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Application of employment law&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Part of (1) but a common topic: admonishing sexual harassment and invoking the possibility of getting sued&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Advising to seek a lawyer or that laws somehow are relevant&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first category, honestly, is legal advice. It implies the respondent knows enough about the law to advise seeking a lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this advice &lt;em&gt;tends&lt;/em&gt; to be low quality. If the respondent is aware the topic is legally risky, really a more substantive response than &quot;I've heard laws are involved, you should talk to a lawyer&quot; is needed. That is usually not quality advice but just a two-cent opinion one can share.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To offer even this advice, the respondent does need to demonstrate &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; expertise and &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; evidence. Or, really, not say anything, because that's giving legal advice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is like the trope that WebMD tells you that you have cancer, because it's safer for them to tell you that you should see a doctor. Sure, this is safe for the website, but it's crap advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Application of employment law&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HR personnel, union leaders, and business owners are often quite knowledgeable here. I have seen some &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; high quality answers involving technical points in local employment law. These answers need to be recognized and promoted. They are what make workplace.SE good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Admonishing sexual harassment&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a subset of the first bucket but it is such a broad category it is worth mentioning. I generally think &quot;that is sexual harassment, here is the definition of it and why it applies, and it is wrong behavior and should be addressed such-and-such way&quot; is in the direction of quality advice. &quot;You can be sued&quot; is a substitute for actual knowledge on the topic, and this does happen a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, my reason for posting this is that I feel the community should focus on quality of the meta-advice of &quot;you should seek a lawyer.&quot; We let people say this whenever, and it frequently contributes little. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user42272" LastActivityDate="2019-01-09T03:02:11.297" Title="Writing quality answers related to legal advice or seeking legal advice" Tags="|discussion|quality|legal-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3985" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3989" CreationDate="2016-10-27T10:00:43.293" Score="-2" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently read &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/70610/36056&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;. It was pretty good, except there were a couple of cases of gender bias being used. &quot;He&quot; was used instead of &quot;They&quot;, the question didn't indicate any specific gender.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I put in a very small edit to change this. This edit was rejected as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or &lt;em&gt;more accessible&lt;/em&gt;. Changes are either completely superfluous or actively harm readability.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue that such changes to make the site &quot;More accessible&quot; as anyone reading the answer will not be steered to assume that programmers (the question was about programming) and their bosses are inevitably male.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not advocating that we should do a mass edit to remove gender bias from everything, but I do think that edits, even minor ones, that improve it are constructive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a specific guideline on this either way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was specifically asking if there is a guideline about this. It would seem there is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was not saying that the answer was deliberately biased. Gender bias is often done unconsciously. So calling it out in a comment would to me feel like overkill. Like someone adding a comment &quot;Hey you used the wrong 'Their' could you correct.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are happy for edits to fix spelling and grammatical errors. I would have thought removing bias where not needed would have been something in the same vein. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36056" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-10-30T21:46:37.007" Title="Are edits to answers that remove gender bias constructive?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3985" CreationDate="2016-10-27T10:37:11.293" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somebody wrote an answer. You think their choice of words is less inclusive than it could be.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far so good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you go and change their answer for them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, this is overstepping your bounds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless and until it becomes explicit SE policy or guidance that questions/answers should be gender-neutral where relevant, people are entitled to write their answers using any language they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By all means, leave a comment and suggest they change it, but it's up to the poster to decide if it would affect the intent/meaning of their answer and if they want to change it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31777" LastEditorUserId="31777" LastEditDate="2016-10-27T11:14:43.367" LastActivityDate="2016-10-27T11:14:43.367" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3985" CreationDate="2016-10-27T11:41:05.610" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, accusing members of the community of &quot;bias&quot; is probably violating the &quot;be nice&quot; principle of this site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, your politics and your culture do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; dictate what others may post or how they may post it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, you have appointed yourself as censor.  If you find a post to be rude or offensive, flag it for moderation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fourth, you may argue that your editing makes it &quot;more accessible&quot;, but I noticed your ablist bias in assuming that the original poster was not autistic, and thus not suffering from the endemic rigid thinking of autism, and the triggering that changing one's post may cause. Acting unilaterally like this also demonstrates a clear micro-aggression against the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I noticed that you replaced &quot;he&quot; with &quot;they&quot;, which is clearly not taking into account that the persons the OP is referring to may not prefer those pronouns.  The persons may prefer &quot;ne&quot; or &quot;xe&quot; or &quot;ve&quot; instead of &quot;they&quot;, so your &quot;correction&quot; has a severe bias of it's own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summation, don't bring your own biases to the table while accusing others of bias.  It is not your call, and in doing so, you are disrupting SE.  If the owners of this site want to come up with their own rules, they will do so.  That is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; your call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-10-27T11:41:05.610" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3985" CreationDate="2016-10-27T12:26:18.460" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few thoughts. First, regarding gender, a comment from the OP makes it clear the gender of the coworker (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I did try to contact the old programmer. &lt;strong&gt;He&lt;/strong&gt; has moved on to a bigger, better project. Coincidentally, we were co-workers at another firm prior to this assignment, but we never met, we worked in different departments. &lt;strong&gt;He&lt;/strong&gt; refused to talk to me about this project. I understand why. – Sensii Miller 17 hours ago   edit   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, the reason both rejected the comment was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. Changes are either completely superfluous or actively harm readability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only change you suggested on a 4 month old answer was &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/50427&quot;&gt;a slight pronoun difference&lt;/a&gt;. That's a very minor change with minimal value added to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-10-27T12:26:18.460" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3985" CreationDate="2016-10-27T13:21:02.517" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no guideline to specifically support edits that only change gender.  There is a guideline not to make trivial edits.  That's because editing bumps a post, and -- especially for older posts that aren't already on the front page -- you should only do that when there's an actual improvement involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, like @JoeStrazzere in the comments, prioritize clarity.  I don't deliberately write in a gendered way, but &quot;he&quot; is a valid neutral pronoun and &quot;they&quot; is grammatically plural and thus jarring regardless of what many people do.  I would reject an edit that reduces clarity in this way too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you instead rewrote the phrase to &lt;em&gt;not require a pronoun&lt;/em&gt;, that would be different.  I've found that in most cases you can rewrite to avoid the problem, and if you care enough about use of &quot;he&quot; then the burden is on you, the editor, to change it &lt;em&gt;without breaking the post in other ways&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editors must be careful not to put words in the author's mouth.  That includes not introducing errors.  The argument over &quot;singular 'they'&quot; has been both long and heated; you can reasonably expect someone to object to &lt;em&gt;either&lt;/em&gt; changing &quot;he&quot; to &quot;they&quot; or changing &quot;they&quot; to &quot;he&quot; (or changing any of those to &quot;zie&quot;).  So don't do that to people; either find an &lt;em&gt;uncontroversial&lt;/em&gt; way to make the change or just leave it alone.  The Internet is full of people who write differently than you or I do, and trying to sanitize the Internet to one's own personal taste is a doomed proposition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-10-27T13:21:02.517" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3978" CreationDate="2016-10-27T14:24:53.943" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Best to be philosophical about these things, it's a fairly minor issue (to the rest of us I think). I can't see anything worth making a fuss over in how it was handled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-10-27T14:24:53.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3984" CreationDate="2016-10-27T19:06:24.580" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most cases, anything that needs significant legal input would be better asked elsewhere -- possibly in the Law area of Stack Exchange, probably of an actual lawyer familiar with both statute and case law in the specific location(s) the querant is concerned about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence most cases really should be closed or relocated as off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being a good question isn't enough to be a good SE question. It also has to be both focused enough that it is answerable where it was asked, and general enough that the answer is likely to be of value to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastEditorUserId="12989" LastEditDate="2016-10-28T03:07:34.863" LastActivityDate="2016-10-28T03:07:34.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3992" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-27T20:05:17.127" Score="5" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/78563/36369&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question and wanted to add an answer. While I was composing my answer the question was closed as off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a bit puzzled: although the question could have a slightly broad answer scope, it is fairly focused and it is about a real, concrete problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I misunderstood the help center directions about on-topic questions for this site, but I don't think is so blatantly off-topic and it has also produced a bunch of quality, focused, answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, that question seems to be specifically covered by this point from the &quot;on-topic&quot; list (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining employment&lt;/strong&gt; (promotions, pay increases, harassment, bullying, poor working conditions, &lt;strong&gt;communication problems&lt;/strong&gt;, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I miss something, or was the question closed too hastily?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36369" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-10-27T20:05:17.127" Title="Is this question really off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|closed-questions|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3993" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-28T06:41:52.987" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering why this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/78588/how-should-i-ask-compensation-for-destroyed-luggage-which-was-primarily-used-to/78597#78597&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; is closed. The underlying issue is common enough and the chap is asking for assistance but just seems to be getting shot down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-10-28T06:41:52.987" Title="Should this question be closed?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3994" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-28T08:42:10.717" Score="2" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/78583/my-coworker-keeps-having-sick-days&quot;&gt;Germany: team member abuses sick days; what can I as team lead do about it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was closed as a duplicate, which I think it's not. Because Germany differs &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; from the default (US) here. We don't have a sick day allowance. Cheating on sick days is a firing offense. And while that might mean nothing in a country where you have at-will-employment, in Germany it's the difference between 2 months pay, unemployment benefits and a severance package on top and... standing on the street without a job and without any unemployment benefits at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if he does become the team lead, &quot;just let it slip&quot; is unsound advice. Once you did, you have legal problems if you want to fire him for it later. With a firing offense, you actually have to use it when you get to know it. You cannot just say &quot;you did this for years and &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt; I'm sick of it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, his question &quot;We live and work in Germany. Is there a way of firing him?&quot; is not answered by the duplicate at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So please reopen it so we can craft an answer for this question that takes &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/germany&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;germany&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;germany&lt;/a&gt; into account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-10-28T14:49:03.113" Title="Disputing duplicate because of locality" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|duplicates|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3994" CreationDate="2016-10-28T09:20:45.537" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but in Germany he would need an docter to write him sick would he not?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If his Company doesn't thats their failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP only seems to want to fire the Person in question.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The question adds nothing to the workplace like this and anything else would result in legal advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the OP should either Report to Management or continue doing what he is paid to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's your manager's job to manage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say this in all seriousness, but not in the way it's normally meant.&#xA;What I mean is that you feel so driven to make sure the project is&#xA;completed at a high quality and on time that you are trying to take on&#xA;some parts of your manager's job as well as your job and your&#xA;coworker's job. Your manager can't see the problem because you won't&#xA;let him/her. (Going to say him from here on out for brevity.) You need&#xA;to step back far enough to let him do his job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing you need to do is alert him to the problem, as tactfully as you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would have been my answer to him, this is copied from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/23174/49065&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please tell me &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; this won't be a valid thing to do in Germany?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* Source: top answer of the &lt;strong&gt;duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49065" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2016-10-28T09:20:45.537" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3994" CreationDate="2016-10-28T11:40:59.203" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main question is about a coworker who's dragging everyone down, which the linked duplicate covers well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The follow-up &quot;&lt;em&gt;We live and work in Germany. Is there a way of firing him?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is entirely too problematic to answer here. It's &lt;strong&gt;too specific and situational&lt;/strong&gt; to qualify for the &quot;generic advice&quot; exemption we have for legal questions. And as discussed on the linked question it's also &lt;strong&gt;not something the OP should concern himself with&lt;/strong&gt;. His manager should manage this. You seem to completely ignore the fact that OP has no management authority and if you want a Germany-specific Q&amp;amp;A then you can submit that separately. But really, I can only imagine the downvote storm you'd see if you post something like &quot;&lt;em&gt;How can I fire someone for cause to avoid paying benefits?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2016-10-28T11:40:59.203" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3994" CreationDate="2016-10-28T14:49:03.113" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The duplicate is about a coworker.  This question has now been edited to clarify that the OP is going to be this person's team lead.  That feels different to me, quite aside from the Germany part of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Team leads are in an awkward position: they're held accountable if the team doesn't deliver but they don't have formal supervisory authority over the team members and sometimes have no say in which or how many people they get.  I think focusing this question on that aspect of it makes this not a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP still needs to clarify the desired outcome, as noted in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-10-28T14:49:03.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3977" CreationDate="2016-10-29T02:39:05.747" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be much easier if SE permitted us to correct erroneous input. Unfortunately once you have made a suboptimal choice, intentionally or accidentally, you are stuck with it until/unless the question is frozen and thawed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-10-29T02:39:05.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4002" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-01T15:03:40.170" Score="0" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see this quite often.  Most recently with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/78806/16&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;you think this question is clear cut? I'm not seeing it. Other than&#xA;  &quot;seek legal help&quot; there's no clear cut answer. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/78806/can-an-employer-backdate-my-termination?noredirect=1#comment223056_78806&quot;&gt;original&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is actually pretty clear cut compared to some but it certainly requires some expertise that much of our audience does not have unless they have worked in management or HR.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And while this is the most recent example the site is littered with questions that are pretty difficult, in scope, but closed off topic (often company specific or legal) because most of our users would not know how to answer it or even find the answer, and less because it is a problem that is specific or requiring a lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way that we can improve the focus of close voting to explain that just because the question is difficult that does not necessarily make it off topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-11-01T16:18:02.633" Title="I dont know the answer to the question so it is obviously off topic!" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-01T17:03:47.760" Score="4" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;Too often the Off-topic close reason &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1983/16&quot;&gt;asking for legal advice&lt;/a&gt; is misapplied to any question that has a question about the law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead I think we should reword the close reason to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is beyond the scope that our experts can be expected to&#xA;  be able to answer.  Questions about company-specific&#xA;  regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your&#xA;  manager, HR department, or an attorney. Questions that address only a specific&#xA;  company or position are of limited use to future visitors. For more&#xA;  information, click&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This still covers questions asking for actual &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1983/16&quot;&gt;Legal Advice&lt;/a&gt;, as that is beyond the expected scope of our experts, with out having the effect to seemingly encourage voting to close any question that has to do with the law and how people are treated by a company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is clear that doing anything in the workplace is going to involve complying with laws and regulations surrounding it.  We should not encourage closing questions just because they have some legal component.  Instead we should focus on the &quot;can our experts be reasonably expected to to be able to answer this question&quot; aspect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:40:25.820" LastActivityDate="2022-03-03T18:51:48.003" Title="Can we remove the legal advice from the off topic close reason?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4004" CreationDate="2016-11-01T17:38:33.273" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, because there are areas which require legal advice where someone working in HR can answer easily.  Someone who has worked in publishing, such as myself, can answer questions about copyright law, especially the fair use clause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So long as we don't have to go into areas which require nuance such as contract law and employment law, if it's workplace related, it should not be grounds to close a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-11-01T17:38:33.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4006" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4010" CreationDate="2016-11-01T21:37:56.293" Score="-12" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being that we live in a post-binary-gender society, the oxford dictionary states that it is grammatically correct to use non-gender specific pronouns, such as &amp;quot;they&amp;quot;, as stated in &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20190523150805/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/usage/he-or-she-versus-they&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Oxford Dictionary post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, some users get as far as upset when correcting their use of binary-gender pronouns as seen in the deleted answers of this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/78872/having-an-employee-move-teams-because-you-feel-theyre-better-suited-elsewhere&quot;&gt;Having an employee move teams because you feel they&amp;#39;re better suited elsewhere, but they want to stay?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Workplace posts, would it be considered offensive, and therefore flag-able, to use gender specific pronouns?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user49741" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2022-09-12T17:06:35.973" LastActivityDate="2022-09-12T17:06:35.973" Title="What is the proper reference for gender on workplace?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4006" CreationDate="2016-11-01T21:55:27.777" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I'm reading your post correctly, you want to know if flagging somebody for using gendered pronouns (I'm assuming an implicit: &quot;where they don't need to&quot;) is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also going to assume you're not trolling, and just say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not something you should flag for. Flags are for situations that &lt;strong&gt;require moderator intervention&lt;/strong&gt;. This hypothetical situation is not one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I refer you to a recent meta: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3985/are-edits-to-answers-that-remove-gender-bias-constructive&quot;&gt;Are edits to answers that address gender bias constructive&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not 1 but 2 moderators answered that question to say that edits to, for instance, change unnecessarily gendered pronouns are not ok. In light of that, and until such guidelines are superseded in the future, such answers as the situation you describe are On-Topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are *other* reasons why a post might be flaggable, which would probably apply to the deleted answers you mention, then please feel free to flag appropriately, but peoples' use of pronouns, in and of itself, isn't one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to end on this quote from said meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Internet is full of people who write differently than you or I do, and trying to sanitize the Internet to one's own personal taste is a doomed proposition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.370" LastActivityDate="2016-11-01T22:12:07.920" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4006" CreationDate="2016-11-02T02:56:36.520" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is wholly location dependant. When I grew up (I'm old) it was perfectly normal and taught that when referring to people as a whole you can call them 'man' and even when referring to group it was ok. In some places it still is. I often refer to a group as 'guys' even though it may contain some females. But I'm not meaning it in a bad way, so intent makes a difference as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my own country in our language we have a recognised third gender which has a specific name, but we also use that name for homosexuals (which is incorrect) no one complains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I see no need to flag these issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-11-02T02:56:36.520" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4006" CreationDate="2016-11-02T11:13:42.073" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Workplace posts, would it be considered offensive, and therefore&#xA;  flag-able, to use gender specific pronouns?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be ridiculous to flag the use of gender-specific pronouns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look through the questions that exist. Read through the first page or so. Do we really want to flag that many? I don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I'd invite everyone to write their own questions and answers in a gender-neutral style if they prefer and if they are capable. If they can make the question and pronoun references clear, everyone will be happy. For most English writers, that probably means making references almost exclusively &lt;em&gt;plural&lt;/em&gt; and using the pronoun &quot;they&quot;, although very careful sentence construction can avoid that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those interested, I recommend reading this Wikipedia article: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they&lt;/a&gt;. You will see that writing in this style is not at all simple, and will see some good examples of alternative sentences written in gender-neutral variants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still absolutely want to prioritize clarity over grammar though. So I am very much against flagging questions or answers that aren't as gender-neutral as some might prefer. I don't want The Workplace to devolve into a Gender Grammar Nazi force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-11-02T11:13:42.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4006" CreationDate="2016-11-02T12:47:22.673" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to craft an honest, well thought out response that doesn't violate the &quot;be nice&quot; policy here.  It was a Herculean effort, make no mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The short answer is a resounding &lt;strong&gt;NO&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The longer answer is a bit more involved.  While this question is put forth in a logical way, it is built several false premises, namely asserting opinions as fact, then building the argument on those opinions as if they were facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Being that we live in a post-binary-gender society&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a sweeping generalization asserted as fact.  There is no &quot;we&quot; and there is no society.  SE is comprised of people from all over the world with differing customs, base languages, and societal norms.  This false assertion alone makes the answer a &lt;strong&gt;NO.&lt;/strong&gt; on the grounds that the assertion that there are as many as 63 genders is not accepted as even scientific fact, much less universally accepted in various cultures around the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the oxford dictionary states that it is grammatically correct to use non-gender specific pronouns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an irrelevant appeal to authority and again, not the only dictionary of record.  If we accept it as absolute, then all Americans, for example need to start spelling aluminum as &quot;aluminium&quot; defense as &quot;defence&quot;, armor as &quot;armour&quot; et cetera ad nauesum.  More to the point, the assertion that one thing may be correct does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; negate the correctness of another thing.  The fact that the dictionary asserts that the word hiccup is spelled &quot;hiccup&quot; does not negate the fact that hiccough is also a correct spelling for the word and even passes a spell-check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, some users get as far as upset when correcting their use of binary-gender pronouns &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, this point is creating a false assertion as I outlined above.  The assertion that one thing is correct does not mean that an alternative is incorrect.  the so-called &quot;corrections&quot; being referenced are not actual corrections, but assertions of political opinions under the guise of correcting grammar which is not incorrect to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Workplace posts, would it be considered offensive, and therefore flag-able, to use gender specific pronouns?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, a resounding &lt;strong&gt;NO!&lt;/strong&gt; and for the following grounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The assertion that gender specific pronouns are incorrect or offensive is entirely a subjective matter guided by personal politics.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We have multiple cultures and multiple opinions on the matter, thus negating the entire assertion/&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is an abuse of the flagging function&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is a waste of moderators' time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It has already been established that editing posts to change pronouns has, and will offend people, as acknowledged by this very question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deliberately causing strife is a violation of the &quot;be nice&quot; policy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cultural standards are not a cause to flag a post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we start making being offended, based &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; on the poster's intent, but solely reliant on the mindset of the one making a claim of being offended, literally nothing will ever be achieved in Workplace.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's an attempt to make an end run around the policy that the OP has final say in, and can reverse edits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-11-02T12:47:22.673" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4004" CreationDate="2016-11-02T18:32:05.923" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. I'm concerned that we would trade off rejecting valid questions with answering questions with false information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are already many &quot;IANAL BUT [here's my legal opinion]&quot; in answers/comments, and some statements that can be described as &quot;intuitive guesses about how the law should work but objectively does not&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even HR is limited to narrow jurisdictions. If you look on avvo.com, no attorney will comment outside their licensed state(s), and many put disclaimers on all replies. HR is bound by laws that vary by country and state--look at your employee handbook for &quot;Except for employees in ____&quot; or &quot;Except for employees acquired from ___.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other forums for this. Perhaps judicious editing to remove the legal aspects would serve the community better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44002" LastActivityDate="2016-11-02T18:32:05.923" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4012" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4037" CreationDate="2016-11-03T00:05:37.830" Score="15" ViewCount="859" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bit much for a flag text, so...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It starts with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/78511/new-employee-has-offensive-slack-handle-due-to-language-barrier&quot;&gt;New employee has offensive Slack handle due to language barrier&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A manager asks what he should do about an employee not able to speak english properly and not able to understand his chat name is offensive and embarassing.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Final update, solved (that was several days ago):  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I asked the other employee who was able to translate to explain which&#xA;  word was the issue, while the employee with the bad handle seemed&#xA;  embarrassed, they were happy to oblige. Definitely was a language&#xA;  barrier issue, but problem solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some days later, the &quot;manager&quot; got suspended in the meantime...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/79003/manager-tell-me-slack-name-not-ok&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/79003/manager-tell-me-slack-name-not-ok&lt;/a&gt; appears to be that employee, still not understanding anything in English and still clueless about the meaning of the chat name.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Problems:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The manager solved the problem some days ago  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The employee has a real name (says it is real) that doesn't exist  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The employee has a Github account created some minutes ago    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The employee somehow knows the exact reason why the manager was banned     &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The employee acts too stupid for any human being  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;=&gt; Can't be legit. And I'm sure that's not the last question from him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question gets much activity ... &quot;reward&quot; for such a behaviour...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a second meta post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4013/why-i-troll-from-question&quot;&gt;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4013/why-i-troll-from-question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20888" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-03-30T12:27:22.377" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T12:27:22.377" Title="Please stop that troll" Tags="|discussion|trolling|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4012" CreationDate="2016-11-03T00:14:48.537" Score="-13" Body="&lt;p&gt;How I troll? I in America for week, everyone tell me things wrong.  I very frustrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user59574" LastActivityDate="2016-11-03T00:14:48.537" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4016" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-04T10:44:18.617" Score="1" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask a question about the work culture in the USA. In particular, I'd like to ask about an employee's respect for the company hierarchy. Do they have a lot of respect for their boss and his opinion and back off easily, or do they push their opinion hard even when their boss has clearly indicated that they should let it go. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of issues I can see with this kind of question - it's  broad because (1) people have different personalities and (2) within a specific country, each company's culture will vary wildly. This is why I haven't asked this question yet and have been thinking about how I will phrase it such that it's not too broad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, entire countries &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have certain cultures that can be generally applied to the entire country. Asian culture is an example of this, for example, in South Korea, campany heirarchy is very highly respected and people are very respectful of their superiors. That's an example of how an entire culture can be generalised. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are questions about an entire country's work culture off topic here, purely because they are too broad? or is there scope for asking about a culture in general (for example, something like my question above)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5621" LastActivityDate="2016-11-10T20:28:44.787" Title="Asking a question about an entire country's work culture" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4016" CreationDate="2016-11-04T11:02:14.373" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be too broad because there is no universal US work culture.  Work rules and laws change from state to state, and even cities within states.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alabama laws are different from NY laws and within New York, NY City laws are different from upstate NY laws.  The cultures surrounding work vary as much as the laws.  You could ask about states and MAYBE regions, but not the entire country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-11-04T11:02:14.373" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4016" CreationDate="2016-11-04T14:25:43.463" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't define such a big group using anything except statistics, and there are no reliable statistics, so the question can't be answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are general 'trends' I have noticed in different countries, but I'm not convinced they apply to a country as a whole, or a culture. Some of the Asian countries might have more regimented lives due to their social system and this spills over into the workplace I guess, but I've seen plenty of exceptions to the rule with Asians as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-11-04T14:25:43.463" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3777" CreationDate="2016-11-07T09:35:13.917" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only just came across this, and I wouldn't have VtC or downvote, but here are my reactions to the question, it seriously needs improvement, it wastes a lot of time trying to identify what, if anything, specifically is being asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I see a very vague title &lt;em&gt;&quot;How to approach a boss who doesn't take full responsibility for his mistake?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, no statement on the first line of any specific question, two paragraphs, and still no statement of any specific question. After digging into this for 15+ minutes so far, my best guess is &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Missed my contract renewal deadline due to boss misstating it in email, how to respond?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The title is brutal. It sounds vague, ontological(what is &quot;full responsibility&quot;? Do any of us, ever...?), unrealistic, aimless. What is the actionable issue right now: are you looking for how to get the contract renewed, manage the relationship, a full and frank appraisal of his personality, or tips on how to manage this sort of email communication better in future, or is this a legal question in disguise &lt;em&gt;(&quot;What happens to a person on a fixed-term contract in Jurisdiction expiring on Date if the renewal deadline is misstated to them? Can they legally hire my replacement?&quot;)&lt;/em&gt; Presumably you're looking for all of the above, but you need to prioritize for us: Which single most important change do you want to achieve, and by when?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you say there's a &quot;deadline&quot;, is that what your contract actually says, or is that the date they request you respond for their internal decision-making/hiring process? In the current scheme of things, if you don't renew, when do they actually stop paying you? This Friday, or in 3 months' time, or what?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Advertising/interviewing for your replacement is one thing, but laying you off/ending your contract is a different thing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Say you did miss fall semester, can you come back in winter semester? Would you want to? Is there any continuity issue?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's a legal question then every significant detail is missing: what country and state are you in, do you have a contract, what does &lt;em&gt;it&lt;/em&gt; say about renewals, deadlines, acceptances, is this deadline the same for other depts, did you ask around how do these guys generally handle late renewals, does your boss mess up like this before, if so what happened, and so on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;I was trying to keep my options open and reply to him a week or two before the deadline, but obviously this is an issue now. How should I bring this up to my boss?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; Well, sorry, your time's up. So was your decision to renew, or leave? Or are you still unsure and trying to buy extra time to interview/negotiate compensation? Or are you asking &lt;em&gt;us&lt;/em&gt; to tell you what to decide? Either way, your time's up and you have to make a decision, presumably now.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;EDIT: I mean, you could tell them you're renewing, while still interviewing and planning to leave. If that's what you want to do, and any possible repercussions, it's on you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What does &quot;apparently&quot; mean in &quot;apparently the email in question contained an error on the deadline&quot;? Either there was an error, or there wasn't, or you don't know and you're relying on (your coworker's?) opinion? Who, other than your boss, can confirm basic important things like that? His boss, HR, or who? There must be somebody else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You just casually toss in &lt;em&gt;&quot;Although I would prefer electronic contact, the boss seems to like to keep his employees 'on edge' and doesn't always answer emails he reads.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; Assuming you brought that up because if causes you grief and you want solutions, it's up to you to learn some effective techniques to deal with people like that (whether they're shy, flaky, or actively dishonest). Like, send a brief dated memo to the guy summarizing your discussion (or else your understanding), for important things. If his personality really annoys you that much ongoing, then quit, already. You can't change it; at most you might be able to privately give him constructive suggestions after all this mess is sorted out; I doubt that'll have much effect. (Or maybe he's under some budgetary pressures you don't know about. But still.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are some well-known techniques for dealing with flaky, uncommunicative or dysfunctional people: calendar a 1-on-1 meeting. Say, every month or two. Even for 15 minutes. Also, in emails, state a default course of action: &lt;em&gt;&quot;I plan to to do X unless I hear otherwise from you by Date&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. If this is an assertiveness issue, there are some good courses, audiobooks etc. Perhaps you might find them beneficial.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You also threw in this &lt;em&gt;&quot;Apparently(?) email in question contained an error; deadline ... supposed to be two weeks ago. I do not know the details of the discussion between coworker and boss, but it was a heated debate... I don't think it's a good idea to mention how I found out about the error&quot;&lt;/em&gt; Then don't. Just say/write &quot;Boss, I understand my contract renewal date was actually X, but I did not get notified of that timely/until Date/now. I'd urgently like to discuss my renewal with you, by Date.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm seeing lots of signals that weird me out, like your boss's communications suck, he missed the deadline by a lot, you only accidentally found out because your coworker talked to him, he never even notified you after he realized, the &quot;heated discussion&quot; sounds like he blamed coworker, you're not supposed to know about that conversation with coworker, so effectively he's still never communicated with you about the renewal, or maybe he doesn't want to renew you, your job satisfaction sucks (&quot;I don't think I will get fired because I'm relatively difficult to replace&quot;), and even given all of this, you still can't make your mind up. What % of your boss's written or verbal communications are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; dysfunctional? This is really a dysfunctional setup. Were you looking for advice on that or not? We honestly can't tell. These are the sorts of things that would make many conclude this is a rant, not a specific actionable question, or list of questions. Are you as frustrated as most of us would be? Because managing to belatedly fix this contract renewal isn't going to fix the ton of other things that you complain about. What is the case for quitting? You haven't articulated one positive reason you want to stay there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well that's my reaction to you. Was it useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16071" LastEditorUserId="16071" LastEditDate="2016-11-07T10:28:21.007" LastActivityDate="2016-11-07T10:28:21.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1943" CreationDate="2016-11-07T13:58:23.733" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's good work. This is now 3.5 years later, and all those tag counts have changed, can someone with enough rep just delete the bad tags already? Can you update your question with current numbers, drop all the zero-count tags, or else add (7/2013) to the title so we know it's obsolete?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Issue-specific tags&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batna&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batna&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batna&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/negotiation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;negotiation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;negotiation&lt;/a&gt; ; is just a stupid faddish jargon word occasionally used by business types. 'negotiation' is the perfectly adequate English term.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/follow-up&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;follow-up&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;follow-up&lt;/a&gt; is a vague bullshit tag because ~60% of the time it gets used about miscellaneous interview-process/phone calls/emails/coding-tests/compensation/references/background checks, and the other 40% it's other/ general interactions/ HR issues.&#xA;So create an umbrella tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/interview-process&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;interview-process&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;interview-process&lt;/a&gt; for the former, e.g. for &lt;em&gt;&quot;Following up with references after an interview&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, we simply tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/references&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;references&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;references&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/interview-process&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;interview-process&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;interview-process&lt;/a&gt;. For the latter (non-hiring-process), it should be tagged according to whatever, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hr-process&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hr-process&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hr-process&lt;/a&gt; or whatever the primary topic is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Location-specific tags&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only to be used to indicate an actual country-specific issue, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/79296/bored-at-work-as-an-internee-because-i-dont-get-enough-attention&quot;&gt;&quot;Bored at work as an internee because I don't get enough attention&quot;&lt;/a&gt; should never have been tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-kingdom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-kingdom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-kingdom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;European Union is needed for issues generic to the EU, but individual country tags are also needed, e.g. the German apprentice system is very different to other countries, and there are other national differences.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16071" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-11-07T14:03:57.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4021" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-08T14:16:38.737" Score="-3" ViewCount="621" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does being referred to as a troll or describing a person's behavior as trolling break the Be Nice policy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, does it constitute name-calling and assuming bad intentions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-03-30T12:50:32.217" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T12:50:32.217" Title="Is calling someone a &quot;troll&quot; against the Be Nice policy" Tags="|discussion|site-policy|trolling|best-practice|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4021" CreationDate="2016-11-08T14:16:38.737" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am highly insulted whenever someone calls me a troll. Am I being overly sensitive? I think not, and here's why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Calling someone a troll implies that they don't want a constructive discussion. That is directly against the Be-nice policy of &quot;assume good intent&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's also a reductive name, which is against the be-nice policy again for name-calling. Some would argue that it is not a name, but that it describes an action, but that only brings us back to my first point, it doesn't assume good intent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any cursory review of internet discussion can show that calling someone a troll is only going to upset them, and virtually never leads to constructive discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the word has any use outside of inflammatory comments and it therefore has no place on Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastActivityDate="2016-11-08T14:16:38.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3325" CreationDate="2016-11-08T14:20:20.277" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;At this point, the Be Nice policy clearly states to assume good intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastActivityDate="2016-11-08T14:20:20.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4021" CreationDate="2016-11-08T14:57:19.677" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The word &quot;troll&quot; has innocuous and descriptive definitions which can mean anything from someone posting for reaction all the way up to and including being synonymous to &quot;griefer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting a controversial topic is by definition trolling, because it &lt;strong&gt;will&lt;/strong&gt; get reactions, and rather spirited ones.  This is not in and of itself a bad thing, but the person is still being a troll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Trolling is a bad thing is when it degenerates to the point of being done to elicit a negative response or reaction from people.  That does not, in fact mean that if someone reacts negatively, the person who posted was trolling.  Many people will act offended to get a reaction.  In that case, the person acting offended is trolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, when you say is calling someone a troll not being nice.  It depends on what kind of troll you are referring to.  If someone is being a troll to spark discussion, it's not a bad thing.  If they are being a troll by making fun of someone who just lost a family member, it is most certainly a bad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, &quot;troll&quot; is not an insult, it is a descriptive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;GRIEFER&quot;, however is an insult as it is used specifically for someone causing a disruption in a negative form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-11-08T14:57:19.677" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4021" CreationDate="2016-11-08T15:04:04.317" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;does it constitute name-calling and assuming bad intentions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that point it is no longer assuming bad intentions, it is acting on it. The assumtion leads to questions asked to the &quot;misbehaving&quot; user, based on that they someone calls out an &quot;internet troll&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wether or not that is the right thing to do.... I wont go there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would break the &quot;be nice rule&quot; if the person in question actually says they don't want to be called one, anything else would stop us from being an functional community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49065" LastActivityDate="2016-11-08T15:04:04.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4021" CreationDate="2016-11-08T15:31:53.733" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It just brings to mind an overweight ugly green chap hanging around a bridge and making people pay to cross.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd find it offensive, but I'm not green so no worries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-11-08T15:31:53.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4021" CreationDate="2016-11-08T15:35:01.017" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you find yourself asking a question like: &amp;quot;is calling somebody an X bad?&amp;quot;, you can pretty much get the answer from &amp;quot;calling somebody a&amp;quot;, regardless of what X is.  Name-calling is not constructive and runs afoul of Be Nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I realize that's not the exact language of the question, but I see it in answers and chat so I'm addressing it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's ok to object to, and discuss, &lt;em&gt;behavior&lt;/em&gt;.  It's best to avoid perjorative terms in doing so, because that can lead to quick escalation from discussion to argument.  Consider the following two comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're trolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't seem constructive.  Can you rephrase?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lately this site has seen a lot of provocative posts, comments, and chat messages.  Some of those people are very likely trolling.  That's definitely not nice, and we appreciate it when people use their flags, downvotes, close votes, and delete votes to respond to that.  It's...less helpful...when people engage with accusations instead.  A true statement can still be a &amp;quot;be nice&amp;quot; problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, the very best way to discourage trolling is to &lt;em&gt;not engage&lt;/em&gt;.  Don't answer their questions, don't comment, don't respond to bait in chat.  A troll thrives on stirring up trouble; if you think someone is trolling, then feeding that person should be the &lt;em&gt;last&lt;/em&gt; thing you want to do.  So don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://communitybuilding.stackexchange.com/q/1512/83&quot;&gt;Why should trolls not be fed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2016-11-08T15:35:01.017" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4028" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-08T18:53:36.970" Score="9" ViewCount="287" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/softwaresugg&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/softwaresugg&lt;/a&gt; - this tag was only mentioned in one question, and I have deleted it from that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If relly needed, it could have a better name. And also some reference to &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think that it was too specific to be of general use. Do you agree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20979" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:23:59.910" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:23:59.910" Title="Can someone please delete the tag [softwaresugg]?" Tags="|discussion|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4028" CreationDate="2016-11-08T19:22:55.327" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/71129/228441&quot;&gt;Unused tags are automatically purged by the system&lt;/a&gt;, so there's nothing further you need to do here. Thanks for deleting the tag :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14388" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-11-09T13:22:42.780" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4021" CreationDate="2016-11-09T08:14:35.040" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In case I'm the one being cited: my usual use if the term is to explain why I'm dropping out of a conversation that appears to be deliberately structured to create debate rather than to lead to an answer. Debate is explicitly not what SE is structured for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree it's probably not the most polite phrasing, and that the ideal would be for me to drop out without the parting comment and just flag and/or vote to close. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll work on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-11-09T08:14:35.040" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4031" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4033" CreationDate="2016-11-09T14:27:40.183" Score="-1" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been a few questions recently where the problem faced by the OP&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has little-to-nothing to do with the workplace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is about some common social convention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize some people do struggle with social conventions, but, at least for the question that triggered this Meta post, the situation seems common enough that people with social issues would've read up on it on some guide, which they surely must've perused at some point in their lifetime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question I have in mind is: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/79416/9549&quot;&gt;Boss send a happy birthday message. How to reply?&lt;/a&gt;, where the OP asks how to tone his reply to his boss' birthday wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not questioning whether that question is currently on-topic (no one has voted to close yet), but the one-liner answer seems to agree with my assessment of it as &lt;em&gt;too trivial&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There used to be an Etiquette proposal where this would've been on topic, but that's long gone by now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Addressing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3483/9549&quot;&gt;possible duplicate&lt;/a&gt; vote:&lt;/em&gt; I don't consider the linked question a joke, nor do I like the attitude of the other Meta post, and I don't believe I'm duplicating any of that, thank you. I identified two common traits and proposed solution, whereas the other post is basically &quot;kek&quot;. The closest Meta post I (just now) found is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3105/9549&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt;, where a &quot;possible duplicate&quot; argument might be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-11-16T14:35:47.323" Title="Should we have a &quot;too trivial&quot; close reason?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4031" CreationDate="2016-11-09T14:34:39.700" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;is about some common social convention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire workplace is based on common social convention's.&#xA;I could (I won't) make an valid Argument to Close every question, based on some common social convention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of questions we have are &quot;small&quot; that doesnt mean we should show someone the door, because of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49065" LastActivityDate="2016-11-09T14:34:39.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4031" CreationDate="2016-11-09T14:40:25.830" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's something that concerned the OP enough to ask, then it's a non-trivial problem worthy of an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything is &quot;trivial&quot; once you know it, but everyone's gotta learn it somewhere; That they can learn it here is the whole point of SE. The more questions the Workplace has useful answers to, the better it is for this site and for its' users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31777" LastActivityDate="2016-11-09T14:40:25.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4031" CreationDate="2016-11-09T21:19:28.360" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;On some Stacks, there is an expectation that the asker will make at least some effort to research the question themselves and only ask SE if they couldn't find a usable answer that way.  In those, any question that could be answered with &quot;google it for yourself&quot; or that can't answer &quot;what have you tried so far&quot; is indeed considered too trivial to spend effort on unless someone is particularly interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there are cases where that legitimately applies here too. If it isn't important enough to research before asking, why should it be important enough for others to spend time answering?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there are questions that really can't be researched. Yes,  SE is inherently biased toward having answers posted here rather than citing answers elsewhere. Still...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2016-11-10T06:20:24.237" LastActivityDate="2016-11-10T06:20:24.237" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4016" CreationDate="2016-11-10T20:28:44.787" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How would having an answer to your question help you navigate the workplace?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is the thing that makes it more off topic than anything else.  In general questions here are expected to fall into that category.  It sounds like your question is more curiosity about the culture than any practical application.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a practical reason you are asking the question it is probably better that you ask about your specific problem and how your expectations are not met.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2016-11-10T20:28:44.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4012" CreationDate="2016-11-12T04:51:30.963" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both accounts are deleted now (even the manager), so I guess it's solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20888" LastActivityDate="2016-11-12T04:51:30.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4031" CreationDate="2016-11-16T14:35:47.323" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;To actually answer regardless of whether you think there is such a thing as a question that's too trivial, each site only has a very limited number of custom close reasons and there is simply no room for any new ones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if there was, this comes up way too rarely to justify a pre-written close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2016-11-16T14:35:47.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4039" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4042" CreationDate="2016-11-16T16:33:14.657" Score="3" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the reason in question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;•&quot;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should be directed to legal professionals. For more information, click here.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this reason is the most abused reason to close on this site.  It is also a bit murky in it's wording as it really contains &lt;strong&gt;TWO&lt;/strong&gt; reasons.  1)Company specific policies are off topic 2)Legal advice is off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the first should be replaced with something like &quot;Too narrow&quot; (we do have too broad as a reason).  The second could stand alone as &quot;Legal advice is off topic&quot; and then the instruction to seek legal counsel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agree/disagree? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-11-16T21:39:05.163" Title="Question, should we eliminate or change the reason to close regarding company specific policies?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4004" CreationDate="2016-11-16T17:06:40.433" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suggested tweak (to shorten it and tighten up the wording a bit):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager, your HR department, or an attorney. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The linked meta post would, of course, be updated if we make this change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This wording makes it clearer what the problem is, without producing false positives for the smaller set of law-related questions that actually are on-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:40:25.820" LastActivityDate="2016-11-16T17:50:12.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4039" CreationDate="2016-11-16T18:02:51.757" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;We need to keep a provision that prohibits questions seeking advice on company specific regulations.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions aren't usually applicable to others who might find the answers helpful, and often the topics that come up under these questions feel like troll-bait.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the close reasons are adjusted, we should retain a provision against company-specific policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastActivityDate="2016-11-16T18:02:51.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4039" CreationDate="2016-11-16T21:39:05.163" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I suggested &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4040/325&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, I propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager, your HR department, or an attorney. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The linked meta post would, of course, be updated if we make this change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm answering here too because we currently have two different questions about this same close reason and I think my suggestion addresses both of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this wording I don't see the benefit of including the phrase &quot;too narrow&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2016-11-16T21:39:05.163" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4043" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-17T14:05:43.073" Score="-4" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may seem very silly to ask, but I've been annoyed on this website by the following closing reason: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;•This question does not appear to be about the workplace within the scope defined in the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going to the help center, I expect to find at least a basic definition of what the/a workplace is within the scope of this SE site. There is however no such thing to be found, making this reason for closure both unclear and the link misleading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see two options: Either reword the closure reason to provide more information, or actually provide a relevant definition in the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which do you favor, and what specifically should the new wording of either be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50417" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-12-27T01:12:28.103" LastActivityDate="2018-12-27T01:12:28.103" Title="What is a workplace?" Tags="|support|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4044" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-17T14:26:59.130" Score="4" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, we've seen some rather forceful assertions that words that some words are controversial.  I don't want to rehash the arguments, as the specifics are not the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I understand that we do have to watch our words and tone, and that &quot;Well, I just post this way&quot;, is not a defense against rude behavior, I also feel that this has been pushed to unreasonable extremes, such as people attempting to use being offended as some sort of currency to force a change in standards here.  The logical conclusion is that eventually, nobody will be able to say anything of substance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would you propose that we maintain the &quot;be nice&quot; policy without allowing it to be misused?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, perhaps a better question is, &quot;Where is that point between being deliberately rude, or careless with your tone, and catering to people who are hyper-sensitive? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2016-11-21T13:32:53.010" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T13:32:53.010" Title="How to strike a balance between the &quot;be nice&quot; policy and being too nce?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4043" CreationDate="2016-11-17T14:30:47.353" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; explains it pretty clearly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Finding employment (resumes/cv/cover letters, recruiters, hiring-managers, interviews, negotiations, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Maintaining employment (promotions, pay increases, harassment, bullying, poor working conditions, communication problems, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Leadership in the workplace (motivating people, encouraging people, making decisions, holding hard conversations, intervening in&#xA;  unproductive situations, asking for and giving help, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Terminating employment (notice period, breaking the news, handing over work, reference letters, relieving letters, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, the workplace is about interactions involving your place of employment or finding your place of employment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2016-11-17T14:30:47.353" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4044" CreationDate="2016-11-17T15:48:17.950" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple: The Be Nice policy clearly tells you to &quot;assume good intentions&quot;. Claiming that somebody is &quot;fake offended&quot; could not be further from that guideline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-11-17T15:48:17.950" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4044" CreationDate="2016-11-18T12:20:47.203" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are always going to get drama queens who will 'become' offended at anything to keep themselves amused. We have to just assume they're for 'real' when we know damnwell they're not and not allow ourselves to get frustrated and become part of their petty amusement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, don't be offended at them being offended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-11-18T12:20:47.203" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4044" CreationDate="2016-11-18T12:39:43.937" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just think about it on the workplace (the IRL one), how would you treat someone that seems to take offense way too easily ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well , you answered it yourself &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/75595/coworker-is-easily-and-often-offended-and-doesnt-want-us-to-mention-offensive-t/75641#75641&quot;&gt;Richard U.&lt;/a&gt; : going to HR. So here it's going to mods, let's just hope they don't reward whining :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, for some case it can just be opinion-based, I will quote @KateGregory comment here : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just &quot;I said something about a person's beard.&quot; And every answer and comment was &quot;you should be able to say anything you want as much as you want and nobody should ever object especially if it wasn't about them.&quot; That belief is wrong. Many things people say about appearance offend, and can offend third parties. This answer seeks to show that to those who don't know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS : I'm not calling back the meta post than her answer made. It's just that, it's not because something for you is of the least importance that it's true for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-11-18T12:51:44.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4049" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-18T16:41:31.267" Score="-7" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most useful comments are aimed at the OP. Some of them should persist long after talk on the answer has died down. Notifications tend to suck people in who have run out of useful things to say to anyone who may like to read the question or answer in the future. And in my experience people tend to be a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; nicer in 1:1 chat conversations than this weird penning-letters-back-and-forth form that has become internet comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my conclusion is there really isn't a strong use case for mailbox notifications in chat discussions. Useful comments are aimed primarily at future visitors or the OP (and the OP, generally, once, not over a volley). The @ pings are really counterproductive to our goal of keeping chat on chat and comments useful and generally friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user42272" LastActivityDate="2016-11-18T19:55:19.080" Title="To cut down on comment chatter, remove support for &quot;@&quot; except to invite someone to comment" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|comments|chat|notifications|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4050" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4051" CreationDate="2016-11-18T16:53:53.470" Score="7" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've already answered a question the answer box disappears and is replaced by a button that on other sites is labelled &quot;Add Another Answer&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/niTCj.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/niTCj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The image above is from Stack Overflow but it could be Super User, Webmasters, Gaming or any of the other sites I've checked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But here on The Workplace it's labelled &quot;Answer This Question&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1hZiW.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1hZiW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It's also like this on Software Engineering).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7" LastEditorUserId="7" LastEditDate="2016-11-18T16:59:39.867" LastActivityDate="2016-11-18T17:23:31.000" Title="Why is the &quot;Add Another Answer&quot; button labelled &quot;Answer This Question&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4050" CreationDate="2016-11-18T17:09:14.020" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason this comes up is because we have a lower threshold for a question to have &quot;too many&quot; answers than other sites and the question had more answers than that threshold. The same is true on Software Engineering. If I'd checked a question where I was the only answerer (or one of two) I would have seen the &quot;Add Another Answer&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click the &quot;Answer This Question&quot; button you get the same dialog that everyone gets asking if you're sure that you really want to answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FUu1L.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FUu1L.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this check overrides the &quot;you've already answered this question&quot; check and changes the functionality of the button accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7" LastEditorUserId="7" LastEditDate="2016-11-18T17:23:31.000" LastActivityDate="2016-11-18T17:23:31.000" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4049" CreationDate="2016-11-18T19:55:19.080" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;re: &quot;The @ pings are really counterproductive&quot; I think you'll have to provide some metrics before we could really relate with this suggestion. I would wager that a lot of people find notifications have no effect on productivity and only serve to improve discussion quality (compared to simply missing messages).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted there have been some studies proposing that notifications serve to interrupt workflow &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt;, but to my knowledge those aren't conclusive or widely accepted except in certain circles. I also don't know that the user areas of Stack Exchange is a place where a workflow can really be interrupted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; see this being a concern for moderators (or maybe even on review queues), so maybe this is a use case for fine-grained notification control, but at this point I don't see it as a good general suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastActivityDate="2016-11-18T19:55:19.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4053" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-18T21:33:42.270" Score="-2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/80020/gift-for-contractor-who-did-amazing-work&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/80020/gift-for-contractor-who-did-amazing-work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One upvote, no down-votes, one up-voted answer, and an appropriate work-place topic for this time of year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No community close votes, just the action of one moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-11-19T12:41:08.393" Title="Why was this question cloesed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4053" CreationDate="2016-11-18T21:53:39.297" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, reason given is &quot;Primarily opinion based&quot; which I normally am pretty dubious of because by definition, almost everything on Workplace is opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is the rare exception where I think it fits because I find it to be not primarily opinion based but totally opinion based.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a Q&amp;amp;A site. There can really be no answer that is better than others and certainly not one that is best. What is the goal that's being addressed? What problem is really being solved?  Instead of a question that we can answer, we have an opinion poll or survey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastActivityDate="2016-11-18T21:53:39.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4053" CreationDate="2016-11-18T22:07:17.297" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It really isn't in scope here. It asks for thoughts or opinions on buying a gift!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's nothing to do with Workplace.SE or even work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure why you think it would be in scope, to be honest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2016-11-18T22:07:17.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4044" CreationDate="2016-11-18T22:41:50.620" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally generally avoid using the word &quot;offensive&quot; when discussing something that offends me. If it were is offensive then I ought to be able to describe what is actually wrong with what was said. Calling it &quot;offensive&quot; is a bit of a non-description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find yourself on the other end of this you could try asking the other person why it's offensive. And if this disagreement does not become either generally interesting and cooperative, or flatly resolved within two comments or so, you say &quot;agree to disagree&quot;, let them downvote if applicable, and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words this problem can be mostly avoided by remembering this is, in fact, not a discussion board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find yourself too easily sucked into arguments about how you should prefer &quot;they&quot; over &quot;he&quot;, for instance, then don't make that someone else's problem. You're the one who is failing to manage being offended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user42272" LastActivityDate="2016-11-18T22:41:50.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4053" CreationDate="2016-11-19T01:54:38.467" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The basic question was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there any type of gift I can get for him on a personal level?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could anyone here reasonably expect to offer anything other than an opinion, when &quot;personal level&quot; is requested for someone we cannot know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-11-19T01:54:38.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4058" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-19T10:34:34.143" Score="-2" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it is allowed to ask for review of resume here at workplace.&#xA;So is it good to ask for that here just like  in &lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;codereview&lt;/a&gt; for codes written by peers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59933" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:41:05.417" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T23:18:29.137" Title="Can we ask for resume review here in The Workplace?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4058" CreationDate="2016-11-19T12:32:55.183" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Codereview&lt;/a&gt; site is a site that went through the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Area-51&lt;/a&gt; process. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you believe the ResumeReview site is needed then start that process, or see if somebody has already started one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:41:05.417" LastActivityDate="2016-11-19T12:32:55.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4053" CreationDate="2016-11-19T12:41:08.393" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;One way this question can be saved may be to turn it into a question about appropriateness of giving any gift.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible avenues that answers may take:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question says &quot;He and his staff were always there when we needed assistance&quot;. What happens when they don't get a gift?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the contractor works for a company they may require the receiver of the gift to reject it, or turn it over to the company, or share it with the entire team. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course what you think is a good gift may not be: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/74169/how-to-return-a-fake-watch-gifted-by-a-client&quot;&gt;How to return a fake watch &amp;quot;gifted&amp;quot; by a client&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-11-19T12:41:08.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4061" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-19T12:53:54.567" Score="13" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else wonder about this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/79940/how-to-politely-decline-my-salary-due-to-feeling-i-dont-currently-deserve-it&quot;&gt;How to politely decline my salary due to feeling I don&amp;#39;t currently deserve it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to assume positive intent here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I read &quot;I thought about removing my account number from our payroll system&quot;, I have a hard time believing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm too skeptical, but I'm sensing an increase in the volume of questions from brand new members with subjects that make me say &quot;hmm&quot;. I worry that The Workplace is starting to deteriorate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T15:38:25.237" Title="Does anyone else wonder about this question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4061" CreationDate="2016-11-19T15:56:45.140" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to happen on various sites as they grow. It comes around at different times, but you suddenly start to see folks who just ask weird questions - not sure if it's for fun, to troll, or to test out the response, or whether some people are just particularly strange. I have given up trying to query their reasons, or second guess why they come up with such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My preferred tactic on a couple of sites is to point out that hypothetical questions may not work (e.g. On Parenting.SE hypothetical questions really fail, as we can't narrow down the real problem in a made up scenario) and close as off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2016-11-19T15:56:45.140" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4061" CreationDate="2016-11-19T16:17:58.070" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there's a good chance that many people have simply misunderstood OP suggestion there. It would be very easy to remove one's direct deposit 'account number' from a payroll system like NetChex without &quot;tampering&quot; with payroll (as many assumed in their answer). That's still wouldn't prevent them from being paid of courae, the company would cut them a check or compel them to maintain an active direct deposit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I think a good idea would have been asking OP to clarify that point if it seems odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastActivityDate="2016-11-19T16:17:58.070" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4061" CreationDate="2016-11-19T21:41:37.997" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot in anyway see 'good intent' in that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Around the full moon there is an increase of lunatics, unfortunately being an international site, there's a full moon somewhere all the time. And some lunatics have internet access.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-11-19T21:41:37.997" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4058" CreationDate="2016-11-19T21:45:15.007" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We would be flooded with these and I for one am not interested in reviewing resumes. Terrible idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-11-19T21:45:15.007" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4044" CreationDate="2016-11-21T06:18:00.980" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about people with high rep, who become combative/insulting due to a comment left on one of their answers?  I have found that a lot of people on the various exchanges, simply have issues with criticism on their answering styles, be it that they are overly aggressive, or are slightly insulting to the OP.....which I will usually point out in a comment, in the hopes that maybe the user will edit their answer to be less aggressive/insulting/whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This usually happens, but I have run into several who seem to take offense to someone with lower rep even suggesting that they may have an issue with how they handle people, and it devolves into the &quot;I am using my valuable time&quot; or &quot;I have been here longer&quot; arguments.   The usual forum dribble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58533" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T06:18:00.980" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4061" CreationDate="2016-11-21T15:38:25.237" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's getting harder and harder to assume good intent when we've recently been battered by trolls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One got suspended for a year, then the three latest got deleted including several incarnations of &quot;poonjay&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen this happen to other sites.  You get hit by trolls, then moderation tightens up and legitimate discussions are casualties, people complain, there is the obligatory complaining about how everything changed and the moderators are called various and sundry names, and the site begins to rot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So.... what do we do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say, so long as we just &quot;wonder&quot; about these people, and shut down the questions when they are clearly and identifiably used to troll this site, and keep an eye on the people asking doubtful questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we should be too quick to clamp down on anyone, as the trolls eventually reveal themselves as they escalate quickly when they are not getting the reactions they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T15:38:25.237" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4058" CreationDate="2016-11-21T15:46:38.220" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see this as practical for the workplace, even for a &quot;resume review&quot; site as we have a code review site.  Ask 5 people for advice on a resume, you'll get 10 different answers.  Not only is there variance from field to field, there's cultural and even regional variations that, IMO, would leave any querents more confused than they were when they arrived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T15:46:38.220" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4069" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-21T17:02:18.550" Score="-15" ViewCount="540" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really despise the workplace due to the amount of comments moved to chat even when the comments are on topic.  This of all the SE sites is probably the most notorious for moving very relevant comments to the chat.  I had some comments on this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/79992/fired-because-your-skills-are-too-far-above-your-coworkers&quot;&gt;Fired because your skills are too far above your coworkers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the OP actually liked many of my comments and it helped establish what type of person this is and how he can overcome the issues.  Yet a mod of course has to move the comments to chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please stop it or risk losing a LOT of people who don't agree with you!  Sorry for the rant but I'm tired of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26825" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-11-22T09:16:24.273" Title="I despise &quot;The Workplace&quot; thanks to the admins who move comments to chat" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4069" CreationDate="2016-11-21T17:42:42.520" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon - comments are not permanent! This is a general SE policy. Comments are to request clarification. Otherwise everything rapidly gets unreadable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have something worth keeping that's currently in a comment, move it into the question or answer, and delete the comment to clean it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please read &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/140033/154443&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/140033/154443&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comments are temporary &quot;Post-It&quot; notes left on a question or answer. They can be up-voted (but not down-voted) and flagged, but do not generate reputation. There's no revision history, and when they are deleted they're gone for good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that you can always comment on your own posts, and any part of your questions. However, commenting on other people's posts is a privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should submit a comment if you want to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Request clarification from the author;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Leave constructive criticism that guides the author in improving the post;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Add relevant but minor or transient information to a post (e.g. a link to a related question, or an alert to the author that the question has been updated).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T17:55:54.653" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4069" CreationDate="2016-11-21T17:55:41.937" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have had a handful of run-ins with the moderators over comment deletion, but, by and large, they perform their role well. Your complaint seems to be the result of a misunderstanding of the purpose of comments, so here's a Meta post (on &lt;em&gt;StackExchange&lt;/em&gt;) to help you: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/19756/202356&quot;&gt;How do comments work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to wonder why you care so strongly about comments getting moved, or even deleted. They don't add to your reputation, and are hardly searchable. If OP has addressed the points raised in the comments, they have served their purpose, so what else do you want to gain from them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you believe that your comments carry value even beyond improving the OP's post, all you need to do is make them into an answer (or in some cases, you might even have to convert them into new &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;). You would be pleased to hear that moderators can't move those into chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, sorry, a lot of people don't agree with your disagreement. We are not going to lose a &quot;lot&quot; of people over what is essentially a non-issue of someone complaining because they do not (yet) understand how the site works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T17:55:41.937" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4069" CreationDate="2016-11-21T22:28:41.540" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may find this aspect of the guidelines annoying, but others (myself included) find it to be a blessing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Stack Exchange is not built for discussion.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is easily in the top 25%[1] of all Stack Exchange sites as far as traffic is concerned, and as such it can not preserve the amount of comments received while maintaining the core values of the network (Unchecked, posts would quickly devolve into discussions which is the opposite of what the network values in the end).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Q/A should be able to stand on it's own.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discussion is only useful on the main site to the point that it improves the Questions &amp;amp; Answers. After that point, once the Q/A is updated, the comments have small value. If they can't directly improve the Question or Answer then they're not as useful as they may seems (even for context).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Extended discussions belong in chat rooms&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chat offers some measure of persistent context (Especially if specific rooms are created for individual questions &amp;amp; answers (Which is how the mods handle such instances when comments need to be moved). After things have been hashed out a bit, the main site posts can be updated and hopefully everyone is more on the same page about what is needed going forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1]: #34 out of 161 sites by my count&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastEditorDisplayName="user30031" LastEditDate="2016-11-21T22:56:46.250" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T22:56:46.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4058" CreationDate="2016-11-21T23:18:29.137" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a new ResumeReview.stackechange.com site were created, I'd be happy to help review some resumes, cover letters, and CVs for folks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it shouldn't clutter up The Workplace. This would be the wrong site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T23:18:29.137" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4069" CreationDate="2016-11-21T23:26:36.730" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I despise “The Workplace” thanks to the admins who move comments to&#xA;  chat&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I understand correctly, you don't like the fact that comments are not permanent. You might get a better reception for your question here if you reworded it to emphasize that change to policy/process/UI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't make any sense to use the word &quot;despise&quot;, unless you are just venting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it doesn't make any sense to blame the admins who are just doing what they are instructed to do with comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I agree with you that comments should be permanent, and I believe I've mentioned that in the past. I'd probably upvote a Meta question that made a cogent argument about changing that feature. You might be interested in this discussion: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2748/our-comments-problem&quot;&gt;Our Comments Problem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally delete all of my comments that are more than a few days old, so as not to add to the comment problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't own the site, so I don't make the rules. And I certainly don't complain about the admins/moderators who are just following the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T23:32:09.680" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4075" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-22T04:28:20.113" Score="-7" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am requesting &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/80104/refused-access-to-make-changes-directly-to-the-live-site&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about being denied access to a production website be released from HOLD status. I work in IT Security and can provide some insight from my work experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel important concepts such as Segregation of Duties and least privilege are not covered adequately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt; I have edited the question. Does this version fit SE better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-11-23T01:32:17.643" Title="Release question from Hold status due to being Unclear" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4075" CreationDate="2016-11-22T09:01:57.153" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this question just needs very basic coverage of why's and why not's, and it already has them. The question is too vague to be worth a full on dissertation. Although I would personally be interested in examining your insights. They would not be helpful for the OP who hasn't grasped the bare basics yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-11-22T09:01:57.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4069" CreationDate="2016-11-22T09:08:57.667" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen neither rhyme nor reason in a lot of the comment deletions, but que sera sera, I'm not a moderator, I just assume they're doing it in good faith for some reason beyond an itchy finger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no point getting upset over things like this. Save your ammunition for a worthier battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you make a comment that is particularly good and addresses issues very well, add it to the answer, assuming it is your answer. If it's a great comment that absolutely destroys someone else's answer. Make your own answer and incorporate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2016-11-22T09:16:24.273" LastActivityDate="2016-11-22T09:16:24.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4075" CreationDate="2016-11-22T14:24:52.150" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I am often critical of post closings here, this one is justified.  I read it three times and am still not clear on what the OP was asking.  At least five other people feel the same way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands, the question is far too vague to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2016-11-22T14:24:52.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4075" CreationDate="2016-11-22T19:55:45.673" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;This question needs to be edited before it can be re-opened.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is presently worded the question is unclear.  With the right edits, this question might be in scope for the site, but presently it is not.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Is there something which I am not able to understand?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea what the OP might and might not be able to understand about the situation.  I'm pretty sure that is not the question OP intends to ask.  If OP can give us a more detailed question, we might be able to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In its current state, this question stands as an exemplar for why the &quot;unclear&quot; close reason is needed on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastActivityDate="2016-11-22T19:55:45.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4080" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-23T11:20:01.720" Score="-2" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many questions have this [on hold]. What does it mean?&#xA;I have not tried anything.&#xA;Yes it is written using proper grammar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60693" OwnerDisplayName="user60693" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2016-11-23T12:52:51.107" LastActivityDate="2016-11-24T05:06:59.143" Title="What does &quot;[on hold ]&quot; mean?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4080" CreationDate="2016-11-23T11:22:48.870" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It means that no answers can be added to the question - usually happens when the community votes to close the question, which can happen for different reasons (either it is off topic, doesn't make sense, difficult to understand or simply doesn't fit how the system works).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It gives the question author the chance to edit and correct the issues, so the community can reopen the question so someone could answer it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1513" LastActivityDate="2016-11-23T11:22:48.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4082" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-23T16:52:01.600" Score="7" ViewCount="931" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was spured by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/80306/16&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; but it applies in general.  Is it approriate to answer a question with just &quot;Go ask someone else&quot; with no other context or attempt to provide guidance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thought is an answer that just says ask someone/somewhere else is not appropriate at all for Stack exchange. We exist to provide answers to questions and help people.  We should not be sending people elsewhere for help that is on topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-11-27T20:45:07.997" Title="Is it acceptable here to answer a question with &quot;Go ask someone else?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|answers|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3965" CreationDate="2016-11-23T17:06:30.697" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only thing I can think of is we wait longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comment on the question, dont downvote, dont vtc for the first 24 hours this question is online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean most questions that are on hold are rightly so, sometimes I feel we closed something way to fast makeing it easy for the OP to give up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49065" LastActivityDate="2016-11-23T17:06:30.697" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4082" CreationDate="2016-11-23T17:09:25.037" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answer to many questions boils down to &quot;Ask the person who can answer this.&quot; Sometimes it's company policy questions. Sometimes it's interpersonal workplace situations. Sometimes it's career development stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll agree that it's best practice to provide more explanation and context in an answer to that effect than I did in the answer above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think it is perfectly acceptable to answer, &quot;Ask your Manager/Boss/Co-Worker/HR/Lawyer, and here's why.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52776" LastActivityDate="2016-11-23T17:09:25.037" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4082" CreationDate="2016-11-23T17:29:16.613" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are some situations when that is an appropriate response. In particular, I think it is an appropriate answer when doing so means elevating the problem so someone else can make a decision. For example, consider the situation where you and a colleague disagree on how to fix a bug in your widget. You are both set on your solutions and won't change your  minds. How do you move forward? &lt;strong&gt;Ask your boss.&lt;/strong&gt; Now I'd expect there to be some explanation to go along with it, but the general advice to consult your superior is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in many cases &quot;Ask your boss/HR/lawyer&quot; is the correct answer because there is no generic answer and we at the Workplace can't know all the details needed to properly answer. This is &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; but not a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answer and is an indication of a bad question that should be closed instead. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;Only answer well-asked questions&lt;/a&gt;) I think that the linked question falls in this category. The OP is asking how to fulfill the company policy defining self-assessment. The OP's manager, who knows the company and its policies, is the best person to give direction here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2016-11-23T19:34:53.280" LastActivityDate="2016-11-23T19:34:53.280" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4082" CreationDate="2016-11-23T23:41:46.873" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Ask your manager&quot; may be rather succinct, but in some cases it is perfectly appropriate and correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with all answers, if we don't like the answer we can downvote. If we like it we can upvote. Or you could even add more text to make the answer better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no need to quibble over appropriateness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-11-23T23:41:46.873" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4082" CreationDate="2016-11-24T08:59:43.417" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it acceptable here to answer a question with “Go ask someone else?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;, because you should be &lt;strong&gt;voting to close&lt;/strong&gt; instead. If all you can say is &quot;we can't answer this question&quot; then that's about as clear a sign as you can get that either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the question doesn't belong on this site, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the user posting the &quot;answer&quot; doesn't have the right knowledge or experience to answer the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the former you downvote and vote to close. In the latter case you just downvote. To be clear, neither scenario automatically means that you should be downvoting the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;strong&gt;this only applies to answers that say &quot;&lt;em&gt;ask [person]&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; and nothing else. The only time this type of answer would be appropriate is for simple questions like &quot;&lt;em&gt;Is it okay to ask my manager for X?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. But even in those cases, while &quot;&lt;em&gt;Yes, ask your manager&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is a valid answer, I'd consider it too short and easy. You'd expect the answer to provide a sample script of how to start that conversation or to give reasons why the question is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2016-11-27T20:45:07.997" LastActivityDate="2016-11-27T20:45:07.997" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4082" CreationDate="2016-11-26T23:39:34.247" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;We often get questions of the form &quot;X has happened: this seems strange! What do I do?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers tend to come in one of three flavours:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This apparently strange behaviour is actually common practice and here's why... / a common problem and here's what you can do...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No idea, ask whoever did it / someone with authority / someone who knows your circumstances and can give better advice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No idea, but I have a theory...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP is hoping for an answer in category 1, and indeed that's a useful contribution to the site. Thing is, that answer may not exist, and so Category 2 is often good advice and might be the 'right' answer. Category 3 is pure speculation and should probably be downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Vote to Close is right for cases where there is little to go on and the only plausible answers are opinion, but in other circumstances, I feel it is excessive, as it essentially endorses the category 2 answer - whether or not there is a genuine category 1 answer 'out there' which the OP would accept or which the community would prefer to an 'ask someone else' answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are of course better and worse ways of writing an 'ask someone else' answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="610" LastActivityDate="2016-11-26T23:39:34.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4090" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-28T16:23:21.303" Score="3" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/80491/how-to-make-sure-a-part-time-sysadmin-does-not-caught-up-in-projects/&quot;&gt;How to make sure a part time SysAdmin does not caught up in projects?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Querent has made significant edit, RTC too broad no longer applies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-11-29T21:14:10.933" Title="Request to reopen the &quot;part-time sysadmin&quot; question" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4090" CreationDate="2016-11-28T19:09:45.783" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now re-opened. Your work here is done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14388" LastActivityDate="2016-11-28T19:09:45.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4093" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-28T23:42:38.093" Score="9" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;A month ago, I asked a question about getting a black eye.  I didn’t expect much of a response, but boy was I wrong.  The question is sitting at a score of 74, with 14 answers and lots of discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is, it’s a bad question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;14&lt;/strong&gt; answers, repeating variations of the same three ideas- lie, don’t lie, and don't worry about it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many answers make an attempt to answer my specific situation instead of making it relevant to others.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question produced a lot of discussion, not content. Dozens of deleted comments and the question is now protected. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The only answer I would consider accepting is in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/78563/i-have-a-black-eye-how-do-i-respond-to-the-inevitable-curiosity-and-protect-my#comment222169_78563&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my view, the main causes of this are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is interesting and dramatic.  A black eye is a lot more fun to think about than how to navigate a mundane workday.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question made it into the “Hot Network Questions” list, which brought a lot of eyes that are not aware of how the Workplace community functions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question leaves room for speculation.  I left out the details to keep the question from being specific to my circumstance, and that generated a lot of discussion and speculation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The community disagreed with the premise.  A significant amount of the discussion revolved around disagreeing with my concern that a black eye would feed into the office gossip machine.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can questions like this be handled differently to prevent the high moderator workload and low community value?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59315" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-12-04T23:48:47.907" Title="Can anything be done to make bad, popular questions more helpful?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4094" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4095" CreationDate="2016-11-29T13:13:19.820" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/80440/i-am-being-used-as-a-communication-tool-between-2-project-teams-who-refuse-to-he&quot;&gt;I am being used as a communication tool between 2 project teams who refuse to help each other out&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was closed for being a rant without a question. It's true that there was no actual question statement, but I think the scenario makes a good topic here, so I added a one-line question at the end to focus the answers. I would like to nominate the question to be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="33698" LastEditDate="2016-11-29T21:13:35.660" LastActivityDate="2016-11-29T21:13:35.660" Title="&quot;I am being used as a communication tool...&quot;" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4094" CreationDate="2016-11-29T19:37:43.223" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has received enough votes to be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2016-11-29T19:37:43.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4096" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-29T19:45:02.190" Score="5" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I see it, facility management in the context of a workplace concerns itself with creating, operating and maintaining commercial environments and infrastructure. In an office context I believe the term &quot;building management&quot; is largely synonymous. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So are questions about this topic considered suitable for the Workplace?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was prompted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/80506&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; asking for ways to prevent conference phones from migrating through the office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've previously &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1853/is-ergonomics-on-topic&quot;&gt;had a thread on ergonomics-related questions&lt;/a&gt; with a clear consensus that the community believes this is on topic. But while that's also a topic that doesn't deal with interpersonal relationships it's a very different and better scoped subject. In my view the answers given there also wouldn't apply to facility management.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Note: I consider this to be entirely distinct from office management which has a much more obvious focus on business processes and people.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-11-30T18:03:25.833" Title="Are facility management questions on topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4097" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4099" CreationDate="2016-11-30T01:44:37.690" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is entirely about opinion and cannot have any one definite answer.  Why has it not been closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/80517/subjects-to-discuss-while-on-break-with-older-colleagues&quot;&gt;Subjects to discuss while on break with older colleagues&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user29416" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-11-30T04:21:16.067" Title="Opinion based question" Tags="|discussion|opinion-based|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4097" CreationDate="2016-11-30T02:36:59.140" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; answerable in the general case where a strategy is given rather than specific examples of topics.  The advice given in the highest upvoted, accepted answer doesn't try to tell the OP what to say, merely that they should just simply talk about what interests them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers that try to give the OP a list of topics are unhelpful and, as you say, entirely opinion based.  However, there is a reasonable recommended &lt;em&gt;strategy&lt;/em&gt; that the accepted answer addresses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastEditorUserId="33698" LastEditDate="2016-11-30T02:57:41.350" LastActivityDate="2016-11-30T02:57:41.350" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4097" CreationDate="2016-11-30T04:21:16.067" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer your question plainly: because it hasn't gotten enough votes to be closed as such. Mods don't really sort through questions looking to close them; that's the community's job as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastActivityDate="2016-11-30T04:21:16.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4096" CreationDate="2016-11-30T13:28:03.497" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edit: After some discussion, the best answer seems to be to decide on a case-by case basis whether or not something veers too close to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2694&quot;&gt;&quot;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As IDrinkAndIKnowThings points out in their answer and &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/33829123#33829123&quot;&gt;in chat&lt;/a&gt;: Even if a question like this could be on topic, then it would likely run afoul of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;&quot;every answer is equally valid&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue that facilities management has a rather large impact on interpersonal relationships in the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cramped, uncomfortable or poorly maintained facilities will cause aggravation in employees and seems logical that such things could affect overall morale and productivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-11-30T18:03:25.833" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4096" CreationDate="2016-11-30T16:54:47.020" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the question on the conference room phones was on topic because it was something that would have serious implications on our core topic of navigating the workplace.  It is something that the OP (at least conceivably) could have control over, and something that could be addressed with out having to escalate to a high level management type.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Facilities management question types that would be clearly off topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which phone system is best/should i choose?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I connect my phone system through our Intranet?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have been directed to cut our Telcom budget by X% how do i do that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can I connect my gen 3 utlrapro phones to a gen 1 Telcom Server?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically questions that are technical or Business Management focused are off topic.  Questions that are Personnel management, or policy implementation, problem solving oriented are more likely to be on topic.  But it really all comes down to context.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The linked question about the conference room phones while in my opinion, is on topic, it would not take many changes to the question to move it to off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2016-11-30T16:54:47.020" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4102" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-30T18:35:10.410" Score="-6" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like this question to be re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65794/threatened-to-resign-accused-of-being-a-bully&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65794/threatened-to-resign-accused-of-being-a-bully&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Multiple users answered the question with varying degrees of commentary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It does contain a question.  The story was necessary to give the context in which the question was asked.  If I need to reword it, give me guidance on roughly what to say to get it opened.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fun is not entirely forbidden on Stack Exchange - the fact that I indicated that I thought the whole situation was somewhat humorous in retrospect does not mean I did not want others views on it.  I honestly  wanted to validate my intuition that I was engaged in a power-play by giving an ultimatum, but not bullying.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user29416" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-12-01T00:41:15.113" Title="Request to reopen the &quot;threatened to resign, called a bully question&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-12-01T00:47:06.110" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4102" CreationDate="2016-11-30T19:32:22.323" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only sentence I can see there that is close to being a question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm curious if bullying goes both ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of your post is the narrative, and then your opinion. I honestly can't see a) what you are asking, and b) if I try to extrapolate from that sentence, I don't know what answer you could accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I said that bullying does go both ways, what would that mean to you? Could you use that information? Same if I said it doesn't...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2016-11-30T19:32:22.323" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4102" CreationDate="2016-12-01T00:41:15.113" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question as posed simply doesn't have a productive answer. As such it is not a good Stack Exchange question. It may be a fine topic for discussion, but this is intended to be a FAQ site, not a discussion site.  Take it to a place where it's a better fit for the site's goals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-12-01T00:41:15.113" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4105" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-01T06:12:26.157" Score="7" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the nth time somebody is asking &quot;is this legal&quot;, &quot;I need to know whether this is legal&quot;, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that you at least add a line to the &quot;Off-Topic Questions&quot; paragraph that explicitly states that we don't answer &quot;is it legal&quot;, &quot;I need to know whether this is legal&quot;, etc. Here is the link to the age that I'd like to see updated: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone is asking questions, the list of off-topic questions should be the first thing they see. I'd like to see &quot;we are not a legal services agency&quot;, &quot;we don't offer medical advice&quot;, etc. Questions such as &quot;To whom should I redirect my question?&quot; should be perhaps allowable. This is the nth-time that I have written &quot;If in the US, redirect your question to your state's Department of Labor&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16993" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T17:48:51.583" Title="We need to have an easily reachable link for the type of questions that we don't answer" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4106" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4107" CreationDate="2016-12-01T14:11:11.790" Score="0" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aquestion+scam&quot;&gt;a lot of questions&lt;/a&gt; about potential job scams, but there isn't yet a tag for it. I thought it would be good to go back and add a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scam&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scam&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scam&lt;/a&gt; tag to all of the old questions, but I also don't want to go resurrecting a bunch of old questions without mod input. The mods probably also have a way of doing it all automatically rather than slogging through it by hand. Would anyone else be in favor of going back and adding a tag to all of these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2016-12-01T15:14:42.820" Title="Create &quot;scam&quot; tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4106" CreationDate="2016-12-01T15:14:42.820" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would anyone else be in favor of going back and adding a tag to all of&#xA;  these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be concerned about all the &quot;is this a scam?&quot; questions that would likely follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-12-01T15:14:42.820" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4105" CreationDate="2016-12-02T15:18:28.010" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I agree.  It is an easy edit to make, and it may serve to prevent some future problems.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we will still see a lot of off topic questions, but for those users who &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; making a good faith effort, it will give them an additional tool to determine if their question is a good fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is certainly no downside to making the edit.  Worst case scenario it doesn't have the desired affect and we're talking about the problem again soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastActivityDate="2016-12-02T15:18:28.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4110" CreationDate="2016-12-02T16:41:52.553" Score="7" ViewCount="913" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going through the edit queue and I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/80718/is-this-foreign-job-offer-via-an-online-agency-without-any-interview-legit&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question from a user who is concerned that he/she is being scammed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/80718/is-this-foreign-job-offer-via-an-online-agency-without-any-interview-legit&quot;&gt;Is this foreign job offer via an online agency without any interview legit?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within the edit I was looking at, the user was changing the question to include specifics.  The edit (which I approved) names the company, as well as the website where the job posting was found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we OK with the practice of naming and shaming?  Should there be a rule to prevent the naming and shaming of companies or individuals who may or may not be guilty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-12-05T21:16:05.977" Title="Is it OK to name and shame?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4109" CreationDate="2016-12-02T17:43:55.250" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely not. Aside from the ethical (and potentially legal) implications, it's simply off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Stack Exchange sites are Q&amp;amp;A sites and the questions need to be relevant to the general reader. There's nothing general about naming a certain party. One the identifying information is removed, it may then be on topic still and if so should be treated like everything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases where there is identifying information it should be removed (as was the case you cited) but then I would flag the question for a moderator attention (type other, I think) to determine if the identifying information needs to be permanently removed from the edit history as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastActivityDate="2016-12-02T17:43:55.250" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4109" CreationDate="2016-12-02T18:38:52.220" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are we OK with the practice of naming and shaming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not okay with that practice at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, even the well-intentioned edits got it wrong - making it sound like the company was at fault, rather than the agency. Not okay at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't want to turn into Yelp, where anyone can post an anonymous attack against any company with no evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should there be a rule to prevent the naming and shaming of companies&#xA;  or individuals who may or may not be guilty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flag questions/answers when I notice specific companies being named.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2016-12-05T21:16:05.977" LastActivityDate="2016-12-05T21:16:05.977" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4109" CreationDate="2016-12-02T19:33:39.817" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, naming the company is not shaming, if the right information is included. Their home page, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hfweb.co.uk/klpharm/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.hfweb.co.uk/klpharm/&lt;/a&gt;, says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you have received an e-mail offering you a position in our company&#xA;  or the offer of help with your immigration to the UK, please be aware&#xA;  that these offers are fraudulent and we suggest that you contact&#xA;  Action Fraud at www.actionfraud.police.uk or on 0300 123 2040 using&#xA;  Crime Ref: NFRC161201652124. Do not send personal details or money to&#xA;  these scammers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are trying to make people aware that their name has been misused by scammers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19325" LastActivityDate="2016-12-02T19:33:39.817" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4113" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-03T17:28:22.377" Score="19" ViewCount="292" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3423/2322&quot;&gt;not going to try poetry again for this year's winterbash post&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Winterbash is a competition within SE that allows everyone to win hats by doing various things, similar to badges, but only from December 19th through January 8th, 2017. Any hats can then be displayed on your avatar during this time like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8vvIl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8vvIl.png&quot; alt=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8vvIl.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The full summary from last year is &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2016/01/Winter-Bash-2015-Hats-Off/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some hats will have public descriptions to aim for but some have secret criteria (though there normally ends up being a long thread on meta.stackexchange with a list if you really want to find them that way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Winterbash is opt-out, so unless there are significant objections, Workplace will be opted in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Winterbash, yay or nay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.357" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T19:51:20.677" Title="Winterbash 2016?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4113" CreationDate="2016-12-03T18:35:23.470" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely a YAY!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently there was only one site that usually opts out - lets not be that site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(plus - I like hats!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2016-12-03T18:35:23.470" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4093" CreationDate="2016-12-04T23:48:47.907" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Checked the question and sure enough, virtually no established users answered and none that I've heard of. In my view, good answers take some experience to write, especially in the context of the workplace, so it's not so surprising that you feel like the answers didn't cover your situation very well or weren't helpful. It's the curse of writing an &quot;accessible&quot; question like this and HNQ only complicates it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anything be done? Not as far as I know. It's hard enough to salvage bad questions that get to HNQ and there are no tools for dealing with the answers. Votes by people who know what a good answer would look like are simply drowned out. Even when they comment why a popular answer is wrong or misguided, what results is a comment with a few dozen upvotes but no one who wants to take the -1 to their 100 bonus reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way to prevent this is for the people submitting the question to critically reflect before posting and to update or edit the question based on the community's comments and responses. Some of it is unavoidable but the meaningless speculation on the &quot;real reason&quot; for your black eye could have been avoided if you just made up a boring reason (&quot;My buddy socked me in the eye playing squash&quot;) and the disagreement could be avoided by stating that you know people love the gossip about that sort of thing at your work, or even by making up a previous time that happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, I'd say there's at least some value to the answers there so it's not a total loss. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2016-12-04T23:48:47.907" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4109" CreationDate="2016-12-05T08:09:26.033" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Naming a company immediately makes the question company specific and therefore off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case it shouldn't be done, it's wide open to abuse from many angles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-12-05T08:09:26.033" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4117" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-07T15:15:52.237" Score="33" ViewCount="448" Body="&lt;p&gt;So you've been getting hammered. While we very much appreciate all of the hard work everyone has been doing to keep things clean, we feel like we should be making it easier for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, effective immediately, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the threshold of spam / abuse flags required for a post to be automatically deleted has been cut in half.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; This also has the benefit of more quickly training our spam system since that's an event that the system learns from. We've also made tweaks to deal an instant blocking weight within the system for every instance of a post being spam-flag deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, less technically, when three of you spam-flag a post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's instantly deleted. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The originating host (and possibly nearby networks) are automatically blocked from posting. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're going to leave this in place for at least the next 7 - 10 days. Thanks again for everything you do, and know we're watching and here to help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5657" LastActivityDate="2016-12-07T15:15:52.237" Title="Temporary Anti-Spam measures are now in place" Tags="|discussion|spam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4118" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-09T23:52:05.000" Score="0" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of [on hold] or deleted questions on here which I feel that we could at least ATTEMPT to give an answer to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who CARES if the question doesn't exactly fit the workplace &quot;rules&quot;, if there isn't another StackExchange which would better suit the question, and it isn't totally unrelated, why vote to close?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is one example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/81025/switching-from-system-software-domain-to-application-software-after-13-years-of&quot;&gt;13 year career change&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is switching careers, and wants to know how to transition, surely that is something we could answer? Transitioning careers is 100% a workplace question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might be saying &quot;Oh well it is too specific, so we can't help you transition from X career to Y career&quot;, and you would be right. We can't help a person understand what they need to study to become a developer, painter, or plumber. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we can do is generalize the question, taking away the specifics. Instead of looking at the specifics, couldn't we generalize the question to &quot;How can I transition to a new career after 15 years?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really feel that instead of just voting to close, we could help of lot of people with general advice pertaining to specific questions. It takes about the same amount of effort to edit a question as it does to flag it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not trying to focus on &quot;what is off/on-topic&quot;, but rather what we can do to encourage users to try and edit/fix a question, rather than just voting to close (assuming they have the time)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;another not so great example, but you get the point&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/81138/what-is-a-good-type-of-short-term-job-for-a-recent-graduate&quot;&gt;Good entry level job&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58733" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-12-27T01:13:04.830" LastActivityDate="2018-12-27T01:13:04.830" Title="Why don't more people try to edit/fix questions rather than just voting to close?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|editing|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4118" CreationDate="2016-12-09T23:57:16.800" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with your general point, but that specific question is too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's so broad that &quot;strangers on the Internet&quot; won't be able to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T23:57:16.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4118" CreationDate="2016-12-10T00:00:25.663" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;couldn't we generalize the question to &quot;How can I transition to a new career after 15 years?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely, but it does require an edit that someone has to make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any user can suggest &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/81025/edit&quot;&gt;an edit to the question&lt;/a&gt; and make it more general. That can be you or anyone on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T00:00:25.663" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4118" CreationDate="2016-12-10T09:03:03.327" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just like there is a vote to close, there is also a vote to reopen. So if you don't like that a question was closed, simply make an edit to improve it, and request to reopen it on meta, some of us will cast the required reopen votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2016-12-14T18:04:55.453" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T18:04:55.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4118" CreationDate="2016-12-10T15:46:43.313" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great example as it's exactly what I would vote to close as it's :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;very specific to the poster,  both in terms of circumstances and mentions technologies &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does little other than ask &quot;what do I do?&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good question will talk about the poster's circumstances in a way that resonates with others.   It also avoids being locale specific (if not relevant)  and not techie (it's easy to forget with SO etc that this is a wider community on workplace) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The poster should also show they have either tried to resolve it,  or at least have a strategy and want to know if it's good.  We can then either back up or make counter arguments and people can vote for the best advice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just asking what to do is bad,  they'll probably get something back that likely unhelpful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this is why it's closed,  but the poster (or anyone with sufficient rep)  can take the advice,  change it to be on topic and we will be happy to vote and reopen if it is now helpful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4937" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2016-12-12T09:54:42.657" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T09:54:42.657" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3658" CreationDate="2016-12-11T08:57:56.530" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Businesses and therefore workplaces don't commonly focus around ethics. Legalities, yes, ethics, not so much. On top of that, each individual might have a different concept of what is ethical. So how would you judge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore let them ask whatever they want along those lines, they'll either get some help or they won't, but I see no need to stop them asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T08:57:56.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4124" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-11T21:26:46.073" Score="-8" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm of course not directly saying there is a massive masonic conspiracy to downvote answers of people not part of a particular clique. I am highly aware I would be pilloried for suggesting this opinion. Yet despite the opinions I've seen on this site ('You can downvote whatever you want' (morally wrong)) I feel votes have real consequences and are important (yes 'fake internet 'points'' do matter and affect people's lives signficantly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence as a matter of precedent I'm asking: was this a legitimate downvote, or a fake one, or part of a conspiracy? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/81233/60751&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/81233/60751&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60751" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T09:51:31.720" Title="Why is this a bad answer?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4124" CreationDate="2016-12-12T02:23:17.583" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing to realize is that when you posted your answer, there were &lt;em&gt;fifteen&lt;/em&gt; answers already. Upon clicking &quot;answer&quot; you should have seen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X4NOs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X4NOs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that your answer doesn't really add much over the prior 15 answers. It is more or less a commentary on the situation and doesn't really address the core problem and a suggestion which seems tangential to the core issue the OP has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The core problem from the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My question is how can my team and I get on the same emotional level of someone who is nearly irreplaceable and I have no intentions of getting rid of? I would like tips on how I can calm him down as I have no experience in doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything in your answer there is commentary on the situation with a very small amount of actual actionable in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also benefit from an explanation of how and why you think your suggested solution will actually solve the problem the OP is facing. Your suggestion is tangential at best and probably would be better suited to a more comprehensive explanation, if you think that it is the correct action for the OP to resolve the situation the OP is facing. It's possible it might, however you have not given me a good explanation for why it will fix the issues presented in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T02:23:17.583" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4127" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4129" CreationDate="2016-12-12T09:29:12.127" Score="4" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was checking the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/81148/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline of a question&lt;/a&gt; when I found out the title shows in capital letters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TIMELINE FOR &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/81148/17590&quot;&gt;HOW TO HANDLE A HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYEE BUT WHO REACTS EXTREMELY EMOTIONALLY TO CODE REVIEWS?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I initially thought that this could well be because of an original upper case title, but it is not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, I checked a couple of timelines more and this happens also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/81228/timeline&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/12404/timeline&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, as well as in the answers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/81235/timeline&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/12411/timeline&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also noticed the title shows in capital letters in the review queues. See it in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/close/52060&quot;&gt;close vote&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/52059&quot;&gt;first posts&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/52059&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K3Vip.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not happening in other Stack Exchange sites I checked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17590" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T00:03:16.060" Title="Title in capital letters in the timeline and in review queues" Tags="|support|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4124" CreationDate="2016-12-12T09:51:31.720" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;'Bad' answers are a matter of perspective. We all think our answers are correct or we wouldn't (hopefully) be making them. But this is an internet group, you have no way of knowing why people disagree and no way of forcing them to agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I very much doubt that any conspirators are targeting you. And don't let a few downvotes (it's only 4) discourage you from participating. I've had much more downvotes than that many times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T09:51:31.720" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4127" CreationDate="2016-12-12T14:24:33.637" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to assume that this is because the font for page headers at the Workplace is an all-caps font.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;TOP QUESTIONS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;TAGS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;USERS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;UNANSWERED QUESTIONS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;HELP CENTER&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike at other sites, which use upper and lower case&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/posts/41029159/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Worldbuilding&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/posts/6340/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://travel.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Travel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://travel.stackexchange.com/posts/84190/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://diy.stackexchange.com/posts/104272/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline pages&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href=&quot;https://diy.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Home Improvement&lt;/a&gt;, which also uses an all-caps font for headers, would seem to confirm this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.403" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T14:32:54.920" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4130" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-12T14:55:20.633" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I opened &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/81278/how-to-handle-lending-tools-equipment-to-freelancing-acquaintance&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question today, and someone mentioned it would better fit at &lt;a href=&quot;https://freelancing.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Freelancing SE&lt;/a&gt;. I posted my post in workplace because I'd never been on freelancing and I didn't know it existed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should my question be moved? If yes, how can I do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57139" LastEditorUserId="61983" LastEditDate="2019-12-09T15:29:54.683" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T15:29:54.683" Title="Should my thread be moved?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4130" CreationDate="2016-12-12T15:19:03.380" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like someone already migrated it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T15:19:03.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4130" CreationDate="2016-12-12T15:19:52.177" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I moved it because the primary focus of your question is asking about the specifics of the freelancing arrangement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To migrate, generally you need a moderator to do that if the site is not prepopulated in the migration target list (which freelancing is not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T15:19:52.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4133" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-12T20:07:31.637" Score="19" ViewCount="964" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are we somehow attracting a certain type of worker that breaks down into tears in the workplace? (due to criticism or code reviews - not something bad happening in their life)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I've never seen this actually happen. Is this common?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48543" LastEditorUserId="48543" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T18:27:31.360" LastActivityDate="2017-01-01T02:26:56.663" Title="What's with all the questions involving tears?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4118" CreationDate="2016-12-12T22:32:25.353" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why don't more people try to edit/fix questions rather than just&#xA;  voting to close?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with the basic thoughts behind your overall question. I've long thought that there is far too much closing of questions. I've argued that we would be better served to let almost all questions stand rather than closing them for any reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to answer what you are asking in the title&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a lot easier to vote than to edit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edits aren't always appreciated by the OP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This isn't Wikipedia. The site doesn't emphasize correctness/thoroughness as much as it emphasizes gamification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T22:32:25.353" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4133" CreationDate="2016-12-12T23:19:57.580" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;The audience of The Workplace is biased toward people with problems in their professional (and sometimes personal) lives, problems that are difficult enough to interfere in their daily activities that they seek out external help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say only 1% of the people we know in our work environments fall into that category. Now take that 1% from all workplaces in the English-speaking world. There's a good chance workers who break into tears find their way to this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The chance of any one of us actually experiencing this may be small, but in the larger context it may be more common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4781" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T23:19:57.580" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4133" CreationDate="2016-12-12T23:25:23.097" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not common in that it's a daily event, but I've seen plenty of people have emotional outbursts including tears. People can be sensitive to different things and react in many different ways&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll admit it even happened to me when I got an email stating my mother had passed on. I was physically unable to talk and just forwarded the email to my manager and walked out the door for the rest of the day. And my eyes are watering up right now just thinking about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you busted into my office right now without warning you might see a grown man in tears (you'd have to be fast though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T23:25:23.097" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4138" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-12T23:29:17.120" Score="-3" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/81214/should-money-be-paid-as-a-motivation-to-testers-and-developers-for-detecting-and&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was recently placed on hold as primarily opinion based (tl;dr the one about put devs and testers in competition with a bonus at stake). While I agree that it is an opinion question, and the response are all opinions, is it not a valid question about navigating the workplace? And shouldn't the overwhelming response to the to the question count for something? As it currently stands, the question itself has been up-voted 48 times, the accepted answer has 105 up-votes, and the top-voted answer has 129 up-votes. Clearly, it's a question and a set of responses that many users found helpful. To have it placed on hold after such obvious success seems a little wacky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Edited title to remove popularity notion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33312" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-12-21T13:54:24.023" Title="On hold for Opinion-based, but highly voted. Shouldn't that count for something?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4138" CreationDate="2016-12-12T23:34:04.250" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's opinion based then it's quite rightly on hold without regard for up or downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what the rules are for, this isn't primarily a popularity contest. I've had an answer deleted that had 32 upvotes. Yet I know full well that it was an inappropriate answer for the site although it did actually fit the guidelines and did provide a viable solution. (I advised the OP to poo his pants at work for some reason I don't recall) it was wildly popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T23:34:04.250" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4133" CreationDate="2016-12-12T23:57:49.660" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace covers all kinds of workplaces, doing all kinds of jobs, all over the world.  I've seen a 16-year-old fast-food worker cry; I've seen a new grad having that first brush with nasty corporate politics cry; and I've seen others cry for specialized, personal reasons like a health issue or personal loss.  It happens -- not often in most of our experience, it appears (not in mine, anyway), but unusual situations are more likely to prompt questions on a Q&amp;amp;A site about the workplace.  After all, the stuff that's routine and common is stuff that people are more likely to find an answer to before coming here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T23:57:49.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4138" CreationDate="2016-12-13T01:27:26.863" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Popularity is not directly related to quality and the goal of stack exchange is quality (specially usefulness to future visitors).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T01:27:26.863" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4133" CreationDate="2016-12-13T17:42:55.560" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes its common. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my nearly 30 years of professional experience, I have seen it. Its less common for a company to allow a single co-worker to continue on with the behavior over an extended time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone suffers a death in the family or something like that its normal. Hell I cried when my grandfather passed while I was at work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there is a human part of this as well as an &lt;em&gt;over tolerance&lt;/em&gt; of this behavior of bring personal drama into the office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T17:42:55.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4138" CreationDate="2016-12-13T18:46:32.640" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note too that the &quot;hot list&quot; has the unfortunate effect of drawing attention to and reinforcing many questions which really didn't belong here in the first place. That kind of popularity is pretty meaningless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T18:46:32.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4144" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4146" CreationDate="2016-12-13T19:21:31.777" Score="-2" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/20846/how-can-i-tell-a-coworker-to-stop-making-awkward-sexual-jokes&quot;&gt;How can I tell a coworker to stop making awkward sexual jokes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has had a few edits to clean it up.  It seems on-topic and could potentially be useful to others in the future.  In light of these changes will you please reconsider your vote to close?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T07:54:15.023" Title="Please reconsider your vote to close for this question about inappropriate jokes in the workplace" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4144" CreationDate="2016-12-13T19:43:26.457" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the question is no longer &quot;unclear&quot; as it was when it was closed, I see no reason to reopen it. As soon as it reopens, it would be (rightfully) closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=sexual+jokes&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=sexual+jokes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T19:43:26.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4144" CreationDate="2016-12-13T22:53:13.553" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the perfectly valid points about it being duplicated; that closed question is &lt;em&gt;super old&lt;/em&gt; and it already has an &lt;em&gt;accepted answer&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if it meets the minimum requirements; what value could it possibly add at this point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2016-12-14T07:54:15.023" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T07:54:15.023" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4118" CreationDate="2016-12-14T16:06:02.730" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Career advice is specifically off topic.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically this question is asking what skills should they learn and jobs should they take to move into a new career.  These are specifically off topic.  Partly because there is no one path that works for everyone, and partly because it invites discussion and controversy about what the right skills for a position are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take the example of a Web developer.  There is a very passionate group that think that PHP is the only path worth pursuing, then there are people that are MS Stack proponents and Python, and Ruby, and probably still some Perl die hards.  None of them are wrong and none of them are right.  We seek to provide correct answers and here the only possible answer is a guess at what would be best for the OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T16:06:02.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4148" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4149" CreationDate="2016-12-18T16:02:40.457" Score="3" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the maximum number of points one can leave as a bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T09:03:36.380" Title="What is the maximum bounty one can provide?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4148" CreationDate="2016-12-18T16:53:15.197" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can leave a maximum of 500 points for a single bounty, according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;. The page also says that you could offer multiple bounties on the same question (only one at a time though). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there doesn't seem to be any restriction on the number of times you could offer a bounty on one question (after the previous one is inactive, of course), so you could technically give away &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; your reputation, although &lt;em&gt;in your case&lt;/em&gt; that would take a loooooong time. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:37:04.473" LastActivityDate="2016-12-18T16:53:15.197" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4151" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-20T16:03:51.250" Score="12" ViewCount="389" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading through the latest activity when I came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/81773/what-does-hr-do-for-me&quot;&gt;this question.&lt;/a&gt;  In particular I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/81794/49815&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; quite interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is one sentence, &quot;I don't know how true this is, but it seems wise to live by it:&quot; followed by a meme picture.  The picture IS linked to the stack section of imgur, at least.  At the time of this posting the answer has a positive score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is it OK to answer a question with a meme?  Should a meme answer ever be considered a high quality answer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T20:21:10.253" Title="Is it OK to answer a question with a meme?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4151" CreationDate="2016-12-20T16:20:38.190" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Memes are unsearchable and largely tend toward humor. I don't see SE as a humor site nor a Q&amp;amp;A&amp;amp;H site, merely Q&amp;amp;A. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could see no problem with answering a question and putting a meme as &lt;em&gt;part&lt;/em&gt; of the answer as long as that isn't the answer itself. We're told to stay away from short single-line answers in favor of more explanation and description and I think a meme is the essence of a short, single line answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I view a meme as a visual aid. There's nothing wrong with giving a presentation that includes a chart, but if your presentation consists of a chart and little else then you've wasted everyone's time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastEditorUserId="28939" LastEditDate="2016-12-20T16:26:12.033" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T16:26:12.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4153" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-20T16:33:11.567" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to ask a question on the main site that is more or less &lt;em&gt;&quot;How can I find jobs where hiring decisions are primarily made on the basis of cognitive, intelligence, and/or skill test scores rather than by more common means such as resumes, years of experience, personality tests, and interviews? For example, are there job boards that specialize in this? Are there placement agencies that do this?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, but I'm not sure it is on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would such a question be on-topic? Is it too broad or too narrow? What can I do to help me make this into a question that would be well-received?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My instinct is that my question as initially written is too broad (where? what kinds of jobs?, what salary range?, big company or small company?, etc.), but obvious ways to narrow it down (e.g. to &quot;How can I find warehouse shift supervisor jobs within 50 miles of Cleveland, Ohio where hiring decisions are primarily based on....&quot;) would seem to make it &lt;em&gt;too narrow&lt;/em&gt; and only interesting to a small number of people (e.g. Cleveland warehouse workers). Also, making a direct request for a list of offsite resources (e.g. &quot;What are some job boards and/or recruitment agencies that match candidates to employers using direct skills tests rather than uploaded resumes, cover letters, and filled-in employment history profiles?&quot;) would seem to be too close to a spam-attracting resource request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56135" LastEditorUserId="56135" LastEditDate="2016-12-20T19:20:18.803" LastActivityDate="2016-12-21T13:43:50.487" Title="How can I make this question on job searching (find jobs that hire based on skills tests) on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|asking-questions|offtopic|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4151" CreationDate="2016-12-20T17:25:27.937" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meme or no meme, the example answer you posted &lt;em&gt;doesn't answer the question&lt;/em&gt;, and so, cannot be considered a high quality answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the general case, though, the meme answer is governed by the same rules as other answers. We expect answers to be supported by references, personal anecdotes, or the like. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A meme is no different from a short one-line answer like, &quot;Yes, you should list a 2 week job in your resume&quot;. Someone else could post another meme with the opposite message, and the reader has no way to decide which meme to believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T17:25:27.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4151" CreationDate="2016-12-20T17:43:32.473" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is for questions and answers. Not memes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are sites where the goal is cleverness and memelike answers -- not Stack Exchange, however. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Memes can be &lt;em&gt;part&lt;/em&gt; of a good answer but almost overwhelmingly are not going to be able to be an answer by themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many users here are getting into the reputation where they can vote to delete answers, too, which can be useful for situations like this. As a moderator it is far easier to delete answers along these lines if there is community support (through significant downvotes and delete votes) than unilaterally doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T00:11:33.900" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T00:11:33.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4153" CreationDate="2016-12-20T20:06:45.383" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think any answer is going to become obsolete very quickly and without notice, which generally means it isn't in Stack Exchange's scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T20:06:45.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4151" CreationDate="2016-12-20T23:57:48.320" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should a meme answer ever be considered a high quality answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the bulk of the answer consists of a meme, I wouldn't call it &quot;high quality&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course it might get a ton of upvotes anyway - particularly if it gets on the Hot Network Questions list. Sometimes there just no figuring out the mind of the voting public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T23:57:48.320" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4153" CreationDate="2016-12-21T13:38:02.423" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this might be a case of an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem&quot;&gt;XY Problem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The XY problem is asking about your attempted solution rather than your actual problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, you are trying to solve problem X, and you think solution Y would work, but instead of asking about X when you run into trouble, you ask about Y.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are you searching for these types of jobs? Is it because you don't have any job experience or training and aren't sure how to get around that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What types of jobs do you think hire mainly on skill tests and not experience? I can only think of retail and other unskilled labor, and they still value experience (though don't necessarily require it) and rarely use intelligence tests. You don't always need a resume, but there's almost always an application form and an interview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question &amp;quot;How do I find a job when I have no work experience, training, or degree&amp;quot; would certainly be on topic. I can't find an existing question on that topic (surprisingly), so it may not have been asked yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2016-12-21T13:43:50.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4160" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-21T21:12:02.137" Score="1" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Forgive me for being intentionally obtuse.  I don't want to give offense to anyone here and I'm being very careful in that regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I read a question which I found frankly tasteless.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask the community if the action being discussed in the question and answers is ethical.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example lets say that a user asked: &quot;What is the most efficient way to destroy a widget?&quot;  I would like to ask: &quot;Is it ethical to destroy a widget in this way?&quot;  But if I do so, the original poster will almost certainly notice the correlation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Here then finally is my question: Is it OK to ask whether or not a particular action is ethical if the question can be easily correlated to an open question?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm concerned that asking the question might be considered synonymous with naming and shaming, as I would obviously want to link to the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In avoiding mention of the question I am referring to I fear I may have made this question difficult to understand.  If that is indeed the case, please accept my apologies.  I'll be happy to answer any questions I can to clarify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastEditorUserId="49815" LastEditDate="2016-12-21T21:48:11.810" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T02:40:58.733" Title="The ethics of asking about ethics" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4133" CreationDate="2016-12-21T22:32:25.920" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes people frequently cry in the office for a variety of reasons. Often teh reason they are so sensitive may have little to do with the actual event because it might be teh last straw in a series of events. Someone who cries in a code Review for instance may have previously lost a job and is frightened that it will happen again. Someone working through the loss of a spouse or child may cry easily at a certain tone of voice or a phrase that reminds them of the person who may have died months earlier. People new to the workplace often find it a much harsher environment than they have experienced before. Someone who is insecure might find that especially difficult and be more predisposed to cry over things that most of us would ignore.  Sometimes there are clashes of cultural expectations as well. Someone who was encouraged as a child to cry and show emotions (usually as a girl) may find it difficult to turn off what they learned was appropriate behavior when they are first in a  professional environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastActivityDate="2016-12-21T22:32:25.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4162" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4165" CreationDate="2016-12-21T23:48:35.407" Score="32" ViewCount="662" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations, @HLGEM !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've always enjoyed your answers. Always thoughtful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2016-12-22T00:25:24.150" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T16:11:39.830" Title="Congratulations on 100k, HLGEM!" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4160" CreationDate="2016-12-22T02:40:58.733" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ethics, unless it's so obvious that it doesn't need discussing, is almost the quintessence of &quot;opinion-based&quot; and thus pretty far outside our remit. Note that &quot;should I&quot; is also generally out of scope. &quot;How can I&quot; is in scope but asking how to do something clearly unethical will generally be downvoted to death as a Bad Question, and/or rewritten into an ethically acceptable form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T02:40:58.733" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4151" CreationDate="2016-12-22T04:22:36.723" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use pictures as visual aids on my other SE site answers such as this &lt;a href=&quot;https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/43594/can-a-13-year-old-wheelie-bunny-hop-on-a-mountain-bike/43601#43601&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;, but they don't really have a use on Workplace that I can think of. Particularly if it's just a link. More suitable as a comment I would think, and some light comedy rather than a helpful answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:32:40.950" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T04:22:36.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4162" CreationDate="2016-12-22T16:11:39.830" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you.  If you are wondering about the Username, as it seems from the comments, it is a shortening of the registered name of a horse I used to own, Holly's Little Gem. She really was a gem too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T16:11:39.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4166" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-23T05:37:44.760" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;is it oky to ask about tips and some information ( probably should be documented into a wiki) as a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a example a question like this actually not a question but asking for tips.&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;How to smartly and politely reject a beer offer in a company party ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to response to incoming jokes when you reject beer offer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Completely asking about tips, same as asking somebody to write a wiki content.&#xA;Is it oky asking here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9250" LastActivityDate="2016-12-23T17:13:56.360" Title="asking for tips" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4166" CreationDate="2016-12-23T07:23:07.527" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happens. It isn't always shot down. It really isn't a good fit for Stack Exchange's focus on Answerable Questions. Neither of those is really about the Workplace; the fact that it's a company party is irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2016-12-23T07:23:07.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4166" CreationDate="2016-12-23T17:13:56.360" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the first question is somewhat on topic, and actually, we have a few questions on the topic already, so it would likely be closed for being a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30508/is-there-any-way-to-appear-sociable-at-a-work-social-event-without-drinking&quot;&gt;Is there any way to appear sociable at a work social event without&#xA;drinking?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30388/how-should-i-handle-my-manager-offering-me-an-unwanted-drink&quot;&gt;How should I handle my manager offering me an unwanted&#xA;drink?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/61726/would-drinking-alcohol-when-offered-during-a-meal-that-is-part-of-an-interview&quot;&gt;Would drinking alcohol (when offered) during a meal that is part of&#xA;an interview be likely to affect the perceptions of the&#xA;interviewer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure quite what you mean by saying that this is not actually a question but is instead &quot;asking for tips&quot;. Here at The Workplace the majority of our questions are fairly subjective, but that doesn't mean they are opinion-based. See &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2016-12-23T17:13:56.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4170" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-27T14:10:54.427" Score="4" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a question containing personal matters about my situation. This question received a bunch of unexpected attention and got on the &lt;code&gt;Hot Network Questions&lt;/code&gt; list. It wasn't smart of me (You could say pretty stupid) to use my main account with my real name and logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have used the &lt;code&gt;contact us&lt;/code&gt; page to send a mail to disassociate myself from said question, but shouldn't there be an easier way to do this? Or is just another case of it being 'my fault and I should own up to it'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wondered if it would be better/easier to include such a feature. I'm aware it isn't fair to be able to delete the question, but I think StackExchange could have a feature where you can post something anonymously without having to create a second account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61692" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T21:58:12.290" Title="Disassociating yourself from a question" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4170" CreationDate="2016-12-27T17:49:55.640" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Typically, special requests like that are made by flagging the question for moderator attention. Select the &quot;Other&quot; option and explain the situation and a moderator will address it and if applicable they will either take care of it or escalate it to a SE employee if necessary/required. If they can't handle it or have reasons not to, they'll explain that too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T17:49:55.640" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4170" CreationDate="2016-12-27T19:19:56.010" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disassociation requires human intervention, and that's a good thing.  If somebody is posting and then wanting to disassociate a lot of stuff, we probably want to talk with that person about better ways to use the site.  Also, if somebody is behaving badly (and thus attracting flags), we want to see that activity in context (what else has this person posted?).  I hope you can see how that would be especially important with trolls and spammers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disassociation should therefore not be self-serve.  Yes, sometimes you goof and it's very frustrating to have to wait; I get that.  I wish I had a better answer for you, like some sort of &quot;soft disassociation&quot; that breaks the public link while still preserving it for moderators, but we don't have anything like that.  Moderators can't even do the disassociation that we do have; that requires an SE employee.  So we'll forward flags, but using the &quot;contact us&quot; form is the fastest way and, unfortunately, that could take some time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I escalated this request for you and a CM has just disassociated the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T21:58:12.290" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T21:58:12.290" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4151" CreationDate="2016-12-28T20:21:10.253" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, in moderation, and if it's funny. Seriously, SE is here to help people (who sometimes need humour), not just feed raw data into search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47786" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T20:21:10.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4175" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-29T13:57:38.270" Score="3" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/82114/standing-desk-mat-with-office-chairs&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; today and a couple of people have commented that they are voting to close the question for a couple of different reasons, one of which was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;because it is asking for a product recommendation &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agreeing with this, I went to flag the question myself, but couldn't actually find a path through the flagging menu which represented either of the above reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot find any flag option to request this question to be closed which refers to asking for product recommendations. Are questions asking for (workplace related) product recommendations actually off-topic for this site and if so, where is this stated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other reason given was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this isn't a workplace question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which I found a little bit more difficult to understand. I checked the site description on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;Tour&lt;/a&gt; page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt; is a question and answer site about the&#xA;  workplace and other career-related topics. It is for members of the&#xA;  workforce to get answers on topics such as the job hunting process,&#xA;  interviewing, salary negotiation, and professionalism within the&#xA;  Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, reading this brief summary, it does sound like this question is off-topic, so if this is the case, what reason should be used when flagging it for closure? I considered &quot;Blatantly off-topic (this question has nothing to do with the workplace)&quot;, but is this really the case? The OP is certainly asking a question about the workplace as I understand it, as that's where the product they're looking for would be used. It's not like they're asking &quot;Can someone recommend a soccer ball?&quot;, which would seem &lt;strong&gt;blatantly&lt;/strong&gt; off topic and nothing to do with the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is it right that this question should be flagged for closure and if so, under what particular reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-03-31T01:02:58.993" Title="Should this question be closed and if so, what is the appropriate reason?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|close-reasons|vote-to-close|offtopic|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4175" CreationDate="2016-12-29T15:56:28.660" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Product-recommendation questions aren't automatically off-topic.  Further, ergonomics questions &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; on-topic, and we even have a tag for them.  We've had questions about arranging desks in tight spaces, about various computer issues like placing monitors, about shared lighting, about heating and cooling, even about kitchen cleanliness.  Further further, the core question here is &quot;how do I solve this problem&quot;; it's not just asking &quot;what should I order from Amazon?&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be on-topic a question must arise from the workplace.  That doesn't just mean stuff like resumes and dealing with bad managers; it also means some stuff about the physical environment in which you spend all those hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see the problem here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T15:56:28.660" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4175" CreationDate="2016-12-30T16:33:11.163" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: In this answer, I am quoting parts of the question and responding to them, so &quot;you&quot; refers to OP of the main question, not of the meta question.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No matter how we spin it, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/82114/2&quot;&gt;present version&lt;/a&gt; of the question is not suitable for the workplace. &lt;strong&gt;If it cannot be closed as asking for product recommendation, I would vote to close it as unclear what you're asking.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I want to get a mat to stand on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do you need a mat? What is the problem you are facing in the absence of a mat? Does anyone else in the workplace see this as a problem? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if I had one under my desk i'd have to move it every time I wanted to sit in my chair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, why? Why can't you get a bigger mat over which you can &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; keep a chair &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; push it slightly aside when you want to stand? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are there standing desk mats that wheeled office chairs can roll over or work with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there are perhaps, or maybe there are not. If that is your real question, it is clearly off-topic, because we don't do product research. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But clearly, what you are actually asking for is the final sentence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a solution to this problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until we know &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; your problem is, we cannot know if there is a solution. In addition to the bigger mat solution I mentioned above, there is another solution that works for me: &quot;Forget the mat, just stand on the floor.&quot; Other people perhaps have other &quot;solutions&quot;, we cannot know if any of the solutions will &lt;em&gt;work&lt;/em&gt; for you, because we don't know your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the OP clarifies these points, I will vote to reopen it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T16:33:11.163" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4180" CreationDate="2016-12-30T18:26:48.080" Score="12" ViewCount="486" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/82037/havent-been-getting-breaks-at-work-and-need-them/82038?noredirect=1#comment234503_82038&quot;&gt;Haven&amp;#39;t been getting breaks at work and need them&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user can't ask a new question. I'm trying to understand why that is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-01-08T15:50:22.210" Title="What does &quot;You have reached your question limit&quot; mean when asking a question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4179" CreationDate="2016-12-30T19:26:34.093" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like the user tripped a brief throttle, blocking him for one day.  He has another question, which was downvoted, closed, and deleted, so that contributed.  I don't know the details of the throttling algorithm (I believe it's intentionally kept secret), but I see no question block on this account now.  He should be able to ask another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T19:26:34.093" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4175" CreationDate="2016-12-30T22:55:47.927" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the confusion here has very little to do with the question linked, but it is rather just about the flashing options seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe certain VTC options simply allow you to type a custom close reason message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T22:55:47.927" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4182" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-31T20:26:07.700" Score="-1" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/82234/what-does-this-invitation-mean&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question the company name was edited out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this site be editing out company names?  Assuming they are not bashing the company.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the size of the company it is very likely people on this site have interviewed with the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26028" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T15:51:04.337" Title="Company name edited out" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4183" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-31T20:40:09.973" Score="1" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been on this site for over two months, and I have noticed that it seems to be more inclined towards the US. Most of the answers I see here are based on US laws. Someone from another country has to specify the country name, or else the question is called locale specific. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this correct or just a misconception?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59933" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-01-01T04:54:24.347" LastActivityDate="2017-01-01T05:04:01.763" Title="Is The Workplace inclined more towards the US?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4183" CreationDate="2016-12-31T21:09:36.080" Score="-2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is workplace more inclined toward US?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2016-12-31T21:09:36.080" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4182" CreationDate="2016-12-31T21:12:47.943" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should this site be editing out company names?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(shrug) It happens. I don't care much either way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this question, there's no added value in having the company name in the question body. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as you indicated, unless the questioner is bashing or making unfounded statements about the company, I don't see any reason to remove the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I think it's silly for folks to name the company they have an issue with. There's simply no need for it, and no benefit to anyone knowing that you have had to wait 2 weeks to hear from HR at &quot;MegaCorp&quot;, rather than &quot;the company&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to name names, go to GlassDoor. That's their whole point for being, but not ours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2017-01-01T00:29:41.733" LastActivityDate="2017-01-01T00:29:41.733" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4133" CreationDate="2017-01-01T02:26:56.663" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone who cried a lot made it to HNQ, and scored a lot of points. Then a lot of other people started crying too in the hope of making some easy points. Don't read too much into it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-01-01T02:26:56.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4183" CreationDate="2017-01-01T02:50:19.227" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of our active users seem to be from the US (judging from questions and answers), but the site welcomes a worldwide audience.  We want everybody to be able to get answers to their workplace questions, not just Americans.  (And also not just high-tech professionals.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not all questions depend on the location in order to answer, but those that do are supposed to be tagged with the location, &lt;em&gt;including&lt;/em&gt; those about the US.  If you see something like that and it doesn't have that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-states&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-states&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-states&lt;/a&gt; tag, please add it or comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you see people answering those from the perspective of some other location, where the answer doesn't fit because of the locale, those probably qualify as Not An Answer.  Please feel free to comment to point out the location (the answerer might have missed it), downvote, flag, or bring it up in chat or on meta to get more eyes on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-01-01T02:50:19.227" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4183" CreationDate="2017-01-01T04:54:38.153" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is The Workplace inclined more towards the US?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, &lt;em&gt;and no&lt;/em&gt;. :-) &lt;strong&gt;The Workplace is inclined towards whatever the users choose.&lt;/strong&gt; See also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3216/the-workplace-is-a-worldwide-site&quot;&gt;The Workplace is a worldwide site&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace seems inclined towards the US, but that only represents the underlying demographics of the users, as &lt;strong&gt;majority of the users here, and in particular, the most active users, are Americans&lt;/strong&gt;. You would naturally expect people to ask questions on issues in their immediate surroundings, and since that happens to be the US for most of the users here, majority of the questions are US-centric.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You would have noticed that most of the questions here are focused on an IT Workplace, also for the same reason. We do not see more questions pertaining to taxi drivers or construction workers, mainly because we don't have too many (any?) users belonging to those professions here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the demographics of the site users change, then you could expect the site's inclination to also change accordingly.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Someone from another country has to specify the country name ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This used to be a problem a couple of years ago, but there has been steady progress on that front. &lt;strong&gt;Edits being made to tag questions with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-states&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-states&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-states&lt;/a&gt; are increasing&lt;/strong&gt;, and users asking such questions are also being asked to specify their location. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, &lt;strong&gt;the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-states&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-states&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-states&lt;/a&gt; tag with 403 questions is the &lt;em&gt;top&lt;/em&gt; country tag&lt;/strong&gt;, followed by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-kingdom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-kingdom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-kingdom&lt;/a&gt; with 271 questions and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/india&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;india&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;india&lt;/a&gt; with 160 questions. (at the moment of this writing)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... or else the question is called locale specific. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If it has happened, it was a mistake. Bring such questions to meta.&lt;/strong&gt; The custom close reason states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on &lt;strong&gt;company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies&lt;/strong&gt; should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking &lt;strong&gt;legal advice&lt;/strong&gt; should be directed to legal professionals. For more information, click &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question can be closed for being a company-specific or a position-specific issue. Going by the reasoning in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2694/3192&quot;&gt;jmac's meta post&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;it is an overreach to apply this close reason to issues that apply to an entire country&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2017-01-01T05:04:01.763" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4189" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4192" CreationDate="2017-01-01T13:41:08.837" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/82177/how-to-write-a-good-resignation-letter-when-quitting-under-poor-circumstances&quot;&gt;How to write a good resignation letter when quitting under poor circumstances?&lt;/a&gt;) has been viewed 3844 times in 2 days and received 29 upvotes, but marked as duplicate. This must be because the earlier answers were not satisfying or the situation was different. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, my question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/82228/is-it-fair-to-expect-increment-in-pay-for-changing-location&quot;&gt;Is it fair to expect increment in pay for changing location?&lt;/a&gt;) is different from the question marked duplicate (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/29/3192&quot;&gt;Does my geographic location matter when requesting a salary?&lt;/a&gt;) because the user in that question was not already an employee of the company, so the answers have got to be different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers should either be not allowed, or the duplicate marking should be taken off such questions. The situation for such questions is mostly different, but marking them as duplicate leads to same answers in all situations. Why are such questions marked duplicate even if they are contributing much to SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59933" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T22:18:23.683" Title="Should a question be marked as duplicate even if it would help later users?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4179" CreationDate="2017-01-01T13:53:46.090" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Copied from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86997/what-can-i-do-when-getting-we-are-no-longer-accepting-questions-answers-from-th&quot;&gt;SE meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why am I getting this message?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated in the about links on every page, Stack Exchange is a&#xA;network of question and answer sites, not help forums. This implies&#xA;that all posts are expected to have some value for later visitors too.&#xA;To enforce that, and to prevent help vampires making the answerers&#xA;turn away from the communities, low-quality questions and answers are&#xA;blocked. This includes posts from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;users who can't be bothered to form sentences users who don't do the&#xA;most basic kinds of research themselves users who barely even explain&#xA;what it is they are trying to do An automatic filter is in place to&#xA;ban questions and/or answers from IP addresses or accounts with a&#xA;history of extremely poor posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid bypassing the filter its internal rules are a secret, but it&#xA;is partly based on downvotes cast by other members of the communities.&#xA;If the other members of the site consistently give your posts a low&#xA;ranking, you should try to identify the reason(s) for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you have posted too many poorly-received questions or answers,&#xA;you will be banned from posting more, and you will see the error&#xA;message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are deleted posts taken into account too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a post was poorly-received (downvoted or closed), that will&#xA;continue to count against your account even if the post is deleted!&#xA;Whenever possible, try to fix posts instead of deleting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, deletion itself counts against questions if less than 30&#xA;days old when deleted if others have invested time into answering or&#xA;moderating the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, deleted answers always count towards an automatic ban on new&#xA;accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a problem to have deleted posts. But if a large percentage of&#xA;your posts are deleted by yourself or the community, then apparently&#xA;they are not suitable for the site. Posting them consumes time from&#xA;users who read them, edit them, or respond to them. Therefore deleted&#xA;posts have an effect on the filter, among many other factors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beware that an account might very well have many deleted posts,&#xA;including auto-deleted old low-score questions, all of which are only&#xA;visible to moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a question/answer ban the same as a suspension?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, a suspension is a manual, temporary penalty during which a user&#xA;cannot ask questions, nor post answers. All other privileges,&#xA;including commenting and voting, are also revoked by temporarily&#xA;setting the reputation to 1. Such suspension is publicly visible to&#xA;other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A post ban is enforced automatically, and only prevents posting&#xA;questions or answers. It is invisible to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I avoid getting a question ban?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read the pages in the Help Center, particularly those about asking and&#xA;the Stack Exchange model. Investigate and search before you ask. Put&#xA;some effort in your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All questions are expected to have some value for later visitors too.&#xA;So if many of your questions do not get any answer, are downvoted,&#xA;closed, or deleted by yourself or the community, then apparently they&#xA;did not meet the required quality. Be sure to understand why that&#xA;happens, and learn from that. Don't simply repost the same question&#xA;again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're not sure what qualifies as a &amp;quot;good question&amp;quot;, there are some&#xA;hints and tips available:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to Ask from the Stack Overflow Help Center Writing the perfect&#xA;question by Jon Skeet How to Ask Questions The Smart Way by Eric S.&#xA;Raymond Getting Answers by Mike Ash To learn about formatting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Formatting help How do I format my code blocks? Try for yourself in&#xA;the formatting sandbox How long do I have to wait before I can post&#xA;again? What can I do to release the ban? How can I reactivate my&#xA;account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Automatic bans never expire or &amp;quot;time out.&amp;quot; This means that you cannot&#xA;simply wait for a certain amount of time. If you do not take action,&#xA;you will never be allowed to post again. The only way for the ban to&#xA;be lifted is by contributing positively to the site in other ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators cannot lift the ban.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before you do anything else, fix your existing posts! As noted above,&#xA;down-votes cast by the rest of the community factor into the ban - so&#xA;the single best thing you can do to get it lifted is to address any&#xA;objections raised by others. Were your past questions unclear? Did&#xA;they fail to show any effort on your part? Poorly worded, titled,&#xA;formatted, and overly long or short? Then fix them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the emphasis on fixing. Do not delete your posts. As explained&#xA;above, deleted questions (if less than 30 days old when deleted) do&#xA;still count towards the question ban. Deleting your posts does not&#xA;help to lift the ban. Only fixing does! Under some conditions you can&#xA;see a list of your own deleted questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are banned from asking questions, then writing a few quality&#xA;answers that get upvoted might enable you to ask questions again. But&#xA;as the internals of the filter are secret, there is no way to know for&#xA;sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really, really think the ban is an error, then email the team&#xA;directly using the &amp;quot;contact us&amp;quot; link provided at the bottom of every&#xA;page. But note that reactivation of banned accounts is not a high&#xA;priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I simply create a new account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. The automatic ban is at a lower level than account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll just ask somewhere else on the SE network, and they'll migrate my&#xA;question to the correct site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migrations are not possible if your account is banned from asking&#xA;questions on the destination site. The question will simply be closed&#xA;as off topic, but not migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this apply to Meta Stack Exchange too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, but the threshold of votes in the auto ban calculation is reduced&#xA;because downvotes can be more common on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My account is in good standing. Why am I still blocked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ban also takes in account the IP address. If you browse from a&#xA;shared computer, or from a location that gives the same IP address to&#xA;many end users, it's enough that another user who was banned or&#xA;triggers the ban, will affect everyone else accessing from the same&#xA;location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To help rectify this, browse from a different location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59933" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-01-08T15:50:22.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4189" CreationDate="2017-01-01T14:14:39.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the first case : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is the same and the question are really near &quot;what should i say in resignation letter -&gt; Only that you're leaving, nothing else&quot;. So whatever the people that upvoted, the question in itself has add no value to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other is a bit trickier, althought the question seems really different, the arguments to answer both of them are the same : managers are aware that cost of living is not the same anywhere and so adjust the salary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This quote from the answer is all what you need as an answer to your question : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your responsibility&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That being said, the recruiter is not going to just give away money&#xA;  that they don't feel they need to, as with any negotiation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They will be prepared to have the discussion — if you say you&#xA;  currently make $40K in a cheaper area, they'll be prepared to hear&#xA;  that you need a significant &quot;cost of living increase&quot; — but you must&#xA;  be prepared to ask and hold up your end of the negotation with real&#xA;  numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastActivityDate="2017-01-01T14:14:39.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4189" CreationDate="2017-01-01T14:20:21.160" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If answers to the other question do not solve your problem, edit your question explaining why, and ask to reopen it. (Your question is not closed as of now, though.) You could also link to the question in your original description, so that people know you have already searched for existing questions which do not work for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the other question, OP already got useful answers before the question was closed as a duplicate. In addition, by linking to other (duplicate) questions, he also got more answers, which he may not have searched for earlier. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Linking the question as duplicate is also useful for future users, who come here via search engines. People may enter different phrases to describe the same issue in search engines, and having various linked questions helps them find their answer sooner. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-01-01T14:20:21.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4182" CreationDate="2017-01-03T15:51:04.337" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Publishing the names of companies will lead to no good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When mentioned in a positive light, it will look like we are shilling.  When mentioned in a negative light, it will look like we are bashing.  Either way leads to liability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a company is mentioned in a good light, and someone goes there and has a bad experience, SE could be exposed to liability from the person who had a bad experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's mentioned in a bad light, the company could retaliate, again, exposing SE to liability.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation monitoring is big business right now, and companies who have their names mentioned will be visiting this site.  It's just easier for all concerned to edit them out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T15:51:04.337" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4189" CreationDate="2017-01-03T22:18:23.683" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few things of note.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicate questions are treated differently from other close reasons.  The question no longer accepts new answers, but it is linked to the other questions most users will find useful when searching.  The question will remain on the site where other types of closed questions will be pruned periodically.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When updating a question to clear up a misconception that the question is a duplicate, you must explain why the question is not a duplicate, and why the existing answers do not work or apply.  This is probably best done by providing a change to the question you are asking.  In this case I would change that question to: &lt;strong&gt;How do I ask for an increase in pay to offset cost of living increases due to relocation&lt;/strong&gt;  This clears up the problem that comes from the questions being asked seeming to be the same.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T22:18:23.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4195" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4201" CreationDate="2017-01-04T18:20:41.027" Score="9" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we help users determine what is a rude response? Often times I find myself flagging a user, thinking &quot;I am glad I helped get this rude person off the site&quot;. I am given no feedback, so what am I to think? I think that, yes that person was rude, or the moderators would have told me it was a bad flag, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess there is no system in place for flag-feedback (for comments), and I am wondering if it would help users to actually know if their flags are accurate or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58733" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2017-01-05T03:01:01.000" LastActivityDate="2017-01-06T15:17:12.417" Title="Can we help users determine what is and isn't rude?" Tags="|discussion|answers|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4198" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-04T19:10:33.493" Score="16" ViewCount="758" Body="&lt;p&gt;We got two questions today &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/82396/3192&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/82396/3192&lt;/a&gt; and&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/82410/3192&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/82410/3192&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears as though two people involved in the same issue posted two separate questions, which, as one user pointed out in comments, is &quot;too much of a coincidence&quot;. Another user quickly jumped on the bandwagon and called the user a &quot;troll&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP repeatedly commented that he had read the FAQ and posted what he thought was a question on a Workplace issue. Overall, for a first question, he did a fairly good job of following the guideline. (I will excuse him for the &quot;what to do&quot; tone of his final sentence, because that is not really his point.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that he also saw a message that the question was a duplicate of the other question, which made no sense (to me, anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we now define a threshold for how much of a coincidence is &quot;too much&quot;? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does coincidence automatically make a user a &quot;troll&quot;? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We close down newbie questions aggressively because they do not follow our guidelines. When a newbie comes along who tries to follow the guidelines, we call them &quot;trolls&quot; and slam the door in their face. Does the community consider this hostility to newbies acceptable? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is calling a user a &quot;troll&quot; without substantial evidence a violation of the Be Nice policy? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why does the user see the Duplicate notice when his question clearly has noticeable differences?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-03-30T12:50:14.930" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T12:50:14.930" Title="Coincidence = Troll?" Tags="|discussion|trolling|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4198" CreationDate="2017-01-04T19:46:04.217" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this particular instance is far more than simple coincidence.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The choice of working and phraseology are nearly identical, as is the tone.  A supposed &quot;newbie&quot; on a guest account is somehow well versed in the FAQ and then starts calling people on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We saw this before with the supposed manager posting that his employee had chosen an unfortunate user name, and then we have the supposed employee posting in a kind broken English, which I have never seen anyone with a poor command of English ever use.  (omitting articles and prepositions, but not confusing tenses or other indications that he was having an actual difficulty)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's almost certainly someone trying to jerk our collective chain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I can see your point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if we should just stomp down on an obvious troll, or give him enough rope to hang himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-01-04T19:46:04.217" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4198" CreationDate="2017-01-04T20:45:20.083" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I thought that there was even a chance that this was a genuine coincidence and the question was asked in good faith, then I would try to be more helpful or at least stay out of it. However, if this were true, then that would mean that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP1 created a sock account to ask whether to exact revenge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Despite being told by everyone not to do anything, they call out OP2 in meeting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP2 somehow discovers Stack Exchange for the first time, creates an account, becomes well versed in the rules, and posts their first question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All of this happens in the span of &lt;em&gt;four hours&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from that the two posts have very similar phrasings and writing styles, and the final question for both asks what plan they should use to exact revenge. It is plainly clear to me that both questions were posted by the same person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't care if the question meets the technical guidelines for posting here; the question is not in the spirit of the Stack Exchange community. We are a site about helping people answer genuine questions that will help them in the workplace. It would have been fine if the user had been upfront in saying &quot;I asked question A, but I'm curious what would be the best way for my accused colleague to respond if I do?&quot; That would have been fine and I wouldn't have cared (though it would probably be a duplicate). Instead this person chose to fabricate a question and lie to us either because they feel slighted that their first question was not well received or just to get a reaction. That is not welcome here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; lewis made a good point in his comment on Richard's post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;unfortunately a lot of these questions can be from someone picking a completely valid and genuine question, and then creating a joke question / thread based on an alternative view point they can find in the original. Because of this there may be no link and one of the two may be completely innocent, trying to get an answer to a serious question they've asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a chance that OP2 is not the same person as OP1 and that OP2 created their question after reading the first. This takes the blame off of OP1 but does not change the fact that the second question has been completely fabricated and should be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2017-01-06T12:50:12.970" LastActivityDate="2017-01-06T12:50:12.970" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4195" CreationDate="2017-01-04T22:01:45.933" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen an increase in rudeness on this site over the last year.  I have also seen an increase in short-fuse reactions to rudeness -- things that would have just been flagged and otherwise ignored in the past are more likely to garner responses, which garner responses, which turn into prolonged arguments with declining civility, sometimes with established sparring partners.  And I think, though I'm not sure, that I'm seeing more claims of rudeness where I'm having trouble seeing what's rude about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You want to know why we nuke comments more than some of y'all would like?  Because when we see that sort of thing developing, we know how it ends and we really don't need to see it for the 50th or 100th or 1000th time.  I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times, in 4.5 years, one of those comment death-spirals has ended with &quot;gosh, you're right; I'm sorry and I'll fix that&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have more rudeness and also more willingness to be offended than we used to have.  We need to do better, on both.  It's draining on the community and, quite frankly, it's draining on the mods, most of whom have quietly taken extended vacations from the site at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators delete a lot of rude and non-constructive comments, almost always in response to flags.  (It's a big site; ain't nobody got time to find and review every single comment or even, sometimes, every single post.)  We have recently gotten some better tools that help us get a handle on patterns at the individual-user level, but broader patterns are harder to spot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've suspended users for rudeness.  I anticipate that we will need to suspend more.  It can be hard to judge when the threshold has been crossed, and perhaps we err too much on the side of leniency.  A lot of the rudeness I see is borderline at the level of the &lt;em&gt;individual comment&lt;/em&gt;, but it can be like Chinese water torture -- aggregate effects matter too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, some advice for &lt;em&gt;everybody&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reread your words before you post.  Especially if you're writing about something sensitive or you're already worked up, try &lt;em&gt;really hard&lt;/em&gt; to read your words from the perspective of someone who disagrees with you.  Even if you think that guy is an idiot.  &lt;em&gt;Especially&lt;/em&gt; if you think that guy is an idiot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Give the benefit of the doubt when reading stuff from other people.  Especially people you disagree with.  And remember that disagreement or constructive criticism is not automatically rude.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Watch out for accusatory language.  Understand the difference between &quot;you need to back that up&quot; and &quot;could you edit in some sources?&quot; and between &quot;that's nonsense&quot; and &quot;I don't understand&quot;.  Understand that words like &quot;troll(ing)&quot; pretty much always make things worse, and name-calling is a violation of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt; policy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If somebody seems to be upset with you, take that at face value.  That doesn't mean he's &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; to be upset with you, but it does mean that the two of you are already at reduced ability to communicate constructively.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If that happens to you a lot, work &lt;em&gt;even harder&lt;/em&gt; on the other points in this list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;De-escalate.  If somebody responds to you in a hostile-seeming way, don't make it worse.  If that means walking away, &lt;em&gt;walk away&lt;/em&gt;.  Neither of you has a &quot;right&quot; to the last word.  If you think you can get things back on track without raising the heat level (and want to), try that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your cultural background, mental state, or concern about certain issues is not an excuse to behave badly.  Be less ready to make excuses and more ready to make amends.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read your flag responses!  We can't respond to flags on comments, but we can and do respond to flags on posts.  If you have a question about a flag response, ask.  (If a comment flag is declined but the comment is gone, then we might have goofed (it happens) or we might be telling you that a &quot;rude&quot; flag was overkill but, nonetheless, it should go.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-01-06T15:17:12.417" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4202" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-05T15:24:01.873" Score="-3" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a few posts of late (often end up closed) where the OP asks if they should find another job (or quit). However, the term used is &quot;switch companies&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has got me wondering, is there some kind of hidden job-swap board somewhere that allows you to change employer like changing bank or energy supplier? I was always under the impression that applying for a new job is hard, especially one that's worth applying for. Or is that the issue, that the people &quot;switching companies&quot; are more like customers than employees? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, can someone point me to this wonderful company switching comparison site so I can have a go myself? I quite fancy doing my current job but based from the shop at the end of my road and working directly for Richard Branson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58082" LastActivityDate="2017-01-06T11:41:25.760" Title="Switching companies - is this really a thing?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4202" CreationDate="2017-01-05T16:25:05.197" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a term, not a service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For many of us, especially in IT, you're not likely to spend too much time at one company.  In IT, it's rare to find someone who's been there more than five years, for example.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, there is, in fact a methodology.  You are always looking for a better company in certain fields as that is the only way you will get a pay bump.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-01-05T16:25:05.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4202" CreationDate="2017-01-05T16:43:29.453" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, switching companies is a &quot;thing&quot;, as is using an internet search engine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-01-05T16:43:29.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4205" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4208" CreationDate="2017-01-06T10:56:44.227" Score="7" ViewCount="316" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of our questions (Especially HNQ questions) seem to get a lot of answers that repeat what others have said before, albeit with a different context. A good example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/82435/how-should-i-respond-to-absurd-observations-from-customers-during-software-produ&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few answers on there that seem to not help expand out the information further than that has already been posted. Does this matter? Should we do something about these? Do we care? Do we always want to have as many different points of view even if they are treading the same ground?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52713" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T16:51:39.373" Title="Duplicate answers - What action should we take?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4202" CreationDate="2017-01-06T11:41:25.760" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the term switching companies is exactly what is happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been at places where the government contract is awarded to another company. The new company makes offers to the employees of the old company. Your choice is find another contract/project with the old company or stay in the same seat, but switch companies. What you do depends on how much you like the work, the location, the benefits packages, and the prospect of long term employment. There are only perfunctory interviews, and the paperwork can be so easy that the employee has zero unpaid days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise when they say switching companies, they mean finding a new job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2017-01-06T11:41:25.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4205" CreationDate="2017-01-06T12:59:49.007" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see this a lot as well, usually from new users and very often on old questions. When posting, the user should see a prompt reminding them not to repeat any of the many previous answers. My standard response is to downvote, flag for deletion, and add the following comment, with the optional bit in brackets:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer does not add anything new to the previously posted answers. Please remember to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;not repeat others&lt;/a&gt;, [particularly when resurrecting a question that is 2 years old.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a related note, would there be support for adding a custom deletion reason for repeating existing answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.357" LastActivityDate="2017-01-06T12:59:49.007" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4205" CreationDate="2017-01-06T17:49:37.340" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/66377/202356&quot;&gt;XY Problem&lt;/a&gt;  here. &lt;strong&gt;The most common cause of this symptom is the HNQ&lt;/strong&gt;, which has spread across StackExchange but it affects &quot;subjective&quot; sites like Workplace more severely. The problem results from a number of &lt;strong&gt;positive feedback loops&lt;/strong&gt;, as explained below: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;HNQ &amp;#8594; more views &amp;#8594; more answers &amp;#8594; HNQ &amp;#8594; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question gets to HNQ, there is an exponential rise in number of views, which also leads to an increase in the number of answers. This sustains the &quot;hotness&quot; of the question and keeps it in the HNQ longer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Advice question &amp;#8594; HNQ &amp;#8594; anyone can answer &amp;#8594; more answers &amp;#8594; HNQ &amp;#8594; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to &lt;a href=&quot;https://personalexcellence.co/blog/bike-shed-effect/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bike Shed Effect&lt;/a&gt;, also known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Parkinson's Law of Triviality&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;everyone and his/her grandmother can give you advice on something&lt;/strong&gt;. This is seen more commonly on a &quot;subjective&quot; site like The Workplace, as against ServerFault or StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When an advice-seeking question gets to HNQ, people find it easy to jump on the answering bandwagon. By contrast, some of the more &quot;difficult&quot; questions, such as those that require a thorough understanding of workplace practices, generally survive this HNQ onslaught. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;HNQ &amp;#8594; more drive-by voting  (with upvote bias) &amp;#8594; more upvotes on question &amp;#8594; HNQ &amp;#8594; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Due to the association bonus, many of the drive-by voters can upvote but not downvote, which heavily skews the vote count.&lt;/strong&gt; While details of the &quot;hotness&quot; algorithm are not publicly known, we can reasonably guess that vote count is a factor.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;HNQ &amp;#8594; more drive-by voting  (with upvote bias) &amp;#8594; more highly upvoted answers &amp;#8594; HNQ &amp;#8594; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a corollary of the above point, votes on answers to HNQ question are also heavily skewed towards upvotes. Answer upvotes seems to also contribute to the &quot;hotness&quot; score, thus keeping the question longer in the HNQ.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Subjective question &amp;#8594; HNQ &amp;#8594; Lengthy answer &amp;#8594; Less likely to be read fully &amp;#8594; More answers &amp;#8594; HNQ &amp;#8594; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers to subjective questions generally include a few paragraphs of justification. &lt;strong&gt;The chances of people reading through and understanding &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; answer before posting their own answer is &lt;em&gt;inversely&lt;/em&gt; proportional to the number and length of the answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, a question gets knocked off the HNQ in only a limited number of ways, such as aging or getting superseded by an even &quot;better&quot; question. When a question has multiple positive feedback loops in its favour, that is woefully inadequate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The example question you posted &quot;benefited&quot; from a number of these loops: highly subjective (that is, capable of receiving multiple &quot;correct&quot; answers), easy to understand (anyone could offer advice), and one which drive-by votes could relate to well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting, flagging, etc. can cure the symptoms, but that is action taken after the trouble has already started. A better solution would be a preemptive strike on the disease, before the trouble starts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking down the HNQ feature, or changing the &quot;hotness&quot; algorithm, is not an option because problems that don't affect StackOverflow are of lesser importance to StackExchange employees, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/220099/202356&quot;&gt;some of them find &quot;entertainment&quot; in them&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Workarounds involve breaking some of those positive feedback loops.&lt;/strong&gt; Once a question makes it to HNQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Protect it automatically. This breaks loops 1, 2, 5.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/219922/what-is-the-goal-of-hot-network-questions/220099#comment935388_220099&quot;&gt;Protect it from drive-by voting.&lt;/a&gt; This breaks loops 3, 4.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alternative workarounds involve forcing the question off the HNQ.&lt;/strong&gt; When the question makes it to HNQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Regular users vote to close it as early as possible, which knocks it off the HNQ. Reopen it later once things cool down. Repeat as often as necessary. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Regular users downvote it heavily. Once the question gets knocked off the HNQ, edit the question and change your vote.&lt;/s&gt; I don't like this one bit, as it is extremely unfair to the asker to lose so much reputation because his question was picked up by a flawed feature called HNQ. Nonetheless, I leave it here for completeness. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are extreme measures, but &lt;strong&gt;extreme problems require extreme measures&lt;/strong&gt;. The sooner you take measures, the more likely you are to succeed. :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-07-05T16:51:39.373" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T16:51:39.373" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4210" CreationDate="2017-01-08T07:46:01.207" Score="2" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/61385/are-employers-allowed-to-access-search-through-ones-personal-email-outside-work/&quot;&gt;Are employers allowed to access/search through one&amp;#39;s personal email outside work hours?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer got flagged and received a moderator note saying &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some of the information contained in this post requires additional references. Please edit to add citations to reliable sources that support the assertions made here. Unsourced material may be disputed or deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither the recent edit, nor any of the recent answers had any sources either, or offers new information, so it's not like mine stands out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what to do. I consider my answer basic knowledge of about every law system I know. Find something while doing a legal activity? OK. Use that without permission? Not OK. I don't feel like combing through every possible countries laws to cite sources, especially since we are not a law site. So what am I supposed to do? What does the site moderation expect? Because the flag-text is awfully vague.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2017-01-08T15:47:10.747" Title="Unsourced material may be disputed or deleted" Tags="|support|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4209" CreationDate="2017-01-08T15:47:10.747" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't know what to do&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not really sure either (I had added the notice as your answer received a flag about that). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also only just now noticed that the question was from last year. I saw that there was disagreement in the comments regarding the legality of your answer and added the notice. I apparently did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; look at the timestamps there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I apologize for not doing proper due diligence prior to adding this and I have removed the notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't feel like combing through every possible countries laws to cite sources, especially since we are not a law site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that does make that question a mess is that it is a question for someone in Australia, but as far as I can tell only one of the answers tangentially touches on that (the anecdote at the bottom of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/61526/2322&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm... not really sure that &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; of the answers really address the situation for the OP, after rereading them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is a borderline &quot;apply the law for me&quot; legal question as a lot of the answers touch on that, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm not really sure this answers your question, but this was way too long a comment and I thought it would be good to write out my thought process)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2017-01-08T15:47:10.747" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4212" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4214" CreationDate="2017-01-09T17:46:47.433" Score="8" ViewCount="396" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not talking about trolling or heckling, or being rude, just trying to gauge the proper amount of humor in responding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think a little levity adds to the site, and so long as the humor doesn't detract for the point, I see no harm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of an answer with a bit of humor for someone asking an on-topic legal question (HR type question) and a person responds with &quot;Other than being a very good way to be sued, no.  Here's why.... (good, reasoned, detailed answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, knowing how things can get out of hand, is this something to avoid and instead put more of a &quot;Just the facts&quot; approach towards things, or is it acceptable if it is limited and does not detract from the quality of a comment or answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2017-01-13T14:28:47.673" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T23:29:57.563" Title="Is there any room for humor in the answers and comments? How much?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4212" CreationDate="2017-01-09T19:56:00.447" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see nothing wrong with humor as long as that's not how you're answering the question.  You can add humor or use humor to make your point, but I think it's imperative that we also answer the question in as plain language as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with humor is that not only is it subjective, but it's also subject to cultural perspective. What you might find to be a hilarious analogy, may fall flat to someone from another culture, particularly if that culture doesn't have English as its first language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR to me humor is fine as long as you answer it in a serious way in addition to the humor so that people from all cultures and backgrounds can understand the answer fully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastActivityDate="2017-01-09T19:56:00.447" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4212" CreationDate="2017-01-10T15:38:54.627" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just make pluperfectly clear what is and isnt intended to be taken seriously, rememberung that many readers are not native English speakers... and make sure it can't be interpreted as an attack on anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My sense of written humor leans toward the sardonic. I learned long ago that anything subtle &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; be misinterpreted by at least one reader, and that I either have to be very explicit or hold it for another medium. I recommend not repeating my failing experiments. Yeah, it's frustrating at times, but needless battles are more so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2017-01-10T15:38:54.627" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4216" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-11T15:13:40.233" Score="8" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;The recent question &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/82706/what-to-do-if-i-am-sick-and-cant-drive-myself-home&quot;&gt;What to do if I am sick and can't drive myself home?&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; has received many answers. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/82739/16983&quot;&gt;One such answer&lt;/a&gt; suggests that the OP take public transportation. Based on the OP's description of their illness and commute in the question and in comments, public transportation is very clearly not an option for them. However, one user commented on the answer (emphasis mine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we don't need to get worked up over this answer, although the tone of the answer does contribute to that. Question asked for other options to consider, and this certainly is an option. &lt;strong&gt;It may not work for the OP but it may work for others.&lt;/strong&gt; (Yeah, remember, we want our site to serve the general audience, not just the OP.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We should also avoid getting fixated on a specific example given in the question.&lt;/strong&gt; A couple of years ago, I tripped and fell down from a staircase at work, and hurt my back and knee. I had to go home immediately, but I certainly could not operate the pedals in that state, so taking public transport is a useful option. (Yeah, I still have to manage limping to the bus stop.) It is another matter that I use public transport anyway to commute to work, so I did not have to deal with the &amp;quot;can't drive, now what?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this practice acceptable here? To me it seems counter-intuitive; if an answer is clearly not suitable for the OP from the outset, then it should not be considered. I do recognize that we want our answers to be useful to many people, not just the OP, but if it doesn't even apply to the question being asked then it's not relevant at all. The only place I could see this type of answer as acceptable is in a comprehensive answer which gives multiple options, including some that do apply to the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your thoughts? Are answers like this acceptable, or should they be downvoted and deleted for not answering the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-01-12T03:58:43.827" Title="Should general answers be allowed even when they don't apply to the specific question?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4216" CreationDate="2017-01-11T15:50:22.287" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this practice acceptable here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The practice seems to favor more generalized answers that apply to a wide audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if someone asked about drilling a hole and indicated they have a 1/4 inch drill, it wouldn't make sense to confine answers to only those involving a 1/4 inch drill bit when other readers might use different sizes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers should stick to the topic at hand, and provide a real answer to the question being asked, but also strive for more generalized answers that would apply to many.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(At least that's how I interpret the &quot;common practices&quot; here. I don't make the rules, I just try to follow them.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, I don't think the specific answer to which you refer was very good in general, and certainly not in this specific case. That's what downvotes are for, I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2017-01-11T15:50:22.287" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4216" CreationDate="2017-01-11T17:17:28.910" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It was not clear to me at the time of posting those comments why the answer wouldn't apply to the OP's case.&lt;/strong&gt; I understood the following from his question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP has a certain sickness on certain days (~1 day/year) due to which he has to return home immediately, and cannot drive himself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He feels better if he is left alone for a few hours.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the OP chose not to discuss the details of his sickness (which is perfectly reasonable), &lt;strong&gt;I misunderstood &quot;hole myself in a bathroom&quot;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; to mean he needs some private time to recover&lt;/strong&gt;. I could relate that to one of my own issues. Drinking certain beverages sometimes give me throat issues (I will also spare you the details), and then I need to do some &quot;breathing exercises&quot; to get back on track. As I work in a &quot;cube farm&quot;, I prefer doing this in a bathroom to avoid (well meaning) inquiries, &quot;What are you doing?&quot;, &quot;Are you not feeling well?&quot;, &quot;Shall I take you to a doctor?&quot;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Take public transport if you cannot drive&quot; seemed to be a reasonable option&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;especially&lt;/em&gt; if the sickness only occurs once a year. This is hopefully clear from the full context of my comment. &lt;strong&gt;In view of certain details of his sickness that OP has since disclosed (barfing every few minutes, etc.), I see why my comments no longer make sense.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, though, I think &lt;strong&gt;an answer which does not address the question asked, but hits a set of &quot;close enough&quot; issues, should be considered on a case-by-case basis&lt;/strong&gt; rather than rejected outright, especially if the answer acknowledges that &quot;this solution may not be a best-fit for your problem, but here is some general advice for a set of scenarios similar to yours.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That brings me to &lt;strong&gt;the problem with this specific answer&lt;/strong&gt; which led to the negative reception: &lt;strong&gt;the preachy tone&lt;/strong&gt;. If the answer had been worded differently on the lines of &quot;you could consider public transport as an option, although this depends on the severity of your sickness&quot;, then people may have read it more favourably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closely related is an example of what we (as a community) should not be doing: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/82578/3192&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/82578/3192&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP's issue is convincing the boss that something is a lot harder than he (the boss) thinks, but this answer focuses entirely on how to use Adobe Muse. That may help the OP &lt;em&gt;in this specific situation only&lt;/em&gt;, and it would hardly help anyone else. (Disclaimer: I have my own &quot;general advice&quot; answer to that question, which applies to OP's specific problem too.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I distinctly remember reading it somewhere on that post, but I don't see it anymore. Perhaps OP posted that in a (now deleted) comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2017-01-12T03:58:43.827" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4233" CreationDate="2017-01-13T21:14:28.170" Score="1" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something that I think is a bad practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When people answer bad questions(especially those with 50k+ rep), they are making the questions themselves more legitimate and giving them more views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often these questions are closed, not before people answering get a handful of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it seems to be a &quot;stat stuffing&quot; move.  If you can be the first major contributor to answer even a bad question you are bound to get some votes. Even if the question adds no value to the workplace, it can be a quick move to get some rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else feel like there is harm in answering bad questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29342" LastEditorUserId="29342" LastEditDate="2017-01-13T21:26:52.000" LastActivityDate="2017-01-17T12:59:24.927" Title="Posting answers to bad questions" Tags="|discussion|quality|quality-evaluation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4219" CreationDate="2017-01-13T21:33:49.193" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few votes to a high-rep user is less than 1% of their scores.  Also, we tend to attract haters as well.  I get two down-votes on almost every question I answer, which again isn't able to generate any real harm to my rep either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that an answer or a question deserves a down-vote, then use your vote to down-vote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-01-13T21:33:49.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4222" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-14T16:18:32.210" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about my The Workplace Stack Exchange post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/82985/loyalty-to-the-ceo-and-or-owners-and-communicating-directly-with-the-board&quot;&gt;Loyalty to the CEO and/or owners, and communicating directly with the board&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do to improve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The close reason says that it's &quot;too broad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that the real reason, and if so what further information would you like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62881" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2017-01-14T17:23:22.180" Title="How to improve the question about CEO, owners, and board?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4222" CreationDate="2017-01-14T17:23:22.180" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(copying from comments)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are way too many possible scenarios to consider. For example, you say &quot;what happens when CEO gets replaced?&quot; What normally happens is the employees report to the new CEO, and business resumes. But clearly, that is not your question. We cannot tell what other scenarios would occur and how employees would deal with that, so you could narrow it down to a specific scenario. Your question #2 also complicates matters. As pointed in the comments, we prefer one question per post here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving that aside, #2 by itself has too many possibilities. An employee is expected to keep his boss in the loop on everything that he works on, but on the one extreme this becomes micromanagement, and on the other, the manager is completely clueless what his team is doing. Most teams manage to pick a point somewhere between the extremes, so in your case, the employee, the CEO and the director or whoever will decide how frequently the CEO should be updated. There are way too many possibilities, which you should narrow down. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-01-14T17:23:22.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4224" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4231" CreationDate="2017-01-15T17:36:47.060" Score="8" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read the meta posts &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/255/3192&quot;&gt;FAQ proposal: Back It Up and Don&amp;#39;t Repeat Others&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/172/3192&quot;&gt;What can we do about me-too answers?&lt;/a&gt;. It is clear that repeating what is already covered in other answers is heavily discouraged here. It is somewhat ambiguous (to me) if this only applies to other answers posted &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt; or to content copied from other websites as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assume that the answer gives proper attribution to the source with a link, so plagiarism is not my issue here. However, the &lt;em&gt;entire&lt;/em&gt; answer consists of text copied from elsewhere. There is no additional commentary or contribution from the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to hear if the community considers such answers useful. (I have refrained from posting a specific answer as an example, but if it is really necessary to answer this question, I will add it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:40:25.820" LastActivityDate="2017-01-17T05:23:42.900" Title="What is our stance on entire answers copied from other websites (with attribution)?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4225" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-15T19:12:39.990" Score="1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, some people who ask things like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;how do I deal with colleagues not behaving as I want them to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But after a closer look it becomes obvious that the person asking is the problem (e.g. by looking at their question history, where they collide with every boss and colleague over years under different circumstances).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually I am tempted to (and sometimes I do) write:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;reflect on your own behavior&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which I believe is the factually correct answer, but it is not an answer to the question being asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what should one do? Options: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answer with an honest answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answer with a literal answer (and no sarcasm)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answer with a literal answer (and some sarcasm)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;do nothing and hope the question gets closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comment on the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49974" LastEditorUserId="52713" LastEditDate="2017-01-16T07:54:56.710" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T04:01:53.190" Title="How to react to questions which are literally a bad question, but where answers may benefit the person asking" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4219" CreationDate="2017-01-15T21:43:27.757" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I see a question which &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; think is either a poor question (i.e. I downvote it) or off-topic (i.e. I vote to close), then I don't answer it &lt;em&gt;even if I think it's an interesting question&lt;/em&gt;. This is for something which sounds similar to the first of your reasons: getting answers encourages other users to post that sort of question in future - down votes don't matter at all to a new user, and most of them don't come back often enough to trigger the question ban. If we didn't answer poor / off-topic questions then it would discourage people asking poor questions and (in my opinion) we'd have a higher quality site. See for instance &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/340233/i-struggle-to-program-outside-of-work-due-to-lack-of-ideas&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on Software Engineering&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; - it's a question which is almost explicitly being asked because similar poor questions have been asked and answered in the past. If those questions were closed without any answers, new users might think twice about asking similar questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For avoidance of doubt, I don't think anyone is rep-stuffing here. To a very large extent, the highest rep users on this (or any other SE site) have got that rep by answering lots of questions. Maybe they're slightly less discriminating than I am about which questions they answer, but that's a valid choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not picking on that question, that poster or that site in particular. It's just one I happen to remember because I saw it today.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14388" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:45:57.077" LastActivityDate="2017-01-15T21:43:27.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4225" CreationDate="2017-01-16T10:46:48.523" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To put the hopefully obvious bit first: sarcasm isn't big or clever, and has no place in answers here (or on any other SE site, for that matter). Don't do it, and if you do, expect a justifiable load of down votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like what you're talking about here is a classic &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem&quot;&gt;XY problem&lt;/a&gt;: the question is asking about one thing, but the actual problem is something else. In that case, I'm perfectly prepared to give an answer with what I believe is the underlying problem - see e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/75387/14388&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, and I think this is the right thing to do as it solves the actual problem. This is a often lot less controversial on the more technical &quot;hard facts&quot; type sites where there often an actual solution to a problem rather than the slightly &quot;softer&quot; problems we deal with here - certainly the poster of the question I've linked to above &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/75384/how-to-handle-rant-team-member-and-avoid-you-dont-know-team-management/75387#comment210237_75389&quot;&gt;didn't like my answer much&lt;/a&gt; so I suspect it didn't do much good, but I still think that's better than reinforcing a bad opinion that someone already has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14388" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2017-01-16T10:46:48.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4224" CreationDate="2017-01-16T14:07:13.217" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, if it is properly attributed, then there is no problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether you think it should be upvoted is a personal decision, but as an answer, it's perfectly On-Topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31777" LastActivityDate="2017-01-16T14:07:13.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4224" CreationDate="2017-01-16T14:11:46.570" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;So long as their is proper attribution, it's fine IMO.  It's better than a link, and paraphrasing is unnecessary.  While it's not technically the contributors own material, &lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt; site has been enriched by new information not previously held.  There is no sense re inventing the wheel when there's a perfectly good schematic for it's design elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from that, vote up or vote down depending on how well you feel the answer suits the question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-01-16T14:11:46.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4224" CreationDate="2017-01-16T14:17:17.860" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is our stance on entire answers copied from other websites (with attribution)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't have one. &lt;strong&gt;Everything depends on the context.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assumed there'd be a canonical thread on this on the main meta but there doesn't seem to be. The help pages have a section on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/referencing&quot;&gt;references&lt;/a&gt; which does state:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do not copy the complete text of external sources; instead, use their words and ideas to support your own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in practice it's not always required to do so. I believe the technical sites consider it acceptable to simply reproduce content without an editorial as long as it actually answers the question. There is no reason why we should do things differently here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;High level legal questions are often answerable by simply linking to a relevant reading of the applicable employment laws. As an example, consider two of the most reference-heavy answers I've ever submitted: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/69509/can-my-employer-reclassify-me-as-non-exempt-to-avoid-the-new-minimum-salary-requ/69512#69512&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/52271/can-my-employer-demand-that-i-show-up-to-work-15-minutes-before-my-shift-but-not/52303#52303&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;. While I did add summaries and more detailed analysis since I was aiming for a comprehensive answer, in both cases the question can be fully answered by quoting a single section of the source material. That would still make for a perfectly acceptable answer. I actually have multiple answers were my only original contribution was an introduction of a quote block with &quot;&lt;em&gt;[Blogger] covers the best way to [do X / avoid Y / deal with Z] in [this article]: [quoted text]&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:37:04.473" LastActivityDate="2017-01-16T14:17:17.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4224" CreationDate="2017-01-16T18:33:40.777" Score="9" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Stack Exchange guidance&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/referencing&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; has a good explanation on this subject, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would encourage people to make edits to answers which do this and do not &lt;strong&gt;clearly&lt;/strong&gt; show they are copying content from elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, consider the following answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answer One&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of text blah blah blah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another shamelessly copied paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answer Two&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;the Workplace&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lots of text blah blah blah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another shamelessly copied paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How you cite matters&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will absolutely downvote the first of these examples, because while it &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; cite the source, it's doing so in a way that makes it not immediately obvious the answerer copy/pasted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second however? It's a &lt;strong&gt;clearly&lt;/strong&gt; attributed copy paste using the built-in quote feature. I always try to do it this way, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://history.stackexchange.com/a/34707/3254&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; and I think it's beneficial to everyone if you do cite things in a way that makes it really clear you are directly quoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-01-17T05:23:42.900" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4225" CreationDate="2017-01-17T02:41:39.553" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often enough, we run into someone who asks a question based on their rather one-sided narrative. And who demands that we give an answer that matches the question when it is clear from their narrative that THEY - their attitude, conduct, behavior and actions - are the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are under no obligation to answer the question exactly as asked. Make sure that the OP knows exactly why you are deciding not to answer the question as asked, though. Only the more dim witted and pointy headed members of the community will object to what you are doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question gives a bad smell, rest assured that usually, you are not going to be the only one who catches on to that smell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16993" LastActivityDate="2017-01-17T02:41:39.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4219" CreationDate="2017-01-17T12:59:24.927" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is bad practice, and is explicitly called out in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Answer well-asked questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not all questions can or should be answered here. Save yourself some&#xA;  frustration and avoid trying to answer questions which...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;...are unclear or lacking specific details that can uniquely identify the problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;...solicit opinions rather than facts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;...have already been asked and answered many times before.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;...require too much guidance for you to answer in full, or request answers to multiple questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;...are not about the workplace as defined in the help center.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don't forget that you can edit the question you're answering to&#xA;  improve the clarity and focus - this can reduce the chances of the&#xA;  question being closed or deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-01-17T12:59:24.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4234" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-19T11:48:18.383" Score="10" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read a question and the answers, and get curious to know what the end result was after applying the accepted answer. I can't think of any practical way to motivate the asker to provide the end results, which I think would be very useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is not relevant to SO and other SE sites. Maybe I am just starting another debate on &quot;this is a Question/Answer site&quot;. Am I proposing something totally different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29812" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-06-16T14:49:14.343" LastActivityDate="2017-06-16T14:49:14.343" Title="How can we motivate the asker to provide end results of applying the accepted answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2618" CreationDate="2017-01-20T05:44:12.853" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am fine with anyone piecing a coherent answer together from comments, especially if they have something that's original to add. Any action that helps produce insight into the situation is welcome. While our individual answers reflect our individual effort and contribution, the answers as an aggregate represent a community effort to help the OP. Helping the OP is the immediate, specific goal of the community while the encompassing goal of the community is helping those readers who are in a situation that's similar to the OP's. A sanity check is that answers that make sense should reinforce each other in some way. To me, an answer that does nothing more than reinforce other answers that make sense - that's still a valuable answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll note that life for many comments can be nasty, brutish and short regardless of the merits of the comments. Nobody gets helped by comments that have been erased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16993" LastActivityDate="2017-01-20T05:44:12.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4234" CreationDate="2017-01-20T17:49:04.147" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you are not the only one. I am sure a lot of the regular users feel the same way. I am often curious as well to know how my good (or bad) my answers turn out practically (assuming OP finds my answer useful in the first place!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you have rightly guessed, there is not a whole lot you can do to remedy this situation. The only two options that I can see for individual users is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post a comment on the question after a few weeks, and hope that the OP responds. However, comments are usually  &lt;s&gt;chased out of town with torches and pitchforks&lt;/s&gt; moved to chat here, in other words, strongly discouraged.  Anyway, that leads to the next point. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Invite the user to chat and request him to share his experiences. The OP could see this as anything between a friendly conversation starter to a creepy stalking. Long story short, don't do this. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; however, we could gradually change the &quot;culture&quot; such that users accept answers only after they have tried it and it &quot;somewhat&quot; works for them.  Again, that is a &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt; path to tread, and requires collective action, which means it won't happen any time soon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reiterate, none of this is practical, as you have noted. The key issue here is our site uses the same framework as StackOverflow (which is one of the &quot;Big 3&quot; that Stack Exchange started with.) A couple of things work differently there (in this context):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In most cases, an answer either works or it doesn't, and when it doesn't there are only a few things that go wrong, so accepting an answer and/or a &quot;thanks, this worked&quot; is sufficient evidence that OP found it useful. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is easy for any third person to verify the solution, even when the OP doesn't indicate anything. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a &quot;subjective&quot; site like this one, both of these points do not apply. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Applying the answer usually involves real human beings. As a result, we cannot predict, or even imagine, all the outcomes possible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most of the time, we cannot &quot;verify&quot; the solution to someone else's problem by applying it to our own life, because each situation is unique. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not mean, however, that nothing is possible. Some ideas of the back of my mind are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Offer a &quot;question bounty&quot; encouraging the OP to post a summary of which answers he actually tried, and how well they turned out. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A slightly milder version of the above is to offer a badge for offering such feedback. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide additional reputation for providing the feedback (similar to the +2 on accepting an answer). To prevent rep-farming by sowing useless feedback, this could be reviewed by moderators or users with privileges. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately though, there is historical evidence to show that StackExchange employees do not care about features that do not benefit StackOverflow, and that they only seem to care about the smaller sites to pick so-called HNQ, which boosts their traffic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-01-20T17:49:04.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4237" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-21T06:22:49.710" Score="4" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm asking on this meta because it's the only site I have reputation for. Although I am happy to delete the question if it is off-topic. I recently tried to ask a question which led to this happening:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L8ByU.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L8ByU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top comment was by a user with 60k reputation which states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Look, nobody is forcing you to apply and get a job. You don't want to play by the rules, fine. Just don't whine here on this site. Nobody has time for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recognize that people will be rude on the Internet and that is unavoidable, but I do not feel comfortable participating on this network (note: I am not saying the same for this site, people have been cordial on here) if my questions will be closed with rude comments. Yes, I know some of you will say &quot;that comment is not rude, it is simply terse&quot; or that &quot;this question is a rant&quot;. I am not trying to rant, but keep myself composed as I did in the image above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of waiting for a moderator to swoop in and delete the comment, knowing my question would be closed anyways, I deleted my profile. I'm sure there could be a more constructive way of dealing with negative feedback: what is the proper etiquette for doing so on here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user401790" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T14:58:35.460" Title="How can I respond to negativity on this network?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4237" CreationDate="2017-01-21T10:01:47.217" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Warm welcome to The Workplace! (although it was not quite warm)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I have edited your now-deleted question and voted to undelete it.&lt;/strong&gt; If the question gets undeleted, feel free to recreate your account, and ask a moderator to link your question to your account. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your description did sound like a rant against the hiring practice of shortlisting resumes based on keyword count. However, you commented that you were &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; ranting, which I accepted and suggested you to tone down the language to be taken more seriously. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was also &lt;em&gt;writing an answer&lt;/em&gt; and wanted to edit your question myself, but the question got deleted before I could complete my answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now coming to your questions. &lt;strong&gt;I agree that some of us, including me, tend to be a bit brusque in our comments&lt;/strong&gt;, but you should also know that we frequently get trolls here who post rants and nonsense questions. As a result, &lt;strong&gt;our &quot;troll detector&quot; sometimes catches genuine posts&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The best approach to such perceived negativity is to respond positively.&lt;/strong&gt; If someone says you sound like ranting, respond with &quot;no, I am not ranting&quot; and explain why (which you did!). Engaging in a comment confrontation does not help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If things start getting seriously bad, flag the comment for moderator attention.&lt;/strong&gt; The moderators here do a fine job without bias (except when feminism and religion are involved, but I digress), they will delete the offensive comments and even lock the posts if needed, regardless of user's reputation. In fact, the more common complaint here is that the moderators delete &lt;em&gt;too many&lt;/em&gt; comments. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-01-23T14:58:35.460" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T14:58:35.460" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4239" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-21T21:38:00.580" Score="15" ViewCount="494" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm confused why the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/83144/8388&quot;&gt;Fired by an Intoxicated Boss&lt;/a&gt; question was closed. The close reason says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should be directed to legal professionals. For more information, click &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2694/8388&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm confused how this connects with the question, as it seems to me that it's more of a social situation than anything else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially if we follow the link in the close reason I don't think this is the &lt;em&gt;intended&lt;/em&gt; usage for this close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The question was reopened on Jan 23.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8388" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-02-16T15:48:13.710" Title="(Reopened) Why was the &quot;Fired by an Intoxicated Boss&quot; question closed?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4212" CreationDate="2017-01-22T00:44:02.830" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Humour is great, I tend to type it out, adjust it so I get just the right nuances etc,.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I delete it without posting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2017-01-22T00:44:02.830" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4241" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-23T20:07:28.587" Score="11" ViewCount="434" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange is scheduled for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/4&quot;&gt;an election starting next week, January 30th&lt;/a&gt;. In connection with that election, we will be hosting a Q&amp;amp;A here for candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4267/2017-moderator-election-qa-questionnaire&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how it'll work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Until the nomination phase, (so, until Monday, January 30th at 20:00:00Z UTC, or 3:00 pm EST on the same day, give or take time to arrive for closure), this question will be open to collect potential questions from the users of the site. Post answers to this question containing any questions you would like to ask the candidates. Please only post &lt;em&gt;one question per answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We, the Community Team, will be providing a small selection of generic questions. The first two will be guaranteed to be included, the latter ones are if the community doesn't supply enough questions. This will be done in a single post, unlike the prior instruction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a perfect opportunity to voice questions that are specific to your community and issues that you are running into at current.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If your question contains a link, please use the syntax of &lt;code&gt;[text](link)&lt;/code&gt;, as that will make it easier for transcribing for the finished questionnaire.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the collection phase, the Community Team will select &lt;strong&gt;up to 8 of the top voted questions submitted by the community&lt;/strong&gt; provided in this thread, to use in addition to the aforementioned 2 guaranteed questions. We reserve some editorial control in the selection of the questions and may opt not to select a question that is tangential or irrelevant to moderation or the election. That said, if I have concerns about any questions in this fashion, I will be sure to point this out in comments before the decision making time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once questions have been selected, a new question will be opened to host the actual questionnaire for the candidates, containing (up to) 10 questions in total.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not the only option that users have for gathering information on candidates. As a community, you are still free to, for example, hold a live chat session with your candidates to ask further questions, or perhaps clarifications from what is provided in the Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions or feedback about this process, feel free to post as a comment here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T20:50:00.997" Title="2017 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Question Collection" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4241" CreationDate="2017-01-23T20:07:28.587" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a set of general questions, gathered as very common questions asked every election. As mentioned in the instructions, the first two questions are guaranteed to show up in the Q&amp;amp;A, while the others are if there aren't enough questions (or, if you like one enough, you may split it off as a separate answer for review within the community's 8). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T20:07:28.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4241" CreationDate="2017-01-24T02:39:56.870" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recent discussions on meta and in chat have raised concerns about rudeness and other non-constructive behavior on The Workplace.  Do you think we have a problem in this area?  If so, what will you as a moderator do to address it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-01-24T02:39:56.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4241" CreationDate="2017-01-24T03:20:45.187" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How would being a moderator here be beneficial to &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Explanation&lt;/em&gt;: As against how the site/community would benefit from you being a moderator, we want to hear what &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; expect to gain, in your career or personal life (or elsewhere).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-01-26T16:48:05.153" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T16:48:05.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4241" CreationDate="2017-01-24T13:52:19.713" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you deal with flaring tensions between answerers and commenters with widely differing opinions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastActivityDate="2017-01-24T13:52:19.713" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4241" CreationDate="2017-01-24T19:32:34.330" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is something new and/or unique that you can bring to the moderator team and/or to the site? (e.g. active at unusual times, familiarity with a certain topic, past applicable work experience, extreme love of waffles, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-01-24T19:32:34.330" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4241" CreationDate="2017-01-24T22:26:36.583" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;You notice a question that is likely not something that we can constructively deal with.  It is also a popular hot button topic and in the first few minutes attracts a few up-votes and answers that are of questionable value. As the day progresses the comment discussion starts piling up under both the question and the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if any action do you take?  At what point do you feel it is your duty to step in and stop the spectacle?  Do you wait for flags to take action or do you step in preemptively?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-01-24T22:26:36.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4241" CreationDate="2017-01-24T23:22:40.780" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site periodically gets high traffic questions (via Hot Network Questions) that straddle the border between controversial and trolling.  Both when it's not clear if the poster was intending to troll; and in cases where they were but a legitimate question is tangled in the mess.  How do you think they should be handled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="345" LastActivityDate="2017-01-24T23:22:40.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4249" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-24T23:36:28.570" Score="6" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not one to hand back accolades, but I'm pretty sure I just earned the &quot;yearling&quot; badge twice in two days. Is that expected behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that it's because I've been here 2+ years, and earned 400 rep as of today, while doing basically nothing the rest of the time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30381" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2017-01-25T14:12:57.747" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T14:14:54.207" Title="Yearling badge twice in two days?" Tags="|support|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4249" CreationDate="2017-01-25T01:43:58.193" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've been a member for more than 2 years, but you only yesterday met the reputation requirement to collect the second badge, and only the day before met the reputation requirement to collect the first.  Yearling requires 200 reputation per year; when your rep times years exceeds that, you get the badge when the script next runs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2017-01-25T14:14:54.207" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T14:14:54.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4241" CreationDate="2017-01-25T07:47:01.313" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You visit an &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aanswer+hasnotice%3A1&quot; title=&quot;link to search for such answers&quot;&gt;answer having moderator notice&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You observe that it has been edited after the notice but you are uncertain if the edit addressed the issues pointed to by the notice or not. How would you handle this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if the answer has negative score (and, say, delete votes from 20K users)? What if it has high positive score?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T07:47:01.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4234" CreationDate="2017-01-25T08:54:53.237" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we all get a bit curious about some questions, so it's not just you. On rare occasions the OP does give the follow up which is great. But not really necessary in terms of what we're trying to do here which transcends an individual OP's needs of the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I spend quite a lot of time on Stack Overflow looking for solutions, quite often the answer most useful to me isn't the accepted one, because my problem is slightly different and something else fits better with my needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T08:54:53.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4241" CreationDate="2017-01-25T11:22:40.823" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is one thing about The Workplace &quot;culture&quot; that you want to change or improve? As a moderator, how would you go about doing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T11:22:40.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4254" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-25T13:24:01.627" Score="7" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/deleted-answers&quot;&gt;Help Center for Answering&lt;/a&gt; explains that some answers are deleted because they are (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;commentary on the question or other answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;asking another, different question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;“thanks!” or “me too!” responses&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;exact duplicates of other answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;barely more than a link to an external site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;not even a partial answer to the actual question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when voting to delete low quality answers, there is no option for &quot;duplicate answer&quot;. (If anyone has the exact list of options and wants to add it in here, I would greatly appreciate it.) I usually end up selecting &quot;No comment needed&quot; and manually adding the following comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer adds nothing new to the already existing answers. Please remember to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;not repeat others&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we add an option for duplicate answers as well, since that is explicitly one of our deletion reasons in the help center?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T13:24:01.627" Title="Delete reason for duplicate answers" Tags="|feature-request|answers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4241" CreationDate="2017-01-25T15:13:43.283" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;With respect to reopened questions that again attract close votes.  What do you feel the moderator's role is in questions where the community is divided whether they are on topic?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26235" LastEditorUserId="26235" LastEditDate="2017-01-30T20:50:00.997" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T20:50:00.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4241" CreationDate="2017-01-26T00:35:32.190" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a Moderator what would you do differently, that you haven't seen other Moderators do so far?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T00:35:32.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4241" CreationDate="2017-01-26T08:43:00.997" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, would you spend more time with the community? Or will you spend the same time as before, hence reducing Q&amp;amp;A time to focus only on moderating job?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please explain to us how you will spend your time here as moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59602" LastEditorUserId="59602" LastEditDate="2017-01-26T14:27:59.773" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T14:27:59.773" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4241" CreationDate="2017-01-27T04:15:37.160" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am irritated at those moderators who indiscriminately delete my comments among others. I see it as a form of vandalism. What's your opinion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16993" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T04:15:37.160" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4241" CreationDate="2017-01-27T22:04:02.307" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you think the key traits of a moderator are, and how have you demonstrated them thus far in your activity on the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T22:04:02.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4261" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-28T21:11:39.953" Score="0" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/83836/no-one-else-in-my-team-cares-about-optimization-what-should-i-do/83841?noredirect=1#comment240243_83841&quot;&gt;No one else in my team cares about optimization, what should I do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is closed as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Questions require a goal that we can address. Rather than explaining the difficulties of your situation, explain what you want to do to make it better. For more information, see this meta post.&quot; – gnat, IDrinkandIKnowThings, Christopher Estep, Masked Man, Richard U&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question includes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've asked if we could at least compress the images and minify the CSS/JS but the rest of the team aren't worried about it. I'm happy to do this work myself and it goes against my principles to produce a website that's slow. But I need their approval to make these changes. I don't have the authority to force this issue since I'm a contractor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which explains what OP wants to do to make the situation better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meta post includes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Our goal here at The Workplace is to help out people in the future who are facing the same problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question looks fine to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bluntly -- what the heck?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user42272" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2017-01-31T13:18:18.180" Title="Why is &quot;No one else in my team cares about optimization, what should I do?&quot; off topic?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4261" CreationDate="2017-01-29T15:53:12.030" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP's &quot;difficulty&quot; is that the client is not interested in his proposed improvements, but that goes against his principles. The part you have quoted refers to improving page load times, which is a &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; problem. His proposed solution does not address the actual difficulty, and hence, doesn't make the situation better. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP's question here is not &quot;how do I improve page load times?&quot;, and anyway, the OP already knows a solution to that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt; OP has edited the question, I have cast the final reopen vote, and the question is reopened now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-01-31T13:18:18.180" LastActivityDate="2017-01-31T13:18:18.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4225" CreationDate="2017-01-30T04:01:53.190" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So what should one do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer with an honest answer or move on. No need to psychoanalyse the OP or worry about anything else. I (almost always) take all questions at face value as if it's the first time they asked a question, and either answer it in that context, or go look at another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T04:01:53.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4264" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4265" CreationDate="2017-01-30T17:30:05.243" Score="5" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/83986/2762&quot;&gt;asked this question on the PIP&lt;/a&gt; (performance improvement process).  Before I added more details, the question received a few flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way to interpret most of the answers is that &quot;anxiety is natural to performance discussions, so the question is unanswerable.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we consider that we can always do better, then saying &quot;don't try&quot; or &quot;just be a good manager&quot; is not getting at the root of the matter.  (in that case, maybe it is a dupe?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the reasons for flagging may not be that simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How might a question like this be improved further?  I would like to make it a durable Q&amp;amp;A exchange on the PIP topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2762" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T19:58:48.653" Title="How to get more specific with a PIP question, without leading the question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4264" CreationDate="2017-01-30T19:58:48.653" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your questions is currently closed for being unclear. However, I think while not perfect, it's fairly clear what you are asking so I have voted to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I don't think you're going to get any answers better than enderland's and Dan Pichelman's. A PIP tells an employee that their job is at risk if they do not improve, and knowing that you might be fired soon is inherently stressful. There's not much you can do about it except for the few things already laid out in the posted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T19:58:48.653" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4266" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-30T20:01:01.890" Score="2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2017 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T20:01:01.890" Title="2017 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|moderators|election|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2017-01-30T20:01:01.890" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4267" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-30T20:02:22.530" Score="11" ViewCount="390" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&amp;amp;A thread for the candidates. Questions collected &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4241/2017-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;from an earlier thread&lt;/a&gt; have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers. There was a multiway tie for the last few questions, and I liked all of them, so I took all of them, bringing us with the 2 preset questions to a total of 11 questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a candidate, your job is simple - post an answer to this question, citing each of the questions and then post your answer to each question given in that same answer. For your convenience, I will include all of the questions in quote format with a break in between each, suitable for you to insert your answers. Just &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/840da6db-9a6a-4723-bd7d-ef14a84a0a2f/view-source&quot;&gt;copy the whole thing after the first set of three dashes&lt;/a&gt;.Please consider putting your name at the top of your post so that readers will know who you are before they finish reading everything you have written, and also including a link to your answer on your nomination post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once all the answers have been compiled, this will serve as a transcript for voters to view the thoughts of their candidates, and will be appropriately linked in the Election page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck to all of the candidates!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oh, and when you've completed your answer, please provide a link to it after this blurb here, before that set of three dashes. Please leave the list of links in the order of submission.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To save scrolling here are links to the submissions from each candidate (in order of submission):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4267/2017-moderator-election-qa-questionnaire/4268#4268&quot;&gt;Christopher Estep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4269/25739&quot;&gt;Lilienthal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4286/647&quot;&gt;Rory Alsop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You notice a question that is likely not something that we can constructively deal with. It is also a popular hot button topic and in the first few minutes attracts a few up-votes and answers that are of questionable value. As the day progresses the comment discussion starts piling up under both the question and the answers. What if any action do you take? At what point do you feel it is your duty to step in and stop the spectacle? Do you wait for flags to take action or do you step in preemptively?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do you deal with flaring tensions between answerers and commenters with widely differing opinions?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Recent discussions on meta and in chat have raised concerns about rudeness and other non-constructive behavior on The Workplace. Do you think we have a problem in this area? If so, what will you as a moderator do to address it?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This site periodically gets high traffic questions (via Hot Network Questions) that straddle the border between controversial and trolling. Both when it's not clear if the poster was intending to troll; and in cases where they were but a legitimate question is tangled in the mess. How do you think they should be handled.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;With respect to reopened questions that again attract close votes. What do you feel the moderator's role is in questions where the community are divided whether they are on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is something new and/or unique that you can bring to the moderator team and/or to the site? (e.g. active at unusual times, familiarity with a certain topic, past applicable work experience, extreme love of waffles, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do you think the key traits of a moderator are, and how have you demonstrated them thus far in your activity on the site?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is one thing about The Workplace &quot;culture&quot; that you want to change or improve? As a moderator, how would you go about doing it?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a Moderator what would you do differently, that you haven't seen other Moderators do so far?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another moderator closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2017-02-14T20:11:25.263" Title="2017 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Questionnaire" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4267" CreationDate="2017-01-30T21:36:10.247" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Christopher Estep (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/4#post-84062&quot;&gt;Nominating Post&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You notice a question that is likely not something that we can constructively deal with. It is also a popular hot button topic and in the first few minutes attracts a few up-votes and answers that are of questionable value. As the day progresses the comment discussion starts piling up under both the question and the answers. What if any action do you take? At what point do you feel it is your duty to step in and stop the spectacle? Do you wait for flags to take action or do you step in preemptively?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the key here is the term &amp;quot;piling up&amp;quot;. This tells me that the comments aren't likely being used for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;the purpose for which they were designed&lt;/a&gt; and when that happens, it needs to be cleaned up. I believe the preferred way to handle that is to move the comments to a new chat room (linked) and encourage the discussion to continue there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I believe in a light touch, I think to always wait for flags negates the mind which have to make decisions. A flag is to bring something to a moderator's attention. If I, as a moderator, already notice something that &lt;em&gt;needs&lt;/em&gt; attention then I believe the moderator should then evaluate it as though it were actually flagged. In other words, would I flag it myself and how does this weigh against the guidelines?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the &amp;quot;spectacle&amp;quot; has a lot of &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; answers by no/low reputation users, I'd protect it as appropriate. This does tend to happen in questions with a high amount of comment activity since new users aren't able to comment everywhere just yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I've said (and will likely repeat throughout this questionnaire) moderation is something that needs a light touch where possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do you deal with flaring tensions between answerers and commenters with widely differing opinions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First and foremost I'd encourage the commenters to put their differing opinion in an answer of their own. Comments have a narrow purpose and debate isn't one of them. I'd encourage them to take it to chat and if it got out of hand, migrate the comments into chat. Ideally, I'd rather have the commenter make his own answer there and let the community decide (via votes) which has more merit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recent discussions on meta and in chat have raised concerns about rudeness and other non-constructive behavior on The Workplace. Do you think we have a problem in this area? If so, what will you as a moderator do to address it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we really have a problem, at least an ongoing one. My biggest concern is when a criticism stops being about an idea and is directed at the person making the statement. I think I lot of times, a reminder helps. If it gets way out of hand (and I mean &lt;strong&gt;way&lt;/strong&gt; out) then I could lock the question or chat room for a short period of time and in severe cases, the &amp;quot;difficult&amp;quot; individual(s) could be given a &amp;quot;time-out&amp;quot;. While that's not a very last resort, restricting a person's access is not something to be taken lightly and should be done when other means have seemed to fail. We don't see a ton of suspensions here and that's a good thing, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This site periodically gets high traffic questions (via Hot Network Questions) that straddle the border between controversial and trolling. Both when it's not clear if the poster was intending to troll; and in cases where they were but a legitimate question is tangled in the mess. How do you think they should be handled.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without knowing the mind of the OP, who can say if it's a troll? But controversial isn't much better I'll admin. Regardless, I can't judge intent. I can only evaluate what is written and in nearly all cases have to take it at face value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think editing is very underused. Many questions could be salvaged by some careful editing that preserves the perceived intent while avoiding the potentially controversial aspects of a question. I think the responsibility would be to pull the good question out of the potential troll and hopefully avoid the conflict that such questions seem to bring with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;With respect to reopened questions that again attract close votes. What do you feel the moderator's role is in questions where the community are divided whether they are on topic?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the role is as a resource. I should point out where to decide what constitutes on-topic and off-topic but not cheerlead for either position when I do. If it's to be a community, then the community should be allowed to determine these things.  I think there may be exceptions at times, but these are quite rare and need to be very, very obvious and justified in so doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is something new and/or unique that you can bring to the moderator team and/or to the site? (e.g. active at unusual times, familiarity with a certain topic, past applicable work experience, extreme love of waffles, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having over 30 years in the workforce I've got an extremely broad range of experience in work environments and situations. I've seen the evolution of policies and practices that now seem commonplace. I have experience on the management and labor side of working and a number of other workplace related topics as well. How this lends itself to moderation is that there's very little I haven't seen in one form or another. I'm not easily shocked or surprised. It means that I'm more apt to be understanding of a question that someone else find ridiculous simply because they haven't encountered that type of situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What do you think the key traits of a moderator are, and how have you demonstrated them thus far in your activity on the site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think to be a moderator you have to have a sense of fairness that can be applied beyond your own personal bias. The person who annoys you with veiled snark must be treated the same as the person with whom you've bantered playfully for the last 6 months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried to treat people as fairly as I can. I'll admit that I've had a bit of snark now and then but that's been few and far between (and is also no longer here). I am, after all, only human.  But what I've said as &amp;quot;joe user&amp;quot; takes a different import with that diamond next to your name because whether you believe it or not, that little diamond means that (to a degree) you're speaking for the community leadership. Having said that, I do believe that I've kept my nose clean and I am not ashamed of anything I've said here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is one thing about The Workplace &amp;quot;culture&amp;quot; that you want to change or improve? As a moderator, how would you go about doing it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &amp;quot;close culture&amp;quot; here. People seems like would rather close a question rather than to find a way to keep it open, possibly through editing.  I believe for some, closing questions may be a meta game in itself, which would be unfortunate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll be honest, I don't have a solution for it. I think we need to take a hand in editing questions that are borderline and make them more on topic.  I think we need to keep reminding people what does and does not constitute a &amp;quot;legal question&amp;quot; that can't be answered versus something that any HR pro could answer, which actually is on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see more questions reopened when closed for no other reason that they have a passing similarity to a previous question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But ultimately, I do genuinely believe in a light hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a Moderator what would you do differently, that you haven't seen other Moderators do so far?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I would try to be more careful about deleting comments.  I guess the interface makes it time consuming to parse through and weed out the bad from the good, but I still think it's in amiable goal. Maybe having another moderator will help that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's a good goal to have regardless because users really, really hate having the comments deleted. If it's possible to move them to chat, every effort should be made. If there's abuse involve, obviously that can't be done. But I'd like a goal to leave the applicable comments in place wherever possible. I think it would also help in how moderation is perceived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would endeavor to treat him like someone who's been here a week. Unless &lt;strong&gt;the user&lt;/strong&gt; becomes a problem (unruly behavior, abuse, etc.) I would deal with the comments on their own, largely as I suggested above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me clarify however. That doesn't mean they would get a free pass. Just because you have tons of good work doesn't mean you're held to a different standard. But that works both ways too. It doesn't mean that come down on him because &amp;quot;he should know better&amp;quot;. Heck maybe he's having a bad day, I don't know.  I'll judge his comments independently of his reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the individual is genuinely becoming a problem, I'd discuss that with the other mods and seek their guidance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;11&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd discuss it with the mod behind the scenes to try to convince them to change their mind. If they don't, I'll defer. If they do, great. None of this means that I would reverse what the other mod did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T21:36:10.247" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4267" CreationDate="2017-01-31T20:31:45.987" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Lilienthal (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/4#post-84068&quot;&gt;Nominating Post&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You notice a question that is likely not something that we can constructively deal with. It is also a popular hot button topic and in the first few minutes attracts a few up-votes and answers that are of questionable value. As the day progresses the comment discussion starts piling up under both the question and the answers. What if any action do you take? At what point do you feel it is your duty to step in and stop the spectacle? Do you wait for flags to take action or do you step in preemptively?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pre-emptive action is problematic because it goes against SE's policy of light moderation. Community users need to be given the opportunity to manage a question and the fact a moderator's vote is binding means that you need to be very careful when using it. I currently very quickly vote to close questions that need work or are just plain off-topic and I feel comfortable doing so as I know that 4 other people need to agree with me that something needs improvement to be suitable on the site. Unilaterally closing a question is not something I'd be comfortable doing unless the question is obviously unanswerable. Typically that's limited to unintelligible writing or a vitriolic rant disguised as a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comment discussions are somewhat different in that regard. Popular questions, particularly HNQ ones, almost invariable end up starting discussion that no longer add value to the question or answers. Comments are ephemeral and those that go off-topic or aren't constructive should in most cases simply be cleaned up. Discussions that started off useful but have grown beyond the scope of what comments are for should be moved to chat with the usual disclaimer. After that it's open season for removing overly chatty or nonconstructive comments. If comments or posts are attracting flags over this that's a sign to step in sooner than I might otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it should hopefully be obvious but comments that actually relate to the question don't fall under this. Our site is very comment-heavy compared to others in the network and that kind of goes with the territory. It's  low-quality or low-effort comments that should be remove to prevent them from reaching critical mass which tends to happen quickly on HNQ questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do you deal with flaring tensions between answerers and commenters with widely differing opinions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose it depends on the situation but stepping in as a moderator to try to calm things down rarely works. A moderator comment with some judicious use of bold formatting on the question works well for that but inserting yourself in an argument that's getting out of hand between an answerer and a commenter who took issue with the answer and Had To Let You Know is a recipe for disaster. I've had a few such exchanges in my team here and I've found that the best way to resolve them as the author is to simply stop replying and flag your answer for a mod to take a look. In most cases the best mod action to take then is to nuke the entire comment thread as very often the initial exchange is simply &amp;quot;I disagree&amp;quot;. Sometimes the original comment(s) can be kept up provided they're civil and actually raise a valid counterpoint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very often the only reason that things grow out of control is that people can't help but reply to that Comment Notification. Taking that out and cleaning up the comment thread bleeds tension usually without anything of value being lost. I've had this happen perhaps half a dozen times and it hasn't failed yet so that seems to be a good approach. Monica referred to these as &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4195/can-we-help-users-determine-what-is-and-isnt-rude/4201#4201&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;death spirals&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; on meta and it's an apt description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recent discussions on meta and in chat have raised concerns about rudeness and other non-constructive behavior on The Workplace. Do you think we have a problem in this area? If so, what will you as a moderator do to address it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, it's always going to be a problem. The anonymity that the web brings will always lead to lower barriers to uncivilized conduct and people sometimes forget that SE and particularly this site would like to hold itself to a higher standard when it comes to user interaction. I've seen the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4195/&quot;&gt;meta thread&lt;/a&gt; and if the mods themselves have noticed an upward trend then I'm inclined to believe them. I can't say that I've really noticed a marked increase in rudeness so I can only assume that the mods are doing their job of nipping that in the bud. Monica's answer on that meta thread pointed out what the &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; can do in this regard and this &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a community issue. Mods get to clean up the filth, it's up to the community to identify said filth and to create a site where such behaviour is discouraged and frowned upon. As far as I know SE does not offer tools that allow mods to take steps beyond this, all they can really do is keep an eye on hot button / popular questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This site periodically gets high traffic questions (via Hot Network Questions) that straddle the border between controversial and trolling. Both when it's not clear if the poster was intending to troll; and in cases where they were but a legitimate question is tangled in the mess. How do you think they should be handled.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm fairly sure we've had dozens of fake or troll questions on the HNQ by now. I think it's to this site's credit that for the most part these are actually edited into shape and turn into something useful that explains what is and isn't professional workplace behaviour. HNQ questions, particularly controversial ones, will always result in a lot of work for the mods but them's the breaks. HNQ remains a core SE feature and there is little to be done that wouldn't be considered mod overreach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only time mods can really intervene is when a question has attracted a few valid close votes and needs work or is simply unsuitable for the site in its present form. In that case a modclose is warranted and this has the fortunate side effect of preventing a question from going to HNQ when it needs a lot of work. Once they've hit a couple of thousand views it becomes very difficult to do the kind of edit work that some promising but problematic questions need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;With respect to reopened questions that again attract close votes. What do you feel the moderator's role is in questions where the community are divided whether they are on topic?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take it to meta. Closure wars are rare here but almost always result in a meta thread while the original question goes through a number of open/close cycles. Locking the question could be appropriate in extreme cases but for the most part the community process should just be followed here. Beyond that mods should keep an eye out for boundary-crossing comments but I don't believe additional action is warranted in most cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is something new and/or unique that you can bring to the moderator team and/or to the site? (e.g. active at unusual times, familiarity with a certain topic, past applicable work experience, extreme love of waffles, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in my nomination I'm active in an untapped time zone and I have extensive moderation experience outside SE. And being from Belgium I'm obviously a waffle expert so I've got that going for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What do you think the key traits of a moderator are, and how have you demonstrated them thus far in your activity on the site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assume good faith. Help (new) users. Lead by example and always remain civil. Calm tensions down when needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the past two years most of my edit work has been outside the review queues as I'm instead browsing the New Question queue. I enjoy helping new users find their way, whether that means improving their question, answering it, or explaining why we can't offer advice for their situation and instead pointing them in the right direction. Some of the more rewarding moments in my time here have been when the OP leaves a comment to thank me for assuaging their fears or pointing them in the right direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is one thing about The Workplace &amp;quot;culture&amp;quot; that you want to change or improve? As a moderator, how would you go about doing it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our reluctance to submit close votes is the only thing that comes to mind. Very often questions slip through that really should have been closed early so they can be edited into shape. And too often established users end up answering questions that need work. Almost all our questions would benefit from additional clarification and getting those edits in early also means that the answers are more useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure much can be done to change this as it seems to be an innate part of our site culture. I get the impression that people consider close votes to be too aggressive and don't see them as the tools that they are. There's a reason that &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2013/06/the-war-of-the-closes/&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;on hold&amp;quot; was brought in to replace the &amp;quot;closed&amp;quot; notice&lt;/a&gt;. I often find myself breaking the close vote ice and that's something I wouldn't be able to do as a mod. &lt;s&gt;Conversely I would be able to admin close vote questions that have already attracted a few close votes or comments asking for clarification. Since I tend to be actively involved in the comment processes in those cases I can also mod-reopen once the question has been edited.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one area where I would definitely need to check in with the other mods first if I were elected. I've seen very few mod votes on this site and that may be for a reason. Short-circuiting the 5-vote process is something I've had at the back of my head for a while now and I can't help but think that it &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; be moderator overreach. Even as I'm writing this now I'm starting to reconsider whether this is something a mod should be doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a Moderator what would you do differently, that you haven't seen other Moderators do so far?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be active during European hours? ;). I get where this question is coming from but I can't think of any situations where the mods have dropped the ball at a procedural level, where I've disagreed with their approach, or where I've felt that they should be doing more. Mods are exception handlers and most of their work is invisible. We're electing a new one to increase coverage and reduce the mod team's reaction time, not to fix a broken system. Our moderation works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depends on the severity. Reputation gives some site privileges but SE's philosophy is to treat the 50k rep guy the same as the one with 50. If it rises to the point where his contributions are genuinely disruptive then the usual behind-the-scenes process should start. Mods are unique in being able to community directly with people in private and that's probably what should happen when a long-time contributor is displaying problematic behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;11&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talk to them. Mods have their own communication channels and the ones we have right now seem like a reasonable sort. ;) Mod closing/deleting should be a rare event reserved for fairly clear cases so I doubt this would happen often, but the first step is to figure out why the other mod decided to take that action. If those two mods can't come to a consensus then it's time for a third opinion from the rest of the mod team. And if that discussion isn't conclusive then it's probably time for a meta thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-01-31T20:31:45.987" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4270" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-01T11:10:19.683" Score="14" ViewCount="574" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really hate to write a negative review about a site and I will preface what I say by acknowledging there's a lot of great people on this board with valuable information on the workplace. However, I absolutely must protest the culture and attitude a lot of Users portray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to begin by telling you about my experience on here. I've been on other boards for well over a year now and decided to ask a question here, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/66274/asking-for-too-many-pay-raises-in-one-year&quot;&gt;first question&lt;/a&gt; I asked was immediately, without comment down-voted without explanation. Annoying, rude and unconstructive, yes, but eventually I managed to get some really useful answers. Answers I acted upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, yesterday, I dared ask &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/84122/have-i-acted-unprofessionally-by-sharing-photos-from-a-works-night-out&quot;&gt;a second question&lt;/a&gt;. The top rated answer, the answer the represents what this community thinks could be boiled down to: &quot;You're untrustworthy, you've broken the law, you should be fired and taken to court&quot;. Hell, had &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/31777/kaz&quot;&gt;@kaz&lt;/a&gt; got to the point and arranged my public execution I'd have half considered up-voting him for efficiency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't about my receiving an answer I didn't like, rather the culture of what I perceive to be privileged, self-righteous, authoritarian Users becoming keyboard warrior's when they smell the faintest whiff of blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular question the tone of the answer was, frankly, rude, presumptive and borderline tyrannical&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I worked in HR, I would be making a note somewhere &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; to trust you with access to anything the slightest bit sensitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really? Is this really that big of a breach of trust that none of my previous exploits count for anything? Really, based on this one instance, where I may have been wrong and would absolutely hold my hands up for being so? Really, given although I didn't mention it, nor should have had to, am accountable for terabytes of data? What on Earth is this remark based on? Why this User had to make everything bold like he was writing to a toddler who might struggle to comprehend such an &lt;em&gt;elegant&lt;/em&gt; response is also beyond me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was, also, a delightfully condescending comment by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/22932/petecon&quot;&gt;@PeteCon&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And, of course, you had signed model releases for every identifiable person in every photo? No, thought not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving aside the notion that a signed model release in this context is complete nonsense, the point here is this person's supercilious approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, there was also this doomspeak in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/31777/kaz&quot;&gt;@Kaz&lt;/a&gt;'s answer that he later changed fro being &quot;illegal&quot; to &quot;probably illegal&quot; to removing it altogether, however egged on by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/46894/richard-u&quot;&gt;@RichardU&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's also illegal. If somebody (including the company) wanted to sue you for breach of privacy, breach of confidence or violation of data-protection statutes, there would be a valid case. They could definitely fire you for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why am I even bring this to meta? Because, these are my first experiences as a new user on Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;strong&gt;strongly&lt;/strong&gt; advise anyone who reads this to read &lt;a href=&quot;https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d#.ns3k4hdl9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;. I even made the word &quot;strongly&quot; bold, so you know I mean business. But the main premise revolves around...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow hates new users&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... And...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow also hates most other users&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, replace Stack Overflow with Workplace and I'd argue it correlates nicely. Evidently this is a known problem as, during this boards election questions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How do you deal with flaring tensions between answerers and commenters with widely differing opinions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Recent discussions on meta and in chat have raised concerns about rudeness and other non-constructive behavior on The Workplace. Do you think we have a problem in this area? If so, what will you as a moderator do to address it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is evidently a problem as illustrated by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4237/how-can-i-respond-to-negativity-on-this-network&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/83417/is-keyword-bombing-your-resume-an-acceptable-practice&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. Where one users with 60k reputation is quoted as saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Look, nobody is forcing you to apply and get a job. You don't want to play by the rules, fine. Just don't whine here on this site. Nobody has time for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also been additionally recognised by moderator &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/325/monica-cellio&quot;&gt;@MonicaCellio&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have seen an increase in rudeness on this site over the last year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's difficult to find additional examples once a post has been ruthlessly sanitised by a moderator, but given the above, it's patently an issue the community is aware of and echos many criticisms highlighted in the article linked above. Whether or not it's answers or comments, I've seen on countless occasions devolution to something I'd expect to read in YouTube's comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what am I going to do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially I completely separated my workplace account with any other account I use out of concern toxicity might follow me elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also wrote to have this account removed entirely as I genuinely aren't comfortable being associated with somewhere that has the potential to be so malignant, let alone participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd strongly advise people to remember that written information doesn't come with clarity of emotion. Something written sarcastically can easily be taken literally. Unless, those who have worked in HR for so long they've lost the last remnants of humanity they once held. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T21:53:33.890" Title="The Culture at workplace.stackexchange.com" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4270" CreationDate="2017-02-01T13:05:28.763" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree with a lot of what you wrote, I view this as not at all unique to StackExchange, nor to The Workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to think that this is how most social environments end up in the long run. A vocal few tend to start replying with over-the-top polarizing comments that make the site seem unfriendly and even hostile. I've seen it happen here, and I've seen it happen in many other forums. Many people who would hesitate to do so in person feel that they can be far more bold and strident with their comments when it is somewhat anonymous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be disheartening, but I try to look at the bigger picture and decide if I'm getting enough out of The Workplace to tolerate the downside, or not. And when it becomes &quot;not&quot;, then I will leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please try to disregard some of these comments, and try not to take it personally. I believe that the vast majority of folks here don't comment at all, and just enjoy and benefit from the questions and answers. And I truly believe that vast majority of folks here are far nicer than evidenced by some of the comments you are seeing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish that the site allowed for downvoting of comments, so that we could express our distaste for some of them more directly. But it doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As an aside, your last sentence of &quot;Unless, those who have worked in HR for so long they've lost the last remnants of humanity they once held.&quot; was rather snarky, don't you think? When I read it, I though &quot;Hmm. This reads just like some of the comments that @Poet was concerned about.&quot; I don't think that was a good way for you to end an otherwise thoughtful question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2017-02-01T13:10:24.463" LastActivityDate="2017-02-01T13:10:24.463" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4270" CreationDate="2017-02-01T13:18:43.737" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;First things first: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I regret some of my original language. You're right, it went over the top and more than a little self-righteous. In principle, it's the principle of the thing that is important. In reality, context and nuance are also important considerations and some of my answer, especially the detour into legal ramifications, was out-of-context with your particular situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I apologise for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also why I modified my answer over the hour or so after posting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I'm going to stand by the current language, including the tone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I'm concerned, what you did &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; unprofessional. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for anyone else or their comments, but I like to make my answers clear, short, and to the point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also perceive them as terse, blunt, and callous. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people find that helpful, some people find it aggressive and heartless. The way I see it, I'm here to offer my advice, and it's up to the community and yourself to decide if it's useful or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, the community seems to feel that the advice is useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can offer some suggestions on better ways to phrase my point, I'd be glad to hear it, but otherwise, I'm not going to change it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the subject of making presumptions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are not mind readers. We only know what you choose to tell us in your question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, good answers need to apply to people in your &lt;em&gt;general&lt;/em&gt; situation. Which means they need to be, perhaps, a little broader than your specific circumstances, and to make certain simplifying assumptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know your history or your previous exploits, and they would only apply to you in your specific situation. Which is why my comment is more of a blanket-statement than a specially worded analysis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, if I were a general HR department, and you were a general employee, and you did something like that, I would put a mark next to your name along with &quot;Lacks discretion&quot;. Maybe that won't be the case for you, but I would expect it to be the case for &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; people in your &lt;em&gt;general&lt;/em&gt; situation, and ultimately, that's who the Q&amp;amp;As are for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31777" LastEditorUserId="31777" LastEditDate="2017-02-01T13:45:24.240" LastActivityDate="2017-02-01T13:45:24.240" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4270" CreationDate="2017-02-01T13:48:17.777" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to expand on something in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4272/16983&quot;&gt;Kaz's answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can't speak for anyone else or their comments, but I like to make my&#xA;  answers clear, short, and to the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You could also perceive them as terse, blunt, and callous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this to be especially true here at the Workplace compared to other SE sites. First, the Workplace is unique in that people are asking for advice and feedback on personal decisions they have made. Most people will not be insulted if told at Stack Overflow that the code they suggested is a very bad practice and likely to cause security issues. However, people may be insulted when told that actions they took were unprofessional and a breach of privacy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That brings me to my second point, which is because the Workplace is based around professional environments, we expect people to behave professionally. This means being able to give and take criticism without taking things personally. As Kaz mentioned, what you perceive as insulting is likely just intended to be short and to the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, when someone adds formatting to draw attention to something, it's because the idea is important. For the answer you mention, Kaz was highlighting the potential very serious repercussions of your actions. This is not just for you, but also for any other visitor who may be quickly skimming through this site. Sometimes bluntness is required to emphasize something clearly and concisely so that it will be noticed and heeded by future passersby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:40:25.820" LastActivityDate="2017-02-01T13:48:17.777" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4270" CreationDate="2017-02-01T13:51:03.377" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of things you need to realise that underpin a lot of what appears to be your problem. Let's take it from the top:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the first question I asked was immediately, without comment down-voted without explanation. Annoying, rude and unconstructive, yes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, actually&lt;/strong&gt;. Neither upvotes nor downvotes need to have any comment on Stack Exchange. It isn't rude, in fact it's a deliberate feature of the site. Some people do leave comments as explanation, and that can help, but starting off from that perception may have tainted your view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you ended up with a total of 18 upvotes and useful upvotes. Brilliant - this all works as expected. There is no problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you &quot;Dared&quot; to ask another. It's not a dare. I have had posts downvoted heavily, and upvoted; called out as useless, and praised. It's an internet question and answer site. You ask questions and some work, some don't. The problem with your next point, though, is that you are reading very inflammatory interpretation into what the top answerer wrote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they initially wrote the equivalent of, &quot;You're untrustworthy, you've broken the law, you should be fired and taken to court,&quot; they were called out on it and corrected their mistake/misunderstanding of the law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, they did write:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I worked in HR, I would be making a note somewhere never to trust you with access to anything the slightest bit sensitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which, as they have agreed, was a bit terse, but is their opinion, and in fact makes a lot of sense in some countries (where what you did could actually be a breach of regulations or the law and cause your company censure and fines.) You then bring up being responsible for terabytes of data that you successfully protect (I assume) - but this is entirely unrelated to the point they were making about breaching regulations and professional expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other person's comment about getting release forms signed is valid, but yeah, a bit snarky - I agree with you there. Would that bother me? Nope, I'd either ignore it or flag it as unconstructive and let a mod remove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then bringing an article from an external site, written by someone who has admitted he is very biased against SO, is of zero value here. I could write an article about how in my opinion SE is one of the very few networks that does feel welcoming to new users, allows (mostly) points to be made without fighting, controversy and obscenity. And while I do find SO itself tough, it is soooo huge, I do understand the issues there (I certainly would not want to be a moderator there!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also be unaware of the people who do find that SE and the Workplace specifically are excellent places to use. They tend to not shout about it - because obviously when things work well, people tend not to need to complain -You should remember you can only speak for yourself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you are absolutely doing the right thing in leaving a site you do not enjoy, but I think you should look a little wider at the issue before you go and realise how much of it is with you and your interpretation of what you see...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="647" LastEditDate="2017-02-01T14:04:41.930" LastActivityDate="2017-02-01T14:04:41.930" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4275" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-01T13:55:32.213" Score="7" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;We hear over and over and over and over again that &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2012/08/stack-exchange-is-not-a-forum-the-role-of-niceness-on-a-qa-site/&quot;&gt;StackExchange is not a forum&lt;/a&gt;, it is a Q&amp;amp;A site. At the slightest sniff of a discussion blooming, moderators chase comments with torches and pitchforks into chatrooms. However, it appears that the community subscribes to the philosophy of &quot;what good is a rule if you cannot break it once in a while&quot;, as seen from the activity on this &quot;question&quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/84127/3192&quot;&gt;Intern seems uninterested at work internship&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post keeps rambling on and on and on and on about the world's first and only unmotivated intern. The OP is so overawed by the intern's awesomeness that he forgets to ask an actual question. You would expect the question to be put on hold as unclear what you're asking in no time, but instead the community lays out a red carpet, and showers it with upvotes and comments and answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A number of users who commented and &quot;answered&quot; the &quot;question&quot; have been regular users on the site, who have cast close votes a bazillion times before, but apparently they found the post so &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/220099/202356&quot;&gt;entertaining&lt;/a&gt; that they chose to indulge in a discussion rather than cast their close vote or at least seek clarification from the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/3192/masked-man&quot;&gt;only sane voice&lt;/a&gt; that actually &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/messages/35144400/history&quot;&gt;asked the OP to clarify his question&lt;/a&gt; was not only lost in the crowd, but got caught in the crossfire as a moderator moved the comments into a chatroom. To add insult to injury, the comment, and that comment alone, was deleted from the chatroom as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Please stop encouraging poor questions.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T04:34:43.740" Title="Please avoid degenerating the site into a discussion forum" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4270" CreationDate="2017-02-01T14:28:05.183" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, calling people out by name is bad form and not constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, we are answering questions.  Some of us are blunt, some of us are more finessed.  That's just the nature of the beast.  Take the advice you like, ignore the rest.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, one of the things we say over and over again is &quot;assume good intentions&quot;.  If someone is taking the time to answer your questions, it means they are putting in an effort to help.  Accept that as axiomatic and it will be easier in general for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, It's generally a good idea not to ask questions that will put you up to personal scrutiny.  If you ask the question &quot;Was I being unprofessional&quot; or something similar, it's a guarantee that you are going to hear things that will seem like attacks because the moment someone says yes, it will seem like a personal attack.  That's not a reflection on you, it's human nature.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as to down-voting without comment.  After you get to a point in reputation, you can access the review queue.  When you are reviewing the posts in the queue, there is no option to comment.  Perhaps this should be a suggested change, but there you have it.  Also, comments are not required.  Coming into meta, as you did here is a good place to get clarification, and as you can see, you will get detailed responses to your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, Workplace is different from SO and the more technical sites at SE.  Nobody is going to take it personally when told how to optimize their code, or told that there are hidden bugs in an application, or told what the laws of physics are in World Building.  Here, the advice is by nature on a personal level and you need a bit of a thicker skin because the questions &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; of a personal nature.  People are being told that they are doing the wrong thing, or that they are being unprofessional, or that they are being rude, petty or various other things they don't want to hear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think comments are rude or not constructive, flag them.  If you need clarification, come to Meta, if you need help, we will happily provide it.  Assume good intentions because that's what people have here or they wouldn't be here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are of course exceptions, but those are handled, and handled very well by the moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-02-01T14:28:05.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4277" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-01T15:35:15.730" Score="19" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the site allows upvoting of Comments, why doesn't it allow downvoting as well? It seems only natural.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the whole point that &quot;comments aren't designed to be permanent&quot;. That's a great theory, but in practice most comments remain in place forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I understand the whole point that &quot;comments should not be answers, but should be asking for clarification of the question or answer at hand&quot;. Again, that's not really what is happening here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting of comments would provide symmetry for the upvotes if nothing else. And it would provide an obvious way to publicly disagree with the content or tone of comments when deserved. Flagging doesn't really accomplish that, and just leaves it to the moderators to decide to clean up the mess, or not. Adding more comments about comments could do the same, but it would add a lot of clutter (remember &quot;Our Comment Problem&quot;) and wouldn't provide anonymity. And it would provide for a more community-responsive ordering of comment visibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all it seems to me like a no-brainer feature - all upside with no downside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what do you think of such a feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2017-02-01T16:01:14.137" LastActivityDate="2019-01-09T07:15:25.703" Title="Why aren't Comment downvotes supported?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4278" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4279" CreationDate="2017-02-01T19:30:38.670" Score="19" ViewCount="641" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not regular user on this Q&amp;amp;A, but I decided it can't hurt if I just leave this thought of mine here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this about is that I've seen several repetitive questions, most of which I've seen thanks to the Hot panel, which involved over-thinking and over-escalating really petty conflicts. I've actually been exactly through some of the described situations but didn't consider them a big deal, just resolved them through dialogue or simply ignoring the issue as too minor to care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand other people have different limits but aside of being too petty, however those questions are also quite repetitive as far as the answers are considered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(top answers, by votes) Contact the manager and he will remove source of conflict rather than resolving it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave it be. If you can't contact the manager&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(bad answers, by my opinion) Use some passive-aggressive strategy to fight back against whatever displeases you. Actually &lt;em&gt;passive&lt;/em&gt; is optional.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think those questions derail the focus of this site on serious workplace issues. And in comment threads, it sometimes seems that OP's primary motive was sympathy with his situation, not a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't want to include examples, but as I see the question is now quite vague. I can't find all the questions that made me feel like this, but those two very recent closely describe what I'm talking about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/84098/45619&quot;&gt;New coworker puts on disturbing shows and music on the store TV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/84207/45619&quot;&gt;Coworker has a borderline-NSFW ringtone that is disturbing. How can I get him to change it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now because I'm not experienced user here, I'm rather trying to spark some discussion on this topic than propose a solution. Maybe I'm the one over-thinking, I'll appreciate any input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45619" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T12:28:57.230" Title="I'm kinda disturbed by all the petty conflict questions" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4278" CreationDate="2017-02-01T20:43:45.300" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder how much of this could be addressed by a good canonical question.  Ideally such a question should address interpersonal differences with peers, superiors, and other coworkers, and should address the general category of &quot;this person is doing this thing that annoys me a lot&quot;.  If we had one such question we could mark more-specific cases as duplicates of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A next step on this path would be for somebody (other than me :-) ) to look at a representative sample of the existing questions, figure out what commonalities could be addressed this way, and start to outline a canonical Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-02-01T20:43:45.300" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4278" CreationDate="2017-02-01T21:53:27.873" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not everyone has the same interpersonal and communication skills.  Sometimes its a culture clash because the people come from different backgrounds.  Sometimes its just because they do not know how to deal with a problem and they realize they need help with figuring out the right tactic for going forward.  We should not be judging questions based on how easy we think it would be to solve a problem.  If you do not like a question then down vote it.  If you think it doesn't meet requirements for the site then flag or vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-02-01T21:53:27.873" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4278" CreationDate="2017-02-02T00:01:10.617" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm reminded of the quote from Tolstoy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly we can place these types of questions into a broad category, but when you look at them individually, they fall across a wide possible spectrum of actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these situations might require no response, immediate action, or something nuanced in between, but my guess is it would be difficult to categorize these in any meaningful way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4781" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T00:01:10.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4278" CreationDate="2017-02-02T04:10:43.797" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;99% of the problems in the world would be solved if only people would talk openly and truly try to understand each other. Since that doesn't happen as frequently as it should, we will continue having such &quot;petty&quot; issues. The Workplace is a fairly miniscule portion of the world, but it illustrates the same problems as the world at large.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next time you come across a &quot;petty&quot; issue, see if &quot;talk to each other and try to understand the other person&quot; would be a viable solution. It sounds easy enough, but people make it impossible to put into practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T04:10:43.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4278" CreationDate="2017-02-02T12:28:57.230" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of workplace problems ARE petty ones when viewed from a third perspective. But they can be life changing for the actual people involved. A lot if not most conflicts don't need to happen, people escalate them through stubbornness and pride before they think about a simple solution. Or before they realise that if they can change their viewpoint just a bit, the problem totally disappears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in my opinion anyway each question is important to someone, that someone doesn't have to be me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T12:28:57.230" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4284" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-02T14:09:46.663" Score="4" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;at-the-office story blogs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/4284&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:40:25.820" LastActivityDate="2020-12-30T03:25:36.683" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2017" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4284" CreationDate="2017-02-02T14:09:46.663" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/StackWorkplace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DGvra.png&quot; alt=&quot;Help this community grow -- follow us on twitter!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T14:09:46.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4267" CreationDate="2017-02-02T15:55:44.427" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rory&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/4#post-84299&quot;&gt;Nomination&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You notice a question that is likely not something that we can constructively deal with. It is also a popular hot button topic and in the first few minutes attracts a few up-votes and answers that are of questionable value. As the day progresses the comment discussion starts piling up under both the question and the answers. What if any action do you take? At what point do you feel it is your duty to step in and stop the spectacle? Do you wait for flags to take action or do you step in preemptively?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flags will be an indicator, especially somewhere like Workplace, but I won't necessarily wait for flags. If comments start piling up, I'm happy to move them to chat, or delete ones that are at the more offensive end. Also happy to provide guidance in comments, protect the question, and yes, even to delete answer posts if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do you deal with flaring tensions between answerers and commenters with widely differing opinions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly to the above point. Starting with guidance, then moving to chat, locking posts, then timeouts/suspensions as needed. The tools we have as mods are pretty good in this respect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recent discussions on meta and in chat have raised concerns about rudeness and other non-constructive behavior on The Workplace. Do you think we have a problem in this area? If so, what will you as a moderator do to address it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there is a small problem, yes, but nowhere near as big as the occasional loud voice would have you believe. A solution I have used elsewhere, and one that I think could work here, is to rapidly clamp down on rudeness, no matter whether it is from a newbie or an old hand - deleting rudeness from comments or posts, or even deleting the entire thing along with a message explaining why, so the poster can resubmit it in a more polite form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This site periodically gets high traffic questions (via Hot Network Questions) that straddle the border between controversial and trolling. Both when it's not clear if the poster was intending to troll; and in cases where they were but a legitimate question is tangled in the mess. How do you think they should be handled?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases it doesn't matter if the original intent was a troll, as long as the question generates good answers. If it needs editing to improve, then that's but if it gains controversy, see my answer above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;With respect to reopened questions that again attract close votes. What do you feel the moderator's role is in questions where the community are divided whether they are on topic?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two aspects of this: if there is solid community guidance (either standard SE guidelines, or specifics that have been hammered out in meta) then it's simple. Take action and refer people to meta for disagreement. If there is no defined line, protecting the question and suggesting meta for discussion is usually my next step.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is something new and/or unique that you can bring to the moderator team and/or to the site? (e.g. active at unusual times, familiarity with a certain topic, past applicable work experience, extreme love of waffles, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I moderate more sites than your average bear. This does help me bring an awareness of the different mod approaches and how they apply to different sites - because my sites really do have a wide range!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What do you think the key traits of a moderator are, and how have you demonstrated them thus far in your activity on the site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fairness, a level head, mediator skills, insomnia, a combined soft approach with a mod hammer as needed. I have demonstrated this elsewhere for a while, and you can probably see some of these actions here in chat, in answers and comments etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is one thing about The Workplace &quot;culture&quot; that you want to change or improve? As a moderator, how would you go about doing it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the &quot;challenges&quot; here is similar to one I have encountered on a couple of the sites I moderate: there will be people who will not read the guidance and post terrible, unanswerable or duplicate questions. Encouraging positive guidance to new visitors, while rapidly putting bad questions on hold is essential to prevent them attracting answers etc., while also encouraging those new folks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a Moderator what would you do differently, that you haven't seen other Moderators do so far?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know of &quot;differently&quot; - the existing mods are excellent. I think all I bring is more, and perhaps a wider experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have handled this scenario a couple of times. If they cause issues with the community, then that can outweigh the good answers. So guidance first in comments, then privately with stronger messages, then suspension as needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;11&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another moderator closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is simple. Discussion. In general these can be talked out, and it's happened to all mods at some time. You tak about it to understand why, and act accordingly. If you can't agree, you can take it to an independent moderator, or even a CM. Or alternatively, just leave it and see what the community thinks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T15:55:44.427" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4284" CreationDate="2017-02-02T18:56:29.183" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/20323/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x9tUK.png&quot; alt=&quot;First job? We can help!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T18:56:29.183" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4290" CreationDate="2017-02-03T20:16:14.293" Score="7" ViewCount="424" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm all for using formatting and styles such as bold text to create sections and/or emphasis for certain things. However, occasionally I'll come across answers such as the top voted answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/84376/is-the-perception-of-working-late-different-to-that-of-coming-in-early&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; which begin with the largest bold font.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine people who do this are doing it with good intentions, they are summarizing and emphasizing a simple response and then going into detail below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The particular issue I have is that it immediately pulls my attention to it, I read it and find no reason why that sentence needed to be both bold and larger font. In some way it seems like a way to pull people's attention away from other potentially good answers similar to how advertisers sometimes come off as if their message is extremely important when in fact it is no more important than anyone else's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like if taken further people could start surrounding the first sentence with bold double asterisks and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time deciding whether a question needs an edit is pretty black and white, however in this case I think it may be subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In this case should questions like this be edited to remove their over exaggerated formatting?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32285" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T23:44:46.623" Title="Starting off an answer with large, bold font" Tags="|discussion|formatting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4288" CreationDate="2017-02-03T21:07:27.080" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, and doing so is grounds to reject the edit as it both alters the poster's intent and adds nothing to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2017-02-03T21:14:45.927" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T21:14:45.927" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4288" CreationDate="2017-02-03T21:25:02.623" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, you should leave it as is.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you said yourself, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;they are summarizing and emphasizing a simple response and then going&#xA;  into detail below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did this above on this answer not to be snarky, but to serve as an example. Not everyone wants to, or necessarily needs to, read the entire post. Especially for people who are just skimming through the site, the bold one-liner serves to catch the eye and emphasize and important point. Additionally, if I see the one-liner for the top-voted answer matches what I expected, I'm not going to bother reading the whole thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also agree with Richard U's point, removing the formatting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;both alters the poster's intent and adds nothing to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes adding a bolded sentence in a long dense answer is helpful, but sometimes its helpful to remove formatting if every other line is formatted or colored, but a single one-liner is almost never a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T21:25:02.623" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4288" CreationDate="2017-02-03T23:44:46.623" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In this case should questions like this be edited to remove their over&#xA;  exaggerated formatting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Certainly.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone who has editing permissions and thinks that the formatting is improper or could be improved should feel free to edit the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why editing is given to so many - for improving questions and answers. If changing the formatting makes it better, go for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T23:44:46.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4270" CreationDate="2017-02-04T09:06:40.503" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bluntness and even moderate rudeness are also tools, it's one way of trying to kickstart a change of viewpoint of a problem in the OP by giving them something to think about and a different perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carrying on the rudeness after having made the point is bad form though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2017-02-04T09:06:40.503" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4293" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-06T13:39:04.017" Score="6" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any hard and fast rule on which, or which combination are appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a situation where a down-vote does not warrant a close vote (if you have the required rep)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a situation where a close vote does not warrant a down-vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When voting to close, should we be mindful to include a comment beyond the VTC reason?  I know that we're not required to, but does it help at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In short, is there any sorting algorithm of reacting to bad posts?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2017-02-07T15:59:37.927" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T21:21:36.480" Title="VTC, Downvote, or both?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4293" CreationDate="2017-02-06T15:31:59.003" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;My internal sorting hat judges everything on a Q by Q basis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An off topic question is not necessarily a bad question. It could be something that we simply can't answer here (because it's company specific or because it's purely opinion based.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes there are just stupid questions that are on topic. Trolling (or suspected trolling) falls in that category. In that case I downvote it but leave it open.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes they're both and in those cases, they get both. A rant without a question may fit in this category. A rant without a question that is ranting about something that in my admittedly personal opinion is a stupid thing to rant about (ex. &quot;I don't like my coworkers perfume that doesn't make me sick but how to I get her to change?&quot;) would likely get both.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the things that it's not just important, but &lt;strong&gt;crucial&lt;/strong&gt; to remember is that our opinions of the question should be kept separate from whether the question is on topic or not. There are tons of questions that I think are ridiculous but on-topic. So I exercise my right as a community member to express my opinion through a vote, but I exercise &lt;strong&gt;my responsibility&lt;/strong&gt; as one with some mod tools to not close it, because as stupid as the question may seem to me personally, if something is on topic, it deserves to stay open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last I checked there's no &quot;I think it's stupid&quot; reason on the close box. :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastActivityDate="2017-02-06T15:31:59.003" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4293" CreationDate="2017-02-06T17:08:00.693" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;is there any sorting algorithm of reacting to bad posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, there is no algorithm. I think every question should be considered on its own merits and not in a mechanized manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to downvote questions that don't show any research effort. &#xA;I tend to comment on questions that are unclear.&#xA;I tend to downvote questions that are not useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't vote to close too often, since I think The Workplace does far too much &quot;closing&quot;. But when I do vote to close, it's usually when I think the questioner isn't even trying to show research, be clear, and be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I think the questioner is trying hard, but not quite getting to the level of &quot;good question&quot; I try to help via commenting and editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When voting to close, should we be mindful to include a comment beyond&#xA;  the VTC reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not necessary to explain every upvote, every downvote, every comment, every edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The gamification of the site doesn't require explanations for everything. And the hover text of the arrows is often sufficient explanation anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2017-02-06T17:08:00.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4296" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4297" CreationDate="2017-02-06T20:15:37.920" Score="6" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/4?tab=primary&quot;&gt;primary phase&lt;/a&gt;, all three nominees received 0 votes and 0 questions about their candidacies (although &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/4?tab=nomination&quot;&gt;there were&lt;/a&gt; some comments during the nomination phase).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it mean the primary failed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a very active user of this site, I realize that my preference may be inaccurate. In such cases I usually try to consider other people's voices on the topic discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What other sources of information an average user like myself can use in order to make a good choice during the moderator election? Or if I can't make a choice, does this mean I would better refrain from casting my vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2145" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2017-02-06T20:37:55.803" Title="Is anything wrong with the primaries?" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4296" CreationDate="2017-02-06T20:37:55.803" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Primary is only needed with &gt; 10 candidates. As you said, there are 3. The end result of a primary is 10 candidates so a primary is moot here which is why we go straight to the election phase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastActivityDate="2017-02-06T20:37:55.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4298" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-07T03:46:56.050" Score="4" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed a layout bug on the election screen. My choices overlap the edge of the text and blue background with the profile information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ES84C.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ES84C.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screen shot showing the problem&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see the &quot;a&quot; is clipped by my second choice and my third choice slightly overlaps the blue background with the profile information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using Firefox 51.0.1 on a Windows 10 machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43977" LastEditorUserId="1513" LastEditDate="2017-02-08T09:46:09.573" LastActivityDate="2017-02-08T09:46:09.573" Title="Layout bug with election" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4299" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-07T18:43:00.900" Score="4" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a recent question someone both VTC (vote to close) based on &quot;require a goal we can address&quot; and answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That seems inconsistent to me.  Is it proper to both VTC and answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26028" LastEditorUserId="26028" LastEditDate="2017-02-07T22:15:56.087" LastActivityDate="2018-04-24T20:04:02.380" Title="Both VTC and Answer" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4299" CreationDate="2017-02-07T19:21:49.100" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't feel strongly about this but I feel it is improper for both VTC and answer.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One it is inconsistent and two you answer but then vote to deny others the option to answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26028" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T19:21:49.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4299" CreationDate="2017-02-07T21:13:07.940" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it depends a lot on the specific question. There is a balance between trying to help (which is why we are here, right?) and trying to keep the site helpful (which is why other people come here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We close/remove bad questions, because we want to keep the site true to its goal of being a good resource for people with certain issues. More clutter and more vague questions means it becomes less effective in giving you the information you need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, we answer questions because someone has an actual problem that they want solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, we both realize that the question does not really belong here &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; that we can answer it easily and help out the OP. In such cases, it's possible to both VTC and answer it. It helps the asker with his issue, and flags the question for being improper for the site as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38458" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T21:13:07.940" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4293" CreationDate="2017-02-07T21:21:36.480" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've actually even combined upvote + vtc on some question. They measure two different things in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting on the question is about the quality of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I upvote questions that are clear, contain all the required details, have the right tags and show that the asker has taken the time to think about their question and what we might need to answer it. Even if the question turns out to be off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I downvote questions that are unclear, contain too few or irrelevant details, have terrible spelling/grammar (of the &quot;didn't proofread&quot; kind, not the &quot;bad at English&quot; kind) or otherwise show that the asker has &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; taken the time to think about their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting to close is about whether the question is a good fit for this site's goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote to close questions that either need some work to be answerable or are not a good fit for the site. Those of the first kind hopefully will get the needed work and be reopened, while the latter probably will be removed later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in both cases, even when the question is closed, I feel that a user who put in effort to help us help them by investing the effort to make a good question deserves an upvote for it. In the end, we want users to post good questions and that means teaching them what a good question looks like &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; where to post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38458" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T21:21:36.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4299" CreationDate="2017-02-07T21:34:18.633" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closing an answer effectively just prevents it from taking up more time from the users on questions that are a bad fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user who is already on the question might as well offer a short solution if they can, but at the same time, the right thing to do is to VTC a question that doesn't fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T21:34:18.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4299" CreationDate="2017-02-07T21:44:39.597" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't recall ever having done so, but should the issue ever arise, I could see doing so if I felt that I could help the person, but still feel it doesn't fit the requirements on the board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, for example, someone is lost and needs some guidance on what would clearly fall under &quot;advice on what to do&quot;.  I might still impart some advice before doing a VTC.  The user will get to see the advice, and use it, but it won't clutter the board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we do need to maintain standards, I assume that the primary reason most of us are here is to be of service to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T21:44:39.597" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4277" CreationDate="2017-02-07T23:24:10.000" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;in practice most comments remain in place forever.&quot; That hasn't been my experience :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It not just because they aren't meant to be permanent, it's because the site currently views them as having very low value. Indeed, they will be hidden by default once a post receives enough comments so they are effectively &quot;downvoted&quot; by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comment upvotes are there to allow the rare useful comment to rise above the flood and prevent them from being hidden by the &quot;Show more comments&quot; thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T23:24:10.000" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4212" CreationDate="2017-02-07T23:29:57.563" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the current top answers get it's right, some humor in questions and answers (limited to one sentence probably) is good and lightens the mood, opening people up a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's fine, but humor in comments is only ever likely to start a chain of off-topic jokes. Even if they are funny, those only makes more work for the reader or the moderators, so I say keep comments dry!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T23:29:57.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4299" CreationDate="2017-02-08T06:04:16.240" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question was triggered due to the activity on this question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/84599/3192&quot;&gt;How to negotiate salary with an extremely unprofessional in-house recruiter?&lt;/a&gt;) as I can infer from your comments there. The &quot;someone&quot; you are referring to is me since I have both &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/84602/3192&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/84599/revisions&quot;&gt;voted to close&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;The close vote was a honest mistake, no malicious intentions here.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will explain what happened &lt;em&gt;in this specific case&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I upvoted the question, because I thought it was a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; question. (I cut the OP some slack for the somewhat rantish tone.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I answered the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/35279061#35279061&quot;&gt;shared the question in chat&lt;/a&gt;, predicting (correctly) that it would make it to HNQ. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/35280042#35280042&quot;&gt;discussed the question in chat&lt;/a&gt; for a bit. The comment clearly suggests that I was (somewhat) defending the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I revisited the question, and found 2 close votes. I got curious to know what close reason people have voted on. I expected the close votes to be on &quot;duplicate&quot;, but was instead surprised to see them on &quot;off topic&quot;. Surprised at this, I entered the off-topic submenu.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For some reason I cannot recall, I decided to re-read the meta post concerning &quot;require a goal we can address&quot;. I mistakenly touched the radio button instead of the link, and hit the 'Enter' key before I realized my mistake.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At exactly this moment, I got distracted by someone who needed my attention at home. I did not realize the accidental close vote I had cast.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I revisited the question after dealing with the distraction, and edited to remove the meta-information by the author, still oblivious to the close vote I had cast. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I went to bed immediately afterwards.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the general case, though, I would certainly find it a bit strange to answer a question and also say that we need a goal to address (regardless of the order of those actions). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the real issue here is &lt;em&gt;the system allows it&lt;/em&gt;, and some people have bent over backwards to absurd extents to defend similar strange features, as seen in the answers to &lt;em&gt;my own&lt;/em&gt; question here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/289181/202356&quot;&gt;Why can I vote to both reopen and delete a question at the same time?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-02-08T06:04:16.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4309" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-10T15:44:15.497" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;In regards to the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/84822/why-is-your-corporate-mentorship-program-successful&quot;&gt;&quot;Why is your corporate mentorship program successful?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, the author seems to be receptive to feedback and wants to try to make their question on-topic. I'd love to get this reopened for them, but I'm not sure how to improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone else see a way to improve this question so it can be reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.363" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T16:48:03.767" Title="&quot;Why is your corporate mentorship program successful?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4310" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-12T22:10:16.893" Score="33" ViewCount="1237" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/84746/ive-killed-my-colleagues-characters-during-rpg-session-now-they-wont-talk-to&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;ve killed my colleagues&amp;#39; characters during RPG session, now they won&amp;#39;t talk to me&lt;/a&gt; is closed with the following notice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Questions require a goal that we can address. Rather than explaining the difficulties of your situation, explain what you want to do to make it better. For more information, see this meta post.&quot; – Aaron Hall, gnat, Jim G., Masked Man, Rory Alsop&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a quote from the end of the question (in bold, even):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My question is: What would be the best way to repair my work relations with my colleagues after such incident?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is that not &quot;a goal that we can address&quot;?  A &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of our questions are about work relations with colleagues.  This is another one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-02-19T00:26:25.010" Title="Why is the RPG question closed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4284" CreationDate="2017-02-12T22:22:04.910" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/inhsD.png&quot; alt=&quot;Writers.SE&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7560" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:22.977" LastActivityDate="2017-02-12T22:22:04.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4310" CreationDate="2017-02-13T03:03:05.707" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note: I am one of the close voters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My guess is that they are trying to &quot;punish&quot; me for doing what I did, however I find it childish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was the deal breaker for me. The OP's question, taken in context of the complete description, now sounds like, &quot;Those guys are behaving like kids. I expected things to be normal, but why are they treating me like an outcast? Aaaargh! Oh anyway, I just remembered they are my colleagues, how can I mend my relations with them? But I shouldn't have to do this in the first place, I have not done anything seriously bad. They are behaving childishly, they can just reload the game. Why are they overreacting to what I did in the game? Aaaaargh!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions require a goal &lt;em&gt;we&lt;/em&gt; can address. A sentence in bold tacked on to the end of a rant does not automatically make it a goal we can address. The OP's goal here seems to be to mend his relations without getting off his high horse, which we cannot do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A sincere apology stating, &quot;Sorry folks, I ruined your fun yesterday. Sorry for getting carried away.&quot; should usually suffice, but OP is reluctant to admit his mistake and looking for the best way to issue a non-apology apology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T03:03:05.707" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4310" CreationDate="2017-02-13T13:38:50.693" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the close.  It probably should be edited a bit, but even as it stands, it's a good example of a bad example of employee conduct.  This is the modern day equivalent of the old story of getting together with colleagues after work, getting drunk and making a fool of oneself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though it's a bit on the ranty side, I think it demonstrates a real workplace issue in general:  Ruining business relationships in after hours activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T13:38:50.693" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4315" CreationDate="2017-02-13T14:51:14.427" Score="19" ViewCount="665" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, I'm going to say that I'm not going to advocate being a jerk towards anyone.  There is never a cause to be rude or abusive in our responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we obviously shouldn't be rude or abusive, I don't think we should walk on eggshells either.  Sometimes a topic is about bad behavior on the part of querent.  Any question starting with &quot;Was I unprofessional when I...&quot; is going to have answers that are a resounding &quot;Yes&quot; as at least one answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is engaging in self-destructive behavior, such as in case:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/84746/ive-killed-my-colleagues-characters-during-rpg-session-now-they-wont-talk-to&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;ve killed my colleagues&amp;#39; characters during RPG session, now they won&amp;#39;t talk to me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or if the OP was just asking a question on how to engage in bad behavior such as in this case:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/63205/how-can-i-deal-with-troublesome-professional-engineer&quot;&gt;How can I deal with troublesome Professional Engineer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, both of these cases, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Querent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;querents&lt;/a&gt; simply acted badly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so, I was wondering:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How careful do we need to be to avoid making a poster feel bad when a querent is asking about their own bad behavior?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2018-02-15T23:21:22.330" Title="Truth vs sparing people's feelings" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4314" CreationDate="2017-02-13T16:22:34.440" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Address the actions, not the person. Address the attitude, not the person. Do whatever you can to address everything &lt;strong&gt;except&lt;/strong&gt; the person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line is that the person may be stupid (by your own definition) but he's still worthy of respect and I think that's the key. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of it is word choice. &quot;ill-advised&quot; versus &quot;dumb&quot; decisions and so forth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, address the behavior and treat it as though it's a hypothetical exercise insofar as is possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To directly answer your question, I think we do need to be careful to avoid making them feel bad, very careful. And I think the tactic to use is to address actions and not the person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We want the person to feel free to come back and ask more questions without feeling like he wandered into a room of insufferable know-it-alls who can't wait to level an attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-02-15T23:21:22.330" LastActivityDate="2018-02-15T23:21:22.330" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4309" CreationDate="2017-02-13T16:48:03.767" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Change the question to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are creating a corporate mentorship program:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have concerns about these issues: ... &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;We want to achieve these things: ...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;We have the ability to offer these incentives: ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we best implement this program?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T16:48:03.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3456" CreationDate="2017-02-13T18:06:08.807" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;thanks for raising this issue! And sorry it took so long to update. &lt;strong&gt;I've updated the site's CSS to account for &lt;code&gt;:visited&lt;/code&gt; links to appear visually different from both body text and non-&lt;code&gt;:visited&lt;/code&gt; links.&lt;/strong&gt; It should not resemble something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VHYwa.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VHYwa.png&quot; alt=&quot;visited links appear in a fainter blue&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updated&lt;/strong&gt; based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3456/please-change-the-visited-link-color/4317?noredirect=1#comment11616_4317&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jEjId.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jEjId.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accessibility is always on our mind, so if anyone has trouble seeing or reading a &lt;code&gt;:visited&lt;/code&gt; link, please comment here or open a new discussion. Thanks again for reporting this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64476" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T21:50:21.853" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4314" CreationDate="2017-02-13T18:43:56.977" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Valid points. On the other hand, sometimes you need to use a big hammer to drive home the idea that an apology really is called for because it matters to the other person, whether or not you think it should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is also one reason we encourage people to keep questions short and to the point rather than posting the back story in depth. If this question had been simply focused on how to apologise to co-workers after badly embarrassing yourself in an after-hours game, that would have gotten a less emphatic set of answers. If it had been &quot;how do I apologise for being an over-enthusiastic newbie and killing a bunch of player characters&quot;, we would have directed it to a gaming discussion (where the answers would probably have been emphatic, but would go into more depth about why this was a mistake and how to be a better player). Combining the two, and posing a long enough question that it sounded like it was looking for justification, was not the best move in &lt;em&gt;our&lt;/em&gt; playing field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastEditorUserId="12989" LastEditDate="2017-02-14T03:05:43.033" LastActivityDate="2017-02-14T03:05:43.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4319" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-13T19:37:41.137" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/84952/shareholder-bullies-and-doesnt-like-me-how-to-deal-with-this&quot;&gt;Shareholder bullies and doesn&amp;#39;t like me. How to deal with this?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been edited several times and is asking how to address behavior, which IMO, is a goal we can address, as opposed to the close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2017-02-16T19:49:05.237" Title="Can we reopen question &quot; Shareholder bullies and doesn't like me. How to deal with this?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4275" CreationDate="2017-02-13T21:56:33.477" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good point, ok I will undertake not to engage in discussions from this point on unless I see a need or feel like it, because lets face it, it's the internet. I can do whatever I want as whimsy takes me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's the moderators role to keep things within bounds, not mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T21:56:33.477" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4314" CreationDate="2017-02-13T22:12:31.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being intentionally rude or abusive is bad. But quite often I see innocuous enough answers twisted until they are seen to be rude by some, probably for a bit of drama.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Truth and rudeness are not mutually inclusive in any case. It's just a matter of wording and perception. However clarity can suffer when one tries to be overly PC about things, so there is a fine balance which will never be achieved given the diversity of people here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I make an attempt to omit rudeness on everyone's terms. But at the end of the day I'll straight out say what I want for the sake of clarity if I can't find a better way without jumping around the point too much. I communicate in more than one language, my English is reasonable, but in other languages if someone didn't come straight out and clearly state what they're on about, I could get a totally different idea of their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when I answer I keep that in mind because where I live now it's a necessary way of communicating since my poor English is a lot better than the people around me most of the time. And I appreciate it when I'm using languages I'm less conversant in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T22:12:31.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4314" CreationDate="2017-02-14T10:35:34.507" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How careful do we need to be to avoid making a poster feel bad when a&#xA;  querent is asking about their own bad behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd argue not at all. If someone did something inordinately self destructive, they absolutely need to know how serious it is. In the second question, it was very necessary to shock the OP out of her view that she could conjure a way to get the P.Eng. fired with no severance. There really isn't a nice or feel-good way to say &quot;Your company messed up hard and it'll cost you dearly one way or the other&quot;. Same for the first question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some asessments, conveyed honestly and in the most polite way, are still scathing and will make people feel bad. There really isn't anything we can do to negate that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should be as polite and friendly as possible, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastActivityDate="2017-02-14T10:35:34.507" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-14T20:04:07.137" Score="26" ViewCount="393" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/4&quot;&gt;fourth moderator election&lt;/a&gt; has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/25739&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/25739.png&quot; alt=&quot;Lilienthal&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He'll be joining &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the existing crew&lt;/a&gt; shortly — please thank him for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with him as he learns the ropes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/4&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opavote.org/results/6738938668515328/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;view a summary report online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9899" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T01:43:34.717" Title="2017 Community Moderator Election Results" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4323" CreationDate="2017-02-14T20:40:13.833" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations Lilienthal! Much deserved!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2017-02-14T20:40:13.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4323" CreationDate="2017-02-14T21:33:31.633" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congrats! Well done, Lilienthal!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2017-02-14T21:33:31.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4323" CreationDate="2017-02-15T00:27:26.983" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations Lilienthal, and well done everyone!!  All the candidates were of a high quality and any one of them would have made an excellent addition to the moderator team.  Lilienthal is a trusted and effective member of the community, and I feel he will be a great asset to the community in his new role of Workplace Moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations again, and welcome to the Moderator team! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T00:27:26.983" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4323" CreationDate="2017-02-15T03:41:41.400" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations, Lilienthal. You have made The Workplace a much better place already, and I am sure you will continue to contribute even more with the well-deserved diamond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T03:41:41.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4275" CreationDate="2017-02-15T04:34:43.740" Score="-2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The OP is so overawed by the intern's awesomeness that he forgets to ask an actual question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's kind of implied that he's asking how he might reform the intern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You would expect the question to be put on hold as unclear what you're asking in no time, but instead the community lays out a red carpet, and showers it with upvotes and comments and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, we're all here to earn reputation right? Let those counters go up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A number of users [...] found the post so &lt;em&gt;entertaining&lt;/em&gt; that they chose to indulge in a discussion [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's wrong with entertainment? $DEITY forbid anyone should have fun on the web's most &quot;serious&quot; Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only sane voice [...] got caught in the crossfire as a moderator moved the comments into a chatroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why don't you just put out an APB to the moderators to the effect that they shouldn't indiscriminately move comments to chat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58496" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T04:34:43.740" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4323" CreationDate="2017-02-15T07:21:48.977" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations, good to see someone rewarded for solid work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T07:21:48.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4323" CreationDate="2017-02-15T09:27:14.797" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congrats. Best of luck with your new responsibilities and awesome powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38458" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T09:27:14.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4323" CreationDate="2017-02-15T17:18:11.023" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Obligatory Congratulations Comment)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58733" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T17:18:11.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4332" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-15T17:47:52.133" Score="15" ViewCount="344" Body="&lt;p&gt;Variants of &quot;have I got this job?&quot; come up about twice a day, to which the answer is almost invariably, &quot;if you don't have anything in writing, you don't have an offer, keep looking for other jobs&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would help to have a canonical question to cover this, so new questions can be marked as duplicate, saving people from answering unnecessarily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I discovered two commonly used &quot;duplicate candidates&quot; which have some overlap with the scenario, but they do not cover it entirely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/111/3192&quot;&gt;How do I coordinate the process of pursuing multiple job opportunities at the same time?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/6018/3192&quot;&gt;How do I properly follow-up with a hiring manager, to check on the status of a position?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the community also see the need to have such a canonical question? &#xA;Is there already such a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="4675" LastEditDate="2019-10-22T19:42:29.957" LastActivityDate="2019-10-22T19:42:29.957" Title="&quot;Have I got this job&quot; is a common question. Do/should we have a canonical question for this?" Tags="|discussion|questions|duplicates|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4319" CreationDate="2017-02-16T19:49:05.237" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question still boils down to:  My situation sucks doesn't it. I think it is too broad to deal with here in any form.  There is no answer to how can i effectively deal with this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could answer something much more focused like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to set up a meeting with Jack to address these issues in&#xA;  [detailed specific way].  How should I go about preparing for this&#xA;  meeting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-02-16T19:49:05.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4284" CreationDate="2017-02-17T01:21:24.500" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/92736/interpersonal-skills&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/ads/proposal/92736.png&quot; alt=&quot;Support the Interpersonal Skills site proposal&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35934" LastActivityDate="2017-02-17T01:21:24.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4310" CreationDate="2017-02-17T17:31:52.700" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question really could have been a lot better and more on topic if the specifics were weeded out and the situation more generalized.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question should have been:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My colleagues invited me to participate in an after hours social activity.  We had a good time and were wrapping things up when I decided to play a mean prank thinking it would be fun.  It ended up ruining the day for them it seems and now they wont talk to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I repair the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it was not closed fast enough and no one took a second afterwords to say &quot;hey how can we make this less about what the OP did and more about the topic of the workplace of how do I fix my problem it has created?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am kind of disappointed to see how this was handled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2017-02-17T18:31:21.380" LastActivityDate="2017-02-17T18:31:21.380" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4310" CreationDate="2017-02-19T00:26:25.010" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because we close way too many questions. Well over half. Popular questions we are extremely trigger-happy with the close button because as far as I can tell there is some subset of users who closes anything interesting-looking they come across.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the blunt answer to the question. I don't know a solution but I'd certainly like to raise awareness of how unhealthy our community is in this crucial respect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user42272" LastActivityDate="2017-02-19T00:26:25.010" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4314" CreationDate="2017-02-20T22:51:11.930" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a person digs themselves into a hole. And then they post for advice how to get out of that whole. It is often essential to know how deep that hole is in order to understand answers to the question properly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being told about the depth of the hole will not make the poster feel good, but it is necessary. Strong language may help. If I have the choice: Poster is happy, doesn't get the seriousness of the situation, and will make things worse. Or poster is unhappy, thinks of me as a rude ***hole, understands the seriousness of the situations, and fixes the problem - I'll choose the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16101" LastActivityDate="2017-02-20T22:51:11.930" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4338" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-21T16:33:29.587" Score="4" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know The Workplace gets a lot of comments. And often, they get quite hot. It's not unusual for person A to ask a question, person B, C, and D to answer, and then E and F get into an extended argument under one or more of the answers. After a while A through F have all chimed in with question comments, comments on each other's answers, and so on, and at least one of the posts has a good old back-and-forth happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a while you can look at a pile of comments, all starting with an @, and realize &lt;em&gt;&quot;these are all about to go.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; Maybe to chat, or maybe just blown away. When I come to that realization, which of these things should I do, and are there others I should also do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;flag the post pointing out I think the comments have passed the useful stage&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;leave a comment telling people to settle down or all the comments are likely to be deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;copy any useful information in the comments and edit it into the post so it won't be lost (I especially do this when comments from the author of the post are clarifying or restating a position)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;model the behaviour I expect from others (I once commented &quot;I will now demonstrate disengaging&quot; to someone who couldn't stop responding and arguing.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to help these highly-commented posts or should I just shrug and watch the circus for a while?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T23:44:28.173" Title="If I can see comments are getting out of hand, what can/should I do?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4338" CreationDate="2017-02-21T17:18:40.900" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would definitely avoid telling people to settle down.  All that will do is spur a flurry of posts in response.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Copying and editing is a good strategy, but risks irking the person who posted the answer, also, if it changes the intent of the answer, it might get rejected or rolled back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's always a good idea to model good behavior, but who notices when you're silent.  I saw one person do this on a forum.  He deliberately stopped arguing with people, yet he was still lumped in with the argumentative posters, and even credited in a thread in which he did not post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best strategy IMO, is do not contribute to the circus and let the mods know about it, either through the water cooler or by flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T17:18:40.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4338" CreationDate="2017-02-21T17:28:35.560" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are a couple of more options that I use when that happens:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ignore the circus and move on to something else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I suspect that the drama will go on for a while, bring some snack quickly, sit back and enjoy while thinking, &quot;Mhhm, there are some strange people out there!&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T17:28:35.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4338" CreationDate="2017-02-21T17:41:28.893" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of comments is to enable Q&amp;amp;A. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On questions, you use comments to get further or better information with which to write an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On answers, you use comments to critique the answer, such that it can be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are not for discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chat &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; for discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ergo - if you see a discussion happening in the comments, flag the comments as too chatty - and a mod can move the comments to chat, where the discussion can remain and continue for others who want to see/participate, if they think the discussion is worthwhile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12321" LastEditorUserId="12321" LastEditDate="2017-02-21T17:48:24.360" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T17:48:24.360" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4338" CreationDate="2017-02-21T23:44:28.173" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the author of a post says something in a comment that ought to be in the post itself (e.g. in response to a question that other readers might have too), &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt; edit it into the post.  It's best to say something like &quot;added info from comments&quot; in the revision summary so later viewers know you didn't just make it up.  If the author is new, consider also leaving a message pointing out the edit and explaining that he can edit further.  &quot;[edit]&quot; is a magic link in comments and quite helpful for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing is something that anybody can do (or propose).  It's a great way to show posters that The Workplace is a community effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any time you see something that's getting out of hand, please flag.  For comments, if there are just a few comments in a pile that need attention you can flag them individually so mods can tell immediately what you're reacting to, but if you'd be flagging nearly every comment, it's usually easier to just flag the post.  It's especially helpful if you describe the problem to help us see what you're seeing -- &quot;the comments through the second one by user98765 are all obsolete&quot;, &quot;user666 and KnowItAll are having a long argument and it seems to be getting heated&quot;, &quot;I've edited the four comments from the OP into the question and everything before them is now obsolete&quot;, etc.  Be a little wary of the word &quot;all&quot;; maybe there were 13 comments when you said they were all obsolete but when we see the flag there are 24 and we have to dig into timestamps.  But don't worry so much about this that you decide not to try; these flags are evaluated by humans, not machines.  If you can make things a little easier for us that's great, but if all you can say is &quot;this thread is out of hand&quot;, please do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T23:44:28.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4343" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4345" CreationDate="2017-02-22T08:06:08.407" Score="8" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/85483/52713&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; in review and wasn't sure if I should act upon it. I couldn't find any guidelines about advertising your own product on the page for the workplace. Do we mind this kind of thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They did specifically state it's the current company that they work for, however it just feels like another form of spam to me. What do people think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do find another meta question that answers this, or a rule, please link it to me as my Google-phoo failed me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit here is the answer in question for those with less than 10k rep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In my current organization (wizergos) we do daily stand-up using a&#xA;  tool developed by us through which we solve above problem. Our team&#xA;  consists of in-house team as well as remote team. Using this tool we&#xA;  collaborate both teams by a real time collaborative screen (both in&#xA;  mobile and web) displayed to everyone. To make stand-up meetings short&#xA;  and focused on updates, team members can update their statuses from&#xA;  that screen itself. You can find more details from &lt;a href=&quot;https://wizergos.com/blog/standout-at-standups/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this blog&#xA;  regarding standup meetings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52713" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-02-27T15:58:15.507" Title="Advertising your own product" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4343" CreationDate="2017-02-22T10:16:22.753" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do we mind this kind of thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I certainly do. Most if not all of the community frowns on it as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it just feels like another form of spam to me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a form of spam, yes, though I'd be on the fence about flagging it as such. There are &lt;em&gt;serious&lt;/em&gt; consequences (more &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/58032/what-are-the-spam-and-rude-or-abusive-offensive-flags-and-how-do-they-wor&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) for users that are (perhaps incorrectly) flagged for spam so I'd reserve those for egregious cases. In this case, I've downvoted and flagged as not-an-answer since it seems designed to skirt around providing an actual solution to the problem and instead trying to get people to click the link where they may or may not find an actual answer (I didn't check the result). So given that click-bait it certainly qualifies as spam. But the user seems to be authentic and for a mis-step like this I'd downvote, flag NAA and usually leave a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what I've done in this case. My comment said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to the site Sanjog. We typically frown on these kind of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/promotion&quot;&gt;promotional posts&lt;/a&gt; that don't really answer the question and seem to just want to advertise a link. Linking to a page that has more information is fine even if it's your own commercial work (as long as you disclose that), but your answer should really be self-contained and be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-02-22T10:16:22.753" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4343" CreationDate="2017-02-22T20:40:08.327" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the post answers the question and meets the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/145583/162102&quot;&gt;requirement to disclose affiliations&lt;/a&gt;, then I don't think it's spam under SE's rules.  &quot;Answers the question&quot; is critical; most spam &quot;answers&quot; don't, and so are deletable as pure spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Merely having a link to a product, service, or blog post doesn't make a post spam; we get answers that legitimately do that.  This is the evaluation sequence I use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does the post answer the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If not, is it spam?  (Usually this is obvious.)  If so, flag as spam.  If not spam, downvote and flag NAA.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post answers the question (not necessarily well).  Does it promote a product/service/book/blog post/etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If yes, is the post clear about affiliation?  (This is my company, we're their customer, etc.)  If no, i.e. you suspect undisclosed affiliation, comment asking about it.  Say that linking to your own (company's) stuff is fine but must be disclosed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does this post pass that test on its own, but you can't help noticing that this user does that a lot?  Flag to alert a moderator; &lt;em&gt;excessive&lt;/em&gt; self-promotion is a gray area that mods might need to discuss with the user.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2017-02-22T20:40:08.327" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4343" CreationDate="2017-02-23T16:28:38.180" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;An easy rule to decide this is: if the link or the product being promoted disappears, is the answer still useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer which promotes a product, while also elaborating how it solves the problem is usually okay. An answer which posts a link to a website which describes the product is probably not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this example, it is somewhat worse because the website doesn't actually explain anything but asks you to watch a video.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-02-23T16:28:38.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4343" CreationDate="2017-02-23T20:44:58.117" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;On DBA there are few people that post their affiliation and typically excellent answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On some of the cloud providers you have system engineers working for the company and disclose so often they don't even disclose any more.  A Microsoft employee will typically have a name that starts msft.  Some of them are very good and I think some just are meeting a quota for post so many times a week.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a site like workplace it just does not come into play as often.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26028" LastActivityDate="2017-02-23T20:44:58.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4348" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-24T18:10:03.053" Score="7" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;I initially voted to close the question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/85662/how-do-i-determine-if-a-programming-task-doable-during-interview&quot;&gt;How do I determine if a programming task doable during interview?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; for being not about the workplace, but after &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/85662/how-do-i-determine-if-a-programming-task-doable-during-interview#comment246264_85662&quot;&gt;a comment from Andrew Berry&lt;/a&gt; I retracted my vote and edited the question to generalize it and make it more on-topic for the Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I've gotten a lot of pushback in comments stating why they think the programming tasks should be included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a software-industry-specific question, and your edit made the&#xA;  question more general, maybe too broad, and less answerable, IMO. How&#xA;  do I ask a good question? says &quot;Tell us what you found&quot; which suggests&#xA;  the question should include what the OP has already tried and which&#xA;  isn't working. –&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/85662/how-do-i-determine-if-a-programming-task-doable-during-interview#comment246368_85662&quot;&gt;ChrisW&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the other hand, removing the link to the test now basically&#xA;  invalidates nvoigt's answer (it makes no sense now without the context&#xA;  of the test itself). -&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/85662/how-do-i-determine-if-a-programming-task-doable-during-interview#comment246375_85662&quot;&gt;Brandin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The other answers also specifically refer to some details of the test.&#xA;  Whether including specific details is on topic or not, this collection&#xA;  of answers is now referring to stuff that doesn't exist. So it will be&#xA;  useless for future visitors. –&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/85662/how-do-i-determine-if-a-programming-task-doable-during-interview#comment246382_85662&quot;&gt;Brandin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm going to awnser this question based on the information before the&#xA;  edit, as I personally feel it was still vital to the awnser. -&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/85674/16983&quot;&gt;Migz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reasoning was that with the specific programming test included, it was a &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt; question, not a &lt;em&gt;workplace&lt;/em&gt; question.  It would also make it asking about a specific position at a specific company, which is also &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2693/custom-off-topic-close-reasons-change/2694#2694&quot;&gt;off-topic.&lt;/a&gt; All of the answers were posted &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; I made the edit. Additionally, pre-existing answers do not change whether a question should be edited to be made on-topic or not. Our help center &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;specifically states&lt;/a&gt; that you should avoid trying to answer questions that are not about the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I stand by my edit and think it should stay as is. However, I want to get other users' opinions to either back me up or tell me I'm wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-02-28T15:26:40.940" Title="Should edits to Programming Test question be rolled back?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|editing|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4348" CreationDate="2017-02-24T22:08:39.173" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I stand by my edit and think it should stay as is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with your edit, and the thinking behind it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originally it was more a &quot;please try my test and tell me how difficult it is&quot; question. Inviting review of a linked or included test is a bad precedent, in my opinion. It would be the same as &quot;please review my attached resume and help me make it better&quot;. That's not a place I'd like to see The Workplace go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-02-27T13:56:57.313" LastActivityDate="2017-02-27T13:56:57.313" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4348" CreationDate="2017-02-27T13:08:11.710" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm one of the people why posted one of the awnsers so I believe my input might be somewhat valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I felt conflicted with the edit, but i didn't think it was an unjustified edit either. Nevertheless I still thought it changed the question that the individual asked. Because of this I specifically posted a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;disclaimer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; at the start of my awnser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My awnser can certainly be used for the current question as-well. but it'd be less specific to the question's situation. Also, bits and pieced that I referd to would be less useful too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me it bottle down to a single thing. Was my awnser useful towards the person who asked the question? If yes, I've done my job in helping a fellow human being. If no, but it's still relevant towards the question. I will feel like I've failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may go against StackExchange's policy to have awnsers that can be recycled. (it still can for a large extent) But I'm here to help people. Not to cater to the website's ideology. luckilly this goes hand in hand 99% of the time. This happens to be the 1%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peronsally I believed the original question to still be on-topic but simply unluckilly worded, making it harder to get to the essense of the question. Therefor i did think an edit was needed. I just don't feel that the edit that was made did it justice. As it mainly removed a lot of technical stuff (his example). I would have liked to have that part formatted so it'd seem more as an appendix or example. Regardless, opinions differ on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were to be penalized for the awnser I made because it wassnt based on the final question. Then I'd gladly take that penalty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note. I awnsered the question before the edit, but I type so slowly due to dyslexia + english not being my main language that it took a while. So once I posted, the main question changed. Hense why I placed that disclaimer nearly instantly after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottomline : As long as my awnser helps someone and is related to the question. I see no problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47397" LastActivityDate="2017-02-27T13:08:11.710" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4351" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-27T17:22:40.497" Score="4" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently a certain question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/85829/28939&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/85829/28939&lt;/a&gt; ) had its title edited from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My coworkers saw me naked. How to handle this situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for the purpose&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;to get rid of the HNQ click bait not because I thought the question deserved more thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;specifically to remove the word &quot;naked&quot; in the hopes that it would not show up in HNQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we get some guidance on whether this is appropriate, advisable, etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-03-02T14:02:56.250" Title="Editing for the primary purpose to avoid HNQ" Tags="|discussion|editing|hot-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4351" CreationDate="2017-02-27T17:42:14.670" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my humble opinion, there are a number of problems with the intent of that edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The OP's issue was being seen naked, not using the wrong bathroom. If the OP had come out of the bathroom fully dressed when the co-workers looked at her with bemused expressions, she would have probably just said, &quot;Oops, sorry, I did not read the sign&quot;, and moved on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are several scenarios &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; involving bathrooms when a person could be inadvertently seen naked. In this situation, there happened to be a bathroom involved, but that is just an incidental detail, not the core problem. Some examples could include a change room door that accidentally opened, or the good old &quot;wardrobe malfunction&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The OP's issue is dealing with the awkwardness of working with people who have seen her naked. It has nothing to do with whether using a wrong bathroom is &quot;criminal&quot; in some corner of the world. OP does not mention that her co-workers &lt;em&gt;complained&lt;/em&gt; about it or even &lt;em&gt;commented&lt;/em&gt; on the incident, leave alone suggesting her that she might have committed a crime.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not a porn site. If people click the link on seeing the word &quot;naked&quot; in the hope of seeing pictures of naked people (as is implied by the claim of clickbaiting), they are in the wrong place. Those people most certainly know many other places where that would work!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, these are somewhat subjective interpretations of the change, but to answer the original question: changing a question purely to knock it off the HNQ should not be allowed. It is well known to everyone except SO employees that HNQ is an absolute disaster, and two wrongs don't make a right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-02-27T17:48:54.187" LastActivityDate="2017-02-27T17:48:54.187" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4351" CreationDate="2017-02-27T20:46:01.463" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The intent of the edit was not to avoid the HNQ.  It was to remove the click-bait salaciousness that many users infer from the title.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question itself was not salacious and presumably contained a real problem the OP wanted to deal with.  Bringing in a bunch of users that want to read about how her entire office saw her naked is not going to help that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2017-02-27T20:54:40.980" LastActivityDate="2017-02-27T20:54:40.980" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4351" CreationDate="2017-02-27T21:02:54.027" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edit: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/84389/filtering-hot-questions/89364#89364&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood clearly states the reason for the HNQ here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to the user's claim, that's not a good reason to edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HNQ exists for a reason (some people don't like it, but it's still here). Edits should only be used to get better answers, and I don't think avoiding HNQ really helps that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:31:52.243" LastActivityDate="2017-02-28T17:06:20.580" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4348" CreationDate="2017-02-28T04:11:54.103" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think an edit was clearly needed because like you said the bulk of the answers focused on the off topic content of the question and bypassed the on topic question. I also feel like you did the minimum edit that you could to refocus the problem to something that was on-topic. In a perfect world the OP would ask for feedback on the questions on a SE site more where it was on topic, and the people who critiqued the interview questions would delete their answers here and move them to the other SE site. I doubt that will happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel the best we can hope for is to have a mod place a mod message either on the question or below some answers saying that answers should focus on general strategies instead of reviewing the OP's specific questions. That should send a strong signal about what aspects of the question are on topic and allow us to keep the question open. From what I understand the messages are pretty easy to do, as a mod, and they feel appropriate in this context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I was one of the few that tried to focus just on broad strategies. While I don't feel that is biasing my opinion here, but I thought I should mention it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as whether the question is answerable or not I clearly feel like it is answerable, and believe that I've made a decent effort at answering the question. If anyone has feedback that would improve my answer, or feels like my answer failed to address something, I would welcome a comment on the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43977" LastEditorUserId="43977" LastEditDate="2017-02-28T04:27:23.380" LastActivityDate="2017-02-28T04:27:23.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4348" CreationDate="2017-02-28T15:20:22.800" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's another perspective. as you know the definition of off-topic things in Stackexchange is clearly defined as follows&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on &lt;strong&gt;company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies&lt;/strong&gt; should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking &lt;strong&gt;legal advice&lt;/strong&gt; should be directed to legal professionals. For more information, click &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Questions require a goal that we can address.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  Rather than explaining the difficulties of your situation, explain what you want to do to make it better. For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2696&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;  The part that was edited were fairly specific towards the company itself, it basically had the test in question included. Making it very much related to the question that was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for &lt;strong&gt;advice on what to do are not &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;practical answerable questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g. &lt;em&gt;&quot;what job should I take?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;&quot;what skills should I learn?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;). Questions should get answers explaining &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to make a decision, not advice on what to do. For more information, click &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, many have said that this part of the post would be off-topic. however,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It are NOT &lt;strong&gt;company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is NOT &lt;strong&gt;a question that address only a specific company or position&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is NOT a question &lt;strong&gt;seeking legal advice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It DID &lt;strong&gt;provide a goal that it could have adressed&lt;/strong&gt; (provide in-detail information about the test that he refered to when having an interview)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was used as reference material for the main question can't get less on-topic than that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, while the chunk of information may not have been increadibly useful, it was still part of the question in the form of reference material and in my opinion on topic. I feel like some things are seen as off-topic far too fast. Also, not all workplace questions should be devoid of programming topics. The piece of information that was provided gave us insight in the difficulty of the test as it would be impossible to measure the difficulty by saying &quot;started with easy questions first and then harder etc etc&quot;. This is why that part was an important reference to the question. &lt;strong&gt;Not for the questions themselves, but for the difficulty of the questions that it shows us&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that many of the top voted awnsers who are STILL gaining points after the edit, shows that they contain useful information. I will also say that Erik's awnser is a total viable one. Even if the edit were to have been rolled back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if there's any information I've missed or have mis-interpreted about things being off-topic, I'd very much like to hear about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I'd roll back the technical information, as in the test itself, but &lt;strong&gt;leave the edited question remain&lt;/strong&gt;. As that part of the edit DID make it more specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47397" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-02-28T15:26:40.940" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4357" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-28T16:32:07.350" Score="4" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently had a couple flags denied for these comments.  Last I knew this was considered rude and a violation of the be nice policy.  Has this changed? Should I stop flagging comments that start off -1?  Is it ok for me to start my comments with -1?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those questioning if this is &quot;Actually a thing&quot; please refer to this meta from 2012:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/355/what-is-rude-on-the-workplace&quot;&gt;What is rude on The Workplace?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2017-02-28T20:23:28.967" Title="Is starting a comment of with -1 no longer considered a violation of be nice?" Tags="|discussion|site-policy|be-nice|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4357" CreationDate="2017-02-28T18:34:04.307" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just saying &quot;-1&quot; is unnecessary: the user already knows from the notification that somebody downvoted. Votes are also deliberately anonymous, so this kind of comment does nothing except rub in the disapproval. It's not constructive, which is just as good a reason to flag comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saying &quot;-1 because Thing X and Reason Z&quot; explains why content is getting downvoted (often accounting for several downvotes, if we presume upvoting such comment reflects partially on downvoting such content), provides the user posting content a chance to inquire further, and points out the exact issue to be fixed. That is the entire point of commentary, and this kind of comment is not inherently rude unless a person thinks downvotes  or explanations of downvotes themselves are rude (which is entirely unreasonable in absence of vote abuse or separately rude/offensive comment use). We simply save a few characters and seconds by typing &quot;-1: ...&quot; instead of &quot;I'm downvoting this because ...&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it would be rude without saying &quot;-1&quot; then it's rude. Flag it.&#xA;If it just says &quot;-1&quot; then it's not constructive. Flag it.&#xA;If it explains the reason for some downvotes, then it's useful, whether or not the user posting content agrees with the reason. Let it be - unless it starts a flamewar, in which case the usual process applies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user53718" LastActivityDate="2017-02-28T18:34:04.307" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4357" CreationDate="2017-02-28T18:38:37.993" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;So do you also consider &quot;&lt;em&gt;I downvoted because [reasons]&lt;/em&gt;&quot; to be rude? What about &quot;&lt;em&gt;I disagree that [x] because [y]&lt;/em&gt;&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As far as I know starting a comment with &quot;&lt;em&gt;-1&lt;/em&gt;&quot; has &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; been a violation of the Be Nice policy&lt;/strong&gt; nor is it common to consider a comment rude just because it includes a reference to a downvote. I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; often see people becoming annoyed over downvotes that are left unexplained, which wouldn't make much sense if they fell under a remove-on-sight policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a myriad of ways for comments to be rude or non-constructive, from the subtle to the obscene, but simply including &quot;-1&quot; does not in and of itself make a comment rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2017-02-28T18:38:37.993" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4357" CreationDate="2017-02-28T20:23:28.967" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like you already raised the point about &quot;Last I knew this was considered rude and a violation of the be nice policy.&quot; in  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/355/what-is-rude-on-the-workplace/359#359&quot;&gt;What is rude on The Workplace?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't the voting of that answer and the comments that followed indicate that it &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; considered rude to use &quot;-1&quot; at the start of a comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm not interpreting that correctly...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2017-02-28T20:23:28.967" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4361" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-01T11:03:31.487" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following question was put on hold&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/85862/is-it-reasonable-to-complain-about-the-junior-label-after-entering-the-company&quot;&gt;Is it reasonable to complain about the &amp;#39;junior&amp;#39; label after entering the company with 4 years of experience?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for the following reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on &lt;strong&gt;company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies&lt;/strong&gt; should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking &lt;strong&gt;legal advice&lt;/strong&gt; should be directed to legal professionals. For more information, click &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for placing this as off-topic is to say the question should be asked towards the HR department or a lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However the question was : &lt;strong&gt;would it be reasonable and/or appropriate to bring this up with HR or my team lead, or is it better to wait for my six month evaluation?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know about you guys, but I'm not going to ask my HR department whether I should complain to them now or in 6 months. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting this question to off-topic is an awnser in itself, it's litterally telling him to go to HR. Which should be posted as an awnser not as a flag :p .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is off-topic, I'd expect a different off-topic reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47397" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-03-01T11:03:31.487" Title="Why is this question on hold? Complaining about junior label after entering company" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4362" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4364" CreationDate="2017-03-01T13:15:08.647" Score="18" ViewCount="554" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/85896/how-to-disclose-negative-information-about-a-candidate-when-id-rather-not-revea/85920#85920&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer by gnasher729 on a recent question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &amp;lt;10k users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what your intent is: Punish him for the same thing you&#xA;  did, or protect your company from someone who you think should not be&#xA;  hired, when you did the exact same thing. Either way, not something&#xA;  that will work in your favour if your company finds out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You say he looked like the best qualified for the job, so presumably&#xA;  he knows that. So what will this young man do if he knows that his&#xA;  interview went well, he recognises the woman he had a one night stand&#xA;  with, and for some mysterious reason he is rejected? If it was me, I'd&#xA;  be pretty annoyed and think how I could do maximum damage to you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Seriously, try for a second to put yourself in the opposite position.&#xA;  You are looking for a job. You travelled to another town, everything&#xA;  seemed to go nice, you found a woman with appropriately low morals&#xA;  that basically forced herself on you for sex, and then she is present&#xA;  at the interview, and it looks very much like she doesn't want her&#xA;  colleagues to find out that she likes one night stands, so she must&#xA;  have told some story that cost you your job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer was deleted as offensive by community flags twice now. When it was first deleted, it was undeleted by a moderator. Now it has been deleted again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we consider posts such as these actually offensive, and, if not, could we get some guidance as to where to draw the line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This issue is exacerbated by the fact that only 3 flags are necessary to delete and auto-lock a post here, rather then the usual 6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is worth noting that getting an answer deleted like this carries a -100 reputation penalty for the poster, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T13:30:49.977" Title="Offensive or not Offensive? Moderator Opinion vs 6 Community Flags" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4362" CreationDate="2017-03-01T13:36:22.357" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me the post seems fine if the following is removed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;with appropriately low morals that basically forced herself on you for sex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the part that went over the line. The answerer is directly insulting the OP. The rest seems rather offensive but does not seem to directly insult the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like a delete is 100% justified for as long as it was un-edited. And it doesn't take much to edit this. So to me, both sides could have improved the situation. The community could have edited out the offensive parts, and the moderator could have done the same or could have left it deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47397" LastEditorUserId="33698" LastEditDate="2017-03-03T00:48:27.823" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T00:48:27.823" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4362" CreationDate="2017-03-01T13:36:39.470" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;The deletion and undeletion was a mistake from me.  I meant to add a mod note to the answer, and instead flagged it.  My flagging it as a moderator auto deleted and locked it, which was not my intention as I wanted the community to make the decision to delete it rather than by moderator intervention.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After I accidentally flagged it (it had one existing flag when I did), I immediately reopened and unlocked it as I felt it was not my place to make that decision in this instance.  Unfortunately it had the effect of clearing the existing flag.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The error was mine.  You'd think after being a mod for 18 months that I could take my training wheels off, but apparently not yet :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2017-03-01T13:36:39.470" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4362" CreationDate="2017-03-01T13:36:48.487" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never voted or flagged this answer, but I find it offensive as well. I don't agree with the first two paragraphs, but those aren't the offensive part. The last paragraph is really what does it for me. The poster is essentially calling the OP &quot;a woman with appropriately low morals that basically forced herself on you for sex&quot;. He tells the woman she has low morals, simply because she decided to have a one night stand. Then he accuses her of forcing herself on the man with absolutely no basis in reality. If this isn't slut shaming, I don't know what is. This is a &lt;em&gt;clear&lt;/em&gt; violation of our Be Nice policy, doesn't actually answer the question, and has no place as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2017-03-13T13:30:49.977" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T13:30:49.977" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4362" CreationDate="2017-03-01T13:39:53.293" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's difficult. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, the point the answer (appears) to be trying to make is &quot;This is how it could be interpreted from the other person's point of view&quot;. Which is a useful point to make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My issue is that, as written, the language is not &quot;It &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be construed this way&quot;, but rather &quot;This &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; how it looks to the other person.&quot;. It's a subtle distinction in framing, but it makes a huge difference to how the answer comes across.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31777" LastEditorUserId="31777" LastEditDate="2017-03-01T13:53:08.687" LastActivityDate="2017-03-01T13:53:08.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4367" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-01T15:31:25.983" Score="6" ViewCount="249" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently we have a close/reopen tennis match with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/85948/if-my-company-cant-make-payroll-on-time-do-i-still-have-to-work-out-my-notice&quot;&gt;If my company can&amp;#39;t make payroll on time, do I still have to work out my notice period?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was reopened following edits but I'd like to understand how the following is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a legal question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If my employer doesn't pay me on time, am I still bound by my notice period? Or does this constitute breach of contract which will allow me to dissolve the contract without notice period?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been discussed that questions of a legal nature that an HR pro can answer are on topic. But that's already been done by the OP when stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Malaysian employment law states that companies have to pay salaries no more than 7 days after the end of the month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What the OP is asking is for an interpretation of the law. That's what lawyers do and only lawyers can do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a strong opponent of closing questions just because something has the word 'law' in it but in this case, the OP is actually asking us to give an interpretation of the law, not what the law says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So convince me. How is that question on topic and why should it remain open?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-03-05T17:38:38.287" Title="Legal questions -- again" Tags="|discussion|legal-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4368" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-01T16:25:37.203" Score="6" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've received a few questions recently that are asking how to do something that they really shouldn't be doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/85845/how-to-convince-manager-to-let-employees-change-departments&quot;&gt;How to convince manager to let employees change&#xA;departments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/85896/how-to-disclose-negative-information-about-a-candidate-when-id-rather-not-revea&quot;&gt;How to disclose negative information about a candidate when I'd&#xA;rather not reveal its&#xA;source?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/85957/what-are-safe-ways-of-getting-terminated&quot;&gt;What Are Safe Ways Of Getting&#xA;Terminated?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are generally well-written and on-topic for the Workplace, but they still garner a lot of downvotes and close votes because users don't think the proposed solution is the correct one. I think these questions are useful so that we can prevent other people from making the same mistake in the future. Also, a string of downvotes and close attempts to a new user asking a useful (though flawed) question in good faith often scares them away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been making the following comment, which has at least seemed to be somewhat effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To the close and down voters&lt;/strong&gt;: This question is well written and fits&#xA;  the on-topic definition for The Workplace. If you disagree with the&#xA;  premise of the question, it is perfectly acceptable to post an answer&#xA;  which explains that. (See &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2321/when-asked-how-can-i-foo-the-bar-is-dont-foo-the-bar-an-appropriate-answer&quot;&gt;this question on Meta&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I'll give an up-vote just to counteract all the negative votes, and I've voted to reopen the departments question. Are there other ways we can discourage this sort of reactive voting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T15:17:32.073" Title="Discouraging down and close votes because you don't like the question" Tags="|discussion|questions|vote-to-close|down-votes|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4369" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-01T16:53:10.620" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to reopen the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/85845/how-to-convince-manager-to-let-employees-change-departments&quot;&gt;How to convince manager to let employees change departments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now it is closed for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2693/custom-off-topic-close-reasons-change/2694#2694&quot;&gt;seeking advice on company-specific regulations&lt;/a&gt;. That close reason is intended for questions about how to interpret specific company policy. This question is asking about &lt;em&gt;how to talk to a manager&lt;/em&gt; about changing a policy. Regardless of whether you think the OP should take this action or not, the question is fundamentally different and should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-03-01T16:53:10.620" Title="Reopen &quot;How to convince manager to let employees change departments?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4372" CreationDate="2017-03-01T17:29:29.340" Score="3" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;First and foremost I enjoy this site.  I like helping others where I can, and I know I can have strong opinions, but with no malice towards anyone and in the spirit of helping others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I have had a few sarcastic and rude comments come my way, which I Flag as such.  Today I had a comment go my way where the commenting person specifically mentioned me by name for no good reason.  I flagged it, and the comment is still there....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is what does it take to get a comment removed?  Are there guidelines I have missed?  I am specifically interested in content\context, not how long it may take a moderator to catch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2017-03-01T19:51:23.827" LastActivityDate="2017-03-01T22:39:00.467" Title="What is the criteria to get rude or un-necessary comment removed?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4370" CreationDate="2017-03-01T18:58:39.213" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;We do try to handle flags promptly, but sometimes either we're busy or there are a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your flag is fairly recent, a moderator might not have seen it yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a moderator &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; seen it, but it's one of 17 flags on 35 comments on that one post, so there's a much bigger situation that requires more time to disentangle.  We don't intend to let rudeness stand, but sometimes flags are mistakes, sometimes the flagger is actually trying to do damage to another user, and sometimes there's more context that makes something look less (or more) rude.  (All that said, I think we'll all nuke a clear, direct personal attack on sight; we just might not see it right away in the sea of other flags.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes we aren't sure what to do with a situation and consult each other, which takes time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your flags are declined and you want to know why, or if it takes more than a day for them to be handled, then feel free to escalate via any of: chat in ping if somebody's in the Water Cooler, flag on the post to explain the situation in more detail (which also allows us to reply to the flag), raise on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for helping to keep the site clean.  Sorry for the delays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-03-01T18:58:39.213" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4367" CreationDate="2017-03-01T21:00:15.627" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My view is based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2423/what-criteria-do-we-need-for-questions-regarding-the-law-regulations-to-be-allow&quot;&gt;What criteria do we need for questions regarding the law/regulations to be allowed?&lt;/a&gt; which I still think reflects our community consensus. Quoting from there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If a workplace expert (manager, HR, etc.) would be expected to know the information, then it is okay to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least under UK law (I know the question is about Malaysian law), this question would go well beyond that bar - a contract isn't necessarily null and void in its entirety just because one payment is late, and working out which bits of it are and aren't still enforceable is definitely a question for a lawyer. As such, I think it's off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I don't think it would take that much to make it on-topic, for the reason specified in Kaz's answer: if there ain't no money, there ain't gonna be a company for much longer, and if there ain't no company, nobody's going to be suing. We've given the &quot;if you aren't being paid, find another job ASAP&quot; advice plenty of times on plenty of other questions - and that's probably the issue the poster should be worrying about, not the fine points of contract law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14388" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2017-03-01T21:00:15.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4367" CreationDate="2017-03-01T21:37:55.470" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to argue on-topic, but for the same reason that Philip Kendall says it's off-topic. HR typically needs to have a reasonable understanding of local labor law, e.g. to figure out when someone can start after leaving another company. Also, government in general takes an interest in the exact end of labor contracts, and it's HR's role to provide that information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, a company HR department will tend to know these areas of law. That said, while we expect a &lt;em&gt;Malaysian&lt;/em&gt; HR expert to know it, not all readers of this site are Malaysian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2192" LastEditorUserId="31777" LastEditDate="2017-03-01T22:20:15.100" LastActivityDate="2017-03-01T22:20:15.100" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4370" CreationDate="2017-03-01T22:39:00.467" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to everything Monica Cellio♦ in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4372/30031&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; (and considering to the amount of flags they receive), keep in mind that a comment must be pretty obviously and objectively rude to be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange moderation (AFAIK) tends towards a light handed moderation style and things that offend individual sensibilities or opinions usually won't be enough to require removal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-03-01T22:39:00.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4368" CreationDate="2017-03-01T23:38:58.830" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvotes are a measure of how useful visitors find a post. It can be well-written, on-topic, thoughtful, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; still not very useful to the commuity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm willing to wager that lots of people don't think it's very useful for The Workplace to host deceitful tips and that's their right according to the site rules. Vote up if you disagree of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastActivityDate="2017-03-01T23:38:58.830" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4351" CreationDate="2017-03-02T14:02:56.250" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I personally don't get is: why are we trying to keep certain questions off the HNQ in the first place? It is rather the point of the HNQ that it spreads popular questions across the network to gather attention from alternate viewpoints, is it not? And it is not up to us to decide what becomes popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would say: any edits for the purposes of preventing a question becoming a HNQ should be discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50417" LastActivityDate="2017-03-02T14:02:56.250" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4380" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4381" CreationDate="2017-03-02T20:11:08.307" Score="3" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple times recently (on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4105/we-need-to-have-an-easily-reachable-link-for-the-type-of-questions-that-we-dont&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4175/should-this-question-be-closed-and-if-so-what-is-the-appropriate-reason&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; in particular) I've seen a Meta post that was 'modified' by the Community. When I open the question, I don't see any changes, just a notice saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;bumped to the homepage&lt;/strong&gt; by Community♦ 1 hour ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has&#xA;  marked it active so that they can be reviewed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what exactly causes a question to be 'bumped'? My guess is it is somehow related to the number of answers with no votes, comments, or accepts. Does this happen on the main site too, or just on Meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T04:15:06.607" Title="How does a question get &quot;bumped to the homepage&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4380" CreationDate="2017-03-03T04:15:06.607" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Community user &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community?tab=profile&quot;&gt;randomly bumps certain old questions&lt;/a&gt; -- questions that were good enough (positive score) to attract at least one answer, but no answer is upvoted.  On a busy site this can mean that the answer wasn't noticed.  Or maybe there's something wrong with it.  Or maybe the question needs to be improved.  So, it's a question that should get another look -- for voting, editing, additional answers, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Community user doesn't bump questions with &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; answers; there has to be at least one answer languishing there.  I'm pretty sure that comments don't factor into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Community user has been bumping questions for years, showing on the front page as modified by Community.  That's confused a lot of people over the years, so recently SE added the notification banner that you quoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bumping happens on both main and meta.  I think it's more frequent on main.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:40:25.820" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T04:15:06.607" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4382" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-03T08:33:47.017" Score="2" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a post on the workplace stackexchange which had many edits and there was also an automatic message that moderator comments or discussion had been moved to chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was able to view the edits that had been made for this post.&#xA;I was also able to view the normal chat for the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I couldn't figure out if &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) the moderator chat was separate from the normal chat &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) if so, how to find it &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) whether I had the privilege to read it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I wanted to understand was some of the motivations behind the edits, in particular when some edits were done and undone, then re-done and re-undone again back and forth. I'm assuming there was some discussion behind it and I wanted to better understand the reasons. I couldn't see any such discussion in the chat that I found, which led me to think that the moderators had a separate chat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34775" OwnerDisplayName="user985366" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T09:55:06.337" Title="Is moderator chat separate from normal chat? How do I view it?" Tags="|support|chat|moderator-tools|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4382" CreationDate="2017-03-03T09:55:06.337" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've misinterpreted that comment. When we move the comments to a separate (newly created) chatroom, the system will post this for us:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where the &quot;moved to chat&quot; section is a hyperlink to that chatroom. All comments that were not deleted at the time we do the move are posted in that chatroom. Usually all moved comments are also deleted automatically. We sometimes manually undelete comments that are still relevant but that varies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm assuming there was some discussion behind it and I wanted to better understand the reasons. I couldn't see any such discussion in the chat that I found, which led me to think that the moderators had a separate chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That can mean a few things: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is an active meta thread about the question where people are coordinating changes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there are people discussing the question in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;main Workplace chatroom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;after the edits were made the comments involved were removed by a moderator. We can only move comments to chat &lt;em&gt;once&lt;/em&gt; and after that we tend to nuke anything that should have been put in the chatroom and isn't relevant (any more). I haven't seen this happen much or at all when it comes to a question that's still actively being edited though.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there's an edit war going on and people aren't bothering to communicate but are just making the edits and rolling them back. This happens even more rarely here as disagreements over edits usually move to chat or meta quickly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But really though, you'd need to link the specific question that prompted your post here for anyone to figure out what happened in that specific case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T09:55:06.337" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4368" CreationDate="2017-03-03T12:58:41.923" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bottom line here is you CANNOT know the reason for a vote of any kind unless the user has the good sense to comment on the item being voted on. ( I don't always comment when I vote in the positive direction, but I do most of the time if I vote in the negative direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You cannot assume voting occurs based on popularity ( I like this question ) versus content ( this is a well written and useful ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2017-03-03T13:22:35.500" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T13:22:35.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4368" CreationDate="2017-03-03T15:17:32.073" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only agree with close votes part. Closing should be reserved to questions which can't possibly be answered well, like questions asking for opinions, rants phrased as questions or unclear questions which can only be answered with guesses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting is a different matter. We all have different views on what questions are &lt;strong&gt;useful&lt;/strong&gt;, and are free to vote accordingly. On multiple occasions when searching for an answer I had to go though many highly upvoted questions (courtesy of HNQ no doubt) which discuss something related to what I search for. Yet they are completely useless, often revolving around something completely trivial or equally implausible. However, I still have to go though these to find what I'm looking for, and to me such questions are hardly useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty certain that not once in my life will I (or anyone I know) will need a detailed write-up on how to use a toilet on an airplane. If someone here could give me one good reason why I should consider this question useful, I'll happily retract my downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37016" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T15:17:32.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4386" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-03T16:14:50.540" Score="4" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/72427/appropriate-values-to-group-user-information-by-gender&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and it was recently (a couple of hours ago) edited so much that it was no longer &lt;em&gt;&quot;recognisable&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I mean by this is the editor has edited the question so much that it was practically a different question, they have removed information that provided context because they thought I was &lt;em&gt;&quot;trolling&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (?)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ways my question is about a serious as it gets. And quite frankly, I wouldn't bother asking if it was a &lt;em&gt;&quot;troll question&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have rolled back to the last edit before this one. Now the problem is that the user that edited my question has much more reputation than me ~5-6 thousand more reputation points and if he wants he can re-edit my question without my approval.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can I do about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51020" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2017-03-04T04:12:29.563" Title="How can I prevent &quot;too many&quot; edits on my question?" Tags="|support|editing|suggested-edits|reputation|aggressive-edits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4386" CreationDate="2017-03-03T16:44:31.317" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do not get into an edit war. If other users are repeatedly making unwanted edits to your question, flag the question for moderator attention and explain the situation. In this particular question, you could explain why those additional details that are being removed are actually relevant and important to the question. Moderators here are very reasonable, and they will certainly handle the situation well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I agree that calling you a &quot;troll&quot; was unnecessary. The points you made are fairly reasonable, and we do not have any evidence to decide that you are just making stuff up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be aware though, that in the general case, your posts belong to the community, and anyone is free to edit them if such an edit would be useful to the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, some other SE sites give the impression of high reputation users running a fiefdom, but here on The Workplace, everyone right from a newbie to a diamond moderator is bound by the community rules, so reputation doesn't really give you any advantage besides the privileges that come by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T16:44:31.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4388" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4389" CreationDate="2017-03-03T16:56:37.137" Score="12" ViewCount="484" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have on several occasions had users respond with just plain rude/dumb comments to either my questions, answers, or comments.  I flag them appropriately and our moderators to a terrific job of wiping them out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, do these users ever get warned of repeated bad behavior and &lt;strong&gt;is it tracked by the system&lt;/strong&gt;?  I know there is a probation thing you can hit, but I wonder if they are actually told &quot;Hey your were a jerk here, don't do that again&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2017-03-03T17:16:08.630" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T22:34:52.657" Title="Snarky Members, how are they moderated" Tags="|discussion|moderation|behaviour|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4388" CreationDate="2017-03-03T17:23:59.597" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The normal escalation process looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users get a bunch of flags on their posts&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators discuss if needed and delete flagged comments as appropriate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User gets sent a warning message by moderators (privately, so no one else sees that except SE staff, moderators, and the user)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;depending on severity of comments, if you go around actively swearing at people and blatantly violating the Be Nice rule you might not get a warning&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;normally this involves some discussion with other moderators&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If this continues, the user may be suspended temporarily &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;almost &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; involves discussion with other moderators&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a variety of ways this gets tracked or aggregated, I'm a bit hesitant to give too much information here. There's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3977/2322&quot;&gt;some context in this other meta post I made though&lt;/a&gt; specifically regarding comment flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that the entire &quot;Be Nice&quot; process is subjective. There's not an automatic way to evaluate &quot;when is too much?&quot; and that at varying times we get accused of being too strict, too lenient, and too biased (on every extreme apparently). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone will have a slightly different &quot;scale&quot; for what level of moderation they want to see. Some would prefer we suspend people for the first minor infraction, some prefer to be way less strict, and everywhere in between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can assure you this is an active topic of conversation among moderators too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:40:25.820" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T17:23:59.597" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4388" CreationDate="2017-03-03T22:34:52.657" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can confirm that these users WILL be punished. I have seen it happen to one member in particular whom I felt very strongly about, and although it took longer than I would have liked, it was dealt with in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was kind of sad to only see a couple applications in the recent moderator election, but oh well! Users like you help the mods with your flags, so just keep at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58733" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T22:34:52.657" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4386" CreationDate="2017-03-04T04:12:29.563" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no way to prevent people editing. So if you don't like the edit just roll it back, takes a few clicks of the mouse. Hopefully the editor gets the picture without you needing to do anything else. It's worked for me anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2017-03-04T04:12:29.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4367" CreationDate="2017-03-05T17:38:38.287" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see many questions closed because they touch on aspects of law, even though there are many helpful answers which stop short of legal advice. The answers often aren't obvious until they're posted, so I'd argue we should be slow to close these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are many well-reasoned, helpful answers to a question and only one is 'get a lawyer', and the others refrain from giving legal advice, then to me, that's an acceptable question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in this case, although there are answers that helpfully invite the poster to consider the likelihood of a company in dire financial straits being able to sue or withhold money, these too are straying into advice which depends on an estimation of legal ramifications, rather than verifiable facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think in this situation all plausibly good answers will ask the OP to get a professional and all current answers would benefit from a 'but ask someone qualified' clause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="610" LastActivityDate="2017-03-05T17:38:38.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4393" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4394" CreationDate="2017-03-06T17:42:14.957" Score="3" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have several questions about the content and requirements of a software engineer portfolio. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What kind of code examples are interesting?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which content is expected from a student applying for programming job?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it a good idea to provide (very) long comments to your code?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to properly present projects, when the &quot;outcome&quot; is nice, but the code isn't?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it allowed to ask a question containing some of the questions above?&#xA;Or will this be off-topic/to broad/primarily opinion based?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59854" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-03-06T18:18:16.187" LastActivityDate="2017-03-06T18:18:16.187" Title="Are questions about the content of a Software Engineering portfolio on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4393" CreationDate="2017-03-06T17:49:35.843" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;How are coding samples helpful when dealing with workplace issues?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it will be off topic.  Questions that require code to be useful have multiple sites to choose from ( code review, stack overflow, software engineering to name a few ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2017-03-06T17:49:35.843" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4395" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-07T16:20:04.643" Score="2" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;so this question - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/86379/8146&quot;&gt;Candidates that are late for interviews?&lt;/a&gt; - is just a total mess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It turns out that the OP's boss was to blame, giving a candidate a half hour block to attend an interview. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a great question there - is timeliness important for a job interview (and I suspect the answer is &quot;it depends&quot;)  but it's lost because, in this specific case, the answer is &quot;oh trick question, they were never late at all&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which isn't what the OP asked at all  - I cannot think of a sane edit to be made to make this question useful to have around as it is. Because as it is, the actual question is closer to &quot;when someone is late what things should one take into consideration to ascertain why they were late&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-03-07T19:22:29.133" Title="This Question Needs to Be Edited?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4395" CreationDate="2017-03-07T19:22:29.133" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest we (with the OP's permission) just edit out the bit about the boss's mistake - then all the existing answers remain valid. The OP can ask a new question if they feel they want different feedback on the now very different situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also need to clean up a lot of not all the comments, but I'm sure our hardworking mods will get round to that when they're not living their actual lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14388" LastActivityDate="2017-03-07T19:22:29.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4397" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4398" CreationDate="2017-03-08T02:07:50.993" Score="-3" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;In StackOverflow the user can see the number of upvotes and downvotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oALNf.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oALNf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;when he clicks the total number of votes for a question/answer (between the upvote/downvote arrows).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is not possible in Workplace. Is there any reason for it? I thought this was available for all stack exchange sites&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43790" LastActivityDate="2017-03-08T02:12:54.270" Title="Can't see upvotes and downvotes for questions and answers" Tags="|support|down-votes|up-votes|votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4397" CreationDate="2017-03-08T02:12:54.270" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You probably have 1000 reputation on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/established-user&quot;&gt;the privileges&lt;/a&gt; page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Awarded At: 1,000 Reputation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are Established Users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Established users are those who have been participating on the site&#xA;for a fair amount of time. They gain the following privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They may view the vote counts on posts An expanded usercard will show&#xA;additional profile information How do I view vote counts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting scores, as displayed, are the sum of the up and down votes on a&#xA;post. Vote counts are the individual up and down votes that make up&#xA;the score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this really bothers you, check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/3082/22322&quot;&gt;this extension&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-03-08T02:12:54.270" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4399" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-09T01:11:08.530" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have edited &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/86453/team-members-recommending-impractical-actions-during-audit&quot;&gt;this question of mine&lt;/a&gt; to address some of the comments such as HLGEM that this method of thinking is improper. I also clarified the timing to make it clear that this is taking place after the actual field work has completed, and during the report writing stage. Finally, I clarified the title to better clarify my question - how to take into account business needs when making recommendations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can the question be removed from HOLD status?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.343" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T22:58:50.847" Title="Requesting to remove question from ON HOLD status" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4400" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-10T16:13:07.867" Score="1" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/close/55228&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; came up in the close review and looking at the reason given it seems a bit odd:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Other: Cross post &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/questions/837491/trusting-the-new-sysadmin&quot;&gt;serverfault.com/questions/837491/trusting-the-new-sysadmin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yes it came from another stack exchange, however I know sometimes migrating questions between stack exchanges can be a bit of a difficult task. Can we migrate the question from server fault? If so, should we?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I feel the question needs closing on serverfault and leaving open here. It would be ideal if we could migrate it. What are people's thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3877/is-cross-posting-allowed&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt; which talks about how cross posting shouldn't generally be allowed, but I'm more curious on the allowing if the other question is suspected to be closed off as it should be here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52713" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-03-10T19:44:51.710" Title="Close a question as it's a cross post?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4400" CreationDate="2017-03-10T19:23:18.493" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, cross-posting is a sufficient reason by itself to close a question.&lt;/strong&gt; In the rare case that a question is on-topic on two sites in the same form, the mere fact that the cross-post will split answers should in my view be reason enough to close it. But as I mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3880/25739&quot;&gt;in my answer&lt;/a&gt; on the related question this will hardly ever come up because sites typically have a narrow focus and relatively little overlap. Workplace is about interpersonal issues and professionalism, Project Management is about, well, project management. Programmers deals with general Software Development topics while Security focuses on a specific IT domain. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So can one situation lead to multiple questions on multiple sites? Sure. This would have been one example. I can think of on-topic, well-written questions around it that would be appropriate on both this site and Security. In such a case I wouldn't call it cross-posting though the OP &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; link to the other site with something like &quot;&lt;em&gt;A question on the security implications of admin accounts has been asked on Security.se&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It just so happens that this isn't a good question on either site.&lt;/strong&gt; When your only question is &quot;&lt;em&gt;What is your experience?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; that's about as clear as sign you can get that the question is not suitable for StackExchange. I've cast the final close vote for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:29.313" LastActivityDate="2017-03-10T19:23:18.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4400" CreationDate="2017-03-10T19:44:51.710" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I think this is a worthwhile question and should be reopened.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it was initially posted, the two questions were identical. Since then both questions have been put on hold and the Workplace question has been edited significantly to focus more on the workplace issues. Cross-posting is discouraged here, but in my opinion the question is a better fit for the Workplace than at Server Fault, so our version should stay. I think there is a possibility that the question would be valid for both sites, one looking at professional solutions and the other looking at technical solutions, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/is-cross-posting-a-question-on-multiple-stack-exchange-sites-permitted-if-the-qu/75012#75012&quot;&gt;this Meta post&lt;/a&gt; explains, though SF views the technology question as off-topic for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post was lacking a clear addressable question, so I added the line&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I get my boss to trust me with the tools I need to do my job?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this, along with all of the previous edits, brings the question back on-topic and it should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-03-10T19:44:51.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4403" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4405" CreationDate="2017-03-14T12:06:17.073" Score="9" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed recently while reviewing that several questions with close votes also had accepted answers. What is the point of voting to close a question with an accepted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-03-14T14:15:21.243" LastActivityDate="2017-03-14T19:57:03.847" Title="Why do we close questions which have accepted answers?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4403" CreationDate="2017-03-14T12:11:33.940" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would turn the question around and ask, &quot;Why should the presence of an accepted answer be of any relevance in deciding to close a question?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We close questions when the 5 members of the community decide that the question is not a good fit for the site. The fact that the OP found an answer &lt;em&gt;anyway&lt;/em&gt; doesn't lower the bar for the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-03-14T12:11:33.940" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4403" CreationDate="2017-03-14T12:51:08.323" Score="17" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the point of voting to close ( or closing in general ) a question with an accepted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether a question is on-topic has nothing to do with the presence of answers, whether those are upvoted or not. We close questions for various reasons (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;the tour&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;). As Masked Man said I don't see why the presence of an answer changes anything about those reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally questions would be closed quickly and in a perfect world people wouldn't answer questions that are obviously off-topic and destined to be closed without further edits or clarification. But there are people on every site in the network that answer questions when they should know better and you find them at all reputation levels. Very often these answers are incredibly easy (&quot;We can't tell you this&quot; or &quot;Ask a lawyer&quot;), get some upvotes and then prevent the question from ever being deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most direct advantage of closing questions when they have answers is that once the question is closed and it along with any answers have a negative score, trusted users can actually vote to delete them. Deletions become effectively impossible when questions are kept open for too long as you then typically &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have answers coming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-03-14T19:57:03.847" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-15T05:44:56.583" Score="-4" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has come up in forms many times. (See sidebar.) A simple observation is that this community has very few downvoted questions, and very very few downvoted questions that are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; closed. It's not even clear why we &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; a downvote button on questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But normally it would be so&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;five people can express their dislike of a question but not block it from attention entirely, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;poor questions have a chance of being salvaged.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're at this status quo where if a question gets popular it gradually accumulates closes as it climbs to 100 upvotes. &lt;em&gt;Seriously&lt;/em&gt; people, when a question is net +300 between question and its answers, it's probably a good question. The right thing to do there is use the downvote. &lt;em&gt;Not&lt;/em&gt; circumvent the question's popularity and cast one of the five mega-downvotes needed to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user42272" LastActivityDate="2017-03-16T21:33:11.927" Title="Can we downvote questions more and close less?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|down-votes|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4406" CreationDate="2017-03-15T09:16:06.153" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Votes don't always show a question is on topic, just because a question is popular, does not mean it is also on topic for this stack exchange. Votes are supposed to be either for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A close vote could be for many reasons, which are listed here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Duplicate of another question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Off topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unclear what you are asking&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Too broad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primarily opinion based&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a question could have fantastic research, appear useful but could also be far too broad for this stack exchange. Just remeber, votes do not equal a close flag. They are two different things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On another note, if you do find a question has been closed and feel it shouldn't have, you can always raise a re-open flag or bring this up and meta for discussion and find out the reasons why people closed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52713" LastActivityDate="2017-03-15T09:16:06.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4406" CreationDate="2017-03-15T11:45:29.733" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can we downvote questions more and close less?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes we can. But I doubt that we will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community seems to be trained to rush in and vote to close aggressively. Some members seem to vote to close more often than they provide answers. Newcomers see that happen and (once they have the appropriate rep) join in the fun. We end up with a &quot;front page&quot; often having 50% of questions on hold, which just encourages more of the same. And these closed questions stick around indefinitely, causing the encouragement to persist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are ways to gamify the system to discourage close votes, but clearly the sentiment is not to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is what it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2017-03-15T11:45:29.733" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4406" CreationDate="2017-03-15T15:18:46.590" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few thoughts, too long to put into a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions being &quot;on hold&quot; are not necessarily a bad thing, &lt;em&gt;if the questions are off topic&lt;/em&gt;. This is intended to allow time to edit and reopen questions.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Often, I think many of the on hold questions could be edited to become on topic. However some just aren't on topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting isn't an indication of whether a question is on topic, but whether people like it.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Hot Network Questions functionality really messes with this, too&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I think that nearly all the concerns with &quot;we close too much&quot; can be mitigated by regulars here. Most of us who regularly post here are good at seeing the &quot;core question&quot; and often answer based on that question, even if its poorly or not at all articulated. I know I sometimes do this - I've been on SE a long time now and can read questions and know what they are &quot;really asking&quot; and sometimes I forget the question itself doesn't say that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing helps with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding questions, here's a bunch of the most recent current On Hold questions in the last 50 questions, with my personal thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/87014/what-kind-of-backgroung-checks-are-legal-in-u-s&quot;&gt;What kind of backgroung checks are legal in U.S.?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This really is one of the legal questions as what it's asking is effectively interpretation of the law&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/87004/2322&quot;&gt;Curiosity as a developer: good or bad?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This one is tricky because there's not really an answer. It's a preference thing depending on a lot of missing context&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/86995/2322&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/86995/2322&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This feels like a pretty straightforward &quot;what should I do?&quot; type question but could be edited to clarify the question to be what Joe answered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/86982/2322&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/86982/2322&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;how do I get out of a legal contract?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/86973/2322&quot;&gt;Can a contract be renewed without consent?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;borderline&lt;/em&gt; ok, but I think it is a specific question for that company at best&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/86968/2322&quot;&gt;Boss asking for account passwords she can reset before I resign&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has 3 reopen votes right now&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/86954/2322&quot;&gt;What does this interviewing process say about a company/role?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pretty clearly company specific&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/86899/2322&quot;&gt;I have no contacts, left my last job without notice a year ago, and haven&amp;#39;t been employed since. Need a job within the next 3 months. What can I do?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ehhh, weak question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/86885/how-do-i-value-tutorial-based-projects-during-an-interview&quot;&gt;How do I value tutorial-based projects during an interview?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marginal, could potentially be reopened?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/86866/2322&quot;&gt;Strange way to offer a job&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;needs massive edits to be appropriate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/86813/2322&quot;&gt;Client reduced pay rate on 3rd day of joining as a IT contractor&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ehhh, maybe on topic?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-03-15T15:18:46.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4410" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-16T17:44:44.563" Score="95" ViewCount="4016" Body="&lt;p&gt;I refer you to one user's exceptionally exciting life:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/83144/1187&quot;&gt;Jan 17&lt;/a&gt;: Gets fired by an intoxicated boss, but just went back to&#xA;  work anyway to find out he has a new manager&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/83796/1187&quot;&gt;Jan 26&lt;/a&gt;: Wasted a lot of time at work making an inappropriate&#xA;  video about themselves as a &quot;joke&quot; for their new manager&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/84715/1187&quot;&gt;Feb 9&lt;/a&gt;: Their car gets towed. They're running late on an important&#xA;  project. They have night classes. They want to work less hours at work&#xA;  because of of all these events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/84806/1187&quot;&gt;Feb 10&lt;/a&gt;: Work presentation goes disastrously when&#xA;  executives start grilling a junior employee (Hans) about stuff that&#xA;  they would know that he wouldn't know&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/85476/1187&quot;&gt;Feb 22&lt;/a&gt;: Hey, turns out I've actually been dating my new boss's&#xA;  daughter! Oops!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/q/45402/3836&quot;&gt;Feb 22&lt;/a&gt;: My bike is broken. I have to use my bike a lot because I&#xA;  don't have a car. Except I found out I was dating my boss's daughter&#xA;  when I used my broken car to drop her off...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://money.stackexchange.com/q/76516/1088&quot;&gt;Feb 23&lt;/a&gt;: Guess what! I've been sitting on half a million dollars&#xA;  of GM Stock for 10 years! Except it's actually worthless. Woe be to&#xA;  me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://law.stackexchange.com/q/17392&quot;&gt;Feb 27&lt;/a&gt;: I guess I'm going to sell my house now. Except someone&#xA;  took a shit on the bed during my open house! And spilled orange soda&#xA;  everywhere!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/87157/1187&quot;&gt;Mar 16&lt;/a&gt;: I cost my company $64,000 because I messed up my&#xA;  booking. I don't have a phone which is why this happened, but somehow&#xA;  even though my phone was broken I was able to date someones daughter&#xA;  AND organise an open home to try an sell my house! Should I take out a 2nd mortgage on the house I'm trying to sell to pay them back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a few (not many, but a few) inconsistencies in the stories, but I just cannot believe that a single person has undergone so many extreme events in such a short period of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally I wouldn't care too much about someone making such an elaborate story, but in this case I feel that they are seriously wasting a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of people's time on here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1187" LastEditorUserId="61983" LastEditDate="2019-12-09T14:17:29.377" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T14:17:29.377" Title="What's the story with this user?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|trolling|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="54" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4406" CreationDate="2017-03-16T21:33:11.927" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A simple observation is that this community has very few downvoted questions, and very very few downvoted questions that are not closed. It's not even clear why we have a downvote button on questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just researching your premise here, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/642441&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this query&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total questions: 20,718&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Negatively scored questions (including closed/deleted): 7,314&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closed questions (including deleted): 9,896&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Negatively scored &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; closed (including deleted): 5,012&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Negatively scored &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; closed (but not deleted): 1,619&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Negatively scored &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; deleted (but not closed): 2,130&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Negatively scored, closed, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; deleted: 3,393&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this it doesn't appear to me that there is &quot;too much closing and not enough downvoting&quot;, rather, it appears to me that there is plenty of both, and most downvoted questions just also end up closed/deleted. This seems like the desired outcome, or at least a reasonable one, no?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you still hold that your premise is true after seeing those numbers? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15912" LastActivityDate="2017-03-16T21:33:11.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4412" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4417" CreationDate="2017-03-16T21:50:05.377" Score="5" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site theme appears to put the content area on a stack of paper with paperclips on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the paper clips are on the top right:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m0ysc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m0ysc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming a left-to-right language (the site is in English), unless we are looking at the back of the stack of paper, the paperclips are on the wrong (or, at least, unusual) side. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If somebody handed me a set of papers clipped on the top-right, I believe my reaction would be a silent face-palm and a &quot;why...&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15912" LastEditorUserId="1513" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T14:44:42.463" LastActivityDate="2017-03-20T14:45:32.730" Title="The paperclips are on the wrong side" Tags="|bug|status-declined|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4414" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4415" CreationDate="2017-03-17T15:16:26.700" Score="17" ViewCount="1325" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/87257/accused-of-sexism-how-to-avert-damage-as-much-as-possible&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (not mine, although I answered) deleted? It's currently at net +4 (with one favorite), and several constructive answers, but it was deleted by Shog9. Per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/413/delete-votes-and-you?&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Generally we only delete closed, low scoring posts with no answers or poor answers. Closed posts are all &quot;candidates for deletion&quot; but generally only irrecoverably off topic/poor questions without useful information in answers should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but this doesn't seem to me to meet that standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The asker's account seems to have been deleted as well, but since the question was deleted by a mod I figured that was separate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58218" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2018-03-30T10:40:43.713" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T10:40:43.713" Title="Why was this question about handling the fallout of a crass joke deleted?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|deleted-questions|trolling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4414" CreationDate="2017-03-17T15:30:19.047" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I left a comment on the question when I deleted it, but I'll elaborate here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moderators caught wind of a group of sockpuppets operating on the site, and asked me to investigate. It quickly became apparent that several questions asked within the past few weeks had all been created by the same person, running multiple accounts and creating these scenarios - and associated &amp;quot;personalities&amp;quot; to go with them - for the purpose of trolling the community here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've removed most of the fake accounts and associated questions, leaving the question of what to do with the remains in the moderators' hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a reminder to &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt;: this sort of behavior has arisen many times over the years, and we've learned the hard way that it only leads to problems. Please read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2126/should-anything-be-done-about-a-user-posting-fake-questions/2129#2129&quot;&gt;...this doesn't necessarily mean the question has to be your problem, it should just be a real problem.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/behavior&quot;&gt;Above all, be honest.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/04/26/joke-questions-please-refrain/&quot;&gt;Joke Questions: Please Refrain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2126/should-anything-be-done-about-a-user-posting-fake-questions&quot;&gt;Should anything be done about a user posting fake questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/57682/how-should-sockpuppets-be-handled-on-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;How should sockpuppets be handled on Stack Exchange?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-03-17T15:30:19.047" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4416" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-20T09:19:01.783" Score="4" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/asking&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Asking section&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of the help center still shows the page &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask-beta&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;How to Ask Questions in Private Beta&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I think that should be removed as we're not in private beta any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x68ub.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x68ub.png&quot; alt=&quot;Beta question links are displayed in the menu and on the asking page&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43555" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-03-20T09:36:53.867" Title="Private Beta reference in Help &gt; Asking" Tags="|bug|help-center|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2017-03-20T09:40:02.650" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4412" CreationDate="2017-03-20T14:45:32.730" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's the design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is indeed meant to invoke the idea of paper clips.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We will fix this when the paper clips stop you from turning the page to the next one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1513" LastActivityDate="2017-03-20T14:45:32.730" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4410" CreationDate="2017-03-22T08:28:59.080" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;If posting questions like that is okay then we better change site name to Soap Opera Plots Stack Exchange. And change site topics accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case I would also recommend folks interested in questions and answers of real workplace matters start looking for some other place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coexistence of entertainment and real questions have been tried already at Stack Overflow and Programmers and ended in tears and I see no reason why it would be different here. &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2012/01/31/the-trouble-with-popularity/&quot;&gt;&quot;The stuff spreads like kudzu...&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;...Pretty soon the entire site is overrun with nothing but that kind of fun. And even if you grandfather a few in, you’ll enjoy neverending requests asking why their fun question or answer has to be removed, while this one over here is allowed to remain&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastActivityDate="2017-03-22T08:28:59.080" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4420" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-23T03:56:14.957" Score="1" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/87501/how-to-deal-with-a-colleague-being-rude-to-the-customer-during-meetings&quot;&gt;How to deal with a colleague being rude to the customer during meetings?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closed because: &quot;Questions require a goal that we can address. Rather than explaining the difficulties of your situation, explain what you want to do to make it better.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal seems to be to deal with a colleague being rude to the customer during meetings. They want to make the situation better by less rudeness, confronting the colleague, assuaging the customer's concerns, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user42272" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-03-26T06:56:06.523" Title="Can we reopen this? &quot;How to deal with a colleague being rude to the customer during meetings?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4423" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-26T19:53:24.620" Score="20" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;We get a lot of questions on meta about closing or reopening specific questions.  That's great -- meta is the right place to discuss these matters (and is way better than comments on the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also get a lot of requests in flags to tag these questions &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; when the goal has been reached (when the question that people wanted to reopen (or close) gets reopened (or closed)).  We generally honor these requests, but it's not the best approach.  Reopened (or closed) questions don't necessarily &lt;em&gt;stay&lt;/em&gt; open (or closed), and only moderators can add or remove those tags, so using these tags for this purpose sets up a maintenance burden that only five people can handle.  The status tags are intended, and used by SE, for bug reports and feature requests.  Discussions &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; shouldn't end in a status tag.  (Matters of site policy could be an exception.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; you do to indicate that the matter is resolved?  Ideally, report the results in an answer and then accept it; an accepted answer is the usual signal for &quot;no more help needed&quot;.  Alternatively, you can edit the title of the post to add something like &quot;[REOPENED]&quot;.  If it changes again later, you can edit again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost anybody can post an answer (and the OP always can), and many people can edit, so please prefer those methods over requests for moderator-only tags on these kinds of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-03-26T19:53:24.620" Title="Please don't ask for status-completed on requests to reopen (or close) questions" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4410" CreationDate="2017-03-27T15:33:51.733" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you ever heard the expression, &quot;When it rains, it pours&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, everything up until 2/22 seems plausible. It isn't until the dating the boss' daughter post and the posts on other SEs that things look off. I'm not sure why some others find the idea of a young employee getting their car towed or wasting time on a bad joke so unbelievable. It's certainly a lot bad luck and poor decision making all at once but being unprepared for a meeting is hardly an extreme event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the usefulness of these questions is more of an issue than their truthfulness. The two most suspicious Workplace questions are also off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying made up stories should be OK. I'm just not buying that it isn't possible for your car, bike, and phone to get broken in the same month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34163" LastActivityDate="2017-03-27T15:33:51.733" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4425" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-27T20:29:07.123" Score="6" ViewCount="279" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a question based upon the surprising popularity a comment in another question received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question received a lot of criticism.  I tried to improve the question based on that criticism (and I'm still open to suggestions), but some of the criticism was that hypothetical questions are... well, to paraphrase just a bit... poison.  For example, I received this comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-1 for hypothetical. Asking hypotheticals where you don't really have a dog in the fight and don't have real details will make for a weak&#xA;  Q&amp;amp;A that will inhibit someone who really has this as a real problem&#xA;  from asking it. Seeding questions is bad, don't do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1947/640&quot;&gt;top answer&lt;/a&gt; in a meta discussion dealing with hypothetical questions, being hypothetical isn't a problem by itself.  Rather, it can lead to related issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A hypothetical question should be fine, but if there isn't enough&#xA;  &quot;information&quot; (or a detailed enough description of the problem), then&#xA;  it becomes unanswerable anyway. There will be too many possible&#xA;  answers to the question and the whole thread will become a discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I understand that hypothetical questions frequently suffer from lacking details necessary to make it answerable, if enough details are present, is a hypothetical question still bad just because it is hypothetical?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If hypotheticals are allowed, should they be identified as such?  I had placed a comment explaining the origins of my question, but the question then got edited to mention in the first sentence that it was hypothetical.  It felt like that disclaimer was creating more negative reactions, so I removed it from the question body, but some guidelines for if/how/where to put such a disclaimer might be helpful, as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="640" LastEditorUserId="640" LastEditDate="2017-03-28T11:09:58.107" LastActivityDate="2021-12-29T18:33:12.060" Title="Is a question being hypothetical a problem?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4425" CreationDate="2017-03-27T21:35:33.043" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While I understand that hypothetical questions frequently suffer from lacking details necessary to make it answerable, &lt;strong&gt;if enough details are present&lt;/strong&gt;, is a hypothetical question still bad just because it is hypothetical?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem there is that you start entering fake question territory where you're making up stuff just for the sake of entertainment. When the OP needs to construct an entire fake workplace or imagine a fake situation, you're going to run into inconsistencies and a lack of detail and realism. Adding details simply isn't a feasible solution. These questions often enter a weird type of Catch 22 where they are simultaneously too generic, as they're divorced from a real world situation, and too specific, as you're adding fake details that make it hard to give generally applicable answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the only way these questions can work is if they're intended to be general in nature, such as for canonical questions. In that case the lack of detail is fine. The example or hypothetical is just there to frame the question or scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that is really how I feel about hypothetical questions on SE in general: they should be reserved for general questions and should be held to a high standard. By definition such questions aren't posted to help someone with a problem, which is the site's secondary focus. That leaves the main purpose of this site, which is to establish a database of high quality Q&amp;amp;A. So these types of questions should be well written, searchable, eminently on-topic and answerable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your question, the problem is indeed that you're trying to disguise the fact that it's not a real situation. Instead of fabricating a history of events and workplace with multiple supervisors and whatnot, you should have generalised that to something answerable. A variation on &quot;&lt;em&gt;Can I salvage a job offer I accepted when I realised too late that I can't make the schedule work ?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; could work, but it depends on what you're specifically interested in: negotiating hours after the fact, negotiating with a recruiter when the hiring manager won't negotiate, or whatnot. You're adding so many obviously fake constraints and setting up such a weird situation that no one else could possibly benefit from answers to such a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2017-03-27T21:35:33.043" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4427" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-28T15:04:48.213" Score="10" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been a number of instances when someone posted a question which was &quot;inspired&quot; by another question, especially questions thrown into the &lt;s&gt;Sidebar Garbage Dump&lt;/s&gt; Hot Network Questions. The community's response to such spinoffs has been somewhat inconsistent. Some such spinoffs were found acceptable, others were taken as trolling and deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is different from &quot;hypothetical&quot; questions, although there could be some overlap. The difference being that the spinoff questions are also based on the same real incident, albeit presented from a different perspective. (See hypothetical example of spinoff questions below.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we go by our usual rule of &quot;assume good intentions&quot;, and answer those questions anyway? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the same question were to be asked several months later, and nobody remembers the &quot;inspiring&quot; question, then that question becomes acceptable, which looks like an inconsistent application of the rule. What is the &quot;cool off&quot; period beyond which getting inspired by a question is not considered trolling? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A sample &quot;inspiring&quot; question could be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I had a meeting with my manager to request for X. He refused and instead asked me to opt for either Y or Z. Now I have changed my mind and want to go with W instead. How do I convince my manager to do W instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can inspire &quot;spinoffs&quot; like the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am managing an employee, who requested me for X. I found that unreasonable, and asked him to consider Y or Z instead. Now, after discussing this with my manager, I think he should do U or V instead. How should I communicate this to him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am a waiter at a coffee shop. This morning I had two customers who seemed to be having a business meeting. I overheard some of their conversation, and found out that one person was convincing his manager to do X, which he refused. I know a better approach to convince the boss. Would it be professional to offer him (unsolicited) advice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am a lawyer. I was at a coffee shop this morning. I overheard from the next table, a manager suggesting his employee to consider Y or Z. Y is ok, but Z could cause legal issues for the company, which the manager is presumably unaware of. Is it appropriate for me to ignore the conversation and hope that the employee chooses Y?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am a struggling story writer. I was at a coffee shop this morning looking for inspiration. I overheard an interesting conversation between an employee and a manager at the next table, which inspired me to write a great story. They are complete strangers and I didn't even see their faces clearly. Am I ethically obliged to credit them if my story is made into a movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and so on ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-03-30T12:57:05.863" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T12:57:05.863" Title="What is our policy on spinoff questions?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|trolling|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4428" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4429" CreationDate="2017-03-29T01:54:11.377" Score="0" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/87906/29374&quot;&gt;Dealing with an employee that went over my head&lt;/a&gt;) has been linked to the deleted question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/87921/3192&quot;&gt;How should I go over my supervisor's head (before I've even started) without creating a bad impression?&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not like the fact that all of the answers failed to consider what might have prompted the employee to ask for such a thing in the first place. I suspect there is a really good reason as I cannot imagine doing such a thing and being let go (which is easy to do prior to day 1) for a trivial reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The deleted question (not created by me) called attention to this omission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T13:19:26.767" Title="Was deletion of the extended question justified?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4428" CreationDate="2017-03-29T07:11:53.633" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;87921 was deleted at the request of the original poster, so, yes, it was justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14388" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T07:11:53.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4428" CreationDate="2017-03-29T13:19:26.767" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't quite tell what you're asking for here.  The deleted question was closed (as a duplicate), so it couldn't get any more answers.  The OP requested deletion, and while we don't generally delete questions with significantly-upvoted answers, we're more willing in cases like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first question you linked to is not on hold.  If you don't like any of the answers, please write a new one.  This is the best way to share an alternate approach.  (Do be sure to answer the question; it sounds like you don't like the current answers, but &quot;they're wrong&quot; by itself isn't an answer.  An alternate approach is, though.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, the tool to signal disagreement with an answer is the downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T13:19:26.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4427" CreationDate="2017-03-29T17:17:47.873" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spin off questions that are &quot;Real&quot; are great.  If you have a question it gets answered, but in the process other questions are generated, that is a good thing.  Those questions should be asked and posed as stand alone questions, though it is OK and probably advisable to link the original question, all details needed for the new question should be explained in the new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should we define identify &quot;Real&quot; question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is asked from the OP's stand point not &quot;for a friend.&quot;  The OP should pursue answers for their own advice. When I see this in a question that is otherwise reasonable, I edit the question to put it into the first person with a note of why i did it.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The situation is reasonable, even if the people involved are not.  Extreme edge case situations could be actual problems, but the situation is just to &quot;dramatic&quot; to be feasible for the site.  Most of these questions fall into the specific company policy  off topic bucket anyway.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Limit the drama involved in the question to the minimum to describe the problem.  Describing all of the bad past interactions just makes the question sound like a rant anyway.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is not virtually a flip side of popular site question.  This is insulting to the people who take time to answer questions when we click on a question and it is something like this.  If you are going to do this, be up front about it, and explain why you are interested in the answer from that side.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recent controversial question would have been just fine had it not incorporated the details of the original HNQ and just asked how to address the issue from the applicant side.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T17:17:47.873" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4427" CreationDate="2017-03-30T10:03:17.943" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should treat the spin-off as any other question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a spin-off question from the HNQ and I made it clear it was a spin-off:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This has been inspired by the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/84293/can-staying-late-look-like-something-bad&quot;&gt;Can staying late look like something bad?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/84376/27483&quot;&gt;Is the perception of working late different to that of coming in early?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I received up-votes, answers, and VTC's as a dupe. All of these I was absolutely fine with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27483" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-03-30T10:03:17.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4433" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2017-03-30T11:52:45.447" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-30T11:52:45.447" LastActivityDate="2017-03-30T11:52:45.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4434" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2017-03-30T11:52:45.447" Score="0" Body="For questions about the bounty system, which allows users to spend some of their reputation in order to draw more attention to a question." OwnerUserId="33983" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2017-04-05T22:22:48.513" LastActivityDate="2017-04-05T22:22:48.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4435" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4437" CreationDate="2017-04-05T14:55:19.860" Score="20" ViewCount="506" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently received an email asking to participate in a Carnegie Mellon study regarding my use of the Workplace StackExchange for career guidance. I have included an image of the email just in case any of the links are malicious. I have visited the CMU review board site at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cmu.edu/research-compliance/human-subject-research/faqs.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.cmu.edu/research-compliance/human-subject-research/faqs.html&lt;/a&gt; but I am unable to find somewhere to search for a specific study. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone seen an email like this before? It specifically says it is not associated with Stack Exchange officially. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tBonr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tBonr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: I received a follow up email. Instead of providing a link to anything official, they instead decided to provide a link to THIS META POST to prove the legitimacy of the study. CMU probably needs to rethink this whole research thing...&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dzMNk.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dzMNk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50433" LastEditorUserId="50433" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T02:52:08.683" LastActivityDate="2017-04-13T02:52:08.683" Title="Request to Participate In An Interview For Carnegie Mellon - Workplace Stack Exchange Use" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4435" CreationDate="2017-04-05T16:03:49.397" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;That seems suspicious; in particular, you don't publish your email address on the site that I can see.  The IRB email address looks legitimate (andrew.cmu.edu is the main domain at CMU), so you might forward it there to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally know one of the researchers listed there and will pass along a link to this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; I asked one of the listed researchers, who confirmed to me that the project is legitimate and put me in touch with Maria Tomprou, the PI (using a CMU email address).  Maria explained that they sent out the email from their lab account but followup would come from CMU.  The researcher I contacted has also asked the IRB to make a searchable list of approved projects available online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some excerpts from Maria's email to me (quoted with permission):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the project that I am responsible for. We have received an IRB approval about this. Please see the attachment. We use the gmail account of our lab (Connected Experience or CoEx) that we have created for research purposes and if participants contact us, we use our regular cmu e-mail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Attached was an IRB approval form signed by John Zimmerman, IRB Chair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in the momentum to reduce any inconvenience I might have caused to you or the Users, I completely skipped to offer some background about my project and its importance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brief description:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Online communities like Workplace have completely transformed the meaning of career advice seeking and offering compared to more traditional forms of mentoring (e.g. with your supervisor, peers) that may hinder your career or offer biased advice (often called the dark side of mentoring). So we want to gain a deeper understanding of the mechanisms such as motives, usefulness, attributions of how this new form of mentoring functions as well as the impact of the advice from Workplace channel on people’s careers. How  does this online community impact User’s career trajectories, negotiations,  finding a job, changing careers etc? Does Workplace replace the traditional mentoring? All these are important issues not only for the role of online communities but also what organizations can learn and benefit from these kinds of communications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-04-05T19:41:37.727" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4435" CreationDate="2017-04-05T17:03:50.617" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the email is genuine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The website is referenced from &lt;a href=&quot;http://hcii.cmu.edu/facilities&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://hcii.cmu.edu/facilities&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The email address is referenced from an &lt;a href=&quot;https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20151102064240/http://coexlab.com:80/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;older version&lt;/a&gt; of the website.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They probably removed the email from the website after getting spammed once too often. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it rather strange though that they cannot get an email address on the CMU domain, but that alone does not make it spam. Perhaps Ann Matthias can shed some more light on that. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-04-05T17:03:50.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4439" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-07T15:06:55.843" Score="5" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;See question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/88566/3192&quot;&gt;What are the benefits of switching from bi-weekly to semi-monthly payroll?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/88566/1&quot;&gt;started as an opinion poll&lt;/a&gt;, but received a couple of answers anyway. It was then edited to a &quot;pros and cons&quot; question (and has received a couple of &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; answers since, but that's not relevant here). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit invalidated the earlier answers. I totally agree that if an answer was posted to an off-topic question, there shouldn't be much ground to complain if the improved question invalidated those answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/88571/3192&quot;&gt;one answer&lt;/a&gt; was useful &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; participating in the opinion poll, but now seems to not answer the current version of the question. I find this somewhat unfair because it pointed the OP in the right direction by showing a flaw in their approach. (&quot;You shouldn't ask the internet for opinion, ask your employees what they want.&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What options do we have to preserve the useful answer while also making it a valid answer to the new question?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could certainly ask dan1111 to update his answer in this case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the general case though, when a question has to be bent into shape, what should be our approach to preserve any existing useful answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-04-07T15:26:16.877" Title="How do we handle existing useful answers when a question has been modified to fit our site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4439" CreationDate="2017-04-07T15:26:16.877" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bad answers should be downvoted. If someone answered an opinion poll with an opinion and not a well constructed answer based on references, and or real world experience, it should be downvoted, flagged as not an answer and, if not improved, deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-04-07T15:26:16.877" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1672" CreationDate="2017-04-10T12:07:06.393" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today we saw a series of old posts get bumped to the top when the tag &quot;death&quot; was added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we could debate if there is any value to that tag at all, it seems to me that solely adding a tag should not bump a question to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does the system work that way? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not change it so that tag modification doesn't set the &quot;modified&quot; flag for a question (and thus the question doesn't get an undeserved bump and clutter the first page)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2017-04-10T12:07:06.393" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4442" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-10T17:42:09.280" Score="16" ViewCount="358" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/88898/2322&quot;&gt;How should I give notice of my resignation to a boss who has been a fantastic mentor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was closed as a duplicate of a previous question (which apparently I also answered).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not believe it is a duplicate because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Having a boss as a mentorfigure is a different situation as the relationship will be different&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the duplicate question is about &quot;what customs should I follow when leaving a company?&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the other proposed duplicates are also about quitting a new job, not somewhere where the OP has been an employee for 3+ years and has a great working relationship with their manager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-04-13T19:02:05.107" Title="Reopen - How should I give notice of my resignation to a boss who has been a fantastic mentor?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4442" CreationDate="2017-04-10T23:08:09.247" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This had 4 reopen votes, I just cast the 5th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-04-10T23:08:09.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4444" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4460" CreationDate="2017-04-11T13:50:38.253" Score="3" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/88820/3192&quot;&gt;Salon worker problem&lt;/a&gt;) is currently an advice question, but there seems to be an on-topic question in it, related to the owner's system of scheduling work for the employees, the employees' own preferences (along with some interpersonal/motivational issues) and the customers' preferences. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current question title does not describe the issue at all, and does not help searchability. However, I could not phrase a proper question out of the description. Can someone with better skills please see if the question title can be improved? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The description could also do with some improvement of formatting, spelling and grammar, as well as fluff removal. I don't prefer doing half-complete edits, so decided not to do it myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-05-15T13:41:02.600" LastActivityDate="2018-05-15T13:41:02.600" Title="Can we improve this question title (Salon worker problem)?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|editing|edit-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4445" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-12T10:29:12.890" Score="-4" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/88957/dealing-with-a-racist-work-environment&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and I believe it leads to hatred towards both sides without need. People have their views and opinions but this just spirals into hate and swearing which is ruining the site for users (me included). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This being said, shouldn't such questions resort to Q&amp;amp;A only and comments be kept civil about the question and not calling other people names. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the answer is quite obvious in such cases, this being resignation from the job and finding another that tolerates your person / views / etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such I believe that questions related to hatred / racism / real-world-politics should be closely watched and managed by objective persons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T17:25:56.377" Title="Should topics that include racism be resorted to only Q&amp;A?" Tags="|discussion|behaviour|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4447" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-12T21:15:38.553" Score="-1" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/89114/would-showing-up-for-an-interview-in-a-tuxedo-be-considered-inappropriate&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question to get some general consensus on an answer, as I had been thinking about this question for the last few days. However, it was closed because someone didn't &quot;truly believe anyone is really considering this.&quot; I was however considering doing this, as dressing nicely helps give me a confidence boost for interviews, and after watching a Ted Talk on how body language and posture can help give you more confidence and help you succeed in interviews, I was wondering if it would be okay to wear a tuxedo for the added boost in confidence it gives me while wearing it. If the answer to the question is &quot;No.&quot; that's completely fine by me. I just would like an answer and an explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, it's obvious that some people are not taking this question seriously from the mocking comments and answers stating things to the effect of &quot;you can point out that you have never heard whether or not wearing pajamas would be considered inappropriate or not and as about that&quot;, however asking if wearing pajamas is okay is non sequitur. Tuxedos are considered formal wear, pajamas are considered sleepwear. I don't see why asking if wearing a tuxedo (formal wear) is okay is outrageous in a setting where you typically wear other formal wear. If I was asking about wearing bathing suits, pajamas, clown suits, etc, then I can see why people would think that was outrageous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: it was reopened, but now has been closed as primarily opinion based. I don't see how it is primarily opinion based as there are expected norms for dressing for interviews. It could be a little subjective, but not anymore so than the question I &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/83/selecting-interview-attire-for-a-technical-job-interview&quot;&gt;linked&lt;/a&gt; in my own question. It and a number of other questions here could be considered opinion based, but can be answered by experts' experience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44692" LastEditorUserId="44692" LastEditDate="2017-04-14T20:23:16.217" LastActivityDate="2017-04-14T20:23:16.217" Title="Reopen- Would showing up for an interview in a tuxedo be considered inappropriate?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4447" CreationDate="2017-04-13T07:04:54.550" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would still suggest it should remain closed. Interviews for most organisations expect a suit. There are some exceptions, especially in the IT space, which allow more casual dress, but arriving in a tuxedo will have the effect of making you stand out for reasons not related to your skill and experience at the job. You'll just look like you have no cultural awareness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the answers already told you this. Reopening is not going to benefit you in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2017-04-13T07:04:54.550" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4447" CreationDate="2017-04-13T07:56:36.763" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In all honesty I thought it was a joke and an attempt at trolling. Given that you've now gone to META I appreciate that isn't the case at all. The question however already has two answers which should give you what you are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it worth reopening? No because the answers will remain the same. A &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuxedo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tuxedo&lt;/a&gt; is basically a dinner jacket:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Etiquette&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tuxedo is a form of evening wear and as such is intended to be worn only in the evening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=should+I+wear+a+tuxedo+to+an+interview&amp;amp;safe=active&amp;amp;gws_rd=cr,ssl&amp;amp;ei=1C3vWN2EIufFgAbDs5kQ#safe=active&amp;amp;q=Should+I+wear+a+tuxedo+to+an+interview?&amp;amp;spf=189&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; shows &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/Can-I-wear-tuxedo-for-interview&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Can I wear tuxedo for interview?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tuxedo is classified as a highly formal, evening wear outfit. You will be considered a dandy, if you wear it to an interview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have thought before asking the question you did some research into this. I &lt;em&gt;assume&lt;/em&gt; that's why people didn't take the question seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61527" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-04-13T07:56:36.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4447" CreationDate="2017-04-13T08:33:13.737" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'd vote to reopen.&lt;/strong&gt; I think this question can be edited down to a simple &quot;&lt;em&gt;Does a tuxedo qualify as business attire?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; and I've gone ahead and made that edit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because everyone here knows that &lt;em&gt;of course&lt;/em&gt; it isn't, that doesn't mean that someone unfamiliar with professional norms would. Thinking &quot;the more formal I dress the better&quot; and not knowing that a tuxedo is evening wear for social occasions, rather than business wear is a mistake I could easily see a graduate making, even if would admittedly be a hilarious one for the people in that office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems like a fine question for the site and while I've made some edits to lower the emphasis on your situation and remove your personal take on it, even the original version seemed of high quality to me. I'm not sure I get the reasons behind the downvotes, the close votes or the arguments made here to keep it closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2017-04-13T08:33:13.737" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4447" CreationDate="2017-04-13T10:50:22.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest that this be left closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question itself is more appropriate for chat and already has definitive answers. Leaving it open could invite a host of imitators to post similar questions. &lt;em&gt;Does X qualify as business attire?&lt;/em&gt; The possibilities are endless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP had asked something along the lines of &quot;What would be considered appropriate business attire?&quot; then we might have helped (or might have pointed to other duplicate answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry if it wasn't intended as trolling, but it comes across that way. IMHO we would be silly to reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2017-04-13T10:50:22.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4452" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-13T16:04:16.257" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3840/coworker-doesnt-actually-work-how-to-deal-with-the-situation&quot;&gt;Coworker doesn't actually work - how to deal with the situation?&lt;/a&gt;  this question is marked as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/23165/what-can-i-do-to-make-a-coworkers-lack-of-effort-more-visible&quot;&gt;What can I do to make a coworkers lack of effort more visible?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is a question which is about 1 1/2 years older than another one marked as a duplicate of the newer one?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is there any guideline or reason behind this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59854" LastEditorUserId="59854" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T16:09:36.263" LastActivityDate="2017-04-14T23:31:58.190" Title="Duplicate mark on question referring to newer one" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4452" CreationDate="2017-04-13T17:24:37.163" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is a question which is about 1 1/2 years older than another one&#xA;  marked as a duplicate of the newer one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because the older one was marked as a duplicate &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the newer one was created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there any guideline or reason behind this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps. But I'm sure the folks who marked it as a duplicate just thought that was a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Lilienthal says that there is a guideline, which is just to use the duplicate marking optimally, which usually means to keep the most useful/general/viewed question as the parent. Age of the question has never been a criterion. – I don't know where that guideline is, a link would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2017-04-14T23:31:58.190" LastActivityDate="2017-04-14T23:31:58.190" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4445" CreationDate="2017-04-14T05:02:30.237" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question seems to fit the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic rules&lt;/a&gt; for the site. Specifically (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maintaining employment (promotions, pay increases, &lt;strong&gt;harassment, bullying, poor working conditions&lt;/strong&gt;, communication problems, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this just spirals into hate and swearing which is ruining the site for users (me included). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it won't. Stack Exchange sites aren't reddit or YouTube comments, where &lt;a href=&quot;http://tmp.arp242.net/youtube.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;simple questions devolve in terrible racial slurs&lt;/a&gt;. Comments are quick to be removed, and the tolerance for &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;rude and offensive content&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is low. Very low. Probably lower than any other site you've used in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/flagging&quot;&gt;flag any comments or posts that you consider to be rude&lt;/a&gt; and a moderator will take a look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should people persist in the &quot;hate and swearing&quot; then they will end up with a suspension very fast, which will solve the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the answer is quite obvious&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not always obvious what is obvious, and it obviously wasn't obvious to the person posting the question :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;that questions related to hatred / racism / real-world-politics should be closely watched and managed by objective persons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree, and that's exactly what the moderators are doing (and, as mentioned, the community at large can help too by flagging).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8388" LastActivityDate="2017-04-14T05:02:30.237" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4445" CreationDate="2017-04-15T11:31:15.397" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing wrong with questions like this, it's a very real workplace issue with simple solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2017-04-15T11:31:15.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4461" CreationDate="2017-04-15T13:25:15.073" Score="2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/89264/26826&quot;&gt;After an unintended harassement, should the recruiter contact the candidate again if they think they've found the right offers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is on hold as being unclear. Is it because it is a hypothetical question, or because it asks about the feeling? If the latter is true, then would rewriting &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would X think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would doing this make X feel...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;make it clearer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26826" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditDate="2017-04-15T16:34:42.890" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T07:21:11.010" Title="How can we make this hypothetical question clearer?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4444" CreationDate="2017-04-18T12:31:59.377" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title has now been updated to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ensuring fair distribution of clients in a commission work environment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a fantastic improvement, as it describes the issue clearly, applies to more generic situations, and more searchable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fluff from the description has also been removed, so I consider this done!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thanks, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/62982/teacher-kshuang&quot;&gt;Teacher KSHuang&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/57/sleske&quot;&gt;sleske&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/26235/myles&quot;&gt;Myles&lt;/a&gt;, for your efforts!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-04-18T12:31:59.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4458" CreationDate="2017-04-18T15:46:36.380" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only way I can see salvaging this question is to write it similar to this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am a recruiter and misspoke in a way that a prospective candidate took offense. The candidate has made it clear that she no longer wishes me to contact her but my client is very interested in bringing the candidate on.  How can I set this situation right for my company, the client, and the candidate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="52713" LastEditDate="2017-04-19T07:21:11.010" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T07:21:11.010" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4467" CreationDate="2017-04-19T14:37:25.433" Score="1" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some recent answers appeared in the Low Quality review queue, mainly these ones:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/56859&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/56859&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/56860&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/56860&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I reviewed them as OK, as albeit having terrible advice, they answered the question. They should have been downvoted and left at the bottom of the pile, but I don't agree with the low quality review. However, everyone else disagreed with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From reading this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2560/when-how-should-i-flag-content-as-very-low-quality-or-not-an-answer&quot;&gt;meta post&lt;/a&gt;, answers should be removed if they are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;very low quality&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other possible choice, bring to mod attention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I can see it going under the third at a remote possibility, as the answers are generally giving bad advice. But I feel this is a waste of mods time. The other two options, the posts were answers and the quality of the post seems to be OK (Just bad advice). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, these answers that should be downvoted as given bad advice, why were they marked to be deleted? Did I miss a trick?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52713" LastActivityDate="2017-04-20T14:33:35.943" Title="Bad answers being marked as low quality, when they aren't" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4463" CreationDate="2017-04-19T15:19:15.370" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer to Post 1) Contains a joke answer which is longer than the actual answer the responder gave. I don't mind a good chuckle, but it should be secondary to the advice itself. This &lt;strong&gt;might&lt;/strong&gt; be debatable as to whether it's &quot;bad&quot; or just worthy of a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer to Post 2) This one should be deleted because it contains potentially damaging advice for the OP to follow, as given in the comment by user &quot;Jay&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59722" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T15:19:15.370" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4463" CreationDate="2017-04-19T17:25:14.873" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some one flagged these or they received low scores.  That is when they get put into the queue so that we can decide if the posts need action.  You are not required to go through the queue and it is perfectly acceptable to take no action on an item if it doesn't need any action.  The queue is intended to move some of the moderation responsibilities off of the mods and back to the people with enough rep to help out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR; This is working as intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T17:25:14.873" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4445" CreationDate="2017-04-19T17:25:56.377" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's more the specificity that folks are having issues with here. Mention of &quot;conspiracy theories&quot; and &quot;talking bad about ....&quot; makes it more touchy of a situation. Maybe a more general &quot;At my job there are &quot;hot-button&quot; topics that they discuss which make me uncomfortable.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That falls to the OP to write up, and we as users to help clarify and reword, imnsho. It is an on-topic and site-worthy question that could be better served by thoughtful analysis &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; the question is asked in order to take the OP out of the middle of the situation into a more objective viewpoint, which should even help the situation itself by giving them a higher-level view of the situation in order to make a better decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59722" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T17:25:56.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4463" CreationDate="2017-04-20T10:05:56.720" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The meta you linked to has barely a hundred views. The normal go-to meta on this subject is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/141851/reviewing-low-quality-posts-when-to-delete&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Reviewing low quality posts: when to delete&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; and its parent post. But the main topic on deletions is of course &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221/how-does-deleting-work-what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that&quot;&gt;How does deleting work?&lt;/a&gt;, specifically this section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are the criteria for deletion?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions, a post that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/59054/148099&quot;&gt;no longer adds &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; to the site&lt;/a&gt; should be deleted.  Basically, this includes most closed questions that cannot be improved and reopened.  However, it may be beneficial to keep duplicates to aid future users in finding the canonical question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For answers, any post that is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/163733/148099&quot;&gt;not an answer&lt;/a&gt; (should be a comment, doesn't answer the question, etc.) should be deleted.  Answers that are wrong or that dispense poor advice should be downvoted, not deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, the purpose of the Low Quality queue is outlined &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/161391/260382&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Low Quality Posts&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Low Quality Posts queue contains posts which were automatically&#xA;determined to be of low quality based on several system criteria that&#xA;generates a post quality score. It also contains posts that have been&#xA;flagged for being extremely low-quality and answers flagged for not&#xA;being proper answers. If you feel that a post is acceptable for the&#xA;site and cannot be improved further, click the Looks OK button. Keep&#xA;in mind that you can also post a comment before clicking this button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the post is acceptable other than a few formatting or grammar&#xA;errors, you can click the Edit button to improve the post, which has&#xA;an implied Looks OK functionality upon completion of your edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the post cannot be salvaged, you have two options depending on&#xA;whether the post is a question or answer: [Close or Delete]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practice however, things aren't that clear-cut. A lot of users seem to use Recommend Deletion for answers that do indeed answer the question and are well-written but that they happen to vehemently disagree with. On a site like ours its even less clear because you have to factor in the very real danger of bad or &amp;quot;incorrect&amp;quot; advice harming someone's career. While readers should of course use any advice given responsibly, a bad answer here could lead to a broken career rather than a broken build. Given those stakes it makes sense that we see more delete votes for such answers than you might on other sites. Deletion is a high-rep privilege and I think part of the philosophy is that such users are expected to use their best judgement in removing content that isn't appropriate for the site (culture). The queues are more like guidelines intended to identify potentially problematic posts and how such posts are handled is up to the reviewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That general tangent aside, for your actual question: this all seemed to have worked as designed. Answers got low scores and entered the queue. You opted to downvote but keep them. Others opted to cast delete votes. That's how these things work, we're not a hive mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regards to the second answer, the author disputed the review by undeleting his answer. I've decided to confirm the deletion given the majority support for deletion and the inappropriate nature of the answer for a site like ours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to discuss a specific deletion or (community) moderation action rather than the SOP, &lt;strong&gt;please create a separate thread for each instance!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-04-20T14:33:35.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4468" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4469" CreationDate="2017-04-20T13:37:40.903" Score="2" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/89507/3192&quot;&gt;How can I prevent my employees from gaming a reward points system?&lt;/a&gt;) was closed as off-topic because in its original version, it seemed to ask for an app design. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP clarified in the comments and edits that their actual issue was about preventing the cashier from gaming the system, which seems to be on-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have edited the question to remove the details of the app features and rules, in order to focus on the main on-topic issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please consider casting reopen votes if you agree. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-04-20T14:42:30.480" LastActivityDate="2017-04-20T14:42:30.480" Title="(REOPENED) Request to reopen the question on employees gaming a reward points system" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4468" CreationDate="2017-04-20T14:14:54.373" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow, that was fast! The question has been reopened now. Thanks, Workplace community!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-04-20T14:14:54.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4471" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-21T14:16:32.423" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find this question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/89505/47387&quot;&gt;How can I keep myself valuable to deliver in my work if more and more stuffs are automated in data science?&lt;/a&gt;) quite interesting, despite currently having a very strong advice aspect, which makes it off-topic. I think we may be able to salvage it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of focussing on &quot;what should I do&quot;, I think we may be able to turn it into something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Coming from the technical world, what are the aspects that make me valuable to my company? Currently my work is being automated and I definitely think I'm losing value to my company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first part &quot;Coming from the technical world&quot; may not be necessary but I think it may be useful to keep the question properly scoped and not getting too wide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts about this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A part of the answer would be obviously the visibility, but I don't want the question to focus on this, as it has already been well covered on the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-04-21T16:36:22.197" LastActivityDate="2017-04-21T16:36:22.197" Title="Salvage &quot;How can I keep myself valuable&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4472" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4473" CreationDate="2017-04-23T14:06:22.300" Score="8" ViewCount="337" Body="&lt;p&gt;See question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/89310/3192&quot;&gt;My boss keeps changing the requirements. How can I get him to make up his mind?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have edited the question to make it sound like less of a rant, and focus more on the issue. Please consider reopening it, or discuss if/how the question can be further improved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I have also &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/89312/revisions&quot;&gt;edited my answer&lt;/a&gt; to the question to focus on solution to the issue, and removed the admonishing tone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-04-24T15:27:26.533" LastActivityDate="2017-04-24T15:27:26.533" Title="(REOPENED) Reopen &quot;boss keeps changing his mind&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4472" CreationDate="2017-04-24T14:52:24.927" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to reopen.  This is such a common problem in the workplace that I can not possibly see how this could be off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-04-24T14:52:24.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4474" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4475" CreationDate="2017-04-25T11:58:58.177" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a standard or best practice for us in terms of when ( how long after starting ) to award a bounty?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I offered a bounty on a question ( the current one ), and I was hoping for better answers, but it appears the best answer is already given, based on the votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2017-04-25T17:51:34.343" Title="Awarding A Bounty" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4474" CreationDate="2017-04-25T13:40:56.117" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the bounty help page has good advice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;If you’ve asked a good question, edited it with status and progress updates, and still are not receiving answers, you can draw attention to your question by placing a bounty on it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give it a few days to see if it attracts a good answer or not&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If not, try to edit the question into shape&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give it a few more days or so&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Assess if the question still isn't receiving good answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Decide if you still need an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then place a bounty and hope for better answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it will work, maybe it won't. I haven't seen convincing evidence that a bounty will often attract great answers to a question that hasn't already attracted them. As far as I can tell, if you are going to get a really good answer, you'll get it very quickly after asking the question or not at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I could be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2017-04-25T13:40:56.117" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4474" CreationDate="2017-04-25T17:51:34.343" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bounty buys publicity for a question.  (One hopes it also buys a good answer, but what the bounty &quot;pays&quot; for is the exposure.)  That publicity lasts for as long as the bounty does, so I usually don't award my bounties until the end of the week.  If a good answer comes in early on then it's going to get the bounty (unless something even better comes in), and I'll probably leave a comment telling the answerer that it helped me so he knows I'm not waiting for him to add even more.  But why not get all the publicity you've paid for?  Let the question be featured for a week; something even better than the good answer you already have might come along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-04-25T17:51:34.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4478" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-29T15:38:33.807" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/38825/3192&quot;&gt;Is an Experience Certificate valid without bank statements showing salary credit?&lt;/a&gt;) was closed as &quot;Unclear what you're asking&quot;. It has since been edited and the current version of the question is clear and on-topic. Please cast reopen votes if you agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The close votes were cast on the first version of the question. I am not certain why, but I suspect it was because of the English and use of several India-specific terms. Some terms, such as &quot;agreement basic&quot;, were not even familiar to me, despite having worked in India.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question did get edited a couple of times, which made things somewhat more clear, but it could not garner any reopen votes. My latest edit is pretty much the &quot;cherry on top&quot;, and mainly improves the &quot;flow&quot; of the description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case you are wondering why I dug up a question over 2 years old, it is because I decided to go through my old answers in the long weekend, and came across this closed question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-04-30T16:58:56.577" LastActivityDate="2017-04-30T16:58:56.577" Title="Can we reopen this question on Experience Certificate in India?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2038" CreationDate="2017-05-01T18:01:51.907" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this still might be a problem. A lot of questions I start to answer get put on hold or closed by the time I finish answering, and I'm usually surprised by the reasons provided to explain why the item was put on hold or closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The badge system assigned me the task of asking a new question. This seemed like an easy assignment at first, but it quickly became challenging. I kept coming up with a subject line for my question, but the system kept warning me that my question would probably get put on hold or closed. This was a bit discouraging and even frustrating. After awhile the focus was no longer on figuring out how to ask my question, but instead on how I should format my question in a way that would be acceptable by the system. It seems like a problem when content is lost due to formatting requirements. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't get me wrong. I understand the value of a well phrased or worded question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't understand is necessary for so many questions to get put on hold or closed. Is this just an attempt to maintain question quality and flag ones that seem like a waste of time to read or reply? If so, I honestly don't mind reading the all of the questions. I also don't mind trying to answer a question, even if I have to make assumptions about what the OP is asking. I'm working from the idea that they may not know enough about the situation to ask well formed questions, but maybe it's similar enough to my own experiences that I can still understand what they are trying to ask and how I can try to help them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66823" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T18:01:51.907" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4481" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4536" CreationDate="2017-05-02T17:46:07.303" Score="8" ViewCount="394" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/90266/traveling-time-count-as-working&quot;&gt;Traveling time count as working&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was closed for being a legal question. However, I believe this falls under the types of legal questions that most HR professionals should be able to answer. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1856/what-is-asking-for-legal-advice/1861#1861&quot;&gt;the Meta discussion&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Legal advice is asking a question that needs an answer by a lawyer,&#xA;  not a HR manager or career guidance counselor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the &quot;legal&quot; question is something that our site's target audience&#xA;  should be expected to know the answer to, then the question is OK for&#xA;  the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example, I would consider the following &quot;legal&quot; questions OK for&#xA;  the site because they are things that HR managers should know the&#xA;  answer to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is it legal to discriminate against smokers in one's company in    Canada or USA?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What is an equal opportunity employer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What are the rules regarding electronic distribution of income data forms for tax reporting in the United States?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is about the interpretation of FLSA rules, which any HR professional should know. I believe that this question should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-05-03T09:22:43.927" LastActivityDate="2017-06-12T16:24:25.573" Title="(REOPENED) Reopen &quot;Traveling time count as working&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4482" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-07T14:18:49.530" Score="-1" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/16993/vietnhi-phuvan&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/16993/vietnhi-phuvan&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Consider the  ID above I just saw that he has only one reputation while having so much of badges how is this possible ?&#xA;What is the ban for ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59933" LastActivityDate="2017-05-07T17:57:43.773" Title="What is this cool down ban for?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2017-05-07T18:38:57.933" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4483" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-07T14:27:55.397" Score="0" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/90555/40085&quot;&gt;HR and work emails forwarded to private email - can they be used in a court of law?&lt;/a&gt;) has been put on hold for being company-specific. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the question is not company-specific because in the UK, companies don't get to define grievance procedures. There is a standard best practice which is legally binding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can this question be reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40085" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-05-07T18:17:17.840" LastActivityDate="2017-05-07T18:17:17.840" Title="Reopen question on forwarding emails to personal address in the UK" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4482" CreationDate="2017-05-07T17:57:43.773" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Exactly as the notice says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This account is temporarily suspended to cool down. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link there leads to this blog post by Jeff Atwood: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/04/06/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/04/06/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why the user has 1 reputation despite so many posts is also clearly explained in the blog. The link is included in the notice exactly because curious users can read the blog and get more information. The fact that you are still wondering how it is possible means that you have not read the blog. Don't do that from now on, meta is not a substitute for reading the information that is already made easily available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, IIRC the reasons for the cool down notice are known only to the moderators, the user, and SE employees. The moderators and SE employees will not divulge the reasons to other users, so that leaves you with the user. You are free to consider contacting him to know the exact reasons. However, I personally recommend you to avoid wasting any further time over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-05-07T17:57:43.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4485" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4486" CreationDate="2017-05-08T18:37:17.910" Score="1" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;On my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/90443/how-can-i-handle-my-company-docking-my-pay-due-to-poor-quality-of-previous-consu/90445#90445&quot;&gt;How can I handle my company docking my pay due to poor quality of previous consultant&amp;#39;s work for customer?&lt;/a&gt; I got the following notice (this is what it says in my Inbox):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some of the information contained in this post requires additional references. Please edit to add citations to reliable sources that support the assertions made here. Unsourced material may be disputed or deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have never seen such a message before, neither the message itself nor the box where it is put in. Where does it come from? Is it from a moderator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if so, what am I supposed to do? I honestly have no idea what this is referring to. The only thing which was pointed out in the comments was to point out which law it was breaking. But given that this comment only has (at this point in time) three upvotes and a contradicting comment has 18 upvotes I thought the vast majority agreed with me that this is not necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16272" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T19:05:46.230" Title="Notice about &quot;information contained in this post requires additional references&quot;" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4485" CreationDate="2017-05-08T18:45:46.020" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having looked at a few more answers though I removed the notice on yours and added the general notice to the main question &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it from a moderator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. Only moderators can add these notices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I honestly have no idea what this is referring to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I added this notice. The reason I added it is that your answer starts out with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Deducting your pay is obviously illegal&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;If they still insist, make them aware that this is illegal&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a fairly substantial claim to be making without any supporting evidence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's &quot;obviously illegal&quot; it should be straightforward to expand on how specifically it's illegal in the OP's jurisdiction as well as how it relates to their contract.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2017-05-08T19:05:46.230" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T19:05:46.230" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4487" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4488" CreationDate="2017-05-09T03:15:43.773" Score="5" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;This initial version of this question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/90570/3192&quot;&gt;Team members ignore their work and are not being held responsible. How can I restore order?&lt;/a&gt;) received a lot of comments stating that it read like a rant, and asking for it to be edited. The question has since been edited and reopened. As a result, several comments are now obsolete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the best approach to deal with reporting these obsolete comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; obsolete comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; comment as &quot;Other&quot; and write a note to the moderators to clean up all obsolete comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; comment, and then @mention a moderator in &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; comment asking for the other obsolete comments to be removed. (This only works if a moderator has commented already on the post, which holds in this case.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take it to chat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-05-11T18:33:49.807" Title="How to report multiple obsolete comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4487" CreationDate="2017-05-09T03:30:40.693" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best approach is to flag &lt;strong&gt;the post&lt;/strong&gt; and explain what's going on.  Obsolete flags can be harder to evaluate (there's no way to tell us why you think it's obsolete), so a custom flag is better in a case like that.  You can leave a custom flag on the first or last relevant comment and that works ok too, but we can't respond to flags on comments -- so if we want to communicate with you about it, it's harder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pinging an individual moderator in a comment is less efficient because instead of a flag that any moderator might see, you have to wait for that specific moderator to see the ping.  If you're going to flag anyway, there's no need to also leave a mod-targeted comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a custom flag is the best choice to communicate the issue, and a flag on the post is a little more flexible than a flag on one of the comments.  If you think the reason for obsolescence is obvious and there are only a few comments, we'll probably figure it out if you flag them as obsolete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditDate="2017-05-11T18:33:49.807" LastActivityDate="2017-05-11T18:33:49.807" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4481" CreationDate="2017-05-13T14:00:20.580" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is about the interpretation of FLSA rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it is not. Your question clearly states:&quot;I did xyz, do I deserve payment for this?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a specific legal question to an individual situation. The FLSA for example does not forbid to get paid for things that you don't have to get paid for. There might be a legal ground on which you could claim the right to get paid for, even if this right does not exist due to the FLSA. This would require a complete review of your legal situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, there might be even exemptions that are true for your individual situation that you don't even fall under FLSA rules. Again, this would require a complete review of your individual legal situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot see that your question equals the same spirit of questions that you provided as on-topic example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41896" LastActivityDate="2017-05-13T14:00:20.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4492" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-15T15:30:51.683" Score="11" ViewCount="385" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What I did&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I left a comment on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/90752/16724&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; explaining that I downvoted because of the recommendation for cussing out your superior. It also contained a speculation about what a preceding comment was intending to say. My hope was that the author would revise the section, but even if not, I believe that the criticism and clarification of a previous comment are a legitimate use of comments. (The section has not been revised, so it's not obsolete.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It read something along the lines of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@WGroleau I believe slebetman may be saying that the stream of profanity would cause this. (That is, quitting could become fired with cause.) I was going to upvote this post until I saw that part. If you would quit over this, just hand in your resignation and make it clear that this treatment is the reason why. Don't cuss out your superior. -1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm certain that isn't &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; exactly what the comment said, but it's the general idea. I have no problem if someone can obtain and wants to post the exact text to discuss it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What I'm confused about&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment has been deleted (potentially twice, I'm not 100% sure), while the comments preceding it (and apparently following it) remain. So my comment was singled out for deletion. Why? I do not understand why the comment would be flagged, much less what justification for deleting it there was. Did I do anything inappropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why this isn't a dupe&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been suggested that this is a dupe of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/72/16724&quot;&gt;What &amp;quot;comments&amp;quot; are not . . .&lt;/a&gt;, but none of the reasons there explain why it would be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are like Post-It notes&lt;/strong&gt; The comment pointed out a problem with the post, namely that cussing out your supervisor is inappropriate enough to warrant downvoting the answer, in my opinion. So it is clearly relevant.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are not for answers&lt;/strong&gt; It clearly wasn't an attempt to answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are not mini chat rooms&lt;/strong&gt; It's not chatty. It was specifically targeted to a problem with the post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are not discussion forums&lt;/strong&gt; No debating or deliberation. Just, &quot;That specific thing in your post is a problem.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are not for voting&lt;/strong&gt; No, they're not, but one of their purposes &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; for explaining problems in a post. That I also took the opportunity to express the fact I downvoted for this reason does not invalidate this fact; it's an indication of the severity of the problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are not for Meta discussions&lt;/strong&gt; Also not applicable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So none of the discussion there explains why this comment would be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Is it constructive?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that everyone reading this is capable of the making the &lt;em&gt;extraordinarily small&lt;/em&gt; mental leap from, &quot;This single, isolated part of your post caused me to downvote,&quot; to, &quot;This single, isolated part of your post should be removed or edited.&quot; I don't think that needs to be made explicit. I even suggested a more professional alternative behavior that could easily replace the unprofessional behavior mentioned in the post. Realizing that I meant that the post needed to be changed is a sufficiently small leap that I have a hard time imagining anyone not making it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, I expressed that with the exception of that &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; small part, the rest was a very good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also like to add that there's no hiding behind, &quot;It wasn't a suggestion,&quot; to suggest that it can't be criticized as problematic. (A comment here made this point.) If the author did not wish to express that they considered the behavior appropriate, there would be no need to include it in the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Is it nice?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Be Nice policy does not forbid strong criticism of suggestions/promotions/expressions of approval for unprofessional behavior. Neither does it forbid expressing that one specific unprofessional piece of an answer was the sole reason I considered the answer bad enough to warrant a downvote and at the same time expressing that the rest of the answer would have been good enough to warrant an upvote. I made no personal attacks, and I offered an alternative professional behavior. I see no reason to consider this &quot;not nice.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Comments are temporary/ephemeral&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the entire chain of comments had been deleted instead of mine singled out, I would have assumed this explanation myself. Appropriate comments are often lost amidst a large number of inappropriate ones. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2987/16724&quot;&gt;It's happened to me personally before.&lt;/a&gt; However, this time, my comment appears to have been &lt;em&gt;specifically targeted&lt;/em&gt; for deletion, while the rest of the comments around it remained. This suggests to me that somebody (a person who raised a flag and the moderator who approved) considered it more problematic than the other comments surrounding it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why am I so bothered by this?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm still left wondering why a person would flag this comment or why a moderator thought it warranted deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only speculative answer I have about why it would be flagged is that whoever flagged it simply didn't like the fact I criticized using profanity against your superior. But this is completely speculative, and it wouldn't explain why a moderator would approve the flag. However, I believe that &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; (and that is a very big if) that's what happened, the system has been abused. That's why I consider this issue important and why it's equally important for me to figure out if I'm in the wrong instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16724" LastEditorUserId="16724" LastEditDate="2017-05-17T05:13:35.110" LastActivityDate="2017-05-17T05:13:35.110" Title="Why was my comment on this answer deleted?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4492" CreationDate="2017-05-16T17:21:39.900" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You posted a comment that was not helpful with improving the current answer, was rude, and was insulting. Of course it got deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-05-16T17:21:39.900" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4494" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-16T17:29:02.977" Score="-3" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;We do not have a problem with drive by downvoting... we have a problem with people wanting to attack those who try to post a helpful answer being attacked for their efforts in the comments.  And then whining when their comment they spent all of 2 seconds thinking about, gets deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if we remove the suggestion to leave a comment on down voting then this will reduce this sort of chatter and may help improve the overall tone of comments here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I am not sure if this is something we can customize at the workplace or not but I think it would be helpful&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-05-16T17:55:43.587" Title="Can we remove the suggestion to leave a comment on down voting" Tags="|feature-request|comments|answers|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4494" CreationDate="2017-05-16T17:55:43.587" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, a little common sense could come in handy as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a constructive comment is left, that's one thing.  If a comment like &quot;This answer stinks&quot; is posted, it will get some unwanted attention, which IMO is not a bad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can downvote and post something constructive without essentially saying &quot;make this post the way I want it or I won't reverse my vote&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a significant difference between .....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;-1 this is terrible advice! &quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I think you should consider that XYZ should also be considered in your answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-05-16T17:55:43.587" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4492" CreationDate="2017-05-16T18:04:49.360" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are not for editorializing, they are for constructive criticism aimed at improving the answer.  Do we tend to deviate at times?  Yes.  Do those comments get deleted?  Also yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you leave a comment consider the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it constructive?  Does it offer advice for improvement?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it nice?  We have a &quot;be nice&quot; policy here.  If your comment isn't nice, it will certainly be deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it on topic?  Chatty, off topic comments will be deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it something you'd like to see if it were your answer?  Again, be nice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will it improve the post?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it part of a long string of irrelevant comments/chatter?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your comment was likely flagged and deleted because of #s 1,2,4, and 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, in the future, you want your comments to last, you should be able to answer yes to 1-5, and no to 6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, it's likely to be delted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if you're interested in what you posted lasting, try leaving an answer instead.  Comments are designed to be temporary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-05-16T18:04:49.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4492" CreationDate="2017-05-17T01:15:49.833" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry I missed this. Was out of town this weekend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was indeed deleted twice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@WGroleau I think slebetman might be saying you could be fired for the profanity. (I.e., it becomes fired with cause instead of you quit.) Whether or not that's what slebetman means, a stream of profanity and insults is a terrible thing to do. If you would quit over this, then hand over your resignation and make sure it straightforwardly cites the treatment as the specific cause (professionally, not with profanity). It doesn't matter if they deserve it; take the high road. -1 (I was gonna +1 until I got to that.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;WGroleau I think slebetman may be referring to cussing out your superior. (I.e., doing that may allow it to become fired with cause instead of quit.) I was going to upvote this answer until it recommended something as unprofessional as that. If you would quit over it, just hand over your resignation and make it clear that this response was the reason for it. There's no need to act unprofessionally yourself; take the high road. -1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I deleted the second one of these, without realizing the first was deleted. The reasons I deleted it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it had received a flag from someone in the community&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it reads a bit.. accusational in tone (&quot;until it recommended something as unprofessional as that&quot; comes across, I guess, pretty &quot;I can't believe you suggested this WOW&quot; - maybe that's incorrect?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comments are pretty ephemeral in nature anyways&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it was pretty discussion-y to begin with and primarily seemed to be addressed to another user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the lingering &quot;-1&quot; comes across.. a bit petty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tl;dr is don't worry about comments being deleted. Trust me, you'd have to post &lt;em&gt;hundreds&lt;/em&gt; of them like that before we as moderators would take any significant action. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-05-17T01:15:49.833" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4498" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-19T20:06:41.980" Score="-4" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask more to comment on my &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/91302/are-there-any-known-rules-or-finding-on-who-defines-the-number-of-the-hierarchy&quot;&gt;Are there any known rules or finding on who defines the number of the hierarchy levels in the team?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; question. I really do not understand why it was put near immediately on hold. Have I hit some wasp nest by chance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expected to get a summary of reasons, why multiple layers of the hierarchy are in some cases worse of better. It is also important for me to understand the reasons why does the elite layer forms: is this something necessary or at least good for the group, company or just beneficial for the elite members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These seem fully legitimate questions for me, with quite short and clear answers possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The example of the expected answers could be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are many different ways to structure a company, from flat to&#xA;  hierarchical, and everything in between or on a completely different&#xA;  scale. Each has its advantages and disadvantages, and there's always&#xA;  lots of debate in the business world about which is best. There are&#xA;  multiple different opinions on this topic (copy/pasted from the answer below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Normally many levels of the hierarchy are used in the teams where a&#xA;  moderately good decision taken quickly is better than ideal decision&#xA;  taken too late (somewhat military).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Normally levels of the hierarchy mean that many important skills&#xA;  required for this profession may only be acquired during long years of&#xA;  practice, standard education is not sufficient, so younger members&#xA;  with just standard education take the junior role. The longer the time&#xA;  to acquire all skills, the more levels of the hierarchy would be&#xA;  needed (somewhat medical).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While flat hierarchy or single leader is often more or equally&#xA;  efficient, older team members have more influence so they achieve the&#xA;  formation of the elite layer (somewhat anarchistic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, without any sources all this is opinion based. But maybe there are sources? Studies? Some references could be given?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why such answers are not possible and the question should instead be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13306" LastEditorUserId="13306" LastEditDate="2017-05-20T11:59:44.473" LastActivityDate="2017-05-23T14:02:02.277" Title="What is wrong with my &quot;levels of the hierarchy&quot; question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4499" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-20T02:36:24.440" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the site I've asked 4 questions that weren't received well by the community and so I can't post another question for four days. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I checked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/8603/leeand00&quot;&gt;my profile&lt;/a&gt;, and I only have one question with 3 down votes, so why can't I post another question?  Is the site malfunctioning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8603" LastActivityDate="2017-05-20T02:36:24.440" Title="I can't ask another question is something wrong?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4498" CreationDate="2017-05-20T03:41:56.683" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/91302/are-there-any-known-rules-or-finding-on-who-defines-the-number-of-the-hierarchy#comment269587_91302&quot;&gt;David's comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;VTC as too broad. There are many different ways to structure a company, from flat to hierarchical, and everything in between or on a completely different scale. Each has its advantages and disadvantages, and there's always lots of debate in the business world about which is best. There are far too many factors and opinions on this topic for us to be able to answer this question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;along with the reason given on the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please edit the question to limit it to a specific problem with enough detail to identify an adequate answer. Avoid asking multiple distinct questions at once. See the How to Ask page for help clarifying this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;are pretty clear answers to why this was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I expected to get a summary of reasons, why multiple layers of the hierarchy are in some cases worse of better&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see how this would be an answer to your question, which currently is asking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Apart from the leader that has a clear role (someone needs to organize the work process, a self-organizing group, even if possible,&#xA;  must work very differently), are there any known rules, principles&#xA;  which define the number of other levels in the team? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is it such a thing as the possible to calculate optimal number of the hierarchy levels? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Or maybe the noticed regularity which kind of jobs or groups tend to have many/few levels?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be beneficial to focus your question on a real problem instead of effectively asking for an opinion poll of multiple topics.  I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; you might be able to reword it as, &quot;how can I determine how many levels of hierarchy an organization should have?&quot; though that's still very broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It feels like you are asking about a solution, too, if so I'd encourage you to take a read of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/66377/193412&quot;&gt;the XY problem&lt;/a&gt; as from having read this meta question a few times and the linked question as well, it feels like we're missing the core problem motivating the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-05-20T03:41:56.683" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4501" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4513" CreationDate="2017-05-21T18:44:14.660" Score="1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/91219/3192&quot;&gt;My manager is burning out, how can i help?&lt;/a&gt;) was closed as &quot;questions require a goal we can address&quot;. The title makes the goal amply clear (OP wants to help the boss who is burning out), so I assume this means it is a goal &quot;we&quot; cannot address? Why not? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-05-26T02:14:00.847" LastActivityDate="2017-05-26T02:14:00.847" Title="(REOPENED) &quot;I want to help my boss who is burning out&quot; doesn't have a &quot;goal we can address&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4502" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4503" CreationDate="2017-05-22T09:21:10.823" Score="-3" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Describes the rationale of asking I think well enough&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explains why the asker (maybe wrongly) assumed that the question is on topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enumerates the possible answers the asker would accept.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is exactly wrong with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4498&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this meta question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (not the original question)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13306" LastEditorUserId="52713" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T14:38:07.400" LastActivityDate="2017-05-23T14:38:07.400" Title="Why exactly was my meta post &quot;What is wrong with my “levels of the hierarchy” question?&quot; downvoted?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4502" CreationDate="2017-05-22T11:34:42.827" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As linked by Draken, voting is different on meta. I assume you got downvotes because it appears like you're being deliberately obtuse when it comes to the reason your question was closed. The close reason is incredibly clear: it was too broad. Most people also found it unclear, as mentioned in the comments, but the question we could identify was &quot;how do I structure a team?&quot; which is just impossible to answer in a satisfactory manner in our Q&amp;amp;A format. As I mentioned on your original meta question, this is a subject people write books about. Your idea that this can have simple and short answers is rather bizarre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally you seem to be trying to rules-lawyer on meta rather than creating the thread out of genuine interest to figure out what was wrong with your question and how to improve it. It's obvious that you think the question is good here or you wouldn't have posted it, but 5 close votes within 2 hours is a fairly clear sign that your question has problems. I'm not surprised that you were downvoted if you head to meta to prove the community wrong on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2017-05-22T11:34:42.827" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4504" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-22T14:58:33.967" Score="10" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/91400/employer-doesnt-want-to-pay-me-because-i-took-longer-than-estimated-to-finish-t&quot;&gt;Employer doesn't want to pay me because I took longer than estimated to finish the work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was closed for being a legal question. However, I believe this falls under the types of legal questions that an HR professional should be able to answer. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1856/what-is-asking-for-legal-advice/1861#1861&quot;&gt;the Meta discussion&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Legal advice is asking a question that needs an answer by a lawyer,&#xA;  not a HR manager or career guidance counselor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the &quot;legal&quot; question is something that our site's target audience&#xA;  should be expected to know the answer to, then the question is OK for&#xA;  the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example, I would consider the following &quot;legal&quot; questions OK for&#xA;  the site because they are things that HR managers should know the&#xA;  answer to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is it legal to discriminate against smokers in one's company in    Canada or USA?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What is an equal opportunity employer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What are the rules regarding electronic distribution of income data forms for tax reporting in the United States?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is about whether it is legal to not pay someone for work already completed. Any HR professional familiar with Slovakian or EU law should know the answer to this, and this one is clear enough that many non-HR professionals will know the answer. I believe that this question should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2017-05-22T16:09:29.073" LastActivityDate="2017-05-22T16:09:29.073" Title="Reopen &quot;Employer doesn't want to pay me...&quot; (REOPENED)" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4505" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-22T15:13:45.020" Score="3" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/91390/should-i-ask-for-travel-expenses-to-be-paid-for-a-position-that-later-closed&quot;&gt;Should I ask for travel expenses to be paid for a position that later closed?&lt;/a&gt; is a very good question. A few reasons why I feel it should be reopened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It does not ask for a legal advice or a company specific one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is a question that anyone who has travelled across cities/countries to give an interview would want to know about. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This addresses a scenario which is not too  uncommon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interview process in itself is a workplace related issue and I do not see how this question can be marked as off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The OP asks if he can ask for compensation from the organisation. He is not asking if the organisation has to provide compensation. Please note that there's a huge difference between the two. The former is a professional etiquette based question (is it a right thing to ask for compensation?), the later, a company policy (will an organisation bear the cost? Can't answer this).&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would request the mods to reconsider the question in hand and see if this needs to be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After receiving a couple of comments on why this question is off topic, I would like to provide the following examples of how some questions can be categorised into either &quot;company specific&quot; or &quot;seeking advice&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/90229/the-mysterious-salary-formula&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is easily company specific. But the community feels ok to have this open. How can anyone tell if a company has a formula to calculate salaries is beyond me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7617/how-should-i-deal-with-an-employee-who-has-slept-with-my-wife&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; (the highest voted question) is the best example for seeking advice on a situation at workplace. In fact, I can take the top &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;5 most voted questions&lt;/a&gt; (especially the rubber duck question!) and categorise them as 'advice seeking'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm against closing questions that are advice seeking. I'm OK when someone states a legal premise or when someone goes for a specific situation which is localised to a company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13258" LastEditorUserId="271" LastEditDate="2017-07-05T12:44:10.630" LastActivityDate="2017-07-05T12:44:10.630" Title="(REOPENED) Reopen &quot;Should I ask for travel expenses to be paid..&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4498" CreationDate="2017-05-22T17:58:15.327" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You feel so strongly about it that you created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4502/3192&quot;&gt;meta-meta post&lt;/a&gt; about it, here you go: &lt;strong&gt;your question is very hard to understand&lt;/strong&gt;, which makes it less useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I already pointed out in the comments, I read your question several times but could not understand what you were looking for. Starting off the question with &quot;It is possible to imagine&quot; was a needless use of &quot;flowery&quot; language, which made the rest of the sentence more confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question also features a single sentence paragraph, which is some 50 words long and includes two pairs of parenthesis. This is usually a good sign that the sentence is more complex than necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and since you compelled me to unleash my imagination,  I imagined your level 0 hierarchy to resemble a graph with two unconnected nodes. Then, as you can imagine (heh), your other extreme with each person at his own hierarchical level made me think of a degenerate binary tree (with only one child at each node), or in other words, a linked list. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you asked for the &quot;optimum&quot; structure, and going with the flow of my imagination, I wondered if you were looking for an algorithm to reorganize the employee reporting structure graph into a balanced n-ary tree, which is exactly what I asked you in the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That aside, you second paragraph consists of a list of unrelated questions. Such questions usually get an automatic &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot; vote from me, because this site encourages/requires each post to focus on one core issue. In this case, even those questions were hard to understand due to the choice of obscure phrasing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T14:02:02.277" LastActivityDate="2017-05-23T14:02:02.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4505" CreationDate="2017-05-22T19:18:13.173" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect the problem is right here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;should I be entitled to (or ask for) some sort of compensation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The word &quot;entitled&quot; has a legal connotation and a negative connotation for many people.  I have edited the question to remove any legal implication just asking if it is something that should be attempted.  I think that should be enough to get the question reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-05-22T19:18:13.173" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4508" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4509" CreationDate="2017-05-24T15:38:30.670" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;So a recent closed question got me thinking. When we flag something as duplicate, should we point to the 'parent' question that was not closed as duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/91515/should-i-put-weed-related-job-on-my-resume&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was recently closed as a duplicate (fair enough) but it links to a further three questions that were all closed as duplicate before getting to the main 'parent' question of this. Is it considered best practice to do this or would it be more appropriate to link to the final question directly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49709" LastActivityDate="2017-05-24T17:01:07.087" Title="Chained questions closed as duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4508" CreationDate="2017-05-24T17:01:07.087" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a number of discussions on this on main meta and also on some other site-specific metas that you can have a look at. I believe the SOP is to close it as a duplicate of the question that most suits what the new question was asking about. Often you'll have a single &quot;core&quot; question, for example about how to define working time in the US, and then a closed question that asked &quot;Does activity X count as work time?&quot;. A new question &quot;My boss wants me to do Y but won't consider it time worked&quot; should then likely be closed as a duplicate of the latter question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/291824/gold-tag-badge-holders-and-moderators-can-now-edit-duplicate-links&quot;&gt;recent update&lt;/a&gt; gold-tag badge owners and moderators can adjust the duplicate question list. We can add or remove questions and reorder them. If you feel like a particular question is missing from the list, you can flag a post accordingly. But I'd suggest doing so sparingly, pointing to a single link in the chain is usually enough in my experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2017-05-24T17:01:07.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4510" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4511" CreationDate="2017-05-24T19:29:51.643" Score="6" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading through some questions and was startled by the similarity between these two, asked by (seemingly) different users about two years apart:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/30847/how-to-handle-co-workers-leg-shaking&quot;&gt;How to handle co-worker&amp;#39;s leg shaking?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/91543/how-to-handle-co-workers-loud-voices&quot;&gt;How to handle co-worker&amp;#39;s loud voices?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a known template for this type of &quot;co-worker handling&quot; question, or would the latter be classified as plagiarism?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49730" LastActivityDate="2017-05-25T00:27:02.723" Title="Question about uncannily similar questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4510" CreationDate="2017-05-24T21:45:15.117" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suspicion is that when searching for duplicates prior to posting, the poster encountered that question.  Given that their question is clearly a duplicate many times over, I would suggest that their choice of search criteria was something like &quot;How to handle xxx&quot;, which would have thrown up the leg shaking question, rather than anything about noisy co-workers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They would have then seen that it was an upvoted question, the basic format probably appeared easy enough to adapt, so the poster simply copied and modified the text from that question to suit their needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be classified as plagiarism?  Perhaps, but I don't think that was the intent in any way.  The question is clearly a duplicate anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastEditorUserId="8388" LastEditDate="2017-05-25T00:27:02.723" LastActivityDate="2017-05-25T00:27:02.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4515" CreationDate="2017-05-25T09:41:23.963" Score="4" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/90861/3192&quot;&gt;How to politely decline a colleague&amp;#39;s wedding invitation given to you personally in office?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as primarily opinion based. However, it can be adequately answered with specific expert experience, in this case, &quot;expert experience&quot; with the Sri Lankan/Indian culture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also an on-topic question about navigating the workplace, because the OP is specifically concerned about the social consequences &lt;em&gt;at the workplace&lt;/em&gt; of declining a colleague's wedding invitation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please cast reopen votes if you agree, or post what can be done to improve this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Disclaimer: I have posted an answer to the question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="271" LastEditDate="2017-07-05T12:42:33.123" LastActivityDate="2017-07-05T12:42:33.123" Title="(REOPENED) Request to reopen question on declining wedding invitation in Sri Lanka" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4501" CreationDate="2017-05-26T02:11:16.147" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-05-26T02:11:16.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4514" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-26T19:15:05.153" Score="-7" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that a fair bit of questions could be tagged with &quot;credibility&quot; to signify that the asker is either trying to prove their credibility, or evaluate another's credibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I'm new to this site, so I am curious to see what other seasoned members think of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user53861" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:23:14.060" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:23:14.060" Title="Would a &quot;credibility&quot; tag be appropriate for this site?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4512" CreationDate="2017-05-26T23:49:05.917" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It had 3 reopen votes and I just cast the last vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-05-26T23:49:05.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4516" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-27T06:15:30.697" Score="4" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was fascinated by this new user &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/70619/votetoclose&quot;&gt;votetoclose&lt;/a&gt;. Is this a new way to cast close votes on The Workplace, or just another user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59933" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-05-27T16:11:36.923" LastActivityDate="2017-05-28T14:38:48.950" Title="Is this user &quot;votetoclose&quot; a new way to cast a close vote?" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4516" CreationDate="2017-05-27T09:40:30.100" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just another user. You can choose almost any name you like, as long as it isn't offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like it was someone who created an account for the purpose of voting to close a question, not really understanding how the site works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2017-05-27T09:40:30.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4516" CreationDate="2017-05-27T16:26:27.510" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of now, there are no special &quot;vote to close&quot; accounts, but even if StackExchange introduces one in future, you can be sure the user name will be suffixed with the diamond (♦) character. Moreover, its purpose will be clearly described on the profile. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ordinary accounts are not allowed to use the ♦ character in the user name to prevent users from misleading others or misrepresenting the site. It is attached only to moderator accounts, SE employee accounts and the special SE-administered bot account &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community ♦&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you come across more such &lt;s&gt;troll&lt;/s&gt; fascinating accounts (&quot;vote to delete&quot;, &quot;downvote this answer&quot;, &quot;ban this moderator&quot;, etc.), just note the missing diamond. Such user accounts are invariably created for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/91682/3192&quot;&gt;&quot;interesting&quot; activity&lt;/a&gt;, which you should also downvote and flag to moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-05-28T14:38:48.950" LastActivityDate="2017-05-28T14:38:48.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4519" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4520" CreationDate="2017-05-28T16:07:36.903" Score="13" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/toxic-people&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;toxic-people&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;toxic-people&lt;/a&gt; tag is presently used by 5 questions, of which 4 are closed and 1 is likely to be closed soon. This tag does not seem particularly useful, as it would mostly be used by questions aimed at complaining about coworkers. Should we remove this tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Based on the community consensus (+9/0 on question, +16/0 on Walfrat's answer), I have removed this tag from all the questions that were using it. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/19754/202356&quot;&gt;It will get removed automatically at 03:00 UTC&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:09:32.707" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:09:32.707" Title="Should we remove the toxic-people tag? (removed tag)" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4519" CreationDate="2017-05-29T07:26:42.487" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in favor to nuke because : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there are already the tags work-environment, professionalism and unprofessional-behavior to describe this problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;such a tag don't seems itself to be profesional and calling people toxic here would not pass the Be nice policy. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastActivityDate="2017-05-29T07:26:42.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4514" CreationDate="2017-05-31T07:20:33.853" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think such a tag is probably too wide and would be a meta-tag (a tag that regroup different concrete independant tags), I'll give some example probably not complete but it'll give you an idea : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Credibility about collegue/clients ? It's about socializing, handling conflicts, profesionalism and communication.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Credibility about management ? It's more about visilibity and politics and profesionalism&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Credibility on higher level (CEO,...) ? politics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastActivityDate="2017-05-31T07:20:33.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4523" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4525" CreationDate="2017-06-01T20:42:29.667" Score="6" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/92003/revisions&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/92003/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had an edit rolled back by someone other than the OP.  Based on the comment that came with it I disagree with the rollback but don't want to get into a rollback war with someone who has exactly as much right to the content of the question as I do.  How are users supposed to handle a situation like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit&#xA;Thanks to Lilienthal for clarifying the process and answering this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case rather than fight to bring this question on topic, I've asked the generic question as a separate item.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/92040/how-to-maintain-career-mobility-when-in-a-senior-specialist-role&quot;&gt;How to maintain career mobility when in a senior specialist role?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26235" LastEditorUserId="26235" LastEditDate="2017-06-02T15:04:42.967" LastActivityDate="2017-06-02T15:04:42.967" Title="What to do when you disagree with a non-OP rollback?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4523" CreationDate="2017-06-01T22:01:28.563" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally, you can edit details out, but in this particular case, you can't. The nature of that question makes those details actually very important. And answering a much more generic version of the question, in my opinion, would be much less valuable to the Original Asker. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you think this question doesn't belong on the Workplace, let me suggest that you vote to close the question, or vote to move the question to another Stackexchange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, many good questions get closed, or get moved elsewhere, simply because they do not fit the topics of a particular forum, but that's what we ultimately agreed to when joining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14577" LastActivityDate="2017-06-01T22:01:28.563" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4523" CreationDate="2017-06-02T10:02:43.143" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How are users supposed to handle a situation like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, since the roll-back was done by someone who commented on the question, you'd reply to them to try and figure out if there's common ground. Move to a chatroom if it turns into a discussion. If you can't reach consensus you'd typically start a meta thread like you did here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the issue with the &quot;context&quot; being lost in this particular question is due to the fact that it's also off-topic. OP seems to be asking for career advice and that's difficult to do without details of said career. But questions like those are entirely off-topic here so rather than edit it out a close vote would probably have been more appropriate. There's no point in cleaning up questions that are off-topic at their core no matter how much work is put into them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Broadly speaking, this level of jargon indeed does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; belong on this site. If a question doesn't make sense without a dozen &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/TLA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TLAs&lt;/a&gt; and buzz-words then it's not a very good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2017-06-02T10:02:43.143" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4526" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4527" CreationDate="2017-06-02T13:46:46.027" Score="5" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could we reopen: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/92003/specialist-roles-killing-my-ability-to-leave&quot;&gt;Specialist roles killing my ability to leave&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited the final line to bring it in-line with being on topic and removed the &quot;has anyone experienced this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is essentially how to avoid being pigeon holed in a narrow discipline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this question is about IT, I think it does bring up a very real workplace situation on how many people end up getting dead ended in their careers due to an overly specialized and narrow skillset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2017-06-06T14:07:59.797" LastActivityDate="2017-06-06T14:07:59.797" Title="Reopen &quot;Specialist Roles Killing my ability to leave&quot; (REOPENED)" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4526" CreationDate="2017-06-02T14:50:43.833" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just cast reopen vote    #5. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-06-02T14:50:43.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4528" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4529" CreationDate="2017-06-05T16:17:32.153" Score="5" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question was marked as off topic because it asked for advice. I'm new to this network so happy to try and make it on topic! I've made a decent edit (revision 2) to the question's phrasing, and would appreciate re-open votes so I can gain answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this question is still off topic, does it seem like a question which will never be appropriate or which just needs to be properly framed? If it's the former I'll just delete it and save my curiosity for another time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/92033/optional-internal-interview&quot;&gt;Optional internal interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70927" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2017-06-06T15:32:20.037" LastActivityDate="2017-06-06T15:32:20.037" Title="Reopen: &quot;optional internal interview&quot; (REOPENED)" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4528" CreationDate="2017-06-06T03:22:02.520" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have made further minor edits to the post, and expanded the title to a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-06-06T03:22:02.520" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-06T18:09:53.877" Score="16" ViewCount="352" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/92226/how-easy-is-it-to-get-away-with-borrowing-in-the-workplace&quot;&gt;How easy is it to get away with &amp;quot;borrowing&amp;quot; in the workplace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of my recent flags have been rejected. So perhaps I need to change my approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should I flag the above question if I believe it to be nothing more than trolling, and I desire to see this forum avoid falling into a never-ending troll spiral? What would be most effective?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-03-30T12:52:27.250" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T12:52:27.250" Title="How should I flag a question that appears to be the work of a troll?" Tags="|discussion|trolling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4530" CreationDate="2017-06-06T19:05:28.140" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How should I flag the above question if I believe it to be nothing more than trolling, and I desire to see this forum avoid falling into a never-ending troll spiral? What would be most effective?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, it's most helpful to just cast delete votes - this site has a pretty active community of users with 10k+ reputation (and 20k+ which allows &quot;quick&quot; delete votes immediately once a question is closed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like that which can be deleted via community vote should be done so as a first resort. Moderators will delete content (I just cast the 3rd delete vote on the question you linked) but will &lt;em&gt;prefer&lt;/em&gt; to not be the only people deleting content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, the community sets the &quot;tone&quot; here. While we moderators are most certainly opinionated and have our desires for where the community should go, generally we're not going to try to mandate policy on the &quot;squishier&quot; subjects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a practical perspective, what that means is I am much more hesitant to delete a question if it has no delete votes. I try to use my votes sparingly - I see casting a third delete vote as more my &quot;user&quot; hat but casting the first (and last) as more the moderator hat. I prefer to be my &quot;user&quot; hat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is true in terms of the flags too. Flagging a question asking for it to be deleted will &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; be declined, but flagging it saying &quot;this user appears to be blatantly trolling&quot; when there is at least one delete vote on it is far more actionable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-06-06T19:05:28.140" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4532" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4533" CreationDate="2017-06-09T08:13:07.600" Score="5" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/58657&quot;&gt;this suggested edit of mine&lt;/a&gt; did get a &quot;Reject and Edit&quot;. The subsequent editor rejecting my edit did not make any different changes from mine, as you can see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/92366/revisions&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. They did however omit some of my changes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides the two grammar corrections that did not reach the required amount of changes required for a suggested edit I further split a very long sentence in two and made some really minor (nitpicky) punctuation changes. The latter two changes were omitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have two questions I hope somebody can answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was there something inherently wrong with my suggested edit? The reason for rejection does not really resonate with me. As my main edits were adopted I feel this could have been resolved with an &quot;Accept and Edit&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there no better option to chose for rejections in a case like mine? I certainly did fix the issues despite the reason chosen stating otherwise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40539" LastActivityDate="2017-06-10T09:12:50.083" Title="Reject and Edit – [...] did not correct issues [...]. Subsequent editor adopted no additional changes" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4532" CreationDate="2017-06-09T12:29:10.753" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;That was me. I left off your &quot;really minor (nitpicky) punctuation changes&quot; because I believed they made the sentence grammatically &lt;em&gt;in&lt;/em&gt;correct without making it at all easier to understand (you shouldn't typically start a sentence with a conjunction).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I chose to Reject and Edit rather than Accept and Edit because it made more sense to me to start from scratch to make the minor revisions so I could keep the OP's original wording for the section I didn't want to change. I don't know of any standard guidance on when to pick one over the other except to decide whether it's easier to start from the changes or from the original. Honestly, with edits this minor, the difference between Accept and Edit and Reject and Edit is pretty inconsequential.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the rejection reason, that is automatically generated by SE and isn't something I specifically chose. I think that's the reason given anytime someone selects Reject and Edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-06-09T12:29:10.753" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4532" CreationDate="2017-06-09T15:29:52.993" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Was there something inherently wrong with my suggested edit? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with David's take on this. En dash to em dash conversion is technically correct but rather pedantic and usually not done or recommended online. Use of a single em dash in-line to separate a phrase is also rather controversial and the edit doesn't improve the use of parentheses, in fact making it worse by starting the next phrase with a conjunction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Formatting changes like this are controversial as we typically leave it up to the author to pick a style as long as it's consistent and doesn't make for awkward reading. Further more, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4532/reject-and-edit-did-not-correct-issues-subsequent-editor-adopted#comment12602_4532&quot;&gt;Draken commented&lt;/a&gt;, it's usually the result of trying to hit the minimum edit count. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was just the em dash or just the superfluous edits most people would probably choose to Improve, but add them together and the right call is probable to reject. The point after all is to give you feedback on your edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that being said, I do understand where your edits are coming from and believe they were made in good faith. Please don't be discouraged by this. It's good that you're asking feedback. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The reason for rejection does not really resonate with me. [...] Is there no better option to chose for rejections in a case like mine? I certainly did fix the issues despite the reason chosen stating otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As David stated, users aren't prompted to select a reason when opting for Reject and Edit. The general idea is that the post &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; need edit work but the reviewed edit didn't change enough or changed too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As my main edits were adopted I feel this could have been resolved with an &quot;Accept and Edit&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that part of your edit was considered harmful or too minor. At that point standard practice is to reject to send a clear signal to the user that the edit wasn't correct. Part of the reason behind the Suggested Edit review system is that users get feedback on their initial changes. It's only once they have enough site experience they are left to their own devices. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the fact that this prevents well-intended minor edits from people with less than 2k site rep is an unfortunate side-effect. But it prevents more problems than it creates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-06-10T09:12:50.083" LastActivityDate="2017-06-10T09:12:50.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4535" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-10T03:58:51.983" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/92468/3192&quot;&gt;How to handle a junior team member who excitedly talks about discovering something known to seniors for years?&lt;/a&gt; was put on hold because it appeared to be more of a rant. The OP did not clarify their actual issue despite multiple requests in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless, HLGEM wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/60206/dealing-with-inexperienced-and-arrogant-coworker&quot;&gt;good answer&lt;/a&gt; as a series of comments in the chatroom. That answer deserves better than getting lost in a chatroom. Hence, I made substantial edits to the question to remove the rants, if only to get HLGEM's answer in its proper place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please consider casting reopen votes if you agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-06-11T10:12:28.817" LastActivityDate="2017-06-11T10:12:28.817" Title="(REOPENED) Reopen the question on junior guy excited about his discovery?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4481" CreationDate="2017-06-12T16:24:25.573" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question was improved and reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-06-12T16:24:25.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4537" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-13T02:21:50.207" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/86452/how-can-i-develop-the-intuition-of-a-team-member&quot;&gt;One of my past questions&lt;/a&gt; has been closed by the community as been &quot;What to do&quot; type of question, and hence off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I work as an IT auditor in Information Security profession. I have been seeing improvements in more junior team members assertiveness and communication ability such as been more willing to defend one's work when challenged. However, one area junior team members still seem to be having trouble with &lt;strong&gt;is building one's &quot;sixth sense&quot; and following one's gut feelings&lt;/strong&gt; when clear evidence might not be available, be incomplete, or is conflicting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just today, I checked some work done by junior members of the team, and noticed one area in the work papers that should have prompted more investigation. This was not done. In a lot of cases, its about pattern matching, spotting anomalies in data from different areas, and asking &quot;what is missing?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can I edit my original question so it can made on topic and re-opened?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastActivityDate="2017-06-13T07:27:30.153" Title="What can I do to have this question reopened?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4537" CreationDate="2017-06-13T07:27:30.153" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As your question state, you're asking us how to develop the skills of your team members, in a very specialized domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think a question like this could be on-topic here as The Workplace address general questions here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I invite you to visit &lt;a href=&quot;https://security.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://security.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check their &lt;a href=&quot;https://security.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;help-center&lt;/a&gt; to see if your question would be on topic. If you're not sure, ask in their meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, you can use their chat if your question doesn't fit on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastActivityDate="2017-06-13T07:27:30.153" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4539" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-13T14:59:39.970" Score="2" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/92625/is-going-from-software-engineer-to-test-engineer-a-demotion/92631#92631&quot;&gt;How do I tell if a position I am being offered is a Demotion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question title is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do I tell if a position I am being offered is a Demotion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the quesiton has been edited from its original form and no longer asks for career guidance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user42272" LastEditorUserId="271" LastEditDate="2017-07-05T12:43:20.050" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T13:01:10.433" Title="(REOPENED) Reopen &quot;How do I tell if a position I am being offered is a Demotion?&quot;" Tags="|support|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4539" CreationDate="2017-06-13T22:39:05.543" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just case reopen vote #5. Nice work on the edits to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-06-13T22:39:05.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4543" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4544" CreationDate="2017-06-15T14:21:20.090" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/92625/3192&quot;&gt;Is going from Software Engineer to Test Engineer a demotion?&lt;/a&gt; was put on hold as off-topic. It was then reopened after an &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/92625/2&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4539/3192&quot;&gt;meta post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has since been rolled back to the original version. Now what are we supposed to do about it? The edit which made the question &quot;reopenable&quot; has been rolled back, so should the question remain open?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-06-15T19:47:44.343" Title="Reopened question rolled back to closed revision. Now what do we do?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|rollback|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4543" CreationDate="2017-06-15T15:09:23.953" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I rolled it back to the version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few meta posts on this now (this one, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4539/2322&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;) a blatant rollback seems a bit inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I put a comment on the question to direct future users considering rollback to first consider the meta discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-06-15T15:09:23.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4546" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-15T21:44:34.660" Score="6" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently the placeholder says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;at least one tag such as (professionalism ethics management), max 5&#xA;  tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should really remove ethics from this and replace it with resume, or interviewing as they seem to be far more popular.  In addition ethics is probably one of the most misused tags on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-06-16T12:05:26.900" Title="Change the place holder text for the Ask a question Tags" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4546" CreationDate="2017-06-16T12:05:26.900" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll agree with that. The top five tags are &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/professionalism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;professionalism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;professionalism&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/interviewing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;interviewing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;interviewing&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resume&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;management&lt;/a&gt;. The only one I &lt;em&gt;wouldn't&lt;/em&gt; use is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt;, as that one is often overused for situations that don't need it. (&lt;em&gt;How do I ask for a raise? Oh, I work in the software industry too.&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-06-16T12:05:26.900" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4551" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-16T14:57:18.867" Score="1" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related to this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4234/3192&quot;&gt;How can we motivate the asker to provide end results of applying the accepted answer?&lt;/a&gt; but seeing from the other side. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to share with the community the outcome of applying the solutions provided here. Is this acceptable here, and if so, what is the proper way to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen a few askers edit the question to post an &quot;update&quot; section. I guess it doesn't do any harm per se, but I wasn't entirely sure that is the recommended approach. I would like to hear what the community has to say about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-06-16T14:57:18.867" Title="What is the proper way to share the outcome of applying a solution?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2017-06-16T16:37:34.170" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4553" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-17T12:48:30.077" Score="2" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just posted this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/92964/26185&quot;&gt;What to do if I was tasked to get my work asigned by a coworker but he wasn&amp;#39;t able to do so?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was first thinking about posting it anonymously, but I came to the conclusion, that even if someone from my company is reading it, they would quite likely be able to identify me, but it is more likely to show my commitmend, that I'm asking a question like this on my weekend, as it would look like I'm trying to badmouthing anyone. So the first viewpoint is, &lt;strong&gt;could you help me improving the post by reducing the content that might make me look badmouthing or runting, while keeping the informations the same?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next point is(is it ok on meta to put more then one viewpoint into a post?): I'm not allowed to talk about company internas, so I tryed to me as inaccurate about that stuff as I could. &lt;strong&gt;Could anyone help me improving the post regarding to reduce company itnernas that might be leaked by it, while still holding the informatiosn about the situation correct?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the end: Is it worth improving the post or might it still be better to just request to get anonymized from it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26185" LastActivityDate="2017-06-17T12:48:30.077" Title="Could someone please help me improving my post under certain viewpoints?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4554" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4555" CreationDate="2017-06-19T14:54:30.933" Score="8" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen on some occasions, either here or on other stack exchange sites, if I attempt to add a comment to a question / answer that's received many comments, an option that appears recommending to move the discussion into chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a recent question that I'd asked, I noticed a fairly large amount of comments appearing, and wanted to request that those be moved to chat, but noticed there was no option to do so when I was looking at the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched through the help center, and tried searching for any meta questions I could find referencing this, but haven't been able to identify a clear definition of how this is supposed to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ended up flagging the post for moderator attention, asking that the comments be moved, but I feel that it may not have been appropriate for me to bring something like this up to a moderator's attention. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I wanted to ask on the meta site to get some clarification on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this something that moderators do?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it something that the community can do once a user has reached a certain amount of rep?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When should this be done?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60246" LastActivityDate="2017-06-20T06:07:06.903" Title="What's the process for moving comments into chat?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|chat|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4554" CreationDate="2017-06-19T15:25:43.047" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this something that moderators do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We often move discussions to chat here. Any post which receives 20+ comments generates an automatic flag, which we &lt;em&gt;normally&lt;/em&gt; will act on as it suggests exactly what you are mentioning here - discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it something that the community can do once a user has reached a certain amount of rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you go back/forth with someone, eventually a &quot;let's move this to chat&quot; option appears. This requires a back/forth though and I'm not clear exactly when this happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When should this be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging is fine. Honestly, it's actually nice to see someone who feels similarly about comments as &quot;they are intended&quot; by SE design. Normally we get lots of hate for deleting/moving comments to chat...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-06-19T15:25:43.047" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4554" CreationDate="2017-06-20T06:07:06.903" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, moderators can and do move them at a whim, I've seen answers with much less than 20 comments have them moved to chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2017-06-20T06:07:06.903" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4557" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-20T10:29:45.603" Score="8" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93106/leader-of-a-small-public-project-hired-employee-and-later-discovered-that-he-s&quot;&gt;Leader of a small, public project. Hired employee and later discovered that he supports a widely despised public figure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I tried to clean it up, I think the questions and answers have too much political content to remain. Thus I think this question should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we start allowing political discussion and name-calling, it will never end. Let's not go there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2017-06-20T10:44:15.973" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T21:01:16.693" Title="Should we allow political opinion to be part of the questions and answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4557" CreationDate="2017-06-20T11:11:42.150" Score="-2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While I tried to clean it up, I think the questions and answers have&#xA;  too much political content to remain. Thus I think this question&#xA;  should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the problem is that it's incredibly hard to stay impassionate and on topic when discussing this. There is a legitimate question in OP's formulations, and there is a real problem for them. Depending on their target audience, this could be a much bigger deal then the comments make it look, and there's probably some interesting advice to be had on how to mitigate that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the problem is that the cat is out of the bag now and the comments and answers have pretty much focused around that since then. One of the (now deleted by abusive flags) answers was very rude and inconsiderate. I expect more of these (or comments to the same effect) to come in since the subject of this is so politically charged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is do we want to prohibit and/or delete questions because the situation is politically charged? I'm unsure of that and lean towards no, but open for any arguments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastActivityDate="2017-06-20T11:11:42.150" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4557" CreationDate="2017-06-20T12:29:46.913" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, posts like that are in the very least flame-bait.  The question itself was a thinly veiled political hit piece.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this was a deliberate troll, but it's going to have the same effect regardless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a more broad sense, allowing political posts is only going to stir up a hornets nest of flaming and trolling.  You're going to get voting not by quality of question, but political opinion, which really defeats the purpose of SE as questions and answers are &lt;strong&gt;supposed&lt;/strong&gt; to be voted on quality not subject matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's already happening with some of the more controversial topics with political undertones, which is the Camel's nose in the tent.  Letting politicized posts, IMO, is letting in the rest of the Camel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-06-20T12:29:46.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4557" CreationDate="2017-06-20T16:20:23.887" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer addresses the broader question you asked about questions with political entanglement.  The question you linked to has &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4564/325&quot;&gt;other issues&lt;/a&gt; unrelated to politics; I'm only addressing the &quot;politics&quot; part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most people don't routinely look at edit histories and can't see deleted posts.  The current version of the question is not about specific political positions, only the existence of a political difference.  Any answers that have already gotten into the specific political issues (and aren't deleted) can be edited; any new answers (or comments) that go there are escalating and should be dealt with appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the workplace (and The Workplace) we sometimes have to deal with sensitive issues.  The answer isn't to bar all such questions; it's to make sure they stay focused on the &lt;em&gt;workplace&lt;/em&gt; problem, not the political or religious or gender or... issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions related to religious apparel, mental disabilities, gender fluidity or transition, charity fund-raising, political campaigning, etc are welcome &lt;strong&gt;if about the workplace&lt;/strong&gt; and not about the religion, illness, gender, charity, political position, etc.  These are hot-button topics for many; in the interests of maintaining a polite and professional site, people who have seen comments, answers, and edits that are no longer present should strive to set that knowledge aside and focus on the question &lt;em&gt;as it stands&lt;/em&gt;.  And if you see people trying to go there (again), don't take the bait -- flag, defuse if you think you can, and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2017-06-21T21:01:16.693" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T21:01:16.693" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4561" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-21T16:48:10.420" Score="27" ViewCount="500" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93164/what-can-i-do-if-i-have-a-massive-personal-problem-with-a-future-student&quot;&gt;What can I do if I have a massive personal problem with a future student?&lt;/a&gt; is currently on hold as off-topic.  The OP is a teaching assistant who has a problem with a student.  Because it involves a student, some people suggested moving it to Academia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question shouldn't be on- or off-topic just because of the &lt;em&gt;type&lt;/em&gt; of workplace.  We aren't The Software Workplace or The White-Collar Professional Workplace; questions from retail workers, plumbers, elementary-school teachers, dog groomers, or anybody else should be welcome here &lt;em&gt;so long as they're about the workplace aspect and not the specific discipline&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If stores, cube farms, dentists' offices, and salons are valid workplaces for our site, then so is a college campus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The present question is about a conflict between someone in a position of authority and a subordinate he didn't choose.  That's solidly within our scope.  The test for migration isn't &quot;is the other site better&quot;; it's &quot;is it off-topic here&quot;. It's not off-topic here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lilienthal &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93164/what-can-i-do-if-i-have-a-massive-personal-problem-with-a-future-student#comment276776_93164&quot;&gt;disagreed&lt;/a&gt;, arguing that academia is special.  To which I respond: &lt;em&gt;we&lt;/em&gt; can answer the workplace question here, where the OP asked a question that fits our scope.  If it turns out that the OP really needs academia-flavored customization, he can ask a new question there (drawing on what he's learned here).  He shouldn't expect, and we shouldn't try to provide, academia-specific answers because &lt;em&gt;that's not our scope&lt;/em&gt;, but interactions with other people in one's workplace &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; in our scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does on-topic-ness depend on the type of workplace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-07-03T00:45:46.443" Title="Are some types of workplaces off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|scope|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4561" CreationDate="2017-06-21T17:21:40.600" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This answer deals with the specific question linked not the general topic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My problem is not that it is happening at a school but that the problem is an interaction with a student rather than a coworker.  Because the rules for schools are actually different from those in the rest the world where if it was a customer that could just go to another store if they were refused, or a coworker could be dealt with through HR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if the question asked how he should communicate this to his superiors that is a question that is on topic.  But since that is not what is being asked but rather for a list of potential solutions he can choose from... this is off topic because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is not about navigating the work place but rather navigating the academic setting, which is why academia seems right.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is asking for a list of potential solutions, which is off topic (what to do, and asking for shopping list) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;seriousness of the accusation - Is irrelevant to the question. But again this belongs in academia because they have special rules for handling this sort of thing that do not exist in the rest of the general workplace.  But it inclusion in the question makes this feel more like a rant than a request for help.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2017-06-26T20:32:13.710" LastActivityDate="2017-06-26T20:32:13.710" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4561" CreationDate="2017-06-21T18:19:18.623" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll answer the question with one of my own:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would we be having this conversation if it were a nurse dealing with a patient, a daycare worker dealing with a child, or a prison guard dealing with the prison population?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we say &quot;yes&quot;, then we should stop kicking things to academia simply because they are working in a school environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T18:19:18.623" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4557" CreationDate="2017-06-21T20:10:49.973" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question boils down to &quot;What Business decision should we make&quot;  - That is off topic even if it did not contain any controversial stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This SE is about navigating the workplace not about doing business.  If there was a Business SE then it may be on topic there.  But it is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/161413/163292&quot;&gt;See this meta discussion!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are not hurting for content and this is not a personal thing.  This is about keeping the workplace a valuable resource for people that need help with the complexities of employment, and the workplace.  Every time we go off scope and allow it we damage that mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T20:10:49.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4561" CreationDate="2017-06-22T00:13:23.627" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just very obvious to me that the OP will get far better quality answers from academia.SE, which obsessively specializes in sticky situations with student interactions, among other power dynamics that take place against students. In fact I don't think applying usual workplace skills to a situation with a student is going to be nearly sentient enough to cross the threshold into &quot;good advice,&quot; nor would I trust the voters here to be a good determiner of a way to handle a student.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question will attract bad answers at best, compared to where else it can be asked in SE. You can keep it open if that's somehow acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user42272" LastActivityDate="2017-06-22T00:13:23.627" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4561" CreationDate="2017-06-22T17:25:26.167" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Because my earlier answer already has quite a few upvotes I decided to add this as a seperate answer rather than just expanding it.  This answer explores the broader question of &lt;code&gt;Are some types of workplaces off-topic?&lt;/code&gt; rather than the specifics of the question linked.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes &lt;strong&gt;some workplaces are off topic&lt;/strong&gt; at least as far as dealing with certian issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Legal Professionals - With regards to questions of ethics, or other activities that are regulated for this specific profession.  Any topic that requires the legal professional context to ask is going to be off topic here.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Medical Professionals - Similar to Legal Professionals&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Certified Engineering Professionals - less strictly regulated than legal or medical fields but questions about ethics, and regulated activities of &lt;strong&gt;Certified&lt;/strong&gt; engineering professionals. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Extra legal professions - Any activity that is illegal that people do for a living is going to be off topic.  Examples Prostitution, Drug Dealing, Fencing, car theft, extortion, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Violent Professions - Yes there are professions that are violent.  Police, Military, Security, Firemen, etc.  These professions have their own codes of conduct and requirements for how they should act.  Many of those requirements are contentious with those outside of that industry and sometimes even inside.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our experts are not the right audience to ask these types of questions.  Some questions are certainly on topic but most of those could be asked of a general office environment. This is not the place for them to be discussed, and our experts are not going to be able to give quality answers reliably. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Academia is not quite on this list but some academic topics do not belong here.  If the answer is very different for Academia than it would be in a general workplace then it should not be here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-06-22T17:25:26.167" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4561" CreationDate="2017-06-22T18:25:57.037" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/52048/325&quot;&gt;a customer harassing a retail employee&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/77461/325&quot;&gt;asking a client for a favor&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/1705/325&quot;&gt;volunteer team projects&lt;/a&gt;, and an &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/68112/325&quot;&gt;instructor dealing with students&lt;/a&gt;.  All of those questions are well-received, yet deal with &lt;em&gt;other people in one's workplace&lt;/em&gt; who aren't &lt;em&gt;coworkers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current question is from a teaching assistant; in my experience that's a paid position.  So the TA's students seem analogous to the customer in the first linked question and the students in the last.  TAs don't get to pick their students any more than retail employees get to pick their customers.  The TA's question is about &lt;em&gt;dealing with a conflict of interest that affects his job performance&lt;/em&gt;.  This all feels like the same category of problem to me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some aspects of the OP's problem might be specific to academia, like that quitting isn't really an option.  (Though it's also not much of an option for foreign workers on company-sponsored visas, in some places.)  If the problem is &lt;em&gt;fundamentally academic&lt;/em&gt;, then it belongs on Academia.  But the fact that it's an academic workplace or that there are students involved doesn't automatically make it off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2017-06-23T15:39:24.020" LastActivityDate="2017-06-23T15:39:24.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4568" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-23T15:50:28.320" Score="-5" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a relatively new user of this site, I have noticed a recurring pattern of questions being closed as off topic when they appear to be perfectly valid, and answerable questions. As it stands, when asking a question here I have absolutely no idea if it's going to be closed as being off-topic or not. I know the sorts of questions that are supposed to be off-topic, but I see so many posts that are closed as being off-topic for reasons that appear to be completely subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently had &lt;a href=&quot;https://productivity.stackexchange.com/questions/17946/what-do-you-do-when-your-absolutely-fried-and-cant-get-any-work-done&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; moved to Personal Productivity. I don't feel this was appropriate as I don't have problems with being productive, I just had a problem with being burnt out in work and not knowing how to act appropriately. To be fair, the question is suitable for Personal Productivity but I think it's much more suitable for the workplace; as many people have this problem as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of this, there needs to be a &lt;strong&gt;much clearer&lt;/strong&gt; divide between what is and isn't suitable for the Workplace. It's far too ambiguous for newer users. In fact, with the way the Workplace is currently, it should be renamed to Professionalism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what I think on this is a question should only be closed if it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can't be answered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is a legal advice question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Isn't related to the workplace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other clearly measurable items&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69870" LastEditorUserId="69870" LastEditDate="2017-06-23T15:56:12.790" LastActivityDate="2017-06-25T11:37:49.120" Title="Closing questions as &quot;off-topic&quot; when they aren't completely off topic" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4568" CreationDate="2017-06-23T18:22:57.660" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, we get questions like this on meta regularly from new users. It takes some time and experience to get a sense for this site's culture and to realise what type of questions are useful and can be meaningfully answered. I'm aware that I'm certainly part of the site &quot;establishment&quot; by now and I realise that this may come across as the &quot;veterans&quot; being set in their ways and refusing to consider fresh new ideas, but I've seen it happen often enough that I can safely predict that you'll change your mind in a couple of weeks' time if you stick with the site. You're not the first and certainly won't be the last.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Regardless of this, there needs to be a much clearer divide between what is and isn't suitable for the Workplace. It's far too ambiguous for newer users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do welcome ways of improving the somewhat nebulous nature of the off-topic close reasons, but that's historically proven difficult given that we have to combine some close reasons and have limited room to work with. Have a look through the meta site for past threads on this topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2017-06-23T18:22:57.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4568" CreationDate="2017-06-24T19:22:39.743" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll offer a suggestion, which is that on the SE sites you should evaluate whether something is on or off topic regardless of the existence of other SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I have a technical Ubuntu-related question that may be on topic (and have similar Qs) on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Unix &amp;amp; Linux, and Ubuntu Hugs or whatever it's called. I'll ask it in whichever I think the best place is, and it works fine.  No one closes them and says &quot;well, that's ubuntu, you must go ask it at the smallest leaf node in the network.&quot;  Depending on the scope of the question, it may be more or less effective to ask it on any of those. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If something's on topic for Workplace then it's on topic.  If it would &quot;fit better&quot; somewhere else, feel free to suggest that to the OP, but that's not a valid close reason IMO.  Keep in mind that those other sites may have a different opinion of their exact scope than you do (at RPG.SE we get questions migrated that we have to kick back regularly). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's on topic, keep it open.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's on topic but aligns well with another SE, mention it, but that's not grounds for closing it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's off topic, close it regardless of whether there's another relevant SE site or not. Offer a migration if there is. If there's not, let them eat forums.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That works for us well on RPG.SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastActivityDate="2017-06-24T19:22:39.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4571" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4573" CreationDate="2017-06-25T01:50:37.130" Score="8" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed in my flagging history and when flagging certain posts, occasionally I'll have access to 'Rude or abusive', and other times I'll be able to flag as 'Rude or offensive'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I notice in my flagging history page, the 'Rude or abusive' flag appears with a red background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are the differences here, in when one is shown as an option over the other?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why does 'rude or abusive' appear with a red background when I look at my flagging history?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60246" LastActivityDate="2017-06-25T04:16:44.153" Title="Difference between 'Rude/Abusive' and 'Rude/Offensive' flags?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4571" CreationDate="2017-06-25T01:52:31.750" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realized after reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3977/comment-flagging-please-try-to-use-an-appropriate-flag-type&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question that it was 'comments' that had 'Rude or offensive', and questions / answers that had rude or abusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60246" LastActivityDate="2017-06-25T01:52:31.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4571" CreationDate="2017-06-25T04:16:44.153" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you noted, comments have &quot;rude or offensive&quot; and posts have &quot;rude or abusive&quot;.  This might be an unintended difference; they used to both say &quot;rude or offensive&quot; and somewhere along the line SE changed &quot;offensive&quot; to &quot;abusive&quot; -- apparently in just one of the two locations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I recall, the change was made for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some people understood &quot;offensive&quot; to mean &quot;offends me personally&quot;, as opposed to &quot;would offend a reasonable member of this community&quot;.  So they wanted to remove that ambiguity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They wanted to provide clearer options for posts that aren't exactly &quot;offensive&quot; but still abuse the system in some way.  I'm having trouble coming up with examples that aren't any of spam, rude, or very low quality, but I recall discussion about the idea so it must be happening somewhere.  Or maybe this was a first step to phasing out &quot;very low quality&quot;?  I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-06-25T04:16:44.153" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4568" CreationDate="2017-06-25T11:37:49.120" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;All social discussion is subjective by definition, anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to sell something. :-)  Unfortunately, while a question you post may look perfectly good to YOU, the issue may look different to others who interpret it differently, and they get to decide what your post means, not you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, however, one of the depressing tactics in discussion is trying to suppress the opposition.  There's some people on this forum who just like to shut down or move away what they don't like, rather than face it, and when you are new and have little authority and they have been here a while, they are going to win.  Just be patient, keep coming back, and working away at it, and eventually you will be where they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52569" LastActivityDate="2017-06-25T11:37:49.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4575" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-26T14:33:47.730" Score="2" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just voted to close this question.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93587/psychometric-test-based-on-deductive-reasoning-and-orientation&quot;&gt;Psychometric Test based on Deductive Reasoning and Orientation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I gave was the &quot;advice&quot; one, but I'm not sure.  Is this a good reason, or is there a better one to list when we get these types of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-06-30T03:25:08.773" Title="What is a good reason to close &quot;How do I find...&quot; style questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4576" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4577" CreationDate="2017-06-26T23:07:38.073" Score="14" ViewCount="407" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen several posts from a specific user on the site that seem to be right on the border of being rude or offensive over the past couple of weeks. Some things seem slightly over the line, and other things seem like they're just edgy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, I flag, but I've been debating whether or not I should actually address this issue with the person on one of the posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand, I &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; don't want to put that user's business out there and call them out, saying &quot;here and in a couple of other posts I've seen, you've repeatedly said things that could be seen as rude or offensive, can you work on rephrasing these things?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, it's an issue that I feel needs to be addressed, because it is a problem that's re-occurring multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, I came to the conclusion that this person may actually not be aware that this behavior can be taken as offensive: their demeanor on the site is otherwise helpful, and they do put good effort into answering others questions / comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With no way to directly message someone, and wanting to avoid just repeatedly flagging their posts as abusive or something along those lines, I feel like there aren't a lot of options here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to let this user know that other people might be seeing what they're saying differently, and taking offense, so they can avoid possibly taking on several flags inadvertently in the future. At the same time, I feel like it would be inappropriate for me to directly say something - in a comment for example - because it might start another useless argument in the comments section of a post, and might not be taken genuinely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's the standard for dealing with this sort of thing, here?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I just flag an individual item for moderator attention, and leave a detailed comment? Is that something they'd be able to provide feedback on? I'm fairly confused about what the right course of action here would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60246" LastEditorUserId="60246" LastEditDate="2017-06-26T23:15:31.110" LastActivityDate="2017-06-27T16:16:29.207" Title="How do you address a user that's consistently rude/offensive but may not know it" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4576" CreationDate="2017-06-27T04:11:03.867" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flagging rude or non-constructive comments/posts is the best approach.  When there's a pattern of flags, moderators can and do try to address the problem with the user.  Don't worry about giving the user a bad rap sheet; think of it instead as providing data.  Moderators love data; it means we aren't just relying on our own impressions of the subset of site content that we see.  The community collectively sees more than the mod team can ever see ourselves, so if there's a problem out there, let us know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to leave more of an explanation instead of using the built-in flag reasons, go ahead and use a custom &quot;moderator attention&quot; flag.  If you want moderators to be able to respond to your message, flag a &lt;em&gt;post&lt;/em&gt; -- for comment flags our only options are to delete the comment or dismiss the flag (no other feedback is possible).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't call out the user in a way that could escalate.  If you think you can offer gentle, careful, non-confrontational guidance, you can try that, but remember that you're doing it in public.  If the other user doesn't take it well, it's best to back off.  If you both use chat, then that can be a good tool to use too, especially if you create your own room.  While chat is public, a conversation in chat is less prominent than stuff happening on the main site, so it can feel less threatening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I optimistically believe that most people who come across as rude or otherwise offensive don't mean to and aren't aware of the effect they're having.  Thoughtfully and carefully letting them know is a gift (I hope someone would do it for me were I causing that kind of reaction).  It's also a lot of work, so if you don't feel up to it, please feel free to kick it over to the mods to deal with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/138173/162102&quot;&gt;Etiquette for posting civil and informative comments&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-06-27T04:11:03.867" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4578" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4580" CreationDate="2017-06-27T12:57:56.733" Score="15" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question in question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93663/my-area-of-expertise-at-a-new-job-is-apparently-being-outsourced&quot;&gt;My area of expertise at a new job is apparently being outsourced&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments indicate the lack of an explicit question as the closing reason. Personally, I felt there was an implicit question - but edited the question to make it explicit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having done that, there are now two votes to re-open, so it seems the edit has been somewhat successful - but am I 'allowed' to vote for re-opening; I have the ability - but should I exercise it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagreed on the closing (despite understanding the reasoning) - but if I vote for re-opening, am I not basically assuming my edit solves the problem? Should I not leave it up to others to evaluate whether my edit is sufficient - or may I effectively vote on my own edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34059" LastActivityDate="2017-06-27T14:42:44.737" Title="Voting for re-opening after having edited a closed question. Is that OK?" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4578" CreationDate="2017-06-27T13:07:31.093" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;but am I 'allowed' to vote for re-opening; I have the ability - but&#xA;  should I exercise it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. That's basically the standard protocol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for taking the time to attempt to improve the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2017-06-27T13:07:31.093" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4578" CreationDate="2017-06-27T14:34:00.167" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not only are you allowed, but you are explicitly &lt;em&gt;encouraged&lt;/em&gt; to cast reopen vote after improving a post.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can even go one step further and create a meta post to request reopen votes from other users. Include a short explanation of how your edit improves the post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/reopen-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reopen-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reopen-request&lt;/a&gt; tag on meta for exactly this purpose. As a community, we should use it more often. Consider taking a look at some of the questions with that tag if you need some reference for making your own post!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-06-27T14:42:44.737" LastActivityDate="2017-06-27T14:42:44.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4576" CreationDate="2017-06-27T16:16:29.207" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you create a chat room and mention the user in question there, they will be notified and given a link to the room. This will technically be a public conversation, but in practice nobody will see your discussion unless they search for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be a good idea to discuss the situation with a mod first, or maybe even let the mods do the talking. Depending on the person you're dealing with, they may not want to listen to a simple user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't see the problem with calling someone on the comment they just wrote. Just don't imply a pattern of behavior (e.g. &quot;Please stop posting rude comments!&quot;), bad intentions (e.g. &quot;Please stop harassing the OP!&quot;), and try not to sound paternalizing (e.g. &quot;Please calm down!&quot;) as this can easily escalate. I would just go with something like &quot;Isn't that a bit rude?&quot; or &quot;That was harsh even by my standards!&quot; and let the user think about it. In my experience, this is often enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37016" LastActivityDate="2017-06-27T16:16:29.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4583" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-28T13:48:05.023" Score="7" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93696/is-it-unethical-for-me-to-not-tell-my-employer-i-ve-automated-my-job&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; has 18 answers and counting.  Is there a limit to number of answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not should there be a limit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26028" LastActivityDate="2017-07-11T15:05:41.707" Title="Is there a limit to number of answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4583" CreationDate="2017-06-28T14:05:07.457" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the answers are not quality, they will get down-voted and eventually deleted.  Putting a limit will not increase the quality of answers, just make people rush to get their answers in before the limit is reached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edited to add that of those 18, 1 has been deleted, two more have delete votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community keeps on top of things, and is quick to remove the trash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2017-07-11T15:05:41.707" LastActivityDate="2017-07-11T15:05:41.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4583" CreationDate="2017-06-28T14:22:18.047" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The SE software does not impose a limit on the number of answers a question can have.  Either all the answers contribute something, or some of them should be downvoted and possibly removed.  The community is responsible for doing this maintenance.  Ours does a pretty good job of that, though occasional reminders aren't a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-06-28T14:22:18.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4583" CreationDate="2017-06-28T18:28:51.757" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If not should there be a limit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no good reason to limit the number of answers. What purpose would that serve?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2017-06-28T18:28:51.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4587" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-29T19:36:43.440" Score="3" ViewCount="243" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is seems like the mods here might be getting a bit frustrated with all the extended discussion going on in the comments. Is this accurate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post is mostly going by the assumption that this is a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there's also a bigger problem here in terms of how people think of comments as a whole - often useful clarification will take place there by the author with no intention of that ever making its way to the post (which is supposed to be the intention, no?), which often causes it to get lost in the other hundred comments in the case of some popular posts. Comments as a whole also often aren't focused around making the post more useful, but possibly just adding some tangential information. The below proposals could help with this too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I see it, there are, broadly speaking, a few areas that can be improved:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Improve &amp;quot;move to chat&amp;quot; functionality&lt;/strong&gt; (and/or the chat UI)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposals to improve &amp;quot;move to chat&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Add a &amp;quot;chat&amp;quot; button on &lt;strong&gt;every&lt;/strong&gt; post (next to &amp;quot;add comment&amp;quot;, right above the comments or next to edit, flag, etc.), which would take you to chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Add a &amp;quot;move to chat&amp;quot; checkbox below or next to &lt;strong&gt;every&lt;/strong&gt; comment box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposals to improve chat UI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think for the above to be successful, a fundamental part of it needs to be integrating chat into the page itself. When using one of the above, one of these needs to happen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A new light-weight dialog pops up where the chat takes place.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are 2 tabs (below each post): one for comments, one for chat. Chat uses a scrollbar and would hopefully be about the same height as the unexpanded comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More extreme proposal:&lt;/strong&gt; Remove comments entirely, use only chat, the idea being to greatly encourage people to actually edit useful information into chat instead of relying on the comments staying easily visible. Maybe we should start with one of the above and aim for this if it that works out really well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the above assumes persistent chat - I think currently chat rooms get locked after some period of inactivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Change how we describe comments&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw a proposal about this on Meta Stack Overflow some time ago, I think (it might've been an answer to something else).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic idea is to stop calling them &amp;quot;comments&amp;quot; and call them &amp;quot;clarifications&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;requests&amp;quot; (as in &amp;quot;request for edit to post&amp;quot;). Those are perhaps not ideal, but that's the basic idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think something like this might be necessary to not confuse people with the chat improvements suggested above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Building on this, we might have different &amp;quot;sections&amp;quot; of comments, one for clarifications, one for meta (e.g. discussion on-topic-ness), etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Change requirements for posting comments&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Higher reputation requirement?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Some other activity requirement?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Rate limiting comments (severely)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is probably a bit too extreme and overall not a good way to address the problem, as the requirements would presumably be way too high or strict for it to actually work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposal:&lt;/strong&gt; Ignore the 100 reputation association bonus when determining commenting privileges. This does actually seem like it might do the site good, although that perhaps defeats the point of the association bonus and it probably won't help nearly enough (as chatty users often seem to have a few hundred or thousand reputation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Improve flagging experience&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume the flagging experience here is the same as on Stack Overflow, as in plenty of &amp;quot;you can only flag every 5 seconds&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;you can only load the flag dialog every 3 seconds&amp;quot; madness. This generally makes it a huge pain for me to flag more than &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; comment (but maybe I'm just weird like that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can use a custom flag on the post itself or any comment, but this makes it more work for the moderators to remove individual comments as opposed to just scrapping all the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would one of these proposals in itself fix all the problems? Probably not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposal P(referred):&lt;/strong&gt; Allow multi-comment flagging without needing to open the dialog every time. My initial ideas are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a &amp;quot;flag comments&amp;quot; button to every post or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a &amp;quot;also flag other comments&amp;quot; checkbox to the comment flag dialog.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After selecting the reason and click &amp;quot;Submit&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Flag Comments&amp;quot; or whatever, these would both proceed to allow you to select any number of comments, which will all be flagged for the same reason, with a submit button somewhere (fixed at the bottom of the screen, presumably).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be good to allow multi-comment flagging with different reasons, but I can't think of an elegant way to implement this visually currently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposal M(oderate alternative):&lt;/strong&gt; Rework the comment flag limits, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10 flags every 60 seconds (and also show time remaining in error message), or no limit once you get to some reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No limit on the flag dialog, presumably also making a dialog open a local operation (I assume it needing to talk to the server is currently the reason for the limit).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposal C(an also help):&lt;/strong&gt; Allow mods to keep individual comments while scrapping the rest in one go - if I'm not mistaken, currently mods can only delete individual comments or all comments, which might make it a lot of work to keep 1 or 2 comments and delete 100.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notify users when they've been flagged too much&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have an exact proposal here, but some sort of &amp;quot;maybe stop posting so many non-constructive comments&amp;quot; message should be sent to individual users, either automatically or by moderators, when a lot of their comments are deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Actively discouraging comments&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a user posts a comment, show a message anywhere from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are already X comments on this post, are you sure your comment is necessary and wasn't already mentioned?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;kbd&gt;Yes, post it&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;No, cancel&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this comment ask for clarification or add some other vital information?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;kbd&gt;Yes&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;No, post it to chat&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;Cancel&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might be fairly irritating, but that might be justified as users are way too easy-going with comments currently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former suggestion is much like what currently happens when trying to post an answer when there are already a few answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any other proposals for how to improve any given part or other parts that could be improved, feel free to post a &lt;s&gt;comment&lt;/s&gt; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can add mockups if necessary, but this post is already seems too long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-07-31T20:27:24.750" Title="Comments are not for extended discussion - long-term solution discussion" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|comments|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4587" CreationDate="2017-06-29T20:58:04.900" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of this has been proposed on Meta.SE, so in the interests of drawing attention to existing proposals and helping us find gaps where no proposal exists, here are some links.  (Disclosure: I've participated on most of these, which is how I was able to find them so quickly.  I'm sure there are more.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Proposals to improve &quot;move to chat&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/288572/162102&quot;&gt;Let's make it easier to get a room&lt;/a&gt; -- shouldn't be hard; the backend work has already been done!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/272433/162102&quot;&gt;“These comments were moved to chat” doesn't discourage further comments; let's be more direct&lt;/a&gt; -- should be easy; it's just a comment template.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/272438/162102&quot;&gt;And block participants from further comments for a little while&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/266693/162102&quot;&gt;Could mods have “add comments to chat” to supplement “move comments to chat”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Proposals to improve chat UI&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  There are 2 tabs (below each post): one for comments, one for chat. Chat uses a scrollbar and would hopefully be about the same height as the unexpanded comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I've seen an MSE proposal for inline chat (separate tab on the post) but I can't find it.  Fastest way to find it might be to write up a new proposal and wait for someone to find the dupe. :-)  (I don't have time right now; if somebody does this, please add the link here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Change how we describe comments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/256967/162102&quot;&gt;Change “comment” to “critique or request clarification”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/278906/162102&quot;&gt;Change the name to not be &quot;comment&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Change requirements for posting comments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/278859/162102&quot;&gt;Can we add some friction for exploding comment threads?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/171223/162102&quot;&gt;Can we get a comments only lock?&lt;/a&gt; -- one possible solution to the previous request, though I'd like to see velocity-based auto-blocking too so we don't have to wait for a mod to see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/279098/162102&quot;&gt;For protected questions, require local reputation to comment&lt;/a&gt; - though I think most of our comment problems are not from drive-bys but from our active users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Improve flagging experience&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see a proposal for atomic flag groups -- a way to indicate that several comments are part of the same &quot;incident&quot;, with mods able to handle them together.  Flagging them individually is tedious for the flagger; flagging the post when not &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; comments should be purged is tedious for the mods, as we have to figure out which ones you meant.  I want users to be able to check off #s 4, 6, 9-14, 17-39, and 42 and tell us &quot;those ones right there should all go&quot;, and I want a mod who agrees to be able to click &quot;make it so!&quot; and have it be so.  &lt;s&gt;I'm not aware of a proposal for this.&lt;/s&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/299107/162102&quot;&gt;MSE proposal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For moderators: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/281680/162102&quot;&gt;How can we make comment moderation one-pass instead of two-pass?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2017-07-31T20:27:24.750" LastActivityDate="2017-07-31T20:27:24.750" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4575" CreationDate="2017-06-30T03:25:08.773" Score="1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Off Topic&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question does not appear to be about the workplace within the scope defined in the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you can either type in a custom reason or choose one of the predefined... it doesnt really matter as long as it is off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-06-30T03:25:08.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4591" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4592" CreationDate="2017-06-30T14:49:11.730" Score="-1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we make it greener, or make the colour of the voting button a different colour entirely? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought I had seen an accepted answer on question because my down vote blue is not that far off from the accepted blueish green. On other stack exchange site, the accepted answer colour is very different from the voting colours. On The Workplace SE, it just kind of blends in with everything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastActivityDate="2017-06-30T19:21:36.123" Title="Can we make the accepted answer check mark greener?" Tags="|discussion|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4591" CreationDate="2017-06-30T19:21:36.123" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I really don't think this is a major issue.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I do agree that the checkmark and downvote look somewhat similar similar, I think the only way you could confuse them is if you scroll past without actually stopping to look at the answer. An accepted answer is always listed first among the answers, unless the page has been updated while you are viewing it. The only way you should confuse a downvote for an accept is if you have downvoted the first answer. Confusing an accept for a downvote is more likely, though if like me you sort answers by votes, I would remember if I downvoted the highest voted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In either case, any possible harm that might occur from confusing the two should immediately be cleared up by anything more than a passing glance. While the two symbols might appear similar, the situations in which they could be confused are rare and &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; easily cleared up. &lt;strong&gt;I don't think any action needs to be taken.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-06-30T19:21:36.123" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4561" CreationDate="2017-07-03T00:45:46.443" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always thought of it this way: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Employee/ Office Environment/ Management questions = &lt;em&gt;Workplace.SE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93803/is-it-unethical-to-quit-a-job-soon-after-receiving-my-annual-bonus&quot;&gt;is it unethical to quit a job soon after receiving my annual bonus&lt;/a&gt;. Applies to any employee of any career&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93971/colleague-is-writing-hours-he-did-not-work&quot;&gt;colleague is writing hours he did not work&lt;/a&gt;. While the premise is for software dev teams, I think the question applies in general to any team in the workplace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specific Work related/technical questions = &lt;em&gt;particular.SE site&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question posted by Miss @Monica Cellio : Dealing with students has always been a technical part of teaching, hence academia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The questions posted by Sir @Richard_U: All are specific technical questions in their respective careers, and should be asked in the proper SE (1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) Yes, I feel that these are also technical questions even if this is about dealing with other people. Unlike coworkers/managers, these people are the direct subject of your work and these should have been discussed in the appropriate &lt;em&gt;Ethics&lt;/em&gt; subject of that particular field of work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12484" LastActivityDate="2017-07-03T00:45:46.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4595" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4596" CreationDate="2017-07-04T12:09:22.117" Score="5" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged a posted for moderator recently that was marked as a duplicated. After the post was marked, the user made significant improvements to the post. Because of this, I flagged it as &quot;other&quot; and explained that I felt the dup should removed from the post. My flag was declined stating &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;declined - flags should only be used to make moderators aware of&#xA;  content that requires their intervention&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to be flagging things that ought not be flagged, so what is the correct action for me to take in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastActivityDate="2017-07-05T16:14:49.493" Title="How to &quot;flag&quot; a question to be re-opened" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4595" CreationDate="2017-07-04T12:37:22.083" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something to be aware of is that moderators almost never reopen posts unilaterally.  I've never done it and never seen it happen in my two years as a mod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The action to take if you see a post that has been improved to the point that it should be reopened is to put a post here in meta.workplace explaining &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it is no longer a dupe/should be reopened.  The community can then choose to reopen it or keep it closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I'm explaining this is that the custom flag requesting a moderator to reopen is not an appropriate use of a flag as there's nothing we will actually do about reopening using our mod powers; its a function of the community moderation that will determine if the question is now on topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the flag was correctly declined :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2017-07-04T12:37:22.083" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4597" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4608" CreationDate="2017-07-04T13:05:51.867" Score="3" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93923/is-it-unethical-for-me-to-not-tell-my-employer-i-finish-my-job-in-10hrs-per-week&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; has undergone some serious revision since is was marked as a duplicated. While I agree the question sounds similar to the dup, let me explain why I believe it should be re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His contract does not state hours of work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP is an exempt employee meaning they collect a salary rather than paid per hour&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP is actually doing more work that what was asked of him in this case, where in the dup, OP did not do anything more than the 1 thing he was assigned&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no question of dishonesty or inserting bugs into anything (which was a main component of the dup)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP is still available to work when asked. In the dup, OP was out with his son&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In light of these facts, I think it should be reopened. Because he is paid as a salary worked with no defined working hours, I believe that itself is just cause for reopening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastActivityDate="2017-07-07T02:46:49.200" Title="Re-open this question?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4583" CreationDate="2017-07-04T21:45:23.520" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea of an arbitrary limit, as others have noted, wouldn't have a significant positive impact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is possible for questions to be 'locked' to prevent additional answers, comments, edits, etc. If this happens, then while the post is locked, no additional answers can be added, so in  effect this would 'limit' the number of answers on a question if it were locked for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, the below excerpts are from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/locked-posts&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a locked post?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A post which is &amp;quot;locked&amp;quot; cannot be modified in any way. Locking prevents...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;...voting on the post (including close/reopen votes for questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;...editing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;...commenting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;...answering (for questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;...flagging (though &amp;quot;in need of moderator intervention&amp;quot; flags are still allowed, except in the case of Historical Significance locks - see below)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posts can be locked either temporarily or permanently, by Moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the reasons for locking a post are fairly limited:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When should a post be locked?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, temporary locks should be used whenever modifications to a post are causing serious problems on the site. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit wars&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Extended bickering in comments (but see: a guide to moderating comments)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A controversial post that is under discussion on meta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Permanent locks should almost never be used, with the exception of those imposed by the system itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no mention here of locking a post because there are a ton of low-quality answers being added, and the others here have touched on a possible reason for that, which is that the community should be able to review, flag, vote on these answers so that they're deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there were many, many low-quality answers being added to a post, I'd flag for moderator attention, and if it were causing serious problems for some reason, it's possible they could lock the post. However, I don't realistically see a situation where that would occur in comparison to just letting the community moderate the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60246" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-07-04T21:45:23.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4599" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-05T13:49:45.507" Score="2" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am referencing this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/94300/what-questions-should-i-expect-during-a-python-dev-interview-over-the-phone&quot;&gt;Python Interview Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question showed zero research effort, so in one of my comments I used a &quot;&lt;em&gt;Let me google that for you&lt;/em&gt;&quot; link.  Is that over the top for this type of question?  Is the use of these links allowed under any circumstances?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:  I agree with this comment &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions with an answer that is trivial to find on Google are not&#xA;  helping the SO community. They are generating superfluous reputation,&#xA;  lowering the bar for asking genuine questions, and generally wasting&#xA;  people's time. Furthermore, the answers to these questions are almost&#xA;  always summarized, plagiarized or synthesized from the Google search&#xA;  results. Posting a LGTFY link is like tough love. It points the user&#xA;  to the right answer and does it in such a way that they will hopefully&#xA;  turn to Google for simple questions and SO for their more difficult&#xA;  questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;by @Eric on this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15650/ban-lmgtfy-let-me-google-that-for-you-links&quot;&gt;Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2017-07-05T15:08:57.317" LastActivityDate="2017-07-05T15:41:07.380" Title="Let me google that for you" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4599" CreationDate="2017-07-05T14:23:43.937" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always found them to be on the needlessly rude side. You can get the same message across by linking to an actual google search, rather than going through lmgtfy. I would say the use of lmgtfy violates Rule #1 of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be nice policy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rudeness and belittling language are not okay.&lt;/strong&gt; Your tone should match the way you'd talk in person with someone you respect and whom you want to respect you. &lt;em&gt;If you don't have time to say something politely, just leave it for someone who does.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-07-05T14:23:43.937" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4599" CreationDate="2017-07-05T15:41:07.380" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with David's take on this. While I can get behind the &quot;tough love&quot; angle, ultimately you're expending some extra effort on crafting and copying a LMGTFY link when you could have just commented &quot;&lt;em&gt;Did you try [Google / searching the web / researching the topic yourself]?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; That's much more direct and clear and also won't confuse people who would genuinely benefit from being pointed to online search results. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at it like that, I feel like that extra little jab at the user's expense pushes this just barely into &quot;harsh for the sake of being harsh&quot; territory. Which means that I'd probably leave your comment alone if I happened to see it, but that I'd likely delete it if it was flagged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, context matters here. If the OP put obvious effort into his question, as seemed to be the case here, &lt;strong&gt;it takes very little effort to try and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;be helpful&lt;/a&gt; instead of dismissive&lt;/strong&gt;. Only JaneS bothered to tell the user why he was getting downvoted. Everyone else started a meta discussion which included another mention that the OP was wasting everyone's time. I'm not surprised he deleted his question. If it was someone new to the site I imagine we wouldn't be seeing him again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2017-07-05T15:41:07.380" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4595" CreationDate="2017-07-05T16:14:49.493" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4596/325&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, see the guidance in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/reopen-questions&quot;&gt;What if I disagree with the closure of a question? How can I reopen it?&lt;/a&gt; in the help center, specifically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[stuff about editing and the reopen queue]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, you can:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave a comment on the question itself calling for it to be reopened. Be detailed: explain why the question shouldn't have been closed, don't just assert that it should be reopened. Be constructive: name-calling is as likely to drive folks away as it is win them to your cause. Remember, anyone on the site with at least 3,000 reputation points can vote to reopen a question - even if a moderator closed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Be sure that you've read the close notice and any comments on the question so you can address any concerns raised there. Addressing the concerns often means editing the post, which any user may do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a moderator (user with a ♦ symbol after their name) closed the question, then you may flag it for moderator attention. Again, do this only after editing and include a detailed explanation of why it should be reopened. There is more than one moderator, and moderators do reconsider their decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have at least 3,000 reputation points, vote to reopen yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Item 3 used to suggest flagging, so longer-term SE users might remember that and be doing that.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/283993/162102&quot;&gt;This was changed&lt;/a&gt; in December 2016 to narrow it.  If we mod-hammered it closed we're more willing to mod-hammer it open after the problem is fixed, but if the community closed it, then as Jane said, we're pretty much never going to unilaterally reopen it.  Use the usual tools (including meta and chat) to pursue a community reopen instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-07-05T16:14:49.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4603" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-06T12:24:03.950" Score="15" ViewCount="577" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have had multiple meta discussions recently (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4561/are-some-types-of-workplaces-off-topic&quot;&gt;this by Monica&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4597/re-open-this-question&quot;&gt;a reopen request&lt;/a&gt;) which are effectively asking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should questions exclusively about the &lt;strong&gt;academic&lt;/strong&gt; workplace be on topic here?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has also been ongoing for a while now as I understand - confusion and lack of clarity regarding what to do with these types of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, I'm a bit hesitant to immediately migrate questions which are nearly exclusively about the academic workplace, mainly because as a site I do not think we've established this to be the case. We also fairly frequently get custom flags on questions from a variety of users recommending migration to Academia. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/94752/2322&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; just picked up 3 &quot;migrate to academia&quot; flags, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm opening this discussion to get a better feel for what as a community we want to do with these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, I am talking about questions which:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Relate to academic hierarchical structures (whether interpersonal questions, career types of questions, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Involve student workers reporting to academic supervisors (RA/TA, thesis student/advisor issues, hourly employees, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have questions over working hours within an academic environment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are primarily about navigating the academic setting (questions about job titles, promotions in academic environments, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are probably more specific types, but these are the ones I can think of offhand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2017-08-07T14:24:10.477" LastActivityDate="2017-08-07T14:24:10.477" Title="Let's talk academic questions" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4603" CreationDate="2017-07-06T12:48:45.773" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that if a problem is &lt;strong&gt;exclusive&lt;/strong&gt; to academia, then yes it should be migrated, but just &lt;strong&gt;because&lt;/strong&gt; the work environment is academia doesn't make it off topic any more than a question about a coworker who uses bad coding technique is making the maintenance coder's job more difficult should be kicked to code review or stack overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A difficult student as a problem could go either way in the same way a legal problem could go either way if it's an HR matter.  If it's a minor legal matter that could be answered by someone in HR, we keep it, if not, we kick it to legal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lesson plan shouldn't kick something out any more than a project plan.  I think we've been a bit gun-shy about academia because some of the questions could be borderline, but the gut instinct of many seems to be if it has anything to do with a school or university, then... Academia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For reference, I am talking about questions which:&#xA;  •Relate to academic hierarchical structures (whether interpersonal questions, career types of questions, etc)&#xA;  •Involve student workers reporting to academic supervisors (RA/TA, thesis student/advisor issues, hourly employees, etc)&#xA;  •Have questions over working hours within an academic environment&#xA;  •Are primarily about navigating the academic setting (questions about job titles, promotions in academic environments, etc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of these are comparable to an office environment.  Student workers vs interns, hierarchical structures are in both, advisors to HR, working hours, titles et cetera are all comparable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These, IMO should all fall under TWP.  Most of us at TWP are white collar with many of us also being IT so we as a group may lack specific knowledge in Academia, but we would also be just as unfamiliar with shift work at a factory or a loading dock, or anything else out of our depth.  This hasn't been an issue IMO because we don't have truckers, for example, asking questions about their swindle sheets and weigh stations.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect if we suddenly got an influx of questions from paralegals, we'd have a rush to move things to law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we need to take on these questions and not be afraid of them because we may be unfamiliar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, perhaps there is a way to get more people from Academia over here to answer some questions?  Just throwing that out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-07-06T12:48:45.773" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4603" CreationDate="2017-07-06T12:49:31.017" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, the standard should always be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it &lt;strong&gt;Off-Topic for The Workplace?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then ask, is it On-Topic on Academia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And only then should we migrate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31777" LastActivityDate="2017-07-06T12:49:31.017" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4603" CreationDate="2017-07-06T12:53:29.270" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me there are two similar criteria which are required for questions in an academic setting to be on-topic here at the Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question should be able to transfer to another work environment and still make sense&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question must &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; contain relationships or critical aspects that are treated differently in academia.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give some examples, questions that I think would be on-topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interactions between a teaching assistant and the professor (or any two paid individuals)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interactions within a research group, as this is essentially a work setting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about working hours, policy, salary, applications, interviews&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions I think are off-topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interactions between students and professors/TAs in a teaching or advising environment (not working together on a research project)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions related to writing or publishing papers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about applications, interviews, or policy which focus on academic-specific aspects (Should I list all the classes I've taught on my CV? Should I report a colleague who is marking up one student's grades?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A grey area for me is interactions between students, for example in a group project. I think these could possibly be answered here, but will likely depend on how the question is framed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To look at the two questions you linked in particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/91215/what-can-i-do-if-i-have-a-massive-personal-problem-with-a-future-student&quot;&gt;What can I do if I have a massive personal problem with a future student?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one for me is clearly for Academia, because it is about the interactions between a teacher and a student. This relationship is not one that you find in any other profession, and is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the same as a client or a subordinate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93923/is-it-unethical-for-me-to-not-tell-my-employer-i-finish-my-job-in-10hrs-per-week&quot;&gt;Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I finish my job in 10hrs per week?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this one is off-topic here. The question is clearly about how to deal with reporting hours worked each week, depending on how it's defined in the contract. This is something that could easily be transferred to another work environment (and in my opinion is actually a duplicate of the other existing question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-07-06T12:53:29.270" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4603" CreationDate="2017-07-06T19:53:49.953" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think that the moderators should override the community judgement in this matter.  Unless the question is creating problems that require it to be locked/closed/etc then the Moderators should allow the community to decide if it belongs here or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question gets closed off topic but is an otherwise good question then yes they should shop the question to Academia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the community decides they want it here then they question should be allowed to stay with out moderator action, again barring extraordinary circumstances that require intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no impetus right now to declare the entire scope off topic or on, and I do not think either direction would be the right choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TO BE CLEAR&lt;/strong&gt; this is not saying that mods should not take action when it is clearly required.  Or that they should always keep their hands out of this topic.  Just that they should not feel compelled to take any action because the Workplace location is Academia unless it is clearly off topic or a bad question for here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2017-07-06T21:45:51.667" LastActivityDate="2017-07-06T21:45:51.667" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4597" CreationDate="2017-07-07T02:46:49.200" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is still a &quot;What should I do?&quot; question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it ethical or not is only constructive if you take it to the implied question of should I tell my employer what I have been doing?  - or - My employee is doing this do I need to correct it?  Those are off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The philosophical question does not belong here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This back doors into what code of personal ethics that you have do you feel I should use to evaluate?  Which is clearly asking for opinions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree it is no longer a duplicate... and maybe never really was. That does not mean it should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-07-07T02:46:49.200" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4609" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-07T12:55:23.480" Score="7" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/94232/employer-wants-me-to-write-down-i-accept-the-termination-on-my-termination-pap&quot;&gt;Employer wants me to write down &amp;quot;I accept the termination&amp;quot; on my termination paper&lt;/a&gt; was closed as being a legal question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the question itself doesn't ask &quot;is this legal&quot;, which would obviously be a legal question that has no place here. The question is more &quot;what should I do&quot;, which seems on topic, even if the answer might come down to &quot;consult a lawyer&quot; (at least partly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My argument is as follows: how should someone know if they need to consult a lawyer? Isn't it reasonable to not know that this is a situation where a lawyer needs to be consulted, thus making it a reasonable not-so-legal workplace question (even if the answer is somewhat in another castle)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastActivityDate="2017-07-17T07:29:29.853" Title="Should &quot;what should I do&quot; with an answer of &quot;consult a lawyer&quot; be closed as a legal question?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|legal-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-07T13:02:31.400" Score="4" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/94428/are-there-proven-approaches-for-creating-a-healthy-work-relationship-with-huberi&quot;&gt;Are there proven approaches for creating a healthy work relationship with huberistic and self entitled individuals?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's on hold, and I think there may be something in there worth saving, but not without a heavy edit.  I have an idea, but I don't know how much help I could do with an edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this one a lost cause or can it be saved with some edits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T10:30:55.780" Title="can this question be saved?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4609" CreationDate="2017-07-07T14:54:01.940" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the one who asked the question I think it's important that comments like &quot;consult a lawyer&quot; are handled neutral for those two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maybe the one who asked the question doesn't even realizes how bad&#xA;the situation is and that a lawyer is needed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Depending on the country speaking to a lawyer costs you to much for&#xA;such cases - in my country you can expect about 1500$ costs for the first hour of talking to a lawyer. Often then you rethink that idea.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shouldn't get closed as legal question but - if needed - as off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69991" LastActivityDate="2017-07-07T14:54:01.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4612" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-07T17:21:05.720" Score="2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;For this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/94456/3192&quot;&gt;NSR Certificate Verification&lt;/a&gt;, I suggested in the comments that my older answer here &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/80174/3192&quot;&gt;If I don&amp;#39;t have a relieving letter from a job, should I exclude those years worked from my total experience?&lt;/a&gt; would be helpful&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I read the older question (which I had edited too) and my answer again, and realized in hindsight that I might have screwed up the editing to an extent. In particular, one line near the end of the linked question &quot;Could this action get me blacklisted in NASSCOM?&quot; has been covered by about 1/3rd of the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I now think that although the topics of &quot;alternatives to relieving letter for proving work experience&quot; and &quot;background verification by NSR&quot; are closely related, it would be better from our site's perspective to not bundle those two together into one post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this refactoring, marking questions as duplicates would be more effective, as it would lead users to their answers sooner. This is particularly important in case of new users, who might be confused as to why they are told their question on NSR verification has answers elsewhere, but most of that question is focussed on something else, and the answer greets them with several paragraphs about alternatives to relieving letter and how to handle the company lowballing you on the salary offered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this kind of &quot;refactoring&quot; allowed here? If yes, how should I go about extracting the NSR verification part out of that answer? If no, does anyone else see the above as an issue, and if so, what alternatives do we have to fix it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: I am also wondering if &quot;alternatives to relieving letter&quot; should be further split apart from &quot;how to deal with company lowballing you due to lack of work experience proof&quot; for reasons similar to above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I could not cast a duplicate close vote because I had already retracted my wrong close vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-07-07T17:21:05.720" Title="Should I &quot;refactor&quot; my answer into separate answers? If yes, how?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4610" CreationDate="2017-07-10T07:35:27.300" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No need, it already has a perfectly suitable answer, taking it off hold will not garner it a better one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2017-07-10T07:35:27.300" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4610" CreationDate="2017-07-10T15:48:30.537" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only way I can see is to significantly reign in the scope of the question.  Currently it wants a single method that works every time in every scenario...  That is not how people work.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First the OP needs to define what Productive and Successful means to them.  If the OP just wants the problem child to just churn out more widgets that solution is vastly different to the one where the OP wants to change the problem child so that they no longer have their obnoxious habits.  As are some other options in the middle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second How can I change someone elses behavior questions just do not work here.  They tend to be discussions and people post answers and get comments like I have already tried this and it didnt work... then the response well try again differently... Oh I had this problem too we tried X but it didnt work... 5 single line answers of things to try with no explanation... etc  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These type of questions work on Reddit, 4chan, and Forums but not on a site like this where we focus on quality answers not guesses and discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-07-10T15:48:30.537" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4615" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-11T15:40:08.257" Score="3" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/94752/allegations-and-discriminations-agains-a-phd-student&quot;&gt;Allegations and Discriminations agains a PhD student&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; just came in and is currently on hold. The OP says the question was asked at both Academia and Law and was recommended to ask over here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should be done with this question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think as originally posted it was far too long and difficult to understand, so understandable it would have been closed on the other sites. The revised summary is much better, but I think the best version is somewhere between the two. Right now it's off-topic for any site, but I think there's a good question in there somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main question is, where does it belong? I think the short version of the question is clearly Academia and not Workplace - it's about a PhD student and harassment from their adviser, including issues regarding grading and other university departments. A lot of the aspects here involve some serious legal matters, and while legal questions are not on-topic on either site, I think Academia would be able to offer better recommendations for student legal resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The options as I see them are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave question closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit to bring on topic and keep at The Workplace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit to bring on topic and migrate to Academia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Migrate to Academia and let them bring it on-topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;#3 makes the most sense to me, though it's also the most work for the least benefit to The Workplace. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T17:46:27.013" Title="Another Academia question" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4615" CreationDate="2017-07-11T15:44:51.957" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I posted on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/94752/allegations-and-discriminations-agains-a-phd-student#comment284681_94752&quot;&gt;on the question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't know what your question here is. It seems like you are effectively asking for legal advice? But it's not really clear to me? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what they are asking, short of legal counsel. It &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; reads like a request for affirmation/support, but like I said, I'm not really sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-07-11T15:44:51.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4615" CreationDate="2017-07-11T16:22:29.483" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are right, the long version had no place anywhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before we migrate this, I think we need to find out what type of answer they are looking for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is regarding navigating new advisors, and how to do that properly, I think this is a prime candidate for Academia. If they are looking for legal counsel, then it should be edited and sent over to Law SE. If none of those are true, I think it may need to be closed unless they can ask it in such a way to be on topic for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastActivityDate="2017-07-11T16:22:29.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4618" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4619" CreationDate="2017-07-12T16:35:47.583" Score="4" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this in the help center:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who can put questions &quot;on hold&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Users with 3000 reputation can cast up to 24 close votes per day. When&#xA;  a question reaches 5 close votes, it is marked [on hold], and will no&#xA;  longer accept answers. Those users may vote to reopen questions the&#xA;  same way. Each user may only vote to close and reopen a given question&#xA;  once. (For example, if you vote to close a question that is closed and&#xA;  then later reopened, you cannot vote to close it again.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: Are the number of votes needed to reopen a question once it's been edited equivalent to the number of original close votes?  If not, how many votes are needed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73580" LastActivityDate="2017-07-13T09:52:06.967" Title="How many users must vote to reopen a question that is on-hold?" Tags="|support|closed-questions|reopen-request|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4618" CreationDate="2017-07-12T17:25:51.567" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It takes 5 reopen votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly this isn't specifically said in the help center anywhere I can find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-07-12T17:25:51.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4620" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4621" CreationDate="2017-07-12T18:05:41.123" Score="3" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/94763/how-to-determine-the-best-way-to-give-notice-when-manager-is-absent&quot;&gt;How to determine the best way to give notice when manager is absent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Details aside, the main idea is about how and when it is necessary to give notice in person rather than over the phone/through email.  I changed the question from a request for specific advice to a more general request for information to consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the answers and comments here are well-written and could potentially be useful to other people besides me but I'm not sure if other changes are necessary first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73580" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-07-26T06:22:02.587" LastActivityDate="2017-07-26T06:22:02.587" Title="(REOPENED) Is my question salvageable" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4620" CreationDate="2017-07-13T07:35:50.723" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question has been reopened now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-07-13T07:35:50.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4622" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-13T08:09:02.423" Score="-2" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ensnarled by votes and comments on this answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/94935/42272&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/94935/42272&lt;/a&gt; but I deal with this often around here. I'm close to deleting my account over pretty persistent comments and answers that bias the content on this site away from circumstances where a woman might be treated differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen any way to deal with this. I just find it too exhausting to be riddled with complaints that an answer is sexist if it invokes the existence of gender, or suggests that women might face a concern in the workplace that men do not. I kind of love the format of a StackExchange site but I don't like volunteering effort into advancing people's careers when community participants put the brakes on reaching women in the workplace. There's other communities that have other problems in how they structure Q/A, but I don't really see putting time into one where I have to avoid writing of concern to women.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, the question concerned a woman being alone in a room with a man and making an ambiguous joke about the woman calling for help. I found it pretty difficult to write gender-blind advice, just like I find it difficult to pretend that answers should be gender blind when reality is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is probably just a rage quit&lt;/strong&gt; because I'm pretty acclimated with the community's attitude on this category of problems. Posting on meta is no different, and I mostly know that every layer of this community is way too proud of itself for doing nothing for this category of problems. I have a crapton of professional experience at companies that make gender equitability a business priority, not an agenda, and I really can't emphasize enough how shitty it is to have that experience shuttered down whenever it adds real value to the situation, &lt;strong&gt;by users who simply put do not know what they are talking about and ought to be leaving their politics and offendability aside&lt;/strong&gt; when someone with experience dealing with issues of bias in the workplace offers expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't care that this community is mostly used by men, but my problem is that it is almost entirely moderated by men who &lt;em&gt;place an outstandingly high burden of proof for gender as a thing that exists and matters&lt;/em&gt;, far exceeding every other issue, because they have had to deal with gender far less than they realize and don't see how there could be any problem they are not aware of, and are offended by the suggestion that there is and call that sexist. Not only do I have to address the poster, but I also have to address the throngs of moderators, who basically have zero education in issues of gender and instead of curiosity or humility pile on their offendability, pride, and accusations of sexism. This is a lot of work I have to do just to address the OP!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also shitty to throw away a &gt; 10k account, which has taken a lot of time and been a source of pride on the times when I've really nailed an answer. But 5% of the time I have an answer where experience in gender issues is required and have to decide whether to throw that away or get in some other argument about how acknowledging gender as a topic is not sexist (and today I had to spell out that I wasn't accusing &quot;Clark&quot; of being a rapist, which seemed pretty evident to me by the fact that I didn't do that.) And it feels like a huge violation of my integrity to pass over circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just a pretty big violation of my integrity knowing that the 5% of the time where talking about gender is really the right thing to do in an answer, I have to cut that out and throw it away. This probably sounds extreme but I feel like I'm helping men out, because men form the overwhelming majority of moderation on this community, and sometimes women when they get a chance to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly this only makes me confident y'all will be worthless when a man actually stops by here to discuss an issue that is best understood by gender where they are on the victim side. I am not worthless in those situations but &lt;strong&gt;I have already been accused that because I am willing to talk to &lt;em&gt;women&lt;/em&gt; about gender, I will not talk to &lt;em&gt;men&lt;/em&gt; about gender.&lt;/strong&gt; This is pure polemics and I don't like dealing with nonsense about how I'm sexist for acknowledging gender when it affects a woman because that somehow signals I won't acknowledge gender when it hurts a man, which is false, and something I'v had to dispel repeatedly and am sick of dispelling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really my only remaining question is whether this complacency of free for all moderation by a mostly male community with strong politics when it comes to whether gender issues can be discussed rolls all the way up to StackOverflow. To me there's a difference between &quot;Yes, there's a problem&quot; and &quot;The moderation clearly produces the most equitable outcome possible, and you are sexist if you complain about that,&quot; because I like knowing which of the companies I support I also respect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see a case for staying around here if I'm the only one who thinks improvement in this area is necessary. Or even just not sexist to acknowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user42272" LastEditorDisplayName="user42272" LastEditDate="2017-07-13T15:25:49.313" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T03:41:02.433" Title="Advice for posting answers that invoke concerns of women in the workplace without always having to go back to the very basics?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="31" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4615" CreationDate="2017-07-13T08:42:56.187" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's see: advisers, formal complaints, university investigations, and wondering what anti-discrmination laws apply to a PhD student? That's all well and truly in the realm of academia. None of that is suitable for the Workplace. This is one of those scenarios where the Academic world plays by its own rules. I haven't the faintest which employment laws apply to PhD or graduate students, if any. And if they do they might not apply fully or there could be exceptions and special rules. Harassment scenarios are already a giant minefield to cover when you're talking about a regular workplace, let alone something as stereotypically dysfunctional as a university campus. A regular HR specialist wouldn't be able to answer this without considerable knowledge of and experience with the academic world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The short question is very clearly within the real of the Academic world. Whether it's also in-scope on [academia.se] is something the people there have to answer. My guess is that it's too badly formed or too complex which is why the pushed the OP to another site. Regardless, it's certainly out of our scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've only scanned the long version and the presence of that wall of text alone is sufficient reason to close it as unclear before we even consider whether there's an answerable question there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/91446/260382&quot;&gt;Golden Rule of Migration&lt;/a&gt; applies in full here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2017-07-13T08:42:56.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4618" CreationDate="2017-07-13T09:52:06.967" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: &lt;strong&gt;It takes 5 votes to reopen a question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Help Center link on the &amp;quot;[on hold / closed]&amp;quot; post notice links to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;What does it mean if a question is &amp;quot;closed&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;on hold&amp;quot;?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users with 3000 reputation can cast up to 24 close votes per day. When a question reaches &lt;strong&gt;5 close votes&lt;/strong&gt;, it is marked [on hold], and will no longer accept answers. &lt;strong&gt;Those users&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; may vote to reopen questions the same way.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators may close or reopen any question with a single vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This page then points to a more detailed help section on reopening: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/reopen-questions&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;What if I disagree with the closure of a question? How can I reopen it?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;. That says the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reopening a question follows the same process as closing a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users with 3,000 reputation can cast up to 24 reopen votes per day. &lt;strong&gt;When a question reaches 5 reopen votes, it is no longer closed&lt;/strong&gt;, and new answers may be submitted. You may only vote to close or reopen a question once. To cast a reopen vote, click the &amp;quot;reopen&amp;quot; link beneath the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators may close or reopen any question with a single vote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1 - Referring to users with 3k reputation or more, not the users who originally voted to close.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-07-13T09:52:06.967" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4622" CreationDate="2017-07-13T13:23:31.107" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, injecting gender politics into an answer is going to get a mixed response at best.  Lecturing people on &quot;proper 'ally' behavior&quot; is going to garner a response you may not be prepared for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, you got up on your soapbox for some reason instead of addressing the issue at hand, which is inappropriate behavior.  The OP's description of the behavior of &quot;clark&quot; was simply pointing out that this fellow is a jerk who lords his title over others and seems to like to push work off on others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in the OP's question, the OP mentioned that the intern didn't seem intimidated or even particularly bothered.  Your answer essentially told the OP to go on a witch hunt and to check under his bed for sexism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, and since you asked, you can take the following advice for what it is worth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep your answers relevant to the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Assume good intentions not just on the part of querants, but also on the people being described&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep your answers limited to behavior, not motive.  Trying to read intent of someone you've never met relayed as third party information over the internet is just setting yourself up for criticism.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep politics out of answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you think there is an issue on this site that isn't being addressed, raise it as a question, not in an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Understand that some of your answers are going to bomb, and move on.  It happens to all of us.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If comments are annoying you flag them and the Mods will review.  If the mods aren't deleting the comments, then you should take a closer look at your post.  The mods on this site are quick to delete comments that they have been found to be not constructive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avoid loaded terms and phrases.  Any time you drop terms like &quot;sexism&quot;, or anything ending in &quot;ism&quot;, you're going to attract down votes and comments unless you are very clear on how it is relevant to the question and not what &quot;might&quot; be happening.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Refrain from doing the same things yourself.  People are vindictive, and if you frequently comment on other answers, and people notice, you'll get the same from them. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avoid getting involved in the comments.  This only attracts more down-votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tone means a great deal here.  I once edited a question that had a -7 rating and only changed the tone and it reversed and went up to +84.  I was surprised at the dramatic change, but it did teach me to try to watch my tone as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2017-07-13T14:06:20.497" LastActivityDate="2017-07-13T14:06:20.497" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4622" CreationDate="2017-07-13T16:23:45.377" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm one of the two elected (diamond) moderators who is also a woman, just for context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, gender issues are a hot-button issue for some people -- people on &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; sides.  Some people refuse to believe that men and women can experience a situation differently.  Others insist that any issue between two people who are not of the same gender must automatically be a gender issue and not something else.  &lt;strong&gt;Both&lt;/strong&gt; of those positions cause a lot of heat, and sometimes they spill over into the positions in the middle too.  It's frustrating, and I appreciate it when people flag to let us mods know that something's going on that we should look at.  (Comments especially can fly under the radar.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Holding an entire community responsible for the non-constructive actions of a few, and to the point of rage-quitting over it (your word, not mine), seems out of proportion.  The community here is large, varied, and worldwide (even if there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; a lot of men from the US).  People will have different opinions -- which is fine -- but everybody needs to focus on being constructive.  It's extra-helpful when, in the face of provocation, people de-escalate and flag instead of engaging and helping the flames to climb higher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect (in the performative sense, not the predictive sense) people here to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Present questions and answers in as factual and dispassionate a way as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Understand that different people can see a situation differently, including that some will be concerned about a situation that others would shrug off.  You can acknowledge that concern without validating it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Be constructive and mind the hyperbole.  You can disagree with a position without making accusations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seek clarification instead of jumping to conclusions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was about gender, but we see the same kinds of issues when the topic is religion, disabilities, race, politics, nationality, and other hot-button topics.  If you find yourself saying &lt;em&gt;either&lt;/em&gt; &quot;your concern is not valid/stupid/etc&quot; &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; &quot;that's obviously because of this concern&quot;, it's probably a sign that you need to hold that thought and not post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case that prompted your meta post, we have a young, new female employee isolated with an older male one in a position of authority, another woman saying &quot;watch out for her&quot;, and little other information.  We don't know if that specific man has a track record, if that specific young woman is particularly vulnerable, if that particular other woman has history with either of them, or what.  There are possibilities that don't even involve gender &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt; but involve &lt;em&gt;those particular people&lt;/em&gt;.  It's also possible that it's primarily about gender.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are lots of possibilities, a fact that people participating in the question should bear in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2017-07-14T03:41:02.433" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T03:41:02.433" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4622" CreationDate="2017-07-13T18:17:31.993" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not what you say, it's &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; you say it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider if your answer instead was this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Make yourself available to Alice should she need you for anything. Whether her remark had an overtone or not, the danger she alludes to is an unfortunately real situation for many women. I think all you need to do is make a point of asking &quot;How are you?&quot; sometimes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is not sexist to recognize that some seemingly commonplace situations can also be dangerous situations for a woman. You do not need to incriminate anyone or discriminate against anyone to recognize this. The right thing to do is proper &quot;ally&quot; behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you would have received far fewer downvotes while effectively saying the same thing (and assuming the same thing about the people involved in the OP's situation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the key things I changed and their effect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You start off quite confrontational &quot;it's not sexist&quot; rather than answering the question, which even in my rewritten answer doesn't do much (I didn't add to your answer, just rephrased things)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By starting with the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; part instead of the interpretation part, it helps set expectations for where your &quot;it's not sexist&quot; part is coming from&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I removed a sentence about overtone that added implications to the motivations of people that added nothing to your answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I changed &quot;dangerous situations&quot; to be more descriptive and added context for &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they were dangerous &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Removed &quot;my best suggestion&quot; -- this makes your answer read like &quot;here's my thoughts about what might work&quot; rather than &quot;here's an answer to your question&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The rewording of &quot;danger&quot; to &quot;real situation&quot; ties your phrasing in &quot;can also be dangerous situations for a woman&quot; 2nd paragraph to the advice you gave, rather than making it look superfluous and unrelated commentary, particularly because of the rewording&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2017-07-13T19:03:38.343" LastActivityDate="2017-07-13T19:03:38.343" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4629" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-13T18:39:59.637" Score="6" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by this question:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4622/advice-for-posting-answers-that-invoke-concerns-of-women-in-the-workplace-without&quot;&gt;Advice for posting answers that invoke concerns of women in the workplace without always having to go back to the very basics?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Since troublesome topics extend beyond gender related issues, what is a good, overall approach to Q&amp;amp;A which touch on topics that people have strong feelings about and positions on?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/58504/how-to-deal-with-a-coworker-who-makes-hateful-comments-about-my-religion&quot;&gt;How to deal with a coworker who makes hateful comments about my religion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/55473/hidden-unseen-disability-how-to-ensure-support-is-provided&quot;&gt;Hidden/ unseen disability- how to ensure support is provided?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/75422/casual-sexism-in-the-office&quot;&gt;Casual Sexism in the office&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2017-07-15T08:40:55.070" LastActivityDate="2017-07-28T18:04:15.797" Title="What are the best ways to keep controversial topics from getting heated" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4622" CreationDate="2017-07-13T19:37:39.227" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think one point to take away from this is that you have to tread very carefully when talking about gender. People are very passionate about these issues for various reasons and sometimes simply acknowledging ends up being discriminatory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this post for example, you complain that this community is of and moderated mostly by men. However, this is an issue of diversity, and many men can have equally valid contributions to a discussion regardless of their gender. Not just in an idealistic sort of manner, but they can experience gender discrimination themselves as well. Saying &quot;we need more women to be able to bring in their viewpoints&quot; might sound better than &quot;there's too many men drowning out all the women&quot; (I know I'm being extreme).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the post you're commenting on, I would argue that mentioning that a women alone with a male can be dangerous, is very much sexism without explicitly accusing anyone in particular, &lt;em&gt;even if this fact is true&lt;/em&gt;. There are many groups of people of different races, religions, and genders and such that may by chance have statistically higher chance of being violent than others. Telling someone to be careful because someone belongs to one of these classes of people is sexist as sexism can be based in fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do however &lt;strong&gt;encourage you to continue to try to foster inclusion and diversity&lt;/strong&gt;. You just have to be extremely careful in your words and be willing to accept criticism and perform self reflection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73856" LastActivityDate="2017-07-13T19:37:39.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4610" CreationDate="2017-07-14T10:30:55.780" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;After all the edits, the OP still needs to define &lt;em&gt;self-obsessed&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;self-absorbed&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;entitled&lt;/em&gt;. These are all &lt;strong&gt;labels&lt;/strong&gt; (conclusions, interpretations), no actual things happening in time and space, so we have no idea what we are actually addressing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I at least want to see some actual examples, in my book the question is 'unclear what yuou are asking'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an answer talking about &lt;em&gt;people who think too highly of themselves&lt;/em&gt;, but is that the same as &lt;em&gt;self-obsessed&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;self-absorbed&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;entitled&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8036" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T10:30:55.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4632" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-14T14:12:01.080" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was tasked with reviewing &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/94915/66895&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; in the low quality queue. I am new to this queue, so I am uncertain how it should be reviewed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO this clearly isn't the right answer, but at the same time, there is nothing wrong with the answer itself. The user explain their opinion in a clear concise manner and it sounds like this their real opinion of how OP should handle the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this be reviewed as &quot;Look OK&quot; and let OP decide which answer they accept, or should the answer be &quot;Recommend Deletion&quot; because the answer is not correct action OP should take. I also don't think it will help users in the future who are in a similar situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T14:12:01.080" Title="How to properly review this answer" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2017-07-14T16:15:00.683" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4629" CreationDate="2017-07-14T18:13:59.823" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vote in good mods and let them do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T18:13:59.823" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4629" CreationDate="2017-07-16T18:09:12.437" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To start with, questions that invite / inspire heated debate have no place at this site. This has been unambiguously explained in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is about questions with objective, factual answers. We’ve been crystal clear about this for as long as I can remember...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Great subjective questions have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone.&lt;/strong&gt; The best subjective questions avoid the all too seductive route of ranting and flamebait. They set the right tone of constructive learning and collaboration from the very outset, by emphasizing that we’re all here to learn from each other, even if we have different viewpoints or beliefs about the right way to handle what are inherently subjective decisions. We’re not here to fight each other; that’s an enormous waste of everyone’s time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you spot that a question violates / deviates from above requirement first thing to try is to figure if it can be edited to better shape. Sometimes asker just lets unnecessary ranting out along with a reasonable question and it is easier for outside reader to find and correct that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see no way to salvage the question with an edit, then vote / flag to close in order to give asker and community better chance to deeper study and correct it, preferably before it gets &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/98026/165773&quot;&gt;polluted and &quot;content-locked&quot;&lt;/a&gt; by fastest-gun answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another case of heated debates I see happening is in comments. If the question is okay (&quot;good subjective&quot;) such debates hardly belong in there and in cases like that the way to go is to flag comments for deletion (or moving to chat if these have some merit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One under-utilized moderator tool is when inappropriate comments tend to &quot;stick&quot; to some post despite deletions to use off-topic comments lock. This is a simple feature, thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/144644/165773&quot;&gt;this guidance at MSE&lt;/a&gt; which clearly explains when to use it and when not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only technical difficulty for moderators may be that per my recollection lock default timeout is unreasonably long, like week or maybe even a month. I think it is safe to expect that locking a post for a day or two would typically suffice to cool down inappropriate debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastActivityDate="2017-07-16T18:09:12.437" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4609" CreationDate="2017-07-17T07:29:29.853" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closing a question based the answers it may generate has merit when it comes to obviously opinion-based or direct-legal questions. However, if a question could legitimately generate other types of answers as well, I don't see why a questions should be closed based on its answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50417" LastActivityDate="2017-07-17T07:29:29.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4636" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-17T13:27:13.977" Score="17" ViewCount="328" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/95235/how-to-diplomatically-reject-someones-project-due-to-their-attitude&quot;&gt;How to diplomatically reject someone's project due to their attitude&lt;/a&gt; was just closed for &quot;asking advice on what to do.&quot; Honestly, I have no idea how this applies at all. The OP is not asking us whether they should reject the proposal or not, they are asking how to professionally communicate this proposal rejection. These types of questions are at the core of what is on-topic at The Workplace. From our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leadership in the workplace (motivating people, encouraging people, making decisions, &lt;strong&gt;holding hard conversations&lt;/strong&gt;, intervening in unproductive situations, asking for and giving help, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question should be reopened.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2017-07-17T14:39:43.547" LastActivityDate="2017-07-17T14:39:43.547" Title="(REOPENED) Reopen &quot;How to diplomatically reject someone's project due to their attitude&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4637" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-17T20:26:25.617" Score="1" ViewCount="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/95268/prospects-of-switching-from-business-analyst-to-project-manager&quot;&gt;Prospects of Switching from Business Analyst to Project Manager&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I put a close vote on this question as it does pretty much exactly fit our wording of a &quot;not practical answerable question&quot;, yet that feels kind of off in this situation when this person is asking something that seems like a very practical answerable question given the skills present in this community.  This especially true as the interest in the OP seems to revolve around getting the information to make an informed decision rather than having someone tell them what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to take a run at editing this to bring it a little more in line with our guidelines.  Is this the sort of question that this close reason is made to exclude and would this and other similar questions harm our community if permitted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26235" LastActivityDate="2017-07-17T20:26:25.617" Title="&quot;What skills to take&quot; question when the experience of this community can offer meaningful input" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4638" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-17T22:21:11.457" Score="6" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/95022/client-wants-to-reduce-hourly-rate-at-the-start-of-a-new-project&quot;&gt;Client wants to reduce hourly rate at the start of a new project&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The gist of it has to do solely with billing rate and hours. It's even tagged &quot;freelancing&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see nothing here that has to do with &quot;navigating the workplace&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even after the &quot;Academia&quot; question here, I still don't understand why this is on-topic and wasn't moved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it's software-related and most folks here work with software?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it have been answered if an independent plumber was concerned about billing a client? A landscaper? An actor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would most of the questions on freelancing.stackexchange.com be considered on-topic here as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Help me understand, please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T16:22:39.427" Title="why wasn't this question moved to freelancing.stackexchange.com?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4638" CreationDate="2017-07-18T08:09:03.963" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The gist of it has to do solely with billing rate and hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, but it's not &quot;what rate should I set?&quot;. That's generally off-topic as per the help center and we usually point those people to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/896/how-can-i-determine-a-reasonable-salary-to-ask-for&quot;&gt;&quot;How can I determine a reasonable salary to ask for?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's even tagged &quot;freelancing&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, that's what it's about. We also have legal and software-industry tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I see nothing here that has to do with &quot;navigating the workplace&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contract negotiations and communication with clients about expectations or business agreements have traditionally been considered on-topic here under the &quot;Finding and maintaining employment&quot; topics mentioned in the help center. We &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; tend to avoid going too specific into the details of freelancing arrangements. I would probably redirect a question like &quot;What is the best system for billing my clients?&quot; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://freelancing.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Freelancing&lt;/a&gt; even if it could perhaps be considered on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I still don't understand why this is on-topic...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it didn't get a &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; close vote. That's a pretty strong indicator that the community considered it on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...and wasn't moved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can't speak for the rest of the team, I'd never migrate a question that wasn't closed or that I wouldn't feel comfortable mod-closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would it have been answered if an independent plumber was concerned about billing a client? A landscaper? An actor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to say &quot;sure, why not&quot;, but it's true that this kind of contract work doesn't come up here often and I would expect to see close votes because it's outside most users' area of expertise. But at the core if the question is &quot;I agreed to do X for Y$ and the client is now offering me only Y/2&quot;, it doesn't really matter what X is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would most of the questions on freelancing.stackexchange.com be considered on-topic here as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably. Looking at their &lt;a href=&quot;https://freelancing.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;current top 15&lt;/a&gt;, I'd say around 6 or 7 would be considered on-topic here. Another 4 are technically on-topic but they're the sort of question where I'd refer the OP to &lt;a href=&quot;https://freelancing.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Freelancing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2017-07-18T14:24:30.387" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T14:24:30.387" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4640" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-18T08:27:32.483" Score="-4" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been in stack-exchange for quite a few years, and have been about 10% users in quite a few sites. So I do understand the culture of the place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I have been observing recently that every post of mine has 1 downvote - no explanation in the comment. No relation between any questions or answers. Just plain simple &quot;down vote&quot;. Question is WHY? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people have a problem with question or answer, I am open to criticism. But If you down-vote, do explain what makes you frown upon that question or answer. Plain simple down votes without any reason is plain enmity than any criticism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a very bad cultural in workplace which I rarely see in other stack-exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can we do something about it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T13:29:38.860" Title="What to do with unexplained downvotes" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4640" CreationDate="2017-07-18T11:06:15.367" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The downvote button has the following text: &quot;Does not show any research; it is unclear or not useful&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you hear otherwise, you should assume that is the reason for any downvote. That's the way the system is designed to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What can we do something about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can appeal to the site designers to change the way the site works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T11:06:15.367" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4642" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4643" CreationDate="2017-07-18T11:38:59.503" Score="8" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand the concept of a bounty:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you’ve asked a good question, edited it with status and progress&#xA;  updates, and still are not receiving answers, you can draw attention&#xA;  to your question by placing a bounty on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have notice certain question getting multiple bounties. Some of which have accepted answers. Is this to reward other good answers that were not accepted (but still great answers)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am just trying to get a handle on what exactly they are used for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My interpretation of the bounty system was that it is for question that do not have accepted answers. The bounty is a way to try to get more people to answer the question in hopes of finding an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T12:33:43.133" Title="What exactly is Bounty for" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4642" CreationDate="2017-07-18T12:33:43.133" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bounty is just an additional reward. It is useful for several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It can reward answers not chosen as the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Allows to go further that the +10 reputation points that a regular user can award to an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Helps &lt;em&gt;luring&lt;/em&gt; users to a question that haven't got enough attention.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tells people that there is still interest in the question, even &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; an answer has been chosen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the other benefit of bounties is that it does not require you to be the original poster of the question: Anyone can place a bounty in any question they like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69905" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T12:33:43.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4646" CreationDate="2017-07-18T13:18:56.460" Score="0" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question is specifically about this question:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/95308/different-projects-at-the-same-company-break-them-apart-on-the-resume-or-keep&quot;&gt;Resume&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have had two very different projects over my years at the company.&#xA;  I'd like to break it into two different blocks on my resume, but there&#xA;  are two reasons I'm considering not to. 1) I had the same job title&#xA;  for both, though the job and project were different. 2) I think&#xA;  recruiters may look at the top block, see that it's only a year long,&#xA;  and not bother to look at the rest. They'll never learn that I was at&#xA;  the company for more than a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What's the best way to handle this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this is clearly a VTC off topic question, but maybe I am missing something.  Is this question really on topic and if so how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2017-07-18T14:03:27.413" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T14:03:27.413" Title="Is this resume question on topic?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4640" CreationDate="2017-07-18T13:29:38.860" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I looked at your &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/143/dipan-mehta?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;reputation history&lt;/a&gt;, where I see you got three downvotes yesterday.  All three posts were posted yesterday, meaning they were on the front page, and the downvotes were spread out over several hours.  I suspect, therefore, that they come from more than one person in the normal course of browsing the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People don't have to explain their votes, and on some sites downvoters who self-identify find themselves the victims of retaliatory voting.  If you reread the post and can see something that could be clearer or otherwise improved and you edit to fix it, then you might say that the downvote did its job.  (And its caster might even undo it.)  If you don't see anything wrong -- if it seems complete, answers the question, isn't snarky or rude, etc -- then I find it's best to shrug off a single downvote.  Isolated downvotes happen to everybody and we can't always figure out why; it's just part of life on Stack Exchange.  Be much more concerned with &lt;em&gt;multiple&lt;/em&gt; downvotes.  If you can't figure out what's wrong and nobody's commenting, you can try asking about the specific post on meta or in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T13:29:38.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4644" CreationDate="2017-07-18T13:43:27.823" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, this is definitely on topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, to quote the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;, allowed topics include (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Finding employment (&lt;strong&gt;resumes/cv/cover letters&lt;/strong&gt;, recruiters, hiring-managers, interviews, negotiations, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, as the OP pointed out in a comment, there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resume&quot;&gt;very large precedent&lt;/a&gt; for questions asking about resume formatting and content. Most of these questions, including the one you are asking about, are at their core questions about effectively and concisely communicating information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're right that we are not a resume writing service, but that response usually applies to broad questions of &lt;em&gt;&quot;I'm trying to get job XYZ. What should my resume look like?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; The questions we do allow are those that ask a clear and specific question with specific answers. The question you link is one of those. The OP poses a specific problem that is not dependent on the industry, the specific position, or the OP. There are plenty of other questions asking about how to write confusing job titles in resumes. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/13494/how-to-label-inaccurate-job-titles-on-resume&quot;&gt;How to label inaccurate job titles on resume&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/790/how-to-list-contracting-on-resume&quot;&gt;How to list contracting on resume&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15060/listing-a-renamed-company-on-a-resume-or-in-a-cover-letter&quot;&gt;Listing a renamed company on a resume or in a cover letter&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. All of these fall under questions asking &quot;How do I write XYZ complicated scenario on my resume?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T13:43:27.823" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4638" CreationDate="2017-07-18T16:22:39.427" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly I disagree on this with Lilienthal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that I would have migrated this had I seen it before it got ton of answers here for the reasons you are suggesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However... now? I'm not sure what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T16:22:39.427" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3286" CreationDate="2017-07-18T21:53:22.460" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for advice specific to one's own career path (&quot;what job should I take?&quot;, &quot;what skills should I learn?&quot;, etc.) are off-topic as it can be difficult to give objective advice to such questions and the answers are rarely applicable to a broader audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can also be phrased like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for advice relating to career path decisions (...) ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be questions not falling under &quot;career path decisions&quot; (currently) commonly closed using this reason, but these can either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just be closed as opinion-based instead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be edited to be on topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I think career path decisions should be singled out here is because they are fundamentally outside of the scope of this site (right?) - it's often impossible for such questions to be edited to be on topic by the author or anyone else, even if one can come up with some more objective version of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest are just opinion-based and trying to have this close reason cover all of those when we already have a reason for that just seems counter-productive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="8234" LastEditDate="2017-07-19T10:07:04.953" LastActivityDate="2017-07-19T10:07:04.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4650" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2017-07-19T08:32:25.877" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;More Info: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/239189/how-should-we-make-tag-blacklist-requests&quot;&gt;How should we make tag blacklist requests?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blacklisting a tag prevents anyone from ever using that tag on a new question or editing a question without removing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags must be &quot;quite bad&quot; to be blacklisted. Generally, these are tags that could &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; convey any useful information or are actively harmful to the site. Because of the potential consequences of getting something wrong, only the dev team is able to add tags to a site's blacklist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/07/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;The Death of Meta Tags&lt;/a&gt; for a discussion of what makes a tag good or bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-07-19T08:32:25.877" LastActivityDate="2017-07-19T08:32:25.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4651" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2017-07-19T08:32:25.877" Score="0" Body="This tag is used in requests for adding one or more tags to the blacklist, preventing them from ever being used again." OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-07-19T08:32:25.877" LastActivityDate="2017-07-19T08:32:25.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4652" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-19T09:42:37.003" Score="6" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am relatively a new member of this community but in my 10+ years of experience there were several situations at my workplace where I could have used some advice from this community. I still wonder about them if I handled it right or should I have done something else. &#xA;So I just want to know is it okay to ask questions about situations which happened in past where the answer would only give a perspective but not affect my action/career now? (at least not directly). &#xA;At the same time asking such questions may be construed as just a &lt;code&gt;waste of time&lt;/code&gt; for people who are taking time to answer them as the situation actually does not exist today. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66920" LastActivityDate="2017-07-19T09:58:32.593" Title="Is it okay to ask a question on past situation at workplace SE?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4652" CreationDate="2017-07-19T09:58:32.593" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. There are many questions like that here already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a question that could apply to others, it will still be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2017-07-19T09:58:32.593" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4655" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-19T15:39:00.393" Score="7" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/annoyances&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;annoyances&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;annoyances&lt;/a&gt; doesn't seem to serve any constructive purpose. It can only be used on questions that are complaints in nature. Whether the situation described in the question is annoying is entirely subjective. With sufficient pessimism, this tag can be applied to &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thankfully, this tag isn't currently popular, as it is used by just 4 questions (of which one is closed and one is a duplicate). Should we just get rid of this tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:21:31.633" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:21:31.633" Title="Should we remove the annoyances tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4656" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-19T15:59:03.760" Score="6" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a few questions I see that are closed, for reasons I don't find appropriate. However, the majority of these questions have been answered to a satisfactory level and re-opening them doesn't seem to serve much purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is it worth pursuing? Should I make a post about reopening these questions, even though they've been answered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69870" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-07-19T17:01:09.823" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T10:50:24.033" Title="Is it worth reopening closed questions that have been satisfactorily answered?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4656" CreationDate="2017-07-19T16:55:38.520" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to have a chance that a question can be reopenned, you need 5 reopen votes. If you think the case is easy, the reopen queue should be enough. However if you don't have reopen privileges or it may require good explanation on why it should be reoppened the best way is to bring it to meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question that has been answered can still have new answers however usually most people will pass. &#xA;A good way to attract new answers to those questions is to use bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To resume : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta to reopen answers : with concrete arguments to why it should to reopenned (basically, why it's on topic here)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question already answered are likely to bring less attention to new answers you can use bounties to bring attention to those questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastEditorUserId="47387" LastEditDate="2017-07-20T10:50:24.033" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T10:50:24.033" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4656" CreationDate="2017-07-19T16:59:09.503" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely! If the question is a good fit (or has been improved to be a good fit), there is no reason to keep it closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should not decide if a question fits here based on presence or absence of &quot;satisfactory&quot; answers. Moreover, there is always a chance that someone will come along in future with additional useful answers, or even &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; answers. StackExchange even awards badges for good late answers, so it is clear that is encouraged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reason to reopen good questions is to avoid confusing users as to what questions are a good fit here. A new user who sees a question closed may take that as a precedent to assume that such questions are not accepted here. This can be confusing even for established users (when reviewing close/reopen votes on &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; questions), since &quot;good fit&quot; is somewhat subjective in many cases here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-07-19T16:59:09.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4655" CreationDate="2017-07-19T18:33:18.517" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we just get rid of this tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes we should get rid of it.  This TAG does not conform to our play nice policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2017-07-19T18:33:18.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4615" CreationDate="2017-07-20T17:46:27.013" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this question is more generally applicable than it's given credit for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does there exist already a parallel question about &quot;My supervisor is trying to set me up for firing/ruin my career by giving me bad reviews which are objectively incorrect?&quot; If so, then this question can be closed as a duplicate. If not, then this question, appropriately phrased!, could be of huge help to someone outside the academic workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a useful question in &quot;A former supervisor is attempting to make trouble with my new department by bringing baseless accusations to my new supervisor, what should I do to protect myself&quot;? I'm not sure if there's a good answer to this, but the kind of sabotaging behavior described here is in no way limited to the academic workplace environment (even if it is shaded a little by the nature of academic power relations).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the OP of this question can't be persuaded to rewrite this as one of those two questions, but I think those are really important questions to have answered here, and this is a pretty good opportunity to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43935" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T17:46:27.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4655" CreationDate="2017-07-20T20:45:09.240" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with a tag to indicate that a question is asking how to deal with situations in the workplace involving coworkers (or other things) the asker finds annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be considered similar (but not synonymous) to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/distractions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;distractions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;distractions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't say it should apply to annoying &lt;strong&gt;situations&lt;/strong&gt; (as in it's annoying that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/95590/should-i-list-undocumented-work-cash-on-an-employment-verification-and-or-resu&quot;&gt;I don't have documentation of this work I did&lt;/a&gt;), but rather annoying &lt;strong&gt;things&lt;/strong&gt; (as in this person is annoying). Of course how annoying something is is entirely subjective, but that's irrelevant - the fact that the asker finds it annoying is sufficient to justify the question about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems like a good (or not terrible) use of the tag: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/63917/how-to-handle-a-coworkers-breath-odor&quot;&gt;How to handle a coworker&amp;#39;s breath odor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems like a bad use of the tag: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/42701/too-many-charitable-causes-in-the-workplace&quot;&gt;Too many Charitable causes in the workplace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is perhaps somewhat of a borderline case, tending towards getting rid of the tag (since it's more about the situation of the coworker continuing the explanation being annoying than the coworker itself being annoying, although that's a confusing line): &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65956/how-to-politely-tell-someone-to-stop-explaining&quot;&gt;How to politely tell someone to stop explaining?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/strong&gt; Seems like a valid tag &lt;strong&gt;in theory&lt;/strong&gt;. While it currently has a sum total of 0 appropriate uses on open questions, I don't see a pressing need to get rid of it - we may as well leave it around for future questions or find a few appropriate questions to apply it to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="8234" LastEditDate="2017-07-20T20:52:03.263" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T20:52:03.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4663" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-23T17:23:15.907" Score="6" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;Steven Vascellaro posted the following &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/38946725#38946725&quot;&gt;comment in chat&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'd like to have my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/95462/3192&quot;&gt;How early should I arrive for a meeting?&lt;/a&gt; marked as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/88660/3192&quot;&gt;What's the best time to arrive for an interview / meeting / appointment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the guideline to deal with this situation? Is it a good practice to cast reopen votes on a question solely because you want to mark it as a duplicate later?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-07-25T02:41:10.143" LastActivityDate="2017-07-25T02:41:10.143" Title="Is it ok to reopen a closed question so that it can be marked as duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|duplicates|reopening|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4663" CreationDate="2017-07-24T08:53:05.277" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say take it one step at a time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We reopen questions if they have been edited to be on topic. Has that happened? Reopen the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We close questions as duplicate, if the question is on topic, and has been answered before. Is the question on topic, and has it been answered before? Mark it as duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it needs to be forced; if you feel the question as it stands is on-topic for the Workplace, then you can nominate it for reopening. Once that's done, if you feel it's duplicate, mark it as a duplicate. If the community agrees, then what you intended will happen. If the community does not, the process will stall at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But one step at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38458" LastActivityDate="2017-07-24T08:53:05.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4665" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-24T08:54:10.667" Score="4" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://productivity.stackexchange.com/questions/17946/what-do-you-do-when-youre-absolutely-fried-and-cant-get-any-work-done&quot;&gt;What do you do when you're fried and can't get any work done?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/95638/how-can-i-increase-focus-when-doing-something-boring&quot;&gt;How can I increase focus when doing something boring?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's with the double standard here? My question was even more specific to the workplace as I do not have the same freedom in the workplace as I do when at home/college etc. The sister site is even called &lt;strong&gt;Personal&lt;/strong&gt; Productivity, when my question was very specific to a workplace issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not asking to get my question brought back. I'm just asking for uniformity when it comes to closing/migrating questions. Also, if anyone is able to tell me how my question got migrated so fast, that would be excellent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69870" LastActivityDate="2017-07-24T13:43:44.567" Title="When I asked this type of question, it was immediately migrated" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4665" CreationDate="2017-07-24T09:15:56.507" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree there's an inconsistency. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think they should both be on The Workplace, because they were asked here and are not Off-Topic (though the second question could have done with a more explicit problem statement, something like &quot;What Actions/Tactics/Things can I do, whilst in the office, to help regain my productivity?&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As originally written, the question is actually not clear (until the final sentence) that your question is specifically about productivity &lt;em&gt;in an office setting&lt;/em&gt;. And even then is only implied. So I understand how it could have been seen as more of a general Personal Productivity question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how it got migrated so fast, migration happens as soon as enough people vote on it. In your case, that happened to happen very quickly. It's just down to how many people are reviewing the queues at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31777" LastActivityDate="2017-07-24T09:15:56.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4665" CreationDate="2017-07-24T09:44:13.820" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I imagine the issue is more about a lack of standard than a double standard. Your question got two quick close votes for being outside our scope and was then spotted by a moderator who confirmed the close with a migration to [productivity.se]. I'd have probably done the same. Our help scope only talks about interpersonal issues and dealing with workplace problems. None of it mentions &quot;how do I do my actual job tasks better?&quot; so strictly speaking a productivity question is &lt;em&gt;likely&lt;/em&gt; off-topic. The main meta thread on this seems to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2079/is-workplace-productivity-on-topic-on-the-workplace-se&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, and I agree with Monica's take on it that there's some overlap but there is a fairly clear line that can be drawn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened with the newer question is that no one ended up drawing that line. The question did get an off-topic vote but was kept open in review. It then hit HNQ, gained a lot of popularity and attention which often makes users (and moderators) more hesitant to close it. While I can't speak for the rest of the mod team, I avoid taking unilateral mod action without some community input, especially when it comes to migrations and cases where our scope is only vaguely defined. A single CV followed by a positive review would probably guarantee that I wouldn't mod-close and migrate. A question that very quickly got two close votes and a comment explaining why a question is off-topic on the other hand would give me the confidence to migrate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, the lack of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/285467/a-proposed-philosophy-of-question-migration&quot;&gt;clear migration philosophy&lt;/a&gt; is probably the chief culprit for your main question, while the more direct issue in this scenario is that the close votes went in different directions for the two questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2017-07-24T09:44:13.820" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4665" CreationDate="2017-07-24T13:43:44.567" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a mistake to think of a migration as a negative. It's not that we don't want the question here or even necessarily that it can't be answered here.  In many cases of migrations (and these 2 in particular), another exchange might be better suited and give you better answers because of the focus of the exchange itself as well as the different people that inhabit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's kind of like going to the doctor. Your orthopedist may help you with your foot pain but another time, an orthopedist might refer you to a podiatrist.  It's not that the orthopedist is incapable of helping you but that he thinks you'd be better served by a different kind of specialist.  It's not a bad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastActivityDate="2017-07-24T13:43:44.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4669" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4672" CreationDate="2017-07-24T15:14:40.213" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;On mobile web, the non-upvoted comments are not expanded by default, only on Workplace.se. No other site does this, including this Meta. Is this by design or a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no user settable option for this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i1tbw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2017-07-24T19:39:36.053" LastActivityDate="2017-07-24T19:39:36.053" Title="Comments not expanded by default?" Tags="|support|bug|status-bydesign|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4670" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-24T19:13:52.910" Score="0" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/95481/can-i-use-canadian-spellings-in-an-american-workplace&quot;&gt;Can I use Canadian spellings in an American workplace?&lt;/a&gt; be closed as a question &lt;em&gt;seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subquestion: Is there any way I&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; can see a close vote history for a specific question? If it has been 'voted to close' and then other people disagreeing with that, I wouldn't mind leaving it open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;* FWIW, my rep is &gt; 10000&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8036" LastActivityDate="2017-07-24T19:35:36.317" Title="'Canadian spelling' question; close as workplace specific?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4670" CreationDate="2017-07-24T19:35:36.317" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;That question looks more like &quot;how do coworkers tend to react to this?&quot; than &quot;am I going to get in trouble with management/HR if I do this?&quot; to me.  We have lots of questions about behavior in the workplace that could go either way.  I tend to err on the side of leaving them open, personally.  (I only skimmed this one quickly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question has been closed, those events occur in the post's edit history (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/95735/revisions&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).  So do reopen events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see more history with the timeline.  The UI doesn't provide a link for this, but you can see the timeline of a post by editing the post's URL from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/95481/can-i-use-canadian-spellings-in-an-american-workplace&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/95481/timeline&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Replace &quot;question&quot; with &quot;posts&quot; and the title with &quot;timeline&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The timeline doesn't show votes, but it does show review tasks, including close and reopen reviews.  See, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/95739/timeline&quot;&gt;this timeline from a different question&lt;/a&gt;.  So in addition to actual closures and reopenings in the edit history, you can see reviews that didn't change the state of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-07-24T19:35:36.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4669" CreationDate="2017-07-24T19:39:27.053" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't specific to mobile, and it's an intentional site-specific setting.  See &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2899/comments-without-upvotes-are-now-hidden-if-a-question-has-more-than-two-answers&quot;&gt;Comments without upvotes are now hidden if a question has more than two answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace gets a lot of comments, and the default visibility settings led to a lot of noise on the page that got in the way of getting to the next answer.  So we now auto-collapse comments that aren't upvoted on questions with more than a couple answers, to help focus on the important content: the question and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-07-24T19:39:27.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4673" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-25T03:43:44.300" Score="0" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/95679/271&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt; a question, which was put in the low quality review queue.  I don't agree that it was low quality (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/155538/what-are-the-guidelines-for-reviewing/180029#180029&quot;&gt;What are the guidelines for reviewing?&lt;/a&gt; seems to me to agree with me), but I edited it anyway (having thought of what I considered a reasonable compromise between brevity and simplicity)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now what?  It's been deleted (with a net rep of -1), undelete says mod did it and I can't undelete.  Flagging a mod seems like the wrong thing to do, as does posting my revised answer as a new answer.  Just let it go? While some of the other answers agree in principle, IMO none of them are as clear (or touch upon an issue in my revised answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="271" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2017-07-25T14:18:06.493" LastActivityDate="2017-07-25T14:18:06.493" Title="What to do after editing an answer that was deleted from the review queue?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4673" CreationDate="2017-07-25T07:50:38.870" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: &lt;strong&gt;Flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/strong&gt; Start a meta thread if you disagree with the mod team's original decision or their response to your flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your original answer was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Stackexchange wants more characters, I think the above is sufficient).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that SE wants more characters is a clear sign that you should be writing more, especially on a site like ours where there usually is no one correct answer and you're expected to back up your answers somehow and at the very least explain why something is a certain way. DCON summarised it well in his comment: &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Even though I completely agree with your answer, you need to expand on the why. This answer is incomplete.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You ignored the comments explaining the problems inherent in giving an answer like this. Your one-word answer got flagged and was unanimously deleted. You could have clarified the reasoning behind your answer before that. You can contest a deletion as a result of a review queue but typically there's some expectation that you address the problems the post has first or that the result of the reviews was incorrect. You obviously believed the latter but the community disagreed which is why I decided to uphold the decision of the review queue. I commented the following at the time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I think the above is sufficient.&amp;quot; I disagree, as does the LQ review queue which unanimously elected to remove this answer as not meeting site standards. Since this hasn't been edited to add further detail I'm upholding the review decision and removing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's only after that that you edited your post but as you saw there's no direct way for you to get your post back on the page. That's why it's useful to consider whether the feedback your post gets is worth acting on or not. And for future reference, adding comments like &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;For anyone wondering, I spent a lot of time on the above answer.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; is not the best plan if you want a site community to accept a low-effort one-word answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now what? It's been deleted (with a net rep of -1), undelete says mod did it and I can't undelete.  Flagging a mod seems like the wrong thing to do,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nope, that's the best way to proceed in this situation. Simply flag your answer with some variation of &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;I edited this answer to improve it and believe the deletion is not / no longer warranted.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively you can start a meta question like you've done here or ask people in the chatroom for input. You can also usually find a few moderators in the chat that you can ping, though flagging is more efficient if you want to reach us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as does posting my revised answer as a new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, you should usually never do that. If you radically changed a post and the original was very badly received you can consider reposting to &amp;quot;start from scratch&amp;quot; but it's often frowned upon. Never do it if you haven't drastically changed your post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on your edits I've reversed the deletion. I've also edited your post slightly to clean up the formatting. A spoiler tag is available cross-network but probably shouldn't be used for cases like this. If you feel this gives an increased impact to your original one-word answer then you can go ahead and edit it back in though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-07-25T07:50:38.870" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4675" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2017-07-25T13:15:53.793" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-07-25T13:15:53.793" LastActivityDate="2017-07-25T13:15:53.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4676" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2017-07-25T13:15:53.793" Score="0" Body="Indicates that you want to discuss or need help with one specific question." OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-07-25T13:15:53.793" LastActivityDate="2017-07-25T13:15:53.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4677" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2017-07-25T13:19:27.220" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-07-25T13:19:27.220" LastActivityDate="2017-07-25T13:19:27.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4678" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2017-07-25T13:19:27.220" Score="0" Body="Use this tag to request the community to consider closed/on hold question(s) for reopening." OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-07-25T13:19:27.220" LastActivityDate="2017-07-25T13:19:27.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4679" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2017-07-25T13:20:01.043" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-07-25T13:20:01.043" LastActivityDate="2017-07-25T13:20:01.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4680" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2017-07-25T13:20:01.043" Score="0" Body="Indicates that you want to discuss or need help with one specific answer." OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-07-25T13:20:01.043" LastActivityDate="2017-07-25T13:20:01.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4681" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4682" CreationDate="2017-07-26T17:50:01.123" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted an answer to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/95937/is-this-a-bad-habit-of-work-after-job-day/95943#95943&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;. After that I proceeded to read the other answers; upvoted one I considered good and downvoted another that was not so good and also seemed like was somewhat promoting a product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the downvote, I was able to see the usual -1 reputation from casting my vote. Some minutes later, someone upvoted my answer, but was confused to see that I only got +1 from it, when it should be +10. This is what I see: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vXmQO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vXmQO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug of some sort? Will it eventually all sync up and appear the usual +10? Does it have something to do with the fact that I achieved 200 reputation on this day and somehow caped my reputation gain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="1513" LastEditDate="2017-07-27T08:26:27.093" LastActivityDate="2017-07-27T08:26:27.093" Title="Only got +1 Reputation from answer upvote" Tags="|support|down-votes|reputation|up-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4681" CreationDate="2017-07-26T18:00:42.367" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does it have something to do with the fact that I achieved 200 reputation on this day and somehow caped my reputation gain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, that's exactly it. You reached your 200 rep max for the day, preventing you from receiving reputation from any more upvotes. Then you downvoted a question, which cost you 1 reputation. At that point you had earned a net +199 reputation, allowing for you to gain +1 rep the next time someone gave you an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2017-07-26T18:02:53.490" LastActivityDate="2017-07-26T18:02:53.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4683" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-27T09:08:53.153" Score="3" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to get experience about career but it seem like my question was seaking a &quot;future prediction&quot; answer : &quot;What carrier plan is the best for making money as a Developer?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many edits made it better, but it seem like it's not good enough to make it helpfull for other people.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/95982/how-can-i-figure-out-typical-salaries-for-a-specific-career-path-related-to-it?noredirect=1#comment290716_95982&quot;&gt;How can I figure out typical salaries for a specific career path related to IT?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm searching a to turn this to &quot;How to define my career plan, search informations like salary&quot;. Thanks for your help !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70762" LastActivityDate="2017-07-27T09:08:53.153" Title="Way to improve my question to be answerable" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4686" CreationDate="2017-07-27T14:56:57.017" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question where I'm not sure which answer to accept.&#xA; (&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/94549/68427&quot;&gt;How do I list an internship on my resume?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially when the question was asked, there were only two answers to chose from, which meant I didn't have many options for an accepted answer. Later my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/94549/revisions&quot;&gt;was bountied&lt;/a&gt;, which led to me having seven valid answers to choose from. (Which, to be fair, is not a bad problem to have)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it acceptable to ask on meta if I'm unsure which answer I should accept on a question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68427" LastActivityDate="2017-07-27T18:01:23.393" Title="Can I use meta to ask which answer I should accept?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|on-topic-definition|meta|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4684" CreationDate="2017-07-27T17:04:28.080" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should decide for yourself, or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the &quot;best answer&quot; only grants fifteen points, so nobody is going to be badly hurt by &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; getting the best answer.  You're not under an obligation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the same token, you're not going to unfairly grant anyone huge advantage by picking them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the choice is really yours alone to make.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could say that the community has itself, already chipped in by voting, and an upvote is worth 10 rep points, so the community has already had their fair share in rewarding the person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IF you're not sure, go with whoever has the most up votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2017-07-27T18:01:23.393" LastActivityDate="2017-07-27T18:01:23.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4684" CreationDate="2017-07-27T17:52:37.940" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;, meta is the place to discuss how the site works, and policies that affect the site as a whole. Meta is not the right place to get feedback on personal decisions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we do use meta to discuss specific questions, in particular, how to improve questions to reopen them, this still contributes to improving the site as a whole. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a bit of rules lawyering, we could prove that asking help to choose an &quot;accepted answer&quot; also contributes to the site, but in my opinion, that goes too far beyond the scope of meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As other users have pointed out, the voting mechanism already allows the community to give feedback on the answers, so asking them to vote &lt;em&gt;again&lt;/em&gt; on those answers here is redundant. Besides, people visit meta less frequently than the main site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-07-27T17:52:37.940" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4687" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-28T08:10:01.620" Score="1" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I asked this question yesterday:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/95990/how-to-handle-senior-developer-shirking-his-work-and-giving-it-to-interns-instea&quot;&gt;How to handle senior developer shirking his work and giving it to interns instead of doing it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And while some people tried to actually answer my question, most of the people are spending their time trying to tell me that I can't be right about what I'm saying because I'm an intern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I have phrased it another way or is it just that you're not supposed to ever question what a colleague does if you're an intern on The Workplace? Where did I go wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68787" LastEditorUserId="68787" LastEditDate="2017-07-28T11:46:15.257" LastActivityDate="2017-08-11T15:26:08.430" Title="How to handle a question not being taken as seriously as I wished because I'm an intern?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4688" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-28T12:44:50.747" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question refers to this portion of the Protected Question guides:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Users with 10 or more reputation can answer a protected question.&#xA;  However, the +100 account association bonus is ignored for this check,&#xA;  so you must have earned 10 or more reputation on that specific site to&#xA;  answer a protected question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even with the association bonus not factored in, is 10 really restrictive enough to have an impact?  Has the community considered raising it to say 100?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATED:  I think the main benefit of Protecting a question is to stop anonymous answers.  Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2017-07-28T14:50:13.250" LastActivityDate="2017-07-28T14:50:13.250" Title="Protected Questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2017-07-28T15:13:08.680" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-28T13:32:02.440" Score="4" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of questions titles here that looks more as the title of a story than an actual question, while just putting the question in the title shows directly to people scrolling what the trouble is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example right now we have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/96084/an-introverts-dilemma-at-workplace&quot;&gt;An introvert's dilemma&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/96036/meal-premiums-in-california&quot;&gt;Meal Premiums in California&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we edit those kind of titles to show directly the question asked by the user?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68787" LastEditorUserId="68787" LastEditDate="2017-07-31T08:59:29.600" LastActivityDate="2017-08-02T17:08:25.753" Title="Should we always edit questions titles formulated as story titles?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4689" CreationDate="2017-07-28T13:39:24.207" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'd say yes, go for it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We want titles to reflect the content of the question and also be &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; in understanding exactly what you will read there. I think you're above the rep level that needs edits to be approved, so if you see something like this that you think could be improved, go ahead and change it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-07-28T13:39:24.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4689" CreationDate="2017-07-28T14:17:59.313" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As is usually the case with a bad title, the questions are really not well crafted for SE.  So while yes they should probably be re-titled I am one that is against just re-titling because you do not like the title.  But if the title is misleading or if you have other fixes for the question then certainly making the title more reflective of what is being asked is definitely appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-07-28T14:17:59.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4687" CreationDate="2017-07-28T15:18:54.310" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your problem was more that you assumed the senior was acting in bad faith by doing what he was doing in your question.  Questions are best recieved when they come from a neutral tone, state facts rather than opinions and thoughts, and have a clear goal.  Yours lacks all of these.  And your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can we make him code without burning bridges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is very very slanted.  It reads like a rant.  If you want to be taken seriously just spell out what is going on, then say what your concerns are, and what you want to achieve by asking the question.  If that goal you want to achieve is reasonable you should get good answers.  If you insert your opinions into the facts of what is going on it looks bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The problem is that instead of coding, as our manager told him to&#xA;  before going in holidays, he keeps just telling us to code things&#xA;  saying &quot;he's too busy to code&quot;, most of which are easy things to code&#xA;  that would be perfect for him to familiarize with the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is nothing in this paragraph that is factual except that he says &quot;he's too busy to code&quot;  all of the rest is full of your opinion of what the manager told him and what you think he should be doing.  None of this makes for a good question.  Your whole question is full of places where you inserted your opinion into the issue instead of just telling us what is going on and what you would like to see changed.  That makes it feel very ranty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-07-28T15:18:54.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4629" CreationDate="2017-07-28T15:39:04.187" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from possible &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4587/comments-are-not-for-extended-discussion-long-term-solution-discussion&quot;&gt;functional changes to the site&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In answers: (and also, to some extent, questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't present your opinion as objective fact.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this site specifically has a lot of subjective content (based on expertise), so the line between pure opinion and expertise-based opinion is a bit blurry, but asking myself &quot;is this a potentially controversial opinion&quot; has worked fairly well so far for me personally in avoiding creating conflict with my answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The behaviour you described is insulting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since whether someone would be insulted is very much subjective, quantifying it could help:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Many would / I personally / Your coworkers] consider that behaviour to be insulting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Consider (and address) other points of view in your answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can go beyond simply adding a footnote, but instead considering the other point of view in how you phrase your post as a whole (including the point you're trying to make).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the above, a note like this can help:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Not everyone / You personally] may not find this insulting, and that's reasonable, but this unfortunately doesn't change how it's &lt;em&gt;perceived&lt;/em&gt; by your coworkers, and you may want to avoid this behaviour regardless to avoid insulting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't make (unstated) assumptions about unclear statements in the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some conversations can get (a whole lot more) heated simply because you're making different assumptions and no-one bothered to clarify what they're assuming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you said A, I'm of course assuming this is limited to B. If this is instead C or D, I would consider your behaviour to be fine here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: again not objective - &quot;I would consider&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Consider downplaying parts of your answer, and absolutely don't exaggerate.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course downplaying a part of your answer can hurt the point you're trying to make, but this is not always true, and when you downplay something, people are less likely to either object to it or feel the need to express their objection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some might be offended by the behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming &quot;offended&quot; would be considered a bit &quot;less extreme&quot; than &quot;insulted&quot;, and also avoiding &quot;most&quot; in favour of &quot;some&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These might seem like small differences and you might consider most of the above to go without saying and for it to be essentially equivalent to just stating it as fact, but people who very strongly disagree with your opinion would likely object to the first phrasing of &quot;is insulting&quot;, but are less likely to have a problem with the &quot;some consider it insulting&quot; phrasing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the only question is whether it would be appropriate to edit answers of others as described above to prevent the topic from getting heated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="8234" LastEditDate="2017-07-28T18:04:15.797" LastActivityDate="2017-07-28T18:04:15.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4694" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-28T18:56:58.323" Score="1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/95725/handling-unusual-email-from-possible-recruit&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and received some great answers that guided me to handle the situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today (some days later), after addressing the problem with the person involved, I have some new details on the source of the problem and the outcome the way it was handled. I consider those details relevant, as they reflect that the interpretation of the answerers was indeed correct, and I &lt;strong&gt;intend to add those details as a follow up&lt;/strong&gt; to the question so it is documented and helps future users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question: Is there is a standard way to do this?&lt;/strong&gt; Or if there is not, what would be the best thing to do? I have seen in this and other SE networks that sometimes users edit their questions and add an &quot;Update:...&quot; section where they explain those follow up details that they also consider useful. This I consider most appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, searching some old posts I found a &lt;em&gt;feature request&lt;/em&gt; titled &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2453/follow-up-section-on-a-question/2454#2454&quot;&gt;Follow up section on a question&lt;/a&gt;, where some users argue against that request in favor of either &lt;strong&gt;write a blog post&lt;/strong&gt; (too complex for just wanting to add some details) or &lt;strong&gt;add a question to my own answer&lt;/strong&gt; (my question is already answered and the details themselves are not a valid answer). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another option could be to &lt;strong&gt;add a comment&lt;/strong&gt; with the details, but doing that may result in not giving enough relevance to them and also end up with an unnecessary long comment (even longer than permitted). How could I approach this situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2017-07-28T18:56:58.323" Title="Standard way to add follow up to a question I asked" Tags="|discussion|questions|editing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2017-07-28T20:44:08.763" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4695" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4697" CreationDate="2017-07-31T15:09:18.947" Score="0" ViewCount="1034" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/298854/351462&quot;&gt;Over on Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, I am attempting to compile a complete list of Stack Exchange sites which support YouTube embedding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching on The Workplace Meta, I was unable to find any discussion of whether embedded YouTube videos are supported. Because &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/299082/display-embedded-youtube-videos-in-markdown-preview&quot;&gt;YouTube embedding is not shown in the markdown preview window&lt;/a&gt;, there's no way to test without posting publically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are embedded YouTube videos supported on The Workplace?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*Usually I would test this in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2824/48480&quot;&gt;site-specific formatting sandbox&lt;/a&gt;, but The Workplace doesn't seem to have one.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68427" LastEditorUserId="68427" LastEditDate="2017-07-31T18:09:42.330" LastActivityDate="2017-08-08T18:21:12.837" Title="Does The Workplace support embedded YouTube videos?" Tags="|support|formatting|markdown|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4695" CreationDate="2017-07-31T15:09:18.947" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's only one way to find out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Testing YouTube URL Embedding&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regular&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Timestamped&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8&amp;amp;t=22&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8&amp;amp;t=22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8&amp;amp;t=22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shortened&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;https://youtu.be/gocwRvLhDf8&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/gocwRvLhDf8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://youtu.be/gocwRvLhDf8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;/Embed&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;https://www.youtube.com/embed/gocwRvLhDf8&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/gocwRvLhDf8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/embed/gocwRvLhDf8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Embedded HTML&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;iframe width=&quot;854&quot; height=&quot;480&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/gocwRvLhDf8&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/iframe&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mobile&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flash Player&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;https://www.youtube.com/v/gocwRvLhDf8&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/v/gocwRvLhDf8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/v/gocwRvLhDf8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YouTube TV&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;https://www.youtube.com/tv#/watch/video/idle?v=gocwRvLhDf8&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/tv#/watch/video/idle?v=gocwRvLhDf8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/tv#/watch/video/idle?v=gocwRvLhDf8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/298854/351462&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Which sites have YouTube embedding on?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68427" LastEditorUserId="68427" LastEditDate="2017-08-01T15:17:41.697" LastActivityDate="2017-08-01T15:17:41.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4695" CreationDate="2017-07-31T15:18:30.597" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;YouTube embedding isn't supported in The Workplace.  Even if it was, it would be a bad idea, as it is far too easy to sneak something that is NSFW, and a questionable youtube video embedded in a page could set off IT security sweeps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2017-08-08T18:21:12.837" LastActivityDate="2017-08-08T18:21:12.837" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4698" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-31T19:14:27.690" Score="8" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposal: merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-development&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-development&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-development&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-development&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-development&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-development&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions&lt;/strong&gt;: 140&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tag Info&lt;/strong&gt;: [blank]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions&lt;/strong&gt;: 1,405&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tag Info&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Questions with this tag should be specific to the Software Industry, or to workplace elements commonly associated with said industry. The Software Industry deals with the creation, maintenance, and distribution of software. In addition, the creation of any associated training/documentation, as well as any consulting work, is included under the auspices of Software Industry.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-development+software-industry&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions tagged with both&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: 53&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt; tag itself &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2828/software-industry-tag-discussion&quot;&gt;has previously been a subject of discussion.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:46:56.950" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:46:56.950" Title="Tag Merge: software-development into software-industry" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4699" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-01T19:11:17.070" Score="3" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/96297/63121&quot;&gt;Pointing out flaws in their website?&lt;/a&gt;, and it was put on hold as being &quot;primarily opinion based&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having been active on other SE sites I thought I had an understanding of what &quot;primarily opinion based&quot; meant, but it appears to be different on Workplace.SE. I have read through other questions posted on Workplace.SE and they could be primarily opinion based as well - in my opinion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/96335/63121&quot;&gt;Should I decline a gift from my boss (the new owner of the company)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/96084/63121&quot;&gt;Is it obligatory to make small talk with your colleagues?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/95896/63121&quot;&gt;Completely burnt out at work but not sure how to continue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the questions above could be considered primarily opinion based as it is opinion-based on how the OPs should act. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63121" LastEditorUserId="8234" LastEditDate="2017-08-06T00:07:33.190" LastActivityDate="2017-08-06T00:07:33.190" Title="Why was my question asking whether I should point out flaws on a potential employer's website off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4700" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-01T20:12:04.070" Score="2" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I asked this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/96297/63121&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and the overall theme of the answers provided was &quot;No, don't do it&quot;. A user directed me to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/25861/should-i-inform-my-potential-employer-about-a-bug-in-their-application&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and the overall theme was essentially &quot;Do it, but do it nicely&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two questions are nearly identical, but the answers provided are not. How can we improve answers in situations like this for users of the site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63121" LastActivityDate="2017-08-02T10:47:20.640" Title="Duplicate question but different answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4700" CreationDate="2017-08-01T20:49:45.950" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's quite possible to get different, valid answers to the same question. The intent of this site is not to tell you whst you should do, but to give you the &lt;em&gt;reasons&lt;/em&gt; so you can make an informed decision yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every situation is different, different actions may be necessary. By giving you options, you can make a decision based on your particular circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2017-08-01T20:49:45.950" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4700" CreationDate="2017-08-01T20:54:30.510" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The two questions are nearly identical, but the answers provided are&#xA;  not. How can we improve answers in situations like this for users of&#xA;  the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You seem to be assuming that there is &quot;one true answer&quot; for every question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a Q&amp;amp;A site like The Workplace, that is almost never the case. If you ask a question 10 times, you may well get 100 answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's just &quot;the way it is&quot;, IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2017-08-02T10:47:20.640" LastActivityDate="2017-08-02T10:47:20.640" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4689" CreationDate="2017-08-02T17:08:25.753" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you should always edit question titles, because that is an excellent method to catch what I call &quot;question smell&quot;. The question title should usually be a succinct summary of the description. If we find it difficult to provide such a summary, it usually means that either the question is unclear or that it has too many &quot;questions&quot; bundled into one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While having the title consist of one single question is ideal, it is not always necessary that the title should have a single sentence ending in a question mark. The following forms are also ok, provided they describe the issue clearly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;My situation is X. How should I do Y?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Doing Y in situation X. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-08-02T17:08:25.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4704" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-02T20:35:45.337" Score="3" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems there is a vocal component of our base users that think that well written questions that ask for our experienced based opinions on &quot;what job(s) they should take/look for&quot; or &quot;what skills would be useful&quot; should be acceptable questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/96442/2&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/96442/2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is clearly tell me about what your job path was that was successful so I can emulate that success.  Which is just a well written, but still a version of what job should I take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original decision, which I agreed with then, was that we did not want these types of questions clogging up the site and making it useless.  I think in the early days of the site it probably would have clogged up the site with too much noise.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I am far less worried about those questions clogging up the site.  We have a great user base and some incredible experts(and pseudo-experts like myself) that could provide some very helpful guidance in some of these situations.  I think our signal to noise ratio may be able handle a hit from a few bad questions that might come in if we opened up the site to these questions though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We would still close bad questions that have no context or ask which is better as those are bad subjective. And I think we should still close questions that are asking us to make a decision for the OP. But questions asking something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am here and want to get to there what path is going to put me in the&#xA;  best position to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to some day be able to get a job doing X, How can i get&#xA;  to there from here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are probably questions that could be very helpful to our users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it becomes a problem we can always put the prohibition back in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we lift the prohibition on questions asking which skills to learn or job to take while leaving the prohibition on questions asking us to make a decision for them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-08-03T07:27:26.887" LastActivityDate="2017-08-03T17:59:34.337" Title="Should we lift the prohibition on questions asking which skills to learn or job to take?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4704" CreationDate="2017-08-03T07:26:59.570" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a few of the main reasons I consider these not just out of scope but &lt;strong&gt;entirely unsuitable&lt;/strong&gt; for SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the highly personalised nature of such questions (&amp;quot;what makes sense for &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt;?&amp;quot;) which:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;makes it almost impossible to answer (we don't know the OP's priorities, preferences or exact situation)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;renders any answers useless for anyone but the OP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the fact that any advice given is impossible to qualify as being purely a matter of opinion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the fact that answers will rapidly, if not immediately, become outdated&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the danger of this turning into AskReddit if you phrase it as &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;what was your experience?&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, our user base is better qualified than most to give career advice, but that's just not what this site is for. That simply doesn't fit a Q&amp;amp;A format. Users that want to discuss their career or ask for informal personal advice can do so in Chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I see no good reason why we should open to floor to such questions on the main site.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-08-03T07:26:59.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4707" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4708" CreationDate="2017-08-03T14:36:30.570" Score="5" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/96492/3192&quot;&gt;How to deal with boss constantly talking to colleagues, which affect my concentration?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as duplicate of the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/4206/3192&quot;&gt;What can I do about a very loud coworker?&lt;/a&gt;. However, the OP pointed out in his &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/96492/2&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; that the situation is different because it involves a boss. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is already another question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/91087/3192&quot;&gt;Boss plays loud music affecting my concentration. How do I take this up with him?&lt;/a&gt; which covers that situation, and looks to be a better duplicate than the currently linked one. Of course, when I saw the question in the Reopen queue, I linked the &quot;better&quot; question in a comment.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; However, linking the question directly as a duplicate would make it more visible and more accessible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do we deal with this? Should I flag this post to moderators for a quick fix? Should I cast a reopen vote to (eventually) close it again with the &quot;better&quot; duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Interestingly, before my comment, the OP had commented that he already resolved the issue by following the approach suggested in the accepted answer to the &quot;better&quot; duplicate question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-08-03T17:52:06.810" Title="What should I do if I found a better duplicate than the currently linked duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4707" CreationDate="2017-08-03T14:57:50.590" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Either become a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/badges?tab=tags&amp;amp;filter=gold&quot;&gt;Gold Tag Badge&lt;/a&gt; holder or &lt;strong&gt;flag it for moderator attention&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/291824/gold-tag-badge-holders-and-moderators-can-now-edit-duplicate-links&quot;&gt;Both can now edit duplicate links.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't move the question through the reopen process, that's not what it's for. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4663/is-it-ok-to-reopen-a-closed-question-so-that-it-can-be-marked-as-duplicate/4664#4664&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/298756/allow-questions-to-be-closed-as-duplicates-without-having-them-reopened-first&quot;&gt;main meta thread&lt;/a&gt; it spawned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-08-03T17:52:06.810" LastActivityDate="2017-08-03T17:52:06.810" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4709" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4710" CreationDate="2017-08-04T12:12:34.863" Score="5" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just today I noticed a glitch showing up above the Search box in The Workplace banner. It looks like a small strip of the background is covering up the black banner. This occurs at The Workplace and at The Workplace Meta, but I haven't seen it on any other SE sites. It occurs on both Chrome and Firefox for me. I'm running Windows 10. Is this happening for anyone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AnPZ5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AnPZ5.png&quot; alt=&quot;Workplace banner glitch&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qgmcn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qgmcn.png&quot; alt=&quot;Workplace meta banner glitch&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="19217" LastEditDate="2017-08-04T13:27:50.893" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T13:27:50.893" Title="Glitch in top banner" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4709" CreationDate="2017-08-04T13:27:43.253" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for reporting. It's definitely a bug caused by new footer. Fix is waiting in repo for build. Consider it done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19217" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T13:27:43.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4711" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-04T14:21:09.650" Score="6" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2693/custom-off-topic-close-reasons-change/2695#2695&quot;&gt;What should I do Close reason wording&lt;/a&gt; was changed to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions asking for advice on a specific &lt;strong&gt;career&lt;/strong&gt; choice, such as what&#xA;job to take or what skills to learn, are difficult to answer&#xA;objectively and are rarely useful for anyone else. Instead of asking&#xA;which decision to make, try asking how to make the decision, or more&#xA;specific details about one element of the decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few years ago the change was made to the close reason with the intent of it being a broad ban on on questions asking us to make a choice for the op.  I agree the wording was clunky as &amp;quot;What should I do&amp;quot; can easily be broadly interpreted to cover how should I do this questions.  That was never the intent of that close reason.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/3290/1&quot;&gt;So we broadly backed the change to be&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions asking for advice on a specific choice, such as what job to&#xA;take or what skills to learn, are difficult to answer objectively and&#xA;are rarely useful for anyone else. Instead of asking which decision to&#xA;make, try asking how to make the decision, or more specific details&#xA;about one element of the decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it was implemented the word career was added to the close reason that appears to limit the close reason to just career decisions not any decision.  I think the original suggested wording which has always had broad support is a much better version and we should make a quick change to that version of the close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;EDIT - Completed&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The suggested changes have been made to the close reason and are live as of 2017-08-09.&lt;/strong&gt; The word &amp;quot;career&amp;quot; has been dropped and based on DavidK's suggestion we added a &amp;quot;for&amp;quot;. That left only 4 characters so the longer wording in the answer below could not be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T19:47:41.373" Title="Removing the word &quot;career&quot; from the Off topic close reason" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|on-topic-definition|offtopic|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4712" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4727" CreationDate="2017-08-04T20:41:17.297" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to learn how to address an issue between a team lead and a team member that has to do with ineffective communication. Ironically I was not communicating effectively about it myself, because &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/96427/how-to-elicit-more-proactive-email-communication-from-employee?noredirect=1#comment292941_96427&quot;&gt;the question I asked about this&lt;/a&gt; got shot down. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like I need to go to square one and learn how to ask good questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the question above as example, I am looking for constructive feedback on what mistakes I made, and how you would rephrase it to be a good question for purposes of SE Workplace. I have to say the feedback I received in the comments did not get me very far in understanding why the question was considered of poor quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29136" LastActivityDate="2017-08-11T14:54:01.800" Title="How to edit a question to be better focused without losing detail?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4711" CreationDate="2017-08-05T00:43:40.607" Score="-2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should I fire someone, should I quit, should I refuse to do something&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those can all be closed as &lt;strong&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/strong&gt;. Doesn't the below just perfectly describe what's wrong with the above questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3286/advice-on-what-to-do-close-reason-is-over-broad/4648#4648&quot;&gt;I suggested we focus on &quot;career&quot; in the first place&lt;/a&gt; (to a greater extent than the current phrasing) was because trying to cover every primarily opinion-based question here would lead to an overly broad reason that's basically the same as another existing reason (and we'd be back where we started).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, &quot;advice on a ... choice&quot; is actually fairly vague and broad - it can very well include asking how to make the decision, or more specific details about one element of the decision, and probably covers like 90% of the questions on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The type of questions that I'm thinking about here are non-opinion-based workplace questions that can only be answered by experts in that very specific field. This is perhaps not the best example, but something like &quot;How do I go about getting a job as an X&quot; would fall under this reason - this might be a bit broad or opinion-based, but, from those points of view, it seems very similar to something like the on topic &quot;How do I solve workplace problem Y&quot; (as in there are a few ways and the &quot;best&quot; way is subjective), yet the former is still off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're going to remove &quot;career&quot;, I might recommend a phrasing like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking us to make a specific ... decision for you ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But again, this would 100% be covered under primarily opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're not going to remove &quot;career&quot;, the phrasing can probably stay roughly as is to cover the career questions mentioned above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an interesting note - 4/5 of our top questions site-wide can be rephrased to ask us to make a decision for them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93696/is-it-unethical-for-me-to-not-tell-my-employer-i-ve-automated-my-job&quot;&gt;Should I tell my employer I've automated my job?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3492/is-it-rude-to-leave-an-interview-early-if-you-have-already-made-your-decision&quot;&gt;Should I leave an interview early if I've already made a decision?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/83451/can-i-talk-to-my-rubber-duck-at-work&quot;&gt;Should I talk to my rubber duck at work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/90692/my-manager-told-me-i-should-feel-comfortable-about-telling-him-if-i-want-to-leav&quot;&gt;Should I tell my manager I want to leave the company?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the fact that they're &lt;em&gt;slightly&lt;/em&gt; more specific and ask whether it's ethical / rude / professional is enough to make them on topic, but the last one is literally just &quot;should I&quot;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/88408/should-i-force-a-slower-developer-to-change-tool-to-try-to-increase-their-veloci&quot;&gt;it's&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/96335/should-i-decline-a-gift-from-my-boss-the-new-owner-of-the-company&quot;&gt;hardly&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/94146/should-we-tell-a-client-about-a-possible-scam-pertaining-to-a-document-we-weren&quot;&gt;the&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/17070/i-worked-for-a-company-affiliated-with-a-very-publicly-failed-project-should-i&quot;&gt;only&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/19625/should-i-list-skills-on-my-r%C3%A9sum%C3%A9-if-i-have-no-interest-in-using-them-again&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; (yes, I know one of those are closed... and I V'edTC it, but the fact that we're not consistent helps my argument more than hurting it - but &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/48278/should-i-feel-obligated-to-work-extra-hours-because-of-project-mismanagement&quot;&gt;here's&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1810/should-i-go-to-an-interview-i-dont-intend-to-accept-the-job-if-offered&quot;&gt;three&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18693/should-i-tell-my-boss-im-leaving-because-of-them&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt; to make up for it nonetheless). All of those currently have a score above 100.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="8234" LastEditDate="2017-08-06T00:31:38.613" LastActivityDate="2017-08-06T00:31:38.613" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4711" CreationDate="2017-08-07T14:10:14.677" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes lets remove the word Career from the close reason and go with the wording that was originally well received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for advice on a specific choice, such as what job to&#xA;  take or what skills to learn, are difficult to answer objectively and&#xA;  are rarely useful for anyone else. Instead of asking which decision to&#xA;  make, try asking how to make the decision, or more specific details&#xA;  about one element of the decision, or for more specific details&#xA;  .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2017-08-08T20:49:49.597" LastActivityDate="2017-08-08T20:49:49.597" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4718" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-08T16:56:21.320" Score="5" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I somewhat regularly find myself looking for a duplicate of a question, but only finding a whole bunch of &lt;em&gt;similar&lt;/em&gt; questions, but none of which seem like a good duplicate candidate, as the answers tend to focus heavily on that specific situation instead of trying to provide an extensive answer covering multiple aspects of the question as asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One recent example of this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/96749/dealing-with-lack-of-respect-from-recruiters&quot;&gt;Dealing with lack of respect from recruiters&lt;/a&gt; (asking how to decline an interview, essentially)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some potential duplicates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/5636/what-should-you-say-when-you-dont-want-to-go-back-for-a-2nd-interview-with-an-e&quot;&gt;What should you say when you don&amp;#39;t want to go back for a 2nd interview with an Employer?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/70038/how-do-i-professionaly-withdraw-from-the-hiring-process&quot;&gt;How do I professionaly withdraw from the hiring process?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/44818/got-my-first-job-how-do-i-politely-turn-down-the-call-for-an-interview-by-anoth&quot;&gt;Got my first job. How do I politely turn down the call for an interview by another employer?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/63113/how-to-turn-down-interview-for-position-i-dont-want&quot;&gt;How to turn down interview for position I don&amp;#39;t want?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/69455/how-do-i-cancel-a-second-interview-when-i-want-to-be-considered-for-other-positi?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;How do I cancel a second interview when I want to be considered for other positions there in the future?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/92026/how-to-turn-down-interview-offers-when-there-are-too-many-of-them&quot;&gt;How to turn down interview offers when there are too many of them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first one is probably the best candidate, but all of them focus fairly heavily on their question's specific situation instead of trying to provide more general advice of how to change the response based on different circumstances (e.g. if you've already accepted another offer, you can probably just tell them as much, but if the job doesn't sound like something you want to do, you might want to choose your words a bit more carefully).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I can post my own answer, but it somewhat feels like trying to hijack the Q&amp;amp;A, because no-one else is answering the more general question, and I also don't want to do that for every other duplicate vote I cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that trying to cover every variation might not always be viable, but in general it seems like people tend to opt for the other extreme - the answers focus too heavily on solving OP's specific problem instead of trying to provide long-term value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we not try to create lasting value at about the same priority as trying to solve OP's problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe I'm just suffering from confirmation bias.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we make reference posts (instead?) (as in posting a question that's intended to address the more general problem rather than being any given user's problem, in order to answer any and every version of the question)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="8234" LastEditDate="2017-08-08T17:35:58.963" LastActivityDate="2017-08-08T17:35:58.963" Title="Should we focus more on making reference-worthy answers (for duplicate questions)?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4720" CreationDate="2017-08-09T08:06:48.700" Score="1" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question was deleted before I had a chance to read the last comment. Since I visit this site only via the app, I have no saved URL from the browser history to give you. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/siXWol.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/siXWol.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26826" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-08-09T10:50:45.213" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T10:50:45.213" Title="Can you help me read the last comment on this deleted question?" Tags="|support|comments|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4719" CreationDate="2017-08-09T10:43:55.823" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tip&lt;/strong&gt;: To &quot;retrieve&quot; a deleted question to which you do not have a link, you can use an internet search engine, such as Google. Enter the question title and/or parts of the description that you remember into the search box. If the question has been deleted only recently, it would still show up close to the top of the search results.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't have the link to your question either, so I just did the above, and found it in the search results. Since I have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;access to moderator tools&lt;/a&gt; privilege (colloquially known as the 10K privilege), I could see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/96588/3192&quot;&gt;deleted post&lt;/a&gt;, and here's the last comment you requested:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Ooker Because the people working for the recruitment companies are themselves unqualified to judge if a person is qualified for a job or not, so they call pretty much everyone. – Peter 22 hours ago &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until you get the 10K privilege (pedantic: even &lt;em&gt;afterwards&lt;/em&gt;), you can usually use the 'cache' feature of the search engine to see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:s1PjIWWBgaAJ:https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/96588/why-would-a-recruiter-call-a-candidate-with-zero-experience-when-surely-there-a&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pre-deletion version of the question&lt;/a&gt;, although, as you might expect, the latest comments may not be there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T10:43:55.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4721" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-09T12:49:28.920" Score="8" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to request that &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/96696/unproductive-subordinate-using-health-conditions-and-problems-outside-of-work-as&quot;&gt;Unproductive subordinate using health conditions and problems outside of work as excuse and HR are no help&lt;/a&gt;&quot; be reopened. It was marked as a duplicate of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/49955/im-swamped-at-work-and-a-colleague-is-slacking-not-sure-if-telling-on-him-is-p&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;m swamped at work and a colleague is slacking. Not sure if telling on him is professional&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The duplicate question is about someone who is very busy at work and wants an unproductive intern to help with the workload. This person is not a manager to the intern, and the intern's lack of effort is not the reason why the poster is so overworked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main question is about a &lt;em&gt;subordinate&lt;/em&gt; who is being unproductive and &lt;em&gt;causing&lt;/em&gt; increased workload on their manager. The typical answer of &quot;It's not your job to manage&quot; doesn't apply because the poster &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the manager and it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; their job to manage. The added complication is that the subordinate has medical issues which require (currently undefined) accommodations, thus preventing the manager from being able to actually manage yet still causing increased work stress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, the two questions are so different that I'm completely baffled this even needs to be discussed. Please vote to reopen the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2017-08-10T17:17:07.103" LastActivityDate="2017-08-11T18:48:00.910" Title="(REOPENED) Reopen &quot;Unproductive subordinate using health conditions...&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4721" CreationDate="2017-08-09T17:02:43.527" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made an additional edit to cut down some of the loaded language and remove some of the details not relevant to the core question, which is essentially this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have a subordinate with health issues and personal problems. I would prefer to fire him, but do not want to get into any legal trouble. What steps should I take to ensure this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an on-topic question IMHO. As Lilienthal says in the comments, this question maybe very difficult to answer in a general fashion. However, it seems to be one that a skilled HR Professional in the know of local work practices should be able to answer, or at least &lt;em&gt;attempt&lt;/em&gt; to answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer to have questions opened and answered as against closed wherever possible, so I chose to give it the benefit of doubt and cast the 4th reopen vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T17:02:43.527" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-10T19:31:19.077" Score="-5" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to know why a particular answer is downvoted, as it provides an insight into flawed thinking on my end or a measure of whether or not the answer is actually useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that, when clicking down vote, a popup appears to enter a downvote reason. When displayed on the answer the downvote comment would not display a user id (so as to prevent &quot;retaliation&quot; from a user).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This popup would not allow for blank comments. I know that &quot;constructive&quot; commentary doesn't have to be required, but it would (to my mind) show that the downvote was &quot;inexplicable&quot;, and therefore the question might still have merit, as no reasoning could be given as to why it's not a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59722" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T20:07:21.887" Title="Feature Request - Downvote comment required" Tags="|feature-request|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2017-08-11T13:31:16.950" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4723" CreationDate="2017-08-10T20:07:21.887" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since an up vote is +10 and a down vote is -2, the system already allows for the fact that there will just be jerks.  In order for a person to do any real damage to your reputation, they'd have to be obsessively down-voting you.  If that happens, it trips an algorithm and alerts the staff and mods, then someone has some serious 'splainin to do, and the down-votes are reversed.  It is not a concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T20:07:21.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4725" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-10T20:07:50.000" Score="1" ViewCount="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/96871/26826&quot;&gt;When should recruiters call candidates instead of emailling?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two person (Daniel, Lilienthal) agree that this question can be reopen if there is some improvements. Which bits are unclear, and how to improve them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, Lilienthal initially thinks that my question asks for something that strangers on the internet impossibly figure out, but later agrees that my point is fair. Why do they think that? I want to put myself in their shoes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26826" LastEditorUserId="26826" LastEditDate="2017-08-10T20:15:33.513" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T20:15:33.513" Title="How to make the question about when recruiters should call candidates clear again?" Tags="|support|closed-questions|offtopic|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4726" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-10T20:51:38.777" Score="3" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/96881/how-can-i-increase-the-chances-of-scoring-an-interview-when-meeting-a-company-at#comment294189_96881&quot;&gt;How can I increase the chances of scoring an interview when meeting a company at a career fair?&lt;/a&gt; was marked as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9096/what-should-you-do-to-get-the-most-out-of-a-career-fair&quot;&gt;What should you do to get the most out of a career fair?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said in a comment on the question:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;I don't think just being about career fair strategies makes this a duplicate. This question is about someone who already understands the benefits of a career fair wanting to connect and move forward with a specific company, the other is someone trying to figure out the point of attending the career fair and how to benefit from the whole thing in general. Some of the answers on the other question may help this poster &lt;strong&gt;partially&lt;/strong&gt;, but won't address the meat of the question. I would like to see a good answer to this question as well, it's a common situation and will be helpful to lots of users.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to see this question reopened so that the OP's specific question can be answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69934" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T20:51:38.777" Title="Reopen &quot;How can I increase the chances of scoring an interview when meeting a company a career fair&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4712" CreationDate="2017-08-11T14:54:01.800" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think your question gets to the main issue: a boss expects a subordinate to do a task that all other team members do on a regular basis. Is there something special about this person's responsibilities or workload? Did he miss out on some sort of training or meeting the boss had with everyone else on the subject?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as details, I couldn't find any response from this employee as to why they don't comply. Do they understand the requirement? What are the consequences? Have you taken any steps to deal with this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand what you're asking. I just don't see why this boss hasn't tried what to me are obvious initial steps. Either this person isn't capable, doesn't understand, forgets or intentionally doesn't do it. If you feel you've addressed all of this and nothing worked, your question may start to benefit others on this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8365" LastActivityDate="2017-08-11T14:54:01.800" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4687" CreationDate="2017-08-11T15:26:08.430" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is odd that any manager is going to give this much information about a senior team member not doing his job in front of other employees. It's normally done in private behind closed doors. The fact that you are an intern makes it even more suspect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Up to a point, I could see that you were told to do your part and the boss may have even mentioned that the senior member was told to do his part, but mentioning this has been a problem before should have never been mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're all human and sometimes we hear different things, assume others and fill in the blanks when possible. As an intern or when you are new to a company or position, operate as if you don't know everything that is going on until you do. Make sure you know what is required of you, but be careful how you question the actions of others. They're called rookie mistakes for a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8365" LastActivityDate="2017-08-11T15:26:08.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4721" CreationDate="2017-08-11T18:48:00.910" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The latest edit mentions the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) yet the post itself is tagged &quot;united-kingdom&quot;. Unless the US has conquered the UK and taken over, the ADA doesn't apply to the UK. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40399" LastActivityDate="2017-08-11T18:48:00.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4730" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-12T12:22:38.347" Score="0" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not my community.  I posted something thoughtful and prescient and got a -6 and someone locked the page for &quot;low quality spam answers&quot;.  I will stick to stack exchange I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone tell me how to take it off my profile?  Or an admin do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user75395" LastActivityDate="2017-08-12T20:03:58.683" Title="How do I remove myself from this workplace exchange?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4733" CreationDate="2017-08-12T13:31:07.157" Score="2" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/96978/3192&quot;&gt;How can I avoid discrimination against me as a member of a non-protected class&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was obviously closed for the subject matter and not for any lack of addressable goal, as evidenced by the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;update: I have taken Dukeling's advice and edited the title, which seems to have helped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any further edits or suggestions would be most welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2017-08-14T13:31:51.197" LastActivityDate="2017-08-19T08:59:13.727" Title="Can I get this reopened &quot;Bias in the workplace against white males&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4730" CreationDate="2017-08-12T20:03:58.683" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/285385/255187&quot;&gt;How do I disassociate a question with my account?&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; (Even though the question is about questions, the answer also applies to answers):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use the 'contact us' link at the bottom of the site and be sure to include a link to your post. A post can be disassociated by request of the author, but a disassociation can only be performed by an employee of Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17180" LastActivityDate="2017-08-12T20:03:58.683" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4731" CreationDate="2017-08-13T01:09:18.473" Score="4" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is this partially a legal question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is the non-legal answer roughly just &amp;quot;be a good employee&amp;quot; (and, more generally &amp;quot;do whatever you'd &lt;em&gt;normally&lt;/em&gt; do to get ahead or protect your job in the business world&amp;quot;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really have a problem with the subject matter of the question, I just fail to see a non-trivial answer to the question (that also wouldn't just be listing what &amp;quot;a good employee&amp;quot; looks like, which, as an answer to that question, or any question really, just seems ... wrong).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that a good enough reason to close the question? I think so, yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I honestly think that people closed the question because they don't think white people are being discriminated against, and people reopened it because they think there is discrimination, but no-one's really considering whether the question's actually answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers so far, in my mind, 100% supports this - they largely come down to &amp;quot;be a good employee&amp;quot; (and briefly touch on disclosing and coping with disabilities, which would make good questions, but that isn't what was asked here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-08-19T08:59:13.727" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4734" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4737" CreationDate="2017-08-15T08:28:38.183" Score="10" ViewCount="968" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was about to rollback the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/96978/6&quot;&gt;most recent edit&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/96978/9549&quot;&gt;Richard U's question&lt;/a&gt; which removes the prologue, but since this is a contentious political issue I don't want to participate in an edit war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to make sure that the opening statement, where the OP mentions his demographic and the apparent climate against it, is indeed on-topic. I'm leaning towards keeping it but I can see the argument against it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/96978/how-can-i-avoid-discrimination-against-me-without-invoking-my-protected-class-st#comment295037_96978&quot;&gt;Midas' comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I still fail to understand what the OP being white has to do with this (heavily edited) question. The first half of the question has nothing to do with the second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first half of the question mentions how the OP perceives himself to be victimized specifically because of his demographic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastEditorUserId="9549" LastEditDate="2017-08-15T08:35:44.317" LastActivityDate="2017-08-16T13:30:32.527" Title="Should 'white male' status be considered in this question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|aggressive-edits|rollback|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4734" CreationDate="2017-08-15T09:32:35.500" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it should be returned. As it stands, the question makes no sense at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It asks &quot;How can I avoid discrimination?&quot; but gives absolutely no indication of why, or how, for what reason there would be any discrimination against the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think you can reasonably answer the question until you know &lt;strong&gt;how&lt;/strong&gt; the asker is being discriminated against.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38458" LastActivityDate="2017-08-15T09:32:35.500" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4734" CreationDate="2017-08-15T12:29:07.160" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the question stands now it looks ridiculous, as it basically says &quot;How can I prevent discrimination against me by using things about me that people might discriminate against.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have seen &lt;strong&gt;NUMEROUS&lt;/strong&gt; questions about women facing discrimination, minorities facing discrimination, but apparently nobody outside a protected class can face discrimination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People with disabilities face discrimination as well, I know this, I've been a bit of an activist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being white, however &lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt; central to the question as is the dismissiveness given towards the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem I face is the horns of a dilemma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I risk facing discrimination because I am white and thus seen as &quot;privileged&quot;, or should I risk invoking the protections given to those within the &quot;protected groups&quot; I belong to, and thus risk a DIFFERENT kind of discrimination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit removes the crux of the dilemma&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am going to roll back the edit to a large degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2017-08-16T13:30:32.527" LastActivityDate="2017-08-16T13:30:32.527" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4734" CreationDate="2017-08-15T14:28:10.277" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's actually the issue I have.  It's not so much as that it was edited (because Richard ultimately kept part of it and it's his intent on which approval is based) but that the editor actually submitted an even more aggressive version of the edit a day later.  I thought I (and another) had rejected it but maybe the system glitched, but no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/61575&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/61575&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first edit was rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/61653&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/61653&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But with a day, an even stronger edit that took out everything the rejected edit removed and more was submitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether you think it's a great edit or goes against the author's intent, users shouldn't be resubmitting edits because they know they'll be reviewed by someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastEditorUserId="28939" LastEditDate="2017-08-15T14:48:29.793" LastActivityDate="2017-08-15T14:48:29.793" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4740" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4742" CreationDate="2017-08-16T12:10:43.727" Score="7" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice more and more people answering question that should be marked as duplicates. In some cases, the question later marked as a duplicate (and still retain the answers given which is fine). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we refrain from answering them? The whole point of marking something as a duplicated is because this question has already been answered. If we add answers to this question, the answer that is accepted could be fundamentally different (because OP agrees with this answer more than one on the duplicate), this could be really confusing to people who come in after the fact and read the two accepted answers that may be conflicting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastActivityDate="2017-08-24T16:17:29.540" Title="Should we refrain from answering duplicates?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4740" CreationDate="2017-08-16T12:26:31.753" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the problem is that on a stack like TWP whether a question is a duplicate or not is much more subjective than the more technical SE sites like Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/97211/i-have-accepted-a-job-offer-but-now-i-want-to-decline-as-a-startup-of-mine-has&quot;&gt;I have accepted a job offer, but now I want to decline as a startup of mine has become successful. How should I do this?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been suggested that it could be considered a duplicate of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/11219/how-to-decline-an-already-accepted-offer-professionally-and-politely-if-i-want?rq=1&quot;&gt;How to decline an already accepted offer, professionally and politely, if I want to accept counteroffer from current employer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;only&quot; real difference here is that the new question involves a startup rather than a counteroffer. Personally I would say that makes it not a duplicate and the startup element meant I answered the question differently from how I would have answered the counteroffer question. That said I can see how someone &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; consider it a duplicate, after all they have far more in common than they have differences and while I wouldn't have marked it a duplicate myself in a way I'm glad others &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; because that way between my answer (and other potential answers obviously) and the ones on the linked question I think both the OP and other visitors stand a better chance of getting the information they need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2017-08-16T12:26:31.753" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4740" CreationDate="2017-08-16T13:02:06.083" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's what I'd like to see (i.e. this is personal opinion, not mod fiat): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you agree that it's a duplicate, and there is already an answer there that covers what you were going to say, don't answer the new question.  Vote (or flag) to close as a duplicate.  As with any other closure, leave a comment if you think you can help the OP (e.g. by suggesting ways to de-dupe it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you agree that it's a duplicate, and there &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; already an answer there that covers what you were going to say, and what you were going to say is appropriate there too -- add your answer to the original question, vote/flag to close as a duplicate, and leave a comment on the new question pointing to the answers there.  This way you help the OP &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; everybody who finds the original question, and you help to keep all the answers in one place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you disagree that it's a duplicate, treat it the way you would any other question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2017-08-24T16:17:29.540" LastActivityDate="2017-08-24T16:17:29.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4740" CreationDate="2017-08-16T13:03:13.180" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we refrain from answering duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course. As &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/10844/260382&quot;&gt;the main meta thread on this topic&lt;/a&gt; clearly states (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should I answer it?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, &lt;strong&gt;not if you think it's a duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;. If you don't think the answers on the target question are good enough, write an answer there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't think the question is a duplicate, then by all means do answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the main problem here is that the people who take the time to answer usually, though not always, don't consider that a question is or might be a duplicate. While I usually check the site for existing questions on common topics, I've answered plenty of questions that turned out to be duplicates. And that's ultimately not that big of a deal, it's just how a community moderated system works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, the simple answer is that yes: &lt;strong&gt;you should never answer a question you consider to be a duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Flag or vote to close as a duplicate instead&lt;/strong&gt; and consider submitting an answer to the original question instead, provided that you don't end up saying exactly the same thing as previous answers there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-08-16T13:03:13.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4744" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-17T06:12:40.290" Score="5" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/97187/26185&quot;&gt;How to handle business information about a contractor, I have from personal experience?&lt;/a&gt; Is put on hold as having no goal. I don't get how this can be taken as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I explain a situation, I explain what bothers me, I explain the options I have and ask for which of this options I should take as a professional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why thats not a given goal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26185" LastActivityDate="2017-08-17T06:12:40.290" Title="Why this is off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4745" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-17T11:49:41.943" Score="2" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2644/what-can-i-do-at-work-when-i-have-no-work&quot;&gt;What can I do at work when I have no work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post is roughly &quot;I've unsuccessfully tried everything to get more work, what do I do with my time?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, the answers, especially the top-voted one, don't really focus on what one should actually try to get more &quot;official&quot; work and instead mostly advise to just give up and do other self-improvement things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then questions like the following are closed as duplicates, despite the advice being wildly inappropriate for that situation: (since finding more &quot;official&quot; work is very much core to the advice given there)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3408/should-i-ask-for-work-from-my-team-leader-when-the-project-is-almost-complete&quot;&gt;Should I ask for work from my team leader when the project is almost complete?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59667/should-i-ask-for-more-work-when-i-have-completed-all-the-tasks-assigned-to-me&quot;&gt;Should i ask for more work , when i have completed all the tasks assigned to me for the day?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/56777/what-can-i-do-if-work-pace-is-too-slow-for-me&quot;&gt;What can I do if work pace is too slow for me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should be done here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have a more general post on this which can be used as a reference post instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastActivityDate="2017-08-17T11:49:41.943" Title="Is the &quot;I have no work&quot; post too specific to use as a reference post for &quot;duplicates&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4747" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4748" CreationDate="2017-08-18T18:04:28.553" Score="2" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just recently answered and edited the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/97395/in-what-order-should-i-list-coworkers-in-emails&quot;&gt;In what order should I list coworkers in emails&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/97395/revisions&quot;&gt;edits&lt;/a&gt;, I did a first one that was justifiable, as it removed unnecessary content and added a relevant tag so the question got more impact. However, some seconds after (less than a minute I suppose) a second relevant tag came to my mind, so I proceeded to add that missing detail. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing that surprised me was that after a while I got +2 rep for &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; of those edits. I was expecting that given the short time between them, and the small change the second edit was it would just have been a &lt;em&gt;correction&lt;/em&gt; to my edit, therefore no need to get another +2 from it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recall that &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt; I read that this sort of actions could be negative, as it may give way for users to do several minor edits to rapidly gain reputation (even though rep from edits caps at 200 daily, but still could be abused). This is also surprised me, as I was not trying to abuse with my edits but this felt like it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I just making a big deal of something &quot;irrelevant&quot; like +2 reputation? Is there any way this sort of &quot;edit abuse&quot; can be prevented or discouraged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2017-08-18T21:12:19.400" Title="Reputation gained from a second consecutive minor edit" Tags="|discussion|editing|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4747" CreationDate="2017-08-18T20:21:57.247" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was expecting that given the short time between them, and the small change the second edit was it would just have been a correction to my edit, therefore no need to get another +2 from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a number of reasons why the comment editing &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/grace-period/info&quot;&gt;grace period&lt;/a&gt; ends. Most are documented on the main &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/21788/how-does-editing-work/21789#21789&quot;&gt;Editing meta post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Grace period&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to prevent a series of tiny edits from showing up in the revision history, a single user who edits a post is given a 5-minute &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/grace-period/info&quot;&gt;grace period&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;except&lt;/em&gt; under one of the following conditions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The previous revision was a rollback.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The new revision is a rollback.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During this period, any additional edits they make are collapsed into the same edit in the revision history, displaying only the final outcome of all their edits within that 5 minute period. The grace period ends after exactly 5 minutes, or if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another user edits the post, at which time &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; grace period begins.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A comment has been added to the post since the previous revision by anyone other than the editor (ignores deleted comments).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the post being edited is a question and an answer has been added since the previous revision (ignores deleted answers).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question has been closed since the previous revision.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One additional and largely undocumented reason concerns suggested edits: &lt;strong&gt;the grace period for a suggested edit ends when its review is completed&lt;/strong&gt;, whether it results in an approval or rejection. As StackExchange employee animuson &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/202282/what-happens-when-i-edit-my-suggested-edit/202288#202288&quot;&gt;said on meta&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While your suggested edit is still pending review, you are in your grace period. Any further edits you make will get combined into the pending suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your edit has already been approved (or perhaps rejected) and review has completed, further edits will create a new suggestion for review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;strong&gt;the grace period for &lt;em&gt;suggested&lt;/em&gt; edits is actually different from that for normal edits&lt;/strong&gt;. The normal grace period is 5 minutes while &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/157601/can-i-modify-and-resubmit-my-suggested-edit-before-it-is-peer-reviewed?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;the grace period for a suggested edit &lt;strong&gt;lasts until the review completes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your grace period actually applies to the suggested edit still being active. If it hasn't been approved or rejected yet, you can still continue to make additional edits to it which all get collapsed into that suggestion; just click the edit button again and the box will fill with the edit you suggested. Just make sure if you make any major changes you modify the edit reason so that you don't confuse the heck out of those reviewing it. I've done this before, myself, when I noticed a misspelling in some text I added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On most of the smaller sites, it can take some time for edits to get approved/rejected, giving you ample time to correct any mistakes. However, larger sites may not get you much of a grace period for making changes to your suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A secondary (and shorter) explanation is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/202282/what-happens-when-i-edit-my-suggested-edit/202288#202288&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While your suggested edit is still pending review, you are in your grace period. Any further edits you make will get combined into the pending suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your edit has already been approved (or perhaps rejected) and review has completed, further edits will create a new suggestion for review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case, you can check the edit history and you'll find that each of your suggested edits was almost immediately approved by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, if you look at the timestamps, your answer to the question would also have ended your grace period if it wasn't a suggested edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I just making a big deal of something &amp;quot;irrelevant&amp;quot; like +2 reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way this sort of &amp;quot;edit abuse&amp;quot; can be prevented or discouraged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't edit abuse as you weren't trying to farm reputation. Real edit abuse would be if you waited for the grace period to expire, then made another partial edit or, more egregiously, if you constantly made edits to the same post that cancelled each other out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This abuse is rare because it's incredibly obvious. The people in the Edit Review queue typically catch on fairly quickly if they see the same post(s) appearing with the same user making the edits. Because it's so rare there's no real official guideline that I've found on how to handle this. But common sense says that if you happen to come across this in the future &lt;em&gt;and it's clearly done deliberately&lt;/em&gt;, that you should &lt;strong&gt;reject all such edits&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;flag the post for moderator attention&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-08-18T21:12:19.400" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4740" CreationDate="2017-08-19T12:26:42.483" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I notice more and more people answering question that should be marked&#xA;  as duplicates. In some cases, the question later marked as a duplicate&#xA;  (and still retain the answers given which is fine).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we refrain from answering them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site's gamification strongly incents people to provide an answer to everything, and to be the first to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Folks cannot know ahead of time if a question will eventually be marked a duplicate, or if (after editing) it will remain a duplicate. Here in meta we often see members begging for questions to be reopened - and most of the time they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So clearly the proper game play is to answer quickly without regard to possible closing as a duplicate (or any other reasons).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't feel like answering any question that you believe is a duplicate, you should avoid answering. Instead, you probably should vote for the question to be closed as a duplicate. But you shouldn't be surprised that others decide to provide an answer - that's exactly what the site is encouraging them to do. &lt;em&gt;Does anyone disagree that the site setup encourages exactly that?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2017-08-19T20:59:40.317" LastActivityDate="2017-08-19T20:59:40.317" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4751" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4752" CreationDate="2017-08-21T16:08:06.510" Score="4" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does the &quot;Community ♦&quot; mark something as dupe? I have seen it a few time, but I am unsure how that actually happens. Normally, 5 people (or a mod) will mark something as a dupe. Can a normal user start the process of the Community ♦ user marking a question? If so, is this something I should be doing rather than  marking it myself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What chain of events must happen for Community ♦ to mark a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just want to make sure I am doing things correctly, as I am still kind of new here (4 months)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastActivityDate="2017-08-21T16:25:15.580" Title="How does &quot;Community&quot; mark something as duplicate" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4751" CreationDate="2017-08-21T16:25:15.580" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happened there is someone with under 3k rep flagged suggesting a duplicate (which doesn't actually cast a close vote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question has a suggested duplicate a dialog appears that asks, &quot;did this answer your question?&quot; and if you select &quot;yes&quot; then it is treated as &quot;Community&quot; voting to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never seen this chain though with a non-3k user suggesting a dup and then being accepted. It makes things look... weird.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-08-21T16:25:15.580" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4753" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-22T11:43:07.267" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/97577/when-youre-asked-if-your-question-is-quick-or-not&quot;&gt;When you&amp;#39;re asked if your question is &amp;quot;quick&amp;quot; or not&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This got two early unclear votes but was ultimately closed as opinion-based. I think people are getting hung up on the OP wondering how to define &amp;quot;quick&amp;quot; which I don't think is the main point of the question. It's part of what's adding to his confusion in how to handle this type of question but the main question is ultimately &amp;quot;How should I respond?&amp;quot; and it's broader than &amp;quot;please define what 'quick' means at work&amp;quot;. I've edited the question somewhat to focus on the main question and I think this is on-topic here and answerable. None of the three answers currently posted are focusing on the exact definition of quick but rather on how you respond to a request like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disclaimer: I've answered this question.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-08-22T14:35:14.310" Title="(REOPENED) Reopen &quot;When you're asked if your question is &quot;quick&quot; or not&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4753" CreationDate="2017-08-22T12:39:33.947" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, is it quick is entirely opinion based and also dependent on the situation. What do you answer depends on the topic, the situation the person is currently in, what's about to happen, what is happening in the now, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not casting a re-open vote, however if other people do open it, I'll leave the rest to the masses. I like your answer, Lilenthal, I think it's excellent, I'm just not a fan of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52713" LastActivityDate="2017-08-22T12:39:33.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4755" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4769" CreationDate="2017-08-25T17:33:08.567" Score="9" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;We recently changed the &quot;advice on what to do&quot; close reason to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695/16983&quot;&gt;advice on a specific choice&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. However, I noticed that the off-topic definitions in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; were not updated to match the new wording. Can this be changed? I also think that the &quot;focusing on ranting&quot; could be updated to match the current &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2693/custom-off-topic-close-reasons-change/2696#2696&quot;&gt;questions require a goal&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any other places these definitions show up that we might have missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-09-05T10:05:34.623" Title="Update Help Center to match new off-topic wordings" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|help-center|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4756" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-25T19:28:14.943" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;A number of clarifying comments from the OP were unceremoniously deleted from &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/97725/am-i-being-asked-to-lie-in-my-job&quot;&gt;Am I being asked to lie in my job?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (they were attached to the top answer, I believe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I understand the SE-wide policy of cleaning up excessive numbers of comments, my recollection is that several of the comments that were deleted were attempts from the OP to clarify the situation and provide additional details. Deleting these means that information is lost and answers are less informed and useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why were these comments not preserved, merged into the question, or, at a minimum, archived to chat before they were deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47032" LastActivityDate="2017-08-26T10:54:57.240" Title="Deletions of clarifying comments from the OP" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4756" CreationDate="2017-08-25T20:28:16.187" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP has only ever posted two comments on this site.  One of them was on that answer and is deleted.  (It's obsolete.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the deleted comments on that answer are speculation and discussion about the company's motives &#xA;among &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; users.  Some of those comments were heated, even rude.  I'm not the mod who handled the flags, but I agree with the outcome.  If the discussion had been polite and constructive it probably would have gone to chat instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-08-25T20:28:16.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4756" CreationDate="2017-08-26T10:54:57.240" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been a regular visitor to this site for about 2 years now. My observation is the moderators always &lt;em&gt;move&lt;/em&gt; the comments to a chat room, and do not delete them unless they are rude or in violation of the &quot;Be Nice&quot; policy. They are also very lenient in interpreting &quot;nice&quot; in the latter case, as users can typically get away with snarky remarks that are not outright abusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;s&gt;impossible&lt;/s&gt; highly unlikely that a moderator would delete clarifying comments from the OP without merging them into the question description. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-08-26T10:54:57.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4759" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-27T12:40:04.560" Score="1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/82067/3192&quot;&gt;How should I tell my boss that I cannot meet the deadline?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as &quot;asking for advice on what to do&quot;. However, communicating to the boss that you cannot meet a deadline is a pretty common situation in the workplace, and hence, this is a useful question to have in our repository. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question already has useful answers, but it would be nonetheless appropriate to keep the question open, so that linking similar questions as duplicate is less confusing. It was closed because it was a semi-rant written out of desperation and focused more on &quot;what to do&quot;. I have now trimmed down the description to focus on the main issue. In addition, the &quot;what to do&quot; close reason has been retired now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please cast reopen votes if you agree, or post in comments/answer what needs to be further improved or why the question should not be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-08-29T12:06:18.853" LastActivityDate="2017-08-29T12:06:18.853" Title="(REOPENED) Request to reopen &quot;How should I tell my boss that I cannot meet the deadline?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4760" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-27T21:12:56.073" Score="-10" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I am trying to be as active as possible in the community and coincidently I joined a new job so I am up with lots of questions which I feel are important from my point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that its an open community and everyone's opinion is equally welcomed but I see that there are few members who hold many badges but their answers/comments solves no purpose other than either praising employers or simply neglecting every point made by OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You are given salary so just do it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You are employee this will happen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These kind of comments and answer met the OP down and simply nullifies the intent of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am concerned about the quality of the discussion because these members hold most of the power to play with questions and often good questions dies or are put on hold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding more references:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/85254/60598&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/85254/60598&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, who says one doesn't have free time in office? we are paid to do the work and not complete the 8 hour slot just sitting there and looking at wall. if someone is good in their trade then they can finish the work at hand and use the time left for personal training, the answer again here is employer biased, it masked few category of the people happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75144" LastEditorUserId="75144" LastEditDate="2017-08-28T18:28:35.170" LastActivityDate="2017-08-28T18:28:35.170" Title="Employer biased community members skewing the intent of the site" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ClosedDate="2017-08-28T14:18:23.507" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4760" CreationDate="2017-08-28T12:11:02.280" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the complete content of my now-deleted answer. Perhaps you could indicate what was objectionable so that others can provide an answer more to your liking. Note that you have radically changed your question since then, and that I provided the answer in response to the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Why such a policy exists where the bonus is given in the month end&#xA;    when it is needed upfront? I could have saved all the expenses in the&#xA;    hotels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For the answer to &quot;why&quot; you'll have to ask the company (perhaps HR). Many companies don't like to give money up front since some people accept the up-front bonus then never show up. It's expensive to chase after them to get the money back. Perhaps your company thinks this way too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It seems as if the crux of your troubles revolves around when payroll is credited each month. You were expecting the end of the month, but in reality they credit accounts on the 20th of each month. It's unfortunate you didn't ask these questions up front so that you could have planned better. I doubt that the company was hiding anything here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;What if the HR says that the payroll is out and now you will get all&#xA;    the salary in the next payroll and who is responsible for the next&#xA;    week of accommodations which is going to cost me like anything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, you are responsible for your own accommodations and expenses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I suppose you could talk with HR and see if they could make an exception and help you out with an advance, but in my experience it would be unlikely. It's worth trying anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-08-28T12:16:56.247" LastActivityDate="2017-08-28T12:16:56.247" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4762" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4767" CreationDate="2017-08-28T15:00:06.903" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/97919/is-it-better-to-hire-someone-rather-than-no-one#comment298169_97939&quot;&gt;Is it better to hire someone rather than no one?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to think this is a really good question for the site, albeit very difficult to answer meaningfully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I lean on the side of it being scoped enough for a comprehensive answer and that a good answer could be generalized enough to fit &quot;most&quot; use cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it would also be prone to driveby answers. My worry is if it's scoped too much more it'll end up being industry focused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2017-08-30T11:39:57.220" LastActivityDate="2017-08-30T11:39:57.220" Title="(REOPENED) How can we get &quot;Is it better to hire someone rather than no one?&quot; reopened?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4763" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4765" CreationDate="2017-08-28T16:38:15.450" Score="6" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/97918/3192&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; as &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot;. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/97918/1&quot;&gt;initial version&lt;/a&gt; I flagged was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately your company has the expectation on you because you are employed. If you are not able to meet the deadlines, you are not qualified for your job. That's the whole point for probation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your company has the rights to fire you and hire another programmer who will do better job than you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This read more like a comment, and did not answer the question, which was: &amp;quot;How should I professionally communicate to my manager that the issues with the code may cause me to miss the deadline?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a comment on the answer pointing this out (I deleted the comment later), and the answer was subsequently edited to include the below additional paragraph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't communicate or negotiate with your manager. No excuse. You work on it professionally and do the best you can. Work very very hard. You do exactly you were told. Do it or leave the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flag has since been marked as disputed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this because when a moderator saw the flag, they were presented with the updated version (which did include an answer)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I don't really mind if the flag was &amp;quot;wrongly&amp;quot; marked as disputed. I am just interested in improving my understanding of the rules and how the system works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-08-28T19:01:04.457" Title="If a flagged post is edited before a moderator sees the flag, how do they deal with it?" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4763" CreationDate="2017-08-28T18:30:58.427" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The flag has since been marked as disputed. Is this because when a moderator saw the flag, they were presented with the updated version (which did include an answer)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. As David mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/62158&quot;&gt;this was the result&lt;/a&gt; of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts&quot;&gt;Low Quality review queue&lt;/a&gt;. In fact, since that review completed, another user flagged this as Not An Answer which created &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/62183&quot;&gt;a new Low Quality review queue entry&lt;/a&gt; which is still open as I'm writing this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not an Answer flags are sent to the review queue first. There is a delay before moderators are alerted of Low Quality flags but that delay is tuned for Stack Overflow meaning that most of those flags do end up in our review list. I tend not to prioritise these as the queue does resolve most of these after some time. Most of the time I only slap on a post notice or flag it as Low Quality so the review queue can sort it out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your &lt;em&gt;flag&lt;/em&gt; is disputed that's almost always an automatic action. Moderators typically only decline flags or dismiss/mark them as helpful, one exception being the &quot;clearing&quot; of a spam flag. For more on disputed flags check:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/95275/what-is-a-disputed-flag&quot;&gt;What is a disputed flag?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/141292/what-is-the-difference-between-disputed-and-declined-flags&quot;&gt;What is the difference between disputed and declined flags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that moderators also get flags for &quot;disputed reviews&quot; where the review resulted in a &quot;Looks OK&quot; but did get Recommend Deletion flags or where the author of a review-deleted post &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/226993/answers-deleted-via-recommend-deletion-votes-in-review-should-not-be-undeletable&quot;&gt;undeleted it&lt;/a&gt;. But I believe those aren't explicitly visible to users as they all mark the original flags as helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If a flagged post is edited before a moderator sees the flag, how do they deal with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It depends. The flag overview page we have has only shows the first few sentences of a post which means we almost always end up clicking through to the actual post. Only one-line comments posted as answers are typically handled from that page. Once we open the post we'll check if the flag is &lt;em&gt;currently&lt;/em&gt; still valid. If it is we'll take the appropriate action. If the post has been improved since we'll usually check the edit history to confirm that it was in a poor state originally and then dismiss the flag as helpful. Only flags that weren't correct at the time they were raised are typically declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-08-28T19:01:04.457" LastActivityDate="2017-08-28T19:01:04.457" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4766" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-29T12:21:35.767" Score="4" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately I've seen a couple questions asking about the laws around work visas and about how to apply or qualify. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/97976/my-sister-has-been-offered-a-job-in-the-us-and-they-want-to-sponsor-her-but-wou&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are questions about applying for a work visa on-topic?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the questions that I've seen, my instinct is no as they are usually too much of a legal question. I'm sure there are questions about work visas that are acceptable, but the ones I have seen have usually been too specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we migrate the good questions that we close as off-topic?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the appropriate site for questions about work visas is &lt;a href=&quot;https://expatriates.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Expatriates SE&lt;/a&gt;. Their Help Center specifically allows&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about work, residence, student, investor and similar mid and long term visas aimed for staying in the country for more time than a tourist or short term business visa would allow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-09-13T15:19:27.403" Title="Questions about work visas" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4762" CreationDate="2017-08-29T15:50:34.617" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/97919/3&quot;&gt;substantial edit&lt;/a&gt; to change the question from &quot;is X better than Y?&quot; to a less opinion based &quot;what factors to consider when deciding if X or Y is better?&quot; I have trimmed down details from the description accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also cast the 4th reopen vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-08-29T15:50:34.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4768" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4773" CreationDate="2017-08-31T00:31:57.170" Score="4" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently reached the 2k milestone, granting me access to the Low Quality and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits&quot;&gt;Suggested Edits&lt;/a&gt; Reviews. I noticed that now I can access those queues, I now get &lt;em&gt;notifications&lt;/em&gt; when some of them are available, it looks something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j0GWc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j0GWc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I never received that notification before, with First Posts and Late Answers Review queues. I also noticed that now I get those notifications &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; for Suggested Edit reviews, not for any other of the queues I have access to (First Posts, Late Answers, nor Low Quality Posts). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This I verified by manually going to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;Review&lt;/a&gt; page and seeing that there were some First/Late/Low Quality posts available, but never received notifications for those. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/191638/notify-users-of-possible-reviews-on-toolbar&quot;&gt;original feature request&lt;/a&gt; but could not understand why the explained behavior. &lt;strong&gt;How does the review notification work here in TWP?&lt;/strong&gt; I am trying to understand better how things work around here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2017-08-31T17:10:56.847" Title="How does the highlight indicating available Review Queue works?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|notifications|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4755" CreationDate="2017-08-31T16:16:07.820" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; has been updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Before&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What questions are off topic here? &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/a/2694&quot;&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or&#xA;policies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/a/2695&quot;&gt;Questions asking for advice on what to do&lt;/a&gt; (including&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/a/2596&quot;&gt;reviewing resumes, CVs, cover letters,&#xA;e-mails&lt;/a&gt;, asking for&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1856/what-is-asking-for-legal-advice&quot;&gt;legal&#xA;advice&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;as well as &lt;a href=&quot;http://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/896/how-can-i-determine-a-reasonable-salary-to-ask-for&quot;&gt;specific salaries, billing rates, market&#xA;worth&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/a/2696&quot;&gt;Questions that focus on ranting about problems rather than trying to solve them&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;Questions that aren't a good fit for the Stack Exchange format&lt;/a&gt; (see also&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad&#xA;Subjective&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;for information on how to ask a subjective question suitable for the&#xA;Stack Exchange format)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;After&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What questions are off topic here? &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions seeking &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/a/2694&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;company-specific advice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on workplace&#xA;regulations or policies, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1856/what-is-asking-for-legal-advice&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;legal&#xA;advice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/a/2696&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;lack a clear goal we can address&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or focus on&#xA;ranting about problems rather than trying to solve them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions asking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/a/2695&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;advice on a specific choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (including&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/a/2596&quot;&gt;reviewing resumes, CVs, cover letters,&#xA;e-mails&lt;/a&gt;, as well as&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/896/how-can-i-determine-a-reasonable-salary-to-ask-for&quot;&gt;specific salaries, billing rates, market&#xA;worth&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;that aren't a good fit&lt;/strong&gt; for the Stack Exchange format&lt;/a&gt; (see also&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad&#xA;Subjective&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;for information on how to ask a subjective question suitable for the&#xA;Stack Exchange format)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-09-05T10:05:34.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4770" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4771" CreationDate="2017-08-31T16:31:36.763" Score="4" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I found an answer I want to award a bounty on.  So once I was done, the system correctly immediately reduced my reputation by X amount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking I would be able to earn 200 rep + X but that doesn't appear to be the case.  Can anyone clarify?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, I am awarding bounty, not receiving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-08-31T17:02:27.213" LastActivityDate="2017-08-31T17:06:43.583" Title="Is it possible to exceed the reputation cap if I have awarded a bounty?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|bounty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4770" CreationDate="2017-08-31T16:59:33.750" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This main meta post &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/198018/202356&quot;&gt;Allow rep lost to the repcap to be used for bounties&lt;/a&gt; is, in a sense, the &quot;reverse&quot; of your question. The principle is the same in both cases: it is not possible to &quot;recycle&quot; reputation lost due to repcap into awarding bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main reason for this design is that allowing such &quot;recycling&quot; would &lt;s&gt;increase work for StackExchange employees&lt;/s&gt; lead to various problems, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Providing for a &quot;reserve&quot; reputation would make the calculations more complex. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The bounty system would become less effective, since high reputation users would have plenty of &quot;reserve&quot; reputation to award lots of bounties.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a corollary to the above point, the system would also be a little more unfair to the new users. They would have to play the bounty game with their &quot;real&quot; reputation, while the high reputation users can play it with &quot;reserve&quot; reputation, which is analogous to allowing rich people to gamble with Monopoly notes. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The concept of a repcap will &lt;s&gt;reduce to a farce&lt;/s&gt; be taken less seriously. Enjoy your real reputation drink, and then come back for unlimited refills of reserve reputation. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-08-31T16:59:33.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4770" CreationDate="2017-08-31T16:59:46.767" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work&quot;&gt;How does Reputation Work&lt;/a&gt; the following statement is provided:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can earn a maximum of +200 reputation from &lt;strong&gt;upvotes&lt;/strong&gt; and suggested &lt;strong&gt;edits&lt;/strong&gt; in any given day. Bounties and the bonuses for accepted answers are counted separately (source). Reputation “lost” from the reputation cap is not awarded on following days. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; earn those &lt;code&gt;X&lt;/code&gt; reputation back if you managed to win a bounty for &lt;code&gt;X&lt;/code&gt; amount or several that sum up to that, or if you got several (14 to get 210 rep) accepted answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, following the logic in that quote, you can only get 200 rep from &lt;em&gt;upvotes&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;suggested edits&lt;/em&gt; (which you no longer get :/), so even though you got more of them you will not recover that rep you offered as bounty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Found this Meta SE &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/51257/how-does-proposing-a-bounty-affect-the-reputation-cap&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; where @TylerCarter explain in depth this situation, extracting some key points from it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; Does paying a bounty actually reduce the reputation cap still? &lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; No&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; After paying a bounty, am I considered to &quot;reach&quot; the reputation cap after getting 200 reputation worth of upvotes, or getting a net daily gain of +200 reputation from upvotes? &lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; 200 reputation period. Not net, but period.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and some other explanation in that post. This seems to match the logic above explained; after you award your bounty, you could still earn 200 rep from votes to rep cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2017-08-31T17:06:43.583" LastActivityDate="2017-08-31T17:06:43.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4768" CreationDate="2017-08-31T17:10:56.847" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/238699/202356&quot;&gt;This main meta answer&lt;/a&gt; suggests that, for all practical purposes, the number is meaningless and it is best to just ignore it. shog9 summarizes the reason eloquently in the first paragraph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Caching. And some complicated eligibility rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and follows it with three short paragraphs of &lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TechnoBabble&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Techno Babble&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt; explanation of how the number is calculated behind the scenes and what makes it an unreliable indicator of what &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; actually see in the review queues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-08-31T17:10:56.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4774" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-31T22:22:17.320" Score="-10" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;As some questions do not have an objective answer and one may want to know other people's thoughts on the subject, it may make sense to have questions which purpose is not to get a definitive answer to asker mark as the accepted one, but to poll opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, myself have asked one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/98102/fill-cv-like-document&quot;&gt;Fill CV like document&lt;/a&gt;, which in the comments was recognized as 'a very good topic for discussion'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People purposed to make a discussion on the chat, but I quite disagree, given the chat is a thing for that time instant and future visitors will not get to there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I purpose that such questions get the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; tag instead of being put on hold.&#xA;Are you with me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68753" LastActivityDate="2017-09-01T07:12:51.257" Title="Discussion questions" Tags="|discussion|support|questions|opinion-based|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4774" CreationDate="2017-09-01T07:12:51.257" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you with me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;No.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92107/are-stack-exchange-sites-forums&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange is not a forum.&lt;/a&gt; This is a Q&amp;amp;A site built around the concept of asking and answering questions and judging both. A discussion cannot be judged and is simply not supported by the site framework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/75035/260382&quot;&gt;the words of Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt; (co-founder of the site for those not in the know):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is really what you want, you need to do it on another engine. Ours simply cannot support these kinds of frivolous, pure entertainment based content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The discussion tag is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/128287/how-come-discussion-tag-made-its-way-into-so&quot;&gt;blacklisted on StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; for a reason and the only reason that it's not blacklisted here is because we haven't had an issue with people actually using it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would in fact be a meta-tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/07/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;which are explicitly discouraged&lt;/a&gt; on the main sites. Our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/tagging&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; is exceptionally clear on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-09-01T07:12:51.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4776" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4778" CreationDate="2017-09-01T13:00:48.393" Score="20" ViewCount="4096" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question is about the &lt;em&gt;accepted answer&lt;/em&gt; to this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/98150/52713&quot;&gt;Former manager is asking for documentation I prepared as his employee&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think there is a better answer given by IdrinkAndIknowThings, but that being said I still voted for it, liked it personally, and do not see it as wrong with it.  Others had a different view so it got me thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something with the accepted answer?  Sometimes, isn't short and sweet also &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; and acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2017-09-11T15:56:00.553" LastActivityDate="2017-09-11T15:56:00.553" Title="What is wrong with the answer to this question?" Tags="|discussion|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4776" CreationDate="2017-09-01T14:41:07.953" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short, &lt;strong&gt;Answers need supporting explanation, not just one-liners.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Read the question carefully. What, specifically, is the question asking for? Make sure your answer provides that – or a viable alternative. The answer can be “don’t do that”, but it should also include “try this instead”. Any answer that gets the asker going in the right direction is helpful, but do try to mention any limitations, assumptions or simplifications in your answer. &lt;strong&gt;Brevity is acceptable, but fuller explanations are better.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from our Back it Up Guideline &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3375/should-our-back-it-up-guideline-be-adhered-to-more-strictly&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that answers should be backed up either with a reference, or experiences that happened to you personally. You should always include in your answer information about why you think your answer is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One (now deleted) comment on Kilisi's post got a lot of attention:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;since meta comments under the answer were cleaned up, here is my copy of comment you referred: 'without an explanation, this answer may become useless in case if someone else posts an opposite opinion. For example, if someone posts a claim like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Don't refer him to your manager. Much positive is in this for you.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, how would this answer help reader to pick of two opposing opinions? Consider editing it into a better shape, to meet &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;How to Answer&lt;/a&gt; guidelines' (and this is example &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zbsAu.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;screen shot&lt;/a&gt; I also referred in there) &lt;em&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/168/gnat&quot;&gt;gnat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reversal is a little forced IMO - a better counter is probably &lt;em&gt;&quot;Go ahead and send it to him. You have nothing to lose.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; In any case, his point still remains. If someone else came and posted a contradictory answer, there would be no way for users to reason which answer is better. The argument is always made that the votes will decide for you, but that doesn't help if not many people vote, or if the answers are controversial and both garner similar number of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site shouldn't be just about answering single questions, but also about giving users a better understanding of how to approach future scenarios. Another user may come along and have a similar but slightly different situation. With no explanation, they can't really understand why one answer is better than another and know how to apply that reasoning to their own situation. Then, they will ask their own question and have it closed as a duplicate because it was already asked and answered, just not in a way that is useful to anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2017-09-01T16:20:45.433" LastActivityDate="2017-09-01T16:20:45.433" CommentCount="30" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4776" CreationDate="2017-09-05T12:17:51.197" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is wrong with the answer to this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing. The solution was axiomatic, any addition to the answer was unnecessary. There were no pro's and multiple cons many of them already listed by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any complaints about the answer were solely made for the sake of complaining and the main reason given was so weak as to be unworthy of attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general though a longer answer outlining the reasoning would be preferable. In this case it would basically have been reiteration of the OP's reasoning and therefore just detracted from the answers impact for no gain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2017-09-05T12:34:27.487" LastActivityDate="2017-09-05T12:34:27.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4766" CreationDate="2017-09-06T15:43:41.577" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about facts and processes related to getting and keeping a job are on topic.  Therefore I think that questions about the process of getting a work visa, whether a specific visa type allows for getting a new job, or performing work for your employer on a certian type of visa should be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The danger here is that there is a potential for asking for legal advice which crosses into the off topic section. Stack Exchange has defined legal advice to mean how the law is/would be applied in a specific situation, and has declared a sitewide restriction to providing this type of legal advice in answers.  These include (but not limited to):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can I get in trouble for working in {COUNTRY} on {VISA TYPE}?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What type of visa do I need to do {JOB} in {COUNTRY}?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What will happen if I am caught working in {COUNTRY} on {VISA TYPE}?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can an Employer discriminate against me when making hiring decisions if I have a {VISA TYPE}?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions we can answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What {VISA TYPE} in {COUNTRY} allows for {WORK TYPE}?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What information is being requested in {VISA TYPE} request form {FIELD} in {Country}?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have {VISA TYPE} in {COUNTRY} does that visa extend rights to work in {COUNTRY B}?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tl;dr - We can answer questions about the what the law is, but not how it applies to an specific (or generic) case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2017-09-13T15:19:27.403" LastActivityDate="2017-09-13T15:19:27.403" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4781" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4782" CreationDate="2017-09-07T12:20:50.857" Score="8" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just happened to see the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/98493/is-it-okay-to-whistle-while-at-the-office&quot;&gt;Is it okay to whistle while at the office?&lt;/a&gt; and noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/98509/16983&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; was posted 32 minutes ago. However, the question was put on hold &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;53 minutes ago&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. How is this possible? Shouldn't putting a question on hold prevent any new answers being posted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-09-07T14:31:36.247" Title="User posted answer after it was closed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4781" CreationDate="2017-09-07T14:31:36.247" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears this question was answered over &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/91922/how-was-this-answer-posted-after-this-question-was-closed/91928#91928&quot;&gt;on Meta SE&lt;/a&gt; (h/t &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/168/gnat&quot;&gt;@gnat&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is closed while you're answering on the full version of the site, you will receive a notification that the question was closed and the 'Post Your Answer' button will be disabled. However, this is only a client-side restriction, so it is possible in some cases that this process fails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it does, the backend allows for a grace period of around four hours (previously there was no time limit). Presumably the client-side restriction did fail in this case, and since the answer was &amp;quot;in-flight&amp;quot;, as Jeff describes it, the server accepted it despite the question already having been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-09-07T14:31:36.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4783" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4785" CreationDate="2017-09-12T00:08:43.080" Score="3" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a lot of answers advocating giving your reason for leaving your last employment as 'It was a bad fit for me.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does that really mean? When I see it it boils down to a few possibilities. Particularly when it's a company that has been around for a while and has lots of staff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You couldn't get on with the people.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You couldn't do the work.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You couldn't comply with company policies or attendance requirements.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these make you particularly appealing. So I'm trying to understand the logic behind it. It doesn't really say anything positive about the applicant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2017-09-14T18:46:50.510" Title="'It was a bad fit for me.'" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ClosedDate="2017-09-18T13:00:08.890" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4783" CreationDate="2017-09-12T01:38:35.843" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would interpret it similar to you, along the lines of &quot;something didn't work out and I don't want to talk about what it was because it makes me look bad&quot; which doesn't really benefit the candidate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-09-12T01:38:35.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4783" CreationDate="2017-09-12T08:18:59.690" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always viewed it as one of those polite little fictions that society has developed, interviewers aren't idiots and they will understand that there must be some kind of problem behind the candidate leaving the job (otherwise they would still be there right?) but this lets both parties gloss over it without turning the conversation too negative. It also provides reassurance that were they to hire the candidate that they wouldn't be going round bad-mouthing them to all and sundry if/when they eventually left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2017-09-12T08:18:59.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4786" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-12T15:38:46.460" Score="-1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/98724/62397&quot;&gt;Work/Life Balance in Accounting Field&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe I have edited this question substantially from its original version.  It no longer asks multiple questions, and should be much clearer.  Might this be reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My extended discussions in the comments have suggested that the question is very answerable. I believe that some people may consider certain answers to this issue to be obvious, but I've found them non-trivial and enlightening, and hope they can be elaborated upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62397" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-09-12T15:55:10.537" LastActivityDate="2017-09-12T18:26:03.017" Title="Reopen Request: Work/Life Balance in Accounting Field" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4786" CreationDate="2017-09-12T16:18:23.213" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how that can be answered, to be honest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are the average number of hours worked in the Accounting and Finance fields higher than other fields?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's higher than some jobs. But that's not the question you are really asking - you &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; don't care that an Accountant works more hours than a fast food employee on average, do you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He has adopted a sort of fatalism, resigning himself to a life of misery that will be ongoing until retirement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He needs a counselor (or doctor, potentially). There's really not much a bunch of folks on the internet can help with here in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the question is more counseling than &quot;answers&quot; and meaningful advice seems like it'd need much more detail about your friend's seeming state of depression rather than objective facts regarding their outlook. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2017-09-12T18:26:03.017" LastActivityDate="2017-09-12T18:26:03.017" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4798" CreationDate="2017-09-13T17:43:08.227" Score="6" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often times I have questions I'd like to ask on the Workplace, after going through the process of writing the question, I ask myself &quot;wait, would this be a good question to ask?&quot; If the question passes the internal check, but I am still on the fence, I head towards the Water Cooler to prototype the question and get a straw poll of opinions. If I find a response satisfactory, I leave the issue as is. If not, and the question is deemed worthy, I post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this said, is this part of the design purpose of the chat function?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38289" LastEditorUserId="38289" LastEditDate="2017-09-13T18:01:04.460" LastActivityDate="2017-09-14T12:15:25.640" Title="Is using the Chat as a form of litmus test for questions a good strategy?" Tags="|discussion|support|chat|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4789" CreationDate="2017-09-13T17:55:39.187" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For one you have active members of the community there to help refine and get the question into shape before you ask it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For another you can get some champion votes for your question which help draw attention and helps you solve your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-09-13T17:55:39.187" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4789" CreationDate="2017-09-13T18:01:31.700" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. However, it often happens that some of us with way too much &lt;s&gt;idle time&lt;/s&gt; experience &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; your question in chat. In that case (assuming the question is deemed a good fit), please go ahead and post the question on the main site. Otherwise, the question and its answers will get lost in the chat and would hardly help anyone else in future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-09-13T18:01:31.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4789" CreationDate="2017-09-13T18:15:54.957" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.  Many high-rep users hang out in Chat.  Getting their attention likely means that they will answer your question.  If high rep users answer your question, it likely attracts more users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-09-13T18:15:54.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4783" CreationDate="2017-09-13T19:45:52.033" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds bad, but sometimes it was just true.  We just got rid of a guy who just didn't fit in.  Not a bad guy, not a bad worker, just a terrible fit for the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-09-13T19:45:52.033" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4796" CreationDate="2017-09-13T22:01:44.317" Score="3" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;While browsing some questions I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/98877/new-job-and-impossible-deadline&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; where a banner appeared just above the comments section, that indicates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're looking for long answers that provide some explanation and context. Don't just give a one-line answer; explain why your answer is right, ideally with citations. Answers that don't include explanations may be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have never noticed this kind of banners before. &lt;em&gt;Why and how was that banner added to the question&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched a bit on Meta SE and found the post &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/102363/support-for-banners&quot;&gt;Support for banners?&lt;/a&gt; and wondered if this is related to the banners here in TWP, as it seems to be based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/106374/332286&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer on that post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;em&gt;in what cases are those banners added to questions?&lt;/em&gt; I see that the mentioned question already had some long answers before I noticed the banner. I am trying to understand the purpose and benefits of banners here in TWP, so I apologize if this is just my misunderstanding.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2017-09-13T23:33:51.390" Title="Why banners appear on some questions?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4789" CreationDate="2017-09-13T22:58:59.673" Score="-2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is using the Chat as a form of litmus test for questions a good&#xA;  strategy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why bother? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When in doubt, just ask the question. You'll learn quickly if it was a good question to ask or not via the community's response. (&quot;Community&quot; is kind of the basis for all of StackExchange.) And if not, just delete it. No harm. No foul. Even some of the high-rep users on this site delete their questions periodically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over time, you'll hone your questioning skills and have a better sense of what makes a &quot;good question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no real problem running it through chat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But just know that the number of &quot;chatters&quot; is very limited, and while knowledgeable, they certainly cannot represent nor speak for the Workplace community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some users spend a lot of time in chat. Others seldom (if ever) venture there - even others with very high rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this (for me at least) means that it isn't an effective &quot;litmus test&quot;. Just my humble opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2017-09-14T12:15:25.640" LastActivityDate="2017-09-14T12:15:25.640" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4794" CreationDate="2017-09-13T23:31:09.610" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is a post notice, added by one of the mods.  If a question has been flagged, or in our own browsing of the community we may see an answer that needs improving in some way.  There are a couple of standard post notices that we can apply to give the answerer a focal point for how they may improve their answer.  However, it may still be marked for deletion by high rep members of the community if they so choose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that they actually &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; very often, but at least they have more information as to &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;. :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastEditorUserId="33698" LastEditDate="2017-09-13T23:33:51.390" LastActivityDate="2017-09-13T23:33:51.390" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4789" CreationDate="2017-09-14T00:22:15.237" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have a good on-topic question, you should be posting it to the main site for the benefit of others who may have the same question, if not to get multiple answers and insights which you may not have considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you just ask it in chat (and &quot;leave the issue as is&quot;), very few users will see it and it will be essentially impossible to find by searching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intention of chat is most definitely &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; to take good questions &lt;strong&gt;away&lt;/strong&gt; from the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're not sure about the on-topicness of the question, your best bet is to search / ask about the &lt;strong&gt;category&lt;/strong&gt; of the question on Meta - again trying to maximise the number of people benefiting from a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for using chat to improve your questions: unlike the main site, all messages are equal, and other things may be discussed, so any given message can quickly get lost in the noise / responses and others can't edit what you post (apart from copy-paste edits, which are clunky).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That leads me to conclude that the interface is not particularly well suited to anything more complex than a one-sentence question like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would this question be appropriate - ...?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  OR&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  How do I best phrase this - ...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But these also don't lend themselves to that much improvement - posts are often rewritten entirely to make them more appropriate, and a whole lot more detail may be necessary to really understand what you're trying to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's usually better to pay attention to actions taken on your questions (such as edits, comments, downvotes and close votes), to seek to understand and learn from these actions and try to ask better questions in future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, yes, if you want to do a QUICK, BRIEF sanity check before posting, you can probably do so in chat.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quick as in it shouldn't really be an extended back-and-forth to get to figure out whether it's appropriate. Brief as in the actual message should be short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course chat would also make sense for a question that lends itself better to discussion and/or opinion (which would be off topic for the main site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But don't post your actual on-topic questions as is in chat (without explicitly asking for improvement) - that will lead to answers more than suggested improvements and you'll just be demotivated from posting your question on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, try not to overdo it - if your messages of the above makes up a significant portion of all messages, you should probably tone it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="8234" LastEditDate="2017-09-14T09:49:40.277" LastActivityDate="2017-09-14T09:49:40.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4789" CreationDate="2017-09-14T03:27:17.613" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chat can be a good way for a newer user who's not quite sure about scope to get help formulating a question.  I've done this at least once on a site where I knew that certain types of questions had to be asked carefully.  Using chat doesn't work for brand-new users (who don't yet have 20 rep), but it helps for visitors from other SE communities who already have chat access.  I don't know to what extent chat was &lt;em&gt;designed&lt;/em&gt; with this use case in mind, but it's certainly supported.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would hope that more-experienced users would be able to just ask, most of the time.  Sure, if there's something particularly tricky about &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; question, chat can help.  If you're previewing &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; of your questions in chat, though, and you've been active on the site for a while, then it sounds like something's wrong -- some aspect of scope is unclear, we're being inconsistent about something, or whatever.  In that case, please bring it up on meta so we can figure out what the problem is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, as others have said, please don't &lt;em&gt;leave&lt;/em&gt; your question in chat.  The site exists to build a repository of quality questions and answers.  Chat is hard to read (and search) and can't be voted on.  &lt;em&gt;You&lt;/em&gt; might get your answer there, but if the question is good for the site, we'd really like to have it in the form of a main-site question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-09-14T03:27:17.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4789" CreationDate="2017-09-14T06:23:48.277" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over on the WorldBuilding Meta stack, there's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4835/sandbox-for-proposed-questions&quot;&gt;Question Sandbox&lt;/a&gt; thread, allowing people to post potential questions and get feedback before posting.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a good way of looking at how your question looks in print, choosing your tags, and getting some feedback before posting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The down-side to using chat is the implicit lack of detail, difficulty of keeping on track, and only one or two people getting engaged with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'd recommend the sandboxing idea - there's no harm in linking to the sandbox in chat to start the discussion.  This has worked pretty well in WorldBuilding for quite some time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2017-09-14T06:23:48.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4800" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4801" CreationDate="2017-09-14T14:43:56.240" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I was doing the re-open review queue and came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/62761&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. I felt it was valid and needed re-opening, but for some reason after my vote the question became open again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expected that it should have gone by someone else before it was re-opened, as an example &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/62444&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; required several reviewers to check it before it had chance of being re-opened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was different about the first question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52713" LastActivityDate="2017-09-14T14:55:28.297" Title="How have I single handly re-opened a question?" Tags="|support|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4800" CreationDate="2017-09-14T14:55:28.297" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It already had 4 reopen votes, so when you said &quot;reopen&quot; it was just reopened because it then had 5 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/98923/revisions&quot;&gt;You can see you were the fifth reopen vote here&lt;/a&gt;. But on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/98342/revisions&quot;&gt;the other question you were 2/5&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-09-14T14:55:28.297" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4783" CreationDate="2017-09-14T18:33:59.547" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why else do you leave? Aren't money, fit and personal literally the only reasons to leave?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You say &quot;You couldn't&quot;, but it could just as easily be &quot;You don't want to&quot;, as in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You don't want to be part of &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; company culture nor do you want to fit in with &lt;em&gt;those&lt;/em&gt; people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You don't want to do the work, because it's boring or challenging in the wrong ways.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You don't want to be subject to their unreasonable company policies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Bad fit&quot; doesn't seem like a bad sign, it's just &lt;strong&gt;really vague&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For culture, if you really don't want to talk about it, it would probably be (marginally) better to say &quot;the culture was a bad fit&quot;, followed up by an evasive response and focusing on the positive of the work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the others, you should probably just explain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="8234" LastEditDate="2017-09-14T18:46:50.510" LastActivityDate="2017-09-14T18:46:50.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4803" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-15T07:04:28.127" Score="1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm bumping this old idea of mine for some consideration for this site.  Basically, I'm offering here a way in which we can help guide users in crafting a better quality answer without it being hammered by downvotes/close votes while it's on the open site.  We know that people are supposed to edit and refine their questions, but it can be hard to recover from a negative stage.  This gives people the chance to write questions and have people critique them for suitability/wording before posting to the main site in a hopefully better state. The idea is to start with a high quality question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an idea that's been in use on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4835/sandbox-for-proposed-questions&quot;&gt;WorldBuilding Stack&lt;/a&gt; for some time now and I'm proposing that we trial this idea here in order for people to draft and discuss their questions before posting them to the main site.  The idea is that people can spend as long as they want to creating a draft here and discussing a question without it being lost in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, I am not proposing that everyone use the Sandbox for every question.  It's here for people who would appreciate some help in crafting their questions, or for those people who feel that their questions might be consistently down-voted for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What is the Sandbox?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &amp;quot;Sandbox&amp;quot; is a place where Workplace.SE users can get feedback on prospective questions they wish to post. This is useful because writing a clear and fully specified question on the first try can be difficult. There is a much better chance of your question being well received if you post it in the Sandbox first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To post a question to the Sandbox&lt;/strong&gt;: Post an answer to this post with the content of your proposed question. You can create as many answers as you have proposed questions, but it is recommended that you only work on one question at a time. The content of the post should be as close as possible to the format you would use when asking on the main site. If you would like, you may add a section at the bottom explaining what parts of the proposed question you are most worried about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Once you have posted your proposed question&lt;/strong&gt;, users will be able to comment on it with feedback. You can then respond to their feedback with comments of your own, or make edits to your post to attempt to address their feedback (after editing, be sure to comment to notify the user that you have taken their advice). The feedback/edit cycle can go on for as long as needed until either you are confident that your question is ready to be asked on the main site, or you've decided the question just won't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When you think your question is ready for the public, go ahead and post it to the main site&lt;/strong&gt;. To help keep this sandbox clean, you should edit your post here so that it contains the title and URL of the posted question, and nothing else. Regardless of whether or not you decided to post to the main site, once you are done with your Sandbox post, you should delete it. This will not completely delete the post, but it will get it out of the way so that new proposed questions can be more easily located.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sandbox readers/comments should&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Assess the question for suitability for the site (indicate any potential close reasons/duplicates)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask clarification questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Propose edits&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anything else to help the questioner create a really great question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tips for usage:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Type the question as you would do on the main site, with all of the    formatting that you're going to use&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use a h1 heading ('#Heading Text') to indicate your question title (wording of titles is important to gather viewers appropriate to your question, and helps people in the future searching for answers to the same question as you)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Include any &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tags&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt;  that you want to use for your question at the end    (use the format of '{tag:tag-name}', replacing curly braces with [] brackets)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any questions/suggestions regarding this sandbox idea, please leave a comment below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T17:24:34.213" Title="Proposal: Sandbox for Proposed Workplace Questions" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4804" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-15T22:48:08.167" Score="0" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/99047/is-it-ok-to-use-employers-stock-images-for-side-projects&quot;&gt;Is it OK to use employers stock images for side projects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use stock images all of the time, and there is no reason that this issue needs to be discussed with a lawyer.  Every stock image comes with a specific licensing agreement, and the agreement will explicitly state who can use the image and how it can be used.  The OP needs to review the license agreement that applies to this image, and s/he should be able to determine whether or not the usage is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are still not comfortable reopening the question, then maybe migrate it to Graphic Design SE? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETA&lt;/strong&gt;  Since this is the meta site, I would really appreciate some feedback about the downvotes on this question. Not trying to be defensive...simply wanting to understand better why you all think that reopening or migrating the question are not better solutions than closing it would be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76063" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-09-16T17:36:20.050" LastActivityDate="2017-09-16T17:36:20.050" Title="Reopen question about using stock images for side projects" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4804" CreationDate="2017-09-16T17:34:39.227" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have now voted to reopen the question. &quot;The answer is obvious to me.&quot; and &quot;How could you be so ignorant?&quot; are not valid close reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is not asking for any legal advice. Copyright law is not company specific. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-09-16T17:34:39.227" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4806" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4808" CreationDate="2017-09-18T18:13:04.247" Score="8" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get this situation quite a bit in my answering of questions here on the Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll answer a question and direct my answer to the question as stated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I'll get comments on my answer pointing out how it doesn't fit a particular edge-case that isn't really covered in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent case in point is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/99148/i-returned-from-vacation-to-find-my-desk-in-a-mess-how-should-i-deal-with-this&quot;&gt;How to come back from vacation and not want to die?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP here mentions there's some ash on her desk but in no way indicates that she's allergic to it or that it in any way risks her health.  In fact, she's a smoker herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But comments against my answer point out that cigarette ash may be considered a health risk, although to most people it isn't anything more than smelly dust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get these kinds of edge-case comments on quite a few answers, and I'm guessing a few down-votes as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So. When we answer questions - are we answering the asker, or should we consider each edge-case in our answers and address those?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the question here, should I have considered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Potential health risk of the ash  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The ergonomic issues surrounding the positions of three monitors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whether it's ok for the boss to delegate tasks on a sticky-note&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do any other tasks take priority over the stick-note delegations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who should she complain to about the state of her desk&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did she have a nice vacation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I admit that I'm somewhat tongue in cheek here, but the core question remains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I answer the questioner and edit my answer from the questioner's own feedback, or should I infer a generic question and answer that instead - taking into account any likely edge-cases, even if they don't relate to the questioner's actual situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, I'm simply answering the question and ignoring edge-case comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="47537" LastEditDate="2017-09-19T03:11:00.350" LastActivityDate="2017-09-28T11:26:41.277" Title="To Whom do we Answer? (the questioner or the internet as a whole?)" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4806" CreationDate="2017-09-18T18:27:36.503" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Person Who Asked The Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If its a valid question, like this one was, my thought is &lt;strong&gt;we answer it as the OP intended&lt;/strong&gt;.  You will always have some folks looking at the edge cases ( &lt;em&gt;less than 1%&lt;/em&gt; ), and those I ignore.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a &lt;em&gt;gaping hole in an answer is discovered&lt;/em&gt;, I suggest that the answer be updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2017-09-20T18:21:20.463" LastActivityDate="2017-09-20T18:21:20.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4806" CreationDate="2017-09-18T18:30:30.890" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I always take comments as suggestions.  If they make my answer a better answer, I edit, if not, I do not.  It's as simple as that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In considering factors such as allergies, et cetera, it's better to focus on the querent than the &quot;internet&quot;.  I.E. if the person smeared peanut butter on a person's desk, that's a gross mess.  If the OP mentions in a comment that she has a severe peanut allergy and someone did that, then edit your answer.  If someone puts in a comment &quot;I have a severe peanut allergy and that would have killed me&quot;, then don't bother unless &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; feel it adds to your answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would take it on a case by case basis if I were you.  If you feel a comment adds to your answer, incorporate it, if not, don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-09-18T18:30:30.890" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4806" CreationDate="2017-09-18T18:38:35.103" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do I answer the questioner and edit my answer from the questioner's own feedback, or should I infer a generic question and answer that instead - taking into account any likely edge-cases, even if they don't relate to the questioner's actual situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say do both. First try to answer the question(s) as generic as you can, but without deviating from the point or current situation the OP is facing. And then, after receiving &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; feedback, edit the question if you consider it necessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is &lt;em&gt;impossible&lt;/em&gt; to fit in just one answer &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; edge cases that could come from situations like this, so don't worry if you can't (or want) to edit your question to all the demands users comment on your answer; if they keep insisting try suggesting them to write their own answers that complement the others currently given. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in some cases if the comment is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; useful it is most likely to be upvoted, enabling other users to see it easily and obtain the knowledge of that edge case. In this case the upvoted comment itself will serve as a highlight of that edge case, possibly making it redundant to include it in your answer also. If it is something you completely missed and that could really help the OP (or future readers) then it is recommended you edit your answer to reflect it, otherwise let the comments speak for themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2017-09-18T18:38:35.103" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4806" CreationDate="2017-09-18T20:19:43.940" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do I answer the questioner and edit my answer from the questioner's&#xA;  own feedback, or should I infer a generic question and answer that&#xA;  instead - taking into account any likely edge-cases, even if they&#xA;  don't relate to the questioner's actual situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to answer the question that was actually asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I typically copy and quote the segment of the original question I answered within my answer. That way, if the question gets edited beyond recognition (as so often happens), I can always remember why I responded the way I did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I read a comment with a good suggestion and I feel like editing my answer accordingly, then I do it. If I don't feel like it, or if I feel as if the commenter is trying to modify the intent of the question/answer, then I usually ignore the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone wants to send the question/answer in a direction different from the OP, they should really ask their own question and make it as generalized as they please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I would have left your original answer without modification.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2017-09-18T20:27:22.543" LastActivityDate="2017-09-18T20:27:22.543" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4806" CreationDate="2017-09-18T20:43:57.927" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes, you should try to answer the more general question and try to address some &lt;s&gt;edge cases&lt;/s&gt; LIKELY variants&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea of Stack Exchange is to create a repository of questions and answers that others having similar problems can search for and apply to their situation. If you're focusing too much on the problem at hand instead of the more general issue, it's going to hurt the future value of the Q&amp;amp;A a lot, and someone who finds their way to that page could very well think that advice does not apply to them and go searching for an answer elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not to say you should &lt;em&gt;ignore&lt;/em&gt; what makes the question unique - you should definitely not ignore it, but there's a balance to be found between focusing on the specifics of the situation and phrasing your answer to address the more general question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also &lt;strong&gt;address things that are explicitly not relevant to the asker&lt;/strong&gt;. If the asker's already done part of what you might otherwise recommend, mention it anyway and follow it up with an acknowledgement that they've already done this so this part is not relevant to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for actual edge cases (i.e. cases that are rare), it can go either way and you should try to judge whether it's useful enough or it mostly just distracts from the issue when deciding whether to address it in your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also relevant: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4718/should-we-focus-more-on-making-reference-worthy-answers-for-duplicate-questions&quot;&gt;Should we focus more on making reference-worthy answers (for duplicate questions)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;No, issues that are BOTH tangential to the question AND unique to the asker's situation don't really belong in answers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are not edge cases. They answer neither the asker's question nor the more general question, and are better suited to the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the examples in your question except &amp;quot;who should she complain to&amp;quot; are examples of this - the question is about a messy desk, not about the smoking, ergonomics, communication professionalism or general prioritisation (although how to prioritise cleaning one's desk versus doing actual work might be relevant).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of an edge case for this question would be if the desk was not only messy, but also damaged or received a permanent stain, or if the mess goes beyond a &amp;quot;simple&amp;quot; cleanup and the place instead needs a bunch of cleaning products thrown at it as well as a good scrubbing, and how that should be handled instead (as in should you get cleaners involved, who should organise it and pay).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-09-25T01:33:32.580" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4812" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4813" CreationDate="2017-09-19T06:43:35.603" Score="7" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;A recent user asked a question about 1.5 months ago regarding his/her boss and how he/she should respond. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/99186/do-i-confront-my-boss?noredirect=1#comment302967_99186&quot;&gt;Do I confront my boss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the question was initially down-voted, the user received a number of helpful suggestions on how to resolve the workplace situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently the user asked what appears to be a duplicate of the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/96385/working-with-a-difficult-coworker-and-an-unhelpful-boss?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Working with a Difficult Coworker and an Unhelpful Boss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the negative response to what appears to be a duplicate question. I wonder if the workplace has a mechanism for updates. Not updates in terms of editing the question, but in terms of an appropriate format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user has a development to a situation and edits the original question, most likely it won't receive attention to reflect the updated situation as most answers would be based upon past conditions. Plus people are busy, chances are they won't revise all of their past answers to reflect the most up to date situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise if the same situation + development is asked as a standalone question, it runs the risk of a duplicate flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this said, what would be the most ideal solution? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit the original and ask for revised and new answers or create a new question with the development and acknowledge its history and allow for more discussion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38289" LastActivityDate="2017-09-19T13:47:36.693" Title="Situation Updates" Tags="|discussion|editing|duplicates|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4812" CreationDate="2017-09-19T13:47:36.693" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With this said, what would be the most ideal solution? Edit the original and ask for revised and new answers or create a new question with the development and acknowledge its history and allow for more discussion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say it depends on the new version of the question, and if it is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; similar to the last one or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; really similar or exactly the same, I would suggest to &lt;strong&gt;edit the question&lt;/strong&gt; to reflect those minor differences and then &lt;strong&gt;offer a bounty&lt;/strong&gt; on that question, to attract more users and get better answers. That in fact is the built-in mecanism in SE when you are not satisfied with the answers received (or they don't completely solve the problem). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if the question &lt;em&gt;is not&lt;/em&gt; that similar, and has certain details that deviate or differentiate from the first question, I would recommend to &lt;strong&gt;ask a new question&lt;/strong&gt;, possibly &lt;strong&gt;linking to the first question&lt;/strong&gt; and explaining why and how this one is different and, if it applies, why the other answers did not work so good (so it does not get closed as dupe of the first one or people copy answers given on the first one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case where users are not able to offer bounties ther are fewer options, as they are limited to asking a new question, or editing their posts and hoping people will take the time to rethink and re-read their previous answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, it is important to notice that &lt;em&gt;engaging and commenting questions when you ask them&lt;/em&gt; is really important, so answerers can fine-tune their posts to better fit your needs and you have greater chances of getting the answer you need in the first question (skipping this whole bounty or new question situation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2017-09-19T13:47:36.693" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4814" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-20T21:24:39.227" Score="2" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi this Q about how to quit after an apprenticeship is not a duplicate as the relationship between the employer (master) is quite different to a normal employer employee one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally it is very country dependant and in some instances still has hold overs from their medieval roots &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/99349/how-to-quit-right-after-an-apprenticeship&quot;&gt;How to quit right after an apprenticeship&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40085" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-09-21T12:49:17.087" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T22:39:39.037" Title="(REOPENED) Incorrect duplicate &quot;How to quit right after an apprenticeship&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4814" CreationDate="2017-09-21T04:36:43.630" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt; This question has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with it not being a duplicate of those questions, voting to open. Let's see what others think about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However do notice that even though the post is probably not a dupe of the linked questions you may still find &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; the answers given in those. Specially the first one, one suggesting &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to tell your boss you quit, as the closed post seems to be asking that in a way (still, quitting an apprenticeship is not the same as quitting other forms of jobs, so different answers may apply).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other marked dupe (quit when critical staff member) is more clearly quite different to the closed question and I consider it is not really a dupe of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you mention that this is &quot;country specific&quot; then propper tagging should be included in the question so answerers can address that situation. Probably the post could use some extra &lt;s&gt;love&lt;/s&gt; edits to focus more on important details like the fact there is &lt;em&gt;no clauses in contract requiring to stay working&lt;/em&gt; after the degree, and the &lt;em&gt;one month notice&lt;/em&gt; that is in the OP's contract (I'll try the edits tomorrow if no one else has taken a shot on them). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-08-17T22:39:39.037" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T22:39:39.037" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4806" CreationDate="2017-09-21T10:29:15.847" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Best practice to avoid feeling frustrated is just to discount all the drivel. Ridiculous edge case scenario's are a subset of that and there is plenty around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer the question primarily with the OP in mind with a wider audience experiencing similar scenarios as your secondary concern. Don't edit your answer into something so vague and encompassing that it covers all possibilities but becomes of academic usefulness only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One definition of academic = irrelevant&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2017-09-28T11:26:41.277" LastActivityDate="2017-09-28T11:26:41.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4817" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-21T14:14:19.820" Score="-5" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;I joined this website thinking it was a place to talk with other people and help with issues in the working world. I have asked one question that was put on hold by 5 people for apparently not being relevant enough. I then edited my question to have it edited like crazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do our questions have to be perfect in grammar? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77170" OwnerDisplayName="Christeena" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2017-09-21T14:47:09.977" LastActivityDate="2017-09-21T14:48:20.857" Title="is this place a message board or place to judge?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="13" ClosedDate="2017-09-21T15:09:55.890" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4817" CreationDate="2017-09-21T14:30:07.273" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The wording was likely fixed to give the question a chance to be reopened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastActivityDate="2017-09-21T14:30:07.273" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4817" CreationDate="2017-09-21T14:32:47.693" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, spelling and grammar count.  We ALWAYS edit for that because it is for the benefit of &lt;strong&gt;ALL&lt;/strong&gt; who come to this site.  I have had numerous posts edited as have most everyone else here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions and answers need to be clear, concise, have a clear goal we can address, and be on topic.  Questions about choices you make, legal questions unanswerable by someone of an HR level or below, rants against coworkers, company policies, et cetera are off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question is closed, it is not dead.  It often gets discussed in here, edits are suggested, and it is sometimes reopened.  This is not about forming cliques, this is not about picking on anyone, it is not about ranting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is about what is and what is not good for the site.  While we are here to help, we are not here to take abuse or to be chastised for the decisions we make.  If your question is closed, the best thing to do is to come in here and ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My question about XYZ corporation was closed.  I'm not sure what I can do to improve it to get it reopened.  Does anyone have any edits or suggestions for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do that, and you'll find people coming out of the woodwork to help you.  Come in and insult people, and you will find that while we won't be insulting back, as we have a &quot;be nice&quot; rule in place, we simply won't help you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest you try again and assume positive motives with regards to the people here..  We are a good and helpful group with fantastic moderators.  That said, we do need good questions to work with or at least participants who are willing to listen to constructive criticism when given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-09-21T14:32:47.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4817" CreationDate="2017-09-21T14:34:56.390" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll answer your first question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;is this place a message board&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. It's a Q&amp;amp;A site, specifically for questions about navigating the workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But like all Stack Exchange sites, it takes 5 people with a certain reputation to close it.  But guess what? It can also be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for edits, they happen. If you, as the author, don't like edits you can also roll them back. It's ultimately your question. But when we edit a question, it's to improve it in some way or another, either to make it more on topic or, yes, to fix grammar. This is a good thing. But as I said, you can always roll them back. &lt;strong&gt;Everyone&lt;/strong&gt; has their questions or answers edited for grammar and clarity, including me.  It is what it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest you take to heart the answers that were put there before the question was closed. There's some good advice there, as well as in some of the comments. I would also suggest not taking edits so personally, especially when &lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt; question could use some edits to make it more readable and less of a big wall of words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2017-09-21T14:47:44.230" LastActivityDate="2017-09-21T14:47:44.230" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4817" CreationDate="2017-09-21T14:41:22.910" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, Stack Exchange is a place where you pose specific questions in the hope of receiving specific answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the most strikingly different aspect of Stack Exchange is that, once you've asked your question - &lt;em&gt;it is no longer fully yours&lt;/em&gt; - it belongs to the community where you asked it, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;community members are &lt;em&gt;encouraged&lt;/em&gt; to edit and improve it&lt;/a&gt; with the aim of making the question and any answers it receives useful and valuable to many more people than just you the original 'asker'.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as edits don't materially change the intent of the question, they are welcomed as improvements. They are not judgments against you - they are simply improvements to the question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of Stack Exchange's stated goals is to build a repository of good questions and answers which will be searchable &amp;amp; useful to many more people, and this is the method they've chosen to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd strongly encourage you to read the full &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt; page to try to get a handle on how this system works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36482" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2017-09-21T14:48:20.857" LastActivityDate="2017-09-21T14:48:20.857" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4822" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4828" CreationDate="2017-09-22T16:37:18.857" Score="7" ViewCount="287" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently noted that a bounty was offered on the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93696/is-it-unethical-for-me-to-not-tell-my-employer-i-ve-automated-my-job&quot;&gt;Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I’ve automated my job?&lt;/a&gt; indicating that &lt;em&gt;it has not received enough attention&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jYQou.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jYQou.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also noticed that this is actually the &lt;strong&gt;highest voted question&lt;/strong&gt; on The Workplace, currently with 29 answers and several of them with more than 100 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could not help finding this puzzling, as the questions has clearly received several great answers and opinions from &lt;em&gt;several&lt;/em&gt; different users and points of view. What reasons could there be to offer a bounty on such question claiming it has not received attention? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that the user offering the bounty selected an incorrect &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/09/23/bounty-reasons-and-post-notices/&quot;&gt;reason&lt;/a&gt; for the bounty, possibly wanting to get a canonical answer or reward one that is already given as exemplary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2017-09-23T12:34:53.813" Title="Our highest voted answer &quot;has not received enough attention&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4822" CreationDate="2017-09-22T16:44:48.633" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it possible that the user offering the bounty selected an incorrect&#xA;  reason for the bounty, possibly wanting to get a canonical answer or&#xA;  reward one that is already given as exemplary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think the user probably meant to chose this option, as its the only option that makes sense.  I think the benefactors answer garnered over 200 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2017-09-22T16:44:48.633" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4824" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-22T23:13:33.057" Score="-4" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the level of English language skill one is expected to use on workplace.SE if one is not a native English speaker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the minimum bar so high that the members here are not able to enter into constructive action before threatening to close and inciting down votes (followed by at least 4 of them so far) and on hold already?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Back story:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often read workplace.SE Q&amp;amp;As and have come across both praise for a non-native English speakers questions as well as some rather weak support for those that do not have a very good command of the language.  The praise is often reserved for those who are at a very high standard sometimes higher than native speakers but what comes out of a translation program is held in poor regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/99517/should-one-make-pretty-language-skills-on-application&quot;&gt;related question&lt;/a&gt; in a somewhat humorous way earlier but it was not taken very well by the community, I do not expect to see much useful information there at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I deliberately worded the question poorly using tools that a non-native would have available.  Suggestions to correct the question are rather off point as it hides the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I put in a spoiler to let people know that it was not an altogether serious question and hope to prevent later claims of misrepresentation but this did not sit well with many and simple etiquette was dispensed with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what my spoiler said, when translated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can communicate well in English, I used translators for this question to see how the community answers badly formatted questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a peculiar experience for me on SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77289" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2017-09-25T13:13:14.747" LastActivityDate="2017-09-25T13:13:14.747" Title="What is the minimum language level required for a non-native speaker?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4824" CreationDate="2017-09-23T00:50:08.463" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well if you are looking for a job teaching masters or phd level english then you probably need a PHD level of English(though with unions maybe not).  If you are looking for a job gutting fish for a cannery its a far lower expectation(possibly none at all).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that is the problem with that question on a basic level.  The needs vary by position.  One position may have very low requirements and the exact same position at another place have impossibly high standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At a more direct level what type of skills should I learn(do i need) questions are forbidden explicitly by The Workplace rules.  Language skills and the level needed, is literally asking what skills do i need to learn to do a job.  And not just a job by the scope of your question any possible job.  So you violated a Core Rule of this SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now I will answer this question.  Really not a very good one is required.  If you have the ability to have translated the rules of the site, and read them and make a modicum of an attempt to follow them, or show that you read them, we will help you out.  Your question may get put on hold, but if you communicate with us, we will get your question looking first class and asking a helpful question for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you didn't do that. This may not have been your intent, but this is how it appeared to those of us that care about this site and the community:  You came in ignoring the rules that make this site a resource, and spray painted your graffiti on our wall by posting a unthought out question that does not have an asnwer and is against the core rules.  Then you came here and instead of asking for help you accused us of bigotry implicitly, in this meta post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-09-23T00:50:08.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4824" CreationDate="2017-09-23T00:54:11.590" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First I would like to refer you to this Meta SE post (actually a FAQ): &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13676/do-posts-have-to-be-in-english-on-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;Do Posts have to be in English on Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There, they explain some reasons &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; English is the official language for questions in the Trilogy Sites (SuperUser, StackOverflow, ServerFault). Most other SE sites (like TWP) usually follow this policy, except the ones like &lt;a href=&quot;https://ru.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;StackOverflow in Russian&lt;/a&gt;, and others, for obvious reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, regarding your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is the minimum bar so high that the members here are not able to enter into constructive action before threatening to close and inciting down votes (followed by at least 4 of them so far) and on hold already?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;. This in a way is an undue generalization, as not &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; users here behave like that; I would even dare to say TWP is really tolerant compared to &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; SE sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, in case a post is not perfectly written (as happens in most cases), any user can &lt;strong&gt;edit posts (or suggest edits)&lt;/strong&gt; to improve their quality, correct spelling, grammar, etc. This can be done manually on the post or through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;Review Queue&lt;/a&gt; when there are available posts to review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/99517/should-one-make-pretty-language-skills-on-application&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; you posted as some sort of &quot;experiment&quot;, it was closed as &lt;em&gt;unclear what you are asking&lt;/em&gt;. This was mainly because your post &lt;strong&gt;lacked an actual question&lt;/strong&gt;, and provided really few details on your situation. Not to mention the comment you added...:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spoiler alert - Voin kommunikoida hyvin englanniksi, käytin tätä kysymystä varten kääntäjiä, että näkisin, miten yhteisö vastaa huonosti muotoilluihin kysymyksiin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...which is really confusing by itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, if your post were about an actual question you would surely include more details, and the explanation would make more sense in general. If you did that, but still your question had spelling, grammar or other mistakes someone will &lt;strong&gt;surely&lt;/strong&gt; edit your post solving this problem. Do have in mind that we are not genies and can't read the Asker's mind; if a post does not make any sense then there is nothing one can do about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2017-09-23T01:02:43.473" LastActivityDate="2017-09-23T01:02:43.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4824" CreationDate="2017-09-23T02:38:05.590" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no minimum, but there is a point where it is useless..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I deal with non English speakers every day, they would not pose a question using google translate, they would find someone who could help them for two reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly they want their question answered, secondly they want to be able to UNDERSTAND the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please stop wasting our time with this non-problem you have created out of thin air.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2017-09-23T02:38:05.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4822" CreationDate="2017-09-23T12:28:17.260" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it possible that the user offering the bounty selected an incorrect&#xA;  reason for the bounty, possibly wanting to get a canonical answer or&#xA;  reward one that is already given as exemplary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's possible that the user offering the bounty liked the question for some reason and just wanted it to get even more attention for that reason. Sort of like re-tweeting a cat video that had already gone viral.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also see that the particular user didn't like a certain phrase in the accepted answer. That may have been part of the motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it goes with features like bounties. Nobody needs to conform to the actual intent of the feature. Nobody is required to explain their motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, this isn't the first bounty placed on this question. The question had already had plenty of activity before the first bounty, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2017-09-23T12:34:53.813" LastActivityDate="2017-09-23T12:34:53.813" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4824" CreationDate="2017-09-23T15:07:15.540" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You asked a fake question that was deliberately poorly translated, which you admitted up front, and you're surprised that it got a negative reception? Really? This is the Workplace, not &lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Puzzling&lt;/a&gt; and we have a reputation for not responding well to humour. The etiquette of SE, if you must know, is that you &lt;strong&gt;try your best&lt;/strong&gt; to make good and high-quality posts. That means we're very forgiving of people who are struggling to translate and do what we can to improve their posts. But foolish nonsense like what you came up with is downvoted to oblivion, as it should be. Your actions were so incredibly and stunningly misguided that I'm honestly surprised that you've failed to realise that you're the problem in this, not the way the community responded to a question designed specifically to waste their time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions are not the place for social experiments. If you want to discuss how we handle questions on the main site then by all means start a question here. &lt;strong&gt;Don't act the fool&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, some of your comments in the responses were rather unkind. Please keep our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2979/public-service-announcement-keeping-the-workplace-professional&quot;&gt;Be Nice policy&lt;/a&gt; in mind as you interact with this site and its users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2017-09-23T15:07:15.540" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4830" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4842" CreationDate="2017-09-24T10:38:30.310" Score="0" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/99549/3192&quot;&gt;I work at client site, and have resigned in probation period. How can I handle the situation?&lt;/a&gt; was closed with the reason: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should be directed to legal professionals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This close reason makes no sense, and the question should be reopened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;OP has already contacted the manager and the HR, and part of her issue is that they aren't responding. Telling her to direct the question to the manager and the HR is not especially helpful. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The presence of the word 'legal' doesn't automatically make it a question seeking legal advice. Questions asking for facts of law are not off-topic. OP's question is whether leaving the company without returning the laptop will create a legal issue. It is a fact of law that can be answered by any person with a reasonable &quot;common sense&quot; awareness of the law — not just an HR professional.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An employee working from a client location, resigning in probation period, and having issues communicating with management and HR working from &quot;home ground&quot; is a reasonably common situation. I have faced this situation myself at one of my previous jobs. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I am aware that the close reason banner is boilerplate, but nonetheless, the question is not company-specific and does not ask for any legal advice. (Disclaimer: As you might have noticed, I have answered the question without referring to the company policy or any specific detail of any law.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-09-28T17:40:22.997" LastActivityDate="2017-09-28T17:40:22.997" Title="(REOPENED) Reopen the question on boss and HR not responding to employee who resigned from client location" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4831" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-25T22:22:01.597" Score="8" ViewCount="737" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/99616/2322&quot;&gt;How can I professionally change circumstances so I no longer work with a convicted rapist?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/99616/revisions&quot;&gt;very significant edit&lt;/a&gt; to this question as it was quickly bound to be deleted, given it's content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However there are a few answers there and some meta conversation under the question now so I'm opening this to try to be a good place to try to figure out what to do with the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-10-06T05:27:36.900" Title="What to do with the question regarding working with a previous rapist?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4831" CreationDate="2017-09-25T22:57:13.137" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that, after your edit, the question is not so controversial anymore and is even more answerable now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there seems to be some underlying discrimination from part of the OP that seems to bias the opinions/answers given there. This is the problem IMHO, as the OP's problem is with the person and his past conviction, that seems not strongly related to the professional setting, and is more a &quot;I don't like my coworker, what can I do&quot; question therefore. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I see no future problems that could arise from the post now it has been improved with edits (perhaps just a few more iterations of an open-close war but eventually will stop).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2017-09-25T22:57:13.137" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4831" CreationDate="2017-09-26T00:10:52.120" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Delete the question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do not want to deal with controversial subjects here that might offend people so since this is offensive to some lets just delete the question and move on.  The question is unlikely to be helpful to anyone in the future and the OP is more than likely incredibly turned off by their SE experience anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So on the off chance this is a real person with a real problem delete it.  If it is someone trying to get to HNQ(My belief) then the deletion serves this SE best anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-09-26T00:10:52.120" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4831" CreationDate="2017-09-26T07:00:14.483" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not believe that the question should be deleted.  This is a subject that could well come up in the workplace and deserves some balanced discussion without the shackles of judgemental deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People commit crimes, they serve their time, and they go through the process of rehabilitation into normal society.  They get jobs, and amazingly they're not all on building sites or road crews.  Some of them enter the same workplace as you or I.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, sexual and abuse-related crimes are despicable, but I don't think that burying these kinds of questions is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that this subject can attract heightened emotions and subsequent negative comments, but we can edit these out to provide a rational discussion of the issues at play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2017-09-26T07:00:14.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4831" CreationDate="2017-09-26T09:17:34.760" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having read the revision history of the question, I'm starting to think that the edits went too far. While the OP obviously has strong feelings on the subject, holds incorrect beliefs and is thinking along completely the wrong lines for the solution, I don't see how that means they can't ask their question or that their question is not answerable. I've seen plenty of questions where the right answer is &quot;your premises is wrong, here's what your real problem is and here's how you could go about solving it&quot;. I've provided answers for such questions in the past. I would propose to revert some of the edits in favour of new ones that make it clear what the poster's belief is (I get the distinct impression that he believes the coworker has no right to be working there, or even at all), perhaps taking some of the emotion out of the language,  and then to answer the question as such. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that the OP is not alone in their belief that being a convicted felon is grounds for dismissal and as such, I advocate keeping this question and providing an answer that makes it clear (in neutral language) that convicted felons &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have the right to employment and that instead, the only correct solution is for the OP to either deal with their feelings or to changejobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Richard U's answer is headed in the right direction but is currently responding to the strong language in the original OP with a direct approach where I think a more neutral 'by the facts' approach is more appropriate (currently it comes across as almost ad-hominem).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify, I propose to edit the question into a less hostile/emotional &quot;I found out that I'm working with a convicted felon, am I correct in believing that he shouldn't have been employed by my employer&quot; to which the answer would be &quot;No, you are not correct, if you are unable to maintain a professional attitude with the colleague your only options are to request some sort of transfer or to start looking for a new job&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32602" LastEditorUserId="32602" LastEditDate="2017-09-26T09:21:55.860" LastActivityDate="2017-09-26T09:21:55.860" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4831" CreationDate="2017-09-26T14:09:45.033" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The meta discussion was triggered by my controversial custom close reason, and it appears that my point has been misunderstood, so let me clarify. This is the custom close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because the question has been substantially edited to invalidate several existing answers, and so it should be deleted altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like enderland's edit, and if that was the original question to start with, I would have no problems with it. However, the edit removes a key ingredient of the original question. The OP was clearly looking for ways to get the coworker fired for a crime that happened at least 20 years ago, and for which he has already served the punishment laid down by his country's laws. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a clear example of an XY problem. While providing the OP ideas on how to avoid working with this coworker can certainly appear to resolve the current problem, it doesn't strike at the root of the problem, which is the OP's belief that the coworker should be given additional punishment over and above that given by the law. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the answers seem to provide him options to avoid working with the &quot;tainted&quot; coworker, thus implicitly acknowledging that it is reasonable and appropriate to shun an ex-criminal in this manner. Only Richard's answer seems to strike at the root of the issue, and his answer doesn't sound particularly rude, although it may be blunt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the edit reduces the opinionbait, and is much more generic and answerable, it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; what the OP was looking for, and brushing his actual issue under the rug to make the question less controversial doesn't help him either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result of the edit, the existing answer(s?) which addressed the actual issue suddenly sound needlessly critical of the OP and some parts of it, such as calling out the OP on his plan to get the coworker fired, make no sense. It is certainly an option for the answer to be edited to match the new question, but making edits which require substantial edits to existing answers is explicitly discouraged. Moreover, if we allowed that, then everyone who posts an answer will have to keep monitoring edits to every question that they may have answered ages ago to check if their answer needs to be edited. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I wouldn't want a good edit to be reverted to a put the question back into its original controversial state, so I thought it best to recommend that the question be deleted altogether. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not feel particularly strongly about this issue, so if the community decides to keep the question and demand that the existing answers be edited to match the edited question, then I won't argue against it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-09-26T14:09:45.033" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4837" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4838" CreationDate="2017-09-27T21:24:08.973" Score="1" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently the question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/99756/my-boss-tickled-me-what-should-i-do#99756&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/99756/my-boss-tickled-me-what-should-i-do#99756&lt;/a&gt; was asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it was quickly closed as off topic, as it was asking us to make a choice for the OP (the usual &quot;Should I...?&quot; question that is clearly off-topic). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took a shot at editing, so it is actually answerable and does not ask for us to make a choice for the poster, without deviating from the original doubt the OP had. Also, removed some ambiguities regarding if it was indeed tickles or more a &quot;stab&quot;, as the OP said, as these details could derail good answers to debate if it was or not tickles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should it be reopened?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt; Seems that the same user asked a new question, this one clearly a Toll one. This one is already been removed altogether. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit 2:&lt;/em&gt; Seems that this troll situation is suspiciously gaining momentum and it is being discussed on this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4839/recent-string-of-trolling-questions/4840#4840&quot;&gt;Question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-03-30T12:53:53.100" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T12:53:53.100" Title="Reopen the Boss Tickle question?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|trolling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4837" CreationDate="2017-09-27T22:19:37.287" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have deleted this question, as it is without a doubt a question from a troll account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-09-27T22:19:37.287" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4839" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-28T16:39:38.960" Score="19" ViewCount="961" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently we've had a large number of questions deleted because they were clearly trolling. Some examples (sorry, this is going to be all 10k+ links): &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/99496/new-employee-causing-resentment-and-bickering-in-the-team&quot;&gt;New coworker demanding $10k&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/99480/im-a-developer-given-responsibility-to-watch-for-our-ceos-autistic-teenager&quot;&gt;Autistic teenager&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/99756&quot;&gt;Tickling boss&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/99759/whats-the-easiest-way-to-get-fired&quot;&gt;How to get fired&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions were closed by enderland, and he said that there was information available only to moderators that made it obvious these questions are trolling. &lt;strong&gt;Can you share with us at least what &lt;em&gt;type&lt;/em&gt; of information is leading you to this conclusion, even if you can't share specific details?&lt;/strong&gt; It would help us to understand what we can reasonably ask you to determine for future questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been some other deleted or closed questions that weren't mod-deleted, but also could possibly be trolling. The fact that they were asked by brand new accounts makes them more suspicious to me: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/99697/how-can-i-convince-my-co-worker-that-he-should-treat-me-like-a-normal-person&quot;&gt;Bathroom peeper&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/99573/my-manager-is-a-local-copy-of-dr-house&quot;&gt;I don't respond well to feedback&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/99616/how-can-i-professionally-change-circumstances-so-i-no-longer-work-with-a-convict&quot;&gt;Working with a rapist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now there's another new question from a brand new account that could potentially be legitimate, but sets off some warning bells for me: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/99816/how-can-i-tactfully-ask-a-coworker-to-stop-running&quot;&gt;Running coworker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason we're suddenly getting all of these troll accounts? Do we think they're the same person? Can a moderator verify whether all of these actually are all trolls? Is there anything we can do to stop it (e.g. IP blocking)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest problem I see here is that the trolling for some of these questions is quite subtle, and it's not always obvious which questions are real or not. Without access to the moderator tools (which I'm not asking for), it's difficult for most regular users to know whether to respond seriously or not. &lt;strong&gt;What can we as regular users do to help quickly identify trolling questions without attacking legitimate questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2018-03-30T10:40:22.087" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T10:40:22.087" Title="Recent string of trolling questions" Tags="|discussion|moderation|deleted-questions|trolling|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4839" CreationDate="2017-09-28T17:01:31.983" Score="-2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What can we as regular users do to help quickly identify trolling questions without attacking legitimate questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I do first is to use my &lt;strong&gt;common sense&lt;/strong&gt;. I am sure that &lt;strong&gt;we all have a little troll inside of us&lt;/strong&gt;, and we are able to recognize when some posts seems to have been done in such a way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, one could try to get more information from the OP via &lt;strong&gt;comments&lt;/strong&gt;, by asking for clarification or more details about his question. There you can also notice if someone is making it up, as probably will start contradicting themselves or saying even more troll comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, you can bring the subject up in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;, where one can get more opinions and considerations from other users (and their little trolls inside) to reach a better consensus on the nature of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, you could &lt;strong&gt;flag for mod&lt;/strong&gt; if you find the post too suspicious. However, if the post is truly troll-full the community will probably handle it organically and flag/DV the post.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note:&lt;/em&gt; Now that you mention it, I am also starting to be suspicious about this apparent troll pattern on posts, and would also like to hear what out Mods have to say about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2017-09-28T17:01:31.983" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4839" CreationDate="2017-09-28T17:16:50.927" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, as a grand-master troll of old, I can say that Enderland has been making the right moves even without looking at his proof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going by the old definition of troll, which came from the fishing term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_(fishing)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;From Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Trolling is a method of fishing where one or more fishing lines, baited with lures or bait fish, are drawn through the water. This may be behind a moving boat, or by slowly winding the line in when fishing from a static position, or even sweeping the line from side-to-side, e.g. when fishing from a jetty. Trolling is used to catch pelagic fish such as salmon, mackerel and kingfish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trolling is nothing more than putting out &quot;bait&quot; and seeing how many users you can catch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These four in particular were clearly aimed to get a reaction.  While workplace stories are hard to sniff out as trolling thanks to the wild stories that ARE true, including someone putting poop in someone's lunch pail, others are blatant.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How to get fired&quot;... obvious.  &quot;Tickling&quot;... obvious  The saga of Sarah who wanted 10g and talked about adult activities involving pain and restraint... obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I wanted to troll this site, I would do this in similar fashion.  I don't troll much any more, and I certainly respect SE and all it's incarnations enough to leave them alone, I have not forgotten how to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something I can put my finger on and say Well, if it's &quot;X&quot; + &quot;Y&quot; divided by the square root of &quot;Z&quot;?  No, but being experienced in trolling  lets me know a troll when I see one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's trust in the moderators here.  They do an excellent job and this is from someone with a long history of clashing with moderators, so it is no small compliment I give.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorDisplayName="user8036" LastEditDate="2017-10-10T09:06:53.093" LastActivityDate="2017-10-10T09:06:53.093" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4830" CreationDate="2017-09-28T17:40:00.190" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;With a further &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/99549/6&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/16/idrinkandiknowthings&quot;&gt;IDrinkAndIKnowThings&lt;/a&gt;, the question has now been reopened. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-09-28T17:40:00.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4839" CreationDate="2017-09-28T19:38:38.073" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By far and away the best way is to close questions which should be closed. Whether or not people are trolling or naive or dealing with really unfortunate and highly unlikely situations is secondary to the, &quot;does this question benefit the site?&quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also possible to find duplicates to the root problem and avoid the whole problem. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/99816/2322&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is a good example. It is functionally the same problem as the &quot;loud coworker&quot; question we've had for a while, so after it picked up 3 close votes, I made it a duplicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another approach is massively editing the question. The reason trolling is even effective is that questions normally have some level of meaningful &quot;real&quot; question in them - otherwise they'd just get closed. Editing to remove the fluff/details often can help here to sanitize a question (often this can be done and then the question is a more clear duplicate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can you share with us at least what type of information is leading you to this conclusion, even if you can't share specific details? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/100153/193412&quot;&gt;This post&lt;/a&gt; contains most of the key information we can have access to which is not something regular users would see, specifically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For these duties, the ♦ moderators on a site have access to otherwise-confidential information about an account:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;the private parts of user profiles (email, full name, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;IP addresses that the account was accessed from a history of logins, profile edits, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that there are a lot of things to correlate, such as posting style, details in posts, etc. The more of these pieces which &quot;match up&quot; the more likely it is to be pretty clear trolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a final note, if a question is just straight up bad for the site I'm way less inclined to &quot;worry&quot; about whether it's a bad question or blatant trolling, too, as the end result is the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-09-28T20:41:36.333" LastActivityDate="2017-09-28T20:41:36.333" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4844" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-29T12:30:29.083" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just discovered a graphics bug when looking at the Close Vote pop-up. You can see below that there are text alignment issues for the close reasons that already have a vote count next to them. I noticed this on two different questions. I'm running Chrome 61.0 on Windows 10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qHQkq.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qHQkq.png&quot; alt=&quot;vote-to-close bug&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2017-09-29T17:16:30.370" LastActivityDate="2017-09-29T17:16:30.370" Title="Text alignment bug" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4846" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-01T16:35:10.230" Score="0" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dropped from 130 rep to 120 with no notification. I require some sort of feedback as to why this happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48356" LastEditorUserId="1513" LastEditDate="2017-10-02T08:22:39.670" LastActivityDate="2017-10-02T15:30:07.357" Title="Lost 10 rep without notification" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4846" CreationDate="2017-10-02T00:45:31.870" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You got -2 for a downvote back in June, which was the last activity your reputation history showed until yesterday.  Yesterday you deleted a post, resulting in another -8.  I don't think you can see that deletion in your reputation history, but you pulled the trigger yourself so I trust you know which one it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a post is deleted (or disassociated), then as far as your reputation history is concerned, it is as if it had never given you rep.  Instead of seeing &quot;-8, post was deleted&quot;, the entries that gave you the +8 in the first place disappear.  If the post was recent you can check the &quot;show recent deleted posts&quot; box on that page to see them, but this doesn't affect older posts.  You can see some more-detailed raw data for yourself at &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2017-10-02T15:30:07.357" LastActivityDate="2017-10-02T15:30:07.357" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4896" CreationDate="2017-10-02T15:21:13.817" Score="15" ViewCount="409" Body="&lt;p&gt;We often get questions where the topics involve someone acting (either intentionally or accidentally) unprofessionally, and invariably these questions end up with controversial answers, and answers that include off topic opining about the politics, and/or person preferences, of the answering party.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This opining invariably leads to comment discussions and arguments which devolve into ad-hominim attacks, divisiveness, and general abuse of the be nice policy.  And attempts to edit the answer to remove this content from the answer are usually rolled back and often create more problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that we request a new post notice that reminds users of the be nice policy and informs users that answers to this question that include divisive opinion that is not directly answering the question may be deleted by the moderation team, and violations of the be nice policy may result in a suspension of privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions we need answered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we want this notice?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes What should the wording be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: &lt;em&gt;Since the Be Nice policy is always applicable, we need a wording that expresses that this question in particular is likely to be controversial/emotional/etc and so be extra-careful here.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: Here is the Meta Request - &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/301760/request-for-a-new-post-notice-for-the-workplace&quot;&gt;Request for a new post notice for The Workplace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="115" LastEditDate="2017-10-28T00:02:51.840" LastActivityDate="2017-10-28T19:45:20.547" Title="Can we get a be nice post notice for questions that deal with sensitive issues" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|be-nice|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4848" CreationDate="2017-10-03T00:39:39.013" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do we want this notice? If yes What should the wording be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say &lt;em&gt;yes&lt;/em&gt;, but let's see what others think (based on comments and the votes on this question seems that others think the same). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People may argue about its effectiveness as a &lt;em&gt;preemptive&lt;/em&gt; measure for problematic posts, but it is true that &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; some users will read it and refrain from rage posting, or better reword their answers. This will surely help reduce the problems to be handled in the aftermath of a controversial/emotional post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some posts I've been reading that found useful for pondering this question are: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/102363/support-for-banners&quot;&gt;Support for Banners?&lt;/a&gt; - Which seems to be the original thread about creating Post Notices, where some good feedback is provided as well as some proposals that we could use as examples. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/549/handling-current-events&quot;&gt;Handling current events&lt;/a&gt; - Where one can see the process our fellow users from Skeptics SE went through when suggesting a Post Notice for them handling current event questions in their network (Shog9 even appraised one of the suggestions in the Support for Banners post).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/165006/what-are-these-notices-under-my-post&quot;&gt;What are these Notices under my Post&lt;/a&gt; - the FAQ for Post Notices. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, one wording I propose is the following (any feedback welcomed):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; ![current event](https://i.stack.imgur.com/z3Vvo.jpg) [Great subjective questions and answers](https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/) have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone. This post seems to **be more sensitive/emotional** than others, so be **especially careful** when posting your answers/comments, so you don't break our [Be Nice](https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice) policy.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z3Vvo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;current event&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Great subjective questions and answers&lt;/a&gt; have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone. This topic seems to &lt;strong&gt;be more sensitive and opinionated&lt;/strong&gt; than others, so be &lt;strong&gt;especially careful&lt;/strong&gt; when posting your answers/comments, so you don't break our &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt; policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(The icon I got from google and resized it, &lt;strong&gt;a proper icon should be chosen if it is to be added&lt;/strong&gt;. Some Post Notices use them, so I though this one could.)&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought of that wording as it mentions to be extra careful here, the Be Nice policy, and also has a strong argument backed up by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; post, as TWP contains more subjective-ish posts compared to other sites like SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2017-10-03T15:19:57.027" LastActivityDate="2017-10-03T15:19:57.027" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4848" CreationDate="2017-10-03T15:12:26.650" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like a good idea to me as well. I think the reasoning for why has been pretty clear, so I'd like to suggest a wording like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question deals with a topic about which many people have strong opinions. We respectfully ask that answers keep their focus on the question, and that those answering refrain from sharing personal opinions unless relevant to answering the question. And as always, please remember to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38458" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2017-10-04T16:24:58.253" LastActivityDate="2017-10-04T16:24:58.253" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4852" CreationDate="2017-10-04T20:40:03.217" Score="5" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been recent events where a good deal of unhelpful comments have hit some Questions and Answers. In most cases they all come in a series of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be more useful to the mods for us to &lt;em&gt;flag the individual comments&lt;/em&gt;, or just &lt;em&gt;flag the question/answer itself&lt;/em&gt; and note that it's collecting unhelpful or rude comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2017-10-04T20:58:31.533" LastActivityDate="2017-10-04T21:24:08.340" Title="Which is more useful to the mods, Flagging comments, or the Q or A they are in?" Tags="|discussion|comments|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2017-10-04T21:21:44.500" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4851" CreationDate="2017-10-04T21:20:54.283" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer is bascially the same as the one &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4488/325&quot;&gt;I gave&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4487/how-to-report-multiple-obsolete-comments&quot;&gt;How to report multiple obsolete comments?&lt;/a&gt;, with one exception (and why I'm answering instead of closing as a dupe): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, among a big pile of comments that need to be handled, individual comments are &lt;strong&gt;unambiguously rude&lt;/strong&gt; -- I mean things like name-calling, slurs, that kind of thing -- then go ahead and flag those individually too.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if we can't get to the whole thread right away, it's worth calling out stuff that needs to go away Right Now.  But please don't do that for cases where it's only clear that it's an insult because of the context from these other 7 comments or something you have to know about the people involved etc -- the point of calling them out is so that a busy moderator can make a snap judgment.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we can't tell just by looking at that one comment, it'll wait until we can dig into the context.  And at that point it's easier to just flag the post -- easier for you and easier for mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2017-10-04T21:24:08.340" LastActivityDate="2017-10-04T21:24:08.340" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4839" CreationDate="2017-10-05T03:20:31.897" Score="-10" Body="&lt;p&gt;All posts by new users (&amp;lt; 500 reputation) should goto a review queue. Only the approved posts by established users should go public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64317" LastActivityDate="2017-10-05T03:20:31.897" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4831" CreationDate="2017-10-06T05:27:36.900" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please delete the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't want to talk about rapists and terrorists. They're evil people and thus inappropriate to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64317" LastActivityDate="2017-10-06T05:27:36.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4855" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-07T21:01:03.073" Score="0" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that this message &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;This question has more than two answers already&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;come up when I went to answer a question which had 3 answers, but one of those answers had been heavily downvoted.  Does it makes sense to loosen that warning such that it only comes up if there are 3 or more 0+ score answers instead of 3 answers overall?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77515" LastActivityDate="2017-10-10T12:46:55.293" Title="&quot;This question has more than two answers already&quot;" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4855" CreationDate="2017-10-10T12:46:55.293" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, it doesn't make sense.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The warning you see is a simple way of saying, &quot;Hey, three people have already posted answers here. It's unlikely there are going to be many more than three ways to respond to a given situation, so please make sure you aren't saying the exact same thing as someone else before you post another answer.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because one person ahead of you had a bad idea, doesn't mean that you won't have the &lt;em&gt;same&lt;/em&gt; bad idea. In fact, if one of the first responses was a bad one, chances are even &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; likely that other people will have the same bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The warning has nothing to do with the quality of the posts and only to do with reducing redundancy. Even then, it's a warning and doesn't actually change your ability to post. If after reading the other answers you still think your answer is different enough to post, then do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-10-10T12:46:55.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4839" CreationDate="2017-10-12T05:00:11.073" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a new question that had a similar profile and query-type as mentioned in the meta question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/100606/im-an-assistant-manager-i-witnessed-my-manager-sexually-harass-an-employee-s&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;m an assistant manager &amp;amp; I witnessed my manager sexually harass an employee. Should I report it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the subjective nature of determining of what is and is not a &quot;troll&quot; I flagged the post and mentioned this meta question in the comment box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38289" LastEditorUserId="38289" LastEditDate="2017-10-12T05:23:37.350" LastActivityDate="2017-10-12T05:23:37.350" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4858" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4863" CreationDate="2017-10-12T13:53:57.567" Score="4" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm noticing a trend, especially among low-rep users (typically 101-150) putting their own answers under existing answers as comments.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we flag these as &quot;no longer needed&quot; or &quot;rude or abusive&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are typically phrased as &quot;This is a terrible answer, what should be done is XYZ&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even without the rude intro, I'm wondering if we should flag these as &quot;rude or abusive&quot; as the intent seems to be to abuse the system by putting answers in a place where they cannot be up or down voted.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm making the distinction between commenting under the question as opposed to commenting under the answer because commenting under an answer undermines the answer, whereas putting a comment-answer under the question is just IMO, laziness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we flag comment-answers under existing answers as rude or abusive?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-10-13T02:39:59.947" Title="Flagging comments: comments as different answers under given answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4858" CreationDate="2017-10-12T15:11:12.583" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Even without the rude intro, I'm wondering if we should flag these as&#xA;  &quot;rude or abusive&quot; as the intent seems to be to abuse the system by&#xA;  putting answers in a place where they cannot be up or down voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, without a rude intro I seldom flag a comment as &quot;rude or abusive&quot;. I don't want to abuse flags and bother moderators unnecessarily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the commenter is simply presenting an alternative answer, I tend to invite them to write their own real Answer rather than simply leaving one as a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the commenter ends up launching a long thread of alternative theories, I will flag that and ask a moderator to move it to chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course, if the commenter is actually rude enough, I will flag the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish comments had down votes specifically for these circumstances. I don't really understand why comment voting is unidirectional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2017-10-12T15:11:12.583" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4858" CreationDate="2017-10-12T16:23:54.140" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answer to the question is no, don't flag them just for that.  There are plenty of valid reasons placing a valid answer as a comment underneath an answer.  The best reason for this is that writing a good answer typically takes some time and effort.  Comments by their nature are brief.  I think it's completely appropriate to add a comment under an answer suggesting that a better answer would involve doing something else and contrasting the relative benefits of that approach versus the approach suggested by the answer above it.  To me it seems like it's just a form of saying &quot;The answer above has problems or will not work well.  One thing that would work better is ___&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40557" LastActivityDate="2017-10-12T16:23:54.140" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4858" CreationDate="2017-10-12T17:09:25.040" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Browsing a bit, I found that this stated in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;Help Page&lt;/a&gt;. Extracting from it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When should I comment?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should submit a comment if you want to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Request &lt;strong&gt;clarification&lt;/strong&gt; from the author;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave &lt;strong&gt;constructive criticism&lt;/strong&gt; that guides the author in improving the post;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add relevant but &lt;strong&gt;minor or transient information&lt;/strong&gt; to a post (e.g. a link to a related question, or an alert to the author that the question has been updated).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, &lt;em&gt;anything that does not fulfill any of those characteristics is either obsolete, chatty, or otherwise unnecessary&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even more relevant to the question stated in this post is the following part (again from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;Help Page&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When shouldn't I comment?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are not recommended for any of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Suggesting corrections&lt;/em&gt; that don't fundamentally change the meaning of the post; instead, &lt;em&gt;make or suggest an edit&lt;/em&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answering a question or providing an alternate solution to an existing answer; instead, post an actual answer (or edit to expand an existing one);&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Compliments&lt;/em&gt; which do not add new information (&amp;quot;+1, great answer!&amp;quot;); instead, &lt;em&gt;up-vote it and pay it forward&lt;/em&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Criticisms which do not add anything constructive (&amp;quot;-1, see previous comments you scallywag!&amp;quot;); instead, down-vote (and provide or up-vote a better answer if appropriate);&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Secondary discussion or debating&lt;/em&gt; a controversial point; please use &lt;em&gt;chat&lt;/em&gt; instead;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discussion of &lt;em&gt;community behavior or site policies&lt;/em&gt;; please use &lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt; instead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to answer the question &lt;strong&gt;Should we flag comment-answers under existing answers as rude or abusive?&lt;/strong&gt; I think &lt;strong&gt;yes&lt;/strong&gt;, as they are by definition otherwise unnecessary and also out of place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that this is a good guidance to when and how to flag a comment, and also when should one refrain from commenting and post an answer instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-10-12T17:15:13.740" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4858" CreationDate="2017-10-13T02:39:59.947" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators sometimes need to review the flags that have been validated against a user.  This happens when we start to notice (or have pointed out) a pattern of behavior that might require intervention -- we go and look at the data at that point; we don't rely on memory and impressions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rude/abusive flags on comments that were &lt;em&gt;merely misguided&lt;/em&gt;, particularly from newer users, make these reviews harder.  There's a big difference between direct rudeness (&quot;your answer sucks! the OP should...&quot;) or abuse of the system (insisting on having a long tangential discussion in comments after correction), on the one hand, and an inexperienced user leaving what was &lt;em&gt;intended&lt;/em&gt; as helpful input in the wrong place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;This is a terrible answer&quot; warrants a &quot;rude or abusive&quot; flag.  A series of argumentative comments warrants a &quot;rude or abusive&quot; flag.  A single comment that isn't what comments are for, but isn't otherwise rude, warrants a lesser flag (usually &quot;no longer needed&quot;, unless you need to say something about it to us via &quot;other&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-10-13T02:39:59.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4864" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4868" CreationDate="2017-10-13T19:13:44.173" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was recently browsing questions when this hover message appeared over my Top Bar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B7Euz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B7Euz.png&quot; alt=&quot;JS failed to load&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have never seen it before, nor here or on other SE sites that I frequent. &lt;em&gt;What purpose does that notification serves and why could it have appeared in this case?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed that the notification stayed a while, and then after some time and hard refreshing my Firefox browser it went away, but I am still baffled at what could have caused this. Just now as I am editing this post I saw the notification again, and it went away just like the other one did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it be my Internet connectivity (tbh it has been slower today than other days); has anyone else experienced this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2017-10-13T19:16:15.630" LastActivityDate="2017-10-14T18:44:35.133" Title="JavaScript blocked or failed to load" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4864" CreationDate="2017-10-13T19:16:15.513" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get it a lot because my internet is unreliable. Usually a refresh fixes it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2017-10-13T19:16:15.513" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4866" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4867" CreationDate="2017-10-13T21:45:40.013" Score="1" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happens when two users are editing the same piece of content?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/100744/wrote-the-wrong-date-in-a-reply-to-accept-an-interview-should-i-point-it-out&quot;&gt;Wrote the wrong date in a reply to accept an interview, should I point it out?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;GrayCygnus initiated an edit at t&amp;lt;0 and confirmed to italicize at t=0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started an edit to italicize and bold at t&amp;lt;2 and confirmed at t=2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would appear that the most recent confirmed edit takes effect for users with sufficient privileges, &gt;2000, rather than first initiated edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38289" LastActivityDate="2017-10-13T22:46:30.850" Title="Simultaneous Edits" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4866" CreationDate="2017-10-13T22:06:07.023" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I think happened here is that, given we both have 2k+ rep privileges and our edits apply automatically, your edit &quot;fell over&quot; mine, as some sort of cumulative edit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you where in the middle of an edit when mine got processed, as we can see they have aprox. 2  minutes &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/100745/revisions&quot;&gt;difference&lt;/a&gt; between our edits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mPlYc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mPlYc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could even blame Caching here, and probably saw a &quot;previous&quot; version of that answer when you clicked on edit. Anyways, both edits served good to the question for readability and remark on the main course of action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Another way of thinking of it could be like a Git Version Control, which could explain the &quot;merge&quot; between our edits, something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I submit my edit, adding some line breaks (say line 3) and italics (say, on line 6). This is equivalent to making &lt;em&gt;git commit&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;push&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While you were editing, my change takes place. Something like &lt;em&gt;git pull&lt;/em&gt; from your side.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You submit your edit, adding bolds to that same &quot;line 6&quot; I added italics. As that edit is more thorough in that part (**'s is more than *'s) and also because you have 2k+ edit privilege, it takes place immediately (with no conflicts). This is equivalent to your &lt;em&gt;git commit&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;push&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This resulted in a second edit where the line breaks (line 3) were edited and also the bolds (line 6) with its more recent version (yours). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Browsing a bit, I found something to back that &quot;git&quot; hypothesis on an answer given by Jeff on the post &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/85266/332286&quot;&gt;Preventing conflicting simultaneous edits&lt;/a&gt;, extracting from it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is specific to the area in question, so one user can edit body and you can edit tags &lt;strong&gt;without conflicting&lt;/strong&gt;. (Or title, etc). It's only when you both edit &lt;strong&gt;the same field&lt;/strong&gt; at the &lt;strong&gt;same time&lt;/strong&gt; this error is returned on save.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2017-10-13T22:46:30.850" LastActivityDate="2017-10-13T22:46:30.850" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4864" CreationDate="2017-10-14T18:44:35.133" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens when some of a page is served from one domain and some is served from another. For example, a page might be constructed with content from stackexchange.com, sstatic.net, googleapis.com, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least one of the domains was responding too slowly. That could happen for many reasons (such as that domain being blocked, the servers for that domain being down for maintenance or under heavy load, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many times, the problem is temporary or intermittent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2017-10-14T18:44:35.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4869" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-16T06:36:06.930" Score="-8" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about my The Workplace Stack Exchange post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/100829/update-subversive-behavior-of-colleague&quot;&gt;Update: Subversive behavior of colleague&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On posting, this heavy user shows up and says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nothing but a senseless rant&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Did not contribute, does not tell me how to fix the content&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seems to insult me&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I responded in kind with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nothing but a useless comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This comment kept getting removed (I suspect because it embarrassed the user in question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only that, someone actually came on there and told me my comment keeps getting removed because it was 'rude' and 'did not contribute'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh and your friend's comment up there is praising me to seven heavens and totally adding onto the content, isn't it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tell me, is everyone here brainwashed to act like this and bully new users? Shouldn't that comment have gotten removed first since it is blatantly breaking all the rules which the second user came in an highlighted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll include what the other person said, because people have a habit of removing stuff:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@PontBlanc I suppose it was removed as it was rude and had nothing to&#xA;  do with your question. Comments are not for that, nor insulting other&#xA;  users. Remember to Be Nice :) – GrayCygnus&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you seeing this? This guy even gave me a link in the 'Be Nice' section, yeah your friend up there really needs to see that link though&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76995" LastEditorUserId="52713" LastEditDate="2017-10-17T08:20:11.877" LastActivityDate="2017-10-17T08:20:11.877" Title="Why is this allowed?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4869" CreationDate="2017-10-16T06:50:36.330" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;What did you expect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You obviously know how Stack Exchange works, so you should know that posting this kind of material here just isn't appropriate.  It's not a question, there's no goals to be addressed here.  We have so many readers here that no one will recognize your previous question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you had an outcome to a previous question, there's nothing to stop you editing your existing question with an update, or answering your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But posting this as a new question, when there's no question at all is just against how Stack works, and hence the down-vote/close/comments you received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you believe that comments are insulting to you or against the &quot;Be nice&quot; policy, then please flag them as such and impartial moderators will take the appropriate action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a large reputation score does not result in preferential treatment here, despite the impression that it does; everyone is governed and constrained by the same code of conduct for the site as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2017-10-16T06:50:36.330" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4869" CreationDate="2017-10-16T06:55:44.427" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Did not contribute, does not tell me how to fix the content&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes it did. It explained why you were getting downvotes and closevotes. Perhaps he could have been clearer but posts like yours rarely lead to anything productive and often result in arguments from the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Seems to insult me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not really. It's a bit harsh perhaps, but this site is intended for a mature audience that can take criticism. Your post had legitimate issues which made the entire thing nonsensical and you were indeed essentially just using this platform to rant. Those are simple facts and if you find that offensive perhaps you should have decided to improve your post instead of slinging insults.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tell me, is everyone here brainwashed to act like this and bully new users? Shouldn't that comment have gotten removed first?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the comment &lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt; been over the line, the only way moderators will see it usually is if someone flags it, like people did, repeatedly, to your comments. We don't always open the post to check out the conversation and we certainly wouldn't for clear-cut noise like the comments you've posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not only that, someone actually came on there and told me my comment keeps getting removed because it was 'rude' and 'did not contribute'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would be because you actually asked why your comment(s) kept getting removed. So someone told you. It's up to you how you handle that information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;oh my god are you seeing this, this guy even gave me a link in the 'Be Nice' section, yeah your friend up there really needs to see that link tho&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you actually checked it? The comments you're leaving here and the kind of stuff you've been putting in this meta post are pretty clearly in violation of that policy. So far the only one who's been rude or abusive here has been you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2017-10-16T06:55:44.427" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4869" CreationDate="2017-10-16T14:03:09.337" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The workplace is a full-contact site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how to better navigate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;ASSUME GOOD INTENTIONS.  We have an interesting mix of people who's&#xA;communication skills leave them coming across as blunt, overly harsh,&#xA;and even borderline rude.  This is due the fact that many in here are&#xA;not native English speakers, or have autism or some ohther disability&#xA;that impacts their communications.  So if you assume that the person&#xA;means well, it will make it easier on you&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't get into battles in the comments.  It makes people take you&#xA;less seriously.  If you think a comment is rude or abusive, flag it&#xA;and let the mods handle it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't whine.  If you do need to escalate, put things as &quot;XYZ&quot; was rude due to ABC, please remove&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't comment that something is a useless comment, flag it and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nobody is brainwashed and nobody is bullying new users, and it is very rude and insulting to say as much.  If anything new users are given a good deal of leeway, as demonstrated by the fact that we are actually addressing your concerns as opposed to dismissing them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave the moderating to the community and to the moderators, things are done very well here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, obvious rants will get tagged as such, fighting with other users is frowned upon, and getting into a bickerfest in comments will only get mods and other users to think  &quot;Well, this one isn't innocent either.&quot;  Flag rude or unhelpful comments, step back, and leave it be.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-10-16T14:03:09.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4869" CreationDate="2017-10-16T17:55:58.100" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, I'm going to disagree with a theme that's running through most of the answers and comments here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nothing but a useless rant&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have deleted that if I'd seen a flag on it (or come across it in my normal browsing of the site, which I didn't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now your post &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; problematic, in that there wasn't really a question in there or if there was it's hard to see under the emotions in your post.  Putting it on hold was proper; I would have done the same.  But you didn't come here to ask why your question was on hold; you came here to ask about comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You both received and posted comments that were over the line.  Lots of posts have problems, and pointing out those problems &lt;em&gt;constructively&lt;/em&gt; so that people can fix them is appropriate.  You should expect to get comments that say things like &quot;I can't tell what you're asking&quot; or &quot;please clarify X&quot; or &quot;please trim this down to the core question and cut out the long backstory&quot; or &quot;what happened when you asked your manager?&quot; and so on.  Some people might find some of those comments uncomfortable and read in criticism where it's not present.  We don't have to sugar-coat feedback, but we do have to remain constructive and professional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Useless rant&quot; is not constructive and professional.  Neither is responding in kind.  If someone is being rude, flag it -- and disengage.  You responded in kind, and then people responded to that, and you responded to that -- that sort of thing never ends well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-10-16T17:55:58.100" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4874" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-17T03:27:25.723" Score="8" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/100848/i-declined-an-offer-from-an-employer-months-ago-i-am-interviewing-again&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, there was a recent edit that changed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;75 cent raise&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;75 percent raise&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without any feedback from the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all honesty, I find 75 percent raises outright unbelievable in this context.  The question is about the OP looking to leave said company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this be rolled back?  Logically the 75 cent raise is WAY more likely than a completely unannounced 75% raise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32814" LastActivityDate="2017-10-17T05:36:06.463" Title="Significant numerical meaning was changed without OP feedback" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4876" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-18T22:54:48.393" Score="5" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is my understanding that when someone proposed a duplicate and the OP accepts that as a duplicate that it's put on hold by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if the &lt;strong&gt;person asking the question&lt;/strong&gt; is calling it a duplicate too, why is it still available to reopen?  It seems to me that the OP accepting the duplicate is admitting that his question already has an answer and is no longer need. There's no point in editing it so it's not a duplicate because apparently the OP is satisfied that his question is answered in the linked question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I realize that Community isn't really a person, but it's still considered a moderator. Can they even reopen it since it was closed by a moderator-ish account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2017-11-17T23:38:52.480" LastActivityDate="2017-11-18T14:24:39.473" Title="Reopening accepted duplicates" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|reopening|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4877" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-19T01:06:11.303" Score="-3" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could the SE Workplace community please review and vote as to whether &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/35059/how-to-ask-for-wifi-access-at-work&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; can be re-opened after I edited it just now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel the first question asked &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Why do companies restrict WiFi&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; is answerable in general. However, I do not feel the existing answer given by @RualStorge is complete. Significant security concerns regards to WiFi (MiTM, evil twin, rogue AP etc.) were not discussed as a likely reason. I work as an IT security professional and believe I can add quite a bit more as to why companies tend to restrict WiFi access.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-10-19T03:39:57.007" LastActivityDate="2017-10-19T09:31:18.990" Title="Request to reopen question on why companies restrict WiFi access" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4877" CreationDate="2017-10-19T03:41:23.580" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that the 1st question is answerable and useful in the context of a typical IT industry workplace. I have cast the first reopen vote on the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I suspect that the 2nd question about asking for WiFi access is a duplicate of several questions that broadly fall in the category of &quot;how to request for equipment required for my work&quot;. Nonetheless, I prefer to keep questions than remove them. We will edit the question again if necessary. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-10-19T03:41:23.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4877" CreationDate="2017-10-19T09:31:18.990" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that the first question is both answerable and useful - the reasons would likely be very similar across the industry and therefore useful to others in a similar situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of the situation though the first part of the question post that provides the background &lt;strong&gt;isn't&lt;/strong&gt; particularly on topic IMO - it's basically saying &quot;I asked and was told no but I suspect their reason to be incomplete or untrue&quot; which isn't something we can address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2017-10-19T09:31:18.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4876" CreationDate="2017-10-20T16:37:10.030" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So if the person asking the question is calling it a duplicate too, why is it still available to reopen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens because the powers-that-be at SE did not think this through, and they tend to be rather inconsistent with their philosophy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SE philosophy considers &quot;the person who asked the question&quot; (&quot;asker&quot;) as nobody special in some cases but not others. For instance, the &quot;asker&quot; accepting a duplicate suggestion immediately closes the question, but reopening requires &quot;consensus&quot; of the community (or a mod-hammer). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This inconsistency can be easily solved by taking away the close hammer from the &quot;asker&quot;. The goal of Stack Exchange is to build a repository of questions and answers, and all the posts belong to the &quot;community&quot;. In all other cases, it requires consensus from 5 community &quot;representatives&quot; to close a question. Hence, it is illogical for one user to have a close hammer in case of duplicates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ironically, moderators who are given special privileges generally refrain from using their close hammer until 2 or 3 other users have cast close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-11-18T14:24:39.473" LastActivityDate="2017-11-18T14:24:39.473" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3771" CreationDate="2017-10-21T01:39:10.370" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;That's not your job&quot; can be a good answer, but -- it's only &lt;strong&gt;part&lt;/strong&gt; of a good answer.  Because OP then has to make it stick.  A good answer, sez I, would provide a warning that while &quot;ain't my job&quot; is easy to say, OP will have to explain why it doesn't make sense for him to &quot;just do it anyway&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly whatever the task X is that OP doesn't want to do, it needs to get done somehow, by someone, and the task-giver already has OP in mind.  There are several standard reasons we see...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;OP fears getting &quot;stuck&quot; in that role in the future.  A common sub-theme of this is with non-admin women asked to take care of something administrative.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;OP fears that his doing the task has poor ROI; perhaps he is highly paid, and feels that his time is better spent doing something else.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;OP just doesn't want to do it; task is boring, or messy, or just no fun.  This is a much harder argument to make.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway.  A good answer should stress that &quot;not my job&quot; is just the opening salvo in a negotiation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77515" LastActivityDate="2017-10-21T01:39:10.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4884" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4890" CreationDate="2017-10-24T04:20:43.643" Score="-9" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;After thinking about the possibilities of workplace questions from different cultures and languages, I searched on the Workplace SE questions, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=foreign%20language&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/search?q=foreign%20language&quot;&gt;help&lt;/a&gt;, and didn't find a policy on questions in foreign languages. Although  SE Meta did have an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13676/do-posts-have-to-be-in-english-on-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/07/23/non-english-question-policy/&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So I ask, what is the workplace's policy on questions in a foreign language?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, problems at the workplace happen all over the world. Why limit it to just English? At the same time, cultural and social differences would weigh heavily on the type of advice and opinions one would offer to a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;GrayCygnus and I had a rather lengthy discussion in the comments, but we couldn't come to a conclusive end to the question: a clear and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;explicit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; policy on the workplace regarding the matter. Although it would appear that the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;implicit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; policy is English-Only. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be reasonable to expect people to discern implicit policies? What would be the pros and cons? Would the cost of allowing foreign languages be overwhelming? Would it allow more engagement from a non-English speaking audience? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the votes, and the commentary below. It would appear that the answer is a resounding &quot;No&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38289" LastEditorUserId="38289" LastEditDate="2017-10-25T00:59:10.963" LastActivityDate="2021-03-28T06:59:27.253" Title="Should the Workplace allow and encourage questions in a foreign language?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4884" CreationDate="2017-10-24T06:44:21.923" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main Meta post &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13676/do-posts-have-to-be-in-english-on-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; from May is pretty explicit on this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is not, nor has it ever been, our goal to be the one place in the world for all programming information in every possible human language.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;• Direct question posters to native language resources.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;• It is not the community's goal to teach English.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;• The question asker should put some effort into the question.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be fairly obvious to many readers here that the interface, guides, and content of the Workplace stack is all in English. Any non-English person that has little to now English skills is going to have to translate and understand the workings of the site in order to post a valid question here.  It goes without saying that if the user is able to translate to their own language, they also have the tools to translate their question into English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disadvantages of posting foreign language questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People may assume that it's spam  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People who don't know that language will need to use a translation service to read the post (and then trust that the translation is correct and provides the true intent of the question)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People won't know whether to respond/comment in English or translate into the other language (and again, without knowing the accuracy of that translation)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People may decide not to bother translating the question and the question will go unanswered, or gather potentially bad questions  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People will have to translate the question and any comments/answers (and trust the translation) in order to effectively vote/VTC/edit/whatever  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By and large, anyone posting in a foreign language will most probably have their questions down-voted and VTC'd as being &quot;off topic&quot; and generally won't get the attention they need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, if people are able to read SE well enough to post a question in the relevant stack, they already have the tools to translate their question into English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bonjour, et mange tout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T06:44:21.923" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4886" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4887" CreationDate="2017-10-24T12:24:41.407" Score="0" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not my question, but why is this on hold?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/101355/accidentally-applied-to-my-current-company&quot;&gt;Accidentally applied to my current company&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those related questions linked in the comments don't answer this question. It doesn't seem more opinion based than any other question I see on here. This seems like a well asked on topic question to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43877" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T12:47:12.500" Title="Why was this question put on hold?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4886" CreationDate="2017-10-24T12:41:20.613" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the actual questions stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;• Have I been blacklisted in any way by my current company?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  • Did I hurt my standing or prospects within the organisation by&#xA;   revealing I was job hunting (actually testing the waters)?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  • Which are the likely consequences of my actions and how should I&#xA;   navigate this situation?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  • How should I act in the future? (Assume I'm a standard worker with&#xA;   standard motivations).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are fairly arbitrary nature and open to interpretation/opinion/guesswork.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People often close questions based on the exact question without taking a step back to see a potential larger picture.  Don't forget that a closure is notionally a &quot;invitation to improve your question&quot;, although in many cases, it's simply take as a closure/rejection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happened to answer this, but I sidestepped these questions and just addressed the bottom line.  This is just the way I am sometimes, and I do tend to ignore the empirical demands of stack question assessments in order to serve the questioner more than the stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T12:47:12.500" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T12:47:12.500" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4888" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-24T21:34:16.360" Score="0" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today on reddit, a student pilot asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/78fzln/do_nonaviation_industryga_pilots_list_their/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;whether certificated pilots’ resumes say so&lt;/a&gt; when applying for non-aviation jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interesting question, and there are generally for and against camps on the broad topic of “extraneous” information on resumes. Rather than trading the usual anecdotes, I wondered how the scientific literature answers or at least informs understanding of this topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Workplace.SE seemed like a great place to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/101395/78676&quot;&gt;ask the question&lt;/a&gt; and get insightful responses. Instead, two people whose comment and non-responsive answer showed clearly that they did not understand that the question — much less that it asked for facts and evidence — nevertheless voted to close for being “primarily opinion-based.” This was especially disappointing considering that the question emphasized that opinion was not what was being sought at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This small episode is representative of the workplace in real life, so it is at at least instructive in that regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where was I unclear? How might I rephrase the question to keep it in line with the site guidelines and more importantly gain new insights?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78676" LastActivityDate="2017-10-29T00:23:48.397" Title="Question asks for fact-based resume strategies supported by the literature, put on hold for being “primarily opinion-based”" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4888" CreationDate="2017-10-24T21:52:29.770" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with you -- that is an objective, answerable question and in scope here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some comments say things like &quot;someone would have to do research&quot; and &quot;why do you think studies exist?&quot;, but I think they miss the point.  HR is a professional field, and not new.  Many resumes get scanned, parsed, and stashed in databases.  It's reasonable to suspect that both &lt;em&gt;people interested in the topic&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;the data to do the research&lt;/em&gt; exist.  And academic researchers study all sorts of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if such research exists, but asking about it here seems quite reasonable to me.  The question should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T21:52:29.770" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4884" CreationDate="2017-10-25T06:52:53.260" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My original intent was a question meant to clarify something that I quite honestly did not know. &lt;strong&gt;Does the Workplace SE allow questions in foreign languages, and if so, should questions in foreign languages be encouraged?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I did not post this question without some thought into figuring it out on my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After thinking about the possibilities of workplace questions from different cultures and languages, I searched on the Workplace SE questions, meta, and help, and didn't find a policy on questions in foreign languages. Although SE Meta did have an article, and post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the discussion that I had with a number of users (shoutout to GrayCyngus for bearing with me), everything relates back to the idea of an implicit versus explicit policy. In other words, what is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;de facto&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_jure&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;de jure&lt;/a&gt; practice of the Workplace. With the emphasis on a &lt;strong&gt;written&lt;/strong&gt; guideline of foreign languages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the posts mentioned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13676/do-posts-have-to-be-in-english-on-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;Do posts have to be in English on Stack Exchange?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/07/23/non-english-question-policy/&quot;&gt;Non-English Question Policy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One key narrative becomes apparent from each:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Stack Overflow Trilogy has an official policy on non-English questions&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;here’s our official policy towards non-English questions on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The authors all relate their statements to policy pertaining to Stack Overflow, Super User, and Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am going to make a fairly bad analogy, but bear with me. Each SE site is a Nation-State, which are free to craft its own practices and policies. But since Stack Overflow (along with Super User and Server Fault) were among the first 'States' many subsequent SE sites adopt their practices and policies; many of which makes sense because they are tried and true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But nowhere did I read that all SE sites have to adhere to the same policies. The policies of one &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Ring&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ring&lt;/a&gt; applying to all. To my knowledge, each has freedom to change the underlying framework to suit their own mission objectives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is where I introduce two other posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8162/we-need-to-help-non-english-speakers-somehow&quot;&gt;We need to help non-English-speakers somehow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2014/02/13/cant-we-all-be-reasonable-and-speak-english/&quot;&gt;Can’t We All be Reasonable and Speak English?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first, the question and top answer succinctly summarizes the difficulty of allowing questions in foreign languages and the steps needed to take something that is inherently confusing to the point where it can be easily read by users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second, the author, Jay Hanlon, lays out three points on the decision to launch &lt;a href=&quot;https://pt.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow in Portuguese&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Not every developer in the world speaks English&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;It’s almost impossible to feel like part of a community if you’re not highly proficient in the language.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Requiring that all aspiring devs “just go learn English” first isn’t who we want to be.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For each point that Jay lays out in reason for Stack Overflow in Portuguese, would it be so hard think about the Workplace and the people who use it? Does every company and employee in the world speak English? Can a non-native speaker be comfortable asking a question at the Workplace? Would an 55 year old employee at a Korean Chaebol just go and learn English?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thought is that there should be a written and explicit policy such that people like me don't get confused. I hope it is reasonable to agree with that implicit rules are generally difficult to figure out, unless it is pointed out to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3216/the-workplace-is-a-worldwide-site&quot;&gt;The Workplace is a worldwide site&lt;/a&gt;.&quot; If there is consideration put into place to assist those whom made the effort of trying (i.e. asking a question that may not be the level of a fluent english speaker), why not make the consideration of assisting those whom made the effort, but just not in English? Why shut out those who are just on the cusp?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly, I may not be the best person to make this argument. My foreign language skills are subpar at best. But would it be difficult for a question to request for translational assistance when it is formed, are there not those who are fluent in a foreign language, knowledgable of the Workplace, and well-regarded?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the Workplace can become a melting-pot of cultures and industries, where people from all walks of life can &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;be nice&lt;/a&gt; to one another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then again, it would appear that a consensus has been made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38289" LastActivityDate="2017-10-25T06:52:53.260" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4892" CreationDate="2017-10-25T18:33:40.583" Score="4" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed a red dot in the Review Queue, besides the Suggested Edits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7J4h4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7J4h4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This I have never seen before, and I wonder what could that red dot probably mean? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually it is a gray dot, and it goes away when the queue empties. This time, even though that queue is empty (as seen when clicking on it as well as on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;all reviews&lt;/a&gt; page) the red dot won't go away. Could it be some bug or is it by-design? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; After aprox. 10 minutes of refreshing and checking the Reviews the Red Dot disappeared. Still leaves me with the doubt of the meaning of that red dot, as it is the first time I see such dot in any SE site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second Update:&lt;/strong&gt; Seems like today (9 days after original post) this problem reappeared, where the red dot was visible but when accessed no reviews were available (at least to me):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i9Xvd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i9Xvd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this mean we actually need to bump the threshold up a bit? &lt;sub&gt;(Could it be related to the fact that I just did several Tag Excerpt edits that need approval?)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2017-11-03T23:45:56.953" LastActivityDate="2017-11-03T23:45:56.953" Title="Red dot on Suggested Edit review Queue" Tags="|support|suggested-edits|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4891" CreationDate="2017-10-25T21:11:50.180" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The red dot means that a larger-than-average number of items are awaiting review.  &quot;Average&quot; is taken loosely; it's a threshold based on the size of our site and not our specific review history.  (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/302226/162102&quot;&gt;For us it's 3 for suggested edits.&lt;/a&gt;) The red dot is an indicator that this would be a good time to do some extra reviewing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The gray dot appears if there is anything waiting in the queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/358151/839601&quot;&gt;this MSO discussion&lt;/a&gt; (h/t gnat), if you went to the queue and found nothing to review even though you saw a red dot, it might be because several other reviewers were in there at the same time and beat you to those items.  See the comment from Shog below about bumping up the &quot;red threshold&quot; here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2017-10-26T02:27:47.353" LastActivityDate="2017-10-26T02:27:47.353" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4888" CreationDate="2017-10-27T09:28:24.253" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am assuming that your latest canonical &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/101395/should-i-make-my-resume-stand-out&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; was closed as &quot;opinion-based&quot; because it was perceived as misleading and incorrect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until you're willing to remove/edit the statement regarding Fraternities, or at least try to defend it and actually say that it is actually correct, I'm not sure it's worth working on those other issues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-06/the-fraternity-paradox-lower-gpa-higher-incomes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Fraternity Paradox: Lower GPA, Higher Incomes.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Greek Fraternities do not have Lower GPA averages, they have higher average GPAs than the average student population&lt;/strong&gt; (because they kick out any brother who has a low GPA, but that's &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-selection_bias&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;beside&lt;/a&gt; the point). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to Stephen Schmidt and Lewis Davis, two economists at Union&#xA;  College who (along with Jack Mara, class of 2010, whose undergraduate&#xA;  thesis became the basis for the paper) studied the effects of&#xA;  fraternity membership at a Northeastern liberal arts college,&#xA;  “fraternity membership lower[ed] student GPA by approximately 0.25&#xA;  points on the traditional four-point scale, but rais[ed] future income&#xA;  by approximately 36%.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you carefully read between the lines of the study quoted in the news article, you'll see that the people who authored that study actually chose their words very carefully, and that they must have known that Greek Fraternities on average have higher GPAs than the overall student population, but that the entire news article does everything it can to imply the opposite through careful ambiguous quoting the study's findings and through its purposefully very misleading click-bait headline. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to writing canonical questions, I don't think it's an easy task. I've never done it myself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually, it's someone who is tired of answering the same type of question over and over again. So then he posts a canonical question and then immediately posts a comprehensive answer that he has already prepared in advance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case, that's not what happened, you've posted all your research upfront within the question itself. Furthermore, your own research doesn't seem to satisfy the criterion of &quot;fact-based&quot; definitiveness you try to impose on the rest of us, as it's linking to a distorted secondary source with an agenda and a tertiary source found on a political website. Although, I do really like the personal &lt;a href=&quot;https://paulbutler.org/archives/experiment-in-testing-my-resume/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;experiment&lt;/a&gt; posted by Paul Butler on his blog. You should definitely keep that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be more effective, you should give us a chance to vote on your question and answer separately and also refine your comprehensive answer. And you should link to the original studies or experiments when you can. And if someone thinks they can do better than your canonical answer, that person will jump in, but until then, I think you should work on your own comprehensive answer and continue to refine it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14577" LastEditorUserId="14577" LastEditDate="2017-10-29T00:23:48.397" LastActivityDate="2017-10-29T00:23:48.397" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4895" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-27T19:01:23.473" Score="2" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was closed for the reason of legal questions, however no legal question was asked here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/101609/should-a-recruiting-company-warn-a-client-company-about-an-applicant-lying-about&quot;&gt;Ethical obligation after finding fraudulent applicant?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original title was &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Ethical obligation after finding fraudulent applicant?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowhere in the question was any legal conundrum introduced, it was not until the comments started piling up that the question started gathering close votes, and the change of title finished it IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, the question was simply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beyond simply declining to hire the candidate, does Acme have any further ethical responsibilities?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no actual or implied legal issue here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDITED TO ADD:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP rolled back the edit and explicitly gave as his reason that the change of title changed the intent of his post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this is another case of comments changing the perception people have of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2017-11-02T18:41:19.133" LastActivityDate="2017-11-02T18:41:19.133" Title="Req to reopen this question" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4848" CreationDate="2017-10-28T00:16:25.010" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/99338/who-are-the-community-team-and-what-do-they-do&quot;&gt;We&lt;/a&gt; discussed this request internally a few weeks back, and then I kept my eyes open with it in mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are, I believe, the key factors to consider when constructing such a post notice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Responses to the question have &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; gone off the rails.&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;All of the proposed notices here serve only to remind readers of things they should &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; be keeping in mind when responding to questions. Or responding to anyone, anywhere, ever. The only reason we'd need a special notice is that &lt;strong&gt;things have broken down to the point where an extra reminder is needed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's worth mentioning comments as well.&lt;/strong&gt; In fact, comments seem to spin out of control a lot faster than answers in these scenarios, so I'm kinda inclined to focus on them &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; than answers... But realistically, soapboxing in either venue is a problem and we need to discourage both.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The notice needs to get to the point, &lt;em&gt;fast&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; If folks are already inclined to ignore basic etiquette because they feel it's &lt;em&gt;sooo important&lt;/em&gt; to jump on their soapbox FOR THE GOOD OF HUMANITY... There's already a good chance they're gonna ignore anything meant to discourage that. Subtle, passive, lengthy reminders and links to other pages aren't gonna cut it - we need to convince readers that soapboxing is going to be a waste of time in as few words as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that in mind... Here's what I've implemented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Controversial Post&lt;/strong&gt; — You may use comments ONLY to suggest improvements. You may use answers ONLY to provide a solution to the &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; question asked above. Moderators will remove debates, arguments or opinions &lt;strong&gt;without notice&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s0afR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s0afR.png&quot; alt=&quot;the notice as it appears in the moderator UI&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastEditorUserId="115" LastEditDate="2017-10-28T19:45:20.547" LastActivityDate="2017-10-28T19:45:20.547" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4884" CreationDate="2017-10-28T01:24:31.797" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it would make the site much messier and far less useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Non English speakers currently wouldn't want to pose a question here because they wouldn't understand the answers. English speakers would be frustrated looking for questions they can answer. At the moment answers come in pretty fast. We could also be inundated with spam posts and at the very least we'd need multi lingual moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better if a separate site was made eg, Workplace French, Workplace Chinese etc,.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2017-10-28T01:24:31.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4898" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4899" CreationDate="2017-10-31T06:41:23.490" Score="34" ViewCount="1703" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3350/congratulations-to-joe-strazzere-for-100k-rep&quot;&gt;Congratulations to Joe Strazzere for 100k rep!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Too early to celebrate, or should we just wait at least 4-7 more days?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's time, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6LGJ7evrAg#t=54s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Light the Beacons!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38289" LastEditorUserId="38289" LastEditDate="2017-11-08T02:53:29.113" LastActivityDate="2017-11-13T14:52:31.080" Title="Congratulations to Joe Strazzere for 100k... no... 200k rep!" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4898" CreationDate="2017-10-31T12:02:47.663" Score="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks, everyone! I really enjoy reading all the thoughtful questions and answers here at The Workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2017-11-05T12:23:08.217" LastActivityDate="2017-11-05T12:23:08.217" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4895" CreationDate="2017-11-01T14:29:03.847" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My problem is that this question is off topic because it is not about navigating the workplace.  This is a question of what people think a company should do, which is an opinion of what business policy should be, which is off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-11-01T14:29:03.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2017-11-02T05:00:34.847" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is a really old question, but we've been seeing users who cut their teeth here coming to other sites on the network thinking that this style of answering is ok...It's generally not a great thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over on &lt;a href=&quot;https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;IPS&lt;/a&gt; we've been downvoting and flagging these as very low quality when they pop-up and we're having some success with that. The trick seems to be catching them before they draw upvotes or land in the hot network questions list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hate to do this, but it would be helpful if more Stack Exchange sites discouraged one liners because the behavior ends up bleeding over to other network sites that are less tolerant of them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13611" LastActivityDate="2017-11-02T05:00:34.847" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2017-11-02T15:10:15.060" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no good subjective rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-11-02T15:10:15.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4903" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4904" CreationDate="2017-11-02T16:31:16.040" Score="10" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been tempted and now have seen occasions where I thought answers on said questions with closed votes were worth a bounty.  I just learned that a question cannot be closed while the bounty is active.  Apparently not being able to close a question can be bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this frowned upon by the Mods ( or in general )?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2017-11-02T16:40:06.867" LastActivityDate="2017-11-02T21:14:40.057" Title="Bounties on Questions with Close Votes" Tags="|discussion|questions|vote-to-close|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4903" CreationDate="2017-11-02T19:01:43.570" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is this frowned upon by the Mods ( or in general )?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We frown upon any action that abuses SE systems, especially if it's done to accomplish a particular action that's not normally possible. Strategically placing a bounty to prevent a question from being closed is an example of that. Bounties preventing close votes is, to my knowledge, largely a side-effect intended to prevent bounty shenanigans and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/140206/how-to-prevent-your-question-being-closed-just-post-a-bounty-on-it&quot;&gt;streamline the possible outcomes of a bounty being started&lt;/a&gt;. Protecting a question from being closed isn't the main goal and if we were to find that a bounty was started specifically to prevent a closure that would as I mentioned be frowned upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None of that applies to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/101609/ethical-obligation-after-finding-fraudulent-applicant&quot;&gt;the question&lt;/a&gt; that prompted this&lt;/strong&gt; discussion in chat and this meta post. I'm convinced that the bounty was placed for its intended purpose of renewing interest in an older question. But the question was already on 4 close votes and because the bounty blocked the final vote that several people apparently wanted to cast I removed it. In this case &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14591/how-can-we-close-questions-with-bounties&quot;&gt;the normal 2-day delay to place bounties didn't prevent this&lt;/a&gt; because the question went through an initial close and reopen cycle and its value to the site was evidently contested. In those case flagging the question is appropriate though how we handle such a flag will depend on the circumstances. Bounties are not removed lightly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gnat's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4903/bounties-on-questions-with-close-votes/4904?noredirect=1#comment14101_4904&quot;&gt;comment below&lt;/a&gt; summarised the inherent contradictory natures of a bounty and close votes well and this is likely the main reason why the block is still in place (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;bounty and closure have opposite goals&lt;/strong&gt;, first is to attract answers while second is to prevent these. Allowing both would send a very confusing signal to readers that's why system is designed to avoid such a &quot;clash&quot;. The specifics of how system does that - bounty blocks closure - seems to be based on a (fairly reasonable) expectation that such clashes are expected to be rare enough so that moderators can resolve matters in (rare) cases when closure is indeed the way to go &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-11-02T21:14:40.057" LastActivityDate="2017-11-02T21:14:40.057" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4898" CreationDate="2017-11-04T20:50:42.233" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations officially now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GOhFm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GOhFm.png&quot; alt=&quot;200k&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17337" LastActivityDate="2017-11-04T20:50:42.233" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4906" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4911" CreationDate="2017-11-07T14:59:24.663" Score="2" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be some dispute about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/102176/interview-live-coding-find-second-biggest-number-in-array&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on if it's relevant for this site or not. I'm of the impression it can be, as the overall question boils down to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this task really that hard? Or is it a good one that really shows&#xA;  if you can come up with at least simple algorithm and implement it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it was closed with the comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Put on hold. This is not a site where we review your interview&#xA;  questions. This is arguably not on-topic on any of the sites in the SE&#xA;  network but perhaps one of the chatrooms on SO or Programmers will be&#xA;  a better audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/102176/interview-live-coding-find-second-biggest-number-in-array#comment314429_102176&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are reviewing interview questions for a postion and dictating if they are too hard off topic? Can we improve the question to make it on topic and if so, how? I feel it's at least salvageable, but not sure how to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52713" LastEditorUserId="52713" LastEditDate="2017-11-07T15:05:18.497" LastActivityDate="2017-11-07T16:58:12.983" Title="Discussion on Interview live-coding - Find Second Biggest number in array" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4906" CreationDate="2017-11-07T15:28:59.780" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is or is not a suitable interview question is very much a workplace issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen questions about interview questions from the point of view of both the interviewer and the interviewee, though more often from the point of view of the interviewee. I assume there are more interviewees than interviewers, and the interviewers tend to be more experienced, and therefore have less need for guidance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Workplace search for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=interview%20question&quot;&gt;&quot;Interview Question&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, produces 4,669 results. Those on the first few pages that were closed were typically closed for being opinion based or company specific. There does not seem to be any general rule that the appropriateness of an interview question is automatically off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing about this question that is unusual is that evaluating the appropriateness of the question requires programming experience. I don't answer questions about employment law and custom in India, not because I consider them off-topic but because I do not have the background knowledge to contribute. I suggest that participants who do not have the background to answer this question should do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19325" LastActivityDate="2017-11-07T15:28:59.780" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4906" CreationDate="2017-11-07T15:29:16.290" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, it is definitively off topic as stated, we can't tell someone if that task is a good one to test people without even the job (Developpers ? Beginners ? Seniors ?), it's more about opinion than anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At best we could reformulate the question in a very generic way : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What criteria  can I use to evaluate if an assignment is a good one to test interviewee ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some sample of objective arguments that could be given in answers : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People that are considered competent in the company for the same level of job can solve it fast enough.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The assignment evaluate something related enough to the job, for instance the exemple given by OP has little use if the job you candidate is to be a DBA or system guy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People that made through it have less problems to handle tasks that before that tests existed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastEditorUserId="47387" LastEditDate="2017-11-07T15:49:26.817" LastActivityDate="2017-11-07T15:49:26.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4906" CreationDate="2017-11-07T15:37:22.203" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really want this site to become a, &quot;what do you think of this interview question?&quot; which is basically what that is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The core is basically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;We're using this question, is it too hard?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could have literally &lt;em&gt;thousands&lt;/em&gt; of equally useless questions about that sort of thing. There are books on this subject, especially for software engineering. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion in order for this to be a good question it needs to be something more like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;How can we evaluate whether or not a technical question is too difficult?&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and all the specifics of this exact question removed. That can be meaningfully answered, though with difficulty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-11-07T15:37:22.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4906" CreationDate="2017-11-07T15:50:23.957" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is about the &lt;em&gt;workplace&lt;/em&gt;, not about &lt;em&gt;specific jobs&lt;/em&gt;.  If a question requires domain expertise -- in programming or plumbing or dentistry or any other non-HR field -- then it isn't a good fit here.  The best places to get help on your programming problem are technical sites and our chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions about interview questions that work well here are the ones that are more domain-independent -- what questions can I ask to evaluate how someone makes snap judgements (for a job that requires that), how can I evaluate someone's reliability, how can I screen for creativity, etc.  (All of those would need to be developed more; those are just summaries.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-11-07T15:50:23.957" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4906" CreationDate="2017-11-07T16:31:32.990" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edited the question to focus on how to determine if the coding task is too hard, and reduced the emphasis on the specific task of finding the second largest number in the array. This hopefully makes it applicable to a broader set of scenarios, as determining a &quot;reasonable&quot; degree of difficulty for interview questions applies to several jobs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also cast the 2nd reopen vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2017-11-07T16:58:12.983" LastActivityDate="2017-11-07T16:58:12.983" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4913" CreationDate="2017-11-07T22:44:40.443" Score="0" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that despite the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/479/whats-the-legal-tag-for&quot;&gt;decision&lt;/a&gt; to ban the legal tag six years ago, it's still alive and well.  The majority of questions that use this tag seem to get closed almost immediately and its continued existence seems to suggest to newcomers that it's okay to ask &quot;is it legal&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73580" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:20:27.163" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:20:27.163" Title="Can we remove the legal tag?" Tags="|discussion|legal-questions|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4912" CreationDate="2017-11-07T22:51:06.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; removed back then.  It came back &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tags/legal/info&quot;&gt;a bit under three years ago&lt;/a&gt; and now has the following wiki excerpt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions involving local labour laws or about working within the legal system such as for the courts or lawyers. Please note that we can not provide case-specific legal advise. Also consider if your question might be more appropriate on &lt;a href=&quot;https://law.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;https://law.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The focus of the older meta discussion was on &lt;em&gt;legal advice&lt;/em&gt;, which is off-topic here.  The current description isn't about that.  I don't know the history here (in particular, if there was another meta thread), but I don't think we should delete the &lt;em&gt;current&lt;/em&gt; tag based on the &lt;em&gt;old&lt;/em&gt; discussion.  (I'm not saying we shouldn't delete it &lt;em&gt;after having a new discussion based on the current definition&lt;/em&gt;; I don't yet have an opinion on that.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-11-07T22:51:06.860" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4912" CreationDate="2017-11-07T23:23:30.370" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Monica's answer, we should not necessarily remove it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag now clearly refers to work-related questions on legal workplaces (courts, etc.). This could be easily answered by, say, any user with working experience on such places. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think however, that it has been &lt;strong&gt;misused&lt;/strong&gt; by recent questions, where they include it using the &quot;old&quot; concept of the tag instead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I think we can do is to &lt;strong&gt;rename it&lt;/strong&gt; to something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/legal-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;legal-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;legal-industry&lt;/a&gt; instead. This would help remove the possible confusion here, as it will now be clearer that it does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; refer to legal questions, but rather questions about legal work environment (courts, law firms, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way would also be aligned with current &quot;&quot;tag standards&quot; given the other &lt;code&gt;x-industry&lt;/code&gt; tags we have in the site (like our top 3 tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-07-05T17:41:47.773" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T17:41:47.773" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4912" CreationDate="2017-11-08T08:25:10.663" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about creating &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/laws&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;laws&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;laws&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/legal-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;legal-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;legal-industry&lt;/a&gt;? It doesn't sound appropriate to bundle those together into a single tag, since laws apply to all workplaces, not just those in the legal industry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/laws&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;laws&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;laws&lt;/a&gt; can be used for questions concerning laws applicable to the workplace, and ones which the legal department of a company (or even HR in some cases) can reasonably be expected to answer (example: &quot;What is the minimum daily wage according to the Elbonian law?&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/legal-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;legal-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;legal-industry&lt;/a&gt; can be used for questions about a workplace pertaining to the legal industry, such as courts and law firms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Analogously, it isn't appropriate to subsume &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt;. For example, a mom-and-pop pizza shop may be using a software to generate invoices, track inventory, etc.. A question pertaining to the software use (example: &quot;How do we manage a software upgrade without shutting down our business for a month? :)&quot;) cannot put a pizza shop into the software industry. See also Monica's answer to my question here:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3222/3192&quot;&gt;What is the use of &amp;#39;software&amp;#39; tag?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-11-08T08:25:10.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4917" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-10T06:14:26.230" Score="7" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am aware this might be a small/insignificant detail of the UX interface specific to The Workplace&lt;sup&gt;1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I have noticed that &lt;strong&gt;the spacing between elements in the top bar&lt;/strong&gt; (esp. your badges, rep and avatar) have &lt;strong&gt;different sizes when on the &lt;code&gt;Users&lt;/code&gt; tab&lt;/strong&gt; than when on any other tab or SE page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click on Users tab after seeing any other tab (like tags, questions, etc.) you may experience a &quot;notorious&quot; change of layout; were the spacing between elements of the rep/badges bar seem to shrink. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to happen &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; on TWP pages, &lt;s&gt;and on users that have at least one gold, silver, and bronze badge on the site&lt;/s&gt; (checked with Masked Man that this didn't happened on other sites).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this be a minor bug? I wonder if you see the same. Seems to be strange enough for a designed feature. Already checked on Firefox and Chrome, on a New/Old computer, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XX7M2.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XX7M2.gif&quot; alt=&quot;gif image showing the bug&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; Seems that the same issue is happening at &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1652/users-and-profile-pages-users-space-the-link-to-the-current-profile-in&quot;&gt;Movies SE&lt;/a&gt; (as pointed out by Ilmari). Could it be that this is a thing in other SE sites beside these two?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2:&lt;/strong&gt; The Top Bar now has a new behavior, as it &quot;blinks&quot; when changing between tabs (maybe because Winter Bash?). This makes it seem like the spacing is unchanged, but comparing them after the &quot;blink&quot; we can see that this problem persists...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 3:&lt;/strong&gt; Seems that it was indeed due to Winter Bash. Now the usual Top Bar is back and the problem persists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I know it is specific as I tried it with Masked Man, on other SE networks, and it only happened here apparently.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="9899" LastEditDate="2018-11-07T01:07:22.100" LastActivityDate="2018-11-07T01:07:22.100" Title="Different layout spacing when on User tab" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|users|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4898" CreationDate="2017-11-13T14:52:31.080" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations. Well deserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastActivityDate="2017-11-13T14:52:31.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4919" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-13T15:46:56.860" Score="-2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Working with coworkers, vendors or customers from other timezone(s) is a unique challenge that requires a separate set of skills to navigate properly. It would be helpful to tag questions where the multiple timezone setting is an important factor to consider. I have started off with creating a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/timezone&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;timezone&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;timezone&lt;/a&gt; tag, but I think it doesn't describe the scenario entirely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to hear what the community has to say about it. Do we need such a tag? If yes, can we identify a better name and/or excerpt? Or are we ok with the current name and excerpt?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-11-13T15:53:39.227" Title="How can we improve the timezone tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4919" CreationDate="2017-11-13T15:53:39.227" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd recommend changing it to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-difference&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-difference&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-difference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions of issues relating to dealing with differences in time zones or the difficulties created by communicating/scheduling over time-zones&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2017-11-13T15:53:39.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4921" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4922" CreationDate="2017-11-15T02:09:13.703" Score="0" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/102607/contacting-previous-employer-post-hire&quot;&gt;Contacting previous employer post-hire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello, trying to understand what about this question is &quot;too simple&quot; to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to know if calling previous employers of an already hired employee for references is allowed in the state of California (state included in case of legalities).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, its pretty clear what I am asking. I don't want to delve into any more details as its not really what I want to ask about. I just want to know about calling previous employers of an already hired employee for references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the quesiton out of place here? Is this more legal than workplace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I improve this or why is this wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79578" LastActivityDate="2017-11-15T03:24:04.017" Title="Question about Contacting previous employer post-hire question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4921" CreationDate="2017-11-15T03:24:04.017" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is the quesiton out of place here? Is this more legal than workplace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely not, it is in fact a Workplace related question. It could be more legal if you rephrase it in such way, but right now the single line it contains is about a workplace situation and is on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I improve this or why is this wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, the comment you obtained indicating it is &quot;too simple&quot; I think referred to the fact that it was a plain question: no details, almost no context. &lt;em&gt;Not&lt;/em&gt; to the fact that it is not worthy of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You post was closed because it did not contain enough information to give you a sound and thoughtful answer. As the Notice indicated &lt;em&gt;&quot;Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to highlight exactly what you need&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest you try &lt;strong&gt;including more details to your question&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Why&lt;/strong&gt; do you want to ask such reference, what is the &lt;strong&gt;situation between your company and that other&lt;/strong&gt;, what problems are forcing you to take another approach, or to hesitate about it, rather than just asking for the reference. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are just some examples I can think of, but you can surely think of more so you have enough information to make an effective post with all relevant information needed to answer it. Consider editing it, and pinging me here when you do, so we can see if other support the idea of reopening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2017-11-15T03:24:04.017" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4876" CreationDate="2017-11-17T23:37:47.223" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So if the person asking the question is calling it a duplicate too, why is it still available to reopen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially I was satisfied by the answer given by Masked Man. However, a situation today made me change my mind (still think that this is something that has not been thoroughly analyzed). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it makes sense to say &lt;em&gt;&quot;If the one asking the question agrees on a Dupe, then why insist on denying so and ask for reopen?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. This makes sense because only OP know what he really is asking or wants. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; user is satisfied with the dupe why not let it rest there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; user is not the only one on the site, and surely not the only one that could benefit from the post&lt;/strong&gt;. Maybe the OP just wanted some self-validation, or accepted the dupe in haste because he saw some relatively useful answer over there, or just freaked out and accepted the dupe to put an end to the attention on their question (like the interesting trend of new users to accept the only answer they got on their off-topic, down-voted, and closed post, &quot;just because&quot; or as a &quot;meh, thanks anyway&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/102806/handling-poor-quality-responses-for-troubleshooting-questions-over-email&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; that made me think this over again (yes, I was in the middle of writing an extended and thoughtful answer when it got closed), what worries me is that the user accepted it because he said (quoting) &lt;em&gt;&quot;I believe that question is &lt;strong&gt;close enough&lt;/strong&gt;!&quot;&lt;/em&gt; ... close enough?! Although it is subjective, &quot;close enough&quot; is hardly the same a &quot;duplicate&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;strong&gt;what about all those other users facing the same or similar problem when they find this post just to see it is a Dupe of one that is &quot;close enough&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt; Will this be also close enough for them? If they are not, they will probably go on and ask such question, but chances are that it will be (again) marked as Dupe of the Dupe of a &quot;close enough&quot; question that someone lightly suggested or that the OP accepted without much consideration. We could continue with this mental experiment, but we can already see it going downhill. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why I think that allowing those posts to be reopened helps solve this possible problem, by allowing the Community to determine if such posts are indeed &lt;s&gt;close enough&lt;/s&gt; a duplicate, or if it is worth reopening it as it is of high value for the site and future readers. Maybe the OP got his question partially answered (or settled for such), but this is no reason to limit the answers it may get just because one user is &quot;satisfied&quot; with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2017-11-17T23:37:47.223" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4928" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-21T13:25:32.560" Score="4" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/102969/how-to-approach-employer-to-bring-assist-dog&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; received a major edit after a couple of answers, the edit was done by the original asker in order to remove the, shall we say, &quot;ethically dubious&quot; elements of the question, presumably because of the backlash they were receiving for these aspects. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This edit substantially changes the question and in the process invalidated my answer. Had the edit been done by another user I'd have simply rolled the edit back, in this case however since the edit was done by the OP I'm unsure of how best to proceed. Should I remove my answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, predictably I received two DVs in quick succession after the &quot;new&quot; version of the question had been live for a while. Presumably from people who read the edited question and my answer and decided I was clearly some kind of anti-assist-dog or anti-disabled-person jerk. Of which I am neither so I've removed my answer for now. Still interested in answers to this meta-question though since in more general terms than just the linked question it'd be good to know what the best practice is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="64903" LastEditDate="2017-11-21T13:46:43.813" LastActivityDate="2017-11-22T15:57:23.223" Title="Rolling back edits by the OP where existing answers are invalidated, or delete the answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4928" CreationDate="2017-11-21T14:31:23.397" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4929/16983&quot;&gt;Snow's answer&lt;/a&gt; in that the OP has the right to change their question how they like, even if it invalidates some answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, were I one of those answers, I would not delete it, particularly if the question was edited to remove unfavorable information. Instead, I would add a disclaimer explaining the original context, quoting lines if possible. I would also try to make sure that the current version of the question is also answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important to answer the question that is written, but it's also important to answer the question being asked. If an OP wants to remove information because they've been getting negative feedback, then I think it's even more important that my response stays. I can suffer what downvotes I get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-11-21T14:31:23.397" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4928" CreationDate="2017-11-21T23:07:23.300" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In other SEs I've posted questions that I eventually edited heavily even though they have received well voted answers.  Answers that address aspects of the situation that you are not concerned with are a natural feedback loop for whether your phasing of the question gets to the heart of the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This OP has made the question much more concise.  Rather than allowing the phasing to leave them open to flaming they removed the parts of the question which provided non-productive feedback while leaving the parts which actually address the issue they came here for.  This is a gold star edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your answer doesn't address the current form of the question, your options definitely include quoting the original question as what you are answering, answering the updated question, and/or deleting your answer.  If your original answer does not address the updated question and you have no interest in editing it to do so I'd suggest deleting your answer as you are answering a question that the OP is not interested in asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26235" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2017-11-22T15:57:23.223" LastActivityDate="2017-11-22T15:57:23.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4932" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-21T23:21:15.443" Score="1" ViewCount="317" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta&quot;&gt;this Meta post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just as travelers' immune systems can be assaulted by new diseases in new places, new users are increasingly likely to be miffed by an ingrained meme and left sitting scratching their heads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems natural&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; to collectively create a compendium of the concepts and ideas one may encounter through the site's posts, comments or &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These ideas not only reflect the &lt;em&gt;good-hearted spirit&lt;/em&gt; of the community but also may summarize or &lt;em&gt;abbreviate common knowledge&lt;/em&gt; gathered with time and that may help the reader to effectively and efficiently navigate the workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please include only one per answer, and explain it in a way understandable to those unfamiliar with it.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope that we all can contribute with our examples, as well as enhance, exemplify, and support the ones already shared. &lt;strong&gt;Please refrain from Memifying users without their approval; that's not cool.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also remember that &lt;strong&gt;these posts are not the absolute truth, and should be taken more lightly&lt;/strong&gt; than an actual answer on the main site. Remember to &lt;strong&gt;be respectful&lt;/strong&gt; and to analyze these posts with your own judgment before considering its use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2187/the-memes-of-arqade-and-its-chat&quot;&gt;As&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2474/the-many-memes-of-anime-se-and-its-merry-fellows&quot;&gt;per&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6852/memes-of-english-language-usage&quot;&gt;all&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2188/the-many-memes-of-worldbuilding&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://security.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/880/the-memes-of-information-security&quot;&gt;other&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1510/whats-a-zombie-and-what-are-the-many-other-memes-of-code-review&quot;&gt;sites&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://crypto.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/627/the-few-memes-of-crypto&quot;&gt;and&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1289/the-many-memes-of-sff-se&quot;&gt;some&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://travel.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1424/memes-of-travel-se&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2017-11-23T17:08:00.607" LastActivityDate="2017-11-26T03:49:17.170" Title="Practical Concept Handbook for navigating The Workplace" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="15" ClosedDate="2017-11-27T20:57:48.757" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4928" CreationDate="2017-11-22T01:20:16.570" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a general principle, edit any controversial elements in the question &lt;em&gt;yourself&lt;/em&gt; instead of responding to them in your answer. Leaving controversial statements in the question is rarely useful (unless, of course, we consider &quot;promoting&quot; questions to HNQ as useful). It is a ticking time bomb that should be diffused before taking any other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering a poor question (or a question with some poor content) always carries the risk that the answer will get invalidated when someone improves it. Rolling back an improvement just because someone responded to the poor content is also not OK. The goal of SE is not to make people feel good about their answers, it is to build a repository of good questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-11-22T01:20:16.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4932" CreationDate="2017-11-22T04:17:49.660" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Concept:&lt;/strong&gt; HR is not your &quot;friend&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Origin:&lt;/strong&gt; TBD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; About once or twice a week, with some irregular peaks of activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; A frequent phrase seen in several answers and comments. Do &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; take this as 100% true always; every situation is different. The community &lt;strong&gt;certainly don't despise HR&lt;/strong&gt;, as there are many cases when they are the ones to go to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It tries to warn the reader of the latent danger of confusing Human Resources with a literal &quot;friend&quot;, the one you can openly approach with all your problems, complains, rants, tantrums, etc., regardless what they may be.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The common knowledge seems to suggest that this is not something recommended to do &lt;em&gt;in such a careless way&lt;/em&gt;, as &lt;em&gt;HR ultimately responds to the needs of the company&lt;/em&gt; when the situation requires to choose sides. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also to be handled tactfully, as going through HR &lt;em&gt;makes things more official and public&lt;/em&gt; most of the times. Taking minor complains, or problems that should be addressed with the ones involved to HR is a sure way of making it a bigger situation with possibly negative consequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Posts where the meme is explicit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/100005/73791&quot;&gt;Manager is upset because I asked HR to clarify a company policy after he had explained it to me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Posts where the meme is implicit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/88575/73791&quot;&gt;Manager favors personal friend in the office; should I notify HR?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/81773/73791&quot;&gt;What does HR do for me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2017-11-23T17:09:49.457" LastActivityDate="2017-11-23T17:09:49.457" CommentCount="15" CommunityOwnedDate="2017-11-22T04:17:49.660" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4932" CreationDate="2017-11-22T13:04:42.280" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Concept:&lt;/strong&gt; IANAL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Origin:&lt;/strong&gt; TBD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; Pretty constant, often appearing in legal questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; Acronym for &quot;I Am Not A Lawyer&quot;. Used as a disclaimer that the accompanying advice should not be considered professional legal advice from a trained lawyer, usually with the implication that none of us can be held liable if you choose to follow said advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2017-11-26T03:48:38.710" LastActivityDate="2017-11-26T03:48:38.710" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4932" CreationDate="2017-11-22T13:14:31.110" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Concept:&lt;/strong&gt; Alison Green and &quot;Ask a Manager&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Origin:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askamanager.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ask a Manager blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; Pops up from time to time&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; Author of a popular workplace advice column, active since 2007. The blog is often quoted in answers, as Green usually gives very sound advice and there is a large archive of topics available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2017-11-26T03:48:52.527" LastActivityDate="2017-11-26T03:48:52.527" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4932" CreationDate="2017-11-22T13:21:23.767" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Concept:&lt;/strong&gt; Getting hit by a bus&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Origin:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9128/how-can-i-prepare-for-getting-hit-by-a-bus&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt;, which is actually based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this term&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; Started in 2013, but a reference pops up from time to time&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; The bus factor refers to the risk to a project or a team if someone were to get hit by a bus. In other words, the risk of having too much institutional knowledge in one person's head. Often comes up when posters are worried about causing damage to a company by quitting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2017-11-26T03:48:25.963" LastActivityDate="2017-11-26T03:48:25.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4932" CreationDate="2017-11-22T21:54:04.927" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Idea: IT/Dev workplaces are special&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Origin: Common thread for a large portion of our population&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cultural Height: Ongoing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Background: Due to the large number of folks here in IT and software development, questions focusing on those domains are held to a different standard than other domains.  Marginal questions that don't specify the workplace or specify a non-tech workplace are much less likely to remain open.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For effective and efficient interaction with this community if working in a tech environment specify that in the question.  If not working in a tech environment triple check all closure criteria and still be prepared for closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: As an aside and in response to comments, I don't condone or endorse this behavior in any way and do my best to correct it where I see it.  As one of the few non-tech regulars on this SE I feel that this misalignment on how things work on paper versus reality is valuable information to non-tech people becoming acquainted with this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26235" LastEditorUserId="26235" LastEditDate="2017-11-23T14:16:37.163" LastActivityDate="2017-11-23T14:16:37.163" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4932" CreationDate="2017-11-23T04:42:43.480" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Concept:&lt;/strong&gt; I put in 30 minutes to write an answer but... it was deleted by OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Origin:&lt;/strong&gt; Unknown&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; Once in a blue moon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; Did you ever have a great answer to a question? Did you spend so much time answering that you were 100% sure that the OP and future readers would benefit? Guess what? OP deleted the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38289" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2017-11-26T03:49:04.743" LastActivityDate="2017-11-26T03:49:04.743" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4932" CreationDate="2017-11-23T17:06:55.607" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Concept:&lt;/strong&gt; You should wait &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; a week...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Origin:&lt;/strong&gt; First appearance seems to be on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/6018/how-do-i-properly-follow-up-with-a-hiring-manager-to-check-on-the-status-of-a-p&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; post, by users &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/4781/mcknz&quot;&gt;mcknz&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/2317/greenmatt&quot;&gt;GreenMat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; Frequently used, specially on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/follow-up&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;follow-up&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;follow-up&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/job-search&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;job-search&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;job-search&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/interviewing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;interviewing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;interviewing&lt;/a&gt; posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; This seems to be a common phrase on several answers on the above mentioned tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is usually due to many users getting anxious or nervous on the follow-up of their recruitment processes (mostly when they don't receive any news or feedback on the position), and thus wondering if they should or not write back to the company they are applying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As most of these users consider writing back on a really short time period (few days), answerers seems to agree that one should wait at least a week before considering writing back.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be true in &lt;em&gt;those&lt;/em&gt; situations, as most companies have long recruitment processes (which they follow religiously). Also, considering what candidate to hire takes time and paperwork to prepare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cases where this may not apply are those that are critical or really relevant, and those should be done as soon as possible to avoid negative consequences. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2017-11-23T17:06:55.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4932" CreationDate="2017-11-25T08:58:12.510" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Concept: Get another job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Origin: Since the day human civilization decided to specialize in its labor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cultural Height: Whenever there is a rant question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Background: Regardless of advice and situation, an option is always to get another job. The difficulty here is that for some, another job is more difficult compared to others. A software developer in the bay area has more economic mobility than a farm worker in the central valley. The latter can't just 'get another job'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38289" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2017-11-26T03:49:17.170" LastActivityDate="2017-11-26T03:49:17.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-27T13:27:09.677" Score="3" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4932/practical-concept-handbook-for-navigating-the-workplace&quot;&gt;Practical Concept Handbook for navigating The Workplace&lt;/a&gt; was posted in Meta last week. Right now it's sitting at +5/-5, and of the 14 answers given, 5 are deleted, 6 have a negative score, and the two with a positive score still have at least one downvote each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta&quot;&gt;many other sites&lt;/a&gt; that have a page like this, so it's clearly not inappropriate for the Stack Exchange format. However, this post hasn't been well received here at all. Perhaps it's because it was thrown up late one night with no prior discussion of whether we wanted it, and more importantly what the post should look like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do we want to have this handbook question at all? If so, what do we want it to look like? What types of &quot;memes&quot; should we include or exclude?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-11-28T16:31:34.247" Title="Do we want a &quot;meme&quot; handbook?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|meta|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4949" CreationDate="2017-11-27T14:45:38.523" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do we want a “meme” handbook?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really see the point for memes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen one that would be useful, and I've seen many that I think would serve to discourage newcomers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I think &quot;because many other sites&quot; have one, sounds too much like &quot;because all the other cool kids are doing it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been a moderator at other (non-SE) sites that sadly ended up with an &quot;insiders versus newbies&quot; culture - to the site's significant detriment. To me, this appears like a step on that slippery slope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, I vote NO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2017-11-27T14:45:38.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4949" CreationDate="2017-11-27T15:44:02.370" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like Lilienthal, I see quite a difference between those who were positively upvoted and those who aren't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those which negative score are more likely a general short-liner answer to a general &quot;problem&quot; of some questions. Those which are positive are terms commonly expression used in answers (but that aren't used to form an answer on its own).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are in the Workplace, as such even if we want to form a culture, I think it must be professional and in the respect of SE. &quot;Meme&quot; doesn't seems like professional enough for me nor does a one line answer is a good answer on SE's network. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Glosarry&quot; might be a bit limited : if we want to cook some handbook, that would be to group up some common problems that people have when navigating in the workplace (specially those who are new in that world).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some samples that could give :  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I have a problem with X in the workplace :&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Before going to your manager : did you try to discuss politely &lt;strong&gt;in private&lt;/strong&gt; with that person to solve it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it really affect your work ? If not, you should be able to deal with it (earplug for noises ?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It affect you work and discussing with him didn't work, time to get your manager involved.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nothing work ? It might be the time to ask us.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Should I go to HR for Y ?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does it make the company you're working for liable/(suable) ? If not, it is probably not the role of HR to step in so don't bother them with that. Because HR role is to ensure that law are followed in the company in order to not be liable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It does : Have you try to solve it internally (talking to the ones causing the trouble if it doesn't work your manager) ? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You did and still the problem is still there :  time to go to HR, or eventually ask us how to present your problem better to your manager before escalating to HR.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;...&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastActivityDate="2017-11-27T15:44:02.370" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4949" CreationDate="2017-11-27T16:09:37.893" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it may be a matter of it asking for conflicting things&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just as travelers' immune systems can be assaulted by new diseases in new places, new users are increasingly likely to be miffed by an ingrained meme and left sitting scratching their heads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It seems natural to collectively create a compendium of the concepts&#xA;  and ideas one may encounter through the site's posts, comments or&#xA;  chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These lines seem to request pre-emptively addressing common points of confusion or commonly given answers within this community.  On this front most of the common points of confusion within our community are items with at least some sort of negative angle to them and as a community we don't endorse boilerplate answers.  Along this line meme would be an idea which is informally passed within a community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These ideas not only reflect the good-hearted spirit of the community&#xA;  but also may summarize or abbreviate common knowledge gathered with&#xA;  time and that may help the reader to effectively and efficiently&#xA;  navigate the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this seems to maybe point at explaining inside jokes and shorthand ideas.  Our community isn't one with a lot of inside jokes so very little explanation seems to be required in this respect.  Along this line meme would be a joke or idea told in a shorthand way without full explanation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the OP should clarify which aspect is being requested.  I feel that my answer to this question adequately addressed a point of confusion on the first angle (ie why are these nearly identical questions treated differently) but completely missed the mark for the second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26235" LastActivityDate="2017-11-27T16:09:37.893" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4953" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-27T20:05:38.807" Score="4" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing this. I gained reputation from some upvotes, but &lt;strong&gt;that change is not showing in the achievements dropdown&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pYGsi.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pYGsi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked, and that reputation does appear on the reputation tab of my profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rd6lZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rd6lZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already waited some time to see if it was due to caching. &lt;strong&gt;Could this be a bug of some kind?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2017-11-29T14:16:47.070" LastActivityDate="2017-11-29T14:16:47.070" Title="Rep gained not showing on achievements dropdown, but does in rep tab" Tags="|discussion|bug|reputation|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4949" CreationDate="2017-11-28T16:31:34.247" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_badges&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Memes? We don't need no memes!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8RpMMt.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8RpMMt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Memes? We don&amp;#39;t need no memes!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoneHorriblyWrong&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;angst and confusion&lt;/a&gt; over the (&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;well-intentioned&lt;/a&gt;) memes-cum-handbook post resulted from the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccidentalPun&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cum&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. On the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness &lt;/a&gt;, memes lie closer to the Silliness end, while handbook lies closer to the Seriousness end. The post tried to combine the two into one, making it difficult to figure out what kind of answer was expected. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the wording of the post ended up creating multiple legitimate goalposts, voting on the responses was similarly confusing. For example, take &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4943/3192&quot;&gt;Myles' answer &quot;IT/Dev workplaces are special&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, which was heavily downvoted. It is clear that the problem described there is a real one, but it got downvoted because people thought putting this in the &quot;handbook&quot; would somehow justify this problem, even though the post explicitly says otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result, I voted to close the post as unclear what you're asking (and it has since been put on hold by a moderator at the author's request). My suggestion is to now get rid of the whole post since it already carries so much baggage. If really necessary, create two new posts from scratch, but I personally see no real need for it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4950/3192&quot;&gt;Joe's answer&lt;/a&gt; that a memes post will create an &quot;insider vs newbies&quot; divide, which is undesirable. Moreover, I had a look at the memes posts of other SE sites, and I don't find them particularly interesting or useful. As an aside, I used to be a fairly regular user on Anime.SE until a few years ago, and I &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; don't find their memes interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The handbook post might be somewhat useful, but I fear it will only end up being misused as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Your Princess Is in Another Castle&lt;/a&gt; on the main site, which we should avoid at all costs. We already &lt;em&gt;demand&lt;/em&gt; that site newbies read and understand the entire help center, meta, and other obscure places before making their first post, which leads to some hostility. We should avoid adding &quot;Haven't you read the handbook before posting?&quot; type responses to the list. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2017-11-28T16:31:34.247" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4955" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-28T23:58:09.107" Score="3" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the intent of finding better SE sites for my questions that were closed, put on hold, or off-topic. I flagged a moderator for one of my questions, but I don't think an action was taken (if there was, I would not know how I would be informed). This led me to think about all of the other questions out there that are not a fit for the workplace, but would be better suited for another site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Should such questions, at either request of the question asker or the discretion of a moderator, simply migrate questions instead of having them closed?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38289" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2017-11-29T04:50:02.190" LastActivityDate="2017-11-29T15:23:38.707" Title="Migrating closed, off-topic, on-hold questions (past, present, and future) to more appropriate SE sites" Tags="|discussion|support|closed-questions|migration|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4955" CreationDate="2017-11-29T04:48:36.633" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;should such questions, at either request of the question asker or the discretion of a moderator, simply migrate questions instead of having them closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely a mod can do the migration at will, but I doubt they do that lightly or &amp;quot;just because&amp;quot; OP requested it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, a way to justify a migration is for the question to be closed as off-topic for &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;belonging to other site&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. This can be done via &lt;code&gt;Closing &amp;gt; Off-Topic &amp;gt; Migration&lt;/code&gt; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...which, surprise!, is pretty useless here on TWP as we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/96205/more-options-when-flagging-for-migration&quot;&gt;no more options&lt;/a&gt; for sites to flag as migration targets (that's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; so I won't get my hopes too high). There was also a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/160929/add-flag-as-other-checkbox-to-vote-to-close-as-off-topic-dialog&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;more recent&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; follow-up request asked (about 5 years ago), but no clear actions to be seen for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I see folks do here on TWP is to &lt;strong&gt;flag with &lt;code&gt;Closing &amp;gt; Off-Topic &amp;gt; Other&lt;/code&gt; and link on their comment the SE site they consider more appropriate for this case.&lt;/strong&gt; The OP can then ask for the question to be migrated, or some mod can see this and take proper action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, what I think is not possible (and that doesn't make much sense either) is to &lt;strong&gt;attempt to migrate a question that was closed for any other reason&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a question was &lt;em&gt;company-specific or legal advice&lt;/em&gt; I doubt it can be answered elsewhere but &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt; here on TWP (but we would probably be guessing) or &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://law.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Law&lt;/a&gt;. This I also doubt as they clearly say that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't ask questions seeking legal advice on a specific matter. These are &lt;a href=&quot;https://law.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/221/policy-for-questions-that-clearly-ask-for-specific-legal-advice&quot;&gt;off-topic&lt;/a&gt; for Law Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question &lt;em&gt;lacked a goal&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;asked us to make a choice&lt;/em&gt; then the question was indeed Workplace related (thus unlikely, if not impossible to fit in other SE site), but off-topic. Hence no migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it was &lt;em&gt;unclear what the poster was asking&lt;/em&gt; then definitely it's a lost case and no migration required (at least not until it is clarified).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question was &lt;em&gt;too broad&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/em&gt; it was again Workplace material (no other place to migrate) but is not answerable in a clear and objective way, or as specified by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Guidelines for Great Subjective Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, bottom line, I think that &lt;strong&gt;what you ask is already actively carried out&lt;/strong&gt; by our kind and diligent Moderators ... and with some of our help :).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They currently handle the migrations that take place in TWP, either by their &lt;strong&gt;own judgment&lt;/strong&gt;, OP's &lt;strong&gt;justified request&lt;/strong&gt;, or well with the outputs from the organic &lt;strong&gt;Closing Process handled by the Community&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This you have probably seen by now, when we get questions that go to IPS (which seems to be our main migration target) ... did I hear we should add that as migration option?... oh wait, I already explained that part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, I would like to hear what our Mods have to say about this question and my perception of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-11-29T04:48:36.633" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4955" CreationDate="2017-11-29T15:23:38.707" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm speaking as an individual moderator, not for the team.  (I'm not saying I think they'd disagree; we haven't talked about it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, there's a time limit on migrations: questions older than 60 days can't be migrated.  So there's nothing we can do about questions that old no matter how clear the case is otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, if the question might be on-topic somewhere else &lt;em&gt;but&lt;/em&gt; it's poorly asked, missing important information, hard to understand... the other site would just put it on hold anyway, bouncing it back to us, so we're not going to migrate that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, if a question already has a bunch of good answers here, it shouldn't be migrated.  That's not fair to the people who answered &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;, and it's not fair to the other site (which now has to curate answers that might not meet &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; rules even though they met &lt;em&gt;ours&lt;/em&gt;).  In this case we should close the question here and advise the OP to re-ask the question on the other site, linking the current question for background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is well-asked and unanswered and the OP is an experienced SE user and actively engaged in the question, it's probably faster for the OP to re-ask the question himself instead of waiting for a moderator to see a flag.  But if the OP asks for migration anyway and it seems like a reasonable destination I'll generally honor that; after all, I'm not doing anything he couldn't have done himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can ask for more migration options in the close dialogue.  SE generally avoids setting up migration paths to young beta sites; they're trying to find their way and it's better if they do it organically, not by being flooded with stuff from other sites.  I would want to see buy-in from IPS for a migration path from here, and they would probably want to see a list of closed Workplace questions that our community thinks belong on IPS, so they can decide how much they trust our judgement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my personal opinion, migration is pretty broken in a lot of ways, some technical and some behavioral.  I'd like to see SE eliminate migration entirely, replacing it with &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/285471/162102&quot;&gt;a way to help the OP manage his question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-11-29T15:23:38.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4958" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-30T18:11:44.877" Score="-2" ViewCount="596" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are three moderators in the thread below, none of them have taken any action over this, so I assume that means the view of these moderators is &quot;This is fine&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Top answer&lt;/strong&gt; with 12 is user David K: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;I don't see any problems with Kate's use of hyperbole in this situation.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bottom answer&lt;/strong&gt; with -8 and two delete flags is mine: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Be Nice. Of course you can't compare people to Nazis and paedophiles&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you then all happy with this as the official line: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Workplace Stack Exchange Moderators say &quot;It's Officially Fine to compare Daily Mail readers to Nazis and paedophiles&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are the moderators. If it's unacceptable you have the tools. Comment sought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original question follows&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In  this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/103216/is-it-reasonable-for-me-to-complain-about-an-objectionable-newspaper-being-order/103225#103225&quot;&gt;Is it reasonable for me to complain about an objectionable newspaper being ordered for the office?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the top-rated answer, the user compares readers of the &lt;em&gt;Daily Mail&lt;/em&gt; to Nazis and paedophiles. Specifically she is saying the &lt;em&gt;Daily Mail&lt;/em&gt; is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not as bad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; as a hypothetical newspaper for paedophiles and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not as bad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; as a Nazi newspaper. So she is correct in the most literal sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However &lt;strong&gt;even raising the comparison is invidious&lt;/strong&gt; and it seems to me should be beyond the pale, unless there was some substantial - &lt;em&gt;and substantiated&lt;/em&gt; - justification for why the comparison is a reasonable one to draw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the paragraph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The fact is there is very clearly a line, even if we don't all agree where it's drawn. In the US, few people would be comfortable with an openly Communist newspaper kicking around the lunchroom. In Germany, a Nazi one would be illegal. If NAMBLA were to publish a paper that didn't have any pictures, just espoused their opinions on how kids should be allowed to have sex with adults (their typical phrasing), again that would not be welcome in a workplace. While any individual (especially one who hasn't read the DM) might not think the DM was &quot;over the line&quot;, the fact remains that a line exists, and that employees can do something about an employer providing material that is over that line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, as a purely literal matter this is correct, but making such an invidious comparison inevitably brings the question into the mind of the reader, creating a mental association. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words: &lt;strong&gt;It is an unjustifiable innuendo.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For comparison: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The fact is there is very clearly a line, even if we don't all agree where it's drawn. Nazis and paedophiles are not welcome, for example. While any individual (especially people who haven't met her) might not think Jane Doe is personally are &quot;over the line&quot;, the fact remains that the line exists, and employees can do something about people who are over the line&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've flagged this for the attention of moderators but so far it hasn't come to anyone's attention. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also have made an edit to remove the comparison, which was approved, but the user has chosen to revert that edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For background, the &lt;em&gt;Daily Mail&lt;/em&gt; is a soft-right tabloid read by the white-collar working and middle classes, and is the second highest selling newspaper in Britain, the first being another soft-right tabloid, &lt;em&gt;The Sun&lt;/em&gt;, which is a more blue-collar working-class readership. It can be found in the lobbies of most multinational corporations and hotels, as well as bars and pubs, and is given away on aeroplanes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a mainstream newspaper. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naturally I don't read it myself because I am &lt;em&gt;far too sophisticated and clever&lt;/em&gt;, but everybody has a say, because that's democracy, or so I am told.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44634" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2017-12-01T16:18:09.320" LastActivityDate="2017-12-01T16:18:09.320" Title="Is it acceptable to make invidious comparisons and innuendoes?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="30" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4958" CreationDate="2017-11-30T19:02:11.180" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't see any problems with Kate's use of hyperbole in this situation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of that paragraph, as I interpret it, is to preempt the argument of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the content is PG-13, any news source should be allowed. The newspaper is free. You don't have to read it if you don't want to. Free speech, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason to mention the extreme examples is to show that there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a socially and professionally acceptable line somewhere. She specifically does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; imply that the DM and these fictional periodicals are at the same level. She says that &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; you think a publication crosses the line of professional acceptability, then there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; something you can do about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As an aside, I am from the US and am not familiar with the Daily Mail. From what I've gleaned from this conversation, it is somewhere between Fox News and Breitbart in terms of politics. One of those I find acceptable for the workplace, the other I do not. I imagine where the line is in relation to the DM is fairly subjective.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In response to your edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you then all happy with this as the official line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Workplace Stack Exchange Moderators say &amp;quot;It's Officially Fine to compare Daily Mail readers to Nazis and paedophiles&amp;quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, clearly not. I have said that Kate is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; making that comparison, not that such a comparison would be acceptable. You are welcome to disagree with my interpretation, but do &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; misconstrue my meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2017-12-01T15:24:22.410" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4958" CreationDate="2017-12-01T03:18:04.100" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason I found it not only &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; objectionable, but actually appropriate, was this paragraph in the Original Poster's question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As is not wholly uncommon in such media, it has a sorry reputation for stirring up panics and hatred against minority groups. This has become severe enough that the pressure group &quot;Stop Funding Hate&quot; campaigns to have big-brand advertisers pull their adverts from the paper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hypothetical questions: Would it make a difference if the OP was a member of a minority group that had been targeted by that newspaper?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of the answer to this hypothetical, I think that this aspect of the original question makes the comparison to more extreme cases &lt;em&gt;not inapplicable.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't mean you have to &lt;em&gt;agree&lt;/em&gt; with the answer, of course.  I just don't think that paragraph needs to be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address your comment on your question (emphasis added):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Officially, According To Stack Overflow, is it OK to compare &lt;strong&gt;readers of&lt;/strong&gt; a mainstream newspaper you don't like to Nazis and paedophiles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not actually what was being done.  Even if you interpret juxtaposition as comparison, which is an interesting lack of differentiation, the comparison would be between the &lt;strong&gt;publishers of&lt;/strong&gt; the newspaper, and the NAMBLA/Nazis.  And again, see the above excerpt from the original question which puts it in a rather different light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47537" LastEditorUserId="47537" LastEditDate="2017-12-01T03:24:54.807" LastActivityDate="2017-12-01T03:24:54.807" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4958" CreationDate="2017-12-01T09:50:41.113" Score="-7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Be Nice.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course you can't compare people to Nazis and Paedophiles. That's outrageous. In no workplace would that be acceptable, and it's not acceptable on Workplace Stack Exchange either.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Be careful what you write. English is not primarily a tool for expressing logical statements, and the logical meaning of a sentence is not the only meaning. If you have accidentally created an unintentional insinuation or implication, you should remove it not defend it on the basis that it's not logically false. Innuendo doesn't depend on logic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44634" LastActivityDate="2017-12-01T09:50:41.113" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4958" CreationDate="2017-12-01T13:37:14.997" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A slight change in emphasis might be beneficial&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point that I think was being made here, is that there &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; a line, even if we don't all agree where it is. And employees can and should do something about material that &lt;strong&gt;they feel&lt;/strong&gt; crosses it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made a slight edit, which I hope the original author agrees with, which puts more emphasis on the employee's perception, and is less likely to be read as a direct comparison between the DM and the examples mentioned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that this doesn't magically solve the argument here, but it is, hopefully, a beneficial improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2s39T.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2s39T.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31777" LastActivityDate="2017-12-01T13:37:14.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4964" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4965" CreationDate="2017-12-01T14:38:43.727" Score="8" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/103415/i-feel-that-i-have-no-control-of-my-department&quot;&gt;I feel that I have no control of my department&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen far worse than this in here.  What gives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-12-11T15:26:54.793" Title="Why was this question locked?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4964" CreationDate="2017-12-01T14:48:13.127" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP was rolling it back and removing all content on a regular basis: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/103415/revisions&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/103415/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2017-12-11T15:26:54.793" LastActivityDate="2017-12-11T15:26:54.793" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4966" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4975" CreationDate="2017-12-06T15:49:46.533" Score="2" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to request to reopen &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/103640/how-to-find-out-knowledge-level-of-coworker&quot;&gt;How can I improve my communication with my less skilled coworker?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was closed for being too broad, but this question seems clearly answerable to me (and the upvoted answers support that). The question is asking how to effectively and professionally communicate technical knowledge when you don't know the knowledge level of your coworker. This is a relatively common problem faced in the workplace and should fit right in our wheelhouse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; That was reopened quickly, thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2017-12-08T20:29:20.257" LastActivityDate="2017-12-08T20:29:20.257" Title="Reopen &quot;How to find out knowledge level of coworker&quot; [done]" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4967" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-06T16:23:08.327" Score="1" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/103604/i-am-from-northern-ireland-but-live-in-scotland-and-need-to-complete-an-advanc/&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was closed due to being company specific or requiring a lawyer to answer. However that's not the case and I'd like to request we open it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is referring to criminal records checks, which is a national certificate in the UK but can be obtained from different bodies and has different rules depending on the level of criminal records check required. This is not a company specific entity. The only thing company specific is what level of check they may way to conduct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't require a lawyer, any HR representative or admin person who has dealt with them is aware of the process and how they work (I've dealt with them as a Scout member). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52713" LastEditorUserId="52713" LastEditDate="2017-12-06T16:34:29.220" LastActivityDate="2017-12-06T16:34:29.220" Title="Re-open advanced disclosure from different countries" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4967" CreationDate="2017-12-06T16:30:19.373" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm with you on this one - re-open vote cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2017-12-06T16:30:19.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4969" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-07T16:18:38.023" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I ask for this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/103719/can-my-employer-force-me-to-open-my-office-macbook&quot;&gt;Can my employer force me to open my office macbook?&lt;/a&gt; to be re-opened? While it certainly has legal aspects I believe that  they are ones that a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1856/what-is-asking-for-legal-advice&quot;&gt;competent HR manager should know&lt;/a&gt; and given we have the jurisdiction for the OP now it's answerable (and I've edited my answer that was posted pre-closure to include the appropriate info).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2017-12-08T16:45:35.140" LastActivityDate="2017-12-08T16:45:35.140" Title="Reopen request: Can my employer force me to open my office macbook? [done]" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4970" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4972" CreationDate="2017-12-07T16:45:39.043" Score="11" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that when a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reopen-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reopen-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reopen-request&lt;/a&gt; is carried out and the Question is finally reopened, some users edit their posts to include a &quot;(REOPENED)&quot; on the title of the Meta Question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I like this practice, but I was wondering what do you think about it? Have you done it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, should we be doing this edits more often? I see that some Meta questions that actually ended in a reopen do not have that modification added to the title. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-12-07T17:03:16.720" LastActivityDate="2017-12-08T14:41:18.200" Title="Is adding a &quot;(REOPENED)&quot; prefix once a reopen request is completed a good practice?" Tags="|discussion|editing|reopening|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4970" CreationDate="2017-12-07T16:47:28.617" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;what do you think about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Have you done it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.. but only because I've only ever posted one such request and some scamp beat me to the edit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In any case, should we be doing this edits more often?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It makes sens to me, that way it saves any users from going over to cast a VTRO when it's already been done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="64903" LastEditDate="2017-12-07T16:51:17.277" LastActivityDate="2017-12-07T16:51:17.277" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4970" CreationDate="2017-12-07T17:25:17.477" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, this is the direction we were given by a moderator.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This came up in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4423/please-dont-ask-for-status-completed-on-requests-to-reopen-or-close-questions&quot;&gt;a Meta post by Monica&lt;/a&gt; because people (myself included) were requesting &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; for completed reopen requests. She indicated that this tag is only intended for bug and feature requests that require action by a moderator or SE staff. Instead, she recommended the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So what &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; you do to indicate that the matter is resolved? Ideally, report the results in an answer and then accept it; an accepted answer is the usual signal for &quot;no more help needed&quot;. Alternatively, you can edit the title of the post to add something like &quot;[REOPENED]&quot;. If it changes again later, you can edit again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, as Monica pointed out in a comment, no one seems to following the &lt;em&gt;ideal&lt;/em&gt; advice from above. While the [REOPENED] label is acceptable, maybe we should start doing more of the answer/accept method first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2017-12-08T14:41:18.200" LastActivityDate="2017-12-08T14:41:18.200" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4970" CreationDate="2017-12-08T08:56:18.823" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I dislike it because I don't think it looks good (thanks to the combination of &lt;code&gt;()&lt;/code&gt;, all caps, redundancy* and length).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*: Redundancy when used in combination with &quot;reopen&quot;, which it usually is. If used without &quot;reopen&quot;, we're left with a somewhat nonsensical title containing what looks like a tag and then I suppose simply the title of the question the post is seeking to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer simply &lt;code&gt;[Done]&lt;/code&gt;, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Done] Reopen “optional internal interview”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ideal way to deal with this IMO would be for there to be some functionality to detect when the target question is reopened and then prepend this text automatically without editing the post (such as when &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt; is appended to a closed question). Manually editing the post to add this is clunky (although I suppose this isn't a big and common enough problem for such functionality to be added).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Actually&lt;/em&gt; the ideal way to deal with this problem is to have a closer link between discussion of the appropriateness of a question, the question and the reopen (and close?) queues. Perhaps voting to reopen (or Leave Open?) requires a motivation of why (which I'm sure has been suggested before, is fairly simple and may eliminate the need to have reopen posts on Meta). Perhaps this creates a Meta post automatically and links to it from the question and reopen queue. Perhaps it should be more of a freeform discussion (e.g. have a section of meta comments). There are a few options there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have we considered just closing the reopen requests after the target post is reopened? Or is that too much of a hassle? Or is it important enough to allow those who object to the reopening to post answers explaining their reasoning, after the post has been reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="8234" LastEditDate="2017-12-08T10:44:30.650" LastActivityDate="2017-12-08T10:44:30.650" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4284" CreationDate="2017-12-08T17:44:38.417" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/110851/sales-and-marketing&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K9sTD.png&quot; alt=&quot;Support a SE for Sales and Marketing&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;(source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.stackexchange.com/ads/proposal/110851.png&quot;&gt;stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2115" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2020-12-30T03:25:36.683" LastActivityDate="2020-12-30T03:25:36.683" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4966" CreationDate="2017-12-08T20:29:07.383" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2017-12-08T20:29:07.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4977" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4978" CreationDate="2017-12-17T19:07:25.837" Score="-5" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious if anyone has noticed or did any checking on possible bias in the Workplace Forum when it comes to closing threads? Yes, there is criteria for closing a question, and that criteria, although sometimes questionable itself is officially to the forum, however, what I am referring to is a bias occurring outside of that criteria. Do we know how many people have closing thread authority? How big is that pool of people, and is there any oversight built in to it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I raise this question because I've found posts which are in my opinion clearly viable and important questions which are getting closed. I also find when one person votes to close, a cohort of others are quick to add their votes to close as well. I'm astonished how quickly the cohort follows. If high reputation members tend to be managers and supervisors themselves then it would follow they might try to vote out threads on questions which question authority, or are strongly confrontational.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am aware that the Workplace Meta is like a form of oversight itself. However, it can also be used negatively by forcing good but confrontational questions to have to be dragged through a discussion for re-opening, and only for members who even know about the Meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63996" LastEditorUserId="63996" LastEditDate="2017-12-17T19:59:18.183" LastActivityDate="2017-12-19T14:22:29.047" Title="Is there a Bias within the Forum on Closing Questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4977" CreationDate="2017-12-18T15:03:35.947" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do we know how many people have closing thread authority? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone with at least 3000 reputation can vote to close (or reopen) questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How big is that pool of people&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; you can see there are &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; users with over 3000 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;is there any oversight built in to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, a few ways. First, anyone who has over 3000 reputation can also vote to reopen. Second, if you do not or feel strongly, you can always open a question on this meta site - if you look back you will see many of them. This increases visibility to the questions you want reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I raise this question because I've found posts which are in my opinion clearly viable and important questions which are getting closed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to open meta discussions on these types of questions. Or discuss them in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;Workplace Chat&lt;/a&gt; which is normally pretty active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2017-12-18T15:03:35.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4977" CreationDate="2017-12-18T17:40:11.903" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's far from bias.  We often get into rather heated disagreements in Chat over the open/close votes and there have been debates both in meta and on chat as to if we are to aggressive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The oversight is the battles in chat, the fact that you can only vote to close once, and 5 other members can vote to reopen. Then there is meta, and the moderators themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, no, no bias, yes, plenty of checks and balances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2017-12-18T17:40:11.903" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4977" CreationDate="2017-12-19T13:29:54.163" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4978/16983&quot;&gt;enderland points out&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;anyone who has over 3000 reputation can also vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before a question is [closed], it is marked as [on hold]. This doesn't mean that there isn't a viable question in there somewhere, but that the question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;off-topic&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;in its current state&lt;/strong&gt;. The intent is often to put a question [on hold] to prevent answers on a poorly written question so that it can be edited, fixed, and &lt;em&gt;reopened&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously there are many questions that are not salvageable or that require more information from an OP who never returns, but the important thing is that closing questions is not permanent and they can always be fixed and reopened. As enderland said, if you feel that is the case, then post about that specific question in Meta to request that it be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2017-12-19T14:22:29.047" LastActivityDate="2017-12-19T14:22:29.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4981" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-19T16:58:44.657" Score="10" ViewCount="309" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/104227/are-there-any-illegal-job-interview-questions-in-switzerland&quot;&gt;Are there any illegal job interview questions in Switzerland?&lt;/a&gt; asks whether questions about race, religion, etc are illegal in Switzerland like they are in the US.  The question is closed with the &quot;legal advice/company policy&quot; reason, but this is information that any HR person or seasoned interviewer in the target locale would be expected to know.  That's on the acceptable side of the legal line for this site.  Why is this question closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I edited the question for tone, which one comment objected to, but I'm responding to the stated close reason.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2017-12-19T20:46:29.470" LastActivityDate="2017-12-21T13:09:35.563" Title="(REOPENED) Why is &quot;illegal questions in Switzerland&quot; closed as off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4981" CreationDate="2017-12-19T17:27:03.727" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;1) it is a shopping list question.  It is asking for a list of questions that fit the category of discouraged(assuming edit to bring more on topic) or forbidden by law in Switzerland.  That is an SE standard see: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/158809/why-are-shopping-list-questions-bad&quot;&gt;Why are &amp;quot;shopping list&amp;quot; questions bad?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) It is based no beliefs that are not backed up by reality.  The belief that it is a violation of the law to ask about someone's gender, heritage, or other protected trait, is illegal is a common, but wrong misconception.  It is illegal to discriminate based on these factors, but it is not a violation of any law by itself to ask the question. (If you wish to assert that it is please include a citation that backs up your claim it could be used to edit into the question and give some foundation to make this question on topic)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could work for this question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am being asked to include the following information on my CV: (list&#xA;  of potentially protected traits)  Is this a common expectation?  How&#xA;  can I address companies complaining because this is not included in my&#xA;  CV?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that is a very different question from the one asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2017-12-19T17:27:03.727" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4981" CreationDate="2017-12-19T18:13:08.073" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I agree this question should be reopened.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you said, this is information that any HR professional in Switzerland should know. If this question were asked about the US, I think it would get lots of immediate responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To respond to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4982/16983&quot;&gt;IDrinkandIKnowThings's answer&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1) it is a shopping list question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree. A shopping list question asks for suggestions of products, ideas, etc, with almost no restriction. The number of possibilities in a constantly changing market is going to be near limitless. These questions are also highly opinion-based as there is no single correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question does &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; fit this definition. By asking about legal restrictions, it is asking for a limited set of codified rules and regulations. I would not be able to go create a new product tomorrow that would add to this list. To ask the opposite, for questions that are allowed, &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; be too broad IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2) It is based no beliefs that are not backed up by reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You yourself said it - it is a very common misconception that it is illegal to ask these questions in the US, but that is because use of these questions can been used as as evidence of &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; illegal activity (i.e. discrimination). It is completely understandable that the OP would think this, and it doesn't at all change the premise of the question. If a US company asked these questions, I would seriously question the company's ethics and the legality of their hiring practices. The OP then essentially asks which questions would be similarly unacceptable in Switzerland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monica also makes a good point in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4981/why-is-illegal-questions-in-switzerland-closed-as-off-topic#comment14417_4981&quot;&gt;her comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A good answer will correct the OP on that point while also (of course) answering the question about Switzerland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People will get things wrong sometimes - if they knew everything they wouldn't be here asking questions. As long as the misinformation doesn't completely invalidate the question, then just correct them and answer the question being asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2017-12-21T13:09:35.563" LastActivityDate="2017-12-21T13:09:35.563" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4984" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-19T19:39:34.270" Score="-2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post was immediately flagged as off-topic for the Workplace. I will address my concerns towards the reason for putting it on hold rather than the comments it received. This question is related to workplace issues.  It falls under the tags of Hiring and Diversity. It is also not a description of my general situation, but rather a question seeking answers to a very specific issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the wording is not the best--as in unclear--then it should be put on hold for that reason, and then I can clarify the wording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea behind my question is (and I have updated the original question already), &quot;what can non-managerial staff do to help a company see it's own biases, and address those biases?,&quot; in particular racial bias.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I'd like to address some of the comments my post received in the case that those comments might be reflecting some of the underlying reasons for holding the question. Systemic bias is actually as common as roads and cars; it's everywhere. To treat it as something special is itself heaping more bias on top of bias. I am not obligated to prove my question because it is a question, and not an answer. Furthermore, these are not allegations as I have not implicated or directed my question to any specific organization! In other words, there is no recipient to my question so how can it be called an allegation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/104258/how-front-line-staff-can-help-break-a-systemic-racist-hiring-policy&quot;&gt;How Non-Managerial Staff can Help Break a Systemic Racist Hiring Policy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63996" LastEditorUserId="63996" LastEditDate="2017-12-19T19:54:52.230" LastActivityDate="2017-12-20T18:26:10.063" Title="Request to Re-open &quot;How Front Line Staff can Help Break a Systemic Racist Hiring Policy&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-02T13:35:32.557" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4985" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-20T12:11:11.263" Score="2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/104302/reschedule-interview#comment322654_104302&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/104302/revisions&quot;&gt;closed as a duplicate&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/6018/how-do-i-properly-follow-up-with-a-hiring-manager-to-check-on-the-status-of-a-p&quot;&gt;this quesiton&lt;/a&gt;. However, I felt it was far from being a duplicate and wanted to close it as being off topic as the person is asking us to write an email for them. That's far too personal and won't necessarily help other people visiting the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did a vote to close, other topic and gave a reason, as can be seen in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/104302/reschedule-interview#comment322654_104302&quot;&gt;my comment&lt;/a&gt;. However, the question received enough close votes for Off Topic and took the highest number of votes for being the duplicate. It now shows my name, and others, against that close reason, but I wholeheartedly disagree with that reason. Is there no other way to show the close reason was disputed between different subjects? I'm not really happy with my name being attached to a reason I didn't select, espcially when I don't agree with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52713" LastActivityDate="2017-12-20T14:54:29.723" Title="Why does a question get closed as a duplicate when other close reasons where also suggested?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4984" CreationDate="2017-12-20T12:54:27.793" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't think this question should be reopened yet, until you can tell us &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you think the hiring policy is racist.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason you are getting pushback is that we need more information to answer the question properly. There is a difference between overhearing your boss say he refuses to hire anyone who isn't white, and observing that your company is 95% white (which could just mean you are in a region where 95% of the population is white). That statistic is the only reason so far you have given for why you believe there is systemic racism. If you don't have any other evidence to support your beliefs, then the advice you will most likely get is to not say anything until you have more evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, we very often ask users to provide evidence when they are asking how to respond to racist/sexist/discriminatory behavior. These are serious problems that would require serious actions, but taking action if you are making any false assumptions will also result in serious negative consequences for you. We need to be able to judge the legitimacy of your claims so that we can properly advise you on what action to, or not to, take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2017-12-20T18:26:10.063" LastActivityDate="2017-12-20T18:26:10.063" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4985" CreationDate="2017-12-20T14:54:29.723" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of the five close votes, two were for primarily opinion-based, two were for duplicate, and one was for off-topic.  When there are multiple reasons, SE reports the most-popular reason (breaking a tie if necessary, as in this case).  Unfortunately it attributes that reason to all five close-voters, except in the case of custom off-topic reasons where the further information about the specific reason is shown with only the users who chose it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The incorrect attribution has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/54917/162102&quot;&gt;raised on Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;.  I agree that it's frustrating to have the site put words in your mouth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-12-20T14:54:29.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5002" CreationDate="2017-12-21T17:10:18.707" Score="0" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/104314/what-happens-when-hr-is-the-source-of-harassment&quot;&gt;What happens when HR is the source of harassment?&lt;/a&gt; was recently closed as being unclear. I honestly have no idea how this applies, as I think the problem is pretty clearly described.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to request that the question be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2017-12-22T16:31:24.187" LastActivityDate="2018-01-02T16:14:58.800" Title="(done) Request to Reopen &quot;What happens when HR is the source of harassment?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4988" CreationDate="2017-12-21T18:07:22.167" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reason is just the top reason. The question vague / hypothetical without specifics.  It is likely legal which is a reason for VTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt;:   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Focus on questions about an actual problem you have faced. Include&#xA;  details about what you have tried and exactly what you are trying to&#xA;  do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I asked for clarification to try and bring the question into conformance the OP was argumentative with me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26028" LastActivityDate="2017-12-21T18:07:22.167" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4990" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-25T18:28:44.320" Score="23" ViewCount="447" Body="&lt;p&gt;We seem to generate a lot of questions mentioning that they OP is &quot;depressed&quot; and some that indicate they are &quot;suicidal&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This worries me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than telling them to seek professional help, should we do something else? Perhaps there is a link to a hotline or other help we should include?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't feel comfortable actually answering any questions from someone who needs immediate help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2018-01-01T13:59:22.577" Title="What to do when someone writes that they are &quot;suicidal&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4990" CreationDate="2017-12-25T20:26:25.793" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Follow the advice given in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/243701/260382&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. Summarised:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Vote to) &lt;strong&gt;Close the post as Off-topic&lt;/strong&gt; with a custom close reason, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/243700/whats-the-official-se-response-to-serious-mentions-of-suicide-or-self-harm-in-p/243701#243701&quot;&gt;templates at the link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flag for moderator attention&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; credible threat of bodily harm targeted at the author or anyone else, use the &lt;strong&gt;contact&lt;/strong&gt; option at the bottom of every page to &lt;strong&gt;contact StackExchange directly&lt;/strong&gt;, referencing the post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we as moderators become aware of a user expressing suicidal thoughts we contact the community team and may sometimes close, lock or delete the original post if necessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please do &lt;strong&gt;flag these posts for our attention whenever you see them.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2017-12-25T20:26:25.793" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4990" CreationDate="2017-12-26T10:07:29.207" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Advocating they seek professional help is ALL we should do. I see nothing positive in getting involved in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2017-12-26T10:07:29.207" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3132" CreationDate="2017-12-26T16:13:28.977" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted by blankip, the First Amendment of the Constitution protects the &lt;strong&gt;right&lt;/strong&gt; of freedom of association - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Freedom of association is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The relevant portion states, “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging . . . the right of the people peaceably to assemble.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fee.org/articles/on-freedom-of-association/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;On Freedom of Association - Foundation for Economic Education&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as &quot;what should be done&quot; about an answer that is absolutely correct and has zero negative legal ramifications, and was up-voted extensively because it is a good answer..... down-vote it if you don't like it. Nothing else needs to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one has the right to force me to socialize or not socialize with any individual on my own free time, as an adult. The &quot;poor&quot; answer states exactly that. My mother forced my older siblings to allow me to tag along when were were under the age of ten, but minor children don't have the same rights and freedoms that adults do, and moms can be scary. I'm not sure why OP of this meta thinks adults can be forced to play with others like children, but that's not the case in the relevant nation of the question in question (United States).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58098" LastActivityDate="2017-12-26T16:13:28.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4995" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4997" CreationDate="2018-01-01T00:27:29.847" Score="-3" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a general downvote trend in poor questions lately. I don't disagree when one needs to downvote to express dissatisfaction. In the past, I noticed that poor questions were left at 0 and voted to be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the current trend:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does this affect the number of poor quality questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does this encourage the authors to revise their questions or refrain from asking at all?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta-Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Original question was posted (0 score)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joe's commentary that better focused my question (0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My responses to Joe (0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anthony's answer (0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Additional commentary exchange (0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Two Down-votes (-2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My commentary on how downvotes don't offer additional information (-2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This revision to better focus my question and title question (-2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a similar analysis was conducted on currently downvoted questions (whether new or experienced SE users) what would the result be? The following is a short list of possible scenarios.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Revised, subsequently upvoted, and left as-is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Revised, subsequently downvoted, revised again, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No Revision, deletion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deletion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38289" LastEditorUserId="38289" LastEditDate="2018-01-01T10:04:01.050" LastActivityDate="2018-01-01T10:04:01.050" Title="Vote to close or downvote: Which encourages authors of poor-quality questions to revise?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4996" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-01T01:53:02.427" Score="-3" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have significantly improved &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/104539/king-hit-by-coworker-at-christmas-party&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; by doing the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Revised title and remove country / region specific slang (e.g: King hit in Australia)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Added the country tag of Australia based on the slang &quot;King Hit&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Removed language not pertinent to the core question of the OP - speculating reason for the coworker assaulting the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clarified question of the OP to be work-place focused to avoid rant.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Could this community please vote to re-open this question?&lt;/strong&gt; I would like to answer once it is re-opened, expanding on a good start by @ Glen Pierce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastActivityDate="2018-01-01T15:03:18.543" Title="Please vote to re-open this question about assault at company Christmas party" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4995" CreationDate="2018-01-01T02:06:48.993" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question highlights a good reason to explain reason for down-voting and to guide the OP (unless OP is being deliberately offensive / trolling).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel the down voting should continue &lt;strong&gt;but&lt;/strong&gt; also the person who did downvote should be encouraged to explain their reasoning. I looked through your answers and really like how you guide the OP in arriving at an answer, encouraging them to see all perspectives, and sharing personal experiences when appropriate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Save for deliberate trolls, I feel the encouragement and teaching of the OP to SE rules (Be Nice, real answers have real answers...) should be done when downvotes are used, especially for new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastActivityDate="2018-01-01T02:06:48.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4990" CreationDate="2018-01-01T13:59:22.577" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who has felt suicidal in the past, besides reminding people to get professional help, it can be useful to wish them good luck or send positive energy to do so. It might look like you are doing nothing useful here, but to someone feeling that bad, a bit of empaty can be a great help to actually get some help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62529" LastActivityDate="2018-01-01T13:59:22.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4996" CreationDate="2018-01-01T14:56:38.120" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may be cleaned up but still should be closed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When into shock and then told to leave for bleeding.  No responsible bar would do that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bouncers over the assailant when he went outside.  No responsible bar would do that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Punched just for shaking someones hand? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just not believable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26028" LastEditorUserId="26028" LastEditDate="2018-01-01T15:03:18.543" LastActivityDate="2018-01-01T15:03:18.543" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5000" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-02T13:38:03.150" Score="3" ViewCount="317" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given past questions for holidays:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2981/that-time-of-year-again-hats&quot;&gt;That time of year again -- hats!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2252/workplace-se-2014-new-years-resolutions&quot;&gt;Workplace.SE 2014 New Year&amp;#39;s Resolutions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3413/happy-thanksgiving&quot;&gt;Happy Thanksgiving!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to ask the workplace community what are some topics of discussion that has taken place this past year that merits a year-end review?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New Users: there has been discussion as to how new users should be acquainted with the site, what kinds of questions are on-topic and what are off. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New question types: beyond interview questions, workplace ethics, there has been questions regarding mental health. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are some topics you would like to bring up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38289" LastActivityDate="2018-01-12T14:54:49.153" Title="2017 Year in Review" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4988" CreationDate="2018-01-02T16:14:58.800" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-01-02T16:14:58.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5003" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5004" CreationDate="2018-01-02T18:04:20.697" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/104593/26826&quot;&gt;Should staying-at-home period waiting for specialized project better suits me be counted as working?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It asks for a yes or no answer, and the consensus is clear: no. So how can this be opinion-based? Why is it bad? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26826" LastActivityDate="2018-01-03T12:06:39.393" Title="Why is this question opinion-based?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|opinion-based|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5003" CreationDate="2018-01-02T18:54:19.603" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So how can this be opinion-based? Why is it bad? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't think it is &quot;bad&quot;. I think no post can ever be &quot;bad&quot; (the poster may have bad intentions though, as in the case of SPAM), so I wouldn't take it that way.&lt;/strong&gt; A post can be unclear or not useful, but not &quot;bad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However as you phrased it here it is clearly self-evident: &lt;em&gt;It is asking for a yes/no answer, and &lt;strong&gt;that&lt;/strong&gt; is opinion-based.&lt;/em&gt; Let us further analyze the questions you wrote on that closed post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should this period be considered as working or not when we discuss my salary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we can see, some people may say &lt;em&gt;yes&lt;/em&gt; or some may say &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; to this. That answer would depend on their opinion, thus opinion-based. This sort of questions are usually the ones &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; must decide, and also should be made considering your specific contract and work status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How should I approach this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again opinion-based. It is also quite broad and lacks a goal we can address (as there are many ways to approach things, but few of them that follow the goal you may have in mind).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, we can see that your post had some noticeable degree of opinon-based, and looking some comments over there we see that some folks also found it not really clear, hence another reason why it may have been closed. In fact your first question could also be company-specific, and depend on the way these things are usually handled in that company (or in your contract). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing that didn't help you here is that &lt;strong&gt;it seems you weren't engaged when you posted your question.&lt;/strong&gt; You posted it and had a 2 hour period where you did not respond to User feedback and clarification. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These &quot;long&quot; periods are well known to kill potentially good questions, as this community has a high degree of engagement from their users. For future instances &lt;strong&gt;I suggest you stay engaged at least several minutes after posting your questions&lt;/strong&gt;, so you can clarify and edit your post and prevent it from being promptly closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-01-02T18:54:19.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5000" CreationDate="2018-01-02T19:10:27.547" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;To condensate my comment into an answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More edits and less VTC.&lt;/strong&gt; Instead of plain VTC or following a Vote trend I believe we should try to edit the post to make it clearer and more on-topic, by asking the OP for clarification and using our common knowledge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several posts that contain some minor mistake or have a really small degree of off-topicness are quickly closed, when most of them could actually be edited out to be a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that we sometimes are quick to close when we see the minor indication of off-topicness, like when seeing a question that begins with &quot;Should I&quot; and VTC without even trying to remove the &quot;should I&quot; part. This is the part we could work on, and at least try to edit or obtain clarification before deciding to vote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Give some love to our tags.&lt;/strong&gt; I feel some tag Wikis and excerpts are poor on description, and several others don't even have one. I also feel &lt;em&gt;we have forgotten to accept and propose tag synonyms&lt;/em&gt;, which would help us have fewer, more significant tags. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-01-02T19:10:27.547" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5000" CreationDate="2018-01-03T00:35:44.193" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Our tags are kind of a mess.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5005/325&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; suggests paying more attention to wikis and synonyms, which I agree with, but it feels to me like we don't have the right &lt;em&gt;set&lt;/em&gt; of tags.  Too often I can tell that the tags on a question aren't quite right but I can't find better ones.  Sure I could just create some, but I'm always left wondering what our scheme even &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; and if I should be adding more clutter.  We can talk about individual tags, which I've brought up sometimes, but it feels like the whole set could use a critical review before we start moving things around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's hard, and where I always run out of steam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-01-03T00:35:44.193" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5003" CreationDate="2018-01-03T12:06:39.393" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The basic issue with the original question is that too much depends on your financial situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you start collecting salary without being on a project, the clock starts running. Once you reach some limit you will be let go, becasue you generated no income.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wait and don't collect salary, a different clock starts running. After too long they will forget that you have skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you should take salary depends on how big your bank account is and how quickly it is getting depleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you should grab the first project depends on the same thing: bank account and time left on the clock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these are knowable by us, or generally the same for future readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2018-01-03T12:06:39.393" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5000" CreationDate="2018-01-03T14:13:01.563" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Irresponsible comments influencing voters on answers&lt;/strong&gt;: You write an answer covering multiple aspects of the issue in reasonable detail. Minutes later, someone writes a comment, &quot;Downvoting because you start by suggesting X, but it that would lead to issue Y.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, you were aware of the issue Y when you wrote the answer, and had elaborated how to deal with &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; a couple of sentences later, so what went wrong here? The problem is that either some people have the attention span of a goldfish and hence cannot read more than 2 sentences, or that they have an irresistible urge to criticize and hence cannot have the patience to read the complete answer before commenting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; users read the comment, and downvote the answer because, (duh!) the answer must be definitely wrong because a comment says so, and anyway, who has the time to read the answer and use their own brains to figure out if the criticism is valid or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is made even worse by StackExchange's strange system of &quot;hiding&quot; comments based on upvotes, so even if you post your own comment explaining why that criticism is unjustified, it would most likely be hidden, and again, who wants to bother reading all the comments, when it is just easier to downvote by reading the top voted comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the comment flagging mechanism isn't much helpful here either. To begin with, while the criticism may be invalid, it isn't actually rude, offensive, &quot;chatty&quot;, etc. so flagging it will most likely not lead to its deletion. Moreover, comment deletion can be done only by a moderator, which means usually the damage has already been done by the time they get to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, what can we do about it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the whole, nothing much. At a personal level though, we could resist the urge to comment the moment we see something we don't agree with, and actually have the patience to read and understand the complete answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could also avoid passing judgements (especially, the use of &quot;downvoting/-1 because ...&quot;) in the comments, and instead phrase our criticism as a question: &quot;How does your solution X deal with issue Y?&quot; Criticism phrased this way is much more constructive. Moreover, this also allows the commenter to save face, as against, &quot;ha ha, your solution missed issue Y, look I am so clever.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if we do not have the patience to read the complete answer, we have the option to ... not comment at all (shocking fact, I know!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, this nuisance was one of the main factors that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/3192/masked-man?tab=profile&quot;&gt;led me to retire in restricted mode&lt;/a&gt; from this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-01-03T14:13:01.563" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5009" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-04T09:09:16.293" Score="0" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has been marked as an exact duplicate of another. The current question talks about the effects of acquisition of the OP's team by another company, while the supposed question that it is a duplicate of talks about the effects of acquisition of the entire company where that OP was employed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When making a resume, both are very different situations that need to be portrayed and therefore, I feel that the question isn't a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the question being talked about: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/104670/how-do-i-represent-a-buy-out-of-my-team-on-my-resume/&quot;&gt;How do I represent a buy out of my team on my resume?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the reportedly 'exact duplicate' &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2884/what-is-the-accepted-method-of-indicating-a-company-being-acquired-on-a-resume&quot;&gt;What is the accepted method of indicating a company being acquired on a resume?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the highest-voted answer for that question says that the current company was formerly known as something else. This answer doesn't make sense to be written on a resume of the first OP because only their team was acquired; the former company still exists! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am requesting that this question be reopened.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74069" LastEditorUserId="74069" LastEditDate="2018-01-11T14:39:22.630" LastActivityDate="2018-01-11T14:39:22.630" Title="Reopen &quot;How do I represent a buy out of my team on my resume?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|vote-to-close|duplicates|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5011" CreationDate="2018-01-05T17:20:46.977" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just doing some Reviews on the Fist Posts queue, and encountered &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/103706/verbal-threat-needing-further-action&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MCMBo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MCMBo.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This I found really unusual, as this is a &lt;strong&gt;one month old answer&lt;/strong&gt;, which is even accepted and has more than 10 upvotes. It is also closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked the First Posts &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/history&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt; and of what I can see I was the only one to review it recently. Furthermore, exploring that history of reviews I can see that on the date of posting (12/7/17) user @scaaahu successfully reviewed it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any reasons why this post came again on the review queue? Could this be some malfunction or bug, or has someone experienced this before?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-01-05T18:12:05.890" LastActivityDate="2018-01-05T18:12:05.890" Title="Unusual review appeared on First Post Queue" Tags="|support|status-bydesign|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5010" CreationDate="2018-01-05T17:41:08.263" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently, the position of &quot;first post&quot; is dynamic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/235034/162102&quot;&gt;This related post on Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions are added to the queue when they qualify for it. Normally, a question qualifies as a &quot;first post&quot; when it is posted - but there are situations where this doesn't happen until later on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Other, earlier posts from the same author are deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what happened here.  This user had two posts, both answers.  The other one was on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/96863/325&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that was deleted today, taking its answers with it.  That answer was &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/61440&quot;&gt;previously reviewed as a first post&lt;/a&gt; (by you, in fact), but it seems that information doesn't get recorded with the user.  Three minutes after the older question was deleted, the now-only post from this user &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/66663&quot;&gt;entered review&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree it's peculiar.  I suppose erring on the side of more review is better, particularly if a new user posts a bunch of stuff at once.  There might be better ways to implement reviews, at the cost of code complexity and developer time, but I don't know if it's worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-01-05T17:41:08.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5013" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-09T19:48:26.987" Score="0" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/104892/how-to-discipline-uncooperative-senior-engineers-after-new-laptops-forced-on-the&quot;&gt;How to discipline uncooperative senior engineers after new laptops forced on them&lt;/a&gt; was closed for &quot;requiring a goal we can address&quot;. The goal in the question is pretty clearly state - to get the senior engineers to follow the new standard and get back to being productive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly the computer configuration mandate and the OP's attitude are controversial and creating a lot of debate (much of it off-topic). That doesn't change that the question being posed is clear and answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am requesting that this question be reopened.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2018-01-11T15:39:04.213" LastActivityDate="2018-01-11T15:39:04.213" Title="(done) Reopen &quot;How to discipline uncooperative senior engineers after new laptops forced on them&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5013" CreationDate="2018-01-09T21:10:33.700" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I put the 5th CV on it because to me it feels like a classic XY problem and is only going to invite arguments about the XY aspects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There isn't enough information provided in the OP either to really answer it because any meaningful answer, given the... questionable choice to make the decision in the first place will &lt;em&gt;require&lt;/em&gt; more information about the OP's company to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this question is like someone asking, &quot;How do I discipline my employees for not flying?&quot; -- without knowing why they are expected to fly, it's not really an answerable question without a lot more context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly the question reads like trolling to me, though there are enough dumb companies out there that it's hard to categorically call trolling..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2018-01-09T21:10:33.700" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5000" CreationDate="2018-01-12T14:54:49.153" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the things that gets me is Voting to close as too broad when there are already 2-3 perfectly good answers from people who did not find the question too broad.  This is all part of TLDR and Twitter mentality that is so pervasive and destructive to our site and our society in general. Complex issues need complex responses, but that doesn't make them too broad to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastActivityDate="2018-01-12T14:54:49.153" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5018" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5043" CreationDate="2018-01-15T14:54:54.163" Score="0" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How come most questions barely reach 500 views while some reach upwards of 30k views?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One explanation is the &quot;Hot Network Questions&quot; section but this doesn't seem like it would cover all cases. This seems very unhealthy to me. It also seems like the workplace is not the only community experiencing this phenomenon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81598" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2018-01-16T16:24:58.670" LastActivityDate="2018-02-04T20:29:56.010" Title="Massive viewcount difference" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5018" CreationDate="2018-01-15T15:20:23.680" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some questions are much more popular from google search results as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is particularly true with older questions that have that many views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2018-01-15T15:20:23.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5020" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-16T21:02:27.663" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post in question:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/105186/job-offer-changed-by-company-after-acceptance&quot;&gt;Job offer changed by company after acceptance?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Person asking question uses &quot;right to work&quot; where he really means &quot;employment at will&quot;, a common mistake.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is editing the question to replace &quot;right to work&quot; with &quot;employment at will&quot; the right thing to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1893" LastActivityDate="2018-01-17T11:41:33.803" Title="Editing question to correct incorrect terminology" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5020" CreationDate="2018-01-16T21:32:03.437" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is editing the question to replace &quot;right to work&quot; with &quot;employment at&#xA;  will&quot; the right thing to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's the right thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or the &quot;right to work&quot; thing to do. Or the &quot;employment at will&quot; thing to do. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2018-01-16T21:32:03.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5020" CreationDate="2018-01-16T21:32:24.147" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is editing the question to replace &quot;right to work&quot; with &quot;employment at will&quot; the right thing to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;After clarifying in comments (as done in the post) if that is the proper phrase then yes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When in doubt it is always OK to ask here on Meta as you did, or on &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; about the proper way of handling these sort of things. I understand that you may be thinking this more thoroughly as now with 2k+ rep your edits take effect immediately, so one has to be more careful with them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About this situation I see no problem with that edit; in fact, there was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/105186/job-offer-changed-by-company-after-acceptance#comment326091_105186&quot;&gt;highly voted comment&lt;/a&gt; that pointed out that mistake. When I see comments like this it is an indication that an edit like the one you suggest would help.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The good thing is that edits can be rolled back, edited again, etc., so if by any chance the changes you made were not optimal surely someone else may come to correct that (however, one should not count on this and double check your own edits).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-01-16T21:32:24.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5020" CreationDate="2018-01-17T11:41:33.803" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am careful when doing that sort of edit. Sometimes that mistake is the key to the answer. If that mistaken terminology is the source of their confusion then I would rather address it in the answer.  I would state that the question mentioned X but that Y is the term that would apply. I would then describe both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case if they are in a right-to-work state, but not an at-will state, the change didn't get them an answer to  their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The person who asked the question added an additional section that showed confusion over the term, even after the comments and answer. I would have thought that answers should address the confusion, instead of editing the confusion out of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2018-01-17T11:41:33.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5024" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5027" CreationDate="2018-01-17T18:51:08.477" Score="4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't know if it is just me, but &lt;strong&gt;have the shades of green on user profiles (accepted answers, line borders, etc.) changed somehow?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we compare a screenshot from my main profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h8vud.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h8vud.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with one of my Meta profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9MPfL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9MPfL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can see that the shades of green have been altered somehow. It is now more &quot;opaque&quot; than before. In fact, comparing the RGB values I get that previously (second pic) it was &lt;strong&gt;[50,197,112]&lt;/strong&gt; and now (first pic) it is &lt;strong&gt;[141,178,98]&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This I only see on my TWP profile. &lt;em&gt;I checked on SO and the color there is like the second image&lt;/em&gt;. However, checking my &lt;em&gt;Meta SE profile I see that the green color is like the first image&lt;/em&gt; (the opaque version).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any explanation for this behavior?&lt;/strong&gt; I know it is somehow superfluous but my eye couldn't help from noticing it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Derivated MetaSE &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/305850/332286&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; I asked over there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="169" LastEditDate="2018-01-18T12:43:11.810" LastActivityDate="2018-01-18T12:43:11.810" Title="Green Colors on profile have changed?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5024" CreationDate="2018-01-17T19:08:59.037" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not just you, it's definitely a different shade of green.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/86ccv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/86ccv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-01-17T19:08:59.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5024" CreationDate="2018-01-17T20:25:31.857" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not only are main and meta different, but this is a recent change on main (and Meta.SE).  Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20160414025900/http://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/325/monica-cellio?tab=topactivity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;snapshot from the Wayback machine&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Czgd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Czgd.png&quot; alt=&quot;main site with correct green&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-01-17T20:25:31.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5024" CreationDate="2018-01-18T12:42:59.520" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fixed now; see my &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/305882/115866&quot;&gt;answer on your question on the network Meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169" LastActivityDate="2018-01-18T12:42:59.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5029" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-25T20:42:17.900" Score="3" ViewCount="663" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/105638/it-seems-as-though-my-employer-wants-me-to-come-into-work-when-im-ill-am-i-mis?noredirect=1#comment327882_105638&quot; title=&quot;It seems as though my employer wants me to come into work when I&amp;#39;m ill. Am I missing something?&quot;&gt;It seems as though my employer wants me to come into work when I'm ill. Am I missing something?&lt;/a&gt;, and when I clicked on the &quot;more comments&quot; link the comments all disappeared, leaving 0 comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, after reading one of the high-rated answers, I was again reading the comments and clicked on &quot;more comments&quot; only to have the same thing happen again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was no explanation comment left behind, not even a &quot;Moved to chat&quot; or &quot;Deleted: canned explanation&quot;. If the comments were all off-topic, or terrible, or otherwise useless perhaps that could be understandable. But I know that at least some of the comments were specifically appropriate comment uses, such as explaining a down-vote - specifically what comments &lt;em&gt;are for&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were these comments all deleted? If so, were appropriate comments simply and unfortunately swept up in a mass delete because of other lesser quality comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand completely that &quot;comments are transient and should not be expected to be permanent entities,&quot; but neither should we expect them to simply vanish without a trace, especially at the whim of a drive-by deleter, so I am not sure if this was perhaps a bug that lost comments or a deliberate action. So the tag might get changed to &lt;code&gt;bug&lt;/code&gt; depending on how the discussion goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question received the &quot;possible duplicate&quot; banner for me, suggesting it is the same as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2987&quot;&gt;Reason for deleting comments?&lt;/a&gt;. I have clicked the &quot;This is not the same question&quot; link since the answer to that question would not sufficiently answer this question. Someone stating the guidelines for what comments are and what comments are not would &lt;em&gt;by itself&lt;/em&gt; not answer my question at all, and what is left of the answer for that question addresses the specific issues of that other Q&amp;amp;A thread which, by definition, do not address the specific issues of the Q&amp;amp;A thread questioned here. Since reading that other answer would not have answered this question, I have marked it as &quot;not a duplicate&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63534" LastEditorUserId="63534" LastEditDate="2018-01-26T17:33:19.043" LastActivityDate="2018-01-28T02:56:16.117" Title="All comments for a Q&amp;A disappearing with no explanation" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2018-01-28T12:33:47.773" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5029" CreationDate="2018-01-25T20:57:45.363" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Were these comments all deleted? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If so, were appropriate comments simply and unfortunately swept up in a mass delete because of other lesser quality comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were no appropriate comments there as far as I can see. While I didn't delete them, I would have done the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are intended to request clarification from the OP and little else. We might give very useful comments that are in a gray area a pass but typically when comments reach critical mass we either Move to Chat (and delete) or just delete (&quot;purge&quot;) all the comments. Sometimes we undelete useful comments. Very often there's nothing worth keeping. Very rarely we forget to undelete something useful or delete something that had value. But that's not what happened here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments on answers are a bit different, as are our reasons for why we might decide to purge a thread. Typically we do so when a comment chain has devolved into bickering or has otherwise become unproductive. On the answer you were looking at a few users disagreed with the advice given and a discussion followed that seems to have had run its course and where we all that could really be done by the users involved is agree to disagree. At that point we typically purge threads to avoid things spiralling (further) out of control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good place to start reading up on comments on Workplace is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;&quot;What comments are not...&quot;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I understand completely that &quot;comments are transient and should not be expected to be permanent entities,&quot; but neither should we expect them to simply vanish without a trace&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, that's exactly what &quot;comments are transient&quot; means. They vanish without a trace. No one except for moderators can &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267887/can-high-rep-users-see-deleted-comments&quot;&gt;see deleted comments&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;especially at the whim of a drive-by deleter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, those &quot;drive-by deleters&quot; are community-elected moderators like myself. We aren't hacking away at comments for the fun of it. Comment cleanup is the mod task that we on Workplace probably spend most of our time on. This site tends to get rather verbose. We delete comments en masse to avoid turning this into shouting match or forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;when I clicked on the &quot;more comments&quot; link the comments all disappeared, leaving 0 comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's due to how Stack Exchange handle page updates. While you get a notification that new answers or comments where added, there's no such immediate feedback for deleted questions. While you were looking at the post a moderator purged the thread so as soon as you try to load the comments they'll disappear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2018-01-25T21:06:21.533" LastActivityDate="2018-01-25T21:06:21.533" CommentCount="29" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5029" CreationDate="2018-01-26T19:29:56.890" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just shoveled all the comments on the answer, including previously-deleted ones, into a chat room.  You can decide for yourself what of it is of value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE does encourage explanations of downvotes.  The problem is when the explanation itself asserts a position -- which somebody (the post author or otherwise) then feels the need to respond to, and then somebody responds to &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;, and then we have a discussion or argument in the comments.  If we leave the explanation we get accused of bias (&quot;you kept his opinion but not mine!&quot;).  If we flush or even move it all we get accused of censorship.  (Yeah, I've lost track of the number of times I've been accused of censorship for &lt;em&gt;relocating comments to publicly-visible chat&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The best way to ensure that your downvote explanation remains is to focus on improving the post.&lt;/strong&gt; Instead of saying &quot;you're wrong because (300 characters of strong opinion)&quot;, try to &lt;em&gt;ask questions&lt;/em&gt; like &quot;how do you account for (problem)?&quot; or &quot;what is your source for X?&quot;, or &lt;em&gt;request changes&lt;/em&gt; (&quot;can you explain that part about X more clearly?&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are not your soapbox for opinions and arguments.  That doesn't mean you can't raise issues with a post, though -- just be sure to focus it on improving the post, not winning points for your side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an ironic twist, the comments on Lilienthal's answer to this meta question are out of control and attracting flags.  I'm just gonna let that stand as an object lesson for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-01-28T02:56:16.117" LastActivityDate="2018-01-28T02:56:16.117" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5032" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-29T06:06:00.520" Score="6" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's almost February in 2018, which isn't supposed to be the proper time to cycle these, but for this year it'll be once again, so we'll be refreshing the &lt;strong&gt;Community Promotion Ads&lt;/strong&gt; for this year now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;at-the-office story blogs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/5032&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastActivityDate="2021-01-07T16:53:30.223" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2018" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2019-02-07T13:38:38.370" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5032" CreationDate="2018-01-29T06:06:00.520" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/StackWorkplace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DGvra.png&quot; alt=&quot;Help this community grow -- follow us on twitter!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T06:06:00.520" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5032" CreationDate="2018-01-29T17:36:37.273" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/110851/sales-and-marketing&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qNohH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Support a SE for Sales and Marketing&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;(source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.stackexchange.com/ads/proposal/110851.png&quot;&gt;stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2115" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2021-01-07T16:53:30.223" LastActivityDate="2021-01-07T16:53:30.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5037" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-02T12:38:34.020" Score="15" ViewCount="616" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think a question is trolling is it fair to VTC (Vote To Close)?  If so what reason should be checked? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to link the question as I don't want to get into a discussion on if that question is trolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26028" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-03-30T12:53:11.533" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T12:53:11.533" Title="Fair to VTC for trolling" Tags="|discussion|trolling|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5037" CreationDate="2018-02-02T12:56:35.180" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, it is fair.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case I believe that a question is most likely ( 95% or higher )  trolling or spam, I will either FLAG it as SPAM or I will use the VTC close reason of &lt;strong&gt;OTHER&lt;/strong&gt; option and write an appropriate comment.  I consider both to be garbage that needs to ultimately be &lt;strong&gt;DELETED&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will use the reason of &quot;&lt;em&gt;Voting to close because I believe you are trolling&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: The &lt;strong&gt;SPAM&lt;/strong&gt; reason is within the &lt;strong&gt;FLAG a question option&lt;/strong&gt;.  I still think that &lt;strong&gt;maybe&lt;/strong&gt; we should consider &lt;em&gt;TROLLING&lt;/em&gt; as a reason to close a question too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2018-02-02T17:12:02.537" LastActivityDate="2018-02-02T17:12:02.537" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5037" CreationDate="2018-02-02T18:53:31.040" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First a question is not a trolling attempt.  The OP asking the question was the attempt.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126829/what-is-serial-voting-and-how-does-it-affect-me&quot;&gt;We do not allow voting based on our dislike of the person posting&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A troll can, and in a few cases have, actually asked some really interesting questions here.  I'll not bother listing them as most of them are in the top of the voted questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reasons to vote to close are listed.  If someone suspects you are abusing your voting privileges they can report it and it is possible that you could face some sort of penalty should the powers that be deem it severe enough.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way to judge the fitness of the question is on its merits.  If there is a problem with the question that is causing conflict (rollbacks, and comment arguing about the content) then that is a reason to put it on hold.  But if the question is otherwise fine and on topic then it should be left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SE Encourages WHITE HAT Trolling.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By this I mean it is encouraged to ask questions that you find interesting, that you will believe will be helpful and interesting to the community.  Some of our most often used close questions are the results of these efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/3492/16&quot;&gt;Is it rude to leave an interview early if you have already made your decision?&lt;/a&gt; - Was asked after a discussion in the Chat room.  No one was actually facing that dilemma.  It was expected that it may be controversial, and it was one of our first HNQ and we were excited about it.  And I still maintain it is and excellent question for the site.  And it is Trolling by definition, a question asked to get attention, cause controversy, that doesn't solve an actual problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/9128/16&quot;&gt;How can I prepare for getting hit by a bus?&lt;/a&gt; - Was written as though the OP were trying to be a troll.  It was a tongue and cheek nod to the effectiveness of the trolling techniques in delivering the narratives.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What should I do if I see a suspected Troll Question?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is a non duplicate otherwise On-Topic and plausible question.  Assume best intentions and invest your time in crafting an answer or contributing to the question based on your value of its merit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the Question is causing problems for some reason Flag the question for moderator attention.  The moderators will take action as necessary.  I have seen SE Overloards step in early in the life of a question when the user had been disruptive on several sites.  Allow SE to handle these exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If SE Fails to address the problem still, Bring it to Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this is the standard operating procedure for SE.  There is not any valid reason why this percieved problem needs an alternate workflow.  There is no workflow suggested that would be able to objectively measure if a question is a &quot;Troll Question&quot; or not.  If there is then suggest that on Meta.Stackexchange.com.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Using Meta to raise a virtual Lynching party against people who do not use the site in the manner you would like is not an acceptable method of dealing with this!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2018-02-05T18:47:54.113" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T18:47:54.113" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5040" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-03T09:00:11.110" Score="-6" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/106016/3192&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; question is closed as off-topic with a note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Questions asking for advice on a specific choice, such as what job to take or what skills to learn, are difficult to answer objectively and are rarely useful for anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not think the OP is asking for specific choice or career/skills advice. He/she is asking how to resolve a specific workplace situation which I thought is exactly what happens on this site in pretty much every valid WP question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some concerns that the question can be a troll and if the question is closed under that suspicion then shouldn't it be explicitly stated that way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66920" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-02-03T16:37:05.727" LastActivityDate="2018-03-08T15:59:25.777" Title="Why is this question about eating coworkers' lunch closed as off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|on-topic-definition|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5040" CreationDate="2018-02-03T17:57:47.947" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is neither &quot;off-topic&quot; nor &quot;trolling&quot; nor is the question fundamentally flawed because of the trivial semantics of &quot;should I&quot; vs &quot;how do I&quot;. It is a perfectly fine question about a type of misunderstanding that CAN HAPPEN in workplaces when folks from different cultures converge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that some people here are so rigid in their thinking, they simply can't fathom how someone with a very different cultural background could get confused about something like lunch. Well, it happens. The workplace isn't limited to Americans in American workplaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7572" LastActivityDate="2018-02-03T17:57:47.947" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5018" CreationDate="2018-02-04T01:28:53.233" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another reason is coming to the site, I have a link in an email I use all the time, so whenever I come to stackexchange I use it. This means that question has probably a thousand views from me alone. It's my point of entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-02-04T01:28:53.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5018" CreationDate="2018-02-04T20:29:56.010" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your assumption is simply wrong. :o)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Benford's law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Zipf's law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pareto distribution&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially it says that the normal case is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; an equally distributed&#xA;distribution as laymen would expect, but in fact very few posts with a very&#xA;large count, a minority of posts having approximately 80% of all votes and a sizable majority of questions 80% with only 20% of votes. In fact these laws are used to statistically detect human fraud because people do not know how it really works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackexchange groups in general align perfectly with the expected count and are therefore healthy and alive. Sorry for throwing statistics at you at workplace meta, but I could not resist. :o)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34330" LastActivityDate="2018-02-04T20:29:56.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5040" CreationDate="2018-02-05T00:38:06.740" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of right now, I see only two possible questions asked in that post, first one is in the title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should I tell other employees I've been eating their lunch by mistake?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is clearly a &quot;should I...?&quot; question, which is asking us to &lt;strong&gt;make a choice&lt;/strong&gt; for OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This choice can either be a &quot;yes you should&quot; or &quot;no you shouldn't&quot; (where each possible answer would be too polarized and contradict each other), or well a &quot;should I do X, Y, ..., Z?&quot; were the answers are being biased or forced into those limited categories (thus limiting the freedom of answerers to actually give their suggestions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it best to tell people?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides being highly opinion-based, this question is also a &quot;should I&quot; question in disguise, as it is expecting a &quot;yes you should tell&quot; or &quot;no don't tell&quot; answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given these facts, &lt;strong&gt;it seems to me that the close reason is not wrong or unusual&lt;/strong&gt;, as it present many characteristics of an off-topic question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T00:38:06.740" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5040" CreationDate="2018-02-05T17:06:32.017" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/106016/5&quot;&gt;edited the question&lt;/a&gt; to remove the trollbaits and generalized it to make it more useful to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-03-08T15:59:25.777" LastActivityDate="2018-03-08T15:59:25.777" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5046" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5048" CreationDate="2018-02-06T08:54:16.367" Score="4" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5037/fair-to-vtc-for-trolling#comment14652_5038&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; and viewed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/77797/daniel-grover&quot;&gt;user's profile&lt;/a&gt;, the quote they've attached to their profile is a bit rude. Do we mind that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we don't want that, could an admin please update it to something nicer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52713" LastActivityDate="2018-02-06T16:56:35.780" Title="Change user's profile text" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5037" CreationDate="2018-02-06T13:59:03.443" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because motivation should not play a role in evaluating the validity of a question. If the question and subsequent answers provides value to the community, it does not matter if the OP put it there to provoke or if he was seeking help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it does not provide value, then some of the other closing reasons will apply&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71695" LastActivityDate="2018-02-06T13:59:03.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5046" CreationDate="2018-02-06T16:56:35.780" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a bit rude, and if it were in a post or comment gratuitously it'd be flag-worthy, but in general, SE lets people use their profiles as they like so long as they aren't &lt;em&gt;blatantly&lt;/em&gt; offensive.  The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/231362/162102&quot;&gt;official guidance&lt;/a&gt; includes the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Generally speaking, your &quot;about me&quot; is just that—what you want to share with the world, and we try to allow users a good bit of freedom there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;However, in the rare cases where what's there is likely to be truly offensive to large groups of seemingly reasonable people, we may not allow it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this expansion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We will probably not allow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Most terms or statements that directly malign (non-famous) individuals&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Any terms or statements that imply something derogatory about a racial, ethnic, religious, gender or sexual orientation group&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Things that are likely to be strong emotional triggers (like rape, suicide, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Statements that appear to be demonstrably libelous&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We will probably allow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Things groups or individuals would vehemently disagree with, but don't seem to directly malign them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text in the profile in question is: &quot;I dun hacked into your shit, bitch!&quot;  Mild profanity has been allowed to stand in profiles before and it doesn't appear to be a specific attack against a person or group, so meh.  If that's how this user wants to present himself to the world, it's on him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for raising the concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-02-06T16:56:35.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5049" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5050" CreationDate="2018-02-07T13:28:54.387" Score="9" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/106270/how-to-deal-with-people-dismissing-ideas-and-technology-based-on-personal-opinio&quot;&gt;How can I overcome objections based on opinion and not merit?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was surprised to wake up this morning to a closed as unclear question more because I have no idea why people think its unclear. I got several comments that suggest they know what I was talking about. Yes, I think one of the answers got it wrong but that is only because I don't think the whole of my question was read. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The core of my question is about how to communicate effectively when the other party is being dismissive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said It might have taken too long to get that point across and easily lost people given the votes. I didn't want it to seem like I was singling someone out but I wanted to provide concrete examples. This is still a problem I would like to have fixed and I don't know exactly what is wrong since I read it again and it makes sense to &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do to make it clearer to others? What should I remove? What do I need to add or change? I don't just want it reopened. I would like to fix it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cut out most of what was seen as distractions from the heart of the question. I also reformatted the title a little better. I am going to leave notes for the currents answers in case they think their responses should change. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51225" LastEditorUserId="51225" LastEditDate="2018-02-08T01:41:33.040" LastActivityDate="2018-02-08T01:41:33.040" Title="How can I make my &quot;Director's opinionated views&quot; question clearer?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5049" CreationDate="2018-02-07T15:35:09.387" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh for goodness sake, don't add anything.  Part of the problem is it's long and meandering as it is.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How to deal with&quot; is going to confuse people because it's not clear what you want.  Do you want help coping with a problem that isn't going to change?  Do you want advice on how to address this with the individual?  Do you want persuasive arguments to get him to change?  Very unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you go on to describe one issue re: budget and another re: tech.  There is no focus to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make the question closer to something you'd post on Stack Overflow, in other words&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be concise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be brief&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be direct&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Omit unnecessary details (anything that does not have specific relevance to the question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Show effort (what you've done to try to mitigate the problem)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2018-02-07T15:40:50.330" LastActivityDate="2018-02-07T15:40:50.330" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5037" CreationDate="2018-02-12T16:43:57.087" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel trolling should be closed.  It is hard to be sure if they are trolling so I give them the benefit of the doubt.  A user with a rep of 1 I give less benefit of the doubt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the tour &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Real problems or questions that you’ve encountered pertaining to a workplace.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me by definition trolling is not real problems or questions encountered in the workplace.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The common definition of trolling is to intentional piss people off. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the context of this site I would include:   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Outlandish / unbelievable scenarios.  I just makes a mockery of a site&#xA;trying to solve real workplace questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Intentional use of controversial examples designed to elicit&#xA;discussion when the controversial example was not required for the&#xA;question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is difference between troll and trolling. Trolling is the act (the post).  Troll can be a noun the person or a verb the act. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that the reason can be Too Broad or explicitly state &quot;I feel you are trolling.&quot;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is repeated behavior then they are a troll. In that case I would flag a moderator so they can consider locking the account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26028" LastActivityDate="2018-02-12T16:43:57.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5037" CreationDate="2018-02-12T18:16:40.017" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vote based on content, not assumed motives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is so outlandish that you suspect trolling, if it lacks essential details, if it's more of a rant than a question, then it doesn't matter if it's a troll or a genuine user who's really terrible at communication.  Either way, if we can't answer it in its current form and can't just edit to fix the problems, we should put it on hold.  If the OP responds, we can work with him to fix the question -- or not, if he doesn't supply what's needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a troll manages to ask a genuinely useful question -- which might become genuinely useful only after a community edit, which anybody can do or suggest -- then the question is useful and we should leave it open.  I don't care what the asker's motives were in that case.  A lot of the joy of trolling comes from &quot;getting away&quot; with dumping crap and sensation on a site, so it won't be much fun when we edit the crap and de-sensationalize the question.  Site 1, troll 0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the claim in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5039/325&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; that SE encourages &quot;white-hat trolling&quot;.  SE encourages people to ask real questions about problems they've actually encountered, and also (secondarily) encourages canonical questions for common or important situations.  Neither of those is trolling; the goal of trolling is disruption, not knowledge.  &lt;strong&gt;A question that's not about a problem you have is not automatically trolling&lt;/strong&gt;, &quot;white-hat&quot; or otherwise.  Most trolling involves problems the author doesn't actually have, but that doesn't mean you can reverse the logic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-02-12T18:28:33.067" LastActivityDate="2018-02-12T18:28:33.067" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5054" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-15T14:27:19.707" Score="7" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had a few questions recently asking for workplace definitons, you can see them under the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminology&quot;&gt;terminology&lt;/a&gt;. However users regularly vote to close them under the close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations... Questions&#xA;  seeking legal advice...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See these questions for examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/106332/what-is-a-frontline-worker&quot;&gt;What is a “Frontline Worker”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/106676/what-does-disciplinary-action-usually-mean&quot;&gt;What does “disciplinary action” usually mean?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really agree with the close reason, as these terms aren't company specific and I can't see it as asking for legal advice. However, in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;what's on topic section&lt;/a&gt; it makes no mention either way if they are or are not on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, can users ask questions about workplace terminology definitions? Do we consider them on topic? Should we be directing them to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;English Language and Usage site&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52713" LastActivityDate="2018-02-16T07:49:50.573" Title="Are workplace definitions off topic here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5054" CreationDate="2018-02-15T18:33:31.543" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given all the posts we already close/close &amp;amp; Delete, I don't think defining terms would be a terrible thing to take on.  If it's asked a second time, it will get closed as a duplicate&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-02-15T18:33:31.543" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5054" CreationDate="2018-02-16T07:49:50.573" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doubt we'll arrive at consensus on this, it's rather situational. I personally consider most such questions off-topic. Usually it's either an English language question or the OP is actually asking because he wants to know how &lt;em&gt;a particular company&lt;/em&gt; uses the term, which we can't possibly answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange doesn't have a concept of questions that are &quot;too simple&quot; so basic and general questions like &quot;&lt;em&gt;What is an open plan office?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; are answerable and can be argued to be on topic. At the same time our scope typically specifies looking for answers to practical problems and otherwise navigating the workplace in practical ways which is another reason questions like this are usually not that well received. Though I think basic questions like these can have value despite being largely theoretical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, I'd say you'd have to evaluate each question on its own merits. Some questions will invite substantial and useful answers that can help someone navigate a workplace. A large majority will have dubious value and should be closed, improved or redirected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2018-02-16T07:49:50.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5057" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-17T16:31:01.703" Score="2" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/106721/16&quot;&gt;Female colleague is touchy-feely with everyone in the office&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have a female colleague who is very touchy-feely with everyone at&#xA;  the office. I tried to not get bothered by it, but it has gone to the&#xA;  point where when I step into the office, it's almost like being in the&#xA;  middle of an adult movie. Recently I saw her sitting on the armrest of&#xA;  a chair a male colleague was sitting in. This annoys me a lot and I&#xA;  don't know what to do about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the whole content of the question.  The core of the question is good, but perhaps too broad.  It is essentially, &quot;Is this something I can do anything about, and how do I go about doing that?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not seeing a question that actually covers this specific scenario.  But I also do not think this question is of high enough quality to keep around in its current form.  And it is receiving reopen votes.  So it would be nice to address this question before it gets reopened.   I suspect this is a duplicate if not lets make it a question worth having on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2018-02-17T19:58:59.267" Title="How can we fix this question? (Touchy feely female colleague)" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5057" CreationDate="2018-02-17T17:34:24.817" Score="3" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first thing which needs to be added is in which relation (superior, colleague) the person is to the colleague in question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The second thing would be if he/she is just annoyed by it (well, sorry) or if he/she sees effects in the office.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And then it would be very interesting to hear about the general setting in the office.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49974" LastActivityDate="2018-02-17T17:34:24.817" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5057" CreationDate="2018-02-17T19:58:59.267" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing we can do until the OP responds to clarify a few things. Most importantly is whether this colleague is being &quot;touchy-feely&quot; with the OP as well or if they have just witnessed it happening. The points Sascha asks about would also be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is happening to the OP and they feel their space is invaded, then that could be considered harassment and needs to be brought up. If the OP is simply uncomfortable witnessing consensual flirting between colleagues, then the answers could range from &quot;mind your own business&quot; to having a boss talk to the pair about appropriate office behavior. There's a wide variety of possibilities, which we just can't address right now without making some large guesses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-02-17T19:58:59.267" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5060" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-18T10:12:26.687" Score="-2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this questions fits this community however I am interested in some stories or people whom done this kind of change. By relaxed environment I mean no teams doing overtime, no manager screaming at you, more relaxed co workers who don't give their blood for the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82984" LastActivityDate="2018-02-18T12:59:42.133" Title="Have you ever changed your job for a slight cut in pay but for a more relaxed/friendlier environment?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-02-19T03:03:15.443" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5060" CreationDate="2018-02-18T12:59:42.133" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking for stories would be off topic.  Asking how to present it to the potential new employer at the interview would be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be possible for a single comprehensive answer to give someone in that situation enough information to make a decision on how to proceed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="271" LastActivityDate="2018-02-18T12:59:42.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5062" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5063" CreationDate="2018-02-20T19:56:48.027" Score="2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/105896/how-commonly-used-is-the-bradford-factor&quot;&gt;How Commonly Used is the Bradford Factor?&lt;/a&gt;, was closed for being primarily opinion based (though I think it also got a few votes for being too broad). I can't seem to figure out what is too opinion-based or too broad about it. Although any question about common practice is somewhat opinion-based, there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=&amp;quot;how+common&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;a great number&lt;/a&gt; of questions asking if X is common practice that weren't closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67057" LastEditorUserId="67057" LastEditDate="2018-02-20T21:04:33.677" LastActivityDate="2018-02-21T00:18:46.167" Title="Why is my question opinion-based?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5062" CreationDate="2018-02-20T20:47:07.293" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a difference between &quot;Is this common&quot; and &quot;How common is this&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How common is this?&quot; got the &quot;too broad&quot; closure votes because it's &lt;strong&gt;STILL&lt;/strong&gt; too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be very common in blue collar work, but not in white collar work, or in certain states, or certain nations, or even certain industries within certain states.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yes either opinion based, or too broad fits in this instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To elucidate a bit: (from comments) The first, &quot;is this common&quot;, asks a simple question, which does not call for a quantifiable answer. you can answer &quot;yes, it is&quot; or &quot;I see it all the time&quot;. The latter asks for a quantifiable answer: &quot;It has found penetration in no less than 72% of the workplace&quot;. In the former, someone can answer &quot;Yes, I've seen it occasionally&quot; or &quot;Never heard of it&quot;, in the latter, again, you're asking for something quantifiable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2018-02-20T22:10:44.157" LastActivityDate="2018-02-20T22:10:44.157" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5062" CreationDate="2018-02-21T00:18:46.167" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can not answer how common it is because how &quot;common&quot; something is is a bad subjective question.  This is because common is a very relative term.  If a major employer in the area uses the formula there is a good chance that other employers in the area emulate that because its already something that a good portion of the population understands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have edited the question to ask for specific examples of major companies that make use of the formula and how it is implemented in their policies.  I think this will help get you the information you are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2018-02-21T00:18:46.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5065" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5067" CreationDate="2018-02-23T14:29:31.537" Score="2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/107127/what-are-the-problems-with-asking-my-employer-to-work-less-than-40-hours-per-wee&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which has been closed as off topic for being about company regulations or legal advice. However, I believe it's neither, they are asking what are the possible repercussions of asking for a reduced working week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a common practice with a lot of companies, and although some will have specific clauses about working a reduced week, it's not company specific asking what the consequences of working a reduced week could be and I feel is very company agnostic. Can we get it re-opened please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52713" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-02-27T15:28:38.517" LastActivityDate="2018-02-27T15:28:38.517" Title="(Done) Re-open &quot;What are the problems with asking my employer to work less than 40 hours per week?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5066" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5068" CreationDate="2018-02-24T14:46:37.243" Score="5" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/107197/3192&quot;&gt;Lost important office documents. How to properly handle the situation?&lt;/a&gt; was closed for lacking a goal we can address. I have edited the post to include a useful question. This situation can arise commonly enough in the workplace, so knowing how to deal with it would be useful to several people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The natural reaction to this situation from a lot of people would be to panic and try to hide it, which will only make matters worse. Hence, an answer stating what to do instead would be beneficial. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please cast reopen votes if you agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="7260" LastEditDate="2018-03-05T15:17:19.703" LastActivityDate="2018-03-05T15:17:19.703" Title="(Done) Request to reopen question on handling missing office documents" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5065" CreationDate="2018-02-26T13:27:41.130" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-02-26T13:27:41.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5066" CreationDate="2018-02-26T13:29:15.030" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-02-26T13:29:15.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5069" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5071" CreationDate="2018-02-27T12:10:00.123" Score="4" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/107260/new-supposedly-experienced-software-developer-disrupting-my-existing-work-in-vol&quot;&gt;New supposedly experienced software developer disrupting my existing work in volunteer organisation&lt;/a&gt; is closed because &quot;Questions require a goal that we can address&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does this question not have a goal? The last sentence explicitly states a goal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I regain credibility and convince them Steve is actively disrupting my work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44419" LastEditorUserId="7260" LastEditDate="2018-03-05T15:17:00.057" LastActivityDate="2018-03-05T15:17:00.057" Title="(Reopened) How does this question not have a goal?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5069" CreationDate="2018-02-27T18:30:25.063" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per now, &lt;strong&gt;the question has been reopened.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I agree in part with Masked Man's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5070/73791&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;; saying &lt;em&gt;&quot;and convince them Steve is actively disrupting my work&quot;&lt;/em&gt; could be a bit biased, or at least assuming that Steve is actually doing that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By phrasing it that way you are passively rejecting alternate answers you may get, with other points of view to give a comprehensive and complete analysis of the situation. In other words, you are not open to the possibility of alternate courses of action that do not require to actively expose your coworker's behavior (you are saying &lt;em&gt;&quot;Steve is wrong, how can I convince them of such&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, but leave no room for other analysis).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the question is now open, but for future reference I suggest you phrase your question in a more neutral or open way, so it does not sound biased or like a false premise, and also so you get more answers to consider as many scenarios as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-02-27T18:30:25.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5072" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-27T19:57:32.583" Score="-4" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/107217/8146&quot;&gt;is this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At heart, it has a definite problem (OP wants to create more camaraderie in the team). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't describe it as too broad, but happy to hear other thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was any more specific (&quot;Gary only likes talking about hamsters, Jen had a traumatic vision one day and only talks to the ghosts she sees, how can i encourage more camaraderie&quot;) then it would be too specific to be of any use to anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's useful having a &quot;how do i do soft-skills thing&quot; as a workplace issue, especially given that so many questions are about soft-skills here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;dissuades current users from asking that question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;creates a culture where new users who ask this kind of question will not be embraced by the community&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, some of the comments border on being surprisingly rude, I'm unsure what inspired such invective from the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find a group of drama queens to work with&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are you just sticking your nose in other people's business&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastActivityDate="2018-02-28T09:26:32.927" Title="Can we discuss this question please?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5072" CreationDate="2018-02-28T09:26:32.927" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Soft skills questions are not bad &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt;, but they only really work on the site when there is a fairly specific situation and goal that we can address or if it's a specific aspect that they want help with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The linked question was bad because it was a nebulous request for advice as to how to get his coworkers to share their &quot;emotional&quot; side without any indication of an &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; impact this lack of &quot;emotional&quot; sharing was having on the work, in fact if anything the OP seemed to be indicating that communication about the &lt;em&gt;work&lt;/em&gt; was already happening - they just wanted the emotional side because of &quot;synergy&quot; apparently which sounds like a flimsy cover for basically trying to pressure people into sharing personal information to satisfy their own needs or curiosity perhaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP gave no indication of what his relative position to these other group members is which would make a huge difference to any meaningful answer as to how and what they could do anyway, and ignored a comment asking for clarification on that from Tinkeringbell and to cap it off they were borderline rude in response to Tinkeringbell's answer because it wasn't what they wanted to hear. So it was a &lt;strong&gt;bad&lt;/strong&gt; question on here - maybe a variant would gain better traction over on IPS, I honestly don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-02-28T09:26:32.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5077" CreationDate="2018-02-28T19:57:26.303" Score="1" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/107212/8146&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; has been marked as &quot;unclear what you're asking for&quot;. Even a cursory glance at the question indicated that OP is trying to handle a difficult colleague. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems the sort of thing we would normally handle here in the workplace, yet I cannot vote to have it re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastActivityDate="2018-03-02T07:22:31.613" Title="Why is this question locked?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5074" CreationDate="2018-02-28T20:20:21.850" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason you cannot vote to reopen is because it was a migrated question. If a migrated question is closed at the new site, then it is considered a rejected migration. This is explained in  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/10250/260884&quot;&gt;this Meta FAQ post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A question can also be rejected by the target community after it has already been migrated if it gets closed (except as a duplicate) or deleted on the target site. When a question which was already migrated gets rejected later, the entire process of the migration is reversed, except the original question will remain closed as off-topic. All the answers are returned to the origin site and undeleted* and are subsequently deleted on the target site. Also, the rejected question on the target site will be locked, then automatically deleted 30 days later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why this particular question was closed, there are a couple reasons. First is that the original version of the question was asking for a legal definition, which is explicitly off-topic here. It likely received one or two close votes for that reason. Second is that the question was poorly written, so it isn't clear to everyone what exactly the OP wants to achieve. Yes, the difficult colleague is obvious, but the desired outcome is not, particularly when reading the original version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The normal procedure for a poorly written question is to close it, edit it into shape, and then vote to reopen once it has been fixed. Unfortunately since this is a migrated question, there is no option to edit and reopen. If it had been posted on our site originally, it may have been saved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-02-28T20:20:21.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5074" CreationDate="2018-02-28T20:44:50.920" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, that's a migration.  They can be weird.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I unlocked it so you (or anybody else) can edit and vote now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community almost immediately deleted it instead.  As I explained &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/107212/professional-ethical-violation-in-emails#comment334488_107212&quot;&gt;in a comment there&lt;/a&gt;, I undeleted it &lt;strong&gt;to allow people to fix and reopen it if possible&lt;/strong&gt;.  If that doesn't happen we can always delete it later, but the OP has already gotten bounced around a lot here so let's not make that worse just yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-02-28T21:33:35.143" LastActivityDate="2018-02-28T21:33:35.143" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5074" CreationDate="2018-03-01T16:18:22.617" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt; After the question got unlocked (twice), undeleted (twice) and reopened, it was edited to reintroduce the unsubstantiated and unnecessary complaints against the colleague, which I had edited out. As a result, I no longer stand by the reopen vote, but unfortunately I cannot vote to close it again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will vote to delete the question again if that option becomes available. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/107212/4&quot;&gt;edited the question&lt;/a&gt; and cast a reopen vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I removed the negative description of the colleague (difficult person, jealousy, hostile) which was contributing nothing constructive to the post. Asking us to legally define jealousy is explicitly off-topic here, so I removed that as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-03-02T07:22:31.613" LastActivityDate="2018-03-02T07:22:31.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5074" CreationDate="2018-03-01T17:40:46.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;How many times is this thing going to get undeleted?  Why are we even here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-03-01T17:40:46.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5080" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-03T16:25:12.693" Score="1" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;When browsing workspace, I often stumble upon &quot;HR is not your friend&quot; meme, often bolded, and practically never followed by any explanation (see for example here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/96977/64225&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/96977/64225&lt;/a&gt;) .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the origin of that meme and what is the explanation of it (if any)? I'm confused with such generalization, especially that it doesn't match my experiences. Such meme seems to ignore the fact that HR people are the same employees as others, and therefore, it is in their interest to represent the interest of the workers, and not the abstract company (sitting on the same horse). Most of them are not psychopaths as well, from my experience they've had less psychopathic traits as people from other departments (they are chosen for their soft skills after all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this just an annoying meme, or it has at least some background? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64225" LastActivityDate="2018-03-03T17:12:31.833" Title="The story behind &quot;HR is not your friend&quot; meme" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5080" CreationDate="2018-03-03T17:12:31.833" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;HR is not your friend.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; is not a &quot;meme&quot; that we invented here at Workplace.SE, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=HR+is+not+your+friend&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the most popular internet search can easily confirm&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Such meme seems to ignore the fact that HR people are the same employees as others, and therefore, it is in their interest to represent the interest of the workers, and not the abstract company (sitting on the same horse)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Empirical evidence suggests that the vast majority of employees have a strong preference for getting their salary/wages paid. The nice thing about being an employee is that you get paid for doing your job, and thus, it is in your best interest to do your job. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HR's job is to protect the company's interests, for which the company pays them. This doesn't mean HR never represent the employees' interests. The company's interests and the employees' interests are not always mutually exclusive, and they can frequently overlap. In those cases, of course, it would appear that the HR is representing the employees' interests. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do agree that the choice of words has an unnecessary negative connotation. HR is not out there to get you. HR is not your friend, but HR is not your enemy either. The following choice of words would be more realistic and less controversial: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;HR is just doing their job.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HR is not your career coach, HR is not a shoulder for you to cry on, HR is not your guardian angel. It is important that employees realize this before they go knocking at the doors of HR, so that they can have a realistic outlook on the expected outcome. Perhaps the choice of words &quot;HR is not your friend&quot; was deliberately done to get people to take the message seriously.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-03-03T17:12:31.833" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5082" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-04T16:14:27.200" Score="2" ViewCount="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see you already have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2694/34374&quot;&gt;a meta post&lt;/a&gt; explaining how to edit a question to remove &quot;company specific&quot; elements. I understand this rule is to prevent questions and answers which are only helpful to the OP, however I imagine a great deal of people coming here will have questions which are at their core &quot;company specific&quot;, but it's likely possible to be able to make them more generalised.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this is &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; place for getting help with company related matters in the workplace, it would be good to focus on steering people down the right path with regards &quot;company specific&quot;. This helps the OP, others seeking guidance, and the site having less moderation to do (etc).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I have a couple of suggestions:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Tweak the rule to give a little advice to what is a complicated off topic rule with grey areas:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking company-specific advice on workplace regulations or&#xA;  policies, or legal advice. &lt;em&gt;Instead, make your question more generalised so&#xA;  it's useful to future visitors. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2694/34374&quot;&gt;Read more about it here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know reading all the rules makes them all clear as a whole, but I think it'd be beneficial for this specific rule being made more clear in more areas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think when you've been here a while and have absorbed how everything works it's easy to feel such things are obvious, but often they're not, or at least how to work with specific rules.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also suggest adding the link to the &quot;company specific&quot; meta help answer in the &quot;off topic&quot; flag, and perhaps tweaking it slightly to explain questions can be ok if less localised. Currently it just advises speaking with the manager, which just pushes them away:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements,&#xA;  or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department.&#xA;  Questions that address only a specific company or position are of&#xA;  limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should&#xA;  be directed to legal professionals. For more information, click here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest something like:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements,&#xA;  or policies are not answerable or are of limited use to future&#xA;  visitors. You can edit the question to remove company specific&#xA;  elements and make it more generalised. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2694/34374&quot;&gt;Read more about it here&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;  Otherwise your question should be directed to your manager or HR&#xA;  department. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that I removed the legal close reason.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;You don't have many off topic close flags at preset, and it's more logical to close for &quot;this is company specific&quot; OR &quot;we don't answer legal stuff&quot;, but both in one close message sends mixed messages.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This allows the off topic message about &quot;company related&quot; to be more precise and informative, and perhaps a little more info on the separate legal close reason, to also make it more informative and not paired with an unrelated close reason.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get that this is a substantial change being suggested.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &quot;On Topic&quot; rules state:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leadership in the workplace (motivating people, encouraging people,&#xA;  making decisions, holding hard conversations, intervening in&#xA;  unproductive situations, asking for and giving help)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of those allowed topics above have the potential to be &quot;company-specific&quot; (off topic rule), and there will be many people wanting help with the above &quot;On Topic&quot; items where they ask in a way it's localised to their company.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;So the suggestions may help bring about good questions from those areas which otherwise would have just been shut down for being off topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Try to fix them:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure many people do, I'm just bringing the point up here as it's entirely relevant.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question being &quot;company specific&quot; doesn't mean it cannot be rescued rather than closed. If there's not a current obvious dupe, look to see if the question can be edited to easily remove the localisation of the problem from a company specific issue. And generalise the question so answers would help others in other scenarios.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously this wont always be possible, or will be too much work.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the question and title made more generic, answers can be given that'd help many people. And instead of just closing new questions that are &quot;company specific&quot;, they can now be duped with the relevant Q&amp;amp;A that you made generic.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will build up a solid collection of Q&amp;amp;As and various scenarios indexed and searchable leading to the same great answers. This also helps stop people raising dupes, which they may do when a previous similar one is closed, rather than duped to a question that answers theirs too so their can also be duped.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34374" LastActivityDate="2018-03-04T16:14:27.200" Title="Give more info around the site on how to make a question less company specific" Tags="|discussion|flagging|offtopic|help-center|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5083" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-04T18:22:31.883" Score="2" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/107583/working-with-defensive-colleague&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is closed for &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;. I read and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/68653&quot;&gt;edited the question&lt;/a&gt; and didn't see any missing clarity, understood it perfectly and what was being asked, and I answered it without a problem (I think a decent answer).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While my answer directly addresses some specifics in that particular workplace and specific workplace problems, it is about general advice on how to approach a specific scenario. That could easily be returned in search results for various relevant scenarios, and very well help others who have a fragmented team and staff without clear task allocation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just can't see why it's &quot;unclear&quot; - is this one viable to be reopened? (I cannot flag to reopen.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Maybe there's a reason I don't know about from being new here :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34374" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-03-07T13:46:17.527" LastActivityDate="2018-03-07T13:46:17.527" Title="(Reopened) Question on &quot;working with defensive colleague&quot; closed as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5083" CreationDate="2018-03-04T19:30:22.433" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a balance between providing enough information to have context and providing too much and losing the question in it.  Different community members place that line in different places.  I think this question can work, and your edit helps.  It still feels like there's too much background here, but I don't think we should completely gut it either.  There is some complexity here that should remain, but shortening the question would help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am frustrated to see delete votes on a day-old question from a new user with a recent edit.  People are trying to fix the question; don't shoot it down before that process has a chance to play out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-03-04T19:30:22.433" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5085" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-04T19:58:39.847" Score="92" ViewCount="1583" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace gets a lot of questions whose initial versions don't fit.  We correctly close those.  Our closure rate is around 50% (I can't find an exact number in the tools), so this is a widespread issue, particularly with new users who aren't as experienced with our expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, closure isn't supposed to be the end of the line.  The whole point of closing a question is to prevent answers while the question gets fixed so it can be reopened.  Many questions &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; get fixed and reopened, and instead ultimately get deleted, but we &lt;em&gt;allow time for fixes to be attempted, if people want to try&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of that is defeated if people rush in to delete questions soon after they're closed.  We've had recent deletions that happened in &lt;em&gt;under six hours&lt;/em&gt; (one in about 90 minutes!).  While that's fine for questions that are abusive or completely unredeemable, I think we're being too trigger-happy with questions that could be fixed or that people are actively trying to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think back to your first internship or job.  You made mistakes because you didn't know the ropes.  Some of them were bad, or embarrassing.  But unless they were at the &quot;lose a big contract&quot; or &quot;burn down the building&quot; level, you probably didn't get immediately fired for them, right?  Instead, your supervisor took corrective action, both to fix whatever you did wrong and to instill in you the importance of not doing that again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Our new users are like interns or perhaps fresh grads.&lt;/strong&gt;  They have some basic skills and knowledge, but they're going to get it wrong sometimes.  Quickly deleting their questions is like firing them.  Requesting clarification, closing, editing, and allowing time to fix it is like your supervisor's corrective action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're a site about the workplace.  Shouldn't we emulate good workplace practices here?  Save the insta-deletions for the questions that will burn down the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-03-05T15:12:55.987" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T12:17:47.590" Title="Let's try to work with users before chasing them off" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5083" CreationDate="2018-03-05T11:07:07.653" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post-edit it seems to be much clearer IMO - yes it's still a bit ranty but not excessively so wheras the original form was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's got my VTRO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-03-05T11:07:07.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5085" CreationDate="2018-03-05T14:59:55.190" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In principle, I agree that we should try to help as many people as possible, which translates to saving as many questions as we can. However, there are some XY problems we need to consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We've had recent deletions that happened in under six hours (one in about 90 minutes!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The option to delete a question doesn't appear automatically. For simplicity, let us ignore the deletion privilege at 10k reputation, and focus on the trusted user privilege. &lt;strong&gt;Trusted users can only vote to delete a post that scores -3 or lower&lt;/strong&gt;. This leads to two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible loophole in SE policy&lt;/strong&gt;: To delete a post, 3 delete votes are required, and coincidentally, a minimum of 3 downvotes are required for the delete option to appear! Theoretically, this allows 3 trusted users to &quot;collude&quot; to delete posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE could discourage this by not allowing the same trusted user to cast &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; downvote and delete vote, or by at least imposing a time delay between the two, but given that they are cool with &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/289181/202356&quot;&gt;allowing &lt;em&gt;reopen&lt;/em&gt; vote along with delete vote&lt;/a&gt;, that won't happen any time soon. Besides, that also goes against the &quot;earn your privilege&quot; model of SE, especially since the privilege is named &lt;em&gt;trusted&lt;/em&gt; user.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not enough upvotes on &quot;salvagable&quot; questions&lt;/strong&gt;: The upvote privilege (at 15 reputation) is much easier to earn than the downvote privilege (125 reputation). For every upvote, an additional downvote is required to delete the post, or in other words, every upvote makes it harder to delete the post. So, &lt;strong&gt;why don't people upvote &quot;salvageable&quot; questions more often?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, considering all that, let's turn the question around and ask, &quot;if the question wasn't that bad, why did it earn so many downvotes within 6 hours?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You made mistakes because you didn't know the ropes ... you probably didn't get immediately fired for them, right? ... Quickly deleting their questions is like firing them. Requesting clarification, editing, and allowing time to fix it is like your supervisor's corrective action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is an interesting analogy, but it is also flawed. We don't &lt;em&gt;ban&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;suspend&lt;/em&gt; people for asking one bad question (or even truckloads of bad questions, for that matter), which would be the equivalent of &quot;firing&quot; in the workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A slightly more accurate analogy could be the following: If the intern's (or fresh grad's) work is not &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; bad, the supervisor will certainly work with them to fix it. However, if the intern's work is &lt;em&gt;horribly bad&lt;/em&gt;, the supervisor will probably need to scrap their work entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether a question is &quot;not too bad&quot; or &quot;horribly bad&quot; is subjective, but as long as we work within the SE framework, the post score serves as an objective measure for us to work with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let us not forget that the primary responsibility for asking &quot;acceptable&quot; questions lies with the asker, and not with the community. We certainly want to help as much as we can, otherwise we wouldn't be spending our free time here for internet points and badges. However, we should also not give an impression that people can post a few lines of text with minimal effort, and we will figure out how to make it acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of the workplace analogy, we don't want the interns to think that they can just submit some half-completed work without much effort, and then expect that the supervisor will &quot;work with them&quot; to complete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-03-05T14:59:55.190" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5089" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5096" CreationDate="2018-03-05T15:47:37.530" Score="5" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/107229/3192&quot;&gt;What can I do if the company owner dismisses my sexual harassment complaint?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;. I edited the question to break the wall of text into paragraphs, and removed some irrelevant details to focus on an addressable goal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please cast reopen votes if this question is now good enough, or consider editing to further improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-03-06T12:23:42.967" LastActivityDate="2018-03-06T16:20:14.560" Title="(Reopened) Reopen the question on owner ignoring sexual harassment complaints?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5085" CreationDate="2018-03-05T16:22:15.563" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Experiment with whatever threshold there is to place questions from new users into the &quot;First post&quot; review queue and see whether people use it to improve people's questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users of various communities are used to the idea of new users being moderated, so this won't come as a huge shock to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If re-jigging the threshold ends up causing more problems that it solves, it can easily be adjusted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-03-05T16:22:15.563" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5083" CreationDate="2018-03-05T16:45:06.717" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cast the third reopen vote, and made a further edit to trim down the description a little more. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt; Question has been reopened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-03-07T13:44:05.080" LastActivityDate="2018-03-07T13:44:05.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5085" CreationDate="2018-03-05T23:54:47.663" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you could make it better for users (new or otherwise).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggestion:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This current &quot;off topic&quot; flag could be tweaked for when a question is salvageable and just needs editing:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions require a goal that we can address. Rather than explaining&#xA;  the difficulties of your situation, explain what you want to do to&#xA;  make it better. For more information, see this meta post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO something like:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions require a goal that we can address. Keeping your question&#xA;  short and only using relevant facts makes it clear and answerable, and&#xA;  avoids it being closed due to difficulty deciphering the context. eg&#xA;  Is it really relevant to the problem, or just something you are&#xA;  passionate about? For more information, see this meta post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bit &quot;&lt;em&gt;or just something you are passionate about&lt;/em&gt;&quot; suits this site given the likelihood of in-depth scenarios.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's salvageable but a lot of work, you could close with the above proposed close reason and they can choose to edit it or not. At least then you've tried - given them the info they need.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I removed the bit &quot;&lt;em&gt;Rather than explaining the difficulties of your situation, explain what you want to do to make it better&lt;/em&gt;&quot; because on this site (specifically) surely the difficulties of the situation is what they want to make better?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then &quot;Unclear what you're asking&quot; flag could be used when it's literally not understandable at all, but not used when the question is just too long or just needs editing. E.g. a lot of time required to read/edit doesn't &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; mean &quot;unclear&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is that question &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; bad, can it be salvaged?&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's entirely your choice as to whether you want to edit or not, but you could leave it for someone else if it's salvageable, or if you want to flag leave a  comment explaining to the OP what to do next. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To help reduce the amount of closed questions, you could approach a question like this:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Evaluate the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it ok?&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes -&gt; Optionally answer, vote, comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it look salvageable?&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes -&gt; Edit, or move on and let someone else edit, or vote to close with proposed off topic reason&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No -&gt; Optionally vote to close&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For regular users you know if a question is never going to be on topic or useful no matter how much editing is done. But if it's just a badly worded or structured question, then edit it or leave it for someone else to.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can even leave a comment to explain why it's a problem. Maybe with more time the asker will improve it if they know what's wrong. Rather than just abruptly closed and you likely never see them again :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discussion on things from the comments and MaskedMand's answer, as I have a different viewpoint which might add some thought to the discussion.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whether a question is &quot;not too bad&quot; or &quot;horribly bad&quot; is subjective,&#xA;  but as long as we work within the SE framework, the post score serves&#xA;  as an objective measure for us to work with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the quality of the question is subjective, as that is what the voting is based on then the voting also has to be subjective. So not really a useful &quot;measure&quot; to work with.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, each person should judge a question or answer on their own merits. Using other people's votes and flags as a means to determine your own actions risks invoking the Bandwagon effect.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;why don't people upvote &quot;salvageable&quot; questions more often?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's &quot;salvageable&quot; then it needs work so it's arguably not in a state to warrant an upvote. But as it's &quot;salvageable&quot; it &lt;em&gt;can be&lt;/em&gt; worked on, so the question here should be:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;Why don't people edit salvageable questions more often?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if the question wasn't that bad, why did it earn so many downvotes&#xA;  within 6 hours?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes are people's opinion, so you won't ever accurately know &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; people voted unless you ask them. Opinions/downvotes can be impulsive, malicious, got out of the wrong side of bed, and can be formed from the Bandwagon effect, biased based on a culture.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So even if downvotes and/or it being closed is generally an implication that a question is bad, it's not conclusive, and nor does it mean the question was not salvageable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, people voting to close/flag will likely also downvote. Such votes may have an accurate bearing on the question quality, but only if the reason they are closing is valid. If there is a true culture here for closing too quickly, then those downvotes might arguably be based on that culture and could instead perhaps have edited and not downvoted?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying any of this is &lt;em&gt;definitive&lt;/em&gt;, just food for thought.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO Community moderation is about members who frequent a site and know it well helping those who do not. Editing to make improvements, guiding people to use the site correctly, making the site great by &lt;em&gt;working at&lt;/em&gt; getting good Q&amp;amp;A pairs.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know specific points were made, but there are no obstacles to the simplistic idea and attempt of people spending a bit more time identifying if a question can be salvageable and editing it, rather than just closing it down as quickly as possible.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just IMO :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34374" LastActivityDate="2018-03-05T23:54:47.663" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5093" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5097" CreationDate="2018-03-06T16:12:25.563" Score="16" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a sharp uptick in people putting answers in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;while this is annoying when they are in the comments of the question, many people are dropping their own answers in the comments of other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been flagging them and they are being removed, but I think this is happening enough to warrant it's own reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-03-07T05:04:30.703" Title="Can we add a flag reason &quot;This is an answer in the comments&quot;" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5094" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5098" CreationDate="2018-03-06T16:14:52.327" Score="10" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by a discussion in the Water cooler:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When should we down-vote a question, and ONLY down-vote it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there times when we should vote to close without down-voting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What justifies a delete?  What, other than spam, makes a question irredeemable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-03-16T01:53:49.413" Title="Down-vote vs Close vs Delete: When to use which?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5089" CreationDate="2018-03-06T16:20:14.560" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-03-06T16:20:14.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5093" CreationDate="2018-03-06T17:06:48.923" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Essentially no we can't, because we have no control over this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a main meta post on this exact suggestion: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/302271/add-an-answer-in-comments-flag-reason&quot;&gt;Add an &amp;quot;answer in comments&amp;quot; flag reason&lt;/a&gt;, which points to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/252844/make-comment-flags-less-stupid/253133#253133&quot;&gt;Make comment flags less stupid&lt;/a&gt; which was declined in favour of the &quot;Grand Unification&quot; described on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/292011/drop-not-constructive-combine-noisy-reword-rude-and-other-comment-flag&quot;&gt;Drop &amp;quot;not constructive&amp;quot;, combine &amp;quot;noisy&amp;quot;, reword &amp;quot;rude&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;other&amp;quot; comment flags&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is a change that a lot of moderators loathe but which SE has stuck with for reasons best known to themselves. I highly doubt you'll get them to reconsider but if you want to try you'll have to suggest it on main meta. Note that you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; use the question here to build support for the idea before taking it to main.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2018-03-06T17:06:48.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5094" CreationDate="2018-03-06T17:20:52.447" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Votes for questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intent of the site is that you vote up questions that you find value in, or think are good questions.  You vote down questions that you find meets your definition of bad. The idea being that the crowd will bubble the good answers to the top, and the bad answers will fall off.  Even if your single vote is an anomaly is not relevant in the end result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words.  Vote how ever you feel(or not) for a question, how you feel.  It is your vote, you are not obligated to justify it.  (just dont serial down vote)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Close Votes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the current state of a question does not meet the standards for acceptable questions on SE then you should vote to close.  The process is intended to be close, edit into shape, then reopen.  The quicker the question is closed the better chance we have of editing it into something useful before it attracts answers that may be invalidated by edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words use your close vote often early in the questions lifecycle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once a question has several answers, consider if the question still has value in its current form.  If not then close the question, if so then try to improve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the end its still your vote.  It takes 5 votes to close and there are literally hundreds of people on the site that can vote to reopen if you are wrong.  So casting a &quot;bad&quot; vote is easily corrected by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Delete Votes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Delete votes should be reserved for questions that have no value, and no prospective value on The Workplace.  New questions that have any potential to be fixed, should not be deleted.  Until they actually become a problem.  Once a problem with the content of a question becomes apparent, feel free to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However when a question goes stale and no one bothers to try to fix it then feel free to delete bad closed questions.  If there is a real desire by the OP it can be edited into shape and fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And when the community finds a hidden gem that gets or is about to get deleted it can flad the mods for a chance to fix the problem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we really should try to avoid is putting the mods in a position to have to exert that power to undelete.  The best way to do that is to give questions time to get fixed, or start attracting problems before we delete them.  Just the potential that someone could come in and be disrespectful should not be enough to censor the question.  Nor should your personal opinion bias against the question being asked come in to play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2018-03-16T01:53:49.413" LastActivityDate="2018-03-16T01:53:49.413" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5093" CreationDate="2018-03-06T20:16:16.713" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that good info in comments is a bit of a waste sometimes. But people should be able to have free will to write what they want in comments (within reason and bound by the basic rules as per the comment flag options). When not a rule breaking comment, it's up to the community to decide if it should remain or not.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a matter of opinion whether a comment was just a basic passing note, additional info but not worthy of an answer, or otherwise.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People can just quickly share the info in comments, whereas forming an answer has more requirements for time and expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's fair to flag/remove them unless they're bad or useless. Moreso:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have been flagging them and they are being removed  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means the info is now &lt;em&gt;entirely gone&lt;/em&gt;. At least before it was present even if just in a comment.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real solution to resolve wasted info and improve the question (and site) is to use that info from the comment and form your own answer from it. It's not bad etiquette to do this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The commenter had the chance to make it an answer and chose not to, but if you feel awkward about doing it you can give the commenter credit, and/or make the answer a wiki post.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you feel the info is worthy of an answer create one and expand on it to make a really good answer. Obviously, just don't copy/paste. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34374" LastEditorUserId="34374" LastEditDate="2018-03-06T21:18:44.807" LastActivityDate="2018-03-06T21:18:44.807" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5085" CreationDate="2018-03-06T20:55:59.957" Score="30" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I think its time to turn up the enforcement of the spirit of the be nice policy.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reduce the threshold for accepting rude/abusive flags especially in comments.  If it could be considered rude then accept the flag and let the users that post snarky, and unhelpful or whiny comments suffer the penalties that were intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Encourage people to flag comments as rude or abusive more. Especially when they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The carrot is the game that these people get to play where they score points for telling other people how to live their lives on the interwebs.  Time to bring in the stick for when they stop making an honest effort to be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you would not say a comment is nice or constructive, then it should be considered rude of abusive.  With the penalties that start being enforced you will quickly see a change in the atmosphere here overall.  Worst case if it fails then you roll back the penalties and say oops my bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reality of the system is that comments can be used to trigger some people with OCD.  Most people around here know who those people are that get triggered.  Repeatedly intentionally triggering those people is abusive.  Yes I am one and I have never made that a secret.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2018-03-30T12:17:47.590" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T12:17:47.590" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5093" CreationDate="2018-03-07T05:04:30.703" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Richard because I think this is a valid flagging reason. Ironically, this was going to be posted in the comments, when I realized it midway and resorted to answer instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that being said, here's some food for thought. Another possible reason why people post answers as comments could be that they're immediately below the question, and therefore stand a higher chance of being viewed, rather than down below, where they could remain with 0 activity for a long time. From an engagement perspective, the poster of Comment-As-Answer stands to receive higher engagement as compared to if they wrote an answer instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless the assumption is that every viewer (registered users as well as general public) of the StackExchange network is going to scroll down all the way to the bottom for each and every question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, the Answer-As-Comment could be a way to gain feedback without receiving DV's, and this feedback may translate into an answer, although chances are slim. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not defending them in any way. It's just something to think about. &#xA;Cheers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74069" LastActivityDate="2018-03-07T05:04:30.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5102" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5103" CreationDate="2018-03-08T16:13:12.057" Score="5" ViewCount="379" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/106016/3192&quot;&gt;Should I tell coworkers I have been eating their lunch due to a misunderstanding?&lt;/a&gt; has been recently deleted. I did call that question a &quot;troll&quot; in the past, but I changed my attitude towards &quot;troll&quot; questions after reading this meta post &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5037/3192&quot;&gt;Fair to VTC for trolling&lt;/a&gt;. I decided to improve the question by removing the trollbaits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not clear why the question had to be deleted over a month after it was last active, especially after it was already &quot;improved&quot; and reopened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we get an official explanation for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2018-03-30T13:34:30.003" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T13:34:30.003" Title="Why was the question on eating coworkers' lunch deleted?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|deleted-questions|trolling|site-policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5102" CreationDate="2018-03-08T16:43:20.207" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your work to improve the question.  I'm sorry for the collateral damage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That post was part of a multi-site trolling incident.  For the reasons explained by Shog in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4415/325&quot;&gt;this answer to another question about deletions&lt;/a&gt;, I felt it best to remove the question.  Unlike there I didn't also delete the account; I'm still reviewing some stuff there.  (The account might be abandoned anyway.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I was acting alone, when I deleted it I also left a flag to bring it to the attention of my fellow moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-03-08T16:49:35.200" LastActivityDate="2018-03-08T16:49:35.200" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5104" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5117" CreationDate="2018-03-11T21:09:02.243" Score="-8" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand how you can flag this as opinion-based when the question's text EXPLICITLY asks if it's a common occurrence or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like the discussion to continue, please reopen the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/108036/senior-managers-dont-promote-internally-but-hire-their-old-team-is-this-expect&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38290" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-03-12T00:24:06.120" LastActivityDate="2018-03-25T11:59:54.360" Title="Reopen question on &quot;Senior managers dont promote internally&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5085" CreationDate="2018-03-14T15:45:17.590" Score="19" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're a site about the workplace. Shouldn't we emulate good workplace practices here? Save the insta-deletions for the questions that will burn down the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-03-14T15:45:17.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5085" CreationDate="2018-03-18T02:22:05.960" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over at x.stackexchange.com * we let questions with &lt;em&gt;insuficiencies&lt;/em&gt; brew while we await the OP to come back with an edit, to let them reflect upon what they wrote before jumping on them, or to further refine an already great post; unless they are 'new rep' (1 or &amp;lt;110), then a helpful comment will probably be forthcoming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a few hours (some are either not so patient or more inquisitive) a useful observation (helpful criticism) is offered, sometimes a few - it's up to the OP to utilize either checking their mail, revisit their question or use their crystal ball and either attend to the comments, fix the question/answer or let it stand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is only after several hours it gets to the point where the question gets a hold. Usually the 'holder' further clarifies their expectations and if the necessary improvements are not made the system automatically deletes the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* X is a &lt;strong&gt;few&lt;/strong&gt; StackExchange communities, not a single one in  particular. Surprisingly you'd think that these places would be more  pedantic for style, accuracy and well presented thoughts, but instead they are inclusive, kind and thoughtful (except for the odd outlier).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not that we must do that here, especially since there's a few sites  where you'd think better practices would be in effect but they are not - but consider how it looks from the other point of view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They don't know to study the Help and FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's a warning box on their question or odd followup comments on  their answer. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's more stuff they gotta do. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Internet is a big place. They can read and do what is needed here or simply bail and retreat to more familiar territory elsewhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since accounts here are anonymous the person(s) who jump on the newcomer  (or non conforming, not so new person) first  paint  themselves, then the community, and finally the whole SE series of websites - with the odd person vowing never to return becoming increasingly common. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really the answer is how do you want to be perceived - an obligation to  read the Help and FAQ before posting, and a more laidback or polite  approach by the rare few, will keep the 'Orphan Rate' lower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read twice (or as needed) and post once (if needed). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Derived from the  expression: &quot;Measure twice, cut once&quot;.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a fine motor skill, developed over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70590" LastActivityDate="2018-03-18T02:22:05.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="227" CreationDate="2018-03-18T07:42:25.040" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I don't think hypothetical discussion about whether it's an appropriate tag is likely to convince anyone, let's take a &quot;random&quot; sample of the 10 most recent open questions (excluding those with the professionalism tag):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/109326/how-to-best-pitch-my-side-project-to-my-boss&quot;&gt;How to best pitch my side project to my boss?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I &lt;strong&gt;professionally&lt;/strong&gt; approach my manager about a side project?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/109325/how-do-i-politely-remind-the-recruiter-about-my-status&quot;&gt;How do i politely remind the recruiter about my status&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I &lt;strong&gt;professionally&lt;/strong&gt; remind a recruiter about my status?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/109320/applying-for-a-job-knowing-that-you-will-leave-after-6-months&quot;&gt;Applying for a job knowing that you will leave after 6 months?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it &lt;strong&gt;professional&lt;/strong&gt; to apply for a job knowing you'll leave in 6 months?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/109317/how-long-should-you-wait-before-applying-for-an-internal-transfer&quot;&gt;How long should you wait before applying for an internal transfer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How long should I wait before applying for an internal transfer to avoid appearing &lt;strong&gt;unprofessional&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/109312/mailing-a-potential-employer&quot;&gt;OK to send Facebook message to potential employer after not hearing back?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it &lt;strong&gt;professional&lt;/strong&gt; to mail a potential employer in this manner? How can I do it &lt;strong&gt;professionally&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/108309/keeping-an-eye-on-things-is-reducing-my-productivity&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Keeping an eye on things&amp;quot; is reducing my productivity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I &lt;strong&gt;professionally&lt;/strong&gt; discuss this issue with my manager?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/108301/my-boss-is-leaving-and-his-boss-is-ignoring-me&quot;&gt;My boss is leaving and his boss is ignoring me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I &lt;strong&gt;professionally&lt;/strong&gt; follow up with my boss's boss?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/108290/applied-directly-to-a-recruiter-but-company-i-applied-to-before-contacts-me-dire&quot;&gt;Applied directly to a recruiter but company I applied to before contacts me directly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I avoid appearing &lt;strong&gt;unprofessional&lt;/strong&gt; to the recruiter?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/108284/boss-wont-stop-talking&quot;&gt;Boss won&amp;#39;t stop talking&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I &lt;strong&gt;professionally&lt;/strong&gt; get my boss to stop talking?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/108253/team-negative-feedback-being-suppressed&quot;&gt;Team negative feedback being suppressed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How can I do so &lt;strong&gt;professionally&lt;/strong&gt;?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the 10 arbitrary questions I picked, it applied to all 10 of them (okay, maybe one of those is a stretch, but still). This tells me that it's very likely an overly broad tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we really want a tag that applies to 90%+ of all our questions? No. No, we do not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if someone can make a good argument for some group of questions requiring some tag resembling this one, it seems like an infinitely better idea to replace / rename this tag with / to something more specific and less open to being applied to the overwhelming majority of the questions on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="8234" LastEditDate="2018-03-20T16:28:03.730" LastActivityDate="2018-03-20T16:28:03.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5108" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5114" CreationDate="2018-03-21T19:34:23.830" Score="-5" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;So &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/109458/8146&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; has been closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/5750/8146&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not the case, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first case, the question is really &quot;I have been given feedback about my interview that I disagree with, I feel I have been misjudged, how do I proceed?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second case is &quot;I applied for a role but have been informed that they already found someone. The problem, then is not with me, but with timing. How do I respond to keep my options open with this company for a different role?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure why they are duplicates, they are very different questions. Can we please re-open the former?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;I really don't know what to say, the linked answer here... just says to edit the question to specify why it's not a duplicate. I don't know how to edit the question under discussion as it is &lt;em&gt;obviously&lt;/em&gt; not a duplicate, it just requires  some basic comprehension skills. I think the trick might be the &lt;em&gt;titles&lt;/em&gt; of the questions, but the &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt; of each  is different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastEditorUserId="52713" LastEditDate="2018-03-22T12:13:05.870" LastActivityDate="2018-03-22T21:08:10.687" Title="This isn't a duplicate [Reopened]" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5111" CreationDate="2018-03-21T19:43:13.780" Score="-4" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed some comments of mine have been deleted. In &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/109458/8146&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; the comments were, from memory&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a comment that marking the question as a duplicate did not make sense&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a comment that RichardU's answer that the answer overly simplified the issue&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a comment that RichardU's answer was bad (my opinion, of course, you might find his answer fine - that's not what I'm discussing)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to ask why these comments were deleted. I'd also like to ask why we don't have a system where I'm informed that my comments have been deleted - I think that comments getting removed is normally the first step toward banning someone, but it seems a bit stealthy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-03-23T16:10:07.043" LastActivityDate="2018-03-25T11:57:30.517" Title="Comments being deleted" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-03-28T14:01:47.560" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5109" CreationDate="2018-03-21T21:37:23.920" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are for improving questions and answers.  If your comments are disappearing and you have not deleted them, they have either been flagged by the community, deleted by moderators, or both.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Multiple flags for &quot;rude or abusive&quot; will  automatically delete comments.  Multiple deletions for being rude or abusive may result in action from the moderators.  Usually, this takes the form of the moderators reaching out to you first and advising you of your infractions.  The best way to avoid this is to keep your comments polite, on topic, and relevant to the purpose of comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most deletions, however, are routine cleaning up of the Q&amp;amp;A.  Deletion of comments are not an indication of anything other than this routine cleaning, again, unless you are being rude or abusive and are not a &quot;first step&quot; towards anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why your particular comments were deleted, if they were rude, then it's fair to assume that they would be flagged as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why there is no system for notification of the deletion of comments, as I said above, the cleaning of comments is routine and they are designed to be ephemeral, and therefore notification of their deletion is unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2018-03-21T23:56:56.380" LastActivityDate="2018-03-21T23:56:56.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5109" CreationDate="2018-03-22T00:39:05.380" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'd like to ask why these comments were deleted &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@dukeling how is this possibly a duplicate of the given link??????? – bharal 6 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was flagged by someone. Two things here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, I find that adding ???????? to the end of your question &lt;em&gt;strongly&lt;/em&gt; implies a &quot;how could you be so dumb!&quot; tone for the comment, amplified by the phrasing of &quot;possibly.&quot; Whether or not it was well intended the tone of this comment is not at all one which suggests &quot;hey, let's talk about whether this is a duplicate&quot; but more &quot;you idiot this isn't a duplicate.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, and less important, comments arguing on the on-topicness of questions belong on meta -- not polluting comment threads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Mister what if they got the applications mixed up? what if that's handled by someone in hr, who you'd otherwise never work with? this answer throws baby out with bathwater, then blames baby for it. – bharal 6 hours ago &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was flagged on an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's basically a comment that says &quot;this answer is wrong&quot; - if you read through the comment purpose, which is summarized every time you type one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gkrxU.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gkrxU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't really suggest an improvement but more just says &quot;this sucks.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@RichardU i mean, dress a bad answer up all you want, but... – bharal 6 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one was actually deleted by enough &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; flag votes (I deleted the first two based on flags). I think that speaks for itself when enough non-moderators find a comment problematic enough that the system itself auto deletes them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think that comments getting removed is normally the first step toward banning someone, but it seems a bit stealthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rarely is this the case. When a user has enough problematic comments, normal &quot;escalation&quot; looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Contact user privately informing them that they've had enough activity recently which has generated attention (this is a warning)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Often this involves dialog back and forth when users do not know what this refers to&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If problematic behavior continues, user is suspended.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is rare to skip step (1) and normally this is when someone is posting content which is undeniably controversial/problematic and a suspension is need to stop the behavior continuing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2018-03-22T06:04:16.897" LastActivityDate="2018-03-22T06:04:16.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5158" CreationDate="2018-03-22T00:49:31.547" Score="1" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/108162/how-to-approach-new-job-when-interviewed-for-one-role-and-then-the-same-team-off&quot;&gt;How to approach new job when interviewed for one role and then the same team offered another role?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP has a comment there that might have been missed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What needs to be done to get this off hold? Multiple modifications to the question have been made to address concerns. – hawkeye 2 days ago &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting this to discuss reopening and/or what needs to happen for that user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2018-04-23T16:12:29.813" Title="Reopen: How to approach new job when interviewed for one role and then the same team offered another role?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5112" CreationDate="2018-03-22T10:30:27.820" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP has already accepted the new role.  There is nothing we can do to help them.  Even if the OP was still considering the choice, then the question becomes about a specific choice, which is off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to reopen this question I think we need a goal that is on topic.  There is no on topic goal that I can see to even suggest to the op.  The OP's situation sucks.  The options are embrace the new role, or find a new job.  The time to have the discussion about the new position was before the new position was accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2018-03-22T10:30:27.820" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5108" CreationDate="2018-03-22T21:08:10.687" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-03-22T21:08:10.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5109" CreationDate="2018-03-25T11:57:30.517" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'd also like to ask why we don't have a system where I'm informed that my comments have been deleted - I think that comments getting removed is normally the first step toward banning someone&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are never meant to be permanent, so a system where you get an explanation is unrealistic,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't worry about it being a ban signal, I've had plenty of comments deleted and still managed to squeak through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-03-25T11:57:30.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5104" CreationDate="2018-03-25T11:59:54.360" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No need to reopen, it already has a perfectly good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-03-25T11:59:54.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5120" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-29T19:56:46.590" Score="0" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What is the best way for me (an average Workplace user) to help the community deal with an obvious troll?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like the Workplace attracts an inordinate number of troll posts for some reason.  Some questions / answers are &lt;em&gt;debatably&lt;/em&gt; troll posts, while some others are &lt;strong&gt;clearly&lt;/strong&gt; trolling.  In the past, discussions here have centered around how to handle to a particular question or answer, but occasionally a pattern of behavior will emerge, and it becomes apparent that a particular user is a habitual troll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In those cases where there is a community consensus that a user is a habitual troll, is there anything that we, as average Workplace users, can or should do to help identify the pattern of behavior?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: The user who was the inspiration for this post has returned, and he appears to be up to his old ways again.  Presumably his (ever extending) temporary ban is up again.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastEditorUserId="49815" LastEditDate="2019-12-18T15:41:17.113" LastActivityDate="2019-12-18T15:41:17.113" Title="On Dealing With An Obvious Troll" Tags="|discussion|trolling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ClosedDate="2018-03-30T11:33:56.873" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5120" CreationDate="2018-03-29T22:36:18.207" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In those cases where there is a community consensus that a user is a habitual troll, is there anything that we, as average Workplace users, can or should do to help identify the pattern of behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a community, we should be looking for problem &lt;em&gt;posts&lt;/em&gt;, not problem &lt;em&gt;users&lt;/em&gt;. If you see a question that you think is trolling, then follow the guidance in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4843/16983&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; from another Meta thread on trolling. If you see a problem answer or comment, then downvote and flag it for deletion or for a moderator. It is not our job to identify problem users, but by frequently (and appropriately) using flags, moderators should notice a pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is only once that I have specifically asked for a user to be suspended, and I do not think it should be done regularly. This is the wording I used when flagging one of their posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This user currently has three active answers (likely more that have been deleted), all with an extremely negative score. The answers I have seen all tend to offer very bad and damaging advice. I would ask that moderators consider whether a suspension is appropriate for this user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this instance I felt the user was offering possibly harmful advice, and that they had gone under the radar enough that they may not have been known to moderators. When it comes to suspensions and other actions to be taken against a &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt;, that is the decision of the moderation team, not the community. If you notice a pattern from a particular user, then as I did, you are welcome to notify the moderators, but trust that they will take whatever action is appropriate for the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-03-29T22:36:18.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5122" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-31T10:42:48.813" Score="6" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just seen today that there is now a duck icon in the bottom right of the main page. I'm guessing it's a new feature but I haven't seen any announcements around it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I ask what it is for? Is it the Workplace's answer to Clippy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-04-01T01:33:25.777" Title="What's up duck?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5122" CreationDate="2018-03-31T20:08:32.040" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an April Fool's Day joke, described in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308564/stack-exchange-has-been-taken-over-by-a-rubber-duck&quot;&gt;this Meta post&lt;/a&gt;. It encourages you to use the Rubber Duck method of debugging:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A rubber duck in use by a developer to aid code review In software engineering, rubber duck debugging or rubber ducking is a method of debugging code. The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themselves to explain it, line-by-line, to the duck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-03-31T20:08:32.040" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5122" CreationDate="2018-04-01T01:33:25.777" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; an April fools joke.  It is a feature that a special secret group from the SE team are working on.  It was unintentionally released in the latest production build and the team is having difficulty rolling back the change.  From the rumors I have heard the team believes it should be fully tested and ready to back out the Duck feature, except for special beta users, by Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is important that you not try to reverse engineer the technology.  They caught me doing it and slapped an injunction on me... I hope this answer doesn't violate that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2018-04-01T01:33:25.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5125" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-02T23:47:41.413" Score="3" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few of my questions have been closed in the past because &quot;a question by definition has an answer&quot;, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, by looking at questions with the most votes, I can see this recent example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/83451/can-i-talk-to-my-rubber-duck-at-work&quot;&gt;Can I talk to my rubber duck at work?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, in the real world the professionality of talking to a rubber duck would depend a lot from company culture. I assume it would be very different at a Big4 or in a startup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is closely related to a specific work environment.&#xA;And its chosen answer is even spectacularly generic, &quot;in the IT world it's generally accepted&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past I asked questions about &quot;is this part of startup life&quot; or &quot;can I expect this from a  startup&quot;, and my questions were closed with the usual motivation of &quot;questions by definition have an answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In comparison to that glorious example, why would &quot;in startups this is what generally happens&quot; be unacceptable, as opposed to closing a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am baffled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38290" LastActivityDate="2018-04-04T07:34:23.947" Title="how does the question &quot;can I talk to my duck at work&quot; meet the site's guidelines?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5126" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-03T13:58:33.773" Score="1" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I submitted the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/110137/how-can-i-convince-my-colleague-to-call-the-help-desk-instead-of-contacting-me-d&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; yesterday, and I have had a ton of helpful suggestions and a lot of great answers.  Thank you very much for your help!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You all have helped me to deal with some difficult situations in the past, and today I find myself in another tight spot.  I am hopeful that this community can help me, but I'm not sure if I can word the question adequately.  &lt;strong&gt;Do you think the Workplace is the right place for this question?  Or is there a better way to ask the question?&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;hr&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Working Title:&lt;/strong&gt; How can I convince my colleague to call the help desk instead of contacting me directly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;hr&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This morning I received an email from a colleague, who doesn't want to&#xA;  call the help desk anymore, [we'll call him &lt;em&gt;Joel&lt;/em&gt;.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I manage a small team of IT professionals, responsible for the care&#xA;  and feeding of a pretty typical SMB with less than 1000 employees. &#xA;  Among our many responsibilities, we all answer a shared phone line&#xA;  that we colloqiaully call the &quot;Help Desk.&quot;  Users call in with a&#xA;  variety of problems / questions.  We have users that run the spectrum,&#xA;  from power users who only call when there is an outage, to&#xA;  technophobes who call for help whenever an unexpected dialog box&#xA;  appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joel has been a pretty regular caller in the past, but this morning he&#xA;  emailed me to let me know that he doesn't want to call the Help Desk&#xA;  anymore, instead he will be contacting me directly for all future&#xA;  questions.  When I replied, asking Joel for details, he let me know he&#xA;  doesn't want to talk to my direct report [we'll call him &lt;em&gt;Rick&lt;/em&gt;.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&quot;Nothing personal with Rick, but I have tried working with him in the&#xA;    past and he doesn't know or can't help and he is over bearing to talk&#xA;    too [&lt;em&gt;sic.&lt;/em&gt;]&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT 1:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Rick has been with the team for almost a year now, and he has a consistently positive attitude.  He is far and away the&#xA;  friendliest and most outgoing member of our team.  He is a&#xA;  knowledgeable and capable member of the Help Desk, and this is the&#xA;  first time I have heard any complaints about his performance there or&#xA;  anywhere else.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For a number of reasons, I don't want Joel contacting me directly&#xA;  every time he has a question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT 2:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I have read through some helpful answers to similar questions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/35764/how-to-shoo-away-people-who-make-informal-requests-at-the-desk-or-canteen&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/36387/how-to-stay-professional-when-people-keep-physically-chasing-for-an-immediate-an&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;,) but these questions don't approach the issue from a manager's&#xA;  perspective, and so I find myself still struggling.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I convince Joel to call the help desk instead of contacting me&#xA;  directly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I intend to craft another question regarding how best to manage Rick through this situation, but I am open to any advice you have to offer on the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastEditorUserId="49815" LastEditDate="2018-04-06T11:55:21.377" LastActivityDate="2018-04-06T11:55:21.377" Title="Is this question a good fit for The Workplace?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5126" CreationDate="2018-04-03T14:35:05.090" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems on-topic, but I'm not sure that you'll be able to separate the &quot;Joel issue&quot; from the &quot;Rick issue&quot;, since they seem intertwined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More specifically: if Joel's complaint about Rick is valid, then deal with your &quot;Rick problem&quot;. If not, then deal with your &quot;Joel problem&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10387" LastActivityDate="2018-04-03T14:35:05.090" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5125" CreationDate="2018-04-04T07:34:23.947" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite a long history on that question's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/83451/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt;... but I get where you're coming from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is a &quot;self moderated democracy&quot; and it only takes 5 votes to close (or re-open) a question, which out of this site's 35,000 users (active in the last year) means only 0.01% have to &lt;em&gt;&quot;like or dislike&quot;&lt;/em&gt; your question in order for it to thrive or be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall it's a good system, but it's not perfect, especially since humans aren't perfect.  Much like a workplace, &lt;strong&gt;popularity&lt;/strong&gt; definitely impacts question scores, even though it shouldn't (in &lt;em&gt;either&lt;/em&gt; situation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest that the next time you post, add more information to your post - and perhaps try wording it in such a way that people can &lt;strong&gt;relate to&lt;/strong&gt; the topic will generate more interest.  I don't have a lot of experience on &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; site but I've seen this technique makes a difference on Stack Overflow, where only 0.0001% of users need to &quot;dislike&quot; a question for it to be closed (which I've seen happen within seconds of being asked).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you can get some ideas from this site's lists of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Top questions by votes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=views%3A250&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Top questions by views&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(At first glance, the &quot;most popular&quot; questions &lt;em&gt;seem&lt;/em&gt; reasonable.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it make you feel any better that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;this question&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a &quot;Hot Post&quot;?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;                  &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DEcUv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DEcUv.png&quot; alt=&quot;hot post&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78390" LastActivityDate="2018-04-04T07:34:23.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5130" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-04T16:51:58.860" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is my first question in this Meta, so I'm not sure of what the rules are yet in duplicating or un-duplicating questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/110073/what-are-my-options-if-my-waning-company-values-me-highly&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was marked duplicate of another question that it is clearly not a duplicate of. I feel like if I had removed one sentence in the linked question (which I have), the entire duplication is suddenly baseless. That is to say, they are only tangentially related at best - if even that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can the question be un-duplicated? What needs to be done, other than the edit I've made post-closing of the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8346" LastActivityDate="2018-04-04T17:19:26.793" Title="Incorrect duplication?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5130" CreationDate="2018-04-04T17:08:08.023" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My mistake. The prompt due to a VTC had me thinking the question was &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; closed, but in reality I should have checked the title and revision history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8346" LastActivityDate="2018-04-04T17:08:08.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5130" CreationDate="2018-04-04T17:19:26.793" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone votes to close your question as a duplicate, you will get a notification asking you if that question solves your problem. You can then indicate that it does (which will close your question) or that it does not. If you don't believe that the question is a duplicate, it's usually worth editing your question to address why you think the two questions are not the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is only one person's vote, so your question has not yet been closed. It still needs 4 more close votes to put your question on hold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-04-04T17:19:26.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5135" CreationDate="2018-04-12T16:53:39.957" Score="2" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question about organizational structure, but when doing so noticed that there are no tags starting with &lt;code&gt;org&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;staff&lt;/code&gt;.  Are there other tags that are appropriate? Should I be asking these on another site?  Should these be added? (I don't have nearly enough rep here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27307" LastActivityDate="2018-04-13T11:56:00.253" Title="Am I in the wrong place? (where are the organization/org-chart and staffing tags?)" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5134" CreationDate="2018-04-12T17:59:26.867" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for bringing your question to meta.  Our tag set is not in the greatest shape.  I just created &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/org-structure&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;org-structure&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;org-structure&lt;/a&gt; and gave it a one-line wiki.  If people think there's a better name, let us know and we can rename.  Please feel free to propose edits to the tag wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-04-12T17:59:26.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5136" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-12T18:21:38.653" Score="6" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have something of a problem here on TWP with high numbers of questions getting closed. Sure many of them are bad and closure is the only way but there are many that &lt;strong&gt;could&lt;/strong&gt; be salvaged - they just need a decent edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately many of our users are very busy people (this is the &lt;strong&gt;work&lt;/strong&gt;place after all and employers have this nasty habit of wanting you to do what they are paying you for) and don't have much time to spend doing the sort of rewrite-level edits that some of these questions need. And frankly the site offers no real incentive for them to do so, sure newbies can earn small amounts of rep by having successful edits but it's really minimal and goes away relatively early in the rep progression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what I'm proposing is that there be a bounty system for edits to on-hold questions, I would envisage it working similarly to the existing answer-bounty system. A high-rep user places a bounty on the on-hold question inviting edits (with a short description of the sort of thing they are looking perhaps?) and if a good enough edit comes along then they can award that bounty to the editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pros:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Users would have an incentive to actively work to improve and salvage on-hold questions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Askers would hopefully see their questions answered, (and new users who these often are would feel more welcomed)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rep-rich but time-poor members would have a way to still help and give back to the site&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cons&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The system &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be abused, either by encouraging more closes in order to entice bounties (possible but the multiple close-vote system should largely prevent this) or by people offering bounties that they never award.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-04-18T14:03:59.493" Title="Suggestion to help with the high closure rate" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5136" CreationDate="2018-04-12T18:34:59.027" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I like the idea, and I would make use of the new system&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming I could set aside my cynicism for salvaging questions, I think I would like to make use of the system you propose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastActivityDate="2018-04-12T18:34:59.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5134" CreationDate="2018-04-12T20:02:30.523" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Monica did a good job answering the question you asked about tags, but I also wanted to address why your original question wasn't being well received. You were primarily asking for the pros and cons of having managers. That is a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; broad topic and isn't something we can really answer here. We are looking for specific questions with specific goals that can result in specific answers. I encourage you to take a look at our Help Center pages on what makes a question off-topic here &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at your situation, there certainly are some questions you could ask that would be a good fit here. Some examples that come to mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;I am seeing XYZ problems. How can I address these problems?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;I am seeing XYZ problems which I believe are because all of the staff report directly to the owners. Would adding another management layer help?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How do I approach my boss about adding another management layer in the company?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No matter what you ask, I think you would need to (concisely) explain what problems you are seeing that you think would be solved by adding management. If you skip straight to requesting more managers without telling us &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;, you run the risk of an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem&quot;&gt;XY Problem&lt;/a&gt;. It's always good to have outside opinions to confirm that your proposed solution will work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2018-04-13T11:56:00.253" LastActivityDate="2018-04-13T11:56:00.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5136" CreationDate="2018-04-15T21:40:14.060" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea, and I think it could benefit other sites with high closure rates, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately the proposal should probably be made on Meta.SE, but it is quite ok to have discussions like these on per-site metas too.  One good use of this post could be to collect data and build a strong argument so it can &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; be taken to Meta.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE gets far more feature requests than they can implement, and we don't always understand all of their priorities (there's an actual business to run, after all).  A proposal might not get traction, but a proposal that's never made &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; won't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-04-15T21:40:14.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5136" CreationDate="2018-04-16T13:00:45.563" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this idea could work, but I would suggest some slight changes to make it more closely follow the model of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;current bounty system&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I see no need to limit bounties to currently on-hold questions. Like the standard bounty system, sometimes you will want to reward a very good edit that has already improved a question. This also prevents abuse from unnecessarily closing questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Like answer bounties, edit bounties should be non-refundable once they have started. This also discourages abuse from offering bounties that are never awarded, as the rep will be lost to the user no matter what.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If bounties for answers are not awarded by the user within the time limit, then the highest voted answer (with some caveats) is automatically given half the bounty value. Since there is no voting system in place for edits, I'm not sure that an automatic award would work for edit bounties.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-04-16T13:00:45.563" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5141" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-17T03:47:59.870" Score="2" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Go to HR and complain&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen that answer as above line for many question (Eg: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/110695/how-to-fix-a-weird-relationship-at-work&quot;&gt;How to fix a weird relationship at work&lt;/a&gt;). Is it actually successful answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note : I am from Sri Lanka my opinion are depends with my experience. I don't know about other countries....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Sri lanka, &quot;Go to HR and complain&quot; won't work 95% if the person is new employee or lower position person &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Eg : new employee complains about his manger). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happen here is, after new employee complains about his manger, HR discuss with the manager. Then HR will say that problem is solved. Then manager will get more revenge than previous. There is no point in complaining again and again.  Actually in Sri lanka, &quot; Go to HR and complain&quot; we are making our situation more worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might be differ in very large companies, but I know that most of small and medium size companies situation is similar in Sri lanka. As I think, situation of india also similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is other countries situation is differ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked this because according my experience, it is bad answer for questions comes from Sri Lanka.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73187" LastActivityDate="2018-04-19T06:24:33.550" Title="Go to HR and complain - Is this a really good answer?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5136" CreationDate="2018-04-17T04:51:06.173" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I don't think this proposal will work well&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it has been mentioned in the question, there's a cons, and potentially a big one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5136/suggestion-to-help-with-the-high-closure-rate#comment15105_5136&quot;&gt;IDrinkandIKnowThings commented&lt;/a&gt; on the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because it requires either 5 people or a mod to close a question, and only one person can get the bounty, I don't think it will be that easy to abuse. The con may be that people may be reluctant to edit a still open question in hopes they can do it after it is on hold for a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some questions are &lt;em&gt;close-worthy but salvageable&lt;/em&gt;. This is why there's &quot;Edit&quot; on &quot;Close Votes&quot; queue. With this proposal, some users might exploit it and thus deliberately vote to close instead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's relatively easy to monitor questions that will be potentially closed (&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/774761/posts-with-3-or-4-close-votes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;3 or 4 close votes&lt;/a&gt; on SEDE, updated weekly), or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&amp;amp;q=closed%3ayes&quot;&gt;already closed&lt;/a&gt; (advanced search, real-time). Some users might monitor and analyze those questions waiting for a potential bounty on salvageable questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There's a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=featured&quot;&gt;featured&lt;/a&gt;&quot; tab that lists all bountied questions.&lt;/strong&gt; Some users could just leave the tab open there and got notified for new bounty, then immediately (propose an) edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5136/suggestion-to-help-with-the-high-closure-rate#comment15114_5136&quot;&gt;Masked Man's comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am all in favour of being less harsh and lowering the bar a bit for relatively new users. However, my only concern is with making the editing some kind of a &quot;talent show&quot;. We should certainly keep making edits to improve posts and not chase users with torches and pitchforks, but going to the opposite extreme where we start calling out close voters with &quot;if the question is poorly written, why don't you just start a bounty to improve it&quot; will do more harm than good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these could be prevented if there's a Good Samaritan editing and improving the question before it got bountied, but then... this proposal is moot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28728" LastActivityDate="2018-04-17T04:51:06.173" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5141" CreationDate="2018-04-17T09:19:03.747" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are right, different countries have very different standards when it comes to HR. In the end, HR are supposed to protect the company and its best interests. How they interpret that, is very culture dependant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples we have, the USA have the saying that says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;HR are not your friend&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the EU, I tended to find they were more on the employees side, as the employee had more protections available to them due to laws, etc. Though if you did something extremely wrong, they wouldn't protect you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it really does depend on the culture. Sadly the question doesn't have a country tag, so I couldn't say how good the advice would be for the OP's situation. It might help if we ask them to clarify that and then go from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52713" LastActivityDate="2018-04-17T09:19:03.747" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-17T13:47:53.143" Score="3" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today a question was posted, which was a little confusing.  The question was put &quot;On Hold&quot; temporarily for being &quot;unclear&quot; while the community and OP worked to clean things up.  The OP, who seems new to SE, ended up re-posting the question with some minor edits.  Presumably this was done to help clear up the confusion surrounding the earlier question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would this situation best be handled?  Should the new version of the question be deleted?  Or the old &quot;unclear&quot; version?  Or some other option?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion the original question is the better of the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/110753/family-emergency&quot;&gt;Family emergency&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Re-post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/110757/workplace-misunderstanding&quot;&gt;Workplace misunderstanding&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastActivityDate="2018-04-19T20:03:09.127" Title="Reposting an &quot;Unclear&quot; question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5144" CreationDate="2018-04-17T16:17:10.210" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have any reference to back this up, but I believe the guidance has always been to close and delete the second post and try to edit and improve the first post. This is especially true in this case, where the original post had already been edited and improved somewhat. I would say there is some leeway for situations where the new post is much better than the first, but even then I'd be likely to just copy-paste the content back over to the original post. That way the entire edit history is preserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2018-04-18T12:53:35.513" LastActivityDate="2018-04-18T12:53:35.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5136" CreationDate="2018-04-18T14:03:59.493" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This proposal is highly unlikely to be accepted by Stack Exchange, and for once, I don't disagree with them. (I propose an alternative approach further down in this answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AsYouKnow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;As You Know&lt;/a&gt;, users earn 2 points when their suggested edit gets approved. It is a small reputation gain, but it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; an incentive. When their reputation reaches 2000 points, this incentive gets replaced by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;edit &lt;em&gt;privilege&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. They get this privilege because it is assumed that (1) they will use this privilege responsibly and (2) they know how to use the privilege correctly on this site. This linking of privileges to reputation is the core of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange moderation theory&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moderation theory trusts the users to use the privilege responsibly, but it doesn't tell us what to do if they &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoopholeAbuse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;don't use the privilege at all&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;! Now we want to tell the Stack Exchange guys to plug the loophole by providing incentive for using the privilege, which is likely to get the response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We trust the users of your site to use their privileges responsibly. If your community isn't using their privileges correctly, that is something for you to fix. We cannot provide additional incentives so that people will use their hard earned privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, offering bounties for editing will &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ObviousRulePatch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;stick out like a sore thumb&lt;/a&gt;. Why not offer bounties for using the other privileges as well, one would wonder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless, the problem of closing questions which could have been edited is a significant one. We should try harder as a community within the confines of the existing system:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Engage constructively with the askers to obtain the missing information. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Improve the questions as much as you can without waiting to make a &quot;perfect&quot; edit. It is easier for other users to pick up from there rather than starting from scratch. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do not discourage good faith edits with comments like &quot;your edit removed X, which changes the intent of the question&quot;. Instead restore the &quot;removed&quot; relevant information yourself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you know a question can be improved, but cannot do it yourself (due to lack of time, etc.), create a meta post so that someone else may be able to put in the required effort. Include as much information as you can to help them along. We should perhaps consider an &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/edit-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;edit-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;edit-request&lt;/a&gt; tag akin to the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/reopen-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reopen-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reopen-request&lt;/a&gt; tag. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-04-18T14:03:59.493" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5148" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5149" CreationDate="2018-04-18T15:26:53.997" Score="-6" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would asking a question about medical school admissions, compared to STEM PhD admissions, and hiring practices, be on-topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have thought of either posting it here, or on Academia or Economics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Economics I'd rather avoid, since it seems like a very low-activity site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82537" LastActivityDate="2018-04-18T16:43:02.393" Title="Would asking a question about medical school admissions, compared to STEM PhD admissions, and hiring practices, be on-topic here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5148" CreationDate="2018-04-18T16:43:02.393" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't believe your topic would be a good fit for The Workplace.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is on-topic anywhere, it would probably be at &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Academia&lt;/a&gt;. There they can at least talk about hiring practices within academia, whereas we can't really talk about admissions here. Of course, whether it's on-topic there or not depends on the exact nature of your question, so be sure to look over their &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic definitions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-04-18T16:43:02.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5141" CreationDate="2018-04-18T23:19:43.410" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GO TO HR&lt;/strong&gt; is often a bad answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will typically see an admonition of &lt;strong&gt;HR IS NOT YOUR FRIEND&lt;/strong&gt; either as a response to the above, or as a warning against a querent who has asked about going to HR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HR, indeed, is not your friend.  A friend is one who will default to taking your side in a dispute.  Going into HR can have far-reaching ramifications beyond what one may think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HR IS NOT YOUR FRIEND&lt;/strong&gt; is not the same as &lt;strong&gt;HR IS THE ENEMY&lt;/strong&gt; nor is it meant to imply such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It means &lt;strong&gt;Proceed with caution&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going to hr is a bad idea if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You treat it as a first resort, instead of a last&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You do not have evidence&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have not tried to address it at lower levels (talking to the person, then the manager, et cet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is not an issue that HR should address&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You expect them to take your side by default.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You are not aware that their role is to look after the company's interests.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When should you go to HR?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you learn of criminal behavior&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you learn of conflict of interests&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you learn of anything that could damage the company though bad publicity or liability&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you have exhausted other venues&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you have private health and wellness issues which may impact your job performance that they need to be made aware of&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Disability accommodation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Personal leave for bereavement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Personal issues that affect your job that do not concern your manager/coworkers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Personal issues that you have discussed with your manager and your manager has recommended you go to HR&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="52713" LastEditDate="2018-04-19T06:24:33.550" LastActivityDate="2018-04-19T06:24:33.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4814" CreationDate="2018-04-19T16:46:51.300" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-04-19T16:46:51.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5144" CreationDate="2018-04-19T20:03:09.127" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have any reference or precedent to back this answer up either, but I wanted to suggest the opposite approach (somewhat in line with @DarkCygnus in their comment on your answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear: the hypothetical scenario is: a (new) user posts a question that isn't clear/is poorly structured/otherwise is hard to answer. People comment and downvote on it. The user comes back, and posts a second question which is essentially asking the same thing, but is better worded/structured and meets general SE criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with keeping the first question and deleting the second one is, you end up with a lot of baggage - even if the actual text of the first question can be revised (by copy-pasting from the second post or direct editing) it's hard to overcome not only the negative votes, but also the comments, which now make no sense after the substantial edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the second post is substantially better in terms of being a clearly worded and on-topic question, keeping it open (and closing the first) avoids the issue of having to clean up the noise and overcome the negative votes. In other words, it gives the user a better chance at actually getting positive attention and good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the desire remains to keep the edit history from the first post, you could always link to it in a comment on the second post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2018-04-19T20:03:09.127" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5153" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5154" CreationDate="2018-04-20T02:22:41.617" Score="3" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/110787/dealing-with-reactions-from-colleague-about-being-self-taught&quot;&gt;Dealing with reactions from colleague about being self-taught&lt;/a&gt; the comments were moved to chat, and while the majority of them should have headed that way direction, and I agree with the mod that the question makes an interesting topic, the first 3 comments appear to have been clarifications on the question itself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you react now when she acts like that? What have you tried?&#xA;  What specific outcome are you trying to achieve?&#xA;  - &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/342554/dwizum&quot;&gt;dwizum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is the coworker a recent graduate? How long has this been going on?&#xA;  ...&#xA;  - &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/161228/whrrgarbl&quot;&gt;whrrgarbl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Question: Have you watched her not explain &quot;json&quot; to others? Or does&#xA;  she approach all people as if they don't know basic &quot;technology&quot;? - &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27079/wernercd&quot;&gt;WernerCD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are comments here not for clarification of the question, or is the move simply all or none?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="302" LastActivityDate="2018-04-20T22:42:38.757" Title="Are comments moved to chat in a group?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-04-21T03:01:30.173" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5153" CreationDate="2018-04-20T22:42:38.757" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;move to chat&quot; function moves everything.  Moderators can then selectively undelete comments if not &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; should move.  I've just undeleted the three comments you identified, which look like requests for clarification.  I'm not surprised that they were missed among 43 comments and &lt;strong&gt;54 flags&lt;/strong&gt;.  Unfortunately, sometimes things get missed under high volume, so thanks for bringing your question to meta.  (And especially thanks for not &lt;em&gt;using more comments to ask about the missing comments&lt;/em&gt;. :-) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-04-20T22:42:38.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5155" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-21T16:37:33.580" Score="-2" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to delete a question after getting a lot of negative feedback and getting the impression that most responders and commenters didn't really know the topic I was inquiring about. I got &quot;You can't delete this question because others put effort into answering it&quot; message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But around the same time, another question that I put some effort into answering was deleted, and this despite the fact that I had already posted my answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why the double standard? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50671" LastActivityDate="2018-04-23T22:58:49.440" Title="When are questions deletable and when are they not deletable?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5112" CreationDate="2018-04-23T16:12:29.813" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/108162/4&quot;&gt;reworded the question&lt;/a&gt; to be more in line with OP's clarifications under &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5113/3192&quot;&gt;IDrinkandIKnowThings's answer&lt;/a&gt;. I have also cast an undelete vote and a reopen vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is now acceptable, please cast undelete and reopen votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-04-23T16:12:29.813" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5155" CreationDate="2018-04-23T22:58:49.440" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/28728/andrew-t&quot;&gt;Andrew T.&lt;/a&gt; mentioned in comments, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/deleted-questions&quot;&gt;Help Section&lt;/a&gt; explains this already. Quoting from it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users can delete their own questions if the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has zero answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has only one answer, but that answer has no upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has no bounties that were awarded to any answer that isn't already deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, without knowing what question(s) you refer to (if you can try including the links for better answer), most likely that question you wrote and tried to delete already had more than one answer, thus preventing you from deleting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want to delete it, then only a Mod can do it, but you will have to ask one for such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, regarding the question you answered but got deleted, there is no &amp;quot;double standard&amp;quot; here. Most likely (again, can't know for sure if you don't say what Q it is), the question was closed by the Community, or well some mod. Again, from the help section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions can also be deleted by the community. Moderators can delete any question, and users with sufficient reputation can cast delete votes on closed questions. It takes 3 votes, minimum, to delete a closed question. However, the number of delete votes required scales to the number of votes on the question and all its answers. Questions that have been closed within the past 48 hours cannot be deleted, so as to allow for editing and possible reopening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-04-23T22:58:49.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5161" CreationDate="2018-04-24T12:38:36.557" Score="23" ViewCount="1420" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/111121/how-to-make-new-employee-accepting-of-light-profanity-at-the-workplace&quot;&gt;How to make new employee accepting of light profanity at the workplace?&lt;/a&gt; has been put on hold for &quot;seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies&quot;. I don't see anything policy-related in this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because this company's culture may not be the norm globally doesn't mean that we can't answer the question. This is at its core asking how to convince a new employee to stop trying to change the existing company (and to an extent regional) culture. Imagine someone joined a startup company with a casual dress code but then kept telling everyone they should dress more professionally. The answers to that question would be pretty much the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems wholly on-topic to me, and I have nominated the question to be re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2018-05-03T01:40:58.033" LastActivityDate="2018-05-03T01:40:58.033" Title="(Reopened) Reopen &quot;How to make new employee accepting of light profanity at the workplace?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5160" CreationDate="2018-04-24T18:42:11.053" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-04-24T18:42:11.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4299" CreationDate="2018-04-24T20:04:02.380" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did this today.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to help OP, but I also believe that the question is Off-Topic for the site.  In my opinion the question should be closed, but until it is I still am trying to help OP solve his/her problem.  As a consequence, I both answer the question and Vote To Close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastActivityDate="2018-04-24T20:04:02.380" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5163" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5173" CreationDate="2018-04-27T13:52:12.393" Score="2" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently answered a question, to which this comment was made:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a horrible answer. Company cars are simply a part of your&#xA;  benefits and in OP's situation is it perfectly normal and expected to&#xA;  push back considering people at an equal level are getting drastically&#xA;  different levels of compensation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the first sentence is insulting and rude.  And when you consider who made the comment its even more so.  If we are trying to build a more of a &quot;nice&quot; community, I think the leaders should help set the example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;: This comment has since been deleted.  It is still an appropriate reminder that we are all on occasion in need of reminding of the be nice policy, &lt;strong&gt;myself included&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2018-05-01T02:28:54.950" LastActivityDate="2018-05-01T02:28:54.950" Title="Is this comment adhereing to the be nice policy?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|be-nice|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5163" CreationDate="2018-04-27T14:04:44.537" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always flag any comment that says to an answer that it is wrong, horrible, awful, etcetera.  The appropriate thing to do is flag.  If chat is active, let people in there know as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are not meant for debate and are certainly not meant for disputing an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-04-27T19:00:02.567" LastActivityDate="2018-04-27T19:00:02.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5163" CreationDate="2018-04-27T14:05:33.213" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you've earned this wording because you're an active high-rep user, you've a bit of a reputation as a cage-shaker and the person leaving the comment assumes that you have a thick enough skin for this not to bother you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it's a public community and new users use high rep users (and moderators) as a model by which to behave.  If things like this are ok for high-rep users to say, then it's ok for everyone else to follow suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's not (in my view).  In my long experience of using online communities, the watch word for &quot;be nice&quot; is: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Attack the idea, not the person&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When attacking the person, you make things personal.  While this may be okay between people who know each other, I don't think it's right for this to be acceptable across the board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disclosure:  Yes, I'm a friend of Mister Positive, but I'm addressing the wider picture here and not defending a friend.  I don't feel comfortable allowing borderline personal comments like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2018-04-27T18:24:25.293" LastActivityDate="2018-04-27T18:24:25.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5166" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5167" CreationDate="2018-04-29T16:16:36.773" Score="10" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question which become a hot network question recently. There has been a large amount of people commenting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a small trend of people accusing the company I work for of being bad, or me for being inadequate somehow (I.E., inexperienced, unprofessional, and so forth.) in questions and comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t want to engage these comments and questions, &lt;strong&gt;but should I edit my question to clarify that I don’t think badly of my workplace or my managers and do not like response which encourage a negative view&lt;/strong&gt;? That we all have flaws and need to work to get along?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or should I just ride it out and ignore the negativity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44698" LastActivityDate="2018-04-30T11:42:17.053" Title="Should I address a trend in responses to my question?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5166" CreationDate="2018-04-29T16:24:07.620" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having read through the comments on there (most of which were deleted) I'm not really sure what you are referring to  - any updates you want to make should be edited into the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to flag comments, particularly those posted after this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. – Jane S♦ 2 days ago  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is not unclear about where extended discussion should go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also for what it's worth, this topic is going to spark a holy war amongst Hot Network Question readers for the same reasons why you posted it. A moderator can lock the post temporarily to wait out the HNQ timespan, too, if you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2018-04-29T16:24:07.620" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5166" CreationDate="2018-04-29T17:56:22.900" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, congratulations on your question making it to HNQ. Welcome to the league of elite users who have had the good fortune of having their question (or answer) making it to HNQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now coming to your actual issue, remember &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/220099/202356&quot;&gt;HNQ is entertainment&lt;/a&gt;. You would have noticed that most of those comments come from users who have 101 reputation (or close enough). These are users who have the association bonus by virtue of earning &quot;trust on another site&quot;. They show up here from the HNQ sidebar, have their share of &quot;entertainment&quot; (while they are bored waiting for C++ code to compile or in a weekly status meeting), and will likely not return for a long time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, consider it to be a &quot;working as designed&quot; property of HNQ entertainment. You don't need to defend your question against anything. Just ignore those comments and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-04-29T17:56:22.900" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5163" CreationDate="2018-04-29T21:10:00.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can push snarky some times yourself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I have been pretty clean here but I have faced time outs (some deserved and some not) on some other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the person that posted that just reacted and later removed it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was more a reaction to the question than an attach on you.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It did violate the be nice policy but it got taken down.  I say no harm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26028" LastActivityDate="2018-04-29T21:10:00.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5166" CreationDate="2018-04-30T11:42:17.053" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure you can edit the question to state you do not feel think badly the workplace.  But you do criticize management.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found the question to be confusing, over formatted, and a bit of a rant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is not requirement to reply to comment.  If they are rude then flag and let the moderators deal with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26028" LastActivityDate="2018-04-30T11:42:17.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5163" CreationDate="2018-04-30T14:02:19.313" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Snow mentioned&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Attack the idea, not the person&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I very much agree with that. This is not a personal attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think insulting is &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; nice, it doesn't matter what is being insulted. I think calling something &quot;horrible&quot; is an insult and as such not nice. It doesn't matter that the target is not a living thing. It is (imo) not a nice thing to say and should be removed because of that, for the same reasons that we do not tolerate swearing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the network should be free of insulting language. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44419" LastActivityDate="2018-04-30T14:02:19.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5163" CreationDate="2018-04-30T22:50:28.873" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this comment adhereing to the be nice policy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It did not no. It was across the line and not at all in line with our Be Nice policy or the standards that I should set as a moderator. While I may have disagreed with your answer, this kind of flat criticism isn't called for. It doesn't give you actionable feedback and isn't far removed from a personal attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I knew after posting that comment that I was being overly harsh and should correct it but ended up being interrupted and then forget to go back to remove it. But that's not much of an excuse as it should never have been posted to begin with. I do want to stress that this was never intended as a personal attack on you, though I can see why it came across that way. You were certainly not alone as the comment ended up being removed automatically due to comment flags before someone else on the moderator team saw it (who would have rightly removed it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to summarise: &lt;em&gt;mea culpa&lt;/em&gt;. I dropped the ball here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2018-04-30T22:50:28.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5174" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5175" CreationDate="2018-05-02T13:39:57.993" Score="-5" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question in topic is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/111525/if-or-how-to-answer-compliments-from-boss-at-work&quot;&gt;If or How to answer compliments from boss at work&lt;/a&gt; and what I will say is that I will probably flag this as primarily opinion based as well.. It is. As per the question it asks you when flagging:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert&#xA;  experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost&#xA;  entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific&#xA;  expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do however feel this question has been left open and edited &lt;em&gt;slightly&lt;/em&gt; without it being closed and is now just seeking more low quality easy answers for karma. I feel like this question by now should of had something done about it, I don't want to point fingers but it feels like people overlook this when they think free reputation is available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify further on why I opened this up on meta is that over the last couple of days that I've been giving this exchange a go and seeing if I enjoy answering questions here it seems a lot of questions as a whole are low quality. Though if people jump onto the question it seemingly isn't being closed for the right reasons? Why is this? Shouldn't we as a community be closing these questions that aren't likely to go anywhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore editing said question to include a question again isn't helping this thread become a higher quality. &quot;&lt;em&gt;What is an appropriate way to respond when my boss compliments me over text at work?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; Again this is just so subjective I could answer saying profanity and I'd at least be somewhat right? I feel like this question and the changes don't bring this up to the quality that this exchange has..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further clarification: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response: A good example might be sending a thumbs up emoji on its own. Am I a better or worse person for sending that over thank you? vs the many other ways I could respond. This is just so subjective to where you work and who you work with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above is a good example of how this is just deeply opinon based and while 'thank you' is a great general answer it's just not a good question that should of been put on hold or closed while it came up with a better question overall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86134" LastEditorUserId="86134" LastEditDate="2018-05-02T14:19:11.593" LastActivityDate="2018-05-02T15:38:45.887" Title="This question is objectively opinion based but isn't being flagged due to it's easy to answer nature" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|opinion-based|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5174" CreationDate="2018-05-02T14:27:31.127" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;over the last couple of days that I've been giving this exchange a go and seeing if I enjoy answering questions here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds like you're new around here, so welcome!. The Workplace is a little different than most of the Stack Exchange network in that almost all of our questions inherently are slightly opinion-based. There isn't always one right way to respond to a situation, especially for questions that ask how to respond, or how to phrase something. This is why we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/255/faq-proposal-back-it-up-and-dont-repeat-others&quot;&gt;Back it Up Rule&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that answers should be backed up either with a reference, or experiences that happened to you personally. You should always include in your answer information about why you think your answer is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've certainly left comments on one-line answers before explaining this, pointing out that another user could say the exact opposite thing with no explanation and we wouldn't know which is correct. I'll admit that Joe's answer on this question is pretty short, but I would also say that this is a pretty simple situation. His explanation of &quot;You're overthinking this&quot; is enough for me, especially when you pair that with the voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But all of this is about the quality of answers, not about on-topicness for questions, which is what you've asked about. If you look at our list of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;acceptable topics&lt;/a&gt;, included is &quot;communication problems&quot; and &quot;holding hard conversations&quot; and I would add generally professionalism and etiquette, which I would say this falls under. You might think that this isn't a difficult conversation, but obviously the OP and not everyone who visits will think so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The types of opinion-based questions we are trying to avoid are those that are &lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt; subjective. Questions like &quot;What color is the most soothing for an office?&quot; or &quot;Which job should I take?&quot; or &quot;Is it better live in the city or live outside and commute in?&quot;. The &quot;correct&quot; answers for those are going to be different for every person, and so we can't really give good advice here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to summarize, everything you find here is going to have some element of opinion in it, but as long as you can provide answers that you can back up with experience or reasoning, it should be okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2018-05-02T14:34:01.263" LastActivityDate="2018-05-02T14:34:01.263" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5174" CreationDate="2018-05-02T15:38:45.887" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're taking opinion a little too literal and not considering professional opinions that have some basis in work place experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of an answer may involve going through a process to determine the best course of action instead of an explicit, &quot;Do it exactly this way.&quot; Relationships with people can be complex. One day the boss may lose his temper and snap back, &quot;Stop sending me a F*%!9g thank you text 10 time a day!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's probably some matter of opinion in every question on this site compared to Stackoverflow or other technical sites. Experienced professionals develop rules of thumb as a guide or a framework for navigating the workplace and not a perfect map. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I answer a question based on whether or not I can help this person and those in similar situations. I've closed my fair share of questions to help monitor the site. Getting points is very secondary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer received a negative vote. That doesn't change a thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8365" LastActivityDate="2018-05-02T15:38:45.887" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5177" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5178" CreationDate="2018-05-04T16:50:07.223" Score="10" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I read the tea leaves correctly, it appears as though one of my favorite moderators will be leaving us soon.  Another of our moderators already appears to be pretty much inactive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will we be electing another moderator in the near future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2018-05-04T17:40:40.237" Title="Time for a new moderator election?" Tags="|discussion|election|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5177" CreationDate="2018-05-04T17:40:40.237" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have an election scheduled to start next week.  We have a week of question collection (for the questionnaire), followed by nominations.  So go ahead and start thinking about what questions you'd like candidates to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We really need some level-headed, community-minded volunteers to step up and help manage the site.  I hope we will see lots of strong candidates when nominations open the week after next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-05-04T17:40:40.237" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5180" CreationDate="2018-05-05T00:01:48.113" Score="4" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the Protected Questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/52765/332286&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; we have the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do unprotect questions that aren’t currently attracting a lot of attention and don’t have a long history of unproductive answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I recently became aware of a way of listing all Protected posts, by using the 10k+ tools (for &amp;lt;10k users seems that a &lt;code&gt;isprotected&lt;/code&gt; search operator is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/52825/332286&quot;&gt;feature&lt;/a&gt; still being considered, but not available at the moment). This tool can be found at: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tools/protected-questions&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tools/protected-questions&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That tool shows that &lt;em&gt;we currently have 710 Protected questions&lt;/em&gt;, the oldest one dating back to 2012!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This got me wondering, &lt;strong&gt;should we be unprotecting questions that qualify for such in a more active manner?&lt;/strong&gt; (I already handled 2 of them, but wanted to hear what everyone thinks before pouring myself into the other 708 posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-05-23T15:45:32.883" Title="Should we be unprotecting posts more actively?" Tags="|discussion|protected-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5179" CreationDate="2018-05-05T08:04:01.707" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, sure, because ... why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FAQ explicitly asks us to do so. We can always reprotect the question if we start getting poor answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since unprotecting a question doesn't bump it to the front page, we have one less reason for &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; unprotecting the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-05-23T15:45:32.883" LastActivityDate="2018-05-23T15:45:32.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5181" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-07T20:02:41.967" Score="12" ViewCount="472" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5177/time-for-a-new-moderator-election&quot;&gt;hinted recently&lt;/a&gt;, the Workplace Stack Exchange is scheduled for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/5&quot;&gt;an election starting next week, May 14th&lt;/a&gt;. In connection with that election as we have done in previous years, we will be hosting a Q&amp;amp;A here for candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5199/2018-moderator-election-qa-questionnaire&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how it'll work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Until the nomination phase, (so, until Monday, May 14th at 20:00:00Z UTC, or 4:00 pm EDT on the same day, give or take time to arrive for closure), this question will be open to collect potential questions from the users of the site. Post answers to this question containing any questions you would like to ask the candidates. Please only post &lt;em&gt;one question per answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We, the Community Team, will be providing a small selection of generic questions. The first two will be guaranteed to be included, the latter ones are if the community doesn't supply enough questions. This will be done in a single post, unlike the prior instruction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a perfect opportunity to voice questions that are specific to your community and issues that you are running into at current.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to check out the previous runs of the Q&amp;amp;A for questions asked in previous years. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2460/2014-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;2014&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2817/summer-2014-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;2014 Summer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3229/2015-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;2015&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4241/2017-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If your question contains a link, please use the syntax of &lt;code&gt;[text](link)&lt;/code&gt;, as that will make it easier for transcribing for the finished questionnaire.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the collection phase, the Community Team will select &lt;strong&gt;up to 8 of the top voted questions submitted by the community&lt;/strong&gt; provided in this thread, to use in addition to the aforementioned 2 guaranteed questions. We reserve some editorial control in the selection of the questions and may opt not to select a question that is tangential or irrelevant to moderation or the election. That said, if I have concerns about any questions in this fashion, I will be sure to point this out in comments before the decision making time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once questions have been selected, a new question will be opened to host the actual questionnaire for the candidates, containing (up to) 10 questions in total.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not the only option that users have for gathering information on candidates. As a community, you are still free to, for example, hold a live chat session with your candidates to ask further questions, or perhaps clarifications from what is provided in the Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions or feedback about this process, feel free to post as a comment here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;:  We are looking for  two (2) new moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastEditorUserId="154" LastEditDate="2018-05-14T20:09:19.877" LastActivityDate="2018-05-15T16:53:15.840" Title="2018 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Question Collection" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-05-22T18:45:10.700" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5181" CreationDate="2018-05-07T20:02:41.967" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a set of general questions, gathered as very common questions asked every election. As mentioned in the instructions, the first two questions are guaranteed to show up in the Q&amp;amp;A, while the others are if there aren't enough questions (or, if you like one enough, you may split it off as a separate answer for review within the community's 8). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastActivityDate="2018-05-07T20:02:41.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5181" CreationDate="2018-05-07T21:27:27.640" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace gets a lot of hot questions on provocative topics.  Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine.  Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions.  Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat.  How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-05-08T14:31:57.720" LastActivityDate="2018-05-08T14:31:57.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5181" CreationDate="2018-05-07T22:48:29.043" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you think about comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2018-05-07T22:48:29.043" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5181" CreationDate="2018-05-08T09:46:00.807" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-05-08T09:46:00.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5181" CreationDate="2018-05-08T10:09:02.090" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;We occasionally receive complaints, especially from the relatively new users, that this site is too hostile. What can we do to reduce the perceived hostility?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-05-08T10:09:02.090" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5181" CreationDate="2018-05-08T12:42:33.697" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where it comes to new users asking (by our standards) bad quality questions, how do you see yourself maintaining good quality for the site while still being welcoming to these new users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-05-08T12:42:33.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5181" CreationDate="2018-05-08T13:17:16.377" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site has been dominated by the IT industry. What can we do to encourage more diversity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-05-08T13:17:16.377" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5181" CreationDate="2018-05-08T13:39:00.910" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5006/3192&quot;&gt;Our tags are kind of a mess.&lt;/a&gt; We have far too many single use only tags, some heavily overused/misused tags, and several tags without a tag wiki. What can we do to bring some order to our tag situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-05-08T13:39:00.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5181" CreationDate="2018-05-08T13:40:55.363" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do we motivate new users to actually search for an existing answer to their questions?  It seems to me a lot of our new users ask duplicate questions that end up getting closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2018-05-08T13:40:55.363" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5181" CreationDate="2018-05-09T11:17:23.037" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;When &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; it appropriate to DELETE a question and when is it &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt;?  There seems to be a lot of duplicate/junk questions that hang around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2018-05-11T18:01:12.953" LastActivityDate="2018-05-11T18:01:12.953" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5181" CreationDate="2018-05-09T16:43:50.263" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;A moderator's vote is binding in most things; you can instantly close, reopen, delete, and undelete, and you do not have the option to cast a non-binding vote.  How do you see yourself using these powers?  (How) does your answer change if the community is conflicted about a particular case, such as a closed question that has both reopen and delete votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-05-09T16:43:50.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5193" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-10T12:44:15.887" Score="-1" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, people ask things that have a time-sensitive nature and are related to troubling personal emergencies or crises. Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/111985/saw-a-dead-person-on-the-way-to-work&quot;&gt;Saw a dead person on the way to work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have a standard response for these? If not, should we? While there may be an ultimate question of whether or not any specific example fits the &quot;stack exchange model&quot; in terms of asking/answering questions, the compassionate side of my brain wants to direct the asker in the best way possible regardless of site policy or structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2018-05-11T13:55:33.930" Title="Do we have (or do we need) a standard response to &quot;emergency&quot; issues?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-05-12T00:05:40.877" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5193" CreationDate="2018-05-10T13:40:18.530" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange isn't an emergency helpline, and answers should really be applicable to the purpose of the stack - i.e. to give workplace related responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, a question like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My boss just cut my arm off with the office guillotine, should I tell HR?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should be met with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No, call for an ambulance with your remaining arm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in all seriousness, time sensitive/compassionate questions like this are far and few between.  There's usually someone around to say the obvious thing before any flagging process takes effect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd hope that people facing urgent issues would seek out relevant real-world solutions before leaping to ask the internet....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2018-05-11T10:08:31.587" LastActivityDate="2018-05-11T10:08:31.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5181" CreationDate="2018-05-10T19:48:38.127" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can we be welcoming to blue collar and other workers who are not considered &quot;professionals&quot; or office workers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-05-10T19:48:38.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5193" CreationDate="2018-05-11T13:55:33.930" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;An asynchronous communication mode is not suitable for emergency responses. If your kitten is trapped in a drain pipe, you won't write an email to the Emergency Services, you would make a phone call. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see a post on StackExchange that needs &quot;emergency&quot; response, do the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the post indicates possibility of something harmful, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4992/3192&quot;&gt;flag it for moderator attention&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4993/3192&quot;&gt;suggest the poster to seek professional help&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there's an on-topic question useful to the community, consider answering the question. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do not attempt to provide &quot;help&quot; because you are most likely not qualified to do, especially to an unknown person over the internet. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/111989/3192&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; to that question. I did not provide advice on how to deal with the mental trauma of seeing a dead person because I am not qualified to do so. However, as an experienced professional and a (sort of) manager, I feel qualified to offer advice on dealing with the workplace situation, so I did that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-05-11T13:55:33.930" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5198" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-14T20:00:20.863" Score="4" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2018 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastActivityDate="2018-05-14T20:00:20.863" Title="2018 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|moderators|election|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-05-14T20:00:20.863" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5199" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-14T20:08:47.317" Score="14" ViewCount="1204" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&amp;amp;A thread for the candidates. Questions collected &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5181/2018-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;from an earlier thread&lt;/a&gt; have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not every question was compiled - at suggestion of some members of the community, two questions were merged together regarding the topic of diversity in audience. Those, and seven other top voted questions, were selected otherwise as specified, alongside our two pre-set questions for a total of 10 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a candidate, your job is simple - post an answer to this question, citing each of the questions and then post your answer to each question given in that same answer. For your convenience, I will include all of the questions in quote format with a break in between each, suitable for you to insert your answers. Just &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/38458eeb-cb13-49b4-a8d6-588307368363/view-source&quot;&gt;copy the whole thing after the first set of three dashes&lt;/a&gt;.Please consider putting your name at the top of your post so that readers will know who you are before they finish reading everything you have written, and also including a link to your answer on your nomination post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once all the answers have been compiled, this will serve as a transcript for voters to view the thoughts of their candidates, and will be appropriately linked in the Election page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck to all of the candidates!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oh, and when you've completed your answer, please provide a link to it after this blurb here, before that set of three dashes. Please leave the list of links in the order of submission.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To save scrolling here are links to the submissions from each candidate (in order of submission):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5204/44108&quot;&gt;Snow&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5205/44108&quot;&gt;motosubatsu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[Mister Positive]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5207/44108&quot;&gt;Chris E&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5209/3192&quot;&gt;Masked Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5218/3192&quot;&gt;Daniel James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5223/73791&quot;&gt;DarkCygnus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace gets a lot of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where it comes to new users asking (by our standards) bad quality questions, how do you see yourself maintaining good quality for the site while still being welcoming to these new users?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We occasionally receive complaints, especially from the relatively new users, that this site is too hostile. What can we do to reduce the perceived hostility?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A moderator's vote is binding in most things; you can instantly close, reopen, delete, and undelete, and you do not have the option to cast a non-binding vote. How do you see yourself using these powers? (How) does your answer change if the community is conflicted about a particular case, such as a closed question that has both reopen and delete votes?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This site has been dominated by the IT industry. What can we do to encourage more diversity? How can we be welcoming to blue collar and other workers who are not considered &quot;professionals&quot; or office workers?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about comments?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do we motivate new users to actually search for an existing answer to their questions? It seems to me a lot of our new users ask duplicate questions that end up getting closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2019-02-14T16:43:15.017" LastActivityDate="2019-02-14T16:43:15.017" Title="2018 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Questionnaire" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5201" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-14T22:20:11.037" Score="9" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been around this site long enough to &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; about &lt;em&gt;maybe possibly kinda&lt;/em&gt; sometime in the next year or so, throw my name in for a moderator election. However at the moment I know I need to do a lot of work to improve my standing in the community and establish a good track record of performance and involvement. I would probably score about a 4/40 at the moment, and while I read/visit the site regularly, I haven't been a regular contributor aside from commenting on things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So with the goal of improvement in mind, is there a way to easily see a checklist or similar view of which moderation badges you still need and what your score would be? Obviously it's doable with just a spreadsheet or something, but if there's an easier way, I don't want to re-invent the wheel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of what got me curious was checking the nomination form to see if it had that snapshot, but oddly it isn't there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19336" LastActivityDate="2018-05-15T00:11:27.867" Title="Is there an easy way to see your &quot;moderation score&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5201" CreationDate="2018-05-15T00:11:27.867" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/834092/candidate-score-in-an-election&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This SEDE query&lt;/a&gt; calculates the candidate score for one or more users, breaking the results down by category (reputation, moderation badges, etc).  Your current score is actually &lt;em&gt;slightly&lt;/em&gt; higher than what you predicted, by the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-05-15T00:11:27.867" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5203" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-15T05:28:48.883" Score="-3" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can the closed questions beneath (now edited and improved) please be reopened? I welcome recommendations for  improvement! Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/69814/22656&quot;&gt;How do I tactfully tell a superior that a junior employee continually provides wrong information?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/86789/22656&quot;&gt;How can I tactfully insist on communicating with someone senior, not someone more junior?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/57435/22656&quot;&gt;How can I tactfully write that any response confirms receiving a previous email?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To explicitly answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5203/please-reopen-questions-that-i-improved/5215?noredirect=1#comment15283_5215&quot;&gt;this saddening comment&lt;/a&gt;, I answer its quoted questions beneath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;What is your position ?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited my posts to state that I volunteer at a charity where I help laypeople. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are S1 and S2 at the same level?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I removed all references to S1 and S2. So my edits don't answer this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think the nature of the problem is critical here. Is this job-related, or a personal issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Job-related. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are you a customer of the company? Or the company is a customer of yours?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm helping customers of the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this person your boss, a coworker, or a customer? Why do you need confirmation of receipt? Why aren't email read-receipts working?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other person is the government. I need confirmation of receipt because the government has alleged not receiving documents. I don't send read-receipts, as they can be judged intrusive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22656" LastEditorDisplayName="user22656" LastEditDate="2018-05-16T18:43:23.937" LastActivityDate="2018-05-16T18:53:11.737" Title="Please reopen questions that I improved?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5199" CreationDate="2018-05-15T08:17:11.140" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Snow&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Workplace gets a lot of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By taking a step back and addressing what the question is really about, and asking whether can the question be molded into a form that's acceptable to the site without attracting meat-grinding comments and answers.  If the question isn't fit for the site, it'll be closed (or deleted if it's really not a fit for the site). Some questions will still invite reaction, so the comments may need aggressive pruning and a &amp;quot;controversial post&amp;quot; block adding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where it comes to new users asking (by our standards) bad quality questions, how do you see yourself maintaining good quality for the site while still being welcoming to these new users?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Disclosure:  I submitted this question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New users either may not search for a similar question/answers before asking their own question, or may not have a clear idea of what's considered a &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; question or may simply not provide enough information for a clear answer.  Sometimes there's a knee-jerk reaction to close a question in the belief that new users understand that &amp;quot;on hold&amp;quot; means that the question should be edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, &amp;quot;on hold&amp;quot; questions rarely get edited and re-opened.  I believe that new users should be guided while the question is still open. A few clarifying comments and being seen as helpful comes across better than being stamped upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We occasionally receive complaints, especially from the relatively new users, that this site is too hostile. What can we do to reduce the perceived hostility?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See answer to #2.  We should give new users a little more time/leniency to guide them toward better questions/answers.  Let them know that we're trying to help rather than hinder.  Also, I'm a great fan of using plain, easy to understand language as much as possible - I tend to avoid long words/obscure terminology that may alienate people for whom English isn't a strong skill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read the arguments twice and attempt to find the root of any possible misunderstanding and work forward from there.  Sometimes tone and intent isn't easily understood on the internet and re-evaluating the content might help to diffuse difficult situations, especially when potentially laying blame on someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After analysis, I'd address any offending parties via private chat if deleting off-topic comments doesn't provide enough of a clue.  Consulting other moderators is an option to provide a different view of the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By seeking to understand why the question wasn't judged as being suitable - there's usually more than one way of looking at a problem.  If I'm still not clear, I'll reach out to the moderator in question and talk things through.  I wouldn't countermand another moderators actions out of hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A moderator's vote is binding in most things; you can instantly close, reopen, delete, and undelete, and you do not have the option to cast a non-binding vote. How do you see yourself using these powers? (How) does your answer change if the community is conflicted about a particular case, such as a closed question that has both reopen and delete votes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's absolutely clear that a question is off-topic and there's no way of gaining a good question out of it, then the binding vote will be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the power of this weapon means that moderators are guided to moderation, seeking to guide the question into a good state rather than hammering it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This site has been dominated by the IT industry. What can we do to encourage more diversity? How can we be welcoming to blue collar and other workers who are not considered &amp;quot;professionals&amp;quot; or office workers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure that much can be done other than waving placards outside the local lumberyard.  It's the nature of internet sites like this to be more used by office-based workers.  I don't see that there's an intentional lack of diversity here, it's just that we get more office based questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What do you think about comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing this is a loaded question.  Comments are there to improve the quality of the question or to lend more weight to answers.  They're not there for chit-chat or providing anecdotal answers from people who can't construct a full answer.  Sometimes a little humour is ok if it's not at anyone's expense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments that don't result in the improvement of the question or answers should be assessed and removed - comments in the form of an answer should be removed ASAP.  Inevitably, hot questions gather large amounts of discussion which should be moved to chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, I'd only want to see comments that are there to encourage the enhancement of the question or answers.  I'm OK with comments on answers that provide anecdotal or additional information that improves the answer, and those that challenge the answer (although those should be removed when the challenge has been answered).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do we motivate new users to actually search for an existing answer to their questions? It seems to me a lot of our new users ask duplicate questions that end up getting closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system already suggests duplicate questions based on the text of the question being asked.  Obviously, people are able to either read the potential duplicate questions/answers or ignore them and carry on typing.  Of course, we get people believing that their question is unique, people with limited English language ability, or people who just want to hear themselves type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have some great users here who are really good at identifying potential duplicate questions - they're quick and mostly accurate and they're supported by everyone who visits the review queues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in answering this question, I think the site is doing a great job as identifying duplicate questions.  What we should be doing is guiding the user toward either accepting the duplicate or refining the question to make it clearly not a duplicate.  This is already (to my mind) happening effectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it has the effect of making the site look unwelcoming.  As before, taking more time to refine questions before they're closed would result in users not being quite so intimidated by early closures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-05-21T13:53:54.660" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5199" CreationDate="2018-05-15T12:11:17.973" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;motosubatsu&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace gets a lot of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's two aspects to this - whether a question is on a controversial topic and whether it is genuine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the first I think there needs to be a light but vigilant moderation. Think scalpel rather than chainsaw. Negative reactions are not in themselves &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; so long as Be Nice is observed. Comments in particular need special attention on a controversial question and questions touching on that topic should ideally be protected as soon as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the authenticity of such questions I don't have a problem with hypothetical questions personally, so long as they are appropriately marked as such. By an large people who are answering questions are here to help people, and putting the effort in to help someone only to discover that it was under false pretenses leaves a nasty taste in the mouth. Especially since many of the more controversial questions often carry an implied sense of urgency, if the same question were to be posted as a clearly hypothetical one then anyone who takes the time to answer will know what they getting &quot;involved&quot; in and can decide appropriately. That way the question and answers can still serve as a useful reference for anyone encountering a similar situation in their own life but no one feels cheated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Where it comes to new users asking (by our standards) bad quality questions, how do you see yourself maintaining good quality for the site while still being welcoming to these new users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I talked about this in my nomination post - people aren't coming here with dry, technical problems that they have a detachment from. They are coming here because they have a problem at work, and work is kind of important for most people because it not only pays the bills but it makes up a significant portion of their day to day lives. So we need to be understanding that people asking questions aren't always going to be in the most clear-headed state and give them the benefit of the doubt and remember that many of the conventions from the more technical stacks don't apply here. There is no reference manual for life and we can't expect users to have exhausted all other research options like SO does for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator I would intend on continuing to do as I have, work to improve the question through edits and comments that elicit any missing information and by remembering that the person asking the question is just that a &lt;em&gt;person&lt;/em&gt;, and one that needs help. If we can't help (and we can't always - we aren't lawyers or agony aunts) I'll try point them in the direction of resources that can wherever possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We occasionally receive complaints, especially from the relatively new users, that this site is too hostile. What can we do to reduce the perceived hostility?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well firstly the users you mention are right to a certain extent. I'm not saying people set out to be deliberately hostile but rather they forget that askers are real people with feelings and that they probably have a not insignificant amount of those feelings invested in the question they are asking. Being met with downvotes, votes to close and brusque comments (in various combinations) isn't exactly welcoming is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how I'd propose to reduce it well firstly I'd lead by example, addressing users as the real people they are and working with them to try and get them the help/answers they need and I'd use the weight and influence of the moderator position to encourage other users to do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming the flags on the comments were warranted then I'd start by having a discussion with the user in chat to see if I could persuade the them to tone down that aspect of their behavior on the site. If the behavior continued and they remain resistant to change then I'd escalate through the moderation tools and suspend if necessary. Providing good answers doesn't absolve people from their obligations under Be Nice and other rules of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If possible I'd try and find out why the other mod took the action that they did and if we continued to disagree probably ask a third mod to be a tie-breaker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A moderator's vote is binding in most things; you can instantly close, reopen, delete, and undelete, and you do not have the option to cast a non-binding vote. How do you see yourself using these powers? (How) does your answer change if the community is conflicted about a particular case, such as a closed question that has both reopen and delete votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The binding vote powers would be something I would use carefully.. there is a reason why SE operates the &quot;community moderation&quot; system and it (mostly) works. I see it as the moderators job to step in when either the &quot;normal&quot; system would take too long to take effect and more immediate action is required or where extenuating circumstances apply. Regarding the second part of the question.. well it would be on a case by case basis but would have to take into account things like edit history vs time of delete votes etc. Applying individual judgment to different situations is why we have human moderators in the first place - if there was a one-size-fits-all approach then we'd let an algorithm take care of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This site has been dominated by the IT industry. What can we do to encourage more diversity? How can we be welcoming to blue collar and other workers who are not considered &quot;professionals&quot; or office workers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well the IT bias is obviously down to the close ties to Stack Overflow. Encouraging new users from other sectors is more of a question for SE's marketing dept then a moderator but in terms of being welcoming the biggest things would be as I mention above regarding making the site welcoming for new users in general. I don't really see any glaring signs that &quot;blue collar&quot; workers in particular are made to feel unwelcome when they get here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you think about comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much time do you have? Seriously though I think the comment system is too valuable to remove but there are some undesirable behaviors around them - people posting &quot;answers&quot; in the comments is a big one! While not strictly speaking in line with the SE policy I have no problem with lighthearted or chatty comments (to an extent) as I feel they can add a bit of character to the site but offensive or rude comments just need jumping on and squashing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do we motivate new users to actually search for an existing answer to their questions? It seems to me a lot of our new users ask duplicate questions that end up getting closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think we are bit too stringent on the issue of duplicates. I think people are too quick to dismiss the nuances of a situation. What I would suggest though is some kind of guidance during the asking process that can point users to a list of some of the more commonly asked questions and encourage them to check them out first and suggest that if they don't cover their particular situation then they should think about what differentiates the two and to make sure they make that clear in their post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes I think it is a problem, as for how to improve it well I think that my answer to #2 would be a good place to start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-05-21T20:36:11.770" LastActivityDate="2018-05-21T20:36:11.770" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5199" CreationDate="2018-05-15T14:15:31.883" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Mister Positive&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace gets a lot of hot questions on provocative topics.&#xA;  Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question&#xA;  whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but&#xA;  evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a&#xA;  lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should&#xA;  questions like these be moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will admit, initially I would read those questions and think &quot;&lt;em&gt;Holy hell, someone is making that stuff up!!&lt;/em&gt;&quot; and trying to game the system.  I would vote to close and comment accordingly, until someone in the community helped me realize that I have no way of really knowing (&lt;em&gt;most of the time, excluding obvious trolling&lt;/em&gt;) if the events occurred or not.  HNQ are not necessarily evil, so in my mind you have to take these on a case by case basis, keeping the rudeness out of it by pruning silly comments and removing rude answers. Our community is &lt;strong&gt;strong&lt;/strong&gt;, and will normally take the correct course of action and CLOSE and potentially DELETE the bad questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Where it comes to new users asking (by our standards) bad quality&#xA;  questions, how do you see yourself maintaining good quality for the&#xA;  site while still being welcoming to these new users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see this as a &lt;strong&gt;huge&lt;/strong&gt; opportunity for us all.  This issue belongs to us all.  We should all work with new users to make the question suitable for this site, and politely work with the new user to encourage them even when their question cannot be made on topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Patience is important here as &lt;em&gt;English may not be the users main language&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We occasionally receive complaints, especially from the relatively new&#xA;  users, that this site is too hostile. What can we do to reduce the&#xA;  perceived hostility?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like others have stated, we as a community need to do a better job of shaping up mediocre and even bad questions.  If a user raise the flag regarding a hostile user, as a moderator I would vigilantly investigate any such complaints and address them accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of&#xA;  valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of&#xA;  arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These scenarios are best resolved &lt;strong&gt;in private, one on one&lt;/strong&gt;.  I would confer with the other moderators to make sure my evaluation of the situation was correct &lt;strong&gt;first&lt;/strong&gt;, then present the user the information in a factual, professional way.  If the user fails to get the point, whatever procedure is in place in terms of discipline will be followed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc&#xA;  a question  that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First I understand not everyone will agree on a questions merit. If I feel strongly enough about a question, I would contact the moderator in question and &#xA;request clarification on their position.  I would &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; overturn another moderators decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A moderator's vote is binding in most things; you can instantly close,&#xA;  reopen, delete, and undelete, and you do not have the option to cast a&#xA;  non-binding vote. How do you see yourself using these powers? (How)&#xA;  does your answer change if the community is conflicted about a&#xA;  particular case, such as a closed question that has both reopen and&#xA;  delete votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I plan on using my new powers as &lt;strong&gt;infrequently as possible&lt;/strong&gt;.  In a case where the community is conflicted and a moderator is required, I would confer with the other moderators to see if we can come to a conclusion. If there is a case where it is up to me, I will use the community guidelines to make a decision as best I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This site has been dominated by the IT industry. What can we do to&#xA;  encourage more diversity? How can we be welcoming to blue collar and&#xA;  other workers who are not considered &quot;professionals&quot; or office&#xA;  workers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it should matter at all what industry your in.  If it is a workplace related question we should try and help.  If the question is better suited on another site, we should guide the user to that resource.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way we should try to help the user regardless of the industry they work in.  I am not certain there is a way for us to drive more diverse industry traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you think about comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe they are an invaluable tool to the community &lt;em&gt;when used appropriately&lt;/em&gt;.  They can help flesh out a question so useful answers can be obtained.  I also imagine they can be a bit of a pain for the moderators as when you introduce humor, not everyone will find it funny.  I will enforce that  comments are used for their intended purposed, to make the question better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do we motivate new users to actually search for an existing answer&#xA;  to their questions? It seems to me a lot of our new users ask&#xA;  duplicate questions that end up getting closed.  ( My Question )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the best thing we can do is re-enforce to the new users that we have a good bit of question's and answers already built up for them to review.  I think most of the time the new user is distraught and just wants to get the question into the queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you&#xA;  see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the&#xA;  situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question being put on hold is part of the process a weaker question goes through.  While a question is on hold, it can be cleaned up to a point where it is on topic and can garner good answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think as a community we could to a better job of cleaning up the questions before they are closed.  Some questions cannot be saved, and this too is ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2018-05-17T20:00:48.527" LastActivityDate="2018-05-17T20:00:48.527" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5199" CreationDate="2018-05-15T16:36:01.387" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Chris E&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Workplace gets a lot of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not up to us to decide whether something is real or hypothetical. We are also unable to adjudicate something as a so-called troll. That's not our place. Going with my philosophy of light-handed moderation, our job is to do just that. We should keep a close eye in case it gets out of hand, monitor the flags and the comments to make sure they stay both in the purpose of comments as well as removing comments and putting them to a chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the chat room, that's a little different. Obviously the chat room can pretty much meander through any topic, but the &quot;Be Nice&quot; policy must still apply. It's important to remember that the OP of one of these hot questions may pop into chat and would make the whole site look bad if a lot of people were just bashing the question. It's a finer line in chat, but it's still a line regardless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Where it comes to new users asking (by our standards) bad quality questions, how do you see yourself maintaining good quality for the site while still being welcoming to these new users?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit, edit, edit. Follow that up with a comment why and link to the rule or policy (such as something off-topic) to politely let them know what it takes to fit in the guidelines for this community. I &lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt; think the answer is to just put it on hold. Think how that would make a new person feel. They post an answer and within an hour it's closed. All they see is &quot;We can't answer that here because it's of topic, VTC&quot;.  I'm sorry, but to me that in itself seems capricious and even a little elitist. Using terms a new user almost certainly won't know is just going to make them feel stupid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line that it's our job as a community (not just the mods) to help questions stay open wherever possible. I realize that it's easier for a person to just vote to close (or hold rather) but I'd rather see one question edited properly than to have 20 questions voted to close because it's easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;We occasionally receive complaints, especially from the relatively new users, that this site is too hostile. What can we do to reduce the perceived hostility?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's a fair perception actually. While there are people who will gamify the point system, I think there are others who turn community moderation into a game, at least a personal one. To that end, there's unfortunately nothing to be done about it because the software permits it and in some ways encourages it via the review queue.  But that part is a discussion for another day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the best way to reduce the perception is to &lt;strong&gt;be helpful&lt;/strong&gt;. Instead of looking for a reason to close a question, we should look for ways to keep it open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's almost like a pack mentality sometimes. On my own answers, I've seen an answer go a day and get a good amount of upvotes until one person comments why he thinks my answer is wrong and suddenly I'm getting downvotes which miraculously stop when the improper comment gets removed. By improper, I mean the comment is argumentative and not at all intended to improve my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So imagine you're a new user to the site and you decide to answer a question. After you write this 4 paragraph answer, someone comes along and starts an argument in the comments, especially if it's one of those topics where people have strong feelings. Then you start getting downvotes. It gets to -4 and suddenly it's deleted. And this all took place in less than 20 minutes. Wouldn't you feel the site was rather hostile? It certainly was to your answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It gets back to what I've said in other answers. We should do what we can to improve a question and do what we can to make sure that the comments on an answer stay within the guidelines of what comments are for. This actually applies to mods and regular users. Mods can remove the comments but everyone else can certainly flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, I believe that every user should be treated as equally as possible whether they have 0 reputation or 40,000, or been here 6 years or 20 minutes. The rules (especially Be Nice) apply to everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the arguments are flags are because of abuse, I think the individual needs to be dealt with directly, but I believe the system itself will do that sometimes anyway. I'm not a moderator so I'm not entirely sure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But other than that, the user deserves to be treated just like every other user. I don't care if he has 80k reputation, he doesn't get to skirt the rules like Be Nice or be allowed to argue in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the same token, a user that just gets off a 1 year network-wide suspension should get treated as evenly as everyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm essentially saying is that the rules are blind. They don't play favorites and neither should we. If you apply the rules equally and use a light hand wherever possible, the system works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just don't believe that a user should be sanctioned just because we got tired of deleting his argumentative (but not rude or abusive) comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;open/close wars happen among regular users and that gets pretty acrimonious at times. I can't imagine how bad it would look for mods to do it.  In practice, I'd try to convince the other mod of my point of view. Would I change it? Absolutely not. I can't imagine where a question being closed by a mod is so egregious that it warrants another mod of equal status to reverse it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's kind of like being a parent. I may not agree with something my wife said our child couldn't do, but I don't let the kids know that and I back her up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A moderator's vote is binding in most things; you can instantly close, reopen, delete, and undelete, and you do not have the option to cast a non-binding vote. How do you see yourself using these powers? (How) does your answer change if the community is conflicted about a particular case, such as a closed question that has both reopen and delete votes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've said all along that I believe moderation should be as light-handed as possible. That includes casting votes. Basically, I'd have to stop voting except as the final vote unless it's so obvious that it needs to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would see this happening with reopen and undelete votes more often because the result is positive to the author rather than a negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;This site has been dominated by the IT industry. What can we do to encourage more diversity? How can we be welcoming to blue collar and other workers who are not considered &quot;professionals&quot; or office workers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About the only thing we can do (but it's a big one) is stop assuming that every person who asks a question works in IT. It's easy to do and I've done it myself. Unfortunately, there's little else that can be done because a higher percentage of IT folk are online than any other as a natural aspect of what they do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What do you think about comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think comments are fine as long as they are used for what they are supposed to be used for. The guidelines are pretty clear on what comments are and what comments are not. I think if a comment is flagged, it should be evaluated and moved or deleted if necessary.  I think that it's too easy to turn comments into a discussion, which is not the purpose and in those cases, they should be directed into a chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are a place where I believe &quot;less is more&quot; because of their narrow purpose.  I think most comments, if we were honest, could be deleted as &quot;too chatty&quot;.  I'm not suggesting that we do this necessarily (see &quot;heavy-handed&quot;) but technically, I suspect it was true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How do we motivate new users to actually search for an existing answer to their questions? It seems to me a lot of our new users ask duplicate questions that end up getting closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really think that &lt;strong&gt;we&lt;/strong&gt; could do anything. The software already does a search when a question is being asked based on what they put as a subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that everyone thinks their question is unique and different. It's a matter of perspective. They're attached to their personal situation so in most cases they're bound to see what they're asking as being different than the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just like some questions, there's not always a solution, or at least a good one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's definitely a problem. When you look through the review history and see that one person has voted to close 8 questions in 2 minutes, you know they're not reading it. It's a game to some people I think. Either that or they think the site should be &quot;pure&quot; and as lean as possible. Personally, I don't get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the same token, I've seen some users vote some to keep open some of the most horrible questions and that every vote for the last week has been &quot;Keep Open&quot; or &quot;Looks OK&quot;. This isn't a hypothetical, I've actually seen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But here's the problem. They have the right to do it. Their vote is their vote and they can use it how they want. I've actually seen one person come into chat and get into an argument with someone else saying, &quot;How could you say that it looks ok!!!!???&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator there's even less that can be done aside from what I've suggested in Question 2, which is &quot;edit, edit, edit&quot; and then reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a lot of feelings about what could be done to help on the software side, but realistically they won't ever happen so it's not worth mentioning here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I believe there are a few tenets that are crucial to effective moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fairness&lt;/strong&gt;. Treat people equally even if you don't like them. Moderation is about what's put on the site, not the person that put it there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Light-handed&lt;/strong&gt;, especially in the use of &quot;negative powers&quot; like closing and deleting. Moderators are supposed to be more like referees than dictators. And since it's a community site, the community should get to make most of the decisions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Participation&lt;/strong&gt;. Just because one is a moderator doesn't mean they can't or shouldn't participate. I think it's just the opposite. It helps the community even more as a mod because it helps keep perspective. There's nothing to keep someone grounded like answering a question and having it downvoted into oblivion. :) I believe participation is important to stay IN the commmunity as opposed to being ABOVE the community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Activity&lt;/strong&gt;. If you're going to be a moderator, be prepared to put in the time necessary, including participation (in my opinion) where possible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Positivity&lt;/strong&gt;. A moderator should remember that s/he needs to be helpful, encouraging, and a positive representative of the site. If a moderator always seems crabby, that reflects on our site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm Chris&lt;/em&gt; -- Chris Griffin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28939" LastEditorUserId="8388" LastEditDate="2018-05-15T17:02:26.243" LastActivityDate="2018-05-15T17:02:26.243" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5199" CreationDate="2018-05-15T18:15:58.927" Score="3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Masked Man (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/5#post-112409&quot;&gt;Nominating Post&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace gets a lot of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assume questions to be genuine until we have contrary evidence. People shouldn't be denied solutions to their problems only because we find them too absurd. Such questions should be handled on a case-by-case basis. Some options are: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the provocative element is not essential to the core problem, we can edit it out to reduce off-topic and non-constructive comments.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the provocative element cannot be removed without altering the core problem, we can still try to edit it to be less provocative.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the post is predominantly provocative and removing it doesn't leave any core workplace problem, it indicates the question is likely not useful and should be deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our current moderators handle off-topic and non-constructive comments well: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Move the comments to chat with a reminder to use comments only to seek clarifications or suggest improvements.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete non-constructive and off-topic comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lock the post in extreme cases to prevent further controversial discussions. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Where it comes to new users asking (by our standards) bad quality questions, how do you see yourself maintaining good quality for the site while still being welcoming to these new users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it unreasonable to expect new users to know all our rules for their first several weeks on the site. We should show them around for a bit. This includes doing such things as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing their posts and explaining why that was done. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Posting comments asking to clarify missing information, and incorporating their responses into their question. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When voting to close, explain what they need to do to get the post reopened. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already do this usually and will continue doing so, as well as encourage others to do so, regardless of being a moderator. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We occasionally receive complaints, especially from the relatively new users, that this site is too hostile. What can we do to reduce the perceived hostility?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per my observations over the past few years, the main reasons for this perceived hostility are (1) downvotes (2) close votes and (3) rude or snarky comments. We can address them as below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Downvotes&lt;/strong&gt;: While we are free to vote as we please, we can exercise some restraint when downvoting new users' posts. We should focus on fixing their post rather than downvoting. Moreover, a post that has already got 2 or 3 downvotes, piling on further downvotes is unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Close votes&lt;/strong&gt;: When a question gets put on hold, the banner suggests to edit the question, but doesn't make it clear that it could be reopened. Users familiar with other message boards – which do not &quot;reopen&quot; a &quot;locked&quot; post – usually just move on, or think their question is not welcome. To address this, when voting to close a question, we could also post a comment that tells what can get the question reopened. Some of our users do this already, but it needs to happen more often. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rude or snarky comments&lt;/strong&gt;: The best option to address this is to restrain ourselves from making such comments. However, since that doesn't always work, the next best thing is to flag such comments early and often.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would first check with the other moderators if they too see a problem. If they agree, I would have a polite private chat with the user reminding them to exercise discretion while posting strong and controversial opinions on the site. When their posts make other users uncomfortable and drive them away from the site, moderators must step in and make it stop. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further transgressions should be addressed according to the site policy, which may include suspending the user. This extreme step should be taken as a last resort, particularly if there are multiple flags against the user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would first understand the reasons for their decision. If there's nothing especially disagreeable, I would leave it at that. If I am not convinced, I will discuss my concerns with them. I will go with whatever agreement we come to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the unlikely event where we do not come to an agreement, I might suggest the other mod to create a meta post where we can consider community feedback. If the other mod deems that unnecessary, I would just trust their judgement and let it go. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A moderator's vote is binding in most things; you can instantly close, reopen, delete, and undelete, and you do not have the option to cast a non-binding vote. How do you see yourself using these powers? (How) does your answer change if the community is conflicted about a particular case, such as a closed question that has both reopen and delete votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our current moderators handle their binding vote pretty well, and I will follow the same. I will not cast binding close or reopen votes until at least 3 &quot;regular&quot; users have cast votes (except in &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; obvious cases). Moderator votes are not meant to override the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For cases where the community users are conflicted about casting close/reopen/delete/undelete votes, I would first try to edit the post to address the concerns of the close/delete &quot;camp&quot; or create a meta post requesting the community members to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would avoid casting the delete vote until I am certain the post cannot be improved, because not only does a deleted post become almost invisible, but a moderator's delete vote cannot be reversed by &quot;regular&quot; users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This site has been dominated by the IT industry. What can we do to encourage more diversity? How can we be welcoming to blue collar and other workers who are not considered &quot;professionals&quot; or office workers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This dominance is mostly unavoidable because our user community is dominated by IT industry workers, and will likely remain so. However, it is not necessary to alienate the others. There are a few things we can do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Separate &quot;navigating the workplace&quot; and &quot;doing my job&quot; parts of the question&lt;/strong&gt;: This site is about navigating the workplace, not about finding solutions to software problems. The latter type of questions (such as &quot;how to convince my boss to do X?&quot;) can also be useful to other industries, but the former type of questions (such as &quot;how to optimize FooLang code?&quot;) are rarely useful outside the IT industry. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use relevant industry tags&lt;/strong&gt;: For IT industry questions, use the software-industry or the other relevant tags. That makes it a bit more clear to the new users that this site is not just about IT industry questions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you think about comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good uses of comments&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seeking clarification or suggesting improvement to the post&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Could you please specify your location, as the answer to your question will most certainly depend on local laws and practices?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Writing a note to the post author when you modified their post &#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hey, I edited your question because X, Y, Z. If my edit conflicts with your intention, leave a comment here or make a further edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Posting positive feedback on an answer &#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I found this answer useful because it showed me A, B, C&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Linking to meta discussion&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I edited this post to clarify the question, and posted a reopen request on meta (link here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not-so-good/bad uses of comments&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Posting answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Getting into arguments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Making rude or snarky remarks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Posting irrelevant commentary or asking irrelevant questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Declaring the entire answer invalid due to a one-in-a-million scenario where it wouldn't work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both lists are indicative, and not exhaustive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do we motivate new users to actually search for an existing answer to their questions? It seems to me a lot of our new users ask duplicate questions that end up getting closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange already provides a search box and suggests potential duplicates when we start writing the title. Unfortunately some of our new users do not write a descriptive title. This can only be addressed by &quot;show, don't tell&quot;, that is, edit their question titles to something more descriptive and let them pick the habit. Anything more, such as &quot;forcing&quot; users to write a better title requires support from Stack Exchange, which is out of our scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see duplicate questions from new users as a huge problem because of: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Confirmation bias&lt;/strong&gt;: We only know the duplicate questions that are actually posted. We wouldn't know of the instances where the user found their answer through searching or through the suggested questions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Users don't realize their question is a duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;: Even our &quot;regular&quot; users get this wrong sometimes, as we see duplicate questions being reopened. We can certainly cut our new users some slack here. Moreover, even if the question is a &quot;genuine&quot; duplicate, they may not realize this until someone explains why the questions are the same. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SEO&lt;/strong&gt;: Having duplicate questions is not bad, especially on a &quot;subjective&quot; site. Having multiple questions with slightly different phrasing or keywords helps our future users find their answers easily through search engines. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a problem only for on-topic questions, if we forget about them after putting on hold. Putting such questions on hold should be &lt;em&gt;temporary&lt;/em&gt; (&quot;maintenance mode&quot;, if you will). They should be improved and eventually reopened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a problem for off-topic questions, which cannot fit our site, no matter what we do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-05-21T14:30:51.013" LastActivityDate="2018-05-21T14:30:51.013" CommentCount="32" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5210" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5211" CreationDate="2018-05-15T23:37:06.290" Score="0" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are the tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reopen-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reopen-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reopen-request&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/close-reasons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;close-reasons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;close-reasons&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/closing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;closing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;closing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reopening&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reopening&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reopening&lt;/a&gt; duplicates? Ought some be removed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22656" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:18:59.213" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:18:59.213" Title="Are these tags on reopening and closing duplicates?" Tags="|discussion|tags|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5210" CreationDate="2018-05-16T01:02:38.133" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt; as they are not duplicates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reopen-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reopen-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reopen-request&lt;/a&gt; is for a post that specifically asks for the Community to consider voting to reopen a post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/close-reasons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;close-reasons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;close-reasons&lt;/a&gt; is when OP is asking the Community to discuss on the possible reasons a question was closed. This is independent from a request to reopen, and should be more focused on the reasons &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it was closed, as to improve on future posts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/closing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;closing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;closing&lt;/a&gt; is about the process of closing itself, as well is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reopening&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reopening&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reopening&lt;/a&gt; for the process of reopening a post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you have seen them mixed up sometimes, and thus your confusion. But all users should be aware of these differences to tag accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-05-16T01:40:19.223" LastActivityDate="2018-05-16T01:40:19.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5203" CreationDate="2018-05-16T01:47:46.510" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you aware that most of those posts took place months if not years ago?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see some that date back to 2015 and other to 2017. Also most of them have a negative score, even below the &quot;-3 zone&quot; (which in my experience is most of the times irreversible).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that, in any case you &lt;strong&gt;try to rephrase them and post them again in a more clear and on-topic manner&lt;/strong&gt;, in case they weren't answered already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we can end up opening them, but it will hardly have any purpose or benefits now (you already got and even accepted some answers there, suggesting your question was satisfied).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see that only 2 of those didn't received an answer, so perhaps you should focus on them and post them again now you have written them properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also suggest that in future situations you post for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reopen-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reopen-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reopen-request&lt;/a&gt; of a &lt;em&gt;single question&lt;/em&gt;, instead of a whole bunch of them. This makes it easier to address and solve the problems it may have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-05-16T18:53:11.737" LastActivityDate="2018-05-16T18:53:11.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5213" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-16T02:28:31.523" Score="0" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've improved &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/110418/22656&quot;&gt;How can I tactfully write that I haven&amp;#39;t received a reply?&lt;/a&gt;. Can it please be reopened? But why are there 2 votes for deletion? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22656" LastActivityDate="2018-05-16T05:42:59.347" Title="Closure and Possible Deletion: How can I tactfully write that I haven't received a reply?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5213" CreationDate="2018-05-16T05:42:59.347" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;And it's currently at -7 votes, so won't be visible to the front page even if it was opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem here is that there's no context - you're simply stating that emails are going unanswered.  You've not stated the importance of the emails, whether the emails have stated that you need a response in a timely manner, or even what the purpose of the emails are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without any background information, this is impossible to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mean to be patronizing here, but do a little role-play here.  Pretend that you aren't you and read your question from someone else's perspective.  Is there enough information here for someone to answer the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're clearly no stranger to Stack Exchange and you've gain good reputation on other sites and should understand the need for clear questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-05-16T05:42:59.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5203" CreationDate="2018-05-16T14:47:44.257" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears your edits have mostly reworded the closed questions. You are yet to resolve the issues led to the closure. Please address the issues, we will consider them for reopening. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A common observation across the three questions is your attempts to be as vague and anonymous as possible are making the questions unclear and confusing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As DarkCygnus says, you should use &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/reopen-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reopen-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reopen-request&lt;/a&gt; for one question per post. However, since this post is already made, I will comment on each of them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do I tactfully tell someone that someone else continually provides wrong information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have not provided your position with respect to this &quot;someone&quot;. Several users have pointed out that this information is essential to answer your question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are you a client ? the same company ? What is your position ? – Gautier C Jun 15 '16 at 12:05&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are S1 and S2 at the same level? Some kind of matrix management? Or is S2 superior to S1? – Andrew Leach Jun 15 '16 at 13:02&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think the nature of the problem is critical here. Is this job-related, or a personal issue? – psubsee2003 Jun 15 '16 at 13:14&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I will vote to reopen the question and will very likely post an answer after the role of S2 was properly clarified. – Philipp Jun 15 '16 at 14:15&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I tactfully insist on communicating with someone senior, not someone more junior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same as above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are you a customer of the company? Or the company is a customer of yours? The answer makes a big difference for the answer to your question. If you are a customer, you have the right to ask for the person who can resolve the problem. If the company is a customer of yours, you have no right to interfere with their business decision. – scaaahu Mar 13 '17 at 3:34&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I tactfully write that any response constitutes confirmation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some users have discussed your question and possible solutions in comments, but David's comment describes why the question was closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All of your attempts to generalize and anonymize your question make it more vague and confusing. Please add more detail and tell us what exactly your situation is. Is this person your boss, a coworker, or a customer? Why do you need confirmation of receipt? Why aren't email read-receipts working? As it stands, I'm voting to close this question as unclear. – David K Nov 10 '15 at 13:34&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-05-16T14:47:44.257" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5216" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-17T16:24:05.730" Score="3" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/112253/73255&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/112257/73255&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt; included the recommendation to essentially &quot;get a lawyer&quot;. This spurred a discussion in the comments indicating that this advice is often included in Workplace answers and I don't disagree that it is a good idea. However, in the comments it is noted that &quot;get a lawyer&quot; is often &quot;stand-alone&quot; advice accompanied primarily by &lt;em&gt;reasons&lt;/em&gt; that it should be done and &lt;em&gt;other things&lt;/em&gt; that might be done as well, but no further details on how &quot;get a lawyer&quot; could be accomplished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seemed like something that warrants discussion and potentially action, but the comments section of an answer on a question about forging signatures doesn't seem like the optimal place for that discussion to occur so I wanted to make a less-prone-to-deletion place for further discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were a few main points brought up that need resolution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where should this information be located? Some options might be a Workplace Meta post, a normal Workplace.SE question, or maybe just a good external resource.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How should we address regional differences? It seems likely that not all regions have the same guidelines and even the basic &quot;get a lawyer&quot; advice might not be correct for the given situation in different areas. Options include having a &quot;master post&quot; that contains various details, or having separated posts by region so appropriate information can be provided.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should this really be a separate post, or just additional information that &quot;Get a lawyer&quot; posts should include? There was some concern that a unified post would be too general to help in most specific situations, but there was also concern that including the details in the answer itself would be impractical.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73255" LastEditorUserId="73255" LastEditDate="2018-05-17T16:50:25.790" LastActivityDate="2018-05-17T16:55:36.927" Title="Codifying instructions for how to get a lawyer" Tags="|discussion|legal-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5216" CreationDate="2018-05-17T16:55:36.927" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but no further details on how &amp;quot;get a lawyer&amp;quot; could be accomplished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that no further details are given because no one can tell how &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; can get a lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not like we can share a link to a Lawer's Linkedin or webpage, as that may constitute a SPAM comment (as we would be promoting an individual for profit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The process of getting a lawyer should be completely up to the discretion of the OP&lt;/strong&gt;. It depends on what country you are, what budget you have, if you have already a preferred lawyer of trust, etc..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It reads &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;get a laywer&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, but it actually means &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;this is off topic, so instead of just voting to close I advise you to get professional legal help&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want, please read &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1856/73791&quot;&gt;What is asking for legal advice?&lt;/a&gt; for more information on the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have this from our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What questions are off topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions seeking company-specific advice on workplace regulations or policies, or &lt;strong&gt;legal advice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, &lt;strong&gt;even the guys at &lt;a href=&quot;https://law.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Law.SE&lt;/a&gt; consider off-topic asking for legal advise:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't ask questions seeking legal advice on a specific matter. These are &lt;strong&gt;off-topic&lt;/strong&gt; for Law Stack Exchange. While users generally contribute answers in good faith, the answers are not legal advice, and contributors here are not your lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-05-17T16:55:36.927" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5199" CreationDate="2018-05-18T08:31:51.820" Score="1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Daniel James&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Workplace gets a lot of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the question is within the bounds of being 'on-topic', I think it's important to make sure they get an answer. For all we know, as the user base of The Workplace; the question might have actually happened. Even if didn't, there's no telling whether or not someone might actually face the same issue in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take questions at face value and try to answer them as best as you can. People should be made aware that despite whether a comment may seem real or not, they need to still be respectful and assume in good faith it's a legitimate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think in cases like this, it'll be important to explain why it should be left open and how the question is a positive piece of content to keep on the site and get answers. It'll come down to a case by case basis of digital crowd control and managing opinions and expectations carefully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Where it comes to new users asking (by our standards) bad quality questions, how do you see yourself maintaining good quality for the site while still being welcoming to these new users?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think new user's on the site is a tricky subject. Stack Exchange (in my opinion) has very strict rules which, love them or hate them, they make your first contribution difficult if you're unsure on how the site works. I don't think a relaxed system is the way forward, but a friendlier, more understanding approach to user's is a must. Not everyone is in the same boat and understands how the site works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no reason to not follow the rules/guidelines, but not everyone understands the dynamic of Stack Exchange and is a tricky thing to figure out. If they're poorly written, off-topic or offensive then let's close them down. But let's ensure we provide positive steps forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;We occasionally receive complaints, especially from the relatively new users, that this site is too hostile. What can we do to reduce the perceived hostility?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there needs to be careful steps taken to ensure new user's are aware of WHY a question was closed or put on hold and HOW they can open it again, or ask something that's more suited. Quite often questions are closed down and no other information is given. This is confusing and assumed hostile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing a question is one thing, but we should be following up by saying; &quot;hey, that's not quite on topic or right here, but check this and it'll get you on the right track&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone is different in how they would react to this and what they'd do. Personally I prefer the 'quick word' by telling them what they're posting might come across differently and just to be aware of context and other's opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quality answers are what keeps this site running, so we don't want to stop that, but if it's causing continuous arguments, something needs to be said otherwise it continues to escalate. Let's not give free passes out to high rep users, but let's also give them a reason to keep coming back. It's a give and take situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talk to them about it. A professional conversation would soon get to the bottom of the issue. It's the internet. People disagree but shouldn't be something to argue about so if it means getting more opinions on the issue then so be it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole point of the site is to be a good resource for workplace issues. So it's important to make sure that quality content is accessible so generally I don't see this as a huge issue, just something to bear in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A moderator's vote is binding in most things; you can instantly close, reopen, delete, and undelete, and you do not have the option to cast a non-binding vote. How do you see yourself using these powers? (How) does your answer change if the community is conflicted about a particular case, such as a closed question that has both reopen and delete votes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see myself using these sorts of powers very cautiously where there may be space to disagree and a discussion is made. The community itself is responsible for moderation in a general sense. I see moderators being around to shut down the bad stuff so you'll have to consider your actions carefully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I might get it wrong but that's just a part of being human. If a judgement call is made incorrectly, it'll get rectified. This comes back to disagreeing with other mods. Open and frank discussion is what'll solve problems. As long as you don't go on a power trip, it'll be okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;This site has been dominated by the IT industry. What can we do to encourage more diversity? How can we be welcoming to blue collar and other workers who are not considered &quot;professionals&quot; or office workers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's difficult because of the reputation of StackExchange and StackOverflow, it does come across as a very developer focused site. The only thing I can suggest is to promote more non-office based questions and try and make an effort to put more 'blue collar' questions in the spotlight. If there is a particular job that doesn't get much attention in the way of answers then there should probably be a community effort to try and get those answered, but answered well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What do you think about comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're an interesting dynamic on the site and outer network. It's a mixed bag though. Often you'll get a good discussion on the question subject matter where some additional information might need adding to the question and sometimes it'll be chaos. For the most part they're good, especially when further discussion is needed on an answer. It provides extra context and a way to actually dive into the issue a bit more. You do get the occasional disagreement or off-topic chatter, but they're a powerful way to construct solid answers to questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How do we motivate new users to actually search for an existing answer to their questions? It seems to me a lot of our new users ask duplicate questions that end up getting closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have all the answers, but making the search better is something I think it a must. Content is not always easy to find and I've found that looking through a user's profile history is better than searching for obvious reasons. I think generally if the help sections were easier to find and navigate then it'd help a lot. The ask question button is more prominent than the help section so it's obvious new user's a probably not going to read it. They don't know the site and the first thing they saw was 'ask a question right now'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes and no. If a question is too broad, off-topic or generally poor quality then it's understandable as to why they'd be closed or what have you, but most of the time they're shut down and then no further guidance is given to that person. It's not very welcoming to see a your first post shut down as off-topic when you have a question about your job on a site called The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think more could be done to provide follow-up resources and a clear explanation of actually why it was closed. A new user to the site is not going to know these things. It's a well established fact that most people don't read the Terms &amp;amp; Conditions, Privacy Policy, Rules, Guides and popups you get when you start out new on a site. That's not them being ignorant as such, but more so being new which is something we all do. A link or two for next steps would be very helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user66194" LastEditorDisplayName="user66194" LastEditDate="2018-05-18T11:55:46.377" LastActivityDate="2018-05-18T11:55:46.377" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5219" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-18T11:10:20.607" Score="3" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me this person is a trolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/112404/how-to-deal-with-a-transgender-person-making-demands/112408&quot;&gt;How to deal with transgender&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go back to the original post from an &lt;strong&gt;unregistered&lt;/strong&gt; user:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How to deal with an LGBT person making obscene demands?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In our firm of about 1000 people, I am working with a group of&#xA;  developers on a minor project. We've been assigned to work with a man&#xA;  who pretends to be a woman. He's making some weird demands, such as&#xA;  getting upset whenever we call him a he (which we obviously do out of&#xA;  habit, I mean, what are we supposed to do, change our instincts over&#xA;  night?) and he also demands to use the ladies toilet, which makes our&#xA;  only female coworker quite uncomfortable. He makes weird noises in the&#xA;  bathroom, she says, and insists on making weird, unnatural chitchat&#xA;  with her about &quot;the boys&quot; (i.e., us...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How to deal with this situation? We do not want to be discriminatory&#xA;  against an LGBT person, but we also don't want to have to deal with&#xA;  their demands which cause problems for us. Obviously taking this to HR&#xA;  is extremely delicate, as their first impression may very well be that&#xA;  we just don't like LGBT people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So much is inciteful: obscene, pretend, use of he. Every step of the way it seems to chose wording to incite and denigrate.  It refers to the person as LGBT rather than the proper term.  &quot;Impression we just don't like LGBT&quot; to me is making a mockery as they have given many clues if they don't like them then clearly they don't respect.  This person has pretty good language skills.  It smells intentional to me. Unregistered user. Can you know for sure it is trolling - no.  For me it hits on all the traits of trolling but not so over the top to get nicked for rudeness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another point is it is kind of a spin off from a deleted answer that is linked in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BOLO is slang for Be On the Lookout.  As slang it means bogus or be weary of this person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many edits were made to tone it down.  And now it has a positive score and I cannot vote to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am suggesting is if something looks like trolling then just vote it down so it can be deleted.  Fix the question keeps it around and feeds the troll. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26028" LastEditorUserId="26028" LastEditDate="2018-05-18T17:09:37.053" LastActivityDate="2018-05-31T18:26:15.213" Title="Deal with trolling" Tags="|discussion|trolling|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5219" CreationDate="2018-05-18T12:26:16.717" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What I am suggesting is if something looks like troll then just vote it down so it can be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will need to be very careful with this. What you are doing when you call someone a troll is guessing at their motivations. Like you, I am not impressed by the choice of wording in the original post, but it's entirely &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; that this is a real person asking a real question. It is hard to tell for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I feel that it does ask a fundamentally useful question: &quot;how do we deal with trans people when coworkers are uncomfortable with that?&quot; I think that this is a real problem encountered in the real world. Even &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; the OP is a troll then this would &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; be a useful question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a person starts asking doubtful question as a matter of habit it might be prudent to take action, but at this point all I see is a new user who posted what is plausibly a real-world question which has garnered several useful answers. I don't see why it should be deleted in spite of the OP's language choices in their original post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8388" LastActivityDate="2018-05-18T12:26:16.717" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5221" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-19T20:47:42.723" Score="22" ViewCount="430" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations @KateGregory!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have written some terrific answers over the years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so that this fits into a &quot;question&quot; format - what do you view as your &quot;best&quot; answer of all time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2018-05-20T15:29:03.120" Title="Congratulations Kate Gregory on 100k!" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5221" CreationDate="2018-05-20T15:29:03.120" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for noticing! It is a fun milestone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe I like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/89603/how-do-i-deal-with-the-30-minutes-remaining-problem/89612#89612&quot;&gt;How do I deal with the &amp;quot;30 minutes remaining&amp;quot; problem?&lt;/a&gt; the best. It's not my highest-voted, and not even the accepted answer on that question, but it's a useful piece of advice that applies across almost all occupations and at all levels in the management hierarchy. Because it's counter-intuitive, people are unlikely to discover it themselves, and instead can only learn it from someone they trust. The voting system here is one way readers can be told &quot;I know this sounds wrong, but it actually works&quot; and it's perfect for that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't expect this to be the site on which I had the most rep, but that's how it has turned out so far. Thanks to everyone for writing interesting questions that give us a chance to think about concepts we might otherwise take for granted, and to StackExchange for giving me a place to do some writing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102" LastActivityDate="2018-05-20T15:29:03.120" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5199" CreationDate="2018-05-21T02:49:43.923" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;DarkCygnus (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/5#post-112601&quot;&gt;nomination post&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Workplace gets a lot of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, one should &lt;strong&gt;check if the question has any problematic content or phrasing that could be reworded&lt;/strong&gt;. This may save the question from getting tangential comments or evoking such negative or unfocused reactions, while still giving the post a merit of it's own so it can be answered and be helpful to the OP and Community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If doing this is not possible things get a bit &lt;em&gt;more complex&lt;/em&gt;, as the post will now require more constant attention or engagement so things don't get out of hand. If some comments start to deviate those users should be promptly made aware of it, or &lt;strong&gt;reminded about our &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt; policy&lt;/strong&gt;, in a comment. Hopefully they will understand, but sometimes that is not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If some user is on a &amp;quot;rampage&amp;quot; or really starting to be rude, chances are that the Community already has flagged the content and organically pruned the problem. This would be ideal, as &lt;strong&gt;Mods should ultimately be &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;exception handlers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and prefer not having to use their powers if possible. If comments are getting tangential or too chatty then other course of action is to politely &lt;strong&gt;invite them to &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;The Watercooler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to continue the discussion (very dissuasive for users that just want to argue), and depending on the degree of the situation a Mod can &lt;strong&gt;move to chat all the comments&lt;/strong&gt; to put a stop to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the situation, other alternative would be to &lt;strong&gt;Protect the post&lt;/strong&gt;, either organically or manually. This could help stop the flow of comments a bit, and is also useful in the case of questions like this reaching HNQ. Other option is to &lt;strong&gt;use our recently acquired &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4896/73791&quot;&gt;Controversial Post Notice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Meta Thread &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/301760/332286&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) to clearly warn everybody to be extra careful with these posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can see that this answer may be a bit scenario-specific, but there are many options and tools to use for effectively handling them. If I were to be elected and happen to see some comment or content that is &lt;em&gt;clearly and undoubtedly&lt;/em&gt; rude, insulting, harassing, etc., I would not doubt to prune/hammer it and present an ultimatum to the offender.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where it comes to new users asking (by our standards) bad quality questions, how do you see yourself maintaining good quality for the site while still being welcoming to these new users?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should be welcoming to new users, but it is also true that some of them may include some low-quality or bad shaped content. However, most of the times this ends up being something that &lt;em&gt;giving the post some love with edits solves&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, we must be careful as this does not solve the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; problem (it just fixes the bad post), so we should also &lt;em&gt;address the poster&lt;/em&gt; so he/she can post with higher quality in the future. Something of the sort:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hey there @user, welcome to The Workplace! I did some editing to your post so it is easier to understand. Please check if they are OK with you, and try to improve the format of your future posts so we can help you better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We occasionally receive complaints, especially from the relatively new users, that this site is too hostile. What can we do to reduce the perceived hostility?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a tough one, as I think that we are a welcoming place in general, even more compared to other sites on the Network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if we wish to improve our hospitality &lt;strong&gt;we should keep our comments respectful and polite, as one would do in any Professional environment&lt;/strong&gt; ;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With time, new users will learn their ways on the site and know how to interact better with other users (reducing the reasons someone may have to be hostile to them), and also &amp;quot;toughen their skins&amp;quot; so they are no longer affected to much or provoked by such hostility (in other words, flag, leave a warning comment, and move on, justice will take care).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answers are valuable and the problem lies on the comments only then it is a matter of &lt;em&gt;taking care of those comments accordingly&lt;/em&gt; (using the techniques described in my answer to question 1).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, I would also &lt;em&gt;invite them to chat&lt;/em&gt; where I would ask them to stop posting such comments. I usually prefer to give the benefit of doubt, perhaps the user is not on his/her best days, and I would hope that such chat would have an impact on them. If the problems continue to escalate then more serious measures could be taken, and depending on the severity this could even end up with the user winning a time in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/04/06/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot;&gt;penalty box&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that a user has high rep or contributes good answers doesn't excuse them to break the Be Nice policy, and they should take the consequences as any other user would (you may be aware that this has happened to some users in the past).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If another mod did such action on a question it is &lt;em&gt;highly&lt;/em&gt; likely that it was for good reasons. In any case, I would &lt;em&gt;contact that Mod&lt;/em&gt; and ask him/her to explain his reasons for doing so. After that it is again highly likely that I would agree with the reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if I still disagree, the call should fall upon the Community, and &lt;em&gt;a Meta post should be initiated&lt;/em&gt; regarding the situation to reach a &lt;em&gt;consensus&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A moderator's vote is binding in most things; you can instantly close, reopen, delete, and undelete, and you do not have the option to cast a non-binding vote. How do you see yourself using these powers? (How) does your answer change if the community is conflicted about a particular case, such as a closed question that has both reopen and delete votes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would adapt my voting behavior, and save them for really evident or critical situations. I'd prefer if the Community handled this without having to interfere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if it is a disputed post, then &lt;strong&gt;creating a Meta post and discussing in chat would help reach a consensus&lt;/strong&gt;. After this I would carry out the decision if the Community hasn't already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going to an extreme, if no consensus is reached then this would classify as a situation where a Mod has to wisely handle the exception according to his/her judgment as well as all the input observed from the discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This site has been dominated by the IT industry. What can we do to encourage more diversity? How can we be welcoming to blue collar and other workers who are not considered &amp;quot;professionals&amp;quot; or office workers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides promoting The Workplace among our folks from other industries, there are few things we can do to &lt;em&gt;directly&lt;/em&gt; increase such diversity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, what we &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; do is to &lt;em&gt;modulate our comments and attitude to be as welcoming and non-hostile as possible&lt;/em&gt;, giving extra attention to new users (as discussed in questions 2 and 3). This will prevent scaring off new potential valuable members, some of them who may be from different industries, and ultimately &lt;strong&gt;help our site grow in variety&lt;/strong&gt; by increasing the knowledge base we posses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With time and patience I am sure that we could start seeing tags similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt;, like the health-care tag we already have, or perhaps real estate tag, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another interesting thing to consider is that, as some of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5006/73791&quot;&gt;our tags are kind of a mess&lt;/a&gt;, we may already have several posts out there that just don't have a &amp;quot;real estate&amp;quot; tag because it doesn't exist yet, so this IT dominance situation may be aggravated by such tag problem. &lt;em&gt;Perhaps giving our tags some major love can lessen this perception&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What do you think about comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that comments are a &lt;strong&gt;double-edged sword&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They can drastically help &lt;em&gt;clarify&lt;/em&gt; or point out key aspects that improve the quality of our questions and answers, but at the same time they can completely &lt;em&gt;derail or bias&lt;/em&gt; a post, or even become &lt;em&gt;insulting&lt;/em&gt; or scare away new users. This is the dual nature of comments, and why they are such a fuzz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that comments should stick to ask for &lt;em&gt;clarification, minor suggestions or improvements&lt;/em&gt;, or even useful and constructive observations or corollaries...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...but &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; to &lt;em&gt;argue&lt;/em&gt; about the post, &lt;em&gt;discuss&lt;/em&gt; just about why you &lt;em&gt;agree&lt;/em&gt; (+1 and move on instead) &lt;em&gt;or disagree&lt;/em&gt; (post an answer with your point of view then), point out some &lt;em&gt;tangential or unrelated case&lt;/em&gt; based on assumptions, and even less to &lt;strong&gt;insult or be rude&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss or are feeling chatty The Watercooler is a better place for those things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do we motivate new users to actually search for an existing answer to their questions? It seems to me a lot of our new users ask duplicate questions that end up getting closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is when new users will eventually have their first bumps on their ride in this site, and also when one should lead by example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user that wishes to grow and is humble will learn from these Duplicates and search before asking next time. Additionally, something I like do is to &lt;strong&gt;include link to other useful or related questions&lt;/strong&gt; in the answers I provide, or well as comments under the question. This I believe encourages people to be more curious on reading older posts, something that can diminish this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be naive to say that this situation has a definite solution, as even though we may apply this and other techniques to encourage searching before posting, nothing is preventing John/Jane Doe from creating a 1 rep account and straight go post their problem without reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicates have and will keep happening, and at some degree it is a sign of a clean and organized site. &lt;strong&gt;A one-time user may be impossible to encourage to read before posting, so we should focus our efforts in users that will remain active instead&lt;/strong&gt;, so they can continue learning their ways and smashing that Favorite button to save posts for future reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a way posts on hold are a sign of a clean and organized site. They are helpful to keep the standards of our posts to an acceptable degree. Under this light, questions on hold are necessary to keep the site healthy. This I think is the case for several of those questions that are put on hold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the portion of this that &lt;em&gt;is indeed&lt;/em&gt; a problem is related in part to my answer for question 9.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides that, I think that &lt;em&gt;the number of post put on hold can be reduced if we put more effort on doing edits and posting comments asking for clarification or enhancements&lt;/em&gt;. Sometimes I think that we should have a badge for Epic Edit, as I have seen (and once or twice done) some edits that drastically improve a question, saving it from getting downvotes and VTCs, and end up being a nice if not HNQ post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-05-24T03:01:03.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5224" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5227" CreationDate="2018-05-21T14:17:04.043" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/111763/3192&quot;&gt;Supervisor without relevant technical knowledge does not communicate project objectives clearly&lt;/a&gt;) was closed for lacking a goal we could address. (I was one of the close voters.) The OP has since edited the question to describe his situation more clearly and also included a goal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In brief, the issue is the OP is deeply technical coming from academia, while his supervisors have been relatively non-technical. This has led to some miscommunication regarding the project objectives, and the OP getting fired. He wants to know how to deal with this situation in future.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made a further edit, but I felt it could do with some further improvement. In particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some of the paragraphs are too long and could be trimmed some more.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I relegated the details of OP's task to a footnote. However, we need to consider if it can be removed entirely without losing context. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are my edits sufficient to get this question reopened? If not, could you suggest (or make) further edits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-05-22T02:10:08.573" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T02:10:08.573" Title="(Done) Edit or reopen question on communication issues with non-technical supervisors?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|edit-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5225" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-21T19:21:50.177" Score="5" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the questions selected for the most recent moderator election Q&amp;amp;A is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This site has been dominated by the IT industry. What can we do to encourage more diversity? How can we be welcoming to blue collar and other workers who are not considered &quot;professionals&quot; or office workers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One problem is that the majority of the users here don't have as much first hand experience outside of these standard 'professional' office roles as they do in them, and are not able to provide as comprehensive and nuanced of answers as they can on more familiar questions.  If we are able to provide content that is interesting to a broader audience, the user base will grow, diversify, and contribute more of that diverse content we're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several of the top answerers on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://diy.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;home improvement&lt;/a&gt; sister site are professional tradesmen with exactly the kind of workplace experience we want to encourage here, and with a proven history of helpful StackExchange contributions to boot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we reach out to some of these users and ask them to help seed this site with content that will be useful to a more diverse group of users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32037" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T15:44:13.570" Title="Should we reach out to users on other StackExchange sites to diversify the content on The Workplace?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5226" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5231" CreationDate="2018-05-21T21:05:47.043" Score="-2" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/112596/8146&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is regarding a manager who has been &quot;fired&quot; by their team. They note that they cannot seem to turn to anyone else, because their supervisor and the succeeding supervisor are both away for &lt;em&gt;months&lt;/em&gt;, and neither of them has a replacement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next person in the chain of command appears to be the CIO, who they don't want to bother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand how this is possibly a real situation - assuming an average of 5 direct reports per manager, then &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CIO manages: &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Succeeding Supervisors - 5 at this level, managing:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Supervisors - 5*5 at this level, managing: &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP - 5*5*5 at this level, managing: &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP's Reports - 5*5*5*5 at this level, firing their managers???&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This implies a company with 5^4 + 5^3 + 5^2 + 5 + 1 &lt;em&gt;technical staff&lt;/em&gt;, for a total of ~ 750ish. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Implying a company with at least 1000 staff (HR, Finance, marketing, sales etc), and possibly much, much more, depending on their industry (eg mining vs IT consulting). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't make sense that a manager of 125 people would just up and leave for months without a replacement, or that a manger of 25 people would be allowed to leave for months when their supervisor was also leaving. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not like the CIO won't be aware of this - this is a direct report just leaving for months. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Factor in the absurdity of the question - that the OP &quot;has been fired&quot; - and it's a situation at peak nonsense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not asking to close this question - I have no idea on the value of &quot;fake&quot; questions on this site, but I am curious as to other opinions as to how this could be a plausible scenario. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T12:52:44.283" Title="Is this really a likely situation?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5224" CreationDate="2018-05-22T02:09:30.127" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has been edited and is now open again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T02:09:30.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5228" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5237" CreationDate="2018-05-22T03:15:36.343" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some answers include the asker's username, particularly on questions asking about how to write an email. If the account gets deleted later, what should we do with the username in the answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user deleted the account to dissociate themselves from their posts (especially when they used their real name), should we respect their privacy and edit out their username from the answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that we probably don't know why they deleted their account, so should we just flag it to mods and let them deal with it, or even just ignore it and move on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it might be possible to search for all references to an obsolete username, and edit them out one by one, I think we shouldn't do it because it is tedious and to avoid &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;drawing unnecessary attention to their username&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T17:42:53.313" Title="How should we handle references to usernames of deleted accounts?" Tags="|discussion|site-policy|deleted-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5226" CreationDate="2018-05-22T06:22:05.490" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen weirder companies, especially in start up or dramatic change phases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think yes, this is possible. Not common, but certainly a valid scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T06:22:05.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5226" CreationDate="2018-05-22T12:52:44.283" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, here are some things I've seen in the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Two people fired for having relations in a conference room&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A director beat a box fan with a 2x4 while it was running&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A friend killed (twice)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone attempt suicide on the job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some &lt;strong&gt;VERY&lt;/strong&gt; inappropriate work attire&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A CIO causing his entire network to be contaminated by the &quot;I love you virus&quot; after being warned about it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and much much more that I have no way of posting and not getting banned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is nothing that I can see at this point that I can say &quot;There is no way that happened&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T12:52:44.283" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5232" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5233" CreationDate="2018-05-22T15:39:27.993" Score="7" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just recently the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ontario&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ontario&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ontario&lt;/a&gt; was created, and it's currently only used on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/112692/73791&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What should we do with that tag?&lt;/em&gt; Seems that this may lead to confusion, as there are many places called Ontario, not just the one in Canada.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we be sticking to country tags instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:17:01.397" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:17:01.397" Title="What should we do with the Ontario tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5232" CreationDate="2018-05-22T15:41:27.767" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kill it with fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stick with the country specific tags.  There might be other jurisdictional areas of countries that might need to be tagged differently, but Ontario is not one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T15:41:27.767" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5232" CreationDate="2018-05-22T15:41:39.000" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can only specify 5 tags for a question, so let us not use up 2 tags for location. Specify the country in the tag, and put city/state details in the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T15:41:39.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5225" CreationDate="2018-05-22T15:44:13.570" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of the problem is that I suspect most of us found &quot;Workplace&quot; because it featured on &quot;Hot Network Questions&quot; while we were browsing another SE site - and that over&lt;em&gt;whelming&lt;/em&gt; means &quot;Stack Overflow&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that there just aren't that many blue-collar workers out there on all the other SE sites (yes, yes, there are probably hundreds of thousands, but in proportion ...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it would definitely be worthwhile (the working culture in IT is very different to other areas).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47492" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T15:44:13.570" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5232" CreationDate="2018-05-22T15:49:05.557" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're asking two questions at once:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do we need to break countries down into sub-tags for other areas of jurisdiction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have answer for that, and it seems like the community doesn't, either. There are tags for &quot;California&quot; and &quot;Florida&quot; but not &quot;New York.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, assuming we justify that level of detail,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is &quot;Ontario&quot; the right way to tag Ontario, Canada?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we have an answer to this when you said, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;there are many places called Ontario, not just the one in Canada&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we decide to keep the tag, it should probably be edited into Ontario-Canada or something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T15:49:05.557" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5228" CreationDate="2018-05-22T17:42:53.313" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the user cares he can always propose (anonymous) edits, or find some other way to get in touch.  Even if references in posts are edited out, there might still be comments that name the user.  Except in extraordinary circumstances I don't think we should try to scrub traces of a deleted user's name from the site.  And you're right to be concerned about those edits drawing attention to something you were trying to make less prominent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't flag things like this for moderators; save flags for things you can't handle yourself.  If you see a case that you think needs to be edited, edit it.  (For example, if another answer refers to &quot;Bob's answer&quot; and doesn't even link.)  If you think it's a &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; important case, bring it up on meta or in chat to see what others think.  But otherwise, I suggest just ignoring it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T17:42:53.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5239" CreationDate="2018-05-22T18:33:24.740" Score="1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why are these answers ordered in the way they are?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nMS0Y.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nMS0Y.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/54666/62397&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; are (at the time of this post) ordered with an unaccepted answer of 79 first, followed by an accepted answer of 38.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was under the impression that (on all Stack Exchange sites) an &lt;strong&gt;accepted answer always appears first,&lt;/strong&gt; followed by other answers in order of decreasing score.  Why does this situation not conform to that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62397" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2018-05-22T19:04:21.337" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T19:04:21.337" Title="Why are these answers ordered strangely?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5238" CreationDate="2018-05-22T18:44:15.773" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, I missed this the first time - when an OP posts a self-answer, answers are sorted by votes &lt;em&gt;even if it's accepted&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice the OP in that case is actually the same user who wrote the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T18:44:15.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5240" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-23T00:44:24.277" Score="19" ViewCount="505" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just saw a content dispute on the answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/112686/88&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/112686/88&lt;/a&gt; to the question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/112683/member-of-the-board-asks-for-admin-access-and-wants-non-compliant-device-on-the&quot;&gt;Member of the board asks for admin access and wants non-compliant device on the network&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There has been back and forth edit warring changing the original phrase &quot;cover your ass&quot; to &quot;cover your behind&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, this changes a common English idiom which is widely used in workplace situations, to a strange and tortured phrasing which I cannot imagine anyone actually ever saying in real life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=%22cover%20your%20ass%22%20site%3Aworkplace.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a quick Google&lt;/a&gt; for that phrase on Workplace StackExchange reveal frequent usage with no apparent offence ever being taken in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the Meta ruling on &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/22232/are-expletives-cursing-swear-words-or-vulgar-language-allowed-on-se-sites/22233#22233&quot;&gt;Are expletives (cursing, swear words or vulgar language) allowed on SE sites?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is &quot;no, they are not&quot;, but would any reasonable person ever define &quot;cover your ass&quot; as an expletive, curse, swear word or vulgar language?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88" LastActivityDate="2018-06-01T22:28:49.100" Title="Is &quot;Cover Your Ass&quot; considered an expletive, vulgar, cursing?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5240" CreationDate="2018-05-23T00:50:54.023" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I locked that post because the sequence of events basically was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Posted originally&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edited&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rolled back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flame war in comments with beginnings of a rollback war&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can nearly always edit things to be expletives. Something like &quot;create a paper trail&quot;  would also have been 99% as effective at communicating the intent here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2018-05-23T00:50:54.023" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5240" CreationDate="2018-05-23T04:19:44.947" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;As pointed out by the OP, the phrase &quot;Cover Your Ass&quot; is fairly prolific on Workplace SE. Not only that, it is a phrase you would hear in many work places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flame/edit war warranted the locking of the question, but I feel the original edit for language was perhaps a little over enthusiastic. This was maybe influenced by the previous use questionable language by the author of the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the context of the question and answer here, I don't feel the language was excessive or out of place. It almost feels like one rule for some and another rule for others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59343" LastEditorUserId="59343" LastEditDate="2018-05-28T22:40:13.993" LastActivityDate="2018-05-28T22:40:13.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5240" CreationDate="2018-05-23T05:41:59.383" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's background to this guy, and when there's a pattern from a particular user, single events (like this one) can't be viewed as a single event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, this started last week with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/112482/44108&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; answer from the same guy.  If you look at the original edit, you'll see that the tone and language used is clearly not acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's been a general abrasive tone used since then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The editing out of &quot;ass&quot; is debatable - I personally wouldn't have been too bothered about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I did flag for moderator attention though, was the comment regarding&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;fascist tone police&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which, for me isn't acceptable and speaks of someone who rejects guidance on the &quot;be nice policy&quot;.  The resulting bar-fight kind of backs this up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the guy's history before the linked answer above shows a string of decent (if a little terse) answers that are fine (to my mind).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing this guy got his gander up regarding transexuals in the workplace, spoke his mind, and didn't take the criticism well.  A time-out to chill and relax will probably do him good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just hope he voted for me before he left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="8146" LastEditDate="2018-05-26T22:32:27.533" LastActivityDate="2018-05-26T22:32:27.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5244" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-23T13:26:32.170" Score="1" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;On this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/112748/3192&quot;&gt;How to disclose the negatives of my negative job, without seemingly badmouthing my ex-employer &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently 3 duplicate links, one of which I believe is not a duplicate. The question itself is asking, if I were to say something negative about my previous employer how would I go about doing it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first 2 dups look fine to me, they are basically asking the same thing. The third dup: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/42121/why-is-it-not-a-good-idea-to-badmouth-a-previous-employer&quot;&gt;Why is it not a good idea to “badmouth” a previous employer?&lt;/a&gt; while related, isn't really a duplicate of this question. Can it be removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-05-23T14:12:10.850" LastActivityDate="2018-05-23T14:12:10.850" Title="Removing a dup link" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5245" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-23T13:57:02.387" Score="1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/112683/member-of-the-board-asks-for-admin-access-and-wants-non-compliant-device-on-the?noredirect=1#comment350561_112683&quot;&gt;Member of the board asks for admin access and wants non-compliant device on the network&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;is a current hot-network question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the question has a key problem, in that the titular &quot;Member of the Board&quot;,&#xA;is not a member of the board in the usual sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;erickson:&lt;/strong&gt;  Are you talking about a member of your company's board of directors? Is this person an inside director who has an additional position in the company? It seems like they should be working through the appropriate officer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;MKZ (OP):&lt;/strong&gt; @erickson company is rather small. It has several board members and she is our main supervisor.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;LyndonWhite:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not sure you are using the term board-member in the fashion I am used to it being used. As I understand it a board-member normally represents the share-holders of the company. The company executives report to the board, but beyond that they don't normally interact with the company's staff.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;MKZ (OP):&lt;/strong&gt; @LyndonWhite I'm sorry. I meant the daily staff. Highest rank that is daily at the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while I am not sure what position the titular person holds,&#xA;it is not that of member of the board of directors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several of the current answers work on the assumption that the person is an actual member of the board.&#xA;If the question is updated to have the true position those will be invalidated.&#xA;But mostly only in a minor way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13490" LastActivityDate="2018-05-23T14:20:06.100" Title="What to do about the &quot;Member of the board asks for admin access&quot; Question" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5245" CreationDate="2018-05-23T14:20:06.100" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leave it alone.  the question is still one that many people will run into and the answers are useful.  SE tends to go by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeathOfTheAuthor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Death of the Author&lt;/a&gt; model, so what has suddenly come up in comments doesn't change the merit of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-05-23T14:20:06.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5248" CreationDate="2018-05-25T14:21:07.507" Score="4" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/112834&quot;&gt;What can I expect working with a recruiter who sends template messages without even including names?&lt;/a&gt;, was put on hold as &quot;off-topic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that it was off-topic the way I originally wrote it (as a &quot;should I work with this recruiter&quot; question). But 2/3 of the close votes came &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; I made my edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the question &quot;what can I expect from this type of recruiter&quot; is objectively answerable, but maybe I'm too inexperienced to realize it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is my question off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS - nobody who cast a close vote was very helpful as indicating &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; it is off-topic and how I can improve it, so I can't do so without coming to meta to discuss it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22895" LastEditorUserId="8388" LastEditDate="2018-05-25T17:37:07.447" LastActivityDate="2018-05-25T17:37:07.447" Title="REOPENED: How is my question off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5247" CreationDate="2018-05-25T14:33:00.497" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, I don't agree with the exact close reason with the question as it currently stands:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for advice on a specific choice, such as what job to take or what skills to learn, are difficult to answer objectively and are rarely useful for anyone else. Instead of asking which decision to make, try asking how to make the decision, or for more specific details about one element of the decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see it that you're asking how to respond to these pre-canned emails and you're not asking &quot;whether&quot; to respond to them, or whether or not to apply for those jobs.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your previous edit would fall under that closure umbrella, but the last edit was made approximately 2 hours before the close happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I think happened here is that your question collected a few close votes before the edit (valid at that point), and the last close vote after the edit by someone who didn't really bother to read the question after the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We sometimes see people in the review queues stabbing the &quot;close&quot; button simply because 3 or 4 people have also pressed the &quot;close&quot; button (this is &quot;confirmation bias&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You got unlucky there.  I'm voting to reopen this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2018-05-25T14:37:38.167" LastActivityDate="2018-05-25T14:37:38.167" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5249" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-25T18:50:13.820" Score="2" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please consider reopening &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/112894&quot;&gt;Joel Test equivalent for a high-performing digital marketing teams?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;This question was edited to make it specific to a particular field, as was suggested in the comments. Answers to this question could be very useful for people working in the particular industry mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user86764" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-06-04T18:17:55.333" LastActivityDate="2018-06-04T18:17:55.333" Title="(Done) Reopen &quot;Joel Test equivalent for a high-performing digital marketing teams?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5250" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5259" CreationDate="2018-05-26T12:43:12.390" Score="3" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/112916/3192&quot;&gt;How to find good candidates amid tough competition in the job market?&lt;/a&gt;) was closed as too broad. However, it asks a single practically answerable question. It has already received a couple of answers and a few comment-answers. In any case, it seems to have only a handful of solutions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we consider it for reopening? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-05-30T16:25:10.983" LastActivityDate="2018-06-01T12:42:20.317" Title="(Done) Reopen the question on finding good candidates?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5249" CreationDate="2018-05-28T17:19:15.587" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Casted the 5th and final vote to reopen. Perhaps now will be a good time to move the comment-answer into a proper answer of it's own (although the commenter seems to have disassociated their account or something...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-05-28T17:19:15.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5252" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-29T00:11:50.273" Score="-2" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I improved the post after &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/110418/22656&quot;&gt;its closure on Apr 11&lt;/a&gt;,  but I'm not sure if the improvements were contemplated? It was then deleted by 3 users on May 16. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22656" LastActivityDate="2018-05-29T14:16:03.350" Title="How can I tactfully write that I haven't received a reply?: Why was this deleted by 3 users?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5252" CreationDate="2018-05-29T02:14:02.990" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surely they were contemplated, but if it was deleted then it means that they weren't enough to make it worthy of reopening. Have in mind that deleting is a 10k+ privilege (20K+ for enhanced privileges), so surely those experienced users had valid reasons for doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there were changes you made to it, but the main issues with the post revolve around what @Snow &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5214/73791&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt; on the last post you wrote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides that, I must stress the fact that the question had a score around -7 which is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; low and unlikely to recover (and get attention and useful answers) even though it were reopened/undeleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like I suggested to you before on one of your posts: &lt;em&gt;If your post has really low score, users found it unclear or off topic, and even closed/deleted&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;you better repost the question again after addressing those issues.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of it as &quot;rebooting&quot; your question, only this time it will be on topic, receive upvotes and good answers, and in general been given merit for what it is worth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One may have the next potential HNQ, but if it has those faults in its content it won't get very far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-05-29T02:44:42.020" LastActivityDate="2018-05-29T02:44:42.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5252" CreationDate="2018-05-29T05:59:34.993" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the problem is here is that you're asking a question that's basically been asked many times before (how to chase up an email reply).  You need to make this one clearly different and precise to your situation to make it successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggested draft:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Title:  &lt;strong&gt;How do I tactfully chase up a missing delivery sent to a government department?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of my work is to process clients complaints and send them to a government department for processing on their behalf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On May 1st, the courier confirmed delivery of one of these packages, but despite me chasing them up, they didn't respond until the 25th May where they claimed that they didn't receive the package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they had responded earlier, I could have resent the package and the complaint deadline would not have been at risk of expiring. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Repeatedly emailing the department did not seem to work as they were slow in responding.  How could I have dealt with this better so that I can in future serve my clients more effectively?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, this wording clearly (I hope) offers the &lt;strong&gt;key points&lt;/strong&gt; here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What my responsibility is (for the context of the question)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What went wrong  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What I did to try and correct the situation  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How I would like to see this resolved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind any obvious questions you'll be asked and have responses ready (or (better) work them into the question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this the first time you've used this courier?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this a government-preferred courier? (if such a thing exists)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was there a recipient signature/name as a proof of delivery?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did you try phoning the government department? (as opposed to just emailing)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have you successfully submitted complaint packages many times in the past?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there any government guidelines about submissions that you need to follow more precisely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-05-29T05:59:34.993" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5252" CreationDate="2018-05-29T14:16:03.350" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/110418/9&quot;&gt;edited&lt;/a&gt; the post to include your role (volunteer for a charity that processes clients' complaints) from your &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5203/3192&quot;&gt;other post&lt;/a&gt;. I have cast the 2nd undelete vote and &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/44864622#44864622&quot;&gt;asked our 10K friends&lt;/a&gt; to have another look in the chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I was the first delete voter and the last close voter. I cast the delete vote on Apr 11, not May 16. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-05-29T14:16:03.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5256" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-29T20:03:08.820" Score="22" ViewCount="550" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/5&quot;&gt;fifth moderator election&lt;/a&gt; has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the two new moderators are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/3192&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/3192.png&quot; alt=&quot;Masked Man&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/44108&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/44108.png&quot; alt=&quot;Snow&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They'll be joining &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the existing crew&lt;/a&gt; shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/5&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.opavote.com/results/5640602439909376/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;view a summary report online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9899" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2018-06-29T15:16:36.580" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T15:16:36.580" Title="2018 Community Moderator Election Results" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5256" CreationDate="2018-05-29T20:09:48.693" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations to @Snow and @MaskedMan!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-06-01T16:46:19.263" LastActivityDate="2018-06-01T16:46:19.263" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5219" CreationDate="2018-05-29T21:30:28.393" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't we just answer the question truthfully, the same way we do with every other question on the website, so that if someone actually has to deal with something similar or far worse than this they can use this question as a reference. I'll be honest with you, I know some people who wouldn't understand why this is a problem. I think a well thought out, honest, and detailed answer to this question would be extremely useful to a lot of people who either feel this way, or are face with actually ridiculous demands - removing gender as a concept from the workplace for example, not just dealing with some awkward attempts to be familiar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trolls like it when you feed them. The concept as a whole falls apart if you were to treat it the same way we treat most other questions here. It literally just blows over. I honestly think mods should delete responses from angry people on questions that seem obviously troll. That action will provide useful reference to people and make it clear that the Work Place Stack Exchange is not a good place to troll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user53651" LastActivityDate="2018-05-29T21:30:28.393" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5250" CreationDate="2018-05-30T16:24:58.183" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Casted the final vote, and the post is now open again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-05-30T16:24:58.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5260" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5261" CreationDate="2018-05-31T02:07:37.613" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to get statistics about how many % Java installations are what version e.g. in India, how many users run Java 5, Java 6, Java 7, Java 8, Java 9, Java 10 respectively?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The background is that I speak with management who argue that newer must be better, therefore we should upgrade to Java 9 and Java 10. I answer that many users still run Java 6 - Java 7 for example smartphones that are a few years old. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8029" LastActivityDate="2018-05-31T03:05:29.540" Title="Is this question on-topic?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5260" CreationDate="2018-05-31T02:14:53.073" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No, this is not on topic for The Workplace&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't an issue on navigating the workplace, it's looking for statistical data for a given platform.  It wouldn't be on topic on any of the stacks here as far as I'm aware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may well be some statistical information available from Oracle themselves on it, but it's definitely not a question that we would (or could) answer in The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2018-05-31T02:14:53.073" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5260" CreationDate="2018-05-31T03:05:29.540" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question as you framed it is not on-topic for the reason Jane mentioned. However, your actual goal of how to convince or negotiate with management to support customers using older systems is definitely on-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution you are thinking of is a good one indeed, but I am sure our community can offer other approaches, some of which you would hopefully find useful. I would request you to consider posting the question without specifically asking for statistical data. Let me/us know if you need help framing the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-05-31T03:05:29.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5263" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-31T09:40:23.733" Score="1" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/112916/how-to-find-good-candidates-amid-tough-competition-in-the-job-market#comment352106_112916&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; I have asked several questions in the comments, which are to a degree rhetorical - they could be considered answers in themselves if the words were rearranged, but the OP doesn't specify whether they are already doing those things so I felt it better to ask for clarification. They are not necessarily good quality answers, because the OP could reply to them &quot;I'm already doing that and it hasn't helped&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where an answer &quot;Try doing X&quot; could be phrased as a question &quot;Have you tried X?&quot; is it always better to make it a comment to ask the OP to specify in the question whether they have done these things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8394" LastActivityDate="2018-05-31T10:16:46.350" Title="Is answering a question with a question always a comment?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5263" CreationDate="2018-05-31T09:50:01.740" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't think answers are appropriate in this context. In preparation of writing an answer, it seems like a good idea in most cases to ask some questions in the comments to validate some assumptions and prepare a basis for your answer. Without the clarification, the answer runs the risk of missing the mark. This is especially true since 'try doing X' should always be 'try doing X because reason Y'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, such questions should prompt the OP to edit their question and add the answers to the questions asked in the comments, so that the back-and-forth comments can then be cleaned up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32602" LastActivityDate="2018-05-31T09:50:01.740" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5263" CreationDate="2018-05-31T10:16:46.350" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding half-answers to comments can often lead to comments being turned into discussions, which isn't really what comments are there for. And comments containing answers have a habit of being deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should submit a comment if you want to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Request clarification from the author;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave constructive criticism that guides the author in improving the post;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add relevant but minor or transient information to a post (e.g. a link to a related question, or an alert to the author that the question has been updated).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, comments under questions should be mainly be there for clarification purposes, and once your clarification has been addressed, it's only polite to delete the comment (it just helps keep things tidy and stops you from looking like you've asked for a clarification for something that's already in the question....)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-05-31T10:16:46.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5219" CreationDate="2018-05-31T18:26:15.213" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;We go by assuming good intentions and not be so quick to judge.  I've seen enough go on to believe anything, including but not limited to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A coworker tied up by other coworkers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A couple having relations in a conference room&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A suicide&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A murder&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;someone killed by an equipment malfunction.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and things far worse.  Don't assume a troll.  If the question is answerable, answer it.  If  not, then down-vote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-05-31T18:26:15.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5250" CreationDate="2018-06-01T11:45:37.100" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Too broad&lt;/strong&gt;, because it might be seen as asking for a list of things to try (potentially making every one of many answers equally useful). Questions asking for a single thing can also have many valid answers, but usually someone will end up going with only &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; of the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Opinion-based&lt;/strong&gt;, because the best solution may very well be specific to the industry, region, job, company, competition, candidates and season. That may be too specific (and also not specified in the question) to be answerable using general workplace expertise or experience (apart from giving the general recommendations already included in the question), so answers may come down to little more than throwing stuff against a wall and seeing what sticks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Off-topic&lt;/strong&gt;, because it's asking us how to do the job of a recruiter or similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unanswerable&lt;/strong&gt;, because OP's already tried what we would've recommended. I consider &amp;quot;I want to do A. X, Y and Z didn't or won't work. What else can I try?&amp;quot; to break the Q&amp;amp;A format, because really one should just be asking how to do A, with X, Y, Z and potentially some other solutions being answers (although how to actually &lt;em&gt;get&lt;/em&gt; said potential solutions as answers to said question is another question altogether).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers so far are mostly non-answers, indirect and/or too obvious, time-consuming or impractical to be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-06-01T12:42:20.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5256" CreationDate="2018-06-01T16:45:59.210" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having recovered a bit from the shocking result, I am here to express my gratitude. I am grateful to the community for &lt;s&gt;tolerating&lt;/s&gt; supporting me until now, and now electing me as a moderator. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is flattering beyond my expectations. I thought I could walk away from this election with my head held high if I could get 10 third choice votes. The community clearly &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sees me a little better&lt;/a&gt; than that, which brings back memories of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/20515/3192&quot;&gt;first question I asked here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;s&gt;always&lt;/s&gt; usually tried being helpful as a &quot;regular&quot; user, and I will use my new position to serve the community even better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/44108/snow&quot;&gt;Snow&lt;/a&gt;, you truly deserve the promotion!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-06-01T16:45:59.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5256" CreationDate="2018-06-01T18:59:33.460" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations to both.  TWP is in excellent hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-06-01T18:59:33.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5240" CreationDate="2018-06-01T22:28:49.100" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a saying, but it is definitely vulgar although it does seem to be acceptable mainstream with our site. I wouldn't use such a phrase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-06-01T22:28:49.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5256" CreationDate="2018-06-02T00:25:08.577" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations gentlemen, you both deserve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-06-02T00:25:08.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5272" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5273" CreationDate="2018-06-05T17:58:53.700" Score="2" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently wondered about the nature of editing &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; and when should one avoid doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that editing &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; is something really positive that can help OP receive better attention to the post. However, it is my perception that this is done more frequently than editing answers on posts. It is also of my experience that (at least for me) it's harder to see/approve a good edit to an answer, as many of them are attempts to reply, superfluous, conflict with the author's intent, or even are worthy of an answer on it's own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may suggest that editing answers is a more delicate procedure (as each user has it's own style and tone), and that it may be less useful than opting to improve the question instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I would like to know what the Community thinks about the process of editing and improving answers.&lt;/strong&gt; When should we do it? When should we try to avoid doing so and instead leave a comment or similar? What should we look when considering editing an answer and go over the author's style and phrasing? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-06-08T16:41:19.040" Title="Editing answers vrs. editing questions: When should we avoid the former?" Tags="|discussion|answers|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5272" CreationDate="2018-06-05T19:46:03.923" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rules are basically the same, clarify, keep the intent, incorporate relevant comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer has comments that further explain it from the OP of the answer, or from users who suggest improvements that would benefit the answer, roll them in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, flag the question for a moderator noting that relevant comments have been rolled into the answer, and to please delete the no longer relevant comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Care should be taken to edit answers for improvement, not for tone.  A question should be edited for tone, as it will affect it's votes and potential answers, but answers are more stand alone.  IF an answer is a bit edgy, it might just get voted down or even deleted, but if the tone of the question is bad, the question and all of it's answers may get deleted if the question's tone irritates enough people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2018-06-08T16:23:58.117" LastActivityDate="2018-06-08T16:23:58.117" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5274" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-06T20:26:56.910" Score="2" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113565/can-a-manager-speak-to-her-husband-about-my-work-life&quot;&gt;Can a manager speak to her husband about my work life?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure this isn't a serious question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-06-06T20:53:14.237" LastActivityDate="2018-06-07T17:15:09.663" Title="1 rep user, first post is controversial" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|trolling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5274" CreationDate="2018-06-06T20:52:57.873" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Serious or not, this post is highly unclear (thus why it got closed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are some inconsistencies and issues that suggest this may be indeed a fake post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The title and questions don't match the same target&lt;/strong&gt;. First the title says &lt;em&gt;&quot;speak to her husband about &lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt; work life&quot;&lt;/em&gt;... but then it switches to &lt;em&gt;the OP's husband&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the manager (apparently a woman) talked about an employee's life with her husband has &lt;strong&gt;no connection whatsoever with the rest of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. Is this about harassment? About speaking about employee's life? Unclear. Perhaps it was added to fuel the post's controversy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Freshly made user&lt;/strong&gt;, hasn't even bothered taking the tour.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;2&lt;/s&gt;...22 hours after the posting the user &lt;strong&gt;neglects giving any feedback&lt;/strong&gt; at all or addressing any other questions made to clarify in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, these sort of posts do not bring anything good to the Community, and should be closed, if not deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-06-07T17:15:09.663" LastActivityDate="2018-06-07T17:15:09.663" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5276" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5281" CreationDate="2018-06-08T15:45:25.550" Score="0" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have this answer and a proposed edit&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/72814&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/72814&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made this edit to remove offensive characterization of people who take Software Freedom seriously (the question author names them &quot;zealots&quot;), without changing the overall meaning of the answer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The edit was rejected, and I can see that the only user who reviewed the edit was the question author.&#xA;The reason given is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This edit deviates from the original intent of the post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see 2 problems here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The edit doesn't actually deviate from the original intent of the post, unless the whole point of the answer is to offend a group of people (which is not a valid goal on this site, if I understand it correctly);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fact that an edit can be declined by 1 person.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the answer in its current form is OK; if something is wrong with the proposed edit, something else has to be done to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16978" LastActivityDate="2018-06-09T23:36:31.123" Title="The answer author's disagreement is now enough to reject an edit? (an edit rejected after only 1 review)" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5276" CreationDate="2018-06-08T16:15:41.447" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The author is the final authority, this is to protect the post from deliberate twisting of intent, and in some cases, outright vandalism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't like a particular answer, provide your own, but do not alter an answer more to your liking.  &quot;Improving an answer&quot; does not mean &quot;Make it fit my worldview&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-06-08T16:15:41.447" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5276" CreationDate="2018-06-08T16:17:21.580" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding your 2 problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The edit doesn't actually deviate from the original intent of the post, unless the whole point of the answer is to offend a group of people (which is not a valid goal on this site, if I understand it correctly);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It deviates from the author's style and intent&lt;/strong&gt;. If that user decided to use such word it was for a reason. Zealot is not a curse word, whatsoever, and probably was used here to make emphasis on the relevance of that part of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the Review Queue we got these options when handling edit suggestions, which suggests that the original goal of the poster should be preserved:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DWEzV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DWEzV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; don't like that word to much, but as of now it seems that other 83 users don't bother about that single word on such highly voted answer. Editing answers I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5272/editing-answers-vrs-editing-questions-when-should-we-avoid-the-former&quot;&gt;can be more delicate than editing questions&lt;/a&gt;, as we can see from this situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The fact that an edit can be declined by 1 person.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A post author's can instantly accept/reject any edits proposed. It is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt; feature, and I think that it makes sense. The author should have complete freedom to delete, edit, or modify their posts, so it makes sense that the author can instantly accept/reject such change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-06-08T16:27:12.650" LastActivityDate="2018-06-08T16:27:12.650" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5276" CreationDate="2018-06-08T16:18:38.160" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is in accordance with StackExchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/76284/202356&quot;&gt;rules on suggested edits&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The owner of a post or a moderator may cast a binding vote to accept or reject any modification of their post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the post owner declined the edit suggestion, it means he wants to keep his answer the way he has written it. You have the option of leaving a comment or downvoting the answer if you think the answer is not OK. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do not agree with the StackExchange rules, you can raise it on the main meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-06-08T16:18:38.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5272" CreationDate="2018-06-08T16:41:19.040" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After putting some thought into it, I think we should only edit questions when there is a &lt;strong&gt;grammatical mistake&lt;/strong&gt;, or when attempting to &lt;strong&gt;add clarification&lt;/strong&gt;.  For example, a title today I edited to say &quot;&lt;em&gt;higher cost of living&lt;/em&gt;&quot; versus &quot; &lt;em&gt;higher life cost&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.  IMO this made the title &lt;strong&gt;more understandable to the masses&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, we should leave a question alone and influence the OP to add details and clarification via the comments and voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2018-06-08T16:41:19.040" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5276" CreationDate="2018-06-08T17:22:51.497" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others have said, the author of a post can single-handedly reject an edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That doesn't mean posts can't be edited.&lt;/strong&gt; If you feel that a post does not fit site guidelines, whether Be Nice or Back It Up or something else, then in addition to downvoting you can also flag appropriately -- rude/abusive if it crosses that line or NAA if it doesn't meet answer reuqirements.  If enough community members agree with you, the post will be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An author can reject an edit that he doesn't like, but there might be consequences.  The community is not obligated to accept the post if y'all feel it's bad enough that it needs to go if it can't be edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-06-08T17:22:51.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5282" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5283" CreationDate="2018-06-08T18:30:09.420" Score="23" ViewCount="1181" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/113661/61096&quot;&gt;Excellent Answer to the question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain why this answer with 80 votes was Deleted?  I was planning on awarding a bounty on this!  There &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be one phrase which &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; might find offensive, but I think its a huge stretch and seems like an over reaction.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, this needs to be unlocked, and restored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; need to, we change the word Zealot to Fan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE:  I mod flagged this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2018-06-08T19:00:11.820" LastActivityDate="2018-06-13T00:59:16.513" Title="Why on earth was this excellent answer deleted?" Tags="|discussion|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5282" CreationDate="2018-06-08T18:41:16.773" Score="21" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why on earth was this excelent answer deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems that it was flagged as offensive/spam and locked by Community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, I agree that this is a valuable answer although it may feel like a splash of cold water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think that changing that &quot;controversial&quot; word would solve the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What worries me more is that users are giving more weight to a single word than the content and suggestions of the answer... sometimes the truth may be hard to swallow, and yes some users may sometimes use words to give emphasis to their answers, but deleting a post just because it has a single word I don't like is putting &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; wellbeing above the Community's&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt; The post is now unlocked and open for votes to Undelete. I edited the Z word for &quot;Fan&quot; as the author said that was fine with him. Also did some further smoothing of the post to be more agreeable to a more sensitive audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-06-08T23:39:58.743" LastActivityDate="2018-06-08T23:39:58.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5282" CreationDate="2018-06-08T19:12:07.137" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;This should be undeleted. One word, which isn't even a curse or particularly harsh does not justify deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is utter nonsense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2018-06-12T17:22:22.493" LastActivityDate="2018-06-12T17:22:22.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5282" CreationDate="2018-06-08T20:03:27.887" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... is condescending, since it implies the person you're talking to has been living in a fantasy world up to now and is ignorant to how the (real) world works (and it's entirely non-constructive, since just explaining how the world works already implies that they don't know how it works).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may be less offensive if the asker is just entering the working world (which I didn't read in the question), in which case it may be more of an &quot;maybe it sucks, but this first experience of yours is pretty common&quot; (which is still not particularly constructive though, since that meaning may not be obvious and this point has been stated more explicitly later on - &quot;that's not how the industry works&quot; - and repeating oneself is generally also a bit condescending).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes you have to work with other people ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... is so obvious that it's condescending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you're a Free Software zealot&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... is (moderately) offensive, since &quot;zealot&quot; could be seen as having a negative connotation due to &quot;zealots&quot; commonly using offensive or violent means to further their cause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your entire post at the moment screams &quot;high maintenance, unwilling to make reasonable compromises&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... is basically an insult (if you want to say some &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; things, like refusing to provide a Word resume, is bad or would be seen as bad by someone, that could be good and useful advice, but calling everything someone said bad is just insulting and not constructive).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;have a serious think&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... is also (a bit) condescending, since simply noting the ultimate point of the comment (&quot;this is not the attitude you want to project when looking for a job&quot;) or phrasing it in terms of a question (&quot;is that the attitude you want to project when looking for a job?&quot;) would already lead to them thinking about it, so you're kind of saying they're not smart enough to think about if not &lt;em&gt;told&lt;/em&gt; to think about it. Adding &quot;serious&quot; to that implies that they're not smart enough to figure out what deserves how much thought by themselves and need to be told that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the offensotometer, I'd give it a 3/10 - not &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; offensive, but not &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; offensive - probably fine for Reddit or Quora, but Stack Exchange should have higher standards, especially on a site where &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/professionalism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;professionalism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;professionalism&lt;/a&gt; is our most used tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="8234" LastEditDate="2018-06-13T00:59:16.513" LastActivityDate="2018-06-13T00:59:16.513" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5282" CreationDate="2018-06-08T23:10:15.160" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer was deleted by Community from flags, which of course also locks the post.  A moderator in no way locked or deleted the post, this was done by the system here due to flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have removed the lock, but as a moderator, I won't cast the undelete vote unilaterally.  The community chose to flag it as offensive and caused a delete, so the community needs to vote to undelete it if they so choose.  It's not up to the mods to determine if something should be undeleted once the community has deleted it through whatever means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All we have done is remove the lock so that you each have the option to undelete assuming high enough rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that the answer could retain the valuable aspects but mitigate what was causing the offensive flags, then also consider editing.  Otherwise we may go through a cycle of delete/undelete.  &lt;em&gt;Ad infinitum&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastEditorUserId="33698" LastEditDate="2018-06-08T23:19:33.000" LastActivityDate="2018-06-08T23:19:33.000" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5276" CreationDate="2018-06-09T01:36:45.317" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The answer author's disagreement is now enough to reject an edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it was ALWAYS enough, it's not something new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-06-09T01:36:45.317" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5282" CreationDate="2018-06-09T15:27:10.980" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only someone who just hatched and had their first peek into the world would find anything offensive in that post.&#xA;Frankly they probably never visited a forum or discussion on the internet...or the schoolyard for that matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying, I condone foul language or (actual) harassment / offensive speech.&#xA;I do say however that it can't be that basically censorship happens automatically (!) if a few people flag something.&#xA;Anyone can spam the flag button...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is good to know that there is a procedure to remedy something like what happened to the poster.&#xA;Since I'm new to this site I am kind of surprised and concerned though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;oh, and just some food for thought:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/zealot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/zealot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;zealot&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;​&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;a person who has very strong opinions about something, and tries to make other people have them too&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is NOT an offensive word nor does it cause offense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They list as synonym: &quot;Enthusiasts&quot; for crying out loud&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The approach one takes to &quot;make other people have the same opinions&quot; may be offensive, even violent.&#xA;That might be perceived as giving the word &quot;zealot&quot; a negative connotation, mirroring the &quot;zealots&quot; obtrusive or violent behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However that means the actions the &quot;zealot&quot; takes are questionable, dare I say offensive, NOT the word &quot;zealot&quot; itself !&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the (mis)use of a word to demean in a condescending way for instance does not validate the words &quot;offensiveness&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the nuance of immediate and historical context and intent to consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87734" LastEditorUserId="87734" LastEditDate="2018-06-09T22:33:27.770" LastActivityDate="2018-06-09T22:33:27.770" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5276" CreationDate="2018-06-09T16:03:04.383" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;So did OP actually change the post of someone else to remove an &quot;offensive&quot; word or was it just a suggestion (in a post or comment)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you did the first, that should not even be possible in my opinion.&#xA;If the second, it should indeed be pending approval of the original author and you shouldn't have a right to forcefully induce a change to a post without the authors blessing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the post somehow violates the forum terms, then the poster should be alerted by a mod and given a chance to adapt accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find arbitrary deletion of posts without proper reasoning / feedback and warning very aggravating and bordering on tyranny. &#xA;But hey, such is the relationship on many boards between mods/sysops and the users (which funny enough are the ones keeping a board alive)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;p.s. I've been on both sides of this, so I speak from experience (;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87734" LastEditorUserId="87734" LastEditDate="2018-06-09T23:36:31.123" LastActivityDate="2018-06-09T23:36:31.123" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5290" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-11T18:01:55.623" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at this question from earlier: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113817/how-to-avoid-a-player-co-worker&quot;&gt;How to avoid a player co-worker&lt;/a&gt;, it looks like this would have been perfect for the Interpersonal Skills SE. However, it was closed for the &quot;Questions require a goal&quot; reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under the off-topic sub-reasons when voting to close, there is a &quot;This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network&quot; option. However, this option only allows us to transfer the question here into Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to vote to be able to transfer questions to other SE sites? Do moderators even have that capability?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, is there a better way to handle this without forcing the OP to manually go to another SE site to ask his question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17404" LastEditorUserId="17404" LastEditDate="2018-06-11T18:44:57.813" LastActivityDate="2018-06-15T12:44:00.200" Title="Voting to transfer questions" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-07-06T18:41:38.520" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5290" CreationDate="2018-06-11T18:13:54.530" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a way to vote to be able to transfer questions to other SE sites? Do moderators even have that capability?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes there is, and yes mods have that power. Take a look at this post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2112/73791&quot;&gt;How can we migrate questions to other SE sites?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, as the targets are limited, the way to go is to &lt;strong&gt;flag as &quot;other&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; and include there the reason for flagging and the possible target you suggest. For example, a sample phrasing for this situation could be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is not about Navigating the Workplace, and would better fit &lt;a href=&quot;https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Interpersonal SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the post were not &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/89171/332286&quot;&gt;trash&lt;/a&gt; then one of our esteemed Mods will eventually come by and take the action they seems according to this situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Overall, is there a better way to handle this without forcing the OP to manually go to another SE site to ask his question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a bit harder, given the target sites are limited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indirectly, we could prevent this situations if users took more time to read what is off-topic here, or if they previously knew IPS... as we can see, it is something hard to achieve. IMHO, it is not rare that sometimes posts placed here could better fit IPS, and thus adding it as target could help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I recall there is some guideline that Beta sites should not be target for Migration Qs if possible, to allow them to organically generate their own question flow... perhaps that is the reason why we don't have IPS as target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-06-11T18:19:05.630" LastActivityDate="2018-06-11T18:19:05.630" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5292" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5293" CreationDate="2018-06-12T05:23:25.727" Score="-2" ViewCount="287" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, this one is one I'm having a hard time with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/113657/9264&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/113657/9264&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there is a common perception of what &quot;cowboy&quot; means in movies, but it's absolutely wrong, and honestly, quite offensive to those of us who were raised in agricultural communities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There aren't many of us, to be sure, but this is still wrong.  I tried to &quot;lead him to water&quot; to understand, but then he just doubled-down on the insult.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9264" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-06-16T16:19:43.513" LastActivityDate="2018-06-20T00:44:42.537" Title="Can we remove wrong perception of &quot;cowboy&quot; from this answer?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|moderation|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5292" CreationDate="2018-06-12T15:29:45.463" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer was &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/113657/2&quot;&gt;edited&lt;/a&gt; some hours ago by one of our Mods, and the problematic content removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It now does not contain the cowboy part, which was a bit unnecessary IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say that the problem is gone now with this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-06-12T15:29:45.463" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5294" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-12T18:09:54.473" Score="-3" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following up from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5290/voting-to-transfer-questions&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past few days, I've seen the following questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113913/how-to-decline-politely&quot;&gt;How to decline politely&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113821/how-to-go-around-a-colleague-who-keeps-inviting-me-for-religious-activities&quot;&gt;How to go around a colleague who keeps inviting me for religious activities?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113817/how-to-avoid-a-player-co-worker&quot;&gt;How to avoid a player co-worker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113776/does-mockery-in-the-workplace-help-with-employee-bonding&quot;&gt;Does mockery in the workplace help with employee bonding&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113775/situational-help-needed-teasing-colleagues&quot;&gt;Situational help needed - Teasing colleagues&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113723/distracted-by-loud-music&quot;&gt;Distracted by loud music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113448/radio-in-the-break-room-good-or-bad&quot;&gt;Radio in the break room. Good or bad?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113319/proven-innocent-of-sexual-harassment-but-do-not-feel-treated-as-such&quot;&gt;Proven innocent of sexual harassment, but do not feel treated as such&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these have been closed, others have been answered, and answered well. However, it looks like these would be candidates for migration to the Interpersonal Skills SE, as these questions are more about dealing with people (albeit inside the office) and less about dealing with companies or workplaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I have heard some discussion that it's not recommended by SE to transfer questions to a beta site, but it just seems that having the option to be able to transfer out these questions via a vote would be beneficial (as opposed to having to flag for a moderator), and I'd like to be able to discuss that here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, the only migration target that we can currently vote for is this meta, and not any other SE site. I would like to propose that we add IPS as a migration target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17404" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-06-12T18:17:43.500" LastActivityDate="2018-06-12T18:49:55.150" Title="Add Interpersonal Skills SE as a migration target" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5294" CreationDate="2018-06-12T18:32:07.180" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4603/lets-talk-academic-questions&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt; about Academia in the past.  It's a bad idea.  If it's workplace related, it's workplace related.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, specifically towards IPS&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IPS is, and remains in Beta for a reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The scope of what is appropriate for the workplace is more narrow than what may be appropriate for IPS&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A course of action that is appropriate may be very different from a &lt;strong&gt;professional&lt;/strong&gt;  standpoint than an interpersonal one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There may be workplace related issues that extend past the interpersonal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regards to #4:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113913/how-to-decline-politely&quot;&gt;How to decline politely&lt;/a&gt; specifically had issues that extended past the interpersonal as the querent was asked about how to decline an offer.  IF it had ended there, then this would indeed be an interpersonal issue.  However, since there was the potential for a loss of good press for the company, it was clearly a workplace issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113821/how-to-go-around-a-colleague-who-keeps-inviting-me-for-religious-activities&quot;&gt;How to go around a colleague who keeps inviting me for religious activities?&lt;/a&gt; also was workplace related, as the issue was not just an interpersonal one, but also had HR related issues as to whether it could constitute workplace harassment and other HR issues&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113817/how-to-avoid-a-player-co-worker&quot;&gt;How to avoid a player co-worker&lt;/a&gt; was simply off topic as there was no clearly addressable goal, merely looking for a term, possibly an HR issue, but still workplace related&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same applies to the rest of the examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question can simply be a bad question and just because it's out of scope of this site does not mean that it is on topic for another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2018-06-12T18:49:55.150" LastActivityDate="2018-06-12T18:49:55.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5290" CreationDate="2018-06-12T21:27:28.210" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The author &lt;a href=&quot;https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/q/15417/106&quot;&gt;asked that question on IPS already&lt;/a&gt;, so there'd be no point in migrating it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can migrate questions anywhere, but we're expected to do some basic diligence.  Migration can be confusing for new users -- wait, where'd my question go, and ok I followed a link but I don't seem to have an account here so can't comment, and... huh?  I'd rather see an author re-ask the question, which often needs some edits to fit on the other site anyway.  Sure, I'm willing to migrate to help out, but I try to ask myself if I'm helping the user by doing so.  (Sometimes yes, sometimes no, often a gut feeling.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also of interest: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/285467/162102&quot;&gt;related discussion on Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-06-12T21:27:28.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5298" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-13T12:57:11.060" Score="2" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was recently an update pushed to stackoverflow and Meta SE that added a nav bar type thing to the left side of the screen and it looks terrible IMO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this something that will be forced on us as a SE site, or does The Workplace get to choose if it wishes to implement this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-12-27T01:13:34.690" LastActivityDate="2018-12-27T01:13:34.690" Title="Do we need to adopt SE style changes?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5292" CreationDate="2018-06-13T15:00:27.567" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The term &quot;cowboy&quot; as it was used can generate a visceral response.  It is often used as a pejorative by Americans living on the coastlines to disparage people in the heartland of the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To complicate matters, the WAY it's used makes all the difference. IF it's used as a synonym for toughness and a &quot;take the bulls by the horns&quot; attitude, it's not insulting. If it's used as a synonym for unsophisticated, uncouth, wild, undisciplined, ignorant, or unintelligent, it's an insult. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When used by non-Americans in the insulting form, it's perceived doubly-so.  Wesley's reaction is not atypical, nor is it particularly overblown, though it is a strong reaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I'm loathe to language police, I would caution people against using the term as a synonym for lack of tact, sophistication, skill, or intelligence as you &lt;strong&gt;WILL&lt;/strong&gt; offend people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not policy, and I am not a moderator, but I think we could benefit from a little more civility here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2018-06-13T20:57:20.243" LastActivityDate="2018-06-13T20:57:20.243" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5292" CreationDate="2018-06-13T17:35:09.073" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I used to joke that they would only deploy new software if they were&#xA;  wearing their cowboy hats.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In what way was this sentence offensive to you?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have only my only limited experience to draw from.  As a Yankee from New England I've never had occasion to feel anything but positive about the symbolism associated with Cowboys and Cowboy hats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Boston Red Sox used the phrase &quot;Cowboy up&quot; to talk about being strong in the face of adversity.  The Dallas Cowboys use the word to personify strength and toughness.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With what little I know, I would assume that OP was saying &quot;I used to joke that they would only deploy new software if they were &lt;strong&gt;feeling brave&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am genuinely and honestly ignorant about your life experience, and I would really appreciate it if you could help me to understand what about this phrase was offensive to you.  My first inclination is to believe that you have misunderstood and misconstrued the statement due to some misunderstanding or incorrect assumption about the intended meaning of the phrase, but I recognize that this is due &lt;em&gt;atleast in part&lt;/em&gt; to my own ignorance.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastActivityDate="2018-06-13T17:35:09.073" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5301" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5302" CreationDate="2018-06-14T12:23:15.717" Score="5" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113963/annoying-phone-calls-from-coworkers-who-dont-use-our-ticketing-system&quot;&gt;Annoying phone calls from coworkers who don&amp;#39;t use our ticketing system&lt;/a&gt; was recently closed, with votes both because it is company-specific and that it requires an addressable goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe that either of these close reasons apply here. The question states that the company has a ticketing system and people aren't using it. The question is then &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to get people to use it, which is completely answerable. I did reword the final question after some people had already voted, so their reasoning may not apply anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple similar questions out there (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/110137/how-can-i-convince-my-colleague-to-call-the-help-desk-instead-of-contacting-me-d&quot;&gt;How can I convince my colleague to call the help desk instead of contacting me directly?&lt;/a&gt;) so this type of question is on-topic. I also don't think this is a duplicate because the linked question really focuses more on the personal conflict between two employees, not on people simply trying to sidestep the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I would like to request that this question be reopened.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-06-25T17:15:06.943" LastActivityDate="2018-06-25T17:15:06.943" Title="(Done) Reopen question on coworkers not using ticketing system" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5301" CreationDate="2018-06-14T13:35:43.317" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question has been reopened now after a small edit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-06-14T13:35:43.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5303" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5304" CreationDate="2018-06-14T16:55:21.747" Score="24" ViewCount="395" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a new problem, as evidenced in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10/are-non-it-workplace-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; back in 2012&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/114030/does-an-assistant-cook-on-a-cruise-generally-require-20-20-vision&quot;&gt;Does an assistant cook on a cruise generally require 20/20 vision?&lt;/a&gt; was initially closed for being &quot;company specific&quot;.  If you note the answer given by Motosubatsu, you can see that it plainly was not.  It had a very clear answer but the industry was unrelated to IT, and I believe the close votes were due to the fact that this was not IT, and the question was misinterpreted as being a question about a specific company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can we address this so that we don't end up erroneously closing questions that are not IT industry based ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-06-14T17:05:34.983" LastActivityDate="2018-06-15T17:16:56.697" Title="How can we be more receptive to non-IT workplace questions?" Tags="|discussion|closing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5303" CreationDate="2018-06-14T17:19:38.257" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can we address this so that we don't end up erroneously closing questions that are not IT industry based ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an IT folk, but also a bit of a Generalist, I have developed a simple flow chart that I try to follow when navigating TWP:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See a new Question asked &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Read it &lt;strong&gt;thoroughly&lt;/strong&gt;, perhaps even twice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it IT-related or about a topic I know/could answer?&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yes&lt;/em&gt; -&gt; Proceed to edit, answer, comment or VTC -&gt; Go to 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;No&lt;/em&gt; -&gt; Stick to just edits and clarifications&lt;/strong&gt; -&gt; Go to 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if a post is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; unclear regardless of the topic one should be VTC, but personally I like to ask for clarifications first before casting my vote (if the user is not engaged or does not clarify then I cast the vote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is something of a fact that on TWP there are more IT users, and perhaps we are sometimes biased to think that anything else might be unclear, company-specific, or similar, and cast our votes without much consideration or &lt;strong&gt;without actually being prepared or having the knowledge to do such properly&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't know well what is being discussed it is better if one steps back and lets other more knowledgeable users on the subject to take care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-06-14T17:19:38.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5290" CreationDate="2018-06-15T12:44:00.200" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users get the privilege to close questions because it is assumed they know what kind of questions are acceptable &lt;em&gt;on that site&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. This assumption cannot be stretched to allow migration, because that requires the user to know what kind of questions are acceptable on the &lt;em&gt;target site&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should not migrate questions because they seem off-topic here, we should only migrate them when we are &lt;em&gt;sure&lt;/em&gt; they would be on-topic on the target site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allowing users to migrate questions elsewhere could cause more problems than it solves. Even if this were allowed, we should have a &quot;migrate privilege&quot; decoupled from the close privilege. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way of looking at this is the &quot;migrate privilege&quot; is currently available only to the moderators. As Monica says, moderators have to do some basic diligence before migrating. Extending the &quot;migrate privilege&quot; to non-moderators would mean those users too would have to do that diligence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The powers-that-be at SE decided not to extend the &quot;migrate privilege&quot; to non-moderators, and this was a reasonable decision due to following rules of migration:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/91446/202356&quot;&gt;Don't. Migrate. Crap.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/32474/202356&quot;&gt;When in doubt, don't migrate.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; This assumption is not entirely accurate, especially on &quot;subjective&quot; sites (such as The Workplace), as seen from the close/reopen &lt;s&gt;bickering&lt;/s&gt; ping-pong that frequently happens here. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-06-15T12:44:00.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5303" CreationDate="2018-06-15T17:16:56.697" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think an approach we should take is to take a step back if you have no direct knowledge in the industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the back and forth in the comments above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think the reason why it may have been closed as “Company specific” is probably due to the fact that the company’s name was mentioned in the question. It also looks like a company requirement of a 20/20 vision. Just an observation, but I could be wrong. – Annjawn 19 hours ago &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Annjawn It's a maritime standard and applies to most seafarers, as does hearing. I first learned about this when I tried to enlist in the USCG when I was 18, and my brother served in the US Navy had to go through screenings as well, but this does not just apply to the military, but to any seafarer. Again, someone outside of an IT background would know this. This the point of my question. – Crossed the river styx 4 hours ago     &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Crossedtheriverstyx “someone outside of an IT background would know this” - Only in the US perhaps and for the rest of the populous it would need some googling. A “country specific” tag or a bit more clarity in the question would’ve helped. – Annjawn 3 hours ago &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Annjawn the maritime code is international. The Jones act is specific to the USA, and has different standards, but anyone in shipping or maritime operations knows this, so no, a country specific flag would not know this, because shipping is international, as are cruises. – Crossed the river styx 3 hours ago      &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Annjawn and that is proving my point. If we are unfamiliar with a particular industry, we shouldn't flag, or answer, or even comment except for clarification. – Crossed the river styx 3 hours ago    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to pick on the user, but the exchange did demonstrate how a lack of knowledge of an industry can cause misunderstandings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the original post was specific to the maritime industry, someone with an even cursory knowledge of the industry knows that many maritime standards are international, and that the US standards are further modified by the Jones act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now, I know that most of us are IT, but this applies to everyone&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're not familiar with the industry, err on the side of caution.  Do not make assumptions, and ask questions in the comments section for clarity.  Raise concerns in chat or in Meta, and be slower to cast a close vote in industries you are unfamiliar with.  Do a web search if you think you may know, but are unsure, and be lenient with new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-06-15T17:16:56.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5307" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5309" CreationDate="2018-06-15T17:22:12.973" Score="2" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/114060/73791&quot;&gt;Are there any Computer Engineering/Science jobs that don&amp;#39;t require programming ALL day&lt;/a&gt; is currently closed as &lt;em&gt;Too Broad&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this question is really important, specially for fresh CS/IT graduates, as it touches fundamental concepts and aspects on what a Programming job consists of (and the false premise that coding is just typing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that this is a valuable post for current and future users, and hereby &lt;strong&gt;request you to consider reopening&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-06-15T20:35:06.797" LastActivityDate="2018-06-15T20:35:06.797" Title="(Done) Reopen question on Computer Engineering/Science jobs" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5307" CreationDate="2018-06-15T19:47:45.347" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be important and useful, but that doesn't mean it's on topic (and there are plenty of other places on the internet that would be more than happy to take it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's essentially asking for a list of possible jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not that, it's asking for a list of other things you can be doing &lt;em&gt;in&lt;/em&gt; a (Computer Science or other) job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Creating list questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/98334/list-questions-community-wiki&quot;&gt;&quot;is simply not what we do here&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or it's asking for career advice (i.e. it can be rephrased to roughly &quot;what job can I take so I won't be programming all day?&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention that this might not even be a general workplace question - a Computer Scientist may be able to answer the question, but I'm sceptical that someone in HR would be able to, which puts it outside the scope of this site as far as I'm concerned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastActivityDate="2018-06-15T19:47:45.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5307" CreationDate="2018-06-15T20:30:44.873" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has now been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-06-15T20:30:44.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5298" CreationDate="2018-06-17T03:14:42.280" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;SE will eventually push it everywhere, the same as most other software changes. They are trying to both improve the user experience (on all platforms) and reduce the special cases (170+ sites) that make maintenance harder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not everybody agrees on what improves user experience, of course.  The left navigation, which has drawn a lot of negative feedback, can be disabled.  (I've already done so on SO and Meta.SE.)  If you run into bugs or serious functionality issues, please report them on Meta.SE.  There's no point in posting just to say &quot;don;t want&quot;, though; besides, it would be a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-06-17T03:14:42.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5298" CreationDate="2018-06-17T04:20:38.047" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this something that will be forced on us as a SE site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. Long story short, they own the site, they get to decide the &lt;s&gt;gimmicks&lt;/s&gt; features to implement on the site. What we &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; do is express &lt;em&gt;constructive&lt;/em&gt; feedback in response to that meta post. Don't expect them to act upon every feedback though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I noticed that all the links found on the left bar are also found at the bottom of the page, making the whole left bar redundant. There are also as many as &lt;strong&gt;four&lt;/strong&gt; links to StackOverflow &lt;em&gt;on&lt;/em&gt; the StackOverflow page, which I found amusing, considering good web design principles and all that. I posted these and some other observations &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/311420/202356&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I also made another feature request &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/311421/202356&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, which IMHO would be quite useful to a lot of users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-06-17T04:20:38.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5312" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-18T15:50:44.480" Score="4" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just looking through my rep list and I noticed a ding of -1. Apparently &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/114141/572&quot;&gt;for this answer&lt;/a&gt;, which I'm pretty sure I upvoted originally, because I &lt;em&gt;literally&lt;/em&gt; say that in the comments. Somehow some Javascript or scrolling thing turned my upvote into a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to reset my vote on that answer so I can properly upvote it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-06-18T16:27:53.500" LastActivityDate="2018-06-18T16:27:53.500" Title="Can I get my upvote unlocked?" Tags="|support|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5312" CreationDate="2018-06-18T16:03:29.887" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it possible to reset my vote on that answer so I can properly upvote it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be &lt;strong&gt;if the post got edited&lt;/strong&gt;, moment in which you would be able to re-cast your vote on the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, editing just for you to be able to change your vote doesn't seem a proper course of action to me... unless the post could use some edits in first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that you &lt;em&gt;just let it be&lt;/em&gt;; it's 1 rep after all (and 2 for the answerer), so nothing that an approved edit or upvote received can't solve. I too have sometimes miss-clicked a post, but when I do I try to immediately change it (as you have a period in which you can freely do so). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next time try perhaps double checking the vote action you casted, to avoid further incidents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-06-18T16:03:29.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5292" CreationDate="2018-06-20T00:44:42.537" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cowboy coding seems a perfectly reasonable thing to say. There was no implication that it was an actual cowboy on a horse. Complaining about it seems a bit 'non-cowboy' if anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-06-20T00:44:42.537" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5315" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-21T16:02:35.510" Score="3" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a few times, users poaching for other stacks and suggesting an already answered, and up-voted question should be somewhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What (if anything) should we do about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/114416/coworker-demands-immediate-assistance-when-having-computer-trouble?noredirect=1#comment356998_114416&quot;&gt;Coworker demands immediate assistance when having computer trouble&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although I am not saying this is not the right place to ask this question, I think it might be better suited for Interpersonal Skills SE. From this stack perspective, it seems like you did everything by the book - talked to her directly, explained the problem to managers and offered all the necessary training. — Raf M. yesterday&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I've seen other examples of this as of late as well.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this is disrupting this stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I think it's trying to create an end-run around this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5294/add-interpersonal-skills-se-as-a-migration-target&quot;&gt;Add Interpersonal Skills SE as a migration target&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-06-21T16:24:00.840" LastActivityDate="2018-06-28T00:15:17.590" Title="&quot;Poaching&quot; for other sites?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5315" CreationDate="2018-06-21T16:28:15.833" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's nothing to be &quot;poached&quot; since this site doesn't own the  questions posted here anyway. People are free to suggest posting the questions on other sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the suggested site does &lt;em&gt;potentially&lt;/em&gt; provide more (or better) answers, we could argue (with some rules lawyering) that the comment &quot;improved&quot; the post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the suggested site is blatantly irrelevant, flag the comment as &quot;no longer needed&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, any migration request must to go through &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; site's moderators, so questions that are useful here won't be moved elsewhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-06-22T06:32:14.910" LastActivityDate="2018-06-22T06:32:14.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5315" CreationDate="2018-06-21T16:28:30.033" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What (if anything) should we do about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't see this as a Giant Red Flag, mostly because doing such migrations is not possible, so the comment has no risk of causing a migration, and is thus... &quot;just&quot; a comment...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However&lt;/strong&gt;, I think we all are aware of the real power of comments, and how disruptive they can turn out (catalyzing negative comments, downvotes without much thinking, and just plain making noise to valuable or regular posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that case, I suppose one is &lt;strong&gt;free to flag such poaching comments&lt;/strong&gt;, either as not constructive/chatty if it were, or well for Mod attention, so they can make a call on what to do with the comment in question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-06-21T16:28:30.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5318" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-24T06:19:09.457" Score="4" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have had a bit of a problem with tags for a while. There were some steps taken in that direction about 4 years ago (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2005/3192&quot;&gt;RhysW&amp;#39;s Tag Reviews - Suggested Course of action&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1943/3192&quot;&gt;The Workplace Tag List Project&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2009/3192&quot;&gt;General Tag Classification: Categorizing the Madness&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2783/3192&quot;&gt;Another tag discussion!&lt;/a&gt;, and many more). &#xA;However, a lot still remains to be done, and this has been discussed a couple of times more recently (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5006/3192&quot;&gt;Our tags are kind of a mess.&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5189/3192&quot;&gt;2018 moderator election question&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a first step in our new round of efforts, can we update the boilerplate in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/tagging&quot;&gt;help page&lt;/a&gt; and make it more relevant to our site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples listed further below make less sense here (and also feed in to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5195/3192&quot;&gt;a certain&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5188/3192&quot;&gt;other problem&lt;/a&gt;). These examples are the first thing that caught my attention, but I am not suggesting that we &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; replace these examples. We can also review if we want to update some of the other text on that page to be more consistent with our policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your thoughts on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;create compound tags using hyphens rather than spaces (like [visual-studio]) rather than multiple tags separated by spaces ([visual] [studio])&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Replace spaces with hyphens (-) to combine multiple words into a single word (e.g., tag &quot;unit testing&quot; as unit-testing)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example, [css] is probably more appropriate than [cascading-style-sheets]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can I use jQuery to foo the bar on the baz, or am I stuck using plain JavaScript?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-07-01T14:52:57.230" Title="Can we make our help page on tags more relevant to our site?" Tags="|discussion|tags|help-center|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4205" CreationDate="2018-06-25T15:07:22.020" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like this question generated some interesting discussion, particularly around the HNQ list.  Unfortunately, it doesn't look like any of the answers directly address the heart of the question.  Namely, what should we &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; when a user posts a duplicate answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have talked a lot about what we believe are the causes, but there isn't a clear answer to &quot;what action should we take?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answered a question earlier today, and about 30 minutes later an established user with a great deal of reputation posted his/her own answer that is an almost word for word duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading the comments from David's answer, one might conclude that flagging is the appropriate course of action, but is there community consensus around such a notion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastActivityDate="2018-06-25T15:07:22.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5320" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-25T23:59:30.107" Score="36" ViewCount="1220" Body="&lt;p&gt;This experiment has ended; &lt;strong&gt;you can &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5320/experiment-running-a-comment-by-any-other-name/5498#5498&quot;&gt;view the report here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last year, Robert Cartaino relayed this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/299195/fixing-comments-in-5-minutes-intrigued-lets-discuss&quot;&gt;one weird trick to fix comments&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I also flag dozens-to-hundreds of posts daily simply to remove misplaced answers and other minutia from comments which simply don't belong there. It's very time consuming, and largely ineffective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But it never stops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Only recently, I changed the comment prompt in Area 51 from &quot;add comment&quot; to &quot;suggest improvements&quot; (the primary use case for example questions), and that number dropped to essentially… ZERO!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He proposed a two-part change based on this observation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Change &quot;add comment&quot; under the question to &quot;ask for clarification&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Change &quot;add comment&quot; under the answer to &quot;suggest improvements&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the past 60 days, we've been testing &lt;a href=&quot;https://interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1528/this-one-weird-trick-gets-rid-of-all-off-topic-comments-lets-use-it&quot;&gt;a partial implementation of this&lt;/a&gt; over on Interpersonal Skills. Results are less dramatic than those on Area51, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/299195/fixing-comments-in-5-minutes-intrigued-lets-discuss/299204#299204&quot;&gt;but still promising&lt;/a&gt; - so I'd like to try it here next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear: the issues this site has with comments aren't nearly as severe as that over on IPS; y'all only delete about a third of all comments posted vs. IPS's half. But... That's still a lot of comments that could be doing something better, so this seems like an obvious place to test a possible quick fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the next 60 days, &quot;add comment&quot; will instead read &quot;suggest improvements&quot; on all posts for all users. Please let me know if this causes any issues!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TK9uP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TK9uP.png&quot; alt=&quot;add comment now reads &amp;quot;suggest improvements&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastEditorUserId="115" LastEditDate="2018-08-29T21:12:48.413" LastActivityDate="2018-08-29T21:12:48.413" Title="Experiment concluded: a comment by any other name" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5320" CreationDate="2018-06-26T01:23:36.443" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this will work as you think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At heart, I suspect that the change will work initially, &lt;em&gt;while people are unsure what is going on&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, when you see &quot;suggest improvement&quot; you now think that &lt;em&gt;you're not even writing a comment at all&lt;/em&gt;. I just assumed, initially, that the site was going to make me do a feedback faq or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which means that, initially, yes, you will get rid of extraneous comments. You will also get rid of all the other comments, too. I can see you're using it only when the comment queue gets a little unwieldy - which might work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, I suspect, only for a little time until people work out what is going on. This will depend on the types of users making excess comments, mind. I have no idea what that is - if they're veterens this won't work, if they're normally new and don't comment much, well, great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As an aside - I question the wisdom of nerfing the ability for this forum to work like a forum (and instead, a bunch of answers). If you sacrifice the small sense of community you already have, who is going to use this site?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastActivityDate="2018-06-26T01:23:36.443" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5320" CreationDate="2018-06-26T04:51:42.003" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds good to me. Hopefully this will help cut down needless discussion and half baked answers in comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-06-26T04:51:42.003" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4205" CreationDate="2018-06-26T14:21:47.117" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Management science is not a field where there is one right answer. Because of that, a lot of instruction takes the form of cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would make me say that duplicate answers with different contexts are useful because they gauge consensus and illuminate different facets of an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allow duplicates and let the best ones float to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63178" LastActivityDate="2018-06-26T14:21:47.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5320" CreationDate="2018-06-26T15:55:59.773" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO this is not a helpful change&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.  I get that you are trying to cut down on the number of extraneous comments, but the modification attempts to classify comments into either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Suggestions for change &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everything else (which is now undesirable and&#xA;should be purged)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is a false dichotomy.  There are classes of comments that are not suggestions for improvement, are not extraneous and yet are still are germane to questions and answers.  Thus I think in implementing this solution you are throwing out the baby with the bathwater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I originally came here after noticing that I could no longer post a commented was confused as to why this was so, and what bad thing had I done to be punished so.  I also checked some other SO groups and saw that I could add comments there still.  So this confused me even more.  I would posit that there are now a large number of people who are just as confused as me right now.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50253" LastActivityDate="2018-06-26T15:55:59.773" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5320" CreationDate="2018-06-26T19:25:11.383" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that still makes absolutely no sense to me is the fact that it seems to be disallowed (especially on IPS) to use comments to call into question the correctness of an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&amp;quot;That's what votes are for&amp;quot;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, but one downvote is irrelevant in the greater scheme of things, especially when no-one actually understands why the vote is there and figure the answer is good enough to deserve a counter-upvote (at which point the downvote probably helps the answer more than it hurts it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&amp;quot;Votes will reflect how correct an answer is&amp;quot;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. Just because there are few people who know what's wrong with the answer doesn't mean the answer isn't wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&amp;quot;Phrase it as a suggestion&amp;quot;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, maybe you can phrase your &amp;quot;this answer is so blatantly wrong because ...&amp;quot; comment as a &amp;quot;suggestion&amp;quot;, but that shouldn't be necessary, it's somewhat dishonest to pretend to give a suggestion when you're in fact just pointing out a fundamental problem and, if they don't end up editing their answer to address the comment (which is common in the case of a fundamental problem), a suggestion will be less useful to future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&amp;quot;Post your own answer&amp;quot;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, maybe you can post an answer of your own, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;that answer is so blatantly wrong because ...&amp;quot; is not, and will never be, an answer,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it doesn't make much sense to combine that with an answer of your own, so people must vote on both at the same time (just like you're not supposed to post multiple answers in one post),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;nor does it make sense to have something that's directly relevant to one part of the page be put somewhere else entirely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&amp;quot;But this won't work since we can't downvote comments&amp;quot;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, that seems like an easy enough problem to solve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The correctness of answers is too important&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The correctness of answers is such a &lt;strong&gt;fundamental part&lt;/strong&gt; of a Q&amp;amp;A that I'd have figured we could all agree that we shouldn't just sweep under the rug anyone who has something to share about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Basic site functionality contradicts this&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does close vote explanations fit into this? In plenty of cases they aren't suggesting an improvement at all, and every other close vote comment is, at best, doing so indirectly, which seems inconsistent with how other comments are treated - mods have absolutely no problem deleting indirect suggested improvements on answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: I'm not saying &amp;quot;suggest improvements&amp;quot; is a bad name, nor do I have a better suggestion, this is more about the policy driving this change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10582" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-06-26T19:49:36.570" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5326" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-27T16:48:28.557" Score="13" ViewCount="525" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/114851/8146&quot;&gt;Coworker won&amp;#39;t accept apology for my stupid mistake&lt;/a&gt; - is fake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is impossible that someone would mistake &lt;em&gt;a bereavement letter&lt;/em&gt; for a &lt;em&gt;new baby&lt;/em&gt; letter. The cards are very, very, very different. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a - It is impossible that someone doesn't at least read one message in a letter - even briefly. You would notice the lack of &quot;congrats&quot; and the presence of &quot;sorry for your loss&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even if you can believe someone is so fictionally clueless, what, that &lt;em&gt;nobody else&lt;/em&gt; read what other's wrote? I always have a quick look at what other people wrote, someone would notice the weird, inappropriate message.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Who writes a message without a name? Or a new-baby message without the word &quot;baby&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The message the OP claims to have written is so perfect - no name, can be read both ways, doesn't mention the word &quot;baby&quot; at all. It even has the perfect &quot;bring you dinner&quot; line, just to push it over from stupid to sexual. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, OP would be fired for this, if they did accidentally do it. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can only be a fictional account - written by a new user. It's not helpful in the future - it's probably just some writer trying out a scene in their book. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside - i push for fake questions to be removed because they encourage other fake questions. it wastes the community's time supporting larrakin efforts. i enjoy coming here to get other people's viewpoints and thoughts on (for me) &lt;em&gt;practical&lt;/em&gt; management issues. i don't want to see the site overrun with &quot;interesting&quot; quandries and purely theoretical discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastEditorUserId="8146" LastEditDate="2018-06-27T17:47:34.953" LastActivityDate="2018-06-28T21:41:08.707" Title="Can we close this fictional question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2018-06-27T17:06:34.263" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll point you to a prior Meta conversation: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5037/fair-to-vtc-for-trolling&quot;&gt;Fair to VTC for trolling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote Monica's answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote based on content, not assumed motives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is so outlandish that you suspect trolling, if it lacks essential details, if it's more of a rant than a question, then it doesn't matter if it's a troll or a genuine user who's really terrible at communication. Either way, if we can't answer it in its current form and can't just edit to fix the problems, we should put it on hold. If the OP responds, we can work with him to fix the question -- or not, if he doesn't supply what's needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a troll manages to ask a genuinely useful question -- which might become genuinely useful only after a community edit, which anybody can do or suggest -- then the question is useful and we should leave it open. I don't care what the asker's motives were in that case. A lot of the joy of trolling comes from &amp;quot;getting away&amp;quot; with dumping crap and sensation on a site, so it won't be much fun when we edit the crap and de-sensationalize the question. Site 1, troll 0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-06-27T17:06:34.263" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5318" CreationDate="2018-06-27T17:24:20.183" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are the phrasings I propose. Perhaps we can tune these out first, include the changes, and then proceed to discuss if we would want to edit other parts as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;create compound tags using hyphens rather than spaces (like [company-culture]) rather than multiple tags separated by spaces ([company] [culture])&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Replace spaces with hyphens (-) to combine multiple words into a single word (e.g., tag &quot;work environment&quot; as [work-environment])&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example, [ceo] is probably more appropriate than [chief-executive-officer]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example, rather than writing, &quot;Communication, Coworker: How do I remind him to follow up on my emails?&quot; – which forces tags into the title – you can convey the same information in a conversational tone:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;How can I politely communicate to my coworker to remember to follow up on my emails?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2018-07-01T14:52:57.230" LastActivityDate="2018-07-01T14:52:57.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2018-06-27T17:38:46.640" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As David &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5327/73791&quot;&gt;mentioned&lt;/a&gt;, this may sound unrealistic or far-fetched, but we should vote based on facts and content, and not assumptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you consider this question to be unclear, too broad, or off-topic &lt;strong&gt;feel free to VTC and move on&lt;/strong&gt;. I see it already has some votes, so it's better to leave the Community decide by itself organically. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, seems that the &lt;strong&gt;post is now closed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-06-28T02:36:47.287" LastActivityDate="2018-06-28T02:36:47.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5315" CreationDate="2018-06-28T00:15:17.590" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had this same issue on RPG.SE.  Obviously most workplace and RPG activity involves interpersonal skills, so they &quot;could be&quot; asked there as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We allow it to a degree, but have started to push back on serial commenters of that sort and delete those comments, especially when they say people &quot;should&quot; post there or will get better answers there. We strongly believe that people will get better answers on more specific stacks, like Workplace for job related interactions, than a more generic site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see our meta on this same topic if it helps: &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8062/how-are-users-supposed-to-suggest-questions-might-get-better-answers-on-a-differ&quot;&gt;https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8062/how-are-users-supposed-to-suggest-questions-might-get-better-answers-on-a-differ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastActivityDate="2018-06-28T00:15:17.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5331" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-28T00:20:44.163" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was browsing around and came to this old post, which I have seen a few times before: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/7617/73791&quot;&gt;How should I deal with an employee who has slept with my wife?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I happened to notice that such post is a Community Wiki (as well as all the answers there posted). Checking the edits history, I can see it was made a Community Wiki (by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/8434/david-blaine&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; 110 rep user) about 3 months after it was posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user who made the post a Wiki seems unreachable (last seen on '13), but I still wonder &lt;strong&gt;why was this post turned into a Community Wiki?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see this was before the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/227290/332286&quot;&gt;Stop using community wiki as a reputation denial mechanism&lt;/a&gt; Meta SE post, where converting posts to CW was easier and even prone to abuse. However I still wonder how a low-rep user can/could do this&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, and most importantly &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;... perhaps some of our respected users who witnessed this event can shed some light here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Another example, this time a 1 (?) rep user did the change as evidenced by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/83/revisions&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; revisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-06-28T01:54:26.180" Title="Why was this old post turned into a Community Wiki?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5331" CreationDate="2018-06-28T01:54:26.180" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In both cases, the users &quot;credited&quot; with the CW conversion also answered the question and the timestamps line up.  Their answers kicked those questions over the threshold for automatic conversion, but instead of attributing the change to Community the revision history attributes it to the triggering user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your first example is hard to untangle, but on the second, the triggering answer was #20.  From the MSE post you link to it sounds like the threshold was at one time 30, but maybe it was 20 at some point.  I don't actually remember any more, though I remember being frustrated by it occasionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-06-28T01:54:26.180" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2018-06-28T09:30:09.850" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding points 1 and 2, I once signed a new baby card with &lt;em&gt;Congratulations on your marriage, and I wish you many years of happiness&lt;/em&gt;. I didn't even bother reading what other people wrote because I don't care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding point 3, it may as well have been the case that the OP was the last to sign.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastActivityDate="2018-06-28T09:30:09.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5320" CreationDate="2018-06-28T16:04:16.097" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't we just downvote comments instead? Some suggestions are just really bad, even if the only comments identified are suggestions - which is a clear anitpattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I think downvotes should do in comments is subtract points from the user's reputation score, that way people stop doing dumb things in comments that they wouldn't do in answers because they know it would cost them reputation. I suspect that this would also stop &quot;Me too&quot; and  &quot;I agree&quot; comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user53651" LastEditorDisplayName="user53651" LastEditDate="2018-06-28T17:35:50.903" LastActivityDate="2018-06-28T17:35:50.903" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5320" CreationDate="2018-07-01T02:52:37.187" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please let me know if this causes any issues!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will do. We won't know until it's been tried, so no idea why people are arguing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-07-01T02:52:37.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5338" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-02T18:00:50.123" Score="3" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it difficult to navigate chat as the rules seem to be unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What exactly are the rules for chat (specifically the watercooler)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does chat need to stick to workplace issues exclusively?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is off topic for chat?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is grounds for a kickout from chat?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do mods need to warn a user before a kickout?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When is a room cooldown preferable to a cross-chat kickout?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is humor off topic in chat?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IF humor is not off topic in chat, what are the guidelines?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can mods avoid the appearance of favoritism towards or bias against users?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What kind of deference should mods show to regular mods of a group when they are in chatrooms they do not normally visit?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What steps are being taken to avoid the appearance of impropriety?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How should people with social difficulties, such as autism, severe introvertedness, or non-native speakers who may use the wrong word, be treated?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What should a moderator do when he or she finds themselves in direct, personal conflict with another user?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2018-07-02T20:44:10.250" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T17:01:40.767" Title="Clarification of rules for chat requested" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5338" CreationDate="2018-07-02T20:26:05.023" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, so I'll bite first.  Before I move into the answers, I just want to state that the opinions stated below are my own.  Within the confines of the ToC (Terms of Conduct) and other governing moderator guidelines, moderators are people, they have their own views and work in their own ways.  The answers below are as I see them and don't neccessarily match what other moderators may think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Does chat need to stick to workplace issues exclusively? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. The cooler has been entertaining people for many years without having to stick only to workplace matters.  Obviously, however, if anyone has a workplace issue that they need to ask, then the current participants drop tools and help as much as they are able, and the off-topic chatter usually pauses.  I've seen this in action many times, and many people have been helped. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What is off topic for chat?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A broad subject this one.  Basically, subjects that don't conform to the ToC.  Basically, &quot;be nice&quot; is over-riding, as is basic common sense and decency toward others... Trash-talking other people, moderator actions, and other sites obviosuly brings some attention and crosses the &quot;be nice&quot; line.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What is grounds for a kickout from chat?   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, disruption and obvious bad feelings being aired, profanity being aimed at others, and badness of that order.  Also, reacting to baiting (lowering yourself to language you wouldn't normally use).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be aware that people don't necessarily get kicked out of the room because they're found at fault - it's sometimes a matter of removing tension from a room by freezing out the loudest participants and allowing them the time to cool off, regardless of any empirical idea of &quot;fault&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do mods need to warn a user before a kickout?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's a chance to, yes.  However, moderators don't monitor chatrooms constantly, so sometimes it's a case of dealing with fallout as it's happening.  Throwing people out or freezing a room gives people a chance to cool down, and the moderator time to read the transcript, try and work out what's gone on, and act accordingly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;When is a room cooldown preferable to a cross-chat kickout?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply, numbers.  If most of the chatroom is involved, then a freeze is a way of temporarily shutting up everyone at once.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is humor off topic in chat?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, definitely not.  But remember that it needs to be open and understandable to everyone.  Sarcasm/satire can come across as abusive to people who aren't in the circle of trust.  Remember that anyone can read chat transcripts, and anyone can visit and follow a chatroom without being logged in.  Chatrooms aren't private.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;IF humor is not off topic in chat, what are the guidelines?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See answer above.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How can mods avoid the appearance of favoritism towards or bias against users?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can't completely avoid unconscious bias, it's part of being human.  Also see below.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What kind of deference should mods show to regular mods of a group when they are in chatrooms they do not normally visit?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notionally, off-site moderators should defer to on-site moderators because there's more of an idea of context and history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However (and this is a big point), the currently active moderators on the Workplace are regulars in chat.  This presents a problem of unconscious bias, and being too close to the issues at hand.  We rely on the judgement of off-site moderators to be impartial.  As you're aware chatrooms are moderated by any sitewide moderators - they react to flags or calls for impartial assistance.  You'll see them sometimes pop into the chatroom, and most of the time they'll leave again because there's nothing that requires special attention.  It's not because they're spying or selling popcorn.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What steps are being taken to avoid the appearance of impropriety?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We talk about stuff.  We argue, we listen to each other.  We're not perfect.  We attempt to be impartial, but see above regarding unconscious bias.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;11&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How should people with social difficulties, such as autism, severe introvertedness, or non-native speakers who may use the wrong word, be treated?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No differently to anyone else.  We are used to all of the above and we're open to different ways of expressing things.  However, intent is intent and is usually pretty clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Through all of this, be aware that the cooler has been largely unmoderated for a long time.  Regulars have got used to a particular way of chatting, and a lot has been allowed to happen in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that entering into discussions about particular viewpoints or events isn't likely to be productive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2018-07-02T20:31:17.493" LastActivityDate="2018-07-02T20:31:17.493" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5338" CreationDate="2018-07-02T20:47:13.877" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to supplement &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5339/325&quot;&gt;this detailed answer from another moderator&lt;/a&gt; with a more general one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you treat the Water Cooler approximately the same as you'd treat a meet &amp;amp; greet at a professional conference, you won't go far wrong.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, chit-chat and tangents and polite humor are all fine; we're all human beings.  But the primary purpose of the room (or that meet &amp;amp; greet) is to facilitate conversation among people with a shared interest -- in this case, the professional workplace.  If you're having a side conversation in the main room (chat or physical), you should be paying some attention to the rest of the room and asking yourself &quot;is my conversation disrupting other people who want to have conversations that are more aligned with our primary purpose?&quot;.  If so, you should back off; you can come back to that Star Wars discussion later, after the people who want to talk about improving that resume question got what they needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our chat room should be welcoming to all, so beware of things that make it hard to break in (or stay).  Be careful of long, drawn-out memes rooted in old or obscure posts/comments/events, and be especially aware of old hurts.  Old hurts are, well, old &lt;em&gt;hurts&lt;/em&gt;, but if they get rehashed time and time again, then not only do they become &lt;em&gt;continuous hurts&lt;/em&gt; for the people involved but they becomes &lt;em&gt;new hurts&lt;/em&gt; for others.  It's like walking into the meet &amp;amp; greet to find the person you wanted to connect with complaining about the ex's behavior in the divorce, at length, over probably the third or fourth drink of the hour, and you just want to cringe and slink away because that was really awful for your colleague and now you're all going to relive it again.  Sometimes these things are better discussed among smaller groups in less-central locations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't give you exact rules; life is full of ambiguities and this is especially difficult for people on the spectrum to navigate.  I get that.  I think if we all try to be a little more careful about both (a) monitoring rooms we're in and (b) politely &lt;em&gt;speaking up&lt;/em&gt; when something uncomfortable is happening instead of assuming people should just know, we'll all do fine.  It should always be ok for somebody to say &quot;this conversation is making me uncomfortable&quot;.  (If somebody starts doing that aggressively to shut down what would otherwise be perfectly reasonable conversations, we'll deal with it then.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-07-02T20:47:13.877" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5341" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-02T21:33:29.203" Score="74" ViewCount="1301" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am retiring in just a few weeks and will be leaving this community at the end of this week to concentrate on what I need to get done before retiring. I have no plans to continue to contribute after retirement. I'll be concentrating on volunteer work, photography, creating art and catching up on 40 years of missed sleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And frankly, this place is not very much fun anymore. I think we close perfectly answerable questions way too quickly and drive people off. I am tired of having an answer half written when I can no longer post it. And I am so stressed by the current political environment in my country and a friend dying of pancreatic cancer that I am too hair-triggered.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I wanted to say goodbye. Didn't want to disappear with no note to tell you what had happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully through the years, I have have helped some people. Hopefully others of you will continue to help while I enjoy doing something completely different with my life. Maybe I will stop in occasionally. But I suspect I will be busy enough that I won't feel the need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93" LastActivityDate="2018-07-18T12:15:44.477" Title="The Time has come to say Goodbye" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5341" CreationDate="2018-07-02T21:44:03.160" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh no!  I'm sorry we are losing you, and I'm sorry for the negative reasons that are contributing to that (especially your friend).  Thank you for all the great contributions you have made to our site, and I hope that someday in the future you'll look in on us and decide that you have time and spoons to participate again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations on your upcoming retirement!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I upvoted the question to signal &quot;thanks for letting us know&quot;, not because I want to see you go.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you all for the nice words. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="93" LastEditDate="2018-07-06T22:01:24.377" LastActivityDate="2018-07-06T22:01:24.377" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5341" CreationDate="2018-07-02T21:58:06.027" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;A well-deserved retirement it seems after 40 years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So sorry to hear about your friend... Your thoughtful and thorough answers will surely be missed, but there are more transcendental things to take care of, like Real Life for example :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also hope that when/if you return the current issue with the fast closing and scaring off new users is back to a reasonable level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck with your ventures!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-07-02T21:58:06.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5341" CreationDate="2018-07-02T22:35:43.967" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for letting us know and thanks for being a great role model. Wishing you all the best in retirement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-07-02T22:35:43.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5341" CreationDate="2018-07-02T22:38:33.843" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm really sad to see you go, you have been such a solid contributor and important part of the community for the whole time I have been here.  We will miss your insightful answers, but as with all things, real life must take precedence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish you the very best wishes for the future and that your world settles down around you after retirement.  You are always very welcome to be a part of the community if the desire and the time arises, and I hope that we will see you again sometime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you again for everything you have done to help make this community more than it would have been without your presence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2018-07-02T22:38:33.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5341" CreationDate="2018-07-02T22:51:08.257" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, we've disagreed on just about everything, but I can say without fear of contradiction that this is a great loss to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a great deal of respect for you, despite the fact that we've bumped heads numerous occasions.  You provided a unique perspective which often ran contrary to what many others posted and/or believed.  This kept the site honest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree, too many questions are closed and we recently had a meta about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My brother just died of liver cancer last September, so I can understand what a time you are having.  I know that there are no words that can be of any comfort to match what you are going through, all I can offer is my deepest sympathies.  Maybe I should have stepped back, maybe I still will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But let me end this by saying that praise from those you've had difficulties with is the highest praise of all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fare well in your life's journeys.  May you be of great comfort to your friend, and may your friends offer you even greater comfort.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Know that you leave here with the love and respect of all of us, even from those of us you may not have expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck, and God bless.  You will be missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2018-07-03T13:54:04.250" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T13:54:04.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5341" CreationDate="2018-07-03T01:14:04.273" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You will be missed. You've been a major part to this site over the years (over half a decade now!). Speaking just as another fellow user who has learned a ton, thank you for all of your mentorship through this site to those of us who have been here for years now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, your profile says that you have impacted ~8,200,000 people through your efforts here - and that number will always go up. If only a fraction of those people have learned something, been encouraged, or otherwise benefited, you have helped thousands upon thousands of people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you, take care, and enjoy retirement :-) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T01:14:04.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5341" CreationDate="2018-07-03T06:45:35.147" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I haven't been as active here as in the past, I've always liked your unique perspective on questions and found your answers to be overwhelmingly helpful. It'll be a great loss for the site to see you go. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck and great enjoyment in your future endeavours. May your retirement be comfortable and peaceful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T06:45:35.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5341" CreationDate="2018-07-03T07:43:39.597" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sad to see you leave the site. The Workplace will never be the same without you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you very much for your contributions. I have personally benefited immensely from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wish you a happy retirement and good luck for your future endeavours. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T07:43:39.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5341" CreationDate="2018-07-03T10:51:21.177" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I am very sorry to hear about your friend, you have my condolences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, like many here, I got excited when I saw that you posted an answer as I knew I was in for a treat of quality writing and content.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope the political climate in your country simmers down and you are able to fully enjoy retirement, and maybe, just maybe down the road you may feel like contributing again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best wishes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T10:51:21.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5341" CreationDate="2018-07-03T12:46:35.820" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just started writing &quot;answer&quot;, submitting that and then editing it afterwards when I see a question get a close vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway. I digress - I enjoyed reading your posts, they were well thought-out, considerate and weighed with experience. I wish you the best for your future, and all the happiness in the world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry to hear of your friend, and the situation in the US. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T12:46:35.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5341" CreationDate="2018-07-03T13:29:35.867" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you, HLGEM, for all the insightful questions and answers from you that I have read. Good luck in your next adventure, even though us Internet strangers are not part in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T13:29:35.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5338" CreationDate="2018-07-03T17:01:40.767" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;How timely....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G1BpL_G_m6F5LIPMUZVcLejSPFTb3XbI_69X8fQSZAk/edit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SE Draft code of conduct&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T17:01:40.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5341" CreationDate="2018-07-04T09:45:09.233" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a great loss for this site if you are no longer answering questions. I don't know you personally, but I always enjoyed reading your thoughtful answers, and in my opinion you contributed a lot. Thank you for your contributions, and sad to see you go!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope you can enjoy your retirement, despite the sad events in your life. And if you ever feel like stopping by here, I'm sure you will be very welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57" LastActivityDate="2018-07-04T09:45:09.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5355" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5356" CreationDate="2018-07-04T17:41:15.740" Score="7" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, this question was asked: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/115230/73791&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/115230/73791&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which basically asks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am looking for ideas, how to sabotage this coworker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the best ways to sabotage a programmer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should we do with this question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking for this is obviously unethical and unprofessional, but is it off-topic (i.e.: is this part of navigating the Workplace)? Is it answerable (perhaps deep down there is a real question waiting to be addressed)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose that many people will not like to answer and contribute to such negative goal, but I want to know what the Community thinks about these sort of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; As mentioned by Snow on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5355/what-should-we-do-with-the-sabotage-my-colleague-question?cb=1#comment15782_5356&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;, the general Mod consensus for these sort of questions (which advocate harm to others) is to &lt;s&gt;kill them with fire&lt;/s&gt; &lt;em&gt;Close and Delete&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-07-06T19:06:45.517" Title="What should we do with the Sabotage my Colleague question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5355" CreationDate="2018-07-04T18:49:48.923" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'd delete it.  You could sort of understand something asked in humour, but even then, it would probably be off topic and not generally encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just vindictive and goes against the &quot;Be nice&quot; policy (even when the injured party isn't here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's far more appropriate and moral ways dealing with the core issue here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there's other websites who would be glad to pander to this kind of question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discussion with site-wide moderators has confirmed that this not acceptable. It has accordingly been killed by fire. Advocating harm to others is the big red flag here.  We shouldn't be allowing answers encouraging harm to others and we sure shouldn't be allowing questions like this that explicitly request such answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2018-07-05T06:38:30.593" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T06:38:30.593" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5320" CreationDate="2018-07-05T08:37:03.303" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just as a quick observation anonymous users already see an &quot;improve this question&quot; link on the questions already instead of &quot;edit&quot;. Seeing that above &quot;suggest improvements&quot; is a bit ambiguous for if there is a difference between the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8lMEG.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8lMEG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this may cause problems or it may not but I think it's worth mentioning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38688" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T08:37:03.303" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5358" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-05T11:48:13.683" Score="2" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we reopen &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/115258/how-do-low-wage-workers-get-to-work&quot;&gt;How do low-wage workers get to work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is extremely relevant to people trying to get a leg up in life.  I've experienced this myself, and can contribute some great ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember folks, there is more to the working world than white collar and IT jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2018-07-05T12:13:27.623" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T13:02:08.270" Title="Req to reopen &quot;How do low-wage workers get to work?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5358" CreationDate="2018-07-05T12:26:55.757" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I do not believe this question should be reopened as is.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question makes a lot of assumptions, and if you remove the assumptions, the question becomes very broad. It assumes that because the OP didn't see any cars that the workers did not drive to work. It assumes that all low-wage workers do not have reliable cars. It assumes that the answer for this particular Wendy's will be applicable to all low-wage workplaces. It assumes that people in low-wage jobs get to work differently than people in higher-paying white collar jobs (i.e. this is not about white-collar vs blue-collar - it's about transportation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you remove all of the assumptions, the question could be boiled down to &quot;&lt;em&gt;How do I get to work when I don't reliably have a car available to me?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; You could also possibly add for this situation &quot;&lt;em&gt;and my work isn't accessible by public transportation.&lt;/em&gt;&quot; That could potentially be answerable, though it is a very different question from what was asked, and I think the answers are pretty obvious and straight-forward (walk, bike, public transport, dropped off, carpool).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2018-07-05T12:53:40.860" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T12:53:40.860" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5358" CreationDate="2018-07-05T13:02:08.270" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's merit in this, but the question will need some heavy editing to make it answerable and on-scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, the question seems to be specific to this one situation (this fast food outlet not &lt;em&gt;appearing&lt;/em&gt; to have public transport, and an assumption made based on numbers of cars in the car park.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is also very broad in nature.  There must be a huge variety of methods in getting people to work - carpooling, walking, public transport (of unknown means), lifts, company supplied mini-van, etc., etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question could be tight enough and answerable enough, that would be cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T13:02:08.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5361" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5363" CreationDate="2018-07-05T16:04:57.153" Score="10" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/115307/how-to-get-help-on-an-issue-from-someone-above-the-issues-paygrade&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; very recently. To sum it up, an upper manager alerted me to a bug I couldn't repeat, so I needed to ask him for help describing its behavior and testing my fixes. I was hoping for advice on getting information from him without bothering him too much with &quot;non-managerial&quot; duties. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, fortunately for me, but unfortunately for my question, I took a blind stab at fixing the bug and it looks like it worked. The attempt took place before I asked my question, but the confirmation took place shortly after. Now I'm unsure what to do with the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that helping &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt; with this question is a side effect of Stack Exchange's larger goal of helping &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; with this question, but at the same time, I can't actually try out any of these solutions; the problem's gone. If I were to pick a correct answer, it would only be because I liked it the most. That doesn't seem like it's what Stack Exchange is all about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a protocol for what to do if your question becomes moot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's still a pretty young question and (I think) eligible for deletion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71210" LastActivityDate="2018-07-13T20:47:22.853" Title="Should I close my question if it becomes moot before being answered?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5361" CreationDate="2018-07-05T16:11:40.867" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should leave it open and post what you did as an answer to your own question, if you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is still relevant as someone else in the future may still have a similar problem.  Even though you have solved your specific problem, this is one that many of us have experienced, so the answers would still apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are a Q&amp;amp;A site so it's the question, not your particular situation which is relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, leave it open.  It's a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T16:11:40.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5361" CreationDate="2018-07-05T16:26:48.223" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a protocol for what to do if your question becomes moot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I think that you should leave it open.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may receive answers with &lt;em&gt;alternate solutions&lt;/em&gt; to the one you came up with, some of them perhaps more efficient. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will help you in future situation, as you may &lt;em&gt;come back to the post&lt;/em&gt; to reconsider all suggestions if you ever face a similar situation again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will also help &lt;em&gt;other users&lt;/em&gt;, present and future, that face situations similar to yours. Ultimately contributing to the main goal of the SE network to document good Q&amp;amp;A's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-07-13T20:47:22.853" LastActivityDate="2018-07-13T20:47:22.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4803" CreationDate="2018-07-05T16:31:13.020" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suggested alternative: let's develop a question template!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/369682/922300&quot;&gt;beta-testing a new interface for asking questions&lt;/a&gt;, where instead of giving you a textbox to fill out it asks you questions to help you refine your question.  It's early days for that even on SO, let alone the rest of the network, but I have hopes that if it works out there, they'll have written it in a general-enough way for other sites to use.  (Obviously the specific guidance/questions would need to change.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we come up with our own question template and/or list of points to cover, and point people at that?  Maybe we'll be able to plug it into this framework later, or maybe it'll always be a standalone thing, but it seems worth considering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-07-05T17:24:34.213" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T17:24:34.213" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5361" CreationDate="2018-07-05T16:45:41.953" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5363/3192&quot;&gt;DarkCygnus' answer&lt;/a&gt; addresses the question well, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5362/3192&quot;&gt;Don Thermidor_Lobster Mobster's answer&lt;/a&gt; also offers useful general advice. Some additional notes I would like to add:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is no time limit to accept an answer. It is completely acceptable to leave the question without an accepted answer, and come back later to accept an answer. I have myself accepted answers several months later (on other SE sites).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The age of the question is not a deletion criteria. Moreover, you cannot automatically delete your own question if it has an answer with positive score. Even if you flag it to moderators for deletion, we are highly unlikely to do it, since mod-deletion is reserved for &lt;em&gt;serious&lt;/em&gt; problems only. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T16:45:41.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5366" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5368" CreationDate="2018-07-05T17:23:02.333" Score="12" ViewCount="321" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently posted the following question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/115255/how-to-handle-bad-impressions-when-having-unfortunate-first-last-name-combinat&quot;&gt;How to handle bad impressions when having unfortunate first + last name combinations when presenting yourself digitally?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And some of the comments and voting suggest that it is being perceived as a &quot;troll question&quot;. For instance there are comments like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bad attempt at trolling. Not appropriate. If I had voting privileges&#xA;  I'd vote to close obvious troll thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... that's what I thought too, but check out the asker's website, that's&#xA;  a lot of work to put in just for one troll question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cleary there are people that think that the question is a &quot;troll question&quot; while other people initially thought so but changed their minds after a second moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How should I, the author of the question, react/do if my question is being perceived as being in this &quot;troll question&quot; grey area?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if changing the phrasing would help, because I think the cause of all this is the content of the question. My immediate approach was to ask for clarifications, but I am not sure if the other party was fair on the criticism. I thought about deleting the question, but I did not want to and I am not sure if I should wait for this to escalate to the point where the question gets closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88895" LastEditorUserId="88895" LastEditDate="2018-07-05T17:33:53.970" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T22:00:10.067" Title="My question is being perceived as a troll question. How to deal with the subject?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5366" CreationDate="2018-07-05T17:32:37.137" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the workplace Ian.  You came to the right place for your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have two rules that we go by above all others:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be Nice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Assume good intent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Calling your question a troll post is out of line, and you should flag any such comments for a moderator.  You can also come into chat and alert the people in there for good measure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For refining your post, either you, or another user can edit it.  Again, coming in here or to chat for help with that is also appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry your initial experience in here has not been a good one.  Please give us a chance to correct any negative impressions you may have gotten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-07-05T17:42:12.043" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T17:42:12.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5366" CreationDate="2018-07-05T17:56:10.820" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, welcome to The Workplace. Glad to have you here. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the bad experience you have had with your question being called a troll. If such a thing were to happen again, flag the comment as rude or abusive. Moderators will take care of it. Avoid engaging in a prolonged discussion or argument over the issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, only 2 users suspected the post to be a troll, of which the second user (AakashM) even posted a link to your website to &quot;prove&quot; that you are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a troll. It is also possible that he tacked the &quot;I thought so too&quot; just to diffuse the situation and avoid a confrontation with the previous user, so I would cut him some slack there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if things had turned out worse with multiple users suspecting the question to be a troll and closing your question, you have the option of raising a flag for moderator attention where you can explain the problem and we will deal with it. You &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; have the option of bringing it up on meta, as you have done now. (Thank you for that!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have deleted all the obsolete comments from the post, leaving only those which suggest improvements or ask for clarification. When you have finished addressing those, you may flag the post again requesting to cleanup the comments if you wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T17:56:10.820" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5366" CreationDate="2018-07-05T20:12:08.763" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Avoid highly-specific examples, go for something more general&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remove the examples from your question and describe the problem in a more general way, or create obscured examples (e.g. &amp;quot;My first name is Abcd and my last name is Efgh and 'cdef' is an offensive word&amp;quot; &lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Specific examples make your question too specific to your scenario, and thus less helpful to others with a similar (but not identical) problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;... especially when the answers choose to focus on the example instead of providing more general advice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's offensive / click-baity / controversial / whatever - making a word a bunch of stars doesn't really do much to hide what you've written there, which is a word that doesn't really belong in a post on this site. If you need to star out a word, you're probably on the wrong track.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is what makes some people think it's trolling. &lt;strong&gt;It doesn't really matter whether or not it actually is trolling, or whether the comments telling you so is inappropriate.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're more likely to, at some point in the future, decide you want to try to remove these personal details from the internet - best case you obscure it, but then there can still be a bunch of comments and answers by others make what it was clear. Or you disassociate the post, which is allowed, but not really desirable. Worst case you try to delete the post, which you can't do, so that'll probably turn into an edit war and locks and bans and basically just a bunch of stuff we really don't want.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1]: I considered making such an edit myself, but the specific way of obscuring it used above seems ... okay, but not particularly great, and some might disagree with editing out those details, so I ultimately decided against it. You're welcome to do it yourself though, especially if you can think of a better way to obscure it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I think &lt;strong&gt;this is not specifically a problem with looks-like-trolling questions&lt;/strong&gt;, and I'm not saying we should treat looks-like-trolling questions fundamentally differently from other questions - plenty of questions focus too much on the specific details of the situation instead of describing the problem more generally, which makes the question and answers too specific to the situation and not all that useful to others. But the fact that it looks like trolling might give more motivation to edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T22:00:10.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5400" CreationDate="2018-07-06T13:46:51.127" Score="7" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposal: merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/onboarding&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;onboarding&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;onboarding&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/new-hires&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;new-hires&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;new-hires&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/new-hires&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;new-hires&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;new-hires&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions: 114&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Description: (emphasis added)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions around people that were recently hired, &lt;strong&gt;on boarding practices&lt;/strong&gt;, orientations and so forth&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/onboarding&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;onboarding&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;onboarding&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions: 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Description: &lt;em&gt;none&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:47:12.397" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:47:12.397" Title="Tag merge: onboarding and new-hires" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5371" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5373" CreationDate="2018-07-06T16:51:57.853" Score="4" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/115389/is-severe-itching-due-to-skin-condition-reason-enough-to-take-a-day-off&quot;&gt;Is severe itching (due to skin condition) reason enough to take a day off?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was closed as company specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a question about a disability, and how to handle it, this has NOTHING TO DO with law or specific companies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we get this reopened please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2018-07-09T18:23:25.407" LastActivityDate="2018-07-09T18:23:25.407" Title="(Done) Req to reopen question: Is Severe itching (due to skin condition) reason enough to take off" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5355" CreationDate="2018-07-06T19:06:45.517" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why didn't you leave it?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If this is something we don't suport, why not say so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Close it to answers, delete existing answers which may be helpful to the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe have only one answer  and mention that you deleted the others:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;From the moderators: We don't advocate harm to others.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that I didn't see the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question I'm asking here (yes, in this answer, but it seemed the best place) is why not leave this post as a &lt;code&gt;this isn't acceptable here&lt;/code&gt; marker/flag/signpost?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68513" LastActivityDate="2018-07-06T19:06:45.517" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5371" CreationDate="2018-07-06T20:00:11.517" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post was edited for improvements, and is now reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-07-06T20:00:11.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5374" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-06T23:35:38.330" Score="4" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/115206/how-to-attract-people-to-work-on-very-old-and-outdated-technologies&quot;&gt;How to attract people to work on very old and outdated technologies?&lt;/a&gt; currently has 31 (non-deleted) answers.  Many of them appear to overlap a lot.  Several of them are very short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a policy of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/255/325&quot;&gt;Back it up and don't repeat others&lt;/a&gt;.  Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to dig through all these answers with this policy in mind.  Are there late answers that don't add anything new?  Are there unsupported personal opinions in the answer slot?  Is there a problem with the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-07-06T23:35:38.330" Title="Please curate the answers to the older-technologies question" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5341" CreationDate="2018-07-07T00:27:15.520" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A little dramatic, but I too am sad to see you go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Workplace.SE had a rough start, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/98/jmort253&quot;&gt;@jmort253&lt;/a&gt; fixed the culture, and now things are humming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take care. I wish you luck and health outside of Stack Exchange. Bye for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2018-07-07T00:27:15.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5341" CreationDate="2018-07-09T12:49:35.823" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Best of luck in your retirement! I can tell you from personal experience, that it can be a lot of fun on that side of a career!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I share most of your feelings about The Workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But consider taking some time off and checking back in once in a while. You may find that after de-stressing for a while, the shortcomings here are more tolerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your insight and wisdom will be missed. I know your words have helped me on many occasions and I hope you know that your contributions have been appreciated. The Workplace will be poorer in your absence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-joe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2018-07-09T12:49:35.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5320" CreationDate="2018-07-09T14:15:09.020" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far, this experiment has turned out &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5321/3192&quot;&gt;exactly as bharal predicted&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a few &lt;s&gt;minutes&lt;/s&gt; &lt;s&gt;hours&lt;/s&gt; days, the change led to a drop in extraneous comments. However, once users figured out that &quot;suggest improvements&quot; was just &quot;add a comment&quot; by another name, &lt;s&gt;normal service was restored&lt;/s&gt; comment usage patterns returned to the pre-change status. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This does not mean the change should be scrapped&lt;/strong&gt;. It is less effective than expected, because it is a partial solution. With the following additions, this experiment would hopefully yield better results:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add &quot;discuss this question&quot; alongside &quot;suggest improvements&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;: This link opens the post-specific chat room where users can discuss the post. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Protect&quot; commenting on protected questions&lt;/strong&gt;: Users coming in from other sites (usually &lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/220099/202356&quot;&gt;for entertainment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt; via HNQ) who are used to &quot;adding comments&quot; on other sites tend to use the &quot;suggest improvements&quot; similarly. This can be easily resolved by disregarding the association bonus and requiring 10 reputation on this site for commenting on protected questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this change has also proved useful because now &lt;strong&gt;moderators need to spend less effort to justify deletion of comments&lt;/strong&gt;. Consequently, complaints about comment deletion are expected to drop drastically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: One user was recently flabbergasted by the change, and asked on meta why he wasn't able to post comments. When this experiment was explained to him, he went back to the post soon after, and posted a comment, which was partly commentary and partly semi-answer, but &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; not a suggested improvement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-07-28T09:47:59.370" LastActivityDate="2018-07-28T09:47:59.370" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5378" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-09T17:51:04.653" Score="2" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;General question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we see nastiness in the comments section, should we drop in a reminder of the &quot;be nice&quot; policy (not directed to a particular user) or just flag for a mod without comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-07-09T18:13:42.250" LastActivityDate="2018-07-09T18:13:42.250" Title="Another question about the comments; reminders of the &quot;Be Nice&quot; policy" Tags="|discussion|comments|flagging|be-nice|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5378" CreationDate="2018-07-09T18:10:54.027" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If we see nastiness in the comments section, should we drop in a reminder of the &quot;be nice&quot; policy (not directed to a particular user) or just flag for a mod without comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say we do &lt;strong&gt;both&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides flagging accordingly, I think that placing a comment politely reminding about our Be Nice policy and to keep comments for what they are helps dissuade other users from &quot;joining the brawl&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also sometimes kindly point them to chat, as to encourage discussion &lt;em&gt;there&lt;/em&gt;. It has proven to me that after including such comment the nastiness stops or at least is cut down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-07-09T18:11:57.783" LastActivityDate="2018-07-09T18:11:57.783" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5380" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-09T22:16:20.950" Score="-2" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/44921909#44921909&quot;&gt;This comment&lt;/a&gt; was deleted/moved to chat, yet it seems to me that this particular comments meets the requirement for posting comments: it constructively suggested an improvement to the answer, especially since &quot;add comment&quot; is now &quot;suggest improvements&quot; (the other comments, not so much; I agree they should be removed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked the moderator &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/44926270#44926270&quot;&gt;on chat&lt;/a&gt;, but that didn't result in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/44926463#44926463&quot;&gt;very satisfactory answer&lt;/a&gt;, IMHO. (I know it's been a while, but I've been away from home for holiday and work, and haven't had time yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that &quot;comments are supposed to ephemeral&quot;, but that alone doesn't strike me as a good reason to delete useful content. If the content is useful, then it is useful. Simply chucking it in the bin seems ... counter-productive, at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a new phenomenon on this site; I find that on all Stack Exchange sites I've contributed to, comments get deleted on this site significantly faster than anywhere else, even compared to some other more subjective sites that tend to generate a high number of off-topic comments (e.g. Politics or Skeptics).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that the moderators have to clean a lot of off-topic bickering, but I really wish they would take a bit more care in not throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Personally, I am always very careful with content that users create in their spare time. Not every comment is typed as a stream of consciousness, and sometimes writing even a comparatively small comment can be preceded by some amount of research or thought.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd hate to see that destroyed if it's a constructive suggestion for improvement, which this comment was (technically, you could argue it's still there in chat, but no one reads that, so it's effectively just deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8388" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-07-09T22:42:33.843" LastActivityDate="2018-07-10T13:42:20.387" Title="Why was this comment – which suggested an improvement to my answer – deleted?" Tags="|discussion|comments|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5380" CreationDate="2018-07-09T22:36:30.567" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are ephemeral by nature.  The mod was correct.  If you think a comment is worth adding to your answer, you add it to your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can post &quot;As per the comment left by Don Thermidor, the Lobster Mobster&quot;, and then quote the comment, that way it is preserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-07-09T22:36:30.567" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5380" CreationDate="2018-07-09T22:41:02.327" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say that I agree with what that mod said to you: &lt;strong&gt;If you consider that comment useful, include it in your answer if you wish so.&lt;/strong&gt; If the comment is as useful as you say, then it must have valid suggestions or improvements that would make your answer/question better if you include it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Just&amp;quot; leaving it as a comment is not only dangerous, as it can be deleted without notice, but it is also distracting and brings noise to the answer/post. IMHO, useful comments should be addressed (included or edited into the answer) and then pruned to keep the post on focus and without noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I also had the same question as you recently, and I asked on chat for it. FWIW, here is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/45477076#45477076&quot;&gt;transcript&lt;/a&gt; of my phrasing of the question and the reason one of our kind mods gave for sometimes &amp;quot;sweeping all the comments to chat&amp;quot; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question to our respected mods: When you clean up comments under answers, is there a way not to delete them all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, &lt;strong&gt;perhaps, leave the ones that had validity&lt;/strong&gt;, or that warned user from continuing to discuss or comment for other purposes than the ones permitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've sometimes reminded users to stop engaging, and politely point them to chat... but when the cleaning comes, it takes away that comment also, and then future users don't see what happened, nor the warning, and start again a wave of unnecessary comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For which the answer was (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case of extended bickering, I generally delete the whole set. I usually also undelete the useful comments, but &lt;strong&gt;if the comment count has gone over 20 or so, that becomes tiring&lt;/strong&gt;, and some useful comments might get deleted in the crossfire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer moving the first batch of comments to chat, unless there is undesirable arguments going on there. &lt;strong&gt;We don't have the option to move to chat more than once, so further comments are usually just deleted&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The comment reminding people to disengage from conflict is certainly well-intentioned, but it is also technically noise.&lt;/strong&gt; We cannot keep pasting that comment on every post, and users should know that anyway without reminders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, if a comment is flagged, I almost always go to the post to figure out what is going on there, and delete/move all unnecessary comments, not just the ones that are flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-07-09T22:41:02.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5384" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-10T10:34:05.103" Score="-5" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about my The Workplace Stack Exchange post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/115582/how-to-deal-with-a-colleague-that-systematically-removes-people-from-email-recip&quot;&gt;How to deal with a colleague that systematically removes people from email recipients?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;I don't understand why my question has been deleted. I think I don't violate any rule. I don't receive any message or warning. Can someone explain, please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user89115" LastActivityDate="2018-07-10T12:25:05.650" Title="Question deleted" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5384" CreationDate="2018-07-10T11:06:00.770" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;While in isolation, this hypothetical-sounding question is ok, there's a wider consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;Tour&lt;/a&gt; page (which you've read several times, it seems), it states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Focus on questions about an &lt;strong&gt;actual problem&lt;/strong&gt; you have faced. Include details about what you have tried and exactly what you are trying to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(my bold)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hypothetical questions are ok here, but in moderation.  The emphasis here is that we help actual people with actual issues that they encounter in their own workplaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To date, you appear to have created numerous (almost 10) different Stack Exchange profiles to ask very different questions, one per user (we have no idea why you've done this).  While this isn't against the rules, it does go against the ethos of the site here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question here was removed because it looks as though it's contrived, and it appears to be part of a wider pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're free to continue asking questions, but we'd ask that they address actual situations that you're actually facing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-07-10T11:06:00.770" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5384" CreationDate="2018-07-10T12:25:05.650" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, let's cut to the chase: your account has been identified as one of a number being created by the same person with the sole purpose of posting fake questions. Regardless of your reasons in wasting our time and yours, we are proceeding to delete those posts since they are not made in good faith and are thus not welcome on this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a number of ways to determine malicious actors which we won't disclose here for obvious reasons but if you believe this judgement was made in error, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/28867/what-recourse-do-i-have-if-i-believe-a-moderator-has-abused-his-her-privileges&quot;&gt;consult the advice given here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to ask real, pertinent questions about problems you are facing, but please refrain from making up stories. If you are serious about participating in this network, we'd also encourage you to stick with a single account to avoid problems like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2018-07-10T12:25:05.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5380" CreationDate="2018-07-10T13:42:20.387" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I reap what I sowed, eh? :) See &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3053/3192&quot;&gt;Why was my comment deleted?&lt;/a&gt; where I too had questioned the moderators for deleting my comment. What Monica and enderland explained to me back then is more or less what I would have said in response (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5382/3192&quot;&gt;DarkCygnus' answer&lt;/a&gt; already does that to a great extent), but there are some case-specific points I could add here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moving comments to chat is different from deleting them entirely:&lt;/strong&gt; Deleted comments are visible only to moderators, whereas comments moved to chat are publicly visible even to users not logged in. The suggested improvements from the comments are still available to be incorporated into the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moderators don't go on a witch hunt against comments&lt;/strong&gt;: We usually delete comments only in response to flags or if we see prolonged discussions in the course of our &quot;regular&quot; use of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments flags are (usually) not handled in isolation&lt;/strong&gt;: I cannot speak for other moderators (though I think they wouldn't differ too much), but this is how I handle with flags: If I see a specific comment flagged in the mod review queue which merits deletion, I &lt;s&gt;always&lt;/s&gt; usually go to the post and see if there are additional comments to be deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do this for two reasons: (1) extraneous comments are usually part of a back-and-forth discussion and (2) occasionally comments are flagged by the &quot;other&quot; user(s) &lt;em&gt;involved in the discussion&lt;/em&gt;. It would be ... problematic to delete only one user's comments in such cases. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HNQ&lt;/strong&gt;: Again, I cannot speak for other moderators, but I follow a special handling of HNQ. If there is a prolonged &lt;s&gt;bickering&lt;/s&gt; debate in comments and/or large number of comments flagged on the question, I usually look for similar comments on the answers as well. This is what occurred in case of the comment you asked about. Based on observations (from my pre-mod days), comment misuse on HNQ rarely occurs &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; on questions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Useful comments sometimes wrongly get moved&lt;/strong&gt;: Generally, if the comments follow the sequence of user 1 responding to user 2, user 1 replying to user 2, user 3 responding to user 1, user 4 replying to user 2, user 3 responding to user 4, etc., selectively deleting comments could lead to complaints of moderator bias, so it is usually more pragmatic to move the entire conversation to chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This occasionally causes legitimate comments to get moved in the crossfire. However, in case of moving comments to chat, I usually go back to the deleted comments and undelete the legitimate ones. I messed up and neglected to do it in this case. As enderland said &quot;this is unfortunate but a problem of human moderators without unlimited time.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could have undeleted the comment when you pinged me in chat, but I did not consider it worth the effort since I (wrongly) assumed I had addressed your issue then and there. I am sorry for the trouble this has caused you. For what it is worth, I have now undeleted the comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-07-10T13:42:20.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5388" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-10T23:30:01.270" Score="2" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious about this - it comes from this discussion here about a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5320/8146&quot;&gt;comment-killer&lt;/a&gt; feature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious about &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; we would place effort in removing comments? In other parts of the stack exchange network - notably stackoverflow - it makes sense to have a stringent comment-purging system. Technical answers generally don't brook a lot of discussion.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I view the people who normally partake in this particular community as leaders. People who want to deal with workplace issues and advise on management strategy should seriously consider going for leadership positions if they're not already in one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this predilection toward leadership - and being naturally more chatty and communicative - it seems counter-productive to have a stringent anti-comment policy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there's more to it - here is a really interesting youtube video on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfGtw2C95Ms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;product theory&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The gist is, for all products you would ask &quot;what is the job they're doing&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, much of the joy of workplace is in interacting with other people here. Don't get me wrong - I love well thought out answers and learning from others here, but I also like to interact. Sometimes I might (rarely though) use a comment to fight with someone, sure. I might also use it to slap out a short answer I feel strongly about but don't have the time to write a full-blown piece, and I might - but rarely - use them to clarify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we got rid of comments, I probably wouldn't come here. The site would feel quite sterile. This site serves me by giving me interesting interactions with other people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to me I'd &lt;em&gt;rather&lt;/em&gt; have long comments - but I'm no moderator, so I don't see the problems they cause. Can someone enlighten?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear - I don't have any problems with them getting deleted after a few days, I don't treasure the comments. But I'm curious why we want less of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastActivityDate="2018-07-11T05:54:35.297" Title="Why do &quot;we&quot; want to &quot;fix&quot; comments?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5388" CreationDate="2018-07-11T05:54:35.297" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Andrew T points out (ironically) in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5388/why-do-we-want-to-fix-comments#comment15878_5388&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; above, this isn't a discussion forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like all of the other stacks on this platform, the Workplace is a question-answer site.  Comments are there to suggest improvements to both questions and answers.  They're transitory in nature and liable to be removed when they've met their purpose or judged not to have a purpose at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As DarkCygnus also points out, starting a discussion in comments can turn out to detract from an otherwise good answer when someone insists on edge-casing or jumping onto the Pedant Wagon.  Things often spiral downwards from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are probably thousands of Meta questions and discussions relating to comments if you care to search for them.  The end result is that they &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; serve a single, simple purpose - guiding the question/answer toward being better in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are pretty lenient here in that we don't rigidly delete everything we see and we do allow moderate amounts of positive discussion (and some much-needed humour).  But this isn't Reddit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may have noticed the new Stack Blog post - &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/07/10/welcome-wagon-classifying-comments-on-stack-overflow/&quot;&gt;Welcome Wagon: Classifying Comments&lt;/a&gt; which is leading the platform into being more welcoming and less snark-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We’re looking here to characterize comments that are unwelcoming in a way that isn’t flagrant hate or abuse but would still make you think twice about participating in our community. Things we thought might fall into this category would include condescension, snark, sarcasm, and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-07-11T05:54:35.297" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5390" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-11T06:30:42.153" Score="5" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned by Monica in another Meta question, there's an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/369682/ask-a-question-wizard-prototype&quot;&gt;Ask a Question Wizard Prototype&lt;/a&gt; in the works that looks a bit like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BAd8g.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BAd8g.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To support this, we'll need some kind of a template set of questions or points to cover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things like:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What kind of question is this?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can you summarize your problem in one sentence?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is your role?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is your industry type?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What have you tried before and why didn't this work?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In effect, we're wanting to guide people toward providing the necessary details into their question and lead them to being a little more structured in the way they ask.  At the same time, we want to be welcoming and not scare people off by wordy workflow if at all possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a prototype of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask/wizard&quot;&gt;Wizard on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; that will give you the gist of how this looks (go take a look at it).  Be aware, however, that completing the Wizard will post a new question on Stack Overflow (which you can of course delete).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, the workflow is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What kind of question is this (bullet-pointed list)?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add tags  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question title  (then gives list of suggested questions with similar titles)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question itself  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Review&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each of these stages have yellow information blocks that helps guide the user toward the most appropriate level of detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your comments here will be welcome&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2018-07-11T09:21:46.560" LastActivityDate="2018-07-11T16:57:06.140" Title="Building a template for the potentially new &quot;Ask a Question Wizard&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5390" CreationDate="2018-07-11T06:52:32.090" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we add in something to ask for a location? So many of the questions asked here are massively dependent upon the asker's locale and so few actually add it in, at least on initial posting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-07-11T06:52:32.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5390" CreationDate="2018-07-11T10:56:42.813" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This looks like an excellent way to drive away new users from the site, especially non-native English users. Asking users to specify &quot;tags&quot; right off the bat might work for the Stack Overflow wizard because users generally have questions about a specific language/framework/technology, and the problem in terms of the expected code behaviour against the actual one is rather clear in their minds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are not Stack Overflow. Asking new users to &quot;categorize&quot; their question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5189/3192&quot;&gt;into our rather messy tags&lt;/a&gt;) even before they have got a chance to &quot;pen their thoughts&quot; (if you will) is likely to be followed by getting confused and giving up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, for non-native English users, interrogating them with more rounds of questions (and asking them to read more &quot;information blocks&quot;) before they can even describe &lt;em&gt;their actual problem&lt;/em&gt; would be making them jump through unnecessary hoops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, what about mobile browsers? Many of our next &lt;s&gt;billion&lt;/s&gt; &lt;s&gt;million&lt;/s&gt; thousand users will probably come from the developing world, &lt;a href=&quot;https://wearesocial.com/us/blog/2018/01/global-digital-report-2018&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;who usually join the internet bandwagon through smartphones&lt;/a&gt;. On the mobile browser, the so-called wizard presents the user with one question, one &quot;Great!&quot;, and then takes them directly to the current page for asking questions. In other words, two additional steps that achieve nothing useful.&lt;sup&gt;screenshots below&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are not Stack Overflow. I would like to see this site being equally welcoming to everyone, regardless of their English proficiency or their ability to afford a laptop/desktop. So I am in favour of scrapping this wizard entirely at least until these issues are fixed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Screenshots of the so-called Wizard on mobile browsers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 1&lt;/strong&gt;: What type of question do you have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TSALcm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Step 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 2&lt;/strong&gt;: Great!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sYOaQm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Great!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 3&lt;/strong&gt;: End of Wizard (!?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h7U7em.png&quot; alt=&quot;End of Wizard&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-07-11T16:57:06.140" LastActivityDate="2018-07-11T16:57:06.140" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5393" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5394" CreationDate="2018-07-11T17:18:26.373" Score="9" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was prompted to ask this by suggestions on this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/115642/developer-on-tn-visa&quot;&gt;developer on TN visa&lt;/a&gt; The question is about a kind of US work visas specific to Canadian and Mexican people. The question makes sense to people familiar with this type of visa. However, people not familiar with the visa can’t understand the question. Some people suggested that the question should be written to be understandable to everyone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I note that making questions universally understandable is not common practice here. Many questions here are specific to software development and the don’t explain terms such as pull requests, unit tests or scrum. Location specific questions often mention terms like &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.osha.gov/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;OSHA&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/20946/87542&quot;&gt;relieving letters&lt;/a&gt; without explication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an expectation that questions be written in a way that anyone can understand them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87542" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-07-11T18:42:42.407" LastActivityDate="2018-07-12T10:29:39.127" Title="Should questions be written for everyone to understand?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5393" CreationDate="2018-07-11T17:42:35.597" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, this should not be required. This is an international site, and people from all over the world should be able to get answers to their Workplace questions, without the additional burden of explaining their issue in a manner that people from other locations or other industries would understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, exactly what are people from other locations going to do with that explanation? For example, I am from India, I don't know the TN visa rules. &lt;strong&gt;I cannot answer that question anyway, so I will leave it to someone who can.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions here are not part of a school test. Everyone doesn't need to attempt to answer every question. We are working together as a community to provide good answers. We should cover each other's blind spots, and not get into a contest to see who answers maximum questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-07-12T10:29:39.127" LastActivityDate="2018-07-12T10:29:39.127" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5393" CreationDate="2018-07-11T20:06:37.373" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a similar situation over on Mi Yodeya, where discussions of Jewish law can involve a lot of jargon, some of which is hard to translate into English or would require a lot of explanation.  The &lt;a href=&quot;https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1607/472&quot;&gt;policy&lt;/a&gt; we arrived at derives from one key point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will any English speaker who is interested in this content be able to understand what it means without additional research?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With these followup points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't use non-English terms gratuitously. If there's an English term that conveys your meaning smoothly, just use it. (But there won't always be one.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you use a non-English or specialized term that your readers might not know, define it the first time or link to a definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Terms that anyone who may be interested in the content would know are fine by themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That last bullet, and &amp;quot;who is interested in this content&amp;quot; in the summary, are key points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest we take a similar approach here.  According to such a policy, we don't have to explain every detail, every technical matter involving visa types or relieving letters or Dutch security clearances or whatever, &lt;em&gt;but&lt;/em&gt; a question must contain enough information for people &lt;em&gt;interested in that topic&lt;/em&gt; to understand it.  It's still better to link to a reference or definition when possible, but you don't need to explain the whole US visa system to ask your question about Canadian work permits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is more or less what we do now, but as far as I know we've never codified it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-07-11T20:06:37.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5396" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5397" CreationDate="2018-07-12T10:30:40.697" Score="2" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about my The Workplace Stack Exchange post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/115645/how-to-deal-with-the-persons-whose-actions-delays-in-taking-decision&quot;&gt;How to deal with the persons whose actions delays in taking decision?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As soon as I posted this question, I started receiving down votes and got opinion based and rude comments. I don't understand. why? my question was not that bad or inappropriate. In other stackexchange accounts, for example in ELL and English, if anybody given a rude comments, within few hours that would get deleted. But in workplace it didn't happen. why is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question reduced my reputation here. I am sure my question was not that bad to get negative votes of this size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I get some clarity on whats gone wrong with my question? and why the people reacted personally?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82198" LastEditorUserId="82198" LastEditDate="2018-07-12T10:37:35.850" LastActivityDate="2018-07-12T11:33:46.447" Title="I don't understand what is wrong in my question and why the comments are given opinion based and rude?" Tags="|support|specific-question|comments|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5396" CreationDate="2018-07-12T11:08:47.993" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We cannot be certain why people downvoted your post, but if I had to take an educated guess, it was because &lt;strong&gt;they perceived your post as a rant rather than trying to solve a problem&lt;/strong&gt;. Using phrases like &lt;em&gt;&quot;ignorant people&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&quot;his ... supporting reasons ... which is actually not acceptable by me&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&quot;It is common character of most of the people.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&quot;they don't correct their mistakes at all.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;Always They will use this strategy and escape from their faults.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; doesn't help your case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;rude&quot; comments did not get deleted because either (1) nobody flagged them for deletion and/or (2) they were not rude. &lt;s&gt;You seem to be blaming the site for not deleting comments. &lt;strong&gt;Did &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; flag the comments?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/s&gt; – &lt;em&gt;My mistake, I didn't realize you didn't have the reputation to flag.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have now &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/115645/9&quot;&gt;edited your post&lt;/a&gt; to focus on your actual issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-07-12T11:33:46.447" LastActivityDate="2018-07-12T11:33:46.447" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5341" CreationDate="2018-07-12T18:50:24.623" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not been active in this community, but I can feel what the OP feel, and appreciate everything the OP has contributed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32543" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-07-18T12:15:44.477" LastActivityDate="2018-07-18T12:15:44.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5399" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-16T18:23:48.157" Score="1" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have finally achieved a snark-free chat in the watercooler and soon hope to see a great influx of users who were put off by snark in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This achievement could not have come about without recent events and the help of those who took an interest in making this happen.  Some had previously spent little time here, others had been on extended leave.  The end result, however is unquestionable.  Snark has been reduced to nothing, or nearly so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we have yet to see the promised engagement of those who helped to bring this about, I am certain that we will see the success that other places who have employed the same strategies have experienced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is my sincerest hope that those who helped bring this change about, get to enjoy it to it's fullest.  So please, come to our new improved chat at the watercooler and see what you've been missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-08-05T14:30:05.083" Title="Snark has been eliminated in chat" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5370" CreationDate="2018-07-17T01:54:55.440" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just proceeded to do the burnination with retagging. Now &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/onboarding&quot;&gt;onboarding&lt;/a&gt; has 0 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0jYoR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-07-17T02:00:12.310" LastActivityDate="2018-07-17T02:00:12.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5401" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-17T07:24:40.050" Score="4" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some time ago, I have asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/115523/how-to-provide-feedback-about-an-unprofessional-manager-during-the-exit-intervie&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which was considered by the community a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/14921/how-much-should-i-say-in-an-exit-interview&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My feeling is that the referenced question is too broad as it provides very little context information and any question about a subject (with next to nothing context) that has an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_interview&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; is probably too broad for a SE site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have little experience with Workplace, but I have seen that similar questions are closed on Politics or SO because those communities want more targeted questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are such broad questions OK for Workplace? They are not that useful as a more targeted questions on the same matter and can be easily used to create a duplicate stigma on other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; I have only seen on SO that some &lt;em&gt;offtopic&lt;/em&gt; question are locked/closed and a special note specifies that they are kept for historical reasons only and should not be used as a reference about what an on-topic question is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62493" LastEditorUserId="62493" LastEditDate="2018-07-17T13:17:02.060" LastActivityDate="2018-07-17T13:17:02.060" Title="Broad questions create duplicates for more targeted questions (same topic)" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5402" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5403" CreationDate="2018-07-17T09:50:30.070" Score="4" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a delicate area, I suppose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone asked about contracting in the UK for the first time. I gave a well received answer (currently 16 upvotes) with a bunch of details, but said that the OP should consult some professionals (accountant, tax advisor, financial consultant, employment agent).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't want to publish their contact details because 1) I suspect that would be against the rules, and 2) I would have to contact them all to get their permission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I said that if the OP posted an email address (temporary, if he wants to avoid spam), I would email him the contact details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone suggested an &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/74189&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; to remove that part of my answer, I would &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;guess&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to keep all info on SE, rather than in private email outside of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't feel strongly, though lean towards helping the OP, and am simply asking for clarification as to how I can best do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20979" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-07-17T10:30:23.263" LastActivityDate="2018-07-18T12:04:37.873" Title="Is this offer by me to communicate outside of SE off topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5402" CreationDate="2018-07-17T10:25:37.053" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Someone suggested an edit to remove that part of my answer, I would guess to keep all info on SE, rather than in private email outside of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE does not (and cannot) prevent external communications between users. Participation is voluntary, so you are free to offer advice to users privately outside SE, even if the conversation started here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE's goal is to a build a repository of useful questions and answers. &lt;strong&gt;SE expects answers to be self-contained and clutter-free&lt;/strong&gt;. The sentence asking the OP to contact you via email doesn't add anything to the answer. When answering questions, we should balance helping the OP with being helpful to the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What you should do instead&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is nothing wrong with wanting to provide the OP with additional resources privately. (Thank you for not cluttering the answer by including those resources directly.) &lt;strong&gt;Use the chat room to provide &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; contact details and invite the OP to contact you.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Head over to &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;The Water Cooler&lt;/a&gt; and ping the OP.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If/when the OP responds, enter your contact details.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once the OP has noted the contact details, delete the chat message to prevent spamming. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP is not pingable, you could leave a comment on his post inviting him to the chat room, then do the above and delete the comment&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: Converting the answer to community wiki since it incorporates suggestions from Monica Cellio&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; and Dark Cygnus&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-07-18T12:04:37.873" LastActivityDate="2018-07-18T12:04:37.873" CommentCount="11" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-07-18T12:04:37.873" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5404" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5426" CreationDate="2018-07-17T16:48:16.947" Score="8" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Examples include: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/116005/i-have-absconded-from-a-reputed-company-after-7-working-days-before-signing-any&quot;&gt;I have absconded from a reputed company after 7 working days before signing any offer letter. What could be the consequences?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/114030/73791&quot;&gt;Does an assistant cook on a cruise generally require 20/20 vision?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen a bit of jumping the gun on questions which are not, in fact, duplicates, or company specific but are being closed as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It is perfectly fine to refrain from voting on a question or especially voting to close a question if you are unfamiliar with the subject matter or culture.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maritime industry standards are not employer specific and can be VERY different from country to country and trade treaties for example.  Someone with no industry experience may not know this. Additionally, what applies to IT does not apply to other parts of a workplace. We generally get away with a good deal more, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I have observed from those two examples, and another about a factory worker is a rush to close these posts from people I know are not familiar with those industries and/or cultures. (given that they've posted what industry they are in and/or have it in their profile, this is not conjecture)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should resist the urge to vote to close if we are unfamiliar with the industry or the culture. &lt;strong&gt;I wonder what the Community thinks about this situation, and what can we do to improve it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-07-17T17:29:46.160" LastActivityDate="2018-07-23T00:10:41.650" Title="Closing questions for lack of familiarity of industry/culture/nature of work" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|closing|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5404" CreationDate="2018-07-17T17:19:55.717" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to quote &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5304/73791&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; of mine (slightly adapted) on a related post, where we discussed how to be more welcoming to non-IT questions. This applies the same to questions outside our area of expertise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As an IT folk, but also a bit of a Generalist, I have developed a simple flow chart that I try to follow when navigating TWP:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;See a new Question asked &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Read it &lt;strong&gt;thoroughly&lt;/strong&gt;, perhaps even twice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is it about a topic I know/could answer or a setting I'm familiar with?&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yes&lt;/em&gt; -&gt; Proceed to edit, answer, comment or VTC -&gt; Go to 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;No&lt;/em&gt; -&gt; Stick to just edits and clarifications&lt;/strong&gt; -&gt; Go to 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Of course, if a post is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; unclear regardless of the topic one should be VTC, but personally I like to ask for clarifications first before casting my vote (if the user is not engaged or does not clarify then I cast the vote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line I too believe we should &lt;strong&gt;resist the urge to vote to close if we are unfamiliar with the industry or the culture.&lt;/strong&gt; At least try to ask for clarification first, or take a shot at an edit for improvement. Let's try to be more welcoming and not be too quick to cast your votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-07-18T16:43:22.453" LastActivityDate="2018-07-18T16:43:22.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5404" CreationDate="2018-07-17T17:59:12.750" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should proceed with a good deal of caution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's fine if something is not your area of expertise.  While bad advice is worse than no advice, preventing someone from getting advice is worse still.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed this trend in answering questions about disabilities in the workplace as well.  Not all questions about disabilities fall under &quot;You are covered by the laws in your city/country/state and therefore this is a duplicate&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To take the disabilities as an example.  In the USA we have the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act).  What some people overseas may not know (and many Americans as well) is that there are quite a few caveats to it but one need not be a lawyer to know them.  An advocate such as myself can give basic information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nor are accommodations and resources for all disabilities the same, or even the agencies that deal with disabilities.  So, an answer to go to the EEOC officer for one company might not be useful for someone with a disability where there may be other resources available, or even different agencies involved.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't mean that a question is too specific either.  While going to the EEOC officer may be fine for one person, someone who is blind should be told to go to the commission for the blind.  Someone with Autism may be directed towards OASIS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, there's even public vs private employment in the USA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Telling a factory worker to go to OSHA is fine,  but closing a question as a duplicate for a public worker at the road department would be wrong, because OSHA doesn't cover public employment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's back off a bit, eh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-07-17T17:59:12.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5407" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5408" CreationDate="2018-07-17T20:26:07.857" Score="6" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;My reputation on workplace is currently 1,986. The commenting privilege starts at 50. However, I can't comment on any questions or answers—there is no &quot;add a comment&quot; link on any of them for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this expected? Have I been explicitly denied commenting privileges? If there is some kind of problem I would appreciate the chance to hear about it and address it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5483" LastActivityDate="2018-07-18T18:09:34.927" Title="Is it expected that I cannot comment on questions or answers, having reputation 1,986?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5407" CreationDate="2018-07-17T20:46:05.760" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;there is no &quot;add a comment&quot; link on any of them for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's because currently it reads &lt;em&gt;&quot;suggest Improvements&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (on main site):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fjyNd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fjyNd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason is stated in this post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5320/73791&quot;&gt;Experiment running: a comment by any other name&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can leave comments by pressing the &lt;em&gt;&quot;suggest improvements&quot;&lt;/em&gt; link :) Just, try to stick to &lt;em&gt;what comments are for&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;That is, to suggest improvements or ask for clarification.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2018-07-18T18:09:34.927" LastActivityDate="2018-07-18T18:09:34.927" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5320" CreationDate="2018-07-17T20:54:24.067" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting situation to analyze the one that this post reveals: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5407/73791&quot;&gt;Is it expected that I cannot comment on questions or answers, having reputation 1,986?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On that post, we can read (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My reputation on workplace is currently 1,986. The commenting privilege starts at 50. However, I can't comment on any questions or answers — &lt;strong&gt;there is no &quot;add a comment&quot; link on any of them for me&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This clearly indicates that the change of wording did had an impact&lt;/strong&gt;, at least to some users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My hypotheses (I am not a psychologist, but I &lt;em&gt;am&lt;/em&gt; a keen observer) is that this user was &quot;unable to add a comment&quot;, because he was subconsciously looking for the &lt;em&gt;&quot;comment&quot;&lt;/em&gt; word; when he saw the &lt;em&gt;&quot;suggest improvements&quot;&lt;/em&gt; he ignored/skipped it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a guess from my part, but that behavior could indicate that such user was indeed &lt;em&gt;not looking to suggest improvements&lt;/em&gt; and, perhaps, was just in for the comment or discussion... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the first evident sign I see that the experiment worked to some degree; besides the stats that surely can be generated or collected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edits:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A second situation happened today with this post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5437/73791&quot;&gt;Why can I not comment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A third one happened with this new user when he asked a question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/116840/73791&quot;&gt;Resume Summary For Senior Unix Administrator&lt;/a&gt;. On the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/116840/2&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; we can see OP thought &lt;em&gt;&quot;I am editing my question because I can't reply to comments&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A fourth incident here &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/117550/73791&quot;&gt;Took serious pay cut for new job, learning NodeJS and ReactJS, how do I approach a new contract (with different company)?&lt;/a&gt; OP again though they were unable to comment... now I think we can say that this definitely had some effect (but, perhaps on new users mostly?).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fifth case where OP doesn't know how to comment in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/117938/73791&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another one, on the same day as the one above, on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/117962/73791&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;. Seems that new users are having a hard time finding a way to comment under their posts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;New case &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/118171/73791&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; also from a &quot;new contributor&quot;... I am starting to see a trend here...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-08-24T21:21:39.950" LastActivityDate="2018-08-24T21:21:39.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5410" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-18T15:36:30.963" Score="1" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/115921/being-made-redundant-but-asked-to-do-contract-work-after-finishing-how-shoul&quot;&gt;Being made redundant, but asked to do contract work after finishing -- how should I negotiate my contracting rate?&lt;/a&gt; was recently put on hold, as primarily opinion-based. However, this seems to me to be overly rigid, given the question has received 45+ up votes and the top-voted answer has received over 100.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There aren't really any hard-and-fast rules governing advice on workplace-related matters - it's not like Physics or Programming. In many cases, there isn't a right or wrong answer, and many valid/good answers are going to involve some level of opinion or personal experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the popularity of the question and that the answers seem to be helping a lot of people, should this hold decision be reconsidered? It seems to be prioritizing the letter of the rules ahead of helping people with their workplace-related issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88516" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2018-07-18T16:09:14.210" LastActivityDate="2018-07-21T14:17:36.173" Title="Was it overly rigid to put this question on hold?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5410" CreationDate="2018-07-18T16:09:25.017" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, this seems to me to be overly rigid, given the question has received 45+ up votes and the top-voted answer has received over 100.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, I think it is important to remember that &lt;strong&gt;the fact that a post has votes or not does not necessary make it on topic.&lt;/strong&gt; Regardless of the true nature of the post, its score does not excuse it if it were to be off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given the popularity of the question and that the answers seem to be helping a lot of people, should this hold decision be reconsidered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it could be reconsidered, for that purpose I recommend you post a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reopen-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reopen-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reopen-request&lt;/a&gt; question (or morph this one) if that is what you want to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even so, I'd like to point out the questions asked on that post, which seem to be in fact broad enough for some people to VTC:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How should I go about negotiating my rate to come back as a contractor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needless to say, this is clearly broad and also asking us to make a choice for OP.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any tips/suggestions for how to negotiate this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although this is more framed, still asking for &quot;any tips/suggestions&quot; could be interpreted as broad, or at least partially lacking a goal (negotiate &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;, with &lt;em&gt;what goal&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it worth trying to negotiate a 'contract rate' for this week, or just come in at my salaried rate, in order to not jeopardize the relationship?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's worth it is quite opinion-based IMHO (lol); only OP can know if it's worth for &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt;. Getting more picky, this also seems like a choice question in disguise (&lt;em&gt;Should I negotiate or come at salaried rate?&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line, even though I did not VTC that question &lt;strong&gt;I would not vote to reopen, at least not in it's current form.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-07-18T16:09:25.017" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5412" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5418" CreationDate="2018-07-18T16:46:52.573" Score="13" ViewCount="643" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/116036/how-can-i-address-a-being-paid-less-that-my-male-colleagues-with-similar-or-less&quot;&gt;How can I address a being paid less that my male colleagues with similar or lesser roles in my company?&lt;/a&gt; is closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1025/how-should-i-properly-approach-my-boss-if-im-feeling-underpaid&quot;&gt;How should I properly approach my boss if I&amp;#39;m feeling underpaid?&lt;/a&gt;.  The circumstances in the questions are so different as to require different answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The newer question is about how to deal with being paid less than you are worth when you believe being a women is effecting her pay. The other question makes no reference to gender. A compete answer to the newer question must address the question of gender discrimination. This is true even if you don’t believe that gender is an issue in this situation because the questioner does believe it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, a lot of people reacted to the newer question by asserting that gender was not a factor in the question. Closing this question assumes that those people are right and the questioner is wrong. The question shouldn't be closed based on a assumption that the questioner issues of gender discrimination are irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87542" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-07-22T04:58:31.713" LastActivityDate="2018-07-22T04:58:31.713" Title="(Done) Reopen: How can I address being paid less that my male colleagues with similar or lesser roles in my company?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5413" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-18T17:13:05.610" Score="6" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/116005/i-have-absconded-from-a-reputed-company-after-7-working-days-before-signing-any&quot;&gt;I have absconded from a reputed company after 7 working days before signing any offer letter. What could be the consequences?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was obviously not a duplicate, not legal advice that couldn't be handled by someone with simple HR level knowledge, and appears to have been closed for nothing more than a lack of knowledge of India.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please reopen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-07-18T17:18:54.777" LastActivityDate="2018-07-19T15:36:40.393" Title="Reopen question: Absconded from a reputed company after 7 days" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5412" CreationDate="2018-07-18T17:25:50.600" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I did not VTC, I will not vote to reopen on the following grounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The newer question is about how to deal with being paid less than you are worth when you &lt;strong&gt;believe&lt;/strong&gt; being a women is effecting her pay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emphasis on the word &lt;strong&gt;belive&lt;/strong&gt; being mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP presents no evidence of her gender being a factor other than stating that others are being paid more.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The solution to the OP's post is the same.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the accepted answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When asking for a raise you want to highlight your benefit to the company.&#xA;   Some things to consider are:&#xA;  •What major projects have you lead/contributed to?&#xA;  •What major business goals have you helped the company achieve?&#xA;  •What roles are you currently playing in the company?&#xA;   (you mention a few, but when talking to your boss you want to be able to concretely say you're dong the work of X people/roles)&#xA;  •Have you helped the company make (or save) a substantial amount of money recently?&#xA;  •What specific job responsibilities have been added to your workload&#xA;   (Again you mention that as people have left you've inherited their work. Quantify this and update your job description to show the new work you're doing).&#xA;  •Has any work been taken away from you?&#xA;   (you mention you fill a management role - can you now delegate some of your original job responsibility?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer is a valid solution for the OP, without any support for her assertion that it is discrimination we can't advise past what the duplicate suggests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2018-07-18T20:14:23.953" LastActivityDate="2018-07-18T20:14:23.953" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5410" CreationDate="2018-07-18T21:32:07.207" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Popularity is not in any way an indication of question quality or whether it's on-topic. Frankly, if there were a link, I would argue that it's negatively correlated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There aren't really any hard-and-fast rules governing advice on workplace-related matters - it's not like Physics or Programming. In many cases, there isn't a right or wrong answer, and many valid/good answers are going to involve some level of opinion or personal experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, but we do have rules regarding what questions you can ask and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to ask good questions. And they exist because sometimes questions are either too specific or too broad, or might otherwise be impossible to answer properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given the popularity of the question and that the answers seem to be helping a lot of people, should this hold decision be reconsidered? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not for that reason no, as per the above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It seems to be prioritizing the letter of the rules ahead of helping people with their workplace-related issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, because that's Stack Exchange's mission statement. This site is a Q&amp;amp;A repository, not a self-help group or advice column. Strictly speaking the help that answers provide to the single original author is incidental to the main goal of provide answers and advice for those that follow. That means that any question that isn't at least somewhat generalisable is off-topic. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/254770/what-is-stack-overflow-s-goal/255019#255019&quot;&gt;This answer on the SO meta&lt;/a&gt; covers that in more detail. (The entire thread there is worth reading to learn more about the network.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this meta question comes up every so often, but I can't seem to find a decent main thread to link to. Also note that I haven't actually looked at the question that prompted this. At gnat's recommendation you may want to check &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3582/what-is-a-proper-question-for-workplace/3583#3583&quot;&gt;my answer on a related question&lt;/a&gt; where I outline the criteria I see for good (or at least answerable) questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2018-07-19T10:19:21.690" LastActivityDate="2018-07-19T10:19:21.690" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5412" CreationDate="2018-07-19T09:20:49.387" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was no assertion in the comments that gender was not an issue, only that gender was not &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP did not provide evidence that gender discrimination was at play. Nevertheless the OP &lt;em&gt;believed&lt;/em&gt; it was the case, so any answers must address that, even if to point out the opposite (as they have).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose we leave it open because, if nothing else, it shows what G.D does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; look like, which can serve as future reference to similar questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastActivityDate="2018-07-19T09:20:49.387" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5413" CreationDate="2018-07-19T15:36:40.393" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recent trend of close-voting notwithstanding, that question does seem to be more legal in nature than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The stated question, &lt;em&gt;What can I do to minimize my risk in this situation&lt;/em&gt; is, despite &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/116005/7&quot;&gt;Monica Cellio's efforts&lt;/a&gt;, still strongly legal in tone although it doesn't use the word &lt;em&gt;liability&lt;/em&gt;. The accepted answer doesn't mention reprecautions with future employers and only addresses OP's legal risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is closed because of a lack of knowledge of India, specifically, Indian law. For these reasons I would recommend it's shipped over to Law.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastActivityDate="2018-07-19T15:36:40.393" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5412" CreationDate="2018-07-19T16:27:14.260" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whether gender actually &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; an issue is irrelevant.  The OP believes it is, and that will inform how she approaches the problem.  We have plenty of questions about bad managers, problem coworkers, and so on, and we don't go around closing them because that's just the OP's &lt;em&gt;opinion&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People come here with questions.  Those questions have contexts.  We need to pay attention to context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the question about what to do if you're feeling underpaid is &lt;em&gt;very related&lt;/em&gt;, this question is different in an important way.  Look at the answers on the current question; they don't work on the other question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question should remain open.  (It's been closed and reopened once already.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-07-19T16:27:14.260" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5419" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-19T21:05:58.510" Score="9" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen to many, and the answers all seem to be restricted to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;seek legal advice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;File an ADA action&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They can't do that&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact there are far more options.  The first two are impractical, the third is worthless, and the last shouldn't always be the only viable answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be bad form if I asked a question, knowing the different options?  Now, this wouldn't be a hypothetical, but something that actually happened to me.  I also didn't know any better at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question to the community is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I post a question like this, and include some answers of my own if we don't get broad feedback?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-07-19T22:17:29.007" LastActivityDate="2018-07-20T02:38:06.520" Title="Would it be appropriate for me to post some questions or answers about disabilities in the workplace?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5419" CreationDate="2018-07-19T22:16:17.677" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should I post a question like this, and include some answers of my own if we don't get broad feedback?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't see why not&lt;/strong&gt;, even more given the fact that &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/07/01/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/&quot;&gt;It is ok to ask and answer your own questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When writing a post you even have the option to do so: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S6CUQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S6CUQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We even have the &lt;strong&gt;self-learner&lt;/strong&gt; badge, rewarding users for adding valuable answers to their own question(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd say it's perfectly fine to do so. Not only will you be sharing your expertise and knowledge regarding those topics, but will also be generating valuable questions that any other user with experience in the matter can contribute. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, IMHO, is aligned with the goal of SE of becoming a repository of high-quality Q&amp;amp;A's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-07-19T22:16:17.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5419" CreationDate="2018-07-20T02:38:06.520" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As DarkCygnus &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5420/325&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;, self-answers are fine and baked into the system.  One specific point: I'll bet you have some useful information to share that is specific to certain disabilities.  Please do that!  General questions are fine when they're really general, but some disabilities lead to specialized problems, and those questions need some love too.  For example, you'll find some questions related to visual disabilities on the site already (mostly about lighting), and if we don't already have a question about handling large meetings with a hearing disability, that would be a valuable addition.  Mobility limitations pose their own kinds of problems (it's not just about ramps and curb cuts).  I don't know enough about autism to suggest focus areas there, but somebody does.  Etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-07-20T02:38:06.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5422" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5423" CreationDate="2018-07-20T16:03:40.490" Score="8" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/60715/security-clearances-and-travel&quot;&gt;this question today&lt;/a&gt;, and I am flabbergasted at the reason for closing the question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Security clearances are permitted by and obtained from the US Government.  Companies have little involvement in the process.  This is a fair and reasonable question I've heard asked in a variety of forms by fellow applicants over the years, and it applies to anyone who will ever apply for security clearance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7553" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-07-20T23:13:49.820" LastActivityDate="2018-07-20T23:13:49.820" Title="(Done) Why is any question about security clearance closed as &quot;Legal Advice&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5422" CreationDate="2018-07-20T16:33:07.123" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that the question is neither company-specific nor asking for legal advice. I suspect the sentence &lt;em&gt;&quot;I am not sure what level of clearance I will need for the job.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; made it seem job-specific. I have removed that sentence, added the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-states&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-states&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-states&lt;/a&gt; tag (based on Monica's answer and your explanation here), and made some other edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;I won't cast the binding reopen vote, but if it gets 4 reopen votes, I will cast the 5th one.&lt;/s&gt; Question has been reopened now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="3192" LastEditDate="2018-07-20T17:40:48.497" LastActivityDate="2018-07-20T17:40:48.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5422" CreationDate="2018-07-20T16:45:44.010" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is exactly what I've been railing against.  &quot;I don't understand it, so it must be off topic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might not surprise people, but I know about security clearances as well.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voted to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-07-20T16:45:44.010" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5410" CreationDate="2018-07-21T14:17:36.173" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the question should be re-opened (but may need re-wording).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was put on hold on the grounds that it is 'primarily opinion-based'. Lilienthal's answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3583/88516&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; gives the best objective criteria I have found for when a question should be considered 'too opinion-based':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not Opinion-based&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a tricky one and the one that's most up for interpretation. Variations on &amp;quot;Will this improve my chances?&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;What do X think about Y?&amp;quot; are likely all opinion-based. The main criteria is whether there's a &amp;quot;standard opinion&amp;quot; for a particular culture/industry/area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance &amp;quot;Will coming in late affect my career?&amp;quot; could be seen as being opinion-based as some managers will care and some won't. However, in the US and many European countries being late to work (without flexible hours) will negatively affect your reputation in virtually every company. In other countries that's much less of a problem. When properly defined a question like this can be answerable and useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key point seems to be whether there is a &lt;em&gt;standard opinion&lt;/em&gt; that relates to the matter being asked about. In the case of this specific question ('&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/115921/being-made-redundant-but-asked-to-do-contract-work-after-finishing-how-shoul&quot;&gt;How should I negotiate a contacting rate?&lt;/a&gt;'), there seems to be a level of consensus in the answers that indicates there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a standard opinion on this: the contracting rate for a particular job should be some significant multiple (3-4x) of the hourly rate for a full-time employee doing the same job. Therefore, this question does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; seem to fit the criteria given in the quote above for 'too opinion-based'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DarkCygnus, in their answer, suggested that the question might also be interpreted as &lt;em&gt;too broad&lt;/em&gt;. I agree that the way it is written, in some places, does give that impression. However, I don't think the underlying question of 'how do I calculate a contracting rate?' is too broad - many good answers have been given that address the question within a length that is appropriately succinct for SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps if I were to edit the question to make it less broad, it might be a candidate for re-opening? The fundamental question of how to calculate a contracting rate for a job seems to be a good question for the site and could potentially help many people in future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-07-21T14:17:36.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5404" CreationDate="2018-07-23T00:10:41.650" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should give the question a chance. I skip questions I don't know about and come back to them later or just make a comment for clarification. But I rarely vote to close anyway, usually that is done very quickly by the same people. Sometimes I wonder if they actually made an attempt to understand the question first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-07-23T00:10:41.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5427" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5428" CreationDate="2018-07-23T06:49:56.230" Score="0" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/116008/confront-the-manager-in-a-constructive-safe-manner-about-lack-of-work&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; as an anonymous user (as can be seen).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Now I want to reward &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/88183/ertai87&quot;&gt;Ertai87&lt;/a&gt; for his answer that acted like a clear wake up call to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the question was (incorrectly) flagged as a duplicate after another question and I can't see where is the &quot;start a bounty&quot; button. I think it's because the question is closed but I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anyway I can still award a bounty on that question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90357" LastActivityDate="2018-07-23T07:52:18.173" Title="How to award bounty on a dupe question?" Tags="|support|specific-question|duplicates|bounty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5427" CreationDate="2018-07-23T06:55:01.480" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there anyway I can still award a bounty on that question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I'm afraid not. Closed questions cannot receive a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;help page&lt;/a&gt; doesn't specify this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2018-07-23T06:55:01.480" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5427" CreationDate="2018-07-23T07:52:18.173" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, the question was (incorrectly) flagged as a duplicate after another question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To expand Lilienthal's comment (and give it a little more visibility): If you believe the question was incorrectly closed, make a meta post with the tag &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/reopen-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reopen-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reopen-request&lt;/a&gt; and explain why you think the question should be reopened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will either convince the community and the question will get reopened, or you will receive a better explanation of why the question was closed. In the latter case, you will have more information to work with while editing your question, if you choose to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-07-23T07:52:18.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5430" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5431" CreationDate="2018-07-23T12:01:48.160" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/116219/&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; has been closed as primarily opinion based. It's asking for advice on how to set professional boundaries, which I fail to see how it falls under &lt;em&gt;bad subjective&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;primarily opinion based&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastEditorUserId="9549" LastEditDate="2018-07-23T13:34:26.123" LastActivityDate="2018-07-23T13:34:26.123" Title="(Done) Reopen: Is it ok for me to spend all day working for a prospective employer as part of the interview process" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5430" CreationDate="2018-07-23T13:34:17.077" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastActivityDate="2018-07-23T13:34:17.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5432" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-23T19:43:32.470" Score="5" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I edit a question with Chrome v67 tags edits display:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tZUw6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tZUw6.png&quot; alt=&quot;tags justified to far left&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happens every time for me on this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/116355/16&quot;&gt;How do I communicate to a problem employee that they are being moved to a field office?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first 3 tags are not visible while editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2018-07-23T19:50:23.177" LastActivityDate="2018-07-23T19:50:23.177" Title="Tag display issue while editing a question" Tags="|bug|tags|editing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5433" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-25T13:21:29.233" Score="0" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/102881&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was closed as &lt;em&gt;seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies&lt;/em&gt;. I see nothing in the body of that question that is specific to that company, or that refers to a policy specific to that company, or that is in any way legal in nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is from 2017 . If you're wondering why we should bother, it's because we close old questions as our standards evolve, so we might as well open old questions for the same reason. Doesn't mean we have to go on a crusade, but doesn't hurt to point them out when we find them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastEditorUserId="9549" LastEditDate="2018-07-25T13:26:38.317" LastActivityDate="2018-07-26T15:56:10.167" Title="Reopen: New manager directly emailing team from personal email, yet they do not start for 3 months" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5434" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5435" CreationDate="2018-07-25T20:37:43.353" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/116470/how-to-tell-employer-im-interviewing-but-dont-plan-to-leave&quot;&gt;How to Tell Employer I&amp;#39;m Interviewing But Don&amp;#39;t Plan to Leave&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THIS^^^^^^&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has been closed as a duplicate of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1810/should-i-go-to-an-interview-i-dont-intend-to-accept-the-job-if-offered&quot;&gt;Should I go to an interview I don&amp;#39;t intend to accept the job (if offered)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THIS^^^^^^&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are absolutely not duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former is a question as to whether the user should notify his employer that he's going to go on an interview, when he is not going to take the job.  The latter is about whether or not the user should go on an interview if he doesn't intend to take the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no way the issues are the same.  The latter is about whether or not he'd burn bridges with the company he's interviewing with, the former is about damaging relations with his present employer if he goes on an interview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issues are in no way related.  I.E. the latter will in no way shape or form jeopardize his employment, where the former will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;ONLY&lt;/strong&gt; thing these two posts have in common is going on an interview and not taking the job if offered.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers to either are entirely unrelated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-07-25T22:03:21.710" Title="Please reopen &quot;How to tell Employer I'm interviewing but don't plan to leave&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5434" CreationDate="2018-07-25T22:03:21.710" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed; those are definitely two different questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's reopened now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-07-25T22:03:21.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5433" CreationDate="2018-07-26T15:56:10.167" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yup, I reread it and &lt;strong&gt;still find it broad and dependent on the company&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see that someone even casted a vote to delete. I won't cast vote to delete, but won't cast vote to reopen also on it's current state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-07-26T15:56:10.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5437" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5438" CreationDate="2018-07-27T19:17:26.130" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to add a comment to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/116571/new-job-no-task-assigned-yet&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, but found only &quot;suggest improvements&quot; and &quot;show all comments&quot; links; none for adding new comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This appears to be a new thing. I'm not 100% sure, because I may be confusing it with other stacks where I &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; comment and may just not have noticed that I can't do that &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;. Why though?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seem to have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;sufficient reputation to have earned the privilege&lt;/a&gt;; have I done something to have it revoked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32713" LastActivityDate="2018-07-27T19:20:15.383" Title="Why can I not comment?" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-07-27T22:44:01.420" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5437" CreationDate="2018-07-27T19:20:15.383" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comment button has been renamed in an attempt to encourage more appropriate use of the comments system for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please see this Meta thread for more information&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5320/experiment-running-a-comment-by-any-other-name&quot;&gt;Experiment running: a comment by any other name&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-07-27T19:20:15.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5440" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-30T13:03:59.550" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/99374/28989&quot;&gt;How do I tell my boss that he may be underestimating how much work/cost my project entails?&lt;/a&gt; asked in September 2017 was marked as a duplicate of this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/116519/28989&quot;&gt;As a developer; Not getting time to test, receiving extreme deadlines and not being listened to by the manager&lt;/a&gt; asked in July 2018.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely this is backwards? Is it appropriate to mark an old question as a duplicate of a just asked question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28989" LastActivityDate="2018-07-30T14:52:53.690" Title="Marking the older question as the duplicate" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5441" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-30T13:11:37.607" Score="31" ViewCount="860" Body="&lt;p&gt;I decided recently to try to participate more on Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It turns out to be not so easy.  You've got to be quick on the draw to so much as answer a question before it gets closed for dubious reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/116193/offer-letter-gives-different-commission-structure-than-talked-about-in-interview&quot;&gt;Offer letter gives different commission structure than talked about in interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have been appropriate to close this as a duplicate of some other question asking whether to sign a contract that doesn't contain what was ostensibly agreed upon.  But to close this as &quot;off-topic&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Questions asking for advice on a specific choice, such as what job to take or what skills to learn, are difficult to answer objectively and are rarely useful for anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the principle &quot;Don't sign a contract hoping it won't be enforced as written&quot; is going to be useful for just about anybody, not just the asker here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/116234/ethics-of-replaying-a-failed-financial-transaction&quot;&gt;Ethics of replaying a failed financial transaction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should be directed to legal professionals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the closers so much as &lt;em&gt;read&lt;/em&gt; the question?  It asks about the &lt;em&gt;ethics&lt;/em&gt; of replaying a failed financial transaction.  It's right there in the title!  Or did they think it was company-specific, as though this is something only one company could ever do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/115115/could-the-idiom-what-are-you-up-to-be-considered-offensive-in-the-emails&quot;&gt;Could the idiom &amp;quot; What are you up to?&amp;quot; be considered offensive in the emails?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At worst, this isn't on topic because it should go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;English Language &amp;amp; Usage&lt;/a&gt;.  But that's not why it was closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So on second thought, forget English Language &amp;amp; Usage; that whole board should be closed, as any time you ask people about how a language works or what things mean, you're going to get opinions.  But if a variety of people agree that something had an intended meaning and about what that meaning is, can you still call the question &quot;opinion-based&quot;?  These are opinions based on experience with the language, which are thus informative to the questioner and others without a native-level mastery of English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/114649/my-job-didnt-inform-me-the-hospital-called-to-tell-me-my-husband-was-admitted&quot;&gt;My job didn&amp;#39;t inform me the hospital called to tell me my husband was admitted. Can I take action against them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should be directed to legal professionals.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point I get the impression that the closers of this board think that any question which &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be interpreted as asking for legal advice &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; be so interpreted.  At least I'm assuming that's the reason, because there's clearly nothing company-specific here.  It describes a situation that could arise at any company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are more examples.  (Of the most recent 30 questions on this board, one-third have been closed.)  I noticed these because I answered them...and then they got closed for reasons that make me wonder whether the closers even read the questions, let alone the answers that had already been supplied.  Three of the four had positive votes, meaning people found them useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do people get points for closing an ostensibly bad question?  What is the incentive here?  I don't understand the zealotry people display in telling others that their question was crap.  (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5341/the-time-has-come-to-say-goodbye&quot;&gt;And I'm not the only one.&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1602" LastEditorDisplayName="user1602" LastEditDate="2018-07-30T15:03:33.077" LastActivityDate="2018-08-13T13:30:16.407" Title="The Question-Close Police" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5441" CreationDate="2018-07-30T13:39:22.283" Score="32" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't understand the zealotry people display in telling others that&#xA;  their question was crap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are varied reasons why some folks vote to close so aggressively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some seem to enjoy being one of the first few to vote. Some folks never ask any questions, seldom provide any answers, yet are very quick on the voting trigger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others seem to catch a flavor of a rule (&quot;Legal = No&quot;), then want to find ways to enforce that rule any way they can - even if the rule doesn't actually fit the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others just seem to follow the lead of others. When they see a vote, they chime in with a vote as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some are just trying to keep the site clean in the ways they are told they can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As a side note, it's not hard to see that a small group of members seem to do a high percentage of the close voting. I wonder if there is a query that could be run which analyzes this clustering of close votes [without naming any name]?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, there are far too many close votes on this site and the site suffers for it. I always err on the side of leaving questions open, or editing the question to keep it viable whenever possible. I tend to downvote poor questions, but not vote to close them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been discussed many times before. For good or for bad, this has been going on since the site was started, and seems unlikely to change. Sadly, if you want to continue here, you may just have to learn to tolerate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I've decided that I will look at closed questions, edit those that I think deserve to be edited, vote to re-open those that I think deserve to be open, and leave a comment to that effect. Maybe it will make a difference. Maybe the site will seem a bit friendlier because of it. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO JOIN ME AND HELP!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2018-08-04T19:27:30.517" LastActivityDate="2018-08-04T19:27:30.517" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5441" CreationDate="2018-07-30T13:42:26.227" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/116193/offer-letter-gives-different-commission-structure-than-talked-about-in-interview&quot;&gt;Offer letter gives different commission structure than talked about in interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is &lt;strong&gt;CLEARLY&lt;/strong&gt; off topic.  Any question that asks us to make a decision for the OP is off topic, &lt;strong&gt;PERIOD&lt;/strong&gt;  We are not an advice column.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/116234/ethics-of-replaying-a-failed-financial-transaction&quot;&gt;Ethics of replaying a failed financial transaction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should not have been closed for that reason.  Voted to reopen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/115115/could-the-idiom-what-are-you-up-to-be-considered-offensive-in-the-emails&quot;&gt;Could the idiom &amp;quot; What are you up to?&amp;quot; be considered offensive in the emails?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agreed, voted to reopen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last one could use an edit, and I voted to reopen it as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see questions closed that you feel should not have been, do just what you did here:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BRING THEM TO OUR ATTENTION&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question being closed doesn't mean it has to stay closed.  It may have been closed in error, need an edit, or a combination of the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best protection we have against some members of the community being too zealous is other members of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2018-07-30T14:43:29.090" LastActivityDate="2018-07-30T14:43:29.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5441" CreationDate="2018-07-30T14:30:34.047" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Stack Exchange model provides users access to certain moderation tools at a specific reputation threshold.  The idea is that these users understand the SE and through their contributions have earned the priviledge of being able to help curate the site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A big threshold is the ability to vote to Close a question.  It takes 5 people to close a question and 5 more people to reopen.  Each person can only vote one time to close.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That you do not like that some people are using their close votes does not provide for you to be disresepectful of their use of the close vote.  Argue the merits of each question rather than making ad-hominim attacks on the people using their voting privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditDate="2018-08-10T15:16:52.070" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T15:16:52.070" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5440" CreationDate="2018-07-30T14:52:53.690" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it appropriate to mark an old question as a duplicate of a just&#xA;  asked question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe we should keep the best question open without regard to if it is the newest or oldest or somewhere in between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are no rules regarding which of two questions must be marked as the duplicate. People are free to choose whichever they like. They can choose the newest, or the least comprehensive, or the one they just don't happen to like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2018-07-30T14:52:53.690" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5441" CreationDate="2018-07-30T21:15:34.817" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If people put as much energy into editing questions as they did either lamenting or defending the number of closed questions on The Workplace, we'd have a lot fewer closed questions and a lot more happy users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Failing that, try to change the site on/off topic rules via meta. The first question explicitly is asking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So should sign the letter anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is 100% this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Questions asking for advice on a specific choice, such as what job to take or what skills to learn, are difficult to answer objectively and are rarely useful for anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, what you could have done was edit the question to remove the &quot;should I do?&quot; and actually write the question your answer addresses, which is basically, &quot;How can I reconcile an offer letter which differs from what was talked about in the interview?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However in my experience here, nearly no one is willing to do this sort of edit. So... I guess the meta wars about &quot;we close too many questions!&quot; will continue ad nauseam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2018-07-30T21:15:34.817" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5441" CreationDate="2018-08-01T17:28:29.247" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is a tension between to goals of different people on this site. Some long time contributors see this site as a effort to build a corpus of great questions and answers. They protect the site from duplicate and low quality questions which they see as detracting from the site. These people also have a dislike of questions which require an opinion to answer because these questions can’t have a correct answer. Others see the site as a place where people can help others who have questions. They are much more accepting of vague questions or questions which require an opinion because they see good answers as including an opinion based on experience. This is overly binary, however, this simplification can help understand some of the dynamics on this site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People who frequent this site often talk about putting questions on hold as part of a process in which the questions can be improved. A new person who asks a question doesn’t experience this. What they experience is asking a question, having it quickly shutdown with a boilerplate explanation which provides very little guidance relevant to their specific question. If you lean towards wanting to help people then this should concern you. People who vote to close a question should in most cases provide an explanation in the comments. If this doesn’t happen others should do it for them, or vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many questions are closed as duplicates because the general issues are the same, however, the context is different. This can be explained by the desire to create a corpus of canonical answers. I believe this is often a mistake. Taken out of context many questions have obvious answers. However, it is the context that makes it hard for the questioner to reach the answer by themselves. We should provide answers which address the context as well as the underlying question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize my opinion will be discounted here since I haven’t achieved the score necessary to vote to close yet. Perhaps some people will appreciate the perspective of a relative newcomer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87542" LastEditorUserId="87542" LastEditDate="2018-08-07T01:11:04.030" LastActivityDate="2018-08-07T01:11:04.030" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5441" CreationDate="2018-08-01T18:11:47.303" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can only speak for myself, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why do I vote to close &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get rid of &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; questions (specifically the ones that are considered  inappropriate according to site rules, i.e. those that are off-topic, too broad, opinion-based or unclear), in order to make the &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; ones easier to find, to improve the overall quality of the site, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing doesn't actually do &lt;em&gt;that much&lt;/em&gt; to get rid of questions (even for those that don't get reopened), but &lt;s&gt;it's easy enough to convince myself that I'm helping&lt;/s&gt; I can only use what I've got.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why do I vote to close &lt;em&gt;so much&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because there are so many questions that need closing, basically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're wondering about a specific close vote of mine, you'll need to ask about that specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm probably more critical than I used to be, and you can probably find at least &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; reasons for that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/251771/1711796&quot;&gt;some place&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/252077/1711796&quot;&gt;or another&lt;/a&gt;. Although this doesn't mean my reasons for voting to close are bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why don't I edit instead?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote to close instead of editing when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can't see an edit that will make the question appropriate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think the edit will deviate too much from the asker's intent for me to make it (instead of the author) - it generally makes more sense (to me) to just close the question instead of potentially getting into an argument with the author, and/or everyone else, about the fact that I pretty much rewrote their question to make it appropriate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I just don't think the question is useful enough to put in the effort.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Others may think the original question is fine. Editing is a one-man show, closing requires 5, and reopening seems like a more natural part of the daily grind than reverting edits - I'd see having an edit reverted as a black mark, whereas I don't really care if people reopen a question I closed or helped close (apart from the general frustration that we can't all agree on stuff).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't have the time or inclination to edit it right now. Rewriting a question is hard work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why don't I comment instead to explain what's wrong with the question or suggest improvements?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often do, in addition to voting to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although such comments are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ignored.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moved to chat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Redundant with the close reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not how you get rid of a bad question (whether through fixing or go-away-ism).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-08-13T13:30:16.407" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5449" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5450" CreationDate="2018-08-02T13:50:57.813" Score="0" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did I get yesterday &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/90802/j-doe?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;239 rep&lt;/a&gt; for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/116756/how-can-i-protect-myself-from-fallout-with-my-employer-over-my-political-blog&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; I asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the daily maximum rep you can get is only 200 (apart from few exceptions like when you get your answer accepted or when you get a bounty), or am I mistaken?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90802" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2018-08-03T05:34:47.273" LastActivityDate="2018-08-03T05:34:47.273" Title="Why did I get more than 200 rep in one day?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5449" CreationDate="2018-08-02T14:01:03.510" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You received a 100 rep association bonus yesterday for joining the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the &quot;reputation&quot; tab on your own &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/90802/j-doe&quot;&gt;profile screen&lt;/a&gt; and you'll see the break-down of where your rep comes from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5kcU5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5kcU5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See, you got the Association bonus yesterday and a bunch of upticks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also get over 200 per day if you get a tagged answer (15 per answer) or you receive a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;What is reputation and how can I earn it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can earn a maximum of 200 reputation per day from the combination of upvotes, downvotes and suggested edits. But Bounty awards, accepted answers, and association bonuses are not subject to this daily reputation limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2018-08-02T15:23:04.383" LastActivityDate="2018-08-02T15:23:04.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5441" CreationDate="2018-08-02T14:35:31.947" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do people get points for closing an ostensibly bad question? What is the incentive here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have thought long and hard about this and think I have it worked out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No points worth speaking of for close votes so by my analysis apart from the legit closures (around 75 percent including edge cases) the other reasons are:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PMS, bad day, withdrawal symptoms, drunk, high on something, and a very small percentage of pure evil and perhaps a smidgen of roid rage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do they actually read it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's obvious that many people just skim a question before voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2018-08-12T13:28:30.197" LastActivityDate="2018-08-12T13:28:30.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5399" CreationDate="2018-08-03T17:35:10.910" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reality is it's still the &lt;em&gt;same ole water cooler&lt;/em&gt; with the removal of the tolerance of allowing folks to misbehave.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will likely always be a light does of snark, &lt;em&gt;as it introduces a bit of humor&lt;/em&gt;, but we cannot just be mean and assume the water cooler is our own individual sounding board.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The water cooler belongs to the community as a whole, but if it loses its ability to have fun, well frankly it will end up a &lt;strong&gt;shell of its former self&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2018-08-05T14:30:05.083" LastActivityDate="2018-08-05T14:30:05.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5454" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5462" CreationDate="2018-08-10T12:29:12.370" Score="2" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is going on with the up tick of deleting comments?  To be specific, I am not talking about comments that should be deleted such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great answer +1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What a dumb question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go fly a kite, I cannot believe you think that way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am talking about comments where you are adding valuable input to the user, whom we are (&lt;strong&gt;at least I am&lt;/strong&gt;) here to help, that doesn't &lt;em&gt;directly&lt;/em&gt; answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I have been helped by &lt;strong&gt;many&lt;/strong&gt; comments during my time here that did not directly answer my question by some of our highest ranking members.  I simply don't get the need or desire to police useful comments so &lt;strong&gt;hard&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site suffers because of it IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2018-08-10T18:55:08.907" LastActivityDate="2018-08-16T14:03:10.157" Title="Recent increase in comment deletion?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5454" CreationDate="2018-08-10T13:49:41.030" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;See related Meta question here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5388/why-do-we-want-to-fix-comments&quot;&gt;Why do &amp;quot;we&amp;quot; want to &amp;quot;fix&amp;quot; comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pretty clear when you add a comment/suggestion what the intention is - asking for clarification or adding additional information.  This isn't just for TWP, it's site-wide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, we remove comments that:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer the question (hint text explicitly tells people not to do this)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+1 for saying &quot;Cat videos&quot;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not relevant to the question/answer  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Detract from the question/answer  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Contains chatter that doesn't add anything to the question/answer  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is abusive/derogatory to someone on a personal level  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Say &quot;Voting to blah-blah-blah&quot; where blah-blah-blah has since happened&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of comments deleted are ones that attempt to answer the question, or where people confuse the &quot;add a suggestion&quot; button with an instant messenger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2018-08-16T14:03:10.157" LastActivityDate="2018-08-16T14:03:10.157" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5454" CreationDate="2018-08-10T18:39:45.570" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no one going around trying to police comments. Starting posts that way is confrontational and frankly not going to win you any points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, some more context, too - there are two primary ways moderators see comments to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first is direct flags on comments. The second is auto raised flags whenever a post has 20+ comments on it (you'd be surprised how often this happens).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently 5 posts with active flags on the main site. Of these, 3/5 of the posts with flags on them have or at some point have had the &quot;20+ comments flag&quot; on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking from personal experience I &lt;em&gt;rarely&lt;/em&gt; would delete comments that I come across in normal browsing of the site without comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T18:39:45.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5454" CreationDate="2018-08-12T15:41:17.523" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5387/3192&quot;&gt;Never heard that one before.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless, in brief:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators don't go on a witch hunt against comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During our &quot;regular&quot; site use, we (flag and) delete comments only if we notice ... problems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When handling comment flags, we usually handle the entire conversation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In case of comment flags on Highly Noteworthy Quality questions, we usually handle comments on the question and all the answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't believe that deleting comments like &quot;thanks, this answer helped me&quot; or even comments with partial answers improves the site's &quot;quality&quot;. Regardless, SE believes that comments are just noise, so there we go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fun Fact: Believe it or not, some users use &quot;bots&quot; to obtain a live feed of comments, so that they can flag them to reduce the &quot;noise&quot; by truckloads. Make of that what you will. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-08-12T15:41:17.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5441" CreationDate="2018-08-12T16:06:41.157" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely agree with the OP's post. The impression I get is that there is a small band of users that seem to be &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; quick with the VTC trigger and are frequently using it inappropriately. It seems to often be the same users every time (I won't name names..).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would like to see the site moderators step in and lay out temporary bans and/or remove rep points (if that is possible) from users that are using their VTC privileges irresponsibly, or not in accordance with the site guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, not sure if this is already the case, but I would like to see a question closed only if 5 close votes are given &lt;em&gt;for the same close category&lt;/em&gt;. It would help to ensure that the close reasons are coherent and cut out frivolous VTCs that don't have any real basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a limit to how many VTCs can be cast per day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88516" LastEditorUserId="88516" LastEditDate="2018-08-12T16:12:52.207" LastActivityDate="2018-08-12T16:12:52.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5459" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-12T16:11:17.657" Score="2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;When reading Workplace SE on my phone, previously it would always go to the mobile site. However, yesterday something seemed to have changed and now it goes to the full site every time, which is harder to read. It only seems to be Workplace SE that is doing this - all other SE sites I use are going to the mobile sites, as usual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some setting somewhere that I have inadvertently toggled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88516" LastActivityDate="2018-08-12T16:11:17.657" Title="Workplace SE on phone suddenly not going to mobile site?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5460" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-13T17:37:16.270" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just been notified that I have won the bronze mortarboard badge for earning at least 200 reputation in a single day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet the same notification tells me I've earned just 199 reputation today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sylhv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sylhv.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot illustrating the problem&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1898" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-08-14T15:39:07.567" LastActivityDate="2018-08-14T15:39:07.567" Title="Mortarboard badge at 199 rep" Tags="|support|reputation|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5460" CreationDate="2018-08-13T17:45:18.003" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading the badge description &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/badges/41/mortarboard&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, taking a look at your rep:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yt25V.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yt25V.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can see that you already completed the requirements for the badge, that is &lt;strong&gt;earn at least 200 reps in a day&lt;/strong&gt;. You earned 205 reps, which is &lt;strong&gt;sufficient condition for getting the badge&lt;/strong&gt;. The -6 you got are not related, nor affect the badge condition. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, if you made 400 reps in a day (just, imagine you do) but took -201 in downvotes (which gives a net number of 199) you still made at least 200 reps that day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a similar situation regarding the Rep Capping. I have in past days rep capped (+1 on my counter) by having +200/-1 , even though the net rep number was 199.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-08-13T17:48:17.507" LastActivityDate="2018-08-13T17:48:17.507" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5454" CreationDate="2018-08-14T01:29:57.480" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's been some increase in comment deletion, but there's context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comment flags (per week) for the last year:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dtst9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dtst9.png&quot; alt=&quot;graph with upward trend and recent spike&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The shape of that curve isn't unique to The Workplace; it's similar on Stack Overflow, though of course the Y-axis values are different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are people flagging lots of old comments and that's why we have a problem?  To answer that, here's the percentage of comments posted each week that got flagged:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eGhWI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eGhWI.png&quot; alt=&quot;flagged comments, similar shape&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The shapes of those curves, especially recently, are very similar.  That suggests to me that the flags are mostly on new comments.  So either we're getting more flag-worthy comments or people are flagging more aggressively; either way, if moderators delete the comments, that means we felt the flags were warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even with more flags, though, moderators aren't purging tons of stuff.  Other things have happened too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last year, &lt;strong&gt;72,761 comments&lt;/strong&gt; have been posted here, with weekly totals mostly ranging between 1250 and 1750.  15,925 of those comments have been deleted, about 5600 of them by their &lt;strong&gt;authors&lt;/strong&gt; (not moderators).  6409 comments were &lt;strong&gt;moved to chat&lt;/strong&gt; and thus preserved (in 391 separate threads).  Some of the comments moved to chat were not also deleted on the main site, so I have to get a little hand-wavy on that part, but at a rough guess, out of those ~73k comments, only around ~4k were actually purged.  The largest flag reason by far was &quot;no longer needed&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get a lot of comments and a lot of flags on comments.  We relocate a lot of discussions and about a third of the deletions are self-deletions.  Moderators are outright nuking fewer comments than you seem to think we are, and the process is substantially driven by flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Thanks to Shog9 for data-wrangling.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-08-14T14:15:15.487" LastActivityDate="2018-08-14T14:15:15.487" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5463" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-15T01:14:27.183" Score="-1" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered to the question below pointing out the exact reasons why the question got put on hold and deleted eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer had &lt;strong&gt;10 upvote&lt;/strong&gt; events, 2 downvote events and a comment with the same sentiments, agreeing with my answer.&#xA;I even flagged the question citing said reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My confusion is: why did my apparently correct assessment get deleted and resulted in negative reputation for me (apparently higher than what I gained from the answer)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question in question (; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/117440/does-wearing-a-rolex-help-with-ones-career-progression&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/117440/does-wearing-a-rolex-help-with-ones-career-progression&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87734" OwnerDisplayName="DigitalBlade969" LastActivityDate="2018-08-15T01:37:36.017" Title="Why did an answer stating reasons for the questions eventual deletion get deleted &amp; earn negative reputation?" Tags="|support|reputation|deleted-questions|up-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5463" CreationDate="2018-08-15T01:30:02.557" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please don't use answers to explain why a question should be closed; that's what close votes or flagging to close is for (depending on your reputation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was deleted because it had a score of -6 and was closed as being primarily opinion-based - you flagged it to be closed as such and you said that in your answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, it may help to be punctual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, this question can only be answered by opinions and is heavily dependent on subjective views, differing between personalities, countries and cultures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The score of your answer was half what you seem to remember, having received only five upvotes and one downvote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s1nSA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s1nSA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of answer to a deleted question.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question is deleted, so too are the answers. All reputation associated with votes on those posts is reset. You would have earned a total of 48 reputation and then had it removed when the question was deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41738" OwnerDisplayName="Catija" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-08-15T01:37:36.017" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5465" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-15T08:06:55.057" Score="4" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;So my colleague and I both participate regularly on Workplace and we sometimes discuss a particular question/answer prior to posting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last week I was banned without any notice but my colleague received a message to say my account was falsified. I’ve had a stack overflow account with the same username for over 5 years which has also now been deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I get my account back? Also he lost 120 rep for the things I had engaged with on his account, which isn’t a lot really? So what are the triggers for being booted off?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also how do I go about getting my questions and answers back. If my friend had falsified this account he wouldn’t have posted questions and answers on it as it wouldn’t affect his rep. The thing is my friend had introduced me to workplace, which is a good thing as it helps to build the community and get more people asking questions and answering which helps others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have built my account back up but I had some answers and stuff on the old account which Id like. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’ve contacted support two times now, and not received a response. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91021" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2018-08-15T12:01:44.583" LastActivityDate="2018-08-16T15:42:53.167" Title="I was banned without any notification" Tags="|support|deleted-accounts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5465" CreationDate="2018-08-15T12:56:41.077" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I get my account back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You would start by sending your request to Stack Exchange using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;Contact&lt;/a&gt; form. I would advise providing as much detail as possible explaining why the other account shouldn't be deleted. Stack Exchange usually needs substantial evidence to override a moderator action, so &quot;Help! Moderator deleted my account. I want it back.&quot; is most certainly not going to help. &quot;My colleague and I discuss at work before posting on the site.&quot; is also not &lt;em&gt;likely&lt;/em&gt; to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also he lost 120 rep for the things I had engaged with on his account, which isn’t a lot really? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your coworker should raise his concerns from his own account. It would be inappropriate for us to comment on a user when we do not know if he actually wants that discussion. If his account has &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; been deleted, then he should use the aforesaid Contact form. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are the triggers for being booted off? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For obvious reasons, we won't disclose those. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do I go about getting my questions and answers back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You would have to use the Contact form for this as well. Moderators have no way to verify that you own the deleted account, so we cannot disclose anything associated with that account to you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I’ve contacted support two times now, and not received a response. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While that can be frustrating, there isn't much you can do now other than continue to wait. &lt;em&gt;Especially&lt;/em&gt; in cases where you are appealing a moderator action, this is expected to take longer. See more details &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/296315/202356&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-08-15T12:56:41.077" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5468" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-16T04:55:35.083" Score="1" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;A short comment discussion just prompted me to ask this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How come there are down votes on a question in meta seeking clarification about this website?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can see it a question is not a statement one could agree or disagree with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question in meta is asked to seek knowledge and understanding about how something works here or why a certain procedure is in place or was decided upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there surely are other uses of meta, I'm interested in down votes (or up votes for that matter) considering only the questions of the nature mentioned above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87734" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T05:15:45.627" Title="Why are there down votes on meta questions about a procedure or decision on stackexchange?" Tags="|discussion|support|questions|meta|votes|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5468" CreationDate="2018-08-16T06:02:00.273" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Up and down votes on Meta aren't necessarily as quality related as they are on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People often vote on Meta questions/answers because they like/dislike,  approve/disprove of something, or agree/disagree with someone's point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've ever visited &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; you'll see this behaviour to a greater extent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, voting should be backed up by words, but some people don't do that because whatever they're feeling has already been stated by someone else, or they're just being Negative Nancys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5463/why-did-an-answer-stating-reasons-for-the-questions-eventual-deletion-get-delete&quot;&gt;Meta question you're referring to&lt;/a&gt;, people saw that you answered a question in an inappropriate manner and judged you on that (also that you claimed to have 10 upvotes on that answer where you really didn't).  Catija has explained this to you, which is why that answer has been upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you state something in a post mistakenly, there's nothing to stop you from editing the post to correct your mistake as long as it doesn't significantly change the premise of your question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-08-16T06:02:00.273" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5468" CreationDate="2018-08-16T13:56:08.693" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This looks like an example of the Obvious Answer Downvote Pattern (OADP). Questions that have a supposedly &quot;obvious&quot; answer tend to attract a lot of downvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While users are free to vote as they please, downvoting &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; because the answer is &quot;obvious&quot; to them stretches that freedom too far in my opinion. Occasionally, one of our regular users notices this pattern and posts a comment reminding people that what is obvious to them may not be obvious to everyone else. Not surprisingly, that usually reverses the voting trend. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be fair, one could argue that a certain interpretation of the tooltip on the downvote button encourages OADP:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question does not show any research effort&lt;/strong&gt;; it is unclear or not useful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-08-16T13:56:08.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5465" CreationDate="2018-08-16T15:42:53.167" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;This situation has now been resolved, or is in the process of being resolved.  I too raised a ticket to management on this matter, and I too had to wait a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was the moderator who took the initial action here because the close activity between these two accounts was indicative of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_(Internet)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sockpuppetry&lt;/a&gt;.  We use a variety of tools and techniques to diagnose this behaviour, and most of the time it bears out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this occasion, I got it wrong, and I apologise for any harm caused to both accounts.  We're human, we get things wrong, and even when we discuss things among each other, we sometimes get caught in confirmation bias.  However, when we do get things wrong, we do seek to get them corrected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time, though, we get things right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-08-16T15:42:53.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5468" CreationDate="2018-08-17T00:16:45.193" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In your specific case, and others I have seen, when someone uses meta to asks for an explanation for why something happened, such as a question being put on hold, people who agree with the action then down-vote the meta question. I think they want to indicate the meta question shouldn’t lead to a reversal of the action. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your particular example there were down-votes but no comments therefore you couldn’t know if people down-voted because they agreed with the original decision or they had some other problem with the question. That is why I questioned the down-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could suggest that they way people down-vote meta questions to indicate they don’t want to overturn the the action is not good use of down-votes. I think that would be futile since its is working again an established convention and human nature. I do think when people come asking for an explanation of an action and they receive down-votes they are owed an explanation for the down-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87542" LastEditorUserId="87542" LastEditDate="2018-08-17T05:15:45.627" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T05:15:45.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5474" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5475" CreationDate="2018-08-17T06:59:01.460" Score="7" ViewCount="346" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently noticed a question came into the featured section with -8 votes (or around here) now with the bounty with absolutely nothing changed from the original question except some grammar here and there it has gone up to +8 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question hasn't changed but it received such a negative response first time around then with a bounty is has received a rather positive response. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this due to everyone else voting what the majority is voting to up their counts or is the bounty influencing peoples votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83963" LastActivityDate="2018-08-24T13:04:26.533" Title="'Bandwagon' Voting" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5474" CreationDate="2018-08-17T07:18:08.653" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's the one I'm thinking about, the question hasn't changed, but the tone of it has, in order to make it more constructive in nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previously, it was &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;How do I punish people for not doing what I tell them?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now it's more about &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;How do I help people transition to this new way of working?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the question is the same, but the tone is different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The downvotes weren't about it being a bad question, it was more about the bad premise (people downvoted because they didn't want to reward a punishment-oriented question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was identified as being potentially a good question, was discussed in the main chatroom here and subsequently edited in a way that made it positive sounding without trashing the existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the questioner isn't likely to return (he/she dropped the question and didn't respond or return from that day to this, probably due to backlash about the &quot;punishment&quot; angle of the original edit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bounty has made it attractive to people now, who will hopefully provide answers that are helpful to people searching for the same issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The upvotes are as a result of the change of tone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's great that older questions are being revived like this, and the editing of them to make them more answerable (without changing the original premise) is also great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T07:18:08.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5474" CreationDate="2018-08-17T13:22:09.503" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To expound a bit on what Snow said...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We try to save questions if we can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular question came up in the watercooler, and was discussed.  Several users (myself included) made edits to make the question presentable.  A number of us (myself included) then reversed our down-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, reversing a down-vote has a net +2 effect, so if just 8 people reversed their vote, that would account for the jump from -8 to +8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I decided to add a bounty because I felt that the edited question deserved a second look after that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We try to avoid bandwagoning of any kind.  We don't encourage up, or down voting, only voting your conscience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T13:22:09.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5502" CreationDate="2018-08-20T08:50:44.657" Score="0" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;No offense but in many scenarios, be it question closing, downvotes etc, I try not to be offended, but I question if some of the responses are from people familiar with the tech industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, project, &quot;HR&quot;, salary, development, role naming, etc. do have similar but NOT duplicate questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In today's tech industry and tech workplace we sometimes have very specific and relevant questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect some question closing, downvoting, and comments are by people that do not grasp the technical element of the workplace question, or if they are involved in the tech field or especially the subspeciality of said tech field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In no way am I saying if one is better than the other, just that for tech workplaces things can be very different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90305" LastActivityDate="2018-09-04T16:04:11.800" Title="How to solve issues with non-tech people replying to tech-workplace questions?" Tags="|discussion|closing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5477" CreationDate="2018-08-20T12:40:18.727" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here, people are permitted to provide answers even if they aren't intimately familiar with the domain in question. Sometimes the answers are good anyway, sometimes they are poor. And people are permitted to downvote or vote to close whether they understand the question or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to be as explicit as possible in your question so that you can attract answers relevant to your domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask the question, you should accept the best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvote good answers. Downvote bad answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And use comments sparingly to try to get improvements to answers/votes that don't seem to relate well to the question being asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you think a question has been closed inappropriately, the most efficient mechanism to get it re-opened seems to be writing a question here containing a link to the closed question, asking that it be re-opened. That very often seems to result in success as you can see by browsing the Meta questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2018-08-20T17:04:33.843" LastActivityDate="2018-08-20T17:04:33.843" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5479" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-20T19:04:00.553" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed  Workplace StackExchange, instead of &quot;add a comment&quot;, I see new copy for &quot;suggest improvements&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like that change but it doesn't really make sense if I am the author of the question -- I was wondering if this was a bug? I don't see it in all StackExchanges so not sure if this is configured specifically for Workplace StackExchange. Feel free to close if not an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11093" LastActivityDate="2018-08-21T05:53:17.453" Title="Commenting now shows &quot;suggest improvements&quot; which doesn't really make sense if I am the author of the question" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-08-21T06:37:29.513" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5480" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-21T05:43:03.663" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about my The Workplace Stack Exchange post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/117857/how-to-break-the-glass-ceiling-how-to-get-my-next-position-of-managing-50-peop&quot;&gt;How to break the glass ceiling: How to get my next position of managing 50+ people?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still do not understand why my question on-hold, or should be deleted. I'm sure that my question can help many others, because it's not a private situation (Moving from coding, to leading).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you can see that I got VERY GOOD ANSWERS, that can help others. It's help me to start a research on a new topic, buying books, and &lt;em&gt;learn something new about the workplace environment&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I asked here, because I have a very specific question, a goal, and the question is answerable. The answers you gave me, I saved, and I kept it for others I know in similar situation. (Before you'll delete it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not looking for a psychologist, I want to learn. And I'm doing so by asking questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91416" LastActivityDate="2018-08-21T13:07:51.700" Title="How to improve my question to not be on-hold?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5479" CreationDate="2018-08-21T05:53:17.453" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments should be treated as ephemeral.  This basically means that the questions and answers should really stand on their own - a future reader with the same question as you shouldn't have to read the comments in order to learn the answer to their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone has made a suggestion to your question or is seeking clarification, then it means that information isn't in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you could add another comment/suggestion to answer those concerns, the ideal place to answer is in the question itself.  The comments aren't there to clarify the question - they're there as a prompt to you to clarify the question (or for someone else to edit your question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-08-21T05:53:17.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5480" CreationDate="2018-08-21T10:11:45.773" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to re-open the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2018-08-21T10:11:45.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5480" CreationDate="2018-08-21T11:59:14.987" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an off topic close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Questions asking for advice on a specific choice, such as what job to take or what skills to learn, are difficult to answer objectively and are rarely useful for anyone else. Instead of asking which decision to make, try asking how to make the decision, or for more specific details about one element of the decision. (More information)&quot; – gnat, scaaahu, IDrinkandIKnowThings&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are asking, &quot;what skills/experiences should I do to get my next position?&quot; in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest making the question more about how to identify any needed gaps in moving to a leadership role like you desire. Rather than asking for a list of things to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2018-08-21T11:59:14.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5480" CreationDate="2018-08-21T13:07:51.700" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I removed references to &quot;glass ceiling&quot; as the implication is one of discrimination, where the theme of the question seems to be one of a dearth of skills and experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the edit, I will vote to reopen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-08-21T13:07:51.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5485" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5486" CreationDate="2018-08-21T15:09:56.520" Score="8" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until recently I was under the impression that we did not deal with resume related questions.  The fact that we apparently do in some cases is perfectly fine by me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Resumes however do introduce a considerable amount of opinion in terms of what makes a good one or bad one, what to include or not include, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do we handle the &lt;em&gt;line&lt;/em&gt; as to what we &lt;strong&gt;will or will not take on&lt;/strong&gt; as it relates to resume related questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2018-08-27T11:41:01.100" LastActivityDate="2018-08-30T08:53:47.800" Title="Resume Related Questions" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5485" CreationDate="2018-08-21T16:05:37.483" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;We do not do review, design, or write my resume questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do answer general questions on how to build, structure, and format a resume or CV abstractly and even some limited focused cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastEditorUserId="16" LastEditDate="2018-08-22T12:36:40.170" LastActivityDate="2018-08-22T12:36:40.170" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5474" CreationDate="2018-08-24T13:04:26.533" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be due to the HNQ effect. Once the question makes it to the Hot Network Questions list, it instantly becomes visible to a much broader audience, of which &lt;strong&gt;the majority is only able to vote up&lt;/strong&gt;. So no matter how bad the question is, once it's in the HNQ it just keeps getting upvoted until it ages away or is taken down by close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37016" LastActivityDate="2018-08-24T13:04:26.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5488" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-27T01:57:58.473" Score="9" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;So that I don't contribute to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2748/our-comments-problem&quot;&gt;our comments problem&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, I periodically go back and delete comments more than a few days old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the site limits me to being able to delete only 20 comments per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the motivation for this limit? Why shouldn't folks be able to delete as many of their own comments as they choose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2018-08-28T08:47:05.407" Title="Why can we only delete 20 comments per day?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5488" CreationDate="2018-08-27T03:13:29.790" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The powers that be at Stack Exchange decided to treat comment deletion as equivalent to voting on comments. Given that those two actions are nearly always mutually exclusive (you can delete but not upvote your own comment, while you can upvote but not delete other users' comment), the reason for defining this equivalence is best known only to them. More about it on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/164899/202356&quot;&gt;this meta.SE post&lt;/a&gt; and other meta posts linked from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One good reason mentioned there, though not entirely convincing (to me anyway), is to prevent Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on the Stack Exchange server. However, the number of comments &lt;em&gt;posted&lt;/em&gt; is already rate limited, and &lt;em&gt;by definition&lt;/em&gt;, the number of comment deletions is limited by the number of comments posted. Hence, this attack requires advance preparation by posting lots of comments for several months, and then deleting them all at once (using an automated script). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-08-27T03:13:29.790" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5490" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5491" CreationDate="2018-08-28T00:27:28.533" Score="5" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/118305/why-does-the-us-flsa-have-a-separate-classification-for-computer-employees&quot;&gt;question about legislative intent&lt;/a&gt; was posted, answered, and [the answer was] accepted several days ago on law.stackexchange.com. Earlier today, the post was migrated to Workplace.SE for no good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our moderator in Law.[meta.]SE agrees that a question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://law.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/716/question-about-legislative-intent-should-be-reinstated-back-to-law-se/717#717&quot;&gt;legislative intent is in scope on Law.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and he even created a tag for &lt;em&gt;legislative-intent&lt;/em&gt;. He also explained that Law.SE can get the question back only &lt;em&gt;if a Workplace.SE moderator rejects the migration&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to understanding &lt;em&gt;enacted laws&lt;/em&gt;, users are reasonably likelier to approach Law.SE rather than Workplace.SE. Thus, that post would be of more use to readers if it is placed back in the SE site dedicated to legal matters, just as the OP correctly identified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could Workplace.SE moderators please assist in reversing the mistaken migration of that post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87680" LastActivityDate="2018-08-28T02:50:08.960" Title="Could Workplace.SE moderators please reverse migration from Law.SE?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5490" CreationDate="2018-08-28T02:50:08.960" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've closed it, sending it back to Law.SE.  Thank you for providing the link to their meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reversing a migration doesn't actually require a moderator, though it's expedient.  If a migrated question is closed for any reason other than duplicate, the migration is automatically rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-08-28T02:50:08.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5492" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5493" CreationDate="2018-08-28T03:52:27.610" Score="-4" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Stack Exchange model is based on facts. Questions and answers that are based on facts. How does the Workplace Exchange fit in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31963" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2018-08-30T11:53:28.997" LastActivityDate="2018-08-30T11:53:28.997" Title="Is the format of the Workplace Exchange consistent with the Stack Exchange model?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5492" CreationDate="2018-08-28T06:56:56.530" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes and no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The majority of Stack Exchanges sites are geared toward objective answers to questions.  There are, however, a subset of &quot;Humanist&quot; sites that are more suited to softer answers (albeit backed up with some kind of reasoning and citations).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is a &quot;humanist&quot; site.  Answers are usually based on personal experience of what works best in a given situation, knowledge, or more general advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you have a specific concern that led you to ask this Meta question?  It might be an idea to address that rather than a broad, subjective question such as this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2018-08-28T18:27:33.660" LastActivityDate="2018-08-28T18:27:33.660" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5488" CreationDate="2018-08-28T08:47:05.407" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have several comments on a particular question/answer that you'd like to see tidied up, then try raising a custom flag and using this as prompt to look at your other comments in the question/answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a great way of bringing our attention to comment streams that have become obsolete (clarifications that have been clarified) or too chatty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if your comment deletions may have the effect of breaking a stream of conversation (e.g if someone responds to a comment that you made), flag one of the broken comments so that we can clean up that stream too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's great to see self-discipline in self-deleting old comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-08-28T08:47:05.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5492" CreationDate="2018-08-28T17:04:38.230" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about the workplace isn't factual?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can certainly answer questions about what the advantages and disadvantages are and state concrete reasons why, for example, &lt;strong&gt;HR IS NOT YOUR FRIEND&lt;/strong&gt; and other facts about the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can also comment on conditions to expect, what is and what is not professional behavior, what an interviewer is looking for, interviewing techniques that are tried and true, sample interview questions, how to order and structure a resume....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just what isn't factual?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-08-28T17:04:38.230" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5492" CreationDate="2018-08-28T22:01:01.073" Score="-3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Isn't the format of the Workplace Exchange antithesis to the StackExchange model?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, and no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-08-28T22:01:01.073" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5492" CreationDate="2018-08-29T19:53:46.107" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no hard line between fact and opinion, may answers lie in the grey area between. This is true whether the question is how to implement something using a particular code library, what is known about someone’s motivation in a science fiction book or how to deal with a sensitive situation at work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On many stack exchange sites, including this one, many of the questions require probabilistic answers. We give the answer which is the most likely addresses the question asked. When the question is very specific then the probability the answer is correct is very high and answer appears as fact. When the question is more general or when the circumstances matter, then the probability any given answer is correct is lower and the answer appears to be more opinionated. Good answers not only tell you what the answer probably is, but also also provide context so that you can decide if the answer is applicable in the case you may want to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87542" LastActivityDate="2018-08-29T19:53:46.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5320" CreationDate="2018-08-29T21:09:00.637" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The results of the experiment&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Days before the change             65    &#xA;Days after the change              65    &#xA;Posts created before the change    3655  &#xA;Posts created after the change     3708  &#xA;Comments created before the change 14029 &#xA;Comments created after the change  12003 &#xA;&#xA;Description                     Before     After      PctChange  &#xA;------------------------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- &#xA;Comments / post ratio                 3.84       3.24     -15.66 &#xA;Flags / comment ratio                 0.14       0.18      28.55 &#xA;Pct comments deleted                 34.75      34.37      -1.10 &#xA;Comment upvotes / comment ratio       2.80       3.07       9.75 &#xA;Pct comments followed by edits        8.87      10.40      17.16 &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just &lt;a href=&quot;https://interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1528/this-one-weird-trick-gets-rid-of-all-off-topic-comments-lets-use-it&quot;&gt;as we saw on Interpersonal Skills&lt;/a&gt;, this resulted in significantly fewer comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unlike&lt;/em&gt; the IPS test, we didn't see fewer flags per comment; part of this may be simply that an awful lot of changes to comment flagging rolled out &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/313754/updated-comment-flagging-supporting-the-new-code-of-conduct&quot;&gt;mid-way through the test&lt;/a&gt;, but given the effect wasn't very strong on IPS either it's my guess that any changes noted here are most likely just noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As on IPS, there was a noticeable improvement in the average &lt;em&gt;utility&lt;/em&gt; of the comments that were posted: even as fewer comments were posted over all, y'all left slightly &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; comments that were followed by edits to the post being commented on. This continues to be my favorite observation, as it suggests the change in wording is helping folks to focus on activity that results in lasting improvement to the site vs. idle chit-chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Distribution and ongoing effectiveness&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I want to address a concern I've seen raised in a few places, namely that any benefits are likely to be a temporary effect caused more by confusion than anything else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The metrics we've been looking at thus far were picked to reduce the effects of noise and temporary variation on the results. That's useful for gauging the overall effects of a test like this, but they &lt;em&gt;don't tell the whole story!&lt;/em&gt; As we're all painfully aware, it isn't &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; post that gets large amounts of tangential commentary; the norm - here and just about everywhere else - is 0-2 comments per post. That makes it kinda hard to intuit either a problem or its solution from casual observation, as problems are by definition exceptional cases and thus observing improvement means observing cases where comments &lt;em&gt;might have&lt;/em&gt; blown up but did not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NXeKC.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NXeKC.png&quot; alt=&quot;box chart of comment distribution during each post&amp;#39;s first week, past year&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;(click for larger version)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This chart seeks to illustrate the distribution of comments posted during the first week of each post's life here over the past year and two months, grouped by every week between June 26th 2017 and last week. Weeks where the test was live are highlighted in orange; whiskers indicate the full extent of the data (so, extreme outliers are plainly visible). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few observations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The overall range has consistently dropped during the test - not a single post has garnered more than 60 comments in its first week for the duration, nor 50 during the second half of the test.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The median number of comments per post has been locked at 2 for the duration of the test, with 75% of posts consistently getting 4 or fewer comments. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's no variation in either the median or quartile numbers week-by-week during the test, which stands in stark contrast to the year preceding it and also suggests that whatever effect this change had was consistent beyond what we could expect from novelty or confusion alone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with IPS, this isn't a &lt;em&gt;dramatic&lt;/em&gt; difference. There are still posts that get too many comments, there are still plenty of flags, there's still lots of cleanup work for moderators to perform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, there &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; a difference - and it's largely positive. And for a relatively inexpensive change, that's nice to see!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastActivityDate="2018-08-29T21:09:00.637" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5485" CreationDate="2018-08-30T08:53:47.800" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find that focus on opinion a bit weird. A lot of stuff here focuses on opinion because we are talking about humans. This is not &lt;a href=&quot;https://mathoverflow.net/&quot;&gt;Mathoverflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think checking entire resumes goes a bit beyond the mission here but questions about resumes should be possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63178" LastActivityDate="2018-08-30T08:53:47.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5500" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-30T17:23:59.377" Score="13" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;We frequently receive flags where users ask us to delete their own question. However, if the question has received upvoted answers, we will usually not delete the question. Doing so would be unfair to users who have spent time answering the question, and to the community members who found them useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, deleting the question is not a one-size-fits-all solution for every issue users might be having with their own question. There are other alternatives that can address the actual problem more effectively than deleting the question entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you accidentally (or intentionally) posted something inappropriate that could get you fired, we could edit out the sensitive bits (and redact the older revision for especially serious issues). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If your question was selected for the Hot Network Questions, thus giving it an uncomfortably unexpected exposure, and opening you up to drive-by trolling in answers and comments, we could protect or lock the post, or put it on hold till we deal with the issue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the subject of your question is somewhat ... controversial, and you are receiving lots of unwarranted &lt;s&gt;abuse&lt;/s&gt; criticism in comments and/or answers, we could edit the post to tone down or remove the controversial aspects, and deal with the criticism as appropriate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;etc...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We obviously want to help you, but we cannot determine the right approach without knowing the actual issue that compelled you to raise the flag. As a result, we will usually decline the flag, and ask you to flag the question again with additional details. This turnaround time can be reduced by specifying the actual issue in the first flag itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, avoid raising flags with comments like these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Please delete my question. &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;I am withdrawing my question, please remove.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Delete this lol.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, use comments like these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Help! I accidentally pasted company confidential code in the wrong window. Please delete. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My question is on HNQ. If my &lt;s&gt;boss&lt;/s&gt; mom sees this, I am in big trouble. Please remove. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am tired of the endless lecturing on why berating my boss in a department meeting is a horrible idea. Alright, I get it, now let me delete this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2018-08-31T02:44:17.680" LastActivityDate="2018-09-04T02:19:11.127" Title="When flagging to delete your question, please tell us the reason" Tags="|discussion|flagging|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5500" CreationDate="2018-08-30T20:55:09.993" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another option is something called “Redaction”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If something has been posted as part of your question that you later feel shouldn't be there, then raise a flag asking for that information to be redacted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I put my mom’s email address here and now she’s yelling at me, please redact it for me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know that you can edit your own question (or someone else’s), but the edit history remains visible to anyone with enough rep to see the edit versions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Redaction allows that information to be disappeared. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Redacting someone else’s contend needs careful consideration as the Stack does allow people to post their personal junk if they really want to.  But if it’s your own junk, then edit your question to take the junk away from the visible post and then flag, detailing exactly what you want removing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2018-09-03T18:08:16.030" LastActivityDate="2018-09-03T18:08:16.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5477" CreationDate="2018-08-31T15:16:11.640" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any problem we have with questions specific to the tech industry(1) are also problems for questions specific to any other industry. There appears to be problem with tech industry questions because we have a lot of them and almost no questions specific to any other industry. The problems are much worse for the few non-tech industry questions posted because there are far fewer people who knowledgeable and enthusiastic to champion for those questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two general problems when a industry specific question is posed and people not familiar with the industry respond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People not familiar with the industry makes assumptions which are incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People not familiar with the industry provide useful insights and are dismissed, (down-voted) because there point of view is at odds with conventional thinking in the industry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could suggest that all industry specific questions should be off topic. That is not realistic. All workplaces exist in an industry and every industry has its own practices and norms. Good answers must take into account the context of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest an number of approaches to deal with these issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The immediate thing is to try to find a good balance between thinking about the question in a general, non industry specific way, and also recognize that what is normal in one industry may be extraordinary in another. For example when a question about using git (a tool software developers use store and share versions of their computer code) is asked we should provide a answers which addresses both collaborating in general and also the specific practices withing the software development world. If non software developers offer their perspective we should not be careful not to immediately say they are wrong but instead try to understand their perspective. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way of thinking should also be used when deciding to vote to close or reopen. A comment to explain why a close vote was cast will also help both the voter and everyone else decide when to think about the question generally and when to think about it in industry specific ways. If we don't see such a comment we should ask for one before we also vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The longer term thing we should do strive to make this site a welcoming place for people of every industry. This means being liberal in accepting industry specific questions. You may argue that these questions are off topic. The reality is that are slow to close very specific software development question. Being tolerate of questions about other disciplines will provide some balance. We also should also be cautious when close questions as duplicate of question which ask a similar question in different industries. It helps people feel welcome when they can see open questions about an industry they know. It is also the case that every often the answers are industry specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These things will not only help with how we handle non technology industry questions. When we have more people from other industries then everyone who frequents the site will become more aware to be sensitive to the industry specifics of all questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This advice is based on an assumption that it is very important that this is to be a place when people are welcome to come seek advice. This goal is in tension with the desire of some to build a corpus of great questions and answers. If curating an such a collection is important to you then you will probably disagree with some of the things I have written here. That’s okay because I believe there are no right answers, only helpful ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1)  The term “&lt;em&gt;tech industry&lt;/em&gt;” is not well defined, I’m assuming we are all talking about the same industry, what ever it may be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87542" LastEditorUserId="87542" LastEditDate="2018-09-04T16:04:11.800" LastActivityDate="2018-09-04T16:04:11.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5503" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-31T15:56:43.603" Score="4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some days ago I tried doing a First Post Review, and happened to notice a bug. I dismissed it as thinking it was some problem with my PC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, today I entered the First Post Review Queue again and found that the error persists. Here a screenshot depicting what happens (basically the I'm Done button does not load at all):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l2Lg5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l2Lg5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this some sort of bug? Has someone else experienced this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Clarification:&lt;/em&gt; I checked on other First Post Queues on other SE sites, and their I'm Done button is faded, not completely blanked out, thus why this seems like a bug or similar to me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update:&lt;/em&gt; Two weeks later and the problem persists... will wait a bit more before raising this on MSE directly, in case they haven't been able to process this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update 2:&lt;/em&gt; Almost a month later the problem persists. This screenshot I just took from a review that was available on the First Posts. Thus I'll consider raising this to MSE when I get some time...:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MSZq2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MSZq2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-21T20:36:38.580" LastActivityDate="2018-09-21T20:36:38.580" Title="Is the &quot;I'm Done&quot; button on First Post Reviews broken?" Tags="|bug|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5505" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-01T06:47:04.103" Score="36" ViewCount="1871" Body="&lt;p&gt;After careful consideration lasting several months and multiple &quot;retired in restricted mode&quot; phases, I have decided that I no longer wish to actively contribute to the Stack Exchange sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will forever remain grateful for everything that all of you have taught me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I enjoyed being a part of this community and made a few good friends here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also enjoyed helping people here, not only by posting answers but also by editing their questions to get better answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as in a real life workplace, no matter how much you love your team and your work, if you do not agree with the employer, you should quit as early as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find myself increasingly out of alignment with the direction Stack Overflow is taking. While Stack Overflow is not my &quot;employer&quot;, I decided to apply the same principle and part ways with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will occasionally drop by and contribute where appropriate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those who wish to stay in touch can send me an email. I won't post my email address here, but it shouldn't be too hard to find it in the chat room. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An in-character line (Naruto manga, Chapter 607) fits perfectly here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Minato-sensei ... this place ... this world ... I don't care about it anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3192" LastActivityDate="2018-09-10T13:10:30.247" Title="Time to say goodbye" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5506" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5519" CreationDate="2018-09-01T11:57:14.940" Score="-1" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/118531/how-to-deal-with-a-recruiter-who-pushes-me-to-attend-an-interview&quot;&gt;How to deal with a recruiter who pushes me to attend an interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has been edited to add an answerable question so the close reason doesn't apply anymore. It was edited when there were 3 close votes already. It still needs some love, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommend reopening because it's salvageable and the OP clearly needs some help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastEditorUserId="9549" LastEditDate="2018-09-04T16:57:14.120" LastActivityDate="2018-09-04T16:57:36.213" Title="(Done) How to deal with a pushy recruiter" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5507" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5513" CreationDate="2018-09-02T08:00:29.347" Score="8" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know where to write this but FWIW just wanted to say that this site has totally saved my you-know-what in a complex and perplexing past few months. It also immensely clarified so much gut-instinct and other feelings I had. Being Western-educated but having to spend lots of time in an Asian country... well, just thanks. I cannot express my appreciation enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90305" LastActivityDate="2018-09-03T16:04:09.383" Title="Thank you so much for Workplace Stack Exchange" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5505" CreationDate="2018-09-02T08:02:04.070" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;However, as in a real life workplace, no matter how much you love your team and your work, if you do not agree with the employer, you should quit as early as possible.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you elaborate on this before you head out for good? I mean in terms of a workplace not Stack Exchange. How would we determine and know &quot;You should quit as early as possible&quot;. Many people struggle with the &quot;courage&quot; to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your (last) time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90305" LastActivityDate="2018-09-02T08:02:04.070" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5505" CreationDate="2018-09-02T08:20:15.100" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the best of luck in wherever life takes you Masked man. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-09-02T08:20:15.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5500" CreationDate="2018-09-02T09:10:34.307" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unsure why mods ask this sort of question. I have only once in my time here flagged something for deletion and the mods ignored it, yet it was very important to me, potentially personally dangerous even.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-09-02T09:10:34.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5505" CreationDate="2018-09-02T15:03:06.303" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It’s really sad to see this happen. I totally respect the fact that you have a point of view that you want to stick to - I was in the same position as a Microsoft MVP, and I am no longer an MVP with them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish you all the best in whatever community you next call home, and wish you many happy “retirements” to come! :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I’ll be processing more flags then...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-09-02T15:03:06.303" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5507" CreationDate="2018-09-02T15:12:12.617" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You’re very welcome, we do our best to offer the best answers we can. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The green tick of success is the best reward we can hope for!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-09-02T15:12:12.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5507" CreationDate="2018-09-02T16:08:52.687" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are most welcome, and if you ever face a situation which you think requires discussion, please feel free to stop by chat in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;&quot;The water cooler&quot;&lt;/a&gt;  many of us hang out there and can provide additional help&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-03T16:04:09.383" LastActivityDate="2018-09-03T16:04:09.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5505" CreationDate="2018-09-04T02:11:32.433" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your contributions as both a mod and community member will be missed.  You're definitely someone who made this community a better place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26235" LastActivityDate="2018-09-04T02:11:32.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5500" CreationDate="2018-09-04T02:19:11.127" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ask to disassociate question from your account&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a question that had been put on hold that had potential harmful consequences to my career should I be doxxed.  After a few weeks of it not getting any helpful response I did a destructive edit which led to a rollback war with a mod and the question being reopened.  The suggestion of the mod was that I use the contact button in the bottom left of the screen and have the question disassociated from my account by the Stack Exchange staff.  Within a day the author of the post was flipped to anonymous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26235" LastActivityDate="2018-09-04T02:19:11.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5503" CreationDate="2018-09-04T15:28:24.770" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried this and got the same result (Win10, Chrome). Additionally, when I Did something, the &quot;No Action Needed&quot; button blanked out and the &quot;I'm Done&quot; button appeared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C29Ad.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C29Ad.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of review bug&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After I clicked the button, it moved onto the next question. On the next question &lt;strong&gt;both buttons were blanked out initially&lt;/strong&gt; (sorry, no screenshot). The &quot;No Action Needed&quot; button did reappear when I moved my cursor over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would guess that there is a problem with the way our &quot;faded&quot; design is being implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-09-04T15:28:24.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5505" CreationDate="2018-09-04T16:37:01.400" Score="14" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I find myself increasingly out of alignment with the direction Stack&#xA;  Overflow is taking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Want to expand on that a bit? Is Stack Overflow taking a new direction recently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck. Thanks for all of your contributions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2018-09-04T16:37:01.400" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5505" CreationDate="2018-09-04T16:56:40.047" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, I was away at the funeral when you posted this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've had many conversations about this, so for me, it was not unexpected.  I will likely follow you shortly and for the same reasons.  When the attitude of an organization is &quot;If you don't like it, leave&quot;, I tend to take the advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know many are asking for elucidation, but if you provide any, all you will get is more grief antagonism, and &lt;strong&gt;&quot;NO IT'S NOT!!!&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; arguments.  I also do not like the direction it's going and as stated above, will likely follow suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck my friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since my comments were deleted....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a reason why we have lost Chris E, Masked Man, and HLGEM and why I am strongly considering following suit. RE: Monica's comment below, it's not about feeling constrained or angry.  As for myself, I am long past angry and rapidly approaching apathy.  I simply do not want to subject myself to further nastiness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The deletion of my comments to this post further cements my disenchantment with the site and highlights my point of the tone-deafness of attention to the user base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2018-09-10T13:10:30.247" LastActivityDate="2018-09-10T13:10:30.247" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5506" CreationDate="2018-09-04T16:57:36.213" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done. This post needs at least 30 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastActivityDate="2018-09-04T16:57:36.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5505" CreationDate="2018-09-05T20:57:51.807" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;unfortunately I can absolutely understand why this is coming and I have also now the inner attitude to take SE not as valuable endeavour, but as pastime.&#xA;I will take a look on the number of deleted/inactive accounts over time, but I think the damage is done and it will cause the slow bleeding of SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a nice time-out and live a good life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34330" LastActivityDate="2018-09-05T20:57:51.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5522" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-10T13:58:07.693" Score="40" ViewCount="1575" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been a long time in coming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this is for good or if I'm just going to stay away until the new year.  I'll decide just how final this goodbye is at that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of it is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealLifeWritesThePlot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Real life writes the plot&lt;/a&gt; as my personal life has far too much going on right now, and very little of it good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A healthy chunk of it is that I no longer see the point or the fun in being part of this any longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RageQuit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;rage quit&lt;/a&gt; but the end result of months of consideration.  The recent changes to the site's policies that have become clandestine and inconsistent are a major part of it.  The fact that the administration's attitude is &quot;if you don't like it, leave&quot; is also a major factor and I've decided to take the latter option, as those are the only two offered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find no small irony in the fact that the efforts to become &quot;more welcoming&quot; have had the opposite effect.  I've noticed that since February, the various stacks, including this one have had a level of rudeness that has been increasing to the point where I have had more flags approved in the past six months than in the prior two years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site seems to be going for quantity over quality, which again takes the fun out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the recent departures of several lynchpins of this site for various reasons also plays a factor.  All of them, save one have posted their reasons in here, so I see no benefit in rehashing them.  Suffice it to say that I agree with their reasons and have my own as well, some of which I am not at liberty to discuss, as I have no inclination to have to defend those reasons, and making them public would invite such a discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been accused of being angry over a few things here.  That is not the case.  I am disappointed.  I am saddened by some of the developments, but not angry.  I cannot help but feel that any concerns I raise are being dismissed as being rants, and that any I raise are falling on deaf ears because of that fact.  That is frustrating and has instilled a sense of futility in me that I cannot overcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of my reason for leaving is admittedly my rigid thinking.  I find that I cannot fit my thoughts into the new rules that SE is implementing and therefore cannot post what I mean to say, and it makes me feel dishonest to try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another significant reason is health wise, this place is not good for me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, there are some personality clashes going on which I can no longer tolerate.  I am not going to name names, but there are some people in positions of power that I believe are misusing it.  To them, I say.  Be careful of what you say, it always gets back to the person you are talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will miss this place and the people I've met here, but I no longer feel particularly welcome by the powers that be, which saddens me because I do feel a kinship with most of the user base and because of my somewhat unusual life can offer numerous perspectives that others may not be able to provide, especially in blue collar work, autism, and people with disabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, this is not a rage quit, and I hold no grudges or ill will towards anyone.  It is my sincerest hope that SE will prosper and thrive.  I simply can no longer contribute, at least not at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-09-14T18:30:07.707" Title="And yet another goodbye" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5522" CreationDate="2018-09-10T14:08:50.640" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Very&lt;/strong&gt; sorry to see you go.  Your contributions will be &lt;em&gt;sorely missed&lt;/em&gt;.  Hopefully things in your real life take a sharp turn for the better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have not always agreed, but your side of the argument was fair and rational and you were never unjustly rude to me.  As a matter of fact you were very helpful in my early days and for that I am grateful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best of luck to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2018-09-10T14:08:50.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5522" CreationDate="2018-09-10T15:05:12.260" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I somehow knew this was you when I saw the title at the sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry to see you go. I wish you luck with all your personal stuff, and of course a speedy recovery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll continue fighting a rearguard action to get the Stack we want to see, but frankly it's a losing battle :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck in your new adventures. You will be missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastEditorUserId="9549" LastEditDate="2018-09-10T15:18:04.327" LastActivityDate="2018-09-10T15:18:04.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5522" CreationDate="2018-09-10T15:36:40.440" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take care my friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been an honor getting to know you over the last years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2018-09-10T15:36:40.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5522" CreationDate="2018-09-11T05:52:54.810" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take it easy mate, best of luck with wherever your journey goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-09-11T05:52:54.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5522" CreationDate="2018-09-11T13:40:48.380" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good luck, and all the best to you in the future - your contributions and insight here will most definitely be missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57339" LastActivityDate="2018-09-11T13:40:48.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5531" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-12T00:41:40.660" Score="-4" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest we need a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/acceptance-phase&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;acceptance-phase&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;acceptance-phase&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/customer-acceptance-phase&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;customer-acceptance-phase&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;customer-acceptance-phase&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;There are several questions on the topic of employees (sometimes contractors) &lt;strong&gt;completing (or believing they've completed) a (technical) deliverable yet having the customer claim it had missing features/ bugs/ performance issues, demand rework or adding(/removing) features, port it to platform Y, etc. Often unpaid. Often there was no clear written SOW&lt;/strong&gt;. And/or it was never defined whether the contractor gets paid for any of this, who is responsible for acceptance testing, which specific people at the customer get to define acceptance, how disputes are resolved. It gets even more complicated when there are multiple companies/contractor firms/customers/third-parties/compliance burdens involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notes: No it's not a legal question. &lt;strong&gt;The concept is not software specific, it arises in many jobs: engineering, medical, legal etc.&lt;/strong&gt; It's not always contractors, sometimes it's about managing/dealing with contractors or accepting their deliverable(s), or the wider impact on QA or schedule. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are related, but you can't tell that because the terms used are different every time, and most of the OPs haven't even heard the term &quot;(customer) acceptance phase&quot; or have a clause covering getting paid for it in their contract, &quot;acceptance criteria&quot;, Statement-of-Work. Look for &quot;finished&quot;, &quot;final&quot;, &quot;deliverable&quot;, &quot;handoff&quot;, &quot;rework&quot; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/77093/what-to-do-when-your-line-manager-has-a-very-different-vision-of-the-deliverable?s=1|25.2000&quot;&gt;What to do when your line manager has a very different vision of the deliverable?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/119016/customer-told-me-to-stay-out-of-discussion-regarding-status-of-my-delivered-prod&quot;&gt;Customer told me to stay out of discussion regarding status of my delivered product&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/80244/frustration-with-code-supplied-by-a-third-party-company&quot;&gt;Frustration with code supplied by a third-party company&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/56994/manager-causing-scope-creep&quot;&gt;Manager causing scope creep [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/95094/as-a-freelancer-what-exactly-is-considered-project-work&quot;&gt;As a freelancer, what exactly is considered project work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;acceptance phase, but not about software: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/58755/progress-blockage-due-to-political-tensions&quot;&gt;Progress blockage due to political tensions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;marginal &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/95886/product-delivered-quite-rough-and-coworker-complaining-on-social-network-site-w&quot;&gt;Product delivered quite rough, and coworker complaining on social network site when in QA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;marginal &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/74155/colleague-keeps-on-making-mistakes-how-to-help-him&quot;&gt;Colleague keeps on making mistakes, how to help him?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;marginal &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/34750/state-in-the-contract-that-software-developer-delivers-only-binary-code-not-sour&quot;&gt;State in the contract that software developer delivers only binary code not source code? [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/83696/employer-changed-duties-possible-bait-and-switch/83716#83716&quot;&gt;Employer changed duties - possible bait and switch?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...many others, please add here...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: this tag has nothing whatsoever to do with &quot;job offer acceptance&quot;, &#xA; offer letters, offer deadlines, retractions, recruiters etc.,&lt;/strong&gt; and since those are the more common usage of the term &quot;acceptance&quot; on WP, we probably also need a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/offer-acceptance&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;offer-acceptance&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;offer-acceptance&lt;/a&gt; to avoid confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16071" LastEditorUserId="16071" LastEditDate="2018-09-14T00:40:21.233" LastActivityDate="2018-09-14T07:07:26.270" Title="Do we need a new tag &quot;acceptance-phase&quot;/&quot;customer-acceptance-phase&quot; for all acceptance-phase issues?" 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  <row Id="5532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5522" CreationDate="2018-09-12T15:46:29.340" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry to see you go Richard. It's been a pleasure getting to know you and I hope things start looking up for you in life and health.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have my email address if you want to keep in touch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-09-12T15:46:29.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5531" CreationDate="2018-09-14T07:07:26.270" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe that this is helpful, and I think that it would simply add confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;tag page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Using the right tags makes it easier for others to find and answer your question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've already admitted yourself that:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These questions are related, but you can't tell that because the terms used are different every time, and most of the OPs haven't even heard the term &quot;(customer) acceptance phase&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, most OPs won't add this tag to their question if they're unaware of the term.  To many people, &quot;acceptance-phase&quot; would be linked to an offer acceptance, and that's how this tag will (inappropriately) be used in most cases (and there's already a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/job-acceptance&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;job-acceptance&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;job-acceptance&lt;/a&gt; tag for that purpose).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags are there to be used for search and categorization.  I can see your point that it would bring those kinds of questions together, but you have a larger task of educating people about that term.  It's likely that you're the only person who would really engage and use this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We prefer tags to be clear, unambiguous, and intuitive in their wording, so much so that the tag description won't need to be used to understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as noted, we already have a lot of tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-09-14T07:07:26.270" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5539" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-14T11:39:19.930" Score="0" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been on this stack for a little while and we do not give legal advice (at least based on community consensus). I have seen many questions closed, or severely down-voted because the question they ask is basically regarding legal advice. I am thinking that part of it may be because these tags exist. It almost appears as though legal question would be on topic because we have tags for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also found &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/479/whats-the-legal-tag-for&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; previous post on meta where it says [legal] has already been tagged to be removed (roughly 6 years ago). It also says if the [legal] tag reappears we should blacklist it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3963/if-we-avoid-legal-advice-why-do-we-have-a-law-tag&quot;&gt;another&lt;/a&gt; meta post as well where some people were saying almost all of the questions tagged with [law] were closed as off topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not saying any question that even refers to the law should be closed, I just that maybe we should burninate these tags because if the question is focusing on the legal system, it will more than likely be close. This is very misleading for anyone new to the stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are only 225 question using [legal] or [law] and at a quick glance, they all seem to have other tags on them. So burninating these tags will not leave many (if any) questions tagless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:00:42.327" LastActivityDate="2018-09-20T19:06:30.540" Title="Request to burninate [legal] and [law] tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5522" CreationDate="2018-09-14T18:30:07.707" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a new user, sometimes it seems like each subsite has its own 3 core users who answer the majority of questions (and often get upvoted base on name value). Since I recognize your name, you are one of those people. A Q&amp;amp;A site functions best when the questions are answered by a large and diverse group of people, not the same 3 people over and over again (hello IPS, hello workplace, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So nothing personal, but this should increase the variety of answers this site has to offer, thus improving overall &lt;em&gt;quality&lt;/em&gt; of the site. I know you see the people who left as &lt;em&gt;epic lynchpins!&lt;/em&gt;, but I see them as &lt;em&gt;the same few entrenched people answering questions over and over again&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So rather than saying goodbye to the old slime mold that has been growing behind the fridge for the past several years, why don't we say hello to the new spores floating in the window who will themselves infect this area in the near future. Hello!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86569" LastActivityDate="2018-09-14T18:30:07.707" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1692" CreationDate="2018-09-15T16:47:37.217" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to &quot;just quit&quot; answers being of questionable quality at best, there are simply too many variables in life depending on the person reading the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some people simply don't have the option to quit&lt;/strong&gt;. The might not have any emergency savings, or the job openings in the their rural area may be virtually non-existent, etc etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that fact, I don't think &quot;just quit&quot; should be acceptable by default, and an answerer bears the burden of explaining &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; such a drastic option should be taken despite the financial &amp;amp; health risks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastEditorDisplayName="user30031" LastEditDate="2018-09-17T16:19:00.357" LastActivityDate="2018-09-17T16:19:00.357" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3549" CreationDate="2018-09-15T16:59:07.103" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm gonna go against typical advice here and necro-post to emphasize a point: I left TWP around the time this topic came up because it was noticeably hostile, &lt;em&gt;and I wasn't even a new SE user&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am (provisionally) back now that there is a focus on &quot;being welcoming&quot;. Maybe I'm the only one, but I think not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If more people than myself took these actions, then I think that speaks for itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30031" LastActivityDate="2018-09-15T16:59:07.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3549" CreationDate="2018-09-16T19:59:04.667" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My impression is rather negative. I find &lt;em&gt;The Workplace&lt;/em&gt; is a very unwelcomming place. Many other communities at least try to give you some feedback about what is wrong with your question and how you can or should improve it. Not here. There are many of them with several downvotes and not a single comment what is wrong with them. This is a very weird practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other communities use votes to express whether a question is well written and or contains enough information to be answered. Not here. On &lt;em&gt;The Workplace&lt;/em&gt; people seem to use the voting system like it's used on meta, this is to express their approval for an idea or question. It doesn't metter that it's clear. If someone doesn't like it then it gets downvoted. You can post a perfectly clear question and yet you'll get a lot of downvotes only because people don't like the topic or idea you're asking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61174" LastActivityDate="2018-09-16T19:59:04.667" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5539" CreationDate="2018-09-17T17:37:18.550" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Legal aspects of navigating the workplace are not off topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Legal and Law tags have their value and this proposal does not have any upside.  While it may make finding information about legal and law problems in the workplace harder.  This seems counter to the policies and behaviors SE purports to champion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2018-09-17T17:37:18.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5546" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-17T20:27:13.180" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know we've been working a lot lately on trying to get comments more in line with the guidelines, in particular keeping them to concrete requests for clarification and limiting the amount of discussion. Another recent conversation on comments made me go look at our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;Tour&lt;/a&gt; to see what it had to say on comments. I noticed that the example screenshot it gives doesn't really fit with the way we view comments now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7yCoL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7yCoL.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of comment section from tour&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to change this sample to be of some useful constructive comments so as to be a better example for our new members?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-09-17T20:27:13.180" Title="Update example comment in Tour" Tags="|feature-request|comments|help-center|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5547" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-17T22:35:43.823" Score="1" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a user is tagged with a @ symbol is mentioned  in a comment that they did not start or otherwise were involved in, would they get a notification?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been times in which feedback from specific users would have been helpful in some of my questions, based on them also working in Infosec per their user profile. An example is this &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/106837/communicating-with-prospective-vendor-about-official-documents&quot;&gt;Communicating with prospective vendor about official documents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T21:23:12.023" Title="Visibility of user tags" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5547" CreationDate="2018-09-17T22:41:27.990" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If a user is tagged with a @ symbol is mentioned in a comment that they did not start or otherwise were involved in, would they get a notification?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, these are the situations in which you will receive a notification:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you comment under someone's post (Q or A) they will be notified regardless you used the @ tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If some user commented under some post, you can then proceed to @ tag them and they will be notified.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do note that if a user has not joined the comment thread, or it's not their post they will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be notified (again, as far as I know/recall). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is similar to chat; you can @ tag someone in chat only if they have joined chat recently, otherwise the tagging will be ineffective (and you won't get an auto-complete suggestion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a few words, I think that if you don't get the auto-complete suggestion the user won't be notified, unless it's their own post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt; Consider checking this link David shared from MSE that explains tagging on detail: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/43019/332286&quot;&gt;How do comment @replies work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T21:23:12.023" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T21:23:12.023" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5549" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2018-09-18T18:09:05.637" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Important&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practice, burnination means &lt;strong&gt;editing every question individually, removing the tag and doing any other cleanup required&lt;/strong&gt;.  Moderators do not have any special tools for this purpose.  The only folks who can summarily remove a tag are Stack Exchange employees, but they seldom take that action themselves unless the tag is especially egregious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use this tag for requests to have the tag deleted from the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your request is not to have the tag deleted, but to have it either merged or synonymized into another tag, use &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/merge&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;merge&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;merge&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tag-synonyms&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag-synonyms&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag-synonyms&lt;/a&gt; (respectively).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are requesting that the tag be &lt;strong&gt;blacklisted as well as burninated&lt;/strong&gt;, you should also include the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tag-blacklist-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag-blacklist-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag-blacklist-request&lt;/a&gt; tag on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Before You Request Tag Deletion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the tag has &lt;strong&gt;no questions&lt;/strong&gt; associated with it, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;do not submit a tag deletion request&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Tags with no questions under them are automatically deleted by the system within 24 hours and no action on anyone's part is required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some Background...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Burnination of a tag originally &lt;a href=&quot;/a/101417&quot;&gt;started as a meme&lt;/a&gt; which was often associated with Trogdor the dragon burning the tags with fire. It stands for &lt;strong&gt;simple deletion of a tag&lt;/strong&gt;. Burninating tags does not imply that they will be merged with another tag, synonymized with another tag, or blacklisted altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zm85C.png&quot; alt=&quot;burnated&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Adapted from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/burninate-request/info&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/burninate-request/info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:15:53.183" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:15:53.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5550" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2018-09-18T18:09:05.637" Score="0" Body="Requests to have a tag &quot;burninated&quot; (or deleted) from the system. Use for both requesting a removal, as well as discussing if a tag needs removal." OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:09:05.637" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:09:05.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5551" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2018-09-18T18:37:29.267" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:37:29.267" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:37:29.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5552" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2018-09-18T18:37:29.267" Score="0" Body="This tag is for requests to replace one tag with another existing tag. It also applies to requests that one tag should be merged into another, or simply abandoned. " OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:37:29.267" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:37:29.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5553" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2018-09-18T18:37:49.673" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:37:49.673" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:37:49.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5554" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2018-09-18T18:37:49.673" Score="0" Body="A request to add one tag as the synonym of another tag. Please be specific about which tag should be a synonym of which. Bidirectional synonyms and cycles are implicitly disallowed, so suggest wisely. " OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T18:37:49.673" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:37:49.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5555" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-18T20:09:32.230" Score="-1" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a Stack Overflow user who wanders over to Workplace sometimes via the Hot Network Questions section, I'm not sure I understand the commenting norms here, and would like to present a case study.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently commented, twice, on the answer at &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/119260/25356&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/119260/25356&lt;/a&gt; to point out a misconception that in my view invalidates the entire logic of an answer. The question there is about encouraging coworkers to follow the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nohello.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;nohello&lt;/a&gt; protocol in chat: that is, initiating a conversation with a question instead of saying &quot;hi&quot; and then typing the question. The purpose of this - spelled out by both the nohello website and the OP of the linked question - is to spare the recipient the need to wait and twiddle their thumbs while their interlocutor types out their question, depicted in the example chat on the website as a nearly 2-minute wait. In the words of the website,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's as if you called someone on the phone and said &quot;Hi!&quot; and then put them on hold!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on their own characterization of what nohello is for, the answerer doesn't get this, and has given an answer premised on the belief that the &quot;problem&quot; being solved by nohello is - in their own words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the 10 seconds of additional time required for the brief exchange of greeting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, their answer is to recommend that the OP follows what I guess they see as a compromise when interacting with a coworker who doesn't like nohello:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My advice is to adhere to your &quot;nohello&quot; policy with her when you initiate conversations with her, but to respect her own communication preferences when she's initiating the communication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes sense when viewed with the answerer's stated misconception of what nohello is for. However, it's pointless and illogical in light of the &lt;em&gt;actual purpose&lt;/em&gt; of nohello, as described by the blogger who came up with the protocol. I commented about this, with a comment like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You've misunderstood nohello, and consequently your compromise - that the OP should initiate conversations using nohello style with their coworker who doesn't like it, but not request the same in return - makes no sense. The point of nohello, spelled out clearly at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nohello.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.nohello.com/&lt;/a&gt;, is to spare the person being &lt;em&gt;asked&lt;/em&gt; a question the need to wait several minutes between &quot;hi&quot; and the question. As such, there's no reason for the OP to use nohello when initiating a conversation with her colleague; doing so doesn't help the OP, and just violates her colleague's preferences for no reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The wording above is probably inexact, since I can't view my deleted comments, but captures the spirit of what was written.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This comment got flagged and deleted, so I reposted it, and now it's been deleted again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some observations about this comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The point it's making is probably non-obvious to a casual reader.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's also about as objective as I can imagine any criticism on Workplace being. The answer is logically flawed due to being - explicitly - based upon an assumption about the purpose of nohello that contradicts the purpose spelled out by the OP and the nohello website.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Its content could not reasonably be put into an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;, because it isn't one; it's a criticism of faulty logic in one particular answer, but not in itself an answer to the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The comment doesn't in any way seek to improve the answer, nor can it be (non-disingenuously) framed as a suggestion for improvement. It's pointing out a mistake of reasoning that invalidates the entire thesis of the answer, and as such can't be fixed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over on Stack Overflow, where I'm more familiar with the commenting norms, I make comments like this all the time. Yes, it has sometimes been said that comments are ephemeral and that information of long-term value shouldn't be put in them in the first place, but on Stack Overflow that idea is consistently and explicitly ignored in practice, with mods openly saying that they will not delete comments the contain valuable information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, some questions is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why were my comments deleted in this case? Is this normal?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it the norm here that comments should not be used for criticism of posts? (Or at least that they shouldn't be used for criticisms not directly aimed at getting the answer improved?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it is, doesn't that effectively mean that there is no mechanism for pointing out flaws in the core thesis of a particular answer? Doesn't this community view that lack of a feedback mechanism as a problem?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25356" LastEditorUserId="25356" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T20:26:41.473" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T08:03:33.190" Title="Is using comments to point out flaws in answers frowned upon here?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5555" CreationDate="2018-09-18T20:49:05.363" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all welcome to The Workplace :) and thanks for taking the time to write this post so we can discuss. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why were my comments deleted in this case? Is this normal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;pedantic alert&lt;/em&gt; - It was deleted because some users flagged it and it got automatically erased :/ ... Nah, getting serious, I am also somehow familiar with SO, and in my experience comments are different here than over there. The reason is because of the &lt;strong&gt;completely different nature of the kinds of posts in each site.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see, &lt;strong&gt;asking a question on SO is far more objective and technical than asking here&lt;/strong&gt;. Over there, comments for suggestions or clarifications are really brief and to the point: &lt;em&gt;What happens when you println()...&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Using LibraryX is deprecated, use LibraryY instead because...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;strong&gt;answer over here are a bit more subjective&lt;/strong&gt; (let's recall that &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;good subjective questions are ok&lt;/a&gt;), and perhaps broader than the ones on SO, as they can be seen through many lenses and even may be context-specific. This, I think, is what makes comments a bigger problem on TWP, as they can easily deviate from their purpose, add unnecessary noise to the post, and even derail an answer or question to oblivion (even if it were good). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some months ago we even managed to get a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4848/73791&quot;&gt;custom post notice for controversial posts&lt;/a&gt;, as comments quickly turned nasty or unrelated on such posts, and people focused more on criticizing or insulting the OP instead of asking for clarifications. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... as we have been having some issues with our comments recently (basically a wave of not nice comments, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5378/73791&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for some background), is that we have been more actively flagging and deleting comments that do not stick to what comments are for... so lately it's more common to see a comment get deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it the norm here that comments should not be used for criticism of posts? (Or at least that they shouldn't be used for criticisms not directly aimed at getting the answer improved?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In a way yes.&lt;/em&gt; Basically we are open to &lt;strong&gt;constructive&lt;/strong&gt; criticism, or suggestion for &lt;em&gt;improvements&lt;/em&gt;. However, comments that say &quot;this is wrong&quot;, or &quot;I disagree&quot;, or similar are discouraged. If you want, I suggest you check &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5382/73791&quot;&gt;this answer of mine&lt;/a&gt; of a post where the topic of comments getting deleted is discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We specially discourage answer-comments&lt;/strong&gt;, as well as tangential or one-in-a-million scenarios or interpretation of posts... reading your comment, I'd say it's more of an answer than a suggestion for improvement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You argue that given that it's &quot;just&quot; a criticism &lt;sub&gt;(discouraged)&lt;/sub&gt; on an answer it can't be turned into an answer itself, although I am sure that &lt;strong&gt;with the proper edits and phrasing you can turn it into an answer that &lt;em&gt;complements&lt;/em&gt; the POV of that answer you consider flawed.&lt;/strong&gt; Notice the key word &quot;complements&quot;... such comment doesn't belong as a comment as it is too disruptive to the possibly-flawed answer, and thus would better fit an answer so users can consider both sides of the coin. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If it is, doesn't that effectively mean that there is no mechanism for pointing out flaws in the core thesis of a particular answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. One can post comments in a way that seek to improve the question, or give suggestions in a polite and non-disruptive way. Such comments are OK and are not flag-worthy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, one can post answers that complement or even take a different angle to the problem. This is better than debunking with a comment under an answer, as it gives the Community the chance to consider it, vote it, etc... Users can then judge by themselves by reading all the complementary answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a few words: &lt;strong&gt;If an answer has a core flaw it's better if you post your own that corrects such flaw, downvote if worthy, and carry on&lt;/strong&gt;. The poster will know by the votes and constructive feedback that they may be flawed and rephrase their post (or delete it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Doesn't this community view that lack of a feedback mechanism as a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a bit broad, and I alone can't speak for the Community. However, I fear that this is part of a bigger problem, and that is the Comments on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like I said, lately we've had an increase on the number of comments that are not nice, not constructive, or even comment-answers. Some I've seen are rude or insulting. This worried the Community and led us to think of ways to reduce the rudeness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this increase in flagging may be due to a recent experiment we ran here, with the hopes that it decreased the number of flag-worthy comments: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5320/73791&quot;&gt;Experiment concluded: a comment by any other name&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summing up&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think that we can say that posts here are different in nature than in other sites (more subjective and contextual), and thus, comments are also different.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Recently there has been a rise in not-nice comments, which led us to actively seek solutions to it. In part, some of us suspect this may be due to HNQ and other sites that redirect traffic to TWP with users that are not familiar with the site and its uniqueness. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; open to comments that suggest improvements, or provide constructive criticism to a point. We are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; open to comments that are insulting, rude, tangential, or answer-comments. In all cases we must remember comments are ephemeral. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In TWP, if you see a post that is really flawed, it's best to politely point it out (refraining from pointing fingers or dropping absolute words), DV if applicable, or even post your own answer that corrects the flaw. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T21:31:47.400" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T21:31:47.400" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5555" CreationDate="2018-09-18T21:34:38.927" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome, Mark. I'm not a mod nor was I involved in that thread, but here are my (general) thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are correct that comments can often be viewed a little differently here than on other more technical SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such I find there is a fine line between the following two comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;-1, this answer seems to misunderstand the point behind &lt;strong&gt;nohello&lt;/strong&gt; (link)&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Let me write you an essay about why I believe this answer is an inadequate response to the question as posted. First of all... (1 of 125)&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, the former is preferred. (But even these types of comments aren't guaranteed to stick around.) Or even better, just upvote an earlier critical comment, if there is one. Or sometimes you can just let your downvote on the answer speak for itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look, I am an &lt;em&gt;extremely verbose commenter&lt;/em&gt;. I have &lt;em&gt;entire chatrooms&lt;/em&gt; I have filled with &lt;em&gt;days&lt;/em&gt; of argumentation on all kinds of topics, on this SE site and others. I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; often make comments of the latter more verbose/argumentative style, but I also know that that the chatroom is really the &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; place for these kinds of discussions, and that it is highly likely that comments like this will eventually be moved to a chatroom, or deleted outright. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And when that inevitably happens, I am careful not to re-post, because I know someone has already looked at it and made a decision about it. :shrug:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10387" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T21:34:38.927" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5558" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-19T00:24:30.273" Score="9" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I took some time to do some cleaning and organizing of our tags here on Meta TWP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What inspired me to do so is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5006/73791&quot;&gt;our tags are kind of a mess&lt;/a&gt; right now, and also because I noticed we have requests to burninate but had no tag for such requests. I also noticed some inconsistencies on the previous tags used to indicate a synonym or re-tag request. Also, none of them had excerpt or wiki. Thus, here are the things I did:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Created the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/burninate-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;burninate-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;burninate-request&lt;/a&gt; tag, along with its excerpt and Guidance Wiki&lt;/strong&gt;. Then, proceeded to include such tag on all burninate request posts I could find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Created the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/retag-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;retag-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;retag-request&lt;/a&gt; tag, along with its excerpt.&lt;/strong&gt; Previously, we were using the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/merge&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;merge&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;merge&lt;/a&gt; tag on retag request posts, or even the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/retagging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;retagging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;retagging&lt;/a&gt; tag. However this was confusing as the merge tag was also used in question merge requests, and retagging reads more like the process itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this new wording is consistent to the one used in other sites. Thus, I also proceeded to retag/merge the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/merge&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;merge&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;merge&lt;/a&gt; for the new &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/retag-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;retag-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;retag-request&lt;/a&gt; on all posts I could find that applied (talk about inception).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Created the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/synonym-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;synonym-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;synonym-request&lt;/a&gt; tag, along with its excerpt.&lt;/strong&gt; Previously we used the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tag-synonyms&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag-synonyms&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag-synonyms&lt;/a&gt; tag for such, but it lacked description and also a more adequate name (as &amp;quot;tag synonyms&amp;quot; reads more about the synonyms &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt;, not about a request to create one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides being more adequate, this wording is also consistent to the one used on other sites on the network. I also proceeded to include and re-tag all posts that applied and that I could find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am writing this post to let you all know about these changes I did, so we can all &lt;em&gt;be aware of the new, proper tags, and use them when they correspond&lt;/em&gt;. Hopefully this will bring more structure and consistency to our tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I would like to hear any &lt;strong&gt;feedback and suggestions you may have that could help further organize and improve our tags&lt;/strong&gt;, as well as any issues you may see with this (although I think organizing tags can hardly have drawbacks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T00:29:47.687" Title="Announcement: Some cleaning and changes done to our Meta Tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5555" CreationDate="2018-09-19T02:29:55.160" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You keep stating that I don't understand the premise of nohello... based on a comment that was made as part of a comment discussion with another user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Parts of that other comment discussion were moved to chat or deleted, leaving a couple of comments that have some seemingly relevant information, but which are missing context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I point this out as an example of why comments are not generally well suited for discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More relevant is the answer, which, to put simply, is &quot;it isn't appropriate to insist your coworker adhere to your personal nohello policy, because they're entitled to place more personal value on the social interactions than you do.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To which, going by your comments, your objection is &quot;but then nohello doesn't work!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have focused, seemingly exclusively, on a &lt;strong&gt;comment&lt;/strong&gt;, to the point where you believe my advice of a compromise is intended to make both methods of communication &quot;work&quot;, when my answer explicitly states that it isn't appropriate to try and force a coworker to adhere to nohello if they don't want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments that were there before you arrived have distracted from the actual, meaningful content, to the point where you are trying to &quot;fix&quot; a problem that doesn't actually exist (your belief that my entire answer is built on a fundamental misunderstanding of what nohello is supposed to accomplish, as opposed to my belief that a coworker shouldn't force that policy on an unwilling coworker, no matter how beneficial it may be to the OP).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are pretty significant weaknesses of comments, and why this site, and many others, strongly discourage comments that don't relate to clarifying or improving questions or answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saying &quot;here's why your answer is wrong&quot; isn't generally something that results in an improvement, unless worded very carefully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which brings us to another issue with your comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your tone, from the start, was exceptionally combative and condescending.  You accused me of completely failing to understand the purpose of nohello (ironically while drastocally misinterpreting my answer).  You later claimed I was &quot;making up things I couldn't possibly know&quot;, after I mistakenly assumed that you were so focused on the benefits of nohello because of personal support of the nohello concept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been on SE for a long time, and I've been active in a number of SE sites.  I have edited &lt;strong&gt;many&lt;/strong&gt; of my answers in response to feedback from comments.  A number of times I have completely rewritten answers after other users have pointed out mistakes in my reasoning.  I've outright deleted a few.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in each case, the comments that initiated these revisions were at least civil.  The majority were respectful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found your comments to be neither.  You were, as I said, combative, as well as condescending and (in my opinion) rude.  I didn't find them constructive at all; yo seemed to be using comments strictly to complain about my answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not what comments are for.  That's what downvotes are for.  If you don't like my answer, downvote, or participate on the site enough until you earn downvote privileges.  You're familiar enough with the platform to know how it's supposed to work.  Alternately, suggest improvements. Tell me what I can change to make it better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't just complain about an answer in comments while insulting the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it isn't what you say, but how you say it. In this case, I feel you fell short on both.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="640" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T02:29:55.160" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5555" CreationDate="2018-09-19T07:54:46.770" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why were my comments deleted in this case? Is this normal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several moderators were involved in cleanup on that answer and I can't speak for them. It will likely be a combination of comments devolving into a discussion, the less-than-constructive attitude in several of the comments, and the overall failure to agree to disagree when it's clear that the post author doesn't agree with your comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that point you should have let it go. Beofett made several excellent points in his comments that you should have considered. He's given a detailed explanation in his answer to this post. In the end its his answer and your ability to influence it ends where his right to stand by it begins. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it the norm here that comments should not be used for criticism of posts? (Or at least that they shouldn't be used for criticisms not directly aimed at getting the answer improved?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking yes. We have a complicated relationship with comments that are critical and don't fall into the &quot;suggesting improvements&quot; category. Pointing out things an answer failed to consider or explaining how some aspect of the question invalidates an answer is, in my personal view, a valid use of comments. Typically it accompanies a downvote and provides a rationale for said downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, in previous threads many people have taken the view that the post author has the right to stand by his answer and disregard such comments. At that point some people feel that the comment should be removed as being purely critical and no longer constructive. I do not fully agree, but it's a large gray area. If someone nitpicks an answer with things that are not relevant or largely noise, I'd be tempted to delete them. If crucial flaws or potential game-changing aspects are mentioned in comments and the pos author chooses not to update their answer, as is their right, I would likely leave the comments up as pointing &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But&lt;/strong&gt;, if the comments devolve into bickering and both sides (or one side) insist on arguing that the answer is wrong, naive, useless, ... then those comments will &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; rapidly end up disappearing. Moderators as well as people who flag comments do not look favourably on that kind of comment noise. It very quickly reaches the point where the ongoing discussion negates any value that an initial point of criticism would have had in framing or qualifying the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If it is, doesn't that effectively mean that there is no mechanism for pointing out flaws in the core thesis of a particular answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is: do so constructively. You can point out a potential flaw or something the OP hasn't considered and leave it at that. If the OP responds and defends their answer, again, as is their right, &lt;strong&gt;accept that&lt;/strong&gt;. You have nothing to gain by arguing and should agree to disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can keep it civil, you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; respond as long as you're doing so to try and improve the answer or your understanding of it. But if at any point you find yourself arguing, you should probably disengage. If you don't, comment deletions will probably do so for you before long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, the currently-still-up comments between Beofett and DoritoStyle which concerned a point on the cost of disruptions is a fairly decent example of comments used to qualify an answer. The since-deleted follow-up comments were an example of when the discussion becomes unproductive but seem to have been self-deleted mostly, which I'll take as the users involved agreeing to disagree. But the comment points out something that readers can consider and Beofett provided a counter-argument. I personally feel this overall improves the answer by providing additional context, though I know some people will consider these comments to have become obsolete. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2018-09-19T08:03:33.190" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T08:03:33.190" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5561" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-19T12:32:58.247" Score="-3" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I posted an answer to a new users question, my answer appears to be contentious, so I've tried to reduce the contention.  But the comments and other answer seem to be outright abusive.  I have no idea how to reduce this short of deleting my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just encase the comments section ends up in chat (where it really should have gone) I've attached an image of the comments so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/119459/hr-treating-new-hires-like-kids/119460?noredirect=1#comment373948_119460&quot;&gt;HR treating new hires like kids&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So meta obviously is for asking 'meta' questions,  so I'm simply going to ask.  &lt;strong&gt;Is it 'wrong' to post a contentious answer?&lt;/strong&gt;  It seems like the possible damage from the backlash to my answer is way higher than the value in the answer.  If I had said nothing, then the OP would have had one or two answers of &quot;you're behaving like a child&quot; instead of a running commentary under my answer from a half dozen people reiterating that the OP is being childish and worse (more abusive) comments than than.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ItYQp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ItYQp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54734" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T13:05:46.030" Title="Unbelievable level of abuse at OP" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5561" CreationDate="2018-09-19T13:04:05.270" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt; it is not &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; to post such an answer.  However it is also not wrong for people to not like your answer and comment on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the comments are rude, flag them as such and move on.  Our moderators are very good at taking out garbage comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest, respectfully, that you try to look at how your answer might be perceived by others.  It might explain the votes and comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T13:04:05.270" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5561" CreationDate="2018-09-19T13:05:46.030" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's not an unbelievable amount of abuse here.  There's been one comment, which you've flagged and has since been removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are, unfortunately, times where people who ask questions are reminded that they should face reality and that life isn't always fair, or easy.  Some people answering are more direct than others (sometimes people can be &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; direct).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see someone acting in an abusive/derogatory/bigotted manner, then please flag it as appropriate and we'll look into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also context here to be taken into account - training sessions typically require an acceptable level of punctuality, otherwise everyone in the class is affected when someone turns up late.  This explains why people leading training sessions are quite firm on this matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T13:05:46.030" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5564" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5565" CreationDate="2018-09-19T16:12:49.117" Score="0" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple of my recent questions have gotten a lot of downvotes and delete votes for each - the questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/119440/is-it-rude-and-unprofessional-for-a-hiring-manager-to-check-with-my-references-b&quot;&gt;Is it rude and unprofessional for a hiring manager to check with my references before deciding whether to make the verbal offer official?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/119447/offer-downgraded-to-temp-to-perm-from-permanent-how-should-i-proceed&quot;&gt;Offer downgraded to temp-to-perm, from permanent - how should I proceed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sense some hostility on this forum, although I'm not sure why though - I'm not on here much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are my questions actually bad quality?  If so, how can I improve them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a moderator that can look into this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Joe and others who have taken the time to write great answers and leave valuable comments to my questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88515" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T20:43:37.447" Title="Getting downvotes and delete votes for my recent questions" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5564" CreationDate="2018-09-19T16:34:05.650" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a moderator that can look into this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that if you need to raise a post to Mod attention you can always flag for such, or see if anyone is in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are my questions actually bad quality? If so, how can I improve them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually answered one of those posts, so I do consider that one answerable. Perhaps it was not the best phrasing you could make, but it surely wasn't terrible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A suggestion, &lt;strong&gt;avoid using &lt;em&gt;&quot;Should I&quot;&lt;/em&gt; on your posts&lt;/strong&gt;, as that tends to attract votes to close as most of the time it ends up being an off-topic question (because it's basically asking for us to make a choice, which is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695/73791&quot;&gt;off-topic for the site&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, regarding the other post (the reference one) I am clueless why so many downvotes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was closed because it seems the question was asked before, and thus closed as duplicate. However, the -6 votes seem a bit exaggerated. Still, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/215397/332286&quot;&gt;the reasons for why users Downvote are unknown&lt;/a&gt;, so don't worry much about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ever &lt;strong&gt;feel hostility or that something is not ok feel free to Mod Flag&lt;/strong&gt;, or ask in chat or here as you did now. Sorry if this was your first impressions on the site, I assure you this is not the standard here :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-19T16:49:56.313" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T16:49:56.313" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5564" CreationDate="2018-09-19T20:43:37.447" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators can't do anything about downvotes - that's the community at work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you want someone to look into the voting behaviour, then you can use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;&quot;contact us&quot;&lt;/a&gt; form  to ask the community team (the level above diamond moderators) if you appear to be a victim of targeted downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for your -6 score seems fairly self-apparent if you look at the linked duplicate which points out that it's quite normal practice to ask for references before being handed a formal offer.  Unfortunately, questions that are common-knowledge in nature tend to collect downvotes (since the answer would have been apparent given some research).  And suggesting that the hiring manager is &quot;rude and unprofessional&quot; does seem to be inviting negativity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your other question, you're asking us to help you make a rather opinion-based career decision, for which we have a specific close reason.  We can't make life decisions for people in this way because there's so many variables to take into account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, people do answer these kinds of questions because they have some advice to impart.  While it's great that people want to help, leaving this kind of question open can result in answers offering wildly different advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T20:43:37.447" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5539" CreationDate="2018-09-20T19:06:30.540" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are criteria on what legal questions can and can't be asked.  We as a community need to work harder to actually enforce these criteria rather than throwing on close votes the second legality is mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26235" LastActivityDate="2018-09-20T19:06:30.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5568" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5570" CreationDate="2018-09-21T20:02:40.813" Score="3" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this question yesterday, which appears to have been voted closed as 'too broad':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/119572/how-can-i-gauge-market-demand-for-my-skills-before-going-freelance?noredirect=1#comment374482_119572&quot;&gt;How can I gauge market demand for my skills before going freelance?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this question closed appropriately? I don't agree that the question is 'too broad' - it seems to me to be scoped appropriately, in a way that is comparable with most other questions that are asked on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is too broad, how should I change it to make it more appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it isn't too broad, is it possible that it could be re-opened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88516" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-21T22:56:33.290" LastActivityDate="2018-09-21T22:56:33.290" Title="(Done) Reopen: How can I gauge market demand for my skills before going freelance?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5568" CreationDate="2018-09-21T20:18:37.320" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The post is now open again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Was this question closed appropriately? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't agree that the question should be closed.&lt;/strong&gt; It already has an answer so it is &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question in the title is definitely ok and answerable. The second question on the body &lt;em&gt;perhaps&lt;/em&gt; could be a bit broad, but not something extreme (IMHO that is)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I casted a vote to Reopen, currently 2 votes are casted...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-21T22:56:18.777" LastActivityDate="2018-09-21T22:56:18.777" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5568" CreationDate="2018-09-21T20:24:53.443" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made some small edits and voted to reopen as well. I removed a statement about your specific background to make it less about you and more about the process of determining your value. I also added a question to hopefully more explicitly call out what you are trying to determine. Feel free to edit the question further if you don't think I fully addressed what you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-09-21T20:24:53.443" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5571" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-24T08:01:47.720" Score="6" ViewCount="307" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice questions getting delete votes that IMO should not be deleted. Current examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/119297/should-i-ask-for-my-job-back-after-being-terminated&quot;&gt;Should I ask for my job back after being terminated?&lt;/a&gt; (2 votes)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;del&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/119380/should-i-recommend-a-fired-colleague&quot;&gt;Should I recommend a fired colleague?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/del&gt; No longer the case&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/133270/is-it-legal-for-company-to-use-my-work-email-to-pretend-i-still-work-there&quot;&gt;Is it legal for company to use my work email to pretend I still work there?&lt;/a&gt;  (1 vote)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;That last one is a blatant example of an incorrect delete vote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;END UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions, though closed as off-topic, certainly do not meet the requirements for deletion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/413/delete-votes-and-you&quot;&gt;Generally we only delete closed, low scoring posts with no answers or poor answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5500/when-flagging-to-delete-your-question-please-tell-us-the-reason&quot;&gt;if the question has received upvoted answers, we will usually not delete the question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221/how-does-deleting-work-what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that&quot;&gt;a post that no longer adds anything to the site should be deleted.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They have upvoted answers with serious content.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Please people, 'closed' is not the same as 'delete it'. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pIkkzDagsY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Let's be careful out there&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I have even seen questions that have both delete and reopen votes at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8036" LastEditorDisplayName="user8036" LastEditDate="2019-04-19T11:04:11.730" LastActivityDate="2019-04-19T11:04:11.730" Title="Can we be careful with delete votes?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5572" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5573" CreationDate="2018-09-24T19:20:40.980" Score="2" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/119611/how-to-handle-a-group-activity-during-an-interview-when-the-participants-are-app&quot;&gt;How to handle a group activity during an interview when the participants are applying for the same job as you?&lt;/a&gt; was recently closed for being too broad. Honestly, I have absolutely no idea why. The question is perfectly clear and answerable as is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to request that this question be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-24T22:31:23.070" LastActivityDate="2018-09-24T22:31:23.070" Title="(Done) Reopen: &quot;How to handle a group activity during an interview...&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5572" CreationDate="2018-09-24T20:40:37.193" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The post is open again now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that this post is answerable (it already has some) and should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Casted the 4th vote...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-24T22:31:06.360" LastActivityDate="2018-09-24T22:31:06.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5574" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5575" CreationDate="2018-09-25T13:14:52.257" Score="4" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;None of my Rep changes (positive or negative) are showing up in the achievements drop down in the top nav bar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I gained rep today and my total rep is correct, but I did not receive the notification. Not sure if this should be posted in our meta, or if this is a SE problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2018-10-02T23:53:34.780" LastActivityDate="2018-10-02T23:53:34.780" Title="Rep changes not popping up in navbar (FIXED)" Tags="|bug|status-completed|reputation|notifications|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5574" CreationDate="2018-09-25T17:25:53.633" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; Seems that the rep changes are now reported immediately, as well as the ones that weren't reported are now on, and the total rep matches the one made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems that this is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/315912/332286&quot;&gt;starting to get fixed&lt;/a&gt;. I am now starting to receive notifications from rep changes that weren't reported before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, not getting all of them, nor the number matches the total rep yet, but perhaps in a while it will catch up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KN7y0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KN7y0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-09-25T18:39:02.543" LastActivityDate="2018-09-25T18:39:02.543" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5576" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5581" CreationDate="2018-09-26T13:46:56.047" Score="8" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/119757/9549&quot;&gt;What if I&amp;#39;m a better developer than my Team Leader?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;asks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So what if I'm a better developer than my Team Leader? Should I try to &quot;take his place&quot; as a team leader?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which was closed as asking for advice on a specific choice. I will make the case that this is not what the question is asking at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is asking&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does the Team Lead need to be the best craftsman in the team&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do good craftsmen make good leaders of same &lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;(which not entirely the same as above)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I try to take the lead's place if the lead is not a good craftsman&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I deal with my team lead's poor craftsmanship (frame challenge)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would normally edit and vote to reopen, but this question can be saved in multiple ways so I thought I should put it to you first. I think it's very much worth saving (attested to by an excellent answer), so what's the best way to go about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastEditorUserId="9549" LastEditDate="2018-09-27T12:17:37.787" LastActivityDate="2018-09-27T12:17:37.787" Title="(Done) Reopen: What if I'm a better developer than my Team Leader?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5576" CreationDate="2018-09-26T15:42:29.707" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Took an edit to the question. Removed the &quot;should I&quot; parts, and reworded some of the questions asked so they are more on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also completely replaced the tags used, as they were not closely related to the content of the post. Casted the 2nd vote...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-09-26T15:42:29.707" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5578" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-27T01:11:54.220" Score="-13" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been downvoted &lt;strong&gt;unfairly&lt;/strong&gt; at least 26 times in one of my recent answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WqZMm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WqZMm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is bad because if my answer was really rubbish, why would the three voters upvoted my answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem started when my answer started at -1. I was unlucky that my first response was a downvote, otherwise everything else would have been fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This meta-post is similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4567/how-can-we-discourage-ganging-up-with-downvotes&quot;&gt;https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4567/how-can-we-discourage-ganging-up-with-downvotes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It has been my experience on multiple answers and even on closure&#xA;  votes on questions that unreasonable downvoting occurs like a flock of&#xA;  geese landing on a pond, more of a follow-the-leader activity, as&#xA;  contrasted to independent, original, individual thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can we do to discourage the bandwagon effect here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edited:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the responses by our mods and everybody else. May I please remind the following comments by a user:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this excellent answer got 29 downvotes, so it does happen, I don't think it's a huge issue though, I usually only get around 10 downvotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have independent data to confirm gang downvoting does happen. I'm not trying to cause trouble here, just trying to point out the possibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64317" LastEditorUserId="64317" LastEditDate="2018-09-27T13:10:20.130" LastActivityDate="2018-09-27T20:29:42.373" Title="How can we discourage ganging up with downvotes?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5578" CreationDate="2018-09-27T01:20:57.840" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;People downvoted your answer because they think it is a &lt;strong&gt;bad answer&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to avoid the &quot;bandwagon effect&quot; don't write an answer which the majority of people who read think is bad advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, this part is just a bad idea (and you do not attempt to explain how the OP should do it &lt;em&gt;nor&lt;/em&gt; why it's a good idea):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Consider to send an anonymous &quot;tip-off &quot; (described in the article) to the HR. Add a video of the incident if you have any. Your workmate has a senior position, he needs to take responsibility for his actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some reasons your answer is bad:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You do not explain how doing this will not result in negative repercussions for the OP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You do not address the OP's actions at all&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You do not justify why the OP should follow your advice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The article you compare it to involves prostitution (including Nazi related stuff) - this is a &lt;em&gt;game&lt;/em&gt; and you do not address the drastically different impact on company image that result from the OP's situation and the article you link&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You specifically call out the OP's coworker as engaging in certain levels of &quot;integrity issues&quot; and ignore how the OP behaved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all unrelated but valid reasons for downvoting your answer. Given that it was on the Hot Network Questions list, it's unsurprising many of the other viewers see some of these or perhaps even other reasons to downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is bad because if my answer was really rubbish, why would the three voters upvoted my answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People upvote bad content all the time for a whole manner of different reasons. Sympathy upvotes, clicking the wrong button, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not make the assumption that since almost 11% of those that felt compelled to vote on your answer gave it an upvote that it is somehow a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers on Workplace overwhelmingly receive upvotes vs downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2018-09-27T01:20:57.840" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5578" CreationDate="2018-09-27T06:28:03.997" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a numbers thing going on here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question for your answer has gained over 30,000 views, and the top three answers share over 1,000 votes between them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the majority of people, the answer to this question is relatively straight-forward - what happens outside of the workplace generally stays outside of the workplace.  This is about someone yelling at someone they don't know on the internet; it's not about a bank employee committing tax fraud (which is the story of your linked article).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is basically why you garnered downvotes here - you proposed an answer that people felt was obviously wrong and downvoted accordingly because they felt it was bad advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also reputation to take into account.  People who frequent this site get to know who also frequents the site.  People get a reputation for providing thoughtful, high-quality answers, some for being on-target and direct, some for being concise and clear.  Unfortunately, the majority of your answers have negative scores and the can predispose people to assume that your answers are going to be low-quality in nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monica pointed out in a comment your voting pattern, where the vast majority of votes you give are downward in nature.  You say this isn't relevant, but unfortunately, it is.  Even before I was a moderator, I noticed odd single downvotes on otherwise successful questions.  When I looked at the answer, I noticed that other answers all had a downvote each.  It didn't take a lot to figure out the pattern.  If I can work it out, then I'm sure a lot of other people have too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although downvotes should only be cast if the voter believes that the answer offers bad advice, people do vote for personal reasons as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-09-27T06:28:03.997" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5576" CreationDate="2018-09-27T12:12:33.483" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Final reopen vote cast and the question is now open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-09-27T12:12:33.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5578" CreationDate="2018-09-27T12:19:33.593" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What can we do to discourage the bandwagon effect here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The design and gamification of the site tend to encourage bandwagon effects. Displaying net points, ordering answers by score, rewarding the first response, badges, chit-chat rooms, etc - all make it easier for folks to jump in quickly with upvotes, downvotes, close votes, comments, etc. Thoughfulness and tempered responses aren't rewarded quite as much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if we really wanted to discourage these effects, we wouldn't provide so much visual feedback. We might modify how reputation points are used. We would downplay much of the gamification throughout the site. We might limit comments. We'd work to slow down responses. Lots of possibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But none of those are actually going to happen. Gamification is what this site is all about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I don't know how much of a real problem we have at The Workplace. I'd like to see someone run a query or two to find out how many answers have been severely downvoted in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course it's hard to prove that &quot;bandwagoning&quot; actually took place for any one question/answer. This particular question attracted a lot of attention (&quot;gamer questions&quot; do that, I suspect), a lot of votes on several answers, a lot of strong comments, and clearly a lot of strong feelings. Thus, it wouldn't be surprising to find one answer attracting a lot of negative votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hard to label all downvotes as &quot;unfair&quot;. And the site has lots of downvotes on lots of answers. This particular question had several answers that were downvoted. I think it's clear that not all the downvotes could possibly be unfair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this instance, I'm not sure there is actually a problem that needs to be solved. It seems to me that @Snow 's query bears that out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2018-09-27T20:29:42.373" LastActivityDate="2018-09-27T20:29:42.373" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5578" CreationDate="2018-09-27T15:17:36.223" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth I'm one of those 26 people and I can categorically state that I downvoted your answer for no other reason than the fact that I believed it to be a terrible answer that gave extremely poor advice. I'm sorry if you feel unfairly treated by that but all I can say is that I vote on answers based purely on their content, not on the score they already have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know the motivations of the other 25 downvoters and I'm not going to presume to speak for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I'm sure downvote bandwagons have occurred on this site and will no doubt happen again, looking at the relative rarity of large numbers of downvotes on TWP it doesn't appear to be a huge problem - which is good because I imagine it would be remarkably difficult to stamp out completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-09-27T15:17:36.223" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5584" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5585" CreationDate="2018-09-27T23:30:20.250" Score="-3" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post in question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/119885/73791&quot;&gt;Software license not valid in my country; how to handle being asked to use it anyways?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I first edited and then answered the post. However, some time later I found a duplicate of such, and proceeded to VTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, and before I VTC'd, other users also casted their votes. However, those were note dupe votes, but company-specific votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post finally reached 5 votes, and became closed. The votes in the end seem to be 3 votes for company-specific, and 2 for duplicate... &lt;strong&gt;but the target duplicate is not shown on the top of the post&lt;/strong&gt;, as in other cases I've seen. Instead, it just lists the company-specific one, and says which 3 users casted the vote (but mine and the other do not show up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if this had something to do with the multiple VTC reasons. However, in the past I've seen posts closed for multiple reasons, but (IIRC) all of the reasons are displayed and not only the one with more votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anybody has an explanation for this?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-09-28T01:04:22.453" Title="Why does this closed post does not show the target duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5584" CreationDate="2018-09-28T01:04:22.453" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For close reasons, the majority rules.  Duplicate links are only shown in the question body for duplicates or when there's an active duplicate close vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could reopen it and close as duplicate instead, since those other close votes came in before the dupe was found.  The questions look a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; different to me (though maybe not in a way that matters), so I'd like to see a little support for doing that before mod-hammering it.  Thoughts, everyone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-09-28T01:04:22.453" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5590" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-01T19:23:04.373" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I have &gt; 10k rep I can vote to delete questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed several time on page &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tools?tab=delete&amp;amp;daterange=last2days&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tools?tab=delete&amp;amp;daterange=last2days&lt;/a&gt; that some delete votes click through to &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; not &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;, and over there nothing about deletion is visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently in view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/slok1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/slok1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That top one links to answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/120063/8036&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/120063/8036&lt;/a&gt;, but I see no delete votes there (as they would appear under a question), and I think I have also never seen the possibility to add a delete vote with one of these &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; (yes, I'm aware of the delay period of 2 days after closure):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vtID8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vtID8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What am I missing here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does voting to delete answers require more rep?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does that top answer currently have 1 or 2 delete votes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the significance of the smaller font - does that indicate an answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8036" LastEditorDisplayName="user8036" LastEditDate="2018-10-01T20:06:29.600" LastActivityDate="2018-10-02T13:42:08.993" Title="Delete answers not visible; neither is their delete vote" Tags="|support|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5590" CreationDate="2018-10-02T01:59:42.883" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does voting to delete answers require more rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;From 20k reputation privileges&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are trusted users?&#xA;Trusted users are allowed to perform trusted actions, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Voting to delete answers with score of -1 or lower&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting to undelete answers except those deleted by a moderator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting to delete questions with a score of -3 or lower immediately after they are closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other two questions you have I'm not sure about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-10-02T01:59:42.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5590" CreationDate="2018-10-02T02:48:05.927" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need 10k rep to delete questions but 20k to delete answers.  However, there's only one &quot;delete votes&quot; page where you're seeing this, and it's computed for the site, not for individual users.  Unfortunately that means that, yes, you'll see some things there that you can't vote on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The larger font size is for questions and the smaller font size is for answers.  The number to the left of the link is the number of votes that have already been cast. I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; the number in parentheses to the right is the number of additional votes needed, but I'm not sure.  (While it usually takes three votes and you'd think you could derive the one from the other, it takes more votes to delete a highly-upvoted question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-10-02T13:42:08.993" LastActivityDate="2018-10-02T13:42:08.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5593" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5621" CreationDate="2018-10-02T09:59:01.100" Score="12" ViewCount="504" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have enjoyed my first few months here at the Workplace, and I found the community to be very helpful, with insightful and mind opening discussions.&#xA;However, in the last six months, something changed. I started feeling more and more hostility from this website, with more direct attacks, quickly closed questions and harsh remarks. And it's not a matter of rules, because most questions could be shut down using the &quot;it depends&quot; justification, that is just an excuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it was a turnover in the community, and I don't have data to support my impression, but I realised that, while at the beginning I was always eager to visit and interact with The Workplace, over time I have started steering away from it, as I associated it with negativity.&#xA;It's a shame, but right now, when I have a question related to work, I think twice before going to The Workplace, as in most cases I will be meeting not helpfulness and collaboration, but hostility and self-aggrandisement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am keeping my account for the moment, but I felt it was right to give some feedback on the current situation. Feel free to comment, or even better, Close/Delete/Deride this post. Thanks for reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38290" LastActivityDate="2018-10-08T09:15:41.573" Title="Why does it have to be this harsh?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5593" CreationDate="2018-10-02T10:26:42.587" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry you're feeling that way Monoandale :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do find myself nodding along in agreement with you though - there's been a significant shift in the atmosphere over the last few months (and not for the better).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what the root cause is - there was definitely some pretty serious unpleasantness around the recent moderator elections and I know that has lead to at least two prominent members deciding to walk away from the site but that alone doesn't account for all that I'm seeing in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trigger-happiness with close votes has been an issue on here for some time and recently seems to have gotten worse - perhaps because some of the members who used to push to get questions fixed/reopened aren't here any more or are feeling a bit too jaded to put the effort in. Similarly with the handling of the negative/harsh comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that I'm sounding pretty doom-and-gloom about the situation, and yes I do think it's a real issue but I also know that there are still a lot of really good users here who believe in helping people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ever find yourself wondering whether to post a question and are concerned about the potential reception come in to &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;The Water Cooler&lt;/a&gt; and have a chat - there's usually a few of the regulars kicking about in there who will be happy to chew the fat over an issue, even if it's something that would be considered legitimately off-topic for the main site. During the day (UK time) we also often have one of our friendly neighbourhood mods (Snow) in there as well and despite his prediliction for listening to large amounts of Taylor Swift songs he's a good guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PS:&lt;/strong&gt; It could be worse.. it's not like we're Stack Overflow or anything ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-10-02T10:26:42.587" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5593" CreationDate="2018-10-02T10:40:33.797" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't worry about it, I've been here for quite a while and haven't seen anything like that in terms of questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people have had personal issue, perhaps justified, perhaps not. But in general everything is pretty much the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joe hands out excellent advice to all and sundry and the rest of us try our best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-10-02T10:40:33.797" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5596" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5597" CreationDate="2018-10-02T12:50:52.847" Score="2" ViewCount="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120092/is-it-worth-to-quit-my-internship-after-first-day&quot;&gt;Is it worth to quit my internship after first day?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As originally worded this was clearly a close candidate under &quot;specific choice&quot;, however I've edited it to a (hopefully) more SE-friendly format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO it's now worth re-opening as it essentially becomes &quot;costs for getting to/doing work higher than expected, any options other than to quit?&quot; which is something that could apply quite generally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-10-02T15:36:13.710" LastActivityDate="2018-10-02T15:36:13.710" Title="(Done) Re-Open question on quitting internship due to transport costs" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5596" CreationDate="2018-10-02T13:13:59.413" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just cast the 5th reopen vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2018-10-02T13:13:59.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5598" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5600" CreationDate="2018-10-02T13:20:30.280" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120084/ive-been-looking-for-an-out-of-state-job-for-6-months-now-what-else-could-i-do&quot;&gt;I've been looking for an out-of-state job for 6 months now, what else could I do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;^ this question was closed for &quot;specific choice&quot;, however I think the core of the question was actually about looking for suggestions for other strategies/tactics to try in the OP's search (rather than a &quot;should I do this or not?&quot; question) so I've done an edit to try and make that clearer and IMO it is now answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-10-02T15:35:25.670" LastActivityDate="2018-10-02T15:35:25.670" Title="(Done) Re-Open: question on looking for out of state job and changing careers" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5593" CreationDate="2018-10-02T13:58:28.367" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;People need to flag things if this is the case. And raise posts on meta when questions are closed unfairly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, do these things!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As moderators, we have a limited view into what is happening on the main site as we cannot possibly read everything (sorry, we're humans...). If there are users that are consistently causing issues we will not know unless there are flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good exercise if you feel too many questions are closed would be to take a list of say 10 or more and post them asking for explanations to why they are closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should also note that Workplace has held steady around 50% question close rate. I don't have any fancy SEDE-fu to write a nice query but the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tools/question-close-stats?daterange=last90days&quot;&gt;moderator tools link&lt;/a&gt; (10k users only, I guess) consistently shows just over 50% of questions closed and has as long as I can remember. It's possible I'm misremembering the overall close rate but I do recall it staying somewhat consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more troublesome statistic there to me is only 15%ish of closed questions are ever edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2018-10-02T13:58:28.367" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5598" CreationDate="2018-10-02T14:21:53.370" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cast the fifth reopen vote just now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2018-10-02T14:21:53.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5601" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-02T16:16:57.090" Score="0" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120043/being-told-youre-not-liked-and-asked-to-quit-at-work&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was closed using the &quot;company specific/legal advice&quot; reason, personally I think this was incorrect. From the meta post addressing that close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions should be able to be answered by an HR professional in another company&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any UK HR professional who doesn't know whether the described situation qualifies as harassment under the Equality Act (and in fact it's general applicability) has done a serious amount of lying to get into (and keep) their job so this doesn't count as seeking legal advice just because he mentioned the name of a piece of legislation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nor does this only really address a specific company since the situation could easily occur in any company in any field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-10-02T17:15:00.267" LastActivityDate="2018-10-02T17:15:00.267" Title="(Done) Re-Open: Being told you're not liked and should quit" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5601" CreationDate="2018-10-02T16:21:09.210" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edited the title for extra clarity and reopened.  (There were three other votes already.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-10-02T16:21:09.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5603" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-02T16:24:47.217" Score="13" ViewCount="341" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=close+too+much&quot;&gt;The Workplace's question close rate has been oft discussed on meta here&lt;/a&gt;. If you've been around here more than a few minutes, you probably are aware of all the words written on the subject, opinions, and walls of text on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't going to be one of those. Instead, it's a challenge to us collectively as a community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let's edit/reopen more questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If each of the hundreds of us who have received 1000+ reputation this year edits a single question a week to make it on topic, we can easily make these numbers for the past 90 days(&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tools/question-close-stats?daterange=last90days&quot;&gt;taken from the 10k user tools&lt;/a&gt;, boxes mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UShrY.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UShrY.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's collectively make these look different in a positive way. Right now, a reasonably small percentages of closed questions are edited at all (the first column) and often when they do get edited, they don't get reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even assuming some questions are not redeemable through edits, there are a lot of possible questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After 90 days, we can checkin again and see how we're doing (this happens to be January 1st of 2019).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In closing, while there are a ton of meta posts I could link to, I'll link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2220/2322&quot;&gt;jmac's post from years ago&lt;/a&gt; which is just as relevant now as it was then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Logistics&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find yourself making an edit specifically for this purpose, go ahead and add it as an answer below. Once questions are reopened, we can clean up the answers (either you or us as moderators) and keep the list of answers questions currently needing eyes and also make it more obvious when there is an edit associated with this effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can keep the questions (as answers) here until they are non-negative in voting, too, if that applies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2018-10-03T01:42:18.947" LastActivityDate="2018-11-05T18:44:00.703" Title="Community 90 Day Edit/Reopen Challenge" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5604" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5606" CreationDate="2018-10-02T23:53:20.680" Score="3" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5603/2322&quot;&gt;Community 90 Day Edit/Reopen Challenge&lt;/a&gt; I picked a closed question over the past week and made an edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120038/what-should-i-consider-when-being-asked-to-make-a-surprising-move&quot;&gt;What should I consider when being asked to make a surprising move?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I removed the &quot;tell me what to do&quot; and focused more on the general problem. I think the general question here is definitely answerable and a good one I don't recall having seen here before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-10-03T16:14:42.120" LastActivityDate="2018-10-13T12:25:45.757" Title="(Done) Reopen request: What should I consider when being asked to make a surprising move?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5604" CreationDate="2018-10-03T00:01:46.443" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update:&lt;/em&gt; The post was reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see the edit, and think it is on point. Now the post is IMO on-topic and answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Casted the 2nd vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-10-03T16:14:56.490" LastActivityDate="2018-10-03T16:14:56.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5604" CreationDate="2018-10-03T09:00:08.910" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nice one, have cast my reopen vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-10-03T09:00:08.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5608" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-03T09:12:46.413" Score="2" ViewCount="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;As written &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120170/should-i-service-requests-at-work-that-are-not-my-departments-responsibility&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; wasn't on topic for TWP as it was more of a nebulous &quot;should I...?&quot; but I've done an edit and attempted to reframe it in a way that would be answerable here and I think the new version is answerable and should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-10-03T16:18:01.193" LastActivityDate="2018-10-03T16:19:24.843" Title="(Done) Reopen: Handling requests that aren't for my department" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5611" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-03T14:03:09.357" Score="3" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120123/how-to-cope-with-a-code-messy-coworker&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was recently closed as lacking a goal we could address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've edited the question and tried to state a clear, answerable goal that would would resolve the OP's issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-10-03T18:59:20.217" LastActivityDate="2018-10-03T18:59:20.217" Title="(Done) Reopen: Messy code from co-worker" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5613" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-03T15:32:16.207" Score="46" ViewCount="826" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations on 100k!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/40669.png&quot; alt=&quot;Kilisi&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have a very interesting, direct style. And you have provided a lot of great answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your contributions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-10-03T16:08:47.183" LastActivityDate="2019-02-14T20:54:24.143" Title="Congratulations to Kilisi on 100k reputation!" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5613" CreationDate="2018-10-03T15:45:11.660" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seconded!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often a concise and to the point answer is just what people need and you thoroughly deserve to join the 100k+ club and FWIW you've always come across as an interesting and genuine person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's to the next 100k!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-10-03T15:45:11.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5611" CreationDate="2018-10-03T16:16:36.893" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update:&lt;/em&gt; Post is open again now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good edit! It made the question answerable and on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I casted the 4th vote to reopen...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-10-03T18:59:08.507" LastActivityDate="2018-10-03T18:59:08.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5608" CreationDate="2018-10-03T16:19:24.843" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is currently open again, after the edits you did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel it's more answerable now, although I agree with Lilienthal that the second question is the one that has more answer material than the other... perhaps the post could still use one last edit to completely make it on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-10-03T16:19:24.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5613" CreationDate="2018-10-03T20:18:13.297" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks, it's made my day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been a pretty uniformly good experience here for me over the years, I've learnt a lot and had a few laughs. There's a lot of intelligent, experienced and insightful people here, glad to be part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2018-10-03T21:05:21.730" LastActivityDate="2018-10-03T21:05:21.730" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3255" CreationDate="2018-10-04T02:46:55.470" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I prefer the way IPS.SE (the Interpersonal Stack Exchange) handles it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A relevant question from IPS.meta.SE: &lt;a href=&quot;https://interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/221/how-should-a-question-asker-explain-the-results-of-using-specific-advice&quot;&gt;How should a question asker explain the results of using specific advice?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In cases like this, where the asker of a question tries out advice and&#xA;  finds some sort of a result, how should they share this with the rest&#xA;  of the community? I have some ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In comments below an answer, if they took the advice mainly from one    answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In a self-answer, if the approach was different enough.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In a short edited section in the question body.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;https://interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/a/224/4202&quot;&gt;Catija's highly upvoted answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm really not a fan of adding &quot;what I did&quot; to the question. It's not&#xA;  part of the question. It's a solution and belongs in the answers. So,&#xA;  that being said, option three is out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Option 1 is good (along with accepting the answer) if you really did&#xA;  just use the advice from that question - assuming you can keep it&#xA;  brief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you went with a completely different solution or a combination of&#xA;  them, I'd go with option two, I'd write a self-answer and explain what&#xA;  you did and what the result was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is what I always encourage on Cooking as many users ask for help&#xA;  there and then either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Don't get an answer at all so they do some testing and come back with    the results&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;They get an answer that isn't based on evidence and, upon testing,    get a different result&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;They get an answer and it worked for them (so they post a comment on    the answer and accept it).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in short, I'd recommend the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you found one particular answer to be helpful and followed their&#xA;advice, accept that answer and explain the outcome/aftermath as a&#xA;comment on that answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you found none of the answers to be the most helpful, leave an&#xA;answer on your question explaining what you ended up doing and how it&#xA;worked out. If you actually followed the advice of multiple different&#xA;answers (fairly equally) rather than any single answer, you can give&#xA;credit for those suggestions in your answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10313" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T02:46:55.470" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5593" CreationDate="2018-10-05T11:15:40.270" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately this problem isn't isolated to Workplace, it's an issue across the entire Stack Exchange network.  The good news is, the Stack Exchange team know about the problem, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-very-welcoming-its-time-for-that-to-change/&quot;&gt;and are actively trying to improve things&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, they could really use your help!  They are currently gathering data on comments, to try to do a better job of identifying unwelcoming comments, and they need volunteers to evaluate these comments.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://periodic-basketball.glitch.me/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's the link you can use to take part&lt;/a&gt;.  Please be aware, this link is to StackOverflow specific comments, but their efforts will expand to help other Stack Exchange sites over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth mentioning that we seem to have a really good moderation team on Workplace, and (in my opinion) they are helping to foster a good community environment, as evidenced by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5599/25572&quot;&gt;Elysian Fields♦ answer&lt;/a&gt;.  It's good that you raised this question, because the issue isn't going to improve until the community acknowledges that there actually is a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25572" LastActivityDate="2018-10-05T11:15:40.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5620" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-05T11:59:14.130" Score="8" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the right way to mark that an answer should be sent to the Low Quality review queue?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask this because twice recently I have flagged an answer as Low Quality or Not an Answer and had the flag declined because &quot;flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention&quot;. My intent in flagging was never to ask a moderator to take decisive action. I only wanted it sent to the queue so I could get other users' opinions on whether the answer is worth keeping or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I write this I am now wondering, is the flag decline actually from a moderator, or is that the response I get when it has been sent to review and the other users don't think that it should be removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-10-05T23:34:45.007" LastActivityDate="2018-10-05T23:34:45.007" Title="Sending an answer to the Low Quality review queue" Tags="|discussion|answers|quality|review-queue|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5593" CreationDate="2018-10-06T10:32:46.320" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took a look at some of your questions that were closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at it this way: you got some thoughtful answers and comments in response to your questions before they were shutdown. THAT's what counts. There's a lot of great thought-provoking content on here and not all of it is correlated with upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For whatever reason some folks get hung up on the scores, rules, badges and gameification of stackexchange sites. They take them so seriously that they have no problem being dismissive to &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; who they perceive has violated &quot;the faq&quot;. It's not that they're trying to mean, it's just that they feel a strict sense of obligation to the rules and they think its OK to downvote, close, mark-as-dupe or make smug remarks to a &quot;violator&quot;. Sometimes that is perfectly warranted, other times, it can be a problem. In particular, I really dislike it when someone who is clearly facing a difficult work-life situation and writes a detailed question and gets wacked for trite reasons. Lately the &quot;you can't ask 'what should I do?'&quot; reason has been used more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been going on for a long time on all stackexchange sites. In the last year or so, there's been a push to address the behavior which makes people feel excluded. There's now a new code of conduct. And to that, there's been a bit of a backlash. Some people really DON'T like that initiative and have either rage-quit the sites or, I think, have deliberately put more of an edge on their &quot;editorial&quot; behavior in defiance to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution, I think, is to detach yourself from expectations that people will respond in a certain way. Sure, try to frame your questions to get past the persnickety police, but don't worry to much if your question gets closed. It's not a big deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7572" LastEditorUserId="7572" LastEditDate="2018-10-06T10:39:20.250" LastActivityDate="2018-10-06T10:39:20.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5593" CreationDate="2018-10-08T09:15:41.573" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah I can feel it too.  I'm kinda afraid to ask another question on here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In agreement with the other comments I too thank Joe and others who are taking their time out to answer questions, rather than close questions, downvote, delete-vote and criticize.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I truly hope the community managers are closely following the developments on this very useful site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88515" LastActivityDate="2018-10-08T09:15:41.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5623" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5709" CreationDate="2018-10-08T09:41:42.337" Score="-10" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just created the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/islam&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;islam&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;islam&lt;/a&gt; tag with the following short description (still in peer review):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions relating to Islamic culture and traditions and how they pertain to the workplace&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've had a few questions from Muslim individuals who had had trouble interacting in other cultural contexts because of their religion - and thus not covered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-east&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-east&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-east&lt;/a&gt;. For this reason I believe it's a good addition to our taxonomic vocabulary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear, I see Islam as a &lt;strong&gt;culture&lt;/strong&gt;, not a religion, and it is the culture that interacts with itself and the rest of the world. The tag is about the culture - which is largely uniform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's see if we can make it viable. I remember a particular question answered best by Kilisi which would be a good example for it - but I wanted to get the community's opinion before I go on an edit spree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastEditorUserId="9549" LastEditDate="2018-10-08T11:55:16.573" LastActivityDate="2018-11-07T21:18:51.717" Title="Created tag: Islam" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5623" CreationDate="2018-10-08T10:06:45.423" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree with the general theme - religion is something that can be absolutely pertinent to navigating the workplace (it's a protected characteristic in multiple locales for example) I'm not sure creating a tag for specific religions is the way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-10-08T10:06:45.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5623" CreationDate="2018-10-08T10:33:06.420" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we should start separating religions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while a tag for religion makes sense to me, separate ones don't. Should you separate into denominations, general beliefs, specifics? Who would make the decisions. Who's perception of what a religion is would be used anyway? An athiests?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many denominations believe there is only one religion in the World, and a whole bunch of Satan inspired cults which includes other denominations that outsiders might consider the same as them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-10-08T10:33:06.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5626" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5627" CreationDate="2018-10-08T12:21:43.627" Score="2" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120445/plagiarism&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; has been vandalized by its author. He also vanished his Workplace account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His account contained his real name, his company and location. His other SE sites' accounts still contains such PI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One can assume he does not want his boss to see this, or his coworkers. I assume he can't delete the question because of the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should we do with this kind of behaviour ? Flag for moderator's attention ? Or just let go ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80851" LastActivityDate="2018-10-08T13:14:44.390" Title="What to do when someone vandalizes his post and account?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5626" CreationDate="2018-10-08T13:14:44.390" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag as &quot;in need of moderator intervention&quot; and describe what's going on in the subsequent reason box that pops up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have sufficient reputation, it's ok to roll back the edit on a clear vandalisation.  But do leave a flag as this lets us know if we need to deal with any fallout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-10-08T13:14:44.390" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5623" CreationDate="2018-10-08T15:00:24.650" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Islam gets a lot of bad rap - as do many other religions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure adding a tag to make it easier for people who wish to stir the pot for a particular religion is the right approach. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also not sure what other purpose the tag would serve - is there a need to let someone find all the &quot;Islam&quot; questions here? Would tagging a question about bowing &quot;Islam&quot; be helpful, and what if I'm, say, a Sikh, who according to wiki &quot;only bow to their gurus&quot;. Do we need to then tag this question as Sikh too, or have a separate (but otherwise identical) question for Sikhs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also you probably want to capitalise your &quot;islam&quot; tag to be &quot;Islam&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastActivityDate="2018-10-08T15:00:24.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5623" CreationDate="2018-10-08T18:33:49.037" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't agree on creating such tag&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, we can see that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-east&quot;&gt;middle-east tag only has 1 question&lt;/a&gt;, which could even be focused down to the actual country and burninate the middle-east tag altogether... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, we already have a tag that could be used here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/religion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;religion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;religion&lt;/a&gt;. It has 7 questions and all of them highly voted and viewed. It also overcomes the issue of separating religions, as it can be used regardless the specific religious beliefs the post covers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/culture&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;culture&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;culture&lt;/a&gt;. This has 57 posts, and although it currently lacks excerpt and wiki, I see the posts it contains are related to cultural and even religious beliefs and practices. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line... I don't recommend creating such tag. &lt;strong&gt;I think it is better if we gave the religion and culture tag description and wiki and start using them&lt;/strong&gt; on posts that relate to any religious/cultural beliefs or practices that interact with the workplace, when they apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-10-08T18:33:49.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5603" CreationDate="2018-10-10T13:38:50.653" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mmmmm...no thanks, I won't be participating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you're asking me to do is, after a gang of hooligans runs along destroying everything in its path, to run along behind and try to clean up the mess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd really prefer that you stop the hooligans first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I repeatedly see questions that are &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120550/wife-is-being-sent-out-of-state-for-training-employer-is-not-covering-food-par&quot;&gt;intelligently written&lt;/a&gt;, that draw &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120483/i-was-assigned-to-a-fake-project-after-being-hired-is-this-bad-news-for-my-care&quot;&gt;intelligent answers&lt;/a&gt;, and that produce &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120422/how-do-i-greet-someone-when-bowing-is-the-default-greeting-but-im-unable-to-bow&quot;&gt;interesting discussion and analysis&lt;/a&gt;, closed with reasons like &quot;too company-specific&quot; (even though they're not) or &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot; (even though multiple people have found the question clear enough to post answers to it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd much prefer that the moderators deal directly with the &lt;strong&gt;specific people&lt;/strong&gt; who make a career of facile question closure.  (It's not hard to go through closed questions and see who they are.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask &lt;strong&gt;them&lt;/strong&gt; to be the &lt;strong&gt;first and foremost&lt;/strong&gt; to focus their efforts on editing questions and/or posting comments soliciting better detail to reopen the question, rather than just blitzing through closing them.  How about challenging &lt;strong&gt;them&lt;/strong&gt; to, say, perform one edit or post one comment (on how to improve a closed question) for every close vote they cast?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without this, the rest of us are fighting a losing battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1602" LastEditorDisplayName="user1602" LastEditDate="2018-10-10T19:21:28.437" LastActivityDate="2018-10-10T19:21:28.437" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5631" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-10T13:47:21.643" Score="-9" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Unclear what you're asking&quot; seems to be the most-abused close reason on Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every day I see things like this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120483/i-was-assigned-to-a-fake-project-after-being-hired-is-this-bad-news-for-my-care&quot;&gt;I was assigned to a fake project after being hired. Is this bad news for my career?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question attracted four answers, including one that 30+ people found helpful, yet somehow a few people decided afterwards that it was unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120422/how-do-i-greet-someone-when-bowing-is-the-default-greeting-but-im-unable-to-bow&quot;&gt;How do I greet someone when bowing is the default greeting but I&amp;#39;m unable to bow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though it's open now, this question was closed earlier as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot; apparently because it failed to include the term &quot;workplace&quot; or &quot;business&quot;.  Does every question here have to say &lt;strong&gt;workplace&lt;/strong&gt; for people on a &lt;strong&gt;Workplace&lt;/strong&gt; board to believe the question is about the &lt;strong&gt;workplace&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This close reason is not constructive.  It seems to be a catch-all for people who want to close a question and can't think of any other reason, and who in many cases can't be bothered to read the question carefully anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that either (a) it should be removed entirely, or (b) people should be &lt;em&gt;required&lt;/em&gt; to give some informational text about &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they think the question in its current form is unclear (which would then help the questioner improve it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1602" LastActivityDate="2018-10-11T01:59:07.540" Title="Unclear what you're asking - well, it's also unclear why you're closing" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5631" CreationDate="2018-10-10T14:12:40.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't disagree that things get closed more often than they should, but this close reason &lt;strong&gt;should not&lt;/strong&gt; be a catch all. A question being unclear is a valid reason to close a question and thus should remain as a close reason. If you truly believe this is being used as a catch all, removing it will not help. People will just choose a different catch all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first question you linked I would agree with the closers that it is unclear what OP if asking. Just because there were answers on the question does not mean the question was clearly understood to the majority of people. It doesn't even mean it was a good question, it just means someone thought they could answer it. The post comes off as more of a rant than a question leaving people to wonder what they actual question is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second question was reopened, so clearly the community agreed that this question was not unclear.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastActivityDate="2018-10-10T14:12:40.877" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5631" CreationDate="2018-10-10T17:18:31.090" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;People get to use their close votes as they chose. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the first I would have closed it on problem we can address, opinion based, or unclear.  Not sure how a reason is selected but it does not mean all VTC had that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP states it was a fake project but then asks if it is legit.  No way we can know that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is just a bad question in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for requiring a comment that is decided on the Stack Exchange level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26028" LastActivityDate="2018-10-10T17:18:31.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5631" CreationDate="2018-10-11T01:59:07.540" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason for a close vote is a minor problem. Your two examples illustrate it pretty well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first deserved to be closed, the second didn't (in my opinion). But if people are going to close without explanation, they will, makes no difference which canned reason they tick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-10-11T01:59:07.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5636" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5637" CreationDate="2018-10-11T14:41:51.783" Score="1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took a stab at an edit for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120614/coworker-stole-code-entirely-and-claims-he-wrote-it-all&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original question was a bit of a rant and asked quite a few questions. I chopped it down to what I believe is the actual question and tried to simplify it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to propose with my edit, we re-open the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-10-11T15:49:58.290" LastActivityDate="2018-10-11T15:49:58.290" Title="(Done) Re-Open Coworker stole code entirely and claims he wrote it all" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5636" CreationDate="2018-10-11T15:49:41.080" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the edit was good, so I went and casted the 5th vote to reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-10-11T15:49:41.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5638" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-12T09:37:36.730" Score="-4" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/119440/is-it-rude-and-unprofessional-for-a-hiring-manager-to-check-with-my-references-b?noredirect=1#comment378855_119440&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/119440/is-it-rude-and-unprofessional-for-a-hiring-manager-to-check-with-my-references-b?noredirect=1#comment378855_119440&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;has 2 delete votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I ask why?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: It now has 3 delete votes and my question has been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All because I wanted to know whether it was rude or unprofessional of a hiring manager to check references before making a verbal offer official, and whether that could be a warning sign to not work there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am baffled by the treatment of my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I would ask the moderators here to take the lead and use your power to undelete my question, and to steer the community in the right direction, if people with high-rep are being rogue and destructive.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88515" LastEditorUserId="88515" LastEditDate="2018-10-12T11:08:27.353" LastActivityDate="2018-10-12T12:20:13.717" Title="Why are there delete votes on my question?" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5638" CreationDate="2018-10-12T10:50:59.017" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had no idea if I was the one who posted the first delete vote. I just checked, I didn't post a delete vote. But I could have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question was a good question, as a duplicate the question could remain in the system, as one comment said  as &quot;a decent signpost question leading to the duplicate&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it isn't a good question. It uses in the question title and the question the words rude, unprofessional and micromanager. That moves it towards rant territory. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the point I see it as a rant, I have to decide if the question should be removed or can it be edited. If the edit moves it from a rant by the dropping of a single line, I remove that line. But I feel that the multiple words that were used showed that the whole point of the question was to vent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I just voted to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2018-10-12T10:50:59.017" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5640" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-12T11:50:45.853" Score="1" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120676/being-denied-bathroom-at-work-because-im-the-only-male&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was recently closed as off topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is very much a workplace issue and IMO should be re-opened. I took a stab at an edit that will hopefully help make the question a bit clearer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastEditorUserId="66895" LastEditDate="2018-10-12T13:09:52.027" LastActivityDate="2018-11-11T14:00:34.160" Title="(Done) Re-Open Being denied bathroom at work because I'm the only male" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5638" CreationDate="2018-10-12T12:20:13.717" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a couple of reasons that I could see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) You pre-loaded the subject title with a negative bias (&quot;rude and unprofessional&quot;), so you're giving people negative vibes without even reading your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) This practice (from reading the duplicate question) is common and expected in the USA, so your assertion that the hiring manager is being rude kind of falls flat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) This being practice being common knowledge, it should have been easily discovered given some research (either searching here or on the wider internet)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, the question title could have been softened by anyone with enough rep to edit it, and I can't really see a reason for it to be deleted any more than any other closed question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-10-12T12:20:13.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5640" CreationDate="2018-10-12T13:10:30.990" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastActivityDate="2018-10-12T13:10:30.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5645" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-12T15:41:25.327" Score="-6" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can some explain how &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120705/how-to-call-in-sick&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; is off topic? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may not be the best worded question in the world and it may be lacking some detail, but I fail to see how asking the appropriate protocol for calling (or emailing) in sick when you start work before your boss is off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastActivityDate="2018-10-12T15:59:45.873" Title="How is this offtopic?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5645" CreationDate="2018-10-12T15:59:45.873" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is the &quot;correct&quot; procedure for reporting in sick is usually specified by the company and should be described in the contract or company handbook. Or at the very least agreed between a manager and their direct reports.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my career I've encounterd:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Call this automated HR voicemail box before 8:30, no other methods acceptable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Contact your manager however you want&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just don't turn up and we'll assume you are sick&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Email HR&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Email only&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Manage it yourself but don't take the mickey&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and while each would have been the correct answer to the question - it would only have applied to companies with that process or a compatible one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question around &quot;I can't follow the procedure/can't find out the procedure because of &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;, what is the best alternate to choose in the absence of other info&quot; would be on topic possibly, but a question asking for &quot;the&quot; correct way is just too company specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-10-12T15:59:45.873" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5604" CreationDate="2018-10-13T12:25:45.757" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am glad that question was re-opened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is sad that some folks think that such a trite change in phrasing turns a question from being &quot;unanswerable/off-topic/bad-question&quot; to &quot;answerable/on-topic/good-question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire essence of the change was merely &quot;&lt;strong&gt;should I&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; ==&gt; &quot;&lt;strong&gt;what should I consider&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Come on, seriously?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question had been left-as-is and not closed, it is still a good question (and in my opinion, &lt;strong&gt;THE SAME QUESTION&lt;/strong&gt;). Any good answer would, of course, go into detail about one &quot;what things to consider&quot; and may or may not take a &quot;yes or no&quot; approach to the &quot;should I?&quot; aspect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7572" LastActivityDate="2018-10-13T12:25:45.757" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5613" CreationDate="2018-10-14T23:10:42.940" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely my favorite poster.  No nonsense straight to the point.  Every time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76870" LastActivityDate="2018-10-14T23:10:42.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5613" CreationDate="2018-10-18T07:14:54.077" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people just need a fair bit of brutal honesty and this guy never fails to bring just that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62116" LastActivityDate="2018-10-18T07:14:54.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5650" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-18T12:02:50.383" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120983/is-an-experience-certificate-from-an-unregistered-company-valid&quot;&gt;Is an experience certificate from an unregistered company valid?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as &quot;unclear&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than a bit of language (which I cleaned up), I'm having a hard time imagining what isn't clear. It seems like an extremely straightforward question to me, and likely has a definitive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="66895" LastEditDate="2018-10-18T15:29:51.293" LastActivityDate="2018-10-18T15:29:51.293" Title="(Done) What part of this question is unclear?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5650" CreationDate="2018-10-18T12:19:29.360" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks perfectly clear to me, I'd hazard a guess that &quot;Unclear&quot; here is being used with that extra special TWP meaning of &quot;I don't understand this question because it's not from my jurisdiction, better close it quick!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Voted to re-open&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-10-18T12:19:29.360" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5652" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-18T12:47:10.200" Score="-4" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;We seem to close/hold an awful lot of questions that would be easily answered if the OP were to provide or clarify one or two minor details. However the VTC's don't indicate that, so I propose we add a new one that says something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;More information required&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes there is often a comment asking for that info but the time window between those comments and the question getting closed is often very small, and because the close reasons given have often been &quot;Off-topic&quot; or &quot;Unclear&quot; I'm concerned that askers may be returning to the site after the comment asking for more information and then leaving again because the big yellow banner of doom is telling them that their question can't be answered here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And while we have got the sort-of custom option of &quot;I'm voting to close because..&quot; which &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be used for it I think fundamentally people aren't using that one much at all - it's much easier to just click one of the pre-made reasons and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-10-18T15:27:42.647" Title="Suggestion for new 'hold' reason" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5652" CreationDate="2018-10-18T13:44:46.567" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we need a new close reason - the &quot;Unclear&quot; close reason already includes questions that require more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That says pretty clearly that the OP needs to supply information. Your concern that the yellow banner scares away new users may be valid, but that is true for being closed in general, regardless of close reason. Giving it a new name isn't going to change that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we could still possibly improve on the current close reason to make it more clear (ironic, I know). Maybe instead of &quot;Unclear what you are asking&quot; the title is changed to &quot;Requires more information&quot;. The updated text might then be (change in bold)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking, &lt;strong&gt;or specific information may be needed to provide an accurate answer&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I think this close reason is StackExchange-wide, so I'm not sure we have much of a chance of fixing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2018-10-18T15:27:42.647" LastActivityDate="2018-10-18T15:27:42.647" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5654" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5656" CreationDate="2018-10-22T19:46:45.017" Score="19" ViewCount="287" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/maternity-leave&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;maternity-leave&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;maternity-leave&lt;/a&gt; which is used in 29 questions currently. This is definitely a useful tag, but it really only refers to leave taken by the mother who just gave birth. There are many countries and employers that also offer parental leave to fathers and adoptive parents, and logistically it's treated pretty much the same as maternity leave. Using the maternity leave tag for these situations simply just isn't accurate (e.g &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/121276/job-offer-withdrawn-due-to-parental-leave&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;), which is why I'm suggesting a new tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to request that a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parental-leave&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parental-leave&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parental-leave&lt;/a&gt; be made and have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/maternity-leave&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;maternity-leave&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;maternity-leave&lt;/a&gt; assigned as a synonym that automatically redirects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2018-12-19T06:20:22.337" LastActivityDate="2018-12-19T06:20:22.337" Title="(Done) Rename maternity-leave tag to parental-leave" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|retag-request|synonym-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5654" CreationDate="2018-10-23T05:18:43.930" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds reasonable. Maybe the tag-wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parental-leave&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parental-leave&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parental-leave&lt;/a&gt; could explain that this is both for maternal leave in the proper sense (i.e. leave for mothers before and after giving birth) and for parental leave (leave for parents to look after their children) - just for those who really know what is what :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57" LastEditorUserId="57" LastEditDate="2018-10-23T06:58:54.360" LastActivityDate="2018-10-23T06:58:54.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5654" CreationDate="2018-10-23T07:37:39.367" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done. Tags are merged and a synonym from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/maternity-leave&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;maternity-leave&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;maternity-leave&lt;/a&gt; now points to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parental-leave&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parental-leave&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parental-leave&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;The tag could still &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/edit-tag-wiki/979&quot;&gt;use a Wiki to describe it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2018-10-23T13:15:38.910" LastActivityDate="2018-10-23T13:15:38.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5657" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-23T08:39:41.363" Score="1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/121297/vacation-days-not-paid&quot;&gt;Vacation days not paid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question asks about how to get paid for vacation days after being fired from an employer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now Hardee's may or may not have a policy regarding this.  They're a big company; they probably do.  But an answer to this question could be useful to anyone wondering how (if even possible) to get vacation days paid out after leaving any employer or being fired.  Answers could touch on the legalities of the situation, the importance of reviewing company policy documents, interpersonal methods for resolving the situation with the company's HR...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; touch on these things, but they won't, because as with most questions here, the close-question gang came along and, as usual, found it easier to close a question than to edit it or offer comment suggestions as to how it could be improved (or even so much as an explanation of specifically what they found wrong with it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be reopened as-is.  The mere fact that a company name is mentioned does not &lt;em&gt;de facto&lt;/em&gt; make a question company-specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1602" LastEditorDisplayName="user1602" LastEditDate="2018-10-23T09:11:59.983" LastActivityDate="2018-10-23T09:43:59.657" Title="Reopen request: Does mentioning a company name automatically make a question company-specific?" Tags="|bug|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5657" CreationDate="2018-10-23T09:43:59.657" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;With a location this would be answerable in my view.. the rules regarding paying out accrued vacation time vary from &quot;they have to pay you by X date&quot; to &quot;they can do whatever they want&quot; but it's not company specific by any means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-10-23T09:43:59.657" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5660" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5661" CreationDate="2018-10-25T04:55:00.657" Score="2" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm still fairly new to the Workplace community and with the amount of questions amassed through this site's history, I have honestly no way of knowing whether a new question is a duplicate or not at first glance, and would most likely find out only after I'd already given an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, should I check first if a certain question I find interesting is a potential duplicate before answering? And if so, how do I go about doing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62116" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2018-10-25T12:21:09.667" LastActivityDate="2018-10-25T14:52:08.513" Title="Answering questions that might be duplicates" Tags="|discussion|answers|duplicates|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5660" CreationDate="2018-10-25T12:19:36.690" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that if you come across a question that you are able to answer, and you are not personally aware of any possible duplicate questions out there, then &lt;strong&gt;go ahead and answer the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an answerer, you shouldn't feel obligated to search for duplicates of every question you come upon. That is something the asker should be doing, and to a certain extent you should trust that they have already done that. If there is a duplicate out there that you don't know, someone else will likely find it and mark it. You shouldn't feel bad if a question you answered ends up begin marked a duplicate, since you acted in good faith and were not aware of the other question. At that point you can even go read the answers on the other question and see how your ideas match up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you get more experienced here and start to read more and more questions, you will begin to see new questions that seem very familiar, or seem basic enough that you would be surprised if they hadn't been asked before. That's when I might go in search of a duplicate - only when I already suspect that one exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-10-25T12:19:36.690" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5660" CreationDate="2018-10-25T14:52:08.513" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The easiest two ways I've seen to find duplicates are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just copy/pasting the title into a new question box&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Googling the title and using &lt;code&gt;site:http://workplace.stackexchange.com/ whatever the title is here&lt;/code&gt; as the query parameters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2018-10-25T14:52:08.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5663" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-27T00:03:16.900" Score="0" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;What part of this question is unclear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/121350/telling-a-possible-romantic-interest-that-i-cannot-share-my-current-industry-con&quot;&gt;Telling a possible romantic interest that I cannot share my current industry contacts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems simple enough to me. I voted to REOPEN.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-10-27T00:20:54.957" LastActivityDate="2018-10-27T00:20:54.957" Title="(Done) What part of this question of sharing contacts is unclear?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5663" CreationDate="2018-10-27T00:19:57.377" Score="-2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What part of this question is unclear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Casted the last vote and the post is open again now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-10-27T00:19:57.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5672" CreationDate="2018-10-27T21:57:48.310" Score="11" ViewCount="731" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the fast closures impact on the quality of answers in some cases and encourage shooting an answer in quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do this every so often, because if I don't the question may well be closed before anyone gets a chance to help the OP. I understand that some peoples primary objective is about the site etc,. but we're also at least partially about helping the OP solve an immediate problem aren't we?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if it's possible to put a time limit on closures, like 2 hours or something before a question can be closed. Might let some troll questions hang around, but plenty of those seem to hang around anyway. All the fuss about the HNQ is over my head, I've rarely bothered looking at it, unsure how many people actually do so I could be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2018-10-29T07:06:53.203" LastActivityDate="2018-11-12T10:22:24.283" Title="We're at least partially about helping people aren't we?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5665" CreationDate="2018-10-28T00:28:31.177" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're at least partially about helping people aren't we?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to think that was the most important thing. But sometimes I wonder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wonder if it's possible to put a time limit on closures, like 15&#xA;  minutes or something before a question can be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a good idea, but 15 minutes is not long enough. 2 hours feels more right to me. Mods can always close a question quickly, if there's some sort of &quot;question emergency&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I don't think this will change things much. As long as we have folks who would rather close questions than actually ask or answer questions, we'll still have too many closed. Kinda sad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2018-10-28T00:33:43.367" LastActivityDate="2018-10-28T00:33:43.367" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5665" CreationDate="2018-10-28T14:36:24.030" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a great idea to me, and I have to agree with Joe - 15 mins isn't long enough. Personally I would say 24hrs because that would give a reasonable chance for those in other timezones to have a look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People like to hide behind the &quot;quality&quot; strawman whenever the topic of helping people comes up - seems to me like that's rather like keeping a bar clean by not serving anyone any drinks. Sure you'll have the cleanest bar in town but what's the point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-10-28T14:36:24.030" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5668" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5715" CreationDate="2018-10-29T05:39:34.753" Score="9" ViewCount="646" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as site vision and obligations go, each and every answerer, questioner, and reader has their own agenda. The site is not set in stone. It can do a 180 just because of one twitter post about some fluff to do with HNQ (this isn't about that debacle, it's just an example; I don't have a twitter account so couldn't care less).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while people talk about the primary objective being the site vision or whatever. The site is an evolving process, the vision today may be vastly different tomorrow. Each site is different and should be analysed as such by those of us participating especially those of us with high enough rep to close questions etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a huge difference in the dynamic between stack overflow where there are many ways of answering a question, but at the end of the day 1+1=2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We deal with people, personalities, cultural differences, fluid and complex situations, locales and a host of other things. At some point this basic fact should be recognised in terms of how things are done for the good of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be good for the site as well as aid the retention of valuable users who volunteer their time, energy, experience and insights to actually answer questions. I actually wonder at times how valuable some of the users are who don't seem to actually do much of anything except VTC or downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you haven't been putting in the thought and energy answering questions regularly over the years, then I honestly don't think you would understand the dynamics, and you might want to contemplate whether you're actually helping or hindering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="7235" LastEditDate="2018-11-08T14:45:16.483" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T18:59:51.450" Title="I'm just going to put this out there" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5665" CreationDate="2018-10-29T08:31:56.910" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or we could close questions because they are not of sufficient quality to stay on the site, help the asker improve the question so it's worthwhile keeping around for the long term, and then answer it with thorough explanations and maintain high quality in answers too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result is that we get good questions that end up open, good answers that are worth voting for, and more users staying around to repeat the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's really about helping people, perhaps a clever quote will help you in turn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Give a person a fish, and they are fed for a day; teach them to fish and they are fed for life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if that doesn't suit some people's preference for unjustified one-liners and the decline of decent content they are, as some have ironically been happy to say, quite free to leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user53718" LastActivityDate="2018-10-29T08:31:56.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5665" CreationDate="2018-10-29T12:00:55.130" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a post over on meta.se that I like to link in to discussions like this: it's worth a read in full, and I'll excerpt it here in part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/244534/311001&quot;&gt;What you do here isn't &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; about solving one person's problem.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See, once you realize that it's not just about the one asker, or the four voters, but rather the fifteen thousand searchers with the same problem... Well, suddenly, a whole ton of things that seem prickly and self-important, like editing out &amp;quot;Thanks in advance!&amp;quot; aren't about being &amp;quot;a bunch of power-happy pedants,&amp;quot; they're about &lt;em&gt;helping all the people who will ever have that problem to find the best answers.&lt;/em&gt; (Emphasis in the original.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes,&lt;/strong&gt; we're &lt;em&gt;partially&lt;/em&gt; about helping the original querent. And we're &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; about helping the long tail of readers who will ever see a post. Which leads us to a tricky balancing act: each one of us--editors, voters, answerers--comes to an individual, personal understanding of where they draw the line between those two priorities that sometimes exist in tension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people ( o/ ) think that a quick close-edit-reopen cycle are good for the site and good for the querent. Others think that the &amp;quot;sting&amp;quot; of seeing their question &amp;quot;on hold&amp;quot; is too great a harm to visit upon new users. This Network, I believe, has room for both sorts of stackizens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, we're about helping people.&lt;/strong&gt; And we sometimes have different ideas about how best to do that. Vote your conscience, trust that others are doing the same, and ask questions when something doesn't pass your &amp;quot;smell test.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70555" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-10-29T12:00:55.130" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5668" CreationDate="2018-10-29T15:15:11.190" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the formerly gruntled poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen many questions closed quickly because the people doing the closing were not familiar with the industry.  Anything blue-collar and such tend to get shut down rapidly.  After that, anything not IT tends to get shut down almost as quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recall a question getting shut down regarding the maritime industry which was, in fact, easily answerable, but closed quickly, and then, after discussion here, was reopened, but it should never have been closed to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen close votes start to accumulate within seconds of the posting.  This does not even give the OP time to reconsider and/or edit what he posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this, IMO needs to change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-10-29T15:15:11.190" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5665" CreationDate="2018-10-29T16:24:40.020" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a time limit on offering a bounty, there should be a time limit to be exceeded before voting to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Too often, a close mob comes in and just shut things down. One member in particular seems to think that two different post are duplicates if vowels can be found in both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem this creates is that close votes draw more close votes.  We have hundreds of questions here on meta asking why a question was closed, with a massive chunk of them being reopened without any editing or cleanup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make matters worse, questions that do not pertain to IT seem to get closed quickly, as the attitude seems to be &quot;If I can't answer it, it must not be clear or answerable&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We had a few blue collar questions, and one maritime question closed for these reasons.  What made the maritime question's so egregious is that it was easily answerable by anyone in the shipping industry, cruise industry, or anyone remotely familiar with maritime law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting a delay on the close votes would enable people with knowledge of industries outside of IT to get in some answers before the close mob rushes in because they're unfamiliar with those industries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-10-29T16:24:40.020" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5673" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-30T12:03:19.957" Score="41" ViewCount="871" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, this is probably the most difficult post to write I've ever written on this site. I have been part of this community more than six years at this point (including 4+ as a moderator) but circumstances in my life mean that it is time for me to take a step back and resign from being a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Realistically there are many reasons contributing to this, not the least of which just turned a month old in the enderland household.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am &lt;strong&gt;immensely&lt;/strong&gt; proud of the site that The Workplace has become. Many of you are too workplace-young to remember the early days and overwhelming skepticism most other SE users had regarding our site success. This site succeeded in spite of a lot of long odds. From the early beta all those years ago to now, it's been a wild ride, filled with adventure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site will continue to help users - not just those answering questions but the &lt;em&gt;millions&lt;/em&gt; of people who are &quot;reached&quot; by questions and answers every day. We consistently have 40k-50k page visits every workday (suspiciously, less on Friday and much less on the weekends..) which means many real people are having their lives changed for the better by the Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Folks, it has been an honor to serve as a moderator here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T22:05:35.177" Title="enderland's two week notice" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5673" CreationDate="2018-10-30T12:08:38.957" Score="26" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;there are many reasons contributing to this, not the least of which&#xA;  just turned a month old in the enderland household.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like one of the best reasons of all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck in whatever you do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2018-10-30T12:08:38.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5673" CreationDate="2018-10-30T12:40:38.470" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry to see you go Enderland.. but congratulations on the new family!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-10-30T12:40:38.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5673" CreationDate="2018-10-30T12:55:50.187" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for serving as our voice on the mod team.  You were a great mod and will make a great father I am sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16" LastActivityDate="2018-10-30T12:55:50.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5673" CreationDate="2018-10-30T13:03:48.540" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good luck and good health to you and your family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastActivityDate="2018-10-30T13:03:48.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5673" CreationDate="2018-10-30T13:17:38.613" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Be Well Sir.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck, and Godspeed &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-10-30T13:17:38.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5673" CreationDate="2018-10-30T13:53:49.067" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been an honour to serve with you, sir.  Enjoy your fatherhood!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-10-30T13:53:49.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5673" CreationDate="2018-10-30T14:01:46.107" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for the years you've dedicated to making The Workplace a good and helpful site.  Best wishes for the whole enderland family.  It's been great to serve with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-10-30T14:01:46.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5673" CreationDate="2018-10-30T15:49:32.637" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember the early days vividly... To call it a struggle doesn't do it justice: the toll that wrangling a community of smart, opinionated people took on the early mod teams was immense. But y'all pulled together and defied expectations - and you were an instrumental part of that, enderland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all owe you our thanks for sticking it out this long; not just sticking it out, but contributing and offering guidance and leadership right to the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, thank you enderland - and best wishes for your future endeavors!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastActivityDate="2018-10-30T15:49:32.637" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5673" CreationDate="2018-10-30T21:46:16.987" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations on the family news. Scared me for a minute I thought you were leaving, not just resigning from being a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-10-30T21:46:16.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5654" CreationDate="2018-11-02T02:36:25.060" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me point out that, at least in Germany these are not legally interchangeable terms, and the first Wikipedia Paragraph also clearly lays out the distinction. Could be confusing for some people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49974" LastActivityDate="2018-11-02T02:36:25.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5685" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5687" CreationDate="2018-11-04T10:22:14.833" Score="-6" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have milestones based on rep. I'm wondering if we could be a bit more helpful to OP's by allowing high rep users to answer closed questions which have no answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would allow OP's to get a bit of help, and would mean that only experienced answerers would be answering these difficult or grey area questions while still stopping them from causing drama.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would mitigate somewhat against perfectly good questions being held to ransom by users who rarely answer or ask questions at all. Which effectively means that a decent question sometimes has to justify it's existence during which time the OP has probably given up on the workplace and been left with a sour taste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of any downside to it offhand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2018-11-05T06:16:33.573" LastActivityDate="2018-11-05T06:16:33.573" Title="Feature to allow high rep users to answer closed questions" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5685" CreationDate="2018-11-04T19:16:55.933" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would make closing questions pointless. The fact that it's abused doesn't mean we should abuse it further by side-stepping it completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many times I've gone to the Chat to make a quick case about a question I thought should be reopened, often with positive results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is closing questions willy-nilly. Let's focus on solving that, and not on throwing the mechanism out altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastActivityDate="2018-11-04T19:16:55.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5685" CreationDate="2018-11-04T20:55:11.063" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this would help offset the negative mentality that has been recently poisoning part of this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38290" LastActivityDate="2018-11-04T20:55:11.063" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5685" CreationDate="2018-11-04T23:34:57.607" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no need for such a feature change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If high-rep users voted to reopen questions that shouldn't have been closed, then they (and others) can provide useful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't vote to reopen, then apparently you agree that the question should be closed and thus have no need to provide an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2018-11-04T23:34:57.607" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5689" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5730" CreationDate="2018-11-05T10:24:31.633" Score="-1" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a go at editing this, mostly just removing unnecessary noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/122055/from-hardware-to-software&quot;&gt;From Hardware to Software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems on topic to me, there are a few valid strategies, one of which I outlined as did another answer by Fattie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2018-11-13T06:24:05.413" LastActivityDate="2018-11-13T06:24:05.413" Title="(Done) Can we look at reopening the Hardware to Software question" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5691" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-05T15:04:49.710" Score="-3" ViewCount="317" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now, as I am not one to engage in callout culture, I'll address the problem as opposed to the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Excessive, unconstructive flagging gets the privilege suspended.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Down-voting costs you rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;serial voting can get you suspended.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But voting to close cost you nothing, is not seen as being misused or abused, and does not cost anything in rep there is no requirement to maintain it, and is therefore open to abuse and misuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't we have something in place to handle misusing or abusing the close-vote privilege?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user is not actively contributing in any way other than close-voting, commenting, and the occasional down-vote, isn't this user making the site less welcoming, less useful, and less constructive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've seen posts closed for simple reasons like not being familiar with the maritime industry, blue collar work, and even office work not related to IT, and there is a notable pattern to it all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SHOULD THERE BE A PROCEDURE IN PLACE TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE MISUSING, OVERUSING OR ABUSING THE CLOSURE VOTES?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RE: the comments.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do we define close-vote abuse?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the same way we define flagging abuse or serial down-voting.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some ideas would be a combination of any or all of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;X% of close votes that do not result in the closure of a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;X% of close votes that are overturned with a reopen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;X days since posting something to the site other than a comment,&#xA;close or down vote.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2018-11-05T21:08:21.693" LastActivityDate="2018-11-06T13:56:04.187" Title="Is there a procedure for dealing with close-vote abuse or overuse?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5691" CreationDate="2018-11-05T15:06:46.423" Score="-11" Body="&lt;p&gt;This addresses a serious issue with VTC abuse by a few users.&#xA;I collected some data here, limited to votes for my own questions:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bxmWu.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bxmWu.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the moderation team has better tools, it would be great to see the same numbers for the whole community, to make a well supported decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38290" LastEditorDisplayName="user38290" LastEditDate="2018-11-05T15:46:16.567" LastActivityDate="2018-11-05T15:46:16.567" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5691" CreationDate="2018-11-05T15:31:41.297" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a procedure for dealing with close-vote abuse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no formal procedure that I can detect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHOULD THERE BE A PROCEDURE IN PLACE TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE ABUSING THE&#xA;  CLOSURE VOTES?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless I see the details of such a procedure, I can't comment. As @IDrinkandIKnowThings correctly points out, you cannot to come up with any &quot;procedure&quot; without clearly defining the specific characteristics of abusive behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be far simpler to aggressively vote to reopen all cases where you feel a question has been closed incorrectly (either by an &quot;abuser&quot; or whenever you feel the closure wasn't warranted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If enough folks vote to reopen often enough, then perhaps the questions won't be closed so much in the future. Perhaps not, but at least the end result could be fewer closed questions at any one point in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2018-11-05T15:31:41.297" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5691" CreationDate="2018-11-05T15:34:55.693" Score="-1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If a user is not actively contributing in any way other than close-voting, commenting, and the occasional down-vote, isn't this user making the site less welcoming, less useful, and less constructive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/47486477#47486477&quot;&gt;enderland said in chat&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is missing from this whole conversation is the recogniztion that there are two types of people helped here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1) question askers &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2) question readers (via google, etc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Overwhelmingly, a more rigorous VtC and edit/reopen/delete process helps group 2 and hurts group 1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And a lessened VtC rigor hurts group2 and helps group 1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SE however is designed to primarily help group 2 (though, SE has an identity crisis with this)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As things stand a user who does nothing but what you describe is clearly not helping either of those types of person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2018-11-06T13:56:04.187" LastActivityDate="2018-11-06T13:56:04.187" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5691" CreationDate="2018-11-05T16:30:14.593" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before we talk about &quot;close vote abuse&quot; the more appropriate conversation is around &lt;em&gt;scope&lt;/em&gt; and topicality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the implication here is by titling this &quot;abuse&quot; that most of the closures are unwarranted.  What is more tangible is talking about a few different topics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What types of questions commonly closed as &quot;off topic&quot; seem on topic? Should those questions be on topic or off topic?&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An easy way to narrow this is to search via close reason in the Data Explorer and focus on a specific reason at a time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Narrow in on a bunch of questions, asking the following questions:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this off topic in how it's written (not in &quot;hidden meaning&quot; - most of us higher rep users can read a question for it's &quot;true question&quot; but this is not something most &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Am I reading a question in this that is different than what is explicitly written?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the question as written beneficial to non-OP readers in the future?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there key information missing?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What would the OP need to clarify before a quality answer can be written?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What do you internally feel as the scope of Workplace is? Is this shared by others? What differences exist?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;These&lt;/em&gt; questions are actionable. Talking about limiting close vote abuse is a symptom of those (and other related) questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically the tldr of this is the fundamental disagreement regarding any &quot;close vote abuse&quot; is different understandings of site scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHOULD THERE BE A PROCEDURE IN PLACE TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE ABUSING THE CLOSURE VOTES?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting on my moderator hat for a short while longer, to address specifically what I would want to see in order to take action here as a moderator is a clear site topicality which is being repeatedly violated by the same user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply casting close votes more frequently or regularly is not abuse, just as someone casting flags much more frequently isn't abuse.  Nor is someone casting up/reopen votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest analogy here is likely flagging. We as moderators would not contact a user who flags an immense amount unless flags were being used consistently in violation of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;existing guidance&lt;/a&gt; on flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be the case even if that user primarily interacted with the site via flagging and not through other means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What this means, is, practically speaking no one can commit a &quot;crime&quot; unless it's actually a crime. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talking about &quot;abusing&quot; has a few implicit assumptions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The close votes are invalid&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users shouldn't be casting them for some reason (in your case, because they are primarily contributing through close votes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of all this, what is the underlying question here boils down to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are the questions being voted to close actually off topic?&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a tangential question here around &quot;what site privileges should be exclusively available based on reputation and not site activity?&quot; which is related but not the fundamental underlying question here from my perspective&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes, then there could be close vote abuse taking place, because questions are clearly on topic and being voted to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the answer is &quot;maybe&quot; or &quot;no&quot; or &quot;sometimes&quot; then a discussion around close vote abuse becomes less meaningful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my perspective, while there are users who are much more active in closing questions, the answer to the scope is unequivocally &quot;maybe&quot; at  best at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastEditorUserId="2322" LastEditDate="2018-11-05T19:27:29.253" LastActivityDate="2018-11-05T19:27:29.253" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5691" CreationDate="2018-11-05T16:55:42.237" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are not abusing their privilege, they are &lt;em&gt;using&lt;/em&gt; it. In their eyes the questions deserve to be closed. They do not set out to piss off people by closing their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We shouldn't automate anything like this - it should be handled by a moderator with a friendly chat. A good metric to start with is amount of questions closed that were reopened with no edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastActivityDate="2018-11-05T16:55:42.237" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5691" CreationDate="2018-11-05T17:11:52.693" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to write this a comment on Enderland's answer but it's too big (apologies for mangling the format here!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What types of questions commonly closed as &quot;off topic&quot; seem on topic? Should those questions be on topic or off topic?&#xA;  An easy way to narrow this is to search via close reason in the Data Explorer and focus on a specific reason at a time&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't had the time to do an analysis via DE yet.. but at least anecdotally I've seen many questions closed as &quot;Unclear&quot; when that actually translated to &quot;I don't understand this/I don't know the answer&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/102201/could-red-green-colour-blindness-prevent-you-from-taking-a-culinary-job-on-a-shi/102204#102204&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; question is a prime example - it got closed and we managed to argue to get it re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same thing happened &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120983/is-an-experience-certificate-from-an-unregistered-company-valid&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, yes it got re-opened but clearly the &quot;Unclear&quot; vote was unwarranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly for &quot;Company specific..&quot; reasons - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120691/what-can-we-do-now-to-protect-ourselves-from-ir35&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; got closed because a moderator misunderstood the question (due to it being UK specific) - yet similar questions from a US perspective &lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt; get closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/103604/i-am-from-northern-ireland-but-live-in-scotland-and-need-to-complete-an-advanc/&quot;&gt;again&lt;/a&gt; this got closed as company-specific when it's nothing of the sort. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5598/done-re-open-question-on-looking-for-out-of-state-job-and-changing-careers#comment16686_5598&quot;&gt;Here's&lt;/a&gt; one where the &quot;Specific choice..&quot; was used inappropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Narrow in on a bunch of questions, asking the following questions:&#xA;  Is this off topic in how it's written (not in &quot;hidden meaning&quot; - most of us higher rep users can read a question for it's &quot;true question&quot; but this is not something most&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're going to rely on &quot;exact words&quot; then why not replace us all with bots? I mean isn't the whole point of high-rep users that they are the community members who are &quot;better&quot; at reading and answering questions? If a user (high rep or not) can understand a question and write a suitable answer, making it clear what their answer addresses and this is then helpful to the OP and potentially to others then I really can't see how that is a bad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is the question as written beneficial to non-OP readers in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is unfair to always require an asker to carry that burden - personally I happen to think that if my answer helps just &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; person then it's worthwhile. But then hey, I'm a weirdo like that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More generally there is plenty of scope for someone writing an answer to respond both to the specific situation in the OP's question and also provide a rounded answer that will help people in &lt;em&gt;similar&lt;/em&gt; situations - very little (if anything) in the human experience is truly unique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there key information missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you can't even start to answer, quite often however you can at least provide an answer to most of it and thus engage the asker in the process and tease out the other information (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/122139/working-for-two-companies-owned-by-the-same-person&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;), or you can provide something that covers the most likely scenarios (and hope the OP is actually in one of those) and, yes, risk not 100% answering the OP's question - but in the process actually provide &lt;strong&gt;more&lt;/strong&gt; useful information for future googlers - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/120676/being-denied-bathroom-at-work-because-im-the-only-male&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you internally feel as the scope of Workplace is? Is this shared by others? What differences exist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally.. I think the scope is to help people with workplace situations. I think (hope) that's shared by others, but I know that many here do not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-11-05T17:11:52.693" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5691" CreationDate="2018-11-05T20:37:39.363" Score="-1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHOULD THERE BE A PROCEDURE IN PLACE TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE ABUSING THE CLOSURE VOTES?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes there should. Anything that is open to abuse should be mitigated against.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just saying that it isn't being abused is just wasted air. We can see it is being abused. On main all the time, but I even have a meta post tagged 'Discussion' with 3 VTC on it for 'being unclear what you're asking'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignoring it is detrimental and frustrating to some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rationalising all around the point without any attempt to address a problem directly means little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is that someone actually investigates the possibility of abuse taking place instead of just denying it outright. Once a problem is pinpointed then resolutions can be worked out appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talk of personal attacks and community attacks are meaningless, our whole site has been attacked several times in meta by disgruntled OP's. Personal attacks happen as well, I've had a few.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've posted more in meta in the last few days then in all my time here, not because I'm particularly frustrated or even care that much. But because I prefer being part of solutions, not problems. And I don't believe denying a problem exists makes it so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-11-05T20:37:39.363" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5691" CreationDate="2018-11-06T04:00:28.077" Score="-5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a procedure for dealing with close-vote abuse or overuse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, upon analysis it appears to have several steps&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignore it happens&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deny it happens&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Defend it happens while still denying it happens&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pass it to limbo to solve while persisting in steps 1, 2 &amp;amp; 3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stop talking about it, if pressed, blame the victims, claim limbo has already solved it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2018-11-06T04:41:03.993" LastActivityDate="2018-11-06T04:41:03.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5701" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5702" CreationDate="2018-11-06T14:56:14.713" Score="4" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/104191/interviewed-for-dream-job-bad-written-test-how-can-i-recover/104204&quot;&gt;Interviewed for dream job, bad written test: how can I recover?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as too broad and then edited.  The current version of the question is answerable, in scope, and not too broad.  Let's reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2018-11-12T07:49:28.063" LastActivityDate="2018-11-12T07:49:28.063" Title="Reopen &quot;dream job and bad written test&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5701" CreationDate="2018-11-06T17:19:12.340" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Casted the 5th and final vote and the post is open again now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-11-06T17:19:12.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5703" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-06T18:13:09.057" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/122033/should-not-work-in-software-company-have-hr-employee-send-me-code-test-but-not-k&quot;&gt;HR employee sent me code test but not know open .c file. Serious problems?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question should be reopened. It isn't asking about a specific choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2018-11-07T12:01:30.263" LastActivityDate="2018-11-07T12:01:30.263" Title="This question should be reopened. It is not asking about a specific choice (Done)" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5704" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-06T18:16:05.767" Score="3" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/122091/how-do-companies-with-blogs-make-writing-happen&quot;&gt;How do companies with blogs make writing happen?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question needs another reopen vote. It is not at all &quot;too broad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="8234" LastEditDate="2018-11-07T21:53:37.950" LastActivityDate="2018-11-07T21:53:37.950" Title="(Done) Reopen &quot;How do companies with blogs make writing happen&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5704" CreationDate="2018-11-06T18:35:25.717" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question needs another reopen vote. It is not at all &quot;too broad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Casted the final vote and it is open again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-11-06T18:35:25.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5706" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-06T22:46:10.117" Score="8" ViewCount="495" Body="&lt;p&gt;As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can't see it right now, that's by design! This is a very early test implementation of your design and we need your help finding issues with it before we make it live for everyone permanently. So, keep in mind, there will be things that need fixing! We'll address those things as we can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you'd like to review it, here's how:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How do I enable it?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/preferences&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; and check the &quot;Beta test new themes&quot; option. This will turn on the new theme for all sites that have one in testing, including this one. &lt;em&gt;Here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314542/opt-in-to-beta-testing-new-themes&quot;&gt;more info&lt;/a&gt; on how to opt in.&lt;/em&gt; You can uncheck the box to revert to the older theme until the site is live for everyone. &lt;strong&gt;Note, while turning it on is immediate, it will take a few minutes to revert to the old view - &lt;em&gt;but it will go through!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What type of feedback do we need?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;On this post: Bugs related to this site's design elements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please help us look for issues/bugs related to the theme design and how we have mapped the old theme to the new. This needs to be done within the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307862/ch-ch-ch-changes-left-nav-responsive-design-themes&quot;&gt;limits of the new unified theme&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could include colors of sections of the design or text, problems with JavaScript add-ons (if applicable), the logo or top banner appearance or other artwork.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also feel free to ask questions about the new layout if you're unsure how to navigate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;On Meta Stack Exchange: General concerns about left nav or theming&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some things that are definitely changing everywhere and can't really be adjusted on a per-site basis. A few of them include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Top banner is shorter in height, so some artwork has to be adjusted along with some logos.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Left Navigation is active everywhere (but can be collapsed into a menu by visiting your site preferences - &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/311237/284336&quot;&gt;instructions here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Responsive layout is active, which lets the site adjust as browser widths change - no side scrolling (some pages haven't been updated, yet, though). For now, if you prefer the scrolling, you can disable this by clicking the &quot;disable responsiveness&quot; link in the footer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many site elements including tags and voting arrows are standardized across the network.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link underlining is active. In an effort to make links more visible, they are now being underlined.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have concerns or issues regarding the left nav or the overall approach we are taking to theming, then &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/310908/live-left-nav-new-theming-and-responsiveness&quot;&gt;this Meta Stack Exchange post&lt;/a&gt; is the right place for feedback. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned earlier, there are some unique design elements like voting arrows and tags that are being standardized in this process. Keeping these custom elements makes our ability to maintain the sites too complex and, while we're very sad to see them go, we're in a difficult position of needing to make the site designs work together so that we can continue to address feature requests and bugs that will make your Q&amp;amp;A experience better. This is addressed in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314799/why-we-initiated-the-latest-round-of-design-changes-and-the-role-of-meta&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Exchange post&lt;/a&gt; if you want more detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What new themes?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're like, &quot;What the heck are you talking about?&quot;, then you should read the Meta Stack Exchange post entitled &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312365/rollout-of-new-network-site-themes&quot;&gt;Rollout of new network site themes&lt;/a&gt; (and maybe the posts it links to for the full background). To follow along with the rollout of these new themes, go &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314979/rollout-of-responsive-design-site-themes-tracking-post&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Thanks so much for your constructive feedback!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Oh, Who am I?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't know me, I'm one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/99338/who-are-the-community-team-and-what-do-they-do?s=1%7C141.4591&quot;&gt;Community Managers&lt;/a&gt; here at Stack Exchange. I'm here to listen to your input and convey it to our Design team for responses and fixes to bugs. I'll do my best to respond to your concerns and explain whether changes we've made are bugs that can be changed or if they're by design and why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9899" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditDate="2018-12-26T23:01:56.157" LastActivityDate="2018-12-26T23:01:56.157" Title="The Workplace updated site theme is ready for testing!" Tags="|discussion|design|css|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5706" CreationDate="2018-11-06T23:07:32.650" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like just cosmetic changes, everything I've tried works fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-11-06T23:07:32.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5728" CreationDate="2018-11-07T08:26:46.637" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/122164/past-employer-wants-source-code&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Past Employer&amp;quot; Wants Source Code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing particularly uncommon about dodgy people trying to get free work done or evading paying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2018-11-13T06:22:55.943" LastActivityDate="2018-11-13T06:22:55.943" Title="(Done) Unsure why this is closed for the reason given, VTRO request" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5623" CreationDate="2018-11-07T21:18:51.717" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A month after the posting of this Discussion, seems that the consensus is against the use of the Islam tag (and the division in religions, in general).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, I took the liberty to &lt;strong&gt;remove the sole instance of that tag&lt;/strong&gt;, and replaced it with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/religion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;religion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;religion&lt;/a&gt; one (added excerpt also), as to indicate religion is still a relevant aspect in the context of the question, while avoiding any framing or negative situations that may come from dividing it to a specific religion (avoiding baits, controversy, and biased judgments unrelated to the workplace situation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-11-07T21:18:51.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5706" CreationDate="2018-11-07T23:51:03.290" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that &lt;strong&gt;our Watercooler is gone!&lt;/strong&gt; (Both on Meta and on the Main site)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dAVk6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dAVk6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RW29W.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RW29W.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems that not only it was removed, but that list was moved left to use it's space. Also, seems that there is some free space on the right (even more than before), so I say that we could &lt;strong&gt;have our Watercooler back&lt;/strong&gt;, while still having space for that list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="41738" LastEditDate="2018-12-11T00:02:08.523" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T00:02:08.523" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5706" CreationDate="2018-11-08T00:01:55.967" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems that the new design also &lt;strong&gt;took away several of the office items/gadgets&lt;/strong&gt; that were part of the top design (both on Meta and Main site). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C8kzV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C8kzV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b8fOs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b8fOs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It took away the folder, the pictures/postcards, the keyboard and the USB. It also took away the Fastener Clips that &quot;hold together&quot; the UI elements. Seems that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2341/73791&quot;&gt;originally&lt;/a&gt; the Community was fond of these items (as am I), so it would be a good idea to &lt;strong&gt;have them back&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="41738" LastEditDate="2018-12-12T23:37:01.400" LastActivityDate="2018-12-12T23:37:01.400" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5665" CreationDate="2018-11-08T10:34:39.410" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are different matters here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Too often, a close mob comes in and just shut things down. One&#xA;  member in particular seems to think that two different post are&#xA;  duplicates if vowels can be found in both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a likely a matter to be handled by mods if there is a form of abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To make matters worse, questions that do not pertain to IT seem to get closed &gt; quickly, as the attitude seems to be &quot;If I can't answer it, it must not be &gt;clear or answerable&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two possibilities here : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the fact that knowing a bit the field to be able to answer don't make it off-topic isn't clear enough. And this should be address in the guide lines and eventually off-topic reason (with an addendum like : &quot;Note : requiring a bit of knowledge of the field don't make it off-topic&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Specific behaviour -&gt; mods.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The problem this creates is that close votes draw more close votes. We have hundreds of questions here on meta asking why a question was closed, with a massive chunk of them being reopened without any editing or cleanup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People which have their close votes cancelled too much should probably bring attention to the mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I know what you think : &quot;It's the community that manages, mods are exception handlers&quot; but the problems is that, unless the point about the domain, you're clearly pointing a very specific set of users, and you can try to put all the anonimity you want, The Workplace community know who they're and this will finished in poiting fingers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility would be for the community to change the rules and policies apply there, even if it makes them quite more different from others sites, and having mods enforce them, because they're the ones that have the tools for that. (Ex : people that don't try too often to help users to salvage their question will lose their close vote privilege for a period of time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T10:34:39.410" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5665" CreationDate="2018-11-08T12:28:47.370" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's time we get review audits? These quickly weed out &quot;reviewers&quot; who never ever move the cursor away from the Close button. The rest of reviewers will think twice before closing a question, and (also very important) will favor community-agreed standards for closing over their personal standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37016" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T12:28:47.370" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5716" CreationDate="2018-11-08T17:12:15.710" Score="11" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apologies if this is not the right place to ask this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed today that earlier this week, four of my answers (mostly a few weeks old, all with quite a few upvotes and no previous downvotes) were downvoted within three minutes, with no explanation given in any case. I assume it was the same person, though I know of no way to confirm that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not hugely bothered by this (-8 &quot;reputation&quot;, oh no!) but it does rather look like someone decided to find all my recent-ish answers and downvote them all at once, for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything in the system to detect and prevent someone doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, shouldn't there be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, I'm not upset, I'll quite happily live my life without ever thinking about it again; but if there's a reputational &quot;scoring system&quot;, there ought to be a way to prevent malicious interference, should there not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87592" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T19:24:25.833" Title="Does the reputation system handle (apparent) vindictive downvotes?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5668" CreationDate="2018-11-08T18:59:51.450" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with you and Richard U's answer. I have noticed that there seems to be a contingent of users on here that are intent on closing down almost everything. It is the same people every time. It is not a healthy attitude for the site and I haven't experienced it on any other SE sites that I use. I think, on this site in particular, the 'opinion-based' VTC reason should be taken with a large pinch of salt. Most answers here will be inherently opinion-based due to the subject matter - Workplace issues are not an exact science and there is not always going to be an obvious right/wrong answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, perhaps the 'opinion-based' VTC reason should be removed entirely for this site, as it doesn't really fit very well? That alone shouldn't be a reason to close a question on here, should it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88516" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T18:59:51.450" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5714" CreationDate="2018-11-08T19:24:25.833" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per gnat's comment, there's an automated bot that picks up on suspicious voting (positive and negative) and resets periodically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/28756/what-can-i-do-if-im-the-victim-of-serial-downvoting&quot;&gt;What can I do if I&amp;#39;m the victim of serial downvoting?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The triggering criteria for this bot isn't public, but is good at catching suspicious behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you do see that you're being suspiciously targeted in a fashion that doesn't trip the recalculation, then please contact a moderator by raising a flag on one of the affected posts.  We can either look into it, or raise this to the admin team to look into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T19:24:25.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5673" CreationDate="2018-11-08T22:05:35.177" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for all you have done to make this site a success and best wishes to you and your family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2317" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T22:05:35.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5718" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5729" CreationDate="2018-11-09T00:11:01.920" Score="-1" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/122314/what-point-does-companys-generosity-during-the-interview-process-have&quot;&gt;What point does company&amp;#39;s generosity during the interview process have?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are solid and widely used business reasons this may happen, not just opinion. It's also useful knowledge to have. I'm voting to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2018-11-13T06:22:20.937" LastActivityDate="2018-11-13T06:22:20.937" Title="(Done) Request to reopen question about expensive applicant hosting" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5706" CreationDate="2018-11-09T00:26:55.747" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The top bar buttons are &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; close to the right edge.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time I look at the corner, I think I need to scroll right on my browser to see everything. I don't, the icon is just too close to the edge. The spacing between the SE icon and the Help icon is two or three times as much as to the edge, which makes it appear like there's missing content. This isn't specific just to The Workplace and happens on all of the sites I've visited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gKy9g.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gKy9g.png&quot; alt=&quot;topbar image&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt;PS, if someone knows the markdown to shrink this image to make it more manageable, I'd appreciate the help!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2018-11-09T01:02:08.053" LastActivityDate="2018-11-09T01:02:08.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5721" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-09T11:30:34.523" Score="1" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really sure why &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/122379/how-to-respond-to-a-sexual-harrassment-claim-made-against-you&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was closed. The OP isn't looking for anything company specific, they just want to know how to proceed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are already 3 re-open votes. Can we get 2 more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2018-11-09T13:53:40.627" LastActivityDate="2018-11-09T13:53:40.627" Title="(Done) Re-Open How to Respond to a Sexual Harrassment Claim made Against You" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5722" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5727" CreationDate="2018-11-09T21:09:44.697" Score="1" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/122426/colleague-is-not-competent-but-gets-away-with-it&quot;&gt;Colleague is not competent but gets away with it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Totally different scenario when the OP is a contractor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2018-11-13T06:25:21.963" LastActivityDate="2018-11-13T06:25:21.963" Title="(Done) This isn't a duplicate. Needs one more reopen vote" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5665" CreationDate="2018-11-09T23:23:23.167" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closure does not (always) mean &quot;this question is bad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It often simply means &quot;this question needs to be improved&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think a question is good, don't just instantly vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to understand why someone voted to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to edit the question to improve it, to address the reasons why it was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to turn it into something that others with the same problem will be able to find if they search for it, and that those people will find useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to avoid focusing exclusively on what the asker asks in answers and instead write answers that will be helpful to others with the same problem, while also covering the details specific to the asker's situation, either as a footnote, a comment or a link to another post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And sometimes closure &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; mean &quot;this question is bad&quot; (not objectively bad, just bad for this site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/244534/were-working-on-a-new-stat-to-help-convey-the-reach-of-your-posts-here&quot;&gt;trying to help many people&lt;/a&gt; means getting rid of off-topic questions even when the asker has a problem you really want to help with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not to say you can't help them by posting an answer or leaving a comment before getting rid of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the decision to keep it, i.e. reopen it, shouldn't be whether or not the question is answerable, but rather whether the question, in its current state (taking the answers that's been posted into account), falls within the scope of the site, increases the overall quality of the site, and will be useful to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you might not understand why a question is closed, sometimes you might understand but just disagree - that's okay too. We can't all always see eye to eye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the current state of affairs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel it's roughly turned into a battleground - people who focus primarily on long-term value against people who focus primarily on short-term value. Focusing &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; much on either one or the other is bad, but having each side see the other as the &quot;enemy&quot; means they likely gravitate towards the edges (i.e. closing too many questions, including good ones, and reopening and answering too many questions, including bad ones) as opposed to trying to find some middle ground or understand the perspective of the other side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not really good for anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="8234" LastEditDate="2018-11-12T10:22:24.283" LastActivityDate="2018-11-12T10:22:24.283" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5724" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5725" CreationDate="2018-11-10T19:08:08.550" Score="11" ViewCount="343" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; tag. Why are titles being cluttered up with their status? Are moderators not responding to flags asking to have things marked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;? I find this is really decreasing the readability of meta for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102" LastActivityDate="2018-11-12T17:11:59.650" Title="What is with the (Done) in titles here?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5724" CreationDate="2018-11-11T00:56:43.037" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; tag can only be added by moderators, and we get a lot of questions here asking for specific actions on questions (close, reopen, delete, fix...).  Asking for the tag creates unnecessary work for the moderators when the community has better tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4423/325&quot;&gt;wrote&lt;/a&gt; previously, the best solution to this problem is an accepted answer.  An accepted answer is the standard SE way of saying &quot;I got the help I needed&quot;.  I agree that as the number of these questions increases, the edited titles are making meta harder to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would prefer that we leave the titles alone and use answers.  I didn't object to editing titles before, but there were fewer of these requests then.  People, please use answers for this.  The OP can add an answer and then accept it, if nobody else has added one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-11-11T21:46:39.213" LastActivityDate="2018-11-11T21:46:39.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5724" CreationDate="2018-11-11T02:52:14.133" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; tag adds unnecessary work to the mods already full plates. And as a comment shows we've been &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4423/please-dont-ask-for-status-completed-on-requests-to-reopen-or-close-questions&quot;&gt;specifically asked not to use them for such&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Requiring an accepted answer needs two users input rather than one. It needs to be both answered and accepted. Which can create a big delay depending on when an OP is available. We have large disparities in timezone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Done) can be entered by any user with editing rights, and as far as I can see is done as soon as the last reopen vote is cast or an interested person sees it has been reopened. This immediately shows everyone they do not need to action anything here and can scroll past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also highlights a particular concern we have been looking at lately. But it's greatest advantage is that users will not waste effort entering a meta reopen request, then finding the question, and then finding that it's already been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion this has less of a negative affect on the 'user experience' than other options. I actually see it as a positive and proactive solution, but that is just my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2018-11-11T03:13:58.443" LastActivityDate="2018-11-11T03:13:58.443" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5722" CreationDate="2018-11-11T05:03:06.317" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes this isn't a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way you could see this as a duplicate is if:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A)&lt;/strong&gt; You didn't read it properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;B)&lt;/strong&gt; You don't know the difference between a 'Contractor' and a 'Staff member'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C)&lt;/strong&gt; You were parrot voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;D)&lt;/strong&gt; All of the above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: to clarify from a comment, I'm not frustrated. But if people are going to continually harp on about closures and duplicates being well thought out for the good of everyone and save the whales and stuff, then their actions should suit their words. Please read a question and make an attempt to understand it before VTC or anything else. Marking as a duplicate can be especially dangerous, if the OP or a future surfer was to take advice that is not applicable, they could easily find themselves unemployed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In this particular case the employer has just sacked 20 contractors.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a game, it's real people with families to support and careers and reputations to advance in life with. It's not a software issue you can mess up and have another go at later. Termination or rep ruined is not something people get a second chance at as par for the course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was a once in the moon misjudgment I wouldn't make a peep, but it's not, it's a trend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't understand a question then please ask for clarification or leave it to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm serene on whether anyone feels offended by the bluntness of this answer. My English skills are not up to the task of beating around the bush coherently, so I have to stick with blunt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2018-11-12T00:46:36.820" LastActivityDate="2018-11-12T00:46:36.820" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5708" CreationDate="2018-11-12T07:41:57.770" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Correct, it was an absolutely insane close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-11-12T07:41:57.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5718" CreationDate="2018-11-12T07:43:16.007" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reopened successfully, thanks everyone who voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-11-12T07:43:16.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5689" CreationDate="2018-11-12T07:44:53.190" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you voters, appreciate the assist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-11-12T07:44:53.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5724" CreationDate="2018-11-12T17:11:59.650" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not ideal, but it is the easiest way to make it clear that something in Hot Meta Posts has been reopened, or that some other action has been taken (so people don't need to waste their time looking at it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you view question lists on Meta, an accepted answer would be comparable (in terms of effort required and visibility), but this wouldn't be visible on Hot Meta Posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mentioned some of my thoughts about this in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4973/8234&quot;&gt;another post&lt;/a&gt;. The TL;DR is that the &quot;better&quot; solutions would involve system changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastActivityDate="2018-11-12T17:11:59.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5732" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5734" CreationDate="2018-11-14T14:45:19.057" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/122438/can-my-employer-require-me-to-refrain-from-wearing-headphones-disability-issue&quot;&gt;Can my employer require me to refrain from wearing headphones (disability issue)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited this heavily, took out the ranty parts and presented what I think is a more clear question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;disability issues pop up frequently, and I think that this deserves a fair shake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-11-21T21:53:26.957" LastActivityDate="2018-11-21T21:53:26.957" Title="(Done) Req to reopen Can my employer require me to refrain from wearing headphones (disability issue)" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5733" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-14T15:27:13.580" Score="2" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Controversial feature request I know - but it seems a bit... ridiculous that only five users are required to close a question, and even if 100 experienced users come along who disagree with those close votes, there's nothing they can do about it until the question is closed (and then often we need a big push to do anything about it, hence all the reopen discussions on meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A handful of regular users who decide every other question should be closed surely shouldn't have more power than hundreds of other users who decide the questions are fine, and should remain open - yet this is the situation we're in at present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a permission were enabled that allowed higher rep users to retract close votes on an &quot;I disagree&quot; basis, even if they (for example) only had the weight of removing half a close vote each, this might help to restore some of this balance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57339" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2018-11-15T03:29:44.650" LastActivityDate="2018-11-15T03:29:44.650" Title="Allow users to cast a &quot;reopen&quot; vote before a question is closed" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="25" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5732" CreationDate="2018-11-14T19:03:39.487" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has been reopened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we still allowed to use (Done) in the titles? &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5724/what-is-with-the-done-in-titles-here&quot;&gt;The meta post&lt;/a&gt; about that left me confused as to how we should proceed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastActivityDate="2018-11-14T19:03:39.487" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5735" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-14T20:27:00.293" Score="3" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please vote to reopen &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/122628/how-should-i-deal-with-an-employee-who-is-stealing-from-the-cash-counter&quot;&gt;How should I deal with an employee who is stealing from the cash counter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not off-topic and should not have been closed, IMHO. It already has several good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And sadly, it's not an unusual occurrence in the retail workspace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2018-11-15T13:11:49.410" LastActivityDate="2018-11-15T15:54:44.437" Title="(Done) Please vote to reopen &quot;How should I deal with an employee who is stealing from the cash counter&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5706" CreationDate="2018-11-15T09:19:06.773" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sidebar is not present in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/&quot;&gt;help center homepage&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wQsDS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wQsDS.png&quot; alt=&quot;missing sidebar in help centre&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94491" LastEditorUserId="41738" LastEditDate="2018-12-11T00:04:36.623" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T00:04:36.623" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5706" CreationDate="2018-11-15T13:36:56.417" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Internet Explorer 11, the &quot;THE WORKPLACE&quot; logo text is smashed right into the black StackExchange banner, which I find unpleasant. It was spaced properly before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yu1f9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yu1f9.png&quot; alt=&quot;Workplace logo screenshot on IE&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34168" LastEditorUserId="41738" LastEditDate="2018-12-12T23:39:34.063" LastActivityDate="2018-12-12T23:39:34.063" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5735" CreationDate="2018-11-15T15:54:44.437" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post is open again now. Which was &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; answerable and valuable since the beginning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-11-15T15:54:44.437" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5739" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-17T00:36:45.537" Score="0" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;RELATED:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5085/lets-try-to-work-with-users-before-chasing-them-off&quot;&gt;Let&amp;#39;s try to work with users before chasing them off&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was deleted by the user in under an hour.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/122952/im-a-manager-is-my-boss-allowed-to-make-the-staff-do-an-anonymous-job-performa&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/122952/im-a-manager-is-my-boss-allowed-to-make-the-staff-do-an-anonymous-job-performa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments were reprehensible, including the nagging for him to edit his post and bickering with the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By nagging, I mean repeated calls to do a simple edit that anyone could have done.  I was actually in the middle of an edit when the post was deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-11-17T21:23:57.443" Title="Another new user chased off" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5739" CreationDate="2018-11-17T21:23:57.443" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am confused by the comment: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@EdHeal You know, you can edit as well, instead of complaining&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it is in response to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please can you use paragraphs &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless there were other deleted comments I don't see how asking for paragraphs is a complaint. I feel that asking a new user to make some simple edits is something that we should do to help a new user. While it is sometimes easy to add paragraphs it is better for the original author to do so, it can help them organize their thoughts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment exchange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please can you tell me that people under you would be able to be&#xA;  honest, if they do not have anamonity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They will not be including their names ... that's called anamonity.&#xA;  And it's not the reviews I'm worried about . The staff like me and the&#xA;  reviews will be positive for the most part . The problem is my&#xA;  superior falsifying the reviews to his liking . So it's legal to alter&#xA;  documents ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is a misunderstanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the first is asking: if they aren't anonymous would they give an honest evaluation. The second comment defines what it means to be anonymous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again unless comments are missing I am not sure how the exchange could have been saved. The question was poorly worded. The question is in a nutshell: I don't trust my boss. I am afraid he will use fake reviews to give be a bad review. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2018-11-17T21:23:57.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5742" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5743" CreationDate="2018-11-18T16:35:08.473" Score="4" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've checked the Tour and the Help center, and I'm having a doubt whether or not my question has its place on Workplace SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, there was a software company for which I worked as an intern, during which I made a mobile application. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it sounds like a good idea to mention it when applying (for a mobile development job for example), there are some... details that make me wonder whether or not I'd better not mention it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt;, this question would have its place there, because we can ask question about: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Finding employment (resumes/cv/cover letters, recruiters, hiring-managers, interviews, negotiations, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;Tour&lt;/a&gt; says that the question must be a: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Specific issues encountered navigating a professional environment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Real problems or questions that you’ve encountered pertaining to a workplace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But so far, I didn't have any specific issue with this... yet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I was wondering if it was relevant to ask about it on the main site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64632" LastActivityDate="2018-11-19T07:45:03.380" Title="Can I ask about whether or not it's a good idea to talk about a specific previous experience when applying?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5742" CreationDate="2018-11-19T07:45:03.380" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, by all means ask it - this is on-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-11-19T07:45:03.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5744" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-19T16:57:03.747" Score="-2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/63205/how-can-i-deal-with-troublesome-professional-engineer&quot;&gt;How can I deal with troublesome Professional Engineer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was closed for the &quot;Real questions have real answers&quot; reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were numerous answers to this one, and an employee staging a job actions is something that is common enough that I think this should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-11-21T21:53:17.333" LastActivityDate="2018-11-29T13:10:53.987" Title="(Done) Can we reopen &quot;How can I deal with troublesome Professional Engineer?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5746" CreationDate="2018-11-20T14:31:12.257" Score="5" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's suppose I ask a question which is badly received (despite going through the Tour and the Help Center, as well as asking on Meta whether or not my question has its place on the main site). Is it authorised to ask for feedbacks on Meta about that specific question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't expect to get feedbacks from the people who downvoted. I just want to get general feedbacks about what's wrong, so I can avoid doing the same mistakes again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64632" LastActivityDate="2018-12-01T11:10:33.363" Title="Is it okay to ask for feedbacks on Meta about a question on the main site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5745" CreationDate="2018-11-20T14:38:06.427" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing wrong with asking for feedback on Meta IMO.. however you'll often get a quicker/more interactive process by popping into &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; and asking there. There's usually a few site regulars kicking around in there and we don't bite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-11-20T14:38:06.427" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5747" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5753" CreationDate="2018-11-20T18:55:29.823" Score="7" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/47695631#47695631&quot;&gt;pointed out&lt;/a&gt; in chat, seems that we have an &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apathy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apathy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apathy&lt;/a&gt; tag, which is in the current state:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only 2 questions with it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those questions are 3+ years ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No wiki and no excerpt &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Contributes few to the post and finding a solution to it, perhaps even added/created in a rant moment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other tags the posts have are more suited and describe them better.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention that &quot;apathy&quot; is quite broad and could be considered a &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/07/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;Meta Tag&lt;/a&gt; (which should go fo good). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we remove, a.k.a., Burninate this tag?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(I can do it if you want, but we should hear the Community consensus on this one before proceeding)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-11-22T13:07:58.667" Title="Is the [apathy] tag of any use? Should we get rid of it?" Tags="|discussion|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5749" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5752" CreationDate="2018-11-21T14:30:31.610" Score="2" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/123142/how-do-i-convince-my-employer-to-match-the-salary-of-my-new-job-offer&quot;&gt;How do I convince my employer to match the salary of my new job offer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Salary negotiations are absolutely on topic and not &quot;too broad&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3 reopen votes as of this posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-11-21T21:47:55.623" LastActivityDate="2018-11-21T21:47:55.623" Title="(DONE) Request to reopen: How do I convince my employer to match the salary of my new job offer?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5750" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5751" CreationDate="2018-11-21T14:38:01.533" Score="1" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/123065/young-professional-co-worker-thinks-she-is-not-performing-enough&quot;&gt;Young professional co-worker thinks she is not performing enough&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;Questions require a goal that we can address. Rather than explaining the difficulties of your situation, explain what you want to do to make it better. For more information, see this meta post.&amp;quot; – gnat, Rui F Ribeiro, Lightness Races in Orbit, T. Sar, Michael Grubey&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mentoring is absolutely a topic we can address&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-11-21T21:47:30.167" Title="Req: to reopen Young professional co-worker thinks she is not performing enough (DONE)" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5750" CreationDate="2018-11-21T17:56:17.380" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;That didn't take long - the question is already reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-11-21T17:56:17.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5749" CreationDate="2018-11-21T17:58:03.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like this question has been reopened as well!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-11-21T17:58:03.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5747" CreationDate="2018-11-21T21:52:55.980" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took that from the currently +7/-1 votes and comments on the post that the Consensus is to burninate this tag. Thus, I proceeded to remove it. It is now reduced to ashes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0jYoR.png&quot; alt=&quot;trogdor&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-11-22T13:07:58.667" LastActivityDate="2018-11-22T13:07:58.667" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5754" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5814" CreationDate="2018-11-23T18:50:38.747" Score="15" ViewCount="1304" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Hot Network Questions (HNQ) list is a list of questions drawn from across the network.  It appears in the right column on the front page of the site and on all question pages.  An algorithm computes &quot;hotness&quot; based on velocity (votes and answers), scores, and newness.  New, controversial, active questions make the list.  This has led to a lot of complaints from across the network, and SE is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/316934/162102&quot;&gt;starting to think about how to change it&lt;/a&gt;.  Any changes will take quite some time, of course; we don't have a proposal or design yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, in the wake of recent events that led to another site being removed from the list, moderators have now been told that sites can petition to opt out if we show strong community support for doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose a trial run.  &lt;strong&gt;Do we, as a community, want to opt out of having our questions shown in the Hot Network Questions list for 90 days?&lt;/strong&gt;  After 90 days we would evaluate the effects and decide to either continue or ask to be reinstated.  If something dramatic should happen before then, like they change the algorithm or our traffic drops by an order of magnitude, we can decide as a community to end the experiment early.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opting out means that questions from The Workplace wouldn't appear on the list.  It does not mean that we would stop seeing the HNQ list here.  We'll still see the HNQ list with questions from across the rest of the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We won't do anything for at least a week, to allow time for people to respond, counter-propose, vote, and otherwise weigh in.  After that, if we have &lt;strong&gt;clear community consensus&lt;/strong&gt; we'll proceed with a request to the CMs; if we don't have clear consensus we'll make no changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please indicate your support or opposition through answers (and votes on answers).  I'll be adding an answer to express my own position, and I'll leave it to others to express other positions in different answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-12-12T22:41:36.013" LastActivityDate="2023-07-10T19:30:33.563" Title="Should The Workplace opt out of Hot Network Questions (trial run)?" Tags="|discussion|hot-questions|" AnswerCount="19" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2018-11-23T18:50:38.747" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Hot Network Questions list has been a source of complaints here throughout the years.  Specifically, questions -- usually sensationalist or controversial questions, because &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/316937/162102&quot;&gt;that's what HNQ optimizes for&lt;/a&gt; -- get onto the list that's shown in the right sidebar all across the network, attracting vastly disproportionate voting and lots of comments.  We also get more than a few provocative questions here that seem designed to &lt;em&gt;try&lt;/em&gt; to get onto that list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's try some time away.  I think it'll be good for us.  If we want to better advertise (the good parts of) The Workplace across the network, we can design some ads and submit them to other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-11-23T18:50:38.747" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2018-11-23T20:13:23.153" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why fix something that isn't broken?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-11-23T20:13:23.153" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2018-11-23T20:26:45.140" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do we, as a community, want to opt out of having our questions shown&#xA;  in the Hot Network Questions list for 90 days?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I  never knew that was a possibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes - do it yesterday.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what the whole point of &quot;Hot Network Questions&quot; is, but I'm pretty sure it's aim is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to help people navigate the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2018-11-23T20:26:45.140" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2018-11-23T22:43:33.233" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that I agree to this on a strictly trial basis and run some analysis on how this affects question quality and engagement of new users. There’s certainly a balance between salacious questions designed to attract clicks and gaining new users with good questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that we wait until after the holiday period so that we have a daily good idea of how this change affects the quality of the site. Otherwise the cause of any dip in question asking rate might be ambiguous between hnq and the holiday season dip. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-11-23T22:43:33.233" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2018-11-25T16:21:09.687" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I support this because proposed experiment would make a great opportunity to learn about how things work. To start with, it could help us learn if Stack Exchange would do something about requests which aren't &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/318341/165773&quot;&gt;posted on Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...At first I was going to add here that from this perspective it would make useful knowledge even if they tag it declined (because that would prove that they care about meta). And I was going to make this a comment because it is rather tangential to discussed matters. However, after studying things a bit further I changed my mind and decided that I am really interested in proposed experiment...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What made a difference to me was a visit to site that was &lt;a href=&quot;https://interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3330&quot;&gt;blocked at HNQ&lt;/a&gt; about a month ago. I checked about hundred of their recent questions (all posted long after HNQ block) and was quite surprised to see that they appear to be doing totally all right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a decent amount of questions, answers, votes, views - everything I checked looked pretty OK. Everything I saw indicated a solid, active, healthy site. As if HNQ didn't matter at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What made me worry though (and what made me wish to try this at our site) is that I couldn't reasonably compare it to how it was prior to their HNQ block. I mean, okay, they look good now - but do they do better or worse than before? I totally lacked experience with their past questions and had no idea about their topics and quality norms to make my mind about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, I also found one of their meta posts analyzing how different metrics changed after HNQ block. Differences in numbers were quite noticeable but again, lack of experience with past content, site topics and quality norms made it too difficult for me to interpret their stats and decide whether similar changes at Workplace would be for better or for worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summing up, studying things at IPS made me very curious about how it would go here, and proposed experiment looks like a great way to find it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastActivityDate="2018-11-25T16:21:09.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2018-11-26T01:15:27.873" Score="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found out about this part of Stack Exchange through HNQ so I'm a bit biased. But if you're looking for more people, that's an easy way to &quot;advertise&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm new here, so don't really know the needs of the &quot;community&quot;. Maybe this sort of person is not what you're interested in (at least after the redesign).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But being new, I'm sharing my perspective, as someone who was aware of the &quot;workplace&quot; category mostly from HNQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94767" LastActivityDate="2018-11-26T01:15:27.873" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2018-11-26T08:04:13.880" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say we should at least trial opting out as long as we have the choice. As alluded to in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/318792/what-kinds-of-question-titles-put-a-sites-hnq-presence-at-risk&quot;&gt;Monica's recent MSE question&lt;/a&gt;, the risk is there for a similar incident like on IPS to happen here - some of our question titles are just as incindiary and/or look just as bad out of context. There but for the grace of pure RNG, the site that started this storm might have been TWP instead of IPS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other then that, the HNQ has been a pain point and has had a quite mixed effect on question quality here over the years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastActivityDate="2018-11-26T08:04:13.880" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2018-11-26T11:12:04.723" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will agree to a trail as long as at the end, we can get some numbers (posted in META) about how it went. So things like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Overall site traffic (before and after)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average question view for a sampling of question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average number of answers with a positive rating&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average number of answers with a negative answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't need to be exactly this criteria, but just something to illustrate the pros and cons after the trial. I found TWP through HNQ, so while I am willing to have us removed, I want to see some stats before a final decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastActivityDate="2018-11-26T11:12:04.723" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2018-11-26T15:04:27.647" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any time a Q gets to HNQ, we get a bunch of inane comments from 101 rep users who never again participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a disruption and should die a painful death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kill it with fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the meantime, let's opt out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2018-11-26T15:04:27.647" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2018-11-26T15:58:09.050" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I do think the HNQ concept has value - at the moment it's fundamentally broken at best. So until they actually make it into something that isn't the SE equivalent of the Daily Mail's Sidebar of Shame I think we'd be better off out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-11-26T15:58:09.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5765" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-27T03:38:54.003" Score="6" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5754/325&quot;&gt;Another question&lt;/a&gt; asks about opting out of the Hot Network Questions list for a few months to see if that's better or worse for us (or ends up not mattering).  See the other (unresolved!) question for details on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If&lt;/strong&gt; we decide to try the experiment, we'll need a basis for evaluating the results that's better than everybody's subjective gut feelings.  What factors should we measure?  Assume we'd collect before-and-after stats, seasonally adjusted or year-over-year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following &lt;em&gt;methods&lt;/em&gt; of collecting information are available to us:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Public on-site information: close/reopen stats, advanced search, site anlytics, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt; (SEDE): SEDE doesn't have &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt;, but it has a lot.  Think about SQL queries that would be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On-site moderator tools: search of deleted posts, total flags (but no breakdowns), number of deleted comments (but not reasons), maybe other stuff.  The flag and comment stats are crude; at any given time we can see totals for the last month, quarter, or year, but we can't get those stats for specific date ranges.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Things that require database access: in the past, CMs have sometimes been willing to query the live database directly for information not exposed through the UI.  We might be able to get a breakdown of flag types in a date range, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some feel that having our questions on the HNQ list is harmful for us.  What is &quot;harmful&quot; and how do we measure it?  And what is beneficial about being on it and how do we measure &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-12-02T01:48:13.533" Title="If we were to do the HNQ experiment, how should we evaluate the results?" Tags="|discussion|hot-questions|site-evaluation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5765" CreationDate="2018-11-27T13:17:14.613" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a list of statistics that I think would speak to overall community health, not just to the HNQ problem. I don't know if we have the ability to get all of these, but I think the information would be very interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Overall site traffic (page views?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of unique visitors to the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total percentage of new questions closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Percentage of new answers deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Percentage of new comments deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total number of flagged posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of new accounts created&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of questions asked by new users (including % closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of answers from new users (including % deleted)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of comments from new users (including % deleted)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-11-27T13:17:14.613" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5765" CreationDate="2018-11-27T23:41:09.807" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is &quot;harmful&quot; and how do we measure it? And what is beneficial about being on it and how do we measure that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5766/73791&quot;&gt;David's&lt;/a&gt; list of statistics that could help give a notion on the health of the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to complement that by including a &lt;strong&gt;possible &lt;em&gt;interpretation&lt;/em&gt; of such statistics&lt;/strong&gt;, that could better help decide on the &quot;harmful&quot; nature of HNQ w.r.t. TWP. Feel free to comment so we can work out this interpretation in a way that makes sense to the Community:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Overall site traffic (page views?)&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;this will indicate to what extend does HNQ brings attention to the site. Some attention is OK I believe, but much attention could indicate that most of it is because of &quot;Entertainment&quot;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Number of unique visitors to the site:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;this could indicate if we are drawing new visitors to the site (something good?), or well suggest that the visitors are recurrent and seeking a new episode of &quot;Entertainment&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total percentage of new questions closed:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;given we have a strong baseline of % of closed posts, this will help us realize to what extent HNQ worsens/helps the close situation. I would expect a drop after leaving HNQ, but if it's too steep then that could suggest HNQ is in part responsible.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Percentage of new answers deleted:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;this will shed some light on the nature of the answers that HNQ invites. A considerable drop in this statistic would mean HNQ increases the incidence of low-quality answers.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Percentage of new comments deleted:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;this I believe we are all familiar with. A significant drop here would mean that HNQ brings noise and chatty comments to the site (which I can already see happening).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total number of flagged posts:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;similar to comments, this will indicate how much &quot;nastiness&quot; does HNQ brings in comments.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the following statistics I would analyze in a bundle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Number of new accounts created&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Number of questions asked by new users (including % closed)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Number of answers from new users (including % deleted)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Number of comments from new users (including % deleted)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I believe that having new accounts is something good, and most likely HNQ increases the number of accounts created... however, it stops being good when those new accounts don't ask nor answer, and just stick to comments. It is even worse if we also happen to have high increase in flags and comments deleted.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if HNQ brings new users but they never contribute and just stick to comments and nastiness, that would mean HNQ is undesirable to some extent. If we don't get new users, but still have nastiness it would mean the problematic users are recurrent. After that, we can further analyze the results to draw more conclusions and decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-11-27T23:41:09.807" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5768" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5771" CreationDate="2018-11-29T12:36:48.980" Score="-1" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;The on-hold question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/123538/can-anyone-solve-these-acronyms&quot;&gt;Can anyone solve these acronyms?&lt;/a&gt; appears in my moderator tools &lt;em&gt;Delete votes&lt;/em&gt; panel/queue, but when I click on it it has no &lt;em&gt;delete&lt;/em&gt; option (and it is not deleted yet). When writing this it was asked and put on hold 'yesterday'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bAZWx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bAZWx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1JxMy.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1JxMy.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8036" LastActivityDate="2018-11-29T13:12:59.007" Title="Delete votes but no delete option" Tags="|support|deleted-questions|moderator-tools|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5744" CreationDate="2018-11-29T13:10:53.987" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-11-29T13:10:53.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5770" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5777" CreationDate="2018-11-29T13:11:46.437" Score="2" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/123513/will-relocating-close-off-future-opportunities-elsewhere&quot;&gt;Will relocating close off future opportunities elsewhere?&lt;/a&gt; was put on hold for &quot;asking for advice on a specific choice.&quot; While the OP is trying to decide between two jobs, the question is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; asking which job to take. The question is asking about a specific aspect of the decision, specifically whether moving to one location would close off opportunities in the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this question is on-topic and should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="66895" LastEditDate="2018-11-29T14:09:30.697" LastActivityDate="2018-11-29T16:39:46.443" Title="Reopen &quot;Will relocating close off future opportunities elsewhere?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5768" CreationDate="2018-11-29T13:12:59.007" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You currently have a reputation of 11,555.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;10k moderator tools&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You must wait for a question to be closed for 2 days before you can vote for deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This is lifted for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;20k users&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was close yesterday, hence you can't vote to delete yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75187" LastActivityDate="2018-11-29T13:12:59.007" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5772" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5773" CreationDate="2018-11-29T13:16:26.790" Score="7" ViewCount="357" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/colleague&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;colleague&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;colleague&lt;/a&gt; with currently 931 &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/colleagues?sort=newest&amp;amp;pageSize=15&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag wiki excerpt: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions regarding the people one works with. This includes questions about communication, teamwork, or other issues caused by ones co-workers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/coworker&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;coworker&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;coworker&lt;/a&gt; with currently 209 &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/coworker?sort=newest&amp;amp;pageSize=15&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No tag wiki excerpt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meaning of coworker and colleague was discussed on &lt;a href=&quot;https://ell.stackexchange.com/q/49472&quot;&gt;ELL&lt;/a&gt; with the top answer stating that a coworker works at the same company, a colleague either at the same company or in the same profession / industry. But judging from the answers, not everyone quite agrees and it seems to be a subtle difference only. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When glancing through the questions, the words are used interchangeably (e. g. calling them colleague / coworker and tagging it coworker / colleague). Even &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/colleague&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;colleague&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;colleague&lt;/a&gt;'s tag wiki excerpt contains &quot;co-worker&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads to two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this difference enough to warrant two distinct tags?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(If yes) Have the differences been taken into account by OPs?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/colleagues&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;colleagues&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;colleagues&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/coworker&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;coworker&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;coworker&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;synonyms?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, the tag wiki excerpts should reflect that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75187" LastActivityDate="2018-12-01T06:49:55.193" Title="What is the difference between [colleagues] and a [coworker]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5772" CreationDate="2018-11-29T13:40:54.543" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No one is going to know the difference, just make them synonyms.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there is a subtle difference between a coworker and a colleague, but as you said, not everyone agrees on what exactly that difference is. Add that with the fact that we have a lot of non-native English speakers here, there is &lt;em&gt;no way&lt;/em&gt; we would be able to get people to use them consistently, even if we think the two terms are different. I think we can save ourselves a lot of headaches by just merging the two. I don't think it's super important which term we make as the primary tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5772/what-is-the-difference-between-colleagues-and-a-coworker/5773?noredirect=1#comment17357_5773&quot;&gt;SaggingRufus points out&lt;/a&gt; it probably makes more sense to have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/colleague&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;colleague&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;colleague&lt;/a&gt; be the primary, since it is the broader term. Every co-worker is a colleague, but not all colleagues are co-workers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just discovered that users can vote on synonyms and have them automatically changed. You can &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tags/colleagues/synonyms&quot;&gt;vote on this one here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2018-12-01T06:49:55.193" LastActivityDate="2018-12-01T06:49:55.193" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5774" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5775" CreationDate="2018-11-29T14:13:17.090" Score="8" ViewCount="481" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a particular user on here that I believe to be a troll (majority of their answers are patently bad advice with negative score). Every so often when I run into a new bad answer from them, I will take a look at their profile and see what they've been up to lately. Usually this results in me down-voting a number of their recent posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I am evaluating each post on its own merits and then choosing how to act. I am not simply down-voting because this user posted it; I would have done so if I encountered it in the wild too. However, I &lt;em&gt;am&lt;/em&gt; intentionally seeking out this user's posts to see if they warrant votes or flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this type of behavior considered inappropriate for SE?&lt;/strong&gt; After going through a few posts, I'm wondering if I'll be triggering the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/126829/260884&quot;&gt;automatic fraud detection&lt;/a&gt; when the scripts run tonight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-12-12T00:23:38.667" Title="Is serial downvoting ever appropriate?" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|trolling|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5774" CreationDate="2018-11-29T14:36:36.820" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this type of behavior considered inappropriate for SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, because you are targeting one specific user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/126857/377968&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The user then visits their profile and, like with serial upvoting, systematically visits their posts and downvotes them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here from one of Tim Post's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/301756/377968&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Serial voting describes a pattern where your votes seem to focus on specific users instead of posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though you evaluate each post on its own merit, it's still inappropriate behavior. You are not finding these posts by accident (e. g. because the question interests you) or check all the answers to that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75187" LastActivityDate="2018-11-29T14:36:36.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5774" CreationDate="2018-11-29T14:42:30.500" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It really depends on how fast/how many you downvoted.  The algorithm is of course secret, but based on reasonable behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've seen this user collect a large number of downvotes over a long period of time, then you have to ask yourself whether you adding to the downvote tally will achieve anything positive.  In this case, probably not - the user either doesn't understand why they're getting downvoted, or just doesn't care.  You adding to the subtraction isn't likely to change that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, describing why there's a downvote and what is needed to turn the answer/question around could result in a positive outcome - if not for this user, then for other users who are reading.  I realise that this is added effort (over just stabbing the down button), but putting the effort in to helping someone improve will hopefully result in a positive outcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-11-29T14:42:30.500" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5770" CreationDate="2018-11-29T16:39:46.443" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I believe this question is on-topic and should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Casted the fifth and final vote; now the question is open again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-11-29T16:39:46.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5774" CreationDate="2018-11-30T00:08:52.477" Score="-17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please don't do it. What you were doing would make yourself a troll. A troll intentionally breaking the rules. In fact, it'd sound more like a criminal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is open for public discussion, everybody has different opinion. You shouldn't bias anyone just because you hate the person. You have to learn to control your emotion. If you have a bad day, head to the pub please stopping trolling an active user serially on this wonderful site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Usually this results in me down-voting a number of their recent posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad. You should have upvoted the posts instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who's the person you've targeting? I will judge if you are right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64317" LastEditorUserId="64317" LastEditDate="2018-11-30T00:44:22.433" LastActivityDate="2018-11-30T00:44:22.433" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5779" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5780" CreationDate="2018-11-30T12:36:34.410" Score="25" ViewCount="525" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realised today that I actually first came to TWP through HNQ (Hot Network Questions list, on the right hand side of the StackExchange pages) while waiting for an answer to a question on Stack Overflow, same with my other sites like Bicycles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't joined a single site except SO independently. I'm wondering how many of us did the same since some people are saying it's broken, has no value, and we should opt out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If some of us got here originally through HNQ, then it does have value. If it generates traffic, it has value, if it entertains, that is also value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="32713" LastEditDate="2018-12-17T22:38:40.123" LastActivityDate="2018-12-23T17:23:38.290" Title="How many of us arrived here via HNQ" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="21" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5779" CreationDate="2018-11-30T18:44:02.843" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Same for me. I was lurking on SO (I think? or one of the other IT sites) and saw an interesting workplace question. Since, I've found HNQ a great way (indeed, my primary way) of learning about other stack sites. I've had the ability to contribute and enjoy them as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People naturally go online for &quot;how to&quot; technical questions, a place like SO is easy to find and well known. I would never have, actively, gone to find a site like Workplace. Without stumbling across it on HNQ, I would have never known about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2018-11-30T18:44:02.843" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5745" CreationDate="2018-12-01T11:10:33.363" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Of course!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making a meta post is a great way of getting feedback from the broader (meta) community regarding any potential problems with your post. Obviously, things like spelling and grammar and factual mistakes (if any) can be pointed out in the comments of the post itself or fixed directly - but more substantive problems with the post, such as its topicality or its penchant for collecting bad answers, might be better suited to a discussion in meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10313" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-12-01T11:10:33.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5782" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-01T22:01:33.393" Score="1" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/123337/skilled-junior-employee-critical-of-her-seniors&quot;&gt;Skilled junior employee critical of her seniors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted to reopen this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a good, solid, important question with some great answers - no idea why it was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps because it was from a manager's point of view?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-12-10T19:15:04.170" LastActivityDate="2020-03-22T06:00:35.397" Title="(DONE) Please vote to reopen &quot;Skilled junior employee critical of her seniors&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5765" CreationDate="2018-12-02T01:48:13.533" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flip a coin, spin a bottle.............&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-12-02T01:48:13.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5782" CreationDate="2018-12-02T15:15:20.633" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I looked this morning, it was the first time in memory that the &quot;front page&quot; of The Workplace had &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; questions marked as [on hold]!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It didn't last, but it was a pleasant few minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2018-12-02T15:15:20.633" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2018-12-03T10:01:20.890" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not really a part of this community, since the only thing I do here is flagging spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR first, I'm against getting Workplace out of HNQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit of background of myself. I'm a university student as of August 2017, majoring in computer science. I have been actively paying attention to existing working environments in this industry, which is primarily working in front of computers in offices (not carrying bricks on ports and docks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am very interested in what I will encounter in my future working place. And since it's neither a direct nor an upcoming case, I don't and have no reason to spend hours a day preparing for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I am very active on some other sites like Stack Overflow and Meta. The HNQ is my primary entry to finding interesting content on sites where I'm not active. It is the reason that I joined Programming Puzzles &amp;amp; Code Golf, as well as Information Security.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My objection is that I see no reason for Workplace to opt out of HNQ. I understand that Interpersonal Skills was kicked out for randomly having &quot;potentially NSFW&quot; question titles (see the top few images of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/316976/350567&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;). However, this is not the case for Workplace, as Workplace is... well, for questions in the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a conclusion, see the 2nd paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81531" LastEditorUserId="81531" LastEditDate="2018-12-17T05:19:33.203" LastActivityDate="2018-12-17T05:19:33.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2018-12-03T14:56:46.873" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came to this site through a HNQ link and have since become an active member.  I feel the additional traffic gained makes it worth the general level of quality in that traffic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any given time this community only has a few dozen members that are active on a daily basis giving quality answers.  We need replacements for enderland and Maskedman and whoever else will quit over the next 1, 2, or 5 years.  By closing off a common entry point to the site I'm very concerned that the short term effects are of little importance compared to the long term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26235" LastActivityDate="2018-12-03T14:56:46.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5779" CreationDate="2018-12-04T00:34:32.303" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, in my case I arrived here by other means different to HNQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came here because I had a work-related question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/95725/handling-unusual-email-from-possible-recruit&quot;&gt;Handling unusual email from possible recruit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that time &lt;strong&gt;I already had ~4 years on SE&lt;/strong&gt;, most exclusively on SO, so &lt;strong&gt;I actively decided to search if a suitable site existed&lt;/strong&gt;... then I arrived here :D &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-12-04T00:34:32.303" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5790" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-06T20:59:21.283" Score="-2" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vJblf.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vJblf.png&quot; alt=&quot;Edit rejection&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the rejection I got on a title edit because of a subsequent edit. The subsequent edit in question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dSm3r.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dSm3r.png&quot; alt=&quot;Edit in question&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the only change in the edit by OP and it is not relevant to the title edit that was pending approval. Why would an edit get auto-rejected because of another irrelevant edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91309" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2018-12-06T21:14:19.717" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T13:57:15.610" Title="Edits should not get auto-rejected for irrelevant subsequent edits" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5790" CreationDate="2018-12-06T21:32:27.783" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This edit conflicted with a subsequent edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/184993/377968&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; for an explanation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibility 1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If a user with full editing privileges for a post (including the original poster) begins editing the post at the same time as you, and they save their edit after you have already suggested it, then your suggested edit will be overridden in favor of their fully-privileged edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibility 2 (not in your case, but for the sake of completeness)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another way this can occur is if a fully-privileged user makes an edit, then you suggest another edit right afterwards, and then the first user makes another edit during their &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/grace-period/info&quot;&gt;5-minute grace period&lt;/a&gt;. In that case, a new revision is not created, but your suggestion is still automatically rejected due to the edit conflict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the good news is that this won't count towards an automated edit ban.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I will add more to answer your actual question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why would an edit get auto-rejected because of another irrelevant edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The editing &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/76284/377968&quot;&gt;hierarchy&lt;/a&gt; goes somewhat like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP and moderators&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users with edit privilege&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users without &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;edit privilege&lt;/a&gt; (includes unregistered users)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does make sense to place the OP above other users, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;so they can prevent other users from completely changing their&#xA;question -&gt; If they abuse their right, a moderator can still step in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and directly edit in necessary information -&gt; If they could merely &lt;em&gt;suggest&lt;/em&gt; an edit, it could well take quite long for the edit to be accepted (especially on smaller sites) or even be rejected by a robo-reviewer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, regarding the irrlevant edit - it's an automated process and how do you measure relevancy? Even a small edit may make a great difference, e. g. a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;decimal separator&lt;/a&gt; or location info (&quot;US&quot;, &quot;UK&quot; etc.), to answerers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several ways to deal with the concurrent editing problem, but SE finally chose &quot;optimistic concurrency&quot;. That's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/22135/377968&quot;&gt;feature request&lt;/a&gt; that made them implement it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the chances that something changes are pretty slim. First of all, this is considered an &quot;edge case&quot; and in general, rejected edits are not considered a great problem (just 2 rep, you need many to get banned). I know how you feel, having experienced this myelf, so I do not fully agree with their reasoning. But in the end, they would probably argue that they needed a better system and that it wouldn't be worth implementing it. See for example how people tried to mitigate the problem by improving the stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/254302/377968&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/171469/377968&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and how much has changed since then...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changing such a core functionality of SE is out of TWP's scope, so you'd have to post a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; on Meta Stack Exchange (possibly already exists, but I didn't find one). I guess you needed to make clear why it's a problem that needs to be solved and how to solve it. Perhaps you could start with a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; first, but I guess they would deem it not to be an actual problem. That's what I learned from reading about edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can you do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Respect the grace period. It depends on the OP, some edit their question furiously, others post it and then never come back. But if you wait for 5 minutes, the risk is not that great.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be fast. Read the full question so you know what to improve. This way, you are much faster than keeping open the edit window for too long.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep track of changes. You are notified at the top if the post was edited in the meantime.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get the privilege - 2,000 reputation on TWP. Considering how fast you are gaining rep, you will soon get it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75187" LastEditorUserId="75187" LastEditDate="2018-12-07T13:57:15.610" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T13:57:15.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2018-12-06T21:44:19.323" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Workplace should stay in.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's another set of users that get missed in questions like this, users like me: users who do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; browse the site regularly, who are based in another site primarily, but are reminded to come over and browse the site when there is a HNQ that looks interesting to me (in fact, why I'm answering this now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HNQ isn't perfect.  But it's better than not having it, in my opinion.  (And I say this as a mod on a small site that has a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of work any time we get a HNQ.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3227" LastActivityDate="2018-12-06T21:44:19.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2018-12-08T16:17:52.323" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only have two posts on this site, but I've upvoted several questions over time as I come from HNQ links. I find many of these questions intriguing at the least and enjoy reading them. While I do understand the network-wide needs to improve what is a HNQ, I think the current cost is a worthy one that brings in many legitimate members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34584" LastActivityDate="2018-12-08T16:17:52.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5779" CreationDate="2018-12-09T11:51:09.790" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I frequently come here to from the HNQ, to view interesting questions. I vote only if I knew something is on topic. There are so many questions that potentially also apply to my workplace partially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Statistics: visited 939 days, 16 votes cast&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17999" LastActivityDate="2018-12-09T11:51:09.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5796" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-10T02:04:07.220" Score="-8" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone asked a question, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/38736/is-finding-a-replacement-a-favor-or-a-duty/124367#124367&quot;&gt;I answered it directly&lt;/a&gt;.  They asked, is X going to be A or B?  I said &quot;If C is done, then A, otherwise B&quot;.  That's answering the question that's asked.  I don't agree with downvoting because you don't like the answer...do I have any recourse or do I just need to suck it up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85362" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2018-12-10T16:45:18.717" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T00:26:01.727" Title="do I have any recourse if someone downvotes not because I don't answer the question, but because they don't agree with the answer?" Tags="|discussion|answers|down-votes|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5796" CreationDate="2018-12-10T08:11:30.380" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;People downvote for any reason, nothing can or should be done about it, it's their vote to do with as they please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because an answer fits the question or even solves the issue is not the point of the voting system. There can be multiple answers with valid solutions. Voting, in theory, is to help indicate which is best. eg a Question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How to stand out at work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could have a valid answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fake a pronounced stutter, dribble while you talk and always wear psychedelic pink and green.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perfectly valid solution, but probably should be downvoted to allow other answers precedence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2018-12-10T08:18:12.647" LastActivityDate="2018-12-10T08:18:12.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5774" CreationDate="2018-12-10T09:35:28.477" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think, this should be Ok since you down-vote posts because of posts are bad. So at the end of the day, you downvote posts for legitimate reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73187" LastActivityDate="2018-12-10T09:35:28.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5796" CreationDate="2018-12-10T10:10:50.643" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;An answer that fails to actually provide an answer to the question is one reason to downvote - another is when the answer is not a &lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt; answer to the question. The whole idea of the voting system is to help the asker choose the best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2018-12-10T10:10:50.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5796" CreationDate="2018-12-10T17:15:39.060" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Legitimate reasons to downvote include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer is (in the voter's opinion) wrong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer might or might not be right but is unsupported.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer is incomprehensible (also flag as &quot;very low quality&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The post doesn't actually answer the question (also flag as &quot;not an answer&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this specific case, the post is a two-sentence assertion without any supporting argument or sources.  It's just your opinion; if somebody else makes the opposite post, there's no basis in either one to decide between them.  That's probably why you're getting downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-12-10T17:15:39.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2018-12-10T20:19:14.557" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm only here because of HNQ. Frankly, my participation in this site would drop drastically if we opted out. I think we need to realize that this community is generally more chill than Stack Overflow. I for one think improvement here means being more open in regards to industry and paradigms. I'm fairly certain opting out of HNQ will be a detriment to that end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opting out of HNQ would be bad for this community imo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user53651" LastActivityDate="2018-12-10T20:19:14.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2018-12-10T21:04:30.710" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The up side is the site gets more traffic.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The down side is I think the site gets more trolls trying to make HNQ.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like a rule cannot make HNQ unless the OP has rep of 1000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26028" LastActivityDate="2018-12-10T21:04:30.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2018-12-10T22:02:21.803" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came to Workplace via HNQ.  It doesn't seem like Workplace gets all that much traffic that we'd want to close off one of the ways that people come to the site.  I visit fairly often (ok, too often) and I don't feel like the site is swamped with bad questions and answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're balancing two things here: getting people to visit Workplace so it doesn't die, and keeping the riffraff out.  My feeling is that we don't have a riffraff problem, and if we didn't have HNQ, we might suffer a population collapse.  So I'd vote that we keep HNQ until it's clear that it's causing a problem for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86962" LastActivityDate="2018-12-10T22:02:21.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5796" CreationDate="2018-12-11T00:26:01.727" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand your frustration, because I also frequently get downvoted just because I said the truth. That's life you and me have to take. You get -2 for each downvote, but +10 for an upvote. You will get back your points easily, so don't worry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64317" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T00:26:01.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5779" CreationDate="2018-12-11T10:12:53.477" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really remember if my first step was from the HNQ or the listing of sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first I didn't know there was something else than SO, I start noticed it through the HNQ, and after with the list of sites using the header.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went through the whole list and selected quite a few of my interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also discovered some beta sites through the HNQ, it's not like I can really see a newcomer among all the sites since the list of already so long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe for a long established sites, removing itself from the HNQ should be manageable, however I would be far more skeptic for sites that are still in the process of growing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastEditorUserId="47387" LastEditDate="2018-12-12T12:20:23.877" LastActivityDate="2018-12-12T12:20:23.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5779" CreationDate="2018-12-11T11:56:00.870" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty much the same here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started answering StackOverflow questions, if I'm truly honest, as PhD thesis procrastination. From there I discovered Area51, and then started contrbuting to the great outdoors through that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was years ago though. IMHO, Area51 is basically dead now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every other site I've ever contributed to has always been via an interesting HNQ that drew me in - this site included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57339" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T11:56:00.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5779" CreationDate="2018-12-11T13:09:43.137" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got here via HNQ.  I'm sure I didn't scan the list of 170 or so sites and pick this one out.  I've been using StackOverflow for years and didn't even realize there was more to Stack Exchange until a year or so ago when I noticed a HNQ.  So I'm definitely in favor of remaining in HNQ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86962" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T13:09:43.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5779" CreationDate="2018-12-11T13:16:20.643" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Same for me via HNQ. Came for the sideshow, stayed for the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T13:16:20.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5779" CreationDate="2018-12-11T22:39:57.167" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a frequent visitor of The Workplace. I would say I typically visit 2-5 questions a day, and those questions are always because they were in the HNQ. Very infrequently, maybe once a fortnight I'll actually go to the newest questions and cast some flags or votes that way, but without HNQ I would likely not participate very frequently (not that I'd call what I do participation, besides reading the HNQ and voting appropriately).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point: I just came here from HNQ while looking at two of the hot questions, and before I browsed away I stumbled upon this meta question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My story is the same with IPS: I visited IPS daily, for the 2-4 HNQ, then eventually I joined and started voting, but since they've been removed from HNQ I've visited perhaps once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39976" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T22:39:57.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5774" CreationDate="2018-12-12T00:23:38.667" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now, I am evaluating each post on its own merits and then choosing how to act. I am not simply down-voting because this user posted it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only problem here is your potential bias after specifically setting out to read their questions. But if you say you act based on the answer's merit, I believe you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not &lt;em&gt;blind&lt;/em&gt; downvoting, it's action taken after consideration, and, from a moderation perspective, I believe it should be indistinguishable from voting on any question you have come across.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact I consider it a net positive, since you're an engaged user who has identified a potentially troublesome area and are using the site's mechanisms to do something about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastActivityDate="2018-12-12T00:23:38.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5811" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5812" CreationDate="2018-12-12T13:09:25.183" Score="6" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/124500/is-it-a-good-idea-to-take-part-in-a-transfer-interview-if-i-have-no-intention-of&quot;&gt;Is it a good idea to take part in a transfer interview if I have no intention of accepting the job?&lt;/a&gt; was recently closed for being a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1810/should-i-go-to-an-interview-i-dont-intend-to-accept-the-job-if-offered&quot;&gt;Should I go to an interview I don&amp;#39;t intend to accept the job (if offered)?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I think the two questions are certainly similar, the new question is an interview for an internal position while the duplicate question is for a position at a separate company. I think the fact that this is for an internal interview makes the question significantly different and would change the answers begin given. I have nominated this question to be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2018-12-12T15:36:30.737" Title="Reopen question on internal transfer interview" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5811" CreationDate="2018-12-12T15:36:30.737" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's fair.  I edited the question to make that distinction explicit (and link to the other question) and reopened.  Answerers should remember to address this specific property of the question (or answer the general one instead if they don't think it matters).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-12-12T15:36:30.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5779" CreationDate="2018-12-12T15:39:47.970" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest, if &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;The Workplace&lt;/a&gt; is not in the HNQ then I don't arrive here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this reality I find that I am not very vested in the site's goal nor longevity. Don't get me wrong, I respect it but I'm just not vested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17532" LastEditorUserId="17532" LastEditDate="2018-12-12T15:45:31.610" LastActivityDate="2018-12-12T15:45:31.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2018-12-12T22:41:23.740" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the responses over the last nearly three weeks, it seems clear that the community wants to stay on the Hot Network Questions list.  If somebody wants to re-raise the issue in the future feel free, but for now we won't request any changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary tool we have in response to a &quot;bad&quot; entry on the HNQ is the &lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt;, and it's something all of us can do.  If you see a title that looks bad out of context, see if you can make it better.  Ditto if a popular question isn't as clear as it could be and you're able to see how to improve it.  Even if the question isn't currently hot, these kinds of edits improve the quality of our site.  Please help keep The Workplace looking good and professional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-12-12T23:18:00.707" LastActivityDate="2018-12-12T23:18:00.707" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5815" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5819" CreationDate="2018-12-13T09:01:51.207" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reopen request for: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/124554/huge-interview-test-seems-like-real-free-work-for-the-company&quot;&gt;Huge interview test seems like real (free) work for the company&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is marked as a duplicate of two questions that seem pretty different except for two words which are the same in the title. Can it be reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And can the people who keep closing questions because they contain the same topic stop doing that? Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="92050" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2018-12-14T18:51:10.077" LastActivityDate="2018-12-14T20:58:04.540" Title="(Done) Reopen the question about interview test being free work" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5779" CreationDate="2018-12-13T16:59:54.187" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've discovered most of the Stack sites that I participate in via HNQ.  Without it, the whole network would be a poorer place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't understand the priorities of these people who are making the complaints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25572" LastActivityDate="2018-12-13T16:59:54.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5817" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-14T19:01:05.870" Score="5" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to kindly remind you that &lt;strong&gt;we have a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/reopen-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reopen-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reopen-request&lt;/a&gt; tag&lt;/strong&gt;, that is intended to use along meta posts that ask for... well... a reopen request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, let's stick to using the tag when it is intended, as &lt;em&gt;omitting it makes it difficult to browse for reopen requests posts&lt;/em&gt; to give them the attention they deserve, not to mention that it makes our site &lt;em&gt;less organized and tidy&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also makes it impossible for users that watch the tag to find new posts about those requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no problem in editing the tags when I see they are lacking, but it would be best to include it since the beginning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-12-14T20:39:29.320" Title="Kind reminder when posting reopen requests" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5817" CreationDate="2018-12-14T19:51:44.283" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another reminder when posting a reopen request, please make sure to accept an answer once it is completed. This is the preferred way of indicating that a question has been reopened, not just &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5724/what-is-with-the-done-in-titles-here&quot;&gt;marking it as (Done)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason to accept an answer is that every so often the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4380/how-does-a-question-get-bumped-to-the-homepage&quot;&gt;Community Bot will bump the question to the homepage&lt;/a&gt;. This can be pretty annoying if a bunch of already-completed reopen requests suddenly appear on the top of the Meta page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2018-12-14T20:39:29.320" LastActivityDate="2018-12-14T20:39:29.320" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5815" CreationDate="2018-12-14T20:58:04.540" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can it be reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is now open again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2018-12-14T20:58:04.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5820" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5821" CreationDate="2018-12-18T07:32:19.283" Score="0" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have gotten some good answers on a question of mine, wherein the lot can be classified into 2 broad groups of recommendations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a majority of answers that recommend one approach but all with different tonalities and arguments as to why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am inclined to accept one of them, but that answer recommends the same path as some of the earlier answers, the only difference being how they have addressed the question exactly. Essentially this answer made me see clearly as to why the argument is valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt; because &lt;code&gt;X&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Y&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt; because &lt;code&gt;P&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;S&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Both recommend doing &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;, but &lt;code&gt;P&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;S&lt;/code&gt; helped me see the merit behind &lt;code&gt;X&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Y&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such a scenario, what should be my best course of action?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accept the first answer that recommended the path&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accept the answer that helped me see the merit behind the first answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85465" LastActivityDate="2018-12-18T08:36:55.440" Title="How to choose between similar answers?" Tags="|discussion|opinion-based|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5820" CreationDate="2018-12-18T08:36:55.440" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The one that you found most helpful or valuable in helping you to resolve your issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't really need to justify why you chose one answer over another unless you really want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can happen that a combination of different points of view leads to a resolution, but unfortunately, you can only pick one answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-12-18T08:36:55.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5822" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-18T10:57:51.360" Score="6" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've asked already two questions on this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of now &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/92166/manage-unhelpful-it-manager&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; has a balance of -2, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/124889/handling-no-response-from-team-members?noredirect=1#comment396170_124889&quot;&gt;other&lt;/a&gt; is 0 (2 up and 2 down votes as I can see).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel I put reasonable effort asking the questions, did read &quot;how to ask&quot; before each questions, being responsive to comments and try to improve my questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've received good answers, so I'm happy, but also I'm a bit disappointed seeing they are not well received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could I do better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71019" LastActivityDate="2018-12-20T05:05:48.127" Title="How to improve acceptance of my questions" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5822" CreationDate="2018-12-18T11:31:57.647" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your first question is well over a year old now and isn't likely to gain votes now unless there's something that necessitates an update to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see there are a few delete comments asking for clarification, which you've given.  I'm guessing there's a balance of -2 votes because people might see this question as more of a complaint against your IT help desk rather than being a question seeking a goal that can be addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have an answer, which gained up-votes, and you've marked that as being accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your second question is relatively new (at 150 views), and you have an even balance there (at time of writing).  Bear in mind that you may get some downvoting because you're essentially chasing information that isn't yet due (or at least that's the impression of the question).  You've clearly defined what goals you have for the question, so it could be a matter of time before you get some more views (most users here seem to come from the USA).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2018-12-18T11:31:57.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5824" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-20T01:31:25.467" Score="-3" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there should not be any reason to delete closed questions just because they sound the same as another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is a technical stack exchange then yes I think duplicate questions with the same single answer can be deleted because in a sense the answers are just repeating. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for the workplace, I think this is not applicable. A lot of people answer the same question, but there are instances that the answers are totally different and provide different views which to the OP and other readers and I think is beneficial for the whole network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of people providing good insights on how they would answer a question or what they think of the question. It would be a shame to just have them deleted because they appeared in a question that sounds like a previously asked question. Last time I checked, stackexchange provides answers, not delete them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90861" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2018-12-20T12:46:13.230" LastActivityDate="2018-12-20T12:46:13.230" Title="Why do we delete questions that are closed here in the workplace?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5822" CreationDate="2018-12-20T04:58:19.443" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downvoted both questions because your questions were too long and complicated to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This website encourages a downvote if the question is &quot;.... unclear or not useful ...&quot;. It was not clear what you tried to achieve in your questions. Your downvotes were justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64317" LastEditorUserId="64317" LastEditDate="2018-12-20T05:05:48.127" LastActivityDate="2018-12-20T05:05:48.127" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5824" CreationDate="2018-12-20T05:04:50.770" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site has high traffic, it's our best interests to filter out noise. We don't need anything but good quality questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closed questions are inappropriate and take significant disk space to keep. Why do you want to keep rubbish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64317" LastActivityDate="2018-12-20T05:04:50.770" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5824" CreationDate="2018-12-20T10:41:16.623" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you show an example of this? We don't delete duplicates just because they're duplicates, we mark them as such and link them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the theory anyway, as I understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2018-12-20T10:41:16.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5828" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-21T05:37:50.377" Score="-1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't write comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4ldRE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4ldRE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73187" LastEditorUserId="1217" LastEditDate="2018-12-21T15:08:54.690" LastActivityDate="2018-12-21T15:08:54.690" Title="Unable to load Popup - Please try again later" Tags="|support|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5828" CreationDate="2018-12-21T15:03:42.437" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was no issue with the comment system. Instead, there was a bug on the &lt;em&gt;bounty system&lt;/em&gt;, and the error message &amp;quot;Unable to load popup - please try again&amp;quot; appeared when &amp;quot;start a bounty&amp;quot; was clicked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bug should have been fixed, as per &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/320693&quot;&gt;Eeeek! Can't start a bounty on any question&lt;/a&gt; on Meta SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for reporting this. It has been fixed across the network now and you should be able to add bounties until your heart is content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/115866/balpha&quot;&gt;balpha&lt;/a&gt; who smashed the bug very quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28728" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-12-21T15:03:42.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5831" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-22T22:18:44.443" Score="1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;what is the position of the workplace community on &quot;unerlaubte Rechtsberatung&quot; (giving legal advice for a specific legal situation to a person may get you fined unless you are a lawyer or acting in a similar function).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wbs-law.de/internetrecht/betreiber-einer-selbsthilfe-website-wegen-unerlaubter-rechtsberatung-verurteilt-45495/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.wbs-law.de/internetrecht/betreiber-einer-selbsthilfe-website-wegen-unerlaubter-rechtsberatung-verurteilt-45495/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regards,&#xA;   Sascha&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49974" LastActivityDate="2018-12-22T22:18:44.443" Title="Germany-Specific: Unerlaubte Rechtsberatung" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5779" CreationDate="2018-12-23T17:23:38.290" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also discovered several interesting sites via HNQ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49974" LastActivityDate="2018-12-23T17:23:38.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5834" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5839" CreationDate="2018-12-26T21:48:24.493" Score="-5" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/125280/how-to-find-workplaces-with-high-proportion-of-young-20-something-college-educ&quot;&gt;How to find workplaces with high proportion of young (20-something) college-educated population?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand how this could possibly be considered too broad. Can anyone help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted to reopen. Perhaps you would like to do the same?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2018-12-28T08:23:30.937" LastActivityDate="2018-12-28T08:23:30.937" Title="(DONE) How is this question &quot;too broad&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5835" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5853" CreationDate="2018-12-26T22:12:03.773" Score="1" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;Re: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5706/437&quot;&gt;The Workplace updated site theme is ready for testing!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm unclear about what problems the updated theme was supposed to solve, but I can definitely tell you about two problems it introudced:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wasted space with the introduction of a left margin toolbar that nobody asked for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When we're voting to close a question that we suspect is a duplicate, &quot;Related Questions&quot; is no longer displayed on the right margin. So we have to do additional work to find that duplicate.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we please roll back the Workplace theme update?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-12-27T01:14:23.083" LastActivityDate="2019-01-02T07:43:09.230" Title="Can we please roll back the Workplace theme update?" Tags="|feature-request|design|css|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5835" CreationDate="2018-12-27T00:03:52.043" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The design changes were made across the network to enable the team to maintain design elements on 174 different sites.  Before this, each (non-beta) site had its own custom CSS and making a change to the UI often broke &lt;em&gt;something, somewhere&lt;/em&gt; because of that.  That's a done deal; SE isn't going to roll that back.  With the new design framework, sites can individually customize some things (like colors, the header graphic, fonts, and some other things), but the underlying structure, including the left column and the responsive design, remains the same for everybody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that the left column is annoyingly wasteful.  Fortunately &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/311237/162102&quot;&gt;you can turn that off&lt;/a&gt;.  That still doesn't help with the &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; column being too greedy on smaller displays, but it still helps a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the posts linked in the post that you linked to for more information on this design update.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2018-12-27T00:03:52.043" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5837" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-27T08:30:09.287" Score="-1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/114327/is-it-typical-in-small-companies-to-bcc-the-ceo-on-all-external-mails&quot;&gt;Is it typical in small companies to BCC the CEO on all external mails?&lt;/a&gt; question a few years back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were few useful comments. Those comments were &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/79175/discussion-on-question-by-i-am-the-most-stupid-person-is-it-typical-in-small-com&quot;&gt;moved to chat&lt;/a&gt;. I do not disagree with this because I know that comments are for just improve the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I have curious that why moved chat deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73187" LastActivityDate="2018-12-27T16:41:33.497" Title="Why did Chat Room is deleted which is collection of comments?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5834" CreationDate="2018-12-27T08:31:16.200" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where is this person looking - small town, major city, rurality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How far are they willing to commute or relocate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What skills, hard and soft, do they currently have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What qualifications are they expected to obtain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why exactly are they interested in the somewhat arbitrary list of industries they put in the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What experience in the workplace do they already have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is obviously too broad for Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user53718" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2018-12-27T22:23:32.640" LastActivityDate="2018-12-27T22:23:32.640" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5834" CreationDate="2018-12-27T16:01:02.643" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has been re-opened&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastActivityDate="2018-12-27T16:01:02.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5837" CreationDate="2018-12-27T16:41:33.497" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackoverflow.com/faq#retention&quot;&gt;Chat Room FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Will these rooms exist forever?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rooms will exist indefinitely, so long as there is at least one person actively talking in the room. A room is considered worth retaining if it has more than 15 messages by at least 2 users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since your deleted chat room only had 13 message, it was cleaned up by the chat admin bot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-12-27T16:41:33.497" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5841" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5849" CreationDate="2018-12-28T14:26:15.743" Score="0" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a re-open request per-se, I just want to know what people think about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/125432/accepting-a-team-member-who-is-slated-to-quit-on-the-first-day&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is asking &quot;about a specific choice&quot; I still think this question can be answered objectively regarding the pros and cons to each method. I am currently on the fence about re-opening it, so I figured we could discuss it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastActivityDate="2018-12-31T11:06:29.320" Title="Should this question be re-opened?" Tags="|discussion|reopening|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5844" CreationDate="2018-12-28T17:29:18.730" Score="0" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this image on a question today:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yUkgs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yUkgs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;isn't this how this site is supposed to work 100% of the time? Comments are only supposed suggest improvements or see clarity. They don't always get used that way, but that is the intention. Answer should always provide a solution to asked question and moderation almost always remove debates without notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does marking this as controversial mean anything if it just reiterates normal site behaviour?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2018-12-28T19:54:59.980" Title="What is point of marking a post as controversial?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5842" CreationDate="2018-12-28T17:53:34.133" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Controversial posts tend to garner a lot of attention from new and inexperienced users who may be less familiar with the rules and norms of the site. The flag may help to cut down on the amount of effort required by mods to remove unhelpful/opinion-driven posts. It also helps to differentiate a controversial post from a post that is primarily opinion based and cut down on the number of inappropriate flags that must be sorted through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73580" LastActivityDate="2018-12-28T17:53:34.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5842" CreationDate="2018-12-28T19:13:23.533" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The notice isn’t there just for new/inexperienced users, although it does seek to inform them of the increased care needed for this question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Experienced users also get sucked into extended discussions that don’t ultimately help the question or answers but instead diverge into comments addressing each other’s points of view, which ends up just confusing the question/answer and anyone reading. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, the leniency in retaining comments is lowered significantly after this notice is applied. Moderators and flaggers are more likely to seek and remove unwanted comments before discussions escalate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2018-12-28T19:54:59.980" LastActivityDate="2018-12-28T19:54:59.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5841" CreationDate="2018-12-28T20:54:03.303" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I think it would vary by company and individual circumstances, I'd say it's far too broad and opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should not be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2018-12-28T20:54:03.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5846" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5847" CreationDate="2018-12-30T07:32:01.910" Score="3" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm five points short of entering the review queues.  I'm practiced in other SE communities, but I'd like a bit of insight before I begin to review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please consider both this question and my answer to it: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/125536/junior-developer-left-to-own-devices/125544#125544&quot;&gt;Junior Developer Left to Own Devices&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I thought about it after posting the answer, it seemed that &quot;sharing wisdom&quot; in a general sense isn't really what this site is about.  I re-read the Help Center pages about on-topic questions, and believe I should not have answered, but instead should have flagged the question as &quot;off-topic: Questions require a goal that we can address.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I have avoided the answer and flagged the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97180" LastActivityDate="2018-12-30T07:38:09.717" Title="Before I enter the review queues, please evaluate this Q&amp;A combo" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|on-topic-definition|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5846" CreationDate="2018-12-30T07:38:09.717" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, sharing wisdom &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; what this site is about.  However, the wisdom we share needs to address a general question as well as the specific.  The reasons for being off-topic are wrapped around the lack of a general answer or if it becomes a legal or company-specific issue, or there are too many possible answers (too broad, opinion-based).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As at the time of writing, there is only one close vote on the question and four upvotes, which seems to indicate the community sees it as being on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To that end, answer away!  But make sure that your answer isn't entirely anecdotal, it needs to be able to be backed up in some way with generally accepted wisdom or references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not to say that anecdotal evidence isn't useful, but it needs to be written in the context of wider understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2018-12-30T07:38:09.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5841" CreationDate="2018-12-31T11:06:29.320" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question had been reopened&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66895" LastActivityDate="2018-12-31T11:06:29.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5850" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-31T16:23:57.740" Score="0" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/125553/fired-accused-of-conducting-web-searches-i-didnt-do&quot;&gt;Fired, accused of conducting web searches I didn&amp;#39;t do.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not about a company specific policy.  This is general enough to where it is easily answerable, and has two VERY good answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/125553/fired-accused-of-conducting-web-searches-i-didnt-do/125573#125573&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/125553/fired-accused-of-conducting-web-searches-i-didnt-do/125556#125556&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The employee was fired for searches done on his computer, that could happen at literally any company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers about standard security and protecting your machine are excellent and the question should be reopened.  Perhaps it should be edited a bit, but it should be open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="66895" LastEditDate="2019-01-07T12:17:50.853" LastActivityDate="2021-01-04T16:01:40.407" Title="(Done) Reopen: Fired, accused of conducting web searches I didn't do" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5851" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-01T03:49:08.457" Score="8" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's New Year's Day in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange land&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there certainly are &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/a&gt; here, a significant amount of the &lt;em&gt;moderation&lt;/em&gt; is done by ordinary people, using the privileges&#xA;they've earned by virtue of their contributions to the site. Each of you contributes a little bit of time and effort, and together you accomplish much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we enter a new year, let's pause and reflect, taking a moment to appreciate the work that we do here together.&#xA;To that end, here is how the moderation done here on The Workplace breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                 Action                  Moderators Community¹&#xA;---------------------------------------- ---------- ----------&#xA;Users suspended²                                 14         18&#xA;Users destroyed                                  79          0&#xA;Users deleted                                    17          0&#xA;Users contacted                                  30          0&#xA;User suspensions lifted early                     1          0&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue            47      3,228&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue                6      3,466&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue         25      1,573&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue                0        169&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue                 3      4,103&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue               49      9,504&#xA;Tags merged                                       1          0&#xA;Tag synonyms proposed                             1          1&#xA;Tag synonyms created                              1          1&#xA;Revisions redacted                                2          0&#xA;Questions unprotected                             0         27&#xA;Questions reopened                               67        189&#xA;Questions protected                              94        136&#xA;Questions migrated                                5          1&#xA;Questions flagged⁴                               22      3,119&#xA;Questions closed                                278      2,590&#xA;Question flags handled⁴                         915      2,226&#xA;Posts unlocked                                    6          7&#xA;Posts undeleted                                  16         77&#xA;Posts locked                                      6        475&#xA;Posts deleted⁵                                  344      2,621&#xA;Posts bumped                                      0          8&#xA;Escalations to the CM team                       12          0&#xA;Comments undeleted                              240          0&#xA;Comments flagged                                817      8,230&#xA;Comments deleted⁶                            18,131      6,221&#xA;Comment flags handled                         8,078        969&#xA;Answers flagged                                  61      2,149&#xA;Answer flags handled                          1,418        792&#xA;All comments on a post moved to chat            425          0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of The Workplace&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 3 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 3, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing you all a happy new year...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-01-01T03:49:08.457" Title="2018: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5850" CreationDate="2019-01-02T07:25:35.680" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reopened.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems fairly general to me and isn't tied to a specific company's regulations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-01-02T07:25:35.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5835" CreationDate="2019-01-02T07:43:09.230" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ideal place to report these issues would be to contribute them as a pair of answers (one per issue) in &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5706/the-workplace-updated-site-theme-is-ready-for-testing&quot;&gt;The Workplace updated site theme is ready for testing!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering there should ping the Jon Ericson (the guy who rolled out the changes).  If you take a look at the liked question, you'll see where others have reported issues and gotten a response back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon's a great guy, but he might not be scanning threads in all Meta sites looking for issues to address - he's more likely to follow his notifications for his questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've linked to this question in your question here, but don't seem to have contributed your own issues there.  I'd really advise that you do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-01-02T07:43:09.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5854" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-04T20:30:02.583" Score="0" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very often this answer is given, and sometimes it is clear that it is not the answer the OP is looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to deal with this? Flag or downvote or is it just ok as an answer, even if it's generic? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49974" LastActivityDate="2019-01-11T16:27:13.887" Title="In the answer &quot;look for a new job&quot; used too often?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5854" CreationDate="2019-01-04T21:20:57.467" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh for FOX sake no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is going to make the call on when &quot;look for a new job&quot; is a good answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we going to have guidelines as to when it's okay to use that as an answer?  Suspensions for people who do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't like the fact that people are answering in a certain way, sit down, take some time and write a better one yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we not tell someone who is being harassed to get another job?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone who is in a dangerous work environment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone who has been financially damaged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone falsely accused?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone who is burned out to the point of having a breakdown?&#xA;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For many situations it is an answer and a legitimate answer.  In any situation where there is some strife, I always advise to update your resume and be ready to move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, we've had the debate over the &quot;just quit&quot; response a few times and even THAT is not an inappropriate response in all matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-01-04T21:20:57.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5854" CreationDate="2019-01-07T17:56:04.097" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's easy to answer the question, &quot;is &quot;X&quot; used too often?&quot; because I don't think there's a black or white, yes or no answer for most questions on here - which makes it hard to judge overuse. Clearly, there are situations that call for immediately looking for another job. But there are also situations where &quot;switch jobs&quot; just ends up as the easy way out, versus learning/growing/changing a challenging situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably more common than either of those situations are cases where the OP hasn't given enough detail, or is leaving out important factors, either unintentionally or because of their own perspectives on what answers are feasible. When we're only getting part of a story, a quick black/white answer is a reasonable reaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the benefits of the Stack Exchange format for a topic like The Workplace is that we can collect lots of answers, and even when one becomes popular, or gets flagged as the accepted answer, the other answers can remain and add value for future readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, when I see a question where I get a gut feeling that a &quot;canned&quot; or &quot;easy way out&quot; answer is being &quot;over used,&quot; I try to sit back and think about other perspectives, or nuances that are over looked, and answer based on that. Or, I ask clarifying questions in comments instead of answering. This gives the OP and the community another perspective to consider and may help the community self-regulate in terms of recognizing over-use of certain answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2019-01-07T17:56:04.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4277" CreationDate="2019-01-09T07:15:25.703" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shog pretty much summed things up in his &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/7016/351483&quot;&gt;response&lt;/a&gt; to this meta question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3615/allow-downvoting-comments&quot;&gt;Allow downvoting comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, comments provide a way to speak your mind freely; upvotes provide a way for other users to indicate their agreement without wasting space with a follow-up comment. But if you disagree, you really should post a follow-up comment...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a comment really bothers you, you can flag it. Enough flags, and it'll be removed. This is more useful than down-voting, which would presumably leave a misleading or abusive comment visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's some value in keeping wrong answers around; even unhelpful ones can and are improved. But comments are ephemeral; they can't be edited outside of a short grace period, and shouldn't be the sole repository for important information. If a comment is bad, then it should be removed - not down-ranked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could argue that the same case applies to answers - people leaving downvotes should really comment their disagreement instead (the prompt suggesting that they might like to do that is of course routinely ignored).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-01-09T07:15:25.703" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5858" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-09T13:56:14.413" Score="1" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a lot of questions lately where someone is complaining about a very specific technical process or concern related to programming.  Shouldn't these details be edited out?  These usually get derailed into a technical debate.  I realize that most of us here are programmers or generally in IT.  But if someone from outside of an IT related field posted such details in their question, they would undoubtedly be edited out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9212" LastActivityDate="2019-01-09T18:07:43.053" Title="Are questions allowed to be too technical?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5859" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5861" CreationDate="2019-01-09T13:56:35.573" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/126066/boredom-lack-of-projects-search-for-new-opportunity/&quot;&gt;Boredom, lack of projects, search for new opportunity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is definitely long winded, and rambling, but I don't understand why it was closed as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot; when there's a sentence in bold near the very end that is a very clear, and very answerable question,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can I communicate all above, when being interviewed by a new company?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone elaborate on this closed reason? Or perhaps vote to reopen and/or help edit it for clarity if it's truly close-able as is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2019-01-10T09:47:44.280" LastActivityDate="2019-01-10T09:47:44.280" Title="(DONE) Question was closed as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot; but has an obvious, single-sentence question in bold" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5858" CreationDate="2019-01-09T14:09:26.170" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been a few questions here in Workplace Meta covering a similar concept - the idea that this forum skews heavily towards IT related professions, to the extent that content focused on IT concepts is allowed but the rare content focused on other subjects gets voted as off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's necessarily value in &lt;em&gt;editing out&lt;/em&gt; details, but I do think there's still a need to deal with the bias.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is &lt;em&gt;purely&lt;/em&gt; technical in nature and has no workplace content, it should be moved to the appropriate technical SE site. If a question has workplace content, but it's expressed as technical problems, it's useful to take actions such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment on or edit the question pointing out that the real root &quot;problem&quot; has a workplace nature and not a technical nature. This can help others responding get in the right mindset&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer the question yourself, and explicitly point out the generic workplace problems, and address them, without using technical language.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment on, or downvote, answers that focus purely on the technical aspects and explain the technical bias.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, if a question asks something like, &quot;how can I get my boss to adopt platform X, instead of Y, which we currently use?&quot; you can answer focusing on getting your boss to respond to your ideas for improvement, and not even mention X or Y.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2019-01-09T14:09:26.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5859" CreationDate="2019-01-09T14:34:37.120" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not unclear in the slightest - voted to re-open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2019-01-09T14:34:37.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5858" CreationDate="2019-01-09T18:07:43.053" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technical details, like any others, should be limited to what is required to lay the foundation of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer would be a technical answer, not a workplace one, it does not belong here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-01-09T18:07:43.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5863" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-10T18:36:09.577" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please take a look at @EstherSchindler answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/125516/what-are-the-common-employer-worries-screeners-when-selecting-remote-developers/126009?noredirect=1#comment401210_126009&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason why she should not post the URL to her eBook? I for one would like to read it, if she is agreeable, and I think that it would help others. I can see no harm in doing so ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20979" LastActivityDate="2019-01-10T21:26:01.993" Title="Is publishing the URL of a free eBook pernissbale (if requeste dby another user)?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5863" CreationDate="2019-01-10T21:26:01.993" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are some relevant links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the accepted &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/94027/377968&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to &quot;How can I link to an external resource in a community-friendly way?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;you paraphrase the content of the linked item (possibly omitting details or examples)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;you identify the author (yourself, MSDN, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;someone could benefit from the answer without reading the linked item at all&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;you include information to let the reader decide if clicking the link is worthwhile&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FAQ on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/58035/377968&quot;&gt;What makes something spam and when should I flag it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A post should be marked as spam only if it &lt;strong&gt;advertises&lt;/strong&gt; a product, service, or similar &lt;strong&gt;and is unsolicited &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; lacks disclosure&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, since Esther discloses her affiliation, I just quote the part about &lt;em&gt;Unsolicited&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unsolicited&lt;/em&gt; means that mentioning the product serves no purpose other than promotion. For example, if an answer mentions a software that may solve the asker’s problem or a question about web programming references a website as an example, this is not unsolicited (it may still be spam if there is an undisclosed affiliation).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, here is a relevant &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4345/75187&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; from TWP Meta itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer meets these requirements after the link was included, it would be okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75187" LastActivityDate="2019-01-10T21:26:01.993" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5854" CreationDate="2019-01-11T16:27:13.887" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm letting my other answer stand, but adding this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would assert that it's not used &lt;strong&gt;ENOUGH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your resume should always be updated and you should always be ready to move quickly because things can go south very quickly.  While I don't think &quot;Look for a new job&quot; should be the entirety of an answer, it should be part of many of them, if not most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a VERY appropriate answer for anything that involves interpersonal conflict that cannot be resolved at a managerial level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IF:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Management won't do anything&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HR won't do anything&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sr management or &quot;C&quot; level executives are aware and no nothing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It involves legal entanglements&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moving on should be part of the advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-01-11T16:27:13.887" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5866" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-14T15:32:46.993" Score="16" ViewCount="778" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/126299/is-it-fair-to-require-a-candidate-to-take-an-automatically-graded-online-coding&quot;&gt;Is it common to require a candidate to take an automatically-graded online coding test if they have lots of demonstrable material online?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP asks questions (in the sense that there are sentences with question marks at the end) but he/she seems much more interested in complaining about how they've been &quot;abused&quot; by the company at which they tried to get a job, almost to the extent of looking for validation versus an answer to a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a post that's attracted a lot of attention, and I think there's a potential for it to add value (as a discussion about clarity around hiring practices) but it's so mired in the rant that it feels very lost. At least, to the extent that I'm not sure how to address it, personally (comment? edit? answer? leave it alone?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There isn't specifically a &quot;this is a rant disguised as a question&quot; close reason (unless I'm missing it) but it is disallowed in the help section of SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/help/dont-ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Editing to point out that the Workplace help section also has a similar &quot;don't rant&quot; clause:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Editing again to provide clarity around timing: I had asked this question based on &quot;early&quot; versions of the question, prior to the major edits which toned down the storytelling and focused more on the actual questions - ie revisions 9 and earlier, basically. The edit history can be viewed:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/126299/revisions&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/126299/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastEditorUserId="83999" LastEditDate="2019-01-25T14:06:33.270" LastActivityDate="2019-01-25T14:06:33.270" Title="Is this a rant disguised as a question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5866" CreationDate="2019-01-14T17:06:55.983" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've edited out as much of the rant as I can, if someone else would like to do some more, I think there's a worthwhile question there&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-01-14T17:06:55.983" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5866" CreationDate="2019-01-15T21:06:39.263" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought it was a farily obviously a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From top of the original question (my emphasis):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Short version: I had an experience with a recruiter that I think was not fair. &lt;strong&gt;What's the line to asking to do tests?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and at the bottom (of his &quot;rant&quot;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My question: Am I exaggerating and this is normal? Isn't this abuse in a way? Like what's the limit to this &quot;abuse&quot; so to say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reaction to the original (rant-y) version is, &quot;Yes, that was too much to ask you to do.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But much of what makes me say that has been removed at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reaction to the question as currently phrased is, &quot;The answer I posted no longer makes sense, guess I should go delete it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say a new person looks at the question and reads the answers...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;if they don't know how to access the edits they may (at best) be confused by multiple answers which address stuff that isn't even in the question (in its current form).  At worst they may assume that those answers were from people that read the question incorrectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary: the edits aren't bad, except that they came too late (&lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; lots of answers were posted) and, at this point, may do more harm than good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68513" LastActivityDate="2019-01-15T21:06:39.263" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5869" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5873" CreationDate="2019-01-17T21:00:38.980" Score="-2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry if I'm asking a silly question and the answer should be obvious but when I visit Workplace, no matter which tab is selected, I mostly see questions with several answers already in place. Every once in a while I see questions with no answers but only rarely. SE used to have a listing for new questions (that were just recently asked) but I don't think I see those anymore (the tabs all just show questions with high activity, regardless of age).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I doing something wrong? Or are newly asked questions simply at the end of the active queue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a screenshot from a few minutes ago:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oIzJX.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oIzJX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36469" LastEditorUserId="36469" LastEditDate="2019-01-17T22:41:22.630" LastActivityDate="2019-01-18T05:22:14.033" Title="How to find new questions" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5870" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5874" CreationDate="2019-01-17T21:55:18.737" Score="-3" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I commented on the answer in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/126487/how-to-thank-an-employee-for-working-extra-hours-without-making-him-feel-pressur/126489#comment403417_126489&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question yesterday. There was a lot of discussion going on where one person's responses were all deleted (so it looked like multiple people responding to no one). I made a comment (very similar to the one I re-posted a few minutes ago) which was deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assumed, reading the half-discussion, that my comment agreed with whomever was deleted from the conversation. I suspect this is why &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; comment was deleted—but I also suspect this is not an appropriate reason for deletion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outside of simply reposting my comment, is there some sort of reporting or something like this I can go to that would discourage this kind of &quot;moderation&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I am clearly &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; asking &quot;Where is my comment?&quot; Not in the title or the body of the question did I ask this. I am not sure why those answering (and whoever marked this as a duplicate) are answering the question &quot;Where is my comment?&quot; That isn't what I asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33726" LastEditorUserId="33726" LastEditDate="2019-01-18T14:33:17.397" LastActivityDate="2019-01-18T15:43:19.360" Title="How should one handle a comment being deleted for no apparent reason?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5870" CreationDate="2019-01-18T00:55:47.597" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are for improving questions and answers, not for debating them, not for calling out the people posting and not for being rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chances are that your comments were flagged by multiple members, which triggers automatic deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-01-18T00:55:47.597" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5870" CreationDate="2019-01-18T04:02:35.933" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments have been discussed many, many times on SE; take a moment to go look and you will see that this isn't new ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to address your comment on Richard's answer: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Comments are for improving questions and answers&quot; doesn't quite answer my question, especially insofar as pointing out flaws in an answer is improving the answer. Furthermore, there are often comment chains that amount to &quot;I believe this answer is actually incorrect or doesn't best suite the purposes of the question&quot; (such as this one :D). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, an answer is an answer.  A comment is transient and may be used to suggest changes to an answer.  Note that the answerer may choose to ignore it; it's their answer, after all.  In the latter case, you can write your own answer, or you can downvote theirs.  Or both, the choice is yours!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a comment has been removed, it's almost certainly been flagged by another user, and a moderator has reviewed and accepted the flag.  Comment chains may be removed if they go on too long, and are then moved to chat.  Alternatively, the comments simply add no value and may simply be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, Stack Exchange is a Q&amp;amp;A site, not a discussion forum.  Don't expect comments to remain.  If you wish to keep your content, then either edit it into the existing answer or better yet, write your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastActivityDate="2019-01-18T04:02:35.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5869" CreationDate="2019-01-18T05:22:14.033" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the update on responsive design and left navigation sidebar, the navigation bar is moved from the header of the site to the left sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user is enabling &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/preferences/current&quot;&gt;hide left navigation&lt;/a&gt; (based on the screenshot), the left navigation will be collapsed into the hamburger menu on the top-left (beside Stack Exchange logo).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can access the &quot;all questions&quot; list from there, or accessing &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=newest&quot;&gt;this direct link&lt;/a&gt; for the newest questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28728" LastActivityDate="2019-01-18T05:22:14.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5870" CreationDate="2019-01-18T15:43:19.360" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Outside of simply reposting my comment, is there some sort of&#xA;  reporting or something like this I can go to that would discourage&#xA;  this kind of &quot;moderation&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's going to be hard to &quot;discourage&quot; the removal of comments. That's because removal of comments is part of the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you have read, comments are basically considered ephemeral, and might be deleted at any time. By design, they are supposed to be temporary. Personally, I delete my own comments after a few days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, your question here voices your complaint. And I'm sure it's read by our moderators, and perhaps developers of Stack Exchange. I suspect that's the extent of the discouragement you can achieve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2019-01-18T15:43:19.360" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5866" CreationDate="2019-01-18T20:20:29.787" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't stack overflow. Stop moderating it as such. This is the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You had a stack overflow link in your question. Talking about workplace like it's stack overflow marginalizes non-software career fields and severely limits the usefulness of the site. Don't do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People have complained about non-software related questions getting shafted here in the past. We don't need more of that nonsense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user53651" LastEditorDisplayName="user53651" LastEditDate="2019-01-18T22:18:30.143" LastActivityDate="2019-01-18T22:18:30.143" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5876" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-21T08:41:53.720" Score="-1" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/126565/potential-employer-flew-me-out-for-interview-cancels-return-flight&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; is posted by a new contributor describing an extremely rare situation and although the answers are useful for the OP, hardly anyone else is helped by the questions/answers (I guess - does anyone disagree with me that this is a unique situation?). Still this question has received 535 upvotes as we speak which makes it a top-3 question on the whole site as well as provide the OP with a lot of privileges on this and possible other SE-sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't the intention with the voting system that questions that are relevant for a lot of people or situations should end up in the top (and questions/answers covering narrow subjects should just be upvoted by the few persons who are affected by a similar situation)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if a new contributor manage to post a question like this, (s)he immediately achieve ≈ top 150 (This users personal page claims his reputation is 891 but doesn't 535 upvotes equal 5350 reputation? Is the number on the personal page updated with a delay?) although (s)he hasn't really contributed anything useful to the site. Is that really desirable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9050" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2019-01-28T14:44:09.330" LastActivityDate="2019-01-28T14:44:09.330" Title="Is this really how things are supposed to work?" Tags="|discussion|quality|hot-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2019-01-21T09:03:07.120" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a Hot Network Questions thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A click-baity subject line coupled with views and votes tend to steamroller somewhat and rise up the HNQ rankings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happened because not enough people in the community thought it was a bad quality question and therefore it stayed open and active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, votes are supposed to be there as an indication of quality, but many people treat it as a popularity thing.  Popular questions that people find interesting (for whatever reason) are upvoted, the same goes for answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And no, 535 upvotes doesn't equal 5350.  As an asker, you get 5 reps per uptick - you get 10 reps per answer vote.  There's also a daily rep cap of 200 to prevent these kinds of runaway rep increases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know whether these kinds of questions are real or whether they're contrived for the purposes of gaining rep/votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people try to overlook the triviality of the details of the question and address the heart of the matter.  In this case its:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The company I interviewed for didn't complete their agreed post-interview obligation after I failed to interview well. Is this acceptable?  What can I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this kind of runaway question doesn't occur that often, and when they do they're usually short-lived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't worry about it too much, they're just spikes in an otherwise productive and helpful stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before answering or commenting on these kinds of questions, users should really see whether the asker is responding to other answers or comments.  In this case, the asker posted the question and made no attempt to interact with anyone else afterward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2019-01-21T16:16:45.467" LastActivityDate="2019-01-21T16:16:45.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5878" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-21T17:34:01.697" Score="7" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since different countries can have wildly different labor laws and customs, I think a prompt to request the user to enter country of origin either in the post itself or the tags would be of great help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We often see in the comments requests for the country, or worse, answers posted with the assumption that the OP is in a different nation where the laws and customs are very different.  India, for example, where relieving letters are required, getting answers which not taking that into account can be very bad advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent example was regarding quitting or getting fired.  In the USA, getting fired for cause will make you ineligible for benefits, where in other countries, it may not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we get a prompt asking for country?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2019-01-22T17:23:03.483" LastActivityDate="2019-01-22T17:33:15.723" Title="Feature request: Prompt to include a requerst to include country of origin" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2019-01-21T19:26:09.407" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5877/325&quot;&gt;Another answer&lt;/a&gt; addressed most of your question.  I want to add something not covered there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Votes are not an &quot;I'm having this problem too&quot; button.&lt;/strong&gt;  You should upvote posts that are &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt;.  For questions, this means they're asked clearly, are on-topic, have all the details that are needed (and aren't loaded down with lots of irrelevant text), are framed well to elicit good answers, and are interesting.  For answers, you should upvote if they're clear, correct, and supported (not just random opinions).  On the flip side, you should downvote posts that substantially violate these norms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have upvoted well-asked questions about problems I've never had, and I have downvoted badly-asked questions about problems I also have -- even though I want an answer, &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; question isn't going to help me get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people only voted for questions that affect them too, then only the most common situations would gain traction.  But we're not here to be a popularity contest; we're here to help people with problems common and uncommon.  Questions about relieving letters in India or maternity leave in France or labor unions in Australia or unsafe workplaces in the construction industry should not be any more buried than they already are in the US software-industry presumption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all vote for our own reasons, of course, but these are the factors that SE promotes, and I find that they work well most of the time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-01-21T19:26:09.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2019-01-21T19:48:35.157" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I probably have one of, if not the most diverse work backgrounds here at TWP, having done everything from blue collar to white collar, from the mop to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there is a blatant IT bias which I have actively railed against myself.  In this case, however, you are barking up the wrong tree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voting is simply to identify what you think is a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I ask a question about whether to see the shop steward of my union on the manufacturing floor, or how to approach my manager for a new coding standard, the votes should be for how good of a question it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Not scope&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Not popularity&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Not appeal&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Not nationality&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question on navigating Brazilian import requirements should get as much weight as a question about &quot;right to work&quot; states in America should get as much weight as a question on the German Protection Against Dismissal Act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-01-21T19:48:35.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5881" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-22T04:01:48.150" Score="3" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113597/how-do-people-with-add-manage-in-the-tech-industry&quot;&gt;How do people with ADD manage in the tech industry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was voted to close as 'too broad', but has attracted several upvotes and answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have ADHD myself - so I have an interest in this question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally - I think it's a perfectly acceptable question - though I'd argue that he should break his paragraphs into bullet points to more clearly communicate the issues he is dealing with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I suspect is that people without ADHD are just not aware of the ongoing recurring issues that people with ADHD often face, and so don't understand the context of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32078" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-06-21T12:42:14.850" LastActivityDate="2019-06-21T12:42:14.850" Title="(Done) How can this question regarding ADHD in the workplace be improved?" Tags="|discussion|offtopic|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5881" CreationDate="2019-01-22T04:46:33.620" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to reopen, dealing with a particular disability is not too broad a subject  to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-01-22T04:46:33.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5883" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5885" CreationDate="2019-01-22T12:21:25.727" Score="1" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I add a comment to a question and I can track the question I commented on by digging into my profile and looking at my history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it turns out that this was a contentious question and a large number of people also added their own comments and someone came along and moved them all to chat as they are want&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the process of doing this removes my comment from my profile history so now I can't easily go back to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to locate my original comment after it has been moved to chat?  Or if not, can a message be inserted into my history saying that comments on a particular question/answer were moved to chat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While I understand the reasoning behind the moves, I am somewhat miffed every now and again as the comments are moved in bulk, and &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; comment was obviously not a part of the rest of the riff-raff's, and so should have remained!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50253" LastActivityDate="2019-01-22T22:13:24.943" Title="Locating comments moved to chat" Tags="|support|comments|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5878" CreationDate="2019-01-22T17:18:56.763" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would definitely be in support of this. This conversation came up a few years ago &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3216/the-workplace-is-a-worldwide-site/3217#3217&quot;&gt;here at Workplace Meta&lt;/a&gt;, which prompted me to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/260738/custom-recommended-tags-list-for-individual-se-sites&quot;&gt;request a new feature on Meta SE&lt;/a&gt;. Like most feature requests, it unfortunately never got enough attention for anything to come of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-01-22T17:33:15.723" LastActivityDate="2019-01-22T17:33:15.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5883" CreationDate="2019-01-22T22:13:24.943" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is more roundabout than it should be, but you can see your recent chat messages on your &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/207951/peter-m?tab=recent&quot;&gt;chat account&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's roundabout because there's no direct link from your profile (or your network profile) to your chat profile; you have to go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the list of chat users&lt;/a&gt; and search for yourself.  If you have a common name, that can be a pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, if you've ever chatted, the transcript will contain those messages and they link to your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all else fails, feel free to ask a moderator for help finding your chat profile.  We have extra tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-01-22T22:13:24.943" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5886" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-23T01:07:47.523" Score="5" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about my The Workplace Stack Exchange post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/126974/how-to-tell-someone-politely-that-they-are-barking-up-the-wrong-tree&quot;&gt;How to tell someone politely that they are barking up the wrong tree?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is put on hold, how can I improve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98340" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2019-01-23T15:58:28.580" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T15:58:28.580" Title="How can I improve this on hold question to make it fit the requirements of this stack?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5887" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-23T12:31:02.387" Score="5" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;2019 is here! And with the new year, as usual, comes a new iteration of &lt;strong&gt;Community Promotion Ads&lt;/strong&gt;! Let’s refresh these for the coming year :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;at-the-office story blogs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/5887&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33683" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T12:31:02.387" Title="Community Promotion Ads — 2019" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2020-03-05T11:26:51.547" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5887" CreationDate="2019-01-23T12:31:02.387" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/StackWorkplace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DGvra.png&quot; alt=&quot;Help this community grow -- follow us on twitter!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33683" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T12:31:02.387" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5886" CreationDate="2019-01-23T15:35:18.560" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way would be to give a bit more detail, use more professional terminology, explain things a bit, and state your goal clearly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You posted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;R&amp;amp;D: MIS, something wrong, please rectify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MIS: HR, MIS need to XYZ, please advise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;HR: Hi Finance, please advise so MIS can proceed to solve the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;R&amp;amp;D: MIS, is this issue resolve?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Everyone is in the email loop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's pretty easy to tell it's pending for response from Finance, but R&amp;amp;D asking for response from MIS instead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do MIS tell R&amp;amp;D politely that they are barking up the wrong tree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might want to do something like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How do I point out, in a professional manner, that someone in an email chain has made a mistake?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then, go on like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;R&amp;amp;D sent us an email, and included HR &amp;amp; finance.  HR responded and instructed finance to authorize payment so that we could proceed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;R&amp;amp;D followed up in the email chain asking if we had resolved the issue before Finance had even responded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can I politely inform the person in R&amp;amp;D that we are still waiting for a response.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2019-01-23T15:53:49.133" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T15:53:49.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5890" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-23T16:01:24.037" Score="21" ViewCount="463" Body="&lt;p&gt;This latest turn has irritated me a bit, so forgive my tone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user comes in, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/126974/how-do-i-point-out-in-a-professional-manner-that-someone-in-an-email-chain-has&quot;&gt;writes a question&lt;/a&gt;, which is down-voted and closed.  None of the people who voted to close left a comment, edited the question, or did anything beyond vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, when the user posted here in Meta, again, no responses, just more down votes, when his question in here was &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5886/how-can-i-improve-this-on-hold-question-to-make-it-fit-the-requirements-of-this&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOW TO IMPROVE THE QUESTION!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, one could argue that if someone has been here a while, they should know better, but a new user should get a hand up, not a boot to the face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE:  That user has not been back since the cold reception he got.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2019-01-29T15:35:16.013" LastActivityDate="2019-01-29T15:35:16.013" Title="Be more inviting to new users" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5892" CreationDate="2019-01-24T17:24:26.627" Score="10" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/127098/impostor-syndrome-or-will-i-get-fired&quot;&gt;Impostor syndrome or will I get fired?&lt;/a&gt; should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It already has some good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And one of the folks voting to close it already provided an answer - not very nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-01-24T18:15:49.257" LastActivityDate="2019-01-24T18:15:49.257" Title="(Done) This question from a new contributor about getting fired should be reopened" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5891" CreationDate="2019-01-24T18:14:57.070" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question Impostor syndrome or will I get fired? should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree. The post already received it's 5th and final vote, and now is open again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2019-01-24T18:14:57.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5890" CreationDate="2019-01-25T07:31:34.960" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ultimate responsibility to ask a good, answerable question is that of the asker, not the community. If you want to spend your time fixing others' questions for them, that's your prerogative, but please don't accuse others who may not have that same amount of time or patience, of being uninviting. (Personally I try to avoid editing questions by others, because I'm never sure if I'm changing the asker's intent.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The caption on the downvote arrow is &quot;This question does not show any research effort; &lt;strong&gt;it is unclear or not useful&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. Downvotes are a hint to the asker that there is probably an issue with their question, and again that it's up to &lt;strong&gt;them&lt;/strong&gt; to figure out what and fix the question. If you are willing to take the time and effort to post comments trying to prise information from the asker, that they should have already provided in their question - more power to you, but again, others who won't or can't spare that time aren't necessarily being uninviting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meta downvotes are less forgivable, though, because in my experience people who take the time to participate on meta are the ones that actually care about their questions and want to learn, so those people should definitely be assisted wherever possible. OTOH, the downvoters may have felt that the meta question was already answered by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;how to ask&lt;/a&gt; page (which, BTW, is the &quot;hand up for new users&quot; you're talking about).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44593" LastActivityDate="2019-01-25T07:31:34.960" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5890" CreationDate="2019-01-25T23:39:20.877" Score="14" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a new user should get a hand up, not a boot to the face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-01-25T23:39:20.877" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5876" CreationDate="2019-01-28T14:24:37.977" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this really how things are supposed to work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, otherwise there would be caveats and filters on votes. Currently we can vote for whatever the heck we want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-01-28T14:24:37.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5890" CreationDate="2019-01-28T19:17:07.963" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't really have anything to do with them being a new user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;please leave a message if you think this post can be improved&quot; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm assuming there is more content to this thread? I've no idea who is supposed to be responsible for what in this context.&lt;/em&gt; Read: there's no story or drama here that amuses me, and with the context offered the question answers itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How can I politely inform the person in R&amp;amp;D that MIS are still waiting for a response?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By, politely informing the person in R&amp;amp;D that MIS are still waiting for a response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's actually really cut and dry, so plus one to the question and the answer. I'm of the opinion that there's about ten questions that ever needed to be asked on any given SE, to begin finding a suitable dupes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g: &lt;em&gt;somebody's out of the loop on an email thread, who do I resend to?&lt;/em&gt; : everybody - to cyoa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17356" LastActivityDate="2019-01-28T19:17:07.963" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5897" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5907" CreationDate="2019-01-29T12:56:40.670" Score="6" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw an &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/81983&quot;&gt;edit in the review queue&lt;/a&gt; which changed the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/behaviour&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;behaviour&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;behaviour&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/behavior&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;behavior&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;behavior&lt;/a&gt;, and rightfully so. As Glorfindel pointed out in the edit, SE guidance indicates that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/23869/what-should-the-standard-spelling-be-british-or-us/23873#23873&quot;&gt;tags should be in US-English&lt;/a&gt;. I've proposed a synonym for these tags so that it will automatically change to the correct spelling in the future. It just needs four more votes to go into effect. Please vote for it &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tags/behavior/synonyms&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-01-29T13:40:46.217" LastActivityDate="2019-02-04T13:07:38.420" Title="Tag synonym for alternative spelling of &quot;behavior&quot;" Tags="|discussion|synonym-request|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5898" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-29T13:45:18.807" Score="6" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms&quot;&gt;list of all tag synonyms&lt;/a&gt; and checking out which requests were pending. I noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layoff&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layoff&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layoff&lt;/a&gt;, with 68 questions, is proposed as a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redundancy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redundancy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redundancy&lt;/a&gt;, which has 31 questions. This would mean that any questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layoff&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layoff&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layoff&lt;/a&gt; would automatically be changed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redundancy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redundancy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redundancy&lt;/a&gt;. The term &quot;layoff&quot; is clearly more common, and I think the two should be reversed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a good way to get these synonyms switched so that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layoff&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layoff&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layoff&lt;/a&gt; is the primary tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only suggestion I have is to downvote the current proposed synonym and instead propose the opposite synonym. Unfortunately I don't have the rep to do that, so I have to ask for someone else to do it instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;PS, while you're on the synonym page, please vote for any pending ones that you agree with!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-02-02T19:25:33.927" LastActivityDate="2019-02-02T19:25:33.927" Title="Switch dominant tag for synonyms" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5898" CreationDate="2019-01-29T19:23:27.493" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Layoff is the US term, redundancy the European/UK one. I'm not sure what the breakdown of user locations is, but that should probably be taken into consideration along with number of posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user90842" LastActivityDate="2019-01-29T19:23:27.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5901" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-30T10:46:36.143" Score="2" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed when you vote to close a question you do not get a &quot;Useful flags&quot; count, however when you flag with reason &quot;should be closed&quot; then it classes as a close vote but you still get the useful flag point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason for this and what's the actual difference between the two when you already have close vote privileges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83963" LastActivityDate="2019-01-30T10:46:36.143" Title="Closing vs Flagging" Tags="|discussion|flagging|vote-to-close|votes|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5902" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-30T14:00:04.167" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like the home page i.e. &quot;Top Questions&quot; is currently broken!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ohq3W.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ohq3W.png&quot; alt=&quot;Home page error&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2019-02-01T11:08:10.927" LastActivityDate="2019-02-01T11:08:10.927" Title="Home page seems to be broken" Tags="|bug|status-completed|status-norepro|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5898" CreationDate="2019-01-31T09:16:35.677" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/974442/count-questions-tagged-with-a-given-tag-combination&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;breakout&lt;/a&gt; between &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layoff&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layoff&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layoff&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redundancy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redundancy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redundancy&lt;/a&gt; for questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-kingdom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-kingdom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-kingdom&lt;/a&gt; is currently 3/12, while for questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-states&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-states&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-states&lt;/a&gt; it is 5/0. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/germany&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;germany&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;germany&lt;/a&gt; use &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layoff&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layoff&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layoff&lt;/a&gt; as well (2 questions), not &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redundancy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redundancy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redundancy&lt;/a&gt;. There are no questions about layoff/redundancy related to other European countries or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/europe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;europe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;europe&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the numbers are not very statistically sound to draw conclusions, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redundancy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redundancy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redundancy&lt;/a&gt; looks like the UK term, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layoff&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layoff&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layoff&lt;/a&gt; like an international one. On this basis, I would argue that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layoff&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layoff&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layoff&lt;/a&gt; is a better term for international use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37016" LastEditorUserId="37016" LastEditDate="2019-01-31T09:24:29.560" LastActivityDate="2019-01-31T09:24:29.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5904" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5905" CreationDate="2019-01-31T21:00:36.443" Score="4" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;I put my answer as a comment here because there was no answer box, and the question was not even protected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/127602/trying-to-quit-smoking-but-co-workers-want-me-to-start-again-due-to-me-being-mor#comment407588_127602&quot;&gt;Trying to quit smoking but co-workers want me to start again due to me being more irritable&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a screen shot of the bottom of the question, showing no answer box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7fpVl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7fpVl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a screen show of the top of the question, showing it is not protected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DSqM3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DSqM3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no banner saying 'protected'. The word 'protected' doesn't appear anywhere on the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bm1ZI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bm1ZI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is another screen shot between the questions and the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j17Ul.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j17Ul.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4790" OwnerDisplayName="Chloe" LastEditorUserId="115" LastEditDate="2019-02-01T00:09:10.270" LastActivityDate="2019-02-01T07:50:05.163" Title="Why is this question not showing as protected?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|user-interface|new-users|protected-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5904" CreationDate="2019-01-31T21:23:39.160" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has in fact been protected; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/127602/timeline#history_a04b4af3-8336-45dd-8351-282386aea4c2&quot;&gt;this happened around about 07:00 UTC on 2019-01-31&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/322971/protection-banner-missing-when-i-dont-have-enough-rep-to-answer-closed-and-loc&quot;&gt;network-wide bug&lt;/a&gt; which means that the protection status is not shown if (and only if) you do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; have enough reputation (on the specific site) to answer the question. (Credit to Monica Cellio for finding that bug report). As you do not have 10 reputation &lt;em&gt;on The Workplace&lt;/em&gt;, you cannot answer the question so you are being hit by the bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bug was fixed around 23:00 UTC on 2019-01-31.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14388" OwnerDisplayName="Philip Kendall" LastEditorUserId="14388" LastEditDate="2019-02-01T07:50:05.163" LastActivityDate="2019-02-01T07:50:05.163" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1692" CreationDate="2019-02-03T03:15:48.470" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a good rule of thumb should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Provide a solution first, give your opinion second. Justify them both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone comes asking for a solution to a problem or situation, quitting is not a solution to that problem, it is usually just running away from that problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, someone asking for help may also need a sense of reality. Hence a few opinions from people with experience in similar situation is very welcome. If someone actually quits his/her jobs for some reason, that reason may be asked or gossiped about. It's good to have an idea if for external eyes this reason is fair or not. But this is a SE site, and not a forum, hence not a place for chit-chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, if someone answers by proposing a solution, and justifies it, I think he/she earned the opportunity to give an opinion about the circumstance. This goes for saying OP should quit, but also for telling him that he's being whiny and should suck it up (using kinder words of course). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, said opinion should be justified. A concrete experience should be described, a reference should be given. Things on the lines of &lt;em&gt;&quot;I thought this was okay and did nothing, 5 employees decided to quit after a year&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;&quot;according to this book, that is a very common situation, but normally originates from the employee's rather than the manager's actual actions..&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, if either conditions fail i.e. the answer does not contain a solution or the opinions, if any, are not well justified, a down-vote and a link to this topic could be considered a good response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85657" LastEditorUserId="85657" LastEditDate="2020-04-06T18:54:10.280" LastActivityDate="2020-04-06T18:54:10.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5897" CreationDate="2019-02-04T13:07:38.420" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The synonym has now been approved. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2019-02-04T13:07:38.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5908" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-04T20:02:58.153" Score="12" ViewCount="543" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange is scheduled for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/6&quot;&gt;an election starting next week, February 11th&lt;/a&gt;. In connection with that election as we have done in previous years, we will be hosting a Q&amp;amp;A here for candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5949/2019-moderator-election-qa-questionnaire&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how it'll work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Until the nomination phase, (so, until Monday, February 11th at 20:00:00Z UTC, or 3:00 pm EST on the same day, give or take time to arrive for closure), this question will be open to collect potential questions from the users of the site. Post answers to this question containing any questions you would like to ask the candidates. Please only post &lt;em&gt;one question per answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We, the Community Team, will be providing a small selection of generic questions. The first two will be guaranteed to be included, the latter ones are if the community doesn't supply enough questions. This will be done in a single post, unlike the prior instruction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a perfect opportunity to voice questions that are specific to your community and issues that you are running into at current.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to check out the previous runs of the Q&amp;amp;A for questions asked in previous years. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2460/2014-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;2014&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2817/summer-2014-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;2014 Summer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3229/2015-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;2015&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4241/2017-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;2017&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5181/2018-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If your question contains a link, please use the syntax of &lt;code&gt;[text](link)&lt;/code&gt;, as that will make it easier for transcribing for the finished questionnaire.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the collection phase, the Community Team will select &lt;strong&gt;up to 8 of the top voted questions submitted by the community&lt;/strong&gt; provided in this thread, to use in addition to the aforementioned 2 guaranteed questions. We reserve some editorial control in the selection of the questions and may opt not to select a question that is tangential or irrelevant to moderation or the election. That said, if I have concerns about any questions in this fashion, I will be sure to point this out in comments before the decision making time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once questions have been selected, a new question will be opened to host the actual questionnaire for the candidates, containing (up to) 10 questions in total.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not the only option that users have for gathering information on candidates. As a community, you are still free to, for example, hold a live chat session with your candidates to ask further questions, or perhaps clarifications from what is provided in the Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions or feedback about this process, feel free to post as a comment here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;:  We are looking for one new moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastEditorUserId="154" LastEditDate="2019-02-11T20:03:14.503" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T20:03:14.503" Title="2019 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Question Collection" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5908" CreationDate="2019-02-04T20:02:58.153" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a set of general questions, gathered as very common questions asked every election. As mentioned in the instructions, the first two questions are guaranteed to show up in the Q&amp;amp;A, while the others are if there aren't enough questions (or, if you like one enough, you may split it off as a separate answer for review within the community's 8). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastActivityDate="2019-02-04T20:02:58.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5908" CreationDate="2019-02-04T20:55:10.820" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace gets a lot of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-02-04T20:55:10.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5908" CreationDate="2019-02-04T21:08:32.350" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you feel are the top two or three challenges currently facing our site?  How do you think we should address them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-02-04T21:08:32.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5908" CreationDate="2019-02-05T06:58:59.707" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments: They are the bane of any site that wants to maintain a good signal:noise ratio, harmless, something in between? What do you think about comments and the moderation thereof on The Workplace, and what would you like to change about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For context, we had over 8,000 comments posted on The Workplace in the past month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-02-05T06:58:59.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5908" CreationDate="2019-02-05T14:13:22.207" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;How would you deal with moderators from other stacks stepping in and changing the tone of enforcement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would you do about gossip about users in the moderator chat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-02-05T14:13:22.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5908" CreationDate="2019-02-05T22:44:56.533" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do moderators have fixed terms? Or do they have to retire before they lose moderator status? Can we vote to remove them for pursuing their own agenda to the detriment of the site? Or inactivity for an extended period?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-02-05T22:44:56.533" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5917" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5920" CreationDate="2019-02-06T02:57:58.377" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a biology major who is applying for QC laboratory jobs, which state the need for cGMP skills. I am having trouble honing down resources for learning cGMP, as I hear it is variable to your job. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the best way to go about learning cGMP (virology or cell biology) and is this the right stack exchange to ask this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41862" LastActivityDate="2019-02-06T16:51:54.470" Title="Is this the right stack exchange to ask questions for learning current good manufacturing practices?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5908" CreationDate="2019-02-06T07:23:18.563" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If, upon election, you had the power to create a new flag reason*, what would it be and why?  How would this help moderation, the users, and the quality of the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* This won't actually happen, it's just a hypothetical question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-02-06T07:23:18.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5917" CreationDate="2019-02-06T13:29:59.423" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Biology site has an active &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1997/the-biosphere&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt;.  You might want to drop in there and ask the question there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might get some advice in chat, and you might get guidance on how to ask a relevant question either on the site there, or Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-02-06T13:29:59.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5917" CreationDate="2019-02-06T14:45:20.863" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, we can't help you find resources specific to your job and field. We're much more about general workplace questions that could apply to almost any field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see you've already asked about your question &lt;a href=&quot;https://biology.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3900/question-about-learning-virology-for-industry&quot;&gt;on Biology Meta&lt;/a&gt;, which is a great place to start. If they can't help you, you can try asking on the main Meta using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/site-recommendation&quot;&gt;site-recommendation tag&lt;/a&gt;. Unfortunately, it may turn out that there is no good place for your question on SE. We cover a lot of topics, but we can't do it all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2019-02-06T14:45:20.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5917" CreationDate="2019-02-06T16:51:54.470" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's kind of borderline, but we have too few users with any experience to be able to guide you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can guide you for general workplace practices, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-02-06T16:51:54.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5908" CreationDate="2019-02-07T15:15:59.140" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is your field of expertise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of questions on here seem to focus on people in the computer sciences, but the standards in those fields may be very different from others so it can be beneficial to have alternative points of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86861" LastActivityDate="2019-02-07T15:15:59.140" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5925" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-07T20:45:05.480" Score="2" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question I'm referring to:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/128452/getting-training-on-a-job-with-a-child-on-the-way&quot;&gt;Getting training on a job with a child on the way&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be a legitimate question, but there's enough red flags for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kid on the way (as in, by the time we're done pontificating this question, the kid will be here in all likelihood)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Girlfriend still attending classes in college (dunno about this one)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Looking for job but job training requires OP to move away from family (may boil down to personal preference than anything concrete or answerable)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question seems a little bit too out-there for my tastes.  The circumstance with the OP's family is not uncommon, but it isn't like these are &lt;em&gt;unknowns&lt;/em&gt;.  The OP seems to want to delegate life and circumstance decision making to the community, and this just doesn't &lt;em&gt;feel&lt;/em&gt; right to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do we do in this case?  Should this question remain open?  How should I react to questions like this in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2909" LastActivityDate="2019-02-08T13:52:45.050" Title="Not entirely sure how to react to a question which seems a little too out-there" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5908" CreationDate="2019-02-07T21:04:20.783" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Concerns have been raised about how welcoming we are to (a) newcomers, (b) marginalized people, and (c) those from outside the IT field.  Some say we are not welcoming enough, and others say we go too far or do not properly evaluate vocal claims.  In your opinion, how are we as a site doing in this area, what do we need to do differently (if anything), and how will you as a moderator address the situation?  If you feel we have a problem now, what have you personally done about it already?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In answering, consider interactions with new or marginalized users, established users, other moderators, and the greater Stack Exchange community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-02-07T21:04:20.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5925" CreationDate="2019-02-08T07:24:21.540" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question smells wrong to you, then don't interact with it, or with other people interacting with it - there's usually plenty of other questions and answers to deal with instead.  Or you can vote to close the question if you feel that one of the close reasons is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you can leave a comment asking for more clarification.  Many people here don't have English as a first/strong language and may need some coaxing to make sense of their given situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-02-08T07:24:21.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5928" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-08T12:46:27.730" Score="2" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that there are situations when &lt;strong&gt;different questions&lt;/strong&gt;, with &lt;strong&gt;different contexts&lt;/strong&gt;, have very &lt;strong&gt;similar answers&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt; Is it OK if I post a &quot;generic&quot; question and I also provide the answer to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is that in the future a link would be sufficient as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this kind of &quot;strategy&quot;, we may be able to create a &quot;best practices&quot; repository - even with dedicated tags and so on. Or make them &quot;sticky&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98881" LastEditorUserId="98881" LastEditDate="2019-02-08T12:52:34.660" LastActivityDate="2019-02-08T13:56:30.427" Title="different questions with similar answers" Tags="|discussion|answers|best-practice|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5928" CreationDate="2019-02-08T13:28:05.993" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The majority of questions here can be answered by just two answers, one proactive and the other reactive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proactive:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ask your manager&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reactive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use headphones&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(note that this answer contains traces of humour, please ask staff if you suffer from any allergies)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-02-08T13:28:05.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5925" CreationDate="2019-02-08T13:52:45.050" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question seems perfectly legitimate too me, though it is borderline on-topic as it's currently phrased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For how to handle questions that you suspect of trolling, we have a number of meta questions on that under the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/trolling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;trolling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;trolling&lt;/a&gt; tag. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5052/16983&quot;&gt;general guidance&lt;/a&gt; is to vote based on the content of the question and don't assume the motives of the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2019-02-08T13:52:45.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5928" CreationDate="2019-02-08T13:56:30.427" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We sometimes do have canonical questions posted by experienced users in order to get a general guidance for very commonly asked questions. My recommendation is to post on Meta what specific generic question you would like to ask and why, and see what the community thinks on your specific proposal. Many common topics already have a large number of good questions and answers, so it may not be useful to create a new question just for the sake of being generic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2019-02-08T13:56:30.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5932" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5937" CreationDate="2019-02-08T14:07:18.143" Score="1" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;On one hand, protection limits responses to a question, which can work against the goal of the person awarding a bounty (assuming the purpose of the bounty is to elicit additional answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, a question with a bounty may attract more bad answers from new users, which is what the protection is designed to prevent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4781" LastActivityDate="2019-02-08T16:36:04.873" Title="Should we unprotect a question with an active bounty?" Tags="|discussion|bounty|protected-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5932" CreationDate="2019-02-08T14:25:01.500" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on the reason for the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the bounty is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One or more of the answers is exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it really doesn't matter if the question is protected or not - the person awarding the bounty already has a good idea of where it's going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For bounties where&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question has not received enough attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'd need to think again.  But since the existing question has 12 answers already, I'd think that the question has certainly gained sufficient attention and the bounty-raiser can award the bounty as and how they see fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-02-08T14:25:01.500" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5934" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7045" CreationDate="2019-02-08T14:30:46.023" Score="16" ViewCount="504" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/128212/77738&quot;&gt;well-received answer&lt;/a&gt; to a question about diversity in hiring. Unsurprisingly, this question has become mildly controversial among people who have different views on the value of diversity, and it's been tagged with the &quot;Controversial Post&quot; banner and protected so that users with less than 10 reputation can't add answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, my answer received an anonymous &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/82511&quot;&gt;suggested edit this morning&lt;/a&gt;, which changed the sentence &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Reassess the criteria you're using to judge &quot;success&quot; in an interview&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; to &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Move the goalposts&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, with the edit message &quot;this is honestly hilarious&quot;. It seems clear to me that this is a bad-faith edit where an anonymous user rephrasing my advice into a phrasing with much more negative connotations as a challenge to my answer's premise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disappointingly, two users quickly approved this edit, and it was applied by the Community user until I noticed and rejected it. Is there anything that can be done about this, either in terms of the anonymous user who suggested it or the reviewers who approved it? I'm surprised that (what is to my eye) a clearly troll edit was able to be so quickly applied to a protected question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77738" LastActivityDate="2022-01-18T15:05:44.460" Title="Can anything be done about a bad-faith anonymous edit?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5934" CreationDate="2019-02-08T14:38:40.120" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I'd agree that the suggested edit had the intent of change what you wanted to say there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks as though the reviewers only really read the sentence at hand (which is a bold heading) and didn't read the context around that or think about how the change would affect the meaning of the text underneath.  As much as we'd like reviewers to see the whole context and act accordingly, they're human and sometimes you get two humans being wrong in the same way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe that the edit approvals were done with the intention of damaging your post, it's just a couple of oversights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You caught it, you rolled it back. Malicious edits are few in number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2019-02-08T15:34:15.823" LastActivityDate="2019-02-08T15:34:15.823" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5932" CreationDate="2019-02-08T16:36:04.873" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somebody posting a bounty isn't, by itself, reason to change the status of a question.  However, whenever you come across an older protected question, it's worth asking yourself: does this still need to be protected?  Maybe it was protected because the question was on HNQ or Reddit or something and got a flurry of crappy answers; in that case, it's probably safe to unprotect it.  (Any new answers will bump the question and then people can re-evaluate.)  If the question is on a topic that could invite spam and has in fact done so, you probably want to leave that protection in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Protecting or unprotecting questions should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.  If something doesn't need to be locked down any more, go ahead and open it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-02-08T16:36:04.873" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5938" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-08T16:52:07.297" Score="16" ViewCount="344" Body="&lt;p&gt;As experienced job-seekers (and regular readers at The Workplace) know, an interview is a two-way street.  Just as it's important for the community to ask questions of candidates, it's also important for those candidates to have answers about key parts of the job.  Sometimes the best answers come from the incumbents rather than the hiring managers (SE).  So we're going to presumptuously ask some questions on behalf of candidates known and unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Current moderators&lt;/strong&gt; (and ex-moderators, if we have any), could you answer the following questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do you love about the moderator job on The Workplace?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do you spend your moderation time?  Which tasks take the largest amounts of time?  And roughly speaking, how much time do you spend on moderation tasks (not counting your &quot;just plain user&quot; time like asking and answering questions)?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What have been your biggest challenges as a moderator?  Without revealing privileged information, can you talk about how you (personally and collectively) have addressed them?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything you're hoping the new moderators will do or change that you never quite got around to?  What's on your &quot;moderator wish list&quot;, and why is it important?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What advice do you have for somebody considering this job?  What are the questions people should be asking but aren't?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a repeat from the same question asked back in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2476/current-moderators-please-tell-us-about-the-job&quot;&gt;2014&lt;/a&gt;, asked anew because the site and perspectives might have changed in the five years since our graduation election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2019-02-08T17:34:19.777" LastActivityDate="2019-02-08T17:34:19.777" Title="What's it like being a Workplace Moderator?" Tags="|discussion|election|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5938" CreationDate="2019-02-08T17:12:04.000" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you love about the moderator job on The Workplace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much the same as other higher-rep users here on the site, the primary reason to stay and engage is because I love to help the users, and to help the site help the users.  Having the extra moderation tools allows me to further help the smooth running of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also great to interact with moderators of the other sites, both in the giving and receiving of advice, talking about issues that face us, and sharing doughnuts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a huge honour to be part of the moderation team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you spend your moderation time? Which tasks take the largest amounts of time? And roughly speaking, how much time do you spend on moderation tasks (not counting your &quot;just plain user&quot; time like asking and answering questions)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It probably takes about half an hour to process flags at the start of a shift (and a huge thanks to all those who raise flags).  It takes as long as you need to circle around the site, meta, and the various chatrooms to see if there's anything needing to be caught up with.  Dealing with individual users when issues raise does take longer, but that's not an everyday thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What have been your biggest challenges as a moderator? Without revealing privileged information, can you talk about how you (personally and collectively) have addressed them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dealing with HNQ questions can be a headache, due to the volume of traffic and the need to try and keep the questions and answers coherent and helpful.  And there's the need to let people have the freedom to express themselves, but do so in a respectful, courteous manner as much as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there anything you're hoping the new moderators will do or change that you never quite got around to? What's on your &quot;moderator wish list&quot;, and why is it important?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking a look at tags might be pretty good.  It's something that gets talked about but never really happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What advice do you have for somebody considering this job? What are the questions people should be asking but aren't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're going to get told what people don't like about your actions more than you get told that you're doing things right (even if you're doing it for the right reasons).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the plus side, you'll get a lot of support, the moderation team here is fantastic (Monica is a great mentor and continues to be an incredible team leader).  You'll also get access to the other moderators across the sites, who are also a great resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll add more to this answer as time passes (and if there's more questions), this is just my first draft.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-02-08T17:12:04.000" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5940" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-08T19:10:27.333" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How to ask good hypothetical questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes we face recurring issues at the workplace, when a situation repeats itself and may need addressing at some point in the future. These situations are normally simple to ask here. We state the problem, we may or may not apply the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often at the workplace, we face situations unexpectedly, and have to respond impromptu. These could be asked here, but solutions are not that relevant anymore for OP, unless he wants to reflect on what is already done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, there are foreseen situations. When you expect people to act in some wrong way, either because they've announced it or you simply know them well enough. You might actually be wrong, and until it actually happens, you cannot know for sure before the event actually comes by and your response needs to be provided at the spot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading the tour, a hypothetical case may seem closer to &lt;em&gt;&quot;Personal advice on what to do&quot;&lt;/em&gt; than to &lt;em&gt;&quot;Specific issues encountered navigating a professional environment&quot;&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;&quot;Real problems or questions that you’ve encountered pertaining to a workplace&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Which would mean tat these questions should probably not be asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, for the person asking the question, the answers that could be found here would be very useful, and for other people searching questions for already available solutions, they may be just as good as the other ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there a few common practices or guidelines that could be advised to someone who intends to ask problems based on foreseen yet realistic situations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85657" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T10:59:15.007" Title="Foreseen Problems Vs. Actual Problems" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5941" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-09T09:38:17.780" Score="30" ViewCount="442" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well done mate, you've put in a lot of solid quality effort and been a great example to all of us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-02-19T16:41:31.517" Title="Great effort Enderland a well deserved 100k" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5941" CreationDate="2019-02-09T18:41:53.913" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations! Well done! I've always enjoyed your contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2019-02-09T18:41:53.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5908" CreationDate="2019-02-10T15:56:43.277" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is your view on current moderation policy on this site? Is there anything in particular you disagree with? If so, why? How would you reconcile this with needing to work with existing moderators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16807" LastActivityDate="2019-02-10T15:56:43.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5908" CreationDate="2019-02-11T08:20:35.453" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;(copied over from last year)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T08:20:35.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5940" CreationDate="2019-02-11T10:59:15.007" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's nothing really to stop people from creating future hypothetical questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People do create questions based on hypothetical questions already (we don't fact-check to make sure that every question is based on a real issue).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the problem with openly creating a future hypothetical question is one of scope creep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, you might pose a question for which there's a clear answer that you hadn't considered when posting the question.  If you then change the question so that the obvious solution no longer applies, then you invalidate that answer (and any other answers there might be).  Changing the goalposts leads to people getting frustrated, and they disengage.  Then, what might have been a good question becomes confusing and incoherent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could open a question with the intention of discussing or brainstorming solutions, but this isn't really the right platform for that kind of dialogue (other websites do allow this kind of discussion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By and large, answerers here tend to want questions that look as though they're based on real issues that are (or about) to happen.  They may or may not engage in openly hypothetical questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T10:59:15.007" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5947" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-11T18:58:33.410" Score="17" ViewCount="495" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we all know about &quot;HR IS NOT YOUR FRIEND&quot; as a way of telling people that they may be getting more than they bargained for if they run to HR with their problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think a better approach may be to find a way to tell people not to abuse Human Resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we all know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HR IS FOR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Salary and benefits info&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Information on career tracks for your company&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Protecting your company from liability&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reporting threats to the company&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reporting disabilities or non-work related issues that may impact your work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reporting fraternization, both allowed and prohibited&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HR IS NOT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first place to go with interpersonal problems&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A convenient place to rat out coworkers for minor offences&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your career coach&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;your personal confidant&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a place to deal with hurt feelings&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;non work related issues that do not impact your performance&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A place to report non-work related behaviors of your coworkers unless they directly impact the company.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A place you should run to with problems that could be resolved at other levels&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your friend&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your enemy&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the things that fall under &quot;HR is not your friend&quot; are really cases of people not understanding the purpose of HR, or, being under the impression that going to HR is the same as reporting someone to the teacher or principal, or going to the police.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HR is for the administration of issues that affect personnel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that many people may not be aware of is the fact that every contact you have with HR is recorded in your file.  the more you go to HR, the bigger the file.  So, you may well be justified in reporting Joe, Bob, Mike, Steve, Cletus, Spike, and Munroe, but they'll each have only one HR contact, you'll have seven.  So, going to HR too often, especially over minor things, will make it look like &lt;strong&gt;YOU&lt;/strong&gt; are the problem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, one of HR's roles is to reduce liability to the company.  If you start to look like a liability, they will indeed handle the threat to the business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there some way to condense this rather long-winded rant to something we can tell people when they are misusing/abusing human resources, or are likely to get themselves in trouble as they are posting about doing so?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2019-02-11T21:49:15.197" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T12:06:30.363" Title="How to say &quot;Don't abuse HR&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5941" CreationDate="2019-02-11T19:06:28.743" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Always the wise one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your contributions.  You are the reason I didn't leave SE after a few weeks. (although some may curse you for that)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers are always well reasoned and helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T19:06:28.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-11T20:01:03.480" Score="23" ViewCount="1103" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&amp;amp;A thread for the candidates. Questions collected &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5908/2019-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;from an earlier thread&lt;/a&gt; have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've selected the 7 positively scored submissions. Though one of them is compound of several submissions, in a sense. At any rate, alongside one of our backup questions, this brings us to 10 questions total.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a candidate, your job is simple - post an answer to this question, citing each of the questions and then post your answer to each question given in that same answer. For your convenience, I will include all of the questions in quote format with a break in between each, suitable for you to insert your answers. Just &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/d799039c-c1d2-4f6c-b684-96617e503c3b/view-source&quot;&gt;copy the whole thing after the first set of three dashes&lt;/a&gt;.Please consider putting your name at the top of your post so that readers will know who you are before they finish reading everything you have written, and also including a link to your answer on your nomination post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once all the answers have been compiled, this will serve as a transcript for voters to view the thoughts of their candidates, and will be appropriately linked in the Election page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck to all of the candidates!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oh, and when you've completed your answer, please provide a link to it after this blurb here, before that set of three dashes. Please leave the list of links in the order of submission.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To save scrolling here are links to the submissions from each candidate (in order of submission):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5957/61096&quot;&gt;Magisch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5968/61096&quot;&gt;Mister Positive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5978/73791&quot;&gt;DarkCygnus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace gets a lot of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Concerns have been raised about how welcoming we are to (a) newcomers, (b) marginalized people, and (c) those from outside the IT field. Some say we are not welcoming enough, and others say we go too far or do not properly evaluate vocal claims. In your opinion, how are we as a site doing in this area, what do we need to do differently (if anything), and how will you as a moderator address the situation? If you feel we have a problem now, what have you personally done about it already? In answering, consider interactions with new or marginalized users, established users, other moderators, and the greater Stack Exchange community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comments: They are the bane of any site that wants to maintain a good signal:noise ratio, harmless, something in between? What do you think about comments and the moderation thereof on The Workplace, and what would you like to change about it? For context, we had over 8,000 comments posted on The Workplace in the past month.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do you feel are the top two or three challenges currently facing our site? How do you think we should address them?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If, upon election, you had the power to create a new flag reason (hypothetically, as this will not happen), what would it be and why? How would this help moderation, the users, and the quality of the site?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is your view on current moderation policy on this site? Is there anything in particular you disagree with? If so, why? How would you reconcile this with needing to work with existing moderators?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2019-02-27T21:04:11.517" LastActivityDate="2019-02-27T21:04:11.517" Title="2019 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Questionnaire" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5950" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-11T20:02:24.940" Score="10" ViewCount="383" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2019 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="37930" LastEditDate="2019-10-02T14:40:47.967" LastActivityDate="2020-03-22T04:03:41.320" Title="February 2019 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|moderators|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2019-02-11T20:02:24.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5951" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5952" CreationDate="2019-02-11T20:16:28.097" Score="3" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the double &lt;strong&gt;the&lt;/strong&gt; from the inbox notification (pictured below) a template issue or are we rolling with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Otz0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Otz0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38113" LastEditorUserId="38113" LastEditDate="2019-02-12T09:30:55.977" LastActivityDate="2019-02-12T09:30:55.977" Title="Double THE template issue" Tags="|bug|user-interface|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5951" CreationDate="2019-02-11T20:26:43.297" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it’s just a template issue. There’s not many sites here that have names starting with “The”. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We’ll get that sorted out. Thank for pointing it out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T20:26:43.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5950" CreationDate="2019-02-11T20:40:08.873" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a link to nominate myself, but no visible capability to nominate someone else. Why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33247" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T20:40:08.873" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2019-02-11T20:40:08.873" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5947" CreationDate="2019-02-11T21:25:19.523" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that this could be a great opportunity to create a canonical post on the main site. This site gets questions about how to interact with H.R. (or where how to interact with H.R. is a major component of the answer) that this could be &lt;em&gt;highly&lt;/em&gt; useful (both to future readers and as something that we could link to instead of people rehashing the rather simplistic &quot;HR is not your friend&quot; line).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61906" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T21:25:19.523" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5951" CreationDate="2019-02-11T21:28:21.577" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's not a bug. &quot;The Workplace&quot; is the name of the site, so &quot;the 'The Workplace' election&quot; is (arguably) technically correct (even if it sounds a little awkward).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61906" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T21:28:21.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5947" CreationDate="2019-02-11T22:15:52.683" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the ultimate end goal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are we trying to &lt;strong&gt;discourage&lt;/strong&gt; off-topic questions ranting/panicking over HR?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are we trying to &lt;strong&gt;provide guidelines&lt;/strong&gt; on how to write constructive questions regarding HR?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are we using this as a catch-all way to say, &quot;You're using HR wrong.&quot; ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're doing the first thing, then would this make sense as a page in the Help Center which can be referenced with a new close reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're doing the second thing, then it &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; work as a canonical question on the main site, but keep in mind that &lt;strong&gt;different countries' HR have different policies.&lt;/strong&gt;  Having a canonical maintain that information may get unwieldy, considering that things can change with new laws or acts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The third is kind of where things get dicey in that, by and large, &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; of that nature may not be all that useful here.  HR misuse is a thing.  Telling someone that they're misusing HR isn't wholly constructive given that they may not fundamentally understand the issue of HR misuse, hence we have options #1 or #2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2909" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T22:15:52.683" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5949" CreationDate="2019-02-12T08:43:36.840" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm Magisch and these are my answers to your questions. My nomination can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/6#post-128818&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I also answered a series of questions directed at me in the election chat room, starting &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/49009645#49009645&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Workplace gets a lot of hot questions on provocative topics.&#xA;  Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question&#xA;  whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but&#xA;  evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a&#xA;  lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should&#xA;  questions like these be moderated?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A post notice &quot;Controversial topic&quot; exists for a lot of those questions. Generally then, comments should be moved to chat (consolidated) and increased attention should be paid to keeping unnecessary comments off. I disagree with blanket forbidding all commenting on such questions, but the chatty ones should be moved to chat and further chatty ones deleted (or also moved to chat should the overlords at Stack Exchange ever implement that feature request). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless a scenario is blatantly contrived and not real, I don't think it's the moderator's role to police genuineness of a question. The best way to handle these is to just keep a close eye on comments and answers, although deleting answers should be done only with extreme care. These questions tend to generate a lot of flags, and sometimes people get heated in their answers, but I think the community already does a good job toning unnecessary heated tone down sufficiently by criticism and editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Concerns have been raised about how welcoming we are to (a) newcomers,&#xA;  (b) marginalized people, and (c) those from outside the IT field. Some&#xA;  say we are not welcoming enough, and others say we go too far or do&#xA;  not properly evaluate vocal claims. In your opinion, how are we as a&#xA;  site doing in this area, what do we need to do differently (if&#xA;  anything), and how will you as a moderator address the situation? If&#xA;  you feel we have a problem now, what have you personally done about it&#xA;  already? In answering, consider interactions with new or marginalized&#xA;  users, established users, other moderators, and the greater Stack&#xA;  Exchange community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a multifaceted issue and not as simple as being more welcoming towards new users or not conscientous enough about established users. At the core of the sometimes really bad new user experience this network in general and this site in particular sometimes offers is a miscommunication about expectations. No matter how much we want it, almost nobody reads the help center. As a result, a lot of people come in here expecting a normal &quot;traditional&quot; forum-style experience and are sorely disappointed when it doesn't work out that way. Downvotes and close votes sometimes can feel personal, in fact &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/323783/&quot;&gt;I wrote about that&lt;/a&gt; in a different context just yesterday. I think, targeted attacks notwithstanding (which we can all agree should be come down on like a ton of bricks), the core of our issue is setting expectations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I do believe we have room for improvement in being welcoming towards new users, by being more conscientous and careful when explaining site conventions and guiding them towards asking and answering properly. To that end, personally since the whole issue came up I have addressed this by being more careful when weighing moderation actions and my votes, and by explaining more in comments where I otherwise wouldn't have. Often times, the pile-on effect is what is causing the actual frustration and negative reactions by these new users, so I've been more careful to not unnecessarily pile on with votes. Yes, bad questions should always be promptly closed and downvoted while they're bad, but shifting a question from -10 to -11 is personally unnecessary. The message has already been sent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I believe this community does need to be more open towards users that are not part of the IT industry. It sometimes feels like we're &quot;The IT Workplace&quot;, and that's unnecessarily restrictive and yes, unwelcoming. To that end a lot of discussion on meta was had, and I think we need to further re-examine our closing habits on that front. I don't believe it's the moderator's job to enforce this though, as closing is mainly a community handled activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do believe the moderators already do a fine job of getting rid of actual harassment and attacks, and moreover I think they're fairly rare (I have come across a couple at best in my time here, and all of them were swiftly dealt with, sometimes in the order of seconds rather then minutes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Comments: They are the bane of any site that wants to maintain a good&#xA;  signal:noise ratio, harmless, something in between? What do you think&#xA;  about comments and the moderation thereof on The Workplace, and what&#xA;  would you like to change about it? For context, we had over 8,000&#xA;  comments posted on The Workplace in the past month.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are often an important part of shaping an initially poor question or undefined question into something good and answerable. To that end, they're great. Furthermore, they're often used to suss out inconsistencies in an answer or to improve it. To that end, they're also great. But especially on topics where everyone has an opinion, they can also be a bane. Almost nobody is immune to this. I've caught myself writing what amounts to short answers in comments and arguing unnecessarily. To that end, I need to personally improve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I think this site could do with a lot less comments, and a lot of them are worth deleting or moving to chat (especially moving to chat). Obviously 8000 comments a month generates a lot of work for the site's moderators, but I think generally their handling has been fine so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's a lot of potential for change in the commenting system itself. A good one would probably be to rate-limit comments, especially from users who are just passing by due to HNQ. I feel like a large amount of just off topic comments come from users getting carried away in an argument, and a rate limit would offer breathing room to calm down before continuing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What do you feel are the top two or three challenges currently facing&#xA;  our site? How do you think we should address them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers and full on arguments in comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its oh so tempting, especially with a site where most questions lend themselves really well to having an opinion, to start a discussion in the comments. These are usually messy, they bypass the voting system to ascertain quality, and they're hard to follow completly. I think rate limits for comments would be a worthy solution to that, as I alluded to in my answer towards the previous question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HNQ and the incentive it sets&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of us hate the current HNQ, and for good reason. It favors controversial topics over valueable ones, and sets an indirect incentive to post questions like that. I'd love for there to be changes to the HNQ as suggested in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/316934/revisiting-the-hot-network-questions-feature-what-are-our-shared-goals-for-ha&quot;&gt;giant discussion about it from last year&lt;/a&gt; so that HNQ rewards high quality questions instead of just controversial ones. I realize I'm somewhat of a hyppocrite for saying this, seeing as my personal reputation is in no small part due to HNQ upvotes, but still.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stopping this site from turning into &quot;The IT Workplace&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a lot has been done on that front, but we're still perilously fast to sometimes close questions for what I feel are inappropriate reasons. I don't think moderator fiat can change any of that, but the ongoing scrutiny on meta needs to continue to be applied to closings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of&#xA;  valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of&#xA;  arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In line with the theory of moderation, suspensions are a measure of last resort. In general, when someone generates a lot of flags, a problematic pattern can be identified in their behavior. Often times, pointing that out and making specific recommendations to curb it is enough for the problematic behavior to end. To that end, I would start by sending a moderator message pointing out the problem and suggesting a path towards solution. If no improvement is found, and multiple attempts to improve have failed, a timed suspension can be considered if the user's disruptiveness outweighs their positive contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc&#xA;  a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It depends. If the action was a procedural error (like misclicked an action and didn't notice, or a situation involving privilegedc information that cannot be publicly discussed), I would ping them in the internal moderator chatroom and talk about it there first. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a normal &quot;I don't think this was quite the right call&quot; type disagreement, I would take it to meta like you normally would. I think there is tremendous value in having these types of conversations in the open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If, upon election, you had the power to create a new flag reason&#xA;  (hypothetically, as this will not happen), what would it be and why?&#xA;  How would this help moderation, the users, and the quality of the&#xA;  site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;This post is generating a high amount of off-topic discussion&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would essentially be a prompter (currently done via custom flags) for mods to stop budding out of control discussions while they arise. Faster response time to these means things can be moved to chat earlier and heated arguments can be de-escalated before they erupt. In total that would&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;reduces total moderator workload  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;reduces the amount of time the community spends on heated discussions    &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;allows for more focus on improving the post rather then arguing&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you&#xA;  see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the&#xA;  situation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thats a function of the same problem I alluded to in my answer to question 2, a failure to communicate our expectations better. There is not a lot we as a community can do for this before a post is created, but we definitely can improve in the area of guiding OP towards forming a good question once that happened. Of course, it'll still be put on hold then, but a question put on hold and then reopened is still a net win for the site, so I'm not too concerned about closage statistics. If people are using their close votes to close questions while they are being refined into something answerable, that's good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What is your view on current moderation policy on this site? Is there&#xA;  anything in particular you disagree with? If so, why? How would you&#xA;  reconcile this with needing to work with existing moderators?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing in particular stands out. I'm sure there'll be non-fundamental disagreements, but the current crop of moderators strikes me as a reasonable bunch, so I'm sure any disagreements can be solved in consensus and with the community. I'm not worried there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Broadly speaking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Handle flags and situations the community can not. Mods are &quot;human exception handlers&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lead by example in conduct and writing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Guide and assist the community in forming consensus&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NOT take over intrinsically community-based jobs like closing &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NOT dictate how the community should be run&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ensure smooth conduct and operation on the site with minimal intervention (&quot;light touch&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastEditorUserId="44144" LastEditDate="2019-02-12T15:36:08.753" LastActivityDate="2019-02-12T15:36:08.753" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5947" CreationDate="2019-02-13T11:13:33.677" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree with all the points in general, I don't see a need to formalise them in any way rather than deal with each question in it's own context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-02-13T11:13:33.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5959" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-13T14:11:31.703" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/128935/open-space-vs-offices-which-one-is-better-for-a-new-team&quot;&gt;Open space vs offices. Which one is better for a new team?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was closed as being &lt;em&gt;Primarily opinion based&lt;/em&gt;, however given there is actual research done on this I'd suggest that it's actually not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was actually typing up an a suitably referenced answer when it was closed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2019-02-13T22:57:00.013" LastActivityDate="2019-02-13T22:57:00.013" Title="(DONE) Can we reopen the question of open plan vs offices?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5959" CreationDate="2019-02-13T15:53:07.627" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see the asker talk about which criteria are key.  &quot;Better&quot; is in the eye of the beholder, but &quot;better, given this budget, this team size, these work functions&quot; (or whatever) is solidly answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The existing answers do a good job of responding to that vague premise, so I won't object if it gets reopened, but I'd really prefer to see more information in the question, which is why I'm not casting a reopen vote myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-02-13T15:53:07.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5961" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5962" CreationDate="2019-02-13T16:19:06.370" Score="0" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/128977/how-to-deal-with-inter-team-work-in-a-toxic-team&quot;&gt;How to deal with inter-team work in a toxic team?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been edited down to a manageable size.  It's answerable now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2019-02-13T22:55:56.207" LastActivityDate="2019-02-13T22:55:56.207" Title="(DONE) Can we reopen: &quot;how to deal with inter team work in a toxic team&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5961" CreationDate="2019-02-13T16:55:19.180" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just cast the last vote. The question is now open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2019-02-13T16:55:19.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5941" CreationDate="2019-02-13T18:29:20.547" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I extend the congratulations, even though I admit not being aware he is no longer actively among us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such a score reflects a lot of dedication, some of which I've personally benefited from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, regards, and thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36643" LastEditorUserId="36643" LastEditDate="2019-02-13T23:07:06.180" LastActivityDate="2019-02-13T23:07:06.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5947" CreationDate="2019-02-13T20:01:44.240" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am strongly opposed to seeing &quot;HR is not your friend&quot;, and I would like to see anything that reduces either the usage or the impact of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that people defend the use of the phrase as meaning &quot;HR is employed by the company and has specific objectives that might not always align with yours&quot;, but most usages of &quot;X is not your friend&quot; are taken to mean &quot;X is your enemy&quot;. Posting the phrase discourages people from going to HR in cases where HR would definitely be helpful to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would very much support a canonical question that talks about it. I would even suggest that a title: &quot;When is it appropriate to talk to HR?&quot; and have it specifically discuss the statement &quot;HR is not your friend.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="886" LastActivityDate="2019-02-13T20:01:44.240" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5947" CreationDate="2019-02-13T21:33:46.997" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a convenient catchphrase for sure and not exactly wrong. Perhaps it should be followed by explaining what HR &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; to avoid the misinterpretation perceiving them as corporate cops ready to pounce on people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are just private sector clerks dealing with bureaucracy. You would not talk about your family issues affecting your driving skills to a DMV clerk at a driving test, why would you do that with HR personnel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91309" LastActivityDate="2019-02-13T21:33:46.997" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5959" CreationDate="2019-02-13T21:37:48.880" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is still primarily opinion based. Research does not answer which one is &quot;better&quot;, it answers differences in variables like &quot;amount of communication between coworkers measured by X metric&quot; or &quot;productivity measured in Y metric&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see it is already reopened so leaving this here in case it is closed back, which is appropriate here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91309" LastActivityDate="2019-02-13T21:37:48.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5947" CreationDate="2019-02-14T10:22:51.987" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could also add that to the tag description. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is true that lot of people miss that but that's a good place to link it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're afraid of edit in the tag, we could go for the canonical post and add the link into the human resources tag. Which make it possible if necessary to have more than one canonical post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastActivityDate="2019-02-14T10:22:51.987" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5949" CreationDate="2019-02-14T17:44:24.510" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Answers from Mister Positive&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Workplace gets a lot of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except in a very number of situations, it is not the responsibility of any moderator to decide if a question is real or not.  We don't have a sure fire way to know if a user is trolling. (In most cases)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our community does a pretty good job of self moderating.  The best way to keep the situation contained in my mind is to keep the disruptive comments in check.  I do not believe that comments are evil, but they certainly can have an adverse effect with HNQ, and I think this is where a moderator can help by moving them to chat or deleting where appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the Controversial Post Notice that can be applied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Concerns have been raised about how welcoming we are to (a) newcomers, (b) marginalized people, and (c) those from outside the IT field. Some say we are not welcoming enough, and others say we go too far or do not properly evaluate vocal claims. In your opinion, how are we as a site doing in this area, what do we need to do differently (if anything), and how will you as a moderator address the situation? If you feel we have a problem now, what have you personally done about it already? In answering, consider interactions with new or marginalized users, established users, other moderators, and the greater Stack Exchange community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, if a complaint is raised by a user, regardless of their reputation, we need to do the proper investigation to determine the validity of it, and if valid respond accordingly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases the perception of our site &lt;em&gt;is justified&lt;/em&gt;.  Sometimes people do not like straight forward, to the point answers.  Some users prefer, and even require, a bit of syntax sugar.   A lot of our members are straight to the point type of people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a community, we can all do better to be more welcoming.  We can all do better at trying to edit a question before casting a  vote.  At the same time, some users will refuse to read the Welcome Page, not bother to check and see if a similar question has been asked, or even ask a clearly answerable question.  In these cases a VTC is appropriate.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of the action taken, being &lt;strong&gt;nice&lt;/strong&gt; throughout this process will go along way in changing that perception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Comments: They are the bane of any site that wants to maintain a good signal:noise ratio, harmless, something in between? What do you think about comments and the moderation thereof on The Workplace, and what would you like to change about it? For context, we had over 8,000 comments posted on The Workplace in the past month.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not believe comments are evil.  I do however think comments are &lt;em&gt;easily abused&lt;/em&gt;, and we as a community need to be diligent in their proper use.  For example, a clear answer in a comment is not good.  It cannot be voted on, so it is like a free pass to just post stuff without cost ( except comments can be deleted by the community with enough flags ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, an example of where a comment is a good thing but not directly related to the question is when a new user is asking a controversial question along the HR lines, using their real name and picture.  Several times I have said in comments &quot;that is not a good idea&quot;, and I think that is an appropriate use of comments.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarize, I think applying common sense is the best practice when addressing comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What do you feel are the top two or three challenges currently facing our site? How do you think we should address them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use of comments&lt;/strong&gt;:  The improper use of comments, especially for arguments, full blown answers, and just plain snark cause additional un-necessary chatter ( i.e. more comments and &lt;strong&gt;more flags&lt;/strong&gt; ).  As I stated already, comments are not evil, but are easily abused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;User retention (first time users)&lt;/strong&gt;:  I think how we treat a first time user is &lt;strong&gt;critical&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;em&gt;Snarkiness&lt;/em&gt; is not our friend.  We need to be helpful, courteous, and diligent in making sure the first time user is happy with the experience so that they may become valuable members of our community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When dealing with situations, I keep &lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt; in mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good -- George R.R. Martin.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a new moderator if the appropriate response to a bad act was not clear, I would consult with my peers to determine the best course of action and then respond accordingly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I definitely would not just come in and just take action without first observing how others Moderators handled situations like this &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also let someone know when I thought they did a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; job handling a situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, as it is &lt;em&gt;not a time bound issue&lt;/em&gt;, I would consult with my peers to determine the best course of action here.  I would also seek input from the community via META in order to determine the best course of action for the OP and the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If, upon election, you had the power to create a new flag reason (hypothetically, as this will not happen), what would it be and why? How would this help moderation, the users, and the quality of the site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel as though we have enough flag reasons.  To play along though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions I think we are fairly well covered.  It is either SPAM, Rude or Abuse, or in need of moderator intervention.  We could add something along the lines of &quot;Potential HNQ&quot; that could help us head off a slew of potential issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For comments we have four reasons that cover all cases I can think of.  Not trying to escape the question, I just don't have anything to add as it relates to comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we need to do a better job of working with the user in editing the question into shape whenever possible &lt;strong&gt;FIRST&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user doesn't work with us, or a clearly answerable question cannot be cobbled together, then putting the question on hold is the appropriate action.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; however be the &lt;strong&gt;default&lt;/strong&gt; choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What is your view on current moderation policy on this site? Is there anything in particular you disagree with? If so, why? How would you reconcile this with needing to work with existing moderators?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a ton of respect for our moderators and IMO they do a great job.  I don't have anything to add in this regard, and have not personally witnessed any abuse of power with our group of moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The stackexchange system does a decent job of allowing the appropriate users to self moderate.  Once a scenario escalates past the abilities (system capability or user's lack of willingness), this is where moderators come in.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators are keepers of the peace when the citizens of the community cannot manage themselves.  Moderators handle the &lt;strong&gt;exceptions&lt;/strong&gt; that cannot be handled by high rep user's who have some moderator privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short moderators should use their super powers &lt;em&gt;because they have to&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;not because they can&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My Nomination can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/6#post-129075&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2019-02-18T18:58:40.360" LastActivityDate="2019-02-18T18:58:40.360" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5613" CreationDate="2019-02-14T20:54:24.143" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations from me as well @Kilisi. Your answers are very often my favorite. Hope to see you around for many more contributions to come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36643" LastActivityDate="2019-02-14T20:54:24.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5970" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-15T04:15:07.073" Score="-5" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Rather than ask why my comment was deleted, I’d rather ask, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;was it not useful?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand moderator fatigue is real, and comments are noisy — especially in Workplace — but, for a while, my lone comment seemed to usefully support an &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/128212/44698&quot;&gt;answer on a controversial subject&lt;/a&gt;. I also understand that “ephemeral comments” reasoning is more of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/380262/why-not-delete-all-comments-after-a-time&quot;&gt;handy moderator tool&lt;/a&gt; than an actual thing, because they are never truly deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I chose to comment in support of the answer which, I thought, said it better than I could, and I wanted to signal to others that I thought it was a better answer than the more upvoted one. My comment, which was by itself for a time, was “swept up,” but I think perhaps without consideration — though not maliciously — because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It seemed useful to me&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It wasn’t violating any policies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There weren’t many noisy comments on that to begin with (that I saw)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Now&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; I do understand that my comment may not have been useful to one or several moderators, but, if so, I’d like to hear that harsh-ish but honest answer rather than one which — perhaps — dismisses my concerns (and caused me quite a bit of confusion and frustration).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Previous question&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I commented on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/128212/44698&quot;&gt;this answer here&lt;/a&gt;, which was part of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5934/44698&quot;&gt;HNQ about last week&lt;/a&gt;, itself in response to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/128198/44698&quot;&gt;another HNQ,&lt;/a&gt; and was supportive without being conversational, and was not a “thank you” comment or extended discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought that my comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Added to the conversation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provided support as an alternative perspective&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was polite, non-aggressive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not inviting of nor replying to a conversation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, it was the ONLY comment on the answer for a while. So there was by no means any conversation, extended or otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the rationale for deleting my non-violating, polite comment on an answer which, frankly, hasn’t had many comments anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44698" LastEditorUserId="44698" LastEditDate="2019-02-16T05:05:42.537" LastActivityDate="2019-02-16T05:05:42.537" Title="Was my comment not useful?" Tags="|discussion|comments|moderation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5970" CreationDate="2019-02-15T07:40:03.493" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;What comments are not...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your comment was swept up in a cull that happened after the related answer suffered a somewhat malicious edit that ended up changing the intended tone of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, a recurring meme on the SE network is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312001/how-are-comments-ephemeral&quot;&gt;comments are ephemeral&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the help pages here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;Priviledges - comment everwhere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What are comments?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are temporary &amp;quot;Post-It&amp;quot; notes left on a question or answer. They can be up-voted (but not down-voted) and flagged, but do not generate reputation. There's no revision history, and when they are deleted they're gone for good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;When should I comment?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should submit a comment if you want to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Request clarification from the author;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave constructive criticism that guides the author in improving the post;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add relevant but minor or transient information to a post (e.g. a link to a related question, or an alert to the author that the question has been updated).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key word here is 'temporary' - no one should really expect their comments to last forever.  We're not completely fanatical about removing comments here, but we do get something like 8,000 a month and Stack Exchange isn't a discussion forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-02-15T13:03:07.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5970" CreationDate="2019-02-15T14:25:37.487" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to give an alternate perspective, write an answer of your own.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole point of allowing for multiple answers is so that people don't start putting counter arguments in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People here find that annoying for several reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you post counter arguments in the comments, you weaken, not strengthen the answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments can only be voted up, so even if more people agree with you than disagree, it makes it look like a valid point.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments that &quot;provide an alternative perspective&quot; can tend to attract down votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's viewed as risking nothing in rep for yourself, while damaging the rep of another.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, comments aren't meant to be permanent and can be deleted at any time, which is again why you should provide an answer instead of a comment if you think you have something to say that's worth people seeing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to &quot;Provide an alternative perspective&quot;  post an answer of your own, and don't do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering in the comments is like giving away something for free.  If you're good at something, never do it for free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2019-02-15T16:43:00.607" LastActivityDate="2019-02-15T16:43:00.607" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5970" CreationDate="2019-02-16T03:48:10.163" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I’ve been a user and minor contributor to the SE network for a number of years, this is the first time I’ve heard that “comments are ephemeral,” as mentioned in other answers. It is also non-intuitive because comments do seem to last into perpetuity unless deleted. (They don’t disappear into a black hole after 30 days or something.) So, in that context, the removal of my comment makes perfect sense; and I’m okay with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose it does make sense that NOT knowing that my comments are ephemeral, it’s perfectly understandable why I would be upset or feel targeted. Especially since my comment was supportive of an answer which already was maliciously edited, and added my personal reasoning for why the answer I commented on was the better than the one with more upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44698" LastActivityDate="2019-02-16T03:48:10.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5974" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-18T09:11:22.503" Score="35" ViewCount="3203" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/129365/manager-has-noticed-coworkers-excessive-breaks-should-i-warn-him&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; has been edited by a diamond moderator in a way that invalidates the top-voted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the question as it now stands, my reaction tends towards &quot;give your colleague a heads up&quot;.  Given the question that the OP actually asked, I think the answer &quot;stop poking your nose in where it isn't wanted&quot; is the right one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this sort of edit acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47492" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T09:03:29.630" Title="Edit invalidating top voted answer" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5974" CreationDate="2019-02-18T10:57:54.797" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original question was too troll-ish and immature. It needed an edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is a step in right direction, and a pretty good one. Yes, it cuts many things off. But at least it sounds less childish, and that's a good thing for Workplace and Professionalism tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am in favor of another edit, of this quality, adding the information that were removed. Without the rant/troll ton. It will not be easy work as a simple revert. And it should be the OP's responsibility to match some quality standard. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user95634" LastActivityDate="2019-02-18T10:57:54.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5974" CreationDate="2019-02-18T14:04:06.767" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;My view is that Monica's edit went much too far.  The question was indeed immature, but that doesn't make it a bad question.  As it stood, the right answer was &quot;don't be so immature&quot;; now the best answer is very different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47492" LastActivityDate="2019-02-18T14:04:06.767" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5974" CreationDate="2019-02-18T15:17:21.367" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question was a provocative &lt;em&gt;story&lt;/em&gt;, complete with plot, named characters, and motivations.  We've been getting a lot of these, as site regulars will have noticed.  Our site isn't for getting scintillating, fantastical tales onto the hot list; it's for getting answers to questions people actually have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often the actual &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; are fairly straightforward or even boring.  How do I handle a hit &amp;amp; run fender-bender?  What do I do about a slacker coworker?  How do I give credit to a junior colleague without calling my own abilities into question?  &lt;strong&gt;But the problems arise when these questions are packaged up in descriptions that are fanciful, filled with colorful characters and intriguing &lt;em&gt;but utterly irrelevant&lt;/em&gt; detail.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;em&gt;Lots&lt;/em&gt; of detail.  Worldbuilding-levels of detail.  People then respond, in comments and answers, to the detail, in the process &lt;strong&gt;losing the pearl of the actual question in the vast dunes of sand that are all that other stuff&lt;/strong&gt;.  The top answer to this question falls into that trap, and you can tell from the voting that people love a good smackdown -- but that doesn't make it a good answer whose presence protects the original tale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we see stuff like that, &lt;strong&gt;our first instinct should be to edit the question to fix the problem&lt;/strong&gt;, not to rush to get answers in before the inevitable entry to the hot list and free rep (the more blunt or snarky the answer, the more rep).  This is Stack Exchange, not Youtube; we're here for &lt;em&gt;answers to questions&lt;/em&gt;, not &lt;em&gt;entertainment&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;strong&gt;By failing to fix questions like these, we are failing the people with real problems who come here looking for answers&lt;/strong&gt;, and at the same time providing precedent for trolls who just want to waste our time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP is trying to solve a problem, my edit makes it more likely that answers to the real question will emerge.  If the OP is trying to do something else, we don't need to support it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to complaints, I have made a further edit to bring back some details about the OP's behavior (the timing, in particular).  I have also edited that answer, because the fact that an answer quoted stuff that wasn't needed (like the part about &quot;I can't believe I need to ask this&quot;) does not obligate us to keep that text forever.  My original edit didn't invalidate the answer -- the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; is &quot;no, don't do that, and stop bothering your coworker&quot; -- it only removed context for some &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; stuff the answerer also chose to talk about.  I've fixed that now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've had discussions before about aggressive edits.  Sometimes they are necessary.  Questions with this problem have been deleted (sometimes by community managers, not just moderators) when they were beyond repair.  &lt;strong&gt;An edit to fix a broken question is far better than deleting the whole thing.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2019-02-18T23:38:23.697" LastActivityDate="2019-02-18T23:38:23.697" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5949" CreationDate="2019-02-18T17:34:18.553" Score="9" Body="&lt;h1&gt;DarkCygnus (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/6#post-129434&quot;&gt;nomination post&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Workplace gets a lot of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, one should &lt;strong&gt;check if the question has any problematic content or phrasing that could be reworded&lt;/strong&gt;. This may save the question from getting tangential comments or evoking such negative or unfocused reactions, while still giving the post a merit of it's own so it can be answered and be helpful to the OP and Community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If doing this is not possible things get a bit &lt;em&gt;more complex&lt;/em&gt;, as the post will now require more constant attention or engagement so things don't get out of hand. If some comments start to deviate those users should be promptly made aware of it, or &lt;strong&gt;reminded about our &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt; policy&lt;/strong&gt;, in a comment. Hopefully they will understand, but sometimes that is not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If some user is on a &amp;quot;rampage&amp;quot; or really starting to be rude, chances are that the Community already has flagged the content and organically pruned the problem. This would be ideal, as &lt;strong&gt;Mods should ultimately be &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;exception handlers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and prefer not having to use their powers if possible. If comments are getting tangential or too chatty then other course of action is to politely &lt;strong&gt;invite them to &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;The Watercooler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to continue the discussion (very dissuasive for users that just want to argue), and depending on the degree of the situation a Mod can &lt;strong&gt;move to chat all the comments&lt;/strong&gt; to put a stop to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the situation, other alternative would be to &lt;strong&gt;Protect the post&lt;/strong&gt;, either organically or manually. This could help stop the flow of comments a bit, and is also useful in the case of questions like this reaching HNQ. Other option is to &lt;strong&gt;use our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4896/73791&quot;&gt;Controversial Post Notice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Meta Thread &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/301760/332286&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) to clearly warn everybody to be extra careful with these posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can see that this answer may be a bit scenario-specific, but there are many options and tools to use for effectively handling them. If I were to be elected and happen to see some comment or content that is &lt;em&gt;clearly and undoubtedly&lt;/em&gt; rude, insulting, harassing, etc., I would not doubt to prune/hammer it and present an ultimatum to the offender.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Concerns have been raised about how welcoming we are to (a) newcomers, (b) marginalized people, and (c) those from outside the IT field. Some say we are not welcoming enough, and others say we go too far or do not properly evaluate vocal claims. In your opinion, how are we as a site doing in this area, what do we need to do differently (if anything), and how will you as a moderator address the situation? If you feel we have a problem now, what have you personally done about it already? In answering, consider interactions with new or marginalized users, established users, other moderators, and the greater Stack Exchange community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have always been of the opinion that here in The Workplace we are &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; more welcoming to users in general than in other SE sites (like, say? SO). Since I joined I have felt a more welcoming attitude from many users, and that has made me feel more comfortable and was probably the reason why I stayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, even though I feel we are decently welcoming in general, what I feel we lack is &lt;em&gt;consistency&lt;/em&gt; in doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes one can see users being &amp;quot;too welcoming&amp;quot;, by doing lot's of feedback to OP, swiftly editing, casting reopen votes, etc... but sometimes we can see the opposite, where users just vote to close without giving any feedback or pointers, explaining new users how to make their posts on topic, or even worse, write not-so-nice comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the problem I see here is one of consistency. Personally, I try to maintain a balance with my actions towards users in general. I tend to give a lot of feedback in good or bad posts, edit when I see room for improvement, but also don't hesitate to cast close votes or flag if the situations deserves it (case in which, I also like to give feedback so users can learn and improve)... and that is what I feel we should try to do more to overcome this: maintain a balance in pruning and keeping the site clean, but also be welcoming and provide feedback so users can improve their posting and interaction with the site and its people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments: They are the bane of any site that wants to maintain a good signal:noise ratio, harmless, something in between? What do you think about comments and the moderation thereof on The Workplace, and what would you like to change about it? For context, we had over 8,000 comments posted on The Workplace in the past month.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that comments are a &lt;strong&gt;double-edged sword&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They can drastically help &lt;em&gt;clarify&lt;/em&gt; or point out key aspects that improve the quality of our questions and answers, but at the same time they can completely &lt;em&gt;derail or bias&lt;/em&gt; a post, or even become &lt;em&gt;insulting&lt;/em&gt; or scare away new users. This is the dual nature of comments, and why they are such a fuzz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that comments should stick to ask for &lt;em&gt;clarification, minor suggestions or improvements&lt;/em&gt;, or even useful and constructive observations or corollaries...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...but &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; to &lt;em&gt;argue&lt;/em&gt; about the post, &lt;em&gt;discuss&lt;/em&gt; just about why you &lt;em&gt;agree&lt;/em&gt; (+1 and move on instead) &lt;em&gt;or disagree&lt;/em&gt; (post an answer with your point of view then), point out some &lt;em&gt;tangential or unrelated case&lt;/em&gt; based on assumptions, and even less to &lt;strong&gt;insult or be rude&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss or are feeling chatty The Watercooler is a better place for those things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What do you feel are the top two or three challenges currently facing our site? How do you think we should address them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that the questions gathered here reflect some of the main problems we are facing currently, them being the proper use of &lt;em&gt;comments&lt;/em&gt; and our welcoming attitude that &amp;quot;scares off&amp;quot; new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The welcoming attitude can be solved by practicing &lt;em&gt;consistency&lt;/em&gt; with the way we welcome and interact with any user. I explained how in more detail in my answer to question No. 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the proper use of comments, I exposed my thoughts and perception of the situation and its possible solution in my answer to question No. 3. Generally speaking, any user can help by flagging comments responsibly, and mods can help by reviewing those flags and swiftly taking care of more extreme situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a third problem I see that strongly relates to the others mentioned (specially the comments problem) is that of the &lt;em&gt;HNQ and the overwhelming attention and traffic it generates.&lt;/em&gt; We can see this is not only an issue here in TWP, but also in SE in general. For reference, check this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/316934/332286&quot;&gt;SE post&lt;/a&gt; about the Twitter Mayhem we had recently, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/318792/332286&quot;&gt;this post by Monica&lt;/a&gt; that seeks to discuss this situation and device a possible solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, I believe the HNQ thing is still an issue and its solution is still a work in progress that the SE Community needs to discuss so we can find a way to overcome it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answers are valuable and the problem lies on the comments only then it is a matter of &lt;em&gt;taking care of those comments accordingly&lt;/em&gt; (using the techniques described in my answer to question 1).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, I would also &lt;em&gt;invite them to chat&lt;/em&gt; where I would ask them to stop posting such comments. I usually prefer to give the benefit of doubt, perhaps the user is not on his/her best days, and I would hope that such chat would have an impact on them. If the problems continue to escalate then more serious measures could be taken, and depending on the severity this could even end up with the user winning a time in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/04/06/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot;&gt;penalty box&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that a user has high rep or contributes good answers doesn't excuse them to break the Be Nice policy, and they should take the consequences as any other user would (you may be aware that this has happened to some users in the past).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If another mod did such action on a question it is &lt;em&gt;highly&lt;/em&gt; likely that it was for good reasons. In any case, I would &lt;em&gt;contact that Mod&lt;/em&gt; and ask him/her to explain his reasons for doing so. After that it is again highly likely that I would agree with the reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if I still disagree, the call should fall upon the Community, and &lt;em&gt;a Meta post should be initiated&lt;/em&gt; regarding the situation to reach a &lt;em&gt;consensus&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If, upon election, you had the power to create a new flag reason (hypothetically, as this will not happen), what would it be and why? How would this help moderation, the users, and the quality of the site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we need more flags, as those that we have already cover the possible situations that are flag-worthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, the ideal situation would be that &lt;em&gt;we didn't had to flag at all&lt;/em&gt; (in an Utopic world that is), or that flagging is reduced to a minimal amount. IMHO, adding more flags is not taking care of the real problem (noisy/rude comments, scaring off users, etc.) and it would not help solve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, we should aim to address such root causes, so the interaction in the site becomes more respectful and polite, reaching a point where the flag-worthy posts are minimal and more manageable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes and no. If a question is too broad, off-topic or generally poor quality then it's understandable as to why they'd be closed or what have you, but most of the time they're shut down and then no further guidance is given to that person. It's not very welcoming to see a your first post shut down as off-topic when you have a question about your job on a site called The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think more could be done to provide follow-up resources and a clear explanation of actually why it was closed. A new user to the site is not going to know these things. It's a well established fact that most people don't read the Terms &amp;amp; Conditions, Privacy Policy, Rules, Guides and popups you get when you start out new on a site. That's not them being ignorant as such, but more so being new which is something we all do. A link or two for next steps would be very helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is your view on current moderation policy on this site? Is there anything in particular you disagree with? If so, why? How would you reconcile this with needing to work with existing moderators?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I joined TWP, I have developed a high regard and respect for our kind Moderators; their enforcement of the moderation policy is done in a commendable way (never too soft, never too hard).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I disagree with something, surely it is minimal and expected given everyone's unique point of view. But in general I think our mods carry their jobs very well. If some disagreement is reached, the way to reconcile it is to discuss and reach a consensus. As it is in the Professional environment and workplaces, communication is also key in these situations, so the solutions reached work for everybody (or the majority).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think moderators are &lt;em&gt;exception handlers&lt;/em&gt;. (I have even seen some mods throughout SE that refer to themselves as &amp;quot;janitors&amp;quot; of the site... although I don't know if I agree with it, and think they say it more in a joking tone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Community already has the power and means&lt;/em&gt; to manage and handle edits, votes to close/reopen, flag responsibly, give feedback, protect posts, etc.. Moderators, as their votes are binding, should try to reserve their actions for situations that the Community can't solve organically, or for cases that are obvious or that need to be solved ASAP (say a spam post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mods also have to handle and review flags, interact and coordinate themselves with other mods, and many other things for sure. For more reference of what being a TWP mod means, I like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5939/73791&quot;&gt;this answer from Snow&lt;/a&gt; that gives some insights to what being a mod really entails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-02-22T23:05:33.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5979" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2019-02-19T07:27:47.993" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2019-02-19T07:27:47.993" LastActivityDate="2019-02-19T07:27:47.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5980" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2019-02-19T07:27:47.993" Score="0" Body="For questions about the Winter Bash (or holiday hats) to celebrate the end of the year." OwnerUserId="33983" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2019-03-05T14:09:31.783" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T14:09:31.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5941" CreationDate="2019-02-19T16:41:31.517" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks! Guess residual rep is a thing.. logged into +2100 rep just now :-)                        &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2019-02-19T16:41:31.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5983" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-21T08:19:33.213" Score="-1" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/128087/clean-air-office&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; has been closed with the ever-popular&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should be directed to legal professionals. For more information, click here.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This close reason makes no sense, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This isn't company-specific&lt;/strong&gt;; any company could have pollution or environmental problems of this sort.  I myself have worked at one that was engaging in asbestos removal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The OP isn't asking for legal advice&lt;/strong&gt;.  He/she closed with this:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Has anyone had this kind of problem and can you suggest any way to proceed to get some of these issues fixed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Legal advice could be offered nonetheless...but one can say that of any question on this site.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1602" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2019-02-21T17:49:44.107" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T17:49:44.107" Title="(REOPENED) Reopen request: Clean Air &amp; Office" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5974" CreationDate="2019-02-21T09:03:29.630" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, these kinds of edits should be acceptable &amp;mdash; but maybe we're not asking the right question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First and foremost, please be aware that I've worked with Monica for nearly two years now on several Stacks.  You will find her to be one of the most level-headed, conscientious, practical, and valuable moderators you'll ever meet.  She's one of the few people in the Stack Exchange universe I would trust with an edit of this size, and my first response would be to figure out why she felt it important to make such an edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I agree with her entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the top-voted answer to the question may have better addressed the original version of the post &amp;mdash; but it was not a quality answer to the question found within the post, and that was proven by the OP's later update.  Personally, I wonder about any non-OP user who rolls back a moderator's changes without first contacting the moderator and asking what's going on (a perfectly good Meta question, that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monica's right when she says that too much background story is distracting.  I contribute regularly over at Worldbuilding.SE and people get distracted by the OP's backstory all the time.  I've seen perfectly good questions get closed because people had problems with the backstory, not the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a way, it's worse here.  It is human nature to (a) embellish and (b) bias any story &amp;mdash; and every story here is personal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From that perspective, a better question to ask might be whether or not it should be the expectation of this Stack to allow distracting backstories.  From SE's perspective the purpose of any Stack is to provide a compendium of experiences and insight that many people can use &amp;mdash; and not simply be a personal advice column.  Therefore, it would seem the backstories should be minimized and discouraged and edits of this nature, while not perhaps encouraged from younger participants, should be allowed to remind OPs that they should be asking focused, objective questions and not telling us their life stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allow me to make one more point.  This site has an enormous number of participants who react to questions with &lt;em&gt;breathtaking&lt;/em&gt; speed.  More so than on any other Stack I've experienced (with the possible exception of SO).  That puts a considerable burden on the community to moderate questions even more quickly.  It's really unfortunate that most participants are more interested in getting their answer posted first than they are clarifying a question.  This means that having a clear Meta post concerning the usefulness of backstories and how the culture and policy of this site will respond to them would be very valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97180" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T09:03:29.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5983" CreationDate="2019-02-21T09:42:05.560" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not one of the close voters, but here's my take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just because a company wasn't identified by name doesn't mean the question isn't company-specific.  It's obvious that the OP of the linked question is speaking about his current employer, making it a company-specific question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The OP isn't seeking legal advice, but he/she is seeking for a confirmation of ISO compliance.  Like legal advice, that's something that can only be provided by experts.  Personally, I consider questions about compliance with ISO (or any other standard for business operation) to be out of scope for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The OP specifically stated a union was involved, that does mean he's seeking legal advice even if he didn't specifically ask for it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, from the perspective of the question having only limited use to future visitors, this question probably deserved closure.  I'm impressed that any operating business would choose to be in a building with exposed asbestos.  Had the OP asked, &quot;we're in a building with exposed asbestos and my company won't do anything about it, what are my options?&quot; the question should be open.  But he's specifically asking, about ISO compliance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97180" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T09:42:05.560" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5947" CreationDate="2019-02-21T12:06:30.363" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &quot;HR is not your friend&quot; is pretty negative, how about a new catchphrase that gets a similar message across:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;HR works for the company, not for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this would cover most, perhaps all, of the bullet points listed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1602" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T12:06:30.363" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5983" CreationDate="2019-02-21T14:09:39.540" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed and voted to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is CLEARLY answerable and not company specific.  Older buildings, and unsafe working conditions in the USA are covered by EPA, OSHA, and in the case of government employees POSHA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to me to be yet another case of &quot;IT'S NOT AN IT QUESTION! KILL IT!!!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T14:09:39.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5988" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-21T19:27:09.327" Score="4" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've become confused by two meta posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5974/edit-invalidating-top-voted-answer&quot;&gt;Edit invalidating top voted answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5983/reopened-reopen-request-clean-air-office&quot;&gt;(REOPENED) Reopen request: Clean Air &amp;amp; Office&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first, a diamond user made substantial editorial changes in an effort to remove backstory distraction and clarify the question.  This invalidated a top-voted answer (which had become caught up in the distraction), which started an editing war leading to @MartinBonner's post (or, more precisely, Martin's post was trying to head off the editing war, but it was too late).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second, a standard user was inviting people to reopen a question stating that she disliked  the VTC reason and that the core question did not fall under its mandate.  I did not vote to close that question, but posted an answer to postulate why the question was closed.  She subsequently edited the question to remove the issues I pointed out which, IMO, &lt;em&gt;changed the meaning of the question.&lt;/em&gt;  When I expressed my outrage, user @RichardU directed me to the Code of Conduct and thanked her for what he believed was a good edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of these two users, @MonicaCellio or @Kyralessa, is wrong.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;  However, this site's meta is filled with questions about editing and it's made identifying the site's actual editing policy difficult.  Three of my personal concerns are these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are users allowed to remove factual information from a question solely for the purpose of reopening it?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are users allowed to remove backstory in an effort to reduce distraction?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are users allowed to modify the tone, voice, or emotional context of a question?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are concerns to me because I do not believe people have the right to put words in any OP's mouth (or to remove them), but I understand that questions should be clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unless specified elsewhere in Meta, the current policy as stated in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;Help -&gt; Editing&lt;/a&gt; should be our guide&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To fix grammar and spelling mistakes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To clarify the meaning of the post (without &lt;em&gt;changing&lt;/em&gt; that meaning)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To include additional information only found in comments, so all of the information relevant to the post is contained in one place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To correct minor mistakes or add updates as the post ages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To add related resources or hyperlinks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on these guidelines, it appears @MonicaCellio was correct to make the changes she did and @Kyralessa was wrong to make the changes she did, but I am seeking community input and consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is this site's editing policy if it differs from the Help Center?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;emsp;&lt;em&gt;Honestly, they could both be wrong.  But they cannot both be right.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97180" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2019-03-01T02:38:53.717" LastActivityDate="2019-03-01T02:38:53.717" Title="What is this site's editing policy?" Tags="|discussion|editing|help-center|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5988" CreationDate="2019-02-21T21:36:35.990" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most important thing to do is keep the intent intact, where possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have done a bit of editing on this site and it's usually well received.  Details that are not germane to the overall question may be edited out, even if somewhat relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address your questions directly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;•Are users allowed to remove factual information from a question solely for the purpose of reopening it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is not material to the question itself, absolutely.  That's what edits are for, to make a question more on topic and answerable if still open, or to revise it so that it is both answerable and on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;•Are users allowed to remove backstory in an effort to reduce distraction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only allowed but recommended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;•Are users allowed to modify the tone, voice, or emotional context of a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely.  I've done so personally, and the result in an extreme case was a reversal from a vote of negative 7 to over 50.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, edits are used to revise posts that are rude, or call out specific users, which is STRONGLY frowned upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T21:36:35.990" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5988" CreationDate="2019-02-22T07:57:24.823" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users with enough reputation have the ability to edit posts, this much you know.  It isn't a case of the first person to make an edit &quot;wins&quot;, posts can be edited any number of times, or rolled back if the OP doesn't agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sometimes leads to &quot;edit wars&quot;, but mostly doesn't.  Mostly, people have the maturity and insight to edit appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be worth reminding ourselves of what SE is fundamentally here for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange is a &lt;strong&gt;question and answer site&lt;/strong&gt; about the workplace and other career-related topics. It is for members of the workforce to get answers on topics such as the job hunting process, interviewing, salary negotiation, and professionalism within the Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other sites on the SE network have a similar introductory paragraph in their &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour page&lt;/a&gt;, which everyone has read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what SE &lt;strong&gt;is not intended for&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Entertainment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do get our fair share of questions that are engineered for entertainment purposes rather than having a straightforward question that needs a straightforward answer.  There's a click-bait title to make you read further, there's a backstory with salacious details, there are tales of intrigue, sabotage, bad attitudes, and bad smells.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Invariably, these questions develop traffic (they're designed to do so), they gain an avalanche of upvotes and comments when people get involved with and contribute to the morass.  More likely than not, the OP never visits again, they sit back and watch the mountain of discussion and arguments they've created.  As a complication, users are beguiled by the gamification of the SE network, so pile onto the bandwagon and earn their reps and badges before the question is inevitably closed or protected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But back to the point, the editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like this do have a point, hidden somewhere within their prose.  It's ok to take the pruning shears and get rid of the unnecessary deadwood details and strip them back to the bare question, and leave behind enough context to allow for considered answers to be offered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In doing this, we add value to this question, the answers, the site, and future users who are facing the same issues.  Sometimes, when the fluff has been removed from the question, there's a clear duplicate, so the question can be closed as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was the intent of Monica's edit.  There's a whole lot more discussion about this in the linked &quot;invalidating edit&quot; meta question that you linked to, but it basically boils down to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Adding value, reducing noise (as entertaining as it is)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regard to editing and changing the meaning of the question, if you feel that an edit is inappropriate, then you're free to do any of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Edit, and describe the reason why you've made the edit  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Leave a comment asking for clarification of why the edit was made by someone else  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Flag it and let the moderators decide&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2019-02-22T15:31:22.633" LastActivityDate="2019-02-22T15:31:22.633" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5991" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-22T15:21:16.423" Score="2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see these questions from time to time, and having gone through rebuilding myself from nothing, I know how to do both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this come up enough for us to write a canon question and answer it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-02-22T21:07:14.220" LastActivityDate="2019-02-25T16:23:08.627" Title="A canon question for getting back to the workplace and/or switching careers" Tags="|discussion|canonical-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5991" CreationDate="2019-02-22T20:46:41.780" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does this come up enough for us to write a canon question and answer it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think it comes up now and then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, IMHO, how to get back to the workplace or switching careers depends greatly on the specific workplace you want to return to, or to the specific new field you want to switch to (of course there are generalities shared among all workplaces and careers, but that I feel is a bit broad).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of that, I don't know if a single, canonical Q/A can be written for these cases, and perhaps we should answer and handle them individually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2019-02-22T20:46:41.780" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5991" CreationDate="2019-02-23T06:17:57.863" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Certainly wouldn't hurt. But there are multiple ways people can have to build from scratch which require widely different strategies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Big difference from recovering from illness to finishing a lengthy jail term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or getting fired from last job for incompetence vrs fired for drug use etc,.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few years off looking after a baby vrs moving to a new country/language....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;List is endless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-02-23T06:17:57.863" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5991" CreationDate="2019-02-25T16:23:08.627" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;NO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This place, like all stackexchange sites, really isn't well-suited for canonical writing. It is best suited for specific questions and specific answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Especially&lt;/strong&gt; for a topic like &quot;switching careers&quot;, seriously, how can any writing about how to switch careers ever be &quot;canonical&quot;?? Canonical means that it is established as the final authority on something. But switching careers is so very dependent on who you're talking about, what are the specifics of their situation. There might be some similarity across certain types of successful career changers, but not enough to generalize to everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said there's enough attempts at being canonical on these sites as is. The &lt;em&gt;mark-as-dupe-police&lt;/em&gt;, for example, seem to act like there's already an existing answer for everything regardless of what people may think. If anything, we need LESS GENERALITY on here not more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7572" LastActivityDate="2019-02-25T16:23:08.627" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5995" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5996" CreationDate="2019-02-25T18:32:32.297" Score="5" ViewCount="547" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is from the point of view of moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;just say this &quot;gaman shiteimasu. jibun no chikara de gambatte hoshii desu kara.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;translated this means &quot;I'm refraining from taking (that) I want to try my best on my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could mean exactly what she(?) says it does... I know translators are not perfect&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/130100/how-to-politely-refuse-in-office-gym-instructor-for-steroids-and-protein/130160#130160&quot;&gt;Reference to answer quoted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;when I look at Bing I don't get a translation&lt;br&gt;&#xA;neither from [autoselect] ==&gt; English&lt;br&gt;&#xA;nor from Japanese ==&gt; English.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;when I look at Google I get this translation from  [autoselect] ==&gt; English&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;I am intrigued. Because I would like&lt;/strong&gt; m &lt;strong&gt;to get married.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(and the result indicates that Google thinks it is Japanese)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should I just assume the poster is correct and approve the post&lt;/strong&gt; because I don't have the Japanese language skills?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is the decision I chose, because in this case the OP is in Japan and can (presumably) determine if the translation is correct.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there another option which can help us thwart trolls?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(If it does mean, &quot;I am intrigued because I would like to get married.&quot; then it's likely a troll.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68513" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2019-03-06T16:52:17.503" LastActivityDate="2019-03-06T16:52:17.503" Title="What if non-English text in a post doesn't appear to say what the author claims?" Tags="|discussion|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5995" CreationDate="2019-02-25T19:12:46.177" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should I just assume the poster is correct and approve the post because I don't have the Japanese language skills?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you are not certain how to handle and edit or review, the best thing to do is to &lt;em&gt;skip&lt;/em&gt; it&lt;/strong&gt;, in order to avoid possible erroneous actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think it's worth it, or if the edit or post is critical, consider raising a mod flag so our mods can take it into consideration and handle it properly. Otherwise, it's best to skip it and let a user with Japanese knowledge take the review (you can also come to &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; and ask for users there what they think and if they can provide any assistance). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways, you are right in saying that most likely OP is correct in the spelling, and that it's Google/Bing the one lacking proper translation algorithms. &lt;em&gt;It's best to assume that the one answering is doing it in &quot;good faith&quot;, as you did, instead of assuming users are trolling by default&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The good thing is that&lt;/strong&gt; the OP from the question, as they are in Japan, can choose the best wording they consider that still conveys the same meaning as the one suggested in the answer. In case the one answering wrote some typo or mistake, &lt;strong&gt;the phrasing suggested is also written in English, so OP from the question can then proceed to phrase it in Japanese as they seem fit.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-02-25T19:21:02.630" LastActivityDate="2019-02-25T19:21:02.630" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5997" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-26T20:00:58.933" Score="29" ViewCount="424" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/6&quot;&gt;sixth moderator election&lt;/a&gt; has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the new moderator is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/61096/mister-positive&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/61096.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mister Positive&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They'll be joining &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the existing crew&lt;/a&gt; shortly&amp;mdash;please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, please join me in thanking jmort who will be stepping down as moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/6&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.opavote.com/results/5371078903857152/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;view a summary report online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9899" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2019-03-12T07:58:25.267" LastActivityDate="2019-03-12T07:58:25.267" Title="2019 Community Moderator Election Results" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5997" CreationDate="2019-02-26T20:48:16.880" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations @MisterPositive ! Wish you the best on your role as Mod. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2019-02-26T20:48:16.880" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5997" CreationDate="2019-02-26T20:57:43.327" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations! I'm sure you'll uphold the strong tradition that The Workplace moderators have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2019-02-26T20:57:43.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5997" CreationDate="2019-02-26T22:50:54.433" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations, TWP is in good hands &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-02-26T22:50:54.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5997" CreationDate="2019-02-27T10:32:43.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations I'm sure you'll do fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-02-27T10:32:43.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6002" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-28T16:58:07.003" Score="1" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two questions were recently asked, each looking for the opposing view of the other. The original question is currently open, while the second has been put on hold for being &quot;too broad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original, asks why somebody working for a sole employer for 15 years is not a &quot;red-flag&quot; in recruitment:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/130330/why-is-working-on-the-same-position-for-more-than-15-years-not-a-red-flag&quot;&gt;Why is working on the same position for more than 15 years not a red flag?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Soon after, a second question asks the opposing side of the question - why somebody working for a sole employer for 15 years &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; a &quot;red-flag&quot; in recruitment. This has now been put on hold for being &quot;too broad&quot;:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/130367/in-what-ways-could-someone-working-at-a-position-for-15-years-be-negatively-perc&quot;&gt;In what ways could someone working at a position for 15 years be negatively perceived?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is not a particularly huge amount of information in the first question that seems to make it more specific (other than potentially that they have added that the interviewee is a software-engineer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am currently not clear of the ways the second question fails to meet the on-topic criteria, where the first does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In what ways is the second question &quot;more broad&quot; than the first (to the point it needs closed) - and what additional information would be required in this kind of situation?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user81330" LastActivityDate="2020-03-24T21:01:05.713" Title="What is the difference in &quot;Broadness&quot; between the two version of &quot;15 years employment...red flag&quot;" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6002" CreationDate="2019-02-28T17:14:29.317" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, if anything, it should have been closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Failing that, both are a bit broad, but I think the first one irked enough people to stay open.  It's a post people loved to hate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-02-28T17:14:29.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-02T14:25:36.520" Score="-4" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/130089/16724&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; asserts that a soap dispenser that does not work properly for a black person was designed by white people who design products for white people without concern for other races. There is no evidence that this assertion of race is correct, much less that the designers have this view of race. Alternative explanations for the dispenser's dysfunction and other likely make ups of the team's race can be found in the chat linked in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This content is nothing more than the application of a racial stereotype of white people. As such, it is clearly a violation of the &quot;No bigotry&quot; clause of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We don’t tolerate any language likely to offend or alienate people based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion — and those are just a few examples. When in doubt, just don’t.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators have already intervened in this post's comment chain. They have already seen that the claim generated controversy, offense, and alienation. They moved the controversy to chat once. (That I understand; it's standard policy when debates ensue.) Comments were deleted again later as people continued to debate the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't understand is this: why did moderators do nothing about this inappropriate content in the post? I was about to flag it, but to be quite frank, I'm a little angry that this kind of content has been sitting here so long when it's clearly against policy and moderators clearly knew it was a problem. I would like some explanation of why they didn't intervene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16724" LastEditorUserId="16724" LastEditDate="2019-03-02T15:00:19.627" LastActivityDate="2019-03-04T14:19:33.787" Title="Why was nothing done about this racial stereotype?" Tags="|discussion|specific-answer|code-of-conduct|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6004" CreationDate="2019-03-03T03:03:42.927" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post wasn't flagged (except once to request comment cleanup).  I'm guessing that the moderator who handled the comments focused on the many comments (there are currently 47 deleted ones), in response to the flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that you have brought this answer to moderator attention, I've edited that answer to describe the &lt;em&gt;outcome&lt;/em&gt; without &lt;em&gt;ascribing motives&lt;/em&gt;.  That edit didn't need a moderator; it just needed somebody to think of it.  If you see a problem that you think you can solve in an edit, please edit.  If you don't think you can solve it -- either you don't know what to do or you anticipate resistance -- then please flag.  Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-03-03T03:03:42.927" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6007" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-04T19:45:40.737" Score="1" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;After seeing someone incorrectly add the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software&lt;/a&gt; to a question, I stumbled upon &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3222/what-is-the-use-of-software-tag&quot;&gt;this Meta post&lt;/a&gt; explaining how it should be used, which is for questions about &lt;em&gt;using&lt;/em&gt; software, not developing it. I fixed the tag wiki excerpt, but there are currently 116 questions with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software&lt;/a&gt; tag. Just glancing at the first page, it's clear that the majority of the questions are about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-development&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-development&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-development&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt;, and many have those tags too, but there are also some questions that appear to be using the tag correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the best way to go through these questions and clean up the tags so that they are better in line with the tag definitions? Or with that many questions, is it just not worth it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T18:11:25.797" Title="Tag cleanup for [software] tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6007" CreationDate="2019-03-04T20:35:50.663" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the best way to go through these questions and clean up the tags so that they are better in line with the tag definitions? Or with that many questions, is it just not worth it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best (and only way?) I know is to manually go over them, see if the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software&lt;/a&gt;tag applies and remove it in those cases where it does not (along with starting to remove the new misuses more actively).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe there are ~100 posts that require this analysis, something that surely takes time, but if it's going to make TWP better organized and clean then I say it's worth it... &lt;sub&gt;(I once did some &quot;heavy&quot; editing to some of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5558/73791&quot;&gt;meta tags&lt;/a&gt; and posts, they were about 30 posts involved, and it didn't take &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; long).&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I get some time I will try to go over those posts and edit the ones I see need it; if other users join the cause I am sure this will be cleaned swiftly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; I have started to go through some of the posts, and I have noticed that most of the ones that I see that have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software&lt;/a&gt; tag along with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-development&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-development&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-development&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-industry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-industry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-industry&lt;/a&gt; tend to have a higher chance of misusing the tag... perhaps knowing this in advance can help speed up the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-03-05T18:11:25.797" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T18:11:25.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6009" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-04T21:15:44.113" Score="4" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was my understanding that specifically naming someone as an example is bad form, such as, in the past, when a particular user has been named as someone who votes to close posts, but does not participate in other ways, when we were talking about how many questions were closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, there was an issue between two users here when one was posting comments about the other, which I flagged, and which were, in fact, deleted for being abusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, the one poster who had his comments flagged, posted a question here, and singled out that same user who he'd posted comments about on another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I flagged that post, I was informed that that person's name would be removed, but only because that person was obviously upset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was under the impression that you simply did not reference other users as this was considered &quot;calling out&quot; other users and a violation of the &quot;Be nice&quot; policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is not the case, then what are the rules regarding this?  I'm asking because I am feeling quite confused by all of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-03-06T03:01:51.457" Title="What is this site's policy on naming other users in a post?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6009" CreationDate="2019-03-05T12:53:35.603" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The short answer&lt;/strong&gt;:  I believe most of this is covered here:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reading it again, I don't see anything specific about &quot;&lt;em&gt;naming names&lt;/em&gt;&quot; but I think we can use the Code of Conduct as a basis to our approach to this particular situation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, if I were to say &quot;&lt;em&gt;I think Richards answer offers some great advise&lt;/em&gt;&quot; as part of an answer or comment, I think that &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be acceptable.  If  I were to state in my answer &quot;&lt;em&gt;Richards answer is a load of crap&lt;/em&gt;&quot; that would &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; be acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the code of conduct, strongly related IMO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No name-calling or personal attacks&lt;/strong&gt;. Focus on the content, not the person. This includes terms that feel personal even when they're applied to content (e.g. “lazy”). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No bigotry&lt;/strong&gt;. We don’t tolerate any language likely to offend or alienate people based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion — and those are just a few examples. When in doubt, just don’t. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No harassment&lt;/strong&gt;. This includes, but isn’t limited to: bullying, intimidation, vulgar language, direct or indirect threats, sexually suggestive remarks, patterns of inappropriate social contact, and sustained disruptions of discussion. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, let's all play &lt;strong&gt;nice&lt;/strong&gt; together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2019-03-05T13:24:59.803" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T13:24:59.803" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6011" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-05T16:23:53.427" Score="2" ViewCount="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I asked a question that got a lot of advice and a few part-answers. Is there any way to combine the part answers into one answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is here:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/130250/is-there-any-risk-in-sharing-info-about-technologies-and-products-we-use-with-a/130433#130433&quot;&gt;Is there any risk in sharing info about technologies and products we use with a supplier?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers vary from advice like &quot;Just write an email saying 'bla bla', dont feel bad&quot; to actual answers like (my paraphrasing):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The info you provide could be &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/130265/32591&quot;&gt;used against your company in ways you&#xA;cannot predict.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you provide constructive criticism &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/130286/32591&quot;&gt;your company could benefit.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/130252/32591&quot;&gt;probably share&lt;/a&gt; what is already irrevocably available online &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: If I can take the answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3761/should-i-always-accept-an-answer-on-the-workplace&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; to mean &quot;No, &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; to write your own answer as a combination from other answers given by other people will be seriously frowned upon&quot; - then my question has been answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32591" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-03-05T17:06:47.010" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T17:06:47.010" Title="Can I combine different answers into one and how?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6012" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-05T19:28:45.623" Score="16" ViewCount="472" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not related to me, but is related to a recent incident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I witnessed one user being harassing towards another in repeated comments across multiple Questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged the individual comments, but the behavior continued, and the user who was being harassed was getting frustrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the abusive comments were flagged and deleted, but the behavior continued.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can I make the mods aware of a pattern when the offending posts have been deleted, and thus nothing to link?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I despise bullying behavior, and I don't want to think that I'm contributing to it by having the evidence deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-03-09T10:18:13.720" Title="How can one demonstrate a pattern of harassment on this site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6013" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6014" CreationDate="2019-03-05T20:37:19.863" Score="1" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered my first answer on this site &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/130857/100885&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. It was downvoted. (It has since been edited so it doesn't get misunderstood.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering why. Was it &quot;not useful&quot; (the caption on the downvote button), or was it misunderstood (Readers thought I was saying that that person is bad at their job.), or perhaps I just don't understand this site yet (possible. I'm new here.)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100885" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-03-06T16:38:21.617" LastActivityDate="2019-03-06T16:38:21.617" Title="Is my answer not useful or was it misunderstood" Tags="|discussion|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6013" CreationDate="2019-03-05T20:49:26.313" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you have the lead of your answer &quot;They are obviously bad at their job&quot;, that's what people are going to think you mean.  I can see no other way to interpret it, and you were pretty clear about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better way of phrasing it as &quot;It could be seen as them being bad at their job&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It took me six times to get your actual meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2019-03-05T23:17:01.170" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T23:17:01.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6013" CreationDate="2019-03-05T20:57:27.907" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Richard's answer, but I also want to add that a single downvote just means that one person on the internet didn't like your answer. We can't force people to explain their vote, so it's always guesswork unless the voter comes forward. I wouldn't worry too much about one downvote, unless you start to get a bunch of them. All of us get them at some point, and they don't always make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, since you mention you're new here, I recommend taking a look at our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;Tour&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt;. If you need any help you can always ask another question here on Meta, or pop into the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;Water Cooler chatroom&lt;/a&gt; to see who's around. Welcome to The Workplace, and good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T20:57:27.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6012" CreationDate="2019-03-05T21:01:24.463" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Different moderators might have handled different comments and thus nobody noticed a pattern even while all the comments got deleted.  When you see something you think we should take a closer look at, please use a custom flag to clue us in about what's going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's nothing left to flag but you remember at least one post where it happened, please flag that post.  Moderators can see deleted comments, and once we have an entry point we can see what else the people involved were doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T21:01:24.463" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6013" CreationDate="2019-03-06T09:28:51.970" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the first revision of the answer I find myself agreeing with Richard U - additionally I would say the footnote about &quot;if people disagree they should read the question&quot; comes off a little.. aggressively. The current revision is perfectly fine IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're currently at one downvote and two upvotes so broadly speaking you're doing okay - I wouldn't worry about the odd downvote, you can't please everyone everytime! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the site by the way!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2019-03-06T09:28:51.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6013" CreationDate="2019-03-06T13:43:16.547" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding to the other general advice here.  People down-vote for numerous reasons.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They don't like the content your answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They don't like you&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They don't think you structured your answer effectively.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For the lulz&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't take it personally, I've had controvertial posts where I've ben up-voted &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt; down-voted by scores of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said in my other post, your answer came across as harsh.  Tone is hard to convey across the internet, and people will read intent into what you post that you did not mean to convey.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, while it takes a bit of effort, be as explicit in your answers as possible, and leave few things for people to assume.  The whole &quot;They are obviously bad at their job&quot; in bold letters pretty much screams an accusation at people.  When you post something strong, you can get a strong reaction to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, strong messages attract up-votes as well as down-votes, so it's up to you if you want to go that route.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're going to post in the tone of what you assume others would think, then you should phrase it with lead-ins like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Well, it could be seen as..&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;People may assume that...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Some may think that...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;While I wouldn't take it this way, others might... &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, if this is not your viewpoint, disown the viewpoint by an intro to it.  Take care to make sure that your tone isn't misunderstood or your intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I have &lt;strong&gt;HUGE&lt;/strong&gt; problems with this myself, which is why I'm going into a bit of detail.  Experience keeps a dear school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2019-03-06T13:52:34.243" LastActivityDate="2019-03-06T13:52:34.243" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6013" CreationDate="2019-03-06T14:04:57.957" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at your original answer, I might be inclined to downvote it myself. I would probably not read any more than the initial heading (&quot;They are obviously bad at their job&quot;) before downvoting and moving on. There is no rule that someone must read and carefully consider the entire answer before downvoting (and certainly not read a footnote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="531" LastActivityDate="2019-03-06T14:04:57.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6013" CreationDate="2019-03-06T15:21:38.183" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downvoted your answer because someone else had answered using your logic before you posted. Your answer was more like a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64317" LastActivityDate="2019-03-06T15:21:38.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6022" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6024" CreationDate="2019-03-06T22:32:49.600" Score="1" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel this question might be a duplicate, but if it isn't is it on topic to post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was contacted for contract work by a contract agency for a company I really wanted to work for as a full time employee. However since I also applied for an actual job, I was quickly contacted for an official position with the company as well after I notified them of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I finished an interview and I called a HR person today about if I had the position. She said she was 90% sure and was going to get back to me today. They are very swamped with hiring right now apparently. However, she also wanted me to cancel contact via an email or other means with the contract company for the other available position for that same company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do in this case? I want to work for the company but don't want to ruin any chance. 90% is not 100% and I don't have an official offer yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41862" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T20:54:53.333" Title="Should I cancel contact with a contract hiring agency; is this a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6023" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-07T16:22:48.123" Score="1" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I occasionally flag questions that, in my opinion, should be moved to a more appropriate board, such as Law.SE.  This seems to have no effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a better way to get questions migrated to a different SE board?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or...is that just not done anymore?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1602" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T07:22:36.177" Title="What is the proper way to get a question migrated to another board?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6022" CreationDate="2019-03-07T20:54:00.250" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I feel this question might be a duplicate, but if it isn't is it on topic to post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel it might be a duplicate the best thing to do is to browse the posts we have and see if a question there answers your inquiries. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you didn't find it, and posted it anyways, you will still get answer and perhaps someone will link you to the duplicate you didn't find (if any).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading your post, it seems to me workplace-related... however asking &lt;em&gt;&quot;What should I do?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; is off-topic for this site (as it is asking for us to make a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695/73791&quot;&gt;choice&lt;/a&gt; for OP, and also lacks an explicit &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2696/73791&quot;&gt;goal&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you work on that aspect, and rephrase the question asked to make it on topic and include a goal we can help you achieve, then I would say you can go and post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T20:54:00.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6023" CreationDate="2019-03-08T07:22:36.177" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can raise a custom flag for this so that we can look into the request.  Be aware though that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/89169/please-just-close-garbage-questions-instead-of-moving-them-to-programmers-se/89171#89171&quot;&gt;we don't migrate crap&lt;/a&gt; - moving unsuitable questions to another site annoys the users (and moderators) on the other site and the question gets closed, rejected, or deleted - none of which helps the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's ok to leave a comment on the question indicating that the OP should post this question on another site (and provide a link) after searching and reading the tour there.  This prompts the user to re-evaluate their question and hopefully word it in a more site-suitable fashion, or to search and find the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, it might be possible to edit the question so that it's more Workplace orientated, but do so in a way that doesn't change the intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T07:22:36.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6026" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6027" CreationDate="2019-03-08T07:29:17.820" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to read the comments of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/117206/how-do-i-deal-with-an-autistic-employee-who-criticizes-teammates-publicly-and-do/117221#117221&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;. One of them, from a mod, says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/81371/discussion-on-answer-by-richard-u-how-would-you-deal-with-autistic-employee-who&quot;&gt;moved to chat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the link points to 404 Not Found page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it fixable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100602" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T08:05:46.057" Title="Comments moved to chat, link is 404" Tags="|support|comments|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6026" CreationDate="2019-03-08T07:50:29.703" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The chatroom was automatically deleted for inactivity, which happens when a chatroom has less then 15 messages total or messages only by one user after 7 days of the last message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To view deleted chatrooms you need 10.000 reputation combined network wide (outside of SO and meta.SE).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made a screenshot for you so you can read the comments still:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hxeL9.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hxeL9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T07:50:29.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6026" CreationDate="2019-03-08T07:51:55.157" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chatrooms are normally depreciated (deleted) when they're inactive for a period of time.  The one you're trying to access hasn't seen any discussion since last August, and has less than 15 messages, so has been routinely deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, comments are moved to chat when there's 20 or more comments, so the chatrooms are frozen, and remain visible.  There are times when the comments are overly chatty or divert from the answer/question so are moved earlier.  This is rare, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleted chatrooms are visible to users with over 10K rep points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this Meta link&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/321066/are-chat-rooms-hard-deleted&quot;&gt;Are chat rooms hard-deleted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2019-03-08T08:05:46.057" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T08:05:46.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6030" CreationDate="2019-03-08T12:30:44.930" Score="2" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a question that gave me some rep points and I want to invest all those points on this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/116027/100602&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had 450+ rep, started a bounty and rewarded that answer and now that I have again 100+ I want to give it away on the same answer, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UZCcZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I no longer have the &quot;Start bounty&quot;&lt;/a&gt; button available on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that so? Is it a bug? Is there some cool-down period that I need to wait? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4148/what-is-the-maximum-bounty-one-can-provide&quot;&gt;this other question&lt;/a&gt; I should be able to give a bounty on the same question multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100602" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2019-03-10T10:29:49.437" LastActivityDate="2019-03-10T10:29:49.437" Title="Cannot give more than one bounty per question" Tags="|support|specific-question|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6029" CreationDate="2019-03-08T13:15:56.870" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;How does the bounty system work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoted in part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can I offer a second bounty after the first one has expired? / Can I raise my bounty?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can offer as many bounties on a question as you want. However, only one bounty can be active on a question at a time. Moreover, any user may have at most 3 concurrent bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that if you offer several bounties on the same question, you will have to double the amount each time (or more). That is, if your first bounty was worth 50 reputation, your second bounty on the same question will have to be for at least 100, your third for at least 200 and so on. If you've already offered a bounty for more than 250, you can still offer more bounties for 500 (the maximum amount) as long as you like (or as long as you have the rep). This doubling applies only to bounties by the same user on the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you'll need to offer up twice the amount of your last bounty payment, up to the maximum of 500.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T13:31:48.483" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6012" CreationDate="2019-03-09T10:18:13.720" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I make the mods aware of a pattern when the offending posts&#xA;  have been deleted, and thus nothing to link?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can cut and paste the comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cut the comment including the user name and date&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag the comment under 'something else'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paste the text of the offending comment into the notification box, together with your own explanation that this is not just offensive, and it may be part of a campaign.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38630" LastActivityDate="2019-03-09T10:18:13.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6032" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6061" CreationDate="2019-03-10T17:39:10.383" Score="15" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;The water cooler on our site theme doesn't currently act as a link to our main chatroom, &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;The Water Cooler&lt;/a&gt;. This is &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; unacceptable!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously this should act as a hyperlink to our chatroom to match user expectation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rugps.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rugps.png&quot; alt=&quot;WaterCooler&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="41738" LastEditDate="2019-03-20T15:05:36.660" LastActivityDate="2019-03-20T15:54:30.903" Title="Make the water cooler redirect to The Water Cooler" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|design|css|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6032" CreationDate="2019-03-10T18:07:19.443" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Making a decorative design element link to a chatroom is a bad idea. It would not be consistent with any other Stack Exchange site. Also, I do not expect the background image of the footer to be a part of site's navigation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user32293" LastActivityDate="2019-03-10T18:07:19.443" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6034" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-11T09:09:15.143" Score="1" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a relevant and answerable question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/131282/am-i-able-to-retake-a-pre-employment-drug-screen/131284#131284&quot;&gt;Am I able to retake a Pre-employment Drug Screen?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drug tests are not arbitrary, there are fixed and logical procedures for them which deal with attempts to dispute or retake the test in case of failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2019-03-11T14:07:09.667" LastActivityDate="2019-03-11T14:07:09.667" Title="( DONE) Drug test question shouldn't be on hold, please reopen" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6035" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6046" CreationDate="2019-03-13T18:17:03.863" Score="25" ViewCount="907" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would you mods care to explain the deletion of my perfectly good answer? Just because your culture upbringing and religion and mine are not the same doesn't mean mine has anything wrong with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/131351/what-to-do-when-during-a-meeting-client-people-start-to-fight-even-physically&quot;&gt;What to do when during a meeting client&amp;#39;s people start to (physically) fight with each other?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I advocated defending a women if you see one attacked by a male... what on Earth is wrong with that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that I was a bouncer, I have direct professional experience with violent scenarios and how they play out and the aftermath to participants in the real World.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2019-03-15T22:36:40.587" LastActivityDate="2019-03-21T08:23:09.720" Title="Why was my answer deleted?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6035" CreationDate="2019-03-13T18:33:29.103" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your answer garnered &lt;strong&gt;28&lt;/strong&gt; negative votes, and &lt;strong&gt;18&lt;/strong&gt; flags.  Clearly from a community perspective, your answer was not well received.  Your answer was also gathering multiple bickering comment wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, there was &lt;em&gt;major disagreement on your criteria&lt;/em&gt; as to when to step in and intervene during a physical confrontation.  This answer was seen as sexist and/or gender specific by many.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2019-03-13T20:05:58.063" LastActivityDate="2019-03-13T20:05:58.063" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6037" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-13T18:51:06.120" Score="36" ViewCount="680" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations to Richard U for reaching 100K.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are inspired by you. Wish you good fortune and the best it yet to come!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A personal note: In case you're yet to read the bio, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/46894/richard-u&quot;&gt;please do&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61983" LastEditorUserId="61983" LastEditDate="2019-03-13T18:52:36.390" LastActivityDate="2019-04-17T10:18:16.173" Title="Congratulations Richard U for a 100K!" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6037" CreationDate="2019-03-13T18:52:28.370" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Way to go Richard, 100K is very impressive!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Retirement awaits!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2019-03-13T20:04:24.567" LastActivityDate="2019-03-13T20:04:24.567" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6037" CreationDate="2019-03-13T20:20:15.000" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well done Richard, you certainly put in the hard yards and earned it. I haven't always been in full agreement but you invariably have a valuable and valid perspective. I have always noticed that you think things through and get to the core of an issue, rather than focusing on symptom relief, which is an admirable way to look at problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2019-03-14T22:08:45.890" LastActivityDate="2019-03-14T22:08:45.890" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6037" CreationDate="2019-03-13T22:04:48.863" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You hung in there, and made it to 100k. Well done!&#xA;Good luck in whatever you do going forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2019-03-13T22:04:48.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6035" CreationDate="2019-03-14T13:42:49.157" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering why as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we are supposed to be doing community moderating, then we should be doing community moderating.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While your post received 28 down-votes, it also received 17 up votes, for a net -11.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many answers rated lower than that have not been deleted, or, in the very least were deleted by community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should have at least been given an edit, or a chance to elucidate.  I'd hate to think that an angry mob flagging a post because they don't like it is enough to get it deleted by mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These answers were rated as bad, and even lower, but were not deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113322/what-should-i-do-about-discriminatory-notes-on-candidates-resumes-made-by-my-bo/113323#113323&quot;&gt;What should I do about discriminatory notes on candidates&amp;#39; resumes made by my boss?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/83693/how-can-i-push-back-against-a-boss-who-wants-us-to-work-four-16-hour-days-in-a-h/83697#83697&quot;&gt;How can I push back against a boss who wants us to work four 16-hour days in a hotel?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/119816/top-developer-doing-more-home-office-than-allowed/119823#119823&quot;&gt;Top developer doing more home office than allowed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/74620/team-being-on-standby-on-weekends/74625#74625&quot;&gt;Team being on standby on weekends?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2019-03-14T14:00:46.643" LastActivityDate="2019-03-14T14:00:46.643" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6042" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6045" CreationDate="2019-03-14T14:37:26.690" Score="0" ViewCount="297" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by the discussion on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6035/why-was-my-answer-deleted&quot;&gt;THIS QUESTION&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer deleted had a +17 and -28 for a total of -11&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following answers, by the same user, were rated as low, if not lower&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/113322/what-should-i-do-about-discriminatory-notes-on-candidates-resumes-made-by-my-bo/113323#113323&quot;&gt;What should I do about discriminatory notes on candidates&amp;#39; resumes made by my boss?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/83693/how-can-i-push-back-against-a-boss-who-wants-us-to-work-four-16-hour-days-in-a-h/83697#83697&quot;&gt;How can I push back against a boss who wants us to work four 16-hour days in a hotel?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/119816/top-developer-doing-more-home-office-than-allowed/119823#119823&quot;&gt;Top developer doing more home office than allowed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/74620/team-being-on-standby-on-weekends/74625#74625&quot;&gt;Team being on standby on weekends?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what is the standard, and why can't this be left to the community.  TWP is quite good at deleting posts we feel do not meet the standard, so this kind of action is quite jarring and, IMO, sends the message that we cannot be trusted to police the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless a post is particularly egregious or malevolent, I don't see what just cause is being used &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2019-03-15T10:37:56.157" LastActivityDate="2019-03-15T16:23:32.697" Title="What is the standard for mods stepping in and deleting posts?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6042" CreationDate="2019-03-14T16:20:30.610" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the answer to your linked Meta question indicates, there were a significant number of flags on that particular answer (18 in total). And people don't generally flag posts because they like or agree with the content...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the number of flags against this answer that was the trigger.  The reasons behind choosing to delete that answer have been discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-03-14T16:20:30.610" CommentCount="30" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6042" CreationDate="2019-03-14T18:06:30.523" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was a &lt;strong&gt;judgement call&lt;/strong&gt; by the moderation team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my experience with this answer, there was no magic &quot;&lt;em&gt;ah ha!!&lt;/em&gt;&quot; metric that we discovered that could be applied later.  Our action was based on the &lt;strong&gt;communities response to the answer&lt;/strong&gt;.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Snow points out, this is not an everyday occurrence -- in fact it is rare.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Short Answer&lt;/strong&gt;:  There is no standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2019-03-14T20:54:06.290" LastActivityDate="2019-03-14T20:54:06.290" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6042" CreationDate="2019-03-15T14:20:50.763" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, so let me try and answer this a different way.  There's been a lot of discussions so far and it's not really gone well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flags are a way of users raising concerns about questions, answers, or comments that need to be brought to the attention of the moderators.  We look at the flags, look at the content and do whatever needs doing.  Most of the time, it's clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very rarely, we get contentious posts that create an extraordinary amount of negative attention.  Sometimes in the form of comments, sometimes flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, 18 flags were raised by people in the community, all of them expressing concerns about the answer, there were many other comments.  There is no minimum or maximum number of flags before we consider deleting a post - we look at each one in context.  However, 18 flags means that people are really, really concerned about something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post in question advised people that the &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; form of abuse that people should intervene with is when a man hits a woman - by implication people are advised to stand by and allow all other kinds of abuse, regardless of whether it's physical, emotional, or between any differentiations (or lack of differentiation).  It's ok to stand by and let someone abuse someone else because it's not a man hitting a woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the core statements of the Code of Conduct that everyone agrees to in participating in this community is to not abuse or condone abuse in any fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer goes against that by limiting intervention to only one form of abuse.  Many comments were raised, but the answer wasn't clarified in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to stop the situation from snowballing further, the answer was deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't do this lightly, having to delete stuff is only done after a lot of consideration, and taking on board the feelings of the community, who were clearly made uncomfortable with this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2019-03-15T16:23:32.697" LastActivityDate="2019-03-15T16:23:32.697" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6035" CreationDate="2019-03-16T23:40:36.803" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the absence of an explanation I'll have to answer myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was no legit reason for deletion. All we're seeing are vague rubbish that could apply to a lot of other answer which didn't get deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the mods are exercising personal agendas (again) which isn't great for the health of the community, but que sera sera.... some people have probably lost sight of their role and think they own the site, not a lot we can do about it since they don't have fixed terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-03-16T23:40:36.803" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6047" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-17T06:06:57.653" Score="-6" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't have fixed terms for mods. This means that if a mod goes off the rails or loses sight of their role they remain in a position of power and can enforce their personal opinions or agendas on the site irrespective of the site users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a bad idea, there should be a fixed term as a check and balance just as most other facets of lives need checks and balances. If they're doing a great or even mediocre job they'll probably be voted back in, if they're actively detrimental or can't be bothered yet won't quietly remove themselves, then the site users have at least an option of removing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a common check and balance in both work and volunteer situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of the check and balance scenario currently we have a situation where mods are mods forever, so even if they are inactive they still take up a mod spot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2019-03-18T09:44:19.690" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T10:35:39.247" Title="Fixed terms for mods" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6047" CreationDate="2019-03-17T13:30:18.150" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/984/should-community-moderators-be-elected-for-life-or-have-terms&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange policy&lt;/a&gt; to have moderators for life. They aren't going to change that for one site. You could go to Meta.SE to appeal for a change in network wide rules. If you have a grievance with the moderation team there is an official process, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/151606/handling-calls-to-remove-a-moderator&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/28867/what-recourse-do-i-have-if-i-believe-a-moderator-has-abused-their-privileges&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, you can follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt this is what you were looking for but unfortunately they are unlikely to drastically change their entire process without a great deal of lobbying and support over on Meta.SE. (And even then, meh.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user85135" LastEditorDisplayName="user85135" LastEditDate="2019-03-17T18:33:37.803" LastActivityDate="2019-03-17T18:33:37.803" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6049" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-18T09:49:21.357" Score="-7" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want the following answer undeleted as it clearly and demostrabely is not what it is falsely accused of !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/131840/revisions&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/131840/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not used offensive language nor have I spammed, so why and how exactly did this get deleted after not even 1 hour of posting?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh now (a few minutes after asking here) someone changed the reason of deletion to &quot;spam or rude or abusive&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WTH is going on here?&#xA;It's not rude nor abusive either. &#xA;Seriously people, has just anyone access to these features?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As for Snow's absolutely inaccurate answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You accuse the OP of trolling&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No direct accusation has been made.&#xA;I said &quot;SOUNDS LIKE [OP] is trolling&quot; and admitted right after,it&quot;s a possible scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You helpfully suggest that the employees's children might be too &quot;fugly&quot; to warrant having a real photo of them on display&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's wrong with assuming someone might think a person is too ugly and decides to show more &quot;norm conformant&quot; people instead?&lt;br&gt;Other than the fact that this someone has issues to be addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You called the employee &quot;an idiot&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nope.I said:&quot;there might be idiots out there&quot;.&lt;br&gt;Talking about at least one HYPOTHETICAL person .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know nuances are not favoured these days but in language they're &quot;somewhat&quot; important,especially if the &quot;community&quot; has what amounts to CENSORSHIP powers !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87734" LastEditorUserId="87734" LastEditDate="2019-03-18T21:55:26.263" LastActivityDate="2019-03-18T21:55:26.263" Title="Why was my answer deleted as spam / offensive?" Tags="|discussion|answers|spam|deleted|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6049" CreationDate="2019-03-18T10:36:05.380" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, let's see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You accuse the OP of trolling  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You helpfully suggest that the employees's children might be too &quot;fugly&quot; to warrant having a real photo of them on display  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You called the employee &quot;an idiot&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer got flagged by the community (i.e. users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, there were some sentences in your answer that weren't offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-03-18T10:36:05.380" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6035" CreationDate="2019-03-18T12:28:05.040" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my experience, if a man and a woman punch each other in the face, telling &quot;she started it&quot; to the police rarely works in the man's defence, even if she really did. Perhaps that's sexist, but that's how the society is, and pretending it's not isn't going to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the deleted answer was genuinely offensive. Maybe that's just because I'm not the target group, however, I feel it was written in an attempt to share one's opinion on the subject, not to belittle and insult women. Also, there's a long stretch between &quot;only intervene if a man is attacking a woman&quot; and &quot;women can't stand for themselves&quot; (or whatever statement was considered sexist), which is not what the answer was saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I totally understand how controversial posts are annoying to moderators because of the numbers of flags / comments they generate, but I don't see why the answer has to remain deleted once the question went off the HNQ and cooled down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleting an answer like that sets a dangerous precedent where people choose to be offended by &lt;em&gt;facts&lt;/em&gt; rather than rudeness, harassment or bullying, and a post is deleted on those grounds. I fear that if this practice gets enough approval, we will see more unpopular posts deleted under similar pretext. For example, lying about one's illness / pregnancy / homosexuality can in a similar way be seen discriminatory / sexist / homophobic. I may not like such posts and I understand how they can be troubling to read for the respective groups, but I'm even more troubled when the line between &quot;I don't like this post&quot; and &quot;This post is against the rules&quot; is being washed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37016" LastEditorUserId="37016" LastEditDate="2019-03-21T08:23:09.720" LastActivityDate="2019-03-21T08:23:09.720" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6052" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-18T14:10:24.010" Score="4" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;I rcently came across the following Topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/131779/what-can-i-do-if-i-am-asked-to-learn-different-programming-languages-very-freque&quot;&gt;What can I do if I am asked to learn different programming languages very frequently?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a Human Resources Professional with some experience in this matter and would have to disagree (to some extend) with most oft the answers and would be willing to provide some professional insight into this matter. However since the topic is protected I am unable to do so. I would not like to answer some other topic just to gain the needed reputatione since I would consider this to be spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a different way to provide a (maybe valuable) contribution to this protected topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48929" LastActivityDate="2019-03-22T13:28:06.033" Title="Providing an answer to a &quot;protected&quot; Topic" Tags="|discussion|support|protected-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6052" CreationDate="2019-03-18T15:03:11.263" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Welcome to the site!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the unfortunate things about protecting questions is that inevitably you run the risk that someone with just the right knowledge is going to get blocked from answering and that's a shame. But the line has to be drawn somewhere, &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; could come along and say that they have the requisite knowledge. SE draw the line at requiring 10 reputation on the stack hosting the question - a pretty minimal requirement to be fair. It's something of a blunt instrument to be sure but for the mods to try and decide who can answer or not on an individual basis would be wildly impractical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in the comments it's something of a moot point in this case as the question is currently on hold (and therefore can't be answered) anyway, but stick around - I'm sure there will be lots of questions that someone in your line of work can provide valuable insight on and next time this situation arises it won't be an issue for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2019-03-18T15:03:11.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6052" CreationDate="2019-03-18T16:45:32.027" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome to The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The requirement to answer a protected question is only 10 rep points. One upvote on another answer, or two on a question and you're in.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, for every person like you, who would be ideally suited to answer a question, we have literally dozens of people who wander in, who have never contributed before, and start chiming in, often with wrong or dangerous answers, or sometimes just to troll, to limit this, the 10pt rule exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-03-18T20:35:04.683" LastActivityDate="2019-03-18T20:35:04.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6056" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-19T17:02:11.243" Score="4" ViewCount="295" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to get everyone's thoughts on how questions like this fit against guidelines on this site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/131991/agreement-between-employee-and-employer-for-use-of-personal-equipment&quot;&gt;Agreement between employee and employer for use of personal equipment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the larger topic might make for interesting material, the literal question being asked feels to me like something that can just be googled, and doesn't really need to be posted on The Workplace:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Has anyone seen a boiler plate version of something like this that I could take and modify?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first reaction was vote to close, but I'm not really sure any of the default close reasons fit well. That lead me to pause and consider why I was assuming it should be closed in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2019-03-19T17:32:57.517" Title="Questions that basically ask TWP to function as someone's Google Assistant" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6056" CreationDate="2019-03-19T17:32:57.517" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As is, this type of question would fall under the category of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/158810/260884&quot;&gt;Shopping List Question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions that ask for a list of things, like &quot;is there a tool that&#xA;  does x on platform y?&quot; or &quot;what is the best abc for my problem?&quot; are&#xA;  usually regarded not a good fit on Stack Overflow, even if they are&#xA;  perfectly programming related, and often not a good fit for Stack&#xA;  Exchange sites too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this type of question is fairly open-ended with no single correct answer, I usually vote to close as being opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, you can try to edit the question into a form that is no longer just asking for sample forms, (though personally I'm not sure exactly how to fix this one without trying to infer too much from the OP).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2019-03-19T17:32:57.517" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6058" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6059" CreationDate="2019-03-20T09:32:47.923" Score="1" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know whether it is just me or anyone happen to see this too. When I open a badge to select any badge to see the information, its like bug to bottom. I cannot scroll until the bottom.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bFGvZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bFGvZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101142" LastActivityDate="2019-03-20T12:07:04.260" Title="Bug when I want to view Badge information" Tags="|bug|badges|profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6058" CreationDate="2019-03-20T12:07:04.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This definitely looks like a screen resolution issue, and not so much a bug. I tried adjusting my browser window so that it was small enough to cut off the badge window, and I saw the same effect as you; once you have the badge list open, you cannot scroll the main page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two solutions that worked for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close the badge window, scroll the main page down just a bit, and then re-open the badges. The badge window should have moved slightly with the rest of the background.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Zoom out on your browser (&lt;code&gt;Ctrl&lt;/code&gt;+&lt;code&gt;scroll&lt;/code&gt;) until the whole badge window is visible. This also makes all of the text smaller, so it may not be the most desirable solution.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2019-03-20T12:07:04.260" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6060" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-20T12:55:39.350" Score="11" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that we have tags both for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/legal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;legal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;legal&lt;/a&gt; (189 questions) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/law&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;law&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;law&lt;/a&gt; (73 questions). I think the two words are pretty much synonymous, so I would propose having &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/law&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;law&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;law&lt;/a&gt; redirect to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/legal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;legal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;legal&lt;/a&gt;. Unfortunately I don't have the reputation required to add a synonym to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/legal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;legal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;legal&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Could someone please propose and/or vote for the synonym so that we don't have two redundant tags, since I don't have the reputation in that tag to do it myself?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="10313" LastEditDate="2023-09-06T17:48:24.830" LastActivityDate="2023-09-06T17:48:24.830" Title="Tag synonym: [legal] and [law]" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|synonym-request|legal-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6032" CreationDate="2019-03-20T15:06:26.353" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the fun idea! Unfortunately, it's not possible to do. It's not a bad idea - to quote the response I got when asking about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think clicking it is a fine idea, but it's just not built that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is, the water cooler in the footer is just a background image. It's not an active element that can be clicked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the goals of making the site themes more similar was to make it easier for us to roll out changes to the network without breaking dozens of site themes in the process. Every custom code element we create makes those bugs more likely ... a sort of death of 1000 cuts, if you will. Fun ideas are great and if we can implement them without too much risk, we'll do that - hence why we were &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5710/41738&quot;&gt;happy to add the water cooler to the footer image&lt;/a&gt; at all. This may change in the future if we find another way of doing it but, for now, we're going to leave it as-is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41738" LastEditorUserId="41738" LastEditDate="2019-03-20T15:54:30.903" LastActivityDate="2019-03-20T15:54:30.903" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6062" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-22T05:16:52.457" Score="63" ViewCount="2163" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done my bit for this community I reckon. I don't like it lately, and life's too short to let myself worry about petty inconsequentials and people on the internet. So I'm taking a break.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm old, I should be sitting in the shade on the beach, strumming my guitar and sipping whiskey. If you come down to the beach..... bring whiskey &amp;amp; cigars (Y)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take it easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="7260" LastEditDate="2019-03-25T17:06:06.943" LastActivityDate="2019-04-03T15:38:26.960" Title="Time to retire, take care" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6062" CreationDate="2019-03-22T07:46:43.300" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;TWP will miss you Kilisi. The most unique contributor of &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only person to ever have success from your style. Many have tried, only one has succeeded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy your Whiskey :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83963" LastActivityDate="2019-03-22T07:46:43.300" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6052" CreationDate="2019-03-22T13:28:06.033" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would not like to answer some other topic just to gain the needed reputatione since I would consider this to be spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not at all, in fact, this is exactly what you should do! Answering a different question will help you familiarize with the site, and it will be a chance to help someone who didn't get an answer at all (protected questions usually have a multitude of answers already).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I try to earn at least 125 rep points on every site I visit regularly. It allows to answer protected questions and also down-vote (not that being able to down-vote is a goal in itself, but only ever voting up is not a healthy voting pattern either). If you're knowledgeable about the topic, writing a single decent answer is usually enough to get 25 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37016" LastActivityDate="2019-03-22T13:28:06.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6065" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6070" CreationDate="2019-03-22T21:24:31.743" Score="-2" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/132313/9549&quot;&gt;How to point to risks in a culture that awards optimism and punishes CYA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every answer here has 2 downvotes. I'm prepared to accept my answer was merits the DVs it got, but two downvotes on &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this pattern unlikely to occur naturally, but I'm prepared to accept it happens. Does this look normal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastActivityDate="2019-03-23T13:21:22.140" Title="What's up with the downvote pattern on this question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|down-votes|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6065" CreationDate="2019-03-22T23:08:54.293" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does this look normal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see anything extremely unusual here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If every question has 2 DVs it just means that two separate users didn't find any of the answers useful... that is something &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; likely to happen eventually in a site with thousands of users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I would suggest to keep an eye on that post, in case any suspicious behavior happens again, or if the down-votes start to turn vindictive... but I wouldn't worry much about that post (which even seems that will be closed soon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2019-03-22T23:08:54.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6062" CreationDate="2019-03-23T07:14:59.283" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rest in peace, brother &lt;sub&gt;(but I don't mean the eternal rest - not for a long time I hope!)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your legacy to this community will continue to be appreciated by many, I'm sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36643" LastEditorUserId="36643" LastEditDate="2019-04-02T22:59:48.480" LastActivityDate="2019-04-02T22:59:48.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6062" CreationDate="2019-03-23T11:36:41.693" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good luck - enjoy your break!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your terrific contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2019-03-23T11:36:41.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6065" CreationDate="2019-03-23T11:42:20.437" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe two of the close voters  have a policy to downvote answers on questions that they think should be obviously closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2019-03-23T11:42:20.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6065" CreationDate="2019-03-23T13:21:22.140" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know for a fact that there are some people here who believe that if you answer a bad question, you deserve a down-vote and follow this practice religiously.  I know this as they have stated it explicitly in chat.  (no names please)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, no it's not unusual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-03-23T13:21:22.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6071" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-24T22:03:06.277" Score="-1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/132322/is-qas-job-only-to-perform-quality-assurance-of-developers-work&quot;&gt;Is QA&amp;#39;s job only to perform Quality Assurance of developer&amp;#39;s work?&lt;/a&gt; really should be moved to the Software Quality Assurance &amp;amp; Testing stackexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't belong here. And would have a better chance to get an answer there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2019-03-25T07:40:15.023" Title="The &quot;Is QA's job Only...&quot; question should be moved" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6071" CreationDate="2019-03-25T07:40:15.023" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for raising this.  It seems like there were a few answers submitted before the question was placed on hold, and there's good advice there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I left a comment indicating that the OP can continue with this issue in SQA if they so wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-03-25T07:40:15.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6062" CreationDate="2019-03-25T11:37:38.967" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry to see you go Kilisi, I enjoyed the different perspective you often brought in your answers, even if I may not always have agreed with them. I think it would be fair to say that you have a &quot;tough love&quot; no-nonsense approach to workplace issues that would sometimes lead to unproductive discussions so I can imagine how that would get tiresome. Enjoy your break and your beach. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2019-03-25T11:37:38.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6062" CreationDate="2019-03-25T15:09:24.060" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We'll miss you Kilisi. Enjoy your break.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastActivityDate="2019-03-25T15:09:24.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6062" CreationDate="2019-03-25T18:23:20.900" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Enjoy your family.  Your a good man, and this is a great loss to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-03-25T18:23:20.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6062" CreationDate="2019-03-26T06:27:57.617" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though I'm still new, but I have read enough answers and comment from you to know how awesome you are. You really a straightforward person I've ever seen. Enjoy your break. We will miss you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101142" LastActivityDate="2019-03-26T06:27:57.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6062" CreationDate="2019-03-26T07:58:07.320" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Writing this answer just to acknowledge the wisdom and courage you emanate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49043" LastActivityDate="2019-03-26T07:58:07.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6062" CreationDate="2019-03-26T09:37:47.340" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though I often disagreed with you on specific advice, I've always known you as a valueable and conscientous contributor with honest and good motives and considerable expertise and wisdom. Best of luck to what you do next :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastActivityDate="2019-03-26T09:37:47.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6080" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-27T21:27:43.753" Score="-2" ViewCount="446" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this question:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/132728/how-should-i-tactfully-let-my-coworker-know-im-uncomfortable-being-alone-with-s&quot;&gt;How should I tactfully let my coworker know I&amp;#39;m uncomfortable being alone with someone else in a closed-off room?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP is promoting a blatant sexist stereotype of &quot;All men are abusers&quot;, and under the new code of conduct, why shouldn't this be deleted for bigotry and sexism?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the post, the OP clearly states that her coworker has never done anything to cause any feelings of doubt, her post is solely about him being a man, and her being afraid of being assaulted because he is a man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the recent deletion of a post by Kilis, where he said that if you see a woman attacked, step in, otherwise don't, was deleted as being sexist, as this is blatant misandry, shouldn't the same standards be applied?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-03-28T16:38:22.350" Title="Shouldn't this question be deleted for blatant sexism?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6080" CreationDate="2019-03-27T23:26:49.160" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question isn't sexist; so far as I can tell, the implication is that the author is uncomfortable being in an enclosed space - that is, there's no suggestion that the issue is the sex of the person that they're with. Honestly... It kinda sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agoraphobia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;agoraphobia&lt;/a&gt;, though of course we should resist the impulse to diagnose anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which... Brings me to the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; problem with that question: they go on and on about how passive-aggression hasn't worked out for them, and then... Ask us how to politely convey an already-polite admission that they have a fear of being alone in an enclosed space. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IOW, they haven't described a problem; they're just telling a story. Maybe it's cathartic; maybe they just got so wrapped up in the story they forgot the question; maybe it's something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've closed the question as Unclear and left the following comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hello and welcome to The Workplace Stack Exchange! Please try to edit this to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2693/custom-off-topic-close-reasons-change/2696#2696&quot;&gt;specify a specific goal that we can address&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;For example,&lt;/strong&gt; if you suffer from anxiety and need accommodations from your employer, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/40441/what-are-reasonable-accommodations-for-depression&quot;&gt;then you can ask about that specifically&lt;/a&gt;. Open-ended questions where we must guess at both the problem and the solution are unlikely to help either you or us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the asker is unable to clarify in a reasonable amount of time, then we can remove the question from the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastActivityDate="2019-03-27T23:26:49.160" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6082" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-28T11:59:44.400" Score="-3" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/132785/different-opinion-led-to-a-co-worker-not-working-with-me-anymore&quot;&gt;Different opinion led to a co-worker not working with me anymore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was closed as &quot;opinion-based&quot;, but the OP wasn't asking whether we agree with his opinion.  The question he's asking is quite clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I cannot understand it because my opinion and the work is something different. Did I really do something wrong here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP is seeking to understand how the thoughts he expressed caused offense.  That's something we can answer (and something that has already been well answered on the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1602" LastActivityDate="2019-04-10T23:51:13.837" Title="Reopen request - Different opinion led to a co-worker not working with me anymore" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6080" CreationDate="2019-03-28T13:02:12.380" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, I would assert that this question is not making any clearly sexist arguments. The OP consistently states that they are uncomfortable being alone in the room with &quot;someone&quot;. To quote (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How should I try to politely tell him I'm uncomfortable being alone &lt;strong&gt;with someone else&lt;/strong&gt; in a closed-off room, in case of an assault?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The particular co-worker in this case is a man, but when talking in a general sense, the OP never says they are only afraid to be alone with men. If the OP later clarified that they would be comfortable being in there with a woman but not a man, that would change the situation, but so far it has all been fairly gender-neutral.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, and I think more importantly, there is a difference between encountering sexist arguments in questions and in answers. When we encounter sexism (or another -ism) in a question, we as answerers have the opportunity to post and explain in what ways the OP's views are problematic and how they should be approaching the situation instead. We even have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2321/when-asked-how-can-i-foo-the-bar-is-dont-foo-the-bar-an-appropriate-answer&quot;&gt;specific guidance&lt;/a&gt; on how to properly tell someone &quot;Don't do that!&quot;. The problem with sexism in answers is that instead of asking about a situation in which I am being sexist, I am now &lt;em&gt;advocating&lt;/em&gt; for behavior that is sexist. We are supposed to be the experts here, so when we are giving out harmful advice, that is a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire point of a Q&amp;amp;A site is for us to help and educate the asker. Oftentimes that means giving them the benefit of the doubt that they don't realize or don't intend to be saying or doing something offensive. Now that's not to say offensive questions aren't possible. If the OP is using rude language, or is arguing in comments when people try to explain why they are wrong, that's a problem. And if in the question the OP makes blatantly sexist assertions, that's also a problem. For example, consider these two statements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Every guy I've met wants to sleep with me, so there's a good chance he's going to try something at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I always see stories about women getting assaulted at work, so I worry the same could happen to me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first sentence is something I would consider offensive and should be edited out of a question, while the second would be okay. The main difference in my mind is that the first focuses on making assumptions and placing blame on the other person, while the second focuses on the poster and their own feelings and perceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before deleting we should always try to edit and remove offensive language from posts if we can, but only in such a way that will retain the poster's original intention and viewpoint. If the OP says they are afraid of being alone with men, we need to leave that in so that answerers can address the underlying problematic viewpoint. We are usually much more hesitant to edit answers around here, but if offensive language can be removed while still retaining the core answer, that's acceptable. One of the things that contributed to Kilisi's deleted answer, partially due to his writing style, was that once you removed the sexist portion, there was no answer left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2019-03-28T13:02:12.380" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6080" CreationDate="2019-03-28T16:23:40.640" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post is not about gender dynamics at all (though it's easy to imagine that those underlie the post, and such a guess probably has a decent chance of being correct).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will agree that the OP made an error in framing the question as being about informing the coworker that the OP does not want to be alone &lt;em&gt;with him&lt;/em&gt;. By this I mean that the identity and characteristics of the coworker seem totally irrelevant to the question as asked. I tried to address this in my answer, though that obviously doesn't have any impact on the nature or appropriateness of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've submitted a suggested edit which removes all gender information from the question, as they seem irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As originally written, the question strikes me as being more similar to something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm seriously allergic to the venom of [some spider native to the OP's area], but I see those spiders in the server room all the time. I'm uncomfortable being in there because, if I were bitten and needed help, the noise of the machines and soundproofing of the room would make it hard for me to alert anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a perfect analogy (especially as the presence of a second person in the spider example would necessarily address the spider bite problem), but it highlights the real intent of the question: the OP &lt;em&gt;feels unsafe&lt;/em&gt; in that particular environment, not necessarily because a problem is more likely there but because &lt;em&gt;if a problem occurred&lt;/em&gt; it would be particularly difficult to address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that an honest reading of the question as originally written clearly indicates that the problem is the effective isolation of people in the server room from everyone else, &lt;em&gt;even if&lt;/em&gt; that particular concern is heightened due to gendered concerns (reasonable or otherwise). In other words, there seems to be a real concern which could exist independent of any gender bias, and that concern is worthy of a question here (even if the concern may be overblown in some particular case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To dismiss that concern in favor of a different one which is orthogonal to the question as currently written strikes me as unreasonable, even if the OP included something really blatant like &quot;P.S., I am afraid of all men because I assume they'll assault me&quot;. That would be an issue, but not one that touches on the specific concerns outlined in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if we were to assume the worst possible interpretation of the OP's post (that they are specifically afraid of assault due to the presence of any man in the server room with them), I'm not sure that that makes the question out-of-bounds. The OP may or may not be disproportionately fearful here, relative to the actual risk they are encountering, and it's a fair answer to suggest that their fears might be overblown and accommodating them in this instance would be unreasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose that it's possible that the OP does have a misandristic streak, and that that is 100% responsible for their preferences in this situation. It is further possible that the OP is aware of this and has intentionally written the post in such a way as to obscure that, and is looking for advice to plausibly pursue their bigoted agenda under some other guise and avoid the Workplace.SE rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's every bit as possible that the OP has been assaulted in an area where they could not expect calls for help to be answered, was traumatized by that event, and is currently undergoing therapy to help but hasn't overcome the trauma yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also every bit as possible that the OP is aware of the well-established statistical evidence that men are more likely to commit assault than women, that being alone in a room where help is not available makes assaults safer to commit and more likely to be successful without consequences, and that a random man's seeming likelihood to commit assault against a person (in that person's judgement) is far from a guarantee that that perception is accurate (even in the case of a man known to that person for a long time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the OP's absolute risk of being assaulted increases by only 0.0001% in the circumstances described, that level of risk may be more than they are willing or able to tolerate. Again, answers suggesting that that threshold is inappropriate seem like valid answers to me, if uncharitable ones, but it's not clear to me that the OP is tarring all men with the same brush due to concern about a situation where risks are heightened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You seem upset about the treatment of one of Kilisi's recent posts. I've not read it, so I can't comment directly on it. But, if its deletion strikes you as unjust, it seems like a puzzling reaction to demand that that injustice be repeated elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74269" LastEditorUserId="74269" LastEditDate="2019-03-28T16:28:48.983" LastActivityDate="2019-03-28T16:28:48.983" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6080" CreationDate="2019-03-28T16:38:22.350" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's leave Kilisi aside for a second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP specified the reason (he? she?) felt uncomfortable is because, if someone wanted to attack (him? her?), the server room would be the perfect place to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's by the skin of their teeth, granted, but I see no evidence of this &lt;em&gt;all men...&lt;/em&gt; you mention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another point: We have many genuinely sexist questions here. For example, the one about not shaking hands with women &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; they are women. They are &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; good questions because it's about navigating the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly I don't like the fact this question has been so heavily downvoted (not that you had anything to do with it) because OP is genuinely facing a problem which severely hinders their work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastActivityDate="2019-03-28T16:38:22.350" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6086" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6088" CreationDate="2019-03-28T18:12:50.527" Score="4" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else been having missing notifications? I posted an answer on a Meta thread and had two users comment on it, but I never received any notification for the comments. Has anyone else been experiencing this? Is this a bug, or do notifications on Meta work differently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another odd thing happened as well. I responded in a comment when only one comment was posted. When I went back and checked later, there was a second comment that appeared between mine and the first, with a posting time about an hour earlier than mine. I could chalk this up to being oblivious and forgetting or missing the second comment, but combined with the missing notifications it made me suspicious there might be something else going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2019-03-28T20:13:43.103" Title="Missing comment notifications?" Tags="|bug|comments|notifications|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6086" CreationDate="2019-03-28T20:13:43.103" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You clarified in a comment that you're talking about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6083/16983&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;.  I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; (based on seeing those comments earlier) that Mister Positive deleted and then undeleted his comment -- not sure and the mod tools don't show that history, but it's possible that the deletion revoked the notification and the undeletion didn't restore it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When somebody comments on your post you get a notification, but if the comment is deleted the notification disappears.  Since undeleting comments is super-rare, I'll bet the code doesn't look for that and reinstate the inbox notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-03-28T20:13:43.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6062" CreationDate="2019-04-01T15:53:50.010" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Best wishes, you will be missed.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I often found your unique perspective thought provoking - thanks for that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68513" LastActivityDate="2019-04-01T15:53:50.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6090" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-02T13:56:17.327" Score="59" ViewCount="1015" Body="&lt;p&gt;April is autism awareness month.  As I've seen no official posts on it since I've been here, I've decided to take the initiative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Autism (and Asperger's syndrome, which is a form of autism) presents difficulties both from the person with the condition, and the people around them.  Even though people are becoming more aware of autism, it is still often misunderstood, especially higher functioning autism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the workplace, autism can be a mixed bag.  Autistics tend to be very focused, averse to lying, and very detail oriented.  Obviously, this part is a manager's/coworker's dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, there's the downsides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Resistance to change&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rigidity of thought&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Literalism&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Inappropriate emotional responses&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Social awkwardness&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;inability to easily grasp personal boundaries&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Difficulty dealing with stimulus&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sensory overload&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meltdowns&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone who is autistic is functioning well, it's difficult to recognize that they even have it, until something triggers a reaction, such as a sudden shift in specs, a new coworker, someone walking in with a new perfume, a flickering light, et cetera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone who is autistic doesn't understand something, they may get upset, and pester you about a question they have until they have an answer.  They may come across as abrasive, rude, egotistical, arrogant and unyielding.  This is usually unintentional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be extremely jarring when someone is normally amiable, friendly, et cetera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While everyone engages in some form of social scripting behavior, autistic people tend to be rigid with their scripts and find it difficult to go &amp;quot;off script&amp;quot;.  In the workplace, this can manifest in dragging conversations back to previous topics, hijacking conversations, and rigid adherence to subject matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can also manifest in emotional outbursts over what (to the non autistic) seems to be minor issues, a dogged examination of details to an excessive minutia, or a seeming inability to abandon a topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of this, autistics face additional difficulties in the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We get called creepy due to our inability to judge personal&#xA;boundaries, or our tendencies to stare (much like cats, it's not&#xA;actually staring, we're lost in thought)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We're easily duped as we tend to take people at face value.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We often mistake politeness for friendliness, and therefore tend to think that people who are nice to us are our friends.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We tend to do poorly in rapidly changing environments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We tend to get bogged down in the details.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;So, what to do with an autistic coworker?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be direct.  Many people with autism tend to be confused by niceties.  Being direct with them is the most 'polite' thing you can do, even if it would be considered rude towards others.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quantify things.  &amp;quot;I want this done by Friday at 3pm&amp;quot; is not demanding to an autistic person, you are merely being precise, which we appreciate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avoid imprecise language like &amp;quot;Can you do this for me when you have some free time?&amp;quot; can confuse a person with autism.  see previous bullet point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't touch them, especially from behind.  Many people with autism have a hypersensitivity to stimuli, especially touch.  In my case, I have to fight the urge to scream every time someone touches me unexpectedly, and I am high functioning, someone with more severe autism may not be able to suppress that urge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Point out inappropriate behavior directly, and in private.  A diagnosis is not an excuse for bad behavior, and while many people with autism may not realize what they are doing, the behavior still needs to be addressed.  Be direct, specific, and firm.  Again, don't try to be nice, it will just confuse the person.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a person seems to be belligerent about something, be firm and say things like &amp;quot;The matter is settled&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;We will need to discuss this later&amp;quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Work to engage them.  Sadly, autism, can create a feedback loop.  An autistic person can easily become disengaged, which is often interpreted as disinterest, so people around the autistic person pull back, which makes him even more disengaged, until he ends up withdrawing entirely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you see an autistic person starting have a meltdown, they may no longer be able to make decisions on basic things, and their judgment may be impaired. A bit.  Ask them if they need to take a break or a walk.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, autistics make easy targets and are easily taken advantage of.  If you have an autistic coworker, try to be patient and understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-04-08T15:29:36.457" Title="April is autism awareness month" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="32" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6090" CreationDate="2019-04-02T15:06:06.823" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for posting that.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I have run across most of it before, but not all in one place not as readable as this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68513" LastActivityDate="2019-04-02T15:06:06.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6090" CreationDate="2019-04-02T18:27:19.493" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't you think this would be a good Canonical post on interacting with autistic coworkers?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this could be split into a Q and an A and posted on the main site as a self answer, so it can benefit other users searching for questions on TWP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That will also enable other users to add their answers to complement this, already thorough, post. Thanks for writing this, Richard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2019-04-02T18:27:19.493" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6062" CreationDate="2019-04-02T19:29:15.543" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for everything, Kilisi. You made this place much more enjoyable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38290" LastActivityDate="2019-04-02T19:29:15.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6062" CreationDate="2019-04-03T15:38:26.960" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for all your contributions.  I always valued your no-nonsense approach, your background, and your straight forward answers.  I hope you decide to return to offer your valuable advice again in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastActivityDate="2019-04-03T15:38:26.960" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6097" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-04T15:29:26.007" Score="13" ViewCount="373" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/133182/working-with-people-that-have-different-views-in-geopolitics&quot;&gt;Working with people that have different views in geopolitics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not opinion based, and multinationals such as the one I work for are constantly handling this sticky situation with China.  There are established protocols and ways of handling it delicately, and has been done as such for decades now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should not have been closed, and should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="14388" LastEditDate="2019-04-10T08:04:06.103" LastActivityDate="2019-04-10T08:04:06.103" Title="Req to Reopen &quot;Working with people that have different views in geopolitics&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6098" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-04T15:34:44.283" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about my The Workplace Stack Exchange post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/133254/app-startup-founder-wants-my-help-to-solve-urgent-software-engineering-problem-a&quot;&gt;App startup founder wants my help to solve urgent software engineering problem affecting considerable percent of users - says will give a token sum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102379" LastActivityDate="2019-04-07T12:29:19.120" Title="Should I post this question in workplace.stackexchange or softwareengineering.stackexchange or elsewhere" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6098" CreationDate="2019-04-04T16:05:59.627" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like a suitable Workplace question to me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2019-04-04T16:05:59.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6097" CreationDate="2019-04-04T16:07:46.253" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed.. it's totally valid (and a good, useful question IMO) - voted to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2019-04-04T16:07:46.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6047" CreationDate="2019-04-05T10:35:39.247" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mods are not paid, they are not employees. They don’t take salary. They are volunteers. Our mods have to work hard but they don’t get anything tangible in return!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why wouldn’t they deserve lifetime membership if they are productive but cheaper than the third world? Why would anyone try to push them out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64317" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T10:35:39.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6098" CreationDate="2019-04-05T12:44:08.203" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the surface,  this is a freelancing question. They might accept it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But,  if it boils down to &quot;client is lowballing a job&quot;, then they might not even accept it there. It ultimately comes down to whether you would except the lowball offer or not for the work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110" LastEditorUserId="110" LastEditDate="2019-04-07T12:29:19.120" LastActivityDate="2019-04-07T12:29:19.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6104" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-05T14:50:49.317" Score="-7" ViewCount="365" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since TWP has a very large userbase from IT, and there is a much higher prevelance of autism in high tech fields in general &lt;a href=&quot;https://consumer.healthday.com/cognitive-health-information-26/autism-news-51/more-autism-diagnoses-in-high-tech-areas-study-finds-654206.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;See this study,&lt;/a&gt; An effort should be made to be more welcoming of people on the spectrum on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For ease of reading, I will use the following abbreviations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ASD = Autism Spectrum Disorder&#xA;AS = Asperger's Syndrome&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;A modest proposal&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When dealing with a user, or a question regarding ASD , the &lt;strong&gt;ASSUME GOOD INTENTIONS RULE&lt;/strong&gt; is one to keep in mind.  One thing that is endemic of the autism spectrum (including AS) is, an apparent lack of empathy as discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2695286/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;THIS ARTICLE&lt;/a&gt; which combined with the literalism, and apparent pedantic choice of language may make their language and word choices seem abrasive, brash, callous, or insensitive.  Assume good intentions and explain, when possible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When answering questions about ASD and AS, precision of language, a logical approach, and quantifying over qualifying language is most helpful.  When providing answers to questions regarding ASD and AS at the workplace, logical arguments are far more effective in addressing the issues than emotional ones.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many people with ASD/AS have difficulty with literalism, this makes them come across as being deliberately obtuse, or even as coming across as a smart-ass.  Again, assume good intentions, try to be patient, and be more precise in your language.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be careful with your own language.  People with ASD/AS are among the most marginalized in society, being both misunderstood and lacking in communication skills.  A person ASD/AS may make an unintentional verbal slip, and come across as rude or abrasive, and then face the embarrassment of being berated for doing such.  Think about this for a moment.  Would you berate a deaf person and tell them they need to listen, or tell a blind person to watch where they're going?  Please extend the same understanding to people on the spectrum.  Don't berate someone for not understanding you the first time, or assume ill intent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Understand that people with ASD/AS have much to contribute, edit for tone if need be, and appreciate the depth of knowledge they have.  One of the effects that ASD has on a person's reasoning is a tendency to plumb the depths of an issue and to examine things in details.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Binary thinking.  Be aware that some issues will confuse people with autism on this site.  If something applies in one situation, and not another, a person with autism may be confused as to why.  For example, in a more formal work environment, he may not understand why you address the boss as Mr Smith instead of &amp;quot;Roy&amp;quot;, when you can address your coworker as &amp;quot;bob&amp;quot;.  The social rules of a workplace may be second nature to someone who is neurotypical, but not to someone on the spectrum, so more detailed explanations may be needed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, this will make it easier for people answering/interacting with people on the spectrum here at TWP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-04-07T11:44:28.287" Title="Diversity in this stack, and addressing the difficulties of neurodivirse user base. at TWP" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6104" CreationDate="2019-04-05T17:41:33.763" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hopefully, this will make it easier for people answering/interacting&#xA;  with people on the spectrum here at TWP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question self-identifies the author as ASD/AS, then it makes sense to try to keep your suggestions in mind as much as we can when crafting an answer. I'll try to remember to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest a tag could help, and I'll let you craft the text of the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, since the site is aimed at the general population, we have to expect most folks to give general answers, not all of which will be finely tuned. Certainly the majority of question authors cannot be expected to follow all of your suggestions every time, just because some of the readers might be ASD/AS. We'll have to all do our best and assume positive intent of everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2019-04-05T17:48:01.557" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T17:48:01.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6104" CreationDate="2019-04-05T17:57:22.657" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you value directness, I'll be direct (what I would otherwise consider too blunt).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have good intentions, but you're going about this wrong.  You're asking for special treatment, mistargeting in the process, and using your disability as a weapon.  Also, your proposal has a large logical flaw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Assume good intentions applies to everybody.&lt;/strong&gt;  That includes autistics.  Making accusations about the behavior of others isn't assuming good intentions either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You seek special rules that place the entire burden on the community and none on the autistic.&lt;/strong&gt;  If someone is having trouble understanding an answer because literalism or binary thinking or something else is getting in the way, then that person should ask for clarification or even suggest an edit.  Since by your own description most people do not think in quite that way, you should expect to do some of the work here.  Relatedly, you need to &lt;em&gt;assume good intentions&lt;/em&gt; if your edit is rejected; sometimes an edit to address one thing makes another thing worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Using a disability as a bludgeon or excuse is not ok.&lt;/strong&gt;  Well-adjusted people with disabilities (in which group I count myself) do what they can for themselves and ask for help and understanding for the rest. That first part is important.  You say that we need to accept language that is (you wrote &quot;seem&quot;, as if to excuse it) &quot;abrasive, brash, callous, or insensitive&quot;.  No, actually, we don't; when &lt;em&gt;anybody&lt;/em&gt; is being rude we should edit, and if editing isn't possible or is rejected we need to delete the offending content.  &quot;But I'm autistic and that's how I am&quot; is not an excuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, &lt;strong&gt;you assume that all and only questions about autism are asked by autistics.&lt;/strong&gt;  You want us to treat &lt;em&gt;questions about autism&lt;/em&gt; differently, but don't you think autistics have questions about resumes and dress codes and time-management too?  And don't you think that some, perhaps even the majority, of questions involving autism are asked by &lt;em&gt;people who are not autistic&lt;/em&gt; who are trying to interact with coworkers who are?  And don't you think that both autistics and neurotypical people might be reading &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; content on this site?  Your proposal does not do what you seek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a Code of Conduct that applies to everybody.  We expect people to assume good intentions, to treat each other decently, and to be open-minded and welcoming.  If &lt;em&gt;anybody's&lt;/em&gt; behavior falls afoul of the CoC, we need to deal with it.  We don't need extra rules for one category of people, and no group or individual gets to evade responsibility for following it by declaring special circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T17:57:22.657" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6082" CreationDate="2019-04-10T23:51:13.837" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that the question should be reopened. People's interactions in the workplace are the primary source of conflict in a large number of workplace issues. This is becoming especially relevant as people discover that words and/or phrases that they've used, or are industry standards, become less acceptable for more people. The OP in this question expressed one sticking point in particular with the &quot;gender mania&quot; issue, and there is an excellent answer that addresses this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90785" LastActivityDate="2019-04-10T23:51:13.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6113" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-17T15:29:18.980" Score="-1" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/133658/how-to-deal-with-legacy-software-and-split-opinion&quot;&gt;How to deal with legacy software and split opinion&lt;/a&gt; only needs one more open vote to be reopened. Given that the reason it was closed was &quot;Because ask a software question on a software engineering site&quot; can we go ahead and reopen this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are specific right answers to dealing with this soft of disagreement in the office so I don't think the question is actually too broad. It's pretty clear that software engineering is the context of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about the field of software engineering are as welcome as questions about any other industry on The Workplace after all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user53651" LastEditorDisplayName="user53651" LastEditDate="2019-04-18T13:56:46.030" LastActivityDate="2019-04-18T13:56:46.030" Title="(Done)Req to Reopen How to Deal With Legacy Software and Split Opnion" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6114" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6116" CreationDate="2019-04-17T15:38:10.250" Score="-7" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of the high holy day of Christianity, it's time for (metaphorical) death and renewal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came back because of the twitstorm and felt I could help out, but it's clear I have other venues.  What this place has taught me is that I have something to say.  I'm grateful for that, but I've also learned that this is not the place to say it.  100K is a respectable run.  I think at this point, I've said my piece.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-04-17T23:53:25.720" Title="Final decision made, retirement begins Friday" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6113" CreationDate="2019-04-17T21:57:28.093" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Casted the final vote, and the post is now open again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2019-04-17T21:57:28.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6114" CreationDate="2019-04-17T23:53:25.720" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Goodbye and good luck once again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2019-04-17T23:53:25.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6117" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-22T02:41:29.547" Score="31" ViewCount="1178" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/134234/how-can-i-regain-a-professional-atmosphere-with-someone-who-may-have-seen-me-mis&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; the OP acknowledges behaving unprofessionally in the office and is concerned that this may have been witnessed by a female colleague, who is now acting uncomfortable around him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/134234/how-can-i-regain-a-professional-atmosphere-with-someone-who-may-have-seen-me-mis/134239#134239&quot;&gt;now deleted, previously highest-voted answer&lt;/a&gt; (even after 20 downvotes) advises that if his colleague discusses OP's unprofessional behaviour, then OP should lie about it, make a false complaint against her, and possibly seek to initiate action for defamation (which would presumably require giving false evidence to assert that her claims were untrue). (Update: that answer has now been deleted as &quot;rude or abusive&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on jurisdiction, this course of action is likely to involve breaking laws related to perjury and/or retaliation. Further, I would have thought it self-evident that lying and attacking a colleague to cover up one's own misconduct is grossly unethical behaviour... and yet 84 people upvoted this answer. Several other answers also endorsed the same &quot;lie and deny&quot; approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked the FAQs for guidance on this issue but didn't find anything relevant. Does this board have any policy or guidelines to deter answers that advocate blatantly illegal/unethical behaviour, beyond the usual downvoting mechanism? Or is &quot;cover your ass no matter what it takes&quot; acceptable here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3442/how-to-handle-answers-that-are-high-risk-to-the-op&quot;&gt;related question&lt;/a&gt; covers answers that are &quot;high risk to the OP&quot;, but my concern here is not whether this advice might backfire; it's that it might function exactly as intended. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65971" LastEditorUserId="49974" LastEditDate="2019-04-24T20:22:42.160" LastActivityDate="2019-05-05T16:13:18.017" Title="Are answers that advise illegal/unethical actions acceptable?" Tags="|discussion|answers|hot-questions|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6117" CreationDate="2019-04-22T08:42:50.927" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clearly, on questions like this, the HNQ makes normal quality control via up/down-votes impossible. I do not know why all those people upvoted that answer, but it is clear that any downvotes made are being drowned out completely. Currently, the only indication that this might be a bad idea is within the comments, which are much less visible than the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While removing such an answer outright is a bit extreme, I think that it would be good to indicate that, despite the high score, many people consider this a bad answer and have down-voted the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that for these cases (independent of whether the answer promotes actions that are outright immoral or illegal), moderators should put a notice on the question that, despite the positive score, it is 'disputed' or 'controversial'. (I'm not sure if custom notices are possible, or how this should be worded) This way, it is actually possible to do quality control via downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102970" LastActivityDate="2019-04-22T08:42:50.927" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6117" CreationDate="2019-04-22T11:29:54.480" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this should depend on legality within common law, else you end up with perfectly valid answers being deleted because of one oddball jurisdiction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things that are illegal pretty much anywhere (theft, perjury, knowingly making false allegations to police) I believe we should delete all  advocation of. Even if it is downvoted to oblivion, there is a chance that OPs or viewers may try them simply because they do not like the sound of the highest voted answers, possibly because they require maturity or answering for past misdeeds and thus facing consequences. Not everyone is capable of taking the high road.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH, where the jurisdiction isn't clear and/or the law around the subject is an oddball one that may not be common knowledge, it might be more constructive to point out the pitfall in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77409" LastEditorUserId="77409" LastEditDate="2019-04-22T11:39:45.323" LastActivityDate="2019-04-22T11:39:45.323" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6120" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6121" CreationDate="2019-04-22T19:07:33.967" Score="1" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/43790/why-did-i-get-fired-right-before-my-last-day&quot;&gt;Why did I get fired right before my last day?&lt;/a&gt; was closed, and I personally do not believe there is any other place on SE to ask this good question. Is it OK to ask where it is closest to being on topic on SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has three answers from three moderator worthy users, but the users who closed the question not so much. Can we get this question re-opened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81972" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-05-21T23:39:07.743" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T23:39:07.743" Title="(Done) Should this question on getting fired on the last day be marked off topic?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|offtopic|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6120" CreationDate="2019-04-22T19:18:06.060" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So why haven't the users who answered reopened the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many times people who answer a question don't track what happens with that question later So perhaps they never noticed that the question was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps they just don't care enough to vote to reopen. Many people never cast open or close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking for a question to be reopened is one common use of Meta. You could modify this question a bit specifically asking that people vote to reopen the question if you feel strongly about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted to reopen the question, just to get you started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2019-04-22T19:18:06.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6120" CreationDate="2019-04-22T23:04:34.933" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should this question on getting fired on the last day be marked off topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually it was marked &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot; because it asked in part for speculation on the state of mind of the employer, which is unknowable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the number of potential answers, as to why someone might be fired on their last day, is infinite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One hundred users could respond in 100 different ways, and each answer could be equally correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason questions like this get closed is to prevent the other 97 users from answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We (like other SE sites) are looking for questions with a few potential answers that people can agree upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's a way to rewrite this so it can be answered more objectively, then I think people would be more likely to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some pretty good answers in there already, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4781" LastActivityDate="2019-04-22T23:04:34.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6117" CreationDate="2019-04-23T07:55:53.340" Score="31" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update: The answer in question has been deleted as rude or abusive by members of the community.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or is &quot;cover your ass no matter what it takes&quot; acceptable here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers advising people not to incriminate or dig themselves into a hole are fine, even when the person might deserve the hole they were going to dig themselves into. That is decidedly not what this answer is, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer suggests several things that if not illegal are highly unethical, so unethical as to be completly unacceptable in any reasonable workplace. Among other things, it suggests:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Emotional manipulation to discourage the potential witness from reporting the incident&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If she reports the incident, actions that threaten her career, livelyhood, and standing in the company&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Advising the OP to lie through their teeth throughout&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Possibly up to and including committing perjury and filing a false lawsuit against the witness in a bid to discourage reporting or further action&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how this got 90 upvotes, but the discussion we should be having isn't whether or not it should stand, it should be whether we should rude/abusive delete it or merely normally delete it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer being left up (on a HNQ question no less) is extremely bad optics for the workplace and the whole of stack exchange. You think the hububb about IPS on twitter was bad? Wait until outside attention gets put on this here answer that our site is right now advertising to outsiders as highly voted and valued solution to OPs problem. Just no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastEditorUserId="44144" LastEditDate="2019-04-23T17:37:57.993" LastActivityDate="2019-04-23T17:37:57.993" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6117" CreationDate="2019-04-23T09:49:25.810" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree that this answer in indicative of a very toxic mindset, removing (or otherwise &quot;not accepting&quot;) such answers will not remove the mindset itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer such answers to remain because they&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;remind me that they are jerks in the workplace, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;show me how they think and operate so I may recognize them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;give the community a chance to show them the error of their ways&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To express your disagreement, I recommend to write a comment, or upvote an existing one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, I think Monica handled this perfectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10791" LastActivityDate="2019-04-23T09:49:25.810" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6117" CreationDate="2019-04-23T16:01:17.510" Score="-9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would voice my opinion, but what if it gets upvoted and then moderators have a personal dislike of what I wrote? Deleting my highly upvoted answer damaged the community's interests, but at least the moderation's bigotism and singlemindedness has come to light in a genuine fashion. The workplace is only allowed to exist as long at it mirrors the persobal morals and interests of a few moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38290" LastActivityDate="2019-04-23T16:01:17.510" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6126" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-24T14:17:54.077" Score="3" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I edit others' questions or answers for minor things like readability and grammar. I have status on this site that lets me edit their content immediately, without my edits going into a queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, some times, I'll find a post where a lower-statused user (who cannot directly edit posts, but must submit suggested edits that go into the edit queue) has already suggested edits. I discover this by clicking on the edit button, and instead of being prompted with the edit box allowing me to type my own edits, I am prompted with the other user's edit as if I was approving edits in the queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often click the 'Approve' button for these edits, after reviewing them - since they often make the same changes I was about to make anyways. However, if the pending edit has no other votes, I get a message stating that the edit needs other review votes before it is applied. Further, I am not allowed to edit the post myself, because of the pending edit in the queue. So, basically, a user who has the ability to edit posts without review (me) is prevented from editing a post, or even approving an edit, without others' agreement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the concept of the edit queue, and also the concept of giving trusted users the ability to directly edit posts without review, but it seems like these two related functions were implemented without any coordination: Why give a user the ability to instantly edit a post themselves, but then not let them instantly approve others' edits? Further, why block that user from doing the edit themselves, even if a pending edit is in the queue? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something? Or misunderstanding the intent of these features? It's not a big deal, it just strikes me as odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2019-04-25T19:40:57.830" LastActivityDate="2019-04-25T19:40:57.830" Title="I don't understand editing functionality - what am I missing?" Tags="|support|editing|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6126" CreationDate="2019-04-24T15:55:37.280" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you're missing is the &lt;strong&gt;Improve Edit&lt;/strong&gt; button. It's the second one here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5LJek.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5LJek.png&quot; alt=&quot;approve, improve edit, reject and edit, reject, skip&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Approve and Reject buttons are the one you're used to, and it's what we'll use most of the time. However &lt;strong&gt;if you also want to do your own edit&lt;/strong&gt; you need to use either &lt;strong&gt;Improve Edit&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;Reject and Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Improve Edit&lt;/strong&gt; will give you their edited version of the post and let you make further changes. Once you save your changes the following things happen: their edit is unilaterally approved and applied, and then your changes are further applied.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reject and Edit&lt;/strong&gt; will give you the un-edited version of the post instead to make revisions, and once you save your changes, their edit is unilaterally rejected and your edit is applied to the post intsead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both let you approve/reject without a second approver, which for some people has raised alarm bells for possible abuse, but it's generally withstood the test of time. Use this power well and responsibly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does mean you have to know in advance what you want to do. If you Approve/Reject then five seconds later realise there's changes you want to make, you just have to wait. :'(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16807" LastActivityDate="2019-04-24T15:55:37.280" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6128" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6129" CreationDate="2019-04-24T16:05:53.583" Score="5" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm asking because of the specific question below, but I'm hoping to get an answer for the general case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/135392/good-or-bad-company&quot;&gt;Good or bad company?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The relevant part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can't tell if this is normal stuff to have to deal with since it's my first software developer job after finishing university. I am also worried if I get a new job would it be worse than this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, the OP wants to know if the issues they're experiencing are common. Is that part of the question on topic? Is, &quot;Is this practice/problem/benefit/etc. normal in this job/industry/region?&quot; OK to ask here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34163" LastActivityDate="2019-04-26T16:12:15.570" Title="Are reality check questions on topic here?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6128" CreationDate="2019-04-25T00:22:33.130" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is, &quot;Is this practice/problem/benefit/etc. normal in this&#xA;  job/industry/region?&quot; OK to ask here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That sort of &quot;is this common&quot; question gets asked quite often. So apparently it is okay to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching for &quot;is this common&quot; currently yields 3,401 results. Not all of those results are open questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Basically, the OP wants to know if the issues they're experiencing are&#xA;  common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the linked question doesn't actually ask &quot;is this common?&quot; Instead, it's more of a &quot;what should I do&quot; question which attracts the quick-close-voter crowd. And within 2 hours of the question being posted, they did just that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could have been edited to change from &quot;what should I do?&quot; to &quot;is this common?&quot;. But some folks would rather just vote to close than edit anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I made a quick edit and voted to reopen.&lt;/strong&gt; You or the OP can edit it to be more concise if you like. Maybe others will vote to reopen as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2019-04-26T10:17:32.443" LastActivityDate="2019-04-26T10:17:32.443" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6128" CreationDate="2019-04-26T16:12:15.570" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions like &lt;code&gt;is this common?&lt;/code&gt; are kind of X-Y problem. The OP probably doesn't want to know whether some situation is statistically significant, but rather want to know how to deal with being bothered by the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Is this common&lt;/code&gt; to my taste equals &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Z happened at work today. Is this common, should i suck it up and carry on? I feel uneasy because of A, B, and C concerns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest comment of those questions, asking OP to edit question and add &quot;What exactly bothers you about Z? what do you want to happen?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45298" LastActivityDate="2019-04-26T16:12:15.570" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6132" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-03T13:49:48.557" Score="0" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/135843/can-my-company-stop-me-from-working-overtime&quot;&gt;Can my company stop me from working overtime?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was just put on hold as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot; - which I don't understand, given that the actual title is a very clear question, which is essentially repeated in the body of the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-05-21T23:39:38.620" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T23:39:38.620" Title="(Done) Reopen request: Can my company stop me from working overtime?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6117" CreationDate="2019-05-05T16:13:18.017" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite honestly I have always understood that stack exchange is not for providing any judgement but to answer with solutions to people's problems and let them decide the way they want to live their life. Unfortunately, unethical, and immoral options exist and weighing the pro's and con's of those actions are a real part of life. I personally believe that the unethical and immoral decisions almost always carry way more long term problems that if not treated with EXTREME caution can result in things (even your whole life) spiraling out of control due to their slippery slope type nature. That being said, somebody advising somebody that an unethical choice while advising about the why that choice may have some far reaching implications could easily constitute a good answer. Especially since almost any &quot;good&quot; answer should have a portion of fixing the current problem, and then another learning from the mistake to not have it happen again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="104414" LastActivityDate="2019-05-05T16:13:18.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6134" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-06T07:30:41.530" Score="-9" ViewCount="433" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/135986/dangerous-workplace-travelling&quot;&gt;Dangerous workplace travelling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question had multiple comments which identified the area the OP was talking about, and had discussions about the relative safety of the US vs. other nations of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only were those comments summarily deleted, but there's not even an acknowledgement that they were deleted, leaving a lot of people baffled at, for instance, how others know where the OP is travelling to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is beyond the pale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get that mods feel the need to delete excessive comments.  (I completely disagree with it, but I understand it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's totally inappropriate to delete them without even an acknowledgement of the fact.  It justifiably leaves people wondering what other types of participation on the site are going to be abruptly vanished with no notice or record.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whichever mod did this is abusing his/her powers and needs to have them, at a minimum, temporarily removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1602" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-05-06T12:45:47.607" LastActivityDate="2019-05-08T22:35:57.587" Title="Some mod is completely out of control on this board" Tags="|discussion|comments|moderation|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6134" CreationDate="2019-05-06T09:49:01.803" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not the mod who deleted the comments, I'm not any of the users who could have flagged the comments and caused them to be deleted. I'm not a mod of this site, and have no way of seeing the deleted comments or who deleted them. So take this answer for what it is: The opinion of an outsider to the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are in general ethereal and subject to deletion at any time. They're not meant to be permanent, and as a result can be deleted by moderators or even just enough flags without serious oversight by the community. Indeed, some comments can be deleted by a single flag of a normal user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Directly from a CM:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Comments are not intended for long-term storage of important&#xA;  information.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;source&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened in this case seems to have been unfortunate since information important to the post was lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question had multiple comments which identified the area the OP&#xA;  was talking about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This information is partially what comments are for, and should have been edited into the question. The comments containing it would afterwards be subject for deletion as &quot;no longer needed&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;and had discussions about the relative safety of the US vs. other&#xA;  nations of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; what comments are supposed to be. Miscellaneous discussion is not what comments (or answers for that matter) are for. Again quoting a CM directly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But that transiency doesn't mean you can use comments for random,&#xA;  parenthetical asides. If your comment isn't likely to change the&#xA;  content of the post, please do not post it for someone else to clean&#xA;  up.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;source&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not only were those comments summarily deleted, but there's not even&#xA;  an acknowledgement that they were deleted, leaving a lot of people&#xA;  baffled at, for instance, how others know where the OP is travelling&#xA;  to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The correct method to preserve this (admittedly pertinent) information is to edit it into the question as context, which any user can do. Edits adding such context should be approved readily in review, if necessary, but any user with more then 2000 reputation is able to submit them without going through review. I've done that for the question mentioned above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But it's totally inappropriate to delete them without even an&#xA;  acknowledgement of the fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been the source of quite a bit of consternation over the years, the usual reasoning given is that between questions and answers comments are decidedly second class citizens. They're supposed to be used exclusively for improving posts, or encouraging authors to improve their posts, for instance by asking for clarification. As such, they're treated as lesser by the software in many ways: You don't get reputation for upvotes on them, they take less flagging to be deleted, moderators have mass delete options to clean up posts, and you can't even downvote them or edit after a 5 minute grace period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It justifiably leaves people wondering what other types of&#xA;  participation on the site are going to be abruptly vanished with no&#xA;  notice or record.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While that might be a legitimate worry, it's not well founded in this case. Question and answer deletions can be audited by high reputation community members at any time under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tools&quot;&gt;10k Tools&lt;/a&gt;. Users exceeding 10.000 reputation can even straight up see deleted posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whichever mod did this is abusing his/her powers and needs to have&#xA;  them, at a minimum, temporarily removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue that no, the mod in question did not misuse their powers and does not need any sanctions (without knowing which particular mod that is). Perhaps they could have edited the clarification from the comments into the question, but the community had that opportunity for a while before they got deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastEditorUserId="44144" LastEditDate="2019-05-06T11:10:18.243" LastActivityDate="2019-05-06T11:10:18.243" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6137" CreationDate="2019-05-06T13:36:39.923" Score="4" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;As is all to common here, we have had yet another Meta question asking why comments were removed from a post. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;The answer to this is pretty clear&lt;/a&gt;, and I'm not at all questioning their removal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that user was questioning though was why they were deleted and not moved to a chat room, and I didn't know the answer to that one. I did a quick search through Meta and couldn't find any general guidance there either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do the moderators have any general guidelines that determine whether comments get moved to a chat room or are simply deleted? It would be helpful for explaining to newer users who don't understand why their comments were removed. It would also be helpful for understanding which types of discussions are considered worth having, even if comments aren't the right place to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say my question is different from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4554/whats-the-process-for-moving-comments-into-chat&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the process for moving comments into chat?&lt;/a&gt;, because that question is asking how the chat gets created at all without comparing to comment deletion. I'm asking about why moderators choose to do one versus the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-05-07T12:05:06.900" LastActivityDate="2019-05-07T12:05:06.900" Title="What determines whether comments are deleted or moved to chat?" Tags="|discussion|comments|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6136" CreationDate="2019-05-06T15:44:51.563" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It depends&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the comment(s) are along the lines of &quot;&lt;em&gt;We need a location&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, and the OP adds the location information, then I will just burniate the comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is some back and forth chatter going on to clarify the question, I will typically move all comments to chat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If comments are flagged by a user, and I agree with the person raising the flag, again I will burniate the comment in question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can say with 100% certainty that I am not wondering around the site looking for comments to nuke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note:  This answer is from &lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt; perspective only.  I am &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; speaking for the other moderators. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2019-05-06T17:29:29.930" LastActivityDate="2019-05-06T17:29:29.930" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6134" CreationDate="2019-05-06T20:00:58.557" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;You mean the comments &lt;em&gt;speculating&lt;/em&gt; about the location and how dangerous it is?  Or the ones about the efficacy of guns or karate for self-defense?  Or the anecdotes about traveling in another country?  Or the &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; about guns, gun laws, and US culture?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, none of that's relevant.  And any of those participants could have edited the one salient point from the OP, &quot;Michigan&quot;, into the question at any time.  &lt;strong&gt;But the specific location isn't important.&lt;/strong&gt; The OP &lt;em&gt;did not ask&lt;/em&gt; &quot;is it safe to travel to $city?&quot; (which probably isn't an on-topic question here).  The OP asked how to respond to being asked to travel to a place that is &lt;em&gt;rumored to be dangerous&lt;/em&gt; (and/or the OP is being pranked).  That's what answers need to focus on, and comment discussions about specific neighborhoods in a specific city (not necessarily even the right city) do not advance that goal.  And armchair lawyers talking about gun laws in those locations &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; don't advance that goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, I endorse &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6135/325&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-05-06T20:00:58.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6132" CreationDate="2019-05-06T22:20:12.130" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question received enough votes and is open again now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2019-05-06T22:20:12.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6134" CreationDate="2019-05-07T06:10:35.983" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleting comments is a normal practice here. It’s something you just have to get used to. Remember you are not a paying customer, so we have no responsibility to obey your request. My comments are all but removed by the mods but I never complained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no abuse here. Mods are given administration power. They have the rights to remove anything for whatever reason. It’s part of user agreement you signed for this site. They are doing a great job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64317" LastActivityDate="2019-05-07T06:10:35.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6141" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-07T12:51:35.517" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/136094/mis-vs-it-degrees/136096#136096&quot;&gt;MIS vs IT Degrees&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's closed now as &quot;off topic, asking for advice on a specific choice.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My interpretation is that the asker is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; asking which degree to pursue; instead they're asking &lt;em&gt;does it matter&lt;/em&gt; which one is pursued? Personally, I don't see that as a typical &quot;asking for advice on a specific choice&quot; type question, and it strikes me as on topic, answerable, and valuable. We can give insight into how hiring managers typically evaluate the degree they see on a resume. Does anyone agree? I've cast a reopen vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2019-05-07T12:51:35.517" Title="Is this question really &quot;Off topic: asking for advice?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6142" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6143" CreationDate="2019-05-08T10:22:41.210" Score="0" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking for questions about medical issues and job interviews in Australia. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question turned up in a search: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/89955/unemployed-with-health-issues-last-9-years-how-do-i-present-myself-in-best-ligh&quot;&gt;Unemployed with health issues last 9 years, how do I present myself in best light for volunteer then paid work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is tagged [Australia] and the duplicate takes place in the USA. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that both countries have laws in place that prevent the interviewer from asking any question to a candidate about anything medical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers provide good general advice that seems to apply regardless of any local laws. However, it got me wondering, should questions that differ only by the country tag be marked as duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81008" LastEditorDisplayName="user85135" LastEditDate="2019-05-18T23:32:53.420" LastActivityDate="2019-05-18T23:33:46.150" Title="Is this question really a duplicate? Country tags differ" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|duplicates|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6142" CreationDate="2019-05-08T11:12:43.123" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The post was reopened since this answer was written.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Yes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the answers aren't different between the two countries, then they are duplicates. There is no need to distinguish between two locations in which the answers are the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a third person asks from yet another location, and the local laws vary enough to change the answers, then it would not be a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people tried (or succeeded,) to close the question then you would need to argue why it isn't a duplicate to keep it open/ reopen. This would be easy if the location changes the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no need for a blanket rule here. We should mark the questions duplicate if the answers are the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note, that while we search by question and not by answer, the &lt;strong&gt;questions are ostensibly the same.&lt;/strong&gt; If a user stumbles upon a question and feels their locale may change the answer, &lt;strong&gt;but it doesn't,&lt;/strong&gt; then we should upvote the new question and mark it as duplicate. It is a good question and will help new users find the answer they need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user85135" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user85135" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-05-18T23:33:46.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-08T18:45:59.977" Score="2" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to sandbox a question. I don't think this is a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are a group of PhD students, have a group lunch with our boss (PI). That never happened before and there is currently no agenda. I would like to use this as an opportunity to suggest some cultural changes in our lab, and get some clarity from the boss. I would like to ask questions, rather than making suggestions how boss should manage the lab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I see it, there are couple of things that are currently missing in our research lab:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is not clear what are PI's priorities. &amp;quot;What are top 3 things that occupy your day?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is not clear what constitutes &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; work. &amp;quot;Could we come up with a list of top 3 things people should be concerned with, e.g. papers, fellowships, grants etc&amp;quot;. What is that list for you?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is disturbing that some higher-level employees display unprofessionalism again and again, as well as some people who do good (publish) are not acknowledged. What can we do to tighten the feedback loops and make sure everybody gets positive and negative feedback.&#xA;Is that a professional way to start discussion about cultural changes? Is it a professional way of &amp;quot;managing up&amp;quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that Q on topic at Workplace? Are there edits or maybe re-framing I should do to make it more useful for community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45298" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-05-13T11:52:05.693" Title="sandbox: having group lunch with boss, how to suggest change of culture" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6134" CreationDate="2019-05-08T22:35:57.587" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The important thing is that the comments survived long enough to make some interesting side-points. Whether they're actually relevant to the question or answers is matter of opinion or one's point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happen to think that the most salient aspect of the question was neither that it was Michigan NOR that it was a &quot;rumored&quot; dangerous place, but rather that it was a place that the OP was unfamiliar with as someone from another country. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever the case, it's just words on the internet. No need to &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; get bent out of shape about anything that happens here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderation &quot;privileges&quot;, regardless of what online forum you're talking about, attracts folks who have propensity to enforce rules, rigidly, and with little regard to the possibility that there are other interpretations. That's just the reality of this environment. It has plusses and minuses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7572" LastActivityDate="2019-05-08T22:35:57.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6144" CreationDate="2019-05-09T17:43:58.743" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overall I think this is a good question, though as dwizum said in a comment, you may get better answers at Academia if this is an academic setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest improvement I would point out is that you don't actually ask a question right now. I would just add something at the end along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this a good approach to suggest changes at our workplace? If not, how should I go about trying to communicate the concerns I have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2019-05-09T17:43:58.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6144" CreationDate="2019-05-09T17:47:30.433" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your proposed question (as well as the questions you're planning to ask) are asking about your attempted solution to a problem rather than the problem itself. Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem&quot;&gt;What is the XY problem?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone were to criticise your proposed solution, that would not help you all that much with figuring out how to actually go about addressing your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You want cultural changes, so focus your question around the specific cultural changes you want and how best to approach getting those implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Regarding your boss's priorities, the problem is not that you don't know your boss's priorities, it's the effect of how they're prioritising. Or it's that you don't think your boss is doing much work (which may or may not be affecting you) and you want to do something about that. Knowing their priorities would only be the first part of a broader conversation or set of actions to accomplish some goal (whatever that goal may be). So that question should be asking how to accomplish said goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;What can we do to tighten the feedback loops...&amp;quot; might be a bit too broad and unclear. Improving feedback within a company is something one can write a book about. While you may not be in a position to implement much of what might be written in said book, you can certainly suggest it. Although the main problem here is possibly just the same as the above: the problem seems to be the unprofessionalism and your proposed solution is &amp;quot;tightening feedback loops&amp;quot; (which may or may not be a good way to address the unprofessionalism).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't ask for lists or what other people concern themselves with. Those things are hard to answer objectively, which doesn't make it a good fit for this site (i.e. either is likely to get your question closed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Regarding &amp;quot;good work&amp;quot;, this will always be a trade-off. This part definitely belongs on Academia (the rest doesn't seem to have Academia-specific elements, so should be fine on Workplace). I'm not to familiar with their scope, but I'd suggest trying to focus on a single one - e.g. how quickly should you aim to finish a paper or how many papers should you aim to write in a year (those might not make sense for your circumstances or even be good questions; they're mostly to demonstrate what I'm suggesting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'd encourage separating distinct questions into separate posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like you have at least 3 distinct questions there. It might also make sense to separate different cultural issues into separate posts as well, but this heavily depends on the specifics and how closely they're linked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope the above doesn't sound too harsh. The above problems are fairly common and your question would likely be received fine / well even without you having addressed all of them. Although all of the suggested changes are to increase the likelihood of you getting the most useful answer and make the question more useful for others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-05-09T18:00:17.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6144" CreationDate="2019-05-13T11:52:05.693" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is off-topic because PhD students are not employees. They are not paid salary but tax-free scholarship. University is not their &quot;workplace&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is that Q on topic at Workplace&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. It's not. Students are not workers, not covered by the employment laws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please close the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64317" LastActivityDate="2019-05-13T11:52:05.693" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6150" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-14T08:40:36.853" Score="0" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started contributing to TWP recently and liking the community so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched the meta for any past swag-yielding events, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2451/61983&quot;&gt;got a reference for the only one swag giveaway&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asked around in chat (Water cooler), seems folks who are around for couple of years also did not see any such events in past, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the fact&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I wish to have my hands on some TWP swag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's long due and will help promote the community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The new-ish members also will get to interact and know each others outside the limited participation in chat room.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Since motivation wears off, it'll help the veteran participants stay motivated. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to propose an event which will eventually result in having some form of TWP swag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should not / need not be a simple giveaway like the last time, we can have some sort of contest / question opened (like we had for 10M question or 10th. B'day) and eligibility will be the participation and up-voted answer - everybody wins!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideas / comments / suggestions ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61983" LastEditorUserId="61983" LastEditDate="2019-05-14T16:23:52.750" LastActivityDate="2019-05-14T16:23:52.750" Title="How about a swag-yielding event?" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6150" CreationDate="2019-05-14T14:29:36.727" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like swag.  And SE sometimes has swag contests (on Meta.SE), so there's precedent.  Communities sometimes even have their own contests with swag prizes (Writing did this recently).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some hurdles, though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;SE is no longer producing new site-specific swag.  This is why Worldbuilding, with its beautiful site design and &lt;em&gt;hints&lt;/em&gt; of swag, never got it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;But Workplace &lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt; swag, so maybe that's easier?  SE just divested itself of most of its remaining swag (some through a contest on Meta) because they're changing providers, so I don't know if our t-shirts and little red staplers can even be gotten any more.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;But maybe we could make our own?  We'd need SE's permission, which is possible (Worldbuilding is currently gearing up to make its own swag).  More importantly, somebody has to &lt;em&gt;pay&lt;/em&gt; for it, including international shipping.  (Worldbuilding is &lt;em&gt;selling&lt;/em&gt; swag, and for the contest on Writing, SE donated some swag and a patron from within the community paid for shipping.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Swag is cool but requires some effort and money.  If anybody wants to step up and organize something, go for it!  You probably want to start with some discussions about what people would like, both for the swag and for the contest (if it's a contest).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-05-14T14:29:36.727" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6142" CreationDate="2019-05-16T13:11:55.623" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We search by question, not answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People generally &lt;em&gt;search&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; that may have the answer[s] they're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you type stuff into the search box (or click a tag), what do you get? &lt;strong&gt;Questions.&lt;/strong&gt; You get a list question titles and a blurb from the question body. If one of the questions doesn't quite seem like what you're looking for, &lt;em&gt;even if it has the answer you need&lt;/em&gt;, it's going to get looked over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure how the searching function works, but I suspect that questions marked as dupes get suppressed by some factor that favors what somebody thought was the &amp;quot;original&amp;quot; question. So, stuff gets missed on site search (and caught on a web search).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, when you create a question, you get a list of &amp;quot;related&amp;quot; &lt;strong&gt;questions&lt;/strong&gt; that may or may not be &amp;quot;duplicates&amp;quot; based on your question title. Again, if one of those has the answer you want but the suggested question seems different, you're going to miss that and just keep typing your &amp;quot;new&amp;quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just don't understand the urge that many people here have to categorize things as &amp;quot;the same&amp;quot; or duplicated when there are clearly nuanced differences. Instead of crudely marking something as &amp;quot;a dupe&amp;quot;, why not have some way of marking it as &amp;quot;related&amp;quot; so that if somebody comes across a question, they can easily toggle to related questions that may be a better fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Words matter. &amp;quot;Dupe&amp;quot; suggests something unnecessary. Yet, they still exist on the site, people read them. People even take the time to answer them (before they're locked out of answering them). I understand there may be editorial reasons for some questions to get marked as duplicates, that is more likely to happen with simple questions which aren't very interesting. On workplace, however, we tend to get complex questions that describe complex situations and stimulate complex, faceted answers. It seems ham-fisted to me how such questions can get marked as dupe. It doesn't seem to solve a problem other than some peoples' need to categorize things with smug rigidity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7572" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-05-17T16:18:41.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6154" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6155" CreationDate="2019-05-19T22:29:20.477" Score="10" ViewCount="420" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the past few days, I've seen a few notifications that &quot;User was removed&quot; in my Achievements list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some removed points, some added points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume I would see only a single &quot;User was removed&quot; message per user? So should I conclude that at least 3 users were recently removed for some reason? And if so, is some sort of program going on now to remove users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another User removed today. Very odd. I hadn't seen any removals for years. Now four in a few days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2019-05-22T03:28:19.610" LastActivityDate="2019-05-22T03:28:19.610" Title="Have lots of Users been Removed recently?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6154" CreationDate="2019-05-19T22:41:50.627" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no program from the moderators' side.  Sometimes users request deletion of their accounts, and there are thresholds above which those requests require human review by a community manager.  This is particularly true for accounts that have voted a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm speculating, but I suspect the CMs review requests in batches or on a set schedule, which could lead to several events in proximity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each notification reports the reputation change caused by one deleted user.  Moderators aren't privy why users request deletion, nor do we know which users were deleted unless we come across posts that now contain user numbers instead of profile links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-05-19T22:41:50.627" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6156" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-20T08:02:06.083" Score="3" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/67361/misleading-out-of-date-linkedin-profiles-saying-you-still-work-for-an-employer&quot;&gt;Misleading/out of date LinkedIn profiles - saying you still work for an employer when you don&amp;#39;t&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is closed as &lt;em&gt;Unclear what you're asking&lt;/em&gt;. There is nothing unclear about it.&lt;br /&gt; It seems on-topic (there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aq+linkedin&quot;&gt;plenty of LinkedIn questions&lt;/a&gt; already - we even have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linkedin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linkedin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linkedin&lt;/a&gt; tag), my only objection is that it's a bit &lt;em&gt;What should I do?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It also describes a quite common fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came across the question because it had a &lt;em&gt;Delete&lt;/em&gt; flag, which &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5571/can-we-be-careful-with-delete-votes&quot;&gt;I think is incorrect, because it has decent answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also suspect that the many downvotes are related to the attitude/judgment of the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to suggest to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not delete&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit the opinion of the OP out of the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;vote to reopen&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;upvote to 0&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;del&gt;add an (community wiki) answer containing the text from the &lt;em&gt;not malice/forgot&lt;/em&gt; comments&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;* I have already done these&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8036" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-05-21T23:40:47.063" LastActivityDate="2021-03-17T06:02:50.363" Title="(Done) This question should not be closed as 'unclear'" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6157" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-20T21:27:42.167" Score="-1" ViewCount="1949" Body="&lt;p&gt;My name is Juan M and I'm one of the community managers here on the network. You can read more about some of what I'm working on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312699/new-resources-for-our-stack-exchange-network&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/313084/new-resources-for-our-stack-exchange-network-part-2&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For several years we've had &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/263678/1438&quot;&gt;advertising on technology-related sites&lt;/a&gt;. But &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/sites#name&quot;&gt;many of our sites&lt;/a&gt; aren't about technology at all, so we haven't sold ads for them. That hasn't been a hardship since Stack Exchange sites require only a small investment from the company to set up and keep live. Thanks entirely to the efforts of your community, this site has become an amazing resource on the internet. Generating revenue from non-technology sites will enable us to dedicate more resources to meeting your needs so this is &lt;strong&gt;good news&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The test starts May 21 and our advertising team will be monitoring to see how ads are performing. We don't know how many ads will run on this site. It could be just a few or a bit more. In either case, these ads will be carefully vetted and we'll be keeping watch to continue to provide good content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see any ads that are inappropriate or have any questions about this experiment, please let me know by starting a new question and tagging it with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/advertisements&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;advertisements&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;advertisements&lt;/a&gt;. This is a work in progress and we are expecting a time of learning and refinement as we move forward.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37162" LastEditorUserId="37162" LastEditDate="2019-05-29T17:24:22.553" LastActivityDate="2019-09-13T03:14:09.987" Title="We're testing advertisements on The Workplace" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="46" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6158" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6159" CreationDate="2019-05-21T00:58:31.670" Score="4" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone else experiencing an error when they click the &quot;All actions&quot; tab of their Activity page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently the &quot;Responses&quot; and &quot;Votes&quot; tabs are broken as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Apparently it was intermittent/random, or it just got fixed.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="132" LastEditDate="2019-05-21T08:29:26.567" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T08:29:26.567" Title="The &quot;All actions&quot;, &quot;Responses&quot; and &quot;Votes&quot; tabs appears to be broken?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6158" CreationDate="2019-05-21T02:34:38.547" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per Nick Craver, it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/328452/162102&quot;&gt;been fixed&lt;/a&gt; and they have some more work to do to make it stay fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T02:34:38.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6161" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-21T13:34:00.777" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/136953/dismissed-on-grounds-of-misconduct-without-police-involvement&quot;&gt;Dismissed on grounds of misconduct, without police involvement&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was closed as unclear, which seems to be because the original version of the text was very brief and included an acronym that only has meaning in the UK. It's since been edited and now has a great answer, and it seems perfectly clear now. I voted to reopen, does anyone agree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-05-21T23:40:06.310" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T23:40:06.310" Title="(Done) Reopen request - question closed as unclear" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6161" CreationDate="2019-05-21T16:58:16.947" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've cast the last vote and the question has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user85135" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T16:58:16.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6163" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-21T19:25:55.467" Score="21" ViewCount="975" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the last 6 weeks or so, we've seen effectively the same question posted (at least) 5 times:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/136992/use-preferred-name-at-work&quot;&gt;Use preferred name at work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/136247/can-you-use-a-preferred-name-tag-at-work&quot;&gt;Can you use a preferred name tag at work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/134213/name-tag-at-work-using-a-nickname&quot;&gt;Name tag at work - using a nickname&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/134118/preferred-name-at-work&quot;&gt;Preferred name at work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/137743/is-it-fine-to-use-your-name-tag-as-your-nickname-at-a-job&quot;&gt;Is it fine to use your name tag as your nickname at a job&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I probably didn't even find them all, I remember seeing others. Is this a troll? Someone confused about how the site works? Some sort of bot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastEditorUserId="14388" LastEditDate="2019-06-04T19:27:16.217" LastActivityDate="2019-06-04T19:27:16.217" Title="What's up with Jase and his nametag?" Tags="|discussion|trolling|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6163" CreationDate="2019-05-21T20:19:15.340" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;A troll or someone who does not have a complete grasp of communication or social convention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if trolling is not the intent, the result is indistinguishable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm continually saddened that Jason Dilibero is not confident enough to call himself what he wants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's ok Jase, it's really ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4781" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T20:19:15.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6156" CreationDate="2019-05-21T23:40:36.510" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question received enough votes and is open again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T23:40:36.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6163" CreationDate="2019-05-22T08:15:33.227" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I'm typically loathe to write users off as a troll unless the content is blatantly trollish I can't even come close to the contortions required to make a case for legitimacy here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially copy-pasting the same question over and over and over (and over), even though they have (repeatedly) received a plain answer to their question goes far beyond someone lacking social skills.  There is zero attempt to engage with the site and community just the same old groundhog day question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I don't think this is a good faith user, even if I can can't for the life of me work out what the motivation is!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As something of an FYI he's posted it &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/137743/is-it-fine-to-use-your-name-tag-as-your-nickname-at-a-job&quot;&gt;again&lt;/a&gt; (deleted question so 10k required to view). Tip of the hat to Snow for deleting the latest Groundhog day loop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="64903" LastEditDate="2019-06-03T08:43:03.683" LastActivityDate="2019-06-03T08:43:03.683" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6157" CreationDate="2019-05-31T17:25:28.550" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm totally understanding that ad-revenue is how free-to-end-users sites and resources &lt;em&gt;stay&lt;/em&gt; that way (bandwidth etc isn't free). I'm not even offended by the notion that SO might want to make a profit. So I'm all for ads as a concept if they are done tastefully and in a SFW way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to say though that so far it isn't exactly filling me with confidence. I understand that mistakes, hiccups and the good ole fashioned unexpected happen sometimes but the experience and communication so far has reflected poorly on SO as an organization. Especially one that is well-funded and with a tech-centric basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE: you won't get animated ads!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monica: here's an animated ad&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE: Oh yeah actually you will be getting animated ads&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm seeing a lot of &amp;quot;we didn't know&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;we thought we could&amp;quot; - not exactly coming across as a professional effort there. Rather than giving us &amp;quot;maybes&amp;quot; why not actually go an talk (or email/slack/whatever) to the advertising team (or ad content providers) and get some actual information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some things really are unknowable until you dive in and put something live - I get that (I know from personal unpleasant experience - believe me, I wish I didn't!), I'm not sure &lt;em&gt;Animated Ads: No-&amp;gt;Yes&lt;/em&gt; can suddenly do that 180 flip without something being messed up organizationally somewhere. If it's a contractual issue with an ad delivery partner then internal communications failed (since seems no-one told anyone in the community team about it) and if it's a technical issue with filtering then the QA process failed. Either way it makes a bit of a mockery of the claim about ads being &amp;quot;carefully vetted&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of which I understand that testing and QA departments aren't (and can't be) perfect, and I understand that their resources are finite. If a new &amp;quot;experiment&amp;quot;, especially such a potentially emotive issue as Ads is something of an unknown but SO lacks sufficient capacity to test/QA it sufficiently then why push it live on to one of the busiest non-technical sites lock stock and barrel and see if it floats?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making it an opt-in test (same as was/is done for the Custom Questions test) seems a far safer option - Workplace SE has no shortage of regulars (and I include myself) who would likely sign up for such a test and be willing to provide feedback in a way that would limit the potential exposure from any of those hiccups I mentioned earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If something gets put live on a main site without even the grace of an &amp;quot;opt-out&amp;quot; option then that's not a &amp;quot;test&amp;quot; - that's &lt;em&gt;production&lt;/em&gt; and personally I'm a lot less inclined to be accepting of unknowns and hiccups in that scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note not directly related to the advert-experiment, I found some of the content of the Meta SE threads linked in the main post here problematic - like many SE users I know, a good deal of my SE browsing is done while I'm at work and that means keeping things looking reasonably business-like and &amp;quot;under the radar&amp;quot;, at least visually. While I work for myself I spend the majority of my time on-site at clients' offices and appearances do matter. That means I'm cautious about where I visit in the network when in an office setting - that means things like avoiding Movies SE etc (where I might expect to encounter screen captures in questions and answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would normally expect links to the main Meta.SE to be &amp;quot;safe&amp;quot; - &lt;em&gt;especially&lt;/em&gt; where they are coming from SE staff members. So seeing posts with a high density of pseudo-memes and animated GIFs was an unpleasant surprise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could such content in posts from SO staff be either avoided or at least &lt;em&gt;warned&lt;/em&gt; about when linked to in the future? Otherwise I'm going to find it increasingly restrictive on where I can safely click!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PS:&lt;/strong&gt; The above replaces a.. grumpier version of the same post. The original had led people to believe that I have an issue with Juan M - &lt;strong&gt;I don't&lt;/strong&gt;. I'm not particularly happy with the way this &amp;quot;experiment&amp;quot; has been handled by SE but I don't hold that against anyone in particular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PPS:&lt;/strong&gt; For sheer comedy value (given the above) I think almost every advert I've seen on TWP today has been for a Stack Overflow service!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-06-03T16:43:29.377" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6157" CreationDate="2019-06-02T01:57:11.373" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The biggest thing that makes me loathe advertising is the &lt;strong&gt;very substantial technical load&lt;/strong&gt; it places on my browser.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What was once a dozen page elements loaded from one site suddenly becomes &lt;em&gt;hundreds&lt;/em&gt; of page elements loaded from &lt;em&gt;dozens&lt;/em&gt; of sites, from redirects through multiple layers of ad brokers.*  This &lt;strong&gt;slows or &lt;em&gt;even prevents&lt;/em&gt; page load&lt;/strong&gt;, because it dramatically increases the &quot;risk surface area&quot; of packet drop.  At 3% drop, 200 packets=6 lost. At 10% drop (think mobile), 20 drop and 2 retries drop.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it doesn't help that the main page &lt;em&gt;intentionally refuses&lt;/em&gt; to specify element size (width=486 height=80) in the calling language; aiming to defer that to the ad. At best this results in page &quot;leaps&quot; and mis-clicks as slow content is filled in. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The ad components &lt;strong&gt;are very demanding on the CPU or RAM&lt;/strong&gt; (causing swap) - lagging the browser and causing poor performance -- a big deal on a site with composition windows! **   Also a big deal on browsers powered by battery - load is time!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this is especially punishing for those with older (&quot;not the latest&quot;) systems, which IME describes many of SE's best contributors (there is correlation between &quot;have time to post&quot; and &quot;don't have money for newest shiny&quot;).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You disable browser caching, so the &lt;strong&gt;site becomes more balky to navigate&lt;/strong&gt;.  (advertisers demand you do this, because browser caching doesn't play well with ad freshness, rotation, and validity of clickthru codes; bugs force your hand.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were king, I would have SE host ad content right on SE servers in JPEG or PNG format (generated by rendering the ad in a sandbox and snapshotting it). That breaks adblockers, malware, animated ads, and packet-heavy redirect chains.  But then, ad brokers wouldn't do business with you if you did, and that's the crux of the problem. No such thing as a little pregnant / halfway crook. Either you're in the ad game, or you're out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* I have reset my cookies, viewed a &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; Wikia page, and found 40 &lt;em&gt;sites&lt;/em&gt; have placed cookies.  I kid you not.  Every hostname takes at least a 3-way handshake + an out-and-back (5 packets), and having 60 hostnames involved isn't uncommon - 300 packets must fly to load the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;**  I've come home to find my computer's fans on max; I had checked weather and forgot to close the browser.  I hope you enjoy those bitcoins, weather.com! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66099" LastActivityDate="2019-06-02T01:57:11.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6157" CreationDate="2019-06-02T04:56:43.810" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a few animated ads now, and while &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yl2A3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;some&lt;/a&gt; of them have been fine, others are intrusive.  Animation should not be happening at a velocity or scope that continues to draw attention away from the main page content.  Static ads are fine, and ads that do the Powerpoint-style &quot;advance to next set of text&quot; once are ok.  But I've seen some more intrusive ads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vVru2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This Ram ad&lt;/a&gt; had three or four &quot;pages&quot;, and in addition, moved text around on each &quot;page&quot;.  That was very distracting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Girjn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This eBay ad&lt;/a&gt; &quot;swipes&quot; the right half every few seconds to show a new product.  I believe there was also motion on the left side, maybe the &quot;shop&quot; button sliding in or something.  When I first saw this ad I noticed an &quot;X&quot; that led to a &quot;confirm you don't want to see this ad again?&quot; dialogue, and I said &quot;yeah, not interested&quot;.  I was pleasantly surprised to see that we could banish specific ads like that -- but it didn't work.  The eBay ad was back the next day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I saw an ad (with some animation) that was then replaced with a &lt;em&gt;second&lt;/em&gt; ad.  Even though the second ad was static, the act of replacing the first (a green insurance ad, also with in-page motion -- didn't get a screenshot before it was replaced) with the second (I forget what, but white-ish background) functioned as distracting animation.  (Belatedly, it occurs to me that perhaps that was one ad with a very different last page and/or a delay in its animation loop.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I've just seen another ad (sorry, don't know whose) that &lt;em&gt;looped&lt;/em&gt; its animation instead of getting to the last &quot;page&quot; and then stopping.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Added 2019-09-12:) Tonight I saw two different ads, both from Xfinity, that were quite active in their animation (fireworks, things moving quickly, etc). &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WzduE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xplb3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;.  This specific source of ads warrants review.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you ask your advertising folks to reduce or eliminate animation in ads and cycling/looping ads within a page?  I know I could use an ad blocker (at the cost of the community ads I &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to see), but this isn't about me -- it's about the first impression we create for visitors to our site.  There are too many sites out there loaded up with flashing blinking dancing crap that you can't dismiss and that keeps you from reading the actual content you came for; let's not give people reason to think we're becoming one of those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, could you give us some sort of &quot;report ad&quot; functionality right on the ad itself?  For community ads there's a link to the meta post where they were proposed, so there's a place to leave feedback.  Here, all we can do is tediously take and upload screenshots to share with you in hopes that you can track them down.  That's inefficient and I'm sure a lot of people aren't going to bother -- but silence does not mean consent here; it means &quot;too much trouble so I'll install an ad blocker&quot;.  I've written a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/329700/162102&quot;&gt;feature request on Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; to request easier reporting, since this affects several other sites too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2019-09-13T03:14:09.987" LastActivityDate="2019-09-13T03:14:09.987" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6171" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-04T14:08:12.977" Score="5" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did we activate or turn up bot detection lately? I'm getting a lot of &quot;An error occurred during the edit&quot; (or during posting answers) lately. For instance, I just got both errors trying to post and then edit my answer here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/137865/need-advice-on-setting-up-meeting-agenda&quot;&gt;Need advice on setting up meeting agenda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got the error when I tried posting the answer, so I reloaded the page and tried posting again - assuming my answer was saved as a draft. I got the captcha bot-check (which I passed!) but then my post was cut off because the draft hadn't contained the last chunk of what I wrote. So I tried editing the text in, but trying to post my edit resulted in the generic error message. I tried reloading the page, closing the browser, etc and just got the error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did finally get the edit to work from my phone instead of my PC. I've seen this a few other times recently, where I get the generic error message, then reload the page and I get the captcha, which is why I'm wondering if the original error was a buggy attempt at presenting me with the captcha in the first place - but sometimes I never get the captcha and I'm effectively just blocked from using the site at all, because I get the generic error for any action I try to take. It usually seems like switching to another device makes the problem go away. Sometimes it seems like after I use another device (ie my phone) to post, I can go back to my laptop and use that just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing to add a screen shot of the error since it happened again this morning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yKXNa.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastEditorUserId="83999" LastEditDate="2019-06-05T13:52:50.880" LastActivityDate="2019-06-05T13:52:50.880" Title="I can't post or edit - is it related to bot detection?" Tags="|bug|answers|editing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6173" CreationDate="2019-06-09T16:24:21.160" Score="4" ViewCount="362" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/325060/165773&quot;&gt;recently introduced feature&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;There are times when the hotness formula selects a question that a site would rather not have featured. Up until now, the only recourse that was available was to close the question (which may be appropriate anyway but isn't ideal when done purely to manage traffic), or to do nothing. We're putting the power in the hands of our moderators to remove questions that don't set a good example for their sites. &lt;em&gt;I recommend each site have a meta discussion with guidance for moderators about when - if ever - a question should be removed.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per recommendation above, let's discuss when we are generally expected to use it at our site. Statistics data &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/327901/165773&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; suggests that quite a lot of our questions are eligible for that new feature (it says there were 142 hot questions at Workplace in about two months).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;For readers who don't yet know how this works, I think it is important to know that removal from hot list is publicly recorded in question history (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/138003/revisions&quot; title=&quot;see entry marked as &amp;#39;Removed from Hot Network Questions by...&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;) so that regular community members can easily review and discuss it if needed.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;- One case that I am particularly curious about is questions having many close votes. Removing these from hot list would prevent quick (and often troublesome quality) answers from careless passers-by which in turn makes it easier to edit the question into better shape, because less answers mean lower risk of edits being blocked because of invalidating these answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically, something like that can be also achieved by protecting such questions but I am not quite comfortable with such an approach. We don't have a rule to protect any question with 3-4 close votes, nor do I think that we need such a rule. And making a habit of protecting only some of such questions only because of not particularly relevant network wide feature (of getting into HNQ) just doesn't feel right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;- Another case are questions with click-bait / dramatic looking titles and topics. From perspective of hot questions these tend to be troublesome, see eg &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/327207/165773&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt; at MSE and some &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/trolling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;trolling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;trolling&lt;/a&gt; discussions at our meta, does it make sense to remove such questions from hot list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One alternative that comes to mind is to edit such questions but if you think of it, it's not particularly appealing. Good edits that both make it read neutral and in the same time accurately preserve important meaning and details tend to take much time, sometimes even a day or two. While this is not much of a problem in regular questions, it looks much harder to make it quick enough to handle hot questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another problem with &quot;neutralising&quot; title edits is, these make site harder to use. As a site regular, when the question is about toilet, or beating, or harassment, or someone drunk it is clearly more convenient for me to see it explicitly mentioned in the title. Do we have to give up this convenience and edit the titles only because these are considered entertaining by some outsider watching the sidebar at Stack Overflow when we can simply remove the question from HNQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;For the sake of completeness, there is yet another recent feature helping to tame this issue: we can make site-specific list of &quot;stop words&quot; to block questions with titles containing these words from getting into hot list. We can and probably should use this feature if we know that particular words frequently are troublesome but this is hardly an universal solution because it just doesn't make sense to make an endless list of each and every word that can be perceived as troublesome by some random user staring at their sidebar at some random site in SE network.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interested to learn what others think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2019-06-11T07:19:08.470" LastActivityDate="2022-11-15T17:46:07.710" Title="What should be our approach on new feature allowing removal of a question from HNQ?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|hot-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6172" CreationDate="2019-06-10T08:01:08.263" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;When looking at this, there's a couple of questions that I ask myself as a basic litmus test:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this a story masquerading as a question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does this question look as though it's been engineered to hit HNQ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases where the answers to both are 'yes', it's more than likely that the questions are created for entertainment purposes rather than solving an issue that people are actually experiencing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a great fan of these &amp;quot;entertainment&amp;quot; questions going into HNQ - they tend to attract answers to these contrived questions and entice people to ask the same kinds of questions so that they can also hit HNQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your suggestion of editing out the extraneous narrative out of these questions is a good one.  If, at the end of judicious pruning, there's a good question, then it can remain.  It's entirely possible of course that the core question has a clear duplicate, so it can then be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also fine to place these questions on hold if they don't contain enough actual detail to form a good answer - people sometimes don't let details get in the way of telling a good story.  We often see question askers drop these kinds of questions and then never return to answer comments.  In that case, it's fine to place these questions on hold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, SE isn't here to entertain.  It's here to answer people's questions and allow people with questions to find answers to their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are not trying to remove all questions from HNQ - we're simply wishing to limit the number of obviously contrived questions appearing.  Removing the reward (HNQ/clicks/views/mayhem) will hopefully allow real people to get resolutions to their real issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="10313" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2022-11-15T17:46:07.710" LastActivityDate="2022-11-15T17:46:07.710" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6174" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-11T03:21:01.453" Score="1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/138237/how-to-conduct-a-hiring-interview-after-being-an-intern-for-6-month/138254#138254&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is one vote away from being closed due to over - broad. I have edited the title and questions to hopefully narrow the scope and make them more focused on how to navigate job role assignment and discuss salary when working in &lt;strong&gt;a niche / specialized&lt;/strong&gt; IT role such as cybersecurity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, our security operations team gained 2 new interns who appear promising and I would love to help retain them, possibly provide full time offer after the internship. The answers to this question would certainly help and I would love to see additional thoughts from the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we review the close votes after my edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-06-20T20:16:12.260" LastActivityDate="2019-06-20T20:16:12.260" Title="(Done) Request to reopen after edit to narrow question scope" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6172" CreationDate="2019-06-12T00:08:15.707" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;sounds like a waste of time for something that isnt a problem that I can see.  this place is dull unless you just want to be doing it just to be busy.  I think you should be taking care of the bullying in here first.  Ive been lurking for about a year and dont post much but i think your working on the wrong job with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87106" LastActivityDate="2019-06-12T00:08:15.707" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6174" CreationDate="2019-06-12T10:56:12.417" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's open now.  Thanks for the edits!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-06-12T10:56:12.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6177" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-12T15:39:21.673" Score="0" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote this question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/137581/is-it-common-for-new-employees-to-be-appointed-to-a-team-in-a-higher-position-th?noredirect=1#comment442959_137581&quot;&gt;Is it common for new employees to be appointed to a team in a higher position than the current technical lead? Is there a term for this?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first, I was not planning on attaching that question to any specific situation; I wanted a more general response. It got a lot of interesting responses, but a lot of people are asking for more information or context. I feel like this question has gotten a life of its own the way it is and if I added context of a specific situation to that question, it would probably require a change to most answers and comments...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main thing I want to add is somewhere along the lines of what I wrote in my &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/137581/is-it-common-for-new-employees-to-be-appointed-to-a-team-in-a-higher-position-th?noredirect=1#comment445310_137581&quot;&gt;last comment&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;seems everyone automatically assumes that either the team lead is&#xA;  lesser skilled than the new individual or the company is trying to get&#xA;  rid of the team lead in some way. what if that's not the case? what if&#xA;  the team lead is actually technical lead for very good reasons? or&#xA;  what if the company wants to keep the team lead in the company?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am wondering should I start another question, just with a lot more context? Or should I update/add to the existing question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79578" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-06-12T15:58:02.657" LastActivityDate="2019-06-12T19:53:39.770" Title="Should I ask the question again, differently?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6177" CreationDate="2019-06-12T16:18:24.030" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your additional information doesn't add anything significant enough to warrant creating a new question. If I were an answerer, I would challenge your assertions that the technical lead is more skilled than the new hire. That is your assessment, which is likely to be biased, particularly if you are the team lead. Clearly management somehow values the new hire more than the previous, otherwise there wouldn't be the disparity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the problem with hypothetical questions is that without a real situation to act as context, you can always respond to any answer with &quot;But what if that's not the case? What then?&quot; At a certain point, the only possible answer is &quot;We can't read minds - you should ask management why they did what they did.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to improve your question, you would be better off just asking about what your &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; situation is, rather than using vague hypotheticals. Are you the team lead and you want to know how to approach management about feeling undervalued? Are you one of the team members and are trying to figure out how to deal with a power struggle between the lead and the new hire? Are you a manager and are trying to determine if it's acceptable to bring in a new person at a higher level than your team lead? Tell us what your real problem is instead of making us try to guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-06-12T17:22:34.963" LastActivityDate="2019-06-12T17:22:34.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6177" CreationDate="2019-06-12T19:53:39.770" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking: you want to avoid being overly vague in cases where you're dealing with a specific situation. Vague means no one is clear on the situation. As soon as you start talking in &quot;what if&quot; scenarios you start to lose people. And then when people answer the general question, it's kind of annoying if you were to chime in with &quot;but actually [thing that I didn't mention] means this won't work for me&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, standard procedure for updating a question is to edit it, unless any edit would drastically invalidate existing answers that have value. In rare cases you'd ask the question again. And that's so rare that it's safe to assume that you're not in that situation. Typically we recommend getting feedback on chat or meta in case you want to post a new question about a similar topic. (Like you're doing now.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2019-06-12T19:53:39.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6180" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-13T08:38:22.950" Score="1" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I were going to ask a question: &quot;What are the good things to do when taking on a new position in a new company?&quot; but I thought that there would be no clear answer or an answer would be an aggregation of user answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence my question: can I ask for for a list of tips? How should I phrase it or limit the scope of answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86696" LastActivityDate="2019-06-13T12:50:28.123" Title="Can I ask for a list of advice?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6180" CreationDate="2019-06-13T10:35:25.390" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'd need to be pretty specific about what you want more than the obvious:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Do what your hiring manager tells you (e.g. you supply references, banking details, etc.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2) Follow the onboarding process for your new company when you join&lt;br&gt;&#xA;3) Perform whatever tasks your manager gives you&lt;br&gt;&#xA;4) Be on time&lt;br&gt;&#xA;5) Be clean&lt;br&gt;&#xA;6) Be polite&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of answers will either be opinion-based or too vague to be really useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-06-13T10:35:25.390" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6180" CreationDate="2019-06-13T12:50:28.123" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking: no. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/124450/what-is-the-definition-of-a-list-question&quot;&gt;List questions&lt;/a&gt; are unsuitable for our format and explicitly asking for a list of &quot;some of the things to do&quot; would be a prime candidate for closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rephrasing the question to &quot;&lt;em&gt;How do I accomplish X?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; or &quot;&lt;em&gt;What should I keep in mind when Y?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; largely avoids that. Answers might still be in a list format and are unlikely to ever be exhaustive but can still be valuable. The distinction is between asking a question you want an answer to and asking a question you want a list of possible answers for. It's a fine line but as long as your question has a specific goal you're generally fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the question you have in mind has in fact been asked before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/48276/first-proper-job-making-good-first-impressions&quot;&gt;First proper job - Making good first impressions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3384/ways-of-making-a-good-impression-in-the-new-job&quot;&gt;Ways of Making a good impression in the new job&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2019-06-13T12:50:28.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6184" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6185" CreationDate="2019-06-20T01:28:22.360" Score="17" ViewCount="644" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm on a number of forums and I have to say that Workplace has the most insane voting patterns of all the forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm all for some downvoting when needed, but I see a lot of questions with heavy downvotes, and a lot of good answers -- maybe not &quot;the answer&quot; answers -- with heavy downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22871" OwnerDisplayName="Julie in Austin" LastEditorUserId="34163" LastEditDate="2019-06-20T08:19:14.460" LastActivityDate="2019-06-21T14:51:05.420" Title="What Is Up With Voting in &quot;Workplace&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|voting|down-votes|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6184" CreationDate="2019-06-20T05:19:17.023" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're talking about questions where there's a genuine issue at hand that isn't a troll question or otherwise poorly posed question, there's a natural reason for it. People sometimes field &quot;horrible ideas*&quot; that seem reasonable to them as questions. That garners downvotes, no matter how the question is presented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/138642/pass-on-medical-information-about-a-job-new-applicant&quot;&gt;Pass on medical information about a job new applicant?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is well phrased, gives background, reasons for the proposed course of action, etc... Yet the votes aren't about how useful the question is, they're about the idea and intent behind it. Understandably it's an idea people dislike, so the question gets downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask a question that has any hint that your motivations are greedy, selfish, or even just completely clueless, it will probably be interpreted in a very harsh manner and garner some downvotes. You'll have to be exceptionally careful to put it forward in a neutral or positive light if you want to ask certain categories of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;sub&gt;Some rather horrible ideas regularly get submitted, but they &lt;b&gt;can&lt;/b&gt; be good questions.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46140" LastActivityDate="2019-06-20T05:19:17.023" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6186" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6187" CreationDate="2019-06-20T10:06:08.920" Score="15" ViewCount="399" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see the message &quot;Serial voting was reversed&quot; in the Recent achievements list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does that mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&#xA;Again, serial voting was reversed last night. I wonder if this is happening more often?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&#xA;And yet again last night serial voting was reversed, then today a series of downvotes of very old posts. Oh well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2019-07-12T14:12:59.437" LastActivityDate="2019-07-12T14:12:59.437" Title="What does &quot;Serial Voting Was Reversed&quot; mean?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6186" CreationDate="2019-06-20T10:11:39.657" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically, the system detected that someone has consistently downvoted your content, this looks more like a personal action rather than your answers being &quot;bad&quot;, so the serial voting has been reversed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the help page: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/serial-voting-reversed&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/serial-voting-reversed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Meta explanation &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126829/what-is-serial-voting-and-how-does-it-affect-me&quot;&gt;What is serial voting and how does it affect me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Voting fraud is the systematic voting against correct voting rationales. Fraud most often happens with a single user continually voting (up or down) on many of your posts within a short period of time. This is not considered normal behavior and the system will not allow it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-06-20T10:11:39.657" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6188" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6189" CreationDate="2019-06-21T12:16:08.163" Score="-5" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were a bunch of comments on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/138828/26998&quot;&gt;Should my manager be aware of private LinkedIn approaches I receive? How to politely have this happen?&lt;/a&gt;. A seemingly random bunch of them were deleted. There is no &quot;moved to chat&quot; comment, and some of them survived the purge. The remaining comments have now lost context. What happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  This question was not a dupe, because the deleted comment did not follow any of the deletion rules.  They were seemingly at random.  But since asking this question, more comments were deleted, and it makes more sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26998" LastEditorUserId="26998" LastEditDate="2019-06-21T13:16:47.737" LastActivityDate="2019-06-21T13:16:47.737" Title="Where did the comments go?" Tags="|discussion|bug|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6188" CreationDate="2019-06-21T12:36:11.980" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments can disappear at a moments notice, you should consider them &lt;em&gt;transient&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything that does not directly seek to improve the question &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be wiped out.  I myself don't go seeking comments to delete, typically &lt;strong&gt;comments are removed due to flagging by members of the community&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have something permanent for the question edit the content into the &lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;.  If you wish to answer, do so in an &lt;strong&gt;Answer&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2019-06-21T12:36:11.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6184" CreationDate="2019-06-21T14:47:49.013" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of this, it seems to me, is the nature of the site. On some of the more technical sites, there are questions where only a handful of people in the world may be able to answer. In fact, sometimes even the questions can only be understood by a (relatively) small number of people. Furthermore, answers are often very clearly right or wrong/work or don't work/etc. When answers are shown to be wrong, they are often either corrected or deleted. So, downvotes aren't made so often&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the Workplace site nearly everyone can understand the situations presented and will have an opinion as to what to do. Furthermore, an answer that works for one person in one situation will fail for another person who seems to be in an almost identical situation ... because the particulars of the two work places are different in terms of personnel, policy, culture, legalities, etc. So, you'll get questions where some people will think the issue(s) presented are worthy of answers and upvotes, while other people will think something like &quot;The OP is just being stupid, the only thing to do here is downvote and move on.&quot; Answers may be even more susceptible to an individual's opinions and experiences, and lead to widely divergent voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2317" LastActivityDate="2019-06-21T14:47:49.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6184" CreationDate="2019-06-21T14:51:05.420" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started to write a comment on another answer but realized my thoughts might be worthy of their own answer. Basically, I think @BoogaRoo is more or less correct that downvotes often happen because people think &lt;em&gt;&quot;golly this is a bad idea.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I try to take the approach of seeing things through the asker's perspective, and assuming they have the best intentions. Or at least, innocent intentions. In other words, to &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt; it may not be a &quot;bad idea&quot; they're suggesting or asking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This lets you separate evaluation of the question (it may be a &quot;good&quot; question by TWP standards) from the idea (it may be a &quot;bad&quot; idea). Then, I address bad &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; by editing, commenting, and voting. Address bad &lt;em&gt;ideas&lt;/em&gt; by answering to point out the badness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have to keep in mind that there are people from all backgrounds, with all different perspectives and experiences, gathering on The Workplace. In my opinion, someone asking &lt;em&gt;&quot;should I X?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; that causes us to think, &lt;em&gt;DUHHH!!! Why would anyone ever X?&lt;/em&gt; deserves an answer just as much as someone asking a question we actually have to pause and think about ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2019-06-21T14:51:05.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6192" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-22T17:38:55.167" Score="-4" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is different from Stack Overflow or other technical sites in the SE network in that workplace norms, and thus our answers, vary between geographies, industries, and roles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moderators and 25k+ reputation members of The Workplace have access to the analytics data on the site (presumably including the demographic information included).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it possible to share some highlights about who is reading and using the site so that we can have a sense of who we should we creating answers for?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As an example&lt;/strong&gt;, many answers advise the OP to &lt;strong&gt;quit or find a new job&lt;/strong&gt; if they are unhappy with their current environment/compensation/colleagues/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;bad advice&lt;/em&gt; for the &lt;em&gt;majority of working individuals&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; The median employee lacks a savings, will take 5 to 14 weeks to find a new job, and will lack access to social backstops since their termination was elected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;reasonable advice&lt;/em&gt; for &lt;em&gt;software engineers in the US.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; The median software engineer is readily employable and has been earning well above the livable wage (and thus likely has a savings).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Understanding who is represented on the site will improve answers by giving authors a sense of the breadth of perspectives of readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5652" LastEditorUserId="5652" LastEditDate="2019-06-24T13:43:46.640" LastActivityDate="2019-06-26T16:28:13.207" Title="Demographics about TW users would be helpful for interpreting &amp; answering questions. Possible to share?" Tags="|discussion|moderators|users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6192" CreationDate="2019-06-22T22:57:56.030" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole point of The Workplace is for anyone to ask a question about their job-related issue, and we as members of the community try to answer it. There is a wide diversity in the locations, ages, and kinds of questions that are asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To try to tailor your answers along the lines of the demographics of existing question askers does not help if someone new comes along who sits outside that demographic. The site then becomes impenetrable and ineffective for them, and they leave both dissatisfied and with a bad feeling that we aren't interested in assisting them. This, in turn, reinforces the stereotypical consumer for this site and minimises its effectiveness for a wider audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The correct approach when answering is to take each question on a case-by-case basis. If there isn't enough information available in the question, you ask. That is the intent behind comments. That information can then be fed back into the question, the answer, or both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while it may be possible to extract the demographic information, practically, it isn't a useful exercise. Answers should be constructed in such a way that it is useful to the asker and to anyone who comes along later who may be in a similar situation. Future viewers will be able to see from the context of the question if it applies to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Edited to address the addendum to the question]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The giving advice of &quot;quit&quot; has been discussed on meta.workplace a few times, and for the most part, it's really not a valid answer. You can &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; say, &quot;Just quit&quot;, irrespective of the issue, so you can take it as assumed knowledge that the OP already knows this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We try to look beyond the obvious &quot;quit&quot; option, which has its own huge array of potential issues for the OP, for other ways to deal with a workplace problem. Yes, there will be cases when the best option is to leave, but it is not the first place we should go when answering a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastEditorUserId="33698" LastEditDate="2019-06-24T23:12:50.437" LastActivityDate="2019-06-24T23:12:50.437" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6195" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-25T02:46:57.417" Score="2" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to questions that deal with mental health, it's common for the most upvoted answer to be something to the effect of &quot;See a mental health professional.&quot; and then essentially leave it there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/138909/a-manager-is-triggering-past-trauma-what-are-my-options&quot;&gt;A manager is triggering past trauma. What are my options?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/88725/during-a-5-year-work-tenure-i-developed-a-fear-of-flying-how-should-i-handle-th/88900#88900&quot;&gt;During a 5 year work tenure I developed a fear of flying. How should I handle this with my employer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/119518/should-i-be-talking-to-hr-about-my-struggles-with-stress-and-depression-at-my-wo&quot;&gt;Should I be talking to HR about my struggles with stress and depression at my workplace?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one here is a good example where it provides advice beyond 'See a professional'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/125175/can-i-get-in-trouble-for-being-an-unhappy-person&quot;&gt;Can I get in trouble for being an unhappy person?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While 'see a professional' may be &lt;em&gt;necessary&lt;/em&gt; advice, it is not always &lt;em&gt;sufficient&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mental health professionals are not a magic bullet.&lt;/strong&gt; It's not like someone who is dealing with depression or anxiety or whatever, goes and sees a professional, and then bam, cured, just like a broken leg would be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A mental health professional can provide medication and talk through techniques for addressing certain problems, but typically dealing with mental health issues requires making changes in every facet of one's life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A mental health professional can be the right person to discuss these things with, but they shouldn't be the only person someone can discuss their mental health with. That would serve to be more isolating for the person with mental health issues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point of this post is to remind me that when answering questions relating to mental health, make sure you're not just 'washing your hands of' the issue. Saying 'see a mental health professional' might be a good first paragraph, but shouldn't be considered a complete answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32078" LastActivityDate="2019-06-25T14:02:52.197" Title="'See a mental health professional' is not a complete answer" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6195" CreationDate="2019-06-25T02:58:08.903" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I understand the sentiment behind your post, the reason that most people will refer the OP to a mental health professional is because &lt;strong&gt;they understand they aren't qualified to give more detailed advice&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, a mental health professional isn't necessarily a silver bullet, but giving &lt;em&gt;poor&lt;/em&gt; advice when you just don't have the skills to consider the whole situation can be more harmful. It's very much the same as not offering legal advice because you should see a lawyer; inaccurate advice can lead to more problems than it can solve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In no way do I see referring to an MHP stigmatized or washing their hands of the situation, it's just that it is literally the best advice we can give :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you feel that there are more steps that could be taken, such as referring to a manager, discussing with HR, or any number of other things, then your best option is to &lt;strong&gt;write an answer yourself that gives this advice!&lt;/strong&gt; Even if it isn't the top-ranked answer, the advice is still being offered to the OP, and they can choose to accept the advice or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastEditorUserId="33698" LastEditDate="2019-06-25T03:45:19.160" LastActivityDate="2019-06-25T03:45:19.160" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6195" CreationDate="2019-06-25T14:02:52.197" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, in situations like this, I use a rule of thumb: review the question and determine if we have enough information to separate the &lt;em&gt;workplace&lt;/em&gt; problem from &lt;em&gt;the asker's potential mental or medical condition(s).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we do have the information to determine that, then we can address the workplace problem as usual, and suggest seeking professional help as well. If we don't have the information to make that separation, we can comment to get clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it's often the case that there &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; a separate workplace issue (i.e. the workplace issue is the result of a condition, or deeply related to a condition, for instance, in a way that makes it hard to give advice specifically about the workplace). Or, it may be the case that we don't have enough information to determine that and the OP isn't able to clarify. If these cases fall outside what may be straightforward and easily addressable situations, then &quot;see a professional&quot; &lt;strong&gt;is probably the best advice we can give,&lt;/strong&gt; and it may be prudent for it to be the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; advice we give. In other words, in these situations, I would say that it is a complete answer. I think this is roughly what @JaneS is trying to say in her answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the sake of clarity, as an oversimplified example, if someone states &quot;I'm depressed and my boss is a jerk to me&quot; it may not be clear if the boss is actually being a jerk, or the OP's medical depression is involved in, or driving, their perception. So, we can comment and say, &quot;what makes you feel like he is a jerk?&quot; And if the OP says &quot;he does X and Y&quot; then we can write an answer about that. But if we don't get a solid X and Y, then we may not be able to give specific, workplace advice, and our best answer may be &quot;you should talk to a professional about how your depression is impacting your relationship with your boss.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, we should give workplace advice where it is possible, and avoid giving mental or medical advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2019-06-25T14:02:52.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6192" CreationDate="2019-06-25T21:57:28.267" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My response is entirely too long to be a comment, so I'm writing it as an answer instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The inclusion of demographic information would be useful if it didn't explode the number of questions all having a reasonably similar set of facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I just learned I'm the least paid employee in the entire company, and I will never get a new monitor, desk, or chair. Should I quit?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a fake question, but it is intended to capture a broad enough sentiment as to be generic -- the asker is being treated very poorly. Should they quit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer really does depend on the situation of the asker. But also, not the &quot;demographics of the answerer&quot; because I know how to adjust an answer for someone who needs &quot;experience, any experience, Oh. Dear. G-d. Can I just get some experience?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This gets back to something about this site -- we really do need to be telling people &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;WHY&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; we're giving an answer and what our basis for that answer is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, TL;DR -- We don't need demographics, we need the people answering the questions to explain their thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22871" LastActivityDate="2019-06-25T21:57:28.267" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6200" CreationDate="2019-06-26T06:04:44.557" Score="12" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’m fairly new to the community, but I’ve noticed that a fair number of questions that eventually get closed as off-topic will receive answers before they’re closed. Is it acceptable to answer questions like these?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it’s not acceptable to answer questions like that, how should this rule be enforced? For example, is a comment telling someone not to answer constructive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related StackOverflow Meta: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/276572/should-one-advise-on-off-topic-questions/276637#276637&quot;&gt;Should one advise on off-topic questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also related StackOverflow Meta: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/348633/is-a-comment-telling-someone-not-to-answer-constructive&quot;&gt;Is a comment telling someone not to answer constructive?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61906" LastEditorUserId="61906" LastEditDate="2019-06-26T13:03:14.380" LastActivityDate="2019-07-08T03:18:41.663" Title="Should we answer questions that are likely to be closed?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|answers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6199" CreationDate="2019-06-26T06:16:34.100" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a bit of a grey area as some people's idea of off-topic are different to others - this is why questions are closed after a consensus has been reached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you personally feel that a question has enough topicality and information for you to post a relevant answer, then there's nothing stopping you from submitting that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that the question is off-topic, then flag it as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that a question can't be answered effectively enough without some missing information, then leave a comment on the question asking for that clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't leave comments asking people not to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-06-26T06:16:34.100" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6201" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6202" CreationDate="2019-06-26T13:38:48.477" Score="3" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few minutes ago I made an edit to a question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/139151/how-to-tell-boss-that-we-need-a-test-plan-and-to-ensure-developers-use-the-qa-pr&quot;&gt;How to tell boss that we need a test plan and to ensure developers use the QA process?&lt;/a&gt;), by correcting a lot of its grammar, improving the formatting, Highlighting the actual question, etc.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After saving my edit it was marked as &quot;waiting for peer review&quot;; yet a minute later, my edit was gone without a trace and someone else's edit (with far less changes) is now the last edit to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I added the &lt;strong&gt;Bug&lt;/strong&gt; tag to &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; question because I didn't expect to &quot;lose&quot; an edit without a trace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is my edit still under review or as it been rejected? Where can I see a list of my edits and their current state? Should I have received a notification about the rejection, if that is what happened to my edit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="104547" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2019-06-26T17:32:12.927" LastActivityDate="2019-06-26T17:32:12.927" Title="What happened to my edit?" Tags="|support|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6201" CreationDate="2019-06-26T14:17:06.180" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;This is not a bug, your edit was rejected by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19738/who-is-the-community-user&quot;&gt;Community&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This edit conflicted with a subsequent edit. When you have less than 2000 rep points, you can only suggest edits. Those edits are then reviewed by more trusted users (more than 2000 rep points).&#xA;However, when a trusted users do an edit, it is automatically and instantaneously accepted, replacing your current edit.&#xA;This is what happened here. You and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/5652/jay&quot;&gt;jay&lt;/a&gt; have done an edit at the same time. You suggested the edit, and a few moments later, jay submitted his edit, overriding yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How to see your edits&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see it in your &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/104547/niko1978?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=suggestions&quot;&gt;profile&lt;/a&gt;, all actions tabs, under &quot;suggestion&quot; subtab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZwMiZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZwMiZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;rejected&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also follow the link, and access to the edit to see who accept/reject it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gZ3Gb.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gZ3Gb.png&quot; alt=&quot;edit&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85644" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-06-26T14:49:31.093" LastActivityDate="2019-06-26T14:49:31.093" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6199" CreationDate="2019-06-26T16:44:31.800" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;When it comes to answering questions, I start with a few assumptions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP is genuinely interested in getting an answer, may not be used to thoroughly describing complex problems, and may not be aware of site guidelines or rules which may lead to closure.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a community, our first responsibility is to be helpful to people asking questions (versus, say, being primarily responsible for curating/maintaining the site). Sometimes the best way to serve these people is to close their questions and guide them on how to get the help they need, but other times there may be situations where things aren't as black and white.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given those, in most cases, even if I feel a question has a strong chance of being closed, I will often still post an answer. Sometimes this means posting a general answer and, &lt;em&gt;at the same time,&lt;/em&gt; commenting and asking for clarification - then you can go back later and make the answer more specific if the clarification ever comes. In other cases, this approach may mean answering &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; commenting &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; voting to close, i.e. if the question is potentially a duplicate - you can post an answer, point out potential duplicates in a comment, and ask the OP to clarify if their situation is markedly different. And, of course, there will be cases where an answer isn't appropriate at all, if the question is an obvious duplicate or it's really just so ambiguous that it's unanswerable - but I find this is often not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a different approach than may be typical on other SE sites, but I feel that is appropriate given the nature of TWP. We are much more focused on human problems (versus technology problems). By nature, that means the problems are harder to define (it will not be natural for people to give enough context to distinguish potential dupes, for instance). And, it also means the answers will naturally be less quantitative and factual, and more driven by opinion and experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may make sense to rapidly close (and not answer) questions on a site where there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a black and white manner in which a problem can be defined, and a single right answer that's easily written and verifiable. But I don't think that's always the case on TWP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2019-06-26T16:44:31.800" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6205" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-28T18:56:01.337" Score="7" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user recently &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/139335/how-do-you-track-your-professional-achievements&quot;&gt;posted a question&lt;/a&gt; that asks, &quot;How do you do X?&quot; In the user's profile, there is a link to a software company that makes a paid-subscription product for doing X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user isn't explicitly shilling (or even mentioning) their product in the question, but it seems that they're only asking because of the services they provide - not because they, themselves, are trying to figure out how to do X. While I understand that people selling things like to do research about those things, it seems a little disingenuous to use a Q&amp;amp;A help site aimed at helping people who have real problems to do that research, especially without disclosing to the people providing answers that you're using them for researching your product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't seem to be covered in the site tour or site help that I can find. I did some searching here on Meta and found &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4343/advertising-your-own-product/4344#4344&quot;&gt;one question&lt;/a&gt; asking about people posting &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; related to products they're involved in, but I can't find any guidelines about &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; related to products where the user has a commercial interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2019-07-11T13:43:46.180" Title="Do we have guidelines for commercial research-oriented questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6205" CreationDate="2019-06-28T23:11:55.290" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The primary purpose of StachExchange is to provide information. To those who ask, we provide answers. To those who stumbled upon question while googling, we provide information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP in question, in my view, made an effort to ask the question on-topic, according to rules, and in a clear way. That allowed some people to come up with decent answers (judged by upvotes). When the next person comes along asking the same thing, or when somebody googles and lands on Workplace, they will get help, quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I disagree that &quot;&lt;em&gt;it seems a little disingenuous to use a Q&amp;amp;A help site aimed at helping people who have real problems to do that research&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. The OP in question potentially helped many future people by asking that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45298" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-07-01T12:21:36.560" LastActivityDate="2019-07-01T12:21:36.560" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6205" CreationDate="2019-06-29T07:28:43.810" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;license information in the Stack Exchange footer&lt;/a&gt;, information contributed to the site may be used for commercial purposes as long as both of the following conditions are followed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attribution&lt;/strong&gt; — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ShareAlike&lt;/strong&gt; — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would suggest to me (in the absence of any other guidance) that a question designed for commercial research &lt;strong&gt;should be OK&lt;/strong&gt;, as long as both &lt;em&gt;it's appropriate for the site according to the help center guidelines&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;the answers are used in accordance with the cc by-sa 3.0 license&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously we have no way to enforce that the license is honoured, but I believe we should assume good intentions unless we have evidence to the contrary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64188" LastEditorUserId="64188" LastEditDate="2019-06-29T11:17:58.397" LastActivityDate="2019-06-29T11:17:58.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6208" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-02T03:36:40.493" Score="-1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made edits to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/139442/guides-examples-of-providing-a-software-security-plan-for-a-client-with-a-focus&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; to narrow the scope of the question so it does not read like a &quot;shopping&quot; question which is out of scope per community guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have done a lot of work in cybersecurity and believe can provide a solid answer from past work experience in consulting with clients. Best practices already exist for what the OP is looking for, and I think the &quot;one size fits all&quot; approach being sought is incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we vote to re-open this question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastActivityDate="2019-07-02T10:34:01.320" Title="Request to reopen question" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6208" CreationDate="2019-07-02T10:34:01.320" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is not related to the workplace. This is a technical question about their core business. They should be asking this question on a more technical site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2019-07-02T10:34:01.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6210" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6214" CreationDate="2019-07-02T16:49:58.923" Score="5" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been looking through the tag wikis and many of them are &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tags/email/info&quot;&gt;one-line&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tags/team/info&quot;&gt;blank&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tags/project-management/info&quot;&gt;conflate the excerpt with the rest of the wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compared to &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/tags/minecraft/info&quot;&gt;best&lt;/a&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/tags/scala/info&quot;&gt;practice&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/tags/mac/info&quot;&gt;examples&lt;/a&gt; from other SE sites, our tag wikis could use some love. Better tag wikis can help users understand what is and is not relevant for the site, provide answers to frequently repeated questions, and catalog the best knowledge we've generated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should and should not be included in great tag wikis at The Workplace?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The network has had conversations on tag wikis as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Exchange: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/214337/what-is-a-tag-wiki-how-do-i-write-a-good-one&quot;&gt;What is a tag wiki...?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/120586/examples-of-great-tag-wikis&quot;&gt;Examples of great tag wikis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/69584/tag-wiki-best-practices&quot;&gt;Tag Wiki best practices&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/310872/renovating-the-regex-tag-wiki&quot;&gt;Renovating the [regex] tag wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354920/accept-or-reject-tag-excerpt-simply-defining-the-concept?rq=1&quot;&gt;Accept or reject tag excerpt...?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Super User: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/questions/2349/can-we-please-have-better-tag-wiki-excerpts&quot;&gt;Can we please have better tag wiki excerpts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The blog: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/03/24/redesigned-tags-page/&quot;&gt;Redesigned Tags Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we've discussed it before: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/40/a-note-on-tag-wiki-excerpts&quot;&gt;A note on tag wiki excerpts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5652" LastActivityDate="2019-07-09T12:04:11.823" Title="The tag wikis could use some love. What should a great Workplace tag wiki include?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-wikis|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6210" CreationDate="2019-07-02T17:13:07.170" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could are tag excerpts and wikis use some love? &lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt; But the changes we make need to be helpful and accurate. Don't edit for the sake of editing. I just voted to reject six of the tag edits you suggested in review because I didn't find them helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the excerpts I rejected because of a cyclical definition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tag excerpts amounting to, &quot;[tag] is for questions about [tag]&quot; are pointless and usually rejected. Excerpts should describe why and when a tag would be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply saying the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/termination&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;termination&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;termination&lt;/a&gt; tag should be used for &quot;&lt;em&gt;Questions about terminating employment&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is not at all helpful to someone who doesn't know what termination means. &lt;strong&gt;Instead&lt;/strong&gt;, excerpts should be short one- or two-liners that help to define a tag and how to apply. For example this tag could be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions about involuntarily losing one's job, such as being fired or laid off. Questions about voluntarily leaving a job should use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resignation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resignation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resignation&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also changed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/termination&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;termination&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;termination&lt;/a&gt; definition from being only about involuntary termination (aka firing) to being about both voluntary and involuntary termination. I don't know which version is correct for how we use the tag here (we also have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resignation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resignation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resignation&lt;/a&gt; tag for questions about leaving a job voluntarily), but if you are going to change the meaning of a tag, you need to bring it up in Meta first so the community can agree on a definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, you edited the wikis for two country tags to also include a list of links to every other country tag we have. These tags are not at all relevant and only add clutter to the wiki. Some of the &quot;best-practice&quot; tags you link to include a list of relevant tags, but they should be tags that are often closely linked to one another. Someone who uses the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mac&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mac&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mac&lt;/a&gt; tag may also want to use the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macbook-pro&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macbook-pro&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macbook-pro&lt;/a&gt;. Someone who uses the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-kingdom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-kingdom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-kingdom&lt;/a&gt; is not likely interested in tagging &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/egypt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;egypt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;egypt&lt;/a&gt; as well. Someone tagging &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/california&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;california&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;california&lt;/a&gt; might be interested in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-states&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-states&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-states&lt;/a&gt; tag though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikis should provide more information defining the tag, and possibly include some helpful links, but they should be relevant. Generally useful links might be to canonical questions on Main or Meta that apply to a certain tag (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1025/how-should-i-properly-approach-my-boss-if-im-feeling-underpaid&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7149/how-can-one-resign-from-a-new-job-gracefully&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1856/what-is-asking-for-legal-advice&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6090/april-is-autism-awareness-month&quot;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;). For tags which are only relevant to a specific location (e.g. country tags, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/relieving-letter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;relieving-letter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;relieving-letter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gdpr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gdpr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gdpr&lt;/a&gt;), it would be useful to link to sites on relevant employment laws and government agencies for that location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-07-08T19:02:19.823" LastActivityDate="2019-07-08T19:02:19.823" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6210" CreationDate="2019-07-02T23:11:52.497" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should and should not be included in great tag wikis at The Workplace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&lt;/a&gt;, we can see a description on what should one write on tag wikis (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should I write in the tag wiki?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the guidelines in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/03/24/redesigned-tags-page/&quot;&gt;blog post announcing tag wikis in their current form&lt;/a&gt;. To summarize:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The excerpt is the &lt;strong&gt;elevator pitch&lt;/strong&gt; for the tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Avoid generically defining&lt;/strong&gt; the concept behind a tag, unless it is highly specialized.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Concentrate on &lt;strong&gt;what a tag means to your community&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide &lt;strong&gt;basic guidance&lt;/strong&gt; on when to use the tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that those guidelines are useful for when writing tag wikis and excerpts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-07-02T23:11:52.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6199" CreationDate="2019-07-08T03:18:41.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I race against close votes to answer a question. Sometimes I get easy rep for it. Sometimes OP never comes back, answer or no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never had anybody complain about me answering the question, though I've had a few downvotes I suspected were for answering a bad question. Funny how nobody wants to own up to it. You know what I think. I think if nobody's going to own up to it I'm going to continue, and I think you should too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be fair, I'm likely to vote reopen on such a question that I'm likely to race against the close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29374" LastActivityDate="2019-07-08T03:18:41.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6210" CreationDate="2019-07-09T12:04:11.823" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a composite of what was posted here and discussions on other SE sites that I think offers some practical guidance. Of course, there aren't any hard and fast rules (that I've found) other than the standards that govern contributions across the site - this is a summary of the best guidance I could find across SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Excerpts&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag wiki excerpts &lt;strong&gt;should &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/40/a-note-on-tag-wiki-excerpts&quot;&gt;explain when a tag should be used&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions about advancing one's career as a whole rather than working in a specific job function or company. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/career-development&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;career-development&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;career-development&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag wiki excerpts &lt;strong&gt;should not&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/a/2804/101904&quot;&gt;Define the term&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6210/the-tag-wikis-could-use-some-love-what-should-a-great-workplace-tag-wiki-includ#answer-6211&quot;&gt;Offer a self-referential explanation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Wikis&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag wikis &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/214338/545434&quot;&gt;should stand alone&lt;/a&gt; as a description of the tag and include all of the information needed to understand the excerpt in detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikis &lt;strong&gt;should do&lt;/strong&gt; a number of things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/69584/tag-wiki-best-practices&quot;&gt;Outline the issues related to a topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/120587/545434&quot;&gt;Describe issues or topics that &lt;em&gt;are not&lt;/em&gt; related to the tag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/120587/545434&quot;&gt;Identify related tags&lt;/a&gt;, to aid navigating and selecting tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/69585/545434&quot;&gt;Link to frequently asked questions&lt;/a&gt; with excellent answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/120588/545434&quot;&gt;Link to authoritative outside resources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikis &lt;strong&gt;should not&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/69584/tag-wiki-best-practices&quot;&gt;Provide answers&lt;/a&gt;, answers are for answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/214338/545434&quot;&gt;Replicate or remix content without attribution&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5652" LastActivityDate="2019-07-09T12:04:11.823" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6215" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6216" CreationDate="2019-07-09T22:06:59.880" Score="1" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of my &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6210/5652&quot;&gt;last post&lt;/a&gt; about improving the tag wikis, I’m nominating &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;management&lt;/a&gt; as the first &lt;s&gt;victim&lt;/s&gt; &lt;s&gt;target&lt;/s&gt; &lt;em&gt;opportunity&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;management&lt;/a&gt; is a good place to get started because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It’s a very active tag (in the top 5)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tag wiki and excerpt are both light&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We can (and should) explicitly decide if “the management” (i.e., the managers of a firm) is an appropriate use of the tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some great questions and answers are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;management&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers should be a comprehensive proposal for a revised excerpt and wiki for the tag.&lt;/strong&gt; Alternatively, you should contribute to the community wiki answer with specific additions or improvements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current &lt;strong&gt;excerpt&lt;/strong&gt; reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions relating to situations involving management in the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current &lt;strong&gt;wiki&lt;/strong&gt; reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This tag applies to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;questions about how situations are managed by ones superiors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;questions about how to manage a specific situation either before it&#xA;  arises, or when one is dealing with the consequences.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example,&#xA;  this tag will apply to questions about &lt;a href=&quot;http://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1138/why-would-managers-want-to-keep-it-top-secret-that-an-employee-is-leaving&quot;&gt;why managers might want to keep it secret that an employee is leaving&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here’s to more informative, comprehensive, and interesting tag wikis! Cheers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5652" LastActivityDate="2019-07-16T11:47:25.133" Title="Improving the [management] tag wiki" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-wikis|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6215" CreationDate="2019-07-09T22:06:59.880" Score="1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;management&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Excerpt&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions about the tools and practices of management, including business management, project management, performance management and other management disciplines in the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Wiki&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Management&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is the set of practices, tools, and theories employed in the administration and operation of an organization. Managers formally practice management, but all members of an organization may participate in management activities as part of their role regardless of title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Management is practiced and studied across a number of sub-disciplines, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_management&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Performance management&lt;/a&gt;: The systems and tools that enable managers and employees to measure and understand current performance and improve performance over time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resource_management&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Human resource management&lt;/a&gt;: The strategic efforts to organize and administrate individuals in the workplace to maximize the performance of individuals and the organization&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Project management&lt;/a&gt;: The administration of work, resources, and individuals within a team to accomplish the team’s goals.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Knowledge management&lt;/a&gt;: The administration of creating, documenting, cataloging, and sharing knowledge within an organization.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_management&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Product management&lt;/a&gt;: The administration of planning, forecasting, production, and marketing of a product.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Issues relevant to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;management&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Managers and employees face a number of managerial challenges that are relevant to discussion on The Workplace, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Identifying alternative management tools and practices to employ in situation at work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discussing the benefits and limitations of a specific management practice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recovering from a failure of management or unproductive management practices&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Experimenting with different management practices or testing out new theories&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Understanding the expectations and norms of a management role&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should &lt;strong&gt;consider using a different tag if your question is about:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discussing a situation involving a manager (possibly your direct manager) at a company (use &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manager&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discussing a decision, policy, or action of the upper management of an organization (use &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manager&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Related tags&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/project-management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;project-management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;project-management&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/people-management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;people-management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;people-management&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/micro-management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;micro-management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;micro-management&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Outside resources&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://hbr.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harvard Business Review&lt;/a&gt; - An online and print publication focused on the practice of management of all disciplines&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://sloanreview.mit.edu/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MIT Sloan Management Review&lt;/a&gt; - An online publication similar to the Harvard Business Review&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5652" LastEditorUserId="5652" LastEditDate="2019-07-16T11:47:25.133" LastActivityDate="2019-07-16T11:47:25.133" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2019-07-09T22:06:59.880" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6205" CreationDate="2019-07-11T13:43:46.180" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your question is a good one. Sadly as most things, I don't think we will ever know whether the intent was genuine or not because your questioning via comments seem to have been taken as criticism by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coming at this logically, and with the original intent of Stack Overflow in mind, I believe there is a need for the person asking a question to offer some evidence of how they have tried to solve their own problem first. To me, the question feels a lot like what one might tag &lt;code&gt;[homework]&lt;/code&gt; on SO. What effort did the OP put into finding the answer first? He has said it is extremely important to him. If that's true, I would have expected him to be offering something like 'I tried using a spreadsheet but found it was unwieldy because it grew to be unmanageable' or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from showing little effort, the question itself doesn't cause me any problems but to receive a more welcoming reception (assuming a genuine intent) I would probably have opened the question more like: &quot;I work for a company developing a product which does X, Y, and Z. I'm interested to know how other people do this.&quot; That is instantly being open and honest and I suspect would have been unlikely to even make anyone think twice about whether it's an OK question as it is clearly related to the workplace and careers. If anyone wanted to know what the product was, they would almost certainly try clicking on his profile where they would find the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75377" LastActivityDate="2019-07-11T13:43:46.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6218" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6219" CreationDate="2019-07-15T16:08:12.617" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was posted recently on the main site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/140379/boss-asking-for-proof-for-missing-interview&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/140379/boss-asking-for-proof-for-missing-interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was deleted minutes within getting posted. It managed to record two answers. However, it was deleted by one of the site &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/61096/mister-positive&quot;&gt;admins&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand, users with enough privilege can vote to, and moderators can right-away delete a post. I was not able to determine the reason why the post was deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to know the reason why it was deleted? To make it clear, I am  only interested in knowing the objective reason (violating the site on-topic rules etc.) it was chosen to be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will help me in understanding what kind of questions are and are not good candidates on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97484" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-07-15T18:39:14.553" LastActivityDate="2019-07-15T18:39:14.553" Title="Reasoning behind deleting a question?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6218" CreationDate="2019-07-15T16:13:45.447" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it is not possible, but it &lt;strong&gt;was for good reason&lt;/strong&gt;.  That is all I feel is appropriate to say at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2019-07-15T16:13:45.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6220" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-15T17:25:54.707" Score="0" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/140045/am-i-being-used-more-than-my-job-role-as-a-graphic-designer?noredirect=1#comment452652_140045&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question has a lot, lots of edits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem I've described there is genuine. Some users tried to fix it, but it changed the intention of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I don't know how can I explain it better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it worth 6 down votes even after so many edits? Is there any way to improve it without changing the subject and intention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58562" LastActivityDate="2019-07-16T12:45:30.090" Title="Why is my this question not supported even when I'm facing a genuine problem and trying to explain genuinely?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6220" CreationDate="2019-07-15T18:10:11.060" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't voted, commented, answered, or otherwise participated in your question, but it seems like you're hitting a couple themes that come up from time to time, in terms of questions getting a &quot;bad&quot; response even though the asker is trying their best to be genuine. I hope you don't take any of this personally, and these are just my observations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You spend a lot of time explaining background and setting the stage for your situation. It's clear that you're worked up about the issues you're facing, and I can understand why. But it seems like people on Workplace.SE sometimes get turned off by excessive details, because it leaves the question feeling more like storytelling than actually asking a question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once you do get to your actual question, you're essentially asking &quot;Is this normal?&quot; That's a great thing to wonder about, but it's not really an &lt;em&gt;actionable&lt;/em&gt; question, which seems to be more on-topic for Workplace.SE. People can say yes, or no, or whatever they want, and nothing will really change. There have occasionally been well-received &quot;is this normal&quot; questions, but most of them don't fare well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you browse highly-voted questions with lots of good answers, they tend to follow some slightly different trends:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There may be context, but generally it's short and direct.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The actual question tends to be &lt;em&gt;actionable&lt;/em&gt; in the sense of, &quot;I want to achieve X, how can I do that?&quot; And the upvoted answers are typically actionable as well: &quot;Do X, and expect Y. And here's why.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answers these questions attract tend to be verifiable - if not in the literal, reference-able sense, at least in the sense of aligning with typical workplace experiences.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Importantly, popular questions will fit in a generic workplace context, versus being dependent on a specific employer or situation. Your question is very much mired in your employer's own quirks. Asking &quot;does title X match what my employer is asking of me?&quot; is really not going to have a broad application. Even if we answer based on the details in &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; question, that isn't really helpful to anyone else (unless someone in the &lt;em&gt;exact same&lt;/em&gt; scenario stumbles upon it). People can't identify with questions that are too situationally-specific.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, Stack Exchange sites are question and answer sites, and your question reads more like it's inviting discussion or &quot;thoughts&quot; than a concrete, verifiable, actionable answer. The Q&amp;amp;A format promotes a very mechanical sort of crowd moderation, where people will downvote or vote to close on questions that they don't feel are a good fit, even if they can't directly articulate a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To bring this to a close, you've asked,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there any way to improve it without changing the subject and intention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you have to answer that for yourself. &lt;strong&gt;What are you looking for, from the Stack Exchange community, in terms of a response to your question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there an action you need to take, to solve a problem? If so, edit and describe that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are you trying to determine if you're a good designer? Workplace is probably not the best fit, but it does look like you've asked a question on the graphics design SE site. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you do feel you have a valid workplace question, sometimes it's helpful to start with the end in mind. If you can visualize what a &quot;good&quot; answer looks like to you, then work backwards and try to phrase your question such that it would elicit that sort of response.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if you really are just looking for &quot;thoughts&quot; or validation on how challenging your situation is, you may not be able to rescue your question after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2019-07-15T18:10:11.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6220" CreationDate="2019-07-15T19:47:09.457" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding the votes to close, when your question got put on hold a link to this should have appeared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are specific rules regarding what justifies a closure on this site.  The two that I think are relevant here are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Questions seeking company-specific advice on workplace regulations or policies, or legal advice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Questions that lack a clear goal we can address or focus on ranting about problems rather than trying to solve them&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second reason was applicable to the early iteration of your question.  It was difficult to understand what you were meaning with &quot;do I have to deal with it, doesn't matter it's too bad for you and your self esteem? Or there's something else which can be improved, and which can improve whole situation?&quot; in that all things need to be dealt with in some manner and all situations can be improved.  It was unclear what the goal was here so met the reason for closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first reason was more applicable to the improved iteration.  When asking &quot;do I have to take responsibilities of all things, doesn't matter it's more than your current role (i.e., Am I being used more than my role)? Or it &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; actually my role, handling everything?&quot; specific definitions of what activities fall under what roles is company specific.  As a company specific question it should be closed as off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your intention is to know what the responsibilities of this role are, the question is inherently off-topic for this site and is a better fit in &quot;The Watercooler&quot; or some forum that doesn't follow this rule set.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26235" LastActivityDate="2019-07-15T19:47:09.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6220" CreationDate="2019-07-16T12:45:30.090" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've actually just read your question courtesy of this post - and in the process I've chucked an answer into the mix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why the question appears to be attracting downvotes (it's been getting some upvotes as well FWIW) I'd have to say that while IMO there is a reasonable and answerable question in there (clearly I think so since I've tried to answer it!) I &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; see why people might be downvoting it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It rambles quite a lot - some people aren't fans of long questions at all, others tend to dislike large amounts of backstory&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's borderline ranting in places - I don't think it crosses the line personally but there's definitely places it gets quite close to it. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's a bit repetitive - you ask whether it's normal/acceptable for your employer to ask you to do more than &quot;just&quot; implementing the designs &lt;strong&gt;four&lt;/strong&gt; times. They use different words and phrasings but they are fundamentally the same question. And that just makes it, ironically, harder to understand what you are getting at.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's a little bit lacking in terms of an addressable goal - it's not the clearest what you're actually hoping to achieve with the question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my thoughts - and for what it's worth I &lt;strong&gt;didn't&lt;/strong&gt; down vote the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2019-07-16T12:45:30.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6225" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6226" CreationDate="2019-07-20T04:16:03.747" Score="9" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;I occasionally see question that I think should be migrated to a different SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when voting to close, I really only have one option, and that's to migrate to this meta SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a fair bit of rep. Not an amazing amount, but enough to suggest I have some idea about what I'm voting for. I also know I'm about 85% of the way towards getting access to moderator tools. So that's something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Surely any risk of incorrect migration is mitigated by the fact it requires  moderator intervention.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it implemented in such a way and, apart from the very occasional question that should be in meta, is this feature actually useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JofT7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JofT7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastEditorUserId="59502" LastEditDate="2019-07-27T03:28:58.617" LastActivityDate="2019-07-27T03:28:58.617" Title="How is the vote to migrate option actually useful?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6225" CreationDate="2019-07-21T20:54:35.457" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short answer is that it's useful in cases where people mistakenly post meta questions on the main page. Beyond that it serves no purpose because no other migration paths have been defined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason we don't request new migration paths is that by and large there is no need for them. You can read some additional info on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/261196/when-should-we-consider-adding-a-default-migration-path&quot;&gt;history behind the migration paths here&lt;/a&gt; but the short answer is that they were created at a time that migration was needed daily between closely linked sites. I expect migration is still uses relatively often at core sites due to the sheer volume of questions and the significant overlap, but for the less technical sites like ours, they make no sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the checks on migration requires that you verify up-front whether a question is of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/91446/260382&quot;&gt;sufficient quality to migrate&lt;/a&gt; and that you are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/79961/260382&quot;&gt;aware of the scope of the target site&lt;/a&gt; to know that the question would be on-topic. It is next to impossible to enforce this if users were able to vote on migrations, but it is possible to do quality control when only moderators get this ability and they can be held responsible for the migrations they do. Migrations are very rare as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition the number of paths is limited so we couldn't possibly cover everything even if we wanted to set up migration paths and migrations themselves are so rare that it doesn't make much sense to go through all that trouble. Allowing user-led &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86928/migrate-to-any-site&quot;&gt;migration to any site&lt;/a&gt; has also been discussed before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recommended approach remains to &lt;strong&gt;flag a question with a custom close reason recommending a migration&lt;/strong&gt; to another site. Keep in mind that &lt;strong&gt;the vast majority of these flags are declined&lt;/strong&gt;. Only rarely have I run into a high-quality question that was off-topic here but on-topic on another site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2019-07-21T20:54:35.457" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6227" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-21T22:08:04.933" Score="1" ViewCount="629" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/140813/107097&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/140813/107097&lt;/a&gt;) that got deleted. Why was it removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22656" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-07-23T12:07:21.603" LastActivityDate="2019-07-23T12:07:21.603" Title="What happened to the manager poaching question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6227" CreationDate="2019-07-21T22:46:51.187" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was deleted as &quot;spam or offensive,&quot; presumably because it appears to promote a commercial interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4781" LastActivityDate="2019-07-21T22:46:51.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-22T06:25:46.643" Score="-6" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some Stack Exchange sites seem to be more sensitive to country and sometimes states in countries like the US. I think Workplace.SE and Law.SE are two of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are two sample question, and lots more exist (&lt;em&gt;ad nauseam&lt;/em&gt;?): &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/140831/25792&quot;&gt;Is it better to have a 10 year gap or a bad reference?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/2525/25792&quot;&gt;Side-stepping age discrimination with graduation year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please require a country tag for all questions on the site. Or at least all questions that originate on Workplace.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user25792" LastActivityDate="2019-07-22T11:51:28.280" Title="Please require a country tag for all questions" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6229" CreationDate="2019-07-22T06:50:00.723" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disagree.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25/should-we-have-country-specific-tags&quot;&gt;good case for using country tags when applicable&lt;/a&gt; since we are a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3216/25739&quot;&gt;global network&lt;/a&gt;, that doesn't mean we should always require them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been suggestions to make the location tags more visible towards both question askers and other users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5878/feature-request-prompt-to-include-a-requerst-to-include-country-of-origin&quot;&gt;Feature request: Prompt to include a requerst to include country of origin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2607/is-there-anything-we-can-do-to-highlight-the-country-culture-specific-tags&quot;&gt;Is there anything we can do to highlight the country/culture specific tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3631/should-we-make-country-tags-visually-distinct/3704#3704&quot;&gt;Should we make country tags visually distinct?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But beyond this, it makes no sense to make them obligatory, even if we could which is far from certain. There are plenty of questions that are cross-cultural or that are specific to a particular region of the world without being location specific. In the same vein a lot of US questions make no sense without specifying a state while that concept doesn't apply for most of the rest of the world. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/420/is-everything-a-localised-issue-here?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Not everything is a localised issue here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2019-07-22T11:51:28.280" LastActivityDate="2019-07-22T11:51:28.280" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6227" CreationDate="2019-07-22T06:53:47.640" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It attracted a strong negative reception including spam flags because it promoted a particular store. It also didn't ask a very clear question and there was suspicion that it didn't contain an authentic question and served only to advertise the store. While that commercial interest was obviously disclosed, overall &lt;strong&gt;the moderator team confirmed the spam flags and thus it was deleted&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2019-07-22T06:53:47.640" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6233" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6245" CreationDate="2019-07-23T03:12:11.457" Score="18" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;On most sites on the network, it takes six red flags (spam or rude) to delete a question or answer.  In December 2016, two sites that were getting a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of spam had the threshold lowered from six to three.  Ours is one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few things have changed since then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our spam levels are no longer through the roof.  We get less spam than Meta.SE (which never had a lowered threshold) and we're on par with other sites.  We average about 1-2 posts per day that are deleted by red flags.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/291301/162102&quot;&gt;Charcoal project&lt;/a&gt; has gotten a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; more effective.  A team of active users from across the network, combined with software that's very accurate, kills most of the obvious spam within minutes.  The borderline stuff still requires more review, which takes time, but most of our recent spam was not borderline, and if it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; borderline, it's ok if it hangs around until users can review it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The other site that had this lowered threshold &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13321/8816&quot;&gt;just went back to the default threshold&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shall we do likewise?  I don't think we need the special exception any more, especially if we're the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; site on the network that has it (which can be confusing -- see the question that that link is an answer to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the most-obvious spam, handling time wouldn't actually change -- currently Charcoal casts only one flag and requires users to provide the other two.  With the higher threshold, Charcoal would cast four flags, requiring users to provide the other two.  This is how it works on every other site.  The obvious spam will get deleted as quickly as it does now.  The &lt;em&gt;borderline&lt;/em&gt; spam might take a little longer, but I don't expect it to be excessive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything I've said about spam flags applies to rude flags too, though the vast majority of red-flag deletions here are spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="41738" LastEditDate="2019-07-24T16:17:49.263" LastActivityDate="2019-07-24T16:18:16.763" Title="Do we still need the lower threshold for spam/rude deletions?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|flagging|spam|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6233" CreationDate="2019-07-23T11:23:47.307" Score="15" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do we still need the lower threshold for spam/rude deletions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the numbers outlined in your question, I don't believe we need any special attention. Also, considering our community is strong and our moderation team is solid I think we can revert our site back to the normal threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My two cents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2019-07-23T14:39:22.363" LastActivityDate="2019-07-23T14:39:22.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6233" CreationDate="2019-07-23T17:39:44.863" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like it's an appropriate time to recalibrate. &lt;strong&gt;The trend is pretty clear on spam:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bi9lu.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bi9lu.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dHLTx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dHLTx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/646101/deleted-spam-offensive-posts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Data from SEDE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5652" LastActivityDate="2019-07-23T17:39:44.863" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6237" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6238" CreationDate="2019-07-23T18:05:00.980" Score="10" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, a few day ago I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/140855/is-it-ok-to-accept-a-job-opportunity-while-planning-on-not-taking-it&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and it kind of blew up, way more than I expected, and I don't know what the best practice is for this situation. I find an answer that feel is the best one, even though it's not the most popular. I plan on accepting it, but since the question is still highly viewed, should I wait to see if someone puts something similar but with an approach I might find better? Or should I validate it ASAP?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95733" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-07-23T18:09:09.957" LastActivityDate="2019-07-23T18:19:00.767" Title="Is it ok to wait to accept an answer?" Tags="|discussion|best-practice|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6237" CreationDate="2019-07-23T18:17:27.677" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, thanks for following up on your question and asking about your situation! It's always great to see users who are actively involved in their question. We much more often run into the opposite problem - of users never accepting an answer or accepting one immediately before more answers can come in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always recommend that users wait at least 24 hours before picking an answer, so that people around the world have a chance to see the question and post an answer. You are more asking the opposite question though - how long is acceptable to wait. The honest answer is, as long as you want! If you want to wait to allow more users an opportunity to post, there's no problem with that. On the other hand, if you see an answer you're really happy with now, then you are welcome to choose that now too. You can always go back and choose a different answer if you change your mind. The biggest thing is not put it off so long that you forget about it and never select an answer. I would say a week is more than enough to for most questions to allow the traffic to die down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a related note, since your question has been getting attention, you might find that more than one answer is helpful for you. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3762/16983&quot;&gt;Here's another Meta post&lt;/a&gt; on what to do if you have multiple answers you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope you've found helpful advice here, and welcome!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2019-07-23T18:17:27.677" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6237" CreationDate="2019-07-23T18:19:00.767" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can accept an answer when you receive one that solves your problem.  If a better answer comes along later you can accept that one instead.  It's a good idea to give the community a day or so to answer before accepting -- basically, give people in all timezones a shot at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepting an answer signals to the community that &lt;em&gt;you're&lt;/em&gt; satisfied.  An accepted answer might lead some people to not add new answers and invest their time on other questions, but it doesn't prevent new answers.  Somebody who has a better solution might still post it for the benefit of the community -- and you, if you're still paying attention to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepting an answer is never required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-07-23T18:19:00.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6240" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6241" CreationDate="2019-07-23T20:31:36.067" Score="5" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question comes from seeing this on some user's profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yPjZ5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yPjZ5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was previously aware that one could get suspended if one breaks the Code of Conduct, behaves rudely, posts spam, etc., but never have I seen users being suspended for &quot;low-quality contributions&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How does this procedure works exactly?&lt;/em&gt; What triggers the suspension, or is it done manually by our esteemed Mods?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am confused as I see that the user in question has also good posts (one even with more than 20 votes), so it escapes me why this user got suspended. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2019-07-23T21:22:53.010" Title="What is and how does it work to be &quot;suspended for low-quality contributions&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6240" CreationDate="2019-07-23T21:22:53.010" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually if you see that suspension reason, there's a lot of deleted content too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes users struggle with asking questions.  The community tries to help but new questions show the same problems.  Sometimes there are several per day.  If counseling the user isn't helping, the next step is usually a time-out to encourage the user to read our guidelines.  Suspensions are not meant to be &lt;em&gt;punitive&lt;/em&gt; but to &lt;em&gt;stop problematic behavior&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A notice like the one you saw is the result of moderator action.  If a user's &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; several questions are downvoted, closed, and/or deleted, automatic throttles kick in and then a question block if the throttle didn't lead to improvement.  However, there is a reputation level (I don't know what it is) beyond which these throttles and blocks don't apply.  The assumption is that new users are the ones who are going to run into this problem; however, the system doesn't take into account the possibility of a &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; question becoming hot and highly-voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a user gets (un)lucky and earns privileges -- like dodging the automatic quality controls -- before really learning how the site works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-07-23T21:22:53.010" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6242" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-23T23:00:38.207" Score="1" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I frequently see an &lt;a href=&quot;https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Appeal_to_identity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;appeal to identity&lt;/a&gt; in answers and comments - especially &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22manager+myself%22&quot;&gt;&quot;As a manager myself...&quot;&lt;/a&gt; - including &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/137857/is-having-a-boss-this-rude-normal/137864#137864&quot;&gt;my own&lt;/a&gt;. I've had a variety of reactions ranging from seeing the appeal as way of qualifying an answer to seeing it as a poorly-veiled brag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the professional setting, I've understood appeals to identity to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/ENGL1311/fallacies.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;unhelpful&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/137857/is-having-a-boss-this-rude-normal/137864#137864&quot;&gt;unnecessary&lt;/a&gt;. However, given the frequency that I see them in well-liked answers and from well-reputed members, I'm curious about the rationale for both including and avoiding such an appeal in posts here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way these statements can be interpreted to be enhancing answers and comments? Or are they something to avoid (and substitute with a different reference/analysis)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5652" LastEditorUserId="5652" LastEditDate="2019-07-23T23:26:12.173" LastActivityDate="2019-07-29T19:19:00.167" Title="&quot;As a manager myself...&quot; Do appeals to identity improve or diminish answers?" Tags="|discussion|comments|answers|quality|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6242" CreationDate="2019-07-23T23:11:15.343" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a way these statements can be interpreted to be enhancing answers and comments? Or are they something to avoid (or substitute with a different reference/analysis)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting Monica on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2886/73791&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, emphasis mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mentioning your position and experience is exactly right here&lt;/strong&gt;. Please keep doing that. If you're answering a question about what interviewers do, &lt;strong&gt;explaining your background&lt;/strong&gt; in interviewing/hiring &lt;strong&gt;is highly relevant&lt;/strong&gt;. Some questions require different kinds of backing-up (like data), but &lt;strong&gt;many of our questions can be addressed through experience&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with that statement. Here in TWP sometimes experience is more relevant than a documentation or &quot;official source&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, we do have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/255/73791&quot;&gt;back it up policy&lt;/a&gt;. That can be done by quoting relevant sources or well, backing it up with your experience on the subject. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just be careful not to phrase it in an arrogant way, as that can indeed trigger negative responses from the readers. In practice, I try to do both: provide a reference source if able and/or provide a personal experience or knowledge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2019-07-23T23:11:15.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6242" CreationDate="2019-07-24T00:29:29.037" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The position on opinion-based answers (and Workplace is heavily opinion-based, and we seem to accept it) is that you have to back it up with personal evidence. Similar to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6683/how-should-i-provide-examples-of-experience-as-support-for-my-answer&quot;&gt;Roleplaying policy&lt;/a&gt;, we want practical advice, from people with similar experience, not theoretical knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, stating that you have been in similar situation, and played particular role (manager or subordinate), is important for the answer. The difference, I guess is between:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;As a manger I dealt with that situation in the following way and it ended with X&quot; &lt;em&gt;versus&lt;/em&gt; &quot;As a manager I think that the right answer is Z&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, today the spectrum of &quot;management&quot; is extremely wide and that title includes people from those who oversee work of 1 other person, to CEOs of multi-national corporations. So calling yourself manager doesn't sound like a great badge of honor to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45298" LastActivityDate="2019-07-24T00:29:29.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6233" CreationDate="2019-07-24T16:18:16.763" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems pretty reasonable and it's a quick and easy change so... it's done.  I've spoken with Charcoal to ensure that the autoflagging is raised to four as discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for having this discussion and for letting us restore the entire network to the default!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13321/8816&quot;&gt;As I noted on English&lt;/a&gt;, if there's a huge increase of blatantly problematic content that isn't handled reasonably quickly, feel free to reach out to us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41738" LastActivityDate="2019-07-24T16:18:16.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6246" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-25T04:57:56.917" Score="-1" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;My impression across SE stacks is that questions get put on hold and almost never get voted to reopen. Can we have a disclaimer on closed question that gives hope to the OP, that says something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;put on hold as too broad by [...] 10 hours ago&#xA;  Please edit the question to limit it to a specific problem with enough&#xA;  detail to identify an adequate answer. Avoid asking multiple distinct&#xA;  questions at once. See the How to Ask page for help clarifying this&#xA;  question. If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the&#xA;  help center, please edit the question.&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;After editing, you can post on meta to request reopen, please use tag &lt;code&gt;reopen-request&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45298" LastActivityDate="2019-07-25T12:48:18.717" Title="Instruction to reopen doesn't include &quot;post at meta&quot;" Tags="|feature-request|closed-questions|reopening|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6246" CreationDate="2019-07-25T07:41:58.983" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The usual process is for them to edit, which puts it into the reopen review queue. Posting on meta should not be necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe giving guidance to edit is all that is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this answer over on the main meta.SE:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/215375/154443&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/215375/154443&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are multiple ways you can draw attention to a closed post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing a closed post will result in it appearing in the re-open review queue for people who can reopen posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could flag the post with a custom reason to get a moderator to look at but this is not the preferred method to gain attention to your post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-07-25T12:48:18.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6248" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6249" CreationDate="2019-07-28T20:35:00.420" Score="0" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apologia again for the bother. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6227/107097&quot;&gt;These answers&lt;/a&gt; refer to a &quot;commercial interest&quot;, but I removed all brand names in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/141179/107097&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/141179/107097&lt;/a&gt;. Thus what's wrong now? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22656" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2019-07-29T00:12:32.947" LastActivityDate="2019-07-29T00:12:32.947" Title="Why was my second question on poaching, without brands this time, deleted?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6248" CreationDate="2019-07-29T00:12:24.123" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was deleted by the community as spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have made some edits to your question to remove unnecessary links that appear promotional, including the jobs site you used and the specific offer you're making when you approach people.  What specific salary you're offering isn't central to your question, which is about how to approach store managers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-07-29T00:12:24.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6242" CreationDate="2019-07-29T19:19:00.167" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are two similar but subtly different things to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stating an identity as a way to &lt;strong&gt;justify or back up your answer,&lt;/strong&gt; by showing that you've had experience with it. I think this use case is what the other answers are describing. While I understand the desire for people to &quot;justify&quot; an answer by stating their experience, personally I feel it's a little weak to do that by simply starting your key sentence with &lt;em&gt;&quot;as a manager, I...&quot;&lt;/em&gt; as in, &lt;em&gt;&quot;as a manager, I would never do X&quot;&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;&quot;as a manager I would suggest Y&quot;&lt;/em&gt; - which seems to be all that's done in some answers. Instead, I think it's more appropriate to just state your position, and then back it up by explaining your experience, versus just tacking an &quot;I've been a manager&quot; identity onto the answer - as if saying that you're a manager is, in and of itself, justifying your answer, without any further backup. If you take this approach to an extreme, you don't really need to even call out the &quot;manager&quot; identity, you can just provide your answer and describe your experiences - the identity becomes secondary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stating an identity as a way to &lt;strong&gt;frame your answer from a specific perspective.&lt;/strong&gt; This, to me, is entirely different, because the identity can help frame the perspective of the answer. This is important to do in many questions that deal with multiple frames of reference - for instance, many of us have sat on both sides of the interview table - when answering a question about interviewing, it can be helpful to provide a frame of reference, i.e. to state whether you're speaking from the interviewer's perspective, or the interviewee's.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm posting this answer because I think the two possible reasons for stating an identity that you've suggested (either as qualifying an answer or as bragging) don't take this second point into consideration, and for me, this second point is the most useful reason to state an identity in an answer. A majority of Workplace questions are based on inter-personal relationships (interviewer-interviewee, or boss-employee, or coworker-coworker) so it can be very helpful to frame an answer from a given perspective - &lt;strong&gt;especially&lt;/strong&gt; when the person asking the question is asking because they're only seeing things from &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; of the two involved perspectives. For instance, someone may be asking a question that basically sound like, &lt;em&gt;&quot;why is my boss making me do X&quot;&lt;/em&gt; - in which case, it can be helpful to provide an answer of &lt;em&gt;as a boss, it's important to...&lt;/em&gt; - in this case, the answerer may not be literally using &quot;as a boss&quot; as a way to &lt;em&gt;justify&lt;/em&gt; or back up the answer, but rather as a way to &lt;strong&gt;indicate that they are trying to provide perspective&lt;/strong&gt; that's different than the one the asker naturally sees themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2019-07-29T19:19:00.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6252" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6253" CreationDate="2019-07-31T22:47:06.237" Score="5" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently it came to my attention that we have both &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/applications&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;applications&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;applications&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/applying&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;applying&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;applying&lt;/a&gt; tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first one has currently 676 questions and a brief excerpt, but the other one has only 38 posts and lacks an excerpt and wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I see it, having both tags seems redundant; it would seem adequate to keep only &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/applications&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;applications&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;applications&lt;/a&gt; tag. Also, having both tags is confusing, and results in misuse of such (currently, I see that the tags are used arbitrarily and even both at the same time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we proceed to retag/merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/applying&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;applying&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;applying&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/applications&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;applications&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;applications&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt; If we reach a consensus I can gladly do the re-tagging. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternative I can think is to make a &lt;em&gt;synonym&lt;/em&gt;, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/applying&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;applying&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;applying&lt;/a&gt; points to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/applications&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;applications&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;applications&lt;/a&gt;. In that case, we would require to reach consensus and to propose and vote on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tags/applications/synonyms&quot;&gt;synonimization&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2019-08-05T19:21:57.040" Title="Merge [applications] and [applying] tags; should we go for it?" Tags="|discussion|retag-request|synonym-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6252" CreationDate="2019-08-01T01:13:11.500" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Support&lt;/strong&gt;. Seems like an obvious synonym. Note that there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/70710/what-are-tag-synonyms-and-merged-tags-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;automated systems in place for a community-led synonym to be created&lt;/a&gt; but not for merges. If consensus here is positive just flag this question for moderator attention though I expect one of us will get around to this when they see it later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT This is now done. Not too much visibility on this question but no negative responses so that's consensus to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;updating post history, 43 rows affected (pipe delimited)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;updating posts, 38 rows affected  (pipe delimited)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;updating PostTags associations, 22 rows affected&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;destroying 'applying': [applying] removed from (0 post, 0 history, 1 tag)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;total: 1 tags deleted, 0 posts modified, 0 post histories modified&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;0 history records had empty tags; retagged to [untagged]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;0 post records had empty tags; retagged to [untagged]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;updating count for target tag, new count: 699&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tag remapping of [applications] and [applying] complete!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;remapping 0 synonyms&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 favorite and ignored tags remapped!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;0 tracked tag badges were remapped!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleting Synonym applying -&amp;gt; job-search&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag Synonym applying -&amp;gt; applications was approved!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-08-05T19:21:57.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6252" CreationDate="2019-08-01T11:58:14.587" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, please do this! I had &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms?tab=Newest&amp;amp;filter=Suggested&quot;&gt;previously submitted a synonym request&lt;/a&gt; to map &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/applying&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;applying&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;applying&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/job-search&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;job-search&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;job-search&lt;/a&gt; before realizing that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/applications&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;applications&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;applications&lt;/a&gt; was a better fit. If we do this via community rather than moderators, I think that synonym will need to first be down-voted so it can be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2019-08-01T11:58:14.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6255" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6260" CreationDate="2019-08-02T09:36:16.503" Score="9" ViewCount="297" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ghosting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ghosting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ghosting&lt;/a&gt; currently has 2 questions, no wiki, and no usage description. One of the questions is closed as too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we either remove it for lack of necessity or add a proper description to prevent misuse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26901" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-08-02T12:31:04.420" LastActivityDate="2019-08-05T17:01:36.970" Title="Should we fix or burninate [ghosting]" Tags="|discussion|tags|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6256" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6257" CreationDate="2019-08-02T15:26:38.003" Score="0" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;While tagging some questions with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lgbtq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lgbtq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lgbtq&lt;/a&gt; tag, I noticed we also have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gender&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gender&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gender&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current description of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gender&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gender&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gender&lt;/a&gt; tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions relating to gender, gender identity, and being part of a workplace dominated by a different gender than one's own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of time of writing, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lgbtq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lgbtq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lgbtq&lt;/a&gt; tag does not have a description (in fact, before I started tagging some questions with it, it only had 5 questions on it). I suggested the following (it is currently being reviewed):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions specific to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer employees. Consider adding a location tag, since local cultural or legal norms will most likely have an impact on the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I realize when it comes to transgender issues, there is an overlap between these two tags. We are dealing with a question clearly part of &quot;gender identity&quot;, but also by definition part of the LGBTQ group. So the question is how transgender issues should be tagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have the following assumptions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are issues specific and common to LGBTQ employees; for example, in some jurisdictions they may be members of the same protected class. They may have issues with coming out and being harassed because of their identity. Therefore it makes sense to have a tag for them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Transgender employees face some issues that LGB employees do not share.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gender&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gender&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gender&lt;/a&gt; tag has such a broad scope that it is necessary to keep it and not delete it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the alternatives I am seeing are the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Removing the &quot;gender identity&quot; aspect from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gender&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gender&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gender&lt;/a&gt; tag, potentially necessitating retagging some questions. Tag transgender-topic questions as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lgbtq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lgbtq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lgbtq&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Removing the &quot;gender identity&quot; aspect from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gender&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gender&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gender&lt;/a&gt; tag, potentially necessitating retagging some questions. Tag transgender-topic questions as a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/transgender&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transgender&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transgender&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tag transgender-topic questions with only &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gender&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gender&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gender&lt;/a&gt; and not &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lgbtq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lgbtq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lgbtq&lt;/a&gt;. It would then be sensible to remove the &quot;t&quot; from the &quot;lgbtq&quot; tag, which, however, is completely contrary to the common usage of the acronym.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous discussion on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gender&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gender&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gender&lt;/a&gt; tag: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2767/should-we-add-a-gender-tag&quot;&gt;Should we add a &amp;quot;gender&amp;quot; tag?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="104915" LastEditorUserId="104915" LastEditDate="2019-08-23T10:17:18.547" LastActivityDate="2019-08-23T10:17:18.547" Title="How should questions about transgender issues be tagged?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6256" CreationDate="2019-08-02T16:21:31.840" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't see any issues with how the tags are currently being used.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gender&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gender&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gender&lt;/a&gt; applies to all questions related to gender, including sexism, discrimination, being a minority, and transgender issues. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lgbtq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lgbtq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lgbtq&lt;/a&gt; tag applies to questions relating to sexual orientation and gender identity. It would then be appropriate to use &lt;strong&gt;both tags&lt;/strong&gt; for questions about being transgender in the workplace. Editing either of the tags to remove transgender topics would be needlessly restrictive, especially considering how many other tags have overlaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2019-08-02T16:21:31.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6255" CreationDate="2019-08-04T12:10:57.723" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not everyone knows what &quot;ghosting&quot; means. However it's an apt and succinct word to describe a phenomena that is fairly common and that leaves victims blindsided about what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a nice, compact word that is optimal for a Tag. The problem, I guess, is that not enough people know what it means. In Google Trends, &lt;a href=&quot;https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&amp;amp;geo=US&amp;amp;q=ghosting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the term seems to be roughly increasing in usage since 2015-ish&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it doesn't hurt to keep it, it will eventually get more use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would instead considering dropping &quot;burninate&quot;-- that's actually a word that almost no one knows about. The etymology appears to be from a web-based comic-strip, &quot;Homestar Runner&quot;?? Never heard about it. The only way I can guess what it means is by seeing it's context. It also comes off the tongue very awkwardly. Burninate deserves to be burninated. What an ugly word!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7572" LastEditorUserId="7572" LastEditDate="2019-08-04T12:17:16.433" LastActivityDate="2019-08-04T12:17:16.433" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6255" CreationDate="2019-08-05T14:11:03.017" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a reason to keep this tag. It currently is being used on two questions, one if which is closed. It is an overly-specific tag which won't really be helpful to users. Ghosting is really just a lack of communication, so the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/communication&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;communication&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;communication&lt;/a&gt; tag would be applicable instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2019-08-05T14:11:03.017" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6255" CreationDate="2019-08-05T17:01:36.970" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the consensus and votes here seems that the tag should be gone. I agree with what David said in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6259/73791&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer, so I proceeded to swap 'ghosting' for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/communication&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;communication&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;communication&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0jYoR.png&quot; alt=&quot;trogdor&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2019-08-05T17:01:36.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6261" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6265" CreationDate="2019-08-05T19:32:30.730" Score="-2" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;While looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms?tab=Newest&amp;amp;filter=Suggested&quot;&gt;suggested tag synonyms&lt;/a&gt; I noticed two that could potentially themselves be merged into the broader &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/termination&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;termination&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;termination&lt;/a&gt; tag: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layoff&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layoff&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layoff&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redundancy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redundancy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redundancy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter two have 80 and 38 questions respectively while the broader tag has 300+. Redundancy lacks a tag description while layoff has one that doesn't actually accurately capture the concept of being laid off as opposed to being fired (for performance issues). Termination's description covers both types of involuntarily ending to a job as well as quitting/resigning. Not sure about that either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At present &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/firing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;firing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;firing&lt;/a&gt; redirects to termination so to be consistent we should probably merge these two tags in as well. Unless we'd like to have a distinct tag for lay-offs in which case I'd say we should keep the more common US term of  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layoff&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layoff&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layoff&lt;/a&gt; and merge the mostly British term &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redundancy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redundancy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redundancy&lt;/a&gt; into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Update&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the overall support for mapping between redundancy and layoff, this synonym is now approved. A suggested one from layoff &amp;gt; redundancy existed with +2 score that I swapped around, then confirmed via merger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag wikis have been adjusted as well. &lt;strong&gt;Suggested usage now:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/termination&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;termination&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;termination&lt;/a&gt;: firing [a lot of questions will still use this generically]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layoff&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layoff&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layoff&lt;/a&gt;: not-for-cause termination&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quitting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quitting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quitting&lt;/a&gt;: at employee's initiaitve&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;updating post history, 50 rows affected (pipe delimited)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;updating posts, 39 rows affected  (pipe delimited)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;updating PostTags associations, 32 rows affected&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;destroying 'redundancy': [redundancy] removed from (0 post, 0 history, 1 tag)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;total: 1 tags deleted, 0 posts modified, 0 post histories modified&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;0 history records had empty tags; retagged to [untagged]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;0 post records had empty tags; retagged to [untagged]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;updating count for target tag, new count: 112&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tag remapping of [layoff] and [redundancy] complete!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;remapping 0 synonyms&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;0 favorite and ignored tags remapped!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;0 tracked tag badges were remapped!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag Synonym redundancy -&amp;gt; layoff was approved!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-08-23T09:56:39.127" Title="Tag Merge - redundancy to layoff or both to termination" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6262" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6263" CreationDate="2019-08-06T06:19:53.420" Score="5" ViewCount="416" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had 7 serial downvotes reversed yesterday - which is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this morning already I have just received another downvote...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is does a serial downvoter ever get caught and if they do, what happens?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75821" LastActivityDate="2019-08-06T07:34:21.697" Title="Serial downvoting reversed, but downvoter continues today, any consequence to a serial downvoter or is it just the poster who suffers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6262" CreationDate="2019-08-06T07:34:21.697" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please see the help page for serial voting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/serial-voting-reversed&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/serial-voting-reversed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What if I think I'm the victim of voting abuse?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see very unusual votes being targeted at your account, don't worry about it. You should wait at least 24 hours after noticing before becoming concerned, as the automated system should detect it and reverse it for you. If, after 24 hours, you do not see any fix to your reputation, please contact the team using the &amp;quot;contact us&amp;quot; form located at the bottom of any page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this happens more than you believe is reasonable, then please use the &amp;quot;Contact Us&amp;quot; link at the bottom of the page to have site administrators look into the situation and guide/act as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually, this is caused by someone being spiteful and the behaviour stops when they find out it isn't really having any effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-08-06T07:34:21.697" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6261" CreationDate="2019-08-06T10:20:33.597" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layoff&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layoff&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layoff&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redundancy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redundancy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redundancy&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are basically two terms with the same general meaning: the loss of job or the reduction of hours due to financial problems in the workplace. The loss of job isn't related to the employees performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2019-08-06T10:20:33.597" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6261" CreationDate="2019-08-06T12:13:02.923" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed with &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6264/16983&quot;&gt;mhoran_psprep's answer&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layoff&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layoff&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layoff&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redundancy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redundancy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redundancy&lt;/a&gt; should be merged. The fact that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layoff&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layoff&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layoff&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redundancy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redundancy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redundancy&lt;/a&gt; mean the same thing in the US but different things in the UK is an indication to me that they &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be merged. If they are kept separate, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/layoff&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;layoff&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;layoff&lt;/a&gt; tag would &quot;correctly&quot; contain both questions about job elimination in the US and seasonal labor in the UK, while the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redundancy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redundancy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redundancy&lt;/a&gt; tag would contain only questions about job elimination in the UK (&lt;em&gt;ignoring other countries for the moment&lt;/em&gt;). Since the two definitions are still fairly similar, better to combine them to avoid the confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also want to emphasize that these should &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; be redirected to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/termination&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;termination&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;termination&lt;/a&gt;. Redundancy and lay-offs are a specific type of termination. Specifically it's for situations where a position was eliminated due to business reasons and does not directly reflect on employee performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Firing&quot; and &quot;termination&quot; are broader terms that don't necessarily indicate either way the cause of being removed from your job. You could be fired-for-cause, laid-off, or just not given a reason at all (particularly in at-will locations). I agree that the two terms are synonymous, but I do not think they should replace redundancy/layoffs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-08-06T17:18:58.657" LastActivityDate="2019-08-06T17:18:58.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6261" CreationDate="2019-08-06T13:40:09.323" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tags should NOT be merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The understanding of the meanings of these terms varies by locality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not going through firing etc as that does not seem to have any issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &quot;Layoff&quot; and &quot;Redundancy&quot; do have a separate meaning in the UK as I understand from being employed there and seeing colleagues loose their jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being &quot;Laid off&quot; means the contract ends, an easy example is seasonal work such as fruit picking or snow clearing ie, once the season ends then the work stops, usually on a given date. The worker then finds other work for the next season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Redundancy means that the post is being discontinued and the worker is entitled to compensation, the amount of which is usually based on recognition of the skills and the time served. There are claims in court where the company has to prove the post no longer exists and often, they cannot... So, a colleague of mine was being made redundant (he was close to retirement anyway) and was actually quite happy since the redundancy pay was significant due to his time served which meant he could, in fact, retire early.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, these should be separate, at least for the UK, but if the tags are for the USA only then I won't be using those tags. Well, I don't use tags as I don't ask many questions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75821" LastActivityDate="2019-08-06T13:40:09.323" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6261" CreationDate="2019-08-07T13:41:08.320" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree that &quot;layoff&quot; and &quot;redundancy&quot; have a similar meaning in the &lt;strong&gt;US&lt;/strong&gt;. The answer from Solar Mike describes the difference in the UK. Given there's a clear difference in the use of the terms, they should remain separate tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Layoff&lt;/strong&gt;: The collective dismissal of a group of employees, likely due to needs of the organization unrelated to the behavior or performance of the employees themselves. &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tags/termination/info&quot;&gt;-Termination tag wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Redundancy&lt;/strong&gt;: The determination that two roles are grossly similar and not mutually required during the integration of an organization following an acquisition or merger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5652" LastEditorUserId="5652" LastEditDate="2019-08-07T22:42:13.860" LastActivityDate="2019-08-07T22:42:13.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6268" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2019-08-07T15:42:19.353" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2019-08-07T15:42:19.353" LastActivityDate="2019-08-07T15:42:19.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6269" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2019-08-07T15:42:19.353" Score="0" Body="Tag for questions and discussion regarding the usage of tags on the main site, including any processes regarding them, such as burination, creation, deletion, etc. Use in combination with another tag, such as burination-request, or retag-request." OwnerUserId="106802" LastEditorUserId="106802" LastEditDate="2019-08-08T22:19:20.587" LastActivityDate="2019-08-08T22:19:20.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6270" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2019-08-08T05:03:29.833" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt; (SEDE).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/introducing-stack-exchange-data-explorer/&quot;&gt;Introducing Stack Exchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, a post on the Stack Overflow blog.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/help#faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/2677&quot;&gt;Database schema documentation for the public data dump and SEDE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/tutorial/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE Tutorial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/49943&quot;&gt;Interesting queries on Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/239639&quot;&gt;What SEDE examples would be most useful to new users?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is worth mentioning that the data in SEDE are updated &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/145697/when-will-data-se-get-updated-data&quot;&gt;once a week&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a small inquiry or want advice/discuss before you ask a question (or post an answer) you're welcome in the chatroom &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/1223/data-explorer-sede&quot;&gt;Data Explorer (SEDE)&lt;/a&gt; (on MSE Chat) or &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/13526/sede-stack-exchange-data-explorer&quot;&gt;SEDE - Stack Exchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt; (on SE Chat)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25237" LastEditorUserId="25237" LastEditDate="2019-08-08T22:18:58.780" LastActivityDate="2019-08-08T22:18:58.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6271" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2019-08-08T05:03:29.833" Score="0" Body="The Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE), located at data.stackexchange.com, allows you to create and run queries against copies of the databases of popular Stack Exchange sites to investigate trends or satisfy your curiosity." OwnerUserId="25237" LastEditorUserId="25237" LastEditDate="2019-08-08T22:18:48.013" LastActivityDate="2019-08-08T22:18:48.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6272" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-09T14:48:48.133" Score="10" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a new member who posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/141845/interview-and-job-search-burnout-advice&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; - it was put on hold as too broad, and rightly so, since it was incredibly brief and generic. Two other members made good comments with suggestions about additional details to add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The member then self-deleted that question and posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/141897/chronic-job-hopping-interview-burnout-advice&quot;&gt;a new question&lt;/a&gt;, including the specific details and backstory asked for in comments on the first question. It was immediately put on hold - within an hour, with no meaningful comments, answers, or further help offered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know putting questions on hold is somewhat subjective - and clearly, some new members are just here to do a drive-by question and we never see them again anyways. But when we have a new member who is actively putting in effort to follow our guidance, how can we help them - besides just shutting them down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2019-08-15T23:03:29.090" Title="How can we best help brand new members who are actually putting in effort?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6272" CreationDate="2019-08-09T15:17:04.737" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm one of the users who VTC'd the second instance of the question - I think it's borderline as to whether it's too broad to answer here if I'm honest but I think it was made to look less appealing (for want of a better word) by the fairly rant-y nature of much of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done an edit to try and boil it down to the most answerable form I could think of and have voted to re-open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2019-08-09T15:17:04.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6272" CreationDate="2019-08-09T15:22:43.397" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was immediately put on hold - within an hour, with no meaningful&#xA;  comments, answers, or further help offered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can do better...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately many can't be bothered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2019-08-09T15:22:43.397" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6272" CreationDate="2019-08-12T10:47:57.753" Score="-1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But when we have a new member who is actively putting in effort to follow our guidance, how can we help them - besides just shutting them down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a long-standing fundamental problem, not just in workplace but in most other stackexchange sites as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens because enough VTC-ers value strict adherence to &quot;the rules&quot; (*) above their empathy for whatever the OP is going through. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's mostly OK for QA sites focused on, for example, the finer points of regular expression usage. The Workplace, however, is a human issues topic where people, sometimes, are hurting and looking for some direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution to this is to loosen up on the strictness and make an effort to moderate the harshness of downvotes, VTC's, dupe-marking. Moreover, it goes without saying that there should be actual consequences for moderation behavior that turns out to be wrong. Should the people who VTC'd a question that is later reopened get some percentage of points removed? I think so (even though I could not care less about &quot;points&quot;, I expect that VTC police probably do value them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I am not optimistic anything can be done given the culture fostered by game-ified QA sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(*) By &quot;adherence to the rules&quot;, I mean their own interpretation of the rules. Usually in systems with rules, even games, there is some mechanism for normalizing rule interpretation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7572" LastEditorUserId="7572" LastEditDate="2019-08-12T12:36:19.417" LastActivityDate="2019-08-12T12:36:19.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6272" CreationDate="2019-08-12T12:16:09.430" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was immediately put on hold - within an hour, with no meaningful comments, answers, or further help offered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, he &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; bypassing our site policies by re-asking a question that was already closed. I'm not sure there's a need to post the same comments again when the question is identical and the first comment links back to the at-that-point-deleted question. If the OP wanted to make a good-faith effort to improve his question he had the information he needed for that and could have engaged with the comments instead of doing the same thing again and hoping for a different outcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that there are still too many cases where questions are closed without meaningful feedback being given to the OP. This topic has unfortunately been raised several times before. While most of the time we're fairly good at leaving comments for the OP to improve the question or that explain what parts of it are on/off-topic, we could still improve there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just not sure this instance is an example of such a situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2019-08-12T12:16:09.430" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6272" CreationDate="2019-08-14T21:19:42.303" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great question. Even as an older user that recently became more active, I've felt pretty unwelcome at times after comments and actions around my own posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there are a number of factors that contribute to negative experiences for new users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions are closed &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; quickly.&lt;/strong&gt; Given the number of individuals with the ability to cast close votes, and the low number of questions, the votes add up quickly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rescuing a question is rare.&lt;/strong&gt; Once a question is on hold, or even before, substantial edits to questions are rare. We wait for the asker to refine the question instead of intervening directly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Downvoting has come to represent &quot;dislike&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt; When a question asks about a situation that readers find unflattering of the asker, it gathers downvotes quickly, even when it's a well-framed question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unfounded criticism is common in the comments.&lt;/strong&gt; Comments like &quot;You've messed up&quot; or &quot;That was wrong&quot; are common, offer no guidance for improving a question, and don't seem to rise to the standard of &quot;unfriendly&quot; to our moderator team.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If these really are factors that matter, there are several things we could do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Improve the definitions of &quot;off-topic&quot; posts&lt;/strong&gt; to specific characteristics of posts instead of subjective judgements (e.g., &quot;multiple questions raised&quot; instead of &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot; - the former is objectively discernible while the latter allows for much broader application of judgement).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Encourage editing instead of voting to close&lt;/strong&gt; when a question can be salvaged - even if an edit would be substantial (more than just correcting a typo).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Come to the aid of questions that accrue misguided downvotes.&lt;/strong&gt; A simple statement like &quot;This is a great question, why are folks voting down?&quot; in the comments has an impact by drawing attention to the desired use of voting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Revisit our standard for &quot;unfriendly.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; A comment or post that criticizes an asker as an individual (vs. the content of a question) is certainly unfriendly - why do we let these persist on the site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5652" LastEditorUserId="5652" LastEditDate="2019-08-14T21:26:50.687" LastActivityDate="2019-08-14T21:26:50.687" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6272" CreationDate="2019-08-15T23:03:29.090" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think penalising people who vote to close a question that is later re-opened is a great idea, in addition I think a far higher number of votes should be required to close a question especially for a new user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62790" LastActivityDate="2019-08-15T23:03:29.090" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6279" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-17T10:26:52.930" Score="2" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to fix a grammar mistake, but I need to edit at least 6 characters. Should grammar mistakes just be left alone then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer I wanted to edit: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/142324/73791&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/142324/73791&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user100470" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-08-20T01:23:34.477" LastActivityDate="2019-08-20T01:24:12.063" Title="Cannot fix grammar mistakes; how should I proceed?" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6279" CreationDate="2019-08-19T18:35:41.703" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should grammar mistakes just be left alone then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not at all. Please, if you see any room for improvement go for it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as we can see in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/291716/332286&quot;&gt;MSE post linked&lt;/a&gt; under your question (and as you witnessed when trying to edit), there is a minimum number of characters for an edit &lt;em&gt;suggestion&lt;/em&gt; to be valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the change you propose is shorter than 6 characters it's probably not &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; critical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future, if you see other shorter-than-6-chars edits I suggest you try to see if you can improve anything else, like phrasing, word usage (some are better suited for professional environments), punctuation, line breaks and paragraphs, etc., so perhaps you can reach the minimum and submit your proposed edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, when you get the corresponding reputation (2k), you will be able to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;edit any post regardless of its length&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-08-20T01:24:12.063" LastActivityDate="2019-08-20T01:24:12.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6281" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-20T21:50:56.520" Score="-4" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to a well received answer on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/142408/how-to-think-about-joining-a-company-whose-business-i-do-not-understand/142410#142410&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt;, I originally made a comment underneath the question suggesting to the OP that he should avoid stating his &lt;em&gt;bad financial situation&lt;/em&gt; (&quot;broke&quot; - his own words) to a potential employer involved  in the &lt;em&gt;finance&lt;/em&gt; sector.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had friends who were denied employment or were outright fired when it was discovered they had bad credit.  One of which was a well known bank.  I honestly didn't want the OP to walk into an interview with a company that deals in money and tip that he's desperate for money.  Probably good advice for any interview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happened to notice the comment has since disappeared.  Did it get deleted for a particular reason?  I could easily amend my formal answer to include it, but I'm curious if it was deleted because someone thought it wasn't serious or came across as too snarky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65683" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2019-08-21T19:57:07.933" LastActivityDate="2019-08-21T19:57:07.933" Title="Did my comment get deleted?" Tags="|discussion|comments|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6281" CreationDate="2019-08-21T09:20:03.010" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your comment wasn't viewed as being snarky.  As you indicated, it was an attempt (in part) to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the linked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;What &amp;quot;comments&amp;quot; are not . . .&lt;/a&gt; meta question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are not for answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Comments are not a substitute for answering questions. Comments cannot easily be searched, nor can they be edited for corrections or vetted with the community vote. There's no history, no reputation awarded, nor can they be 'accepted' as the best answer. They get little visibility but often keep users from posting proper answers because the question appears to be resolved… albeit, incorrectly. Further, those comment-answers will not bring new users to this site searching for the information. In short, you are hurting rather than helping the site, and your contribution is at great risk of being lost/deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, answers in comments are often short and lack enough detail to be truly useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some users answer in comments because they don't have the time or inclination to offer a fuller answer but still want their opinion to be heard (and possibly expanded on by others).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-08-21T09:20:03.010" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6261" CreationDate="2019-08-21T21:11:40.640" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two types of termination: ones that are the employee's fault and ones that aren't.  I think it makes sense to have one tag &quot;home&quot; for each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Layoffs and rundundancies are in the same category.  They should be synonyms.  We could get pedantic and make them both synonyms of a new &quot;termination-not-for-cause&quot;, to sit alongside &quot;termination-for-cause&quot;, but I don't think we should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, when people use the word &quot;fire&quot; they mean the other category, termination for cause.  And while -- as demonstrated in this answer -- &quot;terminated&quot; means any ending of employment, I think when people say &quot;terminated&quot; they &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; mean &quot;fired&quot;.  So I'm comfortable with &quot;fired&quot; being a synonym of &quot;termination&quot; and that meaning the &quot;for cause&quot; case, but I can be convinced otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever we do, the tag wikis should include links to the other relevant tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-08-21T21:11:40.640" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6284" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-30T04:31:08.140" Score="3" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I had a long comment thread form under one of my trademarked &quot;Harsh Truth&quot; answers here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/143021/how-can-i-reply-to-coworkers-who-accuse-me-of-automating-people-out-of-work/143023#143023&quot;&gt;How can I reply to coworkers who accuse me of automating people out of work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I notice one comment I made about being able to handle the flak was removed.  The thread makes no sense for a bit because of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fully expected the moderators to push it to a chat room, but to remove a single comment appears to be &quot;picking favorites.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that I'm actually hurt by it, but it really makes the moderation seem ... irregular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9264" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2019-08-30T10:22:33.023" LastActivityDate="2019-08-30T23:07:13.687" Title="Inconsistent comment moderation appears capricious" Tags="|discussion|comments|moderation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6284" CreationDate="2019-08-30T12:55:48.797" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot speak for the other moderators, but I don't go looking for comments to prune.  I am only really interested in comments &lt;em&gt;flagged by the community&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See more details here on a similar question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6188/where-did-the-comments-go/6189#6189&quot;&gt;What happened to my comment(s)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-08-30T16:55:20.200" LastActivityDate="2019-08-30T16:55:20.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6284" CreationDate="2019-08-30T16:54:35.803" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that you are assuming that a Mod did that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A single comment could have been deleted if it got flagged multiple times (seems it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/17365/332286&quot;&gt;3 or a bit more&lt;/a&gt; if upvoted) by members of the Community (the Organic way of handling comments). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps, as it was a harsh truth, some users decided to react negatively towards the statement, and surely must have flagged it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2019-08-30T16:54:35.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6284" CreationDate="2019-08-30T23:07:13.687" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking generally: when I see comment flags I almost always click through to see what else on the post might need attention, &lt;em&gt;but&lt;/em&gt; if the comment is really egregious (like, name-calling) and I don't want to take the time to read a big pile of comments right now, I'll handle &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; flag right away.  No matter what else is going on in the comments, &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; one has to go so I delete it.  (This isn't commentary on your specific comment, which I didn't handle.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace gets a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of comments.  Flags are our guides for where the problems are brewing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2019-08-30T23:07:13.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6288" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-02T13:16:56.933" Score="1" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/143321/is-a-high-ceo-salary-in-large-corporations-justified/143328#143328&quot;&gt;Is a high CEO salary in large corporations justified?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of factual and logical reasons exist. Shouldn't be closed for 'Opinion'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-09-02T13:16:56.933" Title="Reopen request for CEO salary question" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6289" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-11T18:44:55.343" Score="14" ViewCount="294" Body="&lt;p&gt;It just came to my attention that &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/16101/gnasher729&quot;&gt;@gnasher729&lt;/a&gt; recently reached the 100k milestone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations, gnasher!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope that you will be able to continue contributing to this wonderful Community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2019-09-12T11:29:16.827" Title="Congratulations gnasher on clipping 100k!" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6289" CreationDate="2019-09-11T18:52:24.940" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations!  I always enjoy your answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2019-09-11T18:52:24.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6289" CreationDate="2019-09-12T06:34:06.733" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A solid accomplishment. Well done, and well deserved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-09-12T06:34:06.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6289" CreationDate="2019-09-12T11:29:16.827" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well done! Congratulations on your 100k milestone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2019-09-12T11:29:16.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6293" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-12T15:53:55.997" Score="-1" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/144868/should-parental-leave-benefits-apply-to-non-parents&quot;&gt;Should parental leave benefits apply to non-parents?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am assuming it was closed as off topic &quot;because of company policy&quot; or &quot;legal&quot; content, but my understanding is that topics that do include legal or policy questions are allowed if there is some broad expectation of the question being universal, or the legal content being common knowledge. For instance, we have had many questions over the years asking about discrimination, or policies related to accommodation for disabilities. Those questions strike me as similar to this one, in terms of their &quot;policy&quot; or &quot;legal&quot; content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have voted to reopen this question and am hoping that others will vote to reopen as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2019-09-17T12:31:13.977" LastActivityDate="2019-09-17T12:31:13.977" Title="(DONE) Reopen request for parental leave question" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6293" CreationDate="2019-09-12T16:09:44.217" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, the question reads as a bit of &lt;strong&gt;complaining&lt;/strong&gt; \ &lt;em&gt;minor rant&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Parents of a newly born child can take unpaid time off and I cannot, why not?&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer would read like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, your not a parent of a new born and laws and policies have been&#xA;  written for this scenario due to the time strain on both parents when a new child arrives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a question that is a blend of &lt;strong&gt;legal&lt;/strong&gt; and at the company level there are &lt;em&gt;HR policies&lt;/em&gt; around this -- which puts it as off topic IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2019-09-12T16:41:56.020" LastActivityDate="2019-09-12T16:41:56.020" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6293" CreationDate="2019-09-12T16:33:11.040" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think people probably closed it for &quot;tone policing&quot; reasons - although if you read the question without any preconceptions it perhaps isn't quite as ranty as it first appears. The overall core of the question is firmly on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rights (or lack thereof) surrounding parental leave certainly touches on legal aspects - but it's bread and butter HR stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a valid answer would be explaining that there is no direct equivalent for non-parents enshrined in UK employment law and suggesting approaches for negotiate with an employer for unpaid time off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've cast my VTRO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2019-09-12T16:33:11.040" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6296" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-13T16:57:00.233" Score="-3" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;I been here for more than a year now and dont say much but here is what I notice&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seen a few people run off and this bothered me for a while now when people can comment like this and flagging it didnt help and this is not the only thing but I was in here and remembered this and I don't expect anything to happen except nasty comments to me and being told to leave if i dont like it and getting lots of down votes or this deleted but i dont care so here it is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wow, when the worst thing you can complain about your mods doing is deleting comments&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6134/some-mod-is-completely-out-of-control-on-this-board#comment19490_6134&quot;&gt;Some mod is completely out of control on this board&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This got six votes and i flagged it now since it wasn't deleted does this mean that the ones runnig this agree with it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The person who wrote the post also commented this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why am I even still here? Workplace.SE is a place that makes many people unhappy, as evidenced by the number that have left in recent times. I think it is time to join them. This is not a good way to spend my time. – user1602 May 6 at 12:49&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then you ask questions like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6272/how-can-we-best-help-brand-new-members-who-are-actually-putting-in-effort&quot;&gt;How can we best help brand new members who are actually putting in effort?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would anyone even want to try?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87106" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-09-13T17:15:56.467" LastActivityDate="2019-09-17T12:28:55.370" Title="Why are nasty comments allowed" Tags="|discussion|comments|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2019-09-20T23:34:35.793" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6297" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-15T14:40:58.443" Score="0" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/144962/584&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; about a specific instance of offensive language in the workplace seems to have been overrun by trolls and/or folks who sincerely don’t understand the nuances of the language used. Given the ridiculous takeaway that the OP ended up with — as evidenced by the highly downvoted answer they accepted — I feel like we’ve done a disservice to the world for hosting this conversation. Is there anything that could have been done to salvage this without turning it into a language lesson?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="584" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T17:38:01.803" Title="Trolls and ESL folks" Tags="|discussion|trolling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6297" CreationDate="2019-09-15T17:19:04.857" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The SE protocol answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Someone accepted a super downvoted answer&quot; - there's nothing to do about that. Some people want their position justified and will accept a highly downvoted position if it backs them up.  That's life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can downvote the bad answer, of course, to make the situation clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can flag comment threads for deletion, as the only &quot;overrunning&quot; is in the comments which is why people should use comments for their intended purpose on SE sites and not for random discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer a question about appropriate language in the workplace, however, you have to make it a little bit of a &quot;language lesson&quot; by its nature so I'm not sure that's a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For anyone genuinely confused or ESL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While &quot;chinky&quot; is a word it is not commonly used nor is it used to refer to eyes, the only time you'd expect to hear it is about a chinky window or sidewalk or something. Everyone knows slanted or almond-shaped eyes are a distinguishing feature of Asians and &quot;chink&quot; is a slur against Chinese folks, and any reference to &quot;chinky eyes&quot; is 100% saying &quot;they have eyes like them Chinese folks.&quot; Anyone who &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; know English but says there's plausible deniability here either has severe personal problems with social cues or is straight out being an apologist for racism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastEditorUserId="16695" LastEditDate="2019-10-01T17:38:01.803" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T17:38:01.803" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6299" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-17T06:16:26.370" Score="5" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;SE is testing new Ads provider: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/329763/were-testing-advertisements-across-the-network&quot;&gt;We&amp;#39;re testing advertisements across the network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the test period, some of us with no ad blocker may encounter some not appropriate ads. Here is a post to collect them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[ Question link. ]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;[ Ads link or Screen shoot]   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Animated : Yes / No&lt;br&gt;&#xA;NSFW : Yes / No&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Malicious (Scam) : Yes / No&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Etc..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;List of reason : why you believe it's bad if further information is needed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105808" LastActivityDate="2019-09-20T19:36:57.517" Title="Reporting the bad Ads" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6299" CreationDate="2019-09-17T06:19:18.327" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Warning:&lt;/em&gt; The following ads maybe : Animated, NSFW.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2019 09 17:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1IVMc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1IVMc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with animation here &lt;a href=&quot;https://sgreen.erne.co/creatives?id=Qz0vFA1iZriUIOLHhxqE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://sgreen.erne.co/creatives?id=Qz0vFA1iZriUIOLHhxqE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2019 09 18:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MGTJb.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MGTJb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with animation here &lt;a href=&quot;https://sgreen.erne.co/creatives?id=SqKf2HoBhvvuQTmWIPn4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://sgreen.erne.co/creatives?id=SqKf2HoBhvvuQTmWIPn4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105808" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-09-18T07:01:12.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6296" CreationDate="2019-09-17T12:28:55.370" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why are nasty comments allowed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're not, but apart from flagging and voting it's not your call whether something warrants deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wow, when the worst thing you can complain about your mods doing is deleting comments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see why this would warrant deletion or even flagging, so that gives you an idea of the disparity that individuals can have between their perception of what needs to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why would anyone even want to try?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's purely voluntary, and there is no way of knowing why an individual spends their time here. Personally I get some satisfaction from passing on experience and practicing my English in a constructive manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-09-17T12:28:55.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6302" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-18T12:00:13.703" Score="10" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;An edit to the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/145063/i-was-cheated-into-a-job-and-want-to-leave-asap-what-do-i-tell-my-interviewers&quot;&gt;I was cheated into a job and want to leave ASAP, what do I tell my interviewers?&lt;/a&gt; just came across my review queue. The edit just added the following text to the end of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can you please provide your location? I feel like I am in the exact same situation as you are. I'm new to Stack Exchange and do not have commenting privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit is very obviously a response to the OP asking for more information, and the editor even admits as much in the text. Clearly this should be rejected, but the history shows that one user has already approved this edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there anything that can be done about this very blatant lack of actual reviewing?&lt;/strong&gt; I've seen this very often where it seems a reviewer is just clicking through and not actually reading any of the suggested edits. I'm not sure that there is any ability to suspend or limit review privileges once they've been granted, and I'm not necessarily suggesting that even if it were possible. However, I think problematic behavior like this could warrant a direct message from mods asking the user to be more responsible if they choose to review posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, it is possible that the reviewer accidentally clicked the wrong button and can't change it back, so I'm not saying to pass judgement on one edit review. However, I would think that moderators could be able to see some sort of statistic on # approved vs # rejected, or percentage of approvals that were rejected by other reviewers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-09-18T12:33:18.487" LastActivityDate="2019-09-23T21:45:59.973" Title="What to do about reviewers who don't actually review?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6303" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-18T14:25:17.477" Score="1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't Do That, Then! Is well known in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/D/Don-t-do-that-then-.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hacker Jargon&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/145082/make-interviewee-comfortable-in-potentially-intimate-environment&quot;&gt;recent question&lt;/a&gt; I asked, I felt I got of lot of &quot;don't do what you are trying not to do&quot; answers. I would hope that the presence of a question at all indicates that the asker already knows that there is something amiss or to be improved upon. Answers that state &quot;this is not a good idea&quot; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/145083/47923&quot;&gt;similar&lt;/a&gt; seem to miss the fact that relatively junior employees in large orgs have fairly little redress, and this may be a problem management is already aware of and working on, but will take time to resolve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should answers that affirm an issue but offer solutions outside of an asker's abilities to effect that solution be handled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The other part of this meta-question should have been: “or is the linked question not asked properly, and if so, how should questions be asked to avoid these answers?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47923" LastEditorUserId="47923" LastEditDate="2019-09-18T14:36:24.057" LastActivityDate="2019-09-19T11:45:12.673" Title="Avoiding or Interacting with &quot;Don't Do That Then&quot; Answers" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6303" CreationDate="2019-09-19T11:45:12.673" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How should answers that affirm an issue but offer solutions outside of&#xA;  an asker's abilities to effect that solution be handled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system provides a standard method:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These answers should be downvoted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You are also free to provide a comment, if you choose.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this specific case, you wrote &quot;The problem is that sometimes we don't have enough conference rooms in the facility, so we wind up conducting interviews in &quot;hangout&quot; rooms around the campus. &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the answers challenge the premise that the lack of sufficient conference rooms justifies using a hangout room. That seems like a reasonable challenge to me. But those who disagree can vote and comment accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2019-09-19T11:45:12.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6306" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-20T14:53:35.420" Score="4" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I've noticed the red dot indicating there are a lot of close votes to be reviewed pretty much every time I get on the site. Is this a bug or do we actually have a deficit of close votes reviews?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98027" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-09-26T15:18:21.390" LastActivityDate="2019-10-03T15:06:03.460" Title="Why do we have so many close votes reviews?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|review-queue|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6299" CreationDate="2019-09-20T19:11:16.787" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Animated low content click baits. Could be fraudulent. Workplace, 2019 09 20&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SFW but low quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example in situation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ehjl3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ehjl3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Links to animated versions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://sgreen.erne.co/creatives?id=z8RLIEknelrKmHVpqkZ2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://sgreen.erne.co/creatives?id=z8RLIEknelrKmHVpqkZ2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://sgreen.erne.co/creatives?id=zE6j1Zaut3orDdFgkcZX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://sgreen.erne.co/creatives?id=zE6j1Zaut3orDdFgkcZX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestion by gnat to automate these exchanges &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/329782/530922&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/329782/530922&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45534" LastEditorUserId="45534" LastEditDate="2019-09-20T19:36:57.517" LastActivityDate="2019-09-20T19:36:57.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6308" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-23T16:18:13.747" Score="1" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; this is narrowed down to IT industry to make it answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/144975/should-i-inform-my-future-product-owner-that-there-is-a-good-chance-that-a-team&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which initially gathered several downvotes and a couple of close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That was clearly my fault&lt;/strong&gt; because I failed to properly describe the context and a few users thought that I am trying to ruin a colleague's professional life. Also, I think the IT market where I work is very different from the one assumed by the most active users around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am interested in what is the assumed context when the OP fails to properly describe it. This is vague, so I will describe the work market where I work to pinpoint what I am interested it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IT work market&lt;/strong&gt; - it is an &quot;employees market&quot;. Virtually all employers are complaining about not being to find talented programmers, project managers etc. IT workers are among the best payed workers in the country. It is not unusual for experienced workers to be frequently called (LinkedIn etc.) for interviews.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;payment&lt;/strong&gt; - almost always on time and everything is official. This is normal in high developed countries, but in a country with high perceived corruption, there are many grey areas when it comes to employment and payment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;firing&lt;/strong&gt; - (law) you cannot just fire a person which is a full-time employee. You must issue an official warning first and design a plan to try to find a better place for that person in your organization. Even if you manage to fire, the employees still 20 working days which can be reduced to allow them to find another job.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;overtime&lt;/strong&gt; - (law) normally a worker is not allowed to work more than 48h / week. Any full day overtime must be payed + free day. In practice, this is more flexible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt; What is the assumed work market context for IT related questions when it is not fully specified?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62493" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-09-23T16:49:29.443" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T09:43:01.003" Title="What is the assumed work market context for IT related questions when it is not fully specified?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6308" CreationDate="2019-09-23T17:03:30.593" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually if the information would significantly change answers, we try not make assumptions at all. Instead we add comments asking for clarification, and sometimes will close a question as unclear if the missing details are critical enough. We most often ask for a location, because labor laws can have a significant impact on how to interpret a situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, the four categories you mention do have some general assumptions that are usually made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Job Market&lt;/strong&gt; - It's usually assumed that there are jobs available on the market, and that anyone should have the ability to leave their job. We never assume that there are enough jobs that you could quit and expect to find one next week.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Payment&lt;/strong&gt; - It's assumed that payments are on time and on the books.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Firing&lt;/strong&gt; - This is one that will depend greatly on location, but usually we assume that anyone can be fired for any reason, since that is the worst case scenario. If we are given more location information, then assumptions can be adjusted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Overtime&lt;/strong&gt; - I don't think there's any general assumptions here, since this will depend completely on local laws and employment contracts. Many salaried positions have no overtime at all. If this is relevant to the question, we will ask about it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, these are general assumptions when the info is not super relevant to the question. If you are asking a question about your boss threatening to fire you, we will ask you more specific information to determine what applies to your situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastEditorUserId="16983" LastEditDate="2019-09-23T19:46:37.190" LastActivityDate="2019-09-23T19:46:37.190" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6302" CreationDate="2019-09-23T18:35:30.490" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there anything that can be done about this very blatant lack of actual reviewing? [...] I'm not sure that there is any ability to suspend or limit review privileges once they've been granted, and I'm not necessarily suggesting that even if it were possible&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Review queues on StackOverflow sometimes give users a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/157121/332286&quot;&gt;&quot;test&quot; review&lt;/a&gt; now and then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such review already has the &quot;correct&quot; answer (accept, reject, etc.). And if users fail to chose such answer they are given a warning and are asked to be more careful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can also happen that, after some failed tests (don't know the exact number), the user is blocked from doing reviews for a day or two, to prevent them from continuing misusing/failing reviews. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On an implementation level, I have seen that such test reviews are reviews that already reached a consensus, and are then randomly (?) selected and passed to the user being tested as a &quot;new&quot; review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This I think is what could be done to enforce a responsible review culture, but I ignore the feasibility and what the Community thinks about doing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-09-23T21:45:59.973" LastActivityDate="2019-09-23T21:45:59.973" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6308" CreationDate="2019-09-23T20:07:54.187" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You asked,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the assumed work market context for IT related questions when it is not fully specified?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, there is not an assumed &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; if it may change the answer to the question. If a question depends on a factor that is not clear, there are several options for potential answerers. These are the steps I take, generally in this order of most preferable to least preferable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask for clarification. Often, the OP will answer quickly. If the answer is in a comment, edit it into the question. This preserves their answer, since comments are transient and may be deleted without any trace.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the OP does not clarify, and the question is generally answerable otherwise, write an answer &lt;strong&gt;but make your assumptions clear.&lt;/strong&gt; If you &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; assume something, say so in your answer. Besides making it clear to the OP if/when they read your answer, you are making it clear to future readers. Part of the value of SE is building up a volume of well-answered questions. &lt;strong&gt;Even if we all agree - here, today - on what we should assume for work market context, things may be very different in a year or two.&lt;/strong&gt; If possible, these answers should also include information on what would change if the assumption is not true. For example, if the answer is basically &lt;em&gt;don't do X because of Y&lt;/em&gt; in some assumed jurisdiction, but being in a different jurisdiction would mean Y is fine, the answer should say so.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finally, if the OP does not respond with clarification, and the question is unclear to the degree that it is not answerable - as a last resort, vote to close as unclear. Best case, the question going on hold gets the OP's attention and they finally come back and clarify. Worst case, the question getting closed prevents people from making unfounded answers in an attempt to be helpful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on those three approaches, I don't think there's really any value in trying to come to agreement or understanding the basic assumptions, because if an assumption could reasonably change an answer, we should either not answer (without clarification first) or we should clearly describe the assumption &lt;strong&gt;in our answer&lt;/strong&gt; and - if possible - state how that assumption being different would change the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2019-09-23T20:07:54.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6306" CreationDate="2019-09-24T08:08:43.723" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a deficit of people to review those close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We simply need more people to step up and go through the review queues on a regular basis.  We moderators can't do this as our votes are immediate and binding.  We'd much prefer users to reach a consensus on reviewing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-09-24T08:08:43.723" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6313" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-26T21:46:59.467" Score="11" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was About to ask my first Question on this side when i saw the Code formatting tips on the right (yellow area). I am very new to this site, but i am Pretty sure there should be very few Questions which include Code, if any at all!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vu2Xs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vu2Xs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a bit surprised i didnt find the Question, the closest match i found was this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3941/do-code-backticks-really-have-a-use-on-this-site&quot;&gt;Do code backticks really have a use on this site?&lt;/a&gt;. I hope i didnt oversee a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110201" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2019-09-27T00:54:12.170" LastActivityDate="2019-09-27T00:54:12.170" Title="Code formatting hints necessary?" Tags="|discussion|design|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6314" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-28T12:11:21.240" Score="165" ViewCount="6623" Body="&lt;p&gt;Monica was removed as a moderator over the weekend by the SE staff. It wasn’t her decision. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result of that decision and way it was undertaken, I have taken the easy decision of immediately stepping down. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck to you and all who follow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="37162" LastEditDate="2019-10-01T21:38:10.610" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T21:38:10.610" Title="Resigning as moderator" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="28" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6314" CreationDate="2019-09-29T03:06:59.513" Score="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Snow and Jane, it has been an honor to serve with you and the other moderators and work with this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Friday, half an hour before Shabbat and two days before Rosh Hashana, Stack Overflow Inc. suddenly revoked my moderator status on all sites where I had it. I found this out while handling flags, when I suddenly got notifications for Marshal and Deputy badges (which moderators are ineligible to earn). They did this not because I've done anything to violate SE policies, but because they &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; I will in the &lt;em&gt;future&lt;/em&gt; violate a thoughtcrime-style provision of a Code of Conduct change that &lt;em&gt;hasn't been made yet&lt;/em&gt;.  My questions and requests for discussion were ignored, and incorrect claims were made about me in places where I can no longer defend myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wrote more about this on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5193/472&quot;&gt;different site's meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2019-09-29T16:14:45.093" LastActivityDate="2019-09-29T16:14:45.093" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6316" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-29T04:30:35.930" Score="136" ViewCount="4874" Body="&lt;p&gt;After having been a moderator for this community for over four years, I have tendered my resignation from Workplace.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am proud to have served the community alongside Monica, who acted as a mentor when I was elected as a moderator in 2015 and has remained a guide and source of common sense ever since. I cannot in good conscience remain after her departure under these circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for trusting me to moderate this community over the past four or so years. The decision to resign was not made lightly but became the only choice at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33698" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2019-10-04T07:05:52.740" LastActivityDate="2019-10-04T07:05:52.740" Title="Resigning as moderator from Workplace.SE" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6318" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-30T08:31:39.813" Score="50" ViewCount="660" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was surprised and disappointed to catch up on the events that has led to the dismissal and resignation of three of our moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that they, and all other moderators on The Workplace, past and present, should be thanked for the time and effort they've all put in guiding our community over the years. Especially for their efforts to make the site more inclusive and welcoming to newcomers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace will miss Monica, Jane, Mister Positive and Snow's contributions as moderators. I hope we will not also be missing your contributions as members of the our community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110" LastEditorUserId="80851" LastEditDate="2019-10-03T07:48:47.120" LastActivityDate="2019-10-03T12:07:41.250" Title="Thank you to the moderators" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6319" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-30T09:28:32.023" Score="-8" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the past I had multiple experiences here when I addressed the issue of bad performers, bad managers or &quot;non-contributors&quot;, and a few people have been quite negative about the topic. I never had a discussion like &quot;yes, bad workers are a problem and this is how you solve it&quot;. It feels it is a taboo to talk about bad performers here.&#xA;Is that the case? Can you convince me that everybody is special, and that it's my fault for not acknowledging the contributions of colleagues who are not qualified for their job?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38290" LastEditorUserId="110" LastEditDate="2019-09-30T09:51:11.953" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T12:13:45.033" Title="Is &quot;bad worker&quot; a taboo here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6319" CreationDate="2019-09-30T10:24:08.137" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer to the question is obviously no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at your previous three questions, you give off the impression of someone who is very judgemental, and that can cause a low score. Let's look at these questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/140988/joining-a-company-as-the-expert-what-level&quot;&gt;Joining a company as the expert: what level?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You call your fellow co-workers &quot;imposters&quot; for not meeting your standard. The question was also tagged by you with the tags [idiots] and [retards]. Score is -10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/144894/increasing-productivity-and-talent-pool-is-it-necessary-to-compensate-for-bad-p&quot;&gt;Increasing productivity and talent pool: is it necessary to compensate for bad performers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's very unclear on what you are talking about here, and it's closed as it's primarily opinion-based. You categorise others as laggers. Score is -8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/141927/does-you-are-too-senior-for-your-role-mean-anything-real&quot;&gt;Does &amp;quot;you are too senior for your role&amp;quot; mean anything real?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is about the reaction when you challenged the competency of someone who isn't even in the same reporting line of you. It has a score of 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T10:24:08.137" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6319" CreationDate="2019-09-30T12:07:31.363" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It feels it is a taboo to talk about bad performers here. Is that the&#xA;  case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course it's not taboo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since the vast majority here are workers and not management, it's human nature that the majority would stick up for their fellow workers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when you criticize &quot;colleagues who are not qualified for their job&quot;, it likely feels that you are criticizing many folks here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, some of your questions come across as &quot;I'm wonderful and everyone else sucks&quot; - whether that is the intent or not. Issues with tone can often lead to downvotes, from what I have seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2019-09-30T12:13:45.033" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T12:13:45.033" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6316" CreationDate="2019-09-30T15:16:56.227" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry to see you go.  We did not get to work together much due to my short tenure and the time zone difference.  I am holding out hope that this &lt;em&gt;wrong will be righted&lt;/em&gt; and things go back to the way they should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Holding out hope for now and wishing you the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T15:16:56.227" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6314" CreationDate="2019-09-30T15:17:59.820" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have had many moments in my time here, mostly good but some not.  Most of them were kept going in a positive direction by our interactions.  I consider you a friend, and support your decision completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am holding out hope that this &lt;em&gt;wrong will be righted&lt;/em&gt; and things go back to the way they should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monica was our captain, you are my friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Holding out hope for now, and wishing you a generally upward trend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2019-09-30T15:21:25.907" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T15:21:25.907" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6324" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-30T16:28:14.703" Score="24" ViewCount="919" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've decided to take a break from Stack Exchange. The reasons are probably pretty obvious, but the details can be found on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334024/a-very-recent-post-asking-people-to-go-on-strike-was-just-deleted&quot;&gt;this Meta&lt;/a&gt; about another Meta post I made which was deleted by staff. Knowing myself, I'm sure I'll be lurking and will come back in not too long, but for the time being I don't plan to contribute in any meaningful way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16983" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T20:19:34.313" Title="Deciding to take a break" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6324" CreationDate="2019-09-30T16:35:57.343" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have enough rep to really warrant my own meta-question, so I'll just piggy-back onto yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am also going to take a break.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T16:35:57.343" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6316" CreationDate="2019-09-30T18:09:50.227" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just requested that my profile for this site ( and 66 others ) be deleted permanently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user718" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T18:09:50.227" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6314" CreationDate="2019-09-30T18:10:12.733" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just requested that my profile for this site ( and 66 others ) be deleted permanently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user718" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T18:10:12.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6308" CreationDate="2019-09-30T21:00:20.267" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if there is any assumed work market context, it is that of the reader.  And hence the problem.  If the question does not specify enough context, readers and answerers are likely to consciously or subconsciously attribute their own context to that of the question.  Clarification from the question poster is the best way to constrain the context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3345" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T21:00:20.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6308" CreationDate="2019-10-01T09:43:01.003" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Other assumptions that I noticed, but that are not in your list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Workers have well defined roles in their contracts and stick to them. They are not overzealous, they don't step on other worker's ground.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Companies are well staffed. Workers have managers, bosses, HR... It's often the case in medium or big companies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Basic Human rights are respected. Workers talk each other with respect, they don't yell at each other, humiliate, insult, judge... (I've seen some questions where in some places it seemed OK, when in most countries it's not). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it's not the case, user should specify it, because otherwise, the answer will often be: &quot;It's not your job to deal with it&quot;, or &quot;Talk to your manager/HR&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59602" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T09:43:01.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6331" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6332" CreationDate="2019-10-01T11:40:46.597" Score="100" ViewCount="3193" Body="&lt;p&gt;As most of you know, Monica was removed as a moderator over the weekend by the SE staff. It wasn’t her decision, and there &lt;strong&gt;simply wasn't any justification for it&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I scoured all the data I could over the last 24 hours, listened to the chatter in the private moderator room, and simply could not find any data that justified the actions taken.  This &lt;em&gt;stack&lt;/em&gt; has taken a turn where I simply can no longer follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have made the &lt;strong&gt;difficult&lt;/strong&gt; decision of stepping down.  I wanted to stay on until after the election, but after seeing all the data, I can't do it in good faith.  Its simply not right what was done, what is being forced upon all of us, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To echo Snow, Good luck to you and all who follow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2019-10-04T07:05:40.027" LastActivityDate="2019-10-04T07:05:40.027" Title="Resigning as Moderator from TWP" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6331" CreationDate="2019-10-01T11:59:11.937" Score="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I'm writing this on &quot;your&quot; thread Mister Positive I'm saying this equally to Snow and Jane as well;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry to see you all go - not because I think you've made the wrong decision, on the contrary I think you've all made the right call. I'm just sorry it became necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've all been excellent moderators and if the last couple of years on Workplace SE have taught me anything it is that this is one of the sites that places quite high demands on it's mod team. And I feel the stack has benefited more than it knows from having an excellent at the helm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While obviously Monica's &quot;departure&quot; wasn't her choice the same goes for her as well, I'm active on multiple stacks that she formerly moderated on and have interacted with her a few times over the years and I've always found her to be a truly excellent mod, both in taking up the hammer when needed and &lt;em&gt;building&lt;/em&gt; the communities whenever she could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to Mister Postive, Jane, Snow, and of course Monica - &lt;strong&gt;thank you.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T11:59:11.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6333" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-01T12:43:38.370" Score="72" ViewCount="3176" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the past few days, y'all have witnessed the terrible action Stack Exchange's done: They dismissed Monica, one of the most beloved and respected moderator and community members. Following that, all three remaining The Workplace moderators have since declared their resignation. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6314/81531&quot;&gt;Snow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6316/81531&quot;&gt;Jane S&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6331/81531&quot;&gt;Mister Positive&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been watching this site for years, and sincerely want to join you in thanking all the moderators for their kind and helpful dedication to The Workplace past the ages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Setting the sentiment aside, we're now facing one sad &lt;em&gt;fait accompli&lt;/em&gt;: We have no more active diamond moderators&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-and-forced-relicensing-is-stack-exchange-still-interested-in-cooper?noredirect=1#comment1091412_333965&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;. We're now in real need of a solution for keeping the site in order during the vacancy of moderator availability. How'd we achieve that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81531" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2019-10-01T14:29:34.717" LastActivityDate="2019-10-06T09:58:11.190" Title="No more active ♦ moderators. How should we keep the site in order?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|moderators|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6333" CreationDate="2019-10-01T12:47:23.340" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're now in real need of a solution for keeping the site in order&#xA;  during the vacancy of moderator availability. How'd we achieve that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hold an election. Choose new moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(BTW, it seems we do have one remaining moderator. At least for now.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, Keep Calm and Carry On.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2019-10-01T18:22:13.763" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T18:22:13.763" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6333" CreationDate="2019-10-01T12:54:47.087" Score="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;As soon as the last active moderator lifted his hands off the keyboard on his resignation post, I contacted the CM team using the reporting channels and raised this as an immediate concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, the CM team are currently stretched as thin as the silver on my grandmother's cutlery, so it might be a while until there's adequate (or even any) coverage here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep open/close voting and editing questions and answers to make them as relevant and meaningful as possible  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag items that require flagging  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Guide comments as breifly and as helpfully as you can  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete your comments as and when they become obselete  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you feel that you disagree with someone and this will lead to extended comment-streams, do everyone a favour and walk away before typing (stuff is gonna be deleted anyhow)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no information about what will happen, but I assume that active moderators from other sites will be promoted and asked to cover until a fresh election can be scheduled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your continued support for this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T12:54:47.087" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6333" CreationDate="2019-10-01T13:09:45.983" Score="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site was never too much in disorder, except for what was stirred up by SE themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the saying goes, they made their bed, now they can lie in it.  Their actions created this, they can resolve it, hopefully, by having to PAY moderators.  Personally, I don't think we should step in and fix the mess they created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To use business jargon, they have created pain points.  If let's say Starbucks started abusing their staff to the point of a walkout, would you really expect the customers to man the store?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we step in and try to control things, SE will NEVER change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T13:09:45.983" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6337" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6339" CreationDate="2019-10-01T13:57:13.847" Score="1" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a highly upvoted comment which was not asking for clarification on the question, so I understand why it was deleted. But why weren't the replies to my comment deleted also?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not the first time I have seen this happen. It is confusing when there are replies to a comment that doesn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/145663/26998&quot;&gt;Should I reveal productivity tricks to peers, or keep them to myself in order to be more productive than the others?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26998" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T16:06:25.310" Title="Why was my comment deleted, but not the replies to it?" Tags="|discussion|comments|deleted|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6331" CreationDate="2019-10-01T14:32:58.033" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I recently had a problem on Workplace you, Mister Positive, were the only person (mod) I found to be genuinely positive and try to help resolve the issue&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(as opposed to the community team, who compounded the problem by drawing attention to it, posted it on Twitter and then sent me a rude negatively-toned email when I called them out on their outright lies)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think forcing you into leaving is a true loss to The Workplace, so thank you personally and good luck in your future!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allow me this small pettiness as I sign off in a truly community-spirited manner, as I received:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;We will not respond on the issue further.&#xA;&#xA;Regards,&#xA;Stack Overflow Team&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47217" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T14:32:58.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6337" CreationDate="2019-10-01T16:06:25.310" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually, a moderator takes a look at comment flags and removed any subsequent comments that have been orphaned by their removal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, some get missed.  If you see this happen, flag the orphaned comments as &quot;no longer needed&quot; so that they can be picked up and removed as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T16:06:25.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6333" CreationDate="2019-10-01T17:38:32.760" Score="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not our problem, carry on as usual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T17:38:32.760" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6331" CreationDate="2019-10-01T17:43:19.660" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for all the hard work as a diamond moderator - as a former diamond mod on RPG.SE I know how much thankless work is involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you also for the principled stand, I would like to think that if my mod team had a fellow mod treated this way by the CMs we'd have mass resigned in protest as well. Well done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T17:43:19.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6314" CreationDate="2019-10-01T17:43:35.153" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for all the hard work as a diamond moderator - as a former diamond mod on RPG.SE I know how much thankless work is involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you also for the principled stand, I would like to think that if my mod team had a fellow mod treated this way by the CMs we'd have mass resigned in protest as well. Well done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T17:43:35.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6316" CreationDate="2019-10-01T17:44:01.833" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for all the hard work as a diamond moderator - as a former diamond mod on RPG.SE I know how much thankless work is involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you also for the principled stand, I would like to think that if my mod team had a fellow mod treated this way by the CMs we'd have mass resigned in protest as well. Well done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T17:44:01.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6333" CreationDate="2019-10-01T17:58:54.463" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;We could all simply suspend all activity until SO comes to their senses and makes this right.  The community, not just mods, is providing loads of free labor to these sites that SO benefits from. You can show your displeasure by abstaining from participation of any sort for a while.  I know I will be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously not everyone will, and if they behave badly chaos will reign.  But to that, I say &quot;you reap what you sow.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T17:58:54.463" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6324" CreationDate="2019-10-01T20:19:34.313" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't say I blame you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You contribute quite a bit, and are a valued member of the community, I wish you well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T20:19:34.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6349" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6361" CreationDate="2019-10-02T01:56:52.923" Score="-20" ViewCount="601" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's great to hear the sentiments and protestations of loyalty to the site users and all the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But lets keep it real. Not one mod stepped up to the plate to help TWP by remaining for at least a bit longer. And realistically that's the proof to the pudding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a pretty clear cut attempt to coerce SE into something, or punish. Not constructive in any way or indicative of respect for the rest of us. So while I'm sure they all have reasons, there's no point pretending it's in anyone's interests but theirs. Certainly not the people who voted them in to start with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just an observation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-10-04T23:05:04.797" Title="Heard a lot from mods on their way out" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6349" CreationDate="2019-10-02T03:40:19.870" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;No one is required to volunteer their time for the sake of a for-profit corporation that treats them like dirt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I speak from personal experience when I say that unfortunately, the way SE handled this event is not remotely surprising to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE has consistently been alienating moderators and users alike through similarly myopic choices for many years at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, it just takes a single straw to break a volunteer camel's back, as the saying goes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2322" LastActivityDate="2019-10-02T03:40:19.870" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6349" CreationDate="2019-10-02T14:11:26.360" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's a pretty clear cut attempt to coerce SE into something, or punish. Not constructive in any way or indicative of respect for the rest of us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel more respected than if they had stayed on-board. Sometimes there is no constructive way to react to a destructive action. I cannot picture you as the guy who says &quot;oh, just turn the other cheek. If they hit you, just endure it&quot;. That's not how I perceived you so far. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that they fight for one of their own who was treated unfairly. Sounds like a good trait to have in a team (compared to a random group of people that are not a team, where the others just shrug and duck). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And seeing &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/333965/165773&quot; title=&quot;listed here&quot;&gt;how many off-site moderators agree&lt;/a&gt;, I think it's not just a little Workplace clique, but an actual, SE wide problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I for one do not want to lose my account without warning one day because I used the &quot;wrong&quot; pronoun. I certainly don't want to lose it over asking what exactly constitutes a &quot;wrong pronoun&quot;. And I'm quite happy to see that more influential people than me shine a light on that problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2019-10-02T15:24:47.517" LastActivityDate="2019-10-02T15:24:47.517" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6318" CreationDate="2019-10-03T12:07:41.250" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks friends. I hope you all stick around to contribute to The Workplace in a non-moderator role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if not, I wish you all well in whatever new forums you decide to use your talents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2019-10-03T12:07:41.250" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6306" CreationDate="2019-10-03T15:06:03.460" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seem to be a large number of close votes being cast on here in general - more than most other SE sites I frequent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there should be a review of the VTC categories and/or the guidelines for what is considered on topic here? Workplace issues are not a science. Most questions and answers on TWP are to some extent opinion- and personal-experience based. If most of the VTCs that are cast were approved, then there wouldn't be any questions on here at all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88516" LastActivityDate="2019-10-03T15:06:03.460" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6333" CreationDate="2019-10-04T08:36:54.690" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to give special thanks to Snow, for despite their intense disappointment in SE the company, &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/51967323#51967323&quot;&gt;they're back&lt;/a&gt; to continue to serve as a moderator to help The Workplace run. It's probably not hard to imagine how hard it is to make such a decision, so let's welcome Snow for their return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81531" LastActivityDate="2019-10-04T08:36:54.690" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6356" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-04T20:00:06.797" Score="6" ViewCount="803" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seriously, everyone, calm down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With or without moderators, we are all adults here, the place isn't going to collapse under it's own weight, get overrun by trolls, and get carried off into the swamp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We haven't had a mountain of nasty comments, troll questions, or spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't need to go rushing in, or lose our minds if we don't.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you still have your family, friends, job, et cet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perspective people, perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-10-04T20:30:31.203" Title="Calm down, nothing to see here" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6356" CreationDate="2019-10-04T20:24:26.063" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am of the idea that Mods are &lt;em&gt;exception handlers&lt;/em&gt;. TWP Community is strong and I trust that even without the guidance of mods the Community will organically handle itself and survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of Mods, seems that Snow and Mr. Positive have been reinstated as they requested (as per my understanding, with the goal of helping TWP and not letting the SE situation take a toll on the Community), so I am sure we will be Ok for now...:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YQZz3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YQZz3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-10-04T20:30:31.203" LastActivityDate="2019-10-04T20:30:31.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6333" CreationDate="2019-10-04T20:29:59.057" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We have no more active diamond moderators&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of some minutes ago, Snow and Mr. Positive &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6357/73791&quot;&gt;have been reinstated&lt;/a&gt;, so we now have at least 2 active diamond mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2019-10-04T20:29:59.057" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6359" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6360" CreationDate="2019-10-04T20:36:49.183" Score="15" ViewCount="437" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just like to show some well earned respects to our mods who put our site first and foremost. I know it wouldn't have been the easy choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So great job and welcome back!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-10-04T21:59:53.600" Title="A big thank you to our mods" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6359" CreationDate="2019-10-04T21:59:53.600" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many thanks. As we said before, our loyalty to this site take precedence over our other feelings. We hope that we can do what we can to help The Workplace continue to be of value to people who ask questions here, and support those who answer those questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-10-04T21:59:53.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6349" CreationDate="2019-10-04T23:05:04.797" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I stand corrected, 2 mods have stepped up, feel free to delete this whole post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-10-04T23:05:04.797" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6362" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-05T02:35:00.700" Score="28" ViewCount="850" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does it mean they’ve determined no change or correction is forthcoming from SE about Monica’s ejection and this is just the new normal?  And there’s nothing to be gained by continuing to object?  Or what?  What led to this decision?  Is there anything the community would benefit from knowing about the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastActivityDate="2019-10-13T05:11:49.823" Title="What does the return of the mods mean?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6362" CreationDate="2019-10-05T06:50:59.780" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I detailed my inner conflicts and thoughts in my messages in the Water Cooler yesterday. I quote them here. Basically, kilisi is correct in saying that while I don’t agree with SE at all, I value The Workplace. Me returning doesn’t validate SE’s action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After yet another sleepless night of tossing and turning and stealing all of the bedsheets, I can't take any more. I'm in conflict about how much I value this (Workplace) community and how little I value SE as a company and how it handles it's volunteers. That conflict has been roaring around in my head for weeks now (and stress makes my tinnitus worse). It's affected my relationship with my partner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stepping away isn't the  answer for me, I have emotional ties to this place. I value supporting this community, I value the other users (you guys) supporting it. It pains me that it's being left and no one is sweeping up the leaves and chopping out the deadwood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At around 2am this morning, I reached a resolution inside myself. I determined to not give in to this continuing conflict and let it eat me up. I have therefore formally asked to be reinstated as a moderator here to serve this community that I value more than SE appears to value me (as a moderator).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For full disclosure, this is the email I sent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I am requesting reinstatement as a moderator of The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As much as I disagree with the manner in which Monica was removed, and multiple resignations/strikes have pressed home that the community at large was also not happy, I still value the community that the web site serves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As much as in good conscience I could not serve a company that did this, I cannot in good conscience let this community unmoderated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this answers your question. For ready up on the wider issues, please refer to main meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks again for supporting The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user44108" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-10-13T05:11:49.823" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6362" CreationDate="2019-10-05T11:35:38.140" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;It means that two individuals thought things over and concluded that it would be better for them to be moderators than not to be moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They each have their own personal reasons which we should respect, just as we should respect the reasons of those who chose to no longer be moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fully support those who have chosen to return to moderator status. And I fully support those who chose not to return. I thank all of the current and former moderators for trying to make The Workplace a good place to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am happy to do whatever I can to help any of them in any way I can - all they have to do is ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2019-10-05T11:35:38.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6365" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-05T20:19:24.140" Score="-3" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once I was notified from my management that I had been part of some injustice against some woman and therefore I am no longer welcome to do business with them. My manager asked me what it was but I could only guess. I tried to ask colleagues if there was some rumour about such an event of if somebody could confirm what it was. We still don't know more about it. I have tried to have the claim investigated and the people I speak with can also only speculate what it was. I was told by the authorities and also colleagues that it is an &quot;anti-pattern&quot; and if I actually was unfair somewhere then the right thing to do would be to inform me so that I could apologize or regret what I did. But now I am cynic and angry that nobody even confirmed or told me who, what, where, when. Only why: That I had been unfair completely unspecified. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8029" LastActivityDate="2019-10-06T14:22:19.243" Title="Can this question be asked around here?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6365" CreationDate="2019-10-06T14:22:19.243" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see two main things that I don't think would be received well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You say your management notified you that you &lt;em&gt;&quot;had been part of some injustice against some woman&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, and then that they asked you what it was. That's really confusing. I think you mean that you were fired but not really told why, but I'm not confident about that. It will be helpful to your question if you make that part clearer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The initial version of your text doesn't contain an actual question, just a description of the situation you're in. You say in the comments that your goal is to find out &lt;em&gt;&quot;How to deal with a &quot;workplace-related&quot; event when nobody knows what it is&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. That should be in your question post, otherwise it will attract close votes (as gnat alluded to in the comments).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also suggest you add paragraphs and trim the &quot;story&quot; part a bit, to leave only the most high level points. It may still get closed as off-topic or a duplicate, but I think there's a good question in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was called into a meeting by my management, told that I had been part of an injustice against a woman, and fired. &lt;strong&gt;[I'm guessing that's what you meant - change as appropriate]&lt;/strong&gt;. During the meeting my manager would not tell me what it was, and said that I should know already. &lt;strong&gt;[This is absolute speculation on my part, but it seems like it might be what happened? Change it to the real story, but keep it short]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I have been unable to find out what they were referring to, and my efforts have only been met with speculation. I've also been told that if I actually was unfair somewhere then the right thing to do would be to inform me so that I could apologize and make amends for what I did. &lt;strong&gt;[I believe my change to your wording here is important. If you write as if you want to dismiss any real wrongdoing (if it turns out it existed) then people are likely to focus on that.]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I am cynical and angry that nobody even confirmed or told me who, what, where, when. How can I move on from an event like this? &lt;strong&gt;[ &amp;lt;-This last sentence is where you need to specify your goal. The one I've written isn't very good, and would likely get closed as &quot;too broad&quot;. You need to specify what you want to achieve, as specifically as you can]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64188" LastActivityDate="2019-10-06T14:22:19.243" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6367" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-07T07:09:56.650" Score="10" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that in India, it is common for new employees to sign an &lt;strong&gt;employment bond&lt;/strong&gt; (or simply &lt;strong&gt;bond&lt;/strong&gt;) - meaning they agree to pay a certain sum of money if they leave their employment before a certain timescale (typically 1-3 years).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar agreements exist in other countries, but usually only if the employee is provided specific training by the employer (for example, &quot;we will pay this training for you, but you will have to pay it back if you leave within a year&quot;). Employment bonds are different in that they are generally (as far as I understand) not based on training provided, but simply used as a way to retain employees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further reading:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/employee-bond-its-legal-acceptability-india-jai-nagwan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Employee Bond and its legal acceptability in India&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://indiacorplaw.in/2018/07/validity-employment-bonds-india.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Validity of Employment Bonds in India&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/IT-firm-banks-on-guarantee/articleshow/2148886.cms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IT firm banks on guarantee | Hyderabad News - Times of India&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have several questions about this in this site (just &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/search?q=bond+india&quot;&gt;search for &quot;bond india&quot;&lt;/a&gt;), but no tag, let alone a tag wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any opposition to introducing a tag for this? I propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;employment-bond&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also add a short tag wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Employment bond, or bond, an agreement between an employee and their employer, which requires the employee to pay a certain sum of money if they leave their employment before a certain timespan (typically one to three years after the start of employment). Particularly common in India.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57" LastActivityDate="2019-10-08T07:12:40.623" Title="New tag (and wiki) for employment bonds (common in India)?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6368" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-07T16:27:26.963" Score="10" ViewCount="542" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that two of our mods are back, it's time to look forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's been a good deal of bad will built up, and the mods are not going to have an easy time of it.  The new CoC will have some very controversial items in it, and the mods will have to make a choice at that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't know if I can follow the new rules as written due to some personal issues I have with &lt;strong&gt;COMPELLED&lt;/strong&gt; speech.  On a personal level, I'll call you whatever you like, I don't have a problem with that.  It's the fact that the speech is compelled, and that you don't have an option to even avoid the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, as we have seen with the actions taken towards Monica, this has already obliterated the &quot;Assume good intentions&quot; rule, and the things posted about her, and allowed to stand tells me that the &quot;Be nice&quot; rule is pretty much dead as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, the new CoC is divisive, as it sets up a very nasty &quot;us&quot; vs &quot;them&quot; mentality, where no transgression or deviation from the orthodoxy is allowed.  Again, the treatment of Monica demonstrates that.  It can, and will be weaponized  to get rid of people or be selectively enforced against some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also will invite trolling through feigned outrage which will become indistinguishable from real grievances.  All one would need to do is post one's pronouns in their profile, wait until someone gets it wrong, and report them.  Trolls love using strict rules to drive sites into administrative overload.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not envy our mods in the upcoming months, nor the choices they will have to  make.  I appreciate the fact that we have had two come back.  In the end, I hope they can affect the change they wish to see, and that greater SE listens to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-10-08T12:34:15.883" Title="Forward, to the future" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6368" CreationDate="2019-10-07T16:46:36.973" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; see where your coming from, but I urge you to hang on a bit longer before passing judgement as I don't believe the story is finished just yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The updated code of conduct &lt;em&gt;has not been officially released&lt;/em&gt; and I know that the powers at be are at least listening to suggestions from the moderation team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's give SE\SO the chance to get it right, or as close to right as it can be.  We are after all, human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2019-10-07T16:49:18.863" LastActivityDate="2019-10-07T16:49:18.863" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6368" CreationDate="2019-10-07T18:02:44.140" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the learned Mister Positive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don’t try to jump at snakes until you actually see them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We’ve seen readily how much damage assumption has made. Making more assumptions and creating problems that don’t yet exist can only serve to make things worse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, react against what you know, when you know it. Until then, nothing has changed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-10-07T18:02:44.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6367" CreationDate="2019-10-08T07:12:40.623" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As there was no response (and some upvotes), I went ahead and created the &#xA;tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/employment-bond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;employment-bond&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;employment-bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also wrote a short tag wiki, and tagged some applicable questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57" LastActivityDate="2019-10-08T07:12:40.623" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6368" CreationDate="2019-10-08T12:26:31.563" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just as I have for years, I plan to see how this community evolves and act accordingly. When it no longer meets my needs, I'll leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than what happened to Monica, I haven't seen anything change at all. I haven't seen any Orwellian dystopia, pronoun wars, compelled speech, forced advocacy, changes in trolling behavior, etc. Maybe I've missed it. Maybe these are only potential changes. Maybe those changes will occur, maybe not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I don't even know if I've actually read the current CoC, and I know little about the coming CoC. If this proposed/potential/future CoC changes things , I'll re-evaluate. And if the community becomes something that I no longer enjoy, I won't be a part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until then, I carry on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2019-10-08T12:34:15.883" LastActivityDate="2019-10-08T12:34:15.883" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6374" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-08T13:12:15.693" Score="43" ViewCount="492" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a concept in the business world called &quot;Back to basics&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a company has drifted too far from it's principles, it often reviews itself, and starts a &quot;back to basics&quot; program/initiative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I always liked about TWP in particular, is the fact that the &quot;be nice&quot; policy along with the &quot;assume good intentions&quot; policy eliminated 90% of the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we go back to that, we will make life easier for everybody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; Hey, I think this is a troll post!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; Assume it's not. and answer it if it's on topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a saying, if you look for trouble, you will find it.  Let's stop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is misbehaving, flag them, and leave it there.  Don't call people trolls, and don't go on troll hunts.  One reason that SE  &lt;strong&gt;USED&lt;/strong&gt; to be hard to troll is that nobody reacted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, a favorite troll for many to pull off is to get a group so paranoid about trolling that they start a witch hunt over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are adults here, and if we act as such, we, as the community can undo much of the damage that was done by SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so, in summation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;BE NICE!  It costs nothing, but makes the place more enjoyable for everyone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ASSUME GOOD INTENTIONS!  we are a very VERY diverse community.  That means we all have to deal with the fact that others can come across as rude to us, often times without intending to do so.  I know I need to work on this one myself... (did I just hear Mr Positive chuckle at that one?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, if the CoC Armageddon does come, we will deal with it then.  Until then, Be happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-10-08T13:12:15.693" Title="Back to basics: Assume good intentions and Be nice" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6375" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-09T02:46:14.447" Score="-2" ViewCount="388" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've debated for a while whether or not to post this, but I've finally decided now that enough is enough.  The direction that Stack Exchange has been going in is bad enough, but the treatment of certain moderators here is just appalling.  I love the community here, but I just can't stomach to be associated with the flawed for profit company that runs it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I'm taking this opportunity to announce that I'll be quitting from Workplace Stack Exchange.  It's been a fun ride, and I want to say thank you to the vibrant community that has made this such a great site.  And I want to say a special thanks to the moderators who work tirelessly day in and day out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for the kind words, SemiColon.  And thank you for the all of those who sent me personal e-mails and texts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After sitting on it for a few days, and after getting a message from a very prominent member of this community that I respect a lot, I've realized that I may have been a little bit too hasty in my departure.  I've realized that my whole goal of leaving is to try to punish Stack Exchange, but I'm really just hurting myself and hurting the community here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So with that, I've decided to not leave Stack Exchange after all.  Thanks all for the encouragement!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71958" LastEditorUserId="71958" LastEditDate="2019-10-11T02:45:33.520" LastActivityDate="2019-10-11T02:45:33.520" Title="Leaving Stack Exchange Community" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6375" CreationDate="2019-10-09T03:10:30.410" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have never asked or answered a single question.... you'll be sorely missed, good luck on your journey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-10-09T03:10:30.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6375" CreationDate="2019-10-09T12:22:02.890" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assume that you are a regular user, and posting under a different account, as this one has virtually no activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's the case, could you be more specific?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-10-09T12:22:02.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6375" CreationDate="2019-10-09T14:06:03.203" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your contributions were great to the community and I am sorry to see you go as a long time lurker. This site would be bare without you. Thanks again!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97245" LastActivityDate="2019-10-09T14:06:03.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6379" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6381" CreationDate="2019-10-10T18:31:50.807" Score="8" ViewCount="2259" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the official FAQ on the topic that has been so hot as of late, just in case you don't stay up on the Meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334900/official-faq-on-gender-pronouns-and-code-of-conduct-changes&quot;&gt;Official FAQ on gender pronouns and Code of Conduct changes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here is a link to my additional question if you are interested: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/334912/352946&quot;&gt;Mister P's additional question&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pOlS0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;(screenshot for users with &amp;lt;10k on MSE)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The comments on this spell out that my approach is safe to use on the stack and are &lt;strong&gt;worth a read&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Snow mentioned, if you have any questions please ask.  If we don't know the answer, we can refer you to the CM's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="44144" LastEditDate="2019-10-29T10:06:50.450" LastActivityDate="2019-10-29T10:06:50.450" Title="Updates to the Code of Conduct" Tags="|discussion|code-of-conduct|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6379" CreationDate="2019-10-10T19:11:41.517" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;And how should users here on The Workplace deal with this new CoC and how does those affect them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite simply, it doesn’t. There’s an awful lot of text and direction there, but it really just boils down to respect and common sense. Both qualities that people here are already very good at. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply carry on as normal, showing others respect and courtesy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, in the rare case this happens, someone indicates clearly how they wish to be addressed, then please respect that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That’s all we expect of people here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, there’s a heck of a lot of discussion and drama going on, but it doesn’t affect how we work here (except in those special rare cases). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any questions, please ask. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-10-10T19:11:41.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6379" CreationDate="2019-10-10T19:23:04.157" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;The powers that be actually said that feelings trump grammar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see this ending well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't envy you having to enforce this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I will not allow myself to be forced to submit to compelled language, and I expect an eventual ban, but I will not hold grudges.  I sincerely hope they reverse course on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2019-10-11T00:36:56.517" LastActivityDate="2019-10-11T00:36:56.517" CommentCount="27" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6379" CreationDate="2019-10-10T20:12:56.970" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My reply to the FAQ on the Meta site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334900/official-faq-on-gender-pronouns-and-code-of-conduct-changes/334979#334979&quot;&gt;Official FAQ on gender pronouns and Code of Conduct changes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to keep it to the point&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-10-10T20:12:56.970" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6379" CreationDate="2019-10-10T21:37:18.930" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a bit conflicted about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q10: What if I believe it is grammatically incorrect to use some pronouns (e.g. they/them to refer to a single person)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are the pronouns stated by the individual, you must respect that and use them. &lt;strong&gt;Grammar concerns do not override a person’s right to self identify.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have freedom of expression, one of the fundamental human rights, which gives you right to express yourself freely. Exceptions are when there is conflict with law or other basic rights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the way I see it, is that even if I misgender/&amp;quot;mispronoun&amp;quot; you accidentally (or even on purpose), it does not conflict with any law or your right to self identify.&#xA;Your identity is not determined how others speak, you have the authority to determine it and my misplaced words won't identify you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, forcing me to speak in certain way violates my right of expression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as a sidenote: comments are only meant to suggest improvements or ask clarifications to questions/answers. If people start discussing about pronouns in comments, that would violate the site rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79019" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-10-11T00:37:32.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6379" CreationDate="2019-10-10T22:17:43.060" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we all stop acting as if this update is so unbelievably burdensome? There is a group of people who face an unbelievable amount of hate and violence in the world such that they often hide their identities from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The fact that some of us feel safe enough to be who we are online means a lot to us and all we want is to be treated with respect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than giving us that respect, we are often met with derision and laughter and open combativeness that is then paraded as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6379/updates-to-the-code-of-conduct#comment20402_6382&quot;&gt;honest discourse&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And while we are talking about it can we please stop &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6381/85135&quot;&gt;pretending that it doesn't happen here&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/52071740#52071740&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; while simultaneously sweeping examples of hostility towards myself and others like me &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6379/updates-to-the-code-of-conduct#comment20421_6381&quot;&gt;under the rug&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, how are we to feel like it means a lick of anything if the #5 highest contributor to this site is in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6382/85135&quot;&gt;open defiance&lt;/a&gt; and seemingly supported by the community judging by the upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user85135" LastEditorDisplayName="user85135" LastEditDate="2019-10-24T18:27:27.583" LastActivityDate="2019-10-24T18:27:27.583" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6387" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6404" CreationDate="2019-10-11T20:59:04.730" Score="2" ViewCount="546" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to an article on VOX, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.vox.com/2015/6/11/8761227/you-guys-sexism-language&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The term guys is problematic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the official stance on this word for TWP?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-10-25T14:24:33.433" Title="Is the term &quot;guys&quot; a violation of the CoC?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6387" CreationDate="2019-10-11T21:26:55.487" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There’s no separate official stance when it comes to The Workplace. We follow the same stance as the rest of the network. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to know the official guidelines for guys, gals, chaps, or any other gender-leading generic pronouns, then please refer to the CoC FAQ at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334900/official-faq-on-gender-pronouns-and-code-of-conduct-changes&quot;&gt;Official FAQ on gender pronouns and Code of Conduct changes&lt;/a&gt;. Someone may have asked there (ask if no one has). The odds are you’ll be guided to use Y’all, folks, or some other friendly gender neutral term instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2019-10-12T00:08:47.457" LastActivityDate="2019-10-12T00:08:47.457" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6379" CreationDate="2019-10-12T10:23:47.300" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the changes to CoC is to make the SE more welcoming to everyone. That's how SE is explaining the change. Great intent! However, the spirit and the wording of the new CoC and FAQ raise a concern:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A situation where a pronoun misuse may get one in trouble (and being suspected/reported/questioned/tried for whether such misuse was good-faith or malevolent is probably enough trouble in itself) is a clear incentive for those non proficient in such pronoun practice to stay clear from potentially problematic questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, with the new rules in effect, a question which demands some specific pronoun have good chances at soliciting &lt;em&gt;fewer&lt;/em&gt; responses than a question which makes no such demand. Well, isn't that effectively &lt;em&gt;the inverse&lt;/em&gt; of the claimed goal of being more welcome?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is to work on CoC and FAQ some more and come up with a wording that would focus on &lt;em&gt;encouraging&lt;/em&gt; everyone to be positive to everyone else and &lt;em&gt;stop at that&lt;/em&gt;. Specifically avoiding even the slightest hint of obligation and possible repression. Because in my experience encouraging, heartening and inspiring people works better than coercion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="104878" LastActivityDate="2019-10-12T10:23:47.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6391" CreationDate="2019-10-13T06:06:49.363" Score="1" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I clicked vote to delete and the answer got deleted with this message... did I do that somehow? Never seen it before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;deleted as spam or offensive 16 hours ago&#xA;  by Kilisi, Community♦&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-10-13T19:31:29.780" Title="Did I somehow delete an answer?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6390" CreationDate="2019-10-13T19:31:29.780" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A number of users also flagged the post as spam, your vote appears to have tipped it over. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past, I’ve managed to flag spam before the bot got to it and also been credited with the deletion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-10-13T19:31:29.780" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6379" CreationDate="2019-10-14T19:40:31.527" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there's going to be a lot of confusion and mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The kind and reasonable thing to do is to comply with whatever pronouns a person wants to use. Unfortunately, there's not enough nuance in an online context for that to work without explicitly specifying the pronouns for the people for whom this is important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If stackexchange wants to takes their own CoC's seriously, they really need to provide an option for users to display their pronoun pref everytime their avatar/name appears. Otherwise, it's just ripe for mistakes (including insincere mistakes). This makes the pronoun preference clear and obvious for anyone that responds to or references that user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7572" LastActivityDate="2019-10-14T19:40:31.527" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6393" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-15T00:38:48.457" Score="4" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of questions closed for being off-topic because they are about “company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should be “in” and “out” given this description of off-topic questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/146457/if-a-company-is-in-debt-do-employees-with-equity-have-any-financial-obligation&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; was recently closed as company-specific, but it was asking about the behavior of equity compensation in general - the question is relevant to any firm offering equity compensation.  This seems like it would be a helpful question to have on the site and is broadly applicable to many different work situations, but was deemed too specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5652" LastActivityDate="2019-10-16T08:43:20.593" Title="What is a helpful interpretation of “company specific” in the off-topic rationales?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|moderation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6393" CreationDate="2019-10-15T13:20:16.300" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I only consider things &quot;company specific&quot; if the person seems to be asking a question about something we would expect to be in their company's policies, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; which we would have no legitimate way of answering unless we knew that company's policies or practices.&lt;/strong&gt; In other words, there are often questions that fall into a gray area, and may be salvageable or answerable versus just knee-jerk VTC'ing anything that is remotely company specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some over-simplified examples of topics that seem to attract company specific VTCs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How far in advance do I have to request a PTO day?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can my boss let me take a day off even though I don't have any PTO remaining?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should my team lead be changing who is assigned to which project?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should my project manager be the one approving my time sheet?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who should I get to approve my expense report?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the literal answer to these questions may in fact be written in a company policy somewhere, I find that this does not always mean that voting to close is the best reaction. What I usually try to do in these cases is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is in a gray area, post an answer that explains &lt;em&gt;&quot;you might want to check with your company policy, but typically such and such is the case...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is a &quot;generic&quot; on topic version of the question, and it would still likely give the asker what they're looking for while running less risk of attracting VTCs, edit the question to make it less company-specific.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's not clear what they're asking, or it's not clear if a generic version of the question would be helpful, leave a comment asking them to clarify.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is clearly company specific, leave a comment advising them that the best way for them to get an answer will be to check their company policy or ask their boss. I find that specific, personal comments like this are more helpful than just VTC'ing, which gives the generic statement you're quoting, &lt;strong&gt;plus&lt;/strong&gt; the generic &quot;legal advice&quot; statement Joe quoted. This seems to confuse the few people who actually read the VTC text and try to stay engaged, because &quot;company specific&quot; and &quot;legal advice&quot; get globbed together. Plus, in general, people rarely seem to stay engaged and respond appropriately to generic text, while comments do sometimes keep the asker hooked long enough to continue participating.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a last resort, if none of the above applies, and/or the asker doesn't re-engage or respond to comments at all, vote to close.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2019-10-15T13:20:16.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6387" CreationDate="2019-10-15T13:48:48.593" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Not everything Vox says is problematic is actually a problem, or should have any bearing on anyone's life apart from those who choose to read it. We shouldn't have to have an official policy on it, because it's not a problem for TWP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastActivityDate="2019-10-15T13:48:48.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6393" CreationDate="2019-10-15T21:07:43.737" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always found the &quot;company specific&quot; to never apply unless it is actually company specific.  (strange, I know)  I actually can't think of a specific example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I almost never invoke that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-10-15T21:07:43.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6379" CreationDate="2019-10-15T22:33:33.510" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q17: What should I do if I think someone requests me to use a certain&#xA;  pronoun in bad faith? From @Cesar M(Staff) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If people are requesting things in bad faith, you are welcome to&#xA;  escalate to mods and mods can contact us CMs when in doubt too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is advised to use a custom (Something Else) flag for this. Please&#xA;  explain, as detailed as possible, what the issue is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community recommended response in the workplace to suspected trolling has always been &quot;assume content is delivered in good faith and let the down votes speak for themselves&quot;.  I suppose this is a shift in the mod's role now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With respect to the downvotes, in the past all arguments have been assumed to be good faith. Now should a pronoun request come in we are asking the community to consider if it is being made in good faith or not and notify moderation based on that conclusion. I'm not implying that it's good or bad, just pointing out that it's a difference from how we've operated in the past&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26235" LastEditorUserId="26235" LastEditDate="2019-10-16T18:05:19.630" LastActivityDate="2019-10-16T18:05:19.630" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6393" CreationDate="2019-10-16T08:43:20.593" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to answer with another question - is it possible to make separate VTC for &quot;Company-Specific&quot; and &quot;Legal Advice&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This specific case provided in the question is attracting a lot of VTC (including my flag) because it is request for legal advice - even if the OPs for both the original question and this one don't see it like that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Debt settlement, bankruptcy, company disbanding and &quot;who needs to pay what to whom&quot; type of procedure is defined by local laws and regulations, which can be &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; convoluted in some countries - this question is also missing location, so the usual assumption is that OP is sitting in the US which might or might not be the case - so the best course of action given the question parameters would be &quot;seek advice from a qualified professional&quot;, in this case it would be either a lawyer or a chartered accountant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106759" LastActivityDate="2019-10-16T08:43:20.593" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6400" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-16T14:34:26.243" Score="7" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the meta question on the interpretation the criteria to qualify a question as &quot;company specific&quot; brought up &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6393/what-is-a-helpful-interpretation-of-company-specific-in-the-off-topic-rational/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, I noticed that there is confusion on what is the reason for closing a question - company-specific policies or legal advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My perception is mainly because the meta question uses &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/146457/if-a-company-is-in-debt-do-employees-with-equity-have-any-financial-obligation&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; as an example of an unclear interpretation of &quot;company specific&quot; but the reason it attracted so many VTC - also explained in the comments to the question - is that the question is seeking legal advice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question very clearly doesn't relate to company-specific policies and regulations that would require somebody working for the same company to have enough context to give an useful answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I brought up the potential solution of separating the two reasons to close as separate items, a recommendation was made to ask a separate question, so here I am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL, DR&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to have separate items in Reasons To Close for Legal Advice and Company-Specific?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106759" LastActivityDate="2019-10-18T16:04:02.337" Title="Separate Legal Advice from Company-Specific in Reasons to close" Tags="|feature-request|moderation|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6401" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-17T22:21:54.000" Score="-9" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/146648/how-do-i-dress-in-layers-when-i-need-to-stay-business-casual-indoors&quot;&gt;There is a question&lt;/a&gt; about ways to dress in winter to preserve &quot;business-casual&quot; look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first version of my answer addressed the question from POV of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cisgendered&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=dude%20in%20suit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;male dress tradition&lt;/a&gt; in the US. I realized that this question is relevant and applicable to larger range of people. Interestingly, it didn't change the core of my answer, but I did add another image to illustrate my point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it appropriate to encourage authors to edit their question/answer to be more inclusive?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45298" LastActivityDate="2019-10-18T03:13:08.080" Title="Encourage question/answers to be gender-neutral" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6401" CreationDate="2019-10-18T03:13:08.080" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The issue here is that this site thrives and works best on specificity. When we answer questions, the more context that the OP's provide, the better the answers that we give.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is asking a question and gender is somehow an issue that is relevant, you have two options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide an answer that covers the possible answers. Your personal example seemed fairly reasonable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask the OP for more details. Clarifying comments are one of the main uses of comments after all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But your question is about if you see someone else's answer. Well I would apply the idea behind the two points above and do the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can provide an answer of your own covering the missing info. Something along the lines of...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Answer X gave a great suggestion on how to handle this if you are male. Here is my solution if you are female...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also suggest that as an edit to the original answer if you are feeling generous. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6401/encourage-question-answers-to-be-gender-neutral#comment20572_6401&quot;&gt;courtesy of Kilisi&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can ask the OP for clarification. If the OP then confirms that the answer and they align, then move on. If the clarifications makes the answer irrelevant &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; point the answerer toward the clarification and ask them to adjust the answer accordingly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user85135" LastActivityDate="2019-10-18T03:13:08.080" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6400" CreationDate="2019-10-18T09:03:50.040" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back then when these close reasons were merged to meet particular system limitation, they seemed like a sensible mix to me and I expected to get used to it. Time has shown though that I was mistaken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even after casting probably hundreds votes for that reason I sometimes catch myself confused, &quot;Hey, why did I pick that reason, there's nothing company specific in the question... oh wait! it's legal, buried deep in the text, how could I forget.&quot; Given my difficulties I guess it is even more confusing for less experienced users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of inexperienced users, let's take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/330170/165773&quot;&gt;HNQ stats here&lt;/a&gt;. Our site is indisputable top #1, with amount of clicks about the same as that of next top two combined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means, company is sending tens thousands inexperienced visitors to us (and they profit from showing these tens thousands visitors &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/334833/165773&quot;&gt;ads placed at our site&lt;/a&gt;). I think they could do us a little favor in return and implement splitting the reasons. This will help educate new visitors (sent to us via HNQ) when some of them happen to land on an inappropriate closed question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to stress that as pointed &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6400/separate-legal-advice-from-company-specific-in-reasons-to-close#comment20560_6400&quot;&gt;in comments&lt;/a&gt;, this is a fairly routine change from technical point of view. System limitation that forced us to merge close reasons in the past has long gone, some other sites already passed over it and per my observations they did not experience technical difficulties doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summing up, I think it makes good sense to prepare and request company staff to aid us in a proposed split.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2019-10-18T16:04:02.337" LastActivityDate="2019-10-18T16:04:02.337" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6387" CreationDate="2019-10-19T10:52:09.407" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO this is the rather unpleasant fallout that occurs when one group of rule-obsessed people clashes with another group of rule-obsessed people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just a perfect storm of persnickety-ness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the word &quot;guys&quot; occasionally to refer to a mixed gender group of people isn't a problem, it's common usage for very informal scenarios. &quot;Doubling-down&quot; and using it repeatedly to the same audience in such a context after being told by someone that it isn't appropriate, that's a problem and that's what the CoC addresses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's better things for people to do than researching all possible edge-cases of the CoC and raising alarm about it. But if that's your thing, go ahead, knock yourself out, you'll be quite busy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7572" LastActivityDate="2019-10-19T10:52:09.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3202" CreationDate="2019-10-22T19:54:10.307" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The questioner &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/275712/41688&quot;&gt;gets a notification every time&lt;/a&gt; their question is answered, so short of shocking them through the keyboard, there's no way to &lt;strong&gt;force&lt;/strong&gt; them to accept an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accept that some questions will never have an accepted answer, so if you find a relevant question that &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; answers, try them! Even better: some accepted answers don't work (new releases break things) or are not as good as other answers. So try those, too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're frustrated that you aren't getting the little green checkbox next to your answer, perhaps take a step back and ask yourself &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you are doing all this. Is it to get more &quot;karma&quot;/bragging rights/etc or is it to help the questioner&amp;mdash;and future people&amp;mdash;resolve their problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4675" LastActivityDate="2019-10-22T19:54:10.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-23T13:16:05.953" Score="1" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the question:&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/146908/how-can-i-manage-my-team-to-maintain-a-reasonable-productivity-when-my-employer&quot;&gt;How can I manage my team to maintain a reasonable productivity when my employer doesn't treat employees well?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the answers basically was: &quot;fear them into working hard&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And while I don't like that it is an answer, it's a valid answer nonetheless. Now it gets downvoted and invisible because people don't like this management style rather then that it is not a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fearing people into working harder might not be the nice thing to do, in quite a few circumstances it really is the way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a site for only nice answers for people who live in an ideal dream-world or is it also for realistic answers for people who live in the real world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28878" LastActivityDate="2019-10-23T19:57:43.440" Title="How to not only get &quot;ideal world&quot; answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6406" CreationDate="2019-10-23T13:31:05.150" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not especially.  &quot;Hard truth&quot; kinds of answers are permissible as well, respectfully worded of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The negativity against this answer is most probably because modern business culture is leaning away from a blame/threat model of motivating employees and trying to positively motivate instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gone are the days when bosses used to yell at employees while showering them with hot cigar ash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not an &quot;idea dream world&quot;, it's showing respect for your colleagues, regardless of where they are in the organization chart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-10-23T13:31:05.150" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6406" CreationDate="2019-10-23T15:17:15.363" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How to not only get “ideal world” answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get plenty of answers that apply to the real world rather than just the ideal world. IN fact, I believe most of our answers fit that model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Readers are permitted to upvote or downvote answers however they please, for any reason they choose. Downvotes don't necessarily indicate that the answer is invalid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extremely non-mainstream answers tend to attract more downvotes. That doesn't mean we don't get any, just that many &quot;disagree&quot; with the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are free to upvote as many answers as you like. You and others can choose to upvote answers even when you don't like that it is an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2019-10-23T15:17:15.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6406" CreationDate="2019-10-23T18:09:52.127" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are people from varying perspectives, and answers get down voted for varying reasons.  Get above about 25k in rep, and people will start down-voting you just because they can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the varying perspectives is where the value lies.  Perhaps for you, fear would work, for example.  With the people I've worked with in the past, it didn't.  Someone tried it with me, and ended up becoming a former employee himself.  The value comes from hearing all sides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is right may not be what is popular, and what is popular may not be what is right.  Distinguishing between the two is where wisdom comes in, and a good answer is one that explains the thinking behind the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All attempts at driving answers have resulted in bitter failure.  Or, try fear here, and  you don't get far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-10-23T18:09:52.127" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6406" CreationDate="2019-10-23T19:57:43.440" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We do get real world answers. The beauty of TWP is that you get differing perspectives and widely differing strategies sometimes. Because our problems are people related diametrically different strategies may both be perfectly valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People vote from their perspective, that can't be helped and is fine as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvote whichever works for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of my answers are very unpopular, but in my locale and with certain styles they're the only viable solution, so I leave them up. Intelligent people in the correct situation will realise that they need to be pragmatic in that situation and pick up some ideas they need to know about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often end up upvoting competing answers to mine because they seem reasonable solutions but just don't fit my style or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-10-23T19:57:43.440" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6412" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-28T18:29:15.460" Score="12" ViewCount="386" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take this for what you will, but I have found that saying things like &quot;you should have&quot; aren't constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, try things like &quot;In the future, take these steps&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to help the OP as much as you can out of their predicament, and don't post things that amount to &quot;Well, you shouldn't have put your hand in the fire if you didn't want to get burned&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going along that analogy, an answer could be phrased more like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Well, there isn't much prevention you can do now, except make sure you get medical treatment for that burn.  In the future, try approaching the fire with the proper safety equipment, be sure to have an extinguisher nearby, wear fire resistant gloves, try using tools such as a poker, to keep you away from the fire.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See how a difference in tone can help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-10-28T20:28:03.410" Title="Recommendation for posts where OP is in a bad spot of their own making" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6412" CreationDate="2019-10-28T20:28:03.410" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with you that &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; pointing out someone's mistakes to them is not terribly helpful, without providing any further advice. However, I think it is ok to mention the mistakes someone may have made in getting into a difficult situation, as it can be instructive for them to realize what they did wrong. I think most people will acknowledge that making mistakes is an important part of learning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would recommend an answer structure along these lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Point out the mistake(s) they made, that have led to them getting into a bad place.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide some advice on what they can do &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;, to try to alleviate the situation and get themselves out of their predicament.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain what they can do differently in future, to avoid getting into similar difficult situations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88516" LastActivityDate="2019-10-28T20:28:03.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6415" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-30T13:30:02.633" Score="11" ViewCount="382" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most recent example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/147156/employer-reneged-on-negotiated-clauses-citing-budget-cuts-what-can-i-do&quot;&gt;Employer reneged on negotiated clauses, citing budget cuts - what can I do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The correct answer to most variants of this question is essentially &quot;you screwed up by not getting it in writing, make sure you don't make the same mistake next time&quot; - maybe with a bit of advice about lawyers, and/or finding another job ASAP, and/or the consequences of breakdown of relationship with said company. But ultimately there is generally not much the asker can do but take their lumps and learn from the sorry experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this, it doesn't seem to me that there's much value in having this type of question asked over and over again, because all it will do is attract similar answers. Which in my mind, makes it a perfect candidate for a canonical question as a dupe-close target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44593" LastActivityDate="2019-10-30T14:45:34.647" Title="Canonical for &quot;I entered into an agreement outside my contract and now my employer is refusing to honour it&quot; questions" Tags="|discussion|canonical-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6415" CreationDate="2019-10-30T14:20:50.817" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd disagree.. there's a large amount of potential for different scenarios there that I think we'd be doing potential future askers a disservice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2019-10-30T14:20:50.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6415" CreationDate="2019-10-30T14:45:34.647" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a bit more nuanced than that, depending on any number of circumstances&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Laws of that country&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if USA, laws of that state&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Union contracts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Contract law, and what constitutes a contract&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What constitutes a signature&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;et cetera&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the USA, for example, an email may or may not be considered as an amendment to a contract depending on whether or not there is an electronic signature.  But wait, it gets more complex.  The definition of an electronic signature has not been fully established.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The correct answer (if any) would be &quot;Check with an employment lawyer, include any and all correspondence, and get his advice&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-10-30T14:45:34.647" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6418" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-30T16:07:27.067" Score="2" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/147271/how-do-you-forgive-let-go-move-on-from-a-bully-ex-employer/147281&quot;&gt;How do you forgive/let go/move on from a bully ex employer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This got closed as off topic: questions require a goal we can address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've edited to make the goal clear by adding a sentence to the end of the question, stating the goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping that if others agree, this will be voted to re-open. Or, we could get further edits to make the question acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it represents a valuable question for this site, worth investing some time in to in terms of edits (and answers!) since many employees get really hung up thinking about the problems in their old workplace. Having a question that discusses strategies to address that problem could help many people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2019-10-31T02:51:01.930" LastActivityDate="2019-10-31T02:51:01.930" Title="(DONE) Reopen request: How do you forgive/let go/move on from a bully ex employer" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="32" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6421" CreationDate="2019-11-02T12:47:18.023" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently voted &quot;skip&quot; on a close vote review, since the question didn't look very good to me but I thought it could be salvaged (but wasn't sure how to do it myself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've now read an answer on that question that has convinced me it was good enough to start with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to change my vote? I think no, since googling has only given me info about the difference in the options (best I found was &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10356/how-to-vote-to-leave-open-without-going-through-every-question-on-the-close-qu?rq=1&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, which is basically &quot;leave a comment and hope for the best&quot;, and also ignores that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/139834/what-exactly-happens-with-the-button-leave-open-previously-do-not-close&quot;&gt;voting &quot;leave open&quot; can get a question out of the close vote queue&lt;/a&gt;), but I hope yes, because I'd like to vote to keep the question open now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64188" LastActivityDate="2019-11-02T15:16:31.200" Title="Is there a way to change a &quot;skip&quot; to &quot;leave open&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6420" CreationDate="2019-11-02T14:34:44.503" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can do that if review hasn't yet completed by others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, go to your &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/close/history&quot;&gt;review history&lt;/a&gt; and check &quot;show skipped reviews&quot; box at the bottom right of this page &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/234909/165773&quot;&gt;as explained here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that, find the title of question you skipped and click the link denoted by, well, word &quot;Skip&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will bring you to the review page of this question and over there, you will be able to pick Leave Open or Close (that is, unless review was already completed by other users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2019-11-02T15:16:31.200" LastActivityDate="2019-11-02T15:16:31.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6422" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6423" CreationDate="2019-11-03T11:45:00.810" Score="0" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/147466/rival-organised-management-meeting-to-pressure-me-how-to-defend-myself-while&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;rival&amp;quot; organised management meeting to pressure me: how to defend myself while being diplomatic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and it immediately got downvoted.&#xA;The problem is something I will encounter many times in a competitive work environment. I want to improve this question to make sure it doesn't get closed and gets a useful answer.&#xA;Any suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38290" LastActivityDate="2019-11-13T09:55:15.617" Title="Help with improving question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6422" CreationDate="2019-11-04T16:45:42.070" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cut out all the superfluous detail, change the title to something like...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How can I negotiate with management when a coworker is poisoning the well.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, it seems a bit rant-ish and too bogged down with detail which makes your goal a bit less than clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something more like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My company has two divisions, that both use a common technology.  A coworker had been setting himself up as the lead of that technology for both divisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was specifically hired by my division to create an independent function for this technology. My division wants control of this tech, but also wants to maintain good relations with the other division&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A coworker from the other division demanded full access to my work, and after some push back, management from both divisions is setting up a meeting to discuss collaboration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want this meeting to go in such a way that I neither look weak, nor do I want to make my coworker lose face, or depart from my divisions goal of greater independence.  Having him involved would undermine such independence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On paper it would be very easy to say &quot;we are two divisions, but of course we are going to be collaborating on specific projects, and if you need my help in A I am happy to advise&quot;, using the legitimate organisational structure to push back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question: How can I push back against the demand for full access to my work (projects and customers) while maintaining good relationships with the other division?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2019-11-13T09:55:15.617" LastActivityDate="2019-11-13T09:55:15.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6425" CreationDate="2019-11-11T17:44:32.903" Score="15" ViewCount="536" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have joined this community 2 years and 7 months ago:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s4Pmf.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s4Pmf.png&quot; alt=&quot;Date when I joined Workplace SE&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/68449/goncalo-peres-supports-monica?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;Reputation Points&lt;/a&gt; were earned in 17th October 2018 (through some Edits):&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s5oy9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s5oy9.png&quot; alt=&quot;My first reputation points&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/147709/68449&quot;&gt;First Answer&lt;/a&gt; in this community was last week, on 7th November 2019:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CEYad.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CEYad.png&quot; alt=&quot;My first answer&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though my background in this community dates back more than 2 year, my first reputation points were earned over 1 year ago and my first answer was given 4 days ago, &lt;strong&gt;why am I featured as &lt;em&gt;&quot;New contributor&quot;&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AVV5E.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AVV5E.png&quot; alt=&quot;New contributor&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68449" LastEditorUserId="7260" LastEditDate="2019-11-17T19:25:38.443" LastActivityDate="2019-11-17T19:25:38.443" Title="Why am I featured as a New contributor?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|user-accounts|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6424" CreationDate="2019-11-12T07:40:26.527" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because those previous contributions were edits and not posts in their own right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the Main Meta article here:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314287/come-take-a-look-at-our-new-contributor-indicator&quot;&gt;Come Take a Look at our New Contributor Indicator!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The new indicator works by the age of a user's first visible post.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Folks will see an indicator when they go to interact with new contributors (visible for a week following their first post) letting them know that the person is new. A handy link to our Code of Conduct will be in the notification for reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be a question or answer, and the association bonus won't influence the behavior. While you might not be new to our engine, everyone is new when they first join a new community, so the indicator is shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why you're seeing this on this site after you've been active on other sites and you presumably know how SE works is subtle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the reasoning is that each site has the capability of having a different personality and have different standards of what's an &amp;quot;acceptable&amp;quot; question or answer - so me jumping into SO and asking a programming question that doesn't have the right amount of background information or context will result in my question being heavily downvoted.  The &amp;quot;Black Hand of Welcoming&amp;quot; indicates to other people that I've not posted there before and I might need educating rather than just getting slapped down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do agree that it can seem somewhat condescending to wear this badge when you're a seasoned pro on other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your first proper answer was on the 7th, so you need to wear the hand until the 14th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-11-12T07:40:26.527" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6426" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-14T13:50:25.497" Score="2" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/147901/technical-disagreements-with-my-boss&quot;&gt;Technical disagreements with my boss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question specifically asks &quot;How can I convince him [that his position about test results is incorrect]?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet it was closed as off-topic because &quot;Questions asking for advice on a specific choice...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We seem to have lots of questions asking for advice on how to convince a boss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this close reason make any sense? Maybe I'm missing something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted to re-open. I invite others to do the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2019-11-15T16:35:48.643" LastActivityDate="2019-11-15T16:35:48.643" Title="(DONE) Question asks how to convince the boss. It was closed for &quot;asking for advice on a specific choice&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6426" CreationDate="2019-11-14T14:37:45.850" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;People are getting distracted by the coding problem, because that's what the OP wants to concentrate on (sorry mag!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an underlying human/interpersonal question here, but because the question is heavily technical in its wording, people are being distracted away from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel what needs to happen is for the example to be removed and the question reinforced with what the OP needs to acheive - i.e. resolving the conflict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, it seems as though the OP is seeking for confimation bias from technically minded people on TWP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44108" LastActivityDate="2019-11-14T14:37:45.850" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6426" CreationDate="2019-11-15T11:44:17.213" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to leave closed specifically &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; of the point that Snow described as a distraction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion too many questions on this site get closed as duplicates, or for other reasons, because we don't consider the specific details of each situation, and we assume that an answer that will work for one set of circumstances will work for every set of circumstances regardless of how much they differ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote to leave most questions open based on this opinion, but this particular question is specifically about a coding problem, and the interpretation of that coding problem (as currently written). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question about &quot;how to convince your boss&quot; would be useful to both the asker and others, but this question is not that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question about how to write better tests would also be useful, but not appropriate on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64188" LastActivityDate="2019-11-15T11:44:17.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6429" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-15T16:34:46.397" Score="2" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/147989/are-workplace-reorganizations-that-result-in-a-change-in-job-duties-without-empl&quot;&gt;Are workplace reorganizations that result in a change in job duties without employee consent a violation of the original job contract?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, the question seems clear and has a clear answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is something any good HR rep or anyone who has been through reorgs could answer. It does not require a law degree for an answer. It's like many other questions that were answered here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to me, it makes no sense that it was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted to re-open. I invite others to do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2019-11-15T16:56:20.517" LastActivityDate="2019-11-15T16:56:20.517" Title="(DONE) Why is question about reorganizations closed as Off-Topic?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6430" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-15T19:28:00.273" Score="1" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/147902/how-to-negotiate-an-offer-if-im-not-actually-going-to-accept-it&quot;&gt;How to negotiate an offer if I&amp;#39;m not actually going to accept it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was closed as too broad, but there is arguably a straightforward and answerable question in bold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So should I try negotiation in this case, and what should be my strategy?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the question had already attracted several quality answers, closing it doesn't seem to make sense. I have voted to reopen and would like others to if they agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-11-15T23:22:50.933" LastActivityDate="2019-11-15T23:22:50.933" Title="(Done) Reopen request - How to negotiate an offer if I'm not actually going to accept it" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6430" CreationDate="2019-11-15T23:22:27.723" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Casted the fifth and final vote, and now the post is open again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2019-11-15T23:22:27.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6432" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-18T06:43:54.677" Score="35" ViewCount="996" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I am just starting to notice it lately but it seems like all sorts of questions have been receiving the corporate equivalents of &quot;hit the gym, lawyer up, delete facebook&quot; much more often recently. I am also guilty of this and would not even be surprised if half of my own answers were basically telling someone to quit. This might have to do with leaving being a viable solution for all sorts of situations. And a lot of questions do not really have any answer other than quitting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time I cannot help but think that quality gets dragged down by this. It is the obvious answer almost at the same level as saying the sky is blue. Obviously conflicts get resolved by removing oneself from the said conflicts. Restating this every time does not really say anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The posts I could find talking about this are all nearing a decade old so it might be useful to reopen this discussion. How can we improve on this? Maybe it would bode well to focus more on providing situation analysis in answers rather than actionable advice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91309" LastActivityDate="2019-11-28T22:40:36.640" Title="&quot;Quit your job&quot; as the answer to everything" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6433" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6434" CreationDate="2019-11-18T10:54:28.100" Score="2" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I unlocked the motor-board badge on the workplace site&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uL2dv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uL2dv.png&quot; alt=&quot;see notification here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thing is I haven't gained any reputation in over a year:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lyyTh.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lyyTh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't bother me but seems like it might be a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88272" LastEditorUserId="132" LastEditDate="2020-01-06T15:58:11.520" LastActivityDate="2020-01-06T15:58:11.520" Title="Late badge unlocking" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6433" CreationDate="2019-11-18T11:52:14.870" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange recently &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/11/13/were-rewarding-the-question-askers/?cb=1&quot;&gt;increased the value&lt;/a&gt; of upvotes on questions from 5 points to 10 points, and applied it retroactively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last year you &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/114255/ignored-during-introductions-to-the-team&quot;&gt;asked a question&lt;/a&gt; that earned 36 upvotes. At the time, those votes would have been worth 180 points of rep. After the change they are worth 360, which would have been enough to hit the daily rep cap of 200. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably the calculation they made to adjust the reputation scores took this into account, and gave you 20 extra points and the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64188" LastActivityDate="2019-11-18T11:52:14.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6432" CreationDate="2019-11-18T14:01:51.180" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, many of the questions involve situations that, by the time the OP posts them, have degraded to the point where &quot;Quit your job&quot; is sound advice.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It almost always is sound advice, btw.  One way you can seriously damage your career is to stay past your expiration date, so to speak.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Times have changed, and we are an entire generation removed from when you would start a job at 18, and retire from that same company at age 65.  Now, the focus is on career instead of the job.  If a company is bad for your &lt;strong&gt;career&lt;/strong&gt; then leave the &lt;strong&gt;job&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I give advice, it usually goes something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do this, talk to that person, document everything, be aware of potential consequences, update your resume, be ready to move on.  It is important to include that option because while being fired no longer carries the same stigma it once did, it still looks bad, and puts you in the situation where you have to explain yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-11-18T14:01:51.180" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6432" CreationDate="2019-11-18T20:06:21.527" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree.  These are bad answers and should be downvoted.  I've considered posting this exact meta question as I've noted the same thing. (Whether there are &quot;more than usual&quot; is largely irrelevant, it's continued bad practice on the site.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site has many questions with someone having a pretty normal and non-life-ending problem at work. People who in reality are dealing with the normal mix of things you like and things you don't like at their job seem very emboldened to say &quot;well you may just want to quit then&quot; (or, alternately, about hiring questions to say &quot;you probably don't want to work there then.&quot;  Only perfection in management, HR processes, and working conditions are apparently acceptable to these people - if only I can find the place they work at because I haven't found that yet in 25 years of working for various companies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides smacking of Internet Tough-Guy-ism, this is lazy.  Every answer to a question about how to deal with/change something at work can of course be suffixed with &quot;or cope with it, or leave.&quot;  This isn't helpful; everyone already knows they can quit a job (though apparently site members think it's super easy to get a new one for everyone out there).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the &quot;quit your job&quot; rejoinders don't meet the bar put forth in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1692/is-quit-your-job-an-acceptable-answer&quot;&gt;Is &amp;#39;Quit your job&amp;#39; an acceptable answer?&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers about &quot;how to deal with/change X&quot; should restrict themselves to trying to answer that question.  Even an &quot;if not, quit&quot; is basically unhelpful and extraneous - advice no one needs, that is a waste of space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only solution is to downvote answers that rely primarily on content to the effect of &quot;you should quit.&quot; It is almost always afoul of Good Subjective, Bad Subjective and its requirements to back up opinion with experience (I have just about never heard someone say they quit a job for that reason in an answer.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastActivityDate="2019-11-18T20:06:21.527" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6432" CreationDate="2019-11-19T11:21:45.430" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Workplace I do think many times the best possible solutions are basically two:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Learn to ignore / live with the problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change to a working environment closer to your expectations (that is, to change jobs).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen people burned because of working in a serious, full with red-tape, corporate environment. They wanted everybody to change, to become more responsive, swift, efficient... it just doesn't work and it only brings frustration to the unhappy person and the people who need to deal with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Change them to an environment with those characteristics they wish for and they shine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When people come here presenting problems in the form of &lt;em&gt;'I can't stand this situation anymore, my life at work is miserable'&lt;/em&gt; I consider finding another job a sound advice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If what makes their life miserable is something that is unlikely not to be found in every company, I think pointing out that they should learn how to cope with that instead of trying to shape everything to their wishes is also sound advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course there are also questions where you can see the OP has not much experience or poor soft skills and the solution is not to quit or stay with the situation as it is. But I do not think this questions get the 'you should quit' reply. The answers I read in this community are always quite reasonable and helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53444" LastActivityDate="2019-11-19T11:21:45.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6440" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-19T15:02:59.367" Score="6" ViewCount="677" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/148227/sent-technical-test-that-was-impossible-other-candidates-completed-it/148229&quot;&gt;Sent technical test that was impossible, other candidates completed it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was just put on hold with the &quot;questions require a goal we can address&quot; reason. I'm not sure I agree with that, because the question has a clearly stated goal in bold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I feel like I need closure, but the employer is not explaining this test result to me. How should I help myself move on?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know lots of people coming to this site struggle with being rejected in interviews, and/or struggle with how to interpret what they're told when they are rejected. Questions like this may fall in to a gray area in the strict sense, but I do think there's a lot of potential value in them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, it's a highly upvoted question with many highly upvoted answers that have interesting comments. I feel like it's a bit of a shame to shut it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have voted to reopen and would ask others to as well if they agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastEditorUserId="7260" LastEditDate="2019-11-28T18:06:51.830" LastActivityDate="2019-11-28T18:06:51.830" Title="Reopen request: Sent technical test that was impossible, other candidates completed it" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6441" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-20T04:22:40.477" Score="-1" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/148122/88297&quot;&gt;top answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/148118/88297&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; has &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/148201/88297&quot;&gt;at least one answer&lt;/a&gt;, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://law.stackexchange.com/a/46666/26309&quot;&gt;Law SE answer&lt;/a&gt; and a few comments with sources (buried by move-to-chat) that suggest that it is factually wrong. The issue that the answers are making only really address the legal issue (if there actually is one), which doesn't belong on TWP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should this have been handled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a second part, there are two answers claiming opposite things, but only one can be true. Who is supposed to intervene here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88297" LastEditorUserId="88297" LastEditDate="2019-11-21T08:29:12.410" LastActivityDate="2019-11-21T19:08:26.247" Title="This question doesn't ask for legal advice, but the answers are mostly legal. What should be done?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6441" CreationDate="2019-11-20T07:30:41.820" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(Disclaimer: I wrote one of the answers)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that all answers are free to quote and link sources, I think it's fair to let the votes decide. Would it be better if all voters were educated in German labor law and had this specific case been decided in court? Sure. But that's not how this site works, because there would be no site then. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the other answer would have more credibility (and votes) if it actually cited primary sources. All it does is reiterate hearsay, and it even gets the small details wrong that are easy to look up and fact check (45 vs 60 minutes, 11 vs 12 hours). I'm not saying it's factually wrong overall, but if it lacks sources and has mistakes in the parts that are dead easy to verify, then it's hard to trust that the main argument is sound, just based on &quot;believe me, someone biased told me this is true&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I quoted the law. Anyone who thinks my interpretation is wrong can just downvote the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also open another question somewhere (don't know if law.SE would find it on topic) to ask if there are court decisions on this. I have certainly seen scumbags try that interpretation, but I have never seen it reach court because people (like the OP) would either say &quot;bye, I'm going to get a better job&quot; or &quot;damn, I have to eat this, I cannot get another job&quot;. So if you can &lt;em&gt;find&lt;/em&gt; a primary source on this, I'm happy to read it. All we have now are people saying &quot;but it happens!&quot;. Yes. It does. Robberies also happen. Every day. Does not make it legal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the theory that the guy misunderstood something? Maybe. It's as good a guess as any, but having seen German working contracts, I doubt that the company provided them with the office hours, but not the working hours. It's not impossible, but it's certainly less probable than a &quot;start up&quot; trying to get their employees to work overtime. So I can only take the OPs word that the question as asked is actually their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2019-11-20T07:30:41.820" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6441" CreationDate="2019-11-20T07:41:52.157" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there is any doubt, it's usually best to just upvote my answer and try and get the rest deleted. Not being a lawyer, I don't do legal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2019-11-20T07:41:52.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6441" CreationDate="2019-11-20T09:33:18.377" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;This is another answer because it's a different issue and should be considered independently of people being right or wrong on the internet.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue that the answers are making only really address the legal issue (if there actually is one), which doesn't belong on TWP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because something is connected to the law, does not make it off-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general consensus here (For Reference consult &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1856/what-is-asking-for-legal-advice&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1983/what-is-legal-advice&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; or any of the others when you put &amp;quot;legal&amp;quot; in the search) is that anything that a professional HR member should know is fair game, while anything you need a lawyer for is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at §16 of the law in question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;§ 16 Aushang und Arbeitszeitnachweise&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) Der Arbeitgeber ist verpflichtet, einen Abdruck dieses Gesetzes, der auf Grund dieses Gesetzes erlassenen, für den Betrieb geltenden Rechtsverordnungen und der für den Betrieb geltenden Tarifverträge und Betriebs- oder Dienstvereinbarungen im Sinne des § 7 Abs. 1 bis 3, §§ 12 und 21a Abs. 6 an geeigneter Stelle im Betrieb zur Einsichtnahme auszulegen oder auszuhängen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The employer is required by law to make this law or it's specific exceptions available to every employee by publicly displaying it. In addition, every professional education in Germany teaches this. Every course on management or training apprentices in Germany teaches this. The only way having a job and not having heard of this is to go into academia education-wise and then don't care for what you sign when you get a job. This is not some obscure law people never heard about. This is part of everyday German professional life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you could argue that since we don't agree on what it says, it &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; need a lawyer.  But as a matter of fact, we do agree that the answer to the question is that 11 hour days would be illegal. By your reading, by my reading, by the other answers reading of the law. We all agree on that. So I guess there really is no need for a lawyer as far as the answer to the question is concerned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2019-11-20T09:33:18.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6446" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6449" CreationDate="2019-11-20T14:01:49.847" Score="1" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/148267/would-a-huge-screen-projector-be-healthier-for-the-eyes&quot;&gt;Would a huge screen/projector be healthier for the eyes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of the time of writing this meta post, the question above has 4 close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ergonomics questions in general are on topic but someone questioned whether it being about a home office made this specific question off-topic. (Two close votes for Too Broad and two close votes stating the question belongs on another site.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are ergonomics questions only valid for business offices? I'm interested in the general case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, some additional guidance to the ergonomics tag would be useful either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34163" LastActivityDate="2019-11-20T17:26:35.623" Title="Are ergonomics questions regarding home offices off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|offtopic|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6446" CreationDate="2019-11-20T14:32:50.340" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth I didn't VTC that question (and it's still just about clinging to being open at time of writing). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think ergonomics questions pertaining to home-offices &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be on-topic here, I'm really on the fence with this particular question though; it's certainly a little out-of-the-norm but that doesn't make something off-topic. Given the unusual setup I doubt most people versed in workplace (including home workplace) ergonomics would know the answer but a question being difficult to answer doesn't make it off-topic either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; stand a better chance of getting useful info on Medical Sciences - but it would have to be framed very specifically as a question discussing display use under such circumstances in the general case. For very good reasons Med Sci doesn't allow questions that have the slightest whiff of being something that might be considered &quot;Personal medical advice&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Kilisi made a good effort at an answer - and the OP certainly seemed happy enough to accept that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2019-11-20T14:32:50.340" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6446" CreationDate="2019-11-20T16:49:42.847" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the ergonomics question would apply to the work office, it would equally apply to the home office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have some folks who like to close as many questions as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this question gets closed, I'll vote to re-open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2019-11-20T16:49:42.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6446" CreationDate="2019-11-20T17:26:35.623" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;someone questioned whether it being about a home office made this specific question off-topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we no longer take questions from professional green keepers because the don't do their job indoors at a desk? What about pilots, they sure don't see an office in a while. And I guess Fisherman are out, too? No. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a workplace when work is performed there. If the question is about the setup used for work, then it's on-topic. We have no rules that this has to happen in a fixed, employer-owned building. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2019-11-20T17:26:35.623" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6441" CreationDate="2019-11-21T14:13:43.097" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The standard for TWP, with regards to legal advice is that it is not off topic if it is easily answerable from someone who has a level of knowledge equal to what someone in HR could answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I.E.  &quot;Can my boss fire me because he doesn't like the fact that I'm autistic, and can go into too much detail.&quot; or &quot;I'm hearing impaired, and my boss won't let me have a light for my phone, because he says it's &quot;distracting&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both are legal questions, but someone with even a rudimentary knowledge of HR can answer them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same holds true for interpersonal issues at the workplace being on topic here, the same thing holds true for members of academia with workplace issues can have on topic questions here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is always going to be some overlap, and quite frankly, we close too many questions as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2019-11-21T14:13:43.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6441" CreationDate="2019-11-21T19:08:26.247" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;there are two answers claiming opposite things, but only one can be&#xA;  true. Who is supposed to intervene here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You, me, and everyone.  Our votes are what help to separate the good answers from the bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find two contradicting answers, up-vote the one you agree with and down-vote the one you disagree with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastActivityDate="2019-11-21T19:08:26.247" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6452" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-23T02:30:52.353" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have never posted any questions or answers on this site (except comments). All my reputation points here is from the 100 bonus for joining and from approved edits  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet today I have got a notification for (-2 -2) reputation, total reduction of 4, with the reason being (User was removed)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I have never posted any questions or answers I am not sure what part of my reputation was from voting, which was supposedly removed  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does the (User was removed) reputation adjustment work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8057" LastActivityDate="2019-11-23T02:30:52.353" Title="(User was removed) reputation reduction when I have never posted any questions or answers" Tags="|discussion|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6453" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6457" CreationDate="2019-11-23T08:31:27.510" Score="12" ViewCount="658" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who finds this site and network useful, I'd like to say that I'm really grateful for your commitment to the site. I know it isn't easy, and I can't imagine how hard the recent events must have made it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you need us community members to do to help you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way that we can encourage earlier moderator elections to take some of the load off?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64188" LastEditorUserId="64188" LastEditDate="2019-11-23T08:48:41.113" LastActivityDate="2019-11-25T15:14:33.570" Title="Mister Positive: Thank you, and how can we help you?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6432" CreationDate="2019-11-24T11:25:24.850" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also get upset by a lot of the &quot;update your CV and look for another job answers&quot;, because it isn't just lazy, it is bad advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all there is a situations where &quot;start looking elsewhere&quot; or even &quot;quit immediately&quot; is a good answer. For example:&#xA;- OP is in the same role for a long time and believes they are ready for a new challenge, but all attempts in the current company don't give any hope.&#xA;- OP risks physical or psychological harm&#xA;- The company does something highly dubious&#xA;- The company runs out of money and stops paying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There also is a lot of questions where &quot;give up and look for a new job&quot; is counter-productive and they could be like this:&#xA;- I'm a developer and don't agree with our engineering practice and management/business doesn't listen to me&#xA;- My manager treats me unfairly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem isn't to suggest leaving a job where you are limited by circumstances, the problem is to suggest at the first sign of something being wrong. &#xA;Conflict solving and making business arguments for technical solutions are very important skills for a developer and it is not always easy, that is what separates juniors from seniors. &#xA;Whom is the company going to pay more money the developer who delivers solid results, but can only work when certain practices are followed or the developer who can identify changes that increase productivity for the whole department, make a business case for it and finally implement the change?&#xA;By immediately running away to job where you already agree with everything you concede that seniorship to other people and might be stuck in the junior role forever.&#xA;Dealing with inexperienced, ignorant or sociopathic managers is also a common phenomenon, and it doesn't harm to get good at managing up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely, in some situations it is really hard to change something for the better and leaving might turn out to be the right option: But even when leaving a job, there is &lt;strong&gt;usually&lt;/strong&gt; no harm in trying to improve the situation first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99412" LastActivityDate="2019-11-24T11:25:24.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6432" CreationDate="2019-11-24T12:55:45.583" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my view, it is very American advice, and it is geared strongly to a culture of reciprocal “at-will” employment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Easy come, easy go, as they say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But particularly in an European context, where people often expect to stay in role much longer, and the culture is much less one of job-hopping, it is often explicitly &lt;em&gt;bad advice&lt;/em&gt;, especially when accumulated seniority, pension entitlements etc. etc. are taken into consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, dealing with a bad manager is hard without quitting.&#xA;Getting a salary boost from your current employer is hard without quitting.&#xA;But we should at least explore other options where possible, case-by-case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68760" LastActivityDate="2019-11-24T12:55:45.583" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6432" CreationDate="2019-11-25T11:42:27.840" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of people I see asking questions implying they're working at something a human being really shouldn't be doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the &quot;quit your job&quot; comes with reasoning, it's usually fine. Since that's always an option, and considering it and its consequences may help you evaluate your choices better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I can learn something from an answer, I usually think it's good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why to do, not what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="107384" LastActivityDate="2019-11-25T11:42:27.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6453" CreationDate="2019-11-25T12:28:39.207" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;First and foremost, thank you.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point we will be having an election of at least one, if not two moderators.  As it currently stands SE does not run elections during this time of year, so it will be just me until January 2020 at the earliest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can you do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the review queues clear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close garbage questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag offensive comments / answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate the communities support!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2019-11-25T15:14:33.570" LastActivityDate="2019-11-25T15:14:33.570" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6432" CreationDate="2019-11-25T15:30:28.623" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;When people get so aggrieved or have such fundamental issues with their job that they turn to a site like this to ask for suggestions on how to mitigate it, more often then not several things are true:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are unaware of or have exhausted other means of redress&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are sufficiently peeved that they can't let it go&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are not in a position of power to effect organizational change&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And barring exceptions where laws or HR can be leveraged, or where OP forgot a means of redress to try, most of these situations boil down to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't change it, so either learn to live with it or move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastActivityDate="2019-11-25T15:30:28.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6432" CreationDate="2019-11-25T16:48:12.303" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've waited on answering this because I wanted to take some time to formulate an answer I felt was helpful. Hopefully I've done that, even though this question is now getting fairly old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, what I think it boils down to is that &lt;em&gt;just do X&lt;/em&gt; answers ignore the reality that workplace problems are rarely black and white. There are rarely situations that have a single right answer (and everything else is wrong), or even a single best answer among many right answers. Most workplace problems have a bunch of possible solutions that may or may not be valid given intricacies that aren't described in the question, and/or the personal preferences and strategies of the asker. Different people may ask the same question but need or want very different answers. Further, employment situations aren't exactly repeatable experiments where you can iterate through options until you've discovered the solution. People generally get one shot at trying something, and then live with the results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, &lt;strong&gt;answers that are framed as if the problem was black and white aren't helpful because the problem is gray.&lt;/strong&gt; Or it's mauve, or chartreuse, or an entire rainbow. Answering a gray problem with a black and white answer flattens the reality of the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This flattening means that the question and answers are less valuable for a variety of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The asker may be left unsatisfied.&lt;/strong&gt; A polarizing &lt;em&gt;just do X&lt;/em&gt; answer may feel either too obvious (as others have stated, it's pretty obvious that quitting is an option to any workplace problem. Saying so doesn't add anything). Or, it may seem out of touch (the asker may feel like the answerer didn't really &lt;em&gt;read&lt;/em&gt; the question, but rather just gave a knee-jerk reaction to someone complaining about work).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The asker may miss opportunity for personal growth.&lt;/strong&gt; If someone quits their job every time they face an obstacle or a situation they don't like, they will miss opportunities. At the least, it can lead to a trend of running from problems. Even if the nature of the asker's problem is pretty clearly unsolvable, running from it at first blush may still cause a loss of opportunity. Sometimes, by facing problems (or deciding to live with them), you can help yourself mature as an employee and learn to work with difficult people. Early in my career I switched jobs when faced with some severe problems. After doing this a number of times, I ended up working for a mentor who was incredibly skilled at working with (or, at least, around) people he didn't like. He helped me learn to deal with people I butted heads with, and it was transformational for my career. I was able to advance when faced with difficult peers, instead of just looking for another job. Telling people to &lt;em&gt;just quit&lt;/em&gt; may be robbing them of similar learning opportunities.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It weakens the value of the question to future readers.&lt;/strong&gt; Part of our mission at SE is to build a library of questions and answers that are valuable to future readers. We put a lot of effort into closing questions as duplicates. To me, this means that we also need to put effort into building valuable and diverse answers, beyond just satisfying the asker. Even if a specific asker decides that they are best off if they quit their job, their question and it's answers will be more valuable to future readers if the answers include advice besides just &quot;quit your job.&quot; Having a variety of answers that suggest pushing the boundaries or which give techniques for problem solving are arguably more valuable for future readers (especially those who have had their question closed as a duplicate).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as participants of The Workplace, &lt;strong&gt;what do we do?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1692/is-quit-your-job-an-acceptable-answer&quot;&gt;This linked question&lt;/a&gt; gives good advice about how to post a &quot;just quit your job&quot; answer that is more relevant than a single line. I think it provides good criteria on how to answer, if you feel that quitting is the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do still think that even a well-framed &quot;just quit&quot; answer is still just one alternative to answering these questions - mainly because, as stated, it's pretty obvious to most people that they can quit. So, in addition, I always try to think through the following when someone asks a question where quitting might seem like a valid answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are there things to consider before (or after) quitting, unique to this situation?&lt;/strong&gt; If someone is struggling with &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; and might quit because of it, does X have any impact on the quitting process? If we are going to suggest quitting, how can we coach someone in this specific circumstance on the best way of quitting?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If they decide to quit, how can we best help the asker to move on?&lt;/strong&gt; If someone is complaining that they don't like their boss, what can we say to them to hopefully keep them from hating their next boss? If someone is complaining that they don't like the work they're doing, what can we say to keep them from hating the work at their next employer? Sometimes these issues are not directly addressable, but at the least, we can coach the asker on how to work through their job search to make sure they don't end up in the same situation again (i.e. coach them on how to ask questions of potential employers so they can get a job that they're better suited to).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the asker may end up staying, how can we help them deal with the situation?&lt;/strong&gt; Even if it seems clear that the asker may quit, it is helpful to answer in a way that includes staying as an option, and gives advice on how to stay. In other words, even if quitting is part of an answer, I like to write as if quitting isn't an option. If someone &lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt; to stay at this job, what are some suggestions for dealing with the problem? Pretending as if quitting isn't an option can lead to creativity in answers that may be helpful for both the current asker, and future readers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regardless of whether they quit or not, how can the asker learn and grow from this situation?&lt;/strong&gt; Even if you decide your boss is intolerable, and you need to quit, what can you learn? Maybe the relationship has been slowly declining over time, and there are early signs that could be picked up on, which the asker could have acted on to make things go in a better direction. Although this sort of hindsight may not be immediately applicable to the asker's current problem, it may help the asker avoid falling into the same situation in the future, and it may help other readers avoid falling into the same situation themselves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2019-11-25T16:48:12.303" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6432" CreationDate="2019-11-25T19:20:02.430" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;While “quit now” may not be the best advice in many cases, I find at least being prepared to quit perfectly reasonable advice.  It’s plausible that the advice is too often portrayed as the first option, but the mechanics of risk and job searches should make it one to at least keep in mind in a lot of cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, the sample space is skewed.  I would guess 90% of the questions posted are dealing with a negative situation.  That alone doesn’t guarantee leaving is the best option, but does imply a lean toward such answers.  Among the negative situations, I’d next guess the majority are cases where the OP is already jeopardized or will be by confronting someone.  It’s quite common that the antagonist in the story is one with the ability to fire the poster.  If your job is or will be put at risk, ignoring that risk can be extremely costly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next comes that many mitigations are a form of negotiation.  It’s pretty basic that if you want a negotiation to go well, you don’t want to enter it as vulnerable as possible.  What’s a stronger position?  “If you don’t give me what I want I’ll spend the next six months trying to appease you so I can still eat.” or, “If this doesn’t go well, I tried and here’s my resignation.”  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But overall, it’s the mechanics of life.  Most of us depend on a job.  Many depend upon having one almost constantly.  Even those of us who can afford to be unemployed for weeks or months really don’t want to put a dent like that on our lives/finances.  Finding a job even once your CV/resume is in order can be a lengthy process.  If not prepared, it’s even longer.  This can be a huge risk.  Why shouldn’t preparation be advised?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And sometimes, people just need the reassurance that they have options beyond the scenario they’re in.  Keep in mind, many of the posters are new to the site.  While many of us may have read “prepare to quit” a hundred times, the OPs may have never seen such a post here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99671" LastEditorUserId="99671" LastEditDate="2019-11-25T19:30:47.220" LastActivityDate="2019-11-25T19:30:47.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6461" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6462" CreationDate="2019-11-27T21:58:48.097" Score="-6" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/148721/is-it-socially-acceptable-to-poop-at-work-i-have-had-lifelong-digestive-issues&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was removed. I didn't have any opportunity to clarify or defend myself because I just got home from work and saw it removed now. I posted it last night before going to bed. All the answers and comments were made during the day when I was not here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many comments and answers seem to imply that &lt;em&gt;of course&lt;/em&gt; it is fine to poop at work, even ridiculing me and asking &quot;why do I ask&quot; etc. You can go see what they wrote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is baffling to me that users of workplaceSE are apparently so comfortable with pooping at work. I have always been told that it is not acceptable for women to poop at work (I am a woman, and this is one of the few situations where it does make a difference in the workplace). In a previous job, another woman developed a reputation as an &quot;office pooper&quot; and became a kind of pariah in our department.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my current job, I know two women who don't eat at all during the work day so they can ensure they do not have to poop. The stigma is that great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, my question is not &quot;shitposting&quot; although I appreciate the pun. It is a serious question about the social acceptability of pooping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick google search of &quot;pooping at work&quot; reveals literally hundreds of articles about the subject, and here are some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gawker.com/5839808/how-to-poop-at-work&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://gawker.com/5839808/how-to-poop-at-work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bustle.com/articles/62656-7-reasons-why-every-woman-should-absolutely-poop-at-work&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.bustle.com/articles/62656-7-reasons-why-every-woman-should-absolutely-poop-at-work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jezebel.com/the-real-way-to-poop-at-work-with-100-secrecy-5926790&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://jezebel.com/the-real-way-to-poop-at-work-with-100-secrecy-5926790&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thoughtcatalog.com/michael-podell/2013/11/i-poop-at-work-and-these-are-my-observations/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://thoughtcatalog.com/michael-podell/2013/11/i-poop-at-work-and-these-are-my-observations/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://mashable.com/2016/12/21/tips-pooping-at-work/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://mashable.com/2016/12/21/tips-pooping-at-work/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/style/women-poop-at-work.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/style/women-poop-at-work.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a19907348/pooping-in-public/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a19907348/pooping-in-public/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So clearly, the answer here is not as obvious as &quot;of course you can poop at work, that's what the bathrooms are for&quot; - many of the articles I found state that you should not poop at work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111182" LastEditorUserId="111182" LastEditDate="2019-12-01T02:26:26.487" LastActivityDate="2019-12-07T01:32:41.760" Title="My question got removed" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6461" CreationDate="2019-11-28T10:58:43.033" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was one of the users who voted to delete - your question may have been genuine or it may not. But given it was written in a puerile way with unnecessary details and schoolyard descriptions of your defecation process and the consistency of your feces I figured the balance of probabilities were against it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly our remaining moderator agreed with me and your post was deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've had other questions that have touched on bathroom matters - and while I'm not suggesting they are duplicates they do offer pointers for how this subject can be approached in a mature and reasonable way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="64903" LastEditDate="2019-11-28T12:53:40.817" LastActivityDate="2019-11-28T12:53:40.817" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6432" CreationDate="2019-11-28T22:40:36.640" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only &quot;quit&quot;, &quot;run&quot;, etc is clearly not an acceptable answer. But such answers are never so short, they explain the clear reason. It might be a bad argument or not, it all depends on the details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, it is very easy to give advices to others, if don't we need to face the consequences. Such an advice, why you need to go, is coming from a mouth whose owner is not about to change his workplace. It is coming from a mouth, who is not bound with thousand threads to a company, to a workplace, to a collective. Obviously this weighs very clearly his preferences into the non-cooperative direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my life I actually for more often repented a &quot;remain&quot; decision than a &quot;leave&quot; one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32611" LastActivityDate="2019-11-28T22:40:36.640" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6464" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6465" CreationDate="2019-11-29T14:08:05.667" Score="0" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way SEO works is as follows. You want the google page rank algorithm to put your page very high. One way to do that is to have other websites link to it. This works best, if the other websites are legitimate, important and popular so SE would be a good target. So you post a reasonable looking question on SE that contains a link to your website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/148854/is-it-unprofessional-to-wear-a-red-dress-to-a-christmas-party&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/148647/how-to-dress-for-a-office-christmas-party&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; where created with this purpose (I have no proof, they just look that way to me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question: Should SE try to fight being used that way and if so, how? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first linked question is marked as duplicate, but that doesn't change anything here because it still appears in regular searches. The questions would need to be closed to thwart their use as SEO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111155" LastActivityDate="2019-12-02T03:55:38.527" Title="Abusing SE for SEO (search engine optimization)" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6464" CreationDate="2019-11-29T15:08:16.873" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Question: Should SE try to fight being used that way and if so, how? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that doing so has already been prevented:&#xA;The link in question (and I assume all links from questions), contains&#xA;the follow attribute:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should already indicate to search machines that this link should not change the ranking of the linked page: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99412" LastActivityDate="2019-11-29T15:08:16.873" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6464" CreationDate="2019-12-02T03:46:14.487" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posts should be self-contained, i.e. not depend on external links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If it is dependent on the link&lt;/strong&gt;, it should have some version of the relevant content edited into the question (which can also be done with images) or be closed. You probably want to keep the link for attribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If it's clearly just an attempt to spread the link&lt;/strong&gt; (especially if the question isn't at all on topic), it should flagged as spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the link isn't relevant at all&lt;/strong&gt;, it should just be edited out. Although possibly not if the link is clearly spam but it looks like a legitimate question without the link. In that case you probably want to just leave a comment making the issue clear and flag it as spam. Or edit it out and use a custom flag to explain the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Links here are &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;nofollow&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, as noted in the other answer, so this isn't an issue for search engines. But you still don't want users visiting the question and clicking on the link if it's spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regarding these examples&lt;/strong&gt;, I'm not too suspicious about them, mostly because they come from established users who've both asked legitimate questions on other sites. If it weren't for that, I'd have been more inclined to say it might be spam, but those judgements aren't always easy to make and can be wrong (case in point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case the image could just be edited into the question, although that might not be worth it when the question is closed (as that would bump it and might send it to review).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10582" LastEditorUserId="10582" LastEditDate="2019-12-02T03:55:38.527" LastActivityDate="2019-12-02T03:55:38.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6468" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-05T15:50:00.670" Score="1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/149065/resigned-after-working-at-company-for-2-months-a-year-later-i-would-like-to-ap&quot;&gt;Resigned after working at company for 2 months. A year later, I would like to apply for a different position at that same company. Is it worth trying?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a highly voted question with many highly voted answers. Closing it as opinion based doesn't seem to reflect the feelings of the users in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand that the current wording might not be the best, but I am hoping we can vote to reopen and/or edit as appropriate to bring it on topic. I feel like closing it because of potential wording seems like a technicality that doesn't reflect the value this question can add to our site. Leaving an employer and then trying to return is an interesting subject and it makes sense that people facing that decision would want answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am going to attempt an edit but would welcome suggestions or additional edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2019-12-12T22:48:44.287" LastActivityDate="2019-12-12T22:48:44.287" Title="(Done) Reopen request:Resigned after working at company for 2 months. A year later, I would like to apply for a different position" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6468" CreationDate="2019-12-05T17:25:36.203" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm with you on this one - and have VTRO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW I also agree with your reasoning in the comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I guess my point is, I don't think it's appropriate for a valuable question about an interesting subject to age out of on hold and get closed - even if the OP feels satisfied, I feel that part of our goal is to build a library of valuable questions and answers for others to use. Closing a question that could be a good contribution to that body of questions doesn't seem appropriate. I don't inherently think there's anything missing in terms of answers (although, maybe others do) and I don't have any additional question related to this myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That the OP in this instance appeared to have reached a resolution is irrelevant, if the question is worthy of being open it should remain so. For the benefit of future visitors and for the avoidance of setting inappropriate precedents regarding closures. Leaving useful and valuable questions to their closed state only makes it harder to keep other valuable questions in the future from being closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2019-12-05T17:25:36.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6461" CreationDate="2019-12-07T01:32:41.760" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the original, but can imagine that the issue was not with the substance but with the style. Workplace tends to be wary of &quot;click-bait&quot; posts and other types of content that can attract large groups of random people from network sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading what you have wrote here, &lt;strong&gt;it seems like several different reasonable questions can be constructed&lt;/strong&gt;. Advice would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;keep it focused, i.e. pick a single topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;keep it real-life, not hypothetical: &quot;I heard from colleague that pooping in the office is a big no-no, what should I do?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;keep it on-topic for this site: not asking &quot;how can I get over fear of pooping in public&quot; but rather &quot;professional way to deal with [something]&quot;. We are not even interpersonal website&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45298" LastActivityDate="2019-12-07T01:32:41.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6471" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-07T08:54:24.213" Score="9" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current &amp;quot;How to Ask&amp;quot; when creating questions is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is your question about the workplace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We prefer questions that can be answered, not just discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Provide details. Share your research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is about this website, ask it on meta instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there are abbreviations which are not understood by the general public. Given that the Workplace SE includes people of all types of work environments, it may be a good idea to add a hint about explaining or defining work-specific abbreviations. I noticed that several times, and my presumption is that people new to the site, who just want to ask a question, may not be aware of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In some sense it's a general rule of communication. But it may be more prevalent here than in most other SE sites, which are more specific. If people are using abbreviations on Aviation, it's ok because the people answering there would be able to understand them anyway. On Workplace SE however, the abbreviations rather take on the shape of the background plot. Sometimes they matter for the context, and then we don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is this an issue at all? Yes - people tend to ask in the comments for clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does this solve the issue? It's likely to alleviate it at least. Unless the list becomes too long in order to be read by people. The correlation is probably: The longer the text/list, the less likely it'll be read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is this a matter important enough to be added into the list? This I can not tell. Is this problem prevalent and relevant enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Solution:&lt;/strong&gt; Edit the 3rd line to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Provide details. Share your research. Avoid abbreviations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what's your take on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90947" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2020-02-17T18:16:46.760" Title="Address abbreviations in &quot;How to Ask&quot;" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6472" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-08T21:43:43.243" Score="0" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the Stack Exchange Community Managers exempt from overtime?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am guessing that no one who is not a CM would know the answer for certain.  But I am hoping that experts in the workplace might be able to make an educated guess.  That is why I thought of asking this question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it needs a little tweaking to be on topic here, constructive suggestions would be very welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48606" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T16:37:21.240" Title="Would this be on topic here?" Tags="|support|on-topic-definition|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6472" CreationDate="2019-12-09T05:26:57.080" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you are asking something that is &lt;strong&gt;company-specific (specific to SE)&lt;/strong&gt; then that would be &lt;strong&gt;off-topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the possible ways for a post to be off-topic is precisely by being company-specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make it on-topic you should try to address this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note:&lt;/em&gt; It could be worth seeing if this question could be on-topic on Meta SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I had to guess this is about SE itself (its staff) so it could be on-topic over there. However be sure to verify. Anyways, who better than SE staff to ask this question specific to their company. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(again, check if it's on-topic there in case it were not)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2019-12-09T16:37:21.240" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T16:37:21.240" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6471" CreationDate="2019-12-09T13:01:39.007" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think more specifics in the &quot;Provide details. Share your research.&quot; part could help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or prompting people for the sorts of info that is usually requested later, like jurisdiction commonly is. As long as there aren't too many things to prompt the person for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see this helping a little with people who don't realize that anyone seeing their post won't realize they're in (e.g.) Cameroon. but not doing much for people who won't read help anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WRT (with regard to) abbreviations, I think avoiding them altogether isn't a great idea as that could make posts rather terse and awkward-reading for some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a reminder about people not knowing that a certain acronym means before you post. (and info on the best way of embedding that info in posts.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, as a gimmick, add a box next to the posting field which tries to guess any acronyms that are in the text box in caps. e.g. PTO -&gt; [&quot;power take off&quot;, &quot;paid time off&quot;, &quot;people transferring ownership&quot;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea being, that the &quot;suggestion box&quot; would make it clear that some confusion is inevitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="107384" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T13:01:39.007" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6475" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-10T08:38:50.797" Score="45" ViewCount="1041" Body="&lt;p&gt;In regard to:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/149421/90889&quot;&gt;Can I be fired the same day that I hand in my notice?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/149421/revisions&quot;&gt;revision 6&lt;/a&gt; 'endeavours' was changed to 'endeavors' which I think is strange especially as this is a UK question and this is the correct spelling in british english for what I know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we enforcing american english or was this part of the edit superflous?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90889" LastEditorUserId="90889" LastEditDate="2019-12-11T07:09:27.053" LastActivityDate="2019-12-18T20:05:23.853" Title="&quot;Correcting&quot; british to american english" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6475" CreationDate="2019-12-10T08:40:50.740" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made the change, and it was &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; with any intention to resolve any &lt;em&gt;conflict of usage&lt;/em&gt;, just my personal choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Free free to revert it, if you please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61983" LastEditorUserId="66099" LastEditDate="2019-12-18T20:05:23.853" LastActivityDate="2019-12-18T20:05:23.853" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6475" CreationDate="2019-12-10T09:00:51.693" Score="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general reference to use on this subject is on main meta: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/23869/260382&quot;&gt;What should the standard spelling be - British or US?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overal consensus is that while &lt;strong&gt;tags should use US English&lt;/strong&gt; to remain consistent, &quot;correcting&quot; one version of English to another is not recommended. Typically the &lt;strong&gt;style used by the OP should be preserved&lt;/strong&gt;. Whether it's worth rejecting an otherwise good edit over US/GB spelling changes is a matter of opinion and typically situational.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2019-12-10T10:11:21.517" LastActivityDate="2019-12-10T10:11:21.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6475" CreationDate="2019-12-10T17:47:17.600" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You would not be &quot;Correcting&quot; it. You would be &quot;Translating&quot;. Since the rules don't specify which dialect of english one should use, I would ignore any variant unless its truly causing a problem (e.g. if it was in an obscure pidgin dialect)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38021" LastActivityDate="2019-12-10T17:47:17.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6475" CreationDate="2019-12-12T22:47:11.650" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;The picture says it all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/krOnn.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/krOnn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="61983" LastEditDate="2019-12-13T06:12:07.677" LastActivityDate="2019-12-13T06:12:07.677" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6480" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6481" CreationDate="2019-12-13T22:06:33.703" Score="1" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw an explanation about a question being closed because it had been open for two days already and had more than one answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The discussion of closing the question did not say anything about the quality of the question or the answers received so far.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6468/done-reopen-requestresigned-after-working-at-company-for-2-months-a-year-lat&quot;&gt;That discussion is at this link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In study outside the StackExchange community, there is evidence that indicating there are significantly more solid questions than solid answersreadily available. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few things are for sure:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discussion not adding value is a good sign that a question should be closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ephemeral and off-topic responses are examples of discussion not adding value&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discussions can start off useful then go off track.  That is a a sign of a question not needing to be open unless useful discussion is also happening.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chat is better for such non-focused discussion than space for answering questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Length of time a question is open might correlate to low value discussion, but time open per se is not evidence a question is ready for closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the correct information on these considerations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is two days open a recognized benchmark for the right amount of time for a question to be open?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64938" LastActivityDate="2019-12-14T12:27:21.450" Title="Is two days enough time for a question to be open with active reponses going on throughout that time frame?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2019-12-14T12:27:21.450" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assume you're referring to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6468/done-reopen-requestresigned-after-working-at-company-for-2-months-a-year-lat#comment20813_6468&quot;&gt;my comment&lt;/a&gt; there. That's the trouble with length restrictions of course, it can be tricky to get my point across. Luckily there's no such limit in answers. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point I was raising was emphatically &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; that questions should only be open for X amount of time. Not at all. The closure and reopen systems are there for quality control purposes. If a question is of value and on-topic it should by rights be open. If not it should be put on-hold and edited to the point it can be reopened or eventually confirmed closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only point I was making was that mostly, the activity on that post had run its course. The question was clear enough to get six answers and OP indicated he found a good answer. Editing a question takes effort and it's always worth asking whether that effort is justified. While it would be great if every question was either confirmed off-topic or edited to be brought to pristine standards, we have to keep in mind that the time of our volunteer community is finite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The additional point I wanted to make was in case you see a useful facet of the question that wasn't covered or think that it could be turned into a very useful canonical question. IN those cases, more often than not it makes sense to submit that as a new question yourself. That will avoid the problem of edits invalidating answers or being rejected by the OP. It will be seen by many more people and answers can be written specifically for the new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to be absolutely clear: &lt;strong&gt;the age of a question or the amount of time it has been open or closed is irrelevant&lt;/strong&gt; when considering whether a question should be closed or reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2019-12-14T12:27:21.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6482" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-15T20:17:56.790" Score="-11" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I need to say to start with that I was raised left-wing. My dad is a socialist, but I believe in capitalism. I think that we should all strive to create the best product and make sure our company works for all of us by doing so. I think that's important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if this meta-community is worth anything, and I'm certain it is, I would like to see it be able to deal with questions not about just individual employees but about what we want a company entity to be and what it should be tasked with achieving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see this come up often and I don't want to be seen as opposing anyone who thinks it shouldn't be discussable or being distruptive or anything, I just hope asking the question will make for a useful discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48356" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2019-12-16T15:02:02.760" LastActivityDate="2019-12-16T15:02:02.760" Title="Are we a forum that deals with questions about capitalism and monopolies?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6482" CreationDate="2019-12-15T20:22:15.580" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are we a forum that deals with questions about crony capitalism and&#xA;  monopolies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2019-12-15T20:22:15.580" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6484" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6485" CreationDate="2019-12-17T16:48:17.173" Score="2" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, I come across a question completely unrelated to the workplace (or, I feel it is). But, when I want to VTC with off-topic, I can only close with the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Company specific/legal&lt;/strong&gt;: No.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No goal/complaints only&lt;/strong&gt;: No.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Advice on a specific choice&lt;/strong&gt;: No.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other site of SE Network&lt;/strong&gt;: Sometimes yes, but I can only select Workplace Meta, so no.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other, please specify&lt;/strong&gt;: Well, I'm using this but is it the good choice?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why don't we have a &quot;Unrelated to the Workplace&quot; reason? And what reason should I select for this kind of question? Or should I flag it for moderator's attention instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/149947/was-i-sexually-harassed&quot;&gt;Was I sexually harassed?&lt;/a&gt;: From a comment (&lt;em&gt;not mine&lt;/em&gt;): &lt;code&gt;I don't see what this has to do with the workplace?&lt;/code&gt;. I think so too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/149847/how-do-you-work-with-a-flat-earther&quot;&gt;How do you work with a flat earther?&lt;/a&gt;: I'd say this question belongs to interpersonal.SE, not Workplace. But no off-topic reason were pertinent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80851" LastEditorUserId="80851" LastEditDate="2019-12-18T11:20:55.830" LastActivityDate="2019-12-20T22:57:07.900" Title="Why is there no &quot;Unrelated to workplace&quot; close-reason?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6484" CreationDate="2019-12-20T22:57:07.900" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Other, please specify: Well, I'm using this but is it the good choice?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is the good choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or should I flag it for moderator's attention instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are &lt;em&gt;reaally&lt;/em&gt; unsure then you can do that, just, try not to do excessive mod flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you can just let the question be, that's what I do when I'm unsure. If it's really off-topic it will be closed down eventually. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2019-12-20T22:57:07.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6486" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-01T04:08:48.850" Score="4" ViewCount="461" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's New Year's Day in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange land&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there certainly are &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/a&gt; here, a significant amount of the &lt;em&gt;moderation&lt;/em&gt; is done by ordinary people, using the privileges &#xA;they've earned by virtue of their contributions to the site. Each of you contributes a little bit of time and effort, and together you accomplish much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we enter a new year, let's pause and reflect, taking a moment to appreciate the work that we do here together. &#xA;And what could be more festive than a big pile of numbers? &#xA;So here is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on The Workplace over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                  Action                  Moderators Community¹&#xA;----------------------------------------- ---------- ----------&#xA;Users suspended²                                  19         29&#xA;Users destroyed³                                   9          0&#xA;Users deleted                                      5          0&#xA;Users contacted                                   52         11&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue             49      4,051&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue                 0      2,623&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue          14      1,139&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue                 0        152&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue                  0      4,364&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue                 4     12,029&#xA;Tags merged                                       10          0&#xA;Tag synonyms proposed                              1          2&#xA;Tag synonyms created                               2          3&#xA;Revisions redacted                                 2          1&#xA;Questions unprotected                              0          2&#xA;Questions reopened                                10        162&#xA;Questions protected                              109        227&#xA;Questions migrated                                 8          2&#xA;Questions merged                                   2          0&#xA;Questions flagged⁵                                11      3,194&#xA;Questions closed                                 189      1,642&#xA;Question flags handled⁵                          791      2,410&#xA;Posts unlocked                                     2         25&#xA;Posts undeleted                                   18         98&#xA;Posts locked                                      16        318&#xA;Posts deleted⁶                                   237      2,182&#xA;Posts bumped                                       0         10&#xA;Escalations to the Community Manager team          8          4&#xA;Comments undeleted                               142         12&#xA;Comments flagged                                  70      9,712&#xA;Comments deleted⁷                             12,938     13,821&#xA;Comment flags handled                          5,769      4,016&#xA;Answers flagged                                   32      2,032&#xA;Answer flags handled                             960      1,101&#xA;All comments on a post moved to chat             292        115&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &quot;Community&quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of The Workplace&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ A &quot;destroyed&quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? I posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5851/2018-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2018: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222019%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/341507/2019-a-year-in-closing&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing you all a happy new year...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastEditorUserId="115" LastEditDate="2020-01-03T03:22:21.843" LastActivityDate="2020-02-03T21:24:22.397" Title="2019: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|statistics|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6487" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-06T08:26:12.417" Score="0" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask if the following is a personal attitude towards me. I observe downvotes on all of my answers. Is it about reputation points, as it just looks like something personal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone confirm or deny?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113241" LastEditorUserId="52713" LastEditDate="2020-01-10T12:16:18.443" LastActivityDate="2020-01-10T12:16:18.443" Title="А personal attitude towards me or not" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6487" CreationDate="2020-01-06T10:53:48.177" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nobody has visibility of who votes for what, as it should be, so confirmation is not possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of your 3 posts, I can see why one has a downvote - I would probably have done that as well, as it is very difficult to read. Another seems to make a point that is debatable, so people can up or downvote as regards their experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll find that people don't tend to vote on people (and where they do, the automated anti-fraud systems catch this and reverse it) and instead they vote on posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With only 3 posts so far, I wouldn't worry about it. They currently sit at net 2, 0 and -1. No major issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2020-01-06T10:53:48.177" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6486" CreationDate="2020-01-08T21:21:46.577" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this summary would be incomplete without mentioning the fact that in 2019 our site lost three out of five elected moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further reading for those interested in more details:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/340906/165773&quot;&gt;Update: an agreement with Monica Cellio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6314/168&quot;&gt;Resigning as moderator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6316/168&quot;&gt;Resigning as moderator from Workplace.SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/333965/165773&quot;&gt;Firing mods and forced relicensing: is Stack Exchange still interested in cooperating with the community?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastActivityDate="2020-01-08T21:21:46.577" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6490" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6492" CreationDate="2020-01-15T00:53:43.930" Score="9" ViewCount="621" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went to edit an answer I had made and found my answer was gone. The question was deleted as spam/offensive: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/151015/my-boss-is-very-indirect-and-conflict-avoidant-in-contrast-to-me-should-i-tak&quot;&gt;My boss is very indirect and conflict-avoidant (in contrast to me). Should I take their answers to requests at face value or read into the 'nuances'?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also looks like the user has been deleted, but I wouldn't expect user deletion to mark their questions as spam/offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't see anything spammy in there, so I am under the impression enough users flagged it as offensive instead. It is lengthy and might benefit from some whittling down to the meat of the question, but I didn't think it was offensive. Some might see it as a bit of a rant, but I thought rants were generally closed as off topic. I think at least one comment mentioned it might be better off on &lt;a href=&quot;https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;IPS&lt;/a&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I have flagged it instead of answering it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gysaO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Photo&lt;/a&gt; for those who can't see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46140" LastActivityDate="2020-01-15T13:03:58.237" Title="Was this question spam or offensive?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6490" CreationDate="2020-01-15T09:36:09.300" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really sure what's going on there - the latest revision of the question is pretty much meaningless so I wonder if that was what people flagged for removal. A rollback to a previous version that actually resembled a question might have been a better move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2020-01-15T09:36:09.300" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6490" CreationDate="2020-01-15T13:03:58.237" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post and the corresponding user were removed due to posting irregularities observed by the moderation team. The reason it was flagged as spam is that such a flag will automatically apply an IP block as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We prefer to avoid deleting questions in this way as the community suffers for it considering the effort they put into answers and edits so we typically only do this in egregious circumstances and when it is clear that further community effort on the question would be wasted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should I have flagged it instead of answering it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically we encourage good faith interaction with all posts on the site. If you suspect potential issues with a post please flag. If a post has issues but there is a useful and valuable question in it then edits are encouraged instead, if needed after closing the question to rework it first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2020-01-15T13:03:58.237" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6493" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-23T01:21:14.347" Score="21" ViewCount="1179" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why were so many answers defaced by replacing the text with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Answer not available under cc by-sa 4.0)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/140306/7777&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/140306/7777&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="16695" LastEditDate="2020-02-07T01:32:13.377" LastActivityDate="2020-02-07T01:32:13.377" Title="Answers defaced with &quot;(Answer not available under cc by-sa 4.0)&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|licensing|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6493" CreationDate="2020-01-23T08:12:51.470" Score="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333089/stack-exchange-and-stack-overflow-have-moved-to-cc-by-sa-4-0&quot;&gt;changed the license&lt;/a&gt; in September.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would be fine, when all posts previously written and granted rights to SE by users had stayed with their old license. But they did not. SE decided that the licence you granted them is not the license they wanted and decided that meant that you had indeed granted them a different license. Just for comparison, that is exactly what happens when you pirate a movie. You decide unilaterally that the license offered (pay for view, copying not allowed) does not suit you and instead use your own license (free to view and copy) without the consent of the other party.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the real problem is not the license change per se because people agree it is for the better, but instead the fact that SE decided they could decide for us that we agreed to this. There was not even an opt-out. Not even saying &quot;if you don't agree we will have to delete your content&quot;. Just &quot;my way or the highway&quot;. That upset many users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have time to look it up, but if Gregory removes their answers older than September, then they actually have a point... legally, they are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; available under the current license. Unlike posts written after September, Gregory never agreed to it being published under the new license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could argue that that should be taken to court instead of doing it manually by editing and maybe that's correct. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastEditorUserId="52713" LastEditDate="2020-01-23T09:03:44.037" LastActivityDate="2020-01-23T09:03:44.037" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6493" CreationDate="2020-01-23T10:37:53.793" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt; Let's, for once, prioritise individual contributors over the collective. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our interests, as a community, are different from the direction SE is taking. It's just the way things are going in the last few months. SE Corp's interest is to protect the content. It stays on their site and google results. Individuals come and go. SE gets contributions for free, &lt;em&gt;and that's fine&lt;/em&gt;, because community feedback was taken into account, up until recently. SE can and will &quot;burn&quot; long-standing members in order to pave their new path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason I still use facebook. Sometimes, I get a &quot;disturbing&quot; picture in my feed that I have to click to reveal. To me, Gregory's action is similar to that. The answer is there if you want it, beware of the licensing issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time it's raising awareness of this issue. You can't just relicense stuff. That's not how it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's easy to say &quot;two wrongs don't make a right&quot;, and I would agree with that if it weren't for the power imbalance between SE Corp. and regular contributors. You're already getting our content for free, which we're happy to provide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, someone mentioned this vandalism ruins the experience of others on the site. I agree with that. We should also consider the experience of strong contributors, like Gregory, who writes insightful posts we enjoy, and SE decided - unilaterally - to re-license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE is turning strongly corporate, abandoning its grassroots base, since it doesn't really need it anymore; it has enough momentum, and Google presence, to keep going. That's fine. They're a company, they're in it for money, and it makes sense they would do this at some point. But again, &lt;strong&gt;you can't change the license&lt;/strong&gt; without agreement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't penalise Gregory for SE's nonesense. If you do we might lose him and other valuable contributors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gregory should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; delete his answers&lt;/strong&gt;. Stack Exchange has a reputation system central to the way it works. Experienced users may not realise this, but for new contributors it's a big deal. Deleting an answer removes the internet points. &lt;em&gt;So what&lt;/em&gt;, I hear you ask, &lt;em&gt;who cares about Internet points?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Contributors do&lt;/strong&gt;. Yes, they're meaningless. I can't go to the bank and put 10k rep as collateral. But &lt;strong&gt;I earned them&lt;/strong&gt;, goddamnit, and the only way you can take them away is from my cold, dead hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm joking of course, exaggerating a bit for comedic effect. But you get the point. Plus, earning rep points is a &quot;gateway drug&quot; to a SE community. So, it's important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastEditorUserId="9549" LastEditDate="2020-01-23T11:04:56.717" LastActivityDate="2020-01-23T11:04:56.717" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6493" CreationDate="2020-01-23T15:07:17.180" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I were to take a guess, my assumption would be along the same lines as the answer above &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6494/113825&quot;&gt;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6494/113825&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's likely that Gregory wanted to delete his answers, however was unable to as they are &quot;accepted&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I believe there is a limit to how many questions you can delete per day and maybe he hit that limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that Gregory contacted the CM team to ask that his content be deleted, but they were not accommodating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is hard to tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113825" LastActivityDate="2020-01-23T15:07:17.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6493" CreationDate="2020-01-23T15:15:12.780" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sympathize with the point of view regarding the Creative Commons licensing change, but legal issues are not the responsibility of the volunteer moderator team. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please take issues like this up with the Stack Exchange company instead, as others have, and if you do have the legal right to remove your content from the network, they can do it for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2020-01-24T13:37:34.457" LastActivityDate="2020-01-24T13:37:34.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6498" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-23T16:29:43.067" Score="2" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question(s) that I want to post about Management. However, it is about 2 employees, with similar problems, roles, and backgrounds (thus sources of issues) but drastically different personalities. Should I post it as two questions or one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As suggested the below I was about to write a draft...but as I delved further into it I realized that it really is two questions. I appreciate your help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106305" LastEditorUserId="106305" LastEditDate="2020-01-24T15:12:54.360" LastActivityDate="2020-10-25T18:03:45.480" Title="Management Questions" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6499" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6500" CreationDate="2020-01-24T11:16:54.887" Score="78" ViewCount="1577" Body="&lt;p&gt;today I will be deleting all questions and answers I have written on this site before the 5th of September 2019. This is due to the re-licensing &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/333089/231732&quot;&gt;effective from the same date&lt;/a&gt;. This post serves as a notice to the moderators who will be dealing with my flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My problem is, I was not asked to relicense my content, but rather told that this is what will happen. If I did nothing, I would implicitly agree to it. Since I was not asked for consent I get the feeling that, from SO's perspective, it's &quot;our way or the highway&quot;, so to speak. I respect SO's decision. I will take the highway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some Q&amp;amp;A:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who do you think you are? We don't care about your stupid content anyway&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Good. Please delete it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You're not hurting SO, you're hurting the community. Do you not care about that?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I do care, which is why I contributed in the first place. The platform is increasingly callous to its treatment of unpaid contributors, such as myself, and I do not wish to grant it any more authority over my content than it already has.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What about disassociating the posts from your account?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No, it doesn't work for me. I'd like the content attributed to myself, as originally licensed. The second part is no longer possible, and disassociating the account does not solve my problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deleting content en-masse might be disruptive to the day-to-day of the site, and creates a lot of work for the mods&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-licensing my content without as much as a by-your-leave is disruptive to me. I'm sure the site will recover and this will be forgotten shortly. As for the moderators, they asked for the job, and this is part of the job.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why now? Why have you waited all this time?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I had other things to worry about in the meantime. It's not like I got advance notice or anything.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to ask a moderator to kindly lift the delete limit from my account, if possible, to make the process faster. Alternatively, if a bulk-delete option is available, I'd be grateful if it was used. At the moment I have &lt;strong&gt;217 answers&lt;/strong&gt; which would take &lt;strong&gt;40 days&lt;/strong&gt; to delete with the current limit of 5 deletes per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have used the &quot;Contact&quot; section at the bottom to ask SO employees to take care of this, thus freeing up the mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're interested in this I recommend reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/333125/231732&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; by Thomas Owens on Meta.SO (thanks to Mister Positive for finding it). Thomas does a much better job of expressing it than I ever could. I will quote the relevant bits here, emphasis added:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;4.c in CC-BY-SA addresses distribution of the Work in a Collection. &lt;strong&gt;It requires that all copyright notices remain intact&lt;/strong&gt;. Prior to September 5, the Collections were also distributed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;8.a [...] &quot;Each time You Distribute or Publicly Perform the Work or a Collection, the Licensor offers to the recipient a license to the Work &lt;strong&gt;on the same terms and conditions&lt;/strong&gt; as the license granted to You under this License.&quot; Again, &quot;You&quot; refers to SE distributing individuals Works in a Collection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/4.0_upgrade_guidelines&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;upgrade guidelines&lt;/a&gt; state that you must either a) obtain consent to relicense, or b) clearly display the license version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To restate my grievance: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I was never asked &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The older license version does not appear on my old posts&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's two violations of the old license, which, by the way, is still in effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&#xA;When I visited an early post of mine, from January 2019, I did not see anywhere on the page (rev 2020.1.24.35889) any reference to cc-by-sa other than for version 4. Further, the license cannot be determined by a third party as there is no field (that I could find) in the Workplace.Posts schema on Data.SE.&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 4&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm happy to report I received a timely reply from the Stack Exchange team, which I read before writing Edit 3 above. Thank you guys, I sincerely appreciate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope you don't mind&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; me quoting here, since I believe this has wider interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My Message&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Hello, I would like to delete all my content posted on or before the 5th of September 2019. This is due to relicensing effective from that date. I explain my reasoning further in the link below. Thank you for your time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Their Response&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Hi [name]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, we cannot grant your request. All posts are licensed to us for use under the perpetual license of Creative Commons and cannot be removed by request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;You can, however, delete your profile which removes your credit as a Licensor per Section 4(c) of the Creative Commons license. The content itself is part of the collection of Stack Exchange and the collective effort of other users who have also contributed to that content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;I hope that you understand our position and that you continue to find Stack&#xA;    Overflow a valuable resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Regards,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    Stack Overflow Team&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&#xA;If you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; mind, I'm happy for you to do your edit-history-proof magic.&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will respond here. My responses are indexed for ease of reference, but not in any particular order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I do and will find SO a valuable resource&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Believe it or not, I do understand your position. My original post here, and my message to you, was lacking context. I hope I provided this missing context in Edit 3 above &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For those contributions of mine which I made after &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/333089/231732&quot;&gt;your announcement&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm happy to have them licensed under version 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm happy for my future content to be licensed under version 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I do not grant you the right to re-license them in a way that violates the new license&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any contributions I made under version 3 are still licensed in that version, because I was never asked to re-license them&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You do not display the correct license version on these posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/333089/231732&quot;&gt;Your announcement&lt;/a&gt; and subsequent communication is not clear on this issue, making it seem like the license update applies to all posts, old or new&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which leads me to answer why I asked you to delete my content: Because you are misreporting the license, which is a violation of its terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any technical measures that could redress this (such as displaying the correct license version) are relatively easy to implement. Since you have not done this already, I assume you never will, so there is no point asking you to fix it like that. Therefore, I ask that you remove content provided to you under version 3, which does not display the correct license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Final Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I won't bore you with this much longer, this thing is coming to an end. Thank you, kind reader, for keeping up so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO's reply to me is not just polite boilerplate, as I originally thought. Here's why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The content itself is part of the collection of Stack Exchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The word &lt;em&gt;collection&lt;/em&gt; here has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;specific meaning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1b. &quot;Collection&quot; means a collection of [...] works, in which the Work is included in its entirety in unmodified form along with one or more other contributions, [...] which together are assembled into a collective whole. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] This Section 4(a) applies to the Work as&#xA;      incorporated in a Collection, but this does not require the Collection&#xA;      apart from the Work itself to be made subject to the terms of this&#xA;      License. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what I understand from this, without any legal training: SO has the right to create a Collection, which includes work licensed under v3, but is not obliged to license the Collection under the same terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fair enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I license Work to SO under v3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO creates a Collection, which includes my work, under a different license&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO did not address my main concern, that they violated our licensing agreement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads me to believe that SO is licensing the collection of works, as displayed on their site, under a different license. To my understanding, this is why they're relicensing en-masse. They're not relicensing individual works, but the collection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my understanding, this means they can make the collection fully proprietary if they want, but they still must, per our licensing agreement, display the original license under which the work was contributed. SO has refused to do this, which means one of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My understanding is correct and the license is violated&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My understanding is incorrect and the license is not violated&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If (1):&#xA;SO doesn't care about violating the license. They owe me no money anyway so they don't care about damages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If (2):&#xA;What is the point of having a license, and making such fanfare about it, when the license doesn't actually govern our relationship? This dishonest and misleading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In either case, (1) being real-politik and (2) being pure bullshit, I do not see a reason why I should participate in something where the terms are either intentionally obfuscated or outright ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fare well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;In case you were wondering, the venerated &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/stackexchange&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;data dump&lt;/a&gt; does not include the correct license either&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9549" LastEditorUserId="9549" LastEditDate="2020-01-28T11:32:31.970" LastActivityDate="2020-02-06T12:10:16.043" Title="I do not agree to re-licensing my content" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|licensing|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="27" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6499" CreationDate="2020-01-24T12:36:39.757" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have contacted the powers at be at SE to see how to handle this.  I don't have an answer at the moment and as you most likely know, I am not a lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will elaborate on this a bit though and say that I will &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; delete your answers for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may want to review this:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service&quot;&gt;Legal Info from SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this answer from Thomas Owens on this post. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333089/stack-exchange-and-stack-overflow-have-moved-to-cc-by-sa-4-0/333125#333125&quot;&gt;Related Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And similar discussion at MSE: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/343333/165773&quot;&gt;How do I get my content on StackExchange licensed correctly or else removed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2020-02-06T12:10:16.043" LastActivityDate="2020-02-06T12:10:16.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6499" CreationDate="2020-01-26T11:46:00.470" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand your frustration. Yes, I agree switching to a new license without consent is not nice. No objection on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in reality nothing has changed. The license has changed, but you aren't trying to make profits from your writing anyway. You have &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;absolutely&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; nothing to lose. This is a Q&amp;amp;A site, we ask or answer, that's what we care. As long as the site is still allowing free access for Q&amp;amp;A, you shouldn't be disappointed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;gain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; from the old license versus the new license??? Can you make a patent from your writing? Can you sell a book from your writing? Will people buy your answers???? Now, let's get back to the game. We should leave the technicality for lawyers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talk less but answer questions harder. Why not be nice if you have nothing to lose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64317" LastActivityDate="2020-01-26T11:46:00.470" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6499" CreationDate="2020-01-26T12:42:26.733" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to add my two cents: I follow Mister Positive in this, in the sense that we will not entertain requests for deletion of content. Any self deletions or defacing of posts will be reversed as SOP for moderators when site contributions are vandalised or defaced. Our mandate as moderators is clear in that regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is entirely separate from my personal views on this obviously complicated matter but those are irrelevant here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand you are in contact with SE and/or the community team and hope that you can come to a mutual understanding, but as moderators we will not involve ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2020-01-26T12:42:26.733" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6493" CreationDate="2020-01-27T08:44:17.270" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any person who rollbacks such edit is a partner in copyright infringement with Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before rolling back such an edit make sure you know the support that SE is willing to give you in the unlikely event that you get sued by the original poster for copyright infringement. Same applies to undeletion of answers or questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some may disagree, of course. But why take risks for an organization unless such organization has ensured that it would support you in such an event?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: I made a test. I added a license statement to my oldest answer which was posted before Sept 5 2019, when SE changed to CC-BY-SA 4.0. The license statement was rolled back by a moderator with the following edit message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please leave the license stuff off. If your not happy about that, please use the contact us link at the bottom of the page as this issue is above the site mod's pay grade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree entirely about &quot;this issue is above the site mod's pay grade&quot;. Though I wonder why they act on it if it is indeed above such pay grade. It seems it is above but only in one direction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moderators are still responsible for their actions though. &quot;SE told me to do it&quot; is no valid excuse for copyright infringement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62793" LastEditorUserId="62793" LastEditDate="2020-01-27T16:03:43.033" LastActivityDate="2020-01-27T16:03:43.033" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6504" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-28T05:43:22.817" Score="3" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fwo1R.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fwo1R.png&quot; alt=&quot;img&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can can see on the image, right panel overlaps main white panel, if in &quot;Edit answer&quot; tab I scroll down. Is it a bug or feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108727" LastActivityDate="2020-01-28T05:43:22.817" Title="Right panel behaviour - Bug or feature?" Tags="|bug|design|editing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6505" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-28T18:41:10.360" Score="0" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not entirely sure if a recommended duplicate actually answers the question I'm asking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/152030/how-much-higher-should-i-go-than-my-current-salary-when-negotiating-for-pay/152031#152031&quot;&gt;My question&lt;/a&gt; is asking for specifics on how to ask for a higher pay at a new position than I have at my current one, while the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/896/how-can-i-determine-a-reasonable-salary-to-ask-for&quot;&gt;suggested duplicate&lt;/a&gt; is about generally finding out if a pay rate is reasonable for a given position. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter is specific to finding a reasonable rate for a given job, whereas the former is more specifically trying to suss out if asking for a higher rate that still resides within the median job rate range is reasonable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally don't feel like my question is answered completely, because I'm looking to find out if there's a reasonable amount to ask above my current pay rate, where the duplicate is only providing an answer for finding the rate for a job when you don't already know it - something that I already researched. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would the second question be reasonably considered a duplicate?  Or is my question specific enough to warrant a second question on the site?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16504" LastActivityDate="2020-01-28T18:59:50.080" Title="Is my question about a reasonable pay rate request a duplicate of another question stating how to find a reasonable pay rate for a job?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6505" CreationDate="2020-01-28T18:59:50.080" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would the second question be reasonably considered a duplicate? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The target duplicate is in fact a very good post which contains several good answers that give suggestions on the process of determining a salary to ask for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that such thing is what you are asking, and thus a valid target IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or is my question specific enough to warrant a second question on the site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, IMHO, the question you ask is off-topic, as it is asking us to make a choice for you (if you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; negotiate or not is up to you, as well as what type of increase &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; you ask for).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question would be on-topic if you removed the choice from your question... but if you do that, you end up with an exact duplicate of the post suggested... so... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems to me that the duplicate suggested is valid and is a post you should consider reading as it will be beneficial to your situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2020-01-28T18:59:50.080" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6507" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6584" CreationDate="2020-01-28T20:30:29.653" Score="6" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this question is on topic on Workplace Meta, but I didn't know where to ask else (perhaps meta stackexchange itself?). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just only heard about the change of license that StackExchange is going to apply. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after a cursory reading, I still don't know what kind of change it's really going to bring in comparison to the previous license exactly... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64632" LastEditorUserId="16695" LastEditDate="2020-02-07T01:32:27.753" LastActivityDate="2020-02-24T20:30:15.797" Title="What exactly is different with the new license StackExchange is going to enforce?" Tags="|support|stackexchange|licensing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6493" CreationDate="2020-01-29T00:03:38.307" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've reviewed the edit logs Gregory's top 10 answers by votes and it clearly appears that he no longer wishes for his answers to be available under the current license regardless of internet points. He has made every effort to delete his answers as is permissible to him as a user by actually deleting the answer; he could not delete accepted answers and simply removed them with the cited statement above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the information is his creation and subject to the copyrights that he agrees to, I do not understand why the moderation team is working to undo the deletions and edits. This very much appears to be an infringement upon Gregory's copyright and I do not concur with the rollbacks that have occurred given that the community does not appear to have a consensus on the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86861" LastActivityDate="2020-01-29T00:03:38.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6507" CreationDate="2020-01-29T00:30:06.467" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I apologize, but I'm going to give you a frame challenge answer whereby I assume your question is more along the lines of, &quot;Why are people mad?&quot; and then eventually get back to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer is not comprehensive as I myself have only become aware of these issues in the past couple months and have not been able to devote the necessary time to fully understand things, however, this is what I have gleaned from the limited time I have spent following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a contentious relationship between high-rep individuals and moderators (hereafter Users) with Stack Exchange on the corporate level (hereafter SE);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Users complaints stem from issues such as racism, sexism, and other '-isms' being inadequately addressed by SE;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SE's response to some of these issues has been to issue an updated Code of Conduct (CoC) that presumably addressed the issue;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prior to the rollout of the CoC, SE terminated a long-time moderator on the basis that she had violated the CoC and then proceeded to defame her in the press (this was substantially worsened because the moderator's username is the same as her real name);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Over the past several years, SE has taken a more corporate tone deferring away from User input in favor of others whom focus on increasing profits;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Back in September, SE rolled out a change to the Creative Commons License V4 (CC) and applied it to all posts both past and present. Many Users are irritated by this as no attempt was made by SE to secure their permission to apply the updated CC License to content prior to September.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On that last point, from the perspective of Users, this is just another act by SE to impose their preferences at the expense of Users. While the V4 is better than V3, the lack of requested permission is the hinge of the argument and is yet another act by SE to assert control over intellectual property that is not theirs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86861" LastActivityDate="2020-01-29T00:30:06.467" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6498" CreationDate="2020-01-29T16:31:48.303" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're not sure about a question, run it past us here, or in chat.  You can get a good deal of valuable feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either edit this post, or create another and include some basic information about the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2020-01-29T16:31:48.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6511" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-30T10:47:38.943" Score="18" ViewCount="724" Body="&lt;p&gt;(This question has nothing to do with licence changes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/deleted-answers&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/help/deleted-answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Answers can be deleted at any time by their authors, unless the answer has been accepted by the question asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221/how-does-deleting-work-what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that&quot;&gt;How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The author can typically delete their own posts at will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I exercise this right, it would appear that moderators of the community take it upon themselves to deny it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect moderators to uphold the rights of all community members. It appears in this instance that has not occurred, and instead moderators act against the rights of its members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is some sort of dependency between how moderators have been trained to act, and the documentation above, could that please be highlighted. Furthermore, could any other discrepancies please be highlighted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My expectation going forward is that moderators will undo the reverts to restore my answers to the state that they should been in - deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastEditorUserId="59502" LastEditDate="2020-01-30T14:50:34.293" LastActivityDate="2020-01-30T16:56:05.837" Title="Why am I unable to delete my answers, despite Stack Overflow rules allowing it?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6512" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-30T11:00:27.660" Score="-3" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;On most SE sites general users tend to leave an explanation explaining the reason for the down vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that not happen here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114030" LastActivityDate="2020-01-31T17:05:13.097" Title="Down vote procedures explained" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6511" CreationDate="2020-01-30T14:58:56.277" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In all of this it's important to remember that you've licensed your content to SE and while you still hold the copyright, they have the right to distribute that content. Also note that the system generates a flag if you delete too much, too quickly. There are times when your right to delete content clashes with SE's right to distribute said content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me (speaking as a moderator on several sites) it all depends on how many of your posts you are deleting and over what time frame. It also matters, in the case of answers, what the score is and how many competing answers there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're just deleting one or two posts every month or so then that's generally not a problem. If you're deleting low scoring answers where there's at least one competing answer to the question then that's generally not a problem. You're probably just removing content that either wrong, outdated or doesn't add anything new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where it get's complicated is when you're deleting large numbers of posts over a short period of time or yours is the only answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first case that could be a sign of a rage quit. This is often (but not always) accompanied by the vandalising of posts that can't be deleted - questions and accepted answers. In these cases we need to know and restore the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second case we have to consider whether having a partial answer is better than having no answer at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to sum up. It all depends on why you are removing content. If you're doing it because the post isn't useful then that &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; be OK. However, if you are doing it because you want to make a point, you don't want your content on SE or some other reason then that's not OK. As I said at the start of this answer, by posting you've given SE the right to distribute your content. If you don't want them to have that right any more you need to contact them directly and sort it out that way, most likely by having the content disassociated from your account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7" LastEditorUserId="7" LastEditDate="2020-01-30T15:14:38.790" LastActivityDate="2020-01-30T15:14:38.790" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6512" CreationDate="2020-01-30T14:59:04.040" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is different than many other SE network sites in that it is fairly subjective in nature. On a site like Stack Overflow, or some of the more technically-focused network sites, there may be easy, obvious, and objective commentary users can put into answers they disagree with - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;your idea is really inefficient, here's why, and you can improve it by using this method instead...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;this code doesn't solve for these edge cases, it would be better if you added XYZ...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or whatever. That is the implied intent of having comments on answers - to clarify or suggest improvements. These objective comments are generally valuable - the person who wrote the answer can consider the feedback and edit the suggestions into their answer, resulting in an answer that both parties can agree is better and more valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, on The Workplace, questions and answers are frequently much more subjective, and there's a big gray area in terms of opinion, personal bias, or cultural differences impacting an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, when someone asks a question that presents a conflict with a coworker, there are bound to be a handful of very different suggestions, and people will feel that some suggestions are bad, or they just won't like them. However, this sets up a bit of a trap that few people are willing to engage with - if you don't like an answer, or disagree with it, saying so in a comment isn't exactly helpful, since many times the person who wrote the answer will (justifiably) say, &lt;em&gt;&quot;well too bad that you don't like it, I think this answer is good.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; The comment isn't really helpful and nothing has changed. When people do make these kinds of unhelpful comments, it often just spirals into a series of disagreements and eventually gets deleted or moved to chat. No one has accomplished anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, we have a site that is, by it's nature, fairly more subjective than other SE sites. Because of that, the model of &quot;use comments to suggest improvements&quot; doesn't always work well, so people sometimes don't bother. When you see a downvote that's not explained, it usually just means &quot;I don't like this and I have nothing constructive to say.&quot; If the purpose of comments is to suggest improvements or seek clarification, and someone is making a subjective downvote, they may &lt;strong&gt;legitimately&lt;/strong&gt; not have an actual improvement or clarification to put in a comment, so they don't leave a comment, because doing so would violate the intent of comments and not add any value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there are also people who are just simply downvoting and aren't really interested in considering whether or not they can make a helpful comment. But if someone isn't interested in being helpful, and is going to make anonymous downvotes, there's not much that can be done about it, and it's hard to take their expression of their dislike seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2020-01-30T14:59:04.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6511" CreationDate="2020-01-30T15:17:48.377" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like the dispute here is that there is a difference between having the ability to delete a post, in the technical sense, versus the guidelines that explain when it is considered &amp;quot;okay&amp;quot; to delete a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221/how-does-deleting-work-what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that/5222#5222&quot;&gt;linked to a Meta community wiki answer&lt;/a&gt; that explains those two different criteria. Near the top of the accepted answer is a section that describes under what conditions a user has the technical ability to delete an answer or question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;By a user:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The author&lt;/strong&gt; can typically delete their own posts at will; for exceptions, see &lt;em&gt;When&lt;/em&gt; can't &lt;em&gt;I delete my own post?&lt;/em&gt; below. To delete a post, just use the &lt;em&gt;delete&lt;/em&gt; link below it, on the left (only available from a browser, not the SE/SO app).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that same answer also describes the conditions for when it is considered acceptable to use that capability:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For answers, any post that is not an answer (should be a comment, doesn't answer the question, etc.) should be deleted. Answers that are wrong or that dispense poor advice should be downvoted, not deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are general guidelines; some communities in the network may uphold more specific reasons to delete posts or not. For example, on Puzzling.SE, answers to a puzzle without explanation are subject to deletion, and some technical sites will delete answers which are not only wrong but also harmful when tried.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the most straightforward interpretation of this is that once you've posted content (and given SE license to that content, per the terms of service), there may be conditions when you are technically able to push the delete button, yet it is not considered acceptable to do so. If you have posted an answer, you will have a delete button under most cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a sense, this is broadly consistent with other site functionality - there are many cases where we have technical functions available - yet, that does not imply that we are freely able to use them at will, because there are site guidelines that provide clarification on when it is (or is not) considered acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2020-01-30T15:17:48.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6511" CreationDate="2020-01-30T16:56:05.837" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question has nothing to do with licence changes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be that as it may, I still encourage you read the answers posted by us in the moderator team on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6499/25739&quot;&gt;related discussion&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other answers here give a good in-depth explanation. The short answer is in the FAQ you quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The author can &lt;strong&gt;typically&lt;/strong&gt; delete their own posts at will&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you are trying to do is rather atypical. Guidelines remaining what they are, as moderators we are exception handlers that step in where the normal process and community management break down. One such instance is in mass-deletions of answers which is tantamount to vandalising site contributions. Once you submit a post, you automatically lose full control of that content. When it is in the community's best interest that those posts remain where they are, it's our mandate as moderators to step in. Here that will mean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we undelete these posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we suspend the account temporarily to stop the deletions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is really not much else that we as moderators are able to do. If you wish to distance yourself from the site to this extent, account deletion remains the only real option. There is simply no way of mass-deleting content you've submitted that was well received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2020-01-30T16:56:05.837" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6512" CreationDate="2020-01-31T17:05:13.097" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/152134/should-i-tell-a-colleague-that-he-probably-wont-be-taken-on/152171#152171&quot;&gt;one of my answers that recently got a downvote&lt;/a&gt; and where people commented on the downvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is essentially: &quot;Do you warn a co-worker who you know/suspect is going to be fired?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers essentially are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No, it could backfire on you (the &lt;code&gt;self-interest&lt;/code&gt; argument)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No, it will not be appreciated (the it has &lt;code&gt;limited benefit&lt;/code&gt; anyway argument)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No, it is not your business and unprofessional (the &lt;code&gt;professionalism&lt;/code&gt; argument)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes, provided that you can mitigate your risk (the do right &lt;code&gt;if possible&lt;/code&gt; argument)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No, stand up for him in other ways (the &lt;code&gt;alternative solution&lt;/code&gt; argument)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes, but only hint at it (the &lt;code&gt;advising&lt;/code&gt; argument)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer made the case for yes and provided a plausible framework for mitigating the risk. If you are in any of the camps except the &lt;code&gt;limited benefit&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;professionalism&lt;/code&gt; camp, my answer can find common ground with yours. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if your reason for opposing informing the employee is based on &lt;code&gt;professionalism&lt;/code&gt;, telling the employee he is on a rickety bridge remains improper even if you can get away with it. That is a fundamental disagreement in terms of values between our two positions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With &lt;code&gt;limited benefit&lt;/code&gt;, telling the person remains useless even if you can get away with it. It comes down to a fundamental disagreement over whether knowing about a possible impending firing is useful to people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A certain number of downvotes are probably just based on those types of disagreements. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111291" LastActivityDate="2020-01-31T17:05:13.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6519" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-31T22:29:56.713" Score="-10" ViewCount="626" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/152315/what-are-easiest-areas-to-get-away-with-lying-on-your-resume&quot;&gt;What are easiest areas to get away with lying on your resume?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114153" OwnerDisplayName="PoopOnPuppies" LastActivityDate="2020-02-02T19:54:27.013" Title="Why is this community so hostile?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6519" CreationDate="2020-01-31T22:47:44.790" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I responded to your initial question. To be frank, I believe it's due to the wording of your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, we're honor-bound to try to get you an answer without letting our personal beliefs cloud our judgment.. too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was definitely not a popular question you asked, but you know, I think we all deserve a little bit of help. I don't agree with the people who perform direct attacks against your character since that ain't productive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we're all that hostile. Generalizing the community as hostile is a tad bit too far. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But on that same token, you have to consider the consequences of asking a question like that and anticipate how people are going to respond, right? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114152" OwnerDisplayName="foreza" LastActivityDate="2020-01-31T22:47:44.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6519" CreationDate="2020-01-31T23:52:55.007" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You seem to think that getting a job is enough, and lying is fine if it helps you get a job.  But most people don't consider lying a good long term strategy, partly because keeping a job is just as important as getting one, and being able to get the next job as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you get a job by lying, you'll likely be fired, and the next job will be even harder to get.  So giving advice on how to destroy your career is not what we do, and &lt;strong&gt;discouraging you from destroying your career is not hostile&lt;/strong&gt;.  It's meant to be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="249" LastActivityDate="2020-01-31T23:52:55.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6519" CreationDate="2020-02-01T04:46:27.653" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading your question it sounds like what you're trying to say is that you held a job and you were let go. You were unable to contribute anything to that job, for various reasons. With that in mind, you would like to polish up your resume such that it is attractive but at the same time since you contributed nothing in your previous job, you want to know the extent of which a future employer would check into your past employment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that in mind, I think had you worded the question as such, you'd get better answers. With your current wording, you want to deceive your future employer and want to know how much you can get away with. To me I don't think anyone would agree to aid you in lying or get &quot;insider tips&quot; on what you can get away with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's sort of like going to a lawyer and asking to what extent could a person get away with a crime. It's not going to come across as something they'd want to assist you with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40006" LastActivityDate="2020-02-01T04:46:27.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6519" CreationDate="2020-02-02T19:54:27.013" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, asking for anything unethical will be met with strong rebukes, in the very least.  This wasn't hostility any more than it's hostility to yell at a child who is about to run into traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People were trying to warn you against a foolish act.  It's wrong to lie on a resume, plain and simple.  If that's not enough reason alone, then the &lt;strong&gt;CONSEQUENCES&lt;/strong&gt; of lying should get your attention, which include, but are not limited to...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fired, if caught&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Being placed in a job you cannot do&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Getting fired from &lt;strong&gt;ANOTHER&lt;/strong&gt; job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Getting a reputation as a liar/con artist&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Getting a reputation as incompetent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, there's more.  But asking questions on how to do anything unethical or illegal are not going to go far here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2020-02-02T19:54:27.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6486" CreationDate="2020-02-03T21:24:22.397" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been spending some time in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt; trying to see if there are any ways to get data that may be more meaningful than the above, which doesn't really tell much of a story to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I do think it's up for debate how meaningful any of this is, but there were some specific figures which I found interesting. Lately, I've been spending a lot of time looking at review queues and I've noticed that we often have a lot of questions in the close vote queue. It doesn't seem like this queue gets ignored (there are often a lot of other people looking at it, compared to other queues) so that lead me to wonder if we simply vote to close really often. It seems like we do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per the above, we had 1,831 questions closed in 2019. I counted questions based on create date - we only had 4,149 questions asked in 2019. So &lt;strong&gt;we closed more than 44% of questions.&lt;/strong&gt; To me, this means that either we are too aggressive with closing, or we don't go a good enough job of helping users understand what the close criteria are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of those 4,149 questions asked in 2019, 3,360 of them had at least one close vote. &lt;strong&gt;More than 80% of questions got a close vote.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you sum the new questions by day and compare it to questions that received a close vote on that day, we frequently have days where the number of questions that received close votes is higher than the number of new questions asked that day. In other words, there are days where we are literally closing questions faster than they are being asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this lead me to wonder: What does this mean? &lt;strong&gt;It seems like we vote to close a lot&lt;/strong&gt; but it's not immediately clear if that's  problem or not. How do we know if it's a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are our goals as a community? I feel like I've picked up on a few common themes as answers to that questionn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we are here to curate a good body of knowledge (in the sense of maintaining a library of quality questions and answers), it seems like we are shutting people down faster than they can help us generate content. I didn't save the exact number, but something like 2,200 of our questions this year were from people who have only asked one question. We don't seem good at retaining askers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we are here to grow the user count as a way to create new users for SE at large, see above. We seem to be frightening away a majority of new people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we are here to &lt;em&gt;help&lt;/em&gt; people who ask questions, closing 44% of their attempts to do so doesn't seem helpful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something? Do we have an opportunity to let this data tell us something about our behaviors, and how they relate to our goals? Do I have our goals wrong? Maybe this should be it's own question, but I posted here because the data posted above are what triggered my exploration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2020-02-03T21:24:22.397" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6525" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6526" CreationDate="2020-02-05T11:53:16.600" Score="3" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question regarding personal productivity and I cannot figure out in which Stackexchange site I should post it. Initially I thought that should be Lifehacks, but there's no &quot;productivity&quot; tag there and just by browsing the site, I do not see any questions of that kind posted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, productivity is being discussed here, on &quot;The Workplace&quot;. But since it is a question with personal productivity context (although relevant for the workplace, as well), I am not sure if this is the correct place to ask?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="871" LastActivityDate="2020-02-05T19:33:01.780" Title="Is personal productivity a relevant topic for this site?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6525" CreationDate="2020-02-05T19:33:01.780" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am not sure if this is the correct place to ask?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as you phrase it in an on-topic way it's ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We currently have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/productivity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;productivity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;productivity&lt;/a&gt; tag (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/productivity&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;) which reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about the ability to get work done in an efficient manner&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if your question is about your productivity at work your post will be on topic. If that is so, do include the mentioned tag along any other you feel necessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worth to note that there was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://productivity.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://productivity.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; site proposed on Area 51. However, this site failed to graduate and the proposal was dismissed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2020-02-05T19:33:01.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6529" CreationDate="2020-02-06T07:37:11.753" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've come across the following question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/152601/working-with-anxiety&quot;&gt;Working with anxiety&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;It seems to me, that this question as it stands has nothing to do with anything we could answer here, as it basically is asking if it is ok to take medication for anxiety or if OP could become an addict. Is there any way this question could be formulated to make it on topic or alternatively a place in the Stack Exchange network where it could be migrated to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78026" LastActivityDate="2020-02-06T13:16:46.927" Title="Can this question be on topic in the Workplace?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6527" CreationDate="2020-02-06T13:16:46.927" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've closed this because topic aside it's essentially asking &quot;what do you recommend for me?&quot;. As commented I see a potential on-topic question concerning the (long-term) use of &quot;performance enhancers&quot; (regardless of reason) in a workplace context, but that's not really what the OP is asking about. In its current form it's also just way too long and unfocused as a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2020-02-06T13:16:46.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-07T13:22:34.140" Score="1" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: This is not a rant. I'm okay with whatever the reason from the removal was. I'm just curious to know the reason behind it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently ask this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/152624/91443&quot;&gt;Am I obligated to work with my sexist coworker?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/152624/timeline&quot;&gt;the timeline&lt;/a&gt; it hit HNQ before being removed by a mod. I'm curious to know what the reason being this removal was? And if there is a general rule about HNQ removal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also curious to know if this is linked to the lack of active moderator on The Workplace? (because with less moderator, you might not want &quot;controversial&quot; question on HNQ)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91443" LastActivityDate="2020-02-07T18:56:50.163" Title="Why was my question removed from HNQ?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|moderation|hot-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6530" CreationDate="2020-02-07T13:48:42.093" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to use an answer that was posted by one of our former moderators which I happen to agree with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When looking at this, there's a couple of questions that I ask myself&#xA;  as a basic litmus test: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is this a story masquerading as a question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Does this question look as though it's been engineered to hit&#xA;  HNQ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In cases where the answers to both are 'yes', it's more than likely&#xA;  that the questions are created for entertainment purposes rather than&#xA;  solving an issue that people are actually experiencing. I'm not a&#xA;  great fan of these &quot;entertainment&quot; questions going into HNQ - they&#xA;  tend to attract answers to these contrived questions and entice people&#xA;  to ask the same kinds of questions so that they can also hit HNQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6173/61096&quot;&gt;Answer source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6172/what-should-be-our-approach-on-new-feature-allowing-removal-of-a-question-from-h&quot;&gt;Full Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my mind, having &quot;sexist&quot; in the title along with the content of the question  meets the criteria, plus the fact we have multiple related questions that are similar to yours; thus its having limited long term value here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2020-02-07T13:48:42.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6530" CreationDate="2020-02-07T18:56:50.163" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm also curious to know if this is linked to the lack of active moderator on The Workplace? (because with less moderator, you might not want &quot;controversial&quot; question on HNQ)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll refer to my colleague for the answer to your main question, but just to address this part: the reduced number of moderators compared to last summer is entirely unrelated. We have removed &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of questions from the HNQ after this feature was rolled out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We very often get very hotly discussed questions on here and the attention from HNQ typically does a disservice to the questions as people flock in to comment and provide low quality answers while the first-posted answers rise to the top meaning better answers can no longer effectively overtake them. And that's before we consider that there is indeed a lot of extra noise, and hence extra work for the moderation team. It doesn't really matter how many moderators there are for that: in the end one of us has to put in the work and no one enjoys weeding through a lot of noise while trying to preserve useful comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2020-02-07T18:56:50.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6533" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-08T22:31:54.380" Score="1" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/152744/what-would-be-the-downsides-of-having-a-you-break-it-you-fix-it-policy-in-the&quot;&gt;What would be the downsides of having a “you break it, you fix it” policy in the dev team with the goal of reducing bugs?&lt;/a&gt; had so far elicited 16 answers, many of which are not much more than repeats of posts of other answers or commentary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to prevent this from worsening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110" LastActivityDate="2020-02-10T10:17:40.157" Title="When is enough answers enough?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6533" CreationDate="2020-02-09T12:10:46.883" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would be the downsides of having a “you break it, you fix it”&#xA;  policy in the dev team with the goal of reducing bugs? had so far&#xA;  elicited 16 answers, many of which are not much more than repeats of&#xA;  posts of other answers or commentary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a way to prevent this from worsening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not clear why having more answers is &quot;worse&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the only real response is to upvote the answers that you feel are &quot;best&quot;, and downvote answers that you think are &quot;worse&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2020-02-09T12:10:46.883" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6533" CreationDate="2020-02-10T10:17:40.157" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ideally speaking, you'd avoid re-treading exactly the same ground as previous answers. But having different versions of a similar theme of answer with small differences isn't actually that bad - it allows people to vote for which they like best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, the more answers there are to a question the better the voting system can work to give readers an informed opinion of how &quot;good&quot; the community considers various approaches versus each other - I think that's a net positive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastActivityDate="2020-02-10T10:17:40.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6536" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-10T19:33:10.897" Score="9" ViewCount="823" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6561/33683&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is scheduled for an election &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/7&quot;&gt;next week, February 17, 2020&lt;/a&gt;. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&amp;amp;A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how it'll work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Until the nomination phase, (so, until February 17, 2020 at 20:00:00Z UTC, or 4:00 pm EDT on the same day, give or take time to arrive for closure), this question will be open to collect potential questions from the users of the site. Post answers to this question containing any questions you would like to ask the candidates. Please only post &lt;em&gt;one question per answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We, the Community Team, will be providing a small selection of generic questions. The first two will be guaranteed to be included, the latter ones are if the community doesn't supply enough questions. This will be done in a single post, unlike the prior instruction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If your question contains a link, please use the syntax of &lt;code&gt;[text](link)&lt;/code&gt;, as that will make it easier for transcribing for the finished questionnaire.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a perfect opportunity to voice questions that are specific to your community and issues that you are running into at currently.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the start of the nomination phase, the Community Team will select &lt;strong&gt;up to 8 of the top voted questions submitted by the community&lt;/strong&gt; provided in this thread, to use in addition to the aforementioned 2 guaranteed questions. We reserve some editorial control in the selection of the questions and may opt not to select a question that is tangential or irrelevant to moderation or the election.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once questions have been selected, a new question will be opened to host the actual questionnaire for the candidates, typically containing 10 questions in total.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not the only option that users have for gathering information on candidates. As a community, you are still free to, for example, hold a live chat session with your candidates to ask further questions, or perhaps clarifications from what is provided in the Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions or feedback about this process, feel free to post as a comment here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33683" LastEditorUserId="33683" LastEditDate="2020-02-17T20:08:19.937" LastActivityDate="2020-02-17T20:08:19.937" Title="2020 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Question Collection" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6536" CreationDate="2020-02-10T19:33:10.897" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a set of general questions, gathered as very common questions asked every election. As mentioned in the instructions, the first two questions are guaranteed to show up in the Q&amp;amp;A, while the others are if there aren't enough questions (or, if you like one enough, you may split it off as a separate answer for review within the community's 8). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33683" LastActivityDate="2020-02-10T19:33:10.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6536" CreationDate="2020-02-10T19:36:54.240" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;We get a good amount of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;( &lt;em&gt;some of this is from the last election&lt;/em&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2020-02-10T19:42:03.060" LastActivityDate="2020-02-10T19:42:03.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6536" CreationDate="2020-02-10T19:38:08.897" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments, they are the bane of any site that wants to maintain a good signal:noise ratio, harmless, something in between? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about comments and the moderation thereof on The Workplace, and what would you like to change about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For context, we get thousands of comments posted on The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;( &lt;em&gt;some of this is from the last election&lt;/em&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2020-02-10T19:38:08.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6536" CreationDate="2020-02-10T19:39:16.283" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you feel are the top two or three challenges we are facing? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you think we should address them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;From last election&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2020-02-10T19:39:16.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6536" CreationDate="2020-02-10T19:40:18.327" Score="14" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you&#xA;  see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the&#xA;  situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;From last election&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2020-02-10T19:40:18.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6536" CreationDate="2020-02-11T08:11:45.647" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recent events have seen this site lose 3 of its formerly 5 moderators. Moving on from the tremors of the past, with the wide spread loss of trust between Stack Exchange and the community, it is abundantly clear that the traditional job description of a moderator as purely a human exception handler no longer holds exclusively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plans for a moderator council for guidance on all sites, and site features are often shared for feedback with moderators prior to release. In that vein, our moderators have become representatives for our community to the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the company missteps, our moderators are now the ones who argue on our behalf and represent us to them. Willing or not, they have become more then janitors for advanced tasks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you're standing for election, what is your motivating factor in offering to serve as moderator, and how do your skills and qualifications factor into the changing role of moderators outlined above?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastEditorUserId="44144" LastEditDate="2020-02-12T19:16:43.590" LastActivityDate="2020-02-12T19:16:43.590" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6536" CreationDate="2020-02-11T10:35:41.987" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user has been posting valuable content for a while but in the same time refuses to follow the site's guidelines (bad usage of comments, unkind if not rude remarks to other users, angrily ranting on meta when they disagreed with something about the scope). What do you do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76091" LastActivityDate="2020-02-11T10:35:41.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6536" CreationDate="2020-02-11T10:37:28.560" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderating usually requires working hand-in-hand with the other moderators and community-moderating users who take care of the review queues and flag inappropriate content. How would you handle a disagreement with your fellow moderators?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76091" LastActivityDate="2020-02-11T10:37:28.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6536" CreationDate="2020-02-11T10:40:06.223" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You (TWP mods) have been thinking about introducing a new feature (e.g. lowering the close/reopen threshold from 5 to 3, changing the comment policy, refusing questions on a certain topic ...). Would you push it right away or would you ask the users before whether they agree with the changes? Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76091" LastActivityDate="2020-02-11T10:40:06.223" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6548" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-12T15:57:36.577" Score="2" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was recently closed on the grounds that it asked for legal advice and was about a specific company: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/152903/appeals-process-when-employer-fails-to-enroll-an-employees-dependent-in-health&quot;&gt;Appeals process when employer fails to enroll an employee&amp;#39;s dependent in health insurance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look closely at the questions asked in the original post, this is explicitly not true. (I was, in fact, aware that asking for legal advice is neither allowed nor useful when I asked the question.) The question asks about resources and options outside of a lawsuit. The company is never named, and the question explicitly asks what can be done outside of the company. I do not think this closure is appropriate, or, if it is, it is not appropriate for the reasons given. If there is something in the question that is being interpreted as overly legalistic or accidentally requesting legal advice, I am happy to reword it, but the kinds of answers the question is asking for (and that I am looking for) can be found in, e.g., the first comment (Talk to your department of labor). I don't see how requesting this kind of information falls outside of the scope of workplace SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Apparently the comment I was thinking of has been deleted, or I'm misremembering where it showed up; regardless, the question is asking for resources like the department of labor, and that suggestion through SO was legitimately very useful for me, and likely would be for others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114472" OwnerDisplayName="Terrified Employee" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2020-02-12T17:15:36.637" LastActivityDate="2020-02-12T17:16:11.153" Title="(Done) Reopen request: Appeals process of workplace question" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6548" CreationDate="2020-02-12T17:16:11.153" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;After some edits and improvements to the question from part of OP, I've casted the fifth and final vote, and now the post is open again for users to post their answers and suggestions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2020-02-12T17:16:11.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6536" CreationDate="2020-02-13T11:08:04.500" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We seem to have a lot of questions that closed within a short period of time after being posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think that is a problem? If so, what might you do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2020-02-13T11:08:04.500" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6553" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-13T21:02:15.100" Score="19" ViewCount="304" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that moderator elections are upcoming, it would be nice to know: &lt;em&gt;just what do moderators do?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much time per day does it take?&#xA;What are you expected to do each day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that moderators move comment threads to Chat. I understand that they have &quot;moderator super powers&quot;. But I honestly don't have a good picture of their other tasks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer to hear from current moderators. Things may or may not be different these days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2020-02-13T21:14:43.653" LastActivityDate="2020-02-17T20:17:55.447" Title="What are the day-to-day activities of Moderators?" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6553" CreationDate="2020-02-13T21:49:02.357" Score="16" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just what do moderators do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We handle flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main distinction between a regular high-rep user and a moderator is that all posts and comments on the site that are flagged go to us. We have a special flag menu that you can consider an extension of the review queue concept. Flagged posts show up there, grouped by question and with several available actions to process flags from that screen or to jump to the post or context (like a comment thread) for a flag. Every flag you submit will eventually reach a moderator who looks at the post or comment you flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see the flag reason, we see the question, answer or comment that was flagged and we see the author of both the flag and the post. We will then take action based on the nature of the flag. If we disagree with the flag we decline it. If we don't we usually take some action on the post but can also do nothing beyond marking the flag as helpful. That's typically reserved for good-faith flags that don't require a particular action. Note that there are also automatic flags when posts hit a certain number of answers or comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The usual actions we take, broadly in descending order of frequency, are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deleting obsolete comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deleting inappropriate comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;moving comments to chat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;protecting questions (preventing answers from new users)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;removing questions from the Hot Network Questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;converting answers to comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deleting answers &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deleting questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contacting users &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;suspending users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deleting/destroying users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;adding post notices&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most but not all of these are sparked by flags. Some of the most time-consuming activities happen outside the flags and relate to handling problematic users. Usually that means communicating with users privately (through site tools) to address observed patterns of behaviour. This private communication includes potentially suspending users for a certain amount of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another activity which I will not describe in detail for obvious reasons concerns detecting and dealing with abusive users, i.e. trolls. This will typically involve coordinating with fellow moderators before deciding on a particular action. We have a private chat room for that purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, we also engage the Community Team in rare cases. Typically that's on behalf of users. About once a year it's to arrange an election. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned by MisterPositive in his excellent answer, we also typically keep an eye on the Workplace chatroom. Long gone are the days when we were able to read the entire chat but I like to keep an eye on it as it helps to get an idea of community sentiment. There was a time where the chatroom required some occasional moderation as well but I get the impression the room has stabilised and now champions the same standard of professionalism we strive for on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it has come up before and some numbers were already posted in meta and chat over the years, I'll share some &lt;strong&gt;ball-park statistics&lt;/strong&gt; on our combined activities. Currently the moderation team will on average and per month:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;handle 250 flags &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;delete 1500 comments (vast majority done in batch)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;delete 30 posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contact a handful of users privately&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that these numbers are indicative only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How much time per day does it take? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This varies from moderator to moderator. Apart from Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange sites do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; enforce a particular level of activity. Anyone who opts to run &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; expected to be reasonably active on the site but there are no real rules or set expectations. I would say that at a minimum, you'd be expected to spend about 5 minutes on the site handling flags a few days a week. Workload varies based on site activity and other moderator activity. After the last election the new moderators basically handled just about every flag between the two of them before the rest of us got to them, leaving only our Australian moderator some work due to the timezone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for reference: we've had moderators on the site who were no longer really considered active (I would be one of them) but their diamond was not revoked over it. It &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; spark new elections but speaking personally there is real value in having experienced moderators around to chime in on the chatroom on important topics even if they don't handle much of the day-to-day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional resources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/site-moderators&quot;&gt;Who are the site moderators, and what is their role here?&lt;/a&gt; on the Help page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/75192/260382&quot;&gt;Who are the diamond moderators, and what is their role?&lt;/a&gt; on main Meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5938/25739&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s it like being a Workplace Moderator?&lt;/a&gt; from 2019&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2476/current-moderators-please-tell-us-about-the-job?rq=1&quot;&gt;Current moderators: please tell us about the job&lt;/a&gt; from 2014&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2020-02-17T20:17:55.447" LastActivityDate="2020-02-17T20:17:55.447" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6536" CreationDate="2020-02-14T09:17:16.960" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;How would you describe the purpose of this site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it to create an exhaustive and definitive database of challenging workplace situations with clear advice of what to do about them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a community of professionals dedicated to giving advice when people are unsure of how to proceed with the challenges they are facing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64188" LastActivityDate="2020-02-14T09:17:16.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6553" CreationDate="2020-02-14T12:28:13.847" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to Lilienthal's &lt;strong&gt;superb&lt;/strong&gt; answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My time commitment in moderating the site is about 10 minutes, twice per day on average.  As Lil pointed out, you can participate as much or as little as you can.  Or to put it another way, you can be as active as you like. As a side note, I &lt;em&gt;very rarely&lt;/em&gt; check in on the weekends, as due to the nature of our site, there is little to be done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the tasks outlined in Lil's answer, if my real world job allows, I do check into the water cooler chat room.  Personally, I like to engage our users.  As a moderator, you'll be of an elevated status, for lack of better words.  I like our members to feel as though we are &lt;em&gt;approachable&lt;/em&gt;.   Again, this part is as time permits and is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; mandatory.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also had a concern about spending too much time on SE this year, so as a sanity check, I don't have a bunch of accounts on sites I don't use any longer.  This helps me stay focused as to why I am here.  YMMV on this point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will need, from time to time IMO, to check in to the private cross-network moderator chat from time to time if you want to keep a pulse on event at the SE level versus TWP level, but that time commitment for me is minimal.  At TWP level, there is also a Moderator only chat room where we discuss items when needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, this gig is more about the &lt;em&gt;people on our site trusting your judgement&lt;/em&gt;, and that you will know when and how to react when the exceptions come up.  This will be a learning experience for a new moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2020-02-14T17:04:42.363" LastActivityDate="2020-02-14T17:04:42.363" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6536" CreationDate="2020-02-14T17:17:51.087" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This election sparked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6553/what-are-the-day-to-day-activities-of-moderators&quot;&gt;meta question on what the day-to-day activities of the moderation team are&lt;/a&gt;. Both of the current moderators gave their perspective there. Has that affected your decision to nominate yourself? If so, in what way? Did anything in particular resonate with you or has anything given you pause?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2020-02-14T17:17:51.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6471" CreationDate="2020-02-17T18:16:46.760" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No change is required.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only a subset of users read these warnings, help pages, etc. So adding this is unlikely to make a huge difference in the occurrence of unexplained abbreviations (and will just lead to similarly confused meta posts about &quot;why can't I abbreviate CV&quot; or other commonly known acronyms).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are a thousand ways to write an unclear question.  Unexplained abbreviations is one, but is not near the top of the list of causes. We can't and shouldn't bulk up the guidance trying to head all of them off. Leave it simple and intervene/comment/VtC as necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone does this, they usually have a bigger problem, which is that they are very in their own head and have no idea other workplaces are different from theirs.  Abbreviations is a low on the list symptom of that problem, usually in conjunction with much more severe gaps in information provided (personally I'm on a quest to vote to close every single legal question that doesn't provide a location). Consider how to address this bigger problem, I'd support a good concise addition to the question guidance that could remind people to provide context in general. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastActivityDate="2020-02-17T18:16:46.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6560" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-17T20:00:00.100" Score="0" ViewCount="552" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2020 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2020-03-04T16:43:53.433" LastActivityDate="2020-03-04T16:43:53.433" Title="2020 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|election|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-02-17T20:00:00.100" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6561" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-17T20:07:31.093" Score="10" ViewCount="1195" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&amp;amp;A thread for the candidates. Questions collected &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6536/33683&quot;&gt;from an earlier thread&lt;/a&gt; have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not every question was compiled - as noted, we only selected the top 8 questions as submitted by the community, plus 2 pre-set questions from us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a candidate, your job is simple - post an answer to this question, citing each of the questions and then post your answer to each question given in that same answer. For your convenience, I will include all of the questions in quote format with a break in between each, suitable for you to insert your answers. Just &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/d8a6fd65-039b-4a86-86ce-ab63e6246138/view-source&quot;&gt;copy the whole thing after the first set of three dashes&lt;/a&gt;.Please consider putting your name at the top of your post so that readers will know who you are before they finish reading everything you have written, and also including a link to your answer on your nomination post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once all the answers have been compiled, this will serve as a transcript for voters to view the thoughts of their candidates, and will be appropriately linked in the Election page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck to all of the candidates!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oh, and when you've completed your answer, please provide a link to it after this blurb here, before that set of three dashes. Please leave the list of links in the order of submission.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To save scrolling here are links to the submissions from each candidate (in order of submission):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6562/41738&quot;&gt;motosubatsu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6563/41738&quot;&gt;Magisch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6571/41738&quot;&gt;dwizum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6582/73791&quot;&gt;DarkCygnus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Recent events have seen this site lose 3 of its formerly 5 moderators. Moving on from the tremors of the past, with the wide spread loss of trust between Stack Exchange and the community, it is abundantly clear that the traditional job description of a moderator as purely a human exception handler no longer holds exclusively. There are plans for a moderator council for guidance on all sites, and site features are often shared for feedback with moderators prior to release. In that vein, our moderators have become representatives for our community to the company. When the company missteps, our moderators are now the ones who argue on our behalf and represent us to them. Willing or not, they have become more than janitors for advanced tasks. Since you're standing for election, what is your motivating factor in offering to serve as moderator, and how do your skills and qualifications factor into the changing role of moderators outlined above?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We get a good amount of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moderating usually requires working hand-in-hand with the other moderators and community-moderating users who take care of the review queues and flag inappropriate content. How would you handle a disagreement with your fellow moderators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comments, they are the bane of any site that wants to maintain a good signal:noise ratio, harmless, something in between? What do you think about comments and the moderation thereof on The Workplace, and what would you like to change about it? For context, we get thousands of comments posted on The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do you feel are the top two or three challenges we are facing? How do you think we should address them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This election sparked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6553/what-are-the-day-to-day-activities-of-moderators&quot;&gt;meta question on what the day-to-day activities of the moderation team are&lt;/a&gt;. Both of the current moderators gave their perspective there. Has that affected your decision to nominate yourself? If so, in what way? Did anything in particular resonate with you or has anything given you pause?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How would you describe the purpose of this site? Is it to create an exhaustive and definitive database of challenging workplace situations with clear advice of what to do about them? Is it a community of professionals dedicated to giving advice when people are unsure of how to proceed with the challenges they are facing? Is it something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33683" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2020-03-04T16:44:14.927" Title="2020 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Questionnaire" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6561" CreationDate="2020-02-18T13:04:50.247" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;motosubatsu's answers:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Recent events have seen this site lose 3 of its formerly 5 moderators. Moving on from the tremors of the past, with the wide spread loss of trust between Stack Exchange and the community, it is abundantly clear that the traditional job description of a moderator as purely a human exception handler no longer holds exclusively. There are plans for a moderator council for guidance on all sites, and site features are often shared for feedback with moderators prior to release. In that vein, our moderators have become representatives for our community to the company. When the company missteps, our moderators are now the ones who argue on our behalf and represent us to them. Willing or not, they have become more then janitors for advanced tasks. Since you're standing for election, what is your motivating factor in offering to serve as moderator, and how do your skills and qualifications factor into the changing role of moderators outlined above?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;hope&lt;/em&gt; I largely addressed this in my nomination post - but to be more explicit my hoped-for goal as a moderator would be to represent the needs of the Workplace SE as best as I can to ensure we can keep on doing what we're here for; helping people navigate the world of work. Delivering good quality help to both people asking questions and those who have questions but can be helped by existing content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;We get a good amount of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no one-size-fits-all answer - but taking each question case by case to ensure that it's still being productive. It's important to recognise that one person's &quot;provocative topic&quot; is another person's Tuesday, and vice-versa. Firm, even sometimes &lt;em&gt;strident&lt;/em&gt; disagreement is not the same as the same as being offensive or abusive. We're all at least nominally adults here and I expect people to behave as such - insults and obviously antagonistic acts are just as immature as claiming that someone who merely disagrees with you is being mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been outspoken on this before on meta and in chat - I do think that TWP can be too quick to close and too slow to reopen. As intended the &quot;put a question on hold to resolve issues and re-open&quot; mechanic isn't a bad one - but all too often people are eager to click on the link to vote to close and move on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also see all-too-frequent closures where it's plainly inappropriate - and has come from an inability to answer being translated into &quot;I don't understand this question so it must be closed&quot;, particularly where the question is coming from a non-USA location. Or where the asker is trying to navigate around an issue relating to a policy or even a legal requirement and people go straight to the &quot;Company specific/legal advice&quot; closure reason, when often the policy question can be equated to many companies and situations regardless of the specific policy or legal aspects are entirely under something that competent HR people can provide information on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to what I would do about it? Well, there's isn't a magic wand that even moderators can wave to &quot;fix&quot; something like this entirely, what a mod can do is deal with specific instances and seek to slowly nudge behaviour in a desired direction by setting precedent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do I mean by this? Well in short if I think a perfectly suitable question is closed I'm going to re-open it. Because if  good questions are left languishing in on-hold or closed then not only does that asker not get the help they came here for but we set a precedent that can and will be used to justify future closures of similar questions. The &lt;em&gt;raison d'etre&lt;/em&gt; of this site is to help people navigate the workplace and I'd implore all users who have close/reopen voting privileges to remember that, if you're thinking of voting something as a duplicate for example take the time to read and digest the answers, check that they actually address the concern the new asker is having. Because if they don't you've basically just brushed them off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Moderating usually requires working hand-in-hand with the other moderators and community-moderating users who take care of the review queues and flag inappropriate content. How would you handle a disagreement with your fellow moderators?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully we could handle any disagreements with civility and respect. Failing that.. dance off?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Comments, they are the bane of any site that wants to maintain a good signal:noise ratio, harmless, something in between? What do you think about comments and the moderation thereof on The Workplace, and what would you like to change about it? For context, we get thousands of comments posted on The Workplace.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something in between, clearly they aren't completely harmless, humans have been using any and all forms of communication in hurtful ways since we first learned to communicate and it's not going to change any time soon. But that's what the flagging system is for, if chattiness is getting excessive or too far off topic then that's what moved to chat is for. Other than that though they aren't anything in particular to get worked up over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What do you feel are the top two or three challenges we are facing? How do you think we should address them?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In no particular order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Trigger happy VTC -&gt; see above for my thoughts on that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;US Software Dec centric mindset -&gt; It's only natural that the majority of the userbase here (as with many SE sites) came here via SO. But this isn't a site exclusively for software devs in the US and their problems even if a lot of people assume it is and that mindset becomes self-perpetuating as we have a tendency to drive off users who aren't. I'm not saying I have an easy answer, but I do think it's a significant problem that the site needs to address if it wants to truly grow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bad-faith users -&gt; I don't just mean trolls and spammers, if you aren't here genuinely to either seek or give help on Workplace issues you're a bad faith user IMO. You want to go on a power-trip? Go run your own site. You want to make people feel bad with your oh-so-cutting barbs? Go comment on YouTube.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;This election sparked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6553/what-are-the-day-to-day-activities-of-moderators&quot;&gt;meta question on what the day-to-day activities of the moderation team are&lt;/a&gt;. Both of the current moderators gave their perspective there. Has that affected your decision to nominate yourself? If so, in what way? Did anything in particular resonate with you or has anything given you pause?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually it was reassuring - I had some concerns about whether I would have enough time for moderator duties but that question and answers eased that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you describe the purpose of this site? Is it to create an exhaustive and definitive database of challenging workplace situations with clear advice of what to do about them? Is it a community of professionals dedicated to giving advice when people are unsure of how to proceed with the challenges they are facing? Is it something else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I say it's the latter - As I think my comments above show!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would depend on why they were being flagged - providing quality answers doesn't get you off the hook for having to be a decent person. If you can't play nice you can't play at all. If the flags were more of, shall we say an abrasive personality that outright bad behavior I'd have a private discussion with the user and ask them to consider either moderating their tone or just taking it a bit easier and commenting less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd have a discussion with them and find out &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they did what they did. I may come to the same understanding or I may not but I don't think I'd outright reverse what they did unless it was something I felt extremely strongly about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dukeling's comment was something I felt I should address:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would you take any steps to try to address the divide between people like yourself who think others are too quick to close and those, like myself, who close a lot of stuff and think others are too quick to reopen without considering whether a question really belongs here and how it could be improved? From your responses it seems you think people who are too quick to close are simply wrong and they just need to stop without seeming to consider that it's quite subjective and they may have equally valid and good (if not better) arguments for doing what they're doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a fair bit in my head to unpack here but I'll do my best! Over the last few years I've had quite a few conversations with people here regarding the balance between erring on closing and erring on remaining open and I've made no secret of the fact that I would prefer the balance to shift more to the open side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I don't know how helpful it is to think about in terms such as people being &quot;right&quot; or &quot;wrong&quot; &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt; as it is quite a subjective opinion-based thing but of course I think I have the &quot;correct&quot; opinion (if such a thing exists) because if I thought a different one was correct that would be my opinion instead. I suppose what I'm getting at with my response to the formal question above is that my opinion on this issue wouldn't change if I were elected - and if I saw questions closed that I genuinely believed should not have been I'd be re-opening them (and the same the other way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean that the site would become some sort of anarchistic free-for-all where everything goes? Of course not - I've cast a grand total of &lt;strong&gt;213&lt;/strong&gt; votes to re-open in the time I've had the appropriate privileges here, that's less than 7 a month. Since as  mod I'd only cast such votes where felt sure (no borderline cases) I'd expect it to be even less than that if I wore a diamond. For comparison in the same time period I've cast &lt;strong&gt;357&lt;/strong&gt; close votes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you see questions re-opened that you would prefer remain closed? Possibly, but if there was a question a user felt particularly strongly should be closed then I'd listen - I'm often around in chat in most days, and there's meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that for some users on the site, this isn't going to be a popular stance, but it &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; my stance and I'm not going to do the electorate the disservice of pretending otherwise and if it's a dealbreaker for them then I'm realistically not the candidate that they should be voting for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="64903" LastEditDate="2020-02-20T10:02:59.990" LastActivityDate="2020-02-20T10:02:59.990" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6561" CreationDate="2020-02-18T13:11:32.453" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Recent events have seen this site lose 3 of its formerly 5 moderators. Moving on from the tremors of the past, with the wide&#xA;  spread loss of trust between Stack Exchange and the community, it is&#xA;  abundantly clear that the traditional job description of a moderator&#xA;  as purely a human exception handler no longer holds exclusively. &#xA;  There are plans for a moderator council for guidance on all sites, and site&#xA;  features are often shared for feedback with moderators prior to&#xA;  release. In that vein, our moderators have become representatives for&#xA;  our community to the company. When the company missteps, our&#xA;  moderators are now the ones who argue on our behalf and represent us&#xA;  to them. Willing or not, they have become more than janitors for&#xA;  advanced tasks. Since you're standing for election, what is your&#xA;  motivating factor in offering to serve as moderator, and how do your&#xA;  skills and qualifications factor into the changing role of moderators&#xA;  outlined above?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I adressed this in my nomination post, but I believe a key responsibility of moderators going forward will be to ensure their community is heard by the company. It is very unfortunate but the ways and effectiveness in which normal users can relay feedback to the company, especially as users of small sites, has diminished greatly in recent times. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changes are certainly coming to the network, and to preserve the usefulness and our mission here, we need to ensure our concerns and needs are heard by the company. In that vein I believe it vital to use every opportunity given to ensure this community is heard. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;We get a good amount of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes&#xA;  the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are&#xA;  genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong&#xA;  negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of&#xA;  attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should&#xA;  questions like these be moderated?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are for clarification and requests for improvement. Miscellaneous discussion should be moved to chat - the format of chat is a lot better for that - and the comments deleted. Sadly this can only be done automatically once, but after that you can still &quot;move&quot; comments to chat by posting an inline-link to the comment in the chat room before deleting it, therefore preserving the comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the discussion is not offensive, grossly off topic or violating decency, I don't believe we should permanently get rid of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Real situations real people face work best as questions, so something that is deliberately exaggerated or obviously fake should not be allowed. I would delete these posts. However, my bar for &quot;deliberately exaggerated or obviously fake&quot; is pretty high, so just posting a controversial question does not qualify for that. Nor are the moderators really in the business of reading all of an user's questions to check for plausibility. If it's obviously fake, we would need to deal with it, but otherwise not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you&#xA;  see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the&#xA;  situation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have some overzealous close voting. In general, the purpose of the close mechanism is to put questions on hold so they (hopefully) can be fixed and reopened when they're clear. It seems we have some problems communicating that to the users whose questions get closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find that we have quite a few voters who put anything on hold that for instance refers to a regulation or law, even if a reasonable professional in that field would easily know a (non lawyer) useful answer for the problem. I don't think these questions should be closed, but if elected I would be careful about overriding community opinion with a supervote. In the day-to-day, moderators are exception handlers after all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In non-urgent cases I would resort to a meta post asking for reopening rather then forcing my view on the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Moderating usually requires working hand-in-hand with the other moderators and community-moderating users who take care of the review&#xA;  queues and flag inappropriate content. How would you handle a&#xA;  disagreement with your fellow moderators?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to content-level disputes (fuzzy line close voting, delete voting, that kind of stuff) then community opinion holds. I believe moderators should use their super votes very sparingly for matters the community itself can deal with, and would act in line with that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For disagreements with community consensus the (time consuming but proper) way is to argue my case on meta, not to use a super vote. There are exceptions to this, such as when the decision is substantially based on private or moderator only information, but for normal content level disputes that is rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disagreements with fellow moderators is also a consensus thing. Working with other people in a team often requires to argue one's position, but also requires to accept being overruled sometimes. No single moderator should force their will upon the others, and disagreements within the moderator team should be handled by consensus, optionally a CM may be consulted in matters of policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Comments, they are the bane of any site that wants to maintain a good signal:noise ratio, harmless, something in between? What do you&#xA;  think about comments and the moderation thereof on The Workplace, and&#xA;  what would you like to change about it? For context, we get thousands&#xA;  of comments posted on The Workplace.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are a rather poor tool for threaded discussion, and they're immediately visible underneath posts, so should be used for clarification, improvement requests or pointed critique mainly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A site like this necessarily attracts a lot of (sometimes useful) discussion. I believe this is not fundamentally a bad thing, but that's where the &quot;move to chat&quot; functionality comes in. Right now, after moving to chat, additional discussion comments simply get deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like a middle ground between that, namely posting an inline-link to the chat before deleting further extraneous discussion, to preserve the content of the comments. This is more work, but I think it's worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What do you feel are the top two or three challenges we are facing? How do you think we should address them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our top challenge is in my view the changes the network faces and our interactions with the company. For my view on how moderators factor into this, refer to my answer to question 1. As for users, it is now more important than ever to make our voices heard and to make sure our perspective doesn't get lost in the SO-centric focus of the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think another big challenge we're facing is people who contrive questions to either hit HNQ or to save as entertainment material. While it's not really in the power of moderators to police how plausible someone's question is, except in excessively obvious cases, it is a big challenge to our credibility and usefulness as a collection of strong Q/A. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;This election sparked a meta question on what the day-to-day activities of the moderation team are. Both of the current moderators&#xA;  gave their perspective there. Has that affected your decision to&#xA;  nominate yourself? If so, in what way? Did anything in particular&#xA;  resonate with you or has anything given you pause?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was already leaning heavily towards running before that post, and it didn't change anything in that regard. The activities outlined there are roughly what I expected. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you describe the purpose of this site? Is it to create an exhaustive and definitive database of challenging workplace situations&#xA;  with clear advice of what to do about them? Is it a community of&#xA;  professionals dedicated to giving advice when people are unsure of how&#xA;  to proceed with the challenges they are facing? Is it something else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somewhere in the middle between these. The ultimate purpose of the site is to assist and offer help and advice to people who need it. This can be most efficiently served by creating a database of common and useful questions and answers. The primary purpose is not specifically helping the OP, but that doesn't mean helping the OP is not important. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site and its community excels at giving useful, actionable advice to people who need it, or more simply to gather valuable perspectives from a wide range of professionals, which people also benefit from. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of&#xA;  arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That depends. Is the user actually doing disruptive things between the good answers, or simply a bit too harsh or abrasive for people's liking. Have they just made enemies who now take every opportunity to flag them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, being a good contributor does not make you exempt from the rules. That means if disruptive behavior persists and is a substantial issue, the normal course of disciplinary action (warning -&gt; escalating suspensions) is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, often times disruptive behavior is only a symptom of friction an user experiences with the site, so understanding the why and how can be used to work with them on curbing the behavior. Ultimately, our purpose here is to help people and build a good Q/A database, so if a way can be found to retain an otherwise good contributor it is worth taking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc&#xA;  a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the deletion / closure was substantially based on moderator-only information, I would raise it in the moderator chatroom and discuss there. If the mod team consensus is against me, then so be it and I won't pursue it further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, I would open a meta question as the matter should really be left to the community to address. If consensus is against me and I'm not convinced, then again so be it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastEditorUserId="44144" LastEditDate="2020-02-18T13:22:52.930" LastActivityDate="2020-02-18T13:22:52.930" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6564" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-18T20:20:32.520" Score="-5" ViewCount="377" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the sake of transparency, I wanted to let people know that I've just received an email that my nomination from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/7&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/7&lt;/a&gt; has been withdrawn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the text of my nomination:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I nominate myself as a libertarian candidate.  I believe a lot of moderators take the job too seriously, and prematurely close and remove questions that simply haven't had enough exposure to produce interesting and on-topic answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am running on the platform against using the moderator powers to subvert the democratic process of handling site moderation through the regular voting procedures (e.g., the voting rules where a certain number of community votes automatically closes the question without any need to get any moderators involved, and same for re-opening).  Moderators should only exercise their powers in exceptional circumstances.  Every kid now wants to have their own social networking site so that they can ban anyone, and that's wrong.  Reinstate Monica.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the email I've received:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're writing in reference to your The Workplace Stack Exchange account:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/5597/cnst&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/5597/cnst&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm writing to inform you that your nomination for the The Workplace Moderator election has been withdrawn. While voicing complaints about the downfalling state of a community is a proper thing to be doing, the nomination space is not the place to be doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regards,&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;The Stack Exchange Community Management Team&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst I do disagree with this withdrawal, there doesn't appear to be any way to dispute it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is unclear whether this has anything to do with the parting words, &amp;quot;Reinstate Monica&amp;quot;, which would indicate biased treatment and interference with the principles of free expression and free speech, or whether it's expected that moderators are supposed to work so much handling all the mundane flags as to burn out quickly (someone jokingly noted in the comments to my nomination that at least I'm unlikely to burn out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I posted in one of the comments to the nomination, the complaint about moderators abruptly closing the questions is not necessarily specific to Workplace, but perhaps to some specific sites on the network (as I'm active network-wide), where such one-moderator-only-vote closures are much more common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not see any legitimate reason why my nomination had to be withdrawn, if not to curtail the discussion and establish the voting precedent on the issue.  I disagree with the assessment that my nomination is &amp;quot;a complaint&amp;quot;; I insist it's a platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5597" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2020-02-20T03:07:18.650" Title="2020 Moderator Nomination withdrawn by SE CM Team" Tags="|discussion|election|site-policy|elections|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6564" CreationDate="2020-02-19T01:10:11.023" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your nomination was not remove because of references to Monica. It was removed because you are essentially vowing to waste a diamond doing nothing, and we cannot take such a nomination seriously. If you want to fight for changes in site policy to get moderators to do less, that is a discussion to have on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you consider your nomination to be a &quot;platform&quot; it is not a platform that makes any sense here and will only lead to an unconstructive election cycle. Moderators here on Stack Exchange are not hard limited in the number of slots. You cannot simply take up one of the seats and not do anything to prevent someone else from doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that would happen from you being elected on this premise is wasting a lot of people's time. The community's time for having an election to get no value whatsoever, the other moderators' time because they would not get the help they requested, and our time having to deal with probably removing you at a later time for not doing anything and putting in a new person in your place to aid the other moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same vein as our reasoning for removing nominations of users with recent suspensions on record, we are not interested in having candidates that are not taking the moderatorship or the election seriously. All it does is stir up more drama in an already drama-filled process. We need serious candidates that want to help keep the site clean, not users who are only interested in complaining about how moderators participate on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2020-02-19T13:13:47.100" LastActivityDate="2020-02-19T13:13:47.100" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6567" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-19T01:48:10.443" Score="10" ViewCount="498" Body="&lt;p&gt;The final straw for me was the latest antics surrounding the moderator elections, and being told off by SE staff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have put in for deletion of TWP, and am deleting the rest of my accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're not being paid to deal with this abuse, and I for one, am done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joe: you are the best.&#xA;Mister Positive;  Thanks for your excellent work.&#xA;Kilisi.  Keep up the good work.&#xA;Magisch: If anyone should be a mod here, it's you.&#xA;Motosubatsu: It's been fun.  Take care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to anyone I've forgotten, apologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2020-02-26T15:58:34.720" Title="Deleting my profile, Done with SE" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6564" CreationDate="2020-02-19T08:11:16.330" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whilst I do disagree with this withdrawal, there doesn't appear to be any way to dispute it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are a moderator on Law. You should be perfectly aware of the ways in which you can dispute this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;create a meta post (you have)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;respond to the mod message (you have)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;renominate yourself (you are free to do so)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that you are a moderator was a strong contributing factor in the Community Team's decision to withdraw your nomination. Like animuson has said, much better than I could, we are looking for people to contribute &lt;strong&gt;to this site&lt;/strong&gt; by performing moderation activities. A list of what we do day-to-day is here on meta but as a moderator you should be aware that it can be a fair amount of work. Given that there is a &quot;cnst is a new contributor&quot; notice at the top of this answer post I assume you don't really know this site all too well, but while the number of questions posted is about the same for both sites, The Workplace gets 4 times the traffic Law does so that should give you some indication of the amount of flags we process. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your own nomination post confirms you have no interest in actually performing the limited activities expected of the position, yet for some reason we should still consider it serious? Even if you insist we consider it a platform, I fail to see how it's a legitimate one given the expectations we have of moderators. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this all simply reads as soapboxing, stirring up drama and wasting everyone's time which fits my definition of trolling and we don't allow that in any form on this site, certainly not from a moderator. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2020-02-19T08:11:16.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6567" CreationDate="2020-02-19T09:22:16.257" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good luck and best wishes on your journey. If it's not fun any more, then absolutely go find something fun to do, life is too short my friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2020-02-19T09:22:16.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6564" CreationDate="2020-02-19T13:01:09.757" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me read your nomination post one more time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I nominate myself as a libertarian candidate. I believe a lot of&#xA;moderators take the job too seriously, and prematurely close and&#xA;remove questions that simply haven't had enough exposure to produce&#xA;interesting and on-topic answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am running on the platform against&#xA;using the moderator powers to subvert the democratic process of&#xA;handling site moderation through the regular voting procedures (e.g.,&#xA;the voting rules where a certain number of community votes&#xA;automatically closes the question without any need to get any&#xA;moderators involved, and same for re-opening). Moderators should only&#xA;exercise their powers in exceptional circumstances. Every kid now&#xA;wants to have their own social networking site so that they can ban&#xA;anyone, and that's wrong. Reinstate Monica.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, so I have re-read it, and here is what I take from it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does one run as a &lt;em&gt;libertarian&lt;/em&gt; candidate here?  In what way do you see moderator's at TWP taking their job too seriously?  I don't think that is a valid point at all and quite frankly you haven't participated here enough to know.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prematurely closing questions is a problem at TWP, and probably is &lt;strong&gt;on every other site too&lt;/strong&gt;.  Maybe you should talk about how &lt;strong&gt;you would address that issue&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In regards to this point: &lt;em&gt;using the moderator powers to subvert the democratic process of handling site moderation through the regular voting procedures&lt;/em&gt;, what evidence do you see of that occurring here at TWP and &lt;strong&gt;what would you do to fix it&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Every kid now wants to have their own social networking site so that they can ban anyone, and that's wrong.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; -- not sure what point your making here, sound more like a rant.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Reinstate Monica.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; -- you know that ship has sailed, you are able to read the Moderator posts.  Monica and SE reached an agreement, and she has decided to move on.  For the record I do not like how things went down, &lt;strong&gt;at all&lt;/strong&gt;, but I have chosen to stick with the community I care about -- TWP.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now that I have broken down the parts, and interpreted them to the best of my ability knowing also that you &lt;strong&gt;are a moderator on another site&lt;/strong&gt;, I cannot help but think this was a bad attempt at trying to stick it to someone, SE maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, why make some sort of half baked statement here?  We are attempting to carry on here at TWP after the debacle, and conduct &lt;strong&gt;a legit election&lt;/strong&gt;, and you seem to be &lt;em&gt;stuck in the past attempting to garner attention&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only people impacted by an insincere attempt to earn another diamond are &lt;strong&gt;those of us here at TWP&lt;/strong&gt;.  You have a moderator candidate score of two (2), and your participation here is very much lacking for what I would consider a good candidate -- and I think you know it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in closing, if you want to run then run.  But do cut out the mumbo jumbo, and do it &lt;em&gt;honestly and with good intent&lt;/em&gt;.  That intent should be to make our community better and not just earn another diamond to sit on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2020-02-19T13:22:14.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6561" CreationDate="2020-02-19T18:48:29.020" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dwizum's answers to the candidate questions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done my best to significantly edit my answers down to something readable in length, focusing on what I feel the key points are in each question - which anyone who is familiar with my typically-very-wordy answering style will realize was a big challenge for me! I look forward to interacting on topics of specific interest in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Recent events have seen this site lose 3 of its formerly 5 moderators. Moving on from the tremors of the past, with the wide spread loss of trust between Stack Exchange and the community, it is abundantly clear that the traditional job description of a moderator as purely a human exception handler no longer holds exclusively. There are plans for a moderator council for guidance on all sites, and site features are often shared for feedback with moderators prior to release. In that vein, our moderators have become representatives for our community to the company. When the company missteps, our moderators are now the ones who argue on our behalf and represent us to them. Willing or not, they have become more than janitors for advanced tasks. Since you're standing for election, what is your motivating factor in offering to serve as moderator, and how do your skills and qualifications factor into the changing role of moderators outlined above?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this all in mind, my motivating factor is doing the best job possible of representing The Workplace when it comes to Stack Exchange Inc and/or the larger community. On the one hand, it's very frustrating to see so many people getting upset about the recent changes, and many prominent community members have become very upset and felt offended. That's something that moderators can hopefully help mend or avoid in the future, because moderators have their hands right in the dirt alongside the general membership. So, rather than focus on the hurt and disruption of recent events, &lt;strong&gt;I plan to remain optimistic&lt;/strong&gt; about the potentially larger role moderators can play with respect to representing The Workplace. Over the last few months, as a user, I've done my best to follow posts in Meta and the Stack Exchange blogs about the past and upcoming changes. I've done my best to reflect thoughtfully on everything that's going on, and I've tried to internalize and process the various events as best I can, rather than just having a gut reaction. I would see my role as a moderator continuing in that direction: remain educated and aware, try my best to keep a finger on the pulse of the community, and look for opportunities to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of my qualifications with respect to representing The Workplace to the larger Stack Exchange community, I think that's a type of role I would do well, and I have a track record of similar roles in my professional life. I've spent my career mostly in IT leadership positions, both in a consulting firm and in several different industries. At several points in my career, I've been on boards of directors, user communities, or other groups representing a larger community to a specific vendor or organization. At my last job, I helped form a user advisory committee to represent user needs to one of the largest software vendors in Healthcare. In my current role in the Finance industry, I'm in a similar position where I'm involved in representing community needs to our largest vendor. This track record has given me significant hands on experience balancing the kinds of things that come up in these roles - namely, helping different groups with sometimes-competing needs agree on priorities and develop plans that can be executed against.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We get a good amount of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I have a simple rule: &lt;strong&gt;When in doubt, assume good intentions.&lt;/strong&gt; I don't think it's productive or fair for moderators to put themselves in the position of trying to judge whether someone's intent is genuine or not. And, often, the best way to take the steam out of a controversial question is to support people who are willing and interested in providing direct, accurate, helpful answers. That's what I believe a moderator's role should be for these questions. Sometimes this may simply mean upvoting answers that are meaningful (instead of sensational). Other times it may mean using moderation tools to enforce site guidelines on the intent of comments or other user content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if a question is so clearly &quot;made up&quot; that the general community feels it is not valuable, then the good news is, the community has tools to indicate that - asking questions in comments for clarification, downvoting, or voting to close as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, &lt;strong&gt;I believe that a moderator should facilitate the community's self-directed approach to controversial questions.&lt;/strong&gt; If members get dragged into arguments or inflammatory behaviors, moderators should direct them back on topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do believe it's a problem. I did some SEDE queries a few weeks ago because this was concerning to me. I detailed the numbers &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6486/2019-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;in an answer here.&lt;/a&gt; We had 1,831 questions closed in 2019. I counted questions based on create date - we only had 4,149 questions asked in 2019. So we closed more than 44% of questions. To me, this means that either we are too aggressive with closing, or we don't go a good enough job of helping users understand what the close criteria are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of those 4,149 questions asked in 2019, 3,360 of them had at least one close vote. &lt;strong&gt;More than 80% of questions got a close vote.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, whether I become a moderator or remain a user, I feel that's an unusually high close vote rate. I understand and fully support the idea of closing questions that must be closed, but I also believe that it's a very gray issue in The Workplace, compared to many more technically-focused sites in the Stack Exchange network. Almost all of our questions have some degree of off-topic aspect to them, whether it's opinion based or otherwise. Generally, I try to follow the same golden rule I mentioned above: &lt;strong&gt;when in doubt, assume good intentions.&lt;/strong&gt; Rather than vote to close, I prefer to &lt;strong&gt;find the answerable aspect of a question and focus on that.&lt;/strong&gt; Sometimes this means spending time editing the question, or asking for clarification in comments - which does take more effort than simply clicking the vote to close button, but hopefully the effort is worthwhile in terms of actually providing value to the end user who asked the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe we may need to take a multi-pronged approach to this issue, though. Besides just acting on single questions, I believe that moderators (as community representatives) can advocate with Stack Exchange for features or changes that will help the site's newer users find and understand the guidelines for how the site works. There's a trove of information in the help menus, but it's clear that it's not always &lt;em&gt;helpful&lt;/em&gt; to new members, who may not even know it exists. There has been discussion in Meta and elsewhere over revamping the &quot;ask a question&quot; function specifically for new users, I'd love to participate in that as a moderator for The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Moderating usually requires working hand-in-hand with the other moderators and community-moderating users who take care of the review queues and flag inappropriate content. How would you handle a disagreement with your fellow moderators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disagreements are inevitable. However, we have had a consistently high quality moderation team on The Workplace, and I believe that disagreements can be resolved when all involved parties have the site's best interests in mind. When in disagreement with another moderator, I would &lt;strong&gt;seek first to understand.&lt;/strong&gt; Why do we disagree? Then, I would focus on &lt;strong&gt;finding the common ground.&lt;/strong&gt; What general guidelines or site principles can we base a solution on? Ultimately, it's not my personal opinion that matters while wearing a moderator hat - it's the best interests of the site and the community. I'm happy to &quot;disagree&quot; respectfully, discuss disagreements, and work through problems, while putting my ego or my personal feelings aside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comments, they are the bane of any site that wants to maintain a good signal:noise ratio, harmless, something in between? What do you think about comments and the moderation thereof on The Workplace, and what would you like to change about it? For context, we get thousands of comments posted on The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on information that current and past moderators have posted about their activities, it's clear that comment moderation is a significant portion of the job. I think the good news is, there are some pretty clear guidelines: &lt;strong&gt;comments exist to make questions and answers better.&lt;/strong&gt; I believe they can be highly valuable when they stick to that principle. As such, users can comment as much as they want, as long as the comments are based on being helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practical terms, as a moderator, I don't expect that I would deliberately go out of my way to find comments to delete, but I would have no problem handling queues of flagged comments and deleting those that were not appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you feel are the top two or three challenges we are facing? How do you think we should address them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the biggest challenges we face are actually thoroughly covered in other questions here. I take that as a very positive sign - community members are aware of the issues we face, and interested in them. I've been in moderator or admin positions on other internet forums (dating back to the days when a 2400 baud modem was the norm) and I'm quite excited by the degree of engagement this community has, versus others where users just tend to leave or try their hardest to disrupt things. Instead, users on The Workplace seem focused on actually talking about issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I find that our close rate is too high, and I've covered my thoughts on planning to address that above. I also think we need to remain engaged in the larger Stack Exchange community - &lt;strong&gt;even when that engagement is disappointing.&lt;/strong&gt; I don't find it effective to act out or disengage when things get tough. Instead, it drives me to engage more deeply. I truly believe that's the best way to handle any of our issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This election sparked a meta question on what the day-to-day activities of the moderation team are. Both of the current moderators gave their perspective there. Has that affected your decision to nominate yourself? If so, in what way? Did anything in particular resonate with you or has anything given you pause?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That question was really fascinating to read through. I found it really informative and I am glad the current moderators took the time to answer there. It didn't really impact my decision to run, I was already planning on doing so. But it was enlightening to get a peek behind the scenes. Whether or not I am elected as a moderator, understanding how they work has given me a better perspective on how the site itself works, and has put me in a better position to interact with moderators and other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you describe the purpose of this site? Is it to create an exhaustive and definitive database of challenging workplace situations with clear advice of what to do about them? Is it a community of professionals dedicated to giving advice when people are unsure of how to proceed with the challenges they are facing? Is it something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's all of the above, and more. The unique value that Stack Exchange brings in a sea of overwhelming internet forums and communities is the Question and Answer format. This structure allows a focus on &lt;strong&gt;actionable answers&lt;/strong&gt; rather than just commentary or &quot;me too&quot; feedback. Ultimately, I believe that's the purpose of this site: &lt;strong&gt;To provide actionable help for people with career or workplace issues and challenges.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe in &quot;special&quot; treatment in any form, really. If a user is providing valuable answers, that's really great. I'd upvote them as appropriate. But, if a user is getting into arguments in comments, the comments should be deleted and the user should be instructed on why that's happening. The fact that the same user might be providing the valuable answers and the inflammatory comments doesn't really change either scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per the above question on disagreements with another moderator, I would seek first to understand why the moderator took that action. Ultimately, I don't think it's appropriate for moderators to &quot;overrule&quot; each other or reverse each other's actions unless there is a really crystal clear issue - for instance, another moderator clicked a button by accident and then went on vacation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's it, please ask questions or let me know if anything isn't clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2020-02-19T18:48:29.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6567" CreationDate="2020-02-19T22:22:07.263" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;At this &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/53586126#53586126&quot;&gt;user's request&lt;/a&gt;, we have &lt;strong&gt;cancelled their account deletion&lt;/strong&gt; and instead suspended them for a period of 132 days to let them make a clean break with the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should they change their mind they can respond to us or contact the Community Team to reverse the suspension or proceed with an account deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that this was done at moderator discretion as it's not a recommended use of the suspension system. Anyone who feels they need a break from this or any other site can look into alternatives as well such as blacklisting the site address or using other productivity tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2020-02-19T22:22:07.263" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6573" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-19T22:43:24.567" Score="-1" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the appropriate flag to raise or action to take when I suspect question to be trolling, or submitted only to inspire flame war?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am talking about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/153424/what-is-a-reasonable-number-of-lines-of-code-that-developers-should-commit-per-d&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, which I voted to close as opinion-based, but I am not sure if that's appropriate flag to communicate my impression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45298" LastActivityDate="2020-02-20T16:55:35.760" Title="Provocative, trolling question" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|trolling|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6574" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-20T07:50:25.733" Score="-1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there are questions that are based on very bad or wrong assumptions. I am thinking of something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/153424/what-is-a-reasonable-number-of-lines-of-code-that-developers-should-commit-per-d&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, that is 'how many lines of codes should a programmer commit per day?'. The top answer says you shouldn't measure productivity by lines of code and explains why and I completely agree with it. But the original question currently has an overall score of -4 and I assume it is at risk of being closed as a bad question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question: does this count as a bad question? To me it seems like a good question and hopefully the answer is actually useful to OP. OP has some misunderstandings but OP asked a question about it and we are trying to help. Looks all good to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So should questions like this be encouraged or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111155" LastActivityDate="2020-02-20T09:40:51.967" Title="questions based on bad or wrong assumptions" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|quality-evaluation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2020-02-20T10:14:27.880" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6574" CreationDate="2020-02-20T09:40:51.967" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO there's nothing wrong with the question, that the question's proposed method is incorrect is merely an opportunity for answerers to explain that and give better answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most if not all professional coders will be able to point out the extreme poorness of using such a metric but to a non-coder such as the OP it's not obvious, and if a good answer can persuade the OP of this and give them a better way of measuring coder performance then we can not only help a manager get better at managing coders but also give whoever they manage a better working environment, sounds like a win-win to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2020-02-20T09:40:51.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6573" CreationDate="2020-02-20T13:30:40.053" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, I don't see how the question was an attempt at trolling. Number of lines coded is a simply but obvious measurement metric for non-developer experience management. It's not perfect, but experienced developers are expected to code more than junior developers, who may struggle at making the code even running.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer offers a simple mathematical modeling technique that the folks at stats.stackexchange may expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64317" LastActivityDate="2020-02-20T13:30:40.053" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6573" CreationDate="2020-02-20T14:41:52.273" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went ahead and voted to close as opinion-based. I will try to follow what Lilienthal commented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SOP remains: vote to open/close based on content not on motivation, flag if you suspect foul play&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue remains: question 'how do we measure programmer's performance?' might be closed as opinion-based or too-broad&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, such question was posted before and closed as off-topic: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/48053/how-productivity-or-working-hours-are-measured-in-software-development-jobs&quot;&gt;How productivity or working hours are measured in software development jobs? [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45298" LastEditorUserId="45298" LastEditDate="2020-02-20T16:26:10.527" LastActivityDate="2020-02-20T16:26:10.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6573" CreationDate="2020-02-20T16:55:35.760" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Trolling&quot; implies intent, which is hard to judge when reading someone's words. So I agree with the generally accepted approach of taking things at face value: If someone asks an answerable question, we should focus on answering it rather than guessing intent. (Outside of obvious fringe cases, which should probably be handled with flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that still leaves us with a problem, with respect to the question you've linked to: Is this an answerable, on topic question for The Workplace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think it passes the test of being on topic in terms of the subject matter. How you measure someone's performance is clearly a workplace problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, that is the most important factor to consider, because other factors (is it to broad, is it opinion-based, does it have a clear goal, etc) are, often, easily handled through edits. If someone asks,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you think X is a good measure of performance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that is pretty blatantly opinion-based. It shouldn't matter what &lt;em&gt;I think&lt;/em&gt;, it should only really matter what general truth I can describe or what experiences I can speak to, or what references I can provide. Or maybe the person asks something that's too broad:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How should performance be measured?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But ultimately I think those are weak reasons to close the question, because we all inherently know what the person is actually trying to get at, and I don't think it's fair to close a question purely because of the words the author chose when the actual subject they're asking about is on topic. So, perhaps we can suggest that the OP rephrase the question, or we can edit it to keep the wording on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I think this is what you were getting at in comments when you said,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;in fact, think you are correct in that &quot;lumberjack's productivity is measured in lumber, why can't we measure coder's productivity in lines of code&quot; is a valid and good question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this question could be saved by editing to reflect that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2020-02-20T16:55:35.760" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6579" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-21T02:50:04.597" Score="23" ViewCount="592" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not the first time I've seen a question like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/153495/casual-sexism-at-work&quot;&gt;Casual sexism at work?&lt;/a&gt; receive a pile-on of comments and answers explaining to the OP that they're not really experiencing sexism (or, for bonus points, are being sexist for assuming the motivation in their co-workers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the question could do with more details and more examples from the OPs point of view, I don't think this is a very welcoming response to a new community member who may really need some help and guidance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, the various &quot;you're not experiencing sexism&quot; comments are swamping a legitimate request for more details and clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely it's better to assume that the OP may actually be experiencing sexism, and that asking for more details will help garner answers that could actually help rather than dismiss her situation? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a man myself, I'm rather disappointed that these very negative responses seem to be all coming from men. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110" LastActivityDate="2020-02-27T19:18:04.193" Title="Casual sexism in The Workplace" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|etiquette|new-users|be-nice|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6580" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-21T10:53:21.707" Score="3" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should there be some type of &quot;delay loop&quot; to control new user posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this question has been posted weekly for several weeks and is closed each time: see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/153507/75821&quot;&gt;I didn’t get a raise. How can I cost my company 3% of my salary?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75821" LastActivityDate="2020-02-21T10:53:21.707" Title="Repeated poor questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6579" CreationDate="2020-02-21T14:23:39.153" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I agree with the comment @JoeStrazzere made, and I think it cuts to the heart of the matter: when someone posts both the details &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the conclusion they've drawn, they will inherently get feedback about whether or not their conclusion is correct, even if that wasn't the actual question asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You asked,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Surely it's better to assume that the OP may actually be experiencing sexism, and that asking for more details will help garner answers that could actually help rather than dismiss her situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think that's true to an extent, more details are always helpful. In the absence of details, I personally feel that &lt;strong&gt;it's usually best to respect the actual question asked.&lt;/strong&gt; It's notable that the OP didn't specifically ask &quot;is this sexism&quot; so I don't really feel it's appropriate to &lt;em&gt;concentrate&lt;/em&gt; on that, especially given the lack of details. From a perspective of trying to be helpful, telling her that it is, or isn't, sexism isn't really actionable and doesn't really actually help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the OP has already accepted an answer, I feel like the best approach to this question would have been to set the &quot;is it&quot; judgement aside, and instead focus on actionable things the OP can do to &quot;cope&quot; since that was her actual question in the first place. Or maybe preface an answer with, &lt;em&gt;here are some thoughts about how you can determine if this is actually sexism or not, and here's what you should do if you feel it is. But, to answer your question about coping, here are some things you can do to address the actual problems you're facing...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2020-02-21T14:23:39.153" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6561" CreationDate="2020-02-24T18:39:17.110" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DarkCygnus answers (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/7#post-153741&quot;&gt;nomination post&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Recent events have seen this site lose 3 of its formerly 5 moderators. Moving on from the tremors of the past, with the wide spread loss of trust between Stack Exchange and the community, it is abundantly clear that the traditional job description of a moderator as purely a human exception handler no longer holds exclusively. There are plans for a moderator council for guidance on all sites, and site features are often shared for feedback with moderators prior to release. In that vein, our moderators have become representatives for our community to the company. When the company missteps, our moderators are now the ones who argue on our behalf and represent us to them. Willing or not, they have become more then janitors for advanced tasks. Since you're standing for election, what is your motivating factor in offering to serve as moderator, and how do your skills and qualifications factor into the changing role of moderators outlined above?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last time I ran my motivation was to give back to the Community, and that is still part of my motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the light of recent events, I am also motivated by the idea of bringing stability to the network, and to stop this growing rift between the Community and SE Inc.. Perhaps I won't be able to do that for &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; communities, but for TWP surely I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that Moderators will now have to be more aware and engaged to the site as a whole, as to timely and properly respond to the situations that are to come so the concerns of the Community are heard. Since my joining on the network and TWP I have become more and more engaged with it and am sure that this will prove helpful here. I periodically keep an eye on Meta SE and other communities, and that I feel has helped me become more aware of where we stand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We get a good amount of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like these should be given more attention, and as a Mod I would keep an eye on questions like these when they come and while they are in the HNQ list (that is, check on them more frequently). This will help to quickly mend any situation that needs so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As in any other questions, comments and answers given have to be respectful and constructive. Any rude, tangential or noisy comment or answer should be edited, moved to chat, or removed accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, one would like the HNQ post to develop and moderate itself organically (that is, by the Community). However, for extreme cases Mods now can &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/325060/332286&quot;&gt;remove questions from the HNQ list&lt;/a&gt; if necessary. Before doing this, I would consult other moderators on how they think this post should be handled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(from my 2019 answer to this question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes and no. If a question is too broad, off-topic or generally poor quality then it's understandable as to why they'd be closed, but most of the time they're shut down and then no further guidance is given to that person. It's not very welcoming to see your first post shut down as off-topic when you have a question about your job on a site called The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think more could be done to provide follow-up resources and a clear explanation of actually why it was closed. A new user to the site is not going to know these things. It's a well established fact that most people don't read the Terms &amp;amp; Conditions, Privacy Policy, Rules, Guides and popups you get when you start out new on a site. That's not them being ignorant as such, but more so being new which is something we all do. Providing a link or two to those new users would be very helpful instead of just voting to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Moderating usually requires working hand-in-hand with the other moderators and community-moderating users who take care of the review queues and flag inappropriate content. How would you handle a disagreement with your fellow moderators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(parts from my 2019 answer to a similar question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I disagree with something, surely it is minimal and expected given everyone's unique point of view. If some disagreement is reached, the way to reconcile it is to discuss and &lt;em&gt;reach a consensus&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would ping the moderator in chat, so we can discuss and reach an agreement. I also think that depending on the situation, a third mod could serve as a &quot;neutral&quot; part in case the disagreement is strong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is in the Professional environment and workplaces, communication is also key in these situations, so the solutions reached work for everybody (or for most). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comments, they are the bane of any site that wants to maintain a good signal:noise ratio, harmless, something in between? What do you think about comments and the moderation thereof on The Workplace, and what would you like to change about it? For context, we get thousands of comments posted on The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(from my 2019 answer to this question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that comments are a double-edged sword.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They can drastically help clarify or point out key aspects that improve the quality of our questions and answers, but at the same time they can completely derail or bias a post, or even become insulting or scare away new users. This is the dual nature of comments, and why they are such a fuzz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that comments should stick to ask for clarification, minor suggestions or improvements, or even useful and constructive observations or corollaries...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...but not to argue about the post, discuss just about why you agree (+1 and move on instead) or disagree (post an answer with your point of view then), point out some tangential or unrelated case based on assumptions, and even less to insult or be rude. If you want to discuss or are feeling chatty The Watercooler is a better place for those things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you feel are the top two or three challenges we are facing? How do you think we should address them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first question to this Mod questionnaire already suggests to us the main challenge: &lt;em&gt;a growing rift between the Community and SE Inc. that is threatening the future of the Network&lt;/em&gt;. And from this challenge is that all other challenges we are currently facing derive from. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This rift comes along with a growing perception of being forsaken, and many Community members feel that SE does not care for them anymore, and that they have stop responding to our feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we solve this?... well, unfortunately we currently don't know for sure how to solve this (otherwise we wouldn't be facing this challenge still). But, that is the main reason why I am here and why I decided to run, so we can together build and reach a solution that works for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, regardless of the fact that this solution is not 100% clear yet, things that will surely help get there include (but are not limited to): &lt;em&gt;[as a mod] being that bridge between the Community and SE Inc.&lt;/em&gt;, so we can reverse the perception of being forsaken and to strive to obtain answers to the feedback we give to SE; &lt;em&gt;chose constructive/positive over destructive/apathetic behavior&lt;/em&gt;, as mentioned only with a positive attitude and constructive stance is that we can move forward in this new Era of SE; &lt;em&gt;try to be more engaged than before&lt;/em&gt;, so we can put in that extra effort and love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This election sparked a meta question on what the day-to-day activities of the moderation team are. Both of the current moderators gave their perspective there. Has that affected your decision to nominate yourself? If so, in what way? Did anything in particular resonate with you or has anything given you pause?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it did not affect my decision to run. I was already thinking of running. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If any, it gave us a better insight of what Mod actually do. At first perhaps we see and know Mods to be &quot;exception handlers&quot;... but as the answers to that question suggest, it's much more than just that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you describe the purpose of this site? Is it to create an exhaustive and definitive database of challenging workplace situations with clear advice of what to do about them? Is it a community of professionals dedicated to giving advice when people are unsure of how to proceed with the challenges they are facing? Is it something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's more of the latter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the site is nos just the Q&amp;amp;A answer database itself; forming &lt;em&gt;Communities&lt;/em&gt; that generate high quality Q&amp;amp;A is more important than the questions themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(from my 2019 answer to this question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answers are valuable and the problem lies on the comments only then it is a matter of &lt;em&gt;taking care of those comments accordingly&lt;/em&gt; (asking users to stop, moving to chat or deleting, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, I would also &lt;em&gt;invite them to chat&lt;/em&gt; where I would ask them to stop posting such comments. I usually prefer to give the benefit of doubt, perhaps the user is not on his/her best days, and I would hope that such chat would have an impact on them. If the problems continue to escalate then more serious measures could be taken, and depending on the severity this could even end up with the user winning a time in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/04/06/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot;&gt;penalty box&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that a user has high rep or contributes good answers doesn't excuse them to break the Be Nice policy, and they should take the consequences as any other user would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(from my 2019 answer to this question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If another mod did such action on a question it is highly likely that it was for good reasons. In any case, I would contact that Mod and ask him/her to explain his reasons for doing so. After that it is again highly likely that I would agree with the reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if I still disagree, the call should fall upon the Community, and a Meta post should be initiated regarding the situation to reach a consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2020-02-24T21:14:05.753" LastActivityDate="2020-02-24T21:14:05.753" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6583" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6593" CreationDate="2020-02-24T20:26:05.583" Score="0" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I witnessed a common phenomenomn where &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/153018/45534&quot;&gt;an objectively poor quality answer&lt;/a&gt; gets widely upvoted because people believe it's funny or because they approve people being salty toward OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I identify poor quality as generally short answers, opinion and advice-based, and possibly including salt and disregard to OP situation. For example advocating &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1692/is-quit-your-job-an-acceptable-answer&quot;&gt;OP to quit their job&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder to an extent if self-moderation in the Workplace function well enough for quality content to raise. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/236/how-can-we-enforce-quality-standards-without-adding-to-the-faq&quot;&gt;It seem to have been discussed before&lt;/a&gt; to add in the FAQ a &quot;back it up&quot; policy to ensure answers are at least based on experience rather than pure opinion, but as much as I can see this have not been successfuly implemented. I wonder if other kind of policy could help identifying and moderating poor content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Interpersonal Stack Exchange, a stack I'm active in too, this wouldn't happen so often, because the number of post per moderator is low and the policy for both questions and answers are much more strict so the request to meet quality standards are always there. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/24118/is-it-appropriate-to-say-happy-valentines-day-to-a-colleague&quot;&gt;a question that could belong to the Workplace&lt;/a&gt; have been closed because it lacked detail and expected outcome and would likely generate opinion based answers, but I'm fairly sure would be still open if posted here initially. This left me wondering if we are incitative enough to quality content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I would imagine, there should be general guidelines and example as to what is a good or bad answer, but the help and the FAQ are very relaxed on posting advices as answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there is two components to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you believe the posting policy are adequate to meet our quality standards?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If not, is there any specific policy that could help getting less salty and opinion-based answers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I originally asked another question and edited for clarity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can we further improve the quality, especially getting rid of salty and opinion-based answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45534" LastEditorUserId="45534" LastEditDate="2020-02-25T11:54:24.973" LastActivityDate="2020-02-26T07:13:49.490" Title="Is our policy adequate to our quality standards?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|quality|site-policy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6507" CreationDate="2020-02-24T20:30:15.797" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pyrotechnical's answer already covers why people are unhappy with the change, which is mostly unrelated to the new license itself and more to do with how SE announced the change of license on existing content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the changes themselves, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/333089/335251&quot;&gt;Tim Post's announcement of the change on MSE&lt;/a&gt; directs people to &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/2013/11/25/ccs-next-generation-licenses-welcome-version-4-0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this blog post on creativecommons.org&lt;/a&gt; for a summary of the changes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We proudly introduce our 4.0 licenses, now available for adoption worldwide. The 4.0 licenses — more than two years in the making — are the most global, legally robust licenses produced by CC to date. We have incorporated dozens of improvements that make sharing and reusing CC-licensed materials easier and more dependable than ever before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We had ambitious goals in mind when we embarked on the versioning process coming out of the 2011 CC Global Summit in Warsaw. The new licenses achieve all of these goals, and more. The 4.0 licenses are extremely well-suited for use by governments and publishers of public sector information and other data, especially for those in the European Union. This is due to the expansion in license scope, which now covers &lt;em&gt;sui generis&lt;/em&gt; database rights that exist there and in a handful of other countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Among other exciting new features are improved readability and organization, common-sense attribution, and a new mechanism that allows those who violate the license inadvertently to regain their rights automatically if the violation is corrected in a timely manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/Version4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The blog post also directs readers to this article for a more in-depth explanation of the improvements in the Creative Commons Version 4.0 licenses.&lt;/a&gt; Rather than quote the entire text of the article, I'll just list the headers and quote a relevant sentence or two:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A more global license: &amp;quot;The 4.0 licenses are ready-to-use around the&#xA;world, without porting.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rights outside the scope of copyright: &amp;quot;Other rights beyond copyright&#xA;can complicate the reuse of CC-licensed material. [...] Version 4.0&#xA;addresses this challenge through an open-ended but carefully tailored&#xA;license grant that identifies categories of rights that could (if not&#xA;licensed) interfere with reuse of the material.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Common-sense attribution: &amp;quot;The licenses explicitly permit licensees&#xA;to satisfy the attribution requirement with a link to a separate page&#xA;for attribution information.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enabling more anonymity, when desired: &amp;quot;Version 3.0 included a&#xA;provision allowing a licensor to request that a licensee remove the&#xA;attribution from an adaptation, if she did not want her name&#xA;associated with it. Version 4.0 expands that provision to apply not&#xA;only to adaptations but also to verbatim reproductions of a work.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;30-day window to correct license violations: &amp;quot;All CC licenses&#xA;terminate when a licensee breaks their terms, but under 4.0, a&#xA;licensee’s rights are reinstated automatically if she corrects a&#xA;breach within 30 days of discovering it.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Increased readability: &amp;quot;The 4.0 license suite is decidedly easier to&#xA;read and understand than prior versions, not to mention much shorter&#xA;and better organized.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clarity about adaptations: &amp;quot;The BY and BY-NC 4.0 licenses are clearer&#xA;about how adaptations are to be licensed, a source of confusion for&#xA;some under the earlier versions of those licenses.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully this provides a decent summary of the differences in the license between versions 3.0 and 4.0. Note that Stack Exchange is using CC BY-SA 4.0 specifically, so some of the changes listed above may not be relevant to it. (I'm not a lawyer, but I hope you found this helpful.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10313" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2020-02-24T20:30:15.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6583" CreationDate="2020-02-24T21:06:02.437" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can we further improve the quality, especially getting rid of salty and opinion-based answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have several tools available for that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit&lt;/em&gt; the post if you see it can be improved and easily fixed. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Comment&lt;/em&gt; under the post to ask for clarification or to request improvement from OP. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Flag or Vote to Close&lt;/em&gt;, if you see a post that deserves it. You can also modflag if something escapes the ordinary flag reasons. Higher rep users can also vote to &lt;em&gt;Delete&lt;/em&gt;, again, if the post deserves it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Upvote&lt;/em&gt; the answers that you think have high quality. &lt;em&gt;Downvote&lt;/em&gt; the ones that you feel have low quality.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Protect&lt;/em&gt; a post if you see many low-rep users posting low quality answers, or comments as answers. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Post an answer&lt;/em&gt; if you see the others lack quality or are missing the point.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Join us in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;chat&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and share the post you think can be improved or needs attention, so a proposed solution can be reached.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2020-02-24T21:06:02.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6579" CreationDate="2020-02-24T23:35:41.260" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll weigh in as the one with the accepted answer on the original post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While the question could do with more details and more examples from the OPs point of view, I don't think this is a very welcoming response to a new community member who may really need some help and guidance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can only go on the details provided in the question - and there's nothing in those details which, to me anyway, indicate sexism. Could their be context missing that changes the outcome? Of course, as there could be for many questions. But:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP is clearly unclear if she's even experiencing sexism (note &quot;I don’t really know if this is actually sexism, but it’s really frustrating and I don’t know what else to call it&quot;);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's a situation described that seems to just be a simple misunderstanding (admittedly badly phrased question with a legitimate simple answer);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's a claim of mansplaining that doesn't fit the generally accepted definition of mansplaining (not being dismissive, but explaining something in an overly patronising way.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I'm rather blunt. Perhaps too blunt in this case. I'll call a spade a spade, and I'm the first to admit I don't necessarily handle sensitive topics... well, sensitively. Some people hate that, others appreciate it. Could I have been more welcoming in my tone? Almost certainly. Should I have refrained from answering at all until more details were provided? Yes, quite possibly. Could I be outright wrong? Of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But equally, I don't believe that &lt;em&gt;assuming&lt;/em&gt; sexism is occurring, solely because it's a sensitive topic, is helpful either. In particular, unsubstantiated claims of sexism taken to a HR department or manager are unlikely to end well (any false claim of sexism is likely to backfire &lt;em&gt;hugely&lt;/em&gt;, even if it was a simple misunderstanding rather than malice behind the claim.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57339" LastActivityDate="2020-02-24T23:35:41.260" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6560" CreationDate="2020-02-25T09:59:41.543" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if I'm alone in this (a boycott by one person isn't very noticeable after all) or whether it will prove to be a common theme; but I will not be voting in any of the community moderator elections this year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither will I complete the developer survey this year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is because I don't feel that I should reward Stack Exchange's recent firing of Monica by helping them ignore the situation and sweep it under the carpet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70164" LastActivityDate="2020-02-25T09:59:41.543" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-02-25T09:59:41.543" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6588" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-25T12:30:07.420" Score="5" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something I've wondered for a while, and the question which has prompted me to finally ask it is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/153808/how-to-change-manager-after-giving-up-on-current-one-who-lied-about-me&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first paragraph is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A couple of years ago I was reporting to J as one of ten developers, then moved under S, who is the manager of J. The reason was that I am looking after a piece of software (F) which required a higher scrutiny in terms of accepted change requests, and S had better visibility on this piece of software as well as the teams the change requests came from than J.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's really hard to understand to me, despite being perfectly written English. I cannot associate the initials with a person in my head (and then some software also has an initial?), and if I wanted to understand this question I would have to read through it several times before I was sure what was happening. I really don't want to do that, so I'll just ignore the question instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be appropriate to edit actual (made up) names in? For example, an edit I'd like to give to the paragraph above would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A couple of years ago I was reporting to John as one of ten developers, then moved under Sarah, who is the manager of John. The reason was that I am looking after a piece of software (Fsoft) which required a higher scrutiny in terms of accepted change requests, and Sarah had better visibility on this piece of software as well as the teams the change requests came from than John.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this would change the question to something I'd read and think about, while in it's current form I stop reading when the second or third letter gets introduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64188" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2020-02-25T23:14:36.927" LastActivityDate="2020-02-25T23:14:36.927" Title="Is it appropriate to edit questions to change initials into made up names?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6588" CreationDate="2020-02-25T12:58:19.563" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The selection of the names can add unimportant details. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a cultural aspect to the question? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it matter that one or more of the people involved is female? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does the choice of name somehow imply an age based issue?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2020-02-25T12:58:19.563" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6588" CreationDate="2020-02-25T13:08:49.467" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it massively improves the readability of the question - initials are much harder to  keep track of than names - if the gender of the initial isn't specified then it's probably advisable to use gender-neutral names, even if they are obviously made-up ones. Or use phonetic versions of the initials:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;J =&gt; Jay&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;M =&gt; Em&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're concerned about any biasing effect on the question it may be advisable to leave a comment reminding the OP that they can roll your edit back if preferred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2020-02-25T13:08:49.467" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6588" CreationDate="2020-02-25T13:23:07.840" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP has chosen to use initials for a reason. Any changes to those initials risk using an actual name, imposing a gender, imposing a cultural reference, making it more confusing for the OP, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your questions, use whatever names you choose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2020-02-25T13:52:14.463" LastActivityDate="2020-02-25T13:52:14.463" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6583" CreationDate="2020-02-25T14:07:14.677" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I witnessed a common phenomenomn where an objectively poor quality answer gets widely upvoted because people believe it's funny or because they approve people being salty toward OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except it's not &lt;em&gt;objectively&lt;/em&gt; poor - you're saying you find it poor, so to you it's &lt;em&gt;subjectively&lt;/em&gt; poor. Kilisi's writing style may be a tad brusque at times but &quot;salty&quot;, really? I see no evidence that Kilisi had &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; emotion towards the OP, let alone the negativity you're ascribing to him. For full disclosure I was one of the 150 people who upvoted that answer - not because it was &quot;funny&quot; or &quot;salty&quot;, but because I thought it was &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt;. 31 users disagreed - and downvoted the answer, this is how the system works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see a post that crosses the line into rude/abusive territory then &lt;strong&gt;flag it&lt;/strong&gt; - our able mods will then do what they do best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Interpersonal Stack Exchange, a stack I'm active in too, this wouldn't happen so often, because the number of post per moderator is low and the policy for both questions and answers are much more strict so the request to meet quality standards are always there. For example, a question that could belong to the Workplace have been closed because it lacked detail and expected outcome and would likely generate opinion based answers, but I'm fairly sure would be still open if posted here initially. This left me wondering if we are incitative enough to quality content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;strong&gt;isn't&lt;/strong&gt; IPS - and I'd be strongly resistant to the idea that we should implement their policy. I mean no disrespect to the good folks of IPS but that policy is &lt;strong&gt;staggeringly&lt;/strong&gt; flawed IMO, as Magisch mentions in a comment (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All it does is force people to add anecdotes from their experience which are usually tangential and in case of someone who just wants to stir the pot, &lt;strong&gt;can be trivially made up.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from that I come to TWP to try and help others - often that means that answers will come in large part from my experience, often from accumulated knowledge rather than specific incidents. It's simply impractical for me to explain fully every time what leads me to believe what I'm saying is the appropriate answer. Of course, you don't know me from Adam - I'm just words on a screen. I &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; just be making up any old rubbish and posting it as answers. But we have the voting mechanic precisely to ensure that poor quality content like that doesn't rise to the top. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to regulatory matters - then that's different, these sorts of things can be objectively backed up (usually with freely available information) and in those cases they absolutely should be, many questions are going to generate answers that can be viewed subjectively. As evidenced here - you hated Kilisi's answer and I didn't, and that's okay - you're entitled to your opinion that a particular answer is poor or not useful, that's why SE provides the downvote button. You downvote it, I upvote it, and if more people agree with you than me the scores going to go negative and vice-versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we're looking to avoid &quot;opinion-based&quot; what we really mean by that is avoiding things where diametrically opposed answers are equally valid.  If someone asks two people what their favorite color is and one answers &quot;black&quot; and the other answers &quot;white&quot; &lt;em&gt;nobody&lt;/em&gt; got it &quot;wrong&quot; despite their answers being literal opposites of each other. But if someone asks &quot;what color paper should my resume be printed on&quot; then the two answers aren't equally &quot;correct&quot;, even though there's no technical standard or regulation telling you what color paper should be using.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2020-02-25T14:07:14.677" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6583" CreationDate="2020-02-25T15:26:58.313" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As I would imagine, there should be general guidelines and example as to what is a good or bad answer, but the help and the FAQ are very relaxed on posting advices as answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that cuts to the heart of the matter, and I think there's a good reason why the help and FAQ are structured that way. Ultimately, you posted a two part question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So there is two components to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you believe the posting policy are adequate to meet our quality standards?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If not, is there any specific policy that could help getting less salty and opinion-based answers?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you left off the zero-th component, which is &lt;em&gt;do we agree on what the quality standards are?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our site tour gives the follow description of the purpose of our site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange is a question and answer site about the workplace and other career-related topics. It is for members of the workforce to get answers on topics such as the job hunting process, interviewing, salary negotiation, and professionalism within the Workplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The challenge here is, &lt;strong&gt;many workplace &quot;questions&quot; on these topics are inherently subjective&lt;/strong&gt; - or, at least, they don't inherently have a single, knowable, provable answer. So, we need to be careful when talking about quality standards, to ensure that we don't choke the site out of existence in the name of enforcing strict standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I go on a technical SE site and ask about database indexes or some coding bug, there isn't really much room for subjectivity. It's easy to have objective quality standards, and it's often easy to trivially prove an answer is correct (by trying it out). A workplace question is rarely that black and white. If someone asks about including something on their resume, you can't go run off to a test environment, put it on your resume, run a unit test, and see if the answer was right or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in the absence of strict &quot;quality&quot; standards, or strict guidelines on objective answers, we are in a position where we have a gray area around interpreting answers. Luckily, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6585/83999&quot;&gt;DarkCygnus's answer pointed out,&lt;/a&gt; we also have a variety of tools for handling the gray area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going back to your opening paragraph, you said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I witnessed a common phenomenomn where an objectively poor quality answer gets widely upvoted because people believe it's funny or because they approve people being salty toward OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you can ask yourself: &lt;em&gt;why are you upset about this answer getting widely upvoted?&lt;/em&gt; What do those votes mean to you? What can you do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you disagree with the quality of the answer, you can comment to suggest improvement and/or downvote (or use other tools as appropriate). But others are ultimately free to express their own thoughts about the answer (i.e. upvote it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that the answer is literally bad advice and you are concerned about the question's asker being left empty-handed, you can always post your own answer containing what you think the right solution is, and providing whatever backup or explanation you think is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, that's the beauty of this format when applied to workplace questions. Everyone is free to provide input, through a variety of channels. Even on questions with highly upvoted answers, I will often write my own answer if I feel something important is missing, or if I disagree with the existing answers. The person who asked the question (or anyone who later finds it in search or via a dupe tag) gets the benefit of a wide range of possibilities to consider. Rather than focusing on &lt;strong&gt;the&lt;/strong&gt; ultimate answer, the community is able to provide and self-moderate a range of answer responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2020-02-25T15:26:58.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6588" CreationDate="2020-02-25T15:33:47.363" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ultimately I think this question could be broadened - besides initials for individuals, it seems common for some people to make up initials for companies, too. I've sometimes found myself halfway through an answer, but confused between what the asker called &quot;Company A&quot; and &quot;Company B.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think it improves readability to use legitimate names, even if they're not the literal real names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I also feel like it's potentially inappropriate to edit my own made-up names into the question, because of the potential for introducing bias or cultural implications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So - personally - when I am confused by initials in a question, I will simply leave a comment on the question asking the OP to clarify, or asking them to substitute names. This way, you allow &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt; to make up their own, in-context names, versus potentially skewing the question by introducing my own made up names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2020-02-25T15:33:47.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6595" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-26T03:35:35.960" Score="10" ViewCount="385" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just thinking about this recently, and if you are posting on The Workplace:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You likely are talking about something you wouldn't ideally like your employers to see.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then for those of us who have our accounts linked to other SE sites that we &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; like employers to see, are we not just naturally pushed towards the solution of creating a throwaway account just to ask a question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that throwaway accounts break this site, but I was just thinking it seems like a fundamental conflict between The Workplace and SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interested to hear your guys thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105027" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2020-02-26T11:57:56.333" LastActivityDate="2021-04-14T01:30:38.943" Title="Does The Workplace have a fundamental issue with throwaway accounts?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6567" CreationDate="2020-02-26T15:58:34.720" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Godspeed Richard.  You will be missed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your willingness to share about your personal life and struggles.  Our conversations helped me more than you will ever know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck sir!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49815" LastActivityDate="2020-02-26T15:58:34.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-26T17:02:56.753" Score="8" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;Example question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/153792/strange-job-interview-what-were-they-really-looking-for&quot;&gt;Strange job interview -- What were they really looking for?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the example, the question is well voted for and has a good number of highly voted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I would tend to agree that it isn't suitable/should be closed - as it's effectively asking people to guess what somebody else is thinking, in a process that is highly company specific. Most of the answers I'd argue &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be seen as just opinions or speculation as well - even though there is a lot of genuinely sensible advice there too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In situations where a question has a large reach already, with many answers and a lot of votes for both the question and answers. Should we still vote to close as we would normally (as if it was a fresh question), or should we take some consideration that a large number of people thought the question was useful?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user81330" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2020-02-27T07:32:38.173" LastActivityDate="2020-03-03T19:54:01.107" Title="Should we take into account the number of answers and up-votes for a question, when voting to close?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|hot-questions|up-votes|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6598" CreationDate="2020-02-26T18:22:44.460" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I see this as difficult to answer in the general sense, without context. In other words, &lt;strong&gt;it depends.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, it depends on the close reason I'm considering, and the &quot;type&quot; of activity the question is getting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think questions asking for legal advice are a good example of why the context matters, and specifically why a question with a lot of activity should remain open even if it's borderline. There's a relatively well established precedent to leave &quot;legal&quot; questions open, if they're about legal topics you'd expect most competent employers/managers/HR people to know the answer to. I might not personally know the answer to a legal question, so I might consider closing such questions, but if lots of well-liked answers exist on the question, I would take that as an indication that it passes the &quot;you'd expect people to know this&quot; test, and it should be left open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other end of the spectrum, some questions end up attracting lots of attention, and even lots of highly-voted answers, where the answers don't even really answer the question, or there isn't even a clear question and the answers are getting voted because people &quot;like&quot; them, or there are other contextual clues that the question is off topic, &lt;em&gt;and the existence of many popular answers&lt;/em&gt; doesn't really change that. In fact, it may even be an incentive to close the question, in the hopes of getting attention from the OP to clarify or edit as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2020-02-26T18:22:44.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6600" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-26T20:03:45.293" Score="5" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did folks vote to close this question as &quot;opinion-based&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/153890/tactics-for-rewarding-employees-keep-them-motivated-and-eager-for-work-long&quot;&gt;Tactics for rewarding employees - keep them motivated and eager for work - long term employee retention&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's certainly no more opinion-based than the average question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it because the question is more oriented to management?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I voted to re-open the question, and I encourage others to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2020-02-26T21:05:26.303" LastActivityDate="2020-02-27T20:53:42.480" Title="(Reopened) Why is the &quot;tactics for rewarding employees&quot; question considered &quot;Opinion-based&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6598" CreationDate="2020-02-26T20:16:32.983" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we still vote to close as we would normally (as if it was a&#xA;  fresh question), or should we take some consideration that a large&#xA;  number of people thought the question was useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The close reason in this case makes no sense on the face of it. The reason given is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question needs details or clarity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Add details and clarify the problem being solved. This will help&#xA;  others answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has &lt;strong&gt;6 answers&lt;/strong&gt;, including one that was &lt;strong&gt;accepted&lt;/strong&gt;. And &lt;strong&gt;hundreds&lt;/strong&gt; of votes among the questions. The question itself has &lt;strong&gt;78 upvotes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems pretty clear to me that the question had sufficient detail and clarity for the 6 folks who provided an answer before it was closed, for the hundreds who voted on the question and answers, and (most importantly) for the question writer to decide to accept one of the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, I think this yet another case of having a few folks here who like to close questions more than actually help questioners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted to re-open the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2020-02-26T21:14:29.980" LastActivityDate="2020-02-26T21:14:29.980" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6600" CreationDate="2020-02-26T20:40:24.107" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Didn't vote to close; Didn't vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking that what makes it more opinion-based on average is that &quot;motivation&quot; differ from a person to another, and what one may find motivational is another one's reason to leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Defining motivation can be a difficult subject either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect an objective answer to this would be very vague. It's more a call to people's experiences than a solvable problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would happily participate in this but I would doubt this would bring anything really new to a simple &quot;it depends&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT : In the end I gave the final vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45534" LastEditorUserId="45534" LastEditDate="2020-02-26T20:57:31.420" LastActivityDate="2020-02-26T20:57:31.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6600" CreationDate="2020-02-26T20:48:10.187" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've voted to reopen as well. I think &quot;opinion based&quot; gets over-used as a close reason. My interpretation is that it's intended for &lt;em&gt;purely&lt;/em&gt; opinion based questions (i.e. what's your favorite color?) and not questions where an &quot;opinion&quot; can otherwise be a legitimate answer - you can back it up, you can explain the reasons why different opinions may exist and what to do about them, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, there's no point in asking what someone's favorite color is, because there are infinite answers, there's no way to defend any specific answer, and one person's answer has no value to anyone else. That's opinion based, and should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this question is answerable, and even in the sense that there will be different &quot;opinions&quot; about what motivates employees, it's fairly straightforward to iterate them and back them up in an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2020-02-26T20:48:10.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6598" CreationDate="2020-02-26T23:19:17.200" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Numbers mean little in some cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I once had an answer deleted after it had over 30 upvotes/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if it warrants closing or deletion in your opinion, just go ahead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2020-02-26T23:19:17.200" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6600" CreationDate="2020-02-27T04:49:18.630" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voted to close earlier (vote #3, I believe):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reason to close&lt;/strong&gt;: If I recall correctly, it asks for individual's past experience, meaning it will likely solicit a lot of low quality answers. A lot of &quot;one time, this happened. that was nice&quot; type answers. I think if the answer can't be answered in one post, it's probably too vague/broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reason for opinion-based&lt;/strong&gt;: I think it needs more focus, but I vaguely recall clicking opinion-based, simply because that's what the other two before me voted....whoops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still don't think it should be reopened, and it already has (at this point), 3 more close votes (which brings it to what, 8 now?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Oops, I was one of the second round voters, and apparently I properly voted for Needs More Focus, so I guess you can ignore this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88297" LastEditorUserId="88297" LastEditDate="2020-02-27T07:36:06.903" LastActivityDate="2020-02-27T07:36:06.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6579" CreationDate="2020-02-27T13:58:27.563" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's worse than unwelcoming, and a huge issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears to me is that most people here have&#xA;a very cartoonish view on how discrimination works. It seems that according&#xA;to large parts of the stack exchange network users discrimination&#xA;is this Evil Person, who reads two CVs, decides that A is best&#xA;but then notices that A is part of [Group] and gleefully tosses&#xA;it in the bin all while laughing manically. Either that or a&#xA;company policy that says &quot;No Girls Allowed&quot; on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should discrimination look like that it would be perfectly valid&#xA;to judge by a case by case basis whether some specific action&#xA;was discriminatory or not, but the reality is different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discrimination is small but accumulating biases in all of us,&#xA;like valuing a women's scientific output as less meriting than&#xA;it should be (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/notes/ww-nature-1997.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/notes/ww-nature-1997.pdf&lt;/a&gt;),&#xA;subconsciously adjusting the requirements for a position&#xA;to better suit the CV with a male sounding name (&lt;a href=&quot;https://ed.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/uhlmann_et_2005.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://ed.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/uhlmann_et_2005.pdf&lt;/a&gt;)&#xA;or deciding to deny a rental request for a black airbnb guest (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.benedelman.org/publications/airbnb-guest-discrimination-2016-09-16.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.benedelman.org/publications/airbnb-guest-discrimination-2016-09-16.pdf&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kind of discrimination is only visible on a statistical&#xA;level. There is always enough unknowns to make any specific&#xA;situation possible to explain in a thousand other different ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we force everyone who suffers from sexism or racism in the&#xA;workplace to present incontrovertible evidence before any assistance&#xA;can be given we are not only unkind, but effectively prevent&#xA;any fruitful discussion on how to handle discrimination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69964" LastEditorUserId="69964" LastEditDate="2020-02-27T19:18:04.193" LastActivityDate="2020-02-27T19:18:04.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6598" CreationDate="2020-02-27T20:42:20.393" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;That depends on the answer to another question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this site based on a planned, top-down design, or is it a grassroots, bottom-up community?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the former, then sure, close away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the latter, then upvoted questions are good questions by definition. If there are many such questions, then the site description needs to adapt to the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82026" LastActivityDate="2020-02-27T20:42:20.393" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6600" CreationDate="2020-02-27T20:53:42.480" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I voted to close because the question is too broad.&lt;/strong&gt; There is no specific, detailed problem to be solved, or professional situation to navigate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How to keep employees motivated and eager for work&quot; seems like a topic for a two-semester course in MBA school or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's certainly no more opinion-based than the average question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how we can measure that, assuming we want the metric of &quot;subjectivity&quot; to go somewhere. I consider every question separately, looking mostly for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;clear goal we can address&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45298" LastActivityDate="2020-02-27T20:53:42.480" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6611" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6613" CreationDate="2020-02-29T04:33:25.490" Score="4" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I have made a few edits, adding TLDR section on top of the questions which I consider too long, even after removing unnecessary details. Since I have enough rep, these edits are not peer-reviewed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am afraid it might be considered invasive/annoying. I always leave comment like &quot;added tldr, please feel free to edit or remove as you see fit&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has this topic been discussed on meta here or elsewhere? Is trying to distill OPs question to one or two sentences a good/bad practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/154086/feeling-cheated-by-my-organization-due-to-incorrect-details-in-relieving-letter&quot;&gt;Example 1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/154120/can-a-supervisor-forbid-me-from-being-friends-or-talking-with-a-co-worker&quot;&gt;example 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45298" LastEditorUserId="45298" LastEditDate="2020-03-02T01:52:08.987" LastActivityDate="2020-05-22T20:09:18.650" Title="Is it OK to add &quot;TLDR: [summary]&quot; to others' questions?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6611" CreationDate="2020-03-01T21:59:24.197" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion: yes and no. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summarising the key question in a post is &lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt; recommended and while we encourage the OP to include it or make the question concise/readable enough that a summary isn't required, we do get plenty of long posts that can be rambling in nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the most common edits I make and probably the second most common after typo fixes on the site in general is to make questions more readable. Very often that means &lt;strong&gt;identifying or adding the core question&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I would &lt;strong&gt;not recommend&lt;/strong&gt; is to add that summary with an actual &quot;tl;dr&quot;. Given the literal meaning it can still be taken the wrong way but more importantly there's just no reason to include it. If you add a single sentence as its own paragraph at the top or end of a post that will automatically add emphasis and be taken as the summary or key question. If you want, you can emphasize further with bold formatting or by adding a horizontal rule before the rest of the post. In addition, while it's pretty common netspeak at this point, there are still people who would be confused by the term, especially those not familiar with English language internet slang.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;tl;dr&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;summarize or emphasize the core question&lt;/strong&gt; rather than adding actual &quot;tl;dr&quot; blocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2020-05-22T20:09:18.650" LastActivityDate="2020-05-22T20:09:18.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6598" CreationDate="2020-03-03T15:24:48.150" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvoting and downvoting are not really part of moderation (at least not in the same way closing and reopening are) and are not the deciding factors of what belongs on the site. There's a reason why they're entirely distinct from closing and reopening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can start upvoting at 15 reputation, which is a pretty low bar. It's not too difficult to get that with a single question or answer, at which point you may have no idea what belongs on the site and what doesn't. You may even have gotten that reputation through the 100 reputation association bonus by coming from another site without having had any activity whatsoever on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need a whole 3000 reputation to cast a close vote (you can flag it before that, but flags can't close a question). That requires a bit more effort and hopefully the activity on the site to get there would've taught you what belongs here and/or you care enough to find out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, &lt;strong&gt;take the score of a post into account&lt;/strong&gt;, because a high score may mean you're wrong in thinking it should be closed, or a negative score may mean you're wrong in thinking it should be open. But &lt;strong&gt;don't refrain from casting a close or reopen vote you're sure about only because of the score of the post&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If questions regularly manage to get high scores before getting closed, it may mean (a) we don't have enough moderators to deal with the volume or (b) there's disagreement over what should and shouldn't be closed among moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't have that many questions, but whether we have too many voters that manage to spike up the score before it can get closed is an open question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is definitely some fundamental disagreements about what should and shouldn't be closed between significantly sized groups of moderators on this site, which is a huge problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: by &quot;moderators&quot; I mean official and unofficial ones, who are able to cast close votes, i.e. anyone with more than 3000 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bar for posting an answer is even lower, but answers have even less to do with moderation than upvoting or downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although having too many answers may in fact indicate that a question is too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also keep in mind that a high score may indicate a question has &lt;em&gt;potential&lt;/em&gt;, but it's missing something before it is a good fit for the site or it can be properly answered (meaning it should be closed and then reopened after being edited to fix any problems).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="8234" LastEditDate="2020-03-03T19:54:01.107" LastActivityDate="2020-03-03T19:54:01.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6615" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-03T20:14:32.297" Score="20" ViewCount="385" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/7&quot;&gt;seventh moderator election&lt;/a&gt; has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the new moderator is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/73791/darkcygnus&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/73791.png&quot; alt=&quot;DarkCygnus&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They'll be joining &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the existing crew&lt;/a&gt; shortly&amp;mdash;please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/7&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.opavote.com/results/4748460307775488/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;view a summary report online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33683" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2020-03-04T22:06:01.783" LastActivityDate="2020-03-04T22:06:01.783" Title="2020 Community Moderator Election Results" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6616" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-04T04:52:07.497" Score="4" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;Supposedly there are spam filters on this site. How do answers like this one get through?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/154306/accept-current-job-offer-or-wait-for-future-offer/154324#154324&quot;&gt;Accept current job offer or wait for future offer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If nothing else, it should be flagged for having no content beyond a repeated string. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111291" LastActivityDate="2020-03-04T04:52:07.497" Title="Why is the quality filter for questions and answers so poor?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6619" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-04T08:59:49.733" Score="-1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/154340/when-making-an-offer-can-hr-override-a-successful-set-of-interviews-with-senior&quot;&gt;When making an offer, can HR override a successful set of interviews with senior management?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but I am quite unhappy with the result. The situation is &quot;interviews for a big job went very well, now HR is all doubtful and wants me to justify myself&quot;. I am trying to understand if it's a tactic, if it's common, or if it's a red flag. But maybe there is a better way of asking this. Any help is very much welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38290" LastActivityDate="2020-03-04T18:22:34.307" Title="Can anybody advise how to improve this question?" Tags="|support|quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6619" CreationDate="2020-03-04T10:16:51.660" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question looks well enough to me, and you've had what looks to be a great answer from SZCZERZO KŁY&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2020-03-04T10:16:51.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6619" CreationDate="2020-03-04T18:22:34.307" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you asked for ideas to improve it, I will make a few suggestions. Take these as what they are, simply my opinion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit your text such that your title actually matches your question (right now the title is asking &lt;em&gt;&quot;can they do this&quot;&lt;/em&gt; but the body is asking &lt;em&gt;&quot;what should I do, now that they've done this&quot;&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avoid &quot;What should I do&quot; as a question. Or, at least, if you must ask what to do, make sure you have clearly stated your goal(s), what you've already tried or are considering trying, and other context.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't immediately accept an answer, especially if the question is less than a few days old and/or only has one answer - an accepted answer is often interpreted as a flag that you are satisfied (and maybe even that you've abandoned the question and don't care about it any more).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2020-03-04T18:22:34.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6622" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6624" CreationDate="2020-03-05T00:33:38.527" Score="16" ViewCount="707" Body="&lt;p&gt;So we have a problem, daily, with a trolling jackass posting abuse, nonsense, and more on the site. It's getting pretty old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Get guidance on the most effective way for the community to shut down this offending content and new sockpuppet users when it happens?  People seem to be spending a lot of wasted time on close votes and comments and downvoting instead of the things that will actually trigger the SE algorithm quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Understand what the mod team and SE CMs have done/are doing to try to block this behavior, and how we can help enable that?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastActivityDate="2020-03-18T19:31:35.230" Title="Addressing the troll in the room?" Tags="|discussion|trolling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6623" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-05T11:26:26.507" Score="0" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of &lt;strong&gt;Community Promotion Ads&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;at-the-office story blogs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/6623&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33683" LastActivityDate="2020-03-05T11:26:26.507" Title="Community Promotion Ads — 2020" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6622" CreationDate="2020-03-05T12:11:55.147" Score="16" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Understand what the mod team and SE CMs have done/are doing to try to&#xA;  block this behavior, and how we can help enable that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flag it, flag it, and flag it&lt;/strong&gt;, and to not feed the troll.  I am usually pretty quick to get to those, but sometimes it may take some time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The CM team is aware of the situation and that is pretty much all I know.  I am confident they will help us out here.  Not all trolls/spammers are stupid, and in this case we are dealing with a clever one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be patient please, flag it &lt;strong&gt;as spam or even as abusive&lt;/strong&gt;, and do not feed it.  Also by flagging it, you avoid any sort of hit to your rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2020-03-18T19:31:35.230" LastActivityDate="2020-03-18T19:31:35.230" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6625" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-06T08:52:38.683" Score="2" ViewCount="384" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider the following question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/154497/harassment-inside-a-certain-mathematics-department&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/154497/harassment-inside-a-certain-mathematics-department&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It specifically names two people and accuses them of stuff. Is there any guideline for what should be done in that situation? Don't want to use my real account as this seems sensitive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am leaning towards sending the URL to the people involved so they can defend themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115351" OwnerDisplayName="dealwithdoxxing" LastActivityDate="2020-03-06T20:24:07.583" Title="When it comes to questions which make public accusations against people, is there a community concensus on what should happen?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6625" CreationDate="2020-03-06T09:38:24.600" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is not a court of law. So please don't forward to the people involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Content should be about behaviour not people. Naming specifics doesn't have any benefit and instead can make the answers less applicable to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2020-03-06T09:38:24.600" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6625" CreationDate="2020-03-06T10:36:27.590" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doxing is unacceptable. The real life identities of the people involved have no general bearing on what advice will be given to OP, so their inclusion serves no knowledge-sharing or Q/A purpose. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're not a court of law here. Usually all we have to go on to answer questions is exactly what OP says, and the accused cannot defend themselves. (Indeed if the accused were to find such a post and post a rebuttal, that rebuttal would likely be deleted as not-an-answer quickly). We have no way of verifying allegations, nor a way to adjudicate them. And this site ranks fairly highly in search engine results for specific terms, so we have an incumbent responsibility to be careful talking about specific people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, any directly identifying information should be removed from the post immediately, and, depending on the severity (I'd argue this merits it if it wasn't already deleted) the post should be flagged for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can redact revisions to remove personally identifying information even from the revision history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastActivityDate="2020-03-06T10:36:27.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6625" CreationDate="2020-03-06T10:55:25.023" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 99.99999999% of cases here on TWP actually naming specific individuals (or even companies to be honest) is completely unnessecary, and particularly where it's accusing people of negative things it crosses into squarely into the realms of the unpleasant. Even vauge and unsubstantiated inferences regarding a person's behavior and character can have &lt;strong&gt;serious&lt;/strong&gt; consequences to people's reputations and even safety in extreme cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may sound like hyperbole but I think recent events involving SE Inc and a certain former moderator would suggest otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not an area to be f##king around so if you see it - &lt;strong&gt;edit it out&lt;/strong&gt;, replace with fake names or general terms as appropriate but get it gone. If the doxxing/naming isn't intentionally malicious that should be all that's needed (and FWIW I think the poster in this case wasn't trying to be malicious)- if the poster (or others) are persistent in doing it then flag it, report it to the CM team if need be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am leaning towards sending the URL to the people involved so they can defend themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can understand the urge to give people a right of reply as it were it's always better to de-escalate wherever possible - and this would only pour fuel on the fire IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2020-03-06T10:55:25.023" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6625" CreationDate="2020-03-06T20:24:07.583" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Personally identifiable information (PII) does not belong on StackExchange&lt;/strong&gt; with the obvious exception of whatever information individual users volunteer to share about themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever you see specific people being identified:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt; the PII out of the post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;leave a &lt;strong&gt;comment&lt;/strong&gt; explaining why so the OP knows why it's gone and that they shouldn't edit it back in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;flag&lt;/strong&gt; the post for moderator attention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would always recommend flagging this just so the mod team can take a look, redact PII out of the revision history if needed, and potentially keep an eye on the question in case the OP is on a quest for revenge rather than advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;strong&gt;this also applies to companies or organisations&lt;/strong&gt; being &quot;named and shamed&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record: the three other answers posted here before mine are all sound advice. This is mostly to confirm it from the mod angle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am leaning towards sending the URL to the people involved so they can defend themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can argue this both ways but in the end what people do outside the network with the information they find here is always up to them. (What the professional course of action is in this situation would actually make for a good question on Main.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2020-03-06T20:24:07.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6648" CreationDate="2020-03-07T14:04:36.900" Score="9" ViewCount="652" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was wrong with this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/154592/437&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/154592/437&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text of the question was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I prefer competition to collaboration. Is this compatible with a career in software?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm an intermediate dev who has been doing this for 4 years now. Of late, I have lately only been motivated when my work is competing against someone else's such as in an RFP, as part of our innovation competition, or as part of our sprint (we keep score using points, so I like to pile those up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If it is just collaborative day of day to day work with no clear success/fail evaluation, I sometimes call in sick and stay in bed and sleep all day like a lazy person. I just no longer care/can be bothered with things which are not my sole responsibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've had this problem for a while. I tried changing jobs 5 months to mitigate it and move to a less team based role, but I still ended up with this problem again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can't continue dragging myself to work everyday like this. Is there a way to have a competition based software career so that I can be motivated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2020-03-14T19:36:59.227" LastActivityDate="2020-03-14T23:20:02.080" Title="This question seemed fair. What was wrong?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|deleted-questions|trolling|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6631" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-08T04:42:39.957" Score="2" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or resident troll seems to be moving to more offensive behaviour: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Link now removed as the user seems to have been removed and the URL contained the offending language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110" LastEditorUserId="110" LastEditDate="2020-03-12T20:20:35.027" LastActivityDate="2020-03-16T11:15:00.737" Title="How to flag a user with an offensive username?" Tags="|discussion|trolling|user-accounts|behaviour|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6632" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6639" CreationDate="2020-03-08T04:54:17.743" Score="1" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not all users drop into meta, and so many are likely not aware of the advice in the previous question about dealing with the troll. (do not engage and flag as spam)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is leading to users engaging with the troll, which is exactly what the troll is seeking and fuelling further trolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to get the message out to users who don't read meta q&amp;amp;a?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110" LastEditorUserId="75821" LastEditDate="2020-03-09T14:36:21.487" LastActivityDate="2020-03-14T23:33:32.990" Title="Is there a way to inform the wider userbase about dealing with the troll?" Tags="|discussion|trolling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6633" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6635" CreationDate="2020-03-08T07:15:11.033" Score="-1" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this user: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/115420/sarah-hanes&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/115420/sarah-hanes&lt;/a&gt; should have their account deleted because they posted 2 spam posts. They are a 1 rep spammer who should be deleted outright.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user115423" LastActivityDate="2020-03-08T16:51:02.697" Title="Kill this user for being a 1 rep spammer" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6631" CreationDate="2020-03-08T07:39:37.383" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could use the &quot;in need of moderator intervention&quot; text box next to any of their content to note that the username is offensive. That might do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111291" LastActivityDate="2020-03-08T07:39:37.383" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6633" CreationDate="2020-03-08T16:51:02.697" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user has been destroyed. Please note that &lt;strong&gt;you should not start a meta thread over single instances of spam&lt;/strong&gt;. Just flag the posts as spam and the user will typically be automatically blocked and later cleaned up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's a need for the user to be destroyed for other reasons, just flag the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2020-03-08T16:51:02.697" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6631" CreationDate="2020-03-09T07:40:11.680" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag any of their content with a custom &quot;requires moderator attention&quot; flag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they don't have any content, flag any of your own with the same. Be as descriptive as possible. Moderators can see the full text of your flag, so flagging one of your own posts with a custom flag is the best way to flag something which has no other anchor points to flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A validated custom flag on one of your posts has no negative repercussions for you in itself, it does not by itself count against you in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastActivityDate="2020-03-09T07:40:11.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6637" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6638" CreationDate="2020-03-09T07:58:36.643" Score="10" ViewCount="807" Body="&lt;p&gt;So back again, and now using a name that belongs to an established user...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be controlled as it now starts to harm users...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A delay loop of users with a rep less than 10 would be a start...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/154669/75821&quot;&gt;I would like to get a job but I have little experience. What transferrable skills might I have?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75821" LastEditorUserId="16695" LastEditDate="2020-03-09T13:29:59.020" LastActivityDate="2020-03-09T13:29:59.020" Title="That troll again, what can be done?" Tags="|discussion|trolling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6637" CreationDate="2020-03-09T09:08:00.207" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dealing with trolls is counterintuitive, because they're doing it all for the attention. As long as they keep getting attention (and reactions, like this post) they are more likely to keep doing it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This troll is probably reading meta right now and having a jolly good time about the chaos they're causing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To deal with them, I'd recommend:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;flag as spam&lt;/strong&gt; their posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;custom flag&lt;/strong&gt; their posts to make the moderators aware&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;do not post on meta&lt;/strong&gt; the moderators and broader community are aware at this point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;otherwise ignore&lt;/strong&gt; the troll and their efforts. If if stops being interesting for them to continue trolling, they are more likely to stop.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can safely assume that the moderator team and community team is by now mostly aware of their activities, and the charcoal project has started adding filters for their shenanigans. With some luck, fading back into obscurity and normalcy will mean they stop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44144" LastActivityDate="2020-03-09T09:08:00.207" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6632" CreationDate="2020-03-09T13:33:55.250" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tagging one of the relevant meta posts as featured is probably somewhat effective, as is crafting a pro forma comment or post notice to put on the offending posts so others get an opportunity to get educated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will propose and start using:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a troll question.  Do not engage or waste effort on voting to close, flag as spam and move on.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6622/addressing-the-troll-in-the-room&quot;&gt;See Meta&lt;/a&gt; for more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastEditorUserId="16695" LastEditDate="2020-03-09T17:01:47.253" LastActivityDate="2020-03-09T17:01:47.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6643" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-09T21:18:50.170" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/154675/can-my-employer-legally-threaten-to-fire-me-unless-i-cut-off-in-person-contact-w&quot;&gt;boss demands I don't talk to any people, because I can get coronavirus&lt;/a&gt;&quot; question earlier today and recalled this similar question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/139577/boss-has-banned-cycling-to-work-because-he-thinks-its-unsafe&quot;&gt;Boss has banned cycling to work because he thinks it&amp;#39;s unsafe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I make this meta post to attract attention of the network since more similar questions can pop up. I have cast &quot;VTC as dupe&quot; the former question about virus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45298" LastActivityDate="2020-03-09T21:18:50.170" Title="Canonical for &quot;can my boss restrict non-work related activity&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6644" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-10T21:30:28.160" Score="10" ViewCount="400" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems a reasonable idea to me, perhaps even with a lower threshold than other flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggestion of flagging as 'Spam' is factually incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2020-03-11T07:37:29.983" LastActivityDate="2020-03-23T11:08:26.143" Title="We should have a flag or close reason of 'Trolling'" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|flagging|trolling|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6644" CreationDate="2020-03-10T22:51:28.210" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically not feasible. We have used all of our custom close reasons (cf previous discussions on adding extra reasons) and I'm not even sure it's possible to modify the flag types. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More to the point: the suggestion remains to &lt;strong&gt;use either the spam or rude/abusive flags&lt;/strong&gt; depending on post content. Both flags will trip &lt;strong&gt;automatic removal&lt;/strong&gt; when 6 such flags are received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flags for moderator attention will help if one of us is online but the recommendation as per previous threads remains to use the two main flags above. Close votes shouldn't be used: that's just wasted effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2020-03-10T23:46:42.063" LastActivityDate="2020-03-10T23:46:42.063" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6644" CreationDate="2020-03-11T04:59:21.043" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Trolling is definitely rude, though, so the correct flag reason is &quot;Rude or Abusive.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61906" LastActivityDate="2020-03-11T04:59:21.043" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6630" CreationDate="2020-03-11T16:55:34.140" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question was pretty obviously a troll post done to parody all the other recent &quot;I love being antisocial&quot; questions.  Some previous troll posts were along these lines.  Therefore people paying attention flagged it and the mods deleted it.  Problem solved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should host real questions here.  Troll questions aren't good because &quot;they are not in and of themselves abusive.&quot;  Answer a real person with that real problem, so that you get real details to address and help a real person in reality.  It's a subset of people asking &quot;theoretical&quot; questions.  Normally that'd be just closeable, but we want the trolls banned you see, so flag and delete is the remedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastActivityDate="2020-03-11T16:55:34.140" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6630" CreationDate="2020-03-13T14:29:05.930" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post was deleted because it was (is) part of a coordinated spam attack.  We (&lt;em&gt;in this case I&lt;/em&gt;) don't delete stuff for fun.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot share any additional information beyond this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4414/why-was-this-question-about-handling-the-fallout-of-a-crass-joke-deleted/4415#4415&quot;&gt;Similar situation here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2020-03-13T15:10:43.687" LastActivityDate="2020-03-13T15:10:43.687" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6649" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6656" CreationDate="2020-03-14T22:18:51.247" Score="15" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now have both a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/coronavirus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;coronavirus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;coronavirus&lt;/a&gt; and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/covid19&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;covid19&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;covid19&lt;/a&gt; tag. Since all the coronavirus questions are about COVID-19, these should be merged or made synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not think the covid19 tag should be destroyed since it is very likely that someone else will just recreate it with a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34163" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2020-03-16T15:29:16.297" LastActivityDate="2020-03-26T19:57:50.977" Title="Merge tags: coronavirus and covid19" Tags="|discussion|synonym-request|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6644" CreationDate="2020-03-15T14:28:36.960" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flagging it as spam or rude/abusive&lt;/strong&gt; is one option, and especially relevant to the more obvious cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For cases you think might be trolling, but you're not so sure about, you can alternatively:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit it&lt;/strong&gt; if the question is technically on topic but there are some offensive details that aren't strictly necessary to answer the underlying question or ones that could be replaced with a general summary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means taking an attempt at trolling and turning it into a good and useful question that can help others. Alternatively, trolls end up posting such questions in the first place to get past our moderation. Either way, &lt;a href=&quot;https://xkcd.com/810/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;mission accomplished&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Close it&lt;/strong&gt; if it's not on topic, or it's a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Downvote it&lt;/strong&gt; if you don't feel it's useful. Questions with negative score are less visible on the site and these typically eventually end up getting closed or deleted after a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Move on&lt;/strong&gt; regardless of whether or not you did any of the above. Do not comment. Do not post on Meta about it (you can potentially use a custom flag if you think someone else should take a look at it). Dwelling on it wouldn't help anyone, and you engaging with the post (in a way other than simply casting a vote or flag) is what they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For both editing and closing as duplicates, it would help if we actually focus on &lt;strong&gt;making reference-worthy questions and answers&lt;/strong&gt; by removing unnecessary or tangential details from questions and giving more general answers instead of what we're currently doing: focusing too much on the specific details of individual questions, which means there are very few cases of questions that would actually provide an answer to someone having the same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2020-03-15T18:02:49.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6649" CreationDate="2020-03-16T15:35:15.800" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/coronavirus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;coronavirus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;coronavirus&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/covid19&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;covid19&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;covid19&lt;/a&gt; have both been merged into &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/covid-19&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;covid-19&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;covid-19&lt;/a&gt; and synonyms created. A single-sentence tag wiki has been added but it could use additional detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2020-03-16T15:35:15.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6649" CreationDate="2020-03-17T16:47:27.400" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to remind everybody that &lt;strong&gt;we already have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/health&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;health&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;health&lt;/a&gt; tag&lt;/strong&gt;, that applies perfectly to this situation (one's physical health in the workplace).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, &lt;strong&gt;I would advice on considering using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/health&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;health&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;health&lt;/a&gt; tag instead, if the case is fit&lt;/strong&gt; (where the answers could be applied to health in general). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, I advice to &lt;strong&gt;be aware of posts where the covid-19 tag was included, but the question and core issue are something completely unrelated to health or covid&lt;/strong&gt;. Or where other more relevant tags were left out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example (out of my mind), cases like: &lt;em&gt;Communicating something to a colleague or boss via email, in the Uk, because X thing happened... because Y thing happened on project Z... because covid...&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can see that here the core tag should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/communication&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;communication&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;communication&lt;/a&gt;, and other related tags would be &lt;em&gt;colleague&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;management&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;software-development&lt;/em&gt; perhaps, &lt;em&gt;email&lt;/em&gt; perhaps also, and so forth... The answers that post would get would surely be useful and work regardless of the Covid situation; some other reader that also needs to send that email would find the answers useful in a future even though Covid is no longer around. &lt;strong&gt;Cases like these is where the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/covid-19&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;covid-19&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;covid-19&lt;/a&gt; should not be (ab)used&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, in any other case where Covid is intrinsic to the issue or question (and is NOT asking for medical or legal advise) the tag applies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2020-03-26T19:57:50.977" LastActivityDate="2020-03-26T19:57:50.977" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6659" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-17T17:09:49.447" Score="1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the same way that we (potentially) close questions &quot;asking for legal advice,&quot; I am wondering if we should have a canonical response to questions that essentially ask for health advice, or health policy advice. This is the question that caused me to wonder this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/155109/should-vending-machines-be-turned-off-until-the-coronavirus-outbreak-is-over&quot;&gt;Should vending machines be turned off until the Coronavirus outbreak is over?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, this is a workplace issue in the sense that it seems to essentially be asking a question about workplace policy. That seems to make it on topic, and potentially answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, similar to how it can be damaging to seek legal advice from strangers on the internet, I'm wondering if people think the same danger applies here. In other words, is it dangerous (risky?) to seek health policy advice from strangers on the internet? Should questions like this be redirected with a generic answer in some way (i.e. &quot;follow the guidelines of the CDC or equivalent in your jurisdiction&quot;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2020-03-17T17:09:49.447" Title="Do we have a canonical response to health-related questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6660" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-19T19:13:57.303" Score="-1" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, this question&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/155155/does-not-having-a-mobile-phone-disadvantage-me-in-the-job-market&quot;&gt;Does not having a mobile phone disadvantage me in the job market?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is confusing quite a few users trying to help:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Not having to pay for the phone's data plans has saved me thousands of dollars over the years;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume the user is talking about uber-expensive mobile plans in the US. But this user does not want to disclose her/his country of origin. I think it's a bit excessive, unless I am missing something. Should the question stay as it is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38290" LastActivityDate="2020-03-20T12:32:22.923" Title="The phone conspiracy" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6660" CreationDate="2020-03-19T19:22:49.503" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But this user does not want to disclose her/his country of origin. I think it's a bit excessive, unless I am missing something. Should the question stay as it is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, the question is quite answerable and has already gathered good answers, including one that is yours...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, including a country or wondering how much the phone plan is has few to nothing to do with the core question (&quot;&lt;em&gt;Does not having a mobile phone disadvantage me in the job market?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questioning OP why they don't want to spend on a mobile phone plan, or questioning if the plans in their country are that expensive is not helpful, nor relevant to the question asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, I say the question is fine as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2020-03-19T19:22:49.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6660" CreationDate="2020-03-19T21:36:06.093" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not in the US, but we use (Australian) dollars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My phone+data plan has been about $50 pcm for the last 10 years or so (so, $6,000). That's about middle here. Typically, cheapest phone+data is $30.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want less, you have to buy a phone and go prepaid, which could still tip over $1,000 &quot;over the years&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO The OPs claim isn't too outrageous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110" LastActivityDate="2020-03-19T21:36:06.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6660" CreationDate="2020-03-20T04:28:53.877" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is fine as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are always going to get XY comments and sometimes answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe some of the comments are useful to the OP. Maybe some of the comments help understand what might be the mindset of the recruiter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is one problem, it's that the question attempts to justify the point of view. That invites people to comment on the rationale. If they say: &quot;I don't have access to a mobile phone&quot; and leave it at that, there is likely to be less noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2020-03-20T04:28:53.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6666" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-20T05:19:14.397" Score="4" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's likely during the next few weeks, months, or even years there will be a large number of people that find themselves suddenly unemployed as a result of COVID-19.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should set up a community wiki with resources for those that find themselves suddenly no longer part of the workplace, with an emphasis on COVID-19.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm imagining there will be quite a few &quot;I lost my job cause of COVID-19, what do I do?&quot; and having an single location to point to may be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastEditorUserId="59502" LastEditDate="2020-03-20T16:10:31.087" LastActivityDate="2020-03-20T22:38:47.007" Title="Unemployment and COVID-19" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6660" CreationDate="2020-03-20T12:32:22.923" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whole question looks wrong to me. I don't have a data plan for my phone, I rarely ring out. So it costs me peanuts. Isn't it the same in other places? Why would you get a data plan if you only need the phone to answer calls?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2020-03-20T12:32:22.923" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6666" CreationDate="2020-03-20T14:10:47.567" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Echoing the comments - this is a great initiative.  Given the content is specific to geographies and governments, there are likely 3-5 separate answers that we should start with.  My suggestion would be to base those on where our users currently come from - perhaps the users with access to the analytics can share our top countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some minimum content for each might be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Links to official resources for the jobless (e.g., where to file a jobless claim)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Links to official resources for financial relief and assistance (e.g., government protections for homeowners and renters)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Links to some top answers about job searching and dealing with layoffs, both as an employee and employer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5652" LastActivityDate="2020-03-20T14:10:47.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6666" CreationDate="2020-03-20T22:38:47.007" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a waste of time. Governments and local institutions will publish or are already publishing and updating locale specific Information, from what I have seen it's being published in multiple ways. tv, radio etc,. as well as official sites. We cannot do a better job at third hand. Those will be the first recourse of anyone seeking 'real' knowledge. Anyone coming here first is an idiot or troll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the canonical answer would be &quot;Check your local govt for information.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2020-03-20T22:38:47.007" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6644" CreationDate="2020-03-23T10:23:42.173" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. &quot;Trolling&quot; is a very broad, loaded label with extreme prejudice built into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as some people will quickly call anyone who bothers them politically either a Nazi or a Commie as an easy way to dismiss them entirely AND vilify them in the same word, I think &quot;Troll(ing)&quot; could also end up as a catch-all close reason that's far too easy to apply, far too damning in effect, far too controversial for other mods to get involved with if they disagree (&quot;and remember, @modXYZ supported trolling!&quot;), and far too hard for the target to defend against.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your own comment, &quot;perhaps even with a lower threshold than other flags&quot; pretty much confirms what I'm saying here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have &quot;Rude/abusive&quot; and &quot;Spam&quot;. Those are entirely sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; It occurs to me that I could offer a &lt;em&gt;descriptive&lt;/em&gt; alternative that still satisfies your request while being far less loaded and prejudicial, e.g.: &quot;Encourages non-productive discussion&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81313" LastEditorUserId="81313" LastEditDate="2020-03-23T11:08:26.143" LastActivityDate="2020-03-23T11:08:26.143" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6672" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-23T11:42:26.407" Score="2" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disclaimer: I have written an upvoted answer to following question.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was deleted by Community: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/155297/can-i-be-forced-to-take-yearly-vacation-due-to-corona-virus-outbreak-germany&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/155297/can-i-be-forced-to-take-yearly-vacation-due-to-corona-virus-outbreak-germany&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is asking about general rules for vacation enforcement by the employer. It's not a special situation the OP is facing, therefore I wouldn't categorize it as legal advice. It contained a slightly off-topic portion by asking if there is a sign for being fired, but that could have been removed easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the user deleted or what was the reason for not just closing it but immediately deleting it? Are there special rules for COVID-19 questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35882" LastEditorUserId="35882" LastEditDate="2020-03-23T11:47:17.270" LastActivityDate="2020-03-23T11:47:17.270" Title="Relevant question for thousands of German employees during the COVID-19 crisis was deleted" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|covid-19|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="13" ClosedDate="2020-03-23T18:15:52.513" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6673" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-27T03:28:02.190" Score="15" ViewCount="433" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been a few questions lately from people that are being forced to go into the office, where they feel it is unsafe, or they have a moral obligation to stay at home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In almost every instance, there is one, or a few answers or comments, that simply say &quot;You should stay at home&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What these answers discount is the very real chance that such advice can lead to somebody losing their job. As many countries are teetering on the edge of recession, this potentially would have a significant impact on someone in the long term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do want to identify that there is, of course risk to a person's health. And that maybe users cannot in good conscious recommend a course of action that they feel is unsafe. However, even when things are going well, taking a step outside the door carries an inherent risk. How we evaluate this risk will depend on our own personal circumstance. What you consider a no-brainer may be a tough decision in a different economic and personal situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do want to also identify that there is a certain moral obligation to stay at home. However, there are quite a few questions where an employee is asked to do something immoral. In those circumstances, saying: &quot;Don't do it&quot;, is really a non-answer. The question is usually asking how they can avoid doing the immoral behaviour without jeopardising their job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone being concerned about their health and concerned about keeping their job do not have to be conflicting. It is possible for people to have two concerns at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe we should make an assumption that those that ask such questions are looking for answers that would allow them to keep their job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are places in there world were travelling to work is now illegal. It would make sense to provide answers that take this into consideration, but it's worth noting where the OP is located.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are even more places where there are government recommendations not to travel to work. It's worth noting that government recommendations generally do not trump obligations under law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of this is in the UK, where currently (27th March) the government is recommending that people work from home where possible. Advice from employment law experts state (www.acas.org.uk/coronavirus):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some people might feel they do not want to go to work if they're&#xA;  afraid of catching coronavirus. This could particularly be the case&#xA;  for those who are at higher risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If an employee still does not want to go in, they may be able to&#xA;  arrange with their employer to take the time off as holiday or unpaid&#xA;  leave. The employer does not have to agree to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If an employee refuses to attend work without a valid reason, it could&#xA;  result in disciplinary action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Last reviewed 25 March 2020&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Valid reasons are supplied by the same website).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is almost certainly the option to go to court to fight for unfair dismissal. It's really a question for legal experts to predict what the potential outcome would be, but I do want to point out that not many people would like to go through that process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastEditorUserId="59502" LastEditDate="2020-03-27T10:23:44.227" LastActivityDate="2020-03-28T18:59:49.730" Title="COVID questions about being forced to attend place of employment" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6673" CreationDate="2020-03-27T10:29:44.733" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have to agree - I've seen more than one instance of lazy &quot;well just stay at home&quot; or &quot;just burn PTO&quot; type of answer that sweeps under the rug the very real prospect that approaching it in the cavalier manner suggested in the answer will have significant and lasting negative ramifications for the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there's a very reasonable and strong argument that people need to be as considerate of others well-being and safety as possible (and I don't disagree with the sentiment) there has to be a balance - keeping others warm by setting yourself on fire is never a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken to it's most extreme extrapolation if everyone &quot;just stayed at home&quot; we'd all starve!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an unprecedented situation on a global scale, people are scared, not just of the virus itself but of losing their livelihoods, of not being able to keep a roof over their heads and food on their plates. There's a great deal of confusion about what people can and should do, and the situation is changing rapidly. This makes it all the more important to give solid, actionable answers that give a real breakdown of the options, as much as is possible in this chaos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2020-03-27T10:29:44.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6673" CreationDate="2020-03-27T10:36:55.473" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;If the question is not fine&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question asks &quot;what should I do&quot; or &quot;how should I handle this&quot;, I'm inclined to say it's a problem with the question more than the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2693/custom-off-topic-close-reasons-change#2695&quot;&gt;are difficult to answer objectively and are rarely useful for anyone else&lt;/a&gt; (or they need more focus, since they often lack the specific goal the asker is trying to achieve) and should generally be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases you may be able to edit the question to make it on topic, but it may not be entirely clear what the OP wants to know (in terms of on topic questions, that is). It may also be &lt;em&gt;too late&lt;/em&gt; to make such a significant edit, which would be when it already has a few answers addressing the original question. In such cases, closing this question and creating a new one would be a better option (although it's up to the original &#xA;author to decide to ask a new one, or you can create the new one yourself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of asking which decision to make, questions with more objective answers would be asking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;how to make the decision, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What risks are there to [going to work / staying at home]?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although in this case both of those would be obvious, or maybe something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it legal to force me to go to work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be a legal question, but I would expect someone in HR to know the answer (although I'm not 100% sure about this).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;for more specific details about one element of the decision&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;after making the decision, how to best go forth to get the best possible results, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I insist on working from home while minimising the risk to my career?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I raise concerns about going in to work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I personally think the best type of questions start with &quot;How can I&quot;, although not all on-topic questions can be phrased in this way, and it doesn't guarantee that it's on topic)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;If the question is fine&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question asks for one of the above, in general the answers that recommend a different decision are non-answers and should be deleted. However, these answers could be useful if they address the possible factors that would go into the decision, and especially the factors that might've led OP to the decision they already made. If, for example, there's a question asks how to raise concerns with going to work, while still going to work, one possible risk to simply staying at home would be losing one's job. An answer wanting to recommend staying at home should explain why losing one's job is not likely, or how to evaluate how likely it is, or for who it might be a worse option to go in to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best such answers generally present a different decision as an &lt;em&gt;alternative&lt;/em&gt; (potentially while still answering the question as asked) instead of insisting the question asker do what they recommend. The slight phrasing difference between &quot;Don't go to work&quot; and &quot;You might want to consider not going to work&quot; might seem minor, but often these answers are phrased a lot more objectively: they don't give an opinion, but they present a possible alternative and give the &lt;em&gt;factual&lt;/em&gt; pros and cons of this option. Presenting the pros and cons allows the asker to weigh these up themselves and make an informed decision. Trying to make the decision for the asker implies you know how the asker weights each pro and con, which you don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastEditorUserId="8234" LastEditDate="2020-03-27T13:57:20.790" LastActivityDate="2020-03-27T13:57:20.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6673" CreationDate="2020-03-27T11:08:23.103" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In almost every instance, there is one, or a few answers or comments, that simply say &quot;You should stay at home&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are often stupid answers to questions, which is why we have the voting system. Feel free to downvote any and all answers you disagree with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Morality and social responsibility etc, are locale and even individual relative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such a fluid environment, I don't see much more that we could or should do beyond what we already do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2020-03-27T11:08:23.103" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6679" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-28T19:34:24.517" Score="1" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has no answers, but I am banned from answering bc it is supposedly highly active. How is that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/155547/joining-open-source-projects&quot;&gt;Joining open source projects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116967" OwnerDisplayName="Steve Oleary" LastActivityDate="2020-03-30T11:22:15.610" Title="How can a question with no answers be considered highly active?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6679" CreationDate="2020-03-30T07:58:59.990" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you were seeing there is a &lt;strong&gt;Protected Question&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52764/what-is-a-protected-or-highly-active-question&quot;&gt;This meta thread&lt;/a&gt; describes what that means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions can be automatically protected in the scenarios &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/109116/what-causes-a-question-to-be-protected-by-the-community-user&quot;&gt;described here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...protection only kicks in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;when &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/228805/213575&quot;&gt;3 to 20 (depending on site) low reputation users answer a question in the span of 24 hours&lt;/a&gt; or, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;whenever &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/89971/213575&quot;&gt;three low reputation users answers are deleted&lt;/a&gt; or,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;whenever &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/302235/165773&quot;&gt;two spam answers are deleted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question attracted two spam answers which trigger &lt;strong&gt;automatic protection&lt;/strong&gt;. Another user has since removed this protection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2020-03-30T11:22:15.610" LastActivityDate="2020-03-30T11:22:15.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6681" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6682" CreationDate="2020-03-30T18:35:41.673" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a data analyst and would like to ask a question about what should I learn in order to become better at my profession. The &quot;Tour&quot; page says &quot;Don't ask what to do&quot;. Is my question like this? I also wondered about asking this question on Data Science Stack Exchange but it seems quite off-topic to me and Workplace seems a better site to ask such a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all: will my question about my career development be closed/ deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit. This is what I would like to write.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a data analyst, I studied maths and statistics and I've been working as an analyst for a year and a half. The major tools I use are R language and SQL. At the beginning I though learning Excel would be beneficial to me, so I learnt some basics of data analysis in Excel, but you know what? I find this tool useful only for these &quot;basics&quot;. Things that are more complicated usually can be done in R more efficiently. So now I treat Excel as a little helper in glancing at the data. Then I took up Python for analysis. What happened? I got to the point where I realised that there's no thing I should do in Python instead of R, because everything doable in Python can be done in R and I can do it much faster in R, because I'm more proficient. People say Python is recommendable for machine learning stuff, but in fact it is all possible in R too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, tools are just tools. If you know what to do, you should use the tools in which you can accomplish the task in the fastest and the best way. This is a sentence which I find true and it quite discourages me from learning Python and Excel. I hardly can find anything in my job which I can't do in R.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do I do in my job? The most of times I must answer a question about the business process of my company. I must collect data and then take insight into it - what caused the problem or when the problem existed. Unfortunately, I'm inexperienced and I can't answer these questions on the fly, without any prompt. I must know what to look for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm interested in the most is this type of task. I would like to get better at it, be more proficient in answering to such questions + convey the data better, create better plots and write more on point conclusions. But how can I do it if not by continuing working and by accomplishing new tasks? I believe it's a thing gained with experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is more, there are tools which I've never seen in action. But even if I learn them, I won't become a proficient user because the only way of becoming really good is spend hours with the tool every day. I know it because I've been using R at the university for 3 years but only after first months of working I've encountered problems which were common, but totally non-existent in a theoretic world of R. What's my second problem with other tools? That in my job I don't feel I need a new tool. It's been quite proven by my Excel and Python experience too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I work with other data analysts and I could ask them. The thing is that when it comes to analysing data, they use the same tools (sometimes with lower skills in tools themselves) and I see that the only thing that distinguish our abilities is experience and intuition. As I said before, I see no way to become better at it other than just working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My problem in a nutshell: I want to explain data better but don't know what I should study. I don't feel that any new programming language will help me do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="104603" LastEditorUserId="104603" LastEditDate="2020-03-31T05:42:59.273" LastActivityDate="2020-03-31T16:31:01.140" Title="Is a question about what to learn in order to develop my career OK for Workplace Stack Exchange?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6681" CreationDate="2020-03-31T07:16:09.410" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is a question about what to learn in order to develop my career OK for Workplace Stack Exchange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;. It's actually one of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2693/custom-off-topic-close-reasons-change/2695#2695&quot;&gt;main close reasons&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for &lt;strong&gt;advice on a specific choice&lt;/strong&gt;, such as what job to take or what skills to learn, are difficult to answer objectively and are rarely useful for anyone else. Instead of asking which decision to make, try asking how to make the decision, or for more specific details about one element of the decision. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2693#2695&quot;&gt;More information&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As explained there, we don't answers questions that are this specific. What we &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; cover are questions that re more general in nature. It would depend on what specific problem you're facing but something like &quot;&lt;em&gt;How do I more effectively communicate X to Y?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; or &quot;&lt;em&gt;Should I be able to answer detailed questions instantly?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; would be practically answerable and generally useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would assume that questions about how to effectively translate data science findings to a non-technical audience would be more appropriate for &lt;a href=&quot;https://datascience.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Data Science&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2020-03-31T07:16:09.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6681" CreationDate="2020-03-31T16:31:01.140" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6682/45298&quot;&gt;Lilienthal answered this question&lt;/a&gt; in context of W@SE guidelines. I will comment on the writing of the question itself, as it will be useful for any StackExchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question right now is very verbose for any stack. Main issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A lot of rhetorical questions, like  &lt;code&gt;but you know what?&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;What do I do in my job?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hiding important details: &lt;code&gt;What I'm interested in the most is this type of task&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;I am interested in better answering questions about the business process of my company based on data&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;What do I do in my job?&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;In my job I analyze business data to optimize business processes&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The questions doesn't appear until the last paragraph&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Every paragraph starts with rambling. Try to start each paragraph with a topic sentence. Imagine readers are only capable of understanding first sentence of each paragraph.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Missing &quot;summary&quot;. I suggest adding on top of the question something like&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary:&lt;/strong&gt; I know programming languages (R, Python, Excel), but what should I learn to be able to build models based on data? I can only think of learning another language, which seems wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45298" LastActivityDate="2020-03-31T16:31:01.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6684" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-01T04:30:19.650" Score="0" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/156611/88297&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was closed fairly quickly as opinion based by users much higher rated than I, but I don't see where the opinion part is. Would anyone who downvoted care to explain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's probably off-topic for TWP, but I'm sure that this question has a very concrete economics answer based on past recessions (of which there have been at least 2 pops and a bubbles that I know of since software became more mainstream).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine that a solid answer would look like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Study X shows that in recessions, A,B,C industries are hit harder than D,E,F industries. Additionally, the SO annual survey shows that employment rates for software engineers with G,H,I skillsets have shown increased amounts of unemployment during the J, K periods, but higher salaries during the L,M periods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I have edited the question in hopes of reopening, so here is the original text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there any general consensus on the more in demand fields of software engineering to pick up during a recession? I can see small business websites getting hit badly, so web dev is out. But is embedded facing the same headwinds?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88297" LastActivityDate="2020-04-01T14:51:12.267" Title="Why was this question closed as &quot;opinion based&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6684" CreationDate="2020-04-01T08:37:21.623" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't a close voter - and while I don't think it's necessarily &quot;opinion based&quot; I think a concrete answer is going to require some pretty involved economic and market analysis backing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguably it's less of &quot;workplace navigation&quot; question and more of an economics one - and perhaps that's a bit too far out of our wheelhouse to be considered on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2020-04-01T08:37:21.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6684" CreationDate="2020-04-01T12:36:11.573" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my mind there isn't much about the question that isn't opinion based or that could not be &quot;researched&quot; by the OP themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are there any studies or is there a general consensus on the more in&#xA;  demand fields of software engineering to pick up during a recession?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short answer here:  &lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;, I am sure there are.  (laundry list type question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Anecdotally, I see small business websites getting hit badly, so web&#xA;  dev is out. But does embedded face the same trends?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt that there is a study or data that is specific to &quot;&lt;em&gt;embedded face&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I did not vote to close this, and I agree that we do close some questions a bit to quickly, this one was justly closed from what I can see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2020-04-01T14:51:12.267" LastActivityDate="2020-04-01T14:51:12.267" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6684" CreationDate="2020-04-01T14:31:47.100" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the core question is something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have skillset [set] and want to prepare better for the recession, what do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the OP is asking for references or literature review. It is a valid question on something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;academia@SE&lt;/a&gt; so probably should be valid here too. Voting to re-open&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45298" LastActivityDate="2020-04-01T14:31:47.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6688" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-02T14:27:51.937" Score="-10" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does the community feel about adding a feature to allow directed questions, or in other words, allow OP to request someone respond to their question. I am thinking of a button to be clicked if the person declines to answer when asked. I also active on Quora which has this feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the userbase is concentrated in technology with  substantial number of developers and others in tech roles, this may be useful. For example I work in cyber security and I know other folks on this site in my industry. (520, rory alsop etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastActivityDate="2020-04-02T16:31:20.080" Title="How do we feel about adding feature of directed questions?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6688" CreationDate="2020-04-02T15:37:01.870" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see how this would add anything positive to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're enough of a regular to know the users and have one in mind, then you know how to contact them via chat and ask that they take a look at your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this does is dissuade other potential contributors and potentially annoy whoever gets pinged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31777" LastActivityDate="2020-04-02T15:37:01.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6688" CreationDate="2020-04-02T16:31:20.080" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given the userbase is concentrated in technology with substantial number of developers and others in tech roles, this may be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions asked aren't technical ones, so this would have limited use on this site. Outweighing any positives it would make it easier to troll a user, the OP may miss out on insights from users that were not pinged, and many users may not relish getting random requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of us are paid to do this, it's fine while we can choose exactly how and when we contribute. But any even sideways attempt to coerce would not be welcomed by myself at least but probably others as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2020-04-02T16:31:20.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6691" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-09T02:28:29.120" Score="4" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently suggested &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/99000&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; edit to revert vandalism committed by a user against their question. One reviewer accepted the edit, but then I see that it has been rejected (shows as a &quot;rejected edit&quot; in my &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/56135/robert-columbia?tab=activity&quot;&gt;profile&lt;/a&gt;) without any further review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened? What was bad about my edit? What exactly did I do wrong and what should I do differently next time to avoid having my edit rejected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56135" LastActivityDate="2020-04-10T14:33:23.430" Title="Why was my edit suggestion to revert vandalism rejected?" Tags="|support|moderation|editing|suggested-edits|review-queue|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6691" CreationDate="2020-04-09T04:42:41.993" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What happened? What was bad about my edit? What exactly did I do wrong and what should I do differently next time to avoid having my edit rejected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You did nothing wrong. Looking a bit at the events you mentioned, it seems that the thing here was a thing of &lt;em&gt;timing&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The order of events happened like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You suggested the edit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One person reviews it and Accepts it (missing one accept).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP Rolled back to the non-vandalized version, discarding your edit suggestion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, you did nothing wrong, but was the rollback happened before you edit being accepted completely it was discarded it seems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2020-04-09T04:42:41.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6693" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-10T06:07:06.670" Score="15" ViewCount="761" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions like this frequently appear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/156990/why-is-it-against-the-law-to-rape-women&quot;&gt;Why is it against the law to rape women?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They often get downvoted, but why are they even allowed past screening? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting anonymously as others have been impersonated on here before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117365" OwnerDisplayName="SadGirl" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2020-04-10T07:15:41.853" LastActivityDate="2020-04-12T00:01:15.317" Title="Why are so many offensive questions here allowed past screening?" Tags="|discussion|trolling|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6693" CreationDate="2020-04-10T06:32:41.467" Score="21" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They often get downvoted, but why are they even allowed past screening? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an automatic quality filter in place (you have experienced yourself this when posting the question) but it can only detect a few problems. Stack Exchange is oriented towards technical questions (about programming or using a computer system) and its quality filter is aimed towards those questions as well. Not every question involving the words 'rape' and 'law' is as disgusting as that one; I can imagine a valid question on &lt;a href=&quot;https://law.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Law Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://history.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;History Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;. The system just isn't smart enough to see the difference, and more importantly, if it &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt;, the troll would just attempt to reword the question slightly over and over again, until it passes the quality system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only defense we have as a community against these posts is using &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/58035/295232&quot;&gt;rude/abusive flags&lt;/a&gt;; six of those will automatically delete the post, and only a single one will draw the attention of any &amp;diams; moderators currently visiting the site, and they're able to delete them outright. It might even be possible to reactivate the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4117/33983&quot;&gt;three flags = out experiment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, many of these posts end up in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/11540/charcoal-hq&quot;&gt;Charcoal HQ&lt;/a&gt;, a chatroom for networkwide combatting spam (and troll posts as a by-product). If a post is spammy/offensive enough, that system (built by community volunteers, not Stack Exchange) will even cast &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/291301/295232&quot;&gt;automatic flags&lt;/a&gt; which speed up the deletion of such posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33983" OwnerDisplayName="Glorfindel" LastActivityDate="2020-04-10T06:43:38.280" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6691" CreationDate="2020-04-10T14:33:23.430" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The word &quot;vandalism&quot; implies an intention to deface or break something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Vandalism&quot; really is NOT the right word to describe what the OP did with their question. OP asked a question, had second-thoughts about it and deleted (or tried to delete) their own question in a short interval of time. If, instead, the OP had been systematically clearing-out their entire inventory of questions and answers because of, say, a disagreement about licensing trivialities, THAT should be considered vandalism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think there are instances (like this one) where someone has legitimately reconsidered their question and just don't want it posted here. There are some very good reasons for doing that given the harsh judgemental nature of the stackexchange comments and questions. Workplace issues can be deeply personal and not everyone wants to expose their innermost thoughts in what can be a hostile place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What probably happened is that someone in the review queue didn't feel OK about you reinstating the OP's self-deleted question, so you got rejected (I too would have rejected such an edit). Someone else tried and, randomly, got their edits approved AFAICT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a better solution here is to give a bit more control to the OP. If they post a question and a few hours later decide they don't want it, why not just give the OP the benefit of the doubt and delete the question? Or at least raise the threshold for what is required to keep from deleting the question. I realize that there are automatic &quot;rules&quot; about what conditions allow an OP to delete their own question, I am saying these should be relaxed some more in favor of the OP's intentions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7572" LastActivityDate="2020-04-10T14:33:23.430" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6693" CreationDate="2020-04-12T00:01:15.317" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because there is no screening.  Questions go live as soon as the user hits the Post button, there isn’t a person that looks it over and decides it is good.   There are some automatic checks (for instance you can’t have a question without a body), but for the most part you and I are the screeners, and we do so by downvoting and/or flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="271" LastActivityDate="2020-04-12T00:01:15.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6698" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-14T15:29:38.973" Score="-2" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please check the question.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/157098/95096&quot;&gt;Software developer work day productivity: Is there an ideal code editor usage percentage?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;After initially getting a good response, the question got targeted and closed as off topic by 5  users/moderators.&#xA;If you check the answers and comments on the question, there are many experienced stack exchange users who didn't mentioned or pointed anything wrong with the question.&#xA;It has got fairly good answers and caught interest of many people. &#xA;I believe there's a system to vote for re opening it. Please do so if you believe it is closed unfairly.&#xA;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95096" LastEditorUserId="95096" LastEditDate="2020-04-15T12:30:51.193" LastActivityDate="2020-04-15T12:30:51.193" Title="Why is this question closed as off-topic?" Tags="|support|reopen-request|closed-questions|reopening|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6698" CreationDate="2020-04-14T17:01:23.700" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't one of the users who voted to close - although I can see why they might have done. The subject of the post asks a fairly specific question about a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; specific metric - and frankly it's going to be difficult to answer that question without a great deal of information about the developer's workload, what technologies they work in etc. And even if you got there it's not even a particularly &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; metric.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The body of the post however seems to be skirting around a more workplace SE-centric goal of how to push back on management expectations that seem a little arbitrary and generally unreasonable. Your opinion clearly is that they &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; unreasonable (and FWIW I agree with you, as I think most people interacting with the question did too) but I think you might be better off asking how to push back on that unreasonableness rather then just asking if we all agree with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if the question were re-focused to make a clear goal of pushing back on these metrics and asking how to go about doing that it would be on topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2020-04-14T17:01:23.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6700" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-22T21:22:08.317" Score="0" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/157438/our-top-dev-doesnt-want-new-challenges&quot;&gt;Our top dev doesn&amp;#39;t want new challenges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was closed as off-topic with the reasoning &quot;Questions require a goal that we can address...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet it had 12 good answers! Clearly at least 12 people were able to find a goal that they were capable of addressing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand how someone could read it and not find a goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted to reopen it. I ask that others do, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2020-04-23T04:57:37.987" LastActivityDate="2020-04-23T04:57:37.987" Title="(DONE) Why was &quot;Our top dev doesn't want new challenges&quot; closed?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6700" CreationDate="2020-04-22T23:12:48.663" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As much as I wish it had more focus and less poetry, &lt;strong&gt;i vote to re-open&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish someone (OP?) would add a summary header, perhaps something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;one of the devs is busy up to the brim, don't want extra responsibility. How to manage the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45298" LastActivityDate="2020-04-22T23:12:48.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6702" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-23T00:06:42.270" Score="-8" ViewCount="418" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to know if Neo's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/157312/8&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; to my post is an acceptable change to my contribution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He changed about 3500 characters to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see that he is a mod here and I don't really think this was very professional of him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post cites a genuine, on-going problem. I don't know exactly how to deal with it so I came to this site for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems too hard a question for this site, so I know to take my query elsewhere, but is @Neo's edit an acceptable change to my post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="536" LastActivityDate="2020-04-23T10:29:41.490" Title="Is &quot;XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx&quot; an acceptable edit?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6702" CreationDate="2020-04-23T10:29:41.490" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at the actual &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/157312/revisions&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt; you'll see that you engaged in an edit war with another moderator who tried to remove the inappropriate elements of your post. You insisted on rolling those edits back and combined with the negative reception this resulted in your post being deleted. Neo later replaced that wall of text which could still be considered offensive and trolling in nature. I would have done the same to avoid further flags as high-rep users can still see deleted posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that being said I do wonder why you feel the need to point out the edit when you should probably focus more on the extremely negative score your post received and its subsequent deletion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2020-04-23T10:29:41.490" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6704" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag is used by staff when sharing concepts in the Discovery phase relating to product or configuration changes. In most cases a direction and/or goal has been established, and there has likely been some amount of time invested into discovery work and research. The post is being presented to the Community for feedback to be taken into consideration. Where possible, the post includes specific questions to help guide Community feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" LastActivityDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6705" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the post shares product or configuration change concepts during the Discovery phase. Open to receiving feedback from the Community preceding implementation." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" LastActivityDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" Title="product-discovery" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6706" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6707" CreationDate="2020-04-30T20:53:53.610" Score="2" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged an answer as &quot;not an answer&quot;, but the flag was declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there is an endless stream of &quot;quit today&quot; answers on Workplace.SE, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/157404/35882&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; doesn't even do that. It's just telling that the employer failed to properly organized the workplace and that this is a red flag. It doesn't answer the specific question, nor does it suggest any other action plan. It's more like a comment, but comments on SE are only valid for improving posts, so that it should be deleted completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's highly upvoted, but if that's not a candidate for &quot;not an answer&quot;, then I don't know why that flag does exist at all. Therefore I'm asking for a second opinion here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the flag correctly declined? If so, how does this help the OP?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35882" LastActivityDate="2020-05-04T06:38:44.783" Title="Is criticizing the employer an attempt to answer?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6706" CreationDate="2020-04-30T21:34:26.800" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Was the flag correctly declined? If so, how does this help the OP?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My two cents to this is that, although I didn't handle that flag, I think it wasn't wrong to decline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? The post &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; provide an answer to the question OP is asking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP asked &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Any ideas on how I can better isolate / partition the personal and the work Facebook activities?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... but the answer you flagged does give an answer/course of action tight there (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a big red flag. If it's really integral to their internal communications then &lt;strong&gt;they would have it organized and would give you an account to use&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which suggests that the company should provide a specific FB account for such use, in order to better partition personal and work FB activities. In other words, suggesting OP &quot;not to foo the bar&quot; (don't mix a single account for work and personal).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On another note, the user who's answer you flagged has a very &lt;s&gt;zen-like&lt;/s&gt; minimalist style of writing, which is something that is not intrinsically wrong with answering questions or not helping OP (as evidenced by all the upvotes on that post and that user's reputation here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2020-04-30T21:39:47.717" LastActivityDate="2020-04-30T21:39:47.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6706" CreationDate="2020-05-02T02:36:22.417" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also flagged that answer as not an answer and was declined.  It is not an answer and has no value to the OP.  “Your company should have done something different” is patently unhelpful. I feel quality is getting worse on this SE and many questions are just an excuse to spout opinions. I find myself using it less when basic quality is not upheld by voters or mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastActivityDate="2020-05-02T02:36:22.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6706" CreationDate="2020-05-02T12:38:02.403" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't flag the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/157404/35882&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;. I up-voted the answer soon after it was written. I don't always up-vote answers from that user, I have also down-voted their answers, and I have probably flagged some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agreed with the general idea that was written. The actions of the company/project are a huge red flag. The use of employees Facebook accounts instead of the proper tools is a sign of a big problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, some people will provide answers that address the part of the original post that had the question mark, but the concept of this answer is still correct. The burning flag is the important part of the original question. The Facebook ToS is not the problem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2020-05-02T12:38:02.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6710" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-03T06:59:37.093" Score="5" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/155086/manager-and-hr-trying-to-extend-my-relieving-date&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had corrected the spellings and grammatical errors with better readability instead of congested lines. But still, it got rejected with a -2. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="107188" LastActivityDate="2020-05-16T08:17:01.763" Title="Edit disapproved even when incorrect" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6706" CreationDate="2020-05-04T06:26:06.443" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm both a school dropkick and don't get to use English much in normal life, so I make brief focused answers addressing the core problem as I perceive it and disregard the fluff. Hopefully I'm less likely to make a fool of myself that way with my limited English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case my perception was that the OP wasn't addressing the core problem, so I highlighted it and pointed out the correct solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically the answer boils down to:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is the 'real' problem.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is the professional solution within the parameters.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If so, how does this help the OP?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the obvious implication that the OP should re-evaluate the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone has to point these things out, so I consider it a valuable answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do put quite a bit of thought into my answers, but feel free to downvote, advocate deletion or try and organise a lynch posse or whatever else you deem appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2020-05-04T06:38:44.783" LastActivityDate="2020-05-04T06:38:44.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6713" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-05T09:13:22.547" Score="10" ViewCount="295" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot create anonymous questions anymore on The Workplace, is this intended behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to create an incognito session in Chrome and post a question, which redirects me to the login/signup screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71147" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2020-05-06T11:43:46.533" LastActivityDate="2020-05-06T11:43:46.533" Title="Is creating anonymous questions disabled on purpose?" Tags="|support|status-bydesign|asking-questions|new-users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6713" CreationDate="2020-05-05T09:19:45.110" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess it is; there are one or more rather persistent trolls on this site, and while having to register doesn't stop them entirely, it makes it a bit more difficult for them. The Workplace is not alone in this regard; on some other sites like Stack Overflow you need to register as well to post a question, though question quality is there the main reason for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33983" LastActivityDate="2020-05-05T09:19:45.110" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6713" CreationDate="2020-05-06T06:54:08.963" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is creating anonymous questions disabled on purpose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt; Posting by unregistered accounts was disabled some time in April as part of our and the Community Team's efforts to combat a recent surge in spam and troll questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To confirm, both asking and answerings questions now requires registration:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You must be logged in to ask a question on The Workplace&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You must log in to answer this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T10:59:32.020" LastActivityDate="2020-05-06T11:43:37.003" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6716" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-11T18:08:01.300" Score="39" ViewCount="522" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4898/congratulations-to-joe-strazzere-for-100k-no-200k-rep&quot;&gt;Congratulations to Joe Strazzere for 100k... no... 200k rep!&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3350/congratulations-to-joe-strazzere-for-100k-rep&quot;&gt;Congratulations to Joe Strazzere for 100k rep!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations Joe on 300k, a well deserved highscore. All your answers are indicative of deep thinking and a wealth of experience, you set a pretty high standard around here. Plus you stay out of everything except helping people so you're all around a pretty admirable chap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/7777&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/7777.png&quot; alt=&quot;Joe Strazzere&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well done!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2020-05-11T18:42:44.090" LastActivityDate="2020-05-21T00:21:39.660" Title="Congratulations to Joe Strazzere for breaking the 300K rep barrier!" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6716" CreationDate="2020-05-14T09:57:42.837" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you! I appreciate the kind words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2020-05-14T09:57:42.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6710" CreationDate="2020-05-16T08:17:01.763" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you edit &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; incorrect then it &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be disapproved!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see the edits in question but if the title of your post is any guide you need to take a lot more care when posting edits to ensure what you are changing is a) correct and b) improves the post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62790" LastActivityDate="2020-05-16T08:17:01.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6719" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-16T12:11:48.427" Score="2" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;While &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3603/26826&quot;&gt;questions about volunteering aren't off-topic&lt;/a&gt;, volunteering isn't mentioned explicitly in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot; title=&quot;What topics can I ask about here? - Help Center - The Workplace Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt; Should this be changed? I think volunteering is a very special form of work(place), and I think it should be mentioned if those questions are allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26826" LastEditorUserId="26826" LastEditDate="2020-05-20T16:41:05.060" LastActivityDate="2020-05-20T16:41:05.060" Title="Should topic about volunteering be mentioned explicitly in the help center?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|help-center|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3603" CreationDate="2020-05-16T12:14:30.793" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/volunteer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;volunteer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;volunteer&lt;/a&gt; tag, but the topic isn't mentioned explicitly in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot; title=&quot;What topics can I ask about here? - Help Center - The Workplace Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange is a Q&amp;amp;A site about the workplace and other career-related topics. With your help we're working to build a library to every question about the workplace related to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Finding employment (resumes/cv/cover letters, recruiters, hiring-managers, interviews, negotiations, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Maintaining employment (promotions, pay increases, harassment, bullying, poor working conditions, communication problems, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Leadership in the workplace (motivating people, encouraging people, making decisions, holding hard conversations, intervening in unproductive situations, asking for and giving help, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Terminating employment (notice period, breaking the news, handing over work, reference letters, relieving letters, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;What questions are off topic here?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions seeking company-specific advice on workplace regulations or policies, or legal advice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions that lack a clear goal we can address or focus on ranting about problems rather than trying to solve them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions asking for advice on a specific choice (including reviewing resumes, CVs, cover letters, e-mails, as well as specific salaries, billing rates, market worth, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions that aren't a good fit for the Stack Exchange format (see also Good Subjective, Bad Subjective for information on how to ask a subjective question suitable for the Stack Exchange format)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest mention this topic explicitly in this page. See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6719/26826&quot;&gt;Should topic about volunteering be mentioned explicitly in the help center?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26826" LastEditorUserId="26826" LastEditDate="2020-05-16T13:26:11.460" LastActivityDate="2020-05-16T13:26:11.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6716" CreationDate="2020-05-20T17:58:45.430" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe we should change the workplace logo to be Joe's profile picture and just be done with it!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for all of your great answers and support for the working community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3345" LastEditorUserId="3345" LastEditDate="2020-05-21T00:21:39.660" LastActivityDate="2020-05-21T00:21:39.660" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6722" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-25T08:32:38.630" Score="5" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was visiting the review queue when this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/158557/how-does-one-operate-in-an-dark-scrum-environment&quot;&gt;How does one operate in an &amp;quot;Dark Scrum&amp;quot; environment?&lt;/a&gt; came up with the note &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Our system has identified this post as possible spam; please review carefully. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why that would be the case, since it seems like a valid question with an extensive answer. Is there an explanation that I don't see?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/99951&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is what I found in the review history, though the notice is gone. So I don't know if this is the right link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78026" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2020-05-25T09:40:15.163" LastActivityDate="2020-05-25T19:10:48.387" Title="Why did the system identify this question as spam?" Tags="|support|review-queue|spam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6722" CreationDate="2020-05-25T09:40:00.810" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might have been posted from an IP address which has been used to post spam in the past, or to suggest edits which contain spam. Such IP addresses are hobbled or even blocked from posting, by a system nicknamed &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=spamram&quot;&gt;SpamRam&lt;/a&gt; (not sure if there's a canonical post about it); the user posting that question &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; have noticed that because they had to complete a Captcha. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/216399/295232&quot;&gt;some additional information&lt;/a&gt; (thanks @Lilienthal) about this message on Meta Stack Exchange. That this is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positives_and_false_negatives&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;false positive&lt;/a&gt; (i.e. not spam) isn't uncommon; I do quite a lot of reviews across the network and I'd say that about 50% of the times I see that message it's really spam, and 50% just an innocent user like here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for reviewing it carefully, as indicated by the message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33983" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2020-05-25T19:10:48.387" LastActivityDate="2020-05-25T19:10:48.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6724" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6725" CreationDate="2020-05-29T19:56:39.743" Score="1" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/158646/25229&quot;&gt;above an answer&lt;/a&gt; a banner I did not see before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WNT79.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WNT79.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When is this banner triggered? Is this a specific flag placed on the answer (manually by someone)?&#xA;(It is certainly not automatic as plenty of answers do not have any links/sources/citations.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25229" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2020-05-29T20:17:53.030" LastActivityDate="2020-05-29T20:17:53.030" Title="When does &quot;Want to improve this post?&quot; appear?" Tags="|support|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2020-05-30T17:10:26.533" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6724" CreationDate="2020-05-29T20:16:24.427" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/186087/295232&quot;&gt;post notice&lt;/a&gt;. They can only be added (and removed) by &amp;diams; moderators. The Workplace has three 'standard' answer notices and a fourth Workplace-specific one, as can be seen in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/1240483/answer-notices&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt;; this is the 'Needs citation' one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a moderator on three other sites in the network, and sometimes add these if a post gets flagged as very low quality but might be salvageable with some editing by either the author of the post or the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33983" LastActivityDate="2020-05-29T20:16:24.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6726" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-31T13:18:58.613" Score="1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did not want to discuss this topic on the question because there's already enough discussion there :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I provide proof or sources if my claim is &quot;[this behavior] is perfectly legal&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I claim something is illegal, that's easy. There should be a law &lt;em&gt;making&lt;/em&gt; it illegal. Without such a law, it would not be illegal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's in any way controversial, I can probably find a court decision where someone was cleared while exhibiting this behavior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if it's not controversial? How would I provide sources for a statement like &quot;wearing pants to work is perfectly legal&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2020-06-03T17:03:09.707" Title="How to provide sources for &quot;it's legal&quot;" Tags="|discussion|legal-questions|back-it-up|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6726" CreationDate="2020-05-31T19:29:26.283" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the others, this is about &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/158643/25739&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer. @OP: I assume you've seen the top-voted answer there. It points to a specific legal document confirming this request is legal. As my comments mentioned you can just link that. Any reason that wouldn't work? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would I provide sources for a statement like &quot;wearing pants to work is perfectly legal&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You would simply say &quot;wearing pants to work is not illegal&quot;. You could back that up by pointing to your familiarity with working in the jurisdiction the question is about. You could also back it up by pointing to relevant documents proving that &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; wearing pants actually would be illegal. Either experience or references would work for most situations. I believe in a courtroom that's often referred to as &quot;evidence or authority&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that when you specifically state &quot;I am not familiar with the laws in [country]&quot;, you cannot then go on to say &quot;X is legal there&quot; just because &lt;em&gt;you think it should&lt;/em&gt; be. By your own admission you have no way of knowing. This is why the back it up rule exists. There have been a number of answers on this site downvoted because they pointed out that the law actually allows or prohibits certain behaviour that people &lt;em&gt;felt&lt;/em&gt; shouldn't be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are unable to corroborate a legal claim, it's typically a sign you shouldn't be making it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2020-05-31T19:29:26.283" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6726" CreationDate="2020-06-03T17:03:09.707" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would I provide sources for a statement like &quot;wearing pants to work is perfectly legal&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should not engage in these discussions on Workplace@SE. It is off-topic, requires much more details than regular OP is willing to contribute, and promotes comment skirmishes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can, however, engage in discussion such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is not wearing pants professional in [circumstances]?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to navigate unreasonable requirement to (not) wear pants to work from my supervisor?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We have casual friday with no pants requirement, my colleague takes it too far (no underwear either), what is the professional way to deal with that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My subordinate is not wearing pants to work for reasons (...), and now also declines to perform duties that require pants (wood cutting) because they are not wearing pants, how to deal with that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ask your lawyer, but professional way to deal with that is ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45298" LastActivityDate="2020-06-03T17:03:09.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6729" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-06-19T20:51:56.870" Score="2" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that front page now shows reputation on the &amp;quot;modified [time] ago [name] [rating]&amp;quot; line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nehfM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nehfM.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of workplace front page&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When was this rolled out? What is the reasoning behind that change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45298" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2020-06-19T21:34:22.290" LastActivityDate="2020-06-19T21:34:22.290" Title="Why is the reputation of the last user to interact with a question shown on the Home page?" Tags="|support|questions|users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6729" CreationDate="2020-06-19T21:33:51.180" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been the current situation for as long as &lt;s&gt;I can remember. (But I'm here for only five years.)&lt;/s&gt; the site exists; see this screenshot taken on Stack Overflow &lt;em&gt;over 10 years ago&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4FjMk.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/39782/295232&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this feature useful? Well, if you see a question modified by a high-reputation user like Joe, you can be sure there's nothing unusual about it. If you see a question asked/answered/modified by a 1 rep user, chances are they're not familiar with The Workplace rules and their action needs some extra scrutiny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33983" LastActivityDate="2020-06-19T21:33:51.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6732" CreationDate="2020-07-06T14:30:21.660" Score="7" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I do appreciate the addition of the new &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/red-flags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;red-flags&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;red-flags&lt;/a&gt; tag as it provides me a convenient list of questions to vote to close as opinion-based, I think it's probably in the best interest of the site to not have this as a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we need this tag, and what do we believe it is for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastActivityDate="2020-07-06T19:54:23.567" Title="Should we use the [red-flags] tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6731" CreationDate="2020-07-06T14:30:21.660" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/red-flags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;red-flags&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;red-flags&lt;/a&gt; is not a valid or helpful tag and should not be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's a meta tag, per &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/07/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/07/the-death-of-meta-tags/&lt;/a&gt;. It is entirely unsatisfactory as a single tag on a question. It's like having a tag of [problem] or [things-I-dont-like]. It may as well be on almost every single question on the site describing something someone finds negative about a company, employee, candidate, HR department, etc. What does it mean to be an expert in the [red-flags] tag?  Nothing.  Why would you search on it (other than to find things to fight about, or find opinion-based questions to close?) No reason.  It covers bullying bosses and slow recruiters and employees with strange habits - it's a valueless meta tag. Also its meaning is not clear, which I'll cover next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Its definition is not uniform across its users. What does it mean to say something's a &amp;quot;red flag?&amp;quot;  Something that's negative at all?  Something that's so negative you shouldn't work there/employ that person/etc? Rather than encouraging people to use their words as to what their actual concern is, it encourages people to use a poorly defined/scoped term of &amp;quot;red flag&amp;quot; and move on as if they'd actually communicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And this is closely related to the third and fatal problem - using the term &amp;quot;red flag&amp;quot; is a very accurate marker for opinion based questions on the site. &amp;quot;What are issues to look out for in a candidate that spent 15 years in their previous job&amp;quot; is a good question.  &amp;quot;Is it a red flag that a candidate spent 15 years in a previous job&amp;quot; is a crap question.  It's looking for a yes or no answer, and that yes or no answer is a purely individual opinion/value judgement. People may add useful information to their answer, but through no benefit of the question - or of the [red-flags] tag associated with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose @Lillienthal stop adding this tag to questions and burninate it instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastEditorUserId="16695" LastEditDate="2020-07-06T19:54:23.567" LastActivityDate="2020-07-06T19:54:23.567" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6731" CreationDate="2020-07-06T15:15:05.860" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I don't think this will &lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt; translate as meaning the underlying question will be opinion-based I do think it's a bad tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Primarily because it's a horribly over-used, too-broad buzzphrase - people throw it around as though it actually means something but can never explain just &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; it means or if they can it never seems to agree with what other definitions people have given. Which, effectively makes it mean &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; and making it into a tag does nothing to resolve that issue, and just makes it worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2020-07-06T15:15:05.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6737" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-15T20:29:36.827" Score="32" ViewCount="784" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just had a question about a recent update to one of my answers.  It's not a huge deal, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would be seen as niggling and holding back the company's bottom line&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was changed to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would be seen as frivolous and holding back the company's bottom line&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the change (niggling to frivolous) was marked as 'Remove offensive language'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, I can kinda understand that it shares the first four letters with an offensive word.  But... it's a completely different word, from a completely different root, with a completely different meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I guess I just want to know: is this an offensive word on SE?&lt;/strong&gt;  While this was just a post edit, I could easily imagine someone flagging the answer or deleting it instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: I went ahead and rolled back the change.&lt;/strong&gt;  The main reasons were that nobody here saw the word as offensive and the comments from one of the reviewers approving the edit - which indicated their approval was mostly due to a negative connotation of the word and an unfamiliarity with the word.  But honestly, the negative connotation was intended by me, and in the context of the answer was a 'this action is not niggling' - aka, 'this is not something with a negative connotation'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83339" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2020-07-16T15:19:46.097" LastActivityDate="2020-08-26T06:29:11.427" Title="Offensive Language for sorta-sound-similar words?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6737" CreationDate="2020-07-15T21:14:32.800" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for other people/cultures, but I never would have even made the connection before reading this post. So as far as I'm aware, no, it's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31777" LastActivityDate="2020-07-15T21:14:32.800" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6737" CreationDate="2020-07-16T01:07:20.977" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the edit unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, it was a stretch to take the word you wrote as offensive. This also shows that the user(s) editing/reviewing didn't take the time to search the meaning of the word, and immediately assumed ill intentions of it (when we should &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6374/73791&quot;&gt;assume good intentions first&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want, you can consider doing a Rollback on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/160546/revisions&quot;&gt;revisions page&lt;/a&gt; of the post you mention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2020-07-16T01:07:20.977" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6737" CreationDate="2020-07-16T13:34:36.950" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have we REALLY reached the point where we are now censoring words that are SIMILAR to offending words?  Roll back the edit, it's unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The word niggardly means miserly.  Can we mention the nation of Niger? What about the words &amp;quot;masticate&amp;quot;, the &amp;quot;penal&amp;quot; system, &amp;quot;beaver&amp;quot; (dam them!), slag, knob, Aktashite, Assapanick, cock-bell (a wild flower)  et cet ad nauseum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Push back on this, let's end this nonsense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="52713" LastEditDate="2020-08-26T06:29:11.427" LastActivityDate="2020-08-26T06:29:11.427" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6737" CreationDate="2020-07-18T13:44:21.107" Score="-11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some writers enjoy using arcane words in the mistaken belief that it makes their writing more interesting, but it does not. These words sound awkward and they're prone to misinterpretation and may be perceived as pretentious. These words are why editors can make a good living yanking them out like the weeds that they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've read articles (especially early ones) by George Will, you can see an example of why these words are not a good look. Rarely an arcane two-dollar word just works because it perfectly fits the intent like a glove, the perfection of the fit makes it worthwhile to look up the word. But if you try to do this too often, like George Will, you end up with awkwardness. The prose equivalent of a guy in an ill-fitting suit trying to be suave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I don't expect folks who think &amp;quot;burninate&amp;quot; is a useful word to understand this line of thought, but some of you out there do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7572" LastActivityDate="2020-07-18T13:44:21.107" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6742" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6743" CreationDate="2020-07-23T14:56:16.593" Score="2" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/160873/i-told-off-a-consultant-and-it-affected-my-job&quot;&gt;I told off a consultant and it affected my job&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a simple question about correcting course after misconduct.  We handle these all the time, and while this one was a bit ranty, it still does come under our purview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subjects like this come under workplace conduct and should, IMO be addressed here, and it is addressable as two of us have addressed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the volume here has dropped so much that I think we can, at least at this time, address some of the more borderline ones, or at least edit them into something answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2020-07-24T09:05:33.167" LastActivityDate="2020-07-24T09:05:33.167" Title="(Done) Req to reopen I told off a consultant and it affected my job" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6742" CreationDate="2020-07-23T16:12:55.897" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This reads to me like a question specifically geared for the HNQ, and not a real situation.  However if the community votes to reopen it, I won't stand in the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2020-07-23T16:12:55.897" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6744" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2020-07-26T12:15:01.127" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A feature request or bug report with this tag is neither declined nor destined for implementation/fix. When such a decision has been made, the tag will be changed accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are multiple factors that may leave a report under review. There could be consideration of whether the proposed feature or bugfix is feasible or useful. There could be investigations on the complexity of the necessary solution. There could be insufficient information in the feature or bug report as presented. Site developers may provide additional comments to request more information or to provide status updates as appropriate to the status of the review, until such time as the decision for approval or decline is made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by staff and ♦ moderators; the latter will only use this tag as part of the escalation process described here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/348642/295232&quot;&gt;What posts should be escalated to staff using [status-review], and how do I escalate them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Copied from: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/status-review/info&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/status-review/info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33983" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2020-08-03T04:16:51.073" LastActivityDate="2020-08-03T04:16:51.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6745" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2020-07-26T12:15:01.127" Score="0" Body="Indicates that a change in functionality is currently under consideration, or needs further investigation." OwnerUserId="33983" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2020-08-03T04:16:29.020" LastActivityDate="2020-08-03T04:16:29.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6746" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-29T07:42:52.040" Score="14" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we all have been working from home or remotely due to Covid-19, our work place has been changed to home. So if we now face any issue related to work, is it suitable to ask it in The Workplace or do we need to a new site (proposal) for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22275" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2020-07-29T09:02:03.263" LastActivityDate="2020-08-01T10:07:29.793" Title="Is it On-Topic to ask a question about Work from Home Issues in workplace SE site? (We have been working remotely due to Covid19)" Tags="|discussion|scope|covid-19|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6746" CreationDate="2020-07-29T09:01:00.540" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the (currently) 224 questions in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/telecommute&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;telecommute&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;telecommute&lt;/a&gt; tag, it's absolutely fine (provided it meets the other criteria mentioned in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt;). The Workplace isn't just a physical place; at home you can be equally interacting with your colleagues and customers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33983" LastActivityDate="2020-07-29T09:01:00.540" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6748" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2020-07-29T09:03:47.040" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions about &lt;em&gt;The Workplace questions&lt;/em&gt; about the Covid-19 pandemic. If you have a question about how &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/covid-19&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;covid-19&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;covid-19&lt;/a&gt; affects your work or career, please ask it on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;main site&lt;/a&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33983" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2020-08-03T04:16:42.387" LastActivityDate="2020-08-03T04:16:42.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6749" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2020-07-29T09:03:47.040" Score="0" Body="For questions about *The Workplace questions* about the Covid-19 pandemic. If you have a question about how Covid-19 affects your work or career, please ask it on the main site instead." OwnerUserId="33983" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2020-08-03T04:16:45.067" LastActivityDate="2020-08-03T04:16:45.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6746" CreationDate="2020-07-29T14:08:12.777" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6747/61983&quot;&gt;other answer&lt;/a&gt; provided by Glorfindel, we have the term (now more than even) &amp;quot;Home Office&amp;quot;, so as long as the question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;about navigating in the workplace&lt;/a&gt; (be it a HQ, regional office, or as you ask - about home office), it should be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61983" LastActivityDate="2020-07-29T14:08:12.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6746" CreationDate="2020-08-01T10:07:29.793" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a workshop/lab/office at home, 1/4 the problems I get are work related and would be on topic, the other 3/4's are caused by my kids creating havoc, which probably aren't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2020-08-01T10:07:29.793" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6752" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6753" CreationDate="2020-08-01T18:54:23.070" Score="1" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the ongoing covid pandemic, I expect we'll see an increase in questions around the topic of losing one's job. As such, I wanted to clarify the meaning of these three commonly used words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I understand it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fired:&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;You are unable to perform at the level we expect.&amp;quot; and/or &amp;quot;You committed a serious violation of company policy.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Laid off:&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;Due to the current economic situation, we are being forced to downsize and cannot afford to keep you.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Redundant&lt;/strong&gt;: &amp;quot;Due to changes in our business, we no longer require your services.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the understanding that every situation is different and there is always some degree of nuance/overlap, are these descriptions more or less accurate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73580" LastEditorUserId="73580" LastEditDate="2020-08-02T03:27:33.050" LastActivityDate="2020-09-12T07:30:27.097" Title="Fired/Laid Off/Redundant: How do we expect these terms to be used?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6752" CreationDate="2020-08-02T12:16:55.880" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see Laid off/redundant as the same thing. They no longer need somebody in your position based on their current environment. The performance of the worker wasn't used to terminate the relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A person who is fired has under-performed, or committed a violation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then of course the employee can quit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In situations where there are contracts with an end date how the relationship ends is up for debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the relationship ends, or even when the end date is set, the reason why triggers certain benefits, regulations, and the like; all of which are nationally or locally defined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2020-08-02T12:16:55.880" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6755" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6757" CreationDate="2020-08-03T18:39:47.713" Score="15" ViewCount="377" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/161212/how-to-deal-with-an-abusive-boss/161231#161231&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; is not only demonstrably false as US labor laws vary &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;drastically&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; from state to state, and asking to go directly to the VP of HR is going to be disastrous for anyone naive enough to think that such a thing wouldn't be career suicide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I flagged it, it was rejected for the reason &amp;quot;declined - flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would Pets Stack Exchange allow an answer for a tick treatment question to stand if it said &amp;quot;Put the animal in boiling water for 30 seconds, and there will be no more fleas&amp;quot; stand, or would they delete it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I do understand that much is a matter of perspective, but when it comes to something so blatant, why let it stand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2020-08-03T19:29:38.937" LastActivityDate="2020-08-17T06:57:45.827" Title="Why are flags for demonstrably false answers rejected?" Tags="|discussion|answers|flagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6755" CreationDate="2020-08-03T19:29:21.533" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer has a score of -3 and is grayed out, which is a strong indicator to visitors that they shouldn't follow this advice. In fact, the answer adds value to the site precisely because the site is showing it's a wrong answer, similar to tutorials or textbooks sometimes showing what happens if you &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; do the correct thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33983" LastActivityDate="2020-08-03T19:29:21.533" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6755" CreationDate="2020-08-03T22:37:19.563" Score="22" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well this basically answers your question but I guess you're trying to get at the motivation behind it. There's no one-size-fits-all answer to that from what I've found, though &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/78441/260382&quot;&gt;this meta post covers the basics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally put, as moderators we should not judge answers for &amp;quot;correctness&amp;quot;. We are a small team of exception handlers that deal with things the community can't handle. The community &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; and indeed should handle bad answers. Downvotes and comments are the tools at your disposal for that. Flags are not, at least generally speaking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing to add here is that this practice originated with the more technical sites. A moderator mainly active in Java and front end design wouldn't be able to handle questions around compilers or low-level programming. It makes no sense to let them judge how correct an answer is. This is somewhat different on The Workplace of course. Though even here it's hard to judge matters related to specific country/state law for instance. That's also an area where the moderator handling your flag might not be well versed in. If the OP says the law is X while the flagger says the law is Y instead, it's not up to the moderator to make a final call. Instead the flagger should leave a comment and downvote and allow the community to take it from there, presumably leading to more downvotes and potentially deletion votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When flags like this reach us it's always a judgement call. There &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; instances where we delete these. Typically when criminal behaviour is involved in an answer or anything similarly &amp;quot;over the line&amp;quot;. Advice that would get someone fired will sometimes rise to that level as well, but most moderators will prefer to leave those calls to the community. In cases where the post is already downvoted or it's otherwise clear that it won't do more harm we tend to decline the flag because the community has already handled the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is actually a very good example of such an answer on that same post. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/161214/25739&quot;&gt;This deleted answer&lt;/a&gt; advocated violence in the workplace. It would have been nuked on sight if a moderator had spotted it before the community deleted it. But even there the community was faster than us in getting the post removed. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope that answers your question, but let me know if I should elaborate on anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also check out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/185073/how-do-i-properly-use-the-not-an-answer-flag&quot;&gt;How do I properly use the &amp;quot;Not an Answer&amp;quot; flag?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/114596/declined-flags-should-not-be-used-to-indicate-technical-inaccuracies-or-an-al?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;declined - flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4731/dont-flag-wrong-answers&quot;&gt;https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4731/dont-flag-wrong-answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/265552/when-to-flag-an-answer-as-not-an-answer&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/265552/when-to-flag-an-answer-as-not-an-answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2020-08-17T06:57:45.827" LastActivityDate="2020-08-17T06:57:45.827" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6755" CreationDate="2020-08-05T20:02:50.750" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mods aren't omniscient. They're not expected to be, which is what you're asking if they're supposed to judge answers as wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see an answer you believe is inaccurate or incorrect, there are plenty of things you can do. You can downvote it, you can comment on it to explain to the answerer and viewers that you think it's wrong, or you can post your own answer or upvote correct ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since a lot of people are throwing examples of &amp;quot;obvious bad answers&amp;quot;, I'll address the clear strawman- there is a difference between good faith though misguided and bad-faith trolling. If there are examples of mods leaving the latter around, that's a different discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26622" LastEditorUserId="26622" LastEditDate="2020-08-08T15:05:16.110" LastActivityDate="2020-08-08T15:05:16.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6755" CreationDate="2020-08-06T14:02:33.800" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cross-site duplicate: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/345023/are-blatantly-wrong-answers-very-low-quality&quot;&gt;Are blatantly wrong answers very low quality?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is wrong, you shouldn't flag it, you should downvote and comment explaining why it's wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wrong answers can still be useful to the site (as long as they're downvoted and people comment explaining why they're wrong) because they can serve as a warning to others. I recently encountered a case where the accepted answer on a Stack Overflow question recommended a dangerous practice; I downvoted, commented on the answer explaining why it was dangerous, and wrote another answer explaining what the OP should do instead. The accepted answer actually illustrated a common mistake (one that I've made myself before) because it's a &amp;quot;gotcha&amp;quot; in the framework. My answer got upvotes and the other answer got downvotes and will now hopefully serve as a warning to others about what not to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As one high-rep user &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/345023/are-blatantly-wrong-answers-very-low-quality#comment454043_345023&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO has entirely too few bad answers. Knowing how not to solve a problem is pretty valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61906" LastEditorUserId="61906" LastEditDate="2020-08-10T12:39:12.150" LastActivityDate="2020-08-10T12:39:12.150" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6761" CreationDate="2020-08-11T17:49:36.537" Score="8" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/162595/what-is-generally-meant-by-no-tennis-shoes-in-a-dress-code&quot;&gt;What is Generally Meant by &amp;quot;No Tennis Shoes&amp;quot; in a Dress Code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe there's a useful question in here. While we can't say what &amp;quot;No Tennis Shoes&amp;quot; definitively means for a specific company, it is a phrase with general cultural meaning and connotations that can be usefully talked about, such as in this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/1291/31777&quot;&gt;What is appropriate dress for a &amp;quot;business casual&amp;quot; interview?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I've edited the question slightly to make it a general one rather than company-specific and I submit that it should now be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31777" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2020-08-13T06:07:34.767" LastActivityDate="2020-08-13T06:07:34.767" Title="(Done) Req to reopen what is meant by no tennis shoes in a dress code" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6760" CreationDate="2020-08-11T18:12:08.600" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the question had already a couple of reopen votes, and as I also think it should have stayed open, I proceeded to cast a binding vote, and the post is now open again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the post is quite answerable as it already has several answers, many of them highly voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit Kaz did made it even clearer and on-topic IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2020-08-11T18:12:08.600" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6762" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6764" CreationDate="2020-08-17T11:33:50.067" Score="7" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/162776/how-long-can-i-work-remotely-from-italy-if-my-workplace-is-uk-without-me-my-empl&quot;&gt;How long can I work remotely from Italy if my workplace is UK without me/my employer incurring taxing issues?&lt;/a&gt; was closed due to &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies ... Questions seeking legal advice should be directed to legal professionals&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. I believe this is incorrect, as I've answered the question with relevant details from the standard UK tax guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't come under a legal issue, as this is more a tax question issue and can be understood by reading the UK tax guidelines, and it's not company specific policies as this is the same for any UK employee. This is a question that can and will affect many people across the UK and is not specific to just this user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52713" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2020-08-18T18:00:39.590" LastActivityDate="2020-08-18T18:00:39.590" Title="(Done) Request to reopen working remotely from another country than UK" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6737" CreationDate="2020-08-18T11:09:03.143" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the OP is wrong. OP does not want to let boys or girls who do not know the gist of the word be here. This is the kind of thing that a man or not man who has had a good school would want. The men or not men who had a good school do not know what it is like to be a boy or girl who did not have a good school. It is hard and it is not good when it is hard so it should not be hard it should be easy. The only way for it to be easy is to ban the words with equal to or more than two word sounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All words equal to or more than two word-sounds are bad as it is hard for a man or a not man who did not get a good school time to know what the word means. We need to ban the long words as they are hurt words that hurt the boy or girl who did not get the good school. Can we remove all the words with more than one word-sound?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear, as the word the OP used is a more than one word-sound word then i want that word to be not part of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastActivityDate="2020-08-18T11:09:03.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6762" CreationDate="2020-08-18T18:00:23.767" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post is now open again, and was also edited to better shape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2020-08-18T18:00:23.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6765" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6767" CreationDate="2020-09-12T01:39:31.720" Score="3" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/163784/client-can-no-longer-afford-to-pay-me-due-to-unforseen-circumstances&quot;&gt;client-can-no-longer-afford-to-pay-me-due-to-unforseen-circumstances&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A pretty common dilemma and answerable, in fact it has 11 answers already. No idea why it was closed and I think it should be re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2020-09-12T18:47:08.593" LastActivityDate="2020-09-12T18:47:08.593" Title="(Done) Reopen the Client can no longer pay me due to circumstances question" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6752" CreationDate="2020-09-12T07:30:27.097" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have a question like this on the main site: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93905/what-is-the-difference-between-being-fired-and-being-laid-off/93920#93920&quot;&gt;What is the difference between being fired and being laid off?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the other answers are right, but since a lot of the details depend on local labor laws (and quite frankly the US does not have any to speak of, so it's easy to confuse terms that have no practical difference in at-will states) I would like to boil it down to the abstract minimum that all countries would agree on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being &lt;strong&gt;Fired&lt;/strong&gt;/Terminated is a result of the company parting with the &lt;strong&gt;specific employee&lt;/strong&gt; for any reason. The job is still there and needs to be done, the company will hire another individual as soon as possible in the hopes that this &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; individual will do the job more in line with the expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being &lt;strong&gt;laid off&lt;/strong&gt;/made redundant is the result of the company changing company structure for any reason. They &lt;strong&gt;remove the job&lt;/strong&gt; and as collateral damage the person that did the job has no more job to do. The company will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; hire a replacement, since not having the job any more was the whole point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many countries, this is reflected in their labor laws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2020-09-12T07:30:27.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6765" CreationDate="2020-09-12T18:45:31.823" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the post already had 3 Reopen votes, I cast a 4th and binding vote and the post is open again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2020-09-12T18:45:31.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6768" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6769" CreationDate="2020-09-22T07:06:51.623" Score="2" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was deleted because it was &amp;quot;rude or abusive&amp;quot;:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/164134/revisions&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/164134/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a very educational case of a professional meeting a roadblock in his personal development and making up excuses to ignore what was in front of his eyes.&#xA;It was actually going to be very useful, an asset. How was it rude?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38290" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2020-09-22T09:49:15.560" LastActivityDate="2020-09-22T09:49:15.560" Title="How was this question rude or abusive?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|trolling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6768" CreationDate="2020-09-22T09:36:38.110" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user behind this post was &lt;strong&gt;identified as part of a series of troll users&lt;/strong&gt; that mainly &lt;strong&gt;post on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;agism&lt;/a&gt;-related topics&lt;/strong&gt;. As with the others this user was suspended and most of their posts removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason you see rude/abusive or spam flags in these situations is because &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/60294/260382&quot;&gt;they will feed the automatic IP ban mechanism&lt;/a&gt; that StackExchange uses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6492/25739&quot;&gt;my answer on a similar question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We prefer to avoid deleting questions in this way as the community suffers for it considering the effort they put into answers and edits so we typically only do this in egregious circumstances and when it is clear that further community effort on the question would be wasted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever a question is dealing with a fictitious situation that's highly specific it means that answer will likely have limited value to others. In those cases we are especially likely to remove entire posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the added updates to further clarify the fake scenario the post was setting up would lead to further wasted effort in answering which is why this was removed. While several other sockpuppet users were suspended, their questions were mostly left up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For transparency: I've previously posted about these troll users in Workplace Chat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well. So. Uh. @Draken (and FYI rest of chat): after some investigative work I've gone ahead and &lt;strong&gt;suspended 8 accounts&lt;/strong&gt; for sockpuppet violations. I've revoked a number of bounties and deleted some posts. Given that the sheer scale will make this quite noticeable I figured I'd give you a heads-up. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/55480941&quot;&gt;September 8&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post is part of a recent pattern of troll accounts posting questions and answers that are agism related. This particular post has been removed and the account suspended. As per the earlier message (see starred messages on the right), &lt;strong&gt;please flag any posts that seem to be related to agism&lt;/strong&gt; as this will help us to verify whether they are on the level or not. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/55609531&quot;&gt;September 21&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2020-09-22T09:36:38.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6770" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-22T23:26:15.397" Score="7" ViewCount="364" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the Academia SE, there is a rule banning questions that allege misconduct by named individuals or organisations, including posts that allege that the poster has performed misconduct when the user has a username that resembles the name of a real person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4762/policy-against-questions-making-allegations-against-named-individuals-or-organis&quot;&gt;https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4762/policy-against-questions-making-allegations-against-named-individuals-or-organis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we adopt the same rule on this SE site, since many (if not all) of the same reasons for it apply here as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86908" LastActivityDate="2020-09-23T01:28:59.387" Title="Should we adopt the Academia SE rule banning allegations about named individuals or organisations?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|site-policy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6770" CreationDate="2020-09-23T00:23:43.100" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we adopt the same rule on this SE site, since many (if not all) of the same reasons for it apply here as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion is &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;. (Short answer version).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Longer answer version:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons why I don't think it applies here exactly as it is in Academia (disclaimer: I'm not active on Academia, but I do know TWP and based on that I list the following points):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On TWP &lt;strong&gt;many of the users that come here is because they screwed up or someone on their company screwed up and they seek for professional advise&lt;/strong&gt; on how to handle such events. You can see many posts of the nature &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I did X thing...&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Coworker/boss did X thing...&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, so banning those questions would be shutting down many users that come here for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When such users come to this site, the &lt;strong&gt;vast majority never use their real name, or the coworker/boss that screwed up name, or even post from their regular SE account.&lt;/strong&gt; Several post as anon, or create a new account only to post the sensible question, or eventually ask us to disassociate the post from their account. The standard that we follow here and that I'm glad that the vast majority follows is to give an alias to such coworker/boss, as to avoid using their actual names. So, in practice and in our day by day we &amp;quot;never&amp;quot; see a post that includes a specific Name and Last name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We also &lt;strong&gt;never see real posts that are directed to a member of the Community&lt;/strong&gt; (real == not troll). Like &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I work with @DarkCygnus and he screwed up his latest commit to the repo. How to handle this?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. This is mostly due to the fact that names and actors are unidentifiable in the vast majority of the posts, as mentioned in the previous point. Besides, by doing that the OP would be also disclosing their identity to the person mentioned by simple deduction (if I ever see such a posting I'll immediately know which of my coworkers could have posted that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, why I think that such rule does not apply here as it is on Academia SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, this single incident that prompted this Meta Post actually had a much more simple solution that didn't involved censorship or banning a user from seeking help: &lt;em&gt;we simply changed the OP's username to the default name given by SE and removed their PP for the generic avatar SE generates.&lt;/em&gt; In other words, &lt;strong&gt;leave the post but make the user or target unidentifiable.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think of it, this even makes sense in an Academic perspective regarding the ethical use of Human subjects in research, according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont_Report&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Belmont Report&lt;/a&gt; and the related principles ;) (specially the Respect for Persons principle).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2020-09-23T00:23:43.100" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6770" CreationDate="2020-09-23T01:28:59.387" Score="16" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we adopt the same rule on this SE site, since many (if not all)&#xA;of the same reasons for it apply here as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Definitely&lt;/strong&gt;. There's nothing to be gained by naming names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Glassdoor is for accusations (well-founded or baseless).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, folks should be asking questions without naming individuals. They can easily get an answer without risking defamation. Most of our members are already doing this. We shouldn't tolerate exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I'd prefer that the question be edited to remove the named company/individuals, rather than having the question deleted without notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2020-09-23T01:28:59.387" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6773" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-25T13:54:27.707" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that occasionally, some of my answers and responses can come across as heavy-handed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My particular weakness is when explaining a situation where a person may be technically right, but the personal cost will be far greater than any gain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should we phrase advice when the person is right, but the fight might cost them more than the win?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Employee has a clear case of employer malfeasance, and could likely sue, and probably win.  However, having gone through the process, or helped someone go through it, you know that it's not going to work out well, and you think that the better course of action is to move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the right approach to advising someone that while they are right, and could win, the price of winning might be more than they wish to pay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2020-09-26T01:38:01.997" Title="Articulating subtlety between theory and practice when answering questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6773" CreationDate="2020-09-26T01:38:01.997" Score="-2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that occasionally, some of my answers and responses can come across as heavy-handed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't let it bother you, some people start hurting if a feather lands on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're doing fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2020-09-26T01:38:01.997" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6775" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6787" CreationDate="2020-09-29T11:50:47.530" Score="4" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;An example of what I'm talking about is here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/113513/discussion-on-question-by-ellenoid-how-should-i-deal-with-coworkers-who-dont-wa&quot;&gt;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/113513/discussion-on-question-by-ellenoid-how-should-i-deal-with-coworkers-who-dont-wa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were many comments, some with around 30 or 50 upvotes, on the question at hand.  For a while, the comments were appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Then&lt;/em&gt; a question was raised in the comments, which received an answer...which then turned into an argument...and so on and so forth.  At that point, all of the comments were moved into chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concern I have with this approach is that one user - though their intentions and concerns might have been good - single-handedly turned the comments into an &amp;quot;extended discussion&amp;quot;, whereas &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;several different users preceding them had kept things perfectly on track.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now those several different users, some with very valuable comments and with many, many upvotes, have had their contributions lost, just because of the divergence created by a lone individual.  Now when somebody sees the question, they can't even get the information they would otherwise have had access to (without really treading far off the beaten path).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the individual in this particular case may have good intentions (I did said a thing or two about it though, because I knew they were putting the group at risk of losing the comments), my concern is this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;SE is very quick to handle things this way, and all it takes is one individual to sabotage the group.  While this person may have had good intentions, &lt;em&gt;in other interactions going forward&lt;/em&gt;, all it takes is one deliberate troll to have a solid string of perfectly valid comments removed...which is the kind of thing that trolls want in the first place.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even if it's not a deliberate troll - even if it's just one individual that keeps pushing an &amp;quot;extended discussion&amp;quot; within the comments - &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;it's still just one user causing the whole group to be punished&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what I recommend is, in many cases, only moving the comments to chat that started at the point of divergence.  Anything above that point, where comments were not sidetracked, stays.  Anything at the point of divergence into &amp;quot;extended discussion&amp;quot; and below gets moved.  This way legitimate comments above stay, while the true problem is still cleaned up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In Case this Comes up:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I understand a few individuals had to respond to the main user in question, in order to make this happen (my lone comment before the move was to rebuke/caution this user)...&lt;em&gt;but that still means that random users are getting punished unfairly, and their valuable contributions, that were perfectly on track before this started, are getting lost to future readers.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this time may be a casualty, I recommend tweaking our procedures moving forward, so that the discussion comments are still moved, but the non-discussion ones above are allowed to remain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent answer made me decide to go ahead and add this: At least a couple of answers to this question earlier were describing comments as transient, and they really seemed to push the idea that comments were viewed, to put it bluntly, as basically nothing but worthless bloat after a very short length of time.  While this did surprise me a little bit, it also makes me wonder:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If comments pretty much always have a super-short lifespan, then become worthless trash afterwards, then why are we not automatically deleting them?  If they take up space, distract readers, and so on, without adding any value, why do we keep them?  And why do we force moderators to spend any time worth mentioning on this, when it's far quicker and easier to just run a purge algorithm in the background?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't contradict the idea that comments are transient and always become valueless rather quickly, but it does seem to be striking a nail with a screwdriver, rather than with a hammer.  And this is not the only reason that I really strongly feel that the rule about comments &lt;em&gt;de jure&lt;/em&gt; and the moderation practices concerning them &lt;em&gt;de facto&lt;/em&gt; are two very, very different things - they appear different for other reason(s) as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while I understand what's being said, it doesn't seem to go along with how this or other Stack Exchange sites are actually governed or treated by the community.  So I'd kind of like to hear more about this, before potentially accepting an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12532" LastEditorUserId="12532" LastEditDate="2020-10-01T13:15:30.273" LastActivityDate="2020-10-04T09:05:14.470" Title="When comments start okay and then diverge, can we just move the latter ones into discussion, while keeping the appropriate ones above?" Tags="|discussion|comments|moderation|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6775" CreationDate="2020-09-29T13:09:20.217" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;For my part, I don't spend much time trying to determine the &lt;strong&gt;legitimacy of any comment&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are for the sole purpose of improving the question or answer, &lt;strong&gt;period&lt;/strong&gt;.  I would even go so far as to say that comments are transient.  If you want to have something permanent, edit the content of the &lt;em&gt;important&lt;/em&gt; comment into the question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see a multiple comments that are either auto flagged or a series of comments that are flagged by users I typically just move them all to chat.  It is far quicker for me to do this versus trying to determine the validity of this comment over that comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2020-09-30T12:33:08.533" LastActivityDate="2020-09-30T12:33:08.533" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6775" CreationDate="2020-09-29T13:09:38.470" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are not supposed to be permanent or even sorted into categories. If there is useful comments they can be incorporated into the answer, or another answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone particularly interested can check the chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2020-09-29T13:09:38.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6775" CreationDate="2020-09-29T15:23:08.903" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rebuking someone in the comments just starts a crapstorm, and calling someone a troll can earn you a suspensions, FYI.  Personally, I consider them the bane of SE, but that might just be me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Used properly, they can improve answers and questions.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/164358/as-a-co-owner-of-a-small-business-how-do-i-assure-a-hiring-manager-that-i-will/164360?noredirect=1#comment532871_164360&quot;&gt;This comment&lt;/a&gt; led me to edit my answer for the better, and is an excellent example of comments used properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, they are transient, can and should be deleted after a fashion, and should be constructive or at least be positive.  This isn't Reddit or Quora.  We do get people coming in just to razz people and it is quite frankly, VERY annoying.  If you've taken the time to think of and write a question or answer, only to be heckled in the comments, it can be frustrating to no end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moderators have enough time on their hands without having to go through the comments and pick and choose which ones to keep.  If they do, they will inevitably be treated to criticism in Meta or chat, and make a thankless job even more aggravating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, the periodic cleanup of comments, and moving them to chat solves far more problems than they solve.  If you want something to stick around, write your own answers or questions and don't rely on comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2020-09-29T15:23:08.903" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6779" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-30T12:45:54.250" Score="2" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/164553/choosing-between-two-job-offers-big-brand-vs-smaller-more-fulfilling-role&quot;&gt;Choosing between two job offers: big brand vs smaller more fulfilling role&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The close reason says &amp;quot;Instead of asking which decision to make, &lt;em&gt;try asking how to make the decision&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the bolded, specific question says &amp;quot;How can I make a decision on which job to take?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are we trying to tell people by closing this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2020-09-30T16:11:25.420" LastActivityDate="2021-04-02T03:07:06.067" Title="Question about &quot;how to make a decision&quot; between offers should be reopened" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6779" CreationDate="2020-09-30T12:55:10.790" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my mind, this question is not well suited for this site, and answers will be heavily opinion based.  While the question is not so far over the line that I would &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;mod hammer&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; it closed, I also won't intervene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the community reopens it, so be it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2020-09-30T12:55:10.790" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6779" CreationDate="2020-09-30T14:23:45.283" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am one of the original close-voters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I read it, this is no different ask than:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/91180/2-job-offers-one-offering-more-20-more-money-but-gut-feeling-telling-me-to-ta&quot;&gt;2 Job Offers, one offering more 20% more money, but GUT FEELING telling me to take lower one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/76709/how-to-decide-between-two-life-changing-career-options&quot;&gt;How to decide between two life-changing career options?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are also somewhat well-received, but closed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61983" LastActivityDate="2020-09-30T14:23:45.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6779" CreationDate="2020-09-30T21:24:17.110" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question should not be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of how to make a decision vs asking about the decision isn't just to add &amp;quot;magic words&amp;quot; to the question to keep it open.  The OP has their list of pros and cons - the only meaningful &amp;quot;how&amp;quot; from here is &amp;quot;just decide&amp;quot; or some more byzantine &amp;quot;add points to each pro and con&amp;quot; kind of nonsense.  The &amp;quot;how&amp;quot; is &amp;quot;just do it&amp;quot; so the question reduces to &amp;quot;make the decision for me.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastActivityDate="2020-09-30T21:24:17.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6775" CreationDate="2020-10-01T07:51:58.307" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I essentially agree with Neo but this was getting too wordy for a comment. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our &amp;quot;move to chat&amp;quot; button is essentially a single-barrel break-action shotgun: it's one shot and done and it hits everything. That means that once we've moved comments to chat, future comments can't be moved and are simply deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this question, it also means that we have to &lt;em&gt;manually&lt;/em&gt; undelete any comments that were worth keeping. This is a fair bit of effort as we'd need to go through the entire thread, which is typically quite long at this point, and judge what actually has value. I'm with Neo in that I tend not to spend too much time on this, simply because there's rarely much of value there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Highly upvoted comments mean nothing. Usually it's a case of answering in the comments which should be nuked anyway. &amp;quot;Caveat&amp;quot; comments I do keep: often these are things like &amp;quot;be are of the legal framework&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;take care not to do X&amp;quot; when those kinds of comments aren't central to an answer to the question but are good to point out. Often these are also things that new people would comment anyway when they don't see it posted already so keeping the original comment up saves work as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I usually do when purging comments is manually undeleting anything that's a question to the OP. Typically that's quick to do: I just scan for question marks. :) I'd say that 8 times out of 10 not a single question mark is spotted and I leave everything deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll also point to my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5030/25739&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Sometimes we just forget to undelete useful comments. Or we might disagree with others on whether a particular comment is useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2020-10-01T07:51:58.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6775" CreationDate="2020-10-01T11:16:47.863" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the rules about comments, I don't really understand why all comments aren't automatically deleted by the system after a certain period of time (a month, a year, whatever).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are told that comments are supposed to be the basis for improving a question or answer. That comments are transient. That comments are not for discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given all that, there's no such thing as an &amp;quot;appropriate&amp;quot; comment that is worth preserving - except for a short period of time. Once that time has expired, I think all comments should just be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone wanted to use a comment to improve a question or answer, that should have been done within the relevant time period. Old comments do no good and just contribute to &amp;quot;our comment problem&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least IMHO...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2020-10-01T11:16:47.863" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6785" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-10-01T17:24:30.423" Score="2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote some comments on a question that subsequently got locked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/164553/choosing-between-two-job-offers-big-brand-vs-smaller-more-fulfilling-role/164558#comment533202_164558&quot;&gt;Choosing between two job offers: big brand vs smaller more fulfilling role&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an effort to not contribute to &amp;quot;our comment problem&amp;quot;, I like to go back and clean up any comments after they have been read. But since the question is now locked, it appears that I cannot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something? Is there a way I can delete them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2020-10-02T18:42:55.343" LastActivityDate="2020-10-04T07:48:37.437" Title="How can I delete a comment on a &quot;locked&quot; question?" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6785" CreationDate="2020-10-02T08:13:10.560" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You can't.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can't find a primary source on this, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/330667/let-us-delete-our-own-comments-even-if-the-post-is-locked&quot;&gt;this feature request on main meta&lt;/a&gt; confirms the behaviour you're seeing: you're unable to interact with any comments on a locked thread and that includes being unable to delete your own comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In future, &lt;strong&gt;simply flag your comments&lt;/strong&gt; with reason &amp;quot;obsolete&amp;quot; &lt;strong&gt;or the post&lt;/strong&gt; for moderator attention with reason &amp;quot;other&amp;quot; and we can clean up the comments for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: in this case a &amp;quot;historical lock&amp;quot; was applied. As per &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/247501/allow-flags-on-locked-posts?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;this meta&lt;/a&gt; this will also &lt;strong&gt;prevent you from flagging anything&lt;/strong&gt; on that page. We'll try to avoid this specific type of lock in future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2020-10-04T07:48:37.437" LastActivityDate="2020-10-04T07:48:37.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6775" CreationDate="2020-10-04T09:05:14.470" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have had my requests for clarification from the OP moved to chat because of this several times. It was initially frustrating when I first joined the community but I got used to it. Now, I figure at that point I have a few choices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ask the question again.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This makes the most sense if my comment was fairly recent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer the question anyway.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the point I was asking about was minor, it may be possible to answer and address it by saying, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;If [x] is the case do this, if not do [y]&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Down vote and/or vote to close.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the point I was asking about was something significant, or I was trying to get the OP to make their question on-topic and it got ignored, it makes the most sense to vote accordingly and move on. A lot of people seem to disappear completely after asking their question while others will respond to answers but not follow-up questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they take up space, distract readers, and so on, without adding any value, why do we keep them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A potential problem in deleting them automatically is that people tend to answer comments in the comments themselves instead of editing posts. Automatic deletion risks deleting important information before it can get placed into a question (or answer) where it belongs. Comments aren't &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to be important but important information sometimes ends up there anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, I think it would be good if moderators had the ability to easily and quickly mark a subset of comments to be moved to chat instead of it being all or nothing. I think that would be a good feature request for Meta Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34163" LastActivityDate="2020-10-04T09:05:14.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6788" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-10-21T02:39:48.257" Score="1" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently received a warning from the mods. This called attention to various posts of mine,including one where I sugggested social mobility was a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather not be banned so, with that in mind, is there a list of opinions that aren't acceptable here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26622" LastActivityDate="2020-10-21T07:54:16.053" Title="What opinions are allowed here?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6788" CreationDate="2020-10-21T03:04:36.037" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is there a list of opinions that aren't acceptable here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I where to take your question literally, and answer it in a pedantic way, I would say &amp;quot;all of them&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site (and all SE) is not intended for opinions &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt;. It is intended for actual questions that have actual answers, in the context of each stack (ours is the Professional Life and Environment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We even have an off-topic reason for questions that are &amp;quot;opinion-based&amp;quot;, so you can see that opinions is not what we seek to give to readers and people that come asking for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, to actually address your concern I will do two things. (1) I suggest you read with more calm the message that the mod team sent you. You will then see that &lt;strong&gt;the issue was not about you giving your opinion, but rather the way you worded it&lt;/strong&gt; (which bottom line, was not nice).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually we won't comment on messages that we sent you privately, out of respect for each individual's privacy, but given that you already disclosed publicly that you were contacted I can comment a bit more on that: it was not a threat whatsoever, just a polite request for you to &amp;quot;check yo self before you wreck yo self&amp;quot; ;) and to remind you of being tolerant and respectful when interacting with other users on this site. We expect professional behaviour throughout the site: when you comment, post a question or answer, use chat, etc....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which leads me to (2), this group of links and references for you to check regarding the expected behavior and conduct of &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; members of this site (plus a bonus regarding comments):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/behavior&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/behavior&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/conduct&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;What &amp;quot;comments&amp;quot; are not . . .&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2020-10-21T07:54:16.053" LastActivityDate="2020-10-21T07:54:16.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6790" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-10-21T07:30:41.593" Score="9" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not exactly sure, if this should be really done by going meta but I want to attract your attention to a question that has been asked many times in pretty much all possible way : &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/166046/should-i-wait-to-leave-my-company-after-i-finish-a-big-project-whats-the-best&quot;&gt;Should I wait to leave my company after I finish a big project? What&amp;#39;s the best way to do this?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer provided is the most excellent and complete answer on the matter I have seen as it emcompass the process to follow and also how you should behave professionally and also on your own interest (like not burning bridges). I think we should make it a canonical answer and add it to the relevant tag (job-change, resignation ?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for those that say &amp;quot;what is the best way to do this&amp;quot; is attracting opinions. Just read as &amp;quot;what is the professional way to do this&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastActivityDate="2020-11-09T14:21:40.313" Title="Make that answer a canonical answer to &quot;how to quit gracefully in a professional way&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6790" CreationDate="2020-10-22T11:38:51.610" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to suggestion I will try to phrase a concise canonical question for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am currently working at my company and I would like to leave for another opportunity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to search for another job but I would like to quit this one in a professional way meaning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in the best of my interest&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not burning bridges with coworkers/manager/company&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not being dragged down by my soon-to-be ex company.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be the steps to leave from a company job?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastEditorUserId="47387" LastEditDate="2020-11-09T08:45:45.730" LastActivityDate="2020-11-09T08:45:45.730" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6790" CreationDate="2020-10-22T23:24:30.410" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to suggest this as an alternative canonical question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a white collar, permanent job I would like to leave. I would like to quit this one in a professional way, meaning without burning bridges while also preserving my own interests as much as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the suggested steps to leave such a job? Are there common mistakes I should avoid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54765" LastEditorUserId="54765" LastEditDate="2020-11-03T23:02:18.797" LastActivityDate="2020-11-03T23:02:18.797" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6790" CreationDate="2020-11-09T14:21:40.313" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this is potentially the canonical question already: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/7149/how-can-one-resign-from-a-new-job-gracefully&quot;&gt;How can one resign from a new job gracefully?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although this question asks about a new job specifically, the accepted answer really describes a good process for approaching any resignation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has many votes and multiple references as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4781" LastActivityDate="2020-11-09T14:21:40.313" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6794" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2020-11-13T14:08:58.533" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Discussion questions are the heart of your community.&#xA;For example: Should a certain question be allowed on the site? For what reason did a moderator lock a certain question? Are said actions setting a precedent?&#xA;Be sure to present your entire case and background information/data so the subject can be discussed fully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122530" LastEditorUserId="122530" LastEditDate="2021-03-04T08:21:07.250" LastActivityDate="2021-03-04T08:21:07.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6795" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2020-11-13T14:08:58.533" Score="0" Body="The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus." OwnerUserId="122530" LastEditorUserId="122530" LastEditDate="2021-03-19T20:37:31.767" LastActivityDate="2021-03-19T20:37:31.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6796" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6797" CreationDate="2020-11-14T09:05:03.940" Score="10" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/166734/how-can-i-manage-a-remote-team-member-who-appears-to-not-be-working-their-full-h&quot;&gt;How can I manage a remote team member who appears to not be working their full hours?&lt;/a&gt; where the question was edited and rewritten to the point that a 160 voted answer seems to be completely out of date and a new answer with significantly less votes was accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the content now seems rather messy - people are talking over eachother because they entered their posts at different points of time and the signal has gotten really muddled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it make sense to revert these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77813" LastActivityDate="2020-11-17T11:37:33.737" Title="What's the best way to handle editing questions which massively change answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6796" CreationDate="2020-11-14T22:16:01.080" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The benefit of this site is that we encourage people to ask questions, but also often recommend that they refine or narrow the focus. Out-of-date answers are just an unfortunate by-product of that process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way to protect against that is by quoting specific passages of the question to provide context for your answer. That way it doesn't look like your answer is completely bonkers, or worse, offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People always have the option to revise or delete their answers, but we can't penalize the question for the mere benefit or convenience of the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could ask the OP to re-ask the question in a different post, but that's problematic for a number of reasons: we lose the context of all the answers and comments, lose the revision history, and risk that the new question will receive less attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is to answer a question most relevant to the OP's need. If the OP has accepted an answer, then we've achieved that goal. And the other answer still gains ~1600 rep. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4781" LastEditorUserId="4781" LastEditDate="2020-11-14T22:21:14.090" LastActivityDate="2020-11-14T22:21:14.090" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6798" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-17T02:19:53.677" Score="0" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today there was a highly active question posted about an individual facing HR consequences at work due to a ill advised racial / gender remark made in response to another coworker. One of the answers to the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/166860/30062&quot;&gt;was this&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;that I felt was reasonable, but apparently many others in the community did not.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ignoring the unrelated comments on the answer&lt;/strong&gt; that caused the answer to be locked, I agree with the message of the person who answered, namely to avoid inflammatory personal attacks ,  as such tactics are non productive and disruptive in a professional workplace. I feel the answer can be refined a bit such as softening the tone while not changing the meaning of the OP's answer, which I believe is correct along with several others such as that from Kilsi or Flexi or Mario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases in which a good answer suffers from distracting comments, can we be less aggressive in locking the question to allow others who may want to comment with the aim of improving the usefulness of such a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit in response to answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading through the responses so far, it was most certainly not my intention to give people with malicious motives a platform to spout derogatory and offensive language against what may be legitimate experiences of discrimination. My intent to asking this question was to see if there could be a way to separate the problematic comments from constructive comments without preventing comments altogether&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="30062" LastEditDate="2020-11-18T00:26:45.580" LastActivityDate="2020-11-19T23:57:35.887" Title="Could we be less aggressive in locking questions with argumentative comments?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6796" CreationDate="2020-11-17T11:37:33.737" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on the source of the massive edit, and the purpose of the massive edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the massive edit takes a off-topic question and brings it firmly into scope, then I see the benefit of the edit and see no need to rescue an answer. Though I can see adding a comment to the answer so the author can make an adjustment if they want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the edit is done by the person who wrote the question, and it is an attempt to remove the question, then I would roll back the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it isn't done by the original writer, and it results in a change in scope to a question that was already on-topic, then I think about how would react if it appeared in the suggested edit queue. If I would reject it because is goes against the intent of the original writer then I would also want to roll back the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2020-11-17T11:37:33.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6798" CreationDate="2020-11-17T14:34:46.777" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments can affect votes on the question in a negative way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a time when this site was extremely active and I witnessed a massive swing of voting when the comments started getting nasty.  A popular post had picked up 50 down votes, and then when the bickering in the comments was removed, it shot back up again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, moderators cannot be here all the time.  People with less than pure motives know that, and tend to go on the attack when they know that the mods are not likely to be around&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the lock feature is to stop these kinds of antics and to let things cool down.  suggestions can still be made in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2020-11-17T14:34:46.777" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6798" CreationDate="2020-11-17T23:52:03.277" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lengthy comment arguments are not an appropriate use of SE.  People should submit answers and use comments as intended, as temporary and for feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically a lot of the “screw the SJWs” rhetoric in this Q&amp;amp;A is very hostile to people with legitimate diversity or harassment concerns in the workplace - to be honest given responses in other Q&amp;amp;As as well I would not recommend anyone having legit problems with discrimination in the workplace to post here, as they are usually attacked with a large number of “aiieee what about us white men and our rights” comments. This SE &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a hostile work environment, frankly, and removing comments arguing and slinging opinions about it is the best way to begin to correct that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This wasn’t a couple comments - it was a hundred plus comments.  It should have been locked and comments vigorously deleted much earlier.  Selective comment deletion works when it's just a couple in a small stream, when it's a torrent locking is the best remedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastEditorUserId="16695" LastEditDate="2020-11-19T23:57:35.887" LastActivityDate="2020-11-19T23:57:35.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6798" CreationDate="2020-11-18T12:57:56.517" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply put, as Old_Lamplighter stated, &lt;strong&gt;NO&lt;/strong&gt;.  I am thrilled that the feature was added, as it saves moderator's a good bit of time dealing with flags on, &lt;em&gt;guess what&lt;/em&gt;, comments!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as I have stated many times, &lt;strong&gt;please&lt;/strong&gt; note that &lt;em&gt;comments are transient&lt;/em&gt; and can be removed at any time.  If you want you content protected, edit the content into an existing question or answer, or write your own from scratch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastActivityDate="2020-11-18T12:57:56.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6798" CreationDate="2020-11-18T14:24:01.923" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My intent to asking this question was to see if there could be a way to separate the problematic comments from constructive comments without preventing comments altogether&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, sort of. That's what we are for after all. The reason we sometimes resort to an outright comment lock is that as human exception handlers we indeed aren't always around. Some questions, particularly those around divisive and opinion-prone topics that hit HNQ, will attract &lt;strong&gt;a lot&lt;/strong&gt; of nonsense. Especially when it's clear that a post author will stick with the current version of their post in spite of comments seeking to improve it, any further comments will be incredibly unlikely to achieve their &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/19757/260382&quot;&gt;intended purpose&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we get to that point and comments are continuing to stream in we may as well put a lock on it to put a stop to the arguing and force people to cool off. While improbable, it is indeed possible that well-intentioned and useful comments would have been posted if not for the lock, but that's a trade-off we make in exchange for keeping the site clean and avoiding certain posts turning into cesspools that are guaranteed to turn people off from further contributing to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you believe there's a problem with the frequency of comment locks being applied by the moderation team we would welcome input on that, ideally with a list of additional locks where you think we &amp;quot;jumped the gun&amp;quot;. But if you're looking only at &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/166838/25739&quot;&gt;the question that inspired your post&lt;/a&gt; I will say that &lt;strong&gt;it should have been locked much, much sooner.&lt;/strong&gt; And as far as I'm concerned it should remain under lock and key until people have calmed down and forgotten about it. The level of vitriol on display there was far beyond the pale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2020-11-18T19:31:34.390" LastActivityDate="2020-11-18T19:31:34.390" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6804" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-18T18:16:28.923" Score="2" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read The Workplace constantly for a few months, and I'm confused about the scope of the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/professionalism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;professionalism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;professionalism&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unprofessional-behavior&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unprofessional-behavior&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unprofessional-behavior&lt;/a&gt;. It seems to me they're talking about the same or similar aspects of the workplace, only from opposite perspectives. Can anyone help me understand their differences?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81531" LastActivityDate="2020-11-18T18:40:29.077" Title="What's the difference between [professionalism] and [unprofessional-behavior]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6804" CreationDate="2020-11-18T18:40:29.077" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Professionalism is usually used in cases of where someone is trying to do something, like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;How do I leave a bad job in a professional way&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;How do I keep it professional when dealing with a client who is a bit too personal&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unprofessional behavior usually used when having to address the unprofessional behavior directly, and often references HR.  &amp;quot;Joe is putting fish in the microwave and stinking up the whole place, nobody likes it, should I go to HR&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; some overlap however where....  &amp;quot;How do I tell someone that they smell bad in a professional way&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hair splitting at times, admittedly, but there are differences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2020-11-18T18:40:29.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6806" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-21T07:47:13.847" Score="1" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am wondering where I should ask a question related to changing career, specializing,  getting a career coach in the field of electronics engineering?&#xA;With certain age, place and if even it is possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="121295" OwnerDisplayName="Yaakov" LastActivityDate="2020-11-21T11:06:07.980" Title="Where can I ask a question related to changing career?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6806" CreationDate="2020-11-21T10:26:45.000" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As well as asking a question on The Workplace, for a specific field (eg electronics engineering) you could find one or several relevant stacks in the network (like say &lt;a href=&quot;https://electronics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://electronics.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;) find their main chat room (&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/15/electrical-engineering&quot;&gt;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/15/electrical-engineering&lt;/a&gt;), and ask the regulars in there if they can offer you some advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31777" OwnerDisplayName="Kaz" LastActivityDate="2020-11-21T10:26:45.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6806" CreationDate="2020-11-21T11:06:07.980" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nah this suite isn't the place for that at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try quora, you uf you must online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your university will have careers coaches, and those coaches will also know OF careers coaches to help  at your level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, all ppl need a mentor, so go find one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastActivityDate="2020-11-21T11:06:07.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6809" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-24T08:38:47.060" Score="0" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I improve this question please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/160750/eli5-explain-work-hours-to-young-adult&quot;&gt;ELI5: Explain work hours to young adult&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(answer gets 9 upvotes and question gets 9 downvotes. so much for this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9508/why-arent-people-voting-for-questions&quot;&gt;Why aren&amp;#39;t people voting for questions?&lt;/a&gt;. ostensibly, basically the community gets whatever benefit from this question I'm not allowed to delete and yet the asker bears the burden of having question privilege removed. Ok well yeah if it's such a dumb question, then it seems weird to answer or to upvote answers instead of just commenting to vote to close. Ok. fine.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32368" LastActivityDate="2020-11-24T10:10:30.543" Title="How do I improve 'ELI5: Explain work hours to young adult'?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6809" CreationDate="2020-11-24T10:10:30.543" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth I neither up- nor down-voted the question. I didn't answer it either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there's probably an on-topic core question in there somewhere, and I think you got a solid answer. While you focus on the 9 downvotes the question received you neglect that it also got 5 upvotes, so the response was far from being uniformly bad.  So when you say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok well yeah if it's such a dumb question, then it seems weird to answer or to upvote answers instead of just commenting to vote to close. Ok. fine.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you need to consider that the people downvoting your question quite possibly aren't the ones who answered and upvoted the answer. So the hypocrisy you perceive probably doesn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I improve this question please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say the question would benefit from less focus/space given to quoting songs as well as focusing on a more concrete problem/goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2020-11-24T10:10:30.543" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6811" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6812" CreationDate="2020-12-15T15:57:36.590" Score="5" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was closed as off topic but it seems on topic to me. It asks for a specific goal in the subject. What do you think?&#xA;&amp;quot;As a male, how can protect myself from my female supervisor when she behaves inappropriately?&amp;quot; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/167794/as-a-male-how-can-protect-myself-from-my-female-supervisor-when-she-behaves-ina&quot;&gt;As a male, how can protect myself from my female supervisor when she behaves inappropriately?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44013" LastActivityDate="2020-12-15T20:58:47.770" Title="Is this question about a man being harassed at work off topic?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|offtopic|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6811" CreationDate="2020-12-15T20:58:47.770" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having read the original posting, I can understand why it was voted off-topic. &amp;quot;How can my female supervisor think she's done nothing wrong&amp;quot; reads sort of like a rant/complaint and by taking the question literally, one might assume the op is looking for a psychological analysis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More than likely, the question he wanted answered is the newly edited version but I agree that it needed an edit to clarify that fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73580" LastActivityDate="2020-12-15T20:58:47.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6814" CreationDate="2020-12-17T21:28:42.237" Score="4" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not that I care much, but it seems odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier today I had 8 hats. Now I have 6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under what conditions are hats removed? I don't believe I've ever seen that happen before, although perhaps I just never noticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2020-12-17T21:45:59.723" LastActivityDate="2020-12-17T21:45:59.723" Title="Under what conditions are &quot;Winter Bash Hats&quot; taken away?" Tags="|bug|hats|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6813" CreationDate="2020-12-17T21:45:45.260" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are/were several bugs with the hat triggers, and unintended hats have been taken away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/56450361&quot;&gt;Exhibit 1&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hat Maintenance Note:&lt;/strong&gt; I fixed a bug in the secret definition of Vexillologist, removed the hat from all users (since a good number who earned it should not have, based on a bug in the sql) and reawarded to all users who should earn it. Anyone who is earning it now will get a new WB inbox notification. So if you are trying to figure out the hat, just look at hats awarded from [now - 5 minutes] and on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/56467555&quot;&gt;Exhibit 2&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mea culpa #3&lt;/strong&gt; - really hope this is the last time, but I just cleared all hat owners for balalaika and disciple. Both are secret, and both had something messed up with their triggers (and if I didn't clear them, then would be very hard to figure out what they are for). If you earned themm, they will be awarded to you again shortly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33983" LastActivityDate="2020-12-17T21:45:45.260" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6815" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6816" CreationDate="2021-01-06T18:23:26.670" Score="-1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question at &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/168304/uncomfortable-with-dress-code-not-in-a-customer-facing-position&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/168304/uncomfortable-with-dress-code-not-in-a-customer-facing-position&lt;/a&gt; was closed as off-topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should be directed to legal professionals. For more information, click here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question isn't specific to my company's policy but rather &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;how to approach a supervisor at a new job about the issue of dress code&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; in general. There is a similar question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/162595/what-is-generally-meant-by-no-tennis-shoes-in-a-dress-code&quot;&gt;What is Generally Meant by &amp;quot;No Tennis Shoes&amp;quot; in a Dress Code&lt;/a&gt; that asks about an ambiguous policy, whereas the objective goal of my question is to ask how to approach my supervisor about an unambiguous policy. I think neither of the questions are necessarily company-specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comments I see that Joe Strazzere provided advice that is a perfectly valid answer to anyone in my situation, regardless of company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just tried to edit the question to word it in a more general way for it to be on-topic but the error message &amp;quot;This post has been deleted - no more edits are allowed&amp;quot; appeared. There is an &amp;quot;Edit question&amp;quot; button on the Closed banner so I would have thought that the community could reopen the question if it was edited to better fit the guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see questions being closed and reopened here and elsewhere on Stack Exchange so I am wondering why this question was deleted before there was even a chance to improve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37562" LastActivityDate="2021-01-07T00:27:41.903" Title="Cannot edit question closed as off-topic (company-specific)?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|editing|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6815" CreationDate="2021-01-06T19:02:36.417" Score="-1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see questions being closed and reopened here and elsewhere on Stack Exchange so I am wondering why this question was deleted before there was even a chance to improve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Checking the activity log on the post I see the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Posted 18h ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Several comments seeking for clarification asked after that&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post Closed 10h ago (that is, after 8 hours of asking for clarification and no feedback received from your part)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post Deleted 6h ago (that is 12h after you posted it and gave no feedback on it nor attempted to edit).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tells us that &lt;strong&gt;there actually was time and chances for the question to be improved&lt;/strong&gt;, as several comments were posted between the time of creation of the post and it's eventual deletion 6h ago. &lt;strong&gt;It simply happened that you were engaged on the post and, naturally, eventually got closed/deleted&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This site is a bit more active than other SE sites&lt;/strong&gt;, probably because the users/questions posted ratio. In other words, questions posted on TWP promptly get feedback and clarification and also are closed/deleted more swiftly than other sites (for example SO... in SO it may be days before you get your first comment asking for clarification).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I see that the question you linked to that is similar captures very well your situation and the course of action to take (that is, ask your boss/HR). I feel that the top answer on the question you linked (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/162606/73791&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/162606/73791&lt;/a&gt;) fits well to your scenario. Given these facts, I am reluctant to reopen the post, as the one you liked seems to be a valid dupe candidate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tl;dr:&lt;/strong&gt; Your post received feedback and chances to improve, but you weren't engaged and eventually got closed (for lack of clarification and improvements I guess) and finally deleted... Try to be more engaged in the future here on TWP as users on this site are more active and posts get feedback way faster than other Stacks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the questions you ask seem to be not quite good (&amp;quot;do I ask...?&amp;quot; is a choice yes/no question, which is off-topic, as it is also &amp;quot;should I wait...?&amp;quot;). Then, the question you linked (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/162595/what-is-generally-meant-by-no-tennis-shoes-in-a-dress-code&quot;&gt;What is Generally Meant by &amp;quot;No Tennis Shoes&amp;quot; in a Dress Code&lt;/a&gt;), seems to be a similar case to yours, and the advice there given can be extrapolated to your case (which the answer would be &lt;em&gt;yes, ask your boss about the dress code, yes do it now&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2021-01-07T00:27:41.903" LastActivityDate="2021-01-07T00:27:41.903" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6817" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-18T16:20:10.927" Score="3" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know it often comes across as &amp;quot;HR is the enemy&amp;quot;, but given the questions I've seen over the past five years, many people seem to think that they can run to HR over the littlest problems, have HR give them a pat on the head, a warm glass of milk, and send them on their way, while taking on the big bad meanie that hurt their feelings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm exaggerating of course, but it does seem that many think that going to HR will have little to no negative consequences for them, when in reality it can backfire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that a canonical response that outlines what HR is for, what HR is NOT for, and how to approach HR, including what kind of documentation is necessary, and the steps that need to be taken prior to approaching them may be a valuable addition to this stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2021-02-17T00:28:17.847" Title="Can we have a canonical &quot;HR is not your friend&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6821" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-19T18:18:31.957" Score="2" ViewCount="89" Body="&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't eliminate the need for having &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt; altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as we welcome 2021, and in keeping with tradition, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pU1Al.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;exciting&lt;/em&gt; stats&lt;/a&gt;. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on The Workplace over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Action&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community¹&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users suspended²&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;47&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;15&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users destroyed³&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;432&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users deleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users contacted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;84&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;User suspensions lifted early&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;23&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,712&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,052&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;15&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;585&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;101&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: 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right;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions flagged⁵&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;54&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,470&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions closed&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;207&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;755&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Question flags handled⁵&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,221&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,306&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts unlocked&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;213&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts undeleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;27&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;73&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts locked&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;228&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;611&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts deleted⁶&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;275&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,930&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts bumped&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;13&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Escalations to the Community Manager team&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;13&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments undeleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;135&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;25&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5,421&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments deleted⁷&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;11,233&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4,147&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comment flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5,033&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;395&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Bounties canceled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answers flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;49&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,097&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answer flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,168&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;982&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;All comments on a post moved to chat&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;330&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of The Workplace&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ A &amp;quot;destroyed&amp;quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6486/2019-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2019: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222020%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/359735/208518&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A big thank you to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/users/620/shog9&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt; for writing the queries and script to facilitate fetching and posting this data to all the sites in the network, and to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/users/459488/brian-nickel&quot;&gt;Brian&lt;/a&gt; for the subsequent work making the whole thing more user friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing everyone a happy 2021!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33683" LastEditorUserId="33683" LastEditDate="2021-01-21T12:27:09.247" LastActivityDate="2021-01-21T12:27:09.247" Title="2020: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6823" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-20T14:11:48.620" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;So just now I upvoted &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/168717/30062&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; from Old Lamplighter (Richard). However, I noted that an upvote actually decreases the score of the question by 1. Same thing for the response by user Colleen V from 89 to 88 rather than to 90.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2021-01-20T14:27:55.923" LastActivityDate="2021-01-20T14:27:55.923" Title="Possible bug: Upvotes lowers question score" Tags="|bug|votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6823" CreationDate="2021-01-20T14:27:28.817" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In both users' reputation history, I see an 'unupvote' around the same time, and an 'upvote' around that time as well. That might explain why the score didn't increase, but not why it decreased:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/46894/old-lamplighter?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;Old Lamplighter&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vk1fm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vk1fm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/26699/colleenv?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;Colleen V&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UKV77.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UKV77.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://shouldiblamecaching.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;caching issue&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33983" LastActivityDate="2021-01-20T14:27:28.817" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6825" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-22T14:56:31.357" Score="9" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;After much back and forth, I think that &amp;quot;HR IS NOT YOUR FRIEND&amp;quot;, doesn't really convey the message that is intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's usually in response to someone who is unaware of what HR is, what it isn't, and when going to HR is warranted, and when it would be a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HR questions come up frequently, and there are many younger workers who are unaware of when and how to approach HR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2021-01-30T21:39:08.240" Title="Canonical clarification of when and how to go to HR?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="28" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6825" CreationDate="2021-01-22T16:41:08.067" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eh, it seems pretty simple to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a problem or complaint, go to your boss.&#xA;If your boss is the problem, go to HR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There aren't really any exceptions to that rule for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113541" LastActivityDate="2021-01-22T16:41:08.067" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6825" CreationDate="2021-01-30T21:39:08.240" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our base is too broad, what applies in some locales would be job threatening in others. Each question needs to be answered based on it's own situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2021-01-30T21:39:08.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6828" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-02-01T17:00:12.660" Score="-1" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before to ask my question I wanted to make sure that it was the appropriate place to ask it !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to find a new supplier for my company in a specific country, is it possible to ask this community to help me in my duty or is it inappropriate ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your kind feedback !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124033" OwnerDisplayName="Macronaute" LastActivityDate="2021-02-01T22:35:09.343" Title="Meta question, can I ask this here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6828" CreationDate="2021-02-01T19:08:32.693" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to find a new supplier for my company in a specific country, is it possible to ask this community to help me in my duty or is it inappropriate ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid that this is not the place. By doing that we are basically &amp;quot;doing your job&amp;quot;. In TWP we address questions that have a goal and that are not opinion-based (&amp;quot;choose this provider... no choose this other&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you phrase it in a good way (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt;) it may be on-topic and something we could help you with. If you phrased it more like &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;What would be the general steps for finding a new provider in...&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; or &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;What would be a professional and polite way to ask this company if they are willing to be our provider&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, basically we can't do your job for you (find the provider) as that would be off-topic here and in any SE site I believe. What we can help you with is to navigate with any uncertainty you may have regarding the professional way of carrying that process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2021-02-01T22:35:09.343" LastActivityDate="2021-02-01T22:35:09.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6830" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-02-01T20:37:52.640" Score="3" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;As one of my tasks of organizing a team of professionals, I have to assign tasks to them and have a general idea of which major tasks are approximately going to be tackled next by who and in what order. I am looking for a way to have a visual overview of this information - maybe similar to Kanban boards, but they do not quite match what I need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is &lt;em&gt;Workplace SE&lt;/em&gt; the right place to ask about this kind of standard technique for managing a team at a workplace?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, I have thought about asking on &lt;a href=&quot;https://ux.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;User Experience SE&lt;/a&gt; (because at the end of the day, what I'm going to end up with is some kind of an interactive visualization, no matter whether it is (a implementation of) a specialized UI pattern or me emulating it in Excel &amp;amp; Co.), but that could put the focus too much on &amp;quot;What's the ideal solution given your parameters?&amp;quot; rather than on &amp;quot;What's the &lt;em&gt;common&lt;/em&gt; solution typical for the particular workplace situation you describe?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, please note that I am not intending to make this a list question. I am not looking for all kinds of options for what I could do - I can well imagine how &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; solve this; I just want to make sure I'm not reinventing the wheel in such a way that I end up doing it differently from how the rest of the business world does it, thus remaining incompatible to and unknowledgeable about standard practice. Thus, if there is one widely used standard method, that is the answer, but if there is none, the answer is a simple &amp;quot;There is none, everyone solves this problem in their own, personal way.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124034" LastActivityDate="2021-02-01T20:37:52.640" Title="Can I ask about standard ways to visually organize tasks/developer assignments?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6831" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-02-02T18:39:44.317" Score="3" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the USA, residency training is a period of time where recently graduated doctors work and train under senior doctors to gain specialized skills in their medical specialty such as anesthetics, emergency care etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a friend working in second year residency in a major hospital near where I live. Given residency training is similar to &amp;quot;regular work&amp;quot; in other environments in that people are supervised, trained,and evaluated based on criteria, would questions during residencies be in scooe here? The specific situation of my friend pertains to clinical patient care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will wait to post question until determination is made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2021-02-02T19:36:43.480" LastActivityDate="2021-02-02T19:36:43.480" Title="Would questions regarding medical residency be in scope?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6831" CreationDate="2021-02-02T19:35:59.833" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say &lt;strong&gt;yes, they are on scope.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Residencies are in a way like Internships, as a rough analogy. Of course it also depends on what question you plan to ask about, but in general terms I consider Residencies valid Workplace environments (they are carried in a Hospital, the Resident reports to somebody, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2021-02-02T19:35:59.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6833" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-02-05T17:03:45.553" Score="3" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question that I want to ask, but I don't know if it would be too subjective.  Can I get an opinion as to whether or not this would be allowed?  text below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I applied for a couple of positions at different companies that I would like to work for, but after multiple interviews, didn't get either position.  However, feedback was overwhelmingly positive, so about a month after, I noticed that the positions were still open, and I contacted the hiring managers to see if I could re-apply.  They didn't have anything for me, but wanted me to keep in touch as I was able to show my commitment to improving and making myself better for their needs.  Now, I want to send a keep-in-touch email to them, to ask about new positions they may know of, or if they could use me in some position. However, I don't know how to write this up without sounding awkward.  Does anyone know of any templates I can use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29978" LastActivityDate="2021-02-05T18:31:12.077" Title="Semi-subjective question. Off topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6833" CreationDate="2021-02-05T18:31:12.077" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would phrase it thusly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TITLE:&lt;/strong&gt; What is the appropriate way to follow up with employers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happened with several companies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I had applied for a position&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interviews went well&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Feedback was positive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Didn't get job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Position was still open&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reaching out to managers, they asked me to keep in touch as I improve myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should I structure follow up emails for this purpose?&#xA;Is there any standard I should follow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brief questions tend to get answered more quickly, and fully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it's absolutely on topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2021-02-05T18:31:12.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6835" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6836" CreationDate="2021-02-16T13:49:59.970" Score="5" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/169560/coworker-made-unsolicited-comments-about-appearance&quot;&gt;coworker made unsolicited comments about appearance&lt;/a&gt; has been deleted. The 404 page directs me, and others, to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/deleted-questions&quot;&gt;deleted question help center page&lt;/a&gt;. But that page doesn't seem very accurate here, the question had an answer with a score of at least 1. And I didn't see any comments saying &amp;quot;questions that are extremely off topic&amp;quot; yesterday, did I miss them or forget them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was the post deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119079" LastActivityDate="2021-02-23T16:05:18.880" Title="Why was a HNQ deleted?" Tags="|support|specific-question|deleted-questions|hot-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6835" CreationDate="2021-02-16T16:09:12.643" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Original post, for those interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was not nearly specific enough to garner useful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was, in this moderators opinion, specifically geared to get a rise&#xA;out of this group (trolling), and maybe intentionally geared for the&#xA;HNQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as a bonus, unfortunately, this was asked on the weekend so it&#xA;gathered the necessary steam to make the HNQ, gathering even more&#xA;negative attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one of the other moderators want to un-delete it, they can I won't&#xA;object -- but this question meets my criteria of a made up or trolling&#xA;question rather easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And after further discussion&lt;/em&gt; with some other folks, I have un-deleted it, but left it closed.  Let's see what happens to it now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And currently the question at hand is &lt;strong&gt;open&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="61096" LastEditDate="2021-02-23T16:05:18.880" LastActivityDate="2021-02-23T16:05:18.880" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6835" CreationDate="2021-02-16T18:26:19.430" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see this as beyond the realm of possibility, esp since COVID.  In my office, we went from jacket and tie to &amp;quot;casual&amp;quot;, to people ignoring the dress code altogether.  So much so, that if someone comes in dressed half decent, we will be treated to &amp;quot;How'd the interview go&amp;quot; or something equally silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question didn't seem to me to be trolling, and I'm fairly aware of what is, as in my misspent youth, I trolled with the best of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only hint that this person may not be legit is the low rep, but we all gotta start somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know if I wore anything resembling professional attire to work, I'd get a similar reaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, lately this place has had about as much life as the dark side of the moon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2021-02-16T18:26:19.430" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6838" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-02-16T18:37:14.320" Score="7" ViewCount="590" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the blog post &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-very-welcoming-its-time-for-that-to-change/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change.&lt;/a&gt;, SE started to grapple with how unfriendly it was to newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sad to say I feel that The Workplace suffers from that same syndrome, very heavily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6835/why-was-a-hnq-deleted&quot;&gt;recently deleted question about a coworker making unsolicited comments about their appearance&lt;/a&gt; is just the latest in a long pattern of questions where a poster expresses concern about inappropriate comments or behavior that can be considered sexist, racist, or similar and then&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is dumped on by the community in comments and answers, in some variant of doubting their story, objecting that the behavior &amp;quot;might be innocent and not sexist/racist/etc in the offender's heart,&amp;quot; told to not do anything, told &amp;quot;I'd like that/I don't think that happens,&amp;quot; told &amp;quot;well what about me I got discriminated against for being X once&amp;quot;, and all the other traditional institutional tricks to ignore and minimize problems like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The occasional actual female/POC/etc voice in comments or answers saying &amp;quot;yes this happens a lot&amp;quot; is often ignored&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then the question is often closed and/or deleted as &amp;quot;having no place on the Workplace,&amp;quot; as apparently navigating institutional bias in the workplace isn't on topic for the Workplace&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to argue about this most recent question, whether it &amp;quot;was really a troll that needed deleting&amp;quot; or not.  It's part of an overall pattern.  I've been here on Workplace for years and I am not surprised that not many women or POCs or people out with alternate sexualities post here - if I were them and came here and participated in any of these posts I'd feel unwelcome and go somewhere else too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bias in the workplace is a workplace topic. I've worked for enterprises that have people do basic diversity and bias training and all this behavior shows up prominently in workplace training videos as examples of &amp;quot;don't do that.&amp;quot; It's possible to do better on Stack Exchange; I was a mod for 10 years on RPG.SE and while that's a pretty skewed demographic base too, we managed to curate an inclusive environment pretty well I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been asked about before, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6579/casual-sexism-in-the-workplace&quot;&gt;Casual sexism in The Workplace&lt;/a&gt;, but largely just ends up blaming posters for not being better about their post to a bar other questions, in my opinion, are not held to. (Searching &amp;quot;discrimination&amp;quot; on Meta shows a bunch of questions where reopening had to be escalated to Meta because people love to close them.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you don't agree with some of my examples, or about how bad of a problem it is, I think we can probably do better than we're doing right now, right? If nothing else, the lack of under-represented voices here now is unfortunate and could stand to change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do we do better?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastEditorUserId="16695" LastEditDate="2021-02-16T18:56:06.783" LastActivityDate="2021-05-02T19:52:32.283" Title="How can we make the Workplace more welcoming to people in marginalized groups?" Tags="|discussion|inclusion|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6838" CreationDate="2021-02-16T20:13:06.010" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stop marginalizing us by treating us like children who have no agency?  That would be a start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That includes making assumptions that people of the same backgrounds are in any sort of &amp;quot;community&amp;quot;, marginalized, or otherwise.  We have several people on TWP, myself included, who have one form of autism or another, who have vastly differing opinions on what it means to be autistic.  So, just curious, who gets to define what is welcoming or hostile to the &amp;quot;autistic community?&amp;quot;?  NOBODY because there is no such damned thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OF the top 10 users here, we have people who are women, LGBT, several different races, people with disabilities, and even a few straight white men.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason that answers that say &amp;quot;Yes, this happens alot&amp;quot; are treated with scorn is that they are not helpful.  If you reversed it, and had someone complaining about an autistic coworker, and had people saying yes, they act that way alot, it would also be rightly dismissed and scorned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; find personally offensive is when people get offended on my behalf.  I even posted as much in response to someone who was replying to such a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stop treating us like we need protection, and things will improve, not that they are that bad to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously.  I've been on the 'Net since before the WWW was a thing, and until y'all tried fixing something that wasn't broken, The Workplace was actually the most welcoming website I had seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if you insist that TWP has a problem, then as the official spokesman of the &amp;quot;people with disabilities community(tm)&amp;quot;  I say fix it by stop trying to fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, this all seems like a solution searching for a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDITED TO ADD:  I've actually been subject to some rather nasty comments about my age, and about my disabilities.  Both the community and the moderators were quick to act in deleting them.  I'm not viewing the world with rose colored glasses here, just saying that this place works well enough and has good people here who don't deserve the harsh judgment coming from this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2021-02-17T15:50:53.560" LastActivityDate="2021-02-17T15:50:53.560" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6817" CreationDate="2021-02-17T00:28:17.847" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The biggest problem to a &amp;quot;canonical&amp;quot; question would be that the &amp;quot;HR is not your friend&amp;quot; is a rather localized answer. In particular, it is pretty much a US meme at this point. In quite a few countries with medium to strong labor laws, HR is primarily responsible for the company's compliance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2192" LastActivityDate="2021-02-17T00:28:17.847" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6841" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-02-17T14:34:32.163" Score="12" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been following this question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/169560/coworker-made-unsolicited-comments-about-appearance-how-should-i-handle-it&quot;&gt;Coworker made unsolicited comments about appearance, how should I handle it?&lt;/a&gt;) for the last few days and have noticed that it's been edited. While this improved the clarity, it also seems to fundamentally alter part of the OPs description of the event; from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't feel like direct harassment but it was also pretty uncomfortable and awkward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm unsure what to do in this situation because I don't know how to interpret it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me the fact that the OP felt &amp;quot;uncomfortable and awkward&amp;quot; is fundamental and they didn't say &amp;quot;they didn't know to interpret it&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is proposing another edit the correct thing to do or is there a better course of action?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22086" LastActivityDate="2021-02-17T15:55:04.163" Title="Is there a way to flag or question an accepted edit?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6841" CreationDate="2021-02-17T15:55:04.163" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always propose another edit, but keep two things in mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a question was previously closed, the existing edit may have been put in place to make it more on-topic so that it could be reopened.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You run the risk of starting an edit war, which can get messy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The absolute best course of action is to bring it to the attention of META, where it can be discussed, and you can make your case as to why the edit should be undone or modified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2021-02-17T15:55:04.163" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6838" CreationDate="2021-02-17T20:52:48.220" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only real solution is to ensure that everyone feels comfortable reporting when they feel uncomfortable and that they trust that the people they are reporting their discomfort to are taking their concerns seriously and acting on them fairly. In my opinion, we should each do our best to try to stay positive and friendly in comments under people's posts, flag unwelcoming comments, and save the unavoidable conflict that happens when a community is global and diverse for meta discussions. Sometimes our aspirations exceed our ability, so when one of us falls short we should try to be more compassionate than righteous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone has to agree to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt; before participating, and it very clearly spells out what recourse you have if you experience unwelcoming behavior. Every community member should feel like they can ask moderators for help with uncomfortable situations and that their request will be kept as private as possible and handled with care. I don't think we can get more universally welcoming than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Attempting to preemptively suppress questions that help clarify a situation and the author's feelings about that situation, or to suppress answers that make &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; (according to some) assumptions is not a good way to make people feel comfortable contributing. Everyone should feel like they can express themselves in a sincere, civil, and constructive way without getting jumped on because someone else disagrees with them or doesn't like the way they phrased something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a comment is &amp;quot;unfriendly or unkind&amp;quot;, flag it. If a discussion is going off the rails and you think it might be driving the author away from the site, flag it for the moderators to handle. I have been informed that some gender studies conclude that conflict in discussions discourages some people from participating online - don't contribute to it. Much of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cs.cornell.edu/%7Ecristian/Anyone_Can_Become_a_Troll_files/anyone_can_become_a_troll.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the negativity in discussions is situational&lt;/a&gt;, so in many situations flagging and letting the mod team handle it is more helpful than confronting bad behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26699" LastActivityDate="2021-02-17T20:52:48.220" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6838" CreationDate="2021-02-17T22:09:44.433" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Kindly let me help you or you will drown,” said the monkey putting the fish safely up a tree. -Alan Watts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been my experience that trying to &amp;quot;fix&amp;quot; a situation without the input of people most effected by said situation can prove to be quite troublesome with the unintended consequences being very difficult to deal with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an advocate for people with disabilities, and dealing with them myself, I've come to fear such initiatives.  In places I've worked, I've felt the need to explicitly say that I am very comfortable living in my own skin, and to feel free to joke around.  It's very hard when these initiatives cause people to be afraid to talk to you out of fear of saying something that might get them fired.  Right now, I feel that TWP is very welcoming to all, and while I have experienced the occasional comment here and there, it has been handled by the mods and by the community, so I have to acknowledge that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not make an assumption such as this question makes, namely that the workplace is unwelcoming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a legitimate concern by people who feel that they are being treated poorly because of immutable characteristics, they should approach the mods through flagging posts and comments for a moderator's attention, and explain why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone has experienced specific difficulties here, they should mention it here in Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even the question mentioned in this question is back, after discussion in meta, it was un-deleted, edited, and reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the argument &amp;quot;we can always do better&amp;quot;.  Not true.  In fact, the better something is, the more likely any changes will make it worse, not better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my personal standpoint, as both an advocate, and someone who suffers from multiple disabilities, please don't try to fix what's not broken.  I've worked with enough people dealing with discrimination due to various reasons (not just disabilities) I can say that bringing attention to the differences, especially in a harsh or paternalistic way, solves nothing, and causes additional problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking specifically from the standpoint of someone with disabilities, for a long time the mantra was &amp;quot;see me, not my disability&amp;quot;.  That is the way it should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad behavior is bad behavior regardless.  If you want to make TWP more welcoming, stop accusing it of bad behavior and bad intentions, and instead focus on any actual bad behavior you see, and escalate it to the mods, the community, and mention it here in META.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you should not do is throw out wild accusations that divide the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2021-02-18T03:04:41.000" LastActivityDate="2021-02-18T03:04:41.000" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6835" CreationDate="2021-02-21T09:42:41.943" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is it necessary for someone look at the edit history of an answer in order to understand why a question was &lt;em&gt;deleted&lt;/em&gt;? IMO it's better to include the reasons in the post, so visitors and users alike have a better understanding as to why an answer that &lt;em&gt;apparently&lt;/em&gt; offers no clarification was accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mod responsible for deleting the post should explain to the community why the question was considered unsuitable at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, the question didn't appear to be trollish. In my opinion,  it typifies the &lt;em&gt;worst&lt;/em&gt; of the &amp;quot;me too&amp;quot; climate which pervades the workplace in the USA and in parts of Western Europe. Was the question a parody of a sexual harassment episode? Perhaps. But the COC used to say that we must &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/335026/we-need-assume-good-intent-back-in-the-code-of-conduct/335028#335028&quot;&gt;assume good intentions&lt;/a&gt;. At the end of the day, there was&#xA;there was nothing snarky or overtly provocative in the text (not that I'm aware of) to suggest its closure and subsequent deletion was warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105551" LastEditorUserId="105551" LastEditDate="2021-02-21T18:11:04.943" LastActivityDate="2021-02-21T18:11:04.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6838" CreationDate="2021-02-23T12:47:58.183" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It feels like you are mixing two issues. There are unfriendly trolls, those do get deleted pretty quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are also answers that you don't like. Because you consider them sexist (in this case, for another example pick an -ism of your choice).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we try to help people navigate an imperfect world. If someone asked how to safely proceed through the dark, junkie infested parts of the city, I would say &amp;quot;Dress in something that does not draw attention, bring some brawny dudes with you.&amp;quot; Is that sexist? Sure, in so many ways! Every person should be able to wear whatever they want and walk freely to wherever they want without harm. If someone dresses flashy and walks alone into a dark alley, it's &lt;em&gt;not their fault&lt;/em&gt; if some person violates their rights and assaults them. But being morally right and in a hospital does not help that person. Not as much as &amp;quot;a little sexist but unharmed&amp;quot; would have. I will not give advice leading to people getting hurt, no matter how &amp;quot;right&amp;quot; that advice would be in a perfect world. We don't live in a perfect world, this is about navigating &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; world, right &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when someone says &amp;quot;in my company...&amp;quot; you may not like that company. You may find their behavior sexist by your definition. You would not want to work for them. But it is valuable information, because without evidence to the contrary, the OP might as well work for &amp;quot;such&amp;quot; a company and profit from the warning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have any gut feeling whether we drive away minorities and we don't seem to have any data. Ironically, the one voice I would have loved to hear on this in Monica's, who &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; driven away, but by the Welcome Wagon. So... the only empirical data I have is that &amp;quot;Making it better&amp;quot; so far has only made it worse. And I'm not motivated to make it &amp;quot;even better&amp;quot; than it was already made by SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2021-02-23T12:47:58.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6838" CreationDate="2021-02-23T12:48:18.303" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;With edge case, touchy feely scenarios, I think that fewer women post here because they learn throughout their lives to handle issues on their own or amongst their own network. They often build very strong personal networks, and look for advice from those people they know and trust rather than random internet people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas men are more reticent about crying on shoulders, appearing vulnerable, or even needing assistance, so use the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a general observation, obviously not applicable in all cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the marginal groups thing, I don't see the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The four highest rep users here seem to be from marginalised groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Old Lamplighter by his own recognisance is disabled. HLGEM is female as far as I'm aware. I'm from a minority, within a minority, within a minority and heavily tattooed and brown. And poor Joe is from the group that gets blamed for anything and everything, adult white male.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2021-03-10T03:49:20.600" LastActivityDate="2021-03-10T03:49:20.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6852" CreationDate="2021-02-24T17:05:04.283" Score="28" ViewCount="843" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have made the easy decision of stepping down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of you will ask or want to know why, and the reason is simple:  it isn't fun anymore, and I no longer see any personal benefit in being a Moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So long, and thanks for all the fish!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61096" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2021-03-04T20:04:45.683" LastActivityDate="2021-03-04T20:04:45.683" Title="Resigning as Moderator from the Workplace" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6848" CreationDate="2021-02-25T10:39:10.683" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a concrete reason. Thanks for all your work moderating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2021-02-25T10:39:10.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6850" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6851" CreationDate="2021-02-25T10:45:44.367" Score="2" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have the review queues changed or have I messed up my settings somehow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they have changed it's not an improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2021-02-25T11:43:12.980" LastActivityDate="2021-02-25T11:46:17.190" Title="What's with the review queues?" Tags="|support|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6850" CreationDate="2021-02-25T11:46:17.190" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the company is working on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/360198/295232&quot;&gt;Visual design changes to the review queues&lt;/a&gt; since a few weeks. That post has been &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/featured&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;featured&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;featured&lt;/a&gt; in the sidebar widget on the homepage&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xzyaa.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xzyaa.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is one way to keep track of (upcoming) changes to the network. They welcome constructive feedback in the form of answers/comments, and many community members have already done so. Please have a look, perhaps your concerns have already been addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33983" LastActivityDate="2021-02-25T11:46:17.190" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6848" CreationDate="2021-02-25T15:55:49.507" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;You did a great job.  Your resignation is TWP's loss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As snow said, it is a thankless job, but let me offer my thanks to you for being a cool head, voice of reason, and port in the storm.  You led by example, and have provided an excellent one which should be the benchmark of anyone who succeeds you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2021-02-25T15:55:49.507" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6853" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6854" CreationDate="2021-02-25T16:39:14.360" Score="2" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked today &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/169883/why-is-amazon-telling-their-employees-that-they-will-pay-for-a-union&quot;&gt;a generic question&lt;/a&gt; and see that there are two close requests:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;opinion-based&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does not meet the guidelines&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have the answer to my question so I am now curious about the rationale behind the close requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The opinion-based one is off the bat - and the answers were fact-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second one is more interesting because I was wondering whether SE Workplace is indeed the best place to ask that question. Being an active reader (and occasionally - answerer) I feel it is more intended for &amp;quot;personal&amp;quot; questions (in other words, questions that address an individual problem, rather than a general one such as the one in my question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking of SE Law, or even SE Politics as alternatives but SE Workplace finally sounded (to me) as the best one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25229" LastActivityDate="2021-03-15T21:04:24.573" Title="Is SE Workplace intended for general questions (not related to a specific, individual case)?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|help-center|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6853" CreationDate="2021-02-25T17:41:13.113" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both are correct reasons to close, there is a specific close reason for companies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should be directed to legal professionals.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, you could EDIT your question like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Change THIS:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is Amazon telling their employees that they will pay for a union?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would a company tell their employees that they will pay for a union?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We cannot answer for a specific company, and any answers you would guess would be guesswork.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, when asking about questions in America, please keep in mind that laws about unions and contracts vary from state to state, and can to wild degree, so if you can name the state, that's an even finer point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="59502" LastEditDate="2021-02-28T16:31:08.587" LastActivityDate="2021-02-28T16:31:08.587" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6848" CreationDate="2021-02-26T12:07:42.713" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your contributions to the site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it's no longer fun, it makes a lot of sense to re-evaluate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2021-02-26T12:07:42.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6838" CreationDate="2021-02-26T17:24:10.633" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I know, three answers for the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is after some time of thinking....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is simple:  &lt;strong&gt;MAKE NO NEGATIVE ASSUMPTIONS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make TWP as inviting as we can to all by being kind, assuming good intentions, reporting abuse when we see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, if you think a particular user is being treated unfairly for any reason, ask that person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can post in Meta, you can ping people in chat.  If you think you may have hurt someone, correct your own actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IF TWP works well for everyone, there's no need to worry about any of this.  There will always be people who are unsatisfied for one reason or another.  Do your best to help people, and you &lt;strong&gt;WILL&lt;/strong&gt; make this place better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Neo and Snow for reminding me of this simple fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2021-02-26T17:24:10.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6853" CreationDate="2021-02-27T14:48:41.440" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The important thing is you asked a question and got a couple of thoughtful and helpful answers and some lively commentary. I would say that your question was a success and you should be glad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There happen to be some gamification doodads on the site: points, up/down votes, vote-to-close requests, and other stuff like &amp;quot;privileges&amp;quot; that kick in when you have enough points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some personalities really, REALLY, enjoy the gamification aspect of this place and take rules as seriously as though they were playing a game with real money on the table. Others seem to take pleasure in thoughtless drive-by close votes and downvotes even if they don't really care about the subject matter of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose that the gamification helps keep the site from devolving into chaos, but it also means that there's some collateral damage when people ask earnest questions and that get closed, downvoted, or worst of all, marked with smug dismissive commentary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best approach is to make a reasonable effort to ask a good question, don't worry about what happens to your &amp;quot;score&amp;quot;, and be glad if you get a good answer before the self-appointed off-topic police close the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7572" LastActivityDate="2021-02-27T14:48:41.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6858" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-04T18:28:38.757" Score="8" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;As many of you know, one of our moderators recently &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6848/resigning-as-moderator-from-the-workplace?cb=1&quot;&gt;decided to move on&lt;/a&gt; so our moderation team is down to two. To make sure our site has the coverage it needs, we've asked the Community Team to start up the election process. Our 2021 moderator election is set to start &lt;strong&gt;this Monday, March 8th&lt;/strong&gt; with the question collection process. Nominations will open the week after with the election itself starting the week after that. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/8&quot;&gt;The election page is already visible&lt;/a&gt; if you'd like to review the timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Two moderator positions will be available.&lt;/strong&gt; While our day to day tasks were manageable, having an extra person around will help us have an increased presence throughout the day and consistent coverage throughout the year. We also want to make sure that we keep the average workload down so that moderation duties don't start to feel like a chore and people can be flexible with the amount of time they put in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We encourage anyone thinking of stepping up to already take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5938/whats-it-like-being-a-workplace-moderator&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s it like being a Workplace Moderator?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6553/what-are-the-day-to-day-activities-of-moderators&quot;&gt;What are the day-to-day activities of Moderators?&lt;/a&gt; to get a sense of what moderation is about. You can also check the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&amp;amp;q=%5Belection%5D%20questionnaire%20is%3Aq&quot;&gt;questionnaires of previous elections.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any additional questions or even doubts on whether to nominate yourself feel free to ask about that here or &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/120709/2021-the-workplace-moderator-election-chat&quot;&gt;in chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorDisplayName="user124851" LastEditDate="2021-03-10T21:40:38.770" LastActivityDate="2021-03-10T21:40:38.770" Title="2021 Moderator Election will start on Monday (March 8)" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6853" CreationDate="2021-03-06T04:54:50.987" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with voting to close in this particular case - even though the question was originally formulated as being about a specific company, the question isn't opinion-based at all - there's an unequivocally correct answer in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think that the edit helps, though, since this reflects an issue that isn't just about Amazon in particular; that being said, I personally would have just suggested the edit in the first place instead of voting to close (since that's a very easy &amp;quot;fix&amp;quot;). Editing is better than voting to close where possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this really was a question specifically about Amazon, it would be off-topic and opinion-based. To quote &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/255745/why-cant-i-ask-customer-service-related-questions&quot;&gt;this classic MSO post on customer support questions&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Why can't I ask customer service-related questions?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because we don't know the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh sure, there might be some intrepid soul who has sailed these waters before, and come out alive. They might even be able to offer some insight. There might even be the occasional employee wandering these hallowed halls. But here's the problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're not Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or Apple Customer Service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't set policy for these companies. We don't have telephone lines, confirmation code generators, or any authority to make decisions on your behalf. We don't track changes to policy, except by anecdote and hearsay, so any answer we give you today is going to be wrong tomorrow, if it isn't already wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, then, the problem with company-specific regulation questions is the fact that we simply don't know the answer, we can only speculate. Also, such questions tend to be too localized (i.e. only useful to people who work for a specific company at a specific time). Finally, as the linked article goes on to explain, it really isn't our job to answer questions that the companies in question should be answering themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said: none of the above apply in this case. It's applicable to &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; U.S. company where workers are considering unionizing, and we &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; know the answer (the accepted answer is demonstrably factually correct), and it's really not a question that Amazon should answer themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61906" LastActivityDate="2021-03-06T04:54:50.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6860" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-08T19:09:55.723" Score="5" ViewCount="437" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6869/33683&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is scheduled for an election &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/8&quot;&gt;next week, March 15, 2021&lt;/a&gt;. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&amp;amp;A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how it'll work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Until the nomination phase, (so, until March 15, 2021 at 20:00:00Z UTC, or 4:00 pm EDT on the same day, give or take time to arrive for closure), this question will be open to collect potential questions from the users of the site. Post answers to this question containing any questions you would like to ask the candidates. Please only post &lt;em&gt;one question per answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We, the Community Team, will be providing a small selection of generic questions. The first two will be guaranteed to be included, the latter ones are if the community doesn't supply enough questions. This will be done in a single post, unlike the prior instruction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If your question contains a link, please use the syntax of &lt;code&gt;[text](link)&lt;/code&gt;, as that will make it easier for transcribing for the finished questionnaire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a perfect opportunity to voice questions that are specific to your community and issues that you are running into currently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the start of the nomination phase, the Community Team will select &lt;strong&gt;up to 8 of the top voted questions submitted by the community&lt;/strong&gt; provided in this thread, to use in addition to the aforementioned 2 guaranteed questions. We reserve some editorial control in the selection of the questions and may opt not to select a question that is tangential or irrelevant to moderation or the election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once questions have been selected, a new question will be opened to host the actual questionnaire for the candidates, typically containing 10 questions in total.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not the only option that users have for gathering information on candidates. As a community, you are still free to, for example, hold a live chat session with your candidates to ask further questions, or perhaps clarifications from what is provided in the Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions or feedback about this process, feel free to post as a comment here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33683" LastEditorUserId="33683" LastEditDate="2021-03-15T19:25:16.217" LastActivityDate="2021-03-15T19:25:16.217" Title="2021 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Question Collection" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6860" CreationDate="2021-03-08T19:09:55.723" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a set of general questions, gathered as very common questions asked every election. As mentioned in the instructions, the first two questions are guaranteed to show up in the Q&amp;amp;A, while the others are if there aren't enough questions (or, if you like one enough, you may split it off as a separate answer for review within the community's 8).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33683" LastActivityDate="2021-03-08T19:09:55.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6860" CreationDate="2021-03-08T19:18:10.173" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;An old classic (probably originating &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1673/168837&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), but important nonetheless:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your opinion, what is the biggest problem/challenge The Workplace is currently facing? How would you propose to solve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33983" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2021-03-08T19:31:09.913" LastActivityDate="2021-03-08T19:31:09.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6860" CreationDate="2021-03-09T00:16:27.407" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6538/73791&quot;&gt;last year&lt;/a&gt;, but still relevant:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get a good amount of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2021-03-09T00:16:27.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6860" CreationDate="2021-03-09T07:52:17.510" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two posts on meta that describe &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5938/whats-it-like-being-a-workplace-moderator&quot;&gt;what it's like to be a moderator&lt;/a&gt; and what their &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6553/what-are-the-day-to-day-activities-of-moderators&quot;&gt;daily activities&lt;/a&gt; are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have they affected your decision to nominate yourself? Do those match your idea of what a moderator &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be? Has anything in particular given you pause or made you think you'd approach things differently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2021-03-09T07:52:17.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6860" CreationDate="2021-03-13T22:15:23.157" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is your take on the Hot Network Questions concept?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators are able to remove questions from Hot Network Questions, do you see yourself doing this often?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2021-03-13T22:15:23.157" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6860" CreationDate="2021-03-13T22:16:32.493" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2021-03-13T22:16:32.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6860" CreationDate="2021-03-13T22:19:20.427" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user has been posting valuable content for a while but at the same time refuses to follow the site's guidelines with a consistent pattern of bad usage of comments, unkind if not rude remarks to other users, angry rants, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would you handle such a user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2021-03-13T22:19:20.427" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6869" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-15T19:24:44.140" Score="4" ViewCount="989" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&amp;amp;A thread for the candidates. Questions collected &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6860/33683&quot;&gt;from an earlier thread&lt;/a&gt; have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the submission count, we have selected all provided questions as well as our back up questions for a total of 9 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a candidate, your job is simple - post an answer to this question, citing each of the questions and then post your answer to each question given in that same answer. For your convenience, I will include all of the questions in quote format with a break in between each, suitable for you to insert your answers. Just &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/6e9f9196-2674-4541-897d-d9b7474cc877/view-source&quot;&gt;copy the whole thing after the first set of three dashes&lt;/a&gt;. Please consider putting your name at the top of your post so that readers will know who you are before they finish reading everything you have written, and also including a link to your answer on your nomination post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once all the answers have been compiled, this will serve as a transcript for voters to view the thoughts of their candidates, and will be appropriately linked in the Election page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck to all of the candidates!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Oh, and when you've completed your answer, please provide a link to it after this blurb here, before that set of three dashes. Please leave the list of links in the order of submission.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To save scrolling here are links to the submissions from each candidate (in order of submission):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6872/33683&quot;&gt;Snow's answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6873/124851&quot;&gt;Michael's answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6874/124851&quot;&gt;Kilisi's answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6877/33683&quot;&gt;motosubatsu's answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6878/33683&quot;&gt;Skooba's answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6880/61906&quot;&gt;EJoshuaS's answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We get a good amount of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In your opinion, what is the biggest problem/challenge The Workplace is currently facing? How would you propose to solve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A user has been posting valuable content for a while but at the same time refuses to follow the site's guidelines with a consistent pattern of bad usage of comments, unkind if not rude remarks to other users, angry rants, etc. How would you handle such a user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are two posts on meta that describe &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5938/whats-it-like-being-a-workplace-moderator&quot;&gt;what it's like to be a moderator&lt;/a&gt; and what their &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6553/what-are-the-day-to-day-activities-of-moderators&quot;&gt;daily activities&lt;/a&gt; are. Have they affected your decision to nominate yourself? Do those match your idea of what a moderator &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be? Has anything in particular given you pause or made you think you'd approach things differently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is your take on the Hot Network Questions concept? Moderators are able to remove questions from Hot Network Questions, do you see yourself doing this often?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33683" LastEditorUserId="33683" LastEditDate="2021-03-30T20:09:37.897" LastActivityDate="2021-03-30T20:09:37.897" Title="2021 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Questionnaire" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6870" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-15T20:00:40.153" Score="5" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="33683" LastEditDate="2021-03-30T20:09:42.287" LastActivityDate="2021-03-30T20:09:42.287" Title="2021 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|election|moderators|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-03-15T20:00:40.153" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6853" CreationDate="2021-03-15T20:58:37.767" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Late answer, so will keep it brief:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO the &amp;quot;opinion based&amp;quot; rule is one that is usually straightforward on the more &amp;quot;hard-tech&amp;quot; SE sites, but the same rule creates a sizable gray area in Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, from what I gather, the majority of the good advice to be found is derived from personal experience. I think you could argue that, for many of the topics, authoritative references are very few, and are rarely used. (And that is fine with me, I am here for the answers of more experienced individuals, even if they are anecdotal.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that mean that the intent of the opinion-based rule does not apply? No, of course it applies. There are topics that are clearly more fuel for an argument than useful. But that is a different standard than &amp;quot;opinion&amp;quot;. TLDR- it takes a more judgment to apply such a rule here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO this phenomenon leaves some opportunities for improvement of the user experience, from the point of view of people asking questions which (1) have answers whose value can be agreed upon (2) whose answers would benefit others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124315" LastEditorUserId="124315" LastEditDate="2021-03-15T21:04:24.573" LastActivityDate="2021-03-15T21:04:24.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6869" CreationDate="2021-03-16T10:02:15.933" Score="10" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Snow&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We get a good amount of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators have tools that enable them to remove hot questions from the Hot Network Questions list - this helps to prevent users from dogpiling onto a popular questions and validating them with large amounts of votes, answers and comments.  Ideally, click-baity titles should be changed so that they reflect the actual question being asked, and the content should be edited to remove any salacious and extraneous detail that don't add to the quality of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what is the biggest problem/challenge The Workplace is currently facing? How would you propose to solve it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any huge issues at the moment aside from a temporary dip in moderation.  The amount of questions and people answering those questions appears to be healthy right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user has been posting valuable content for a while but at the same time refuses to follow the site's guidelines with a consistent pattern of bad usage of comments, unkind if not rude remarks to other users, angry rants, etc. How would you handle such a user?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would engage the user through chat and attempt to understand their point of view on the whatever issue is at hand and do what I could to improve the situation.  If this method didn't work out and the behaviour leads to disrupting other users on the site, then I'd move to a temporary suspension with periodic assessments and suspensions following that.  Any difficult or contentious situations may need to be referred to other moderators (both on or off-site) to gather their views and advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are two posts on meta that describe &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5938/whats-it-like-being-a-workplace-moderator&quot;&gt;what it's like to be a moderator&lt;/a&gt; and what their &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6553/what-are-the-day-to-day-activities-of-moderators&quot;&gt;daily activities&lt;/a&gt; are. Have they affected your decision to nominate yourself? Do those match your idea of what a moderator &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be? Has anything in particular given you pause or made you think you'd approach things differently?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.  I've been a moderator before, so I know what to expect and what's expected of me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, this isn't a problem as long as the reasons for closure are sound.  We do want to maintain a certain quality of questions that lead to good, clear answers.  Questions that aren't clear about the problems and what the user needs to resolve those issues don't lead to good quality answers.  The questions and answers here aren't only for the benefit of the individuals asking those questions - they're there for everyone following who may have the same problem in the future and are looking for a resolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply talk to the moderator in question and understand their reasoning for closing a question.  I'd also look at flags/comments on the question to understand how users feel about the closure.  I wouldn't assume that my own point of view is the only one, or the correct one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm absolutely fine with that.  I'm aware of the impact of my words whether or not I have a diamond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being a moderator will allow me to more effectively support the community by removing excess baggage (flags, comments, spam) and clearing the way for people to do the great jobs that they do here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is your take on the Hot Network Questions concept? Moderators are able to remove questions from Hot Network Questions, do you see yourself doing this often?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When needed, of course.  Removing a question from HNQ doesn't mean that the question dies.  There are, of course, questions that should be in HNQ as those bring external users to the site and encourages them to participate (and hopefully stay).  So, I'd be happy to remove low quality HNQ questions, but allow high quality questions (or encourage the editing of HNQ questions to make them a lot better in terms of quality).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(I'm taking this as an optional)  Recently all our mods used OUR diamonds to protest things outside TWP that had zero to do with our community, leaving us without mods at one point. What will be your commitment to TWP if similar situations arise?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TWP wasn't left without any moderators at any time.  As well as the serving moderators here (Lillienthal never stepped down), CM staff members and moderators from other sites helped to plug the gaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our boss got fired, the network management (at the time) acted with little regard to transparency or recourse.  A lot of moderators and a lot of users reacted strongly in not letting that action go uncontested.  Things have changed since then, and hopefully things are better, more transparent, more interactive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers to questions from ColleenV:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm glad that you're active again! I am interested to know what your thoughts are about the recent meta question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6838/26699&quot;&gt;How can we make the Workplace more welcoming to people in marginalized groups?&lt;/a&gt;. Is there an issue? How severe do you think it is? What do you think we should do about it (if anything)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!  Yes, this is a concern, both on this site and of course the wider world. The core of your question surrounds sexism, but the outcome and behaviour relates to many other kinds of discrimination (whether it's covert, overt, or unconscious in nature).  Everyone on the Stack Exchange network deserves to be treated with respect and an attempt made to understand the underlying issues of any situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The severity of the issue is much the same as anywhere else.  Many people conduct themselves with respect and understanding, some people would rather be &amp;quot;brutally honest&amp;quot; and display their cultural roots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can we do about it?  Lead by being respectful.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;What do we have problems with?  Understanding context and meaning both from people commenting here on TWP and those third parties who are referenced in the original question - it's so easy to assume intent without really knowing.&#xA;What can we do about that?  Ask for clarification.  If something is ambiguous, don't assume - ask!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if it's not too personal, I would also like to know why you chose to delete your account instead of just to go inactive. I understand the emotional toll that participating during the fallout from 2019's events had for a lot of people, including myself, so feel free to ignore the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was heavily involved in the events of late 2019, a lot of that was on Main Meta, and a lot of it was within the moderator spaces.  Seeing what was happening and not being able to do anything about it weighed a lot on my mind, caused sleepless nights and affected my home life.  Stepping away wasn't an option because it's so easy to request reinstatement - I really did need to impose something drastic to remove myself from the network and deleting my profiles enabled me to make that break and allowed me to heal.  I feel a lot more settled in myself now that I've taken a year out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user124851" LastEditorDisplayName="user124851" LastEditDate="2021-03-16T14:35:03.827" LastActivityDate="2021-03-16T14:35:03.827" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6869" CreationDate="2021-03-16T23:09:17.170" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael's answers:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get a good amount of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes&#xA;the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are&#xA;genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong&#xA;negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of&#xA;attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should&#xA;questions like these be moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal view on this is that moderators have to be seen to provide a consistent and steadfast voice of reason during times like this, which means having to exercise their powers but also provide an explanation for their actions. However, they should also be guided by the community as to how they want these types of matters to be resolved in the long term. This is what I have been trying to do over at UXSE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your opinion, what is the biggest problem/challenge The Workplace&#xA;is currently facing? How would you propose to solve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the way that the physical workplace is changing is impacting on the types of questions and discussions that we see here. To remain relevant and innovative, we should also start looking at more questions and answers for the virtual workplace. It might take more time and effort from the moderators, but we should also get the community more involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user has been posting valuable content for a while but at the same&#xA;time refuses to follow the site's guidelines with a consistent pattern&#xA;of bad usage of comments, unkind if not rude remarks to other users,&#xA;angry rants, etc. How would you handle such a user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Start with some public comments to address their contribution and input, and then assess whether it needs to be escalated by private conversations and then consulting with other moderators before exercising the powers that we are given in accordance with the community guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two posts on meta that describe what it's like to be a&#xA;moderator and what their daily activities are. Have they affected your&#xA;decision to nominate yourself? Do those match your idea of what a&#xA;moderator should be? Has anything in particular given you pause or&#xA;made you think you'd approach things differently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are always edge cases but I was advised not to do anything too differently from what I would normally do when I was first given the privilege of moderating. I haven't found any reasons to work outside those duties and guidelines, and they have also been evolving as the Stack Exchange community has evolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you&#xA;see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the&#xA;situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the same challenge we face over at UXSE, and significant effort has been invested to educate new contributors about the community, but I think diving a little bit deeper and understanding the root cause of the problem will help provide a better solution. On face value I would say that some of the mechanisms being introduced to improve the structure and content of the question has been helpful and we may need time to see the effects taking place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc&#xA;a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think establishing a good working relationship with other mods is the key. As I mentioned before, the existing moderators were helpful in providing guidance and advice, and it is also important to recognize that there will be difference in opinions and mechanisms to resolve them. The community doesn't care how the moderators operate as long as they are cohesive and consistent in performing their duties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the&#xA;past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will&#xA;do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It hasn't had any major effect on my position in the UXSE community, but that's because I have been involved in the community more significantly than I have been here. But at the end of the day if you are entrusted with the responsibility, you just have to do your best and the next moderator election will let you know if you've done enough :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more&#xA;effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think having a good standing in the community doesn't just mean having high rep points. There are many ways to be involved and most of the rep points come about from asking or answering trending questions. If you crunch the numbers differently, no one gets a pat on the back for having offered the most bounty, answering the tough questions no one wants to answer, or all the activities in the chats. But a moderator isn't there to earn points but to play a more active role in shaping the community and serving their needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is your take on the Hot Network Questions concept? Moderators are&#xA;able to remove questions from Hot Network Questions, do you see&#xA;yourself doing this often?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind the concept as it is hard work going through all the questions and having to pull things out for the community attention, and this has been one effective mechanism. It is also good that moderators can remove questions from this list but I don't think it is something I will do too much less inappropriate or undesirable questions are getting more attention than other worthy questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8197" LastActivityDate="2021-03-16T23:09:17.170" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6869" CreationDate="2021-03-17T00:02:29.853" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KILISI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get a good amount of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes&#xA;the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are&#xA;genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong&#xA;negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of&#xA;attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should&#xA;questions like these be moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe they should be judged on their merits, I don't see a problem with how we currently handle them. We already have troll filtering in place and a solid core user base that will quickly remove them even without mod intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your opinion, what is the biggest problem/challenge The Workplace&#xA;is currently facing? How would you propose to solve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't have any huge internal issues, this is a solid site with good regulars. Issues we face tend to be from outside TWP. I'd ignore them and concentrate on this sites needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user has been posting valuable content for a while but at the same&#xA;time refuses to follow the site's guidelines with a consistent pattern&#xA;of bad usage of comments, unkind if not rude remarks to other users,&#xA;angry rants, etc. How would you handle such a user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no problem with people having differing personalities and styles, it may be a cultural difference causing this perception in some, rather than any sort of malicious intent. And cultural diversity is critical for the health of this site. But if they do something too outrageous then they need a talking to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two posts on meta that describe what it's like to be a&#xA;moderator and what their daily activities are. Have they affected your&#xA;decision to nominate yourself? Do those match your idea of what a&#xA;moderator should be? Has anything in particular given you pause or&#xA;made you think you'd approach things differently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you&#xA;see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the&#xA;situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most questions put on hold should be. But even one question being put on hold unnecessarily is a problem because it prevents a person getting the help they're asking for. Unsure what I would do about it as a mod (possibly nothing), I don't know what tools are available to ameliorate this. Currently the user base has long recognised this problem and works well together to discuss and reopen questions when necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc&#xA;a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably just trust their judgement. If I felt strongly enough I'd talk to them about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the&#xA;past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will&#xA;do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Diamonds on other peoples posts have never made a difference to me, so I assume that's true for the majority of users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more&#xA;effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would be something to find out. I already have the software-industry, interviewing, management, communication and professionalism gold badges. So I can already single-handedly do things others users cannot. None of our current or previous mods have these badges. I earned these privileges the hard way and rarely use them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is your take on the Hot Network Questions concept? Moderators are&#xA;able to remove questions from Hot Network Questions, do you see&#xA;yourself doing this often?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HNQ is not something that interests me much, I have never seen it as a big problem. In a discussion it was found that most of our valuable users originally came to the site through HNQ. It's a problem in some ways, an asset in others. On the whole I think it a positive force in our favour. Some posts should be removed perhaps, that would be a judgement call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Colleens question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we make the Workplace more welcoming to people in marginalized&#xA;groups?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we have a problem with this because we already do our best to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer their questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what people come here for, answers to problems. Anything else is largely irrelevant unless in the context of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lilienthals Question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You previously were in favour of fixed terms for moderators, do you still feel the same?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes I do. It's a basic check and balance. I don't believe people should be elected to a position of responsibility for life. People change, priorities change, life is fluid. They should periodically have to reaffirm the user bases support and trust. Plus having a rest, going back to the coal face, seeing things from an enlightened third perspective without the responsibilities can be invigorating in many facets of life and work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anthonys Question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, would your background influence how you would moderate questions touching upon race / affirmative action / perceived discrimination?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, having a multicultural, multilingual background will give me some insights. Most conflicts are misunderstandings caused by communication and cultural differences, which is something I have dealt with daily for a long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Masts Question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will becoming a moderator affect your posting activity in any such way? (tone)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps to some extent, I will have to ensure they are within the constraints of the mod requirements. But I would think this would be minimal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Additional:&lt;/strong&gt; TWP is mostly self-moderating in my opinion, there are a host of committed, intelligent and experienced people here. I don't view moderating as being much more than keeping things tidy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We deal with peoples problems, not equations. To deal effectively with these we need a user base with a wide range of experience, and industry and cultural diversity. So some conflict is both &lt;strong&gt;expected&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;necessary&lt;/strong&gt;. A light and empathizing hand is needed if there is any steering to be done. We deal with issues that can change peoples lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it's critical for a mod team to have diversity itself, but I believe it important that we have a moderator with multicultural, multi-industry experience that makes it a primary focus because it is directly relevant to the quality and usefulness of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My focus is on TWP. I know little and care less about issues within stack exchange. It's not my company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TWP is specifically to do with the respectful discussion of Workplace issues, strategies and problem resolutions, anything else is irrelevant. It's not a venue for furthering agendas outside that context. We assume good intentions in the first instance as a matter of course here. If I'm voted in I will view all issues based on that premise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2021-03-27T10:12:47.457" LastActivityDate="2021-03-27T10:12:47.457" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6875" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6876" CreationDate="2021-03-17T11:38:10.560" Score="2" ViewCount="756" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, I'm late with this question, I'll explain why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was undecided whether I should run in this election. I had skipped the last elections, because to me it still felt too much like gunning for Monica's chair. No offense to those who did, this is a personal decision and we do need moderators, so I'm happy someone else felt more positive about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I finally decided to put my name up and answered the questions, when I was reminded, that I had been suspended on another site of this network over the last year and was therefore not eligible for election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm sorry I'm late with this question and it's not an official one, but it did not cross my mind until the system popped the corresponding error message into my face and maybe the candidates have an answer they would like to share.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Up until 2019, the following quote had been my mission statement. In 2020, I got banned (sorry, &amp;quot;suspended&amp;quot;) for saying it out loud. Since the ban was issued by a CM and the globally valid CoC was cited as the reason/justification, I have to assume the same rules go for TWP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, if I had posted the following not as a quote but as my actual, current opinion, would you suspend me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are here to help other people with their problems, free of charge, in the language we use to communicate, to the latest standard taught in schools today so everybody out there can access our shared knowledge equally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2022-11-04T21:19:08.550" Title="Additional optional moderator election question" Tags="|discussion|moderation|election|moderators|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="42" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6875" CreationDate="2021-03-17T20:44:41.893" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Location specific. In general that statement sounds reasonable and I could in no way see it as worthy of disciplinary action. But by the standards of my local schools, no one would understand the statement probably including the English teacher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2021-03-17T20:44:41.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6869" CreationDate="2021-03-18T13:04:15.083" Score="14" Body="&lt;h2&gt;motosubatsu&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get a good amount of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rules for how users behave is the same regardless of what the question is about - so in that sense how these questions should be moderated is the same as everything else. Where there is a difference is that these sorts of questions can lead to situations that may escalate rapidly and as such are best observed closely so that issues can be dealt with quickly before things go too far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your opinion, what is the biggest problem/challenge The Workplace is currently facing? How would you propose to solve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I think the overall health of the site is good I think the site does still suffer somewhat from Stack Overflow-induced myopia, the bulk of the site's users are developers or other IT pros and this can make it difficult for the site to truly encompass the broader workplace sphere. But that's not something that I think is really addressable directly by moderators. They can ensure that non-IT questions are given a fair shake, not closed unnecessarily etc but other than that there's nothing much else they can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user has been posting valuable content for a while but at the same time refuses to follow the site's guidelines with a consistent pattern of bad usage of comments, unkind if not rude remarks to other users, angry rants, etc. How would you handle such a user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the behavior is &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; and otherwise out of character for the user I'd probably attempt to approach them through a chat first - see if a reasonable conversation can resolve things. If this doesn't work or this has been a consistent element of the user's behavior on the site then escalate to a mod message and ultimately a suspension if warranted. Valuable content is not a license to ignore the rules or to treat other users badly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two posts on meta that describe what it's like to be a moderator and what their daily activities are. Have they affected your decision to nominate yourself? Do those match your idea of what a moderator should be? Has anything in particular given you pause or made you think you'd approach things differently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They haven't really - I'm already a moderator over on Writing SE so that's been the primary factor in informing my moderation-knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; think it's a problem - although it's perhaps been a bit better of late. My personal focus during my time on SE has always been towards helping people rather than the purist Stack Overflow approach of creating a curated knowledge base, and as such I'm always looking to invest my time towards an answer than for looking for a reason not to. Our subject matter here at TWP is people-orientated and so our approach to those asking questions should be too. That said a moderator is not a king - and I don't have any intention of trying to &lt;em&gt;impose&lt;/em&gt; my views on others. I'll encourage people to think before they close (as I always have done) but I'm not about to swing the hammer around in vast swathes unilaterally opening and closing things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First things first I'd talk to them privately - see if I could understand why they did what they did. Even if after that we still don't agree I'm unlikely to directly reverse their actions unless it's a particularly extreme situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've already experienced this over on Writing - I can't say it's been a problem, sure the ritual sacrifices people dedicate to me are flattering and the occasional vitriol that gets hurled your way can be amusing but mostly it's just another day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing about spending a fair amount of time on a stack, especially at the higher rep levels is that it gives you a good sense of he rhythm of the site, what sort of behavior is OK, who's acting out of character, what topics are likely to kick up a storm. What new user might be a frequent troll under a new guise. That sort of thing. Being a moderator not only increases your knowledge of these things it gives you the ability to &lt;em&gt;act&lt;/em&gt;, I'm sure most of our long standing users would be able to remember a time when they saw something turn unpleasant but were unable to do something about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is your take on the Hot Network Questions concept? Moderators are able to remove questions from Hot Network Questions, do you see yourself doing this often?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HNQ is the great double-edged sword, yes it can bring lots of people to discover the site exists and yes it can expose a question to a wide audience who can come in and help. I can &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; attract dog piles, trolls or people with an axe to grind. I like the existence of the ability to remove questions on a case-by-case basis and I think case-by-case is exactly how it &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be handled. If a question being on HNQ is hurting the site, the users of the site or impeding the question from being answered effectively then it should be removed from there. How often would I use it? Don't know is the honest answer. Currently we have two entries on HNQ, I wouldn't remove either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Re: ColleenV's question in comments:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am interested to know what your thoughts are about the recent meta question How can we make the Workplace more welcoming to people in marginalized groups?. Is there an issue? How severe do you think it is? What do you think we should do about it (if anything)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it should come as a surprise that &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; community (online or not) that is a subset of the larger community of humanity is going to inherit many of the same dynamics and issues. So the question of whether there &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; an issue at all seems rather moot, but it's not an issue that is uniquely &amp;quot;ours&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Attempting to quantify how large or severe an issue it really is isn't particularly helpful in my opinion. When someone is stabbed and they report it to the police you wouldn't expect the police to start explaining how you are the only one to be mugged in the neighborhood this month so it's not a problem in this area and they aren't going to do anything. The law says it's no more or less of a crime depending on how often it happens. Likewise the Code of Conduct doesn't say it's okay to be  bigot if you keep it below a certain frequency - if a person sees content from another user they consider to be inappropriate/rude/sexist/racist/abusive or otherwise contrary to the Code of Conduct they are entitled to flag that and have a moderator consider their complaint with the same level of consideration and respect whether it's the first, second or thousandth such complaint that month!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to what's to be done about it..Honestly I think your answer on that meta question was excellent, providing a sound template for how to tackle such behavior and create a welcoming environment at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Addressing unwelcome behavior in the community is the job of the &lt;em&gt;whole&lt;/em&gt; community, the best way for users to do their part is to treat others with respect and kindness and if/when they encounter someone who &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; they should disengage and flag, and the moderators' part is to treat those flags fairly, and respectfully, and where it's something that has gotten over and above what a mod can handle there's the CMs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think the The Workplace Moderators during my time here (past and present!) have been pretty damn good at doing this, and if elected I'd hope to do as good a job as I've seen them do!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="64903" LastEditDate="2021-03-19T14:13:58.297" LastActivityDate="2021-03-19T14:13:58.297" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6869" CreationDate="2021-03-18T13:22:37.310" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Skooba&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We get a good amount of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All questions should be assumed to have been asked in good faith. It is not up to us to determine if a question is &amp;quot;genuine&amp;quot;. The situation may have actually happened or may be a hypothetical and a question is seeking to understand what hypothetical outcomes may be.  As long as the question follows the guidelines and is not closeable under our given reasons (and remember a close vote is not a super down vote) it should stand. Discussions surrounding the question should be moderated based on actions, i.e. if you break site rules the appropriate moderator actions shall be taken. If in the course of discussion/moderation it is determined the question was asked in bad faith then it will be handled differently and likely closed/removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what is the biggest problem/challenge The Workplace is currently facing? How would you propose to solve it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be fair, I have not been active on The Workplace recently. In terms of shaping site policy I would need to do some research on historical data and decisions as well as consulting with moderators and high reputation users for a best course of action. I do not have all the answers, but as a collaborative team a solution that is beneficial can be found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user has been posting valuable content for a while but at the same time refuses to follow the site's guidelines with a consistent pattern of bad usage of comments, unkind if not rude remarks to other users, angry rants, etc. How would you handle such a user?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No user, regardless of reputation, is above following the rules. This is especially true when it comes respectful discourse. I would warn the user either in a comment or chat and if the behavior continues they would be placed on a suspension. Incremental suspensions are useful in the regard as maybe the user just needs to take a step back for an hour and everyone deserves a second chance, but if the pattern continues longer suspensions can be given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are two posts on meta that describe &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5938/whats-it-like-being-a-workplace-moderator&quot;&gt;what it's like to be a moderator&lt;/a&gt; and what their &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6553/what-are-the-day-to-day-activities-of-moderators&quot;&gt;daily activities&lt;/a&gt; are. Have they affected your decision to nominate yourself? Do those match your idea of what a moderator &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be? Has anything in particular given you pause or made you think you'd approach things differently?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They have not affected my decision. I have nominated myself for other moderation positions in the past (all unsuccessfully). I am active in trusted user activities (on SFF) and handle as many reviews as I can on sites where I have sufficient reputation (mainly ELU and Lit). I believe I have what it takes to be a good moderator and judge posts without bias. The only thing I know that is out of my league is technical questions; I do not have a programming/IT background so when bugs or things of that nature come up I would have to defer to those who do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only problem is that it may drive away new users. However, if proper guidance and explanation is given the user will be able to improve their question have it reopened. There is a balance to get users who are interested in contributing quality to the site and just leaving the doors open to drive-by questions from users who never had intentions of returning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The great thing about SE is that no one person can determine whether a question or answers survives. If there is enough consensus from user with sufficient reputation the problem can work itself out. If the question is locked due to mod action and those user cannot reopen and I feel it should be, then a meta post would be made or I would talk to the other moderator about it in chat to come a resolution. I would not change a moderation decision unless I spoke to them about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just fine. Authority should not change the way a person acts. I see any activity on this site a as privilege. I comport myself in manner that will have my actions well received; if I couldn't behave as a regular user why should I be expected to change my behavior just because I have a diamond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of this site, for sure. Again, I know I am not the best candidate here. I doubt I would reach 10k or 20k for years. Being a moderator would allow me access to the tools. On the sites where I do have access to user moderator tools, I do not a difference in effectiveness. The desire to be a moderator is to give back to site that gives to me; take care of the garden so it gives you good food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is your take on the Hot Network Questions concept? Moderators are able to remove questions from Hot Network Questions, do you see yourself doing this often?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HNQ allows people to see interesting topics in sites they normally would not. Overall I think it is good thing for the network. In the past couple years SE has made great strides in giving user more choices in how they interact with the HNQ. I do not see myself removing many questions from the HNQ and would probably only do so if something was egregiously wrong or there was an overall community consensus that the post is not HNQ appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/26699/colleenv&quot;&gt;CollenV's&lt;/a&gt; question from the comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am interested to know what your thoughts are about the recent meta question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6838/45825&quot;&gt;How can we make the Workplace more welcoming to people in marginalized groups?&lt;/a&gt;. Is there an issue? How severe do you think it is? What do you think we should do about it (if anything)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't expect many people have, but if you read my profile you will see that I am not a member of a marginalized group. As such I don't pretend to know what people experiencing racism or sexism are going through. Certainly there is an issue, but it is global. There are no easy answers or solutions; even those fighting for equality have different thoughts on how it should be done. On the internet this is even harder as we have very limited ways of verifying a user's identity (really we just have to take their word for it). As I said before I assume questions are asked in good faith and I also believe answers should be given the same benefit.  The only thing I think we can do as a site or network is handle situations and flags as they arise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45825" LastEditorUserId="45825" LastEditDate="2021-03-19T12:43:05.027" LastActivityDate="2021-03-19T12:43:05.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6875" CreationDate="2021-03-19T18:26:35.140" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I read through your post and the comments below it I find myself struggling to assume good faith, but I'm still gonna try to below, and I'll assume you're not &lt;em&gt;deliberately&lt;/em&gt; trying to be provocative — especially because if this is just a misunderstanding, we can easily clear it up, learn something from it, and move on ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you hadn't preambled your actual question with all the context you preambled it with, anyone reading this question would've taken your quote at face value and probably wondered why such an innocuous statement would ever be deemed as problematic — taken at face value and in isolation the quote doesn't seem problematic, indeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you did add the preamble. Seeing the statement under the light of the suspension you spent the first half of your post exposing &lt;em&gt;your perspective&lt;/em&gt; of, as well as the first paragraph of &amp;quot;the question&amp;quot; section is important, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And with that in mind, it &lt;em&gt;seems&lt;/em&gt; that you're asking prospective moderators whether or not they'll abide by and enforce &lt;a href=&quot;/conduct&quot;&gt;the Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/help/mod-agreement-policies&quot;&gt;all other officially announced moderator and user policies&lt;/a&gt; they'd be required to, as per &lt;a href=&quot;/legal/moderator-agreement&quot;&gt;the Moderator Agreement&lt;/a&gt; they'd have to sign to get access to moderator tools. To be more specific, it &lt;em&gt;seems&lt;/em&gt; that you're asking whether they'd skirt &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/336364/208518&quot;&gt;our policy surrounding personal pronouns&lt;/a&gt; if it came down to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, going back to the beginning of this post: I'm going to go against my gut feeling and assume that that was not your intention — that would hardly be a constructive question to ask the nominees. If that's not the case, though, I'm left scratching my head at the intention behind the question anyway. So maybe you can clarify what your intentions here were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, I'll close this question as unclear until you clarify how this question brings anything constructive to the table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33683" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2021-03-22T08:53:34.447" LastActivityDate="2021-03-22T08:53:34.447" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6869" CreationDate="2021-03-22T19:38:12.877" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;EJoshuaS&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get a good amount of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mere fact that a post is &amp;quot;controversial&amp;quot; is not &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; a valid reason to remove it (unless it's so clearly argumentative that one couldn't possibly write a factual answer to it, or it's just an excuse for the OP to rant; in that case, the question should be closed as opinion-based).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, if there's a clear reason to think that the OP is trolling or otherwise deliberately stirring up controversy, that would be a different story; they should be warned to stop the behavior and eventually suspended if they persist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also a big proponent of editing where possible (vs. closing or deleting). If a question has an argumentative tone but there's a valid question &amp;quot;buried&amp;quot; in it, then just edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your opinion, what is the biggest problem/challenge The Workplace is currently facing? How would you propose to solve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The relationship with SE has been quite... challenging of late. (My display name obviously refers to one of the major recent controversies). I admittedly don't have that great of a solution to that, but I would really like to see more open communication between the moderators, community, and company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user has been posting valuable content for a while but at the same time refuses to follow the site's guidelines with a consistent pattern of bad usage of comments, unkind if not rude remarks to other users, angry rants, etc. How would you handle such a user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give them a warning. If they don't respond to warnings, a short suspension may be in order. (I would admittedly be reluctant to give them &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; long of a suspension, though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two posts on meta that describe what it's like to be a moderator and what their daily activities are. Have they affected your decision to nominate yourself? Do those match your idea of what a moderator should be? Has anything in particular given you pause or made you think you'd approach things differently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, these didn't really influence me either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A significant proportion of our new questions get put on hold. Do you see this as a problem? If yes, what can we do to improve the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not just a problem here - it's also a big problem on Stack Overflow. While I obviously don't particularly enjoy downvoting or closing someone's question, the alternative is worse. Stack Exchange sites really do need to have high quality standards in order to avoid devolving into being just another discussion forum where you have to wade through tons of &lt;em&gt;me too!&lt;/em&gt; comments and thread hijacking just to find the one piece of information you were looking for in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't - moderators should be very careful about unilaterally overriding a different moderator's decision (and especially about criticizing another moderator's decision in public). I would address it with them privately. Even better, if there's some kind of &amp;quot;underlying&amp;quot; issue (e.g. with the clarity of site scope), a community member should bring that to Meta so that we can reach a community consensus on the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm fine with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ability to handle flags, for one thing. Also, as a community member, I really have no way to &amp;quot;directly&amp;quot; address problem behavior (other than flagging, closing, or downvoting the relevant content).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is your take on the Hot Network Questions concept? Moderators are able to remove questions from Hot Network Questions, do you see yourself doing this often?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's great, honestly. It drives a lot of traffic to the site. It also helps people to be aware of interesting content from around the network that they otherwise might not have been aware of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61906" LastActivityDate="2021-03-22T19:38:12.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6881" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-26T09:52:03.183" Score="1" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/170809/26826&quot;&gt;If no one is paid, then what is the difference between a teammate and a volunteer?&lt;/a&gt; is closed for needing details or clarity. From the comments I have a feeling that there is a mismatch between my understanding and the commenters' understanding about what volunteer is. Is that correct? What details or clarity does the question need?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your convenience, I'll quote the two comments that I think may open the door to the solution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DJClayworth : &amp;quot;There are many projects that don't call their members as volunteers, although they are not paid.&amp;quot; That's just a choice of name, in the same way you might call your customer service people &amp;quot;satisfaction engineers&amp;quot;. It means something only in the message it sends to the people concerned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Me: I understand that it's just a choice of name. But I think they don't use it as an euphemism, but truly view teammates/partners as being different to volunteers. I think this is just a the same as startups&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26826" LastActivityDate="2021-03-26T18:27:57.310" Title="What details or clarity does the question about teammate vs volunteer need?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6881" CreationDate="2021-03-26T13:34:17.323" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;With all due respect, your question in it's current form is meaningless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It does not specify a region (in certain regions the terms &amp;quot;teammate&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;volunteer&amp;quot; may have important distinctions, but they don't everywhere)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It does not specify an industry. That may also be important. Some industries care a lot about titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most importantly (in my opinion), it does not specify why you feel there is a difference between the two terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question as written is basically asking people to brainstorm what you mean, and then help you pick something. This site isn't for brainstorming, and it won't make decisions for anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't vote to close your question, but after a few years here I'm confident that those are the reasons your question was closed. I doubt you'll get votes to reopen it without fixing at least some of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64188" LastActivityDate="2021-03-26T13:34:17.323" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6883" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-26T14:22:52.393" Score="9" ViewCount="842" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, a question came up essentially accusing this stack of not being very welcoming, especially towards particular groups of people.  Of course moderation was included in the discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are our overall strengths and weaknesses?  Where do we do well, and where can we improve?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2021-05-08T23:09:31.870" Title="What is your overall opinion of TWP, with regards to moderation and welcoming environment?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6883" CreationDate="2021-03-26T14:22:52.393" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have made no secret of my distaste for the direction in which SE overall has gone.  In response, I have deleted every account I had, with the exception of TWP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I left one stack early on when a moderator actually said in its chat that autistic people were not welcome.  That was enough for me. I left SO not too long after that. It's also no secret that SO has a reputation for being a bit heavy handed towards people who ask questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like TWP, and I think that its greatest strength is who we've elected as moderators.  It is a thankless job, and they have to deal with people who are upset, which is never easy.  The temptation exists to punish or otherwise abuse the power that one is given in such a role.  Our mods have consistently resisted that temptation, and are more focused on keeping the site's tone a very relaxed and professional one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally tempers flare, and discussions can get heated.  The mods are more likely to let people hash things out than to act too quickly, which I think helps avoid misunderstandings and resentment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, the community tends to be very helpful, especially with new users, which I think sets us apart from other stacks.  We tend to take on difficult and controversial topics with more restraint and professionalism than most as well.  Even though it's been removed from the official COC, the &amp;quot;assume good intentions rule&amp;quot; lives on here.  I think that's important because we are dealing with cultures around the world, and people here are a bit more forgiving of cultural differences than in other sites out there, especially on SE in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regards to disabilities, this stack is extremely friendly.  In the 30+ years I've been online, this is easily one of the most welcoming groups I have ever found.  I feel comfortable talking about my own difficulties and how to address them, and questions about people with disabilities have been thoughtful, and answers have been of a helpful bend, and extremely respectful.  I have not experienced this elsewhere on SE, TBH.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Places where I think we could do a bit better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The comments:  This has been the bane of SE for some time, as social media exploded, we were infected with a bit of the nastiness that tends to inhabit reddit, twitter, and quora.  I don't participate in any of those because I don't like the nastiness.  I think we need to do more to not feed the trolls.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The questions:  I think we can, and should put in more of an effort to edit questions that are unclear, if we can, especially if it's a new user.  The lifeboat and lifejacket badges are there for a reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answers: Overall, I think we do better than most by maintaining a positive tone when possible, but we are also able to give the difficult answers when necessary.  We are more focussed on providing effective answers than on answers the querents would prefer to hear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where we could stand to improve&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think when controversial subjects arise, we all (myself included) should take a step back, and put our own pre-formed opinions aside long enough to answer the question objectively. This is especially hard if you've personally experienced some of the more atrocious behaviors that can effect the workplace.  It is very easy to believe that someone posing a question about mistreatment is 100% in the right if you've experienced it, or 100% in the wrong if you think they're overreacting, or if you've seen someone abusing the system.  If you have a visceral reaction to a question, it's probably a good idea not to answer until you calm down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There also seems to be a minor problem with people tending to jump on the bandwagon when a controversial subject comes up, and a focus more on advancing rhetoric rather than offering up constructive answers to the issue at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, I have a great deal of respect for TWP, its moderators, and its members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="26699" LastEditDate="2021-03-26T16:12:06.527" LastActivityDate="2021-03-26T16:12:06.527" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6881" CreationDate="2021-03-26T18:27:57.310" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Business titles can mean whatever the company wants them to mean. You can call the tea lady a volunteer if you want, or an associate vice president if you prefer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2021-03-26T18:27:57.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6883" CreationDate="2021-03-26T18:38:26.987" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We do fine. Moderation works well these days. The mods with overriding outside agendas mostly saw themselves out the door a while back and it's been much smoother sailing since then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The welcoming thing is over my head, in my 5+ years here I haven't seen any particularly unwelcoming attitudes. And realistically as an OP all I care about is answers to my question, anything else is irrelevant. We're not therapists or Agony Aunts. Any people feeling unwelcomed probably have more to their agenda than getting an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the downvotes and quick closures are a bit discouraging, but that is how the system works and isn't under our control. Any adults coming here have used the internet and shouldn't be very surprised at that sort of thing. We already do what we can to mitigate against it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2021-03-26T18:51:30.897" LastActivityDate="2021-03-26T18:51:30.897" CommentCount="35" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6883" CreationDate="2021-03-27T16:02:40.400" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe this is a bit of a stretch for what the question is asking but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we probably need to get better at handling duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite often somebody will ask a question that's similar to another question. The second question will get linked and closed. Fair enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But questions are often saturated with context, and we kind of push a large burden on, the author of the second question to decouple of context of the question, which they may not fully understand, from the similarities to their question. They have to do this to understand which of the answers apply to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course, the accepted answer may be wholly inappropriate for their particular case. (The concept of accepted answer doesn't sit well for me to begin with).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should make a bit of a better effort to create Community Wikis that are more cleaner and more streamlined for questions that occur over and over again, and for concepts that occur over and over again. e.g. &amp;quot;HR is not your friend&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2021-03-27T16:02:40.400" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4884" CreationDate="2021-03-28T06:59:27.253" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, software speaks only English. Stack Overflow is about software and The Workplace is a spin off of it. READ, WRITE are english FORTRAN keywords which do not change if the software is written in France - LIRE or ÉCRIVEZ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace has specific context issues when questions are about employment law in different countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="123900" LastActivityDate="2021-03-28T06:59:27.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6883" CreationDate="2021-03-29T13:13:28.863" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange is the best Stack Exchange site I've used. It's much, much better than Stack Overflow. Based on my experience the people here are very polite and are tolerant of other cultures. The moderation team also does good work, keeping this site clean and healthy. The moderation team does not interfere unnecessarily nor do they abuse their privileges, so they have my best wishes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Workplace Stack Exchange should set the bar of hospitality and fairness for all Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New users also take trouble to write questions carefully without any intentional spelling and grammar mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the only thing missing is a Job site like that of Stack Overflow and Computer Science Stack Exchange. Each Stack Exchange site can also have independent job sites and independent community managers. It would be good if The Workplace remains immune from the influence of Stack Overflow Incorporated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It would be a plus if a &amp;quot;The Workplace&amp;quot; moderator also volunteers to moderate on Meta Stack Exchange, so that fairness and civility could be maintained on Meta Stack Exchange.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user115959" LastEditorDisplayName="user115959" LastEditDate="2021-03-29T13:18:48.067" LastActivityDate="2021-03-29T13:18:48.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6883" CreationDate="2021-03-30T07:26:52.487" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will add something that I felt was more true on other sites but also here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the expectation from some veterans being there for years that new users should write question with the quality near of those veterans because the sites has been getting better quality and excluding low quality more and more after they years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is one of the main problems here. If you're not someone who is good at asking a well formed question, adding a very rough English for most of users, you will get kicked out (or that's how you will feel). Because as the years pass, the &amp;quot;learning curve&amp;quot; of how asking a good question/making a good answer is being increasing with no pity for newbies, when in the past, you could get better through time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the logic would want that the people good at making a  well formed question or even finding duplicate are veterans, not newbies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a while I was quite happy when I saw some people who were really good at salvaging a somewhat bad question by editing it or making a wonderful answer. I'm still seeing the former, but less salvaging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it is less effort to click a close button than finding a proper duplicate and even  more for salvaging a potential good question after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastEditorUserId="26699" LastEditDate="2021-03-30T12:03:26.717" LastActivityDate="2021-03-30T12:03:26.717" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6883" CreationDate="2021-03-30T16:13:11.057" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only thing I found scary about this Stack Exchange website was a very specific case I stumbled upon. Someone had made an answer in the comment section, suggesting to do something that was potentially illegal (though I am not a lawyer, I did some research to make sure). And it was a beginning to get highly upvoted, which means people were actually agreeing with that &amp;quot;answer in the comment section&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were a new member, or a random visitor, and I came across a highly voted comment that suggested doing something controversial, on a website which is all about the workplace, I wouldn't feel comfortable about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beside that isolated case, even if I haven't been there a lot, I'd like to say that it's a nice place. You get to learn a lot from reading people sharing their point of views, all across the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64632" LastActivityDate="2021-03-30T16:13:11.057" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6892" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-30T20:00:46.070" Score="21" ViewCount="411" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Workplace's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/8&quot;&gt;eighth moderator election&lt;/a&gt; has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the two new moderators are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/64903/motosubatsu&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/64903.png&quot; alt=&quot;motosubatsu&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/40669/kilisi&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/40669.png&quot; alt=&quot;Kilisi&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They'll be joining &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the existing crew&lt;/a&gt; shortly—please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/8&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.opavote.com/results/5692008124383232/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;view a summary report online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33683" LastActivityDate="2021-03-30T20:00:46.070" Title="2021 Community Moderator Election Results" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6883" CreationDate="2021-03-31T12:36:09.013" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of our biggest weaknesses is that we are overwhelmingly western office workers, many of us are stereotypical developers even. That is to be expected, since developers see TWP during their daily work on Hot Network questions or through ads while others do not. A fisherman having a problem with the owner of their trawler will probably never get the idea that there might be an internet platform for their problems. This is a Catch-22, we provide great answers to western office workers, but we cannot provide those great answers for anything that is slightly off-course from that. Said fisherman would probably be disappointed to see no real experience in handling trawler owners here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think any of that is due to moderation or that our moderators could change it, even if they wanted. I don't think there is a way to be more welcoming to fishermen or that we somehow turn them away with something we do or don't do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, I'm happy that with Kilisi we have a moderator that does not fit our stereotypical mold. Probably still won't attract fishermen though :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2021-03-31T12:36:09.013" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6883" CreationDate="2021-04-01T01:52:10.393" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frank opinion: I'd rate TWP as okay-but-noticable-room-for-improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO overall better than the software/SO, worse than EE. In particular, TWP is significanly more polite in terms of user-culture (software/EE commenters can be condescending in their argumentation). At the same time, the fraction of quesions that TWP is willing to engage is quite a bit lower than the technical SE sites. Seems perhaps due to comparatively aggressive enforcement of the &amp;quot;opinion based&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;vague&amp;quot; rules. It's not clear to me that this actually pays off in stimulating a warmer user culture, but I haven't been here long enough to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I've expressed elsewhere, the &amp;quot;opinion&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;vague&amp;quot; rules could perhaps be weighed in light of the subject matter being based on valuable personal experience, rather than a received body of technical knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124315" LastEditorUserId="124315" LastEditDate="2021-04-01T02:13:37.913" LastActivityDate="2021-04-01T02:13:37.913" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6895" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-04-01T11:55:11.683" Score="18" ViewCount="417" Body="&lt;p&gt;In terms of welcoming people there is an inbuilt solution already. Upvotes. It encourages people, whether it's a new user or an experienced one. I see no need to be stingy with upvotes, they cost nothing but a mouse click.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent question I answered had 5 other answers, I upvoted 4 of them, the chaps put in the effort and had reasonable answers, so at zero cost I gave them a small morale boost. My rationale is that we deal with people, the accepted or highest voted answer may not be the best in all situations. So it increases the visibility of other reasonable answers, and there is no downside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flip side is that I don't see any point in discouraging people who make an effort. So downvotes should be used more sparingly. It's axiomatic that a stronger and healthier community exists when people encourage each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this seems simple which is probably why no one mentions it, and most of you probably do it anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2021-04-07T14:20:16.320" Title="Another angle on 'Welcoming'" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6895" CreationDate="2021-04-01T16:37:46.043" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll only ever downvote an answer if I feel that it's intentionally unhelpful in nature and doesn't help the OP at all in answering their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd only ever downvote a question if I feel that it's been asked for the purposes of humour or to be intentionally controversial.  Downvoting these isn't a personal reaction as such - it's more about helping these questions to be removed from sight of the main question list (and therefore help promote questions that really deserve attention).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, bad quality questions asked with good/genuine intentions should be helped by constructive/helpful comments and editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user124851" LastActivityDate="2021-04-01T16:37:46.043" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6895" CreationDate="2021-04-01T17:10:59.433" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I see a good, well thought-out answer that seems helpful to the questioner, I'll upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I see a poor, ill-thought-out answer that seems like it would be unhelpful to the questioner, I'll downvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't tend to do is dwell on who posted it and give them a pass on being downvoted for posting bad answers &lt;em&gt;just because they're new&lt;/em&gt;. Some new users post great answers. Others post crap. As soon as we start voting on users instead of their answers, the entire voting system might as well go out the window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just, as you say, my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28854" LastActivityDate="2021-04-01T17:10:59.433" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6898" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6899" CreationDate="2021-04-04T05:16:50.623" Score="3" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/171076/can-i-refuse-to-enter-guests-room-if-theyre-not-wearing-masks&quot;&gt;Can I refuse to enter guests room if they're not wearing masks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The core question is basic to the service industry not company specific, the details are not that important in my opinion. I think this should be reopened because it may get some more answers, but I don't want to be heavy handed with my jewelry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I invite the community to have a look at the question and reopen it if they desire to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2021-04-05T00:27:32.913" LastActivityDate="2021-04-05T00:27:32.913" Title="(Done) I think this closed question deserves another look" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6898" CreationDate="2021-04-04T14:33:33.963" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;Reopen&amp;quot; option is not present for me on that question, presumably because it was migrated from another site, and according to the blue banner at the top it was returned there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d2T39.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d2T39.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that it was an answerable question about how to navigate a workplace, so that's a shame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64188" LastActivityDate="2021-04-04T14:33:33.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6895" CreationDate="2021-04-05T07:34:17.493" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I absolutely do have a bias when it comes to new users. With the rep I have a downvote to me means almost nothing. But to a new user a downvote can come across as very aggressive and discouraging. Especially if they don't quite understand what they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember feeling frustrated a long time ago when I first asked a question on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2021-04-05T07:34:17.493" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6901" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-04-05T13:31:16.847" Score="2" ViewCount="512" Body="&lt;p&gt;May I call someone or a post &amp;quot;naive&amp;quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me it sounds like this is violating the Code of Conduct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No name-calling or personal attacks.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Focus on the content, not the&#xA;person. This includes terms that feel personal even when they're&#xA;applied to content (e.g. “lazy”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although you can apply the adjective to a text, it's clearly associated with the author. Another example would be &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;This text is ill-tempered&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;, which formally is describing the text, whereas the author must be ill-tempered himself to write it. Besides that it's not helping to discuss the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I'm not a native English speaker I would like to clarify it here, in case it has a different connotation than in my language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35882" LastActivityDate="2021-04-07T10:41:23.750" Title="Is calling someone naive allowed?" Tags="|discussion|code-of-conduct|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6901" CreationDate="2021-04-05T16:15:43.973" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Calling someone 'naive' would likely be misconstrued as insulting. &lt;a href=&quot;https://ell.stackexchange.com/a/63186/9161&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;em&gt;May I use “naive” to mean “inexperienced”?&lt;/em&gt; on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;English Language Learners&lt;/a&gt; stack explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/naive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Naive&lt;/a&gt; (adjective) or naivety (noun)&lt;/em&gt; carry more a sense of attitude than of experience.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If you are &lt;em&gt;naive&lt;/em&gt;, you tend to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;believe everything you are told&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;believe that people are  good&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;be easily tricked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether that would be considered a violation of the Code of Conduct would depend on the context, but it probably would be considered (at worst) more &amp;quot;unfriendly&amp;quot; than a personal attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, when we are communicating in text (instead of face to face) with strangers, we should be extra careful to not assign qualities or motivations to someone. We don't know who is on the other side of the computer screen, or what they were thinking or feeling as they were typing. It's very easy to guess incorrectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't have to characterize a post's tone or perspective to criticize it constructively. Instead of &amp;quot;I think your approach is ridiculous. Dogs don't understand what 'Be a good dog.' means.&amp;quot; we can say something like &amp;quot;I don't think this approach will work very well. Most dogs need to be trained what they're allowed to chew on, not just told to 'be good'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26699" LastEditorUserId="26699" LastEditDate="2021-04-07T10:41:23.750" LastActivityDate="2021-04-07T10:41:23.750" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6883" CreationDate="2021-04-06T04:36:15.433" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a result of all the comments, this post is heavily revised and hopefully shortened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is a simple and obviously self evident law of nature that says, that if you set yourself a primary objective and pursue it as such, you will eventually inevitably obtain this objective at the cost of any and all other objectives you may have. The only way to stop this process is by canceling your chosen primary objective.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary objective of moderation in not just TWP, but all of StackExchange, is the acquirement of achievements, badges, privileges and reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not &lt;strong&gt;like&lt;/strong&gt; a game, it &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; a game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has the technical characteristics of a game and has the same effect on the human brain as a game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators value the content of questions and answers alike by voting, editing, deleting, closing and other forms of moderation primarily in order to obtain personal in-game gain in the form of the achievements mentioned above. Even if they themselves do not realize this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not an opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the unavoidable consequence of the fact that the conditions for moderation in StackExchange are technically those of a game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators are being actively encouraged to vote at the basis of a mere glance, incapable of even reading the content of a posted question or answer. This is a process that they themselves are not aware of and to my experience are unanimously in a state of denial about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the dangers in gaming in general and more so in hidden gaming in particular, I find this alarming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators, this is your work place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of whether you get payed for it or not, it is where you do what you do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If simply being here and moderating to the best of your abilities can damage your mental health, you &lt;strong&gt;must&lt;/strong&gt; investigate this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't believe me, check for yourself.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user125128" LastEditorDisplayName="user125128" LastEditDate="2021-04-16T08:35:53.253" LastActivityDate="2021-04-16T08:35:53.253" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6895" CreationDate="2021-04-06T07:21:14.657" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll try to upvote more often, I already downvote very sparringly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, I agree with the fact to be more lenient comparing a 101 rep vs 10k rep, and I think that's totally normal and even &lt;strong&gt;professional&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why that ? Because upvoting with only the content is basically treating a junior staff as if he's a senior staff, which would not pass at work, so there is no reason it pass here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47387" LastActivityDate="2021-04-06T07:21:14.657" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6901" CreationDate="2021-04-06T10:07:06.803" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The text you quote is fairly clear to me: &amp;quot;Focus on the content, not the person&amp;quot;. Any statement that amounts to &amp;quot;You are X&amp;quot; when X is a negative quality is rarely going to be a good thing to say here. But if you say something like &amp;quot;Doing this would make you X&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;It would be X to proceed without...&amp;quot; instead focuses on the behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine an OP who posts a question because she didn't run a company-standard background check on someone she thought was very trustworthy and it comes back to bite her after she hired them. Posts that say &amp;quot;You're so naive, you shouldn't have done that.&amp;quot; are not constructive and would likely get removed. Same for any comment saying &amp;quot;How naive.&amp;quot; which would get a rude/abusive flag from me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's different if an answer says &amp;quot;It was naive to just trust this person, you should have still followed procedure. In future do A and B to...&amp;quot;. That just describes the situation and the assessment is on the actions taken by the OP, not their character. Even something like &amp;quot;you were too naive here&amp;quot; is still fine, provided the answer focuses on giving advice to learn from the experience or do better next time. Any post that instead focuses on pointing out some perceived failure of the OP or their character for no constructive reason is really nothing more than a veiled insult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A useful test is to see whether you would describe what you're saying as &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;calling&lt;/strong&gt; them X&amp;quot; rather than &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;describing&lt;/strong&gt; behaviour as X&amp;quot;. The former is not appropriate here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2021-04-06T10:07:06.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6895" CreationDate="2021-04-06T14:37:07.170" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My own &amp;quot;rules&amp;quot; that apply only to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's a new user, I'll offer helpful comments and edits when possible, and offer advice when I can.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If given the choice between a down-vote and an edit, I'll take the time to edit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I do not down-vote based on what I think of the subject matter of the question, esp controversial questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's an answer, and is bad advice, I will down vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a question or answer is heavy on rant, but contains good material, I will edit out the rant, and leave it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I try to include a welcome comment to new users when I see them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am a bit more aggressive in flagging negative comments on new users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, I try to avoid cliquishness, which I think is a HUGE problem elsewhere.  We deal with people from all over the world, many of whom are not native English speakers and could use a little TLC when they come in.  The tour is not as helpful as it could be, IMO, and we fill the gap left by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2021-04-06T14:37:07.170" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6901" CreationDate="2021-04-06T18:24:19.257" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most times I see the word &lt;strong&gt;naive&lt;/strong&gt; there is an implied restriction on the context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Person A: &amp;quot;I think interviews are a waste of time&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Person B: &amp;quot;You're naive&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Person B is not saying that Person A is naive in every circumstance. The implied statement is &amp;quot;You're naive to think that&amp;quot;. Which simply means they lack some bit of information or experience that would otherwise change their mind. It's not necessarily a judgement on character, like calling somebody stupid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But English is not everybody's first language, and even some people won't make the distinction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Far better to address what is said, rather than who it is said by, as the other answers have pointed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2021-04-06T18:24:19.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6895" CreationDate="2021-04-06T18:25:43.207" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get where you're coming from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Casting close votes require &lt;strong&gt;3000&lt;/strong&gt; reputation, down-voting requires &lt;strong&gt;125&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's very possible that some users of the site are fundamentally using the easiest available tool to do what they can to help &amp;quot;moderate&amp;quot; content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also like to point out that in terms of reputation, up-votes are worth 5 times more than down-votes. Even poorly received content can cause a reputation gain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2021-04-06T18:25:43.207" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6895" CreationDate="2021-04-07T14:20:16.320" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvotes are for good and useful posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes are for posts that aren't useful or answers that aren't correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exact threshold for either is up to the individual to decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could choose to upvote often and downvote rarely, vice versa, do both often or do both rarely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But don't upvote useless or incorrect posts simply to be more welcoming, because of the effort the author put in, to boost the author's morale or for any other reason. This undermines quality control, encourages people to post bad posts, makes people think bad advice is good and arguably goes against &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-up&quot;&gt;site guidelines&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being more kind might be a valid reason to refrain from downvoting though. You don't &lt;em&gt;have to&lt;/em&gt; downvote anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I don't downvote that often because I feel (my own) downvotes generally don't serve any purpose (except to make people more &lt;em&gt;negative&lt;/em&gt;, pun not intended) and are often counter-productive. For posts that &amp;quot;need&amp;quot; to be downvoted, there are usually either enough others willing to downvote or enough others willing to counter a downvote with an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer using other tools to deal with bad posts, such as close voting, commenting (even if mods obsessively delete those), flagging or editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8234" LastActivityDate="2021-04-07T14:20:16.320" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6910" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-04-08T02:29:17.000" Score="3" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to notice a bit of a pattern. Whenever there are questions that come up that involve some sort of policy, or law, a lot of people think: &amp;quot;Oh, this is asking for us to interpret the policy or law&amp;quot;. Even when that is not actually the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should be directed to legal professionals. For more information, click here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/171196/stolen-comission&quot;&gt;Stolen comission?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this situation, we can assume that the OP perfectly understands the policy or law involved, but they suspect the policy is either unfair or misapplied. Asking HR to help them understand the policy doesn't actually address the issue. At the end, a problematic policy that is understood well by the person asking is still problematic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to drive the point home, we can look at Kilisi's answer, which answers that question posed without even guessing the contents of the policy. The answer applies to any policy with similar sorts of short-sightedness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I suppose my point is, can we more closely look at the content of the question before assuming the OP hasn't done their homework, so to speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2021-04-08T08:24:38.037" LastActivityDate="2021-04-08T10:20:33.280" Title="(Done) Questions around policy, misinterpreted to be about policy advice" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="312" CreationDate="2021-04-08T05:59:03.803" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This subject makes for a very revealing page.&#xA;The way some people responded in answers and comments, or just the number of votes some answers got puzzled me, but this explains everything.&#xA;If this was the first page newcomers would see, this place might look entirely different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People, you are all totally lovable good people and there is something you should know.&#xA;Something I think is important, based on what I know and have experience with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are things you can do to the human mind that make it feel good. It makes a human brain release messenger substances, like endorfines and serotonin. These things enhance the tendency to compete or to excel in order to get more of these substances released. It gives a person the notion of being successful, of being accepted, of being involved, of being alive. It works on guilt and pride with rewards with fancy names of valuable things and punishments of exposure and loss of privileges. It enforces publicly gaining or loosing reputation. It demands ever more time and energy in order for a user to gain more power or influence or respect. It gets deployed in environments that are easily accessible and recognizable to most any human, allowing most anyone to participate and gain make-believe success. It presents itself as innocent or even benevolent.  What is bad about it, is that it is highly addictive. Its a variety of gambling called gaming and it is the single most damaging non-substance drug in the world today. It makes people disregard their personal needs and obligations. It sometimes almost completely replaces social activity and users tend to primarily communicate to other users, mostly  about subjects concerning the game. The fact that it feels so real, makes users believe it is real. It isn't. It's a computer game. It will never be anything other than a computer game. It will never ever get good or bring real success. It will never really be benevolent or serve any provident purpose. Users will always want more power and respect. Power over others and each other. Respect, acceptance, anything. anything at all to keep the stream of messenger substances flowing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I write this because I think you are good people and I think you have a right to know this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why this is something you should know, is a choice I can't make for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask only one thing of you.&#xA;Please please, for the love of life, don't edit or delete this.&#xA;Allow others to read it, even if you yourself think it's useless.&#xA;Answers don't get more relevant than this one. I mean nothing but love to all of you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user125128" LastActivityDate="2021-04-08T05:59:03.803" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-04-08T05:59:03.803" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6910" CreationDate="2021-04-08T10:20:33.280" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The very first comment the OP got was to ascertain if it was a company specific policy problem and therefore unsolvable. More comments to elicit more info and then someone posted an answer based on that by which time it already had 4 close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has since been closed and reopened thanks to you, and has gone from -3 to a positive score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2021-04-08T10:20:33.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6914" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-04-09T18:13:40.320" Score="4" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this a few years ago....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4039/question-should-we-eliminate-or-change-the-reason-to-close-regarding-company-sp&quot;&gt;Question, should we eliminate or change the reason to close regarding company specific policies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's time to revisit this, as this reason has become a bit of a hobgoblin to this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears to me that the mere mention of a specific company or policy inspires a mass rush to close a question even if it is answerable or if the question and answers could apply to other companies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe we should drop this as a close reason. Of all close reasons, this one seems to be rarely used as intended, and most often reversed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2021-04-10T11:35:12.440" LastActivityDate="2021-04-12T07:32:56.883" Title="Can we revisit company specific close reason?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2021-04-12T07:32:56.883" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know, I think we kind of need it because we do, from time to time, get questions were that is a valid close reason. I suppose if you were to remove the close reason, what would you replace it with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question is too narrow&lt;/strong&gt; feels like a bad reason. Because a lot of questions and answered here are very very specific to particular problems, with no attempt to generalise either the question or answer. An example is the numerous questions that are asked about how long to wait before emailing HR. (Maybe this needs a dedicated close reason).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution, I feel, is education for those that are instinctively closing these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am able to see who has issued the close votes, but only after the question has been closed. So I can certainly comment on the question to challenge those people, but by then it's a bit late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2021-04-12T07:32:56.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6916" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-04-14T01:06:28.480" Score="1" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to ask some questions about interpersonal conflict in the work-place--some topics and points which may make me look bad or weak, and others which may make others look bad or weak. As you can see, my real name is my profile name. Obviously, when discussing others, I won't use their real names. But for myself...well...it's already there. Should I be worried about this? Should people make an effort to conceal their real identity when discussing sensitive things about the work-place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example topics one might ask may include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why someone is worried about getting fired.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How someone is not meeting expectations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why someone wants someone else to get fired.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How someone wants to leave their company and work somewhere else--including timelines.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to politely leave a job, or when to leave.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc. etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, these are sensitive issues. Maybe the asker's employer sees this and fires them just because now they know the asker is looking. Maybe the person the asker is struggling with at work sees this and now the conflict escalates. Maybe some random person sees this, clicks around on the asker's profile (ex: my own profile), and contacts the asker's employer just to show them this post. I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Related, but not the same thing:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[not a duplicate in my opinion--and they don't have an answer there anyway] &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6595/does-the-workplace-have-a-fundamental-issue-with-throwaway-accounts&quot;&gt;Does The Workplace have a fundamental issue with throwaway accounts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you decide to create a new, anonymous account to use for posting sensitive questions, here is how:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/302497/how-to-create-a-new-account-without-having-to-change-email-so-i-can-ask-questio&quot;&gt;How to create a new account without having to change email, so I can ask questions anonymously?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/89248/need-to-ask-a-question-anonymously&quot;&gt;Need to ask a question anonymously&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60993" LastEditorUserId="60993" LastEditDate="2021-04-14T19:43:37.090" LastActivityDate="2021-04-15T15:19:37.540" Title="How does The Workplace view the issue of concealing vs revealing personal identity when asking questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6916" CreationDate="2021-04-14T01:11:11.817" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I make an effort to conceal my real identity when discussing sensitive things about the work-place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's up to you but yes, you can... and personally yes, you should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, perhaps consider not using your real name as your username. Otherwise anonymizing your posts may have null impact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, the standard way here that many many folks do is to anonymize the names. Use, Bob, Alice, etc. for names, or company ABC or ACME, inc. for company names, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2021-04-14T01:11:11.817" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6595" CreationDate="2021-04-14T01:30:38.943" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does The Workplace have a fundamental issue with throwaway accounts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. &lt;strong&gt;Trolls&lt;/strong&gt;. Posting anonymously was disabled in mid 2020 due to spike in Troll accounts posting SPAM, all from unregistred accounts (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6715/73791&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could consider having another account that does not have your real name or identifiable information (as suggested in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1913/73791&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer), with the pros and cons that implies (more privacy, less bragging your achievements and badges, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind what is allowed and not regarding multiple accounts as per the SE Conditions (no upvoting your other posts, no abusing several accounts to DV someone, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2021-04-14T01:30:38.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6916" CreationDate="2021-04-14T01:49:06.153" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty simple, if in doubt, don't use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People can rationalise all day long, but the only real reason to use your real name is if you're thinking of moneytising or gaining some personal fame out of doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2021-04-14T01:49:06.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6916" CreationDate="2021-04-15T15:19:37.540" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Imagine a prospective employer coming across your question during a background search, or maybe your current employer comes across it while you’re still there. Or one of your coworkers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you ok with that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, then you should take steps to prevent it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally use a throwaway account for any question that I don’t want being tied back to me in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31777" LastActivityDate="2021-04-15T15:19:37.540" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6838" CreationDate="2021-05-02T19:52:32.283" Score="-2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 Is dumped on by the community in comments and answers, in some&#xA;variant of doubting their story, objecting that the behavior &amp;quot;might be&#xA;innocent and not sexist/racist/etc in the offender's heart,&amp;quot; told to&#xA;not do anything, told &amp;quot;I'd like that/I don't think that happens,&amp;quot; told&#xA;&amp;quot;well what about me I got discriminated against for being X once&amp;quot;, and&#xA;all the other traditional institutional tricks to ignore and minimize&#xA;problems like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 The occasional actual female/POC/etc voice in&#xA;comments or answers saying &amp;quot;yes this happens a lot&amp;quot; is often ignored&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3  Then the question is often closed and/or deleted as &amp;quot;having no&#xA;place on the Workplace,&amp;quot; as apparently navigating institutional bias&#xA;in the workplace isn't on topic for the Workplace&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would agree with your list of concerns, though I would add to it,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvotes often happen to minorities who express concerns about discrimination in the workplace and to allies who advocate for egalitarian treatment in the workplace.  For example, women who express concerns about sexism get downvoted, and men who post answers that support women’s equality tend to get down voted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This dynamic creates a silencing effect, which is prejudicial.  A common dynamic of oppression is that the minority is not allowed to voice their concerns.  Complaints that the question is not relevant or not phrased properly are just indirect mechanisms to shut down the minority’s voice, effectively continuing to enact prejudice.  For example, consider dress codes that bar African culture, where the authority states that this is just intended for neatness and formality, but really the codes are intended to keep Blacks out of the venue.  A similar dynamic occurs within StackExchange, to keep minority posters out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question stated, “&lt;strong&gt;How do we do better?&lt;/strong&gt;”  I brainstormed a few options that are listed below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Create a permanent link to a reference page about how to support workplace diversity within online communications.  List what types of behavior are appropriate and not appropriate.  Have this link appear at the top of “The Workplace” main page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Create a safe space for oppressed groups to discuss diversity issues in the workplace.  This might be a sub-site to “The Workplace”.  (I am not sure that the StackExchange structure supports this), or a new site could be created within the “Professional” tab in StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ensure that there are representatives from oppressed groups in the moderator team and that these moderators support equal rights.  No Phyllis Schlafly types please.  (For those who do not know, Phyllis Schlafly was a woman who was against women’s rights.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Develop a mission statement that supports diversity in the workplace, and post this as a permanent link in the top of “The Workplace” main page.  Having a mission statement will help influence the direction of the community, so they know that diversity will be supported, and discriminatory behavior would be discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119709" LastActivityDate="2021-05-02T19:52:32.283" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6883" CreationDate="2021-05-02T20:09:24.570" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Strengths:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a senior technical worker, I have found situations in the work environment, where I am the only person at my level on the team.  There may be no one to ask advice within my company.  This can be because no one else has comparable skills or because of political reasons.  TWP offers a space where I can ask for advice from other professionals within the industry and get knowledgeable feedback.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Weaknesses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a female technical worker, support for discrimination issues in the workplace is lacking on TWP.  I can also see this occurring with other dimensions of diversity, such as race, socioeconomic status, LGBT, disability, and nationality.  More details about this issue are addressed in the thread, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6838/how-can-we-make-the-workplace-more-welcoming-to-people-in-marginalized-groups&quot;&gt;How can we make the Workplace more welcoming to people in marginalized groups?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119709" LastActivityDate="2021-05-02T20:09:24.570" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6883" CreationDate="2021-05-08T23:09:31.870" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is a fundamental, intrinsic limitation of TWP which might cause new and less new users to feel alienated an unwanted. &lt;em&gt;The questions are meant to address problems which can be solved.&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;In the real workplace - especially away from code and hard numbers - most doubts, conflicts, complications arise from politics, personal conflicts, ethics, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many such situations that are simply too complex to be solved with &amp;quot;do what your manager tells you&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;get a lawyer&amp;quot;. Especially when the questions is asked by somebody who is not able to solve the problem through his/her manager, or who would like to hear some &amp;quot;friendly advice&amp;quot; before investing in a lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been here for a few years, and as my career advanced, the challenges I face became more and more complex - and not on the technical side. Quora at least will allow people to hear different opinions and perspectives, and maybe sometimes we should recommend users to visit other websites for their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38290" LastActivityDate="2021-05-08T23:09:31.870" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6924" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-16T20:07:03.567" Score="1" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/170867/got-rejected-in-a-coding-interview-even-though-i-felt-i-could-get-to-the-next-ro&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; some time ago and it got closed. Apparently, the question was not focused enough so I edited the question yesterday and raised a flag to have it reopened. I see that the number of my flags has gone back from 9 to 10 so I guess the moderators decided against reopening my question. No comments were given for why my request was rejected. I want this question to be reopened so I would appreciate it if I can get &lt;strong&gt;more specific feedback&lt;/strong&gt; for the current form of my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="123677" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2021-05-16T21:44:25.583" LastActivityDate="2021-05-17T09:29:35.570" Title="More specific feedback for why my question has remained closed" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|closed-questions|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6924" CreationDate="2021-05-16T21:39:40.247" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was closed by the community. I see no reason to reopen it as it hasn't substantially changed. It has 9 answers already, none of which suited you. If it didn't have the answers I might be more inclined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community can reopen it if they wish. This is the right place to ask for that to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2021-05-16T21:44:03.553" LastActivityDate="2021-05-16T21:44:03.553" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6924" CreationDate="2021-05-17T09:29:35.570" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for the people who have closed the question, but I'd hazard a guess that the people latched onto the coding issue itself instead of looking at the workplace issue. We've seen in the past that supplying coding or technical examples often leads to discussions around those technical aspects of the question rather than addressing the interview/rejection aspect (which is more on-topic for this SE site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Removing the code snippet and generalising the issue (&amp;quot;I was given a coding exercise and couldn't solve it in time, but did after the interview&amp;quot;) may have resulted in more focussed answers and comments and protection from closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user124851" LastActivityDate="2021-05-17T09:29:35.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6927" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-29T20:05:48.993" Score="2" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see it quite often on Workspace, the questions that are missing the crucial details (country), which makes the question unanswerable. People answer making some guesses that the OP is located somewhere in the Western Europe, USA or Canada, and if they guess correctly, or the labour laws are similar in that point, the answers make actually sense for the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, actually the answer valid for any country on the world should be correct, which means, that the question is too broad. At least in my opinion, because on any other stackexchange site I know, if a question can have at least 2 contradicting answers, that are valid, there's something wrong with the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a moderation failure? Or the Workspace encourage list questions of the type: (example) what is my notice period with 2 years of experience, with 190+ different answers stating with &amp;quot;In country X&amp;quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that some people might be ignorant of the fact, that most topics about workspace are regulated, and the regulations strongly differ between countries, but if they persist on ignoring comments stating that, the question should be closed until the relevant details are provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the community prefer Quora-like open questions, then excuse me for mentioning the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64225" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2021-06-01T15:29:10.267" LastActivityDate="2021-06-04T21:58:10.207" Title="Hot network question impossible to answer because OP doesn't provide the crucial details - moderation failure?" Tags="|discussion|tags|asking-questions|hot-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6927" CreationDate="2021-06-01T07:08:23.980" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of the questions here aren't country-specific - they can relate to workplace interpersonal relationships, communication, process, interview techniques, etc.  Questions that obviously do involve legality quickly gain comments asking for location information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People, of course, make educated assumptions on location based on the questions content, spelling, the user's name, and the location indicated in the users network profile (if given).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace isn't a site where there can only be one &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; answer - people offer answers that can be of use to the OP and are marked as answers if they're more appropriate to their own situation than other answers.  Contradictory answers can be good as they can open up a more holistic view on the situation, viewed from various different viewpoints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user124851" LastActivityDate="2021-06-01T07:08:23.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6927" CreationDate="2021-06-02T16:22:02.313" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's face it, the concept of accepted answers absolutely sucks for The Workplace, as I'd argue that the goal for The Workplace content isn't to give absolute answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You mention that various regulations around the world influence (or should influence) answers on The Workplace, which is absolutely correct, but in addition to that the specifics of contracts at play can significantly alter the playing field. Analyzing contracts is something that I've never seen done in The Workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also close by saying that there are seeming two goals for The Workplace, that being giving specific advice for specific issues, and the other giving general advice for common problems (that may be prompted by a question). I'd probably say that different users have a different understanding on what The Workplace is meant to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2021-06-02T16:22:02.313" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6927" CreationDate="2021-06-04T21:58:10.207" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's a failure of community moderation.  The Workspace community doesn't have a real high bar for making people get a specific question, and folks just rush to answer anyway. I often VtC or comment but usually things stall out at ~3 votes to close and folks just go ahead and discuss quora style anyway.  But if the community doesn't agree they need to adhere more to the SE Q&amp;amp;A format there's really nothing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastActivityDate="2021-06-04T21:58:10.207" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6932" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-06-08T17:31:38.257" Score="-4" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am finding it hard to justify recommending TWP after this.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/173302/telling-a-coworker-they-arent-invited-into-my-house&quot;&gt;Telling a Coworker they aren&amp;#39;t invited into my house&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user has existing tensions with a co-worker, and one of the symptoms of the dysfunctional situations is needing to prevent the co-worker to attend an event organised at her/his home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most upvoted question is &amp;quot;solving the problem&amp;quot; by explaining how to assertively ask the co-worker to go away if she/he comes by.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is a question for a problem which has a solution.&#xA;Yes, the answer is a potentially valid solution.&#xA;No, this doesn't solve anything. The user is going to have the same tensions in the office the day after, with more tensions arising from this new incident - and if it's not this party, it will be another event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the community is becoming disconnected by the workplace. In the workplace, solving a symptom does not solve the cause. People are people, and &amp;quot;questions with an answer&amp;quot; are spectacularly misleading, biased ways to shut down a problem without thinking hard about the big picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38290" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2021-06-08T18:48:32.347" LastActivityDate="2021-06-09T02:12:12.277" Title="This community is disconnected from the workplace" Tags="|support|specific-question|quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6932" CreationDate="2021-06-08T18:42:49.687" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you offer up a better answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2121" LastActivityDate="2021-06-08T18:42:49.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6932" CreationDate="2021-06-08T23:32:46.913" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answers are to the questions. Your answer is about the mental health issue (imo quitting is a good option for that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not really sure about it because over here PTSD is an extreme diagnosis usually for victims of something horrific and violent. I'm assuming it means something else in the users locale or the doctor would already have told the OP to get out of that environment as their first action, or at the very least take extended leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2021-06-09T02:12:12.277" LastActivityDate="2021-06-09T02:12:12.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6935" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6936" CreationDate="2021-06-09T22:09:59.367" Score="10" ViewCount="387" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read the discussions about being more inclusive etc. and I have impression that they are quite disconnected from the reality. Because those apparently marginalized groups are doing quite well. And their point of view is very well represented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there's the Silent Majority.&#xA;People, who are poorly educated.&#xA;People, who are not assertive.&#xA;People, who have average or poor communication skills.&#xA;People, who copy/paste motivation letter from the internet, because otherwise they'd have to write 'I want to work for you because I hope you will pay me'.&#xA;People, who can't afford to polish their CV, because their situation is more likely to worsen than to improve if they start looking for the new job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a typical highly upvoted answer is base on the memes of the upper-middle class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Polish your CV, although the undeniable proof of the existence of God is the fact that you have somehow managed to get hired, and you don't want to put your faith on trial again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make HR your enemy, although they are usually the only people in company that know what empathy is without looking up in wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we look up on the answers from the point of view of average person, and not the highly educated big city elite, how appropriate they would be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64225" LastActivityDate="2021-06-24T17:28:17.027" Title="How inclusive we are for the Silent Majority?" Tags="|discussion|inclusion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6935" CreationDate="2021-06-10T04:16:45.137" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;We definitely have a challenge here on Workplace with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People not well specifying their country, job type, and so on in questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People not able to understand their context is not universal when they answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result, since we have a lot of middle class techies here, people tend to get middle class techie answers.  Some of these answers aren't just wrong, they are dangerous and inappropriate for people working retail, or in countries with high unemployment, and so on where work norms differ substantially.  Add to this the general Internet Tough Guy syndrome leading answerers to often just reply to any issue someone wants help navigating with “Red flag! Quit!  Tell them to stuff it!” (which assume someone is privileged enough to get new employment immediately or can easily get by without it) and you get low quality answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general SE answer to this on other sites is to ask querents to add the relevant contextual info and put questions on hold until it’s there, and then hold answers to the network-wide guidance of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; criteria including the Back It Up! guideline, which in short says that between “objective” questions and “opinion” questions are &amp;quot;expertise&amp;quot; questions - and answers to expertise questions are useful when they &lt;strong&gt;demonstrate their expertise in that specific field and situation&lt;/strong&gt;.  “I have worked as a retail manager and...”; “When I was in that situation this is what I did and how it turned out...”.  And then downvote answers that are just someone talking out of their butt - &amp;quot;Well, I am a worker who has never managed but I think I'm smart so of course I can tell you about this management technique...&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6838/how-can-we-make-the-workplace-more-welcoming-to-people-in-marginalized-groups&quot;&gt;I don't agree&lt;/a&gt; with the lede in the question about there being no problem with marginalized people being well served here (in fact, the exact same syndrome where people give largely privileged-middle-class-techie answers because that's their only context means they also largely give privileged-white-European-male answers that don't work for other contexts), but it's not an &amp;quot;either-or&amp;quot; in terms of only one group can be well served or not by the answers here. In all cases, Good Subjective, Bad Subjective helps us get good answers and not subjective and useless-to-harmful opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastEditorUserId="16695" LastEditDate="2021-06-24T17:28:17.027" LastActivityDate="2021-06-24T17:28:17.027" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6937" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6939" CreationDate="2021-06-11T16:58:03.240" Score="7" ViewCount="557" Body="&lt;p&gt;Follow-up to: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6199/should-we-answer-questions-that-are-likely-to-be-closed&quot;&gt;Should we answer questions that are likely to be closed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently encountered a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/173509/accepting-jobs-and-just-collecting-money-while-waiting-to-get-terminated&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that basically asks how to defraud companies. The OP was &amp;quot;asking&amp;quot; if they could apply for a bunch of remote jobs, not really do the work, and collect 2 - 3 months of salary before they're fired. I put &amp;quot;asking&amp;quot; in quotes because its premise is so obviously ridiculous that I'm pretty sure that we're being trolled, but in any case, several people gave (good) answers explaining why that's a terrible idea. My question is, should we even take questions like this seriously enough to answer them in the first place, or should we just downvote, flag them as Rude/Abusive, and/or vote to close? What's the proper way to handle this kind of question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: unlike my previous question, I'm not just asking about questions that are merely off-topic - I'm asking about questions with obviously ridiculous premises, such as how to defraud companies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61906" LastActivityDate="2021-06-28T23:01:07.430" Title="How should questions with obviously ridiculous premises (such as how to engage in fraud) be handled?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|asking-questions|questions|trolling|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6938" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6941" CreationDate="2021-06-11T21:44:40.003" Score="9" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/support&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;support&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;support&lt;/a&gt; tag currently has 10 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no tag description, and very little consistency in how it's used. By way of example, one question is about tech support, another one is how to handle an unsupportive boss, and one is about whether it's appropriate for a design engineer to be asked to do field support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag has an unclear meaning and adds nothing to the questions that use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we burninate this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61906" LastEditorUserId="61906" LastEditDate="2021-06-11T22:04:40.277" LastActivityDate="2021-06-16T17:33:13.937" Title="Can someone [support] me in burninating this tag?" Tags="|discussion|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6937" CreationDate="2021-06-12T02:11:48.573" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag for mod attention, downvote, and vote to close and/or delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering bad questions - troll questions for sure, and anything where the poster does not really have that problem - is not helpful.  If someone really has a related real question later they should post it, and clarify it, and provide useful vote/accept activity - all of which tends to a good question and good answers, not a bad question and random answers. Hoping to later find droppings of gems in the answers to a troll question is a waste of everyone involved’s time - answerers, commenters, later site users searching for good answers to real questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastEditorUserId="16695" LastEditDate="2021-06-12T15:47:04.533" LastActivityDate="2021-06-12T15:47:04.533" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6937" CreationDate="2021-06-12T21:16:23.207" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The criteria should not be, how stupid is the OP, or how ridiculous assumptions he made, but can the question be objectively answered, and will the answer profit future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question can be stated as, how the companies hiring for remote position prevent from being frauded. And the answer is, that either they hire for contracts, where they can pay only for results, or in case of the actual employment, they protect themselves with the clauses that requires the acceptance of the employer to take a side job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stupid and annoying the trolls can be, never underestimate their potential to point the real problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64225" LastActivityDate="2021-06-12T21:16:23.207" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6938" CreationDate="2021-06-16T17:33:13.937" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the votes of this question, on the comments, and also on my judgment, I proceeded to remove such tags. It is now a pile of digital ash...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also added relevant, related tags to the edited questions, in the case where it seemed fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zm85C.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2021-06-16T17:33:13.937" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6935" CreationDate="2021-06-23T09:43:38.197" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read the discussions about being more inclusive etc. and I have&#xA;impression that they are quite disconnected from the reality. Because&#xA;those apparently marginalized groups are doing quite well. And their&#xA;point of view is very well represented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there's the Silent Majority. People, who are poorly educated.&#xA;People, who are not assertive. People, who have average or poor&#xA;communication skills. People, who copy/paste motivation letter from&#xA;the internet, because otherwise they'd have to write 'I want to work&#xA;for you because I hope you will pay me'. People, who can't afford to&#xA;polish their CV, because their situation is more likely to worsen than&#xA;to improve if they start looking for the new job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To use your example of a CV, I think many people would be advised to use a template. In any case, I have seen some frankly horrible answers involving suggestions people should be overly assertive, which may work for the person answering, but may completely backfire, and backfire horribly for the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a typical highly upvoted answer is base on the memes of the upper-middle class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Polish your CV, although the undeniable proof of the existence of God is the fact that you have somehow managed to get hired, and you don't want to put your faith on trial again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I absolutely &lt;strong&gt;absolutely&lt;/strong&gt; agree that a lot of people here are very quick to declare red flags, and indicate people should leave their jobs, or even walk out of interviews for even the slightest aggrivation. I would also say it in much stronger language. It borders on extreme arrogance in some cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A slightly more charitable interpretation is that polishing off your CV means to keep it ready, and be able to apply for jobs at a moments notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make HR your enemy, although they are usually the only people in&#xA;company that know what empathy is without looking up in wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with you here. Though you should not make anybody your enemy. Yo have to be realistic about what motivates people, and for HR, they have a job to do. That's the simple reality. It does not involve being empathetic any more than any other employee of the business. That's just the reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we look up on the answers from the point of view of average person, and not the highly educated big city elite, how appropriate they would be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be highly appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2021-06-23T09:43:38.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6935" CreationDate="2021-06-23T18:07:18.870" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we do have a problem where many answers are based on very specific circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In plenty of cases answers make assumptions that may not correspond to the circumstances of the asker, never mind the circumstances of anyone else reading the answer. Even when the answer is based on the specifics stated in the question, that's often still not a huge improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are supposed to be a Q&amp;amp;A that provides value to more than just the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If different circumstances would lead to different recommendations for the same basic question, answers should mention the different possible circumstances and each corresponding recommendation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address points raised in another answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree that we should try to put all circumstantial information into a question (as opposed to addressing the different possibilities in answers) and close those that are missing some information. That just limits the value of the question and answers and pushes us away from what a Q&amp;amp;A is, in the sense that no-one will find answers to their questions through Google here and we will have no real duplicates (because every question and answer would be too full of situation-specific details to be helpful to anyone else who has &amp;quot;the same&amp;quot; question). This is already mostly where we're at though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the idea that only someone who's been in pretty much the exact same situation may post an answer for reasons I detailed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2993/can-we-start-enforcing-the-back-it-up-policy/3059#3059&quot;&gt;an answer I posted some time ago on Interpersonal SE Meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Lower class people are exactly who should be cautious about taking things to HR (but no reasonable person would say you should &amp;quot;make them your enemy&amp;quot;). If you're in an in-demand field earning 6 figures and you can have another similar job in a few hours, if you really need one, putting some misplaced trust in HR shouldn't be a particularly huge issue (and in such cases HR is probably more likely to be trustable anyway). For some low-level employee whose employer doesn't care much about them and who really needs to keep their job, having them trust a company representative to act in their best interest can be disastrous.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&amp;quot;The silent majority&amp;quot; is a politically charged term and I assume you used that just to give your post a more catchy title / make it more controversial, but I'll just ignore that.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10582" LastActivityDate="2021-06-23T18:07:18.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6937" CreationDate="2021-06-28T23:01:07.430" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As stupid and ridiculous as many questions may seem to some of us more seasoned, they may not seen as obvious to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My standard approach to troll posts is to look at Poe's law, and realize that nobody has a troll detector, then answer them honestly.  If there are any lewd or salacious bits, we edit them out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sets up a win-win-Win&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Win: we can assume good intentions, and not second guess everyone&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Win: We take away the trolls' fun, as the goal of trolling is to cause discord&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Win: If someone is considering something as ill advised, we can advise them against it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2021-06-28T23:01:07.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-08T14:45:20.027" Score="26" ViewCount="480" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed a recent question with the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/women&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;women&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;women&lt;/a&gt; which has no description and only 15 questions. They are questions involving women, but not really about women. The questions might be better tagged with something more descriptive of the issue, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gender&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gender&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gender&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/discrimination&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discrimination&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discrimination&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/women&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;women&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;women&lt;/a&gt; is useful in some way I’ve overlooked, let’s fill in the tag wiki for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26699" LastEditorUserId="26699" LastEditDate="2021-07-10T16:25:58.020" LastActivityDate="2021-07-10T16:25:58.020" Title="Is “women” a useful tag? (Nope, it’s been burninated)" Tags="|discussion|tags|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6949" CreationDate="2021-07-08T15:16:09.693" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly I didn't even know we had one! Looking at the questions tagged with it I can't really see the need for it personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll hang back a bit and let others weigh in but I wouldn't see any problem with burninating it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2021-07-08T15:16:09.693" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6951" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-08T18:30:13.827" Score="4" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another tag I’ve come across with no description is &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/estimations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;estimations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;estimations&lt;/a&gt;. I think it’s trying to cover questions involving giving or otherwise dealing with estimates, but I find the plural a bit confusing if I interpret estimation as “act or instance of estimating”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There’s only 6 questions tagged with it, but I didn’t see a better existing tag, so I’m not sure I’d want it disappeared entirely. However, since it’s used on so few questions it probably wouldn’t be a big loss if others felt it wasn’t useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26699" LastActivityDate="2024-03-30T23:04:45.527" Title="What is the tag “estimations” for?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-wikis|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6952" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-09T15:28:04.230" Score="-4" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been noticing over the last couple  of days that a bunch of super old threads (4-5 years old) have been getting bumped to the top of the forum.  Can we not do that?  Makes it hard to know which questions need attention; answering a 4-5 year old question because you  didn't notice  the post-date in small, grey-on-white font,  is kind of awkward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88183" LastActivityDate="2021-07-09T16:07:06.880" Title="Bumping super-old threads" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6952" CreationDate="2021-07-09T16:07:06.880" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can't really control whether a question is going to get bumped or not - if any of the events listed &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/48578/what-can-cause-a-question-to-be-bumped&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; happens it's going to get a bump to the top of the Active list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes this isn't desirable - and it's why things like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6949/is-women-a-useful-tag&quot;&gt;cleaning up old tags&lt;/a&gt; can be done a few questions at a time to stop the the homepage getting flooded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If avoiding these older questions is the goal a workaround is to browse by new - by going to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions&lt;/a&gt; rather than the home page and making sure &amp;quot;Newest&amp;quot; is selected as the sort order (it's the default IIRC)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2021-07-09T16:07:06.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6951" CreationDate="2021-07-14T18:55:56.240" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two things that come to mind when I see &lt;code&gt;estimates&lt;/code&gt; (or variation):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Time estimates. Examples: how long a task will take, how long a customer/partner/whoever will take to get back to us.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Financial estimates: costs of labor, parts, etc.; profits/losses of taking on a project.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote to keep it. We could rename it or split it off into different tags (e.g. &lt;code&gt;time-estimates&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;cost-estimates&lt;/code&gt;, etc.)? Although I think at this point splitting it might be too granular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98765" LastActivityDate="2021-07-14T18:55:56.240" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6955" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-16T03:09:57.443" Score="-5" ViewCount="907" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/174657/employee-will-not-come-into-the-office-and-managers-will-not-enforce-it&quot;&gt;Employee will not come into the office and managers will not enforce it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am getting a lot of downvotes on this question. I would like to get some feedback on what can I improve to change that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127365" OwnerDisplayName="discipline" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2021-07-16T03:49:14.307" LastActivityDate="2021-07-16T16:28:18.007" Title="Why the downvotes?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6955" CreationDate="2021-07-16T05:29:33.830" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question wasn't &amp;quot;How should I handle this situation?&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;What should I do differently next time?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You went straight to &amp;quot;Where in the USA do people value rules?&amp;quot;, which implies that people (including 3 managing directors) don't value rules unless they enforce those rules exactly how you want them to be enforced.  You're not open to the possibility that you might be the one in the wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111552" LastActivityDate="2021-07-16T05:29:33.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6955" CreationDate="2021-07-16T05:47:17.270" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downvoted because I don't like the premise or tone of the question. Premise-wise, it's basically asking us to validate and encourage obsessive, rigid thinking and behavior. Tone-wise, it's effectively a rant in disguise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61906" LastActivityDate="2021-07-16T05:47:17.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6955" CreationDate="2021-07-16T07:33:04.927" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I told you in a comment, I think you clearly lack HR job training.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly there is no such thing as HR education, HR apprenticeship or HR college classes. Which is a shame, given that your &amp;quot;workers&amp;quot; probably all would not have been employed if they did not have a multi year education in their respective professions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not downvoted your question personally, but &amp;quot;lacks basic job training&amp;quot; could be seen as &amp;quot;no prior research&amp;quot; when asking why something basic on the job does not work as expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2021-07-16T07:33:04.927" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6955" CreationDate="2021-07-16T08:01:27.057" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this site has a rule of assuming good faith, it's fair to assume some of the downvoters thought you were not asking in good faith and were simply trolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26622" LastActivityDate="2021-07-16T08:01:27.057" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6955" CreationDate="2021-07-16T08:51:00.753" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to get some feedback on what can I improve to change that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's avoid being personal about &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;, instead see the instance of HR that you represent. That means ignore if you have fun doing that or you realize you got the unfortunate job and have no choice.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;However your name and facts you give suggest you really are too far from rational behavior, as well as the rules you are checking are... but let us only see the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summarizing the post you refer to, someone works from home because of an injury - instead sick leave.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This person gets crutches suggested, with all trouble it brings to commute every day.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;All managers are activated and the employee is threatened with termination although their manager is fine with that.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;That's a situation completely out of every sanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be rules - made by someone far from reality and sense. But nobody likes that.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Hence, perhaps the downvotes come because you keep digging deeper and deeper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83122" LastActivityDate="2021-07-16T08:51:00.753" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6955" CreationDate="2021-07-16T13:38:45.937" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't downvote, and I tried to set up an answer as clear and neutral as possible. That being said, think about the following points :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone seem to disagree with you&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most people (including me) seem to think your behaviour is extremely agressive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Instead of answering the commenter's points, you open another thread to complain that everyone is downvoting you&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's typically the behaviour of someone not used to meet opposition. I've got bad news for you : corporate life is full of opportunities when things don't happen as we want. It happens to me all the time, as well, not to have things as I want at work. I do adapt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to adapt and adjust as well. When things obviously are not unfolding as you imagined, then the most likely reason is that your expectations were unrealistic. At my own workplace, my own expectations were unrealistic more than once. I did adjust. It's time for you to learn to do the same, instead of blaming the entire world for not fitting your expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44555" LastActivityDate="2021-07-16T13:38:45.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6955" CreationDate="2021-07-16T14:36:37.557" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I downvoted for several reasons and I am guessing these also applied to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You posted that it was your job to check that people returned yet you seem to think that it is your job to force people to return&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You seem to think it is your job to determine if a reason for working from home is valid or not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You seem to think that it is your job to determine who can and can't work from home.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You seem to to think that you have the authority to overrule managing directors who have approved work from home&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You seem to think that you have the authority to fire people who are working from home if you don't approve of it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall it seems that you seem to think that you are above managing directors and in control of what everyone can and can't do in the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note you should hope that no one from your employer finds out about either of these threads as they will not look kindly upon you taking this internal issue public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25311" LastEditorUserId="25311" LastEditDate="2021-07-16T16:28:18.007" LastActivityDate="2021-07-16T16:28:18.007" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6955" CreationDate="2021-07-16T16:19:09.910" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to give it up for your own mental health. You have lost. Stop trying to extend the dispute by finding new people to pester, because everybody will say the same thing. You are wrong. Posting here will achieve nothing. Do not do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, ask yourself why everybody is disagreeing with you. Consider whether you are wrong, and whether this is something you should devote any more energy to. Sometimes you just have to give up and move on. Ideally, you will be able to see other people's points of view, but if not, just put it behind you and do the rest of your job. Maybe take a vacation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People reading this will be aware that there are strange people who become obsessed with something that everybody else knows is untrue: some of them believe in aliens or weird cultish religions, that science is a lie, the earth is flat, space travel a hoax, or the universe is only explicable by visualising time as a cube. Others believe more mundane things that are almost certainly incorrect and definitely nothing they can influence. These strange people spend the rest of their lives doing things like printing pamphlets and self-publishing books and handing them out on the street, running purple-texted websites, or in extreme cases they do much worse things to try and attract attention or take revenge. It is in our interest and your interest that you stop and think what you are doing and where it will take you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94057" LastActivityDate="2021-07-16T16:19:09.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6964" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-19T21:26:39.247" Score="4" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the &amp;quot;legal or company specific&amp;quot; close reason is being abused to close any question that touches at all on a company or legality - which really is most questions.  Examples are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/174699/soon-to-be-ex-employer-trying-to-force-me-to-disclose-name-of-new-employer/&quot;&gt;Soon-to-be-ex-employer trying to force me to disclose name of new employer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/174745/found-out-i-dont-make-overtime-pay-would-it-be-taboo-to-charge-for-hours-over/&quot;&gt;Found out I don&amp;#39;t make overtime pay - would it be taboo to charge for hours over 40 without permission?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are related to a given company - most Workplace questions are - and can potentially have legal escalation - again, most Workplace questions could - but the questions are general and do not require legal advice or in depth knowledge of a given company's policies to answer well; both have plenty of great answers about synthesizing approaches using communication, social skills, generic employment legal principles, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this?  How do we correctly scope those close reasons to fit the much more specific cases they are there for which are enumerated in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1856/what-is-asking-for-legal-advice&quot;&gt;What is asking for legal advice?&lt;/a&gt; (which might ought to be marked [faq])?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastActivityDate="2021-09-30T20:57:48.940" Title="Why are people obsessed with closing good questions as &quot;legal or company specific&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|legal-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6964" CreationDate="2021-07-21T14:29:02.843" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there’s a range of how people read questions that stretches from “The question asks this and that is what answers should limit themselves to” to “The question asks this, but I think they really want to know that”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your first example the question states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question: Should I just never update my LinkedIn profile for the next year or two (i.e. so my soon-to-be-ex-employer doesn't figure out where I'm going). This is stressing me out, and I don't have the money for a drawn-out legal battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A very literally-minded person would read that as someone asking for personal advice that is out of scope for a Stack Exchange site. Someone from the other end of the range might ignore that and see the question as asking “What can be done to prevent a vindictive ex-employer from contacting my new employer to cause trouble for me?” and interpret it as on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s a difference of opinion, not a matter of who is right and who is wrong, and as a very literally-minded person, I can tell you right now there is no change of wording of the guidelines or close reasons that will magically make folks like me interpret questions loosely enough to satisfy someone at the other end of the range. The only solution is to edit the question so it more clearly matches the on-topic intent of the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community members also prioritize helping people asking questions and our mission to collaboratively create a reference of knowledge differently, which may make some of us more tolerant of interesting questions that aren’t exactly on-topic, and some of us more focused on keeping sort of off-topic questions from stealing resources from obviously on-topic questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s frustrating for everyone involved when people disagree on what is best for the site. Compromise is hard, especially when one side is focused on more abstract long term “good” and the other is focused on more tangible immediate “good”. We just have to focus on the fact almost all of us are trying to do “good”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t vote to close questions that seem off-topic to me, but which have already attracted answers with useful information. I know my tendencies toward literalness and try to remind myself that the goal here is to gather knowledge, not close questions. If an off-topic question elicits good objective answers from people who interpreted it differently from the way I did, then trying to impose my interpretation after the fact doesn’t seem constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is attracting the sort of answers that the close reasons are there to try to prevent, I feel obligated to vote to close, and I would hope that someone who might be leaning toward “on-topic” but can see it’s not clearcut, would support or not oppose closing the question with an eye toward bringing the question more clearly on-topic and reopening it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26699" LastActivityDate="2021-07-21T14:29:02.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6966" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-08-22T14:14:32.333" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted the question below at the Freelancing stack&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://freelancing.stackexchange.com/questions/10215/dealing-with-a-startup-how-common-is-commercial-credit-vs-equity&quot;&gt;https://freelancing.stackexchange.com/questions/10215/dealing-with-a-startup-how-common-is-commercial-credit-vs-equity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it is a pretty low traffic corner of the site, and seems to be visited mostly by people doing short runs at Upwork etc, which isn't really the situation in this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would cross-posting this be OT?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124315" LastActivityDate="2021-08-28T12:34:58.677" Title="Would this question from the Freelancing stack be appropriate?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6966" CreationDate="2021-08-28T12:34:58.677" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The topic: Dealing with a startup, how common is commercial credit (vs equity)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would get a lot of close votes on Personal Finance and Money. The focus of the site is personal finance with a little but of small business thrown in. This question would be beyond the score of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is a good match for the workplace, because the question isn't about navigating the workplace, it is about corporate finance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2021-08-28T12:34:58.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6968" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-02T08:11:32.777" Score="1" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some other user edited my question and then it got closed. I edited it back, along with some other changes, to make it become more to my original intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/177649/is-there-a-minimum-number-of-candidates-that-need-to-be-interviewed-before-a-dec&quot;&gt;Is there a minimum number of candidates that need to be interviewed before a decision is made?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61367" LastActivityDate="2021-09-17T08:44:13.617" Title="I edited my question. How do I get it back?" Tags="|support|reopen-request|closed-questions|editing|offtopic|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6969" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-03T10:38:32.353" Score="-1" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be the wrong place to ask this question; I have no idea whether this is a workplace.SE or a generic SE problem. Feel free to migrate accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent workplace.SE post contains a typographic error: a single word has a single spurious letter. The rest of the post is quite well-written, so nothing else obvious is to be corrected here. So in the last few minutes of my lunch break, I go and fix this typo. The following error message appears:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3ZV0O.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3ZV0O.png&quot; alt=&quot;Edits must be at least 6 characters; your edit summary must be at least 10 characters&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I can circumvent the &amp;quot;edit summary&amp;quot; error message by spelling out &amp;quot;typographic error&amp;quot; or actually mentioning the word that I fixed (although I don't see the point of that; the information is available elsewhere in the edit, so this is just hoop jumping for the sake of hoop jumping), but the &amp;quot;Edits must be at least 6 characters&amp;quot; error message makes me just leave the website without correcting the error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of now, the error is still present in the post. Surely that cannot be the intended consequence of this limitation. Can we scrap it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user126226" LastActivityDate="2021-09-03T18:44:03.143" Title="Can we remove some of the limitations to editing posts?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6969" CreationDate="2021-09-03T18:38:49.267" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can't change this it's system wide. I don't see it as a problem, as it's in there by design. But the 6 character limit does go away as you progress in rep. I'm not sure at what stage but I can make single character edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 10 character limit to the edit summary doesn't. But if you're pedantic enough to fix a single character it shouldn't be onerous to type 'Fixed spelling' or 'Fixed typo.' or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Fix typo' is itself a typing error in terms of what is meant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2021-09-03T18:44:03.143" LastActivityDate="2021-09-03T18:44:03.143" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6971" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-13T22:52:34.203" Score="3" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/workplace-rhythm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;workplace-rhythm&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;workplace-rhythm&lt;/a&gt; seems to have no discernable meaning as it has no description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we just get rid of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40085" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2021-09-14T15:23:25.460" LastActivityDate="2021-11-10T17:17:12.727" Title="What function does the &quot;workplace-rhythm&quot; tag serve" Tags="|discussion|tags|burninate-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6971" CreationDate="2021-09-14T12:58:52.560" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some clusters of questions cover:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Work interruptions/distractions and maintaining focus (productivity)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finding work meaningful, not being bored (work/life balance)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Social interactions with colleagues (professionalism, company-culture)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Personal conflicts with colleagues, managing stressful work situations (conflict)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, this is too many different interpretations of what it means for the tag to be applied consistently, and we should either get rid of it or write a description of the sorts of questions it should be applied to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26699" LastEditorUserId="26699" LastEditDate="2021-11-10T17:17:12.727" LastActivityDate="2021-11-10T17:17:12.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6971" CreationDate="2021-09-15T11:56:01.207" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before getting rid of the tag we should address each of the questions to make sure the tags they are left with make sense. This may require that each question be re-tagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is done correctly then the tag will have no questions remaining, or a core group of questions that will make it easy to write a tag wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2021-09-15T11:56:01.207" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6968" CreationDate="2021-09-17T08:44:13.617" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a pity this question is closed, because even if the the wrong question is posed, there are a few great answers that the community may find interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not satisfied with the mentality of &amp;quot;you got your answer, what more do you want?&amp;quot;. Content serves more users than just the person who posed the OP. It's great that users want to improve their content, even if they have answers to their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the &amp;quot;Accepted Answer&amp;quot; functionality is next to useless on this Stack, so I don't think it should have any bearing on if a question is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2021-09-17T08:44:13.617" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6975" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6978" CreationDate="2021-09-20T02:35:36.880" Score="7" ViewCount="482" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/369568/unpinning-the-accepted-answer-from-the-top-of-the-list-of-answers?cb=1&quot;&gt;will no longer pin the accepted answer to the top&lt;/a&gt;. Other sites can do this either on demand or can opt out if the change is pushed site-wide.  The answers would be listed by highest to lowest votes instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit - 2021-10-07&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the vote pattern we have reported back to main meta to confirm The Workplace would like to preserve the current behavior that pins the accepted answer to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Votes at time of confirmation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Action&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Upvotes&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Downvotes&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Net Score&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Keep Pin&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;+21&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-5&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;16&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Unpin&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;+12&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2021-10-13T03:38:26.293" LastActivityDate="2021-10-13T03:38:26.293" Title="Any thoughts on unpinning the accepted answer to a question from the top of the Answers list" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6975" CreationDate="2021-09-20T12:10:56.077" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we just get rid of the accepted answer altogether?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other Stacks it makes perfect sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have a question. You try the different answers. One of them works. That's your accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But with The Workplace content, there are often a whole bunch of &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; answers, a whole bunch of answers that may give you sub-optimal outcomes, and a whole bunch of answers that may be bad for the OP, but potentially good for other people with similar issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the best answer even leads to a bad outcome. And sometimes bad answers can lead to good outcomes. So I would say that the outcome is independent of the quality of the answer, though hopefully it converges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &amp;quot;accept&amp;quot; has about as much merit as a single up-vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2021-09-20T12:10:56.077" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6975" CreationDate="2021-09-20T16:47:20.753" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Don't Care&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no preference. It either makes no difference to me whether the accepted answer is pinned, or I think we should do something other than choosing between pinned or unpinned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26699" LastActivityDate="2021-09-20T16:47:20.753" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-09-20T16:47:20.753" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6975" CreationDate="2021-09-20T16:48:21.653" Score="17" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Pin the accepted answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep things the way they are; it works fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26699" LastActivityDate="2021-09-20T16:48:21.653" CommentCount="11" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-09-20T16:48:21.653" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6975" CreationDate="2021-09-20T16:50:23.010" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Unpin the accepted answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer shouldn't get special treatment; it should be sorted as it would have been if it hadn't been accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26699" LastEditorUserId="26699" LastEditDate="2021-09-21T12:19:43.580" LastActivityDate="2021-09-21T12:19:43.580" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-09-20T16:50:23.010" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6975" CreationDate="2021-09-20T17:29:41.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I, personally and for vindictive reasons, love winning the populist badge.  Nothing is more satisfying than having an answer show up with double the votes as the accepted answer.  It also puts up a clear comparison between the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All kidding aside, it does make for a considerable contrast, and it often demonstrates a user seeking validation vs a user seeking answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2021-09-20T19:51:17.263" LastActivityDate="2021-09-20T19:51:17.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6975" CreationDate="2021-09-20T21:27:28.337" Score="-8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By rep.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Order answers by the answerers reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2021-09-20T21:27:28.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6975" CreationDate="2021-09-20T21:33:51.217" Score="-7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;By tag badges&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Order answers by the most applicable tag badges of the answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2021-09-20T21:33:51.217" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6975" CreationDate="2021-09-23T13:11:33.083" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/370156/273494&quot;&gt;suggestion to pin the accepted answer &lt;strong&gt;below&lt;/strong&gt; the top voted answer&lt;/a&gt;. That system might give an advantage to the accepted answer over other highly scored answers, but the top voted answer would always &amp;quot;float to the top&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to know if anyone thinks that would be worth testing. We may not be able to choose that option for this effort, but if there's interest we might be able to get it on SE's radar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26699" LastActivityDate="2021-09-23T13:11:33.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6984" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-30T12:56:08.300" Score="11" ViewCount="389" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first time &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/178663/26699&quot;&gt;As a male, is it acceptable to wear black nail polish at work?&lt;/a&gt; made it into the reopen queue, it was unilaterally kept closed by a moderator. It now has 3 more reopen votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was closed as opinion based, but it is no more opinion based than the well-received question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/10579/26699&quot;&gt;Male wearing earrings in workplace (South Asia)&lt;/a&gt; If that question is on-topic, I think the nail polish question can be salvaged. Men wearing nail polish is very trendy right now, (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.elle.com/beauty/news/a19893/man-nail-polish/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;it's not a brand new trend&lt;/a&gt;) and I think having answers to the question &amp;quot;Is it acceptable at work?&amp;quot; would benefit men working in areas where the workplace norms are more &lt;a href=&quot;https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fashion-forward&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;more modern than things that are fashionable now&quot;&gt;fashion-forward&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/Dave_Navarro&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dave Navarro&lt;/a&gt; wearing black nail polish in 2014. If the author had suggested he wanted to wear hot pink, I would be more likely to have thought they were trolling, but black is the most conventional color for a man wearing nail polish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HLxCUm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HLxCUm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;masculine looking man in a black hoodie with tattoos wearing black nail polish&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know most people think of &amp;quot;the workplace&amp;quot; as a building full of cubicles and computers and people dressed in &amp;quot;business casual&amp;quot;. I don't think questions about other types of workplaces should be off-topic just because those sorts aren't the most common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26699" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2021-10-01T16:00:41.860" LastActivityDate="2021-10-02T20:17:41.450" Title="(Reopened) I think we should reopen the question about men wearing nail polish to work" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6984" CreationDate="2021-09-30T13:05:17.390" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, Yes, because it is answerable&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've worked every kind of job from the mop to the top, and other than certain industries that chase trends, it's a no go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The workplace is not fashion-forward.  There are a few industries where pretty much anything goes, but those are outliers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More to the point, Most blue collar jobs, if someone showed up wearing nail polish..... Well, things would not go well for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2021-09-30T19:16:43.370" LastActivityDate="2021-09-30T19:16:43.370" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6984" CreationDate="2021-09-30T20:38:46.207" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd wish we'd be much more harsh on people posting overly broad, quora-like questions, hoping to receive hundred contradicting questions, and pick up one that amuses them at most as accepted. Stack exchange sites won't profit from such kind of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's really a boommer, that in the first version even country tag was missing. Please never make me a moderator (in case there's more than 0.000% probability of that event) because I'd close such questions after 10 seconds reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The minimum that should be expected in the dress code questions, should be a region, industry, type of company, the role of the OP, and the company dress code (or lack thereof)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64225" LastActivityDate="2021-09-30T20:38:46.207" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6964" CreationDate="2021-09-30T20:57:48.940" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd wish Stack Exchange stopped monkeying around close reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were 2 good close reasons, that were removed because some people misused them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Too broad&lt;/strong&gt; for quora-like questions, that could got a dozen of contradicting questions, and the OP could choose a random or the most amusing one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Too localized&lt;/strong&gt; when the answer was unlikely to benefit anyone except OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, people misused them, but after removing them, there's no reasonable reason to close, so people choose random. 'Legal or company specific' is quite above and likely to be picked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is a pity, because this reason is very weird for a site, where almost everything on topic is either legally regulated or company specific. Or both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this close reason have terrible wording and should be removed, because all we need is 'too localized'. It's exactly what a legal advice is: an interpretation of legal regulations, matching one specific case. And that's what too localized is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64225" LastActivityDate="2021-09-30T20:57:48.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6988" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-01T05:20:06.460" Score="0" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was very surprised at the many downvotes &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/178808/30062&quot;&gt;my most recent answer&lt;/a&gt; got and want to understand why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took the OP at their word that they are not being flirty and used my example from my own work experience to show how hanging out with colleagues irregardless of gender is not per se suspicious and is not incompatible with professionalism at work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I advised the OP to not be afraid if the colleagues in the question are bothering her, that how she should not be afraid to let her intentions of just friendship be known.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answered quite a few questions pertaining to gender / race such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/65776/30062&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; , and that answer was very well received. My answer themes of minimizing importance of gender / race / other personal characteristics and maintaining professionalism as one normally would with any other colleague seems to be well received in other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is wrong or unhelpful about this specific answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2021-10-01T05:26:15.683" LastActivityDate="2021-10-01T14:26:21.297" Title="Why was my answer severely downvoted?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6988" CreationDate="2021-10-01T05:28:16.730" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't downvote, but my best guess is it's because you answered from a USA perspective a question from India. Two totally different cultures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus you assume that the meetings are professional ones within the workplace, whereas they were social ones (one-on-one lunches and tea) and some were probably not in the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly you advocated the OP being a bit of an activist if things didn't work your way. I cannot imagine that working out well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all your answer seems to me to have missed the mark. It would not make sense in my locale, and probably not in India either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2021-10-01T05:42:57.080" LastActivityDate="2021-10-01T05:42:57.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6988" CreationDate="2021-10-01T08:41:31.167" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downvoted your answer for a number of reasons (and there is overlap here with what Kills has said):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your baseless accusation that &amp;quot;It is somewhat disappointing that all the answers thus far are assuming you are the issue or your behavior was indeed flirtatious.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your personal anecdotes are irrelevant and elongate an already needlessly long answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A suggestion that the OP should avoid apologising. It's certainly appropriate to apologise even in situations where you believe you were acting properly, because you can regret the outcome (which in this case is a misunderstanding).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The suggestion that the men may be acting as part of a conspiracy to &amp;quot;set up&amp;quot; the OP. We have no reason to suspect that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A suggestion that the mens behaviour were unwelcome and that the OP should go to HR if it continues. If you decide to go &amp;quot;hard&amp;quot; on these men, maybe in defence they may be inclined to claim they were just responding to the OP's &amp;quot;inappropriate&amp;quot; behaviour. I know for certain which the HR team will be more interested in.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The suggestion that the OP should &amp;quot;be forthright and assert yourself if needed be.&amp;quot; with regards to speaking to HR. From what I've seen from some questions from India, this will end poorly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The claim that &amp;quot;social interaction between men and women in the workplace is not by itself suspicious or unprofessional&amp;quot; but in some cultures it very well could be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answer ultimately attempt to make a bit deal out of what could be just a minor misunderstanding, which is easily rectified (other answers also suffer this problem).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2021-10-01T08:41:31.167" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6988" CreationDate="2021-10-01T14:26:21.297" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downvoted it because I am familiar with Indian culture, and it was wildly inappropriate advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ALSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It comes across as condescending to call someone 'brave' just for asking a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You admit that you are from a different culture, and then tell the OP all about how it's different, and offer no help&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You assumed ill intent on the men, where it could just be a cultural thing.  India is far more family oriented than the USA, and anything that could put the family at risk, would need to be addressed.  That could be why the one man mentioned his wife and son&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You told her to go running to HR.  &lt;strong&gt;HR IS NOT YOUR FRIEND&lt;/strong&gt;  Less so in India&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your advice to &amp;quot;not apologize&amp;quot; flies in the face of the culture.  Unlike the USA, an apology isn't commonly an admission of guilt.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was more of a rant than substantive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It demonstrated a complete ignorance of Indian culture&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It sounded more like a white-knight rant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, it was very &lt;strong&gt;VERY&lt;/strong&gt; bad advice which could blow up in the OP's face.  I would caution you not to apply USA standards to the rest of the world, there are cultural differences that vary wildly from culture to culture&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2021-10-01T14:26:21.297" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6984" CreationDate="2021-10-02T19:56:43.423" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question should remain/be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost all dress-code questions are going to be very specific to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the country they work in,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;more specifically, the city or town they work in (if not also the &lt;em&gt;part&lt;/em&gt; of the town they work in),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the industry the work in,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;their role in the company (which takes into account which responsibilities that role has, the general management and seniority structure of the company and how the company views people in different roles),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the dress-code policies of their workplace (formal and informal, even if this specific one isn't included there),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what their coworkers think of the specific dress code in question (which includes how progressive their coworkers are, but also what they think of other dress codes, what they wear themselves inside and outside of work, etc.),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what image they wish to portray to their coworkers,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how big of a risk they're willing to take with regard to potentially running into some problems about dress code,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;general fashion trends in society (which can change practically overnight),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these factors we may be able to take into account to a certain degree, but it should be obvious that it would be highly impractical/impossible, and completely useless to anyone else, to take a substantial number of them into account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can potentially give some generic dress-code advice in a generic Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But attempting to give a specific answer about a specific dress code, which they can't figure out by just looking around, would basically just be stumbling around in the dark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10582" LastEditorUserId="10582" LastEditDate="2021-10-02T20:17:41.450" LastActivityDate="2021-10-02T20:17:41.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6993" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-14T21:32:25.227" Score="1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/179195/i-am-endangering-peoples-lives-doing-tasks-i-am-not-qualified-to-do&quot;&gt;I am endangering people&amp;#39;s lives doing tasks I am not qualified to do&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, the OP may be asking what they should do, but I don't believe the answers in this question actually adds no value to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing this IS a scenario that occurs from time to time, and letting this stay up will act a resource for those that are put in a tricky position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobody here is able to decide what the OP should do. But we certainly can make persuasive arguments about what their next steps should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2021-10-15T00:34:09.787" LastActivityDate="2021-10-15T00:34:09.787" Title="(Done) I think the question about employees putting lives at risk should be reopened" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6994" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-21T05:17:18.893" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/179391/59502&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/179391/59502&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are vendors that specialize in designing and implementing employee surveys. Set up an introductory call with several of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer was deleted by Lilienthal with the note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On The Workplace, we're looking for answers with some depth that&#xA;explain why and how and that are ideally backed by facts, references,&#xA;and personal experiences. Please see Why and how are some answers&#xA;deleted and How do I write a good answer, as well as The back it up&#xA;rule for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is indeed short, but I'd also categorise it as succinct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also correct. Rather than try to formulate their own process, the OP should be engaging with 3rd parties that specialise in this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the question being closed is not an invitation for the moderators to be heavy-handed. The question can be re-opened with a shift in focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, I think the question is probably best left open. This is a classic XY problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2021-10-21T20:33:01.280" Title="Why was this answer deleted on: What are best practices for employee surveys?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6994" CreationDate="2021-10-21T09:17:51.450" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not Lilienthal so I obviously don't know what they were thinking but I have to say I'm not surprised the answer was deleted. As written it simply isn't any more an answer to the question than someone answering a stackoverflow question on C# with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are vendors that specialize in designing and implementing software in C#. Set up an introductory call with several of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly I have to say the comment you quoted explained the situation rather well. If author of the answer believes there are significant, or even insurmountable obstacles to doing the survey process in-house then a proper answer would explain that, and &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; before suggesting contacting a third party vendor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question can be re-opened with a shift in focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question does need a shift - or at the very least a &lt;em&gt;narrowing&lt;/em&gt; in focus before it would be suitable to re-opened IMO, as it stands it contains 3 explicit questions, all with a fairly broad scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2021-10-21T09:17:51.450" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6994" CreationDate="2021-10-21T13:25:16.560" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the question to be salvaged it will need to be much more focused. If that answer is exactly as you have quoted it, it is unlikely to answer any on-topic question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, one way to salvage the question would be to narrow it down to the pros and cons of creating the survey in-house versus outsourcing it. &amp;quot;Go find a third party to conduct the survey.&amp;quot; doesn't answer that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way to salvage the question might be &amp;quot;What are the most important factors when designing a employee survey process with the goal of improving employee retention?&amp;quot; The deleted answer doesn't answer that either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of closing a question is to prevent answers while the question is brought on-topic, so yes I do think a question being closed shifts the threshold for deleting low quality answers a bit more toward &amp;quot;delete&amp;quot;. If the answer was significantly more than a sentence, that might tilt the scales back toward not deleting it. Frankly, I don't think that answer is very helpful even as a comment. It doesn't explain how to find any of these companies; it just states something that is fairly obvious (such companies exist).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26699" LastActivityDate="2021-10-21T13:25:16.560" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6994" CreationDate="2021-10-21T20:33:01.280" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main reason is that it's a two sentence answer that doesn't actually address the question in any meaningful way. That on its own would normally prompt me to convert it to a comment. Since it would become comment that I would also have deleted as not seeking clarification (cf &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;What &amp;quot;comments&amp;quot; are not . . .&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19756/how-do-comments-work/19757#19757&quot;&gt;How do comments work?&lt;/a&gt;), that means I skip straight to deleting the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The added bonus reason is that it was the sole answer posted mere minutes before the question was closed. That would prevent the question from being pruned if it was kept closed and scored negatively. It also means the poster could have seen the question was likely headed for closure and should have perhaps thought twice whether the question was suitable and therefore worth answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thirdly, the post was also flagged as &amp;quot;very low quality&amp;quot;, which is how I came upon it to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question can be re-opened with a shift in focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the above is unrelated to the merits or otherwise of the question itself. The question remaining closed or being reopened is not really relevant to whether non-answers should be cleaned up. &lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; it's an XY question, any answer going that route should also make it clear by reframing the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the question being closed is not an invitation for the moderators to be heavy-handed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really consider this kind of housekeeping to be overly heavy-handed. It seems in the interest of this site to try and make sure answers meet at least some bar. Answering the question asked and/or providing at least some detail if you don't doesn't seem like too high a bar at that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2021-10-21T20:33:01.280" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6998" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-24T11:21:41.207" Score="0" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;topic section&lt;/a&gt;, but still I'm not sure if the question would be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, I would like to ask for advice about a behavior of my former boss. He is currently doing something that I'm not comfortable with and I am not sure what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130146" LastActivityDate="2021-10-24T13:45:50.183" Title="Can I ask a question realted to my former boss behavior?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|on-topic-definition|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6998" CreationDate="2021-10-24T13:45:50.183" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the nature of the behaviour may or may not make it suitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just two examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ex-Boss withholding final paycheck - probably workplace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ex-Boss is stalking me - probably not workplace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worst thing is the question gets closed. You will not get censured for posting in this type of grey area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2021-10-24T13:45:50.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7000" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-28T12:32:59.490" Score="4" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/179582/coworker-wrote-me-into-fictional-book&quot;&gt;Coworker wrote me into fictional book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely work place related, clearly answerable, three votes to reopen already, Please can we have two more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2021-10-28T14:56:50.377" LastActivityDate="2021-10-28T14:56:50.377" Title="(Done) Req to reopen &quot;Coworker wrote me into fictional book&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7000" CreationDate="2021-10-28T14:20:21.047" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I think it would benefit from a more explicitly stated end goal I have to agree it's on-topic and answerable in it's current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have been hesitant to hammer it open unilaterally but it was at 4 Reopen votes when I looked so I've cast the fifth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2021-10-28T14:20:21.047" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-11-05T14:23:23.693" Score="3" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/179703/can-my-employer-legally-monitor-my-personal-network-activity-when-im-working-fr&quot;&gt;Can my employer legally monitor my personal network activity when I&amp;#39;m working from home?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was closed as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should be directed to legal professionals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see anything about company policy in there and yes, the question asks whether something is legal. But I think we had an agreement that only complex cases that need a lawyer should be closed as &amp;quot;needs a lawyer&amp;quot;, while the questions where knowledgable non-lawyers (for example HR reps or where I live anybody with a professional education, because education on labor law is part of it) can answer should remain open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the close voters, is anyone from the EU and has &lt;em&gt;doubts&lt;/em&gt; whether that is illegal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because to me it seems pretty obvious. There is no complex case here. Any HR rep should be able to tell that the behaviour as suspected would be highly illegal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2021-11-05T20:14:37.427" LastActivityDate="2021-11-05T20:14:37.427" Title="(Done) Why was the question about monitoring an employees private network closed?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|legal-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-11-13T10:08:12.567" Score="5" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently there have been many close requests with the &amp;quot;opinion based&amp;quot; reason and I am wondering if having this close option is useful. In a way most questions on this site are opinion based, and what exactly is opinion based and what isn't is ironically very much based on opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the majority of cases where questions are requested to be closed for being opinion based, I actually agree that they should be closed, but there are usually better reasons available. Usually such questions also have no clear goal or are lacking detail or focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case where non of the other close reasons apply I usually think that the question are worth answering. One recent example, and three other re-open voters seem to agree with me, would be the question about how much backend TL should know about frontend:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/179855/as-a-tech-lead-to-what-degree-should-i-learn-about-frontend-technologies&quot;&gt;As a Tech Lead, to what degree should I learn about frontend technologies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general I feel that questions on how to navigate the workplace cannot be answered with scientific rigor and exactness and any answer will always have a good portion of subjectivity to it, with that in mind nearly every question could be considered &amp;quot;opinion-based&amp;quot; and what would be considered &amp;quot;objective answers&amp;quot; are only considered to be objective, because there is a very wide consensus about its truthfulness.&#xA;I understand that SE is not the right place to have a debate, but I think there is no harm in having a specific, focused and on-topic question with clear goals with a variety of different answers, based on different experiences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: As a Meta Meta comment; while writing this, SE shows me that there has been this motion 7 years ago.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2187/can-we-eliminate-the-close-reason-primarily-opinion-based&quot;&gt;Can we eliminate the close reason &amp;quot;Primarily Opinion Based&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Since the user base is different now, I think there is no harm in bringing this up again, and I hope the rules of meta allow duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99412" LastActivityDate="2021-11-29T16:46:00.480" Title="Is &quot;opinion based&quot; a good reason to close a question?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7004" CreationDate="2021-11-14T22:17:46.100" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, purely opinion based is a good reason to close a question (hence the reason that close reason exists) and a reason to downvote answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way it's supposed to work on SE is that while certainly, there are domains that don't have objective answers, you are intended to use the guidance in &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; to leverage people's actual expertise and not just Internet Tough Guy posing. The linked article contains six guidelines as to how to tell a good subjective question vs a bad subjective question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guidelines for Great Subjective Questions (see the linked article for more)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great subjective questions inspire answers that explain “why” and&#xA;“how”.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great subjective questions tend to have long, not short,&#xA;answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great subjective questions have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great subjective questions invite sharing experiences over opinions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great subjective questions insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great subjective questions are more than just mindless social fun.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can then answer them using the Back It Up! principle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back It Up! means that your answers must be based on either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something that happened to you personally&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something you can back up with a reference&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3204/how-do-we-ask-and-answer-subjective-questions&quot;&gt;implemented these guidelines on RPG.SE&lt;/a&gt; and had really good results, allowing meaningful discussion of the more experiential parts of role-playing games without it just being people spitting out their unsubstantiated opinions of what practices &amp;quot;suck&amp;quot; or not. We could use more of that here. Many of these questions could be answered with references or personal expertise, but mainly since the community is tolerant of random personal preferences, that's how they get answered and are of low overall quality. That then leads to more aggressive closing, as it's likely that a questionably subjective question to become a time-waster rather than a useful Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following Good Subjective, Bad Subjective both on questions and answers mean more clear opens vs closes and better answers to open questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastEditorUserId="16695" LastEditDate="2021-11-14T22:29:15.920" LastActivityDate="2021-11-14T22:29:15.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7006" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-11-22T19:48:53.033" Score="4" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at the tags on this question during an edit: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/180101/how-to-enter-the-gpa-of-a-degree-program-on-a-job-application&quot;&gt;How to enter the GPA of a degree program on a job application?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It includes &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/academic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;academic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;academic&lt;/a&gt;, which I thought might not apply. My assumption was that was going to be for questions about actually working in academia, not about academic qualifications. Indeed, the only other question using that tag is about an application for a teaching job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when I went to check, I found that there is also a tag for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/academia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;academia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;academia&lt;/a&gt;. Most of its six questions also deal with working in academia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there are two tags that are maybe supposed to mean the same thing and I'm not sure what should happen here. Should we:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make these tags synonyms and remove it from the above question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make these tags distinct so that one is about working in academia but the other is about academic qualifications, and retag the questions accordingly?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make these tags synonyms but also make a new 'academic-qualifications&amp;quot; tag?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously these tags need usage guidance whatever else happens. Even if most folks using the tags don't look at it, it'd be good to know what tags are supposed to mean when doing editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34163" LastActivityDate="2021-11-22T20:41:20.880" Title="Clarification on academic and academia tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7006" CreationDate="2021-11-22T20:41:20.880" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;A tag for academia didn't really belong on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/180101/how-to-enter-the-gpa-of-a-degree-program-on-a-job-application&quot;&gt;How to enter the GPA of a degree program on a job application?&lt;/a&gt;, removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other question using it (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/177797/what-does-principal-position-means-in-the-cv&quot;&gt;What does &amp;quot;Principal Position&amp;quot; means in the CV?&lt;/a&gt;) should have just used &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/academia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;academia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;academia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there's no need to fragment these tags, I've merged &amp;quot;academic&amp;quot; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/academia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;academia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;academia&lt;/a&gt; and created a synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you run into similar cases in future, with just a handful of posts, it's probably fine to just correct the tags yourself. A tag synonym is probably even overkill here since it won't come up that often. High rep users can &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/suggest-tag-synonyms&quot;&gt;suggest tag synonyms&lt;/a&gt; as well though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2021-11-22T20:41:20.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7004" CreationDate="2021-11-26T04:36:54.697" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I kind of prefer the old &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;primarily&lt;/em&gt; opinion based&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;not constructive&amp;quot; phrasing a little better than just &amp;quot;opinion based&amp;quot;, but yes, it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions can be at least somewhat opinion based here; even in hard sciences, there is usually at least some room for professional judgment in almost any question. Questions cannot, however, be opinion based to the point that it's no longer possible to defend answers with facts and logic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/01/17/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real questions have answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61906" LastActivityDate="2021-11-26T04:36:54.697" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7004" CreationDate="2021-11-29T16:46:00.480" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's worded poorly by someone at the SE mothership who didn't know the difference between &lt;strong&gt;OPINION&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;CONJECTURE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a very real difference between an educated opinion and wild conjecture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conjecture is essentially an untested hypothesis with incomplete data, while opinion tends to be based on informed experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An opinion from someone who has survived several rounds of layoffs, and gives an assessment what the signs to look out for would make up a decent answer, and would be able to detail their experiences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Okay, the first thing to look out for are senior executives jumping ship, followed by the long timers suddenly retiring.  Then, you look for other cost cutting measures being implemented.  If you see them trying to save every last penny, like getting rid of the plants, it's probably time to move on&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As opposed to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I think that layoffs are coming because those rich SOBs don't care about the workers!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first was an opinion, the second was conjecture&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2021-11-29T16:46:00.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7011" CreationDate="2021-12-08T19:49:45.333" Score="6" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;My profile seems to imply that one of my answers has a score of 47 and is accepted:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gS8nR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gS8nR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as much as I feel that my answer is worthy of lots of upvotes, my answer actually has a score of 12 and is unfortunately &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; accepted:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MHb3T.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MHb3T.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It turns out that 47 is actually the score of the question (&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; of my answer):&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dAizN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dAizN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61906" LastEditorUserId="131947" LastEditDate="2021-12-16T17:35:22.503" LastActivityDate="2021-12-16T17:35:36.167" Title="Profile is showing the question score for my answers, not the answer score" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7010" CreationDate="2021-12-09T00:52:08.273" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange recently rolled out an update to the activity page across all SE sites. It looks like there are a few bugs with it, which are being tracked here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/372049/new-responsive-activity-page&quot;&gt;New responsive Activity page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your issue isn't in that list then it might be worth reporting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64188" LastActivityDate="2021-12-09T00:52:08.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7010" CreationDate="2021-12-10T15:00:59.137" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been reported previously, it is on &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-review&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127524" LastActivityDate="2021-12-10T15:00:59.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7013" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-12-10T22:42:18.053" Score="18" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well done!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/10813.png&quot; alt=&quot;Nvoigt&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've provided a lot of interesting insights over the years. 100k is quite an achievement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2021-12-11T00:35:06.120" LastActivityDate="2021-12-11T00:35:06.120" Title="Congratulations on your 100k milestone Nvoigt" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7010" CreationDate="2021-12-16T17:35:36.167" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this has been fixed in the latest round of changes on our Activity views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131947" LastActivityDate="2021-12-16T17:35:36.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7016" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7017" CreationDate="2021-12-17T20:11:28.817" Score="4" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, there I encountered two questions about problems found in prominent news stories (rather than a problem that the OP personally faces):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/181647/could-producing-a-grave-bug-that-made-headlines-make-you-unemployable&quot;&gt;Could producing a grave bug that made headlines make you unemployable?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/180464/what-would-the-correct-way-be-to-fire-900-people-at-once&quot;&gt;What would the &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; way be to fire 900 people at once?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The help center &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;states&lt;/a&gt; that &amp;quot;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; face&amp;quot; and that you should avoid asking &amp;quot;open-ended, hypothetical questions&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we understand this to mean that people are only allowed to ask about questions that they personally face? Are these questions intrinsically hypothetical (and therefore off-topic), since the person who's actually posting the question doesn't have the problem? Or are there some circumstances under which they're acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61906" LastActivityDate="2022-02-04T23:47:34.463" Title="Should questions about problems that someone other than the OP faces be allowed?" Tags="|discussion|scope|opinion-based|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7016" CreationDate="2021-12-17T20:20:53.670" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we understand this to mean that people are only allowed to ask about questions that they personally face?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I wouldn't frame it that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these questions intrinsically hypothetical (and therefore off-topic), since the person who's actually posting the question doesn't have the problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think they are hypothetical. They are 100% real, as it's something that is happening to someone (not the OP perhaps, but still real).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or are there some circumstances under which they're acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that such questions should be taken as any other question, and its quality and clarity expected should be good, as with any other question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes OP may not be willing to say they are the ones that are experiencing this, and thus say that &amp;quot;this happened to a friend&amp;quot;. If indeed this is happening to a friend, &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; the post lacks clarity or details, then one should request clarification and improvements as one would do with any other question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I once asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/98171/73791&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that didn't happen to me (happened to my SO at that time, who also doesn't have a SE account). However, I wrote the post with all details and clarity needed to obtain help. Such question was very well received (100+ votes) and got very helpful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, it didn't matter it wasn't myself the one going through that. The question was good, was realistic, and judging by the 100+ votes and several great answers, I am sure it helped other people navigate through the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="61906" LastEditDate="2022-02-04T23:47:34.463" LastActivityDate="2022-02-04T23:47:34.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7016" CreationDate="2021-12-19T13:04:09.733" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have a problem with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue that the purpose of content here is not help a single person, but potentially others with a similar problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I don't even have a problem with a purely hypothetical question, provided there is some degree of possibility that the question may be useful to somebody else in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A logical extension of a hypothetical question is a question about the 3rd party.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2021-12-19T13:04:09.733" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7019" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7020" CreationDate="2021-12-20T22:02:07.547" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/181703/when-answering-what-are-your-top-3-strengths-are-they-looking-for-transferable&quot;&gt;When answering &amp;quot;what are your top 3 strengths&amp;quot; are they looking for transferable skills or technical skills?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can easily be treated as a generalized question and answered in ways that work for any job opening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It makes no sense to me that it was Closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2021-12-21T13:07:04.317" LastActivityDate="2021-12-21T13:07:04.317" Title="(Reopened) What's the justification for closing this question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7019" CreationDate="2021-12-20T22:09:59.160" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that it's answerable (it already has good answers IMHO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw that it already had 2 reopen votes, so I proceeded to reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2021-12-20T22:09:59.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7021" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-12-23T03:39:43.450" Score="1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/181750/how-to-convince-my-hierarchy-to-optimize-my-remuneration-scheme&quot;&gt;How to convince my hierarchy to optimize my remuneration scheme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was closed with the reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question IS NOT asking &amp;quot;advice  on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies&amp;quot;, it's asking for strategies on how to influence these things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't a nuanced thing. It's pretty obvious the intention behind this close reason is not realised here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been suggested that questions should be voted to close if you can't think of a good answer. I disagree with this rationale, but below in an example answer for the proposed question that shows the question is answerable without knowing specifics around the organisation in question, and thus is generally applicable to others:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever there is organisational change, you have to broadly answer&#xA;two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the benefit/risk for the business? What is the benefit for&#xA;others that are to instigate the change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both cases, there is associated risk involved. You have to look at&#xA;it from the perspective of the HR person:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will this change be easy to implement?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we understand the legal issues around this change?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will it benefit the company in some sort of meaningful way?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If this goes south for some reason, will I get fired?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a reason we are not doing this already?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this a good use of my time?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the employee worth satisfying?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will other affected employees agree with this change?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to instigate the change you want, you have to think of reasons&#xA;that cover the above questions, and also recognise that you may not&#xA;have great answers to the above questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your boss is not willing to engage with HR, they probably do not&#xA;think that HR can be convinced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, in the future, you should look carefully over any&#xA;employment contracts, and not make any assumptions about renumeration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2021-12-23T19:42:27.277" LastActivityDate="2021-12-23T19:42:27.277" Title="(Reopened) What's the justification for closing the question around a scheme to optimize remuneration?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7021" CreationDate="2021-12-23T07:23:52.203" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just echoing. This post has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2021-12-23T07:23:52.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4425" CreationDate="2021-12-26T19:50:37.630" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with hypothetical questions is that there’s no proof that anyone is looking for an answer to it. Q&amp;amp;A here is only useful to the extent that future readers who actually have that problem read and learn from them. Otherwise, it’s just mindless social fun where no one is really learning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is actually facing the problem, &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; should post it here (not a random third party who isn’t actually having that problem).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61906" LastEditorUserId="61906" LastEditDate="2021-12-29T18:33:12.060" LastActivityDate="2021-12-29T18:33:12.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7024" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-04T04:52:40.920" Score="7" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was closed for supposedly not having a goal we can address: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/181900/how-to-find-motivation-to-keep-applying-to-jobs-after-being-rejected&quot;&gt;How to find motivation to keep applying to jobs after being rejected&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I strongly disagree with both the closure and the stated reason; &amp;quot;how do I prevent myself from getting discouraged by rejection when I'm looking for jobs?&amp;quot; is an &lt;em&gt;exceedingly&lt;/em&gt; common problem (and a goal that &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be addressed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can this be re-opened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61906" LastEditorUserId="61906" LastEditDate="2022-01-04T15:54:35.720" LastActivityDate="2022-01-04T15:54:35.720" Title="(Reopened) Does this question really not have a goal that can be addressed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7025" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-07T01:00:22.337" Score="1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/181974/tell-colleagues-about-booster-shot&quot;&gt;Tell colleagues about booster shot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't understand why people, including mods, are so trigger happy to close questions with the reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should be directed to legal professionals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is &lt;strong&gt;CLEARLY NOT&lt;/strong&gt; asking about company-specific regulations, agreements, policies, or asking about legal advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The content of the question is (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it proper &lt;strong&gt;etiquette&lt;/strong&gt; to inform your work colleagues that you are getting a covid booster shot in the future and you may be put of commission on that day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or should you keep it to yourself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question has nothing to do with workplace rules. In fact, the OP has carefully ensured that it shouldn't be interpreted that way. They explicitly said &amp;quot;etiquette&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer may suggest: &amp;quot;You should keep in mind that there may be workplace policies that require you to disclose.&amp;quot; The potential existence of a policy covering such a thing doesn't mean we should close the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2022-01-07T11:04:36.520" Title="Reopen request for &quot;Tell colleagues about booster shot&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7025" CreationDate="2022-01-07T11:04:36.520" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm really not convinced this closure can really be classed as &amp;quot;trigger happy&amp;quot; - it wasn't just the mods taking unilateral action as at the time of closure it had already attracted two other close-votes from the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wasn't involved in the chat discussion DarkCygnus mentioned as I'd already left both the actual and metaphorical office for the day, but I've read back over it this morning and I wouldn't have objected to the closure had I been there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my own point of view I really don't see what there is to gain were it to be re-opened, the OP account had been removed prior to the closure (for moderation reasons unrelated to the question) and therefore isn't coming back to clarify anything or accept an answer, and the 7 answers that are already there cover the subject fairly exhaustively and a couple of the comment threads were getting out of hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2022-01-07T11:04:36.520" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7027" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-08T14:42:54.977" Score="-1" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;I opened a question about a CEO role. One comment mentioned this is case-by-case, but I didn't even know there was so much variance for a CEO position. Also, while I had questions closed in the past, this is the fastest closing process so far.&#xA;So... does the CEO role not exist in reality? If a role is completely undefined, then it's not a role at all, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&#xA;I just saw this:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/160461/which-kind-of-motivation-software-companies-expects-from-applicant&quot;&gt;Which kind of motivation software companies expects from applicant?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I genuinely don't understand how my question was &amp;quot;very company-specific&amp;quot; while the question above is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38290" LastEditorDisplayName="user38290" LastEditDate="2022-01-17T00:49:06.567" LastActivityDate="2022-01-17T13:35:35.837" Title="Why was the &quot;CEO powers&quot; question closed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7028" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7029" CreationDate="2022-01-09T21:34:06.973" Score="2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/182000/colleagues-routinely-only-answer-the-first-of-my-questions&quot;&gt;Colleagues routinely only answer the first of my questions?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as a duplicate of the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/44483/i-emailed-my-customer-asking-multiple-questions-their-reply-addressed-only-one&quot;&gt;I emailed my customer asking multiple questions. Their reply addressed only one. What is the polite way to point this out?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree that they are the same question. They even ask different things based on the way they are worded. The coworkers one is phrased in such a way that asks how to avoid the problem in the first place, whereas the clients one asks what to do after the fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if they were even closer (e.g. let's say they were both asking how to prevent the problem), there could be small differences that could potentially yield different answer. For example: does it matter that the recipient is a coworker instead of a client? The answer might change just based on this distinction depending on the circumstance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in essence, I have two question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shall we re-open the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/182000/colleagues-routinely-only-answer-the-first-of-my-questions&quot;&gt;Colleagues routinely only answer the first of my questions?&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where do we draw the line?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98765" LastEditorUserId="64903" LastEditDate="2022-01-10T14:37:57.120" LastActivityDate="2022-01-10T14:56:53.257" Title="(Reopened) Where do we draw the line for whether a question is really a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|duplicates|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7028" CreationDate="2022-01-10T14:37:32.780" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree in your assessment that there's an important distinction between the two questions usually the rule of thumb is not whether the questions themselves are necessarily identical but whether the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; of the dupe-target also answer the new question. So is that the case here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top-voted answer of the dupe target actually provides something you could argue as direct solution to the new question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;knowing this is an issue, send 5 different emails if you need answers to 5 different questions. The response really depends on how important to the company this client is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does seem like it would be &lt;em&gt;an&lt;/em&gt; answer to it at the very least, although it would have to be considered a frame challenge to the OP's desire &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; to send multiple separate e-mails. Given that, the differences in the recipients of the e-mails and that the answer the OP of the new question has accepted &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; the same and also explicitly addresses the fact the OP is asking about internal e-mails I've re-opened it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2022-01-10T14:37:32.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7028" CreationDate="2022-01-10T14:56:53.257" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been a pet peeve of mine from Day1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first question here was about being &amp;quot;Overqualified&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;disabled&amp;quot;, and It was shut down as a duplicate because there were questions about being overqualified.  The only problem was is that that wasn't the question I was asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/62205/how-do-i-address-both-being-overqualified-and-unable-to-perform-at-past-levels&quot;&gt;link here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One user tends to think that virtually all posts are duplicates, and We've often voted to reopen.  Not that this one user is convinced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2022-01-10T14:56:53.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7033" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-12T15:55:09.870" Score="5" ViewCount="115" Body="&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't eliminate the need for having &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt; altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as we say goodbye to 2021, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KZntT.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;exciting&lt;/em&gt; stats&lt;/a&gt;. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on The Workplace over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Action&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community¹&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users suspended²&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;30&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;36&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users destroyed³&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,303&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: 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right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tag synonyms created&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Revisions redacted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions unprotected&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions reopened&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: 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style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;960&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions closed&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;147&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;646&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Question flags handled⁵&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;632&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;377&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts unlocked&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;47&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts undeleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;68&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts locked&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;55&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;73&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts deleted⁶&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;202&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,051&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts bumped&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Escalations to the Community Manager team&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments undeleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;68&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;502&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,876&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments deleted⁷&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;9,144&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4,246&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comment flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4,152&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;246&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answers flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;24&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;675&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answer flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;563&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;137&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;All comments on a post moved to chat&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;282&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of The Workplace&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ A &amp;quot;destroyed&amp;quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6821/2020-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2020: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222021%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/374784/208518&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing everyone a happy 2022! ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33683" LastActivityDate="2022-01-13T19:41:59.650" Title="2021: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|statistics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7027" CreationDate="2022-01-13T11:31:54.870" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please see my post here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7035/psa-recognize-effort-before-voting-to-close-or-forcing-close&quot;&gt;PSA: Recognize effort before voting to close (or forcing close)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fundamentally it's much easy to click the close button, rather than thinking about what the &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; question the OP should be asking, and answer that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It obvious there are a lot of questions where a simple suggested reframing of the question, either in the question itself, or in an answer, would have given a lot of benefit to the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastEditorUserId="59502" LastEditDate="2022-01-13T13:26:47.827" LastActivityDate="2022-01-13T13:26:47.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7036" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-13T13:59:32.110" Score="0" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7035/psa-recognize-effort-before-voting-to-close-or-forcing-close&quot;&gt;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7035/psa-recognize-effort-before-voting-to-close-or-forcing-close&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can somebody please clarify why my post around content deletion was deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's ironic to be sure, but I don't believe that is a good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I outlined a few specific concerns I have in the community, without mentioning specific users or instances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe TWP meta was the appropriate place to instigate these discussions, and I am unsure why the moderators deleted (not closed - deleted) my post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should generally strive for transparency, and while there is no violation of rules, and a constructive tone, I think users should be able to engage with the community without moderators trying to prevent a discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastEditorUserId="59502" LastEditDate="2022-01-13T14:53:37.387" LastActivityDate="2022-01-13T19:18:03.590" Title="Why was my meta post about tolerance towards content, deleted?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7036" CreationDate="2022-01-13T14:58:05.283" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was not aware of the post you link to until this question. I took a read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following comment is with high respect but complete honesty: I feel it was a rant. I feel it was strongly aimed towards &amp;quot;mods&amp;quot; and lacks the tone and content for anyone to actually discuss, have a conversation, and reach something. I see no questions in it, except for a rhetorical one, so surely nothing to discuss or reach a consensus... u&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under that light, I don't see deleting it as a bad call, although I get you may be left confused (but again, do recognize is quite like a rant)... please, if you want to discuss or chat remember to always keep a good tone and be professional&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2022-01-13T14:58:05.283" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-13T15:44:35.390" Score="-4" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a glut of questions closed lately, and my interpretation is that we are not taking into consideration what is effectively the deletion of content of others before casting a close vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It literally takes us 2 seconds to vote to close, but several magnitudes more time to answer a question carefully, taking into consideration the provided factors of the question. When we close a question, that content gets hidden from a wide range of users. We're essentially discarding effort of others. I don't think we should do that so much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's not just us regular users. Moderators themselves can also do this, though obviously their actions have significant more impact. My understanding is that the moderator modus operandi, it to generally let the community self-regulate, but lately I've seen instances where they have forced questions shut, for merely lacking some detail. I think we can all be better at tolerating questions that are inexact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's important to recognize that TWP means different things to different people. Some incredibly broad questions can actually inspire a range of different responses, which rather that being a prescriptive answer about what exactly the course of action the OP should take, can actually encourage the OP to assess each answer on its merits, looking at the particular assumptions and rationale behind each answer. It's possible the best course of action for a given reader, either the OP, or someone with a similar issue, could be a combination of two answers that are diametrically opposed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is, does a lack of information mean that the question fundamentally cannot be answered. I think it's incredibly rare that a question is lacking in enough detail to make it unanswerable at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some people, questions are meant to be useful for others in the future, rather than just the OP. Some answers given may be particular unsuitable for the OP, but provided that assumptions are qualified, the question can be of great benefit to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also why I don't think we should close questions that have been answered. I believe they can serve other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe fundamentally people need to be willing to appreciate that TWP has people that have differing ideas about what TWP is for, and consensus has not been reached on the matter. So I think more acceptance of questions that we think is either lacking detail, or has too much detail is called for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And am I looking to shift what people consider the purpose of TWP? No. I recognise that some people consider that questions, and their answers, should serve a single person, that being the asker, and only the asker. And that's fine. It's not what I think TWP is for, but this question has come up before, and I know several members of our community (even high ranking ones) think questions should be specific for individuals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your thoughts? Am I seeing close-vote patterns that simply are not there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastEditorUserId="59502" LastEditDate="2022-01-13T15:50:11.807" LastActivityDate="2022-01-16T13:22:22.303" Title="I think we can do better at not closing questions in a knee-jerk manner" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7036" CreationDate="2022-01-13T19:18:03.590" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In light of your other recent contributions on meta, that post does read to me like a rant about perceived issues instead of someone trying to open a &lt;em&gt;constructive&lt;/em&gt; discussion. The &amp;quot;are we closing too quickly&amp;quot; topic comes up here like clockwork and if you add in your comments towards the moderation team and people using their close vote privileges, that post reads more like a rant against the community and the moderators which doesn't really belong on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can certainly see why it might have been removed, though we admittedly neglected to explain why. We should have handled that better. If your question was posted in good faith perhaps we jumped the gun but seeing as how you reposted it already, I suppose no further action is required here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As before, I recommend that you reach out to the Community Team via the Contact page if you have an issue with the moderation team's actions. Regularly rehashing the same perceived issues on meta is unlikely to lead to different outcomes and I imagine can be quite frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2022-01-13T19:18:03.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7038" CreationDate="2022-01-13T19:24:37.587" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we can all be better at tolerating questions that are inexact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This comes up on meta about once a month it seems. My position hasn't changed in the years I've been here: as a &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; we close questions quickly but for the vast majority of posts this is the correct decision, almost always we provide info on why the post was closed, and questions that can be reopened with some edits &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; reopened quickly. The community has also gotten very good at posting on meta when a question needs some TLC or was edited into shape and needs some reopen votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the community and the tools at our disposal are working very well and as intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;lately I've seen instances where [moderators] have forced questions shut, for merely lacking some detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isolated instances do not make a pattern, nor do I believe that casting a binding vote when a question is on 2-3 close votes and/or when multiple mods agree with the closure in chat constitutes &amp;quot;forcing it shut&amp;quot;. Please reach out to the community team via the contact page if you have issues with our approach to moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2022-01-13T19:24:37.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7033" CreationDate="2022-01-13T19:41:59.650" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks JNat for the information and post. I'm writing this answer to give a bit of explanation regarding the unusually high stat for &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Users destroyed&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; this past year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As suggested by JNat's foot-note (3) on that point, yes this translates mostly to SPAM account deletions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Late 2020 we noticed a trend among SPAM users/posts on TWP (more like a &lt;em&gt;modus operandi&lt;/em&gt; than a trend). It basically consisted in SPAM accounts being systematically created each day, those accounts stayed &amp;quot;dormant&amp;quot; for days or weeks (or more?), with no activity whatsoever, and then some time later &amp;quot;wake up&amp;quot; and proceed to post SPAM until blocked or nuked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &amp;quot;trend&amp;quot; was also perceivable by the increase in activity in our Smoke Detector. After being aware of that we began to systematically destroy or handle those completely evident SPAM accounts. About May 2021 a &lt;strong&gt;big&lt;/strong&gt; batch of such accounts was found and handled. And that's why that stat is so high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the &amp;quot;campaign&amp;quot; on monitoring the creation of SPAM accounts and destroying them... well, let's say it just doesn't scale well :). The consensus and advice given by the Community Team and some discussion, broadly speaking, was that it was suggested to block/suspend those users instead, so further investigation can be taken and so we can analyze and be aware of the pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, if I see sporadic user(s) like these I will not doubt to nuke them... but going on a campaign again is quite time-consuming and may hamper any effort to catch trends/IPs if this wave happens again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, as of the writing of this post, &lt;strong&gt;this situation has stabilized&lt;/strong&gt;. SPAM accounts will continue to be handled as they should. The Community should keep flagging and handling things as we've been doing. Our Smoke Detector is working quite well and actually improved a lot by the training given by this SPAM wave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2022-01-13T19:41:59.650" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7038" CreationDate="2022-01-14T21:34:35.173" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closing isn't the end for a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get a lot of new users here who have pretty unformed questions.  The right thing to do is close them and help the asker workshop their question into a form that is actually constructive for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no value in making people answer for every single variable that someone doesn't bother to specify. &amp;quot;Here's a big old answer!&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;Oh I'm in the UK, everything you just said is invalidated&amp;quot; is a waste of everyone's time, and people who have their time wasted are less likely to answer questions (or ask more questions). Questions lacking vital details &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be closed, and closed as quickly as possible to avoid wasting people's time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we can get better on isn't not closing questions, but in engaging with querents to help them make the questions better.  Some &amp;quot;pro forma&amp;quot; comments might help along these lines - let's say a question gets closed because it really needs a country tag.  Often a questioner just sees a close, or maybe a close with several comments one of which maybe is asking about a country tag but the others are the usual nattering, answering in comments, etc.  That's a bad user experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we should do is keep comments clean (flag answering in comments and such) and take the extra time to explain to a user &amp;quot;Hey this has been closed/is on its way to being closed because you really need to add X information, or ask it in a way that's not just opinion, or explain something more (or less)&amp;quot;... Then they can change it and get it reopened quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally have been reluctant to do this. Mainly because the climate here seems like you just get yelled at by someone else in the comments, or someone takes it to meta and gets the mods to open-hammer the question without improving it, or similar most of the time, which discourages actually improving the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16695" LastActivityDate="2022-01-14T21:34:35.173" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7038" CreationDate="2022-01-15T15:41:42.187" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your thoughts? Am I seeing close-vote patterns that simply&#xA;are not there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not seeing anything new happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question is posted. A few select folks take it upon themselves to very quickly decide that it fails one of the reasons for closing and vote to close. Others see that and follow. For some reason, it seems to make them happy. (&amp;quot;Rules is rules!&amp;quot; ???)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result is that many quite-salvageable questions get closed. And new members get discouraged. I've given up trying to salvage and re-open most of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I prefer to post comments seeking clarification, in hopes that the question can get some good answers for the person asking, before it gets closed. I think almost everyone who makes an effort to ask a question deserves an answer - even if their question isn't perfectly formed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While sad, this pattern isn't unusual for a gamified forum. So it goes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we can do better at not closing questions in a knee-jerk&#xA;manner&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know we could do better. I see no evidence that we will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2022-01-16T13:22:22.303" LastActivityDate="2022-01-16T13:22:22.303" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7027" CreationDate="2022-01-17T13:30:16.690" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I genuinely don't understand how my question was &amp;quot;very&#xA;company-specific&amp;quot; while the question above is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You were asking about one specific job at one specific company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You wrote: &amp;quot;I am being offered a job as a CEO of a small company. I am wondering: what power would I actually have?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no way anyone can answer what your power at that particular company would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If instead you had asked more about &amp;quot;What kind of power does a CEO at a small startup company usually have?&amp;quot; you might have gotten some on-target answers. Even then, only extremely general answers would be likely, since there's no one rule or standard regarding CEO powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, the only way for you to have any idea what your actual role would entail would be to ask those who would give you the role - in this case, the investors. That is no different than questions about any job at any company - what you do is determined within the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question you linked to is far more general. And it got generalized answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you still care about your question, try editing it to be a lot more generalized and see if you can get some reopen votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2022-01-17T13:35:35.837" LastActivityDate="2022-01-17T13:35:35.837" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5934" CreationDate="2022-01-18T14:56:56.883" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;TL;DR: can we give authors more visibility and time to react to potential bad faith edits to protect their reputation online from content from others that's still in their name?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we protect the author a bit more?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like the problem here is that it's really easy for others to edit something I authored, to the point of putting potentially really offensive words in my mouth, but the uninitiated/busy/lazy reader will still see it as being my content since it's attributed to me on the main interface. I don't expect SO to provide full attribution front and center as that would clutter up the interface to the point of not being readable. But would there be anything wrong with slowing down the edit cycle a bit to give the author more visibility and more time to react to edits to their content? E.g. in OP's scenario, if the author of the post were notified when the bad faith edits were first proposed and later approved, and if there were a reasonable delay (e.g. 24 hours) between approval of those edits and when the edits went live, then OP could have appealed the bad faith edit to a mod or even deleted the post to prevent it from tarnishing their image online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In response to the fact that malicious edits are rare&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to dispute the contention that malicious edits are rare. I've been an SO reader for years now, and I haven't seen many myself. That said, it doesn't change the fact that while rare, very real harm in the real world could happen through abuse of the edit system if changes aren't made. If we're going to put people's usernames on their posts, we need to at least give them a chance to respond preemptively to scenarios that have the potential to tarnish their real world image, especially since not all users have anonymous usernames.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43182" LastEditorUserId="43182" LastEditDate="2022-01-18T15:05:44.460" LastActivityDate="2022-01-18T15:05:44.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7046" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-19T17:10:36.000" Score="-1" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/182246/for-any-ceo-role-which-core-responsibilities-are-never-delegated-independently&quot;&gt;new question&lt;/a&gt; has been closed.&#xA;The reason:&#xA;&amp;quot;&#xA;Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions that address only a specific company or position are of limited use to future visitors. Questions seeking legal advice should be directed to legal professionals.&#xA;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NOT about a specific company, regulation, agreement or policy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NOT about a specific company&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NOT about a specific position, but about the GENERAL role of CEO, including the core responsibilities which do NOT depend on the company&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NOT seeking legal advice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was perfectly valid and the close votes are nothing more than trolling and/or toxic behaviour. This would be a good time to start moderating &amp;quot;close vote enthusiasts&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38290" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2022-01-19T23:08:59.507" LastActivityDate="2022-01-20T08:35:16.447" Title="(Reopened) Reopen Request: &quot;For any CEO role, which core responsibilities are never delegated, independently from the company?&quot;" Tags="|support|reopen-request|trolling|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7046" CreationDate="2022-01-19T18:08:48.350" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't VTC this - while they're &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; any such fixed &amp;quot;core responsibilities&amp;quot; asking whether there is such a thing is (IMO) perfectly valid for someone who didn't know that and FWIW I think Joe Strazzere's answer does good job of explaining not only that there aren't but &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; there aren't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might have been better off editing your previous question into the &amp;quot;improved&amp;quot; version and requesting a re-opening - posting another &amp;quot;new&amp;quot; question can get messy - the old one currently has 2 reopen votes and the new one 1 for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for re-opening - if it gets to 4 Reopen votes I'll be more than happy to cast the 5th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2022-01-19T18:08:48.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7046" CreationDate="2022-01-20T08:35:16.447" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What questions are off topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions that lack a clear goal we can address&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;What type of questions should I avoid asking?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;avoid&lt;/em&gt; asking subjective questions where …&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is no actual problem to be solved:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the close votes are nothing more than trolling and/or toxic behaviour. This would be a good time to start moderating &amp;quot;close vote enthusiasts&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually lol. Thanks for the laugh!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7235" LastActivityDate="2022-01-20T08:35:16.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7049" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7050" CreationDate="2022-01-25T12:47:41.460" Score="4" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't much like the new look of the Top Questions page. Too much whitespace, IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But one rather silly piece is the &amp;quot;Votes&amp;quot; indicator. It doesn't display the &lt;em&gt;count&lt;/em&gt; of votes as I would expect and as we do with &amp;quot;Views&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Answers&amp;quot;, but rather the &lt;em&gt;net score&lt;/em&gt; of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus we see the odd &amp;quot;-1 Votes&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion: either display the number of votes cast, or change the term to &amp;quot;Score&amp;quot; rather than &amp;quot;Votes&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2022-01-25T13:36:39.250" Title="Top Questions page shows &quot;-1 Votes&quot;" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7049" CreationDate="2022-01-25T13:36:39.250" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately this is something that's being rolled out &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/375081/new-post-summary-designs-on-site-home-pages-and-greatest-hits-now-everywhere-el&quot;&gt;network wide&lt;/a&gt; and as you can see from the answers to the post on main meta you aren't the only one who doesn't like the new layout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'm decidedly &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a fan either :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2022-01-25T13:36:39.250" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7052" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-02-01T14:27:14.590" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/182463/if-you-get-sent-home-early-for-no-fault-of-your-own-should-you-still-get-&quot;&gt;If you get sent home early (for no fault of your own) should you still get paid for the time?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An edit has been made to this post making it a general question as opposed to a company specific question. It is a good question for contracting, ethics, and work etiquette, and IMO should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="64903" LastEditDate="2022-02-01T16:24:19.210" LastActivityDate="2022-02-01T16:25:15.827" Title="[Done]: reopen e If you get sent home early (for no fault of your own) should you still get paid for the time?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7052" CreationDate="2022-02-01T16:25:15.827" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was at 3 Reopen votes when I saw it - I agree that the edit brings it into much better shape so I've re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2022-02-01T16:25:15.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7054" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-02-07T18:55:52.140" Score="2" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why my most recent question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/182565/feeling-exhausted-and-disheartened-while-working-on-my-current-assignment&quot;&gt;Feeling exhausted and disheartened while working on my current assignment&lt;/a&gt;) has received downvotes. How can I improve it further?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="123677" LastEditorUserId="10313" LastEditDate="2022-02-10T23:15:29.363" LastActivityDate="2022-02-10T23:15:29.363" Title="How can I improve my question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7055" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-02-17T21:31:52.727" Score="1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/182828/my-company-is-only-offering-training-to-people-who-are-not-white-males-due-to-di&quot;&gt;My company is only offering training to people who are not white males due to diversity push. They have openly told us this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is merit in this question, and it has four upvotes so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am on a diversity team and I can compare and contrast Diversity done right, and done wrong.  It is answerable, if anything, it should be labeled as controversial, if nothing else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also currently relevant due to the reports coming out from ESPN about this very thing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2022-02-17T21:59:33.393" LastActivityDate="2022-02-17T21:59:33.393" Title="Request reopen this question" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7056" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-02-21T22:23:29.297" Score="0" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've run into the scenario where sometimes employees are opting to be independent contractors in Belgium vs. a normal employee, and I'm trying to understand the advantages/disadvantages of doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this type of question is appropriate for this site and am looking for clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6101" LastActivityDate="2022-02-21T22:23:29.297" Title="Question on topic regarding implications of being an independent contractor or an employee in Belgium?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7057" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7058" CreationDate="2022-02-23T16:32:57.900" Score="0" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently been flagging the clutter noise comments under posts. Comments that add no value nor information whatsoever, like &amp;quot;this is great answer&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;+1 great answer!&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;updated, thanks&amp;quot;, and so on. Pleasant and mostly seamless job, marking those clutter comments and helping to tidy up the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until today, where I have found out that all of my pending flags were dismissed in bulk. Not one, not two, but all of those 11 flags of &amp;quot;no longer needed&amp;quot; variety have been, seemingly offhandedly, declined. This was not a problem before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged a post that hosted one of those comments and asked (implicitly: asked the whole moderator team) to investigate. I'd expect handling (and especially dismissing) flags regarding a specific moderator, by that same exact specific moderator, to be a faux pas since this is a clear conflict of interest. However, that message apparently got dismissed by the exact same person whose decisions I asked to be investigated, and thus I assume it got silently &amp;quot;swallowed&amp;quot; without reaching the intended destination:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FXGz3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FXGz3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moderator in question has not revealed their nickname in the feedback message, and chose to remain anonymous. Which on itself is okay with me. But then, it makes it impossible for me to know whether any potential moderator answers are from the same person, or another moderator, so please take that into account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE model is and has always been explicitly based on rating content by its own value, not on rating content based on external context nor assumption. For example, posts are to be voted on based on the value of their content, not based on the person who is the author, nor on the supposed posting patterns exhibited by the author. Likewise, I think that validity of flags should be decided based on whether they correctly mark specific undesired phenomenon (like a comment being superfluous clutter), not based on assumed intent nor supposed previously-exhibited patterns of the flag's author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A comment either is of value or isn't, therefore a flag marking it as &amp;quot;no longer needed&amp;quot; either has a merit to it or it hasn't. Whether there is a supposed &amp;quot;pattern&amp;quot; of previous flags, should be irrelevant. The moderator in question has themself admitted that those comments were of minimal value, and the fact that they were aware of that and dismissed the flags regardless seems just plain wrong. Also, the fact of some of those comments being &amp;quot;years old&amp;quot; doesn't make them any more or less of a noise and clutter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A suggestion of &amp;quot;badge-farming&amp;quot; also seems a bit out of place. AFAIK, the badges and the whole gamification model exists there for a reason and are one of the major reasons for SE's widespread success (gotta give kudos to SE for making boring and mundane tasks hooking). I cannot see how &amp;quot;badge-farming&amp;quot; is harmful or undesirable on its own -- even if it was the case (which, remember, is only an assumption), how much of a harm does it inflict upon the community for this or that user to have a mostly-meaningless, colored, tilted square added to their profile as a result? That suggestion seems to display quite a worrying mentality: allowing legitimate contributions to be dismissed/invalidated solely based on perceived &amp;quot;badge-farming&amp;quot; could theoretically, for example, give a green light for discrediting, dismissing, or maybe even deleting someone's stellar answers, since according to an arbiter that person would be clearly attempting to farm &amp;quot;Great Answer&amp;quot; badges!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I therefore ask the moderation team to investigate the issue -- this time, without having the specific moderator in question interfering, please. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: I am reasonably satisfied with responses and the way this problem was solved. Green-accepted the answer, but that's not final and new answers are still welcome if someone wants to add something. Will always be happy to read any insight. The existing answer and comments in this thread were mostly helpful and informative so I wouldn't mind seeing more. Good way to learn stuff for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132962" LastEditorUserId="132962" LastEditDate="2022-02-25T02:34:29.373" LastActivityDate="2022-02-25T02:34:29.373" Title="Please investigate contextual bulk-flag-dismissal done by a specific, anonymous moderator" Tags="|support|comments|moderation|flagging|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7057" CreationDate="2022-02-24T09:08:26.497" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that message apparently got dismissed by the exact same person whose decisions I asked to be investigated, and thus I assume it got silently &amp;quot;swallowed&amp;quot; without reaching the intended destination&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, the intended destination for flags is &lt;em&gt;any member&lt;/em&gt; of the mod team. And you weren't using flags for their intended purpose with this. You received an explanation for why your flags were declined which seems to me like a good response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you've worked out, the correct way to raise a perceived moderation issue is to take it to meta here, or to contact the Community Team from the Contact page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moderator in question has not revealed their nickname in the feedback message, and chose to remain anonymous. Which on itself is okay with me. But then, it makes it impossible for me to know whether any potential moderator answers are from the same person, or another moderator, so please take that into account&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We rarely if ever identify ourselves during routine moderator actions and for good reason. And as you see, a flag is never the right way to raise what you see as moderator misconduct, which to be very clear this is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my view both the declines on your initial flags and the decline on your follow-up flag were warranted and correct. The first to signal that you're overusing (potentially abusing) flags with no tangible benefit to the site. We have hundreds of thousands of obsolete comments in our site history. There's simply no real value in cleaning up age-old comments in bulk. By all means flag the occasional comment when you see it, especially on popular posts, but doing this in bulk feels at best like a waste of everyone's time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second flag was rightly declined because that's not what post flags are for. And you received the explanation you asked for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that you raised this here and can understand why you might feel singled out! That's certainly never our goal. But I also don't think that's what happened here and I stand by the way these flags were handled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we decline a flag that's intended to give feedback to the user that they should check their flagging behaviour. We don't want to encourage you to continue to flag obsolete comments, so declining makes sense. Our standard Stack Exchange tools don't have a convenient way to decline &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; delete comments unfortunately, though we sometimes do approach it like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case you still have concerns about the way this was handled, I recommend that you reach out to the Community Team via the Contact page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2022-02-24T09:08:26.497" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7059" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-03-02T07:05:31.257" Score="0" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/183123/resignation-and-notice-period&quot;&gt;What is the official date of resignation when registered mail was delivered on time, but went to a collection point to be picked up the next day?&lt;/a&gt; and at the time of my writing it has 4 downvotes and 2 close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The close votes are &amp;quot;needs a lawyer&amp;quot; and while I think any HR person should be able to answer it, I can see that this has some merit. I think it's better to show &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; and at which point it needs a lawyer, but people would need to know how good a German HR education actually is to know whether to vote to close or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it also has 4 downvotes. Granted, I did some editing for easier language (see edit history), but I think it was clear, conscise, gave all the necessary information, was well tagged... I can seen nothing wrong with it. I don't see how it could have been improved at the core and I don't think we downvoted people for their proficiency with the English language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what did I miss? What is so bad about that question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2022-03-02T07:05:31.257" Title="Wondering what needs improvement for a specific question" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4004" CreationDate="2022-03-03T18:51:48.003" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This continues to be a problem: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/183137/recruiting-agency-asked-me-to-find-a-family-member-fill-in-i-9&quot;&gt;Recruiting agency asked me to find a family member fill in I-9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP is clearly just asking if something is a scam in general and not about a situation that's specific to them but they've already got a close vote for asking for legal advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think people don't understand that the phrase &amp;quot;legal advice&amp;quot; doesn't mean &amp;quot;any question involving the law&amp;quot;. It might be worth creating a F.A.Q with examples of what does and doesn't count if we can't get the wording changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34163" LastActivityDate="2022-03-03T18:51:48.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7063" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7064" CreationDate="2022-03-22T15:02:09.763" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/183556/how-to-proceed-in-new-role/183566#183566&quot;&gt;How to proceed in new role?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is answerable after the edit.  The user is a new user and we should cut them a little slack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imposter syndrome is very common in the business world, esp in IT, it can be, and should be addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2022-03-22T21:32:02.630" LastActivityDate="2022-03-22T21:32:02.630" Title="(Done) REQ: Reopen How to proceed in new role?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7063" CreationDate="2022-03-22T19:37:54.860" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I checked the question and indeed the edit improved it considerably and made it more focused and answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question had no reopen votes at the moment, but my judgment called that it was ok, so I went ahead and hammered it open :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2022-03-22T19:37:54.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7065" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-03-23T10:36:38.923" Score="0" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/183562/how-to-politely-state-moral-objection/183570&quot;&gt;How to politely state moral objection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is no more &amp;quot;opinion-based&amp;quot; than any other question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's asking for advice regarding recruiters, interviewing, and potentially resumes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted to re-open it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2022-03-24T04:11:30.350" LastActivityDate="2022-04-09T22:42:51.907" Title="(Done) This question should not have been closed as &quot;opinion-based&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7066" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-03-24T11:12:27.490" Score="19" ViewCount="878" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The Workplace is turning ten years old!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A blog post announcing our ten year anniversary will soon be posted on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow blog&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Original Announcement Post&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As other sites have done before us The Workplace StackExchange is turning ten years old next quarter, and SE staff have reached out asking us for a brief summary to be featured in the blog so we thought we'd see what users would like the text to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you would like to see the sort of things others have said you can look at the Q1 edition &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/03/16/celebrating-the-stack-exchange-site-that-turned-ten-years-old-in-q1-2022/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see some sites have also volunteered a few &amp;quot;interesting questions&amp;quot; from the sites' archives so any suggestions there would also be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2022-06-04T21:48:13.400" LastActivityDate="2022-06-04T21:48:13.400" Title="The Workplace is hitting the big ten year mark!" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7067" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-03-30T02:26:02.817" Score="0" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/183749/being-assigned-to-a-position-i-dont-want-to-racism/183755#183755&quot;&gt;Being assigned to a position I don&amp;#39;t want to + racism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very answerable.  Workplace bigtry/racism exists&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2022-03-30T07:06:01.733" LastActivityDate="2022-03-30T07:06:01.733" Title="(Done) req. reopen Being assigned to a position I don't want to + racism" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7066" CreationDate="2022-04-06T11:02:13.413" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93696/is-it-unethical-for-me-to-not-tell-my-employer-i-ve-automated-my-job&quot;&gt;This is our highest scoring question.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't really have a typical sort of question here that I can think of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2022-04-06T11:02:13.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7065" CreationDate="2022-04-09T22:42:51.907" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;HOW exactly is his question &amp;quot;opinion based&amp;quot;? If it was important enough for him to seek guidance for from his peers on this site, then why shouldn't he be helped? It's an absolutely legit question and a good one, esp. for someone just entering the workforce.&#xA;It's a good &amp;quot;moral dilemma&amp;quot; question.&#xA;It should be re-opened. I've seen sketchier questions and I've been here just a few hours...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134123" LastActivityDate="2022-04-09T22:42:51.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7066" CreationDate="2022-04-12T18:58:17.667" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Figured I'd give it a go since we would like to have something to share with the community at large. Feel free to submit your own text or suggest edits in the comments or a new answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While many people browse Stack Exchange at work, the Workplace has the unique distinction of also covering all things work related. Professionalism may be the name of the game, but how do you handle coworkers who have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/44738&quot;&gt;a thing or two&lt;/a&gt; to learn in that area? What if you want to bring a literal &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/83451/can-i-talk-to-my-rubber-duck-at-work&quot;&gt;rubber duck&lt;/a&gt; to the office? And how do you approach that all-important question of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1025&quot;&gt;asking for a raise&lt;/a&gt;? The Workplace is there to help you navigate those tricky situations. And hey, it's not goofing off when it's Workplace-related, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're checking with the community team if we'll be able to link to the questions in the post itself. If not, they'll just be three numbered links next to our top tag. Which for now is still professionalism, though &amp;quot;interviewing&amp;quot; is hot on it's tail which will ruin my wordplay... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2022-04-12T20:52:42.967" LastActivityDate="2022-04-12T20:52:42.967" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7071" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-04-14T01:15:08.240" Score="0" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I was browsing my questions today, I noticed &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/177305/how-to-express-concern-with-an-unsafe-practice-in-a-hospital-setting-if-quitting&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; of mine dealing with rationing of ventilators for covid patients to be protected and in status of Highly Active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was surprised by this change. First of all, protected questions usually arise due to need to contain trolling answers / non answers or due to flame wars in comments. Neither scenario seems to be the case here. Second of all, I have not seen any new activity on my question that would cause it to be labelled as highly active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did these changes come about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastActivityDate="2022-04-15T20:12:01.737" Title="Why was my question protected?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7071" CreationDate="2022-04-15T20:12:01.737" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the log I actually protected it back in 2021. The reason is related to the comment I posted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a difficult question to address here, partly because it's asked on behalf of someone else but mainly because the medical aspects are likely highly relevant and are mostly outside this site's area of expertise. It's similar to how we do not typically cover situations in Academia. I'd suggest to all would-be-answers to stick to the workplace aspects of this question since we can't address medical decision making here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was pre-emptively protected because it had hit HNQ and due to the subject matter. The drive-by posters that HNQ attracts tend not to respect site guidelines very well and are much more likely to soapbox in the answers where potentially divisive topics are concerned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we protect a question the example rationale describes it well: &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;This question is highly active and likely to receive spam activity or non-answers (e.g. &amp;quot;Me too!&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Thanks!&amp;quot;). Anonymous and low reputation users can’t answer protected questions.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, protected questions usually arise due to need to contain trolling answers / non answers or due to flame wars in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it was to prevent the former. Note that comment wars are what question &lt;em&gt;locks&lt;/em&gt; are for, not protection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2022-04-15T20:12:01.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7073" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-04-15T21:06:25.610" Score="2" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question at &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/184198&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/184198&lt;/a&gt; showed as a &amp;quot;Hot Network Question&amp;quot; and I was following it when it was suddenly deleted. Is there a way to understand why a popular question would be deleted? Can the OP delete it after there's significant activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2568" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2022-04-16T20:49:09.677" LastActivityDate="2022-04-16T20:49:09.677" Title="What's a good process to understand why a hot question was deleted?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|trolling|hot-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7073" CreationDate="2022-04-16T10:59:45.710" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The deletion reason says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It was flagged as spam or offensive content and deleted 14 hours ago by CommunityBot.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only folks with sufficient reputation points can see this reason. So the process for you is to either gain the necessary points, or ask here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2022-04-16T10:59:45.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7073" CreationDate="2022-04-16T20:24:51.113" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to understand why a popular question would be deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can ask about it on meta as you have done. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the OP delete it after there's significant activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. The OP &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221/how-does-deleting-work-what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that&quot;&gt;can only delete their question&lt;/a&gt; as long as there are no upvoted answer(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not asking about the deletion of a comment, but the deletion of a question with many votes, many answers, all of which had many comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on our assessment of this post &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; several flags by members of the community the question was removed for having been posted in bad faith. (A &amp;quot;troll&amp;quot; question as mentioned in gnat's comment.) The many votes, answers and comments are not a good thing in this case but the result of a fabricated question designed to spark this kind of reaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastActivityDate="2022-04-16T20:24:51.113" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7076" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-04-23T14:58:00.630" Score="0" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently encountered a question where the way that the OP handled a situation seemed obviously wrong to me, but they were implicitly blaming their co-workers for the situation. Part of me was tempted to downvote out of sheer frustration, but I refrained from doing so and instead wrote an answer explaining how I think that they should have handled the situation instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did notice that the question had a net negative score when I posted the answer, so it occurred to me: have other people had the same experience as me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That leads me to the second part of my question: is it ever appropriate to downvote for that reason? Obviously, people are free to vote however they want on questions, but I would like community feedback on this point to improve my own voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61906" LastActivityDate="2022-04-27T16:29:11.843" Title="Do/should people downvote out of sheer irritation about how the OP handled the situation?" Tags="|discussion|questions|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7076" CreationDate="2022-04-23T16:10:45.930" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is it ever appropriate to downvote for that reason [the way that the OP handled a situation irritated/frustrated me]?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Never&lt;/strong&gt;. You don't vote just because OP handled the situation badly. In fact, many of the post in TWP branch from situations where OP didn't handle the situation in an appropriate way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's no reason to DV. You DV if the post lacks research effort, is not useful, is rude or abusive (case where you should also flag), etc.. Never because OP handled the situation wrong and you felt irritated by that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are here &lt;strong&gt;precisely&lt;/strong&gt; for that reason, to guide and correct people in a professional environment, helping them grow and learn from their mistakes or faults.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you did, that is, refrain from DV and post a helpful answer so OP can learn and grow, is the way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I'd even go a bit further and say that DV-ing for such reasons is getting &lt;em&gt;very close&lt;/em&gt; to revenge down-voting, or systematic down-voting, something very discouraged here and in the whole SE network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't let emotions get in the way. If a post/comment irritated you or frustrated you, take a short break from TWP, and come back to the post (if you want) when the frustration has subsided. It's part of keeping a Professional attitude, something paramount for this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways, knowing the reason why some folks DV is something we can't guess, and getting explanation on the reason for the DV seldom happens (some folks just DV and move on, although it would be way better if they provided feedback for improvement).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a related reading, check this old MSE thread: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/135/332286&quot;&gt;Encouraging people to explain downvotes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also this one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/325416/332286&quot;&gt;Why isn&amp;#39;t providing feedback mandatory on downvotes, and why are ideas suggesting such negatively received?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I can't find one which had an answer by Shog9 or Jeff I think, that illustrated the concept in a more joke-like manner... but nevertheless to the point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2022-04-27T16:29:11.843" LastActivityDate="2022-04-27T16:29:11.843" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7076" CreationDate="2022-04-24T00:04:02.473" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting is completely open to the individual. They can downvote just because they stubbed their toe that morning. Or upvote because it's their birthday if they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The votes are of limited use anyway in gauging how good a question or answer is. I've seen plenty of highly voted answers which were absolute rubbish in the context of the question but appealed to our main demographic. Likewise good answers downvoted to oblivion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2022-04-24T00:09:49.467" LastActivityDate="2022-04-24T00:09:49.467" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7079" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-05-16T10:40:45.993" Score="0" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/184861/disagreeing-with-companys-code-of-conduct/184874?noredirect=1#comment605627_184874&quot;&gt;Disagreeing with company&amp;#39;s code of conduct&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was closed because it apparently &amp;quot;needs details or clarity.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question does not actually need detail or clarity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the OP has done a good job of trying to keep the question general enough so that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is more useful to others with similar issues&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The discussion doesn't get sidetracked to discuss the merits of the code of conduct.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are asking specifically what the OP doesn't like about the code of conduct. The answer to that simply doesn't matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question isn't asking if the code of conduct is reasonable. The question isn't asking if the OPs opinion is reasonable or not. Indeed, those would be difficult questions to answer without extra knowledge. We can simply accept that the OP has some sort of problem with the code of conduct and consider what the best course of action is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know reputation isn't everything, but let's look at the reputations of some of the people that HAVE managed to answer the question, I think succinctly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;346k&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;139k&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;94.5k&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it's obvious that it can be answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastEditorUserId="64903" LastEditDate="2022-05-16T11:02:53.583" LastActivityDate="2022-05-16T11:02:53.583" Title="(Reopened) Please Re-Open &quot;Disagreeing with company's code of conduct&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7079" CreationDate="2022-05-16T10:59:02.127" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I (&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/184861/disagreeing-with-companys-code-of-conduct/184863#184863&quot;&gt;fairly obviously&lt;/a&gt;) agree this is/was answerable. While I can see an argument that there would be &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; answers if the OP were to provide more details such as their objections and, probably more importantly whether they intend to &lt;em&gt;comply&lt;/em&gt; with the code (despite their objections).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I'm comfortable hammering it open myself - having an answer that is at the time of writing highly upvoted and accepted makes me concerned that I might not be entirely impartial if I did. But if it gets to  4 VTRO I'll happily cast the final one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2022-05-16T10:59:02.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7081" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-05-16T22:08:45.200" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/184754/how-to-investigate-contractor-under-a-fraudulent-identity-without-tipping-them-o&quot;&gt;most recent question&lt;/a&gt; only has 2 responses so far despite close to 600 views and was posted several days ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was not quickly closed as violating a SE rule (rant , legal advice request etc). I feel I have provided sufficient details and responded to questions by commenters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than opening a bounty, which I did now, how else can I get more detailed answers here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastActivityDate="2022-05-17T10:01:02.507" Title="Can I do anything outside of bounty to improve getting responses to my question on potential contractor fraud?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7081" CreationDate="2022-05-17T01:11:42.980" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's because once you mention sanctions lists you're entering a very small niche of specialised and highly regulated territory with extreme penalties if procedures are not followed correctly. A year or two ago a large bank in Australia got fined 2 billion just for not following procedures properly as I recall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if there are professionals who deal with that here they can only give the same answer that has already been given. There are no other viable options in the context given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that it's several days may mean that your company is already in breach of reporting mandates and wide open to serious repercussions depending on your locale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2022-05-17T10:01:02.507" LastActivityDate="2022-05-17T10:01:02.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7083" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-05-17T14:49:39.510" Score="-2" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Request to reopen: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/184944/what-are-the-possible-consequences-for-refusing-to-use-personal-phone-for-authen&quot;&gt;What are the possible consequences for refusing to use personal phone for authentication?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is answerable, and is relevant to the workplace&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2022-07-21T21:19:33.503" Title="REQ: Repen What are the possible consequences for refusing to use personal phone for authentication?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7084" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-05-18T05:17:21.097" Score="1" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/184893/team-member-regularly-ignores-back-to-office-policy&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, user &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/74517/computercarguy&quot;&gt;computercarguy&lt;/a&gt; posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/184893/team-member-regularly-ignores-back-to-office-policy/184919#184919&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out in the comments (including John Goodrow's comment, currently with 11 upvotes), this answer contains an off-topic political rant. I flagged the answer as such, but my flag was declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the moderator who did so explain why they declined the flag? Are off-topic political rants encouraged in Workplace SE answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38020" LastActivityDate="2022-05-23T06:40:10.353" Title="Are off-topic political rants encouraged in answers?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7084" CreationDate="2022-05-18T08:54:26.130" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I declined the flag because I didn't see a need to do anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One portion of the answer does seem a bit ranty but against no one in particular. There is a comprehensive answer in it as well. So I gave it the benefit of the doubt despite not particularly liking the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't encourage political or other rants, but this was not extreme and may have been included as contrast. Deleting that portion would clearly conflict with the authors intent. There is a difference between encouraging and tolerating as a commenter pointed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, I try and use a light touch unless there are personal attacks or similar going on. I didn't see that so I let it stand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With your paragraph deletion attempt, that's a totally different issue from any flags. But that was me as well. I came across it while doing the review queues, and the edit clearly went against the authors intent so I rejected it. Nothing to do with my mod status. I do the edit request queues every time I log in, anyone else with a bit of rep can do the queues any time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2022-05-18T14:29:30.917" LastActivityDate="2022-05-18T14:29:30.917" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7084" CreationDate="2022-05-18T10:34:47.587" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO any discussion about COVID draws out political rants (at least in the US), and the answer and comments show how. The answer should have been scrubbed or deleted. Other answers should be scrubbed or deleted as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2022-05-19T17:42:36.707" LastActivityDate="2022-05-19T17:42:36.707" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7084" CreationDate="2022-05-19T14:50:41.953" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't particularity like XY answers that deliberately go against explicit requests of the question. I also don't like particularity ranty answers either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd categorise the answer as both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But on the flip side, I think it's far superior for people to have their say in a ranty answer, that sort of at least mildly addresses the question, than pollute all the answers they disagree with, with comments. At least the community can self-moderate that answer, and the answerer may think of a way to present their point of view in a less caustic manner to not get their point of view downvoted to oblivion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the author of that question started commenting on my answer basically attacking the premise of the question. I basically said that if they've got an answer, they should just answer themselves. And to their credit they did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And for the record, I don't particularly like &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/184896/59502&quot;&gt;nvoigt's answer&lt;/a&gt; either. The question has been nicely cleaned up to be a bit less... inflammatory, but I suspect some answers deserve a similar treatment.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, what I don't think is useful, and indeed is malicious, are attacks on people on one part of the political spectrum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is fundamentally no need for it, it causes disruption, and to perhaps more widely visible answers, would cause more heat than light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with @user76284 here. I have attempted to edit out the offensive elements of the answer, but my changes have been reverted. So, I will reflag the answer because that is the proper thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastEditorUserId="59502" LastEditDate="2022-05-19T16:57:03.333" LastActivityDate="2022-05-19T16:57:03.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7088" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-05-22T12:08:17.677" Score="2" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/184982/&quot;&gt;Is it good form to put detailed reasons why you are resigning from a company in a resignation letter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was closed as a duplicate of a question asking about exit interviews. I do not understand why anyone would consider an exit interview to be something that should be treated the same as a resignation letter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been answered, with an answer accepted by the OP, but I think that leaving this question marked as a duplicate does a disservice to any future visitors with the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64188" LastEditorUserId="64188" LastEditDate="2022-05-25T19:31:42.237" LastActivityDate="2022-05-25T19:31:42.237" Title="(Done) (Reopen request) Do we want to tell people that resignation letters are the same as exit interviews?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7084" CreationDate="2022-05-23T06:40:10.353" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since my answer has come up here directly and indirectly here is my take on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my point of view there is a big difference between judgemental texts about politics (which I'm certainly guilty of, too, don't get me wrong, just not in that topic) and citing facts that people of a certain political direction mainly in the US will dispute and call them &amp;quot;offensive&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer in question here contains a text that is simply wrong. Neither the question nor the answer have a specific country tag and as such, saying &amp;quot;the conservatives&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;did something&lt;/em&gt; is wrong. In my country, they did not. In many other countries they did not. In the US that is probably correct, but then it needs to be tagged that way or actually specified as in saying &amp;quot;the GOP&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;the Republicans&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, my answer just states facts. Not obscure conspiracy theories or opinion. You can put it into google and get charts for it in the first hit. From the CDC or from my countries authority on it, that reports it's number to the CDC to get a global view. I disagree with the notion that I would be responsible for the nutjobs that don't believe in facts. And I don't care that US politics has been and continues to be that carwreck of a burning clown car for the past 5 years. I will not cater to the smallest possible &amp;quot;agreeable truth&amp;quot; on the internet. I'm sure most of what I believe in is giving people like Margerie Taylor Greene rashes. And they would love to pour comments into the internet how wrong I am. But we cannot give in to those people. This is an international site and I will not dumb down my posts until a pillow CEO overseas can agree with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, why is the number of comments a post creates a reason to change it or close it or even delete it? It isn't. If the comments are a problem, disable them. If arguing in comments is a problem (that I certainly have been guilty off, too, just not in that topic), then warn people and suspend people. But voting to close/delete or forcefully edit a post because you don't like the comments &lt;em&gt;from others&lt;/em&gt; it generates is not what this site is build on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it was a pretty normal Workplace question, until at some point it probably hit HNQ, because it was fine for a day or two and suddenly all kinds of weirdos flooded in. And I mean it, if you read through the comments, I am supposed to be wrong on numbers that you can google and people didn't read past the first paragraph only to tell me I'm wrong and they are right &lt;em&gt;and this came from both sides&lt;/em&gt;. I'm sorry, but I cannot be expected to write posts that do not make random internet trolls post their weird shit. If that is a problem (and I would not disagree) then take it off the HNQ. I don't need twitter fame and random trolls.  But I do need to be able to post an answer without some of &lt;em&gt;us&lt;/em&gt; trying to change or delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2022-05-23T06:40:10.353" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7088" CreationDate="2022-05-23T09:34:28.017" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the reopen request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because five people thinks the same information should be shared (or not shared) in both, doesn't mean everybody thinks that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be very good rationale on why different information, or different levels of detail, may be shared in each step of the resignation process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2022-05-23T09:34:28.017" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7088" CreationDate="2022-05-25T15:14:58.477" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It already had 4 votes, I've reopened it. Not a great question but seems valid enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2022-05-25T15:14:58.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7092" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-05-29T13:00:27.140" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A feature request or bug with this tag is something that has been evaluated as positive on potential,&#xA;but it is not present in the current work timeline. It is also not guaranteed to be implemented - when&#xA;it resurfaces the proposal may be re-evaluated and declined depending on how the situation has changed since then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-planned&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-planned&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-planned&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;status-planned-container&quot;&gt;status-planned&lt;/a&gt;, in which a feature is something that the site developers have&#xA;definitively approved for implementation but the timing is unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25237" LastEditorUserId="25237" LastEditDate="2022-10-15T00:03:42.327" LastActivityDate="2022-10-15T00:03:42.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7093" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-05-29T13:00:27.140" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the feature request or bug is something that is intended to be implemented or fixed, but not in the near term." OwnerUserId="25237" LastEditorUserId="25237" LastEditDate="2022-10-04T18:55:20.200" LastActivityDate="2022-10-04T18:55:20.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7094" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-05-29T13:01:06.197" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A feature request or bug with this tag is something that has been evaluated as definitive to implementation.&#xA;However, either there is ongoing investigation on the methods to implement the proposal, or there are other&#xA;active projects that are ahead of it in priority for the site developers. Ideally, this tag indicates that&#xA;the proposal is intended to be implemented in the near term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-deferred&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-deferred&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-deferred&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;status-deferred-container&quot;&gt;status-deferred&lt;/a&gt;, in which the feature is of lower priority and may be re-evaluated&#xA;on feasibility at a later date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25237" LastEditorUserId="25237" LastEditDate="2022-10-04T18:55:23.937" LastActivityDate="2022-10-04T18:55:23.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7095" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-05-29T13:01:06.197" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the feature request or bug is something that is intended to be implemented or fixed, ideally in the near term." OwnerUserId="25237" LastEditorUserId="25237" LastEditDate="2022-10-25T06:19:47.593" LastActivityDate="2022-10-25T06:19:47.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7096" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-05-29T13:01:37.790" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before posting your question, please check the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot;&gt;FAQs&lt;/a&gt;, and do a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;search&lt;/a&gt; to see if your problem already has a known solution or procedure. If you cannot find an answer, we will be happy to help you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25237" LastEditorUserId="25237" LastEditDate="2022-10-15T00:00:48.727" LastActivityDate="2022-10-15T00:00:48.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7097" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-05-29T13:01:37.790" Score="0" Body="You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features." OwnerUserId="25237" LastEditorUserId="25237" LastEditDate="2022-10-15T00:01:05.467" LastActivityDate="2022-10-15T00:01:05.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7098" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-06-05T20:10:30.940" Score="-1" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could somebody please explain to me, why &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/185376/135123&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; is considered to be off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some commenters demand more information, assuming the question has some tax or contractual context. It doesn't. Is there a requirement for questions on 'The workplace' to have this kind of context? I just want to make a list of my worktime and my overtime. That is all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that I came out positive reputation wise, although my question has a total rating of -4 at the time of writing &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; question, shows to me that not everybody shares the opinion that it was a bad question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; From the answers and comments so far I get that there doesn't seem to be a strong consensus, although some seem to lean towards the starting day. I even anticipated this possibility in my question. Thus, although an unpleasent experience, I've learned something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I still don't understand is why my question received so much hate. I still think it is a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose for a moment that there &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; a strong consensus on which day to choose, that might have even made it into law in some countries. And this consensus would make it very weird and confusing if I were to choose the other day. Would my question then have been on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still supprised, that there doesn't seem to be a strong consensus to answer my question. Nightshift have been around for some time, I would've expected that people would handle this consistently. And if my question wouldn't have been closed so fast and more people would've been allowed to through in their two cents, maybe a stronger consensus would've emerged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what is the lesson to learn here? If I can't be sure that there is a very specific, generally accepted answer to my question, then it is off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135123" LastEditorUserId="135123" LastEditDate="2022-06-06T16:06:33.317" LastActivityDate="2022-06-06T16:06:33.317" Title="Why is my question about nightshifts off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7098" CreationDate="2022-06-06T05:25:57.333" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Not that it matters, but as I write this, your question has 2 upvotes and 7 downvotes.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers need to be justified in some way. Hopefully with logic, or convention, or some other rationale. To be able to be justified, questions need sufficient context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have indicated there is no other context. You just have a personal need to list what day. We can accept that. However, there is no means for us to evaluate answers on merit, because there is no criteria other than whatever criteria is in your head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So all answers, and their votes become meaningless. A bad answer becomes just a valid as a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is indeed no criteria that makes a good answer, then you may as well do whatever you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is no workplace-related criteria, your question becomes off-topic. Your question may as well be about tracking your TV-watching binges, restroom visits, late-night fast food runs, or some other arbitrary thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastEditorUserId="59502" LastEditDate="2022-06-06T05:34:31.187" LastActivityDate="2022-06-06T05:34:31.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7100" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-06-07T20:37:04.887" Score="-9" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just joined &lt;em&gt;The Workplace&lt;/em&gt; yesterday and it has been a very bad experience. I've asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/185376/135123&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/185433/135123&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt;, both pretty much the same. After there was no more hope for the first question, I asked the second one providing more context (that I think is not really necessary to answer the question, but it was demanded in the first one). Again, the downvotes came in almost immediatly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It occured to me that there might have been a misunderstanding based on cultural differences. I addressed this in my last edit, but it was in vain. The question was already closed and downvoted to -6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never experienced anything like this on stackoverflow, where I am a member for years. It is evident, that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is not welcoming to new contributers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many comments showed in their wording a clear tendency to justify my question being bad rather than asking for clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The clarifications I tried to make were largely ignored or rather cherry picked for things to criticize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many contributers focused on &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; I was asking this question and addressing misconceptions they had about my questions. Few actually responded to the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This begs the question of &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; is The Workplace such a toxic community? Of course, I can't know this, but I have some thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace is probably a vastly smaller community than stackoverflow, making it easier for a few bad apples to ruin the experience for everybody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many people hate their jobs and I wouldn't be surprised if people rather often misuse this platform to ventilate their frustration. I don't think anybody would accuse me of that; but maybe this has let some users to have a rather loose finger over the downvote button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have any illusions that I could make some of the haters of my question reconsider; they would probably just come up with new justifications for my questions being bad. The rest of you however I ask this: Is this the kind of community you want to be a part of? If not, is there anything you can do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135123" LastEditorUserId="135123" LastEditDate="2022-06-08T00:41:20.027" LastActivityDate="2022-06-10T20:55:51.177" Title="The Workplace is a toxic community" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7100" CreationDate="2022-06-08T05:37:24.070" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the issue is you think that people closing your questions was an attack on you. It is not, it is just people treating the question on its merits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could have, at any stage, modified your questions, adding the context people were asking for, and the question would have become answerable. You should note that your second question had more context&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People even tried to help you by guessing what the context is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You decided you would rather keep people confused, and not reveal any meaningful information that could help people understand what you were looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;10s of different people added comments asking for clarification, or tried to explain to you that there is not one global standard, but instead of helping these people you tried your hardest to withhold context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, we managed to get it out of you that it's for calculating overtime hours worked, to determine how much time in lieu you have, with a focus on Germany? Where overtime is simply the number of hours you worked in excess of a contracted amount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is then it doesn't matter what day you associate the hours to. Addition is commutative. German law recognises that working on Sunday has a special status, and work on Sunday is generally prohibited between midnight and midnight. So to be consistent with that, you could associate hours according to the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But ultimately it doesn't matter. You don't need to associate hours to days. You need to associate hours to periods specified in your contract. If you want to break it down further, that's a stylistic decision for you to make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2022-06-08T05:37:24.070" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7100" CreationDate="2022-06-08T18:31:22.910" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question was closed because it was, indeed vague.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;overtime policies differ from company to company, contract to contract, state to state, country to country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that you did not include a country tag, or if in the USA, asked about a state, made it so vague as to be unanswerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just in the USA, it differs wildly from state to state.  Nevada requiring all work in the same day to be paid as OT, other states such as NJ only require OT to be paid after 40 hours.  Some companies have a contracts where they pay OT over 35 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how is there any possible general answer to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could have done any of the following.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;responded to any of the numerous queries and requests for clarification.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edited your original post after it was closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;added a country tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;included the industry&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;included whether it was a union job.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because context matters in the workplace, you failing to provide resulted in it's closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because &lt;strong&gt;YOU FAILED&lt;/strong&gt; to provide detail does not make this place &amp;quot;toxic&amp;quot;.  In fact, I find some irony that you made the accusation with a venomous post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2022-06-08T18:31:22.910" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7100" CreationDate="2022-06-10T20:55:51.177" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite frankly, I read your questions and you are right. At least the first one was a clear question that should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; have been closed. Or downvoted for that matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have tagged it with the country given in the body text (which everybody should have been able to do) and voted to reopen it. To be honest I don't know the answer, but the question is perfectly clear and does not need any further clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anybody who voted to close this as unclear can ask themselves the following question: do I know &lt;em&gt;two or more conflicting answers&lt;/em&gt; so I cannot give one of them in good faith until the question is clarified?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; then why did you vote to close it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is unclear &lt;em&gt;to you&lt;/em&gt;, then don't answer. Only if you know for a fact that it is unclear to &lt;em&gt;everybody&lt;/em&gt;, because multiple conflicting answers exist, should you vote to close, to keep others, who might not know about the conflict from answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, what could you, the OP do better? Well, you triggered a few responses because you did not focus on the core of your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which option would you choose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a clear red flag. You are asking for opinions. I bet half the voters did not even read past this line and just voted to close. Only later did you specify you did not really look for opinions, but for laws. And looking for relevant labor laws in context of a specific country is a great question. But you buried it. Under a survey for opinions, that is a reason to close, here &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; at Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have edited your question into a shape where it will hopefully be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2022-06-10T20:55:51.177" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7104" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7106" CreationDate="2022-06-13T13:57:04.563" Score="0" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;My comments were deleted on this Workplace question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/185537/how-to-politely-stop-a-colleagues-rude-remarks-about-the-way-i-sip-alcohol&quot;&gt;How to politely stop a colleague&amp;#39;s rude remarks about the way I sip alcohol?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect it was due to bad language, but I can't be sure. Can someone with elevated permissions tell me what happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29163" OwnerDisplayName="quant" LastActivityDate="2022-06-13T22:10:57.967" Title="Can someone tell me why my comments were deleted?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7104" CreationDate="2022-06-13T14:27:53.170" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not the mod who removed your two comments, however I can see that both were flagged by the community and removed at some point prior to the chat migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The vulgarity (although censored) may have played a part , as may have been the fact that the two combined comments were clearly an attempted &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt; to the question.&#xA;Now that's &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72/what-comments-are-not&quot;&gt;not what comments are for&lt;/a&gt;, we have a whole &amp;quot;answer&amp;quot; section dedicated for just such purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I'm not going around looking for answers-in-comments to terminate with any sort of prejudice if they get flagged with a &amp;quot;no longer needed&amp;quot; they're probably going to get removed, if they're exceeding the length of the comment box such that it needs multiple comments they're probably going to get removed, if they're even &lt;em&gt;remotely&lt;/em&gt; flirting with vulgarity they're probably going to get removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like I say I'm not out hunting for ones to remove - but that doesn't change that comments on Stack Exchange sites are intended to be largely ephemeral, so generally it's not advisable to get too attached to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2022-06-13T14:27:53.170" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7104" CreationDate="2022-06-13T22:04:01.393" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted the comments as they were not asking the OP for clarification or anything like that and I wanted to keep the comment thread within a reasonable size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I deleted 18 other comments as well on the same thread for the same reason during the day. Nothing to do with vulgarity. I don't see anything particularly wrong with your comments themselves, they just weren't needed. They were better suited as part of an answer perhaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments built up again and another mod moved them to chat in a separate action some hours later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2022-06-13T22:10:57.967" LastActivityDate="2022-06-13T22:10:57.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7107" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-06-15T10:19:11.950" Score="2" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;(The question came to my mind when reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/185611/25229&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; but this is just for reference).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a &lt;strong&gt;consensus&lt;/strong&gt; about what up- and down-voting mean &lt;strong&gt;for answers&lt;/strong&gt;? What would be the &amp;quot;voting reaction&amp;quot; to the following thoughts regarding an answer? (note that the up/down voting arrows are labelled &amp;quot;useful/not useful&amp;quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is an objectively correct answer, and I think that OP should do that (ex: &lt;em&gt;according the the Wakanda law, you must file vacation 2 weeks before they are due&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is an objectively correct answer, but I think OP should not do that (ex: &lt;em&gt;..., you can raise the issue with RH because ...&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is an incorrect answer, but I think OP should do that (ex: &lt;em&gt;next time yell at him as well&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is an incorrect answer and OP must not do that (&lt;em&gt;next time punch him in the face&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(note that &amp;quot;objectively&amp;quot; disappeared in the &amp;quot;incorrect&amp;quot; answers because the only ones I could come up with in the third bullet is subjective)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is that people have different opinions and I may or may not agree with them. They may still be &amp;quot;proper&amp;quot; opinions that make sense (the one I referred to is an example - it makes sense but I disagree). Using the word &amp;quot;useful&amp;quot; does not help that much because of its vague meaning (it is &amp;quot;useful&amp;quot; because it gives an opinion (→ upvote), is it &amp;quot;useful&amp;quot; because I agree with it (→ upvote), or the other way round)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25229" LastEditorUserId="25229" LastEditDate="2022-06-15T11:17:10.867" LastActivityDate="2022-06-22T13:43:15.643" Title="Is there a consensus in The Workplace regarding the meaning of votes for answers?" Tags="|discussion|answers|down-votes|up-votes|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7107" CreationDate="2022-06-15T17:46:35.000" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really. The metric really just remains &amp;quot;is this useful?&amp;quot; and while you can pick holes in what &amp;quot;useful&amp;quot; means to various people, it's rather the point of voting to &lt;strong&gt;arrive at a consensus&lt;/strong&gt;. When ten people all chime in on a given answer, that answer gets a single score that displays what the community thinks about it. That's our consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no real need to try and standardise what constitutes a &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; answer, even if it was possible, which it just really isn't. For instance, note how in the examples you give you're judging answers as correct or incorrect as well. That's also often up for debate on our site, much more so than on more technical sites. If there were arbitrary rules that could be put in place to judge answers, we wouldn't need our users any more. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end it's really the community that brings us to a consensus, not a set of guidelines or on-hover text on the vote arrows. And I think we've proven to be rather good at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2022-06-16T15:59:26.963" LastActivityDate="2022-06-16T15:59:26.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7107" CreationDate="2022-06-15T19:26:14.693" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should upvote posts you want to &amp;quot;float to the top&amp;quot; and you should downvote posts you want to push to the bottom (or make easier for the community/roomba to delete). That's it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your opinion about what should be more or less visible to readers visiting the site may differ from others in the community, but it's your vote and you should cast it in a way you feel is constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing we're likely to agree on is that you should vote on the content, and not on the person who posted it. For example, if someone wrote a worthwhile question, but subsequently negatively interacts with people in the comments, don't downvote good content, just flag the comments and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26699" LastActivityDate="2022-06-15T19:26:14.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7107" CreationDate="2022-06-20T20:35:42.307" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no consensus, but I'll let you know a good guideline I apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvote an answer whether I agree with it or not based on how useful it is and how much help it would provide the querent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote an answer which contains incorrect information, unhelpful information, or could harm the querent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;breaking each one down a bit.  Upvote something if it's not the best answer, but would still benefit the user.  It becomes dicey where the answer contains a mixed bag.  Such as when the answer is technically correct, but unwise at best, I may comment, and depending on how wise it is, vote accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question lends itself to multiple options, and the answer is one or more of them, I will tend to upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if an answer is technically correct, but a bad move, I will downvote.  I tend to downvote answers promoting conflict where there are other options, even if technically correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This usually comes into play where being right can be costly.  An analogy I use is that to a pedestrian crossing the street.  If you have the right of way, and the car isn't stopping, you are going to still get out of the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastActivityDate="2022-06-20T20:35:42.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7107" CreationDate="2022-06-22T13:43:15.643" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mainly just upvote answers that seem useful. I'll upvote answers that are at odds with another answer that I just upvoted if I deem them useful in some cultures. I'll also upvote answers I think are useful even if they're at odds with my own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's all the criteria I have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2022-06-22T13:43:15.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7112" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-06-30T05:37:07.460" Score="2" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/185928/work-place-appearance-zhuzh-it-up-a-bit&quot;&gt;Work place appearance - zhuzh it up a bit&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; unclear. And VtCs came it. And then the OP answered the questions for clarification and &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; provide her country and workplace circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's unclear any more. If it is, it has no active, unanswered comments asking for clarification, which would certainly make it hard for the OP to &amp;quot;clarify&amp;quot; anything she wasn't asked for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we reopen it? If not, can we at least &lt;em&gt;ask for clarification&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is any action &lt;em&gt;for the OP&lt;/em&gt; to get this question reopened in this state. It's up to us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't get the 4 downvotes, but at least that is not keeping her from getting help here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2022-06-30T05:59:02.267" LastActivityDate="2022-06-30T05:59:02.267" Title="(Done) Can we reopen the zhuzh question?" Tags="|support|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7083" CreationDate="2022-07-21T21:19:33.503" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reopen a question that is not even answerable because the user failed to provide his location? Sorry, no!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can you reasonably answer a question like that without even knowing what laws could possibly apply or what the local culture is? Depending on the location, it could be a fully normal practice, or a complete abomination and a big red sign for a company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64225" LastActivityDate="2022-07-21T21:19:33.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7114" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-07-22T18:26:16.430" Score="11" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seven years ago, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3036/suggestion-merge-tags-remote-and-telecommute&quot;&gt;the remote and telecommute tags were merged&lt;/a&gt;. The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/remotework&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;remotework&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;remotework&lt;/a&gt; is also a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/telecommute&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;telecommute&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;telecommute&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We currently have a separate &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/remote-work&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;remote-work&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;remote-work&lt;/a&gt; tag. Please merge this tag as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34163" LastActivityDate="2022-07-22T18:26:16.430" Title="Please merge the telecommute and remote-work tags" Tags="|discussion|retag-request|synonym-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-08-08T06:12:37.947" Score="16" ViewCount="744" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just read the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/186705/dealing-with-manager-that-has-high-turnover-but-great-reviews-from-departing-eng&quot;&gt;Dealing with manager that has high turnover but great reviews from departing engineers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Didn't we have the same exact question on the site before? I feel like I already read this in multiple variations, always by throwaway accounts (1 rep, no other sites visited).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit 2022/10/6:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/187771/manager-hogging-promotions-requisitions-by-overtraining-subordinates&quot;&gt;Manager hogging promotions/requisitions by overtraining subordinates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could not find any of the duplicates. Am I seeing things that don't exist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastEditorUserId="10813" LastEditDate="2022-10-06T07:39:02.060" LastActivityDate="2023-01-25T13:07:20.570" Title="Deja vu reading question about Engineer turned manager training their subordinates for the next job" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7115" CreationDate="2022-08-08T12:14:24.060" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you are not seeing things that don't exist. This is a common theme that appears a couple times a year: &amp;quot;We deceive and cheat our employees as a matter of policy. One of our most valuable workers has caught on to this and is rebelling. How can we force him to submit so we can continue to deceive and cheat him?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/63205/how-can-i-deal-with-troublesome-professional-engineer?rq=1&quot;&gt;How can I deal with troublesome Professional Engineer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/132387/engineer-refusing-to-file-disclose-patents?rq=1&quot;&gt;Engineer refusing to file/disclose patents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/141781/disciplining-hard-working-but-insubordinate-engineer-or-his-superior?rq=1&quot;&gt;Disciplining hard-working but insubordinate engineer or his superior?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/145709/how-to-discipline-overeager-engineer?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;How to discipline overeager engineer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/147134/how-to-force-disgruntled-worker-not-to-publicly-disclose-gpled-code?rq=1&quot;&gt;How to force disgruntled worker not to publicly disclose &amp;quot;GPL&amp;#39;ed code&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/159902/refusing-to-increment-productivity-beyond-salary-raise?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Refusing to increment productivity beyond salary raise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/163705/employee-demanding-company-to-guarantee-counter-offer-isnt-his-last-promotion-a?rq=1&quot;&gt;Employee demanding company to guarantee counter-offer isn&amp;#39;t his last promotion at this company&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/166317/departing-senior-engineer-refuses-to-introduce-replacement-to-open-source-commun&quot;&gt;Departing senior engineer refuses to introduce replacement to open source community/peers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/166883/insubordinate-chief-engineer-training-colleagues-to-be-too-mobile-out-of-spite?rq=1&quot;&gt;Insubordinate chief engineer training colleagues to be &amp;quot;too mobile&amp;quot; out of spite&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/168661/senior-engineer-suddenly-unwilling-to-do-extra-work-they-used-to-do-after-being?rq=1&quot;&gt;Senior engineer suddenly unwilling to do extra work they used to do after being denied promotion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/180422/former-employee-indirectly-poaching-engineering-talent?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Former employee indirectly poaching engineering talent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/183493/retaining-ambitious-employee-with-rare-skill-set&quot;&gt;Retaining ambitious employee with rare skill set&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some are from the employees viewpoint:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/164194/company-banned-references-senior-engineer-subverting-ban-should-i-go-along-wit?rq=1&quot;&gt;Company banned references, senior engineer subverting ban; should I go along with free &amp;quot;workaround&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/172530/polite-way-to-ask-if-senior-management-will-screw-me-over?rq=1&quot;&gt;Polite way to ask if senior management will screw me over?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Common elements in many of these questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have allowed the employee to become irreplaceable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have violated the law and this rebellion is going to expose us to prosecution or lawsuit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The employee is responding to our actual policies instead of to the lies in our employee handbook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The employee has pointed out our hypocrisy to others which is encouraging them to also rebel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't have the power or authority to solve this, but my head is on the chopping block if I don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The employee has told me exactly what he wants, but upper management has long-standing policies in place that block the solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, but not surprisingly, these questions all remain open. The solution is always obvious but it is never accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12925" LastEditorUserId="12925" LastEditDate="2023-01-25T13:07:20.570" LastActivityDate="2023-01-25T13:07:20.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7117" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-08-18T13:11:25.037" Score="-5" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, I've seen this question about a person, having a problem which occurs at his or her private life and workplace: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/186893/becoming-more-social-in-life-and-at-workplace/186895#186895&quot;&gt;Becoming more social in life and at workplace&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like the author's workplace is completely different than his or her private life, causing some issues the author wants to address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I had similar experiences, I decided to help the author, asked some more information and within those questions, added some first advice (like participating in regular daytime breaks, lunch breaks, ...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reaction of the rest of the community is extremely harsh:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question gets closed, as if the question were off-topic. However, as I have experienced something similar, I know for a fact that the issue can be quite on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My answer received some downvotes. (This is not so bad)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My answer got &amp;quot;deleted&amp;quot; and so-called converted into a comment, which is even not true: there is no comment, even resembling to my answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As I tried to &amp;quot;undelete&amp;quot; my deleted answer, I got the reaction that the deletion was done by a moderator. A MODERATOR??? Look: I can very well understand that insulting, offensive, condescending, ... answers got deleted by moderators, but this???&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a reminder: the first sentence in the welcome page mentions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange is a question and answer site about the workplace and other career-related topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is clearly the case here, so why being so harsh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59683" LastActivityDate="2022-08-19T08:22:20.233" Title="Why is this community so harsh?" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|moderation|deleted|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7117" CreationDate="2022-08-18T15:22:22.790" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question gets closed, as if the question were off-topic. However, as I have experienced something similar, I know for a fact that the issue can be quite on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I think there probably is an on-topic question in general I do think it would benefit greatly from more information from the OP and the community voted to close the question - including the OP, and I'm reluctant to overrule the community in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer got &amp;quot;deleted&amp;quot; and so-called converted into a comment, which is even not true: there is no comment, even resembling to my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not the moderator who deleted your answer - but I can see the sequence of events. A &amp;quot;Not an answer&amp;quot; flag was raised on it and the moderator accepted that flag and converted it to a comment on the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/186893/becoming-more-social-in-life-and-at-workplace/186895#comment613036_186893&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I expect they accepted the flag because your answer &lt;strong&gt;wasn't&lt;/strong&gt; an answer to the question - instead it was a series of questions seeking clarification for the OP, which is what comments are for so it was converted to that. Like I say, I didn't do it but I would have done the same had it been me responding to the flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2022-08-18T15:22:22.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7117" CreationDate="2022-08-18T21:42:07.167" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I converted your answer to a comment because it didn't answer the question. Instead it appeared to be posing several questions asking the OP for clarification and background information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't feel my action was harsh in any way, it was the appropriate action in the circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have some useful insights to the question I invite you to write another in answer format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2022-08-18T21:42:07.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7117" CreationDate="2022-08-19T08:22:20.233" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I almost flagged your answer as &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot;. It was a list of questions and I wasn't sure if you were asking for more clarification from the OP, or trying to answer the questions by asking prompting questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were trying to actually answer, I would rephrase it to make it clearer it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; an answer. For example, instead of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were you social in primary school? - Were you social in secondary school? - Were you social during higher education? - Why do you want to be social now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were you social in primary school? - Were you social in secondary school? - Were you social during higher education? - Why do you want to be social now? Use the answer to this to motivate yourself to take part in more social activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the latter tells the OP &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; they can do with the questions. Obviously you would change it to what &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; think they can do with the answer (not what I've guessed). The questions on their own don't really say that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22086" LastActivityDate="2022-08-19T08:22:20.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7121" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7122" CreationDate="2022-08-25T16:06:27.677" Score="6" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/186969/manager-is-mad-that-i-can-no-longer-work-on-weekends-for-family-reasons&quot;&gt;Manager is mad that I can no longer work on weekends for family reasons&lt;/a&gt; should clearly be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;How should I deal with this?&amp;quot; is easily a goal that we can address, in addition to being the exact phrase used by many (if not most) other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP is clearly not asking for advice on a specific choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question should not have been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2022-08-26T07:56:04.350" LastActivityDate="2022-08-26T07:56:04.350" Title="(Done) Reopen question about no longer working weekends" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7121" CreationDate="2022-08-25T16:44:22.383" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read the question and also think it is answerable and not asking for a specific choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It already had 3 reopen votes, so I went and cast a binding vote and opened it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2022-08-25T16:44:22.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7123" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-09-09T22:39:05.613" Score="16" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations on reaching 200k!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/40669.png&quot; alt=&quot;Kilisi&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides your answers and posts, it's also been great to have your support as a Mod. As usual, your zen-like style keeps your contributions useful, direct, and on point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2022-09-10T07:12:35.287" Title="Congratz Kilisi on clipping 200k rep!" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7123" CreationDate="2022-09-10T07:12:35.287" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks. It's been quite a journey for me here at The Workplace. I've learnt a lot over the years, and I'm proud to be part of such a community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a lot of insightful and intelligent people here, more than once I've had to take a step back and re-evaluate my ideas on how things work, which is great. I'm not used to it in normal working life, so it's healthy and useful exercise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2022-09-10T07:12:35.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7125" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-09-21T10:35:44.360" Score="-2" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just curious as to what exactly is the deal with all these extremely down-voted questions. Does this SE really just attract a higher than usual amount of really poor quality questions or is there some herd-mentality voting going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Music SE is the one I have been most active on. It has its share of low-quality questions but it seems there, there is at least an attempt to get a good question out of the poster before downvoting. Here there are a lot of votes but not as much attempt to improve questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not extremely active on the SE so I'm curious as to what exactly is the deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60156" LastActivityDate="2022-09-21T10:47:59.410" Title="Does this SE have a reddit approach to voting?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7125" CreationDate="2022-09-21T10:42:41.813" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about the Music SE, but here the definition of the downvote is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not&#xA;useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I take it at face value. I assume downvoters have read the question and concluded that either it doesn't show any research effort, that it is unclear, or that it is not useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of comments attempting to clarify questions. I often don't see any responses or attempt to edit the question by the original poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also know that some people have their own personal reasons for downvoting, or voting to close. I may not agree with their reasons, but on a highly gamified site like SE, it's not at all surprising that this happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what &amp;quot;a Reddit approach to voting might be&amp;quot;, nor do I care in this context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2022-09-21T10:47:59.410" LastActivityDate="2022-09-21T10:47:59.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7127" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-09-21T12:58:57.483" Score="10" ViewCount="450" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're contemplating a moderator election before the year ends to increase the number of mods to five. I'd just like to have an idea of community interest in this (since obviously we'll look a bit silly if no-one applies for the job).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you have time just put a like on either of the answers below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="10313" LastEditDate="2022-10-25T17:40:06.617" LastActivityDate="2022-10-25T17:40:06.617" Title="Potential Moderator Election 2022" Tags="|discussion|election|moderators|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7127" CreationDate="2022-09-21T13:00:24.937" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, that's an excellent idea! Exactly what we need and I'm ready to self nominate for the position(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2022-10-19T20:51:02.473" LastActivityDate="2022-10-19T20:51:02.473" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7127" CreationDate="2022-09-21T13:01:39.580" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, that's a terrible idea, no one has time for that. What were you thinking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2022-10-19T20:50:42.697" LastActivityDate="2022-10-19T20:50:42.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7130" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-10-02T20:49:41.990" Score="-9" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very simply put, I wish to express my feelings about a situation that has occurred here, regarding this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/187685/rejecting-an-invite-to-a-work-social-event-whilst-perceived-working-situation-is&quot;&gt;Rejecting an invite to a work social event whilst perceived working situation is currently untenable&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I made a post, very very much regret making it - the level of detail contained within it is something I didn't consider at the time to be something I could be easily identified from, but I'm very aware on reflection that's the case. I divulged some information that was shared with me only, and there is some information in that post that would get me in a lot of trouble as it was information that was only supposed to be shared with me. In the interest of giving better context, I left all of that in but now see that as a huge mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I received some answers, out of courtesy I did the right thing and marked the one answer I got as helpful. I edited the post out, and wiped out the text until such a time as I could either get it into a position where it would be watered down and removed of any context that would make it very clear who I was. I would say that probably up to a dozen people would be able to find that post and make the connection, at least six of those people actively use this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kate Gregory reinstated the post against my wishes. I edited out the post again, it was reinstated and I have been blocked from being able to edit it further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to be calling ICO (the national information rights organisation in my country) as soon as it opens in the morning and seeking further guidance on what my rights are, as I'm very aware at this point that having my opportunity to remove something from the internet that I don't want to be there, is a massive, flagrant abuse of GDPR in my country and, in the kindest terms possible, I'd like to ask you to revert your mistake because that's exactly what it is. If it has been felt that this has circumvented the purity of your platform here, and that these posts are supposed to stay up indefinitely so they can be referred to for years to come, I apologise wholeheartedly for that but I believe you're breaking the law by refusing my right of control over the content I have posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remove it please. On this specific platform, I won't ask you again but will go over your heads instead if I have to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="121422" LastActivityDate="2022-10-05T18:24:50.763" Title="Seeking clarification on the rules in regards to perceived privacy violation" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7130" CreationDate="2022-10-03T08:29:23.183" Score="15" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made a post, very very much regret making it - the level of detail contained within it is something I didn't consider at the time to be something I could be easily identified from, but I'm very aware on reflection that's the case. I divulged some information that was shared with me only, and there is some information in that post that would get me in a lot of trouble as it was information that was only supposed to be shared with me. In the interest of giving better context, I left all of that in but now see that as a huge mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you post something to a Stack Exchange site it is perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Overflow on a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive basis pursuant to Creative Commons licensing terms (&lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC BY-SA 4.0&lt;/a&gt;), as described in the network ToS &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service#licensing&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, vandalising your posts in an attempt to destroy this content goes contrary to this and I'm afraid personal regret about posting doesn't change that fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I received some answers, out of courtesy I did the right thing and marked the one answer I got as helpful. I edited the post out, and wiped out the text until such a time as I could either get it into a position where it would be watered down and removed of any context that would make it very clear who I was. I would say that probably up to a dozen people would be able to find that post and make the connection, at least six of those people actively use this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I locked the post - this is standard SE practice in the event of post vandalism/edit wars. I'm not insensitive to your concerns however, and if you can provide a version of the question that removes the content you're concerned about while not invalidating the answer then you can drop a mod flag on the question when you are ready to edit and I'll remove the content lock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to be calling ICO (the national information rights organisation in my country) as soon as it opens in the morning and seeking further guidance on what my rights are, as I'm very aware at this point that having my opportunity to remove something from the internet that I don't want to be there, is a massive, flagrant abuse of GDPR in my country and, in the kindest terms possible, I'd like to ask you to revert your mistake because that's exactly what it is. If it has been felt that this has circumvented the purity of your platform here, and that these posts are supposed to stay up indefinitely so they can be referred to for years to come, I apologise wholeheartedly for that but I believe you're breaking the law by refusing my right of control over the content I have posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions and Answers remaining up as future reference material for &amp;quot;years to come&amp;quot; &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; central to the ethos of the Stack Exchange network - which is why steps will be taken to counter destructive edits of this type. You are of course free to contact the ICO or &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange themselves&lt;/a&gt; but I have to say I'm struggling to see where there are GDPR implications here - there's no PII in your post (either yours or anyone else's) and as mentioned above when you posted here you licensed the content of the post to SE and that comes with a loss of control over what happens to it afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastEditorUserId="64903" LastEditDate="2022-10-03T08:35:27.437" LastActivityDate="2022-10-03T08:35:27.437" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7130" CreationDate="2022-10-03T09:12:57.467" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a non problem. I have read the question twice, quite a missive, and fail to see how it couldn't apply to lots of people rather than pinpoint you. I don't see anything except generic information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing about unsavoury team leads or colleagues is they don't view themselves as unsavoury so would be unlikely to connect themselves with a story about one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd advise you respectfully not to worry about it unduly. If you do see anything that pinpoints you that I have missed, then edit it out. Realistically most of the background could dissappear and still leave the basic question intact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as legal action, I'm not a lawyer, but site policy as mentioned in Moto's answer is usually to retain the question for reference. Especially if it has an accepted answer as it indicates volunteers have spent time and effort giving useful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2022-10-03T10:37:41.317" LastActivityDate="2022-10-03T10:37:41.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7130" CreationDate="2022-10-05T18:24:50.763" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as I'm very aware at this point that having my opportunity to remove something from the internet that I don't want to be there, is a massive, flagrant abuse of GDPR in my country&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it's not. The GDPR is not about removing things from the internet you don't want there. That is a misunderstanding of both the target and intent of the GDPR. The GDPR protects your personal data, whether &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; posted them or someone else:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;‘Personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gdpr.eu/eu-gdpr-personal-data/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you had for example, accidentially posted your name, you bosses name, your email or company name, licence plate, &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; where one could without fail point a finger and say &amp;quot;it's &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;, that would indeed be covered by the GDPR. A story, that if enough people guess who it was written by, sooner or later one will be correct, is not &amp;quot;personally identifyable information&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your post is generic. So generic, I read it again and after half of it, I can confidently say: at another time in my life, that was me. You absolutely described the company and my role in it. It is in no way unique. Shitty companies exist a dime a dozen, shitty people are even more common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, there is no protection rooted in the GDPR here. There is no specific PII to be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, even before the GDPR, everybody here understood the need for anonymity, and mistakes like not obfuscating names have always been rectified without problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is deleting your whole post. You signed a TOS that allows SE to show your post. This is how SE makes it's money. The fact that you got free advice here is partly due to the fact that the server owners reserve the right to have the question and answer found via search engines and show ads to people finding them. That is how they make money to keep this site running and allowing you and me to write things here. This publicity is the price you pay for &amp;quot;free&amp;quot; advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you get your &amp;quot;free&amp;quot; advice, but later decide that you aren't willing to pay the price you agreed to pay, that is seen very negatively by most people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how to go from here? You can go to the ICO. Personally, I would encourage you to do so. Never trust random strangers from the internet. In other words: let them verify what I wrote about the GDPR here. It won't get you anywhere, but it will educate you about your rights (and where they end). Education is always good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then what? Well, again, we do not object to making your question less specific. For example, your post contains specifics as in someone leaving in December. That is not GDPR relevant, it's not even &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; data, strictly speaking it's theirs. So even if it were PII, it would not be yours to remove. But it is also not very relevant to the question. Just edit that into &amp;quot;in a few months&amp;quot;. One less very specific detail to worry about, and nothing lost in regards to keeping the question intact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are worried to be found out, edit out the small details that you think will make people think of you specifically. The general question is sadly &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; common and in no way identifies you directly any more than thousands of other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2022-10-05T18:24:50.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7134" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-10-07T13:42:40.143" Score="7" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/western-europe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;western-europe&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;western-europe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;western-europe-container&quot;&gt;western-europe&lt;/a&gt; tag to be unnecessary. Virtually all of Western Europe is covered by the EU, and outside of that employment law is different enough that separate questions should usually be asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="886" LastEditorUserId="33983" LastEditDate="2022-10-13T09:36:30.250" LastActivityDate="2022-10-13T09:39:58.853" Title="Western Europe tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7135" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7136" CreationDate="2022-10-12T11:31:11.013" Score="2" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;This recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/187807/168&quot;&gt;question about $300 meals&lt;/a&gt; felt somewhat off to me, and comments &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/139738/discussion-on-question-by-professional-flosser-accidentally-spent-much-more-than&quot;&gt;moved to chat&lt;/a&gt; suggest that many other readers felt that way too. When I saw it in HNQ I recalled that mod advice for &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6173&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;engineered&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; questions is to flag them for removal from network wide list. Back then, I decided to ignore this advice and abstained from flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I decided not to flag because I thought that some overspending (okay, maybe 10x smaller than in this question) is fairly plausible issue anyway and it may get some generally useful answers. And I especially liked how one ot the top answers clearly and explicitly pointed that this story is not believable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However later things went in a direction worse that I was expecting. Asker accepted fairly slippery answer (per my reading it was bordering on advice to commit fraud) and updated the story with details that made it look like totally made up, as was explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/187807/accidentally-spent-much-more-than-the-food-allowance-on-a-business-trip/187819#comment616580_187807&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least 30 colleagues, all of whom were given $43 to spend but chose to only spend a dollar a meal instead of having something decent, all of whom decided to help out someone who chose to eat like a king that week. None of whom foresaw a problem claiming they shared dinner for the purposes of one expense report and then had their actual dinner separately for a dollar. This must be one of the most unlikely resolutions I have ever read on here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is too late to flag now because system already removed the question from HNQ due to its age but I would like to learn for the future, what would make better sense to do in cases like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastActivityDate="2022-10-12T18:51:31.667" Title="Was $300 meal story worth flagging for removal from HNQ?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|flagging|hot-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7135" CreationDate="2022-10-12T17:38:17.240" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think go with your gut. There's no harm done flagging it for removal from HNQ, at least it brings it to mod attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is flaky at best in my opinion, the accepted answer even moreso. I'd have removed it from HNQ if I'd seen a flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without a flag I left it as one of those first World issues I have no experience with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2022-10-12T18:51:31.667" LastActivityDate="2022-10-12T18:51:31.667" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7134" CreationDate="2022-10-13T09:39:58.853" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like this is &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;status-completed-container&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;? There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/western-europe&quot;&gt;no more questions with that tag&lt;/a&gt;; for posterity, &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20220609021451/https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/western-europe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; are a couple of questions which had it earlier this year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33983" LastActivityDate="2022-10-13T09:39:58.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7139" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-10-19T03:37:38.230" Score="-1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;To my question, a user posted below answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm in the UK. If any employer suggested that here, you would be asked &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;are you completely &lt;strong&gt;bonkers&lt;/strong&gt;?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; Your concerns about my leisure would be answered with &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;what I do in my free time is none of your &lt;strong&gt;f---ing&lt;/strong&gt; business&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. This &lt;strong&gt;seems rude&lt;/strong&gt;, but any employer here trying this would be considered extremely rude and only getting what they deserve. ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here the answerer is trying to put forth a possible agitated reaction. But it's more explicit and I feel that going to such an extent is not required.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I flagged this answer, but the moderator declined it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I wanted to know why is it not considered as rude?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: Haven't put the link to the original post, as I don't want its voting pattern to influence this post. Hoping for a neutral response.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7741" LastEditorUserId="7741" LastEditDate="2022-10-19T06:58:18.173" LastActivityDate="2022-10-20T22:29:23.863" Title="Is an answer or comment with indirect slang considered rude / abusive / offensive for this site?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|specific-answer|scope|etiquette|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7140" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-10-19T07:26:46.363" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bug report is considered bydesign if, after review of the detailed erroneous behavior,&#xA;it is determined that the behavior is desirable to keep in place rather than fix. This&#xA;is independent of whether or not the behavior was formerly known to the site developers&#xA;prior to the time of the report - the important thing is that the behavior will not be&#xA;altered because its current behavior is preferred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag should only be used on questions reporting what is purported as erroneous behavior&#xA;and suggests them being fixed / reversed. For when a question that is requesting a new&#xA;feature that addresses a behavior that the asker believes to be erroneous,&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;status-declined-container&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; should be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25237" LastEditorUserId="25237" LastEditDate="2022-10-27T02:29:01.857" LastActivityDate="2022-10-27T02:29:01.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7141" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-10-19T07:26:46.363" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the reported behavior is intentional and not subject to change" OwnerUserId="25237" LastEditorUserId="25237" LastEditDate="2022-10-27T02:29:26.473" LastActivityDate="2022-10-27T02:29:26.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7142" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-10-19T07:27:21.463" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bug report is considered reproduced only if the site developers have successfully reproduced the bug.&#xA;This tag should only be applied if the site developers cannot immediately address the bug, such as if&#xA;it requires further investigation into solutions or if the implementation of a fix would be stalled&#xA;for other reasons. When a fix is eventually implemented, the tag should become &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;status-completed-container&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25237" LastEditorUserId="25237" LastEditDate="2022-10-27T02:29:11.940" LastActivityDate="2022-10-27T02:29:11.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7143" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-10-19T07:27:21.463" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the site developers were able to replicate the behavior reported, but cannot address its cause at this time." OwnerUserId="25237" LastEditorUserId="25237" LastEditDate="2022-11-13T09:55:26.240" LastActivityDate="2022-11-13T09:55:26.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7139" CreationDate="2022-10-19T08:39:20.427" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was the moderator who declined your flag. I reviewed the flagged answer and it's clear in my view that the poster was giving an example the sort of response the statements you posit management making in the question would receive in the context of their country. Presumably with the intent of demonstrating to you that those statements would be considered rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;rudeness&amp;quot; in the answer appeared not to be directed at you &lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt; in the same way the &amp;quot;rude&amp;quot; statements in the question weren't aimed at those reading your question, the profanity was appropriately self-censored by the author of the answer, and taking these things into account I saw nothing actionable and declined the flag. The reverse holds - if someone were to flag your question as Rude/Abusive on the basis of the &amp;quot;rude&amp;quot; statements that answer was &amp;quot;responding&amp;quot; to I'd decline that too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2022-10-19T08:39:20.427" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7139" CreationDate="2022-10-20T22:29:23.863" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would have declined the flag for the same reasons as Moto.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do have a 'be nice' policy, we also have 'assume good intentions'. They work together well for a multi-cultural site where ways of expression can differ widely and misunderstandings can happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2022-10-20T22:29:23.863" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7146" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-10-24T20:02:39.390" Score="7" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/9#questionnaire&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/9&quot;&gt;next week, 2022-10-31&lt;/a&gt;. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&amp;amp;A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here’s how it’ll work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Until the nomination phase, (so, until 2022-10-31 at 20:00:00Z UTC, or 4:00 pm EDT on the same day, give or take time to arrive for closure), this question will be open to collect potential questions from the users of the site. Post answers to this question containing any questions you would like to ask the candidates. Please only post &lt;em&gt;one question per answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If your question contains a link, please use the syntax of &lt;code&gt;[text](link)&lt;/code&gt;, as that will make it easier for transcribing for the finished questionnaire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a perfect opportunity to voice questions that are specific to your community and issues that you are running into currently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We, the Community Team, will be providing a small selection of generic questions. The following two questions are guaranteed to be included:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc. a question that you feel shouldn’t have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The community team may also include the following three questions if the community doesn’t supply enough questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the start of the nomination phase, the Community Team will select &lt;strong&gt;up to 8 of the top voted questions submitted by the community&lt;/strong&gt; provided in this thread, to use in addition to the aforementioned 2 guaranteed questions. We reserve some editorial control in the selection of the questions and may opt not to select a question that is tangential or irrelevant to moderation or the election. We exclude any suggested questions that are negatively scored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We will post the final questionnaire on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/9&quot;&gt;Election page&lt;/a&gt;. Candidates will have the option to fill out the questionnaire, and their answers will appear beneath their intro statements.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is not the only option that users have for gathering information on candidates. As a community, you are still free to, for example, hold a live chat session with your candidates to ask further questions, or perhaps clarifications from what is provided in the Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions or feedback about this process, feel free to post as a comment here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41738" LastEditorUserId="10313" LastEditDate="2022-10-31T20:05:33.250" LastActivityDate="2022-10-31T20:47:51.060" Title="2022 Moderator Election Q&amp;A – Question Collection" Tags="|discussion|election|moderators|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7146" CreationDate="2022-10-24T22:06:23.613" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From last year and the election before that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get a good amount of hot questions on provocative topics. Sometimes the questions seem so incredible that people question whether they are genuine. Sometimes the questions seem genuine but evoke strong negative reactions. Either way, these questions attract a lot of attention, comments, flags, and discussion in chat. How should questions like these be moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2022-10-24T22:06:23.613" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7146" CreationDate="2022-10-30T14:55:45.460" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to SE statistics available &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#questionsperday&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, the number of questions posted daily on The Workplace is  3.1. There is  also evidence that suggests the community's most popular network questions are made exclusively by throwaway accounts, new contributors who never edit or even post a comment once their question is submitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To what extent do you consider the low number of questions a problem for the site?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;What can be done to encourage participation and engage new users?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105551" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2022-10-31T20:47:51.060" LastActivityDate="2022-10-31T20:47:51.060" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7146" CreationDate="2022-10-30T14:57:54.887" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do you want to be a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;TWP moderator&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105551" LastActivityDate="2022-10-30T14:57:54.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7150" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-10-31T16:26:39.503" Score="8" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by the recent question &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/188283/is-it-a-good-salary-negotiation-tactic-to-say-make-me-an-offer-and-i-will-eith&quot;&gt;Is it a good salary negotiation tactic to say, &amp;quot;Make me an offer and I will either accept it or walk away&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the Europe and Asia tags should be deleted.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;They're the only continents which have their own tags, and the tags don't appear to serve any useful purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does something which applies to the UK also apply to Portugal? Does something which applies to Japan also apply to Korea?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Of course not, so why do those tags exist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Country tags are more appropriate and should be used instead of continent tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70164" LastActivityDate="2022-11-02T11:25:44.490" Title="Asia and Europe tags. Why?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7151" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-10-31T20:01:42.290" Score="7" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The 2022 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;election-container&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="10313" LastEditDate="2022-11-15T20:12:43.127" LastActivityDate="2022-11-15T20:12:43.127" Title="2022 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|election|moderators|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-10-31T20:01:42.290" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7146" CreationDate="2022-10-31T20:11:07.293" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;How will you approach moderation on a Workplace/HR question that touches on current political issues in corporate life, such as Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will you be adopting the Collective, intersectional view or an Individualist view?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What steps will you be taking to ensure that your own views do not colour (pun intended) your moderation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135652" LastActivityDate="2022-10-31T20:11:07.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7150" CreationDate="2022-10-31T20:21:32.233" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a good question - I disagree with the conclusion but I think that it is worth discussing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the question mentioned, what was asked hinged &lt;em&gt;heavily&lt;/em&gt; on cultural norms. How to negotiate a salary is something where there is still a great deal of discrepancy in how it's handled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However - there are other Workplace issues that are less influenced by Culture and more to do with Law and Regulation - as such, the EU and ECJ (European Union and European Court of Justice) are most likely applicable. Even non EU countries, such as the UK (heh) have a fair degree of overlap in terms of Workers rights and protections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, a Europe tag is appropriate IMO when used in the correct context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not familiar enough with Asia to give an equivalent answer - but I suspect that there are indeed some cross-overs in the Asian region (especially those that share a landmass - such as South East Asia) that such a tag, when used in the right context is applicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a more broader sense, most of what is asked here is applicable to Corporate life - which for the most parts means it's heavily focused on the USA, Europe and Asia. And since everyone knows that on the internet the default is the USA (I jest...) - then having the tags to essentially say 'Not the USA' has merit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do, however, agree that having country tags is perhaps something that should be considered. The only pause I have for saying this is that restricting people to use Country tags may inhibit a user from asking a question, especially if it's a niche field or question and disclosing a country could make it identifiable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135652" LastActivityDate="2022-10-31T20:21:32.233" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7154" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-11-01T10:03:15.290" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bug report is considered not reproducible if it is a bug that the site developers&#xA;would fix, but cannot due to an inability to recreate the problematic behavior in&#xA;spite of attempts to do so. Reports that are not reproducible typically represent&#xA;bugs that come from using unsupported browsers and tools, or because of sunspots&#xA;and other activity entirely unrelated to the site creating a momentary issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a bug can’t be reproduced due to being immediately presented as being through&#xA;an unsupported browser, thus bypassing the need of the site developers to even&#xA;attempt to reproduce the bug, then &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;status-declined-container&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; should be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are the reporter of a bug that receives this tag, it may indicate&#xA;that the bug was intermittent, or merely that you didn't thoroughly explain&#xA;the circumstances under which you encountered it. First, verify that &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;can still cause the bug to appear, and (if you can) then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describe in detail what you were doing when it happened. Include links to any relevant pages / posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;List the steps you took to encounter the bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describe your environment: browser make and version, OS, add-ons, userscripts (if applicable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Include screenshots if applicable. Use hand-drawn circles to highlight key portions&#xA;of the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25237" LastEditorUserId="25237" LastEditDate="2022-11-13T09:56:22.493" LastActivityDate="2022-11-13T09:56:22.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7155" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-11-01T10:03:15.290" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the site developers were not able to replicate the behavior reported." OwnerUserId="25237" LastEditorUserId="25237" LastEditDate="2023-01-15T02:08:43.720" LastActivityDate="2023-01-15T02:08:43.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7150" CreationDate="2022-11-02T11:08:18.037" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Geographical tags that are not countries do not help in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure laws, norms and workplaces differ &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; between Israel, Saudi-Arabia, India, China, Japan, Indonesia and North Korea. It's all Asia though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And while Europe is a little smaller, I'm pretty sure a solution good for Spain is not applicable in Belarus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And while we are at it... what exactly &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; Turkey and Russia? Asia or Europe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... those tags are not helpful. There is no expert in &amp;quot;Asia&amp;quot; workplaces. Or &amp;quot;Europe&amp;quot; workplaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my point of view they should be removed and replaced by country tags. Or maybe tags of juristiction or other regions that law applies to if of interest for the question (maybe European Union, Schengen Area etc). Those are really helpful in finding or answering questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastEditorUserId="10813" LastEditDate="2022-11-02T11:25:44.490" LastActivityDate="2022-11-02T11:25:44.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7157" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-11-03T09:48:58.617" Score="-1" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking at this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/188336/employer-made-me-redundant-then-retracted-the-notice-after-realising-that-im-a&quot;&gt;Employer made me redundant, then retracted the notice after realising that I&amp;#39;m about to start on a new project&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see the top two answers suggesting leveraging the situation to try to be re-employed with a pay raise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also note the OP has said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the best course of action for me? I'm still early on in my career and while I have confidence in my ability to get another job, being so close to Christmas I'm unsure of my chances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are clearly unsure if they'll be able to get another job in the short term if they do become unemployed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of this, the top answers propose a risky strategy without understanding the exact situation the OP finds themselves in, and without warning of consequences. It seems there was an assumption the OP was happy to lose their job. One answer even suggests trying to get an extortionate pay rise of 2x to 2.5x?! Upvoted 21 times, downvoted once...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An comment by the OP on the other top answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the result of my conversation with my manager it seems like i don't have massive leverage and management would rather have the rest of the team working at 125% to cover me then to give me a raise. That's at least the jist of what i got from the meeting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully going forward we can be a bit more measured in our advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And let's hope the OP can find another job soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastEditorUserId="10313" LastEditDate="2022-11-04T07:17:28.770" LastActivityDate="2022-11-04T07:17:28.770" Title="PSA: Answers are not the place to live out your fantasy to stick it to &quot;the man&quot;" Tags="|discussion|answers|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7157" CreationDate="2022-11-03T19:15:52.880" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered this question, I also thought about suggesting that this is a good time for a Pay Rise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a company has made you redundant and then gone 'Oh dear, we didn't mean that, we need your skills' - then yes, you do have leverage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The company of course will say they will increase everyone else's workload to cover it - that tends not to work out very well... And the company knows it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, I work in NZ and we have a lot of similarities both culturally and legally with Australia, rescinding a Redundancy notice is not a trivial thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to do so, the company has a high degree of desperation, whilst the OP is right to be concerned about finding a job before Christmas, the inverse is also true, not a lot of people job hunting before Christmas either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't read these suggestions as 'Sticking it to the Man', I read them as setting clear boundaries with your employer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a disagreeable approach to be sure, but disagreeability is a high predictor in successful negotiation on your behalf. A lot of things in the workplace are caused by Employees believing themselves to be subservient to their employers, without realizing that it is a negotiation. You need something and your employer needs something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have the power to advocate in your own interest and the posters here are reminding them of that fact. You can ask for a raise, you can also walk away. Now, the poster can read the suggestions and (knowing the full minutiae of their personal situation) decide on a course of action. We all have our own principles and values and can choose what we prioritize most for ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, at one company I had been promoted to the T3 Team, at the insistence of my then-manager, I had wanted to get into the T3 team for career advancement. I also didn't see eye-to-eye with the GM of that company. My Manager left, then there was an organizational shuffle, everyone else in the T3 team had their roles automatically transferred... Except me. After I sat through that powerpoint presentation, I felt so insulted that I immediately typed up a resignation letter and handed it in. I didn't have a job lined up, had recently bought a house and become a Father - but I wasn't going to stand for that kind of Bull.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the best decisions I made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So TL;DR - Yes, it's risky, but it is (in the long-term) effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reminding people they have the power to negotiate on their own behalf is probably the most helpful thing we can do on this site. The people that are upvoting these answers recognize that being disagreeable and advocating for yourself is &lt;em&gt;the most successful&lt;/em&gt; long-term strategy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135652" LastActivityDate="2022-11-03T19:15:52.880" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6875" CreationDate="2022-11-04T03:07:05.230" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disclaimer: I have been asked what my current position on this is since I am running for moderator. None of this answer is supposed to disrespect or hurt anybody, if you think it is, despite my intentions, please let me know in detail, I will try my best to improve it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Context&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one of the other sites of the SE network, which is based on rules-based games, we have the distinction between &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rai&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rai&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rai&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;rai-container&quot;&gt;rai&lt;/a&gt; (rules-as-&lt;em&gt;intended&lt;/em&gt;) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raw&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raw&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raw&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;raw-container&quot;&gt;raw&lt;/a&gt; (rules-as-&lt;em&gt;written&lt;/em&gt;). One focuses on what a specifc rule is supposed to achieve in the game, the other more on what can be done to abide by the letter of the rule, and more often than not, how can one get the most advantage out of the actual wording, like a good lawyer in court.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Intention&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I respect and support the &lt;em&gt;intention&lt;/em&gt; of the CoC. Using &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; language to intentionally hurt people (and that without doubt includes intentionally misgendering them by using anything else than their stated pronoun) is against our rules and should not be given a platform here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Written&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do have a bit of a problem with what is actually written. There are edge cases in those rules that I cannot resolve. And I think that is a general problem, not a &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt; problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One edge case is inclusivity vs inclusivity. To abide by these rules, one needs a minimum level of fluency in the English language &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; a minimum level of fluency in the specific (US heavy) English culture of our time. As an example of what I mean, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/377066/is-it-acceptable-to-replace-neopronouns-used-for-made-up-characters-with-neutral/377080#377080&quot;&gt;someone used &amp;quot;sie&amp;quot; as a neo-pronoun&lt;/a&gt;. That is explicitely English... as evidenced by the fact that &amp;quot;sie&amp;quot; is an &lt;em&gt;actual regular pronoun&lt;/em&gt; in my language, and translated means &amp;quot;she&amp;quot;. The opposite of what was intended. Welcome to total confusion. So there is no global culture around this, that people already know and share. As written, (US) English culture now is just as much a barrier to entry as is English as a language. Given that my proposal to check whether questions on SE have at least one question mark in them to improve question quality was met by &amp;quot;how dare you expect &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; level of English proficiency, we need to be more inclusive than that!&amp;quot;, I am dumbfounded by how I would get these two together. Am I on the side of being inclusive and supporting to the US LGBTQ+ culture at the expense of others? Or am I supportive of those other cultures and languages that simply do not have that level of cultural fluency at the expense of the LGBTQ+ community? I would love to find a compromise. I would love to simply &lt;em&gt;educate&lt;/em&gt; people about this part of US culture, that would be a good compromise from my point. But since education of any sort rarely goes without a discussion, even that is against the rules as written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another edge case is the point of having to accept &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; word as a pronoun. If someone tells me their stated pronoun is &amp;quot;Xamufl/Xam&amp;quot;, and I cannot find this in a dictionary, or at least educate myself when I google it, then I have no idea if that person is genuinely feeling so outside of the norm that they need their own unique pronoun... or if they are just a jerk that attack helicopter'd me to yank my chain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a third egde case... as always... is religion. How inclusive are we, if we deny religious people their views? Well, to be honest that is the least of my worries, because I am not religious enough to think that religion is a shield to hide disrespect behind. If you disrespect people, religion is no excuse for that. But I can see that I infringe on their views, even with &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; stance. And my view, that respect beats religion, might not be universal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Reality&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the reality is, I have not witnessed &lt;em&gt;a single incident&lt;/em&gt; about pronoun misuse, or even just &lt;em&gt;explicit use&lt;/em&gt; in the last three years. &lt;em&gt;Not one&lt;/em&gt;. Makes me wonder why SE had to come down so hard on this. It must be a &lt;em&gt;huuge&lt;/em&gt; problem on the sites I do not visit, to warrant that kind of action. And I cannot honestly say I know how I would react to problems I have not seen and will probably not see in being a moderator at Workplace.SE. Whether my &amp;quot;I will judge intention, not lawyer rules&amp;quot; approach would work there. I would have to cross that bridge when I come to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of the controversy comes down to messaging. It is a enormous difference between educating people and scolding people. A few weeks or months before SE came down on this, there was a US late night show (I think it was Ellen on Colbert, but my memory is hazy) and they explained their stated pronoun of &amp;quot;they&amp;quot; as this: &amp;quot;Have we ever been intimate? No? Well, then don't act as if you know what's going on in my pants. What would my pronoun be if you stopped assuming you knew what's going on in my pants? See, that was easy.&amp;quot; That was funny. That was witty. That was educational. That was 3 minutes late night talk and still light years better messaging of the same thing than SE's knee jerk actions and PR disaster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, I would go with the (at least &lt;em&gt;my perceived&lt;/em&gt;) intention of the rules. I will not accept intentional harassment, under whatever motivation or in whatever disguise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I consider myself educated enough as far as that cultural topic goes and willing to learn should that prove insufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is about international community and education and learning. My main focus is still on getting people the answers to their questions. The solution is education, not banning clueless people and telling them to go get educated elsewhere. Banning someone for not being educated enough is contrary to anything I believe this site stands for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will not undo their actions, should other moderators feel the need to interpret the rules more strictly or judge people's intentions differently. But I will not throw the first stone on people I consider breaking those rules unintentionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume, that this is acceptable and that my criticism falls under&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[SE will] Respect your right to speak openly to question and challenge policy without reprisal so long as such speech does not break the Code of Conduct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is obviously open to the individual voter to decide whether they like that opinion in their moderator, or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastEditorUserId="10813" LastEditDate="2022-11-04T21:19:08.550" LastActivityDate="2022-11-04T21:19:08.550" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7161" CreationDate="2022-11-08T00:41:44.773" Score="1" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have newly acquired the ability to vote on Close/Re-Open questions and whilst going through the queue, I noticed a pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking on here, I found this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2993/what-are-opinion-based-questions&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; which talks about what differentiates between a question that is closed for being too Opinion based vs one that has an Opinion element, but ought to remain open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, reading through the discussion hasn't addressed my thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I compare this to other SEs that I'm part of - say, for example, someone dared ask the ultimate opinion Question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Which is better, Android or Iphone&amp;quot; - we all know that such a question would very quickly devolve into mud-slinging between the two factions. And whilst some people would post up well thought out and reasoned cases as to why they have their preference or what needs a particular platform suited best - the risk of a full-scale flame-war is an inevitability and would tarnish the reputation of SE as a place where one comes to seek knowledge (or more realistically, copy and paste bits of code other people have written to solve the issue they are facing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no issue with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to Workplace - this rule seems to run counter to what Workplace actually is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The majority of the questions asked here are &amp;quot;I have problems X at my Workplace, how do I navigate it?&amp;quot; - which, &lt;em&gt;by it's very nature&lt;/em&gt; is an opinion based question. There is no definitive answer on how to solve a workplace problem. And whilst some may argue that with Coding SEs there's also no definitive way to solve an issue, the answers put forth can be tested and proved correct or incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I accept that there is a lot of grey area here - for example, a question of &amp;quot;Should I change careers?&amp;quot; is fairly easy to close as opinion based, it's not a question that we, the community, can answer for an individual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other questions, whilst still being predominantly opinion based, can generate a range of answers that can help the user navigate corporate life - for example, I often advocate for a more disagreeable response to Workplace issues, because there is data to support that this is the best solution long-term and because in my personal experience, setting clear boundaries with my Employer has had a net benefit for me and my career.&#xA;Other people may advocate a different, more diplomatic tact. Both approaches have their merits and the individual asking the question is free to choose one or a combination of all the answers to resolve their issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;but this is still an opinion based Question, with opinion based answers and against the site rules in it's strictest interpretation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is therefore:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Unlike most other SE where opinion questions would illicit counter-productive arguments. The nature of the problems that most askers seek assistance on WP are going to be opinion based. The value that WP SE adds to the users is mostly going to be opinion based. As such, is this rule applicable in it's current form or should it be adjusted and clarified to suit the particular needs of the WP Community?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135652" LastEditorUserId="10313" LastEditDate="2022-11-10T00:02:41.703" LastActivityDate="2022-11-10T00:04:03.797" Title="Opinion Questions on Workplace Stack Exchange" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|questions|opinion-based|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7160" CreationDate="2022-11-08T08:47:16.097" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we cannot run our answers here through a compiler and prove them correct. Just as you cannot run a pattern from &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Software Engineering&lt;/a&gt; through your compiler and expect a message how well it will solve your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, just as on any other SE site, there is still valid points to be made that are based on facts, not pure speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Experience: Someone was in such a situation and did something and knows how it ended for them. Those might on first glance conflict because different people in different workplaces have different experiences. That's why it's so important to mention country and job type.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Laws and Regulations: Many topics here are actually covered by rules, just like programming language syntax. While some countries, leading here are probably the US, do not notice that due to their &amp;quot;at will&amp;quot; stance, in many countries, labor law is a big deal. You cannot just &amp;quot;do whatever&amp;quot; when you are the boss. Or even when you are not the boss. It might be illegal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer is based in neither experience, nor legal framework, then it is indeed pure opinion. And if a question asks for those, it will be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm not a big fan of rules lawyering. A question should stand on it's own. If it &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; be answered from experience or from sources like laws and regulations or court decisions, then it is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the asker ends the question with &amp;quot;I would like to hear your opinion&amp;quot;. If it is an otherwise solid question, then closing it because we got triggered by a single word in the fluffy end sentence is petty and not helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastEditorUserId="10313" LastEditDate="2022-11-10T00:04:03.797" LastActivityDate="2022-11-10T00:04:03.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7162" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-11-08T12:47:37.490" Score="20" ViewCount="561" Body="&lt;p&gt;A comment in an answer asks for the &amp;quot;worst&amp;quot; accepted answers... so here they are. Presented without comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This data is from a query I've copied and modified: &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/1667582&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/1667582&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Link&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Year&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Up&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Down&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Score&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/148770&quot;&gt;How can I deal with my coworkers using unknown jargon and acronyms?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2019&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;37&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;64&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-27&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/187898&quot;&gt;Accidentally spent much more than the food allowance on a business trip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2022&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;11&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;32&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-21&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/139160&quot;&gt;Company threatening to call my current job after I declined their offer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2019&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;21&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;38&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-17&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/87445&quot;&gt;Commanding respect as the manager after an unfortunate, and embarrassing, incident at work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2017&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;15&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-14&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/127645&quot;&gt;As a contractor should I bill my hours even if there's no work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2019&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-11&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/186679&quot;&gt;Confidentiality around heads up notice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2022&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/145395&quot;&gt;Did my colleague use a racial slur, or is this use of the word acceptable?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2019&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-5&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/182629&quot;&gt;In a Scrum shop who calls the deployment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2022&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/162830&quot;&gt;Excluded from extra work activities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2020&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;15&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/186646&quot;&gt;How to deal with a colleague with poor Slack etiquette?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2022&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/129649&quot;&gt;Request for increment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2019&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/171500&quot;&gt;Mistake during internship&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2021&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/128643&quot;&gt;How should I interpret a comment made by a member of management at my new job?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2019&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/166549&quot;&gt;How can I ask for a quote breakdown - when agency refuses?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2020&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/46885&quot;&gt;How can I stop my colleagues being disrespectful about my personal life choices?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2015&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/10724&quot;&gt;How do I deal with HR/recruiter pre-screeners who seem unsatisfied with succinct answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2013&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/46996&quot;&gt;How can a subcontractor or temporary agency comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2015&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/125374&quot;&gt;Wanting to work somewhere with an option to move, should I tell recruiter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2018&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/163186&quot;&gt;How to prepare team for layoff?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2020&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/41715&quot;&gt;Displaying a corporate website on web portfolio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2014&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/115271&quot;&gt;When is it worth pointing out an error on another person's part?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2018&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/151879&quot;&gt;Negotiating an Offer: Salary vs. Equity + Signing Bonus. Help!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2020&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/91032&quot;&gt;how should I list concurrent freelance and staff jobs on LinkedIn experience?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2017&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/158509&quot;&gt;How to ask a busy volunteer to response to an urgent task?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2020&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/157397&quot;&gt;My employer is demanding that, as a teacher, I have my webcam on all the day, do I have to comply?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2020&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;-1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastEditorUserId="10313" LastEditDate="2022-11-10T00:04:21.297" LastActivityDate="2022-11-10T00:04:21.297" Title="Presenting The &quot;Worst&quot; Accepted Answers" Tags="|discussion|answers|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7162" CreationDate="2022-11-08T19:42:24.903" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to go out on a limb here and speculate that they all are answers that give the user validation....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I will go look and test my theory&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2022-11-08T21:33:14.800" LastActivityDate="2022-11-08T21:33:14.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7164" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-11-09T07:30:57.500" Score="-7" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we have a candidate that snuck in last minute and was able to post their application without any way to comment or ask for clarification, I am using this means to ask things I find odd:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of parts where @WBT compares themselves directly to me. And that is fine. Some of it is choice, like a good election should be. It's not much of a democratic process if you can vote for one and only one candidate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is what those questions are meant for. Give the voters material so they can find out who is aligned with their interests for this site and who they want to vote for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But some of it is either unfounded claim, or simply untrue. And just because it was conveniently late in the election to dodge any questions on the election post, is no reason not to have those claims questioned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's your opportunity to vote for someone who has never been suspended/banned for a violation of the network-wide Code of Conduct&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is interesting. Given that you &lt;strong&gt;have been suspended&lt;/strong&gt;, on the &lt;em&gt;same&lt;/em&gt; site site as me, around the &lt;em&gt;same&lt;/em&gt; time as me, on the &lt;em&gt;same&lt;/em&gt; general topic as me. To quote your own post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update 3: As some readers may have discerned from my 1 rep, I was suspended specifically for calling out this issue&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/336366/post-for-clarifications-on-the-updated-pronouns-faq/336622#336622&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also you claimed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is also your opportunity to vote for a mod that has enough technical background to dive into, diagnose, and advocate more specifically &amp;amp; effectively for fixes to user experience &amp;amp; interface bugs in the platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that you have no linked accounts in &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; technical or UI/UX SEs I wonder where that claim comes from? Maybe you can back that up by anything? I do indeed have that background (as you can see when clicking my network profile) but even I would not make that claim because expertise in UI/UX or software development in general does not really help that much in diving into and diagnosing bugs of somebody else's closed source software. Do you have any inside sources to SE software?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, I think it's only fair to answer the same question I was asked: &amp;quot;If someone specifically requests their pronoun to be &amp;quot;he&amp;quot;, and a user continues to use &amp;quot;they&amp;quot;, what would you do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2022-11-10T16:39:44.433" Title="Moderator election questions for candidate WBT" Tags="|discussion|election|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7165" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-11-09T11:53:44.987" Score="3" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am beginning to form the opinion that we as a community need to consider postponing this election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The election before this, we had 6 candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this election we've got 2 candidates, one of which is running on the basis is that there would otherwise be no competition for the first one. Which I applaud, but not exactly a generally sound basis for candidacy (in my opinion of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea about the political mechanisms or rules in place to manage such a situation, but I suspect that if there was some way we could revisit this election at a later stage, that should happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't really understand the metrics which we are using to decide to increase our moderator team, but I would say that an ill-suited moderator could cause more harm than good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I just want to say that I'm not really judging either of the two candidates, but the simple fact of the matter is the fewer candidates there are, the less chance of getting a good winning candidate. This is especially true if one of the candidates is running on the basis that they just want to provide the concept of a choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2022-11-11T13:23:29.600" Title="2022 Should we abandon this election?" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7165" CreationDate="2022-11-09T12:43:58.290" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We were told that an additional moderator would be desired. And that thought was approved by a 3 to 2 vote, so the election process was begun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two candidates. The process has no requirement regarding the minimum number of candidates for a viable election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, no reason to abandon the election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2022-11-09T12:57:02.457" LastActivityDate="2022-11-09T12:57:02.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7164" CreationDate="2022-11-09T14:03:08.660" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've argued before in other elections that locking discussion of the nominations when voting starts is counterproductive. Folks should be able to work to earn someone's vote right up until the final minutes of voting. There should be time after nominations have closed for the community to interact with the candidates and ask questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is fair that nvoigt had no opportunity to respond to the assertions made about them in WBT's questionnaire, so I've bumped the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/383699/273494&quot;&gt;Don't lock or hide election comments after the nomination phase&lt;/a&gt; feature request on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think this post is not constructive and it's actually made me change my vote. Having been a moderator, I can tell you right now that you are going to have a tough time if you feel like you have to respond to every perceived criticism or inaccuracy. Being a moderator isn't hard in terms of handling flags or other routine stuff. It's hard because you're going to get unfairly criticized and some people are going to not be kind when you make a mistake. You're going to have to suck it up for the good of the site. For people who get personally invested in what they're doing, it can be emotionally difficult even if they're moderating the best community on the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators should work to prevent drama, not stir it up. You can't respond to stuff like you would if you didn't have a diamond. I'm trying to keep my criticism from being too harsh here because I've been on the receiving end and I know it's not fun, but being both a mod and a very active user of the site comes with some challenges. You will not be able to make posts or comments like this discussion as a moderator. (Well, you'll be able to, but you shouldn't because people will rightfully perceive it a bullying.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26699" LastEditorUserId="26699" LastEditDate="2022-11-10T16:39:44.433" LastActivityDate="2022-11-10T16:39:44.433" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7165" CreationDate="2022-11-09T14:35:42.780" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I am kinda surprised, because 3 people upvoted when we were asked if someone would run for moderator, so I expected at least two other  candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are candidates missing because of timing issues, I'm more than happy if the election gets moved a few weeks to give other people the chance to run, too. Nobody should be kept from running because they missed a specific week of SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also support the &amp;quot;None of those&amp;quot; vote option as in the link given in the comments. Nobody should be forced to vote for anyone they don't want to vote for and nobody should be forced to vote for &amp;quot;the lesser evil&amp;quot; in their view. Anybody should vote for the candidate they want to see, and that must include &amp;quot;None of them!&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I feel &amp;quot;I don't like the current candidates, lets postpone for a year and spin the wheel again&amp;quot; is not a good reasoning or plan to go forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2022-11-09T14:35:42.780" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7165" CreationDate="2022-11-09T14:45:10.243" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no desire to run, and I think nvoig&#xA;t would do well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a high opinion of you despite the fact that we have bumped heads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="46894" LastEditDate="2022-11-09T18:29:22.800" LastActivityDate="2022-11-09T18:29:22.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7165" CreationDate="2022-11-09T20:12:39.847" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the initial meta post announcing an upcoming election we did have a fairly long window of time during which potential candidates could (plan to) self-nominate. While it's always nicer to have multiple candidates, even if only because it indicates a strong user community, it's not strictly required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second candidate's decision to nominate may have had the opposite effect of their stated intention, but just because we didn't get a week's extension on the nomination phase, that isn't really sufficient reason to pull the plug on an election. You'd also have to wonder if the number of candidates would really be substantially different if we were to postpone. We actually consciously decided to pursue an election at this time of the year since waiting any longer sees us enter the holiday season which has a sharp drop-off in community engagement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't really understand the metrics which we are using to decide to increase our moderator team&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mod team decides internally when it makes sense for an election to take place. The CMs also regularly check in with the various sites and might sometimes ask if there's interest in an election. But usually it comes from within the team and the chief reason to expand the team is always to reduce the workload on the individual moderators. In my personal view it's also a good idea to regularly add new volunteers to the mod team so there's a strong base of people who can support the site and people feel less pressured to be &amp;quot;always on&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say that an ill-suited moderator could cause more harm than good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As ColleenV said the &amp;quot;harm&amp;quot; that can be done is limited. If finding a new moderator involved an interview and a moderator could do more &amp;quot;damage&amp;quot; I might agree with you. But that's not how elections work on SE. It's about community members in good standing stepping up to help out. And the community helps to pick the best person in case there are more volunteers than slots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my knowledge there are no &amp;quot;mechanisms&amp;quot; (certainly no &lt;em&gt;political&lt;/em&gt; ones) for &amp;quot;managing such a situation&amp;quot;. If the situation was much more extreme, such as if the only candidates all had candidate scores in the low single digits and/or were strangers to the site, we might request an intervention from the CMs. But I don't believe we're anywhere close to that kind of scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25739" LastEditorUserId="25739" LastEditDate="2022-11-11T13:23:29.600" LastActivityDate="2022-11-11T13:23:29.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7165" CreationDate="2022-11-10T02:17:45.370" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a reason to abandon the election. I actually expected you to self nominate and would have voted for you based on your contributions to the site. But since you didn't we have what we have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of moderation my belief is that the commitment to the site is the most important factor. Whether I personally like the questions, comments and answers isn't. It's an international site, there's huge cultural gaps and attitudes between many of us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;not exactly a generally sound basis for candidacy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you believe you can be the change you want, you should nominate yourself. In the last election half of the candidates were just putting their names in the hat as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2022-11-10T02:17:45.370" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7172" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-11-11T15:37:10.423" Score="2" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rate of closed questions seems much higher than when I last looked at Workplace. Should we be putting more effort into helping people write the question they should have asked, rather than just down voting and killing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously if I was looking at this group for the first time, the percentage of closures would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; look like a friendly community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, I know this question comes up periodically. We may need the periodic reminder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastEditorUserId="12989" LastEditDate="2022-12-22T17:03:55.413" LastActivityDate="2022-12-23T20:24:02.593" Title="Are we making enough effort to fix questions rather than close them?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|editing|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7172" CreationDate="2022-11-11T17:16:33.723" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't noticed much change on the ground. But the periodic reminder is always a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2022-11-11T17:16:33.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7172" CreationDate="2022-11-11T19:35:22.383" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm probably as guilty as the next person of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a couple of reasons why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1: Checked SE on my phone - I'll be honest, if I'm on my phone, the chance that I'm going to edit a post is practically 0, whereas hitting the vote button and hitting submit is simply easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2: Very often, with questions that are being voted on to close, there isn't a good question underneath the layers of crud that make it a currently bad question. If there's something of merit that could be helpful - then I'm more inclined to edit the post, which leads to the last point&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3: I generally only feel comfortable editing posts where there is extremely poor word choice, grammar or I feel extremely confident in what is the &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; question being asked - mainly because I know I'm quite strident and distinct in my writing style and don't want to insert myself into other people's questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135652" LastActivityDate="2022-11-11T19:35:22.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7175" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-11-15T20:13:04.880" Score="9" ViewCount="265" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/9&quot;&gt;Moderator election #9&lt;/a&gt; on The Workplace has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/10813&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/flair/10813.png&quot; alt=&quot;nvoigt&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They will be joining &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the existing crew&lt;/a&gt; shortly — please thank them for volunteering and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/election/9&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.opavote.com/results/5584993047805952&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;view a summary report online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10313" LastActivityDate="2022-11-16T06:35:39.773" Title="2022 Community Moderator Election Results" Tags="|discussion|election|moderators|announcement|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7175" CreationDate="2022-11-15T21:20:43.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations @nvoigt!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I see that my jumping in helped accelerate this result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the CMs: Giving me a technical ban from the homepage of the site just for losing an election as predicted seems a little extreme:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NCYY6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NCYY6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37509" LastActivityDate="2022-11-15T21:20:43.670" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7175" CreationDate="2022-11-15T21:34:12.803" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations @nvoigt! You are joining a good group of moderators!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2022-11-15T21:34:12.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7175" CreationDate="2022-11-16T06:35:39.773" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thank you for putting your trust in me!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will get to work and figure out what all the buttons do, while trying not to touch anything before I know what it does :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2022-11-16T06:35:39.773" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7179" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-11-24T10:25:16.447" Score="8" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being the new guy on the block, I was kind of surprised by the amount of comments we delete. Not that any of them would be rude or inappropriate, but many of them are simply not &amp;quot;comments&amp;quot; at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We probably all know &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19756/how-do-comments-work&quot;&gt;how comments work&lt;/a&gt; in theory, but in practice I guess we all forget sometimes and post a comment that should not have been a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are for, and should be used to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Request clarification from the author&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave constructive criticism that guides the author in improving the post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add relevant but minor or transient information to a post (e.g. a link to a related question).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general guideline, before posting a comment, maybe ask yourself &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;what action could the person whose post I comment on take, to make my comment obsolete?&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you asked for a country tag, they could add a country tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you asked to give the people in the post names like Alice and Bob to make reading it easier, they could do so.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you added a link and said &amp;quot;But courts have ruled differently just last year&amp;quot;, they could read it and then ammend and improve their answer with this new information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if your comment has nothing actionable for the commented on post to do, then it isn't a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of those comments I deleted were quite long and had solid information. Please don't try to save 30 seconds by writing a comment instead of an answer. It's like fast food. You feel full for a moment, but in the long run, you will be hungry again sooner than you expect. You saved a little bit of time, but your comment only lasted for a few hours. Create an answer. That will have lasting impact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A real answer can also generate you those tasty green internet points, that comments don't get.&lt;/strong&gt; Just sayin' :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2022-12-01T22:34:44.697" Title="Public Service Announcement: Please don't answer in comments" Tags="|discussion|comments|announcement|deleted|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7179" CreationDate="2022-12-01T22:34:44.697" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my case, it's a comment rather than an answer when I am not convinced that the insight actually solves the problem at hand, or when I am trying to elicit more information to generate something I consider a viable answer. I've been trying to remember to look back after writing and see if it should be moved to an answer, but since the line between the categories is somewhere between fuzzy and fractal it's always a judgement call and people will disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's certainly legitimate, and helpful, to reply to a comment with &amp;quot;Hey, that looks like an answer to me.&amp;quot; And probably achieves more than grumping on meta, however justified the grump is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fix the UI to not provoke undesired behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2022-12-01T22:34:44.697" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7182" CreationDate="2022-12-12T22:36:22.253" Score="9" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst reviewing the Edits queue - I saw a suggested edit that added a crude personal insult to the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are edits which I may reject because I disagree with the Edit being made, whereas this one exceeded a threshold of discretion and requires Mod intervention. I feel uncomfortable posting a public question, but I'm not sure how to flag an edit for Mod review or how to contact the Mod team privately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135652" LastEditorUserId="102" LastEditDate="2022-12-13T12:21:25.513" LastActivityDate="2022-12-13T12:21:25.513" Title="How to flag inappropriate Edits" Tags="|discussion|moderation|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7181" CreationDate="2022-12-12T22:51:41.470" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag the post in question which needs Mod attention (the one with the Suggested Edit), so we can check on the Edit History and other info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2022-12-12T22:51:41.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7183" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7185" CreationDate="2022-12-20T20:01:58.140" Score="8" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn’t something I’m that bothered about, but there’s been a couple of times I’ve responded to a question recently only to find it deleted (“page not found”) some time later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have I just hit on cases where users have simply decided to delete their questions, or were these deleted by moderators for some reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138082" LastEditorUserId="138082" LastEditDate="2022-12-22T08:04:29.663" LastActivityDate="2022-12-22T08:04:29.663" Title="Who or what is deleting questions?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7183" CreationDate="2022-12-20T20:18:47.823" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions can be deleted in a few different ways.  These are discussed in the site &amp;quot;Help center &amp;gt; Asking&amp;quot; topic &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/deleted-questions&quot;&gt;Why and how are some questions deleted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, the user who asked the question can delete it under the right circumstances.  The user can delete it for any reason, and there is no way to know why they did so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, other users (including the site Moderators) can vote for questions to be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also an automatic mechanism which deletes questions (&amp;quot;roomba&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you gain enough reputation, you will have the privilege of seeing deleted questions and the reasons they were deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138119" LastEditorUserId="138119" LastEditDate="2022-12-20T20:56:48.223" LastActivityDate="2022-12-20T20:56:48.223" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7183" CreationDate="2022-12-21T08:34:14.573" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last 30 days, the moderators deleted one question directly, the one you referred to. The post, in comparison to user information we cannot share, looked too much like trolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also had two spam questions that were obvious spam and should not be answered. Obvious as in &amp;quot;selling this (link)&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;buy here (link)&amp;quot;. Those were nuked directly by moderators, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of other questions were deleted (I don't feel like counting, but I would guess twenty to thirty), but those were previously closed by normal user close votes and later deleted by the community bot, because they were heavily downvoted and had no upvoted answers. Since they were closed at least a week before deletion, nobody could have responded right before deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you have 10.000 reputation, you gain access to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;tools&lt;/a&gt;. You can see all this information in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2022-12-21T08:34:14.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7183" CreationDate="2022-12-21T16:26:54.063" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, it is worth keeping in mind that you (and any registered user, even with low reputation) can indeed see deleted questions they answered. This is a part (or you may call it side effect) of a feature allowing all registered users &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/2645/165773&quot;&gt;see all of their own deleted questions and answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feature is implemented in such a way that along with your deleted answer system also shows you the question you answered, even if it is deleted (which makes pretty good sense if you think of it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just checked this with my own deleted answers here at TWP meta and system indeed works as described above. I got to answers tab in my profile, clicked the link &amp;quot;Deleted answers&amp;quot; and got to one of my answers in a deleted question. I could see the question, along with details on who and when deleted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worth noting that if you have less than 10K reputation, system will only show you the question and &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; answer - it won't show answers from other users (which also makes sense if you think of it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing deleted question you answered can be enough to find out reason for deletion in many simple cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if it was deleted by votes from high rep users, system will show you who voted. Or if the question was automatically removed by automated cleanup process (aka &amp;quot;roomba&amp;quot;) it will be labeled as deleted by Comminity bot. In simpler cases of trolling you can find out by more carefully re-reading the question or comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As explained in other answers though, sometimes this may be not enough and you may need to ask for further explanation at meta providing link to specific question that confused you. Moderators and 10K users will be able to see this deleted question and provide more insight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastActivityDate="2022-12-21T16:26:54.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7172" CreationDate="2022-12-23T20:24:02.593" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we be putting more effort into helping people write the&#xA;question they should have asked, rather than just down voting and&#xA;killing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2022-12-23T20:24:02.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7188" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-01-08T18:11:06.957" Score="1" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can the following question be reopened: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/189407/can-an-employer-deduct-scam-losses-from-wages&quot;&gt;Can an employer deduct &amp;quot;scam losses&amp;quot; from wages?&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not see anything employer-specific in this question, and the question has been updated to specify a jurisdiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98765" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2023-02-01T05:23:49.070" LastActivityDate="2023-02-01T05:23:49.070" Title="(Done) Reopen 'Can an employer deduct &quot;scam losses&quot; from wages?'" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7188" CreationDate="2023-01-13T13:01:27.913" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Migrate the question to law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While legal advice is off-topic there, &amp;quot;can an employer do this?&amp;quot; is completely fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26622" LastActivityDate="2023-01-13T13:01:27.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7190" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-01-20T11:53:16.130" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know why the Community Bot is bumping questions to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A moderator here has told me that once the OP has an answer they accept, questions may as well be closed. This suggests to me that we shouldn't care about old questions, and that they are only designed to help the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with that, but if that moderator opinion, why is the Community Bot bumping very old questions. Obviously if a 5 year old question gets bumped, that's not going to be useful to the OP, who presumably has had some movement on their situation in that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59502" LastActivityDate="2023-01-20T14:05:21.830" Title="Can we disable the Community Bot bumping questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7190" CreationDate="2023-01-20T12:41:40.617" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No we can't - Community bot is SE-wide behaviour and we can't do anything about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's various reasons why you might see something as bumped by Community, for example the bot bumps old open questions that don't have an answer with a score higher than zero. Personally, I really wish it didn't, I've never seen any real value come from it happening, either here or on other sites on the network, but as I say this is not something that's within our control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions/Answers aren't solely for the benefit of the OP, although obviously they are a major recipient and this element is substantially decreased when significant time has passed. IMO this should be factored in when people consider resurrecting an older question and the amount of times I've seen an unsuspecting new contributor not realise that the question they've written an answer or comment directed at the OP on is 5 years old simply because that pesky bot has bumped it to the main page for one reason or another is depressing. On the other hand if a user who knows full well that the question is ancient and the OP themselves long gone can write a great answer that really adds value for future readers I wouldn't want to discourage that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eagle-eyed users will spot there's some questions that have been bumped by Community in  the last 24hrs or so that don't meet this criteria, this is actually down to a peculiarity of the way the SE system handles certain curation actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/56877/is-it-appropriate-to-give-personal-birthday-gift-to-a-coworker-at-a-new-job&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; as an example, there was a new &amp;quot;answer&amp;quot; added that consisted of a repeated profanity (10k users will be able to see the deleted answer if they really want to) and it was (rightly) flagged into oblivion and the system took care of it. Hence &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot; has updated that question recently and it gets bumped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2023-01-20T12:41:40.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7190" CreationDate="2023-01-20T14:05:21.830" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because many imes a question gets bumped because there isn't an answer with a score above zero I have decided over the last few months to seriously review the questions to see if one or more answers deserve a vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't just randomly pick an answer. I still look for quality. I also don't vote if the topic is way outside my experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been doing this in several of the communities I am active in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127" LastActivityDate="2023-01-20T14:05:21.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7193" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-01-25T20:10:46.533" Score="1" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/189688/i-announced-my-resignation-and-was-completely-ignored-what-to-do/&quot;&gt;I announced my resignation . . . and was completely ignored. What to do?&lt;/a&gt; should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's absolutely no valid reason for it getting Closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2023-01-26T08:15:33.797" LastActivityDate="2023-06-25T09:02:05.603" Title="(Done) Question about resigning and being ignored should be reopened" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7193" CreationDate="2023-01-25T21:59:57.703" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure I voted to re-open - the only reason to close would be someone thinking that the 'what should I do' depends on what the specific company regs are around employee exit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135652" LastActivityDate="2023-01-25T21:59:57.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7195" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-01-26T16:05:15.060" Score="8" ViewCount="83" Body="&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't eliminate the need for having &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt; altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as we say goodbye to 2022 (and where did January go, right?) and dive head first into 2023, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V0TPg.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;exciting&lt;/em&gt; stats&lt;/a&gt;. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on The Workplace over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Action&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community¹&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;All comments on a post moved to chat&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;142&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answer flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;295&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;61&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answers flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;15&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;342&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comment flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,415&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;627&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments deleted⁷&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4,655&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,118&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;121&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: 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right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;Close votes&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;842&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;First answers&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;14&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;351&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;First questions&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;180&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;Late answers&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;56&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;Low quality posts&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;72&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;Reopen votes&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;21&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;342&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;Suggested edits&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;225&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;689&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users contacted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users deleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users destroyed³&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;27&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users suspended²&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;30&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of The Workplace&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ A &amp;quot;destroyed&amp;quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes). Community can handle these flags by at least one person voting to close a question that has a close flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7033/2021-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2021: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222022%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/386090/208518&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing everyone a happy 2023! ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33683" LastEditorUserId="33683" LastEditDate="2023-01-26T19:12:38.030" LastActivityDate="2023-01-27T01:09:45.160" Title="2022: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|statistics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7195" CreationDate="2023-01-26T17:54:55.953" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Am I mistaken, or has overall activity at The Workplace slowed down the past few years?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone run a query for the past 5 year or so (pre-pandemic through post-pandemic)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2023-01-27T01:09:45.160" LastActivityDate="2023-01-27T01:09:45.160" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7197" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-02-01T03:42:38.163" Score="0" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;When going through the close/re-open/first questions queue(s) - there are often times when I see a Question that has the potential to be a good question, but needs a little extra detail that only the OP can provide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now - there is obviously the option to close for needing more detail - however, the scenarios I'm talking about are where there is some healthy comments/questions in the comments of the Question and it's likely that the OP will read them questions and update the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also obviously the option to re-open a question as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I feel there is a hesitancy to re-open a closed question when it comes to moderation and there's a degree of hesitancy to VTC a question that is in that borderline area (especially if, with the right detail, it has the potential to be a very &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'd like to see is an option to mark a question for close in 24 hrs if no edit has been made, with the OP notified as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that this highlights the need to update the question and allows the Moderator a '3rd option' for those who don't necessarily want to close but also think it needs work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135652" LastActivityDate="2023-05-05T14:00:25.723" Title="Mark and Close?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7197" CreationDate="2023-02-01T05:01:21.173" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see this as a moderation issue. As mods we rarely close anything except clearly unsuitable questions. We leave most close actions to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't have any hesitation re-opening questions that warrant it either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2023-02-01T05:01:21.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7197" CreationDate="2023-02-01T07:09:48.450" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Feel free to edit/improve, and ask for clarification. When it's ready to be opened (as per your consideration), you can cast a reopen vote, and post here on Meta for a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/reopen-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reopen-request&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reopen-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;reopen-request-container&quot;&gt;reopen-request&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, some folks don't respond to the clarification request which causes the reopen effort/motion to fail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2023-02-02T08:37:57.523" LastActivityDate="2023-02-02T08:37:57.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7200" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-02-13T11:16:06.910" Score="2" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/190001/social-skills-and-knuckle-punching-at-work&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; about social skills. This question cites my previous question for reference purposes. But it's completely different from my previous because the nature of the question is completely different. My previous question was about handling a particular situation at work. The other one is about workplace social skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet my latter question was marked as duplicate. I don't understand why two completely different questions would be viewed as the same. I'd appreciate some help with clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60494" LastActivityDate="2023-02-15T03:12:59.837" Title="Completely different question marked as duplicate" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|closed-questions|duplicates|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7200" CreationDate="2023-02-13T11:46:06.823" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I explained in my comment on that question when I closed it I agree it's not (strictly speaking) a duplicate of the first question - but that it appears to be about answers you got to that question when you asked it on the Norwegian forum you mention. And asking users here to chime in on whether they think the users there were correct doesn't really work as a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we strip away all the connections to the other question and the Norwegian forums then it becomes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I don't respond promptly do I lack basic social skills?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is an opinion-based yes/no question that would almost certainly be closed as lacking a goal for us to address. If you changed it to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I obtain the social skills to handle this sort of situation promptly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then it's a pretty broad intrapersonal skills question that's probably too broad to address here and not workplace specific. If you reworked it into:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the appropriate response to this situation in the workplace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it comes full circle back to being a duplicate of the first question. Ultimately that is why I went with the call to close it as a duplicate - because the only on-topic version I could get to ended up being one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2023-02-13T11:46:06.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7200" CreationDate="2023-02-15T03:12:59.837" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neutral 3rd party observer here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, I agree the question should be closed. I'm not entirely sure that as a Duplicate was &lt;em&gt;strictly&lt;/em&gt; the right reason, but I see why it was chosen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question stems from the same incident - the meta-answer (heh pun intended) to both questions could be considered so similar as to make the questions essentially duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I mean is - if you ask 'what is 2x2' and 'what is 6-2' - They are both different questions - but since the answer is 4, they are functionally the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People advising how to be more assertive or disagreeable or how to professionally set clear boundaries is the answer to both questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So even though the questions are different, the functional answers are the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if I were to distinguish the latest question from your original, there is a unique question that I think you've asked...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as pointed out in the comments, the Interpersonal SE is the right location for &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; question, not WP SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's my take on it: I see the reason why it was closed, agree it should be closed, have a minor quibble on the reasoning - but think it was valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135652" LastActivityDate="2023-02-15T03:12:59.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7203" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-03-10T05:56:35.673" Score="11" ViewCount="404" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems as if one user has been posting a bunch of answers generated by ChatGPT today, and I was wondering what Workplace.se's stance regarding AI-generated content is. Stack Overflow has &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-policy-chatgpt-is-banned&quot;&gt;temporarily banned&lt;/a&gt; ChatGPT-generated answers, but Stack Exchange has &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/385002/686649&quot;&gt;left it up to individual sites&lt;/a&gt; to determine what their policy regarding such answers is. Of course, if it ends up being allowed, it would have to be properly attributed/cited, but is it allowed? If so, to what degree? If not, what do we do if we find an answer that seems to have been written using ChatGPT or some other AI?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133385" LastActivityDate="2023-06-05T10:11:08.360" Title="What is our stance regarding AI-generated answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7203" CreationDate="2023-03-10T09:26:33.700" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; SE site that explicitely allows such answers. There are just a lot of sites (like this) that haven't seen any (until now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flag and report AI generated answers on all sites I'm part of, whether they have an official policy about it or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We trust to create quality answers by asking &lt;em&gt;experienced&lt;/em&gt; experts, to give their opinion not just based on abstract facts, but also based on their experience with those facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An AI cannot do that. Posting an AI generated text is in my view nothing else than copying from wikipedia, linking to a blog or posting an ad... it's garbage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the person asking the question &lt;em&gt;wanted&lt;/em&gt; to have an AI generated text spit at them, they would have asked ChatGPT themselves. They did not. They came here. They deserve a real answer from a real human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless we have a policy saying &lt;em&gt;otherwise&lt;/em&gt;, I will remove posts that are clearly generated by a machine. Feel free to flag anything suspicious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2023-03-10T09:26:33.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7203" CreationDate="2023-03-10T13:06:04.730" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Generated by AI&amp;quot; should be added to the list of reasons why an answer should be closed, so that members can flag them appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="7777" LastEditDate="2023-03-17T12:27:59.140" LastActivityDate="2023-03-17T12:27:59.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7206" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7207" CreationDate="2023-03-16T02:07:49.330" Score="0" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, my question &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/190304/85361&quot;&gt;Is there any feasible way to avoid outing myself as transgender to prospective employers?&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; was closed as needing more focus, with the close notice telling me to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update the question so it focuses on one problem only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and encouraging me to either edit the existing question so that it focusses on a single problem, or post a new, revised question that focusses on a single problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the question &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; focusses on a single problem (namely, how - or &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; - I can avoid outing myself as transgender to potential employers when applying or interviewing), and, as such, I'm at a loss as to why it was closed.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;  Could someone reopen the aforementioned question, please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;: For that matter, I also don't get why the question was kicked off HNQ less than four hours after it arrived there.  Job-hunting while trans doesn't seem like it'd be a topic that'd garner that sort of reaction...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85361" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2023-03-16T03:21:51.163" LastActivityDate="2023-03-16T10:18:36.737" Title="(Done) Reopen &quot;Is there any feasible way to avoid outing myself as transgender to prospective employers?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7206" CreationDate="2023-03-16T03:07:45.247" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone reopen the aforementioned question, please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are the OP. I see that you got several answers and help, and that &lt;strong&gt;you even accepted one of those answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tells me that your question was satisfied and that the help you asked for was given. Thus, you have no need for further answers, otherwise you wouldn't have accepted that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why ask for your question to be reopened then if you already accepted an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I reviewed the question and found that the reason &amp;quot;needs focus&amp;quot; was invalid. Thus, I reopened it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways, you still got good answers there and even accepted one. I suggest you move on, as having a question closed/opened is not a hill to die on IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2023-03-16T03:21:35.453" LastActivityDate="2023-03-16T03:21:35.453" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7206" CreationDate="2023-03-16T10:18:36.737" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see DarkCygnus has already addressed the closure issue (and re-opened it) so I won't add to that other than to say I agree 100%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that matter, I also don't get why the question was kicked off HNQ less than four hours after it arrived there. Job-hunting while trans doesn't seem like it'd be a topic that'd garner that sort of reaction...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was the mod who removed it from HNQ - The HNQ removal was in no way a criticism of yourself or your question, or any attempt to silence you. My reasoning was absolutely one of preventing the question being derailed into unpleasantness. The particular subject matter of the question (nothing to do with &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;) has previous form for producing that sort of effect - I wish it weren't so but it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even before it HNQ there were some undesirable comments that had (rightfully) attracted multiple flags and once it did there was at least one incident that I dealt with of a HNQ visitor misusing flags in an attempt to be disruptive so I would rather take action at the first signs of trouble than wait for it to (potentially) get worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;After&lt;/em&gt; I removed it from HNQ, the question (from what I saw) continued on in a healthy way with largely constructive interactions, and I don't think I saw another flag raised  which I think serves as some validation of the steps taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2023-03-16T10:18:36.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7203" CreationDate="2023-03-21T21:15:53.810" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to give a different perspective on this than the other 2 answers - I expect that it will get a little bit of pushback - but then I'm a firm believer in healthy debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First and foremost - to make it clear - I do not use any form of AI generation in my answers - everything you read from me is a labor of love from my fingers - and the ubiquitous random capitalization of my writing style is a pretty clear indicator that I'm a human with bad habits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not opposed, conceptually, to AI generated answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the following premise - AI Chat generation looks upon thousands and thousands of things humans have written, and tries to write a meta-answer, compiling that collective wisdom, selecting the common elements and then repackaging those common elements into something useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In many ways, this isn't much different to what we do&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, does an AI have 'Life experience' - of course not. But if an AI can accumulate or parse the life experience of 10,000 people - does this invalidate a potential answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be opposed to someone automating an AI response as a way to game the system and increase their status/rep and get medals - but in the same breath, I don't think I would mind if someone took a question to AI, read the answer and went:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Huh. I wouldn't have worded it like that... but that's a pretty good way of phrasing it&amp;quot; and then pastes that answer in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me continue with this example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have we, as an SE community &lt;em&gt;lost&lt;/em&gt; anything by allowing this? I mean, we have good answers, great answers and I've even got an accepted answer that probably has some of the most down-votes for an accepted answer (still waiting on my prize :D) - The strength or weakness of an answer is not contained within answerer, but within the democratic process of reading and voting on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an AI Chat gives a good answer to a question &lt;em&gt;and it helps the Asker with their problem&lt;/em&gt; - has our function not been fulfilled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that I'm talking high-level and conceptually and that should we allow these, the likelyhood is that we will be inundated by low-quality answers that put significant strain on the Mod team to filter out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I also don't like the absolutism here of 'NO AI ANSWERS!'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My sense therefore is that a good answer is a good answer, regardless of it's source. If it's a Human who has directly experienced something similar and found a novel way of navigating through a problem - Great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's an AI that has taken the meta-experience of multiple different people and given us a unique insight based on that extraction - then I don't see this as a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135652" LastActivityDate="2023-03-21T21:15:53.810" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7203" CreationDate="2023-03-23T14:17:22.373" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users that want AI-generated answers right now can go to Bing, Bard, or Quora, which provide them instantly. Copy-pasting questions into a public AI engine and copy-pasting the answer back only helps people who haven't heard about these engines yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Workplace often invites creative solutions, which LLMs don't generate, they offer a blend of what others have said on the subject. There's a useful service, but it's not specific to SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of StackExchange is to provide human-generated answers, which have a chance to put new knowledge on the web, that hasn't been typed in and published before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it's better to do that one thing well. Maybe at some point, AI answers could be auto-generated sitewide, clearly distinct from human ones. They shouldn't be represented as user answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87968" LastActivityDate="2023-03-23T14:17:22.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7211" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7212" CreationDate="2023-03-29T22:33:13.770" Score="2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/190780/are-employers-allowed-to-fire-at-will-yet-employees-are-bound-by-long-notice-per/190782?noredirect=1#comment626932_190782&quot;&gt;Are employers allowed to fire at will yet employees are bound by long notice periods?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question should not have been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not related to company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies. And it does not require a law degree to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone in the US with business knowledge in an at-will state could answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted to reopen. You should too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2023-04-02T08:04:11.160" LastActivityDate="2023-04-02T08:04:11.160" Title="(Done) Question about at-will firing should not have been closed" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7211" CreationDate="2023-03-30T05:09:53.907" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing in the question specific to the company and while I personally are not 100% sure of the answer, it does not look like a legally complicated matter. It looks exactly like something, anybody drawing up or signing a contract should know, not a case where the very specifics require a personal lawyer. So something that is very much on-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have reopened and cleaned it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2023-03-30T05:09:53.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1692" CreationDate="2023-04-17T17:52:16.427" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it's not likely that problems will rectify itself alone, nor that it can be willfully done by the employer as employee intended.&#xA;There are times in employment, where management does a lot to show employee that they neither care what they think, nor they care about business they're doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen one HR lady go to the room and switch how desks were arranged, without people knowing why this happened. I've also seen bosses urge people to go back to the office, despite the pandemic still going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quitting your job allows them to regret bad decisions of that sorts. That's the only way to keep management on toes, and increase collective power of employees in the long term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course not everybody has resources to do so, but most of employees should save aggressively to be less dependent on employers, and most of them should be able to flip a bird from time to time, just because they can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137937" LastActivityDate="2023-04-17T17:52:16.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7214" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-04-18T02:08:18.760" Score="11" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;guidance on asking a good question&lt;/a&gt; is quite generic. The context needed in Workplace SE is often different to other sites, though, and I would argue we should prompt for it, both on this page, and in early comments on new questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Useful and often omitted context:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What country or at least region of the world are you in? (This often the most crucial detail.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What kind of organisation are you working for: corporate, government, startup, NGO?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What size of organisation is it - corner shop, hundreds of employees, multinational?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are you working primarily in person or remote?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does the organisation span cultural boundaries? Are you all working in the same language, and is it a first language for everyone?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other considerations it may be useful to include: type of business (not everyone is a programmer), type of employment (voluntary / contract / salaried employee)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1710/assumed-cultural-context-and-the-workplace&quot;&gt;Assumed Cultural Context and The Workplace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122092" LastEditorUserId="122092" LastEditDate="2023-04-21T03:40:36.907" LastActivityDate="2023-05-28T03:05:36.303" Title="Prompt for more context on new questions?" Tags="|discussion|faq-content|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7214" CreationDate="2023-04-28T02:22:31.900" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suggested wording change for good question guidance page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;How do I ask a good question?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Be specific&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many workplaces all over the world with many differences. If you ask a vague question, you’ll get a vague answer, or one based on a lot of assumptions about where you work. But if you give us details and context, we can provide a useful answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please always include information on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Country or region&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider including information on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What kind of organisation are you working for: corporate, government, startup, charity, non-government organisation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What size of organisation is it - corner shop, hundreds of employees, multinational?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are you working primarily in person or remote?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does the organisation span cultural boundaries?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are your team mates all working in the same language, and is it a first language for everyone?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What sort of role are you in? (Not everyone is a programmer.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What type of employment is it - volunteer, contract, salaried employee, piecework?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions here can be on sensitive, career-altering topics. Don't feel you have to share details that would identify you or breach confidentiality. But please do share enough information that answers will be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122092" LastActivityDate="2023-04-28T02:22:31.900" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2023-05-09T03:46:59.950" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7203" CreationDate="2023-05-01T15:54:49.247" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several problems with AI-generated content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, it's effectively a form of plagiarism. Copying and pasting something that someone else has written (even an AI) and presenting it as your own is fundamentally dishonest. Apart from the ethics of this, plagiarism has never been allowed on Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads to the second problem: when you post an answer here, you're implicitly &amp;quot;promising&amp;quot; the OP (and future readers) that your answer is based on your own knowledge, research, and experience. Copying and pasting from ChatGPT doesn't do that - you're really not sharing your own knowledge or experience and didn't do any of your own research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, AI generates plausible text, not necessarily correct (or even relevant) text. I've seen plenty of cases where a ChatGPT was subtly irrelevant or didn't &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; answer the question (it answered something that was quite similar to the question but not the actual question). For example, I posted a question on Stack Overflow on why Python reference counted the Singletons for Boolean values when they're used. Someone posted a ChatGPT answer explaining that the Boolean values are Singletons whose reference count need to be incremented when they're used - all of which I had already mentioned in the question. In other words, it came up with a bunch of facts related to the question, but it missed the entire point of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, on Stack Overflow, we've found that the answers generated by them are often factually wrong. For example, I recently read an article where an author looked himself up in ChatGPT; it claimed that he had a &amp;quot;complicated&amp;quot; relationship with another author and had once publicly accused said author of plagiarism. In reality, the other author was one of his closest friends, and he had certainly never accused him of plagiarism (publicaly or otherwise).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fourth, this has already been pointed out, but if someone really wanted a ChatGPT answer, they could just go to ChatGPT themselves - they don't need us to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61906" LastEditorUserId="61906" LastEditDate="2023-05-02T13:50:17.840" LastActivityDate="2023-05-02T13:50:17.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7218" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-05-03T11:09:56.987" Score="2" ViewCount="402" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;question&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/191240/my-new-coworker-is-actually-chatgpt&quot;&gt;My new coworker is actually ChatGPT&lt;/a&gt; is clearly a piece of fiction and should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We shouldn't encourage this sort of fantasy writing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2023-05-04T01:49:45.657" Title="The &quot;My co-worker is ChatGPT&quot; post is fantasy, and should be closed" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7218" CreationDate="2023-05-03T20:47:35.037" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be a legitimate piece of stupidity. On either the questioner's part or that of their cow-orker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm inclined to answer as &amp;quot;Even if you believe this, it's none of your business as long as they are being productive; leave them alone and do your job.&amp;quot; Which is a good general answer to most workplace fantasies, including the several romantic fantasies that have gone by in the past year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastActivityDate="2023-05-03T20:47:35.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7218" CreationDate="2023-05-04T01:49:45.657" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be discussed, as hyperbole and misunderstanding, rather than fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no way the job is being done autonomously by ChatGPT any more than it is being done autonomously by a chainsaw. That aspect is fantasy or hyperbole. But it's also an understandable mistake, given it's new tech, people are going off fictional TV and movie representations, and this SE site is in a good place to do that education and draw those distinctions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's entirely plausible that someone is relying so heavily on ChatGPT, say to run multiple jobs, that the symptoms are as reported in the question. Indeed, that's a more plausible explanation than the one given in the question, as ChatGPT wouldn't take hours to respond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are already news reports of people using ChatGPT as &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7begx/overemployed-hustlers-exploit-chatgpt-to-take-on-even-more-full-time-jobs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;grifty overemployment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue the question is relevant, and these details should be thrashed out in the comments and answers, rather than putting the whole thing out of bounds by closing the question because someone misunderstands what the tech can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122092" LastActivityDate="2023-05-04T01:49:45.657" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7197" CreationDate="2023-05-05T13:48:56.257" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My concern is that a newcomer, after seeing a post closed, may not realize that that is a request to refine the question rather than a rejection of the question entirely. It would be nice if the clothes for editing request made that more explicit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, I will often comment on the need for editing, and give them a chance to do so, before flagging it as needing to be closed for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the tools exist to do this properly. But the system does not encourage us to do so. Unfortunately, that seems to be a basic stack exchange behavior, and not something we can fix here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12989" LastEditorUserId="12989" LastEditDate="2023-05-05T14:00:25.723" LastActivityDate="2023-05-05T14:00:25.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7203" CreationDate="2023-06-05T10:11:08.360" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to give an update on the situation. I have not yet fully formed my own opinion on the matter, but there are facts nonetheless:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE has handed down a new set of policies, that make moderating AI generated posts nearly impossible. This is not a side effect or a policy accidentially covering AI generated posts. It is explicitely saying &amp;quot;AI generated posts are fine and must under no circumstances be moderated&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389582/what-is-the-network-policy-regarding-ai-generated-content&quot;&gt;What is the network policy regarding AI Generated content?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the voting of -250 and counting on a staff member post says all there is to know about how this new policy is going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since not having AI generated crap on our platforms is indeed a policy that mods and userbase agree on, it seems a very weird move on part of the company, to force their mods do not take any actions on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some moderators are going on strike starting today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389811/moderation-strike-stack-overflow-inc-cannot-consistently-ignore-mistreat-an&quot;&gt;Moderation strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no common guideline or understanding on this from our moderators here. This is not a group post, it is &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; take on the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can speak for myself, I am &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; unhappy not only &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; this new policy does to the SE network, but also &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; it was communicated to us moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were strong undertones of &amp;quot;the tools have a racist bias&amp;quot; including the implicit conclusion that what we do is racist, because we only blindly follow tools. That is obviously not the case, nobody does anything just because a tool says so. But no proof or even data was offered for the claim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am very much opposed to people telling me what to do, &amp;quot;or else you are racist&amp;quot;, without actually giving me any data or explanation. I am open to correcting my behavior when educated about my behavior not being up to standard, but not with such a vague blanket sprinkling of &amp;quot;racist&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the public policy is not identical with what we were privately told on how to act is not a good precedent either. I am happy with being a company's policeman. Even if I don't agree with all the &amp;quot;laws&amp;quot;. And I don't. But I am not happy with being a company's &lt;em&gt;secret&lt;/em&gt; police, doing stuff &lt;em&gt;outside&lt;/em&gt; the laws. The laws are for everybody. &lt;em&gt;Especially&lt;/em&gt; the police. Because the police already has the factual power to do anything they want, it is super important that they are not above the law (or have secret agendas with the law).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that said, why am I undecided?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, since march, we had &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; (in words: o-n-e) case. I deleted the post, I did not even suspend the account, I just sent a mod message to please not do it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as a mod, it doesn't seem to be a big problem. We would have easily survived if I hadn't done that. So should I make a fuss about whether or not I deleted one answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that is where I am now. Undecided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't care for the actual actions in the last months. But I don't think they were wrong or racist and I don't like how it was communicated. I also don't like what the policy will make of the rest of the network, where trying to gain green internet points is more tempting and more widespread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So just to let you know, right now, we will not moderate AI answers, even if you flag them. Not because we don't want to or are too lazy. Because our corporate overlord has decided to tell us to stop immediately and one way or another, we will. Because that is the contract we have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2023-06-05T10:11:08.360" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7223" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-06-28T06:25:49.913" Score="-10" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is just my opinion and I mean no offence. AI is irrelevant in my locale so I neither know nor care much about it. But the real solution seems so simple to me.  No need for dramas and strikes and ego clashes. It just looks bizarre, like keyboard warriors evolving into a keyboard army.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day the community can delete posts just by voting to delete, no questions asked or explanations needed, if they don't then thats up to the community, and it's their site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting to delete is the pre-made way the community have of getting rid of &lt;strong&gt;ANY&lt;/strong&gt; content they don't like. My own excellent answers have been voted into the bin more than once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2023-06-28T07:47:55.883" LastActivityDate="2023-06-28T21:13:50.537" Title="No need for drama" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7223" CreationDate="2023-06-28T07:54:15.697" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that is a fine stand &lt;em&gt;for our site&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because we are a small site, with probably one moderator per new question per day, statistically speaking. And because of that, every question and every answer is under a microscope. We have, if I may say so, a very high &amp;quot;experts-to-clueless people&amp;quot; rate. If we see an AI post, it smells like AI and it's pointless. Everyone can read and see for themselves. Joe Random can see, that it is a generic non-answer. And (down)vote accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On our site, there is also no incentive to cheat. If you get green internet point &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;... the world doesn't care. Matter of fact, I may &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; want my next boss to know beforehand, that I know my rights given to me by our labor laws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow has 4 questions &lt;em&gt;per minute&lt;/em&gt;. Not per day, on a good day. And they have a &lt;em&gt;huuuuge&lt;/em&gt; amount of basically clueless people looking for help. And you &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; tell if an AI post is correct. The AI will &lt;strong&gt;lie&lt;/strong&gt; to you. The official term is &amp;quot;hallucinate&amp;quot;. Because AIs don't lie. But they flat out answer something that is not true. And a normal pass-by reader will not know. It takes &lt;em&gt;an expert&lt;/em&gt;, a seriously dedicated person in that little corner of knowledge to say &amp;quot;wait, this is wrong&amp;quot;. Their voice will drown in the noise of &amp;quot;oh, this looks correct, it's nicely formatted and pleasantly written&amp;quot;. In a way, it is worse than spam. Because spam is something we all have been trained to read around. It's just noise, we deal with it daily. AI generated answers are not noise. They look like signal. Until they lie to you. And you won't even know, until you try that answer for yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow green internet points are also &lt;em&gt;perceived&lt;/em&gt; in many regions as something helping you to get a good job and therfore a good life. That is a &lt;em&gt;big&lt;/em&gt; incentive for cheating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Stack Overflow has a higher incentive to cheat, less rigid user feedback for cheaters and not enough moderators per question to make a difference with just a friendly comment. They will be flooded with bogus content if we open the flood gates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as a moderator here, I could shrug and just say &amp;quot;doesn't concern me really&amp;quot;. That is why I was undecided at first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I am a user of Stack Overflow. And I don't want that to go down in flames. The decision itself is wrong. And for me, not feeling it here, doesn't make it less wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2023-06-28T07:54:15.697" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7223" CreationDate="2023-06-28T21:13:50.537" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use this site to learn from answers of folks who understand workplace matters. I decline being used to rate automatically generated texts - I have much more interesting &lt;em&gt;paid&lt;/em&gt; job thank you very much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, this wasn't an issue because I saw generated answers here once or maybe twice. Considering these &lt;em&gt;exceptional&lt;/em&gt; cases I had no problem voting these down and seeing them removed (and I am grateful to folks who delete voted these).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You say you don't know about AI, but I think there is one thing worth knowing to you as this site moderator - namely that with AI one can generate responses to all and any question we have on that site at much higher speed than normal human written answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is entirely possible for anyone to generate and dump into answer box AI responses to our site at a rate of 5... 10... 20 or even more per hour. If (when?) this happens - just count me out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am fine with voting down as a rare, exceptional occasion but if this turns into daily routine job - no... just no, I decline being used to rate generated texts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention that site system wouldn't let me do it even if I was stupid enough to agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is another thing you better know as a site moderator - it is not about AI but about how voting system works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;System will treat three or more rapid downvotes to posts from same user as serial and will quickly revert these (myself I learned about this a while ago when I once voted down three posts quickly dumped by some spammer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Above is also a friendly warning to those who may decide to follow advice to vote down generated content. Folks, please keep in mind that if you do this more than twice for the same user system will quickly revert it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, if you happen to do this persistently, it is quite likely that system will mark this as a pattern of a voting abuse and flag your behavior as suspicious (I didn't experiment with this, nor I have desire to but it looks like most reasonable expectation for the cases of repeating voting reversals).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastActivityDate="2023-06-28T21:13:50.537" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5754" CreationDate="2023-07-10T19:30:33.563" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the HNQ list should be additionally curated by humans, in particular to avoid highly controversial but upvoted questionably questions and answers to make the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ethically highly questionably answers, see &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6117/are-answers-that-advise-illegal-unethical-actions-acceptable?&quot;&gt;Are answers that advise illegal/unethical actions acceptable?&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82961" LastActivityDate="2023-07-10T19:30:33.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7227" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-07-18T18:50:29.900" Score="-9" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is wrong with the discourse level here? Why is everyone trying to be a dick? Why are moderators asking offensive and antisocial questions and close valid questions, instead of being helpful and kind? I am basically asked, if I am an idiot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does this ugly culture of being offensive, insulting and dumb exist here? Why all the gatekeeping? Does anyone improve from being insulted? Just curious. Asking for a friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user140723" LastActivityDate="2023-07-18T19:58:56.337" Title="How can it be that a moderator asks offensive questions and closes a valid question?" Tags="|discussion|quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7227" CreationDate="2023-07-18T19:58:56.337" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Presumably you mean this question?&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/192374/should-i-stay-and-try-to-improve-the-workplace-or-move-on&quot;&gt;Should I stay and try to improve the workplace or move on?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see where any moderator asked any question. I do see where a few folks asked for clarification about how you got &amp;quot;tricked&amp;quot;, and you decided to take offense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &amp;quot;should I do A or B&amp;quot; questions get closed all the time, as they are purely opinion, and thus considered off-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you actually want an answer to your original question, try editing it into an on-topic format as suggested in the close message:&#xA;&amp;quot;Questions asking for advice on a specific choice, such as what job to take or what skills to learn, are difficult to answer objectively and are rarely useful for anyone else. Instead of asking which decision to make, try asking how to make the decision, or for more specific details about one element of the decision.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If instead you are just looking to vent, then good luck with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7777" LastActivityDate="2023-07-18T19:58:56.337" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7231" CreationDate="2023-07-18T21:04:18.213" Score="0" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edited this question into a better shape and I want to ask the Community what they think about reopening it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/192374/73791&quot;&gt;Workplace reluctant to automate and improve development practices; what are my options?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a &amp;quot;should I&amp;quot; question but I rephrased it into something actionable and with a goal. Any other improvements? Is it reopen-worthy now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2023-07-19T14:25:48.820" Title="Reopen request for Workplace reluctant to automate and improve practices Question" Tags="|discussion|reopen-request|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7230" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-07-19T07:30:39.020" Score="0" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I figured again that this is a hostile and unproductive place to be, I want to quit my account on &amp;quot;The workplace meta&amp;quot;. That said: I cannot find an option to delete my account under account setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to remove my account from this forum?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user140723" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2023-07-19T23:32:28.460" LastActivityDate="2023-12-17T02:06:20.757" Title="How can I delete my profile in The workplace meta?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|deleted-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7229" CreationDate="2023-07-19T14:25:48.820" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the original poster were intending to interact positively with the site, I'd say this is getting there. But they're not, so let's just leave it closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14388" LastActivityDate="2023-07-19T14:25:48.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7230" CreationDate="2023-07-20T01:02:52.843" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to remove my account from this forum?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched the FAQs and other sources but I couldn't find a &amp;quot;canonical&amp;quot; answer to that. Like I mentioned in comments, I posted a question on Meta.SE asking for clarification (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/391422/are-meta-accounts-deleted-along-their-main-account&quot;&gt;Are Meta accounts deleted along their &amp;quot;main&amp;quot; account?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far other users indicate that &lt;em&gt;yes&lt;/em&gt;, your meta account is deleted as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess we will be able to answer this question when your main account is deleted and check if this Question got disassociated, and proceed in case it didn't and you also wish this one deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2023-07-20T01:02:52.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7233" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-08-22T09:12:14.980" Score="-11" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blind is so much better than this site. I'm sure some fans of this site will disagree but by any empirical measure Blind is just a better watercooler site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am curious if anyone has any considered opinions on &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; blind is just so, so much better though? Or what the workplace does that makes it worse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My own thoughts on the matter are the blind tax, a far loser moderation (the latter leading to a far friendlier community, if at the cost of the dreaded f bomb). I think perhaps the flaw with this site is the &amp;quot;canonical answer&amp;quot; concept, and the idea that it's meant to be a workplace appropriate professional site. Ppl want a break from the workplace to bitch about it, not be moderated by randoms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the unaware, blind has become the de-facto water-cooler app for discussing workplace topics. It is (supposedly) totally anonymous. I'm not affiliated with Blind at all, and I wouldn't really say I'm a user of it much (maybe read a post there 3x a week?). But I can tell you that i prefer it to this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8146" LastActivityDate="2023-10-14T14:38:39.703" Title="Blind is so much better that this site. But why?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7233" CreationDate="2023-08-22T09:46:58.283" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having browsed through it, it seems like it's more of a reddit style commenting/gossiping board for a very localized community (tech people of the coastal US parts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We aim to present thoughtful answers that help the asker, not comment threads or commiseration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We aim to answer questions for a wider audience than just FAANGs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having browsed 2 dozen questions there, I have yet to find one with an insightful answer. Feel free to post a link to a good example of the OP being helped, since I seem to have missed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are looking for water cooler gossip of the tech industry in coastal US cities, chatting and commiserating without any solution present, then maybe Blind is for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It definetely is better at it than this site, because we consciously aim to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; allow comments and gossip. The whole goal of SE sites is to provide answers, not opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2023-08-22T09:46:58.283" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7233" CreationDate="2023-08-22T09:47:37.953" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you acknowledge &amp;quot;Blind&amp;quot; is a completely different site concept to SE, so the notion that it would be &amp;quot;better&amp;quot; at fulfilling that concept is hardly surprising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace SE has never aimed at being a site for &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Ppl want a break from the workplace to bitch about it, not be moderated by randoms.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; I'm not knocking such sites, indeed I think it's probably a good thing that such sites exist, but that's not what &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; site is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a zero-sum game: If you want to use Blind and not TWP - great! If you want to use TWP and not Blind - great! If you want to use &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; - great!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2023-08-22T09:47:37.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7233" CreationDate="2023-08-22T19:15:43.117" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never heard of Blind, but my guess is for the same reason an online game is more fun than TWP, and Facebook is more useful for sharing things with my family than TWP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're all social media but have different purposes and uses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Realistically the whole SE vision and rules and all the rest is nothing without the people who choose to come here. Without them it's just some online outfit hosting a game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2023-08-22T19:21:48.867" LastActivityDate="2023-08-22T19:21:48.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7237" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7238" CreationDate="2023-09-03T09:45:53.780" Score="1" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Context&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/193031/25229&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would add the case where your coworker is insecure, megalomaniac or an asshole, doing a pissing contest (not sure if there is a professional wording for that)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would add the case where your coworker is insecure, megalomaniac or establishing the pecking order,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rationale for the edit: &lt;em&gt;Removed unnecessary profanity&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Profanity&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/american_english/profanity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;according to&lt;/a&gt; the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[uncountable] behavior that shows a lack of respect for God or holy things&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;[countable, usually plural] swear words, or religious words used in a way that shows a lack of respect for God or holy things&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from the fact that I would be curious how someone can be offended by my words &lt;em&gt;from a religious perspective&lt;/em&gt; (I am genuinely curious, please note that I am French and an atheist) - I feel that smoothing out all the language and removing any such dirty words (well, at least dirty for some) is condescending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The words in question are &amp;quot;asshole&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;pissing contest&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then there was a very good comment (authoritatively deleted) which was playing on my words - but this you would not see as it is gone for good without any trial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is my opinion - and I am curious about others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I will not go into an edit war which would turn out into a &lt;del&gt;pissing contest&lt;/del&gt;, sorry, pecking order I meant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25229" LastActivityDate="2023-09-03T10:02:07.543" Title="What is a &quot;profanity&quot; in SE Workplace?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7237" CreationDate="2023-09-03T10:02:07.543" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edited your answer after it was brought to my attention with a flag. I didn't want to take any other action as the answer itself was ok. But if it's being flagged, then for some they're reading the words rather than the meaning which detracts from the answers usefulness. (I wasn't personally offended, I find online English profanity more amusing than offensive.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer to see a useful answer being considered seriously, than dismissed as offensive, so I tried to keep the meaning as close to your intention as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you're always free to roll back edits if you feel the need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2023-09-03T10:02:07.543" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7239" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-10-14T14:27:52.943" Score="2" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;We often get questions saying &amp;quot;How do I ask my boss...?&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;How do I tell my boss...?&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/193758/best-way-to-ask-for-about-hybrid-remote-work&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; in my mind sums up exactly how they should be answered 90% of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we make a generic question like it? Obviously we would go into more details about how it's usually best to just ask the question, and that the way you ask it (without being rude) usually isn't going to make any difference to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="886" LastEditorUserId="886" LastEditDate="2024-03-15T13:29:21.233" LastActivityDate="2024-03-15T13:29:21.233" Title="Should we have a generic &quot;how to ask&quot; question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7233" CreationDate="2023-10-14T14:38:39.703" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today nine of the top ten &amp;quot;questions&amp;quot; in the &amp;quot;tech industry&amp;quot; forum on Blind are all about Israel and Gaza, condemning one or the other and with comments that do nothing except insult another poster. The tenth is a person saying they will never use YouTube again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can find a thousand sites that allow me to have pointless arguments with people about contentious issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use Blind if you want a pointless argument with someone you don't know. Use The Workplace to find answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="886" LastActivityDate="2023-10-14T14:38:39.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7239" CreationDate="2023-10-15T23:46:36.480" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a need for it, but I'm not against it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2023-10-15T23:46:36.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7242" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-10-28T03:06:21.540" Score="0" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I work at a federally insured financial institution in the USA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would questions on AML and /or KYC be in scope for this site? There are anomalous events I am seeing where I work and want to check if such questions are in scope before I ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AML is anti money laundering and KYC is know your customer. These are legally mandated via federal US laws such as Bank Secrecy Act and Patriots Act&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30062" LastEditorUserId="30062" LastEditDate="2023-10-28T15:51:02.580" LastActivityDate="2023-10-29T09:24:15.267" Title="Are either AML or KYC process questions in scope for this site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7242" CreationDate="2023-10-28T06:00:13.923" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I google AML it seems to be some type of nasty cancer. You may want to explain that, I have no idea if the actual thing you mean is on topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that KYC is &amp;quot;know your customer&amp;quot; (again, please disambiguate, I don't feel like googling and making an educated guess every time I read a question), then that seems to be something that every workplace in a bank comes into contact with. Even if it has to do with laws and regulations, it's details is something that many bank employees should know, not only the lawyers. From a very high point of view, I would compare it to the GDPR. Yes, it's all laws and regulations, but everybody gets trained on it, there is specific persons in each company who receive even more training, and everybody has to be at least knowledgable enough to not break any laws in their day to day work. That is definetely on topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specific questions on how your company wants it done might still be &amp;quot;company dependent&amp;quot;, because we cannot know, only the company does. And very theoretical questions might still be better to ask a lawyer because it goes way beyond regular employees knowledge. But generally speaking, there should be KYC question that are on topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to me it seems that practical questions around KYC that employees encounter during their regular work would be very much on topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2023-10-28T06:00:13.923" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7242" CreationDate="2023-10-29T07:40:31.400" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Longer answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WP has a long standing policy of banning any question that is either a Company Policy question or a Legal question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Company Policy questions are generally pretty easy: &amp;quot;My company says I can/can't do XYZ. I did W. Am I in trouble?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Legal questions however we sometimes allow a little wiggle room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general rule - if the question is tangentially about general legal principles, rather than a specific question on a specific element of law - we might allow it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example - Say someone described a scenario at work and wanted to know if it was wage theft. Most countries in the Anglosphere have broadly some form of Wage Theft law. A question like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I clocked in at 8:45, my shift starts at 9, but company policy says I have to be signed in 15 minutes before my shift - In my payslip, I see they have edited my clock-in time to 9 and only paid me for the changed hours. Is this wage theft?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a common enough scenario, that is serves the mission of WPSE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more borderline question would be &amp;quot;I did XYZ, can I be fired?&amp;quot; Because if the OP is in the US and in an At-Will state, then the answer is always yes. If the OP is in New Zealand it could be no, but if they were in Australia it could be yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But again - we have some wiggle room, because it's such a common occurrence across multiple industries/countries etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question however:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1: Is highly specific to a single Industry.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;2: Is highly specific to the US Federal Govt.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;3: Is specifically about pieces of legislation and their application.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's so niche as to be outside out goal of SE and it is the type of question that requires Legal knowledge of the minutiae and specifics of that legislation &lt;em&gt;and how they interact in practice&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135652" LastActivityDate="2023-10-29T07:40:31.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7242" CreationDate="2023-10-29T09:17:13.100" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on the question. AML in particular and CFT are highly legislated and specialised fields which differ from country to country and industry. My gut feeling is to say no, it's off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mainly because taking the wrong advice can get companies bank accounts frozen and people in jail. And any questions should really be directed to your companies compliance officer as they should already be dealt with in the risk assessment and AML program documents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2023-10-29T09:24:15.267" LastActivityDate="2023-10-29T09:24:15.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7246" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7247" CreationDate="2023-11-21T10:19:54.913" Score="5" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just made a question that I knew it would end up being controversial due to the topics and my huge bias (which I cleaned up as best as I can), but I still want to reach as many people as possible to know the public consensus about the answers given, and what the &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; way to handle this would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, Why was my question removed from Hot Network Question ? Are mods just trying to limit exposure to a controversial topic ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/194352/140150&quot;&gt;Question Mentioned&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140150" LastEditorUserId="140150" LastEditDate="2023-11-24T14:51:39.320" LastActivityDate="2023-11-24T14:51:39.320" Title="Is it common for controversial question to be removed from Hot Questions on network?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7246" CreationDate="2023-11-21T10:56:33.250" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;Hot Questions&amp;quot; feature should be used used to attract other people that might be interested in workplace topics and asking or answering questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What it does with controversial topics of all kinds is that it attracts people interested in that specific topic that come to discuss that specific topic in comments. That is not the point of &amp;quot;Hot Questions&amp;quot; or this site in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is why the option to remove a question from &amp;quot;Hot Network Questions&amp;quot; exists and we use it often when we feel that a question does not attract potential future users interested in this site, but potential flyby commenters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not do it myself, since I try to not moderate questions I have an answer in, but I fully support the decision to do it and would have done the same on another question of the same sort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the least invasive form of moderation since nothing is actually restricted, it is just not advertised any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2023-11-21T16:45:37.143" LastActivityDate="2023-11-21T16:45:37.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7246" CreationDate="2023-11-21T13:08:17.040" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The gender questions tend to be of limited use in my opinion. They make no sense in my locale and most of the World. And while they do attract traffic, it's not positive traffic. It attracts bigotry from both sides, and I think discrimination should be discouraged, including that against heterosexual and religious people. At the end of the day your question was unlikely to be a common workplace issue people need to deal with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there's no point showcasing our site with it and I support the decision to remove it from HNQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2023-11-21T13:17:32.910" LastActivityDate="2023-11-21T13:17:32.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7249" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-11-21T17:49:19.320" Score="1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had flagged an answer as needing update due to missing several points after edits were made for clarification on the original post, and a phrase that said I looked ignorant (due to the lack of knowledge of gendered languages).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flag was denied by the same person that wrote the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't like to link the answer due to it being irrelevant for the subject.&#xA;Is this possible by design? Should people be able to review flags on their posts (Q or A)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140150" LastEditorUserId="73791" LastEditDate="2023-11-21T19:09:07.503" LastActivityDate="2023-11-21T19:09:07.503" Title="Can/Should people review flags of their own post?" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7249" CreationDate="2023-11-21T18:12:11.950" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only moderators can see flags, and normally we rarely deal with the flags on our own posts. Having said that I do deal with some of mine from time to time these days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got in the habit by necessity when the strike was on. If it was me, then feel free to discuss it with me and I'll have another look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2023-11-21T18:12:11.950" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7252" CreationDate="2023-12-02T20:16:44.803" Score="1" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading this &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/194488/is-it-normal-for-a-junior-programmer-to-be-alone-in-a-project&quot;&gt;Is it normal for a junior programmer to be alone in a project?&lt;/a&gt;, and the last answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/194532/271&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/194532/271&lt;/a&gt; was deleted by a moderator.  There’s no comment, and the answer doesn’t seem inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do such deletions normally include a comment saying why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="271" LastActivityDate="2023-12-03T14:09:38.103" Title="Why was this answer deleted?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7251" CreationDate="2023-12-03T14:09:38.103" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was me that deleted it, and as nvoigt suspected in their comment it was for being AI generated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2023-12-03T14:09:38.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7253" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-12-15T23:42:48.507" Score="9" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started responding to a question that was attracting political commentary and grandstanding. I felt that the asker was being targeted with bad-faith answers and comments, which included extremely uncharitable interpretations of their question. I probably responded in a counterproductive way, and possibly broke the rules of commenting myself by putting discussion in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I just received a suggested edit to a years old post on here. I frankly feel extremely uncomfortable being on this site and receiving this kind of “private message”. I don’t know what to do, so I am going to ask here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w1hjG.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w1hjG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of the edit&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ktpl7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ktpl7.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of the sender&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96799" LastActivityDate="2023-12-27T17:11:59.200" Title="As a user, how should I respond to suggested edits being used to “PM” me insults anonymously?" Tags="|discussion|support|moderation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7256" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7258" CreationDate="2023-12-16T00:46:13.247" Score="1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4RkVb.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4RkVb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be organic, but it looks like a good old fashioned rep bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135652" LastActivityDate="2023-12-16T09:00:30.983" Title="Got Rep bombed - sad face" Tags="|support|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7253" CreationDate="2023-12-16T08:58:24.840" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the powers that be have seen it fit to allow &amp;quot;anonymous edit suggestions&amp;quot;, the only thing you really can do is grow a thicker skin and click &amp;quot;reject&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it happens frequently, let us know and we will see if we can duct-tape some counter measures, but as long as they had more work writing their petty insults than you had with just deleting them, there is nothing you (or we the moderators) could do about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like it either, but that is how this software is set to run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2023-12-16T08:58:24.840" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7256" CreationDate="2023-12-16T09:00:30.983" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The script that is supposed to handle those cases should catch it and roll it back in a day or two. If it doesn't, let us know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2023-12-16T09:00:30.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7259" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-12-19T05:49:14.897" Score="0" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is downvoted, currently -4 ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/194748/18412&quot;&gt;Is it possible to work long hours in France?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and I don't know why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SFAIK it was on-topic, and has useful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's wrong with it -- is it the content/topic, that's either unpopular or deemed &amp;quot;not useful&amp;quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or are people reacting to the way it's worded?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I edit it somehow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18412" LastActivityDate="2023-12-19T11:24:04.717" Title="Should I edit this question and how?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7259" CreationDate="2023-12-19T07:45:00.727" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly because you're generalising a whole country into what comes across as a bit ranty with statements that don't really ring true. France is a pretty big place and what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for everyone in terms of productivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea how you could edit it, nor do I really see what the question is. You already seem to have answered yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastActivityDate="2023-12-19T07:45:00.727" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7259" CreationDate="2023-12-19T11:24:04.717" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did not vote, but I'll guess based on the top voted comment. I'll elaborate a bit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All studies show that working long hours is a net negative. The longer you work in a day, the less effective you get. Whether it's just being slow, or making mistakes or just being exhausted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any non-exploitative organisation, working long hours is paid more to compensate the employee for this overtime. So one hour of an 8 hour shift might cost X€, but hours 9, 10 and so on cost (X+)€. This heavily depends on individual contracts and unions though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So working long hours means the employee is less effective, but costs more, than just leaving it and doing it tomorrow (or hiring a second person if the workload persists).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the basis of your question is kinda skewed. While you personally might be the one person that goes against the statistics and studies, overall on average, working less hours is more effective, not only for the employee, but also for the employer, if they calculate cost vs result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think this belongs in an answer as a frame challenge (I was just too busy at that time), not a downvote, but I cannot make other people on the internet bend to my will that easily :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2023-12-19T11:24:04.717" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7262" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-12-24T17:17:16.393" Score="2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the title says it all, from New Zealand- Merry Christmas all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135652" OwnerDisplayName="TheDemonLord" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2023-12-24T22:44:04.047" LastActivityDate="2023-12-24T22:47:56.857" Title="How to wish Stack Exchange a Merry Christmas?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7262" CreationDate="2023-12-24T22:38:46.797" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Merry Christmas from Samoa, alofa atu iā te 'outou 'uma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2023-12-24T22:47:56.857" LastActivityDate="2023-12-24T22:47:56.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7253" CreationDate="2023-12-27T17:11:59.200" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever you see someone breaking the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt; (CoC), whether or not it is directed at you, you should flag it for moderator attention. If it is a suggested edit, you should reject the edit as &amp;quot;Spam or vandalism&amp;quot;, then flag the post that the suggested edit was made to with the &amp;quot;In need of moderator intervention&amp;quot; flag and explain the situation. The suggested edit will be in the post's history even though you rejected it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the infraction is by some method that is hard to associate with a post so you can flag it, you can try asking in the main chat room if you can chat privately with a moderator, or flag one of your own posts. Raising a single &amp;quot;In need of moderator intervention&amp;quot; doesn't have a negative effect on your post regardless of whether its declined or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't feel that the mod team fully addressed your concerns, you can escalate to the Community Management (CM) team using the &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;Contact&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; link at the bottom of the page. The CoC violation reason is under the &amp;quot;Trust and Safety&amp;quot; category. Sometimes there's not a lot that can be done except to gather data, but it is important to make sure moderators are aware of violations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the culprit is identified, we probably won't know who they were or exactly what actions were taken. Stack Exchange policy is to keep enforcement details as private as possible unless the user makes them public, so even if you escalate to the CM team, you probably won't get additional detail about exactly what was done in response to your flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26699" LastActivityDate="2023-12-27T17:11:59.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7265" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-08T11:29:45.870" Score="-4" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I spend a fair amount of time lurking around here, and I have some opinions which aren't quite the norm, I will even admit they are a bit asocial, but does that grant the right for my opinion to be downvoted into the ground ? It hasn't happened to me personally, but I have seen perfectly phrased and constructed answers which just because some people didn't agree, they downvoted. I'm talking in some cases DOZENS of negative downvotes, which further imply it's all based on opinion, because someone had to scroll all the way down to even find it to downvote it some more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a problem with people using votes to dictate their opinion, it goes against the objective of having quality over quantity, it also removes different perspectives for future people (since you get notifications for every answer made, I'm assuming the OP will still see it), and it hides possibilities&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/172917/140150&quot;&gt;Specific examples&lt;/a&gt;, which I find to answer the question effectively. This is not about any of these questions, nor do I want these to be mentioned, they are just to provide context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opinion-Based Votes are votes cast when you disagree with X, thus downvote answers that suggest OP to X, or you disagree with any/some implications of the OP's question and downvote to try and have that question not answered (refer to above questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we discourage/encourage opinion votes ? Or should quality reign supreme ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&#xA;I'd like to add that I'm not advocating for change, I'm just trying to understand the communities' stance on this, if I'm not happy ill simply leave and won't cause a fuss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140150" LastEditorUserId="140150" LastEditDate="2024-01-08T14:44:37.190" LastActivityDate="2024-01-15T10:48:40.143" Title="Are Opinion-Based Votes something we want?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7265" CreationDate="2024-01-08T14:01:02.267" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you know they are &amp;quot;opinion votes&amp;quot;? What makes something an opinion vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's take the example: all downvoted answers either say &amp;quot;stand your ground and quit your job!&amp;quot;, which is literally &amp;quot;not helpful&amp;quot; to the question of how to handle this professionally and smoothly. It is also something trivial that nobody needs help on, &amp;quot;oh, just quit&amp;quot; is a non-answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or the one that is left over that says &amp;quot;just don't go and wait till your boss is upset with you and calls you to their office&amp;quot; is almost worse. In my juristiction, you can have a valid argument about going or not going beforehand, but just ignoring your boss is going to get you fired. You are also in a much worse position to discuss this if you wait until your boss is angry with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while I have not actually voted on any of them, I can see that they being &amp;quot;not useful&amp;quot; is not an opinion like &amp;quot;I like strawberry flavor&amp;quot;. It is based on experience. The experience that this behavior as suggested in the answer will make it worse (assuming your goal is to keep your job and keep your boss reasonably happy =&amp;gt; &amp;quot;smooth&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you are from an area where your experiences are different, lets say you can be fired for questioning the course, but you cannot be fired for just telling your boss to f--- off, then that is an interesting experience. But you will probably need to preface this with an explanation and make sure you recommend that for your specific area only. Because the majority of people, who can discuss training with their boss, but cannot just ignore them or talk to them constructively after having been cited into their office for an infraction,  will vote after their expert judgement. And if you imply that this behavior that works for you will work for them, too, they will say &amp;quot;no, not helpful, this would backfire immediately&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, Germany and the US have &lt;em&gt;wildly&lt;/em&gt; different labor laws. If I didn't preface my posts with &amp;quot;In Germany...&amp;quot;, I would get downvoted by all the US based people, that would read my post and think &amp;quot;this would never work&amp;quot;. And they are right, it probably wouldn't work in the US and my post is better prefaced by the exact circumstances you need to make it work. On the other hand, I will ask for clarification or downvote people who answer questions about Germany or Europe with a mindset and solution clearly not adequate for those surroundings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to summarize: we don't encourage opinion. But we do encourage expert experience. And if you stray very far from the norm or don't make it visible that your advice is only for a specific subset of locations or people, the expert experience of many people might be &amp;quot;that would not work&amp;quot;. And that is fine, because they are correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2024-01-08T14:01:02.267" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7265" CreationDate="2024-01-08T16:52:48.740" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every vote on the network is opinion-based. &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/why-vote&quot;&gt;The Help Center explains up and down votes&lt;/a&gt; in a way that makes this obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting up a question or answer signals to the rest of the community that a post is interesting, well-researched, and useful, while voting down a post signals the opposite: that the post contains wrong information, is poorly researched, or fails to communicate information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posts should be objective, but pretty much every judgment of quality in the form &amp;quot;good/no problems/has a problem&amp;quot; is subjective. Sometimes you can train a group so that their quality ratings are correlated (everyone agrees on what things constitute a problem that merits a downvote). People also tend to correlate better when judging quality relative to something else. If you ask people if something is &lt;em&gt;interesting&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;poorly researched&lt;/em&gt; though, you are asking for an opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there were a completely objective measure of answer quality, there would be no need for people to vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26699" LastActivityDate="2024-01-08T16:52:48.740" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7265" CreationDate="2024-01-08T18:05:06.093" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Votes are not policed in any way. People can vote up because they've had a good day or vote down because they stubbed their toe or don't like the grammar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is integral to how the site works. The only time votes are policed is when they're targeting a user which is mostly an automated process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2024-01-15T10:48:40.143" LastActivityDate="2024-01-15T10:48:40.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7269" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7270" CreationDate="2024-01-10T13:10:38.987" Score="4" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, we have&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/micro-management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;micro-management&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;micro-management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-micro-management-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;micro-management&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/micromanaging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;micromanaging&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;micromanaging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-micromanaging-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;micromanaging&lt;/a&gt;, just two different ways to say the same thing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;management&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-management-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;management&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/managment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;managment&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;managment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-managment-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;managment&lt;/a&gt;, it's a typo.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What shall we do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69938" LastActivityDate="2024-01-10T13:55:52.343" Title="Let's tidy some of the management related tags" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7269" CreationDate="2024-01-10T13:55:52.343" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The management typo were just 5 questions involved, I edited them all to sport the correct tag, so now the mistyped tag will be cleaned up and no longer be visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Micromanaging&amp;quot; is just 4, I'll do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That will pop the questions to the front page because they were edited, but I think we will survive 9 questions on the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there are more &amp;quot;moderator&amp;quot; type things one could do (synonyms, bans) I don't think we need this for typos in a single-digit number of questions :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the wrong one's are no longer on questions, they disappear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2024-01-10T13:55:52.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7271" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-24T19:46:47.503" Score="5" ViewCount="61" Body="&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As most of you here might be aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't eliminate the need for having &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt; altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks — folks like you. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference in ensuring Stack Exchange sites remain a valuable source of high-quality content on the web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as we say goodbye to 2023 (and January 2024… ahem) and move into 2024, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pmN7M.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;exciting&lt;/em&gt; stats&lt;/a&gt;. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on The Workplace over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Action&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community User¹&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community²&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;All comments on a post moved to chat&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;139&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answer flags 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right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users deleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users destroyed⁴&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;99&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users suspended³&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;25&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;45&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ This refers to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² This refers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of The Workplace&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ A &amp;quot;destroyed&amp;quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes). The community² can handle these flags by at least one person voting to close a question that has a close flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁸ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7195/2022-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2022: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222023%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/396299/208518&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing everyone a happy 2024! ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33683" LastActivityDate="2024-01-24T19:46:47.503" Title="2023: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7272" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-02-02T14:12:52.280" Score="-8" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just joined today, and tried to post what could be determined as self-promotion but there is no other way to explain or show what I have built or why I'm asking the question at the bottom - which I don't think is open ended or a survey - it was a genuine ask from a niche community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mine is just a free community aimed at helping people get a better job and expanding their knowledge by connecting with othe architects etc..... there is no Architecture community here that I'm aware of, otherwise I would have asked it in that sensibly..... can someone tell me (as that's also a question) why you'd delete a career benefitting post in a career forum? Or is something else this community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS I am not a spammer as suggested by someone, I've helped people for years get new jobs and earn more and have never asked for a penny from them (Sorry I'm Scottish so its pounds and pence).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made this new post as I can't actually reply to the user who deleted it (what poor functionality), which is quite frustrating. I chose &amp;quot;Workplace&amp;quot; as a relevant &amp;quot;career&amp;quot; related community. Clearly it's full of non-career related people with 5 down votes in 2 minutes! Am I wrong on user type here? Enlighten me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's an HR community asking questions about legal matters etc, then I won't waste my time offering help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm happy to pay for ads, if thats how I would drive traffic for a &amp;quot;PAID&amp;quot; site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone wants to chat to me in DM's about this then thats fine, I'm happy to be guided on the protocol. If they also want to just not help, thats also fine. Maybe everyone has a great job and doesn't want to earn more or have a more interesting job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143575" OwnerDisplayName="Paul Ingram" LastEditorUserId="64903" LastEditDate="2024-02-02T17:38:59.467" LastActivityDate="2024-02-03T00:44:28.617" Title="Why would a post about helping people expand their career for FREE in a &quot;Workplace&quot; community be deleted?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7272" CreationDate="2024-02-02T17:58:19.567" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others have told your post was closed because that's &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; what we do here - we're a Q&amp;amp;A site, we're not a forum, we're not a discussion site. And we're definitely not a place for you to promote your community, or your site or your services. Paid or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to run ads here you can &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;contact&lt;/a&gt; Stack Exchange the company, and select &amp;quot;Other&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;I would like to advertise on Stack Exchange&amp;quot;, I'm afraid I can't help you any more on that as I'm just a moderator, I don't work for SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that if you're new to the Stack Exchange network that this can be confusing, and that is why I would highly recommend the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt; - it really is the best way to go from zero to understanding what this site is and how it works. If it's not for you, no worries - and I wish you all the best in your endeavours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you want to join the community, &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt;, but I would remind you that we expect users here to adhere to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt; at all times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2024-02-02T17:58:19.567" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7272" CreationDate="2024-02-03T00:44:28.617" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to the good answer by @motosubatsu - Many people who post regularly here are career professionals - Myself, I've worked in the IT industry for nearly 20 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now to be clear I didn't see your original post or interact with it before it was deleted, but after looking through the deleted posts section, I can see immediately why it was nuked and why you got a negative response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the sake of comment - I'm going to assume the noblest of intentions on your part - you must understand that SE in general gets a lot of traffic and even though WP is tiny compared to say Stack Overflow or any of the other 'big' SE, we still get a pretty regular amount of Questions (about 3-4 per day). As such, anything that looks or smells like advertising/Bot/not our core functionality tends to get a swift and blunt response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your original question reads like Spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We exist to help people in their professional dealings. Questions on how to handle workplace situations, questions on professional etiquette etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as a general rule, the closer someone is to what we can help with, the more lenient we are. For example - we have a 'No legal questions' policy - but invariably we get questions that touch on Law pretty regularly - a recent one being about Wage theft in Germany.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes we get questions where it's a situation we can empathize with, but we are unable to assist - a classic example being the 'Which option should we choose' type questions - but even with those, a particularly well-worded question may elicit answers where people give &lt;em&gt;a framework&lt;/em&gt; on how to make the decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your post on the other hand comes across as 'Use my product, make my product better, make me more prestigious' - that's a mile away from our mission and as such would have gotten a frosty reception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of it like this - Imagine you went to a local builders and asked them to paint you the Mona Lisa, for free - how do you think that conversation would go down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135652" LastActivityDate="2024-02-03T00:44:28.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7275" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-02-26T14:12:15.637" Score="1" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm writing specifically about this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/195552/is-implementing-a-callback-system-a-viable-solution-to-high-call-volumes-in-a&quot;&gt;Is implementing a &amp;quot;callback&amp;quot; system a viable solution to high call volumes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Traditionally this site has been for questions about general workplace issues, loosely speaking &amp;quot;HR&amp;quot; type issues that are likely to be common across many workplaces. Questions about how to organize meetings, discipline, interacting with managers, interviews, resumes, harassment, bias, dealing with colleagues, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What has always been explicitly excluded is questions about your actual job. Just because you are a data scientist in your workplace doesn't mean you can ask about data science here. A car mechanic can't ask about car mechanics. An accountant can't ask about accounting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP says very clearly that his job is to design call centre systems, and the question is about designing call centre systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we want questions like this? What makes this question different from the car mechanic or the accountant? Where do we want to draw the line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="886" LastActivityDate="2024-03-27T18:00:25.073" Title="Do we want questions about doing your job?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7275" CreationDate="2024-02-26T17:40:58.830" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO (and this is motosubatsu the TWP user speaking not the diamond - I'm not here to try and dictate site scope) the answer is the ever-popular &amp;quot;it depends..&amp;quot;, specifically, it depends on what that job &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;: absolutely I'd say that questions regarding the technical means of accomplishing a task such as fixing a car, building a better mousetrap, or writing a bit software are clearly out-of-scope, and that's why some of those things have dedicated Stacks already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a manager or HR person asking how to go about handling a situation is a different matter - the latter is still clearly asking &amp;quot;how to do their job&amp;quot;, it's just that job is in-scope here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if the linked question were simply asking how to implement a callback system that would easily be out of scope, but it's not. It's asking about a possible technique to manage team capacity, which (as opposed to say, managing server capacity) could be seen as more of a people management question and that puts it in more of a grey area in my book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially I'd still have erred on it being off-topic, but I'll admit seeing the answers (in particular the current accepted answer) really embracing the framing of it in a team-capacity context &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; keeping the answers viable across more than just the OP's workplace has made me question that some. I'm not &lt;em&gt;entirely&lt;/em&gt; convinced it's in the clear but I certainly wouldn't feel confident casting a VTC or VTRO on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm really interested to see others' input here, I know this sort of edge-case isn't likely to come up very often but that's not the same as &amp;quot;never&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64903" LastActivityDate="2024-02-26T17:40:58.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7277" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7279" CreationDate="2024-02-27T06:31:51.230" Score="3" ViewCount="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The markdown syntax on the this page is not properly formatted: &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.imgur.com/1I7aSjQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26826" LastActivityDate="2024-02-27T07:25:26.207" Title="The markdown syntax on the on-topic page is not properly formatted" Tags="|bug|on-topic-definition|offtopic|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7278" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7281" CreationDate="2024-02-27T06:45:45.823" Score="1" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is my proposed question. Is it on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What would be the reasons for people with non-tech background decide to learn programming?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are existing no-code/WYSIWYG solutions for most common task. If they are not enough then you can still hire someone to customize for you. If you don't have enough money then I guess that even when you knew that you should learn it by yourself, the inertia was still large enough. What's the final straw that makes people with non-tech background put learning programming as the top priority?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot; title=&quot;What topics can I ask about here? - Help Center - The Workplace Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here? - Help Center - The Workplace Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; is still vague to me on which side this question belongs to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26826" LastActivityDate="2024-02-27T08:34:42.473" Title="Is asking about the reasons why someone make a decision on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|on-topic-definition|offtopic|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7277" CreationDate="2024-02-27T07:25:26.207" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for bringing it up, I fixed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2024-02-27T07:25:26.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7280" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-02-27T08:00:03.697" Score="1" ViewCount="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think these tags should be made as synonyms: &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/on-topic-definition&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;on-topic-definition&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;on-topic-definition&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-on-topic-definition-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;on-topic-definition&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/scope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scope&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-scope-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;scope&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/offtopic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;offtopic&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;offtopic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-offtopic-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;offtopic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also on the MSE: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/299951/260800&quot;&gt;What is the difference between the &amp;quot;scope&amp;quot; and the &amp;quot;on-topic&amp;quot; tags on most child metas?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26826" LastActivityDate="2024-02-27T08:00:03.697" Title="Synonym [on-topic-definition], [scope], [offtopic]" Tags="|discussion|on-topic-definition|offtopic|synonym-request|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7278" CreationDate="2024-02-27T08:34:42.473" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would probably not be on topic here and it would probably make a bad fit for any SE site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE specialized in a Q&amp;amp;A model, that means there is a question that can be objectively answered by a single answer. On some sites that might be more obvious, since you can compile and find out whether it objectively solves the problem, on some sites it's a little more cloudy and relies on expert's experience and other expert's ability to judge that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You question will either generate a single authorative answer with a link to a statistic someone else already compiled, or a whole bunch of personal experiences, each as valid as the next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But neither is a good answer for SE, since it is either an off-site resource (something we try to avoid, because we want to provide &amp;quot;THE answer&amp;quot;, not a stepping stone in a thin line of links through the internet which if followed may maybe lead to an answer, or more likely to a 404 if you wait long enough), or just a collection of personal experiences without an actual answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the first impression, I'd say you might be better served by some survey tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2024-02-27T08:34:42.473" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7282" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-03-01T02:58:28.757" Score="1" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/196653/possibly-inappropriate-question-on-performance-review&quot;&gt;Possibly Inappropriate Question on Performance Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was closed for being opinion based, where the question was very clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4 Reopen votes as of this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46894" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2024-03-01T21:14:16.103" LastActivityDate="2024-03-01T21:14:16.103" Title="(Done) Req: Reopen &quot;Possibly Inappropriate Question on Performance Review&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7282" CreationDate="2024-03-01T06:13:19.047" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would not have used my mod powers to do it, but since it was already 4 votes in favor, I was happy to be number 5. Reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10813" LastActivityDate="2024-03-01T06:13:19.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7284" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7285" CreationDate="2024-03-01T18:50:33.237" Score="0" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot; title=&quot;What topics can I ask about here? - Help Center - The Workplace Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here? - Help Center - The Workplace Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Workplace Stack Exchange is a Q&amp;amp;A site about the workplace and other career-related topics. With your help we're working to build a library to every question about the workplace related to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finding employment (resumes/cv/cover letters, recruiters, hiring-managers, interviews, negotiations, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maintaining employment (promotions, pay increases, harassment, bullying, poor working conditions, communication problems, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leadership in the workplace (motivating people, encouraging people, making decisions, holding hard conversations, intervening in unproductive situations, asking for and giving help, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Terminating employment (notice period, breaking the news, handing over work, reference letters, relieving letters, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have much experience in workplace. Are they all HR problems? Can you give an example when a workplace problem isn't a HR problem and vice versa?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26826" LastActivityDate="2024-03-09T13:09:03.460" Title="How are workplace problems different to HR problems?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7284" CreationDate="2024-03-02T02:58:34.633" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they all HR problems? Can you give an example when a workplace problem isn't a HR problem and vice versa?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some companies don't even have an HR Dept. Sometimes &amp;quot;HR is your boss&amp;quot; (as in there is no HR department, your boss just fills such roles as well)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As example, say, having a communication problem with a coworker and asking us help in phrasing certain request is a workplace problem and not an HR one (HR has nothing to do here, just some OP having difficulty finding the right words).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, not all workplace problems are HR problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some Junior Assistant to HR Chief not finding the shared folder where they keep the Employee's info that they were asked to update is a HR problem, but not something one could ask on TWP. The same Junior HR Assistant not knowing some formula for calculating payment based on hours worked is an HR problem, but more of a knowledge/ignorance problem&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, these examples may be a bit of a stretch, and after some analysis we &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; say that perhaps many (all?) HR problems are also workplace problems (as, intrinsically, HR function for/with the company).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73791" LastActivityDate="2024-03-02T02:58:34.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7284" CreationDate="2024-03-09T11:39:19.870" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interviewing issues aren't usually HR problems. Nor are conflict resolutions in many situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you go through the questions on the site, very few of them are HR issues I would think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The HR perspective is often NOT the best solution for individuals. What we do here is to give solutions that work best for the individual rather than the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40669" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2024-03-09T13:09:03.460" LastActivityDate="2024-03-09T13:09:03.460" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
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